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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD <*> (Skcrum Saita Ifmerali University of Oregon* Eugene .. Editor Bunlnes* Manager Managing Editor Arthur L Schoeni . William H. Hammond Vinton H. Hall . EDITORIAL WRITERS Ron Hul.hn, Ruth Newman, Rex TussinK, Wilfred Brown Nancy Taylor .-. Secretary Mary Klomm . Harry Van Dine Dorothy Thomas Victor Kaufman Ralph David . Carl Monroe . Evelyn Shaner ... UPPER NEWS STAFF . Assistant Manattinu Editor . Sports Editdr . Society Editor . P. I. P. Editor . Chief Niirht Editor . Makeup Editor . Theater Editor GENERAL NEWS STAFF: Dave Wilson, Hetty Anne Macduff. Rufus Kimball. Elizabeth Fainton, Henrietta Steinke, Merlin Blais, Eleanor Jane Ballantyne, Lenore Ely, Bobby Reid, Sterling Green, Helen Chaney, Thornton Gale, Carol Wersch kul. Jack Bellimcer, Roy Sheedy, Thornton Shaw, Carol Hurlburt, Anne Brieknell. Thelma Nelson, Lois Nelson. SPORTS STAFF: Jack Burke, assistant editor: Phil CoKswell, Brad Harrison, Ed Goodnauyh, Spec Stevenson, and Beth _ Salway^______ Day Editor .Barney Miller Night Editor .Mahr Reymers Assistant Night Editors Doug Wight,_Elinor Henry QC >rge Weber, Jr. ... Tony Peterson . Jack Gregg . Addison Brockman ... Jean Patrick .. Larry Jackson . Betty Hagen . Ina Tremblay . Betty Carpenter . Edwin Pubols . Dot Anne Warnick ... Katherine Laughrige Shopping Column . BUSINESS STAFF .... Associate Manager .. Advertising Manager . Assistant Advertising Manager . Foreign Advertising Manager . Manager Copy Department . Circulation Manager . Women's Specialty Advertising . Assistant Advertising Manager . Assistant Copy Manager .Statistical Department . Executive Secretary .Professional Division . Betty Hagen, Nan Crary ADVERTISING SOLICITORS: Harold Short, Auton Bush, Gor don Samuelson. Production Assistant . Fred Hellberg Office Assistants . Ellen Mills, Jane Lyon The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Asso ciated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daHj except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Member ol the Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice al Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates. $2.50 a year. Advertising rates upon application. Phone. Man ager: Office, 1895; residence, 127. _ For Thursday’s Menu WHICH do you want? This one: Scene—The campus. Time—Today. Char acters—Any two students. First student—"Going to the nominating assem bly Thursday?" Second student—“No. What’s the use ? It’s not interesting. They never do anything. Besides, I don't know any of the candidates.” Or this one: Student No. One—"Let's go up to the assembly." Student No. Two “Right-o. I've always wanted to see this Zilch fellow. Been reading about him a lot in the paper lately. Let’s get Joe and George to go, too. I hear they’re going to have some good music, too, besides the candidates’ speeches.” It’s up to the student body whether it wants to make its nominating and inauguration assemblies interesting. It has the means right at hand, need ing only to open its eyes to the opportunities. Add ing a little* interest to the usually dry and formal meetings would also add zest to the fchmpus interest in student body politics. Both assemblies balance each other off so far as austerity is concerned. There is no more need for reverence and a prayerful attitude at one than the other. Of the two probably the inaugural would be the best time to add a vodvil act or two and perhaps a comic parody on politicians. So which is Oregon going to do? Say "What was good enough for the '90’s is good enough for us” or will it say "Dramatization and ‘show’ is a pretty good way of selling a second-rate exhibition. We’ll try it.” Deep in the Red DILRMMA of the Oregon student body, so much in debt that its credit is no longer good, and go mixed up in its funds that it can extricate itself from the financial red only with expert juggling in order to float a bond issue, ought to provide sufficient warning against future attempts at too hasty expansion. Recurrent complaints concerning construction of the student memorial building, or suggestions for land and building improvements at the expense of the students, should first be backed by sufficient knowledge of the condition of the student treasury. Oregon has two funds, into which each year go $30.75 from each regular member. One is provided for building alone. When McArthur court was built, the students pledged the building fund for several years to come. When they wanted bleachers, ball fields, tennis courts, or any of those suggested im provements brought forward each year, they reached rapacious and unknowing hands into the eeneral fund. Crippled, the general fund limped along for sev eral years, paying from money for regular expenses the costs of land improvements. That fund is now bankrupt. It owes money. It has no credit. In the meantime the building fund is easily car rying half its burden. But if it had carried its full share all the building costs then it, instead, would have long ago been bankrupt. Now is the time to look expansion programs in the face. Mencken on Collegians 'T'HERE are two kinds of talkers those who talk to hear themselves talk, and those who talk so others can hear them. Kepresenting a cross-breed between the two we have H. L, Mencken, the American bad boy, to whom cynicisms come easy. His latest uttering, which no doubt imparted great joy when he got it off, came at Princeton, where he said: ‘‘Probably the most valuable thing the average young American gets out of a college education lies in the general feeling that it makes him somewhat superior. This feeling opens doors to him. More ! over, he usually shares it himself, and is thus made L happy.” Professor Rogers crashed into print with a vim j recently when he said something about "being a snob” and has devoted considerable time since try- i ing to grind out other shocking statements to stay in the public eye, while Mencken enjoys being sar castic and cynical because it is his main stock in trade and the means whereby he "gets by.” A student without confidence in his ability is an indictment on the institution which turns him out. Certainly he needs a little ego to carry him over the rough spots, but for Mencken to say the "average college man” emerges with an exalted ego is as much a mistake as it is to say Mencken’s Mercury is typical of mercenary America and voices the opinion of the multitude. To Lie or Not to Lie? ¥}ECAUSE they admitted smoking in their rooms during the present year, 44 of the 400 women students at Bucknell university have been barred from walking on the campus or having dates for the next six months. The penalty was meted out after the 44 had found themselves unable to sign a pledge that they had not smoked in their rooms. The flagrant injustice of such a punishment is so outstanding as to call for comment that is hardly flattering. Irregardless of the merits of the “crime” in itself smoking is only a sectional vice, accord ing to where a person’s feet are at the time—the Bucknell officials are censurable for their method of determining guilt. Because 44 girls would not lie and say they had not smoked cigarettes, they were punished. Is hon esty to be dealt with thus harshly? What profits it for a girl to have high ideals of right and wrong and refuse to perjure herself to escape harsh pen alty? Such a system would encourage lying and erect a pedestal to guile. Is not the college assuming considerable power when it requires women to answer personal ques tions which will be used against them if they refuse to lie? ..Has it any more right to inquire into a co-ed’s smoking habits than into her intimate per sonal life, which would certainly fall under the head of "none of their business” ? One-Party Lines T3OLITICS of a carpet-bag variety seem to be the vogue on the Idaho campus, to judge from re cent primary election reports emanating from the Moscow campus. When the votes were counted the leading candi date for president received 258 and his nearest opponent 2. Only one person ran for vice-presi dent, secretary, junior woman, sophomore man, May queen, maid of honor and page, probably due to the unusually strong party political lineup. The Alpha party, which seems to be the one and only, runs things according to its wish and as a result interest on the campus in student politics is rather low, only 16 per cent of the students voting in the pri mary. When a political lineup can run through its ticket practically unopposed, it is indicative of a condition where one or two swivel-chair men probably control the student body. The need for a primary election would also seem rather small. On the Kansas campus a similar condition ex ists. A recent issue of the Daily Kansan carried a full page advertisement for the Pachacamac party in which it stated that it had been in existence for nearly a score of years, often being unopposed in elections. Its 1930 ticket contained 20 non-fratcr nity candidates and 19 fraternltyites and the party’s “men" were all picked, even down to the lowliest class office. College politics cannot be expected to flourish when an “oligarchy” controls the student govern ment. Such a condition may be an indication of crafty and clever politics on the part of a long line of predecessors, but is hardly a desirable one. Since this is Senior Leap Week, we hope the co-eds keep us men on the jump. s> ■■ig Editorial Shavings Then there’s the girl who got lint on the lungs for chewing the rag too much. -The Pennsylvanian. Four words constitute the text of every primary candidate’s campaign I want the nomination but some have a better way of saying it than others. Indiana Daily Student. Speaking of movies, we have slept through five “gigantic spectacles,” three “unchallenged tri umphs,” and twenty "laugh riots.” The Pennsyl vanian. * * * A scientist has discovered that fear reactions originate in the brain. That explains why it’s next to impossible to scare some people. Willamette Collegian. * * • We know a co-ed who would rather be a June bride than a May queen. Penn State Collegian. • * • Wonder if people will continue getting famous at a rate fast enough to satisfy the testimonial ad demand. Washington State Evergreen. * * * As for promiscuous kissing, what decent girl wants to resemble a piece of rock salt licked by all kinds of passing cattle’.’ Daily O'Collegian. * * * There is a lot of midnight oil being burned, but it is mostly used by students packing their bags to go home. Daily Kansan. Now That You’ve Read the Emerald, Answer These: 1. \\ lull ngurc >■> iniernauonai eye was a campus visitor last »vcck? 2. W hat blind student will give a recital to night ? 8. Who will participate in tile truck meet here Saturday? 4. Who has been chosen to represent the University in the coast oratorical contest? 5. The feature of the “Emerald ot the Air’’ tonight is what? b. \\nat was me score ot last s»atunlay s baseball game? 7. Who non first prize at April Frolic? 8. Women cops kicked one man from April Frolic last Saturday. Who was he? 9. What Mill the A. W. S. sell at their auc tion? 10. What Is your Idea of a “cull"? See page one. Somebody has been inspired j enough to contribute a solution to the much discussed pledging prob lem. Not only that, but this bril liant person has gone to the trou ble of actually working out some of the details whereby living or ganizations can stabilize their methods by putting their pledging on a commercial basis. "Abolish rushing," says this correspondent, "and advertise for pledges. Set forth the principles of your tong, and let nature do the rest. “In order that my policy may be structive a3 well as destructive, I offer the following examples of advertising copy. Use these and watch the pledges batter down your doors:” # * * Performance without peer. This is the basic reason why more men pledge Beta than any other house. Delighted as they are with the graceful lines . . . the vivid coloring . . . the lux urious finish of the Betas, men want the satisfaction of having the alertpess and brilliancy of the Beta performance. A Beta starts so promptly . . . runs so smoothly . . . accel erates so swiftly . . . does ev erything he is called upon to do so easily and evenly . . . that all who know him recognize that here is an entirely new and su perior kind of fraternity man. Ask the girl who owns one! Teas, dances, formals have no terror for the Theta-ized girl— she is social-proof. This really means that girls will look just as new after a party as they do be fore if they are Theta-ized. The ta protects the finish, makes it last longer, and keeps the colors from fading. That’s why hundreds of wise parents want their daughters Theta-ized. Save the surface and you save all! Theta comes to the rescue of the girl who is dull looking, smudgy. Just apply Theta for that lasting brilliant protection. Parents! Insist on Theta and you will always have a nice new looking daughter. * * * Tested. Each Alpha Chi, you’ll find, is absolutely perfect. Fresh. Delightfully attractive. And we offer you a varied choice. Every step in their making; is backed by years of careful study. Our special staff of experts test ev ery batch of ingredients. Do you wonder why Alpha Chis win all who try them? Do you wonder why they are rec ognized today as the outstand ing achievement among sorority women? Send today for our new book let, “How to Become an Alpha Chi in Ten Minutes.” * * * There’s so much real value in the Alpha Gamma Deltas . . . their undiluted goodness makes them go so much farther . . . that hundreds of men never consider dating- linger any other label. You see, the Alpha Gams are just the simmered down goodness of all the courses in morals and ethics. No dilution of any kind. Only purity and rare spices—per sonally selected. You are always sure to be right with Alpha Gam ma Delta quality. K o." " IT T " r' “ . "• Do You Know? a----.—.1 (The Heilig theatre tickets for the contest ending last week go to Raymond G. Wood. This week two more tickets are offered as a prize for the best contribution to this column. Leave contributions in Seven Seers box in main libe or on bulletin board of Journalism building.) * * * .That a regular conference game in Eugene the last year lost $2,000. —R.T. * * * That football stickers, home coming stickers, or any other stickers, except those required to be displayed by law are un lawful on any of the windows of the car? The penalty provid ed is a fine; imprisonment, or both. —F. E. C. * * * That the students went in the red at a rate of approximately $10,000 a year from 1925 to 1929? * *■ * That a man was once hired by the school to spend 15 hours with some mice, taking care of them ? Sophomores Must See Registrar This Week Again urging all sophomores to go to the registrar’s office and fill out necessary cards this week, Gertrude Stephenson, assistant to the registrar, explained yesterday 1 that all underclassmen not in schools have no majors, and when red books are checked over this summer it is essential that this in formation be on the records. This must be done in order to have ma terial ready for registration next fall. So far only about a third of the sophomores have filled out these cards. R. O. T. C. Inspection To Be Held Tomorrow The first official inspection of the R. O. T. C. will take place to morrow, Major Barker has an nounced. Lieutenant-Colonel E. C. Waddill will give the annual of ficial administrative inspection. Colonel Waddill is a staff officer with General Hines at San Fran cisco. Sometime before May 15, Col onel McCannon of Portland will give the official tactical and training inspection. No definite date has yet been set. DR. J. R. WETHERBEE Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Office Phone 1601 Residence 1230-M 801-2-3 Alinor Bldg Eugene. Oregon EYES EXAMINED! TVn years’ successful prac tice in Eugene. LENSES GROUND! In our own modern lens grinding laboratory. GLASSES FITTED! By us personally. A com plete service in one establishment. DrJo^jalQkk OPTOMETRIST 021 IDillamette St., Eugene Well • • • It happened again . . . but that is just one of our extra services to our customers to call for your duds even tip to the hour of twelve, and back they come the same day. Make a habit to call for “quick special service” and forget that “it happened again. Eugene Cleaners Association ,CAMPUS ! Bulletin Pot and Quill—meeting at Gerlin ger hall at 7:30. v -o Theta Sigma Phi—meeting at the Anchorage at noon today. -o Cosmopolitan elui>—will meet at 4 o’clock today in the Y. M. C. A. hut. -o Ye Tabard Inn—meets tonight at 7:30 o’clock at 1369 Agate street (upstairs). -o W. A. A. Archery—meets at 4 o’clock today by the archery closet in Gerlinger hall. -o International relations group—of Philomelete will meet at Westmin ster house tonight from 5 to 7:30. -o Vice-president extempore contest —entries will draw places this morning at the speech office, any time between classes. -o Interfraternity Council luncheon— at 12:15 today in the Regents’ dining room of the men’s dormi tory. For present members of the council. -o— Y. W. C. A. Personality group— discussion v/ill be led by Dear. Vir ginia Judy Esterly at the Y. W. C. A. bungalow at 5 o’clock. Any one interested is invited. -o Seniors, notice—Order commence ment announcements, caps and gowns and souvenirs at the Co-op before Saturday, April <26. This is very important if you desire them. -o Freshman entrants—in the Vice president’s speaking contest will meet in the speech office at 9:50 today. fr’of. F. S. Dunn—will lecture to night at 8 o’clock in the geology room, Condon library. Subject, on the Aeneid. Open to the public. CLASSIFIED AD3 PIANO JAZZ—Popular songs Im mediately; beginners or ad vanced; twelve-lesson course. Waterman System. Leonard J. Edgerton, manager. Call Stu dio 1672-W over Laraway’s Mu sic Store, 972 Willamette St. tf LOST—Gold wrist watch with black ribbon band, between 17th and 13th on Alder. Phone 1309, Mrs. Perkins. Reward. LOST—April 19, small gray leath er coin purse containing about $8. and pearl-handled pen knife. Finder please notify C. Prideaux at 688. Reward. LOS T—Square gold Hamilton wrist watch. Lost in men’s gym about Thursday. Liberal re ward. Phone 1295. LEGAL NOTICE Annual meeting of members of Co-'ap store will be in 105 Commerce Monday, April 28, at 4 p. ni. 25c Box of Kleanex Cleaning Tissues GIVEN With a 50c Jar of ARMAND CLEANSING CREAM University Pharmacy “Across from the Kappa Sigma House” 11th and Alder Phone 114 The Princeton radio club prom ises to send radiograms all over the world for students, free cf charge. ARRY ON, man; never say die, don’t / give up the ship, and all that sort of thing. Somewhere the right pipe and the right tobacco are waiting—just for you. Carry onl Find ’em! The trick is to find both—to find, for instance, the pipe with just the .shape and weight, just the balance and size and “grip” that suit you. No easy job—but it’s your job, and the world is full of pipes. The tobacco problem is easier, for we ran help you there, not only with the suggestion that Edgeworth very prob ably is the tobacco you are looking for, but also with some Edgeworth. The Edgeworth will smoke most benignly in your tentative pipe, and it will smoke there several times. We mean every word: several good heaping pipefuls of Edgeworth, a generous packet of abso lutely genuine Edgeworth, all free and for nothing if you’d like to try it. Done? Then the coupon, please. Edgeworth is a careful blend of good tobaccos —selected especially for pipe-smoking. Its quality and flavor never change. Buy Edgeworth any where in two forms— “Ready-Rubbed” and “Plug Slice”—15* pock et package to pound hti midor tin. Larus & Bro. Co., Richmond, Va. EDGEWORTH I I I I J | Street__ j | Town and State. SMOKING TOBACCO LARUS & BRO. CO. 100 S. 22d St., Richmond, Va. I’ll try your Edgeworth. And I’ll try it in a good pipe Now let the Edgeworth come! V27 5 ooo-kilotratt turbine-generator installed in 1903 at the risk Street station of the Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago When Small Machines Were Big jyjORE than a quarter century ago, the Commonwealth Edison Company, prophetically alive to the immense possi bilities of the future, ordered from Gen eral Electric a 5000-kilowatt steam turbine —in those days a giant of electric power. To-day, a General Electric turbine-gen erator of 208,000-kilowatt capacity sends out its vast energy to the Chicago Metro politan District. College-trained men played a responsible part in the engineering and manufacture of both machines—just as they serve in important capacities in the engineering, production, and distribution of all General Electric equipment, large or small. 2o8,ooo-ktlowatt turbine fenerator installed at tbe tate Line generating station JOIN US IN’ THE GENERAL ELECTRIC HOUR, BROAD CAST EVERY SATURDAY EVENING ON A NATION-WIDE N. B. C. NETWORK. GENERAL 95-766GC ELECTRIC SALES AND E N G I N E E R IJJ G SERVICE IN PRINCIPAL~CITIES