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♦. ♦♦ EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD " ♦♦ GDregutt Bailt> ^mctalb University of Oregon, Eugene Arthur L. Schoenl . Editor William H. Hammond . Business Manager Vinton H. Hall . Managing Editor EDITORIAL WRITERS Ron Hubbs, Ruth Newman, Rex Tuasinir, Wilfred Brown Nancy Taylor . Secretary Mary Klemm . Harry Van Dine Dorothy Thomas Victor Kaufman . Kalph David . Carl Monroe . Evelyn Shaner . UPPER NEWS STAFF .. Assistant Managing Editor . Sports Editor . Society Editor . P. I. P. Editor ./."".VZ.Zr.......... Chief Night Editor . Makeup Editor " . Theater Editor GENERAL NEWS STAFF: Dave WilHon. Betty Anne Macduff. Rufus Kimball, Elizabeth Painton, Henrietta Steinke. Merlin Blais, Eleanor Jane Bnllantyne. Lenore Ely, Bobby Reid, Sterling Green, Helen Chaney, Thornton Cole, Carol Wersoh kul. Jack Bellinger, Roy Sheedy, Thornton Shaw, Carol Hurlburt, Anne Bricknell, Thelma Nelson, Lois Nelson. SPORTS STAFF: Jack Burke, assistant editor; Phil Coffrwelj, Brad Harrison, Ed Goodnaugh, Spec Stevenson, and Beth Sal way._____ Day Editor .Merlin Blais Night Editor .Beatrice Bennett Assistant Night Editors Embert Fossum, Sterling Emerald Green_ Gci/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: Katherine Laughrage, Gordon Sarnuclson. Nnn Crary, Ina Tremblay. Office Assistants . Elaine Wheeler, Carol Werschkul Production Assistant . .....JBd Kirbv The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Asso ciated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daHy except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Member of the Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates, $2.CO a fear. Advertising rates upon application. Phone, Man ager: Office, 1895: residence, 127. “Nursing” the Public <‘\7"ESSING” the presidents of colleges about the nation who say that athletics are over-em phasized, college publicity men who met in New York recently decided to start a concerted move to subordinate athletic news to academic news in the nation’s press. Aside from the question of whether or not ath letics are over-emphasized, which lias more sub stantiating arguments than denials, the problem of feeding the public something they should know and making them like it is going to be a difficult one. The millenium will be reached when the number of column inches of news on educational researches and experimental findings will equal or surpass the column inches devoted to football games and col lege drinking parties tliut ended up by getting into the glare of publicity. The publicity men are truly sorry if they have been creating a false impression of what colleges are doing and leading the poor, dumb public to think college is a conglomeration of coo^skln coats, football games and social functions. Hitherto the public has been fed only the things it likes—the sugary tidbits of college scandal or the rare roast beef of athletics from now on it will get some of the spinach and carrots from the laboratories and research desks and the public is going to like it. —And it probably will. The public is more and more being fed from the spoon of the publicity agent. For years the public service corporations and the theaters have cleverly interleaved propa ganda with fact until today, in some of the most reputable newspapers of the nation, large numbers of the news stories printed come from “hand-out” sources or are rewrites of carbon copies. The day of the publicity man has arrived and is still ar riving. His job is to tell the public what they OUGHT to know as well as what they WANT to know. And back of it all we see advertising. A New Athlete T)EOPI.,E who cite the famous Carnegie Founda tion report on subsidy of athletes wilt have to revise their complaints for the Oregon campus. Often it has been said, perhaps too often, that too much emphasis is being placed on athletic ability instead of scholarship when colleges and universi ties subsidize only those with muscular ability. Oregon has a new type athlete. How many of him there is on the campus is unknown but the more the better. When the University offered him opportunities for advancement (that being a gentle phrase), he had to determine which of the many collegiate of fers was most attractive. To determine that he visited all the schools in the upper range of money offers. Not money alone was his object —he spent a week or two at each school, attending classes, lis tening to lectures, judging social affairs. Then he weighed the scholastic standards as well as the money inducements. So, for this pioneer, Oregon needs must offer mo re than money. We hope she makes good. “Guinea Pig” Collegians ‘‘^"^UINEA PIGS” they called the lit) students who enrolled in I)r. Alexander Meiklejohn’s ‘‘experimental college” because the new institution, that was three years ago, seemed radical, more like a biology experiment. They have announced that the worthy doctor’s school will close at the end of this semester. It was an unusual experiment. The freshmen started out studying in place ot the time-honored subjects listed in the college catalogs, the civilization of fifth century Athens. The sophomores studied the civilization of contemporary America. There were no formal classes, and but few examinations. Planned as a revolutionary change from the usual class system of college, they failed to get over because it was too radical a change and too different. The students lived together in a dormi tory and had their meals together. They were looked on as queer by fellow students at Wiscon sin. No one wanted to enter because of the social complications which accompanied the joining of the "fool idea.” The number enrolling grew less and less each year because Wisconsin fathers and moth ers were loath to send their sons to it. It was a noble experiment, but too big a step. Society is too slow in changing from the established order and too conservative to accept, even though the college may have catered to their interests to change. Tickets, Please! CHICAGO has its racketeers, Mexico has its rev olutionists, and the University of Oregon has - To follow friend Pat Henry, we would say: “If that be treason, make the most of it.” But it is hardly treason to point out that each year student votes are cast by others than those entitled to the ballots. • Somewhere there is a slip-up, for too often com plaints are made that regular students arrive at the polling place only to find their names crossed from the list of those eligible to vote. The fault is not that of the elections committee, but lies most probably in the deliberate successful attempts of over-anxious partisans. The Emerald makes a suggestion which it be lieves will help keep the voting lists cleared. It suggests that student-body cards be required for a ballot. Each card must have been signed—each card will be punched. True, there may be some of the old evils, but fewer votes will be cast for those students who arrive too late to do their own voting. The new plan would not supplant the old. A double check would be needed; and sadly enough, a double check will not completely suffice. Some of the most scholarly teachers of written English are deplorably poor exemplars of spoken English, said Hamlin Garland. And, we might add, some teachers of education are themselves poor teachers, some law professors know no law them selves, some journalism pedagogs cannot them selves write a news story, but can teach others. Even the printers seein to forget that the boys at Oregon State Agricultural college are no longer "Aggies." Bast night's Oregon Journal refers to the election of next year’s editor for the "Oregon State Dairy Barometer.” A country without a navy Is like a man without evening clothes, declared Lord Ponsonby. And still there are a few of us who manage to stagger through life without a swallow-tail and never miss it. Mahatma Gandhi has advised the women of India to go naked rather than wear garments of English cloth. Either the women or Mahatma are hound to get a cold reception. Twenty-six out of every 41 co-eds at the Uni versity of Arizona are going stockingless, a recent survey showed. Well, there are a few rayons of hope left yet. Medical students at Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and Virginia are growing goutees as marks of distinc tion. We always thought whiskers sort of made the co-eds the “goatees.” A Buenos Aires student shot a prof who flunked him the other day. And the student no doubt does not know any more now than he did before. Cheating at the University of Bombay is a heinous crime, second only to eating the flesh of the sacred cow. Holy cow! “Pierson Enters Soph Rep Contest” headline in Washington Daily. What sort of a “rep” does a fellow have to have to enter the qualifying round? 0—" "—“—” “—“—“—“ —" "——““VS) Editorial Shavings Pi-------———.—is She was only a street-cleaner’s daughter, but she could not be curbed. Daily Californian. • * * We'll be a self-sustaining people when somebody discovers a nutritious vegetable that can be culti vated with a brassie Washington State Evergreen. • • • College girls are larger than their predecessors of a generation ago. They seem to be several laps ahead. Washington Daily. * * » Hugo said that woman is a perfected devil. In some respects he was right, but we’re not so sure that all of them are perfected. Oregon State Barometer. • • * Any students who have photographs of campus life are asked to turn them in for a section In the Quad, announced the editor. Does he want to get his book censored? Stanford Daily. You’ve Red The ANSWER THESE 1. Who won yesterday’s truck meet at Hay ward field? 2. How can a student secure temporary finan cial aid? 8. How many are participating- in the Emerald golf handicap? 4. What is the prevailing ailment on the cam pus ? 5. What dean will attend u conference in Washington, D. C.t 0. What well-known explorer and cameraman returned last night? 7. W ho are the candidates for the Co-op board? 8. What are planned as features for the Canoe Fete? 9. Who was leading when yesterday's baseball game was called off? 10. What organization «ill furnish an evening’s entertainment for the “Oregon Dally Em erald of the Air"? TkS * L EVEN SEERS _*> mm Js=. Dear 7 Seers, George Christensen was ap proaching, broadly smiling at a lavender-colored letter that he perused as he walked. A waft of warm spring breeze informed a keen pair of nostrils (mine) that the letter was not only lavender colored. But, of course, it might have been the perfume of some of the campus shrubbery. _ <> LTT'_ The nerves of Tommy Chave, pre-law student, received a terri ble shock the other day. A bug, he says, came out of one of the books' over in the law library and bit him on the thumb. One of the psychology profs (not H. G. Cros land) told Tommy that it was a hallucination. "I'm no biologist,” says Tommy, "but maybe he’s right.” Yours truly, -—Philosifickal Pete. P. S. I’m no humorist. Maybe that was why I knew you would print this. Dour Seers, We were just wondering if the barn out in buck of the Faculty club is where they keep the fac ulty bull. Or is it for Stevie Smith's chariot? Jake and Jeeves. Don't be illusioned, boys, it belongs to the l’lii IJelts. Their scholars room there. And here’s some more stuff from Oregon's brilliant 3,000: Headlines in Emerald: CHERRY IS PITTED AGAINST LAIRD! Evidently the fight is ripening. * * * Spark Plug This is Joe Hughes’ favorite chew. He carries a cou ple plugs along all the time so he can treat the boys.— H. M. II. In a pinch, of course, he can use Copenhagen. Git it? Git it? * * * We hear the Associated Wo men Students are thankful to the Kappa Sigs for the large donation of pledge pins for the recent auction sale. “What this country needs,” howled Ur. Clark in a history lecture, “is to raise less corn and more hell." A nny Nonius. Since Dr. Conklin has referred to “artillery rifles” twice in re cent lectures, I should like a def inition. To me they seem contra dictory terms rifle and artillery. No? QUICK DOCTOR THE DEF INITION. * * * This rain is bad political weath er. It might split the jCherry crop. * * * Forceful Frosh says he’s going down to ask a doctor if his voice is strong enough to second mo tions in house meetings. llpsults of Naval Moot Told by Moz Talk Given Before Town Club in Portland A halt in the building of big battleships and the complete elim ination of all likelihood of war be tween Great Britain and the Unit ed States were described as the two outstanding results of the re cent London naval conference by Dr. John R. Mez at a meeting of the Town club in Portland Wed nesday. Doctor Mez, a member of the department of economics, dis cussed the conference from the standpoint of sanctions and final commitment of the powers for the insurance of mutual security against agression as other phases of the naval parley. This Is the sixth of a series of personality interviews with prominent students on the University campus. The arm that has waved exit to many a dancing chorus, the arm that has helped nimble fingers bring vibrating notes of jazz from a piano, the arm that has swung an accurate tennis racket, and the arm that has given ready assistance to innumerable campus activities, yes- j terday waved a negative answer to the question “What have you done on the campus?” Boone Hendricks it was. The man who directed “Oh, Dear,” the Junior Vodvil, last year. His black curly hair and the twinkle of his eye cause a little feeling of jeal-i ousy among men and flutter of heart among women. “I don’t want to be quoted,” he said as he seated himself comfort ably for a good talk about the Orient, where he is planning to go this summer. "Besides, I’ve never done anything of much note on the campus anyway.” After he returns from the trip to Manila ports he will then embark upon a voyage around the world as leader of the ship orchestra. As one of the song writers for “Creole Moon,” a tennis numeral man, and chairman of the music committee for the Frosh Glee, Boone ended his first year on the University campus. Doing work of growing importahce each year of his collegiate career, he was on the music committee for Dream Follies as well as a member of the Webfoot and Emerald publi cation staffs. Finally, in his jun ior year, he was the producer of “Oh, Dear.” Together with Don Johnson, Emerald staff humorist, he wrote all continuity and songs. This year as well as every year he was in charge of his class dance features. “Aw shucks, being on the Home- 1 BOONE HENDRICKS coming committee and being stage manager for a couple of plays isn’t much and besides that pic ture is kind of funny looking.” But we know this isn't all Boone has done in student activities, and we'll leave it to you about the picture. Do You Know? (Heilig theatre tickets will l>e Riven for the l>est contribution to this column this week. Place contributions in Seven Seers box in main like or on bulletin board of Journalism building.) * * * That Pi Lambda Theta, educa tion honorary, last year claimed a higher scholastic average than Phi Beta Kappa ? That in the recent ping pong tournament Milligan played only 130 games while Rubenstein, who was runner-up played 218? —L. E. S. That every nomination speech b.ut one Thursday was delivered by a debater? —A. L. S. Mattecheck, Siegrist Get Jobs on Emerald Harriet Mattecheck, freshman in journalism, and Ken Siegrist, junior in economics, have been re cently added to the Emerald busi ness staff. Miss Mattecheck will be an office girl, and Siegrist will be assistant circulation manager, to fill the vacancy left by Fred Reid. James Morgan, freshman ,in geology, has been appointed adver tising solicitor. CLASSIFIED ADS 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 FOUND Pair horn-rimmed spec tacles; found in front of John son hall Tuesday night. Call Neil Taylor, 2969. LOST Black leather key case, 5 keys. Call 112S. Seniors Order CAPS, GOWNS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS at the CO OP TODAY See the Clever SOUVENIR BOOKLET The__ UNIV. "CO-OP” Art Students’ Works On Exhibit at Mills An exhibit of work of the stu dents of the art school is now be ing shown in the art gallery at Mills college, according to Now land B. Zane, instructor in the school of architecture and applied arts. The display was exhibited at Oakland, California, during tlhe convention of the Pacific Arts as Hank Says Ideas Differ That Woid ‘Prowler’ Today Hank finds many dif ferent conceptions of the word “prowler.” Next week he will find definitions of the word “co ed.” Help him out. Put your contributions in the Seven Seers box in the library. Dere Hank: A prowler is anyone from a law student to one of these people who goes around from one room to an other sticking his nose into other people’s business.—Genevieve Pi luso. A “prowler” is the journalism student who has that instinct for news.—Harry Van Horn. A “prowler” is a fellow with a sense of humor.—Lynne Downs. A “prowler” is a man who goes into the women's gym.—Virginia Stanton. A “prowler” is a guy wot goes into other people's rooms looking for his collar button. — Wallis Ohler. A “prowler” is similar to a peep ing Tom.—Herman Ross. A “prowler” is a guy who is where he shouldn’t be.—Phyllis Van Kimmell. A prowler is a guy who lurks below his girl's window and watches her with another guy. A person who gum-shoes around the kitchen at 9 p. m., trying to find that piece of pie you ditched after dinner. If you see a man with Hank's tux shirt on, Joe’s tie, Cyril’s studs and links, Hector’s vest, Bat’s tux shoes, and your best top-coat, he’s not a prowler; he’s just an ordi nary fraternity man. soeiation there, and is now at Mills, where it has been invited to remain through the month of I April. $$$$$$ $5.00 WEEKLY $ $ $ $ NOW YOU TOO CAN BUY A CAR Wc are getting ready to move to our new used car lot at 17th and Willamette. We have an overstock of certain models and give you this opportunity to buy a car on easier terms than you have ever dreamed possible. tp y y y y y y y y y y y y y y LOOK AT THIS FORD TOURINGS & ROADSTERS CHEV TOURINGS—ST (JDE ROADSTER MANY OTHERS READY TO GO $5.00 DOWN- BALANCE $5.00 WEEKLY $ $ $ $ ? $$$$$$$ AND THIS ! ! ! FORD ROADSTERS—COUPES—SEDANS CHEV ROADSTERS—COUPES—TOURING MAXWELL COUPE $20.00 DOWN-BALANCE $5.00 WEEKLY $ $ $$$$$$$$$ $ $ $ $ 5 D O W N $ 5 $ W $ E E K L Y $ $ ALSO GUARANTEED MODEL “A” FORDS LATE MODEL CI1EVROLETS & DURANTS ALL GUARANTEED CARS ON EASY TERMS SEE THEM TODAY E. C. SIMMONS C. INC., 59 EAST 10TH ST. Or Phone 55G and ask for Dave or Scott. $ $ $ $ $ $5.00 WEEKLY $$$$$$ ^(gjgjgjHElBISiSHSJEfSISISlciJEISMSISISJSMSiSISJSiSISMSiEJSJSEiSJSlSlSJSJHElSISJSJSJEKi Corsag les Valley Sweet Peas Gardenias Brunner Roses * * * Our Shoulderettes Are Just the Thing- for Evening Wear University Florists 598 13th Ave., East campu/7 Bullet in| Beta Gamma Sigma — important business meeting, 4 p. m. Monday, April 28, in room 107, Commerce building. Much business in order. -o Seniors, Notice—Order commence ment announcements, caps and gowns, and souvenirs at the Co-op before Saturday, April 26. This is very important. -o Members of Co-op store—meeting in 105 Commerce at 4 o’clock * Monday. , -o Prose and Poetry group—of Phil omelete will hold breakfast Sun day at 8 a. m., at “Y” bungalow, rain or shine. More News, My Dears! "Sez Sue” Spectator and Participa tor Sports Attire are Rivaling the Formal Modes ... for color and beauty, and grace of line. I’ve been out wandering around the coun try, as you have probably noticed. And nowhere have I found any shops to com pete with ours in Eugene. The most notable thing is the prominence that sport clothes have been getting . .. and of course that suits us perfectly because they are ideal for campus wear. The favored fabrics are kasha, pongee, light woolen mix tures, knits, and shantung silks. And of course the lovely new printed Rajah silks that make the sport dress a thing of beauty, and a joy forever. . . . Whatever the Occasion . . . My dears, I have found just the place to buy my costume | jewelry. And as you all seemingly follow my lead I j must tell you all about it. sh—h—h, it’s the U. of O. i Ko-ed Shop . . . right next to the College Side. Abso- | luteee-ly the latest thing . . . and in infinite and charming variety. Flowers, Too, Seem More Festive than ever before. They have their only rivals in the lovely printed silks of the new mode. Today is the day to order a lovely centerpiece for the Sunday dinner table. The University Florist will have just the thing you want. I happen to know, ’cause I always peek in the. windows as I go by. So just phone 654. It’s up on the corner of I3th and Patter son, if you happen to be up that way. These Afternoons on the “Race” ... are becoming so frequent that we are beginning to think about sport costumes. And here’s the dope.’ Yes : e r d a y at McMorran & VVashburne's I saw some of the loveliest, gayest flannel campus and beach coats . . . for only $3.95 ... in all of the gorgeous color combina tions you could imagine. • ►