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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD ©regutt Saila 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 . Ralph David . Carl Monroe . Evelyn Shaner ... UPPER NEWS STAFF ._. Assistant Managing Editor . Sports Editor . Society Editor .. P. I. P. Editor .. Chief Night Editor . Makeup Editor . Theater Editor GENERAL NEWS STAFF: Dave Wilson, Lcnore Ely, Jessie Steele, Hetty Anne Macduff. Henrietta Steinke, Rufus Kim ball, Sterling Green, Merlin Blais, Bobby Reid, Helen Chaney. Roy Craft. Carol Werschkul, Jack Bellinger, Thorn ton Shaw, Carol Hurlburt. Roy Sheedy, Eleanor Jane Bnl Jantyne, Anne Bricknell, Thelma Nelson, Lois Nelson, Betty Harcombe, Thornton Gale. GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORTERS: Helen Raitanen, Esther Hayden. Phyllis Calderwood, Elaine Wheeler, Helen Chapin. Dorothy Morrison, Barbara Conly, Virginia Wentz, Adele Hitchmnn. SPORTS STAFF: Jack Burke, assistant editor; Phil Cogswell, Brad Harrison, Ed Goodnaugh, Spec Stevenson, and Beth Salway. ,___ Day Editor .Thornton Gale Night Editor .Warner Guiss Assistant Night Editors Allen Spaulding, Katharine Patten BUSINESS STAFF George Weber, Jr. Tony Peterson . Jack Gregg . Addison Brockman . Jean Patrick . Larry Jackson . Betty Hagen . Inu Tremblay . Betty Carpenter . Edwin Pubols . Ellen Mills . Katherine Laiighrige . Betty Hagen, Nan Crary . . 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 . Shopping Column ADVERTISING SOLICITORS: Larry Bay, Harold Short, Auton Bush, Ina Tremblay. Production Assistant . Vincent Mutton Office Girls: Both Thomas, Marjorie Dana, Ruth Covington, Nancy Taylor, Frances Drake, Nora Jean Stewart, Elaine Wheeler, Carol Werschkul. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Asso ciated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily 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, $2.50 a year. Advertising rates upon application. Phone, Man ager: Office, 1895; residence, 127. Faculty Supervision WHEN the Emerald recently asked political candidates in the student body election what sort of a balance should be maintained between students and faculty in regard to policies and work done by the A. S. U. O., all said that the faculty should occupy an advisory capacity and leave the actual carrying out of details to the students them selves. This seems to be the ideal situation, but unfortunately the students who have been in charge of activities this year are outspoken in saying that this has not been the case. Chairmen have been appointed for special week ends and traditional days. They sharpen a lot of pencils and work up ideas for the event only to find that members of the faculty have already taken care of important details and some even tactlessly make it clear that their decisions are to be fol lowed by the student committees. What can hap pen to enthusiasm among the students for their own activities if they find their hands tied and the work taken out of their hands? It can only die and evidences have been noticeable of such an un desirable feeling creeping into student affairs this year. Faculty supervision of activities is in itself not a bad thing, but faculty direction is bound to have only one result they are going to have to handle all the big affairs themselves because they will find students have suddenly lost interest in chairman ships which mean nothing. A faculty advisor for a week-end or conference is desirable because students assuming the various jobs without previous experience at them need sug gestions and cautions from those who know the problems. But for this advisor to take it upon him self to make all the decisions and complete all major plans is a step too far. Some balance must be set up if the interests of the University are to be served best. Care must be taken or student activities will degenerate into faculty activities with some puppet student chair men going through the motions of carrying out orders laid down by persons ostensibly only ad visors. Political Whispers TJOLITICS as a career for university graduates is recommended by Alfred E. Smith, would-be president, and chief exponent of moist morality. The former governor of New York state says that the college man today prides himself on not know ing anything about politics, while he should be ashamed of himself for such ignorance. “Al,” he of the Bowery vocabulary and striped pants, probably is speaking from his experience with college men and their knowledge of national political mwanderings and machinations. He is wrong it he thinks the average collegian prides himself in his ignorance of campus politics. It Is the opposite, on the contrary. Everyone who dab bles in the college variety at all, and their number Is legion in spring term, prides himself on how full he is of secrets, ideas, rumors, and whispers about politics. The college man meets a friend on the street. “I heur Zilch is lining up the Alphas and the Omegas. He's been rushing a couple of their girls heavy lately.” As it turns out Zilch happened to be seen talking to an Alpha who was in his econ class and was asking her for the assignment, or else he had passed the time of dav with an Omega P-—-: when a political-whisperer on the enemy party saw him. Conclusions are easily jumped to and rumors easily spread in campus politics. That time spent on college politics is not entirely wasted was borne out recently when Harry L. Cor bett, gubernatorial aspirant and Harvard man, told a student interviewer that when a man has gradu ated from a good stiff course of campus politics he should have experience which would stand him good stead after he is out of school. Class elections coming off soon are making Ore gon men and women politically minded again and the spring nights are full of the whispers of the wind and the politicians. Query Freshman Week CURE for the evils for which deferred pledging is suggested as a remedy might be as easily found by studying the effects of the period of pledg ing now in use. Freshman Week sees most of the pins and rib bons displayed on freshman men and women. Fresh man Week sees those new students in majority on the campus. Freshman Week brings back only those upperclassmen who are needed for the rush ing period. And Freshman Week throws all its emphasis on pledging- and pledging in competition with other freshmen. Whatever the advantages of that first pre school week, it is certain that high school gradu ates are impressed more with rushing talk than with psychology examinations. Dinner dates more than lectures fill freshmen programs. The only important common interest of these first-year strangers is pledging. That is enough to repeat. The only important common interest of these freshmen is their common interest in fraternities and sororities. Everything is in favor of it. There is no balance of upperclassmen. Those few who do come back for the first week spend all their time rushing. Emphasis, to repeat again, falls naturally on pledg ing. And perhaps the worst ill-effect is on those men and women who do not get their bids. While University officials review the reaction to suggestion for deferred pledging, may they also review the effects of Freshman Week. Build More Bleachers SR. O. SIGNS went out early this year on re served seats for the Canoe Fete last night. The advance sale of tickets in this section went fast and none have been available for several days. This means that every stationary seat in the bleachers along the race were sold and the demand for tickets directed toward the general admission seats. Since the Canoe Fete each year tries to outdo itself and each year draws bigger and bigger crowds, it seems strange that the University has not extended the bleachers further up the banks of the race toward the first bend. There is room available for a good-sized block of seats to be con structed on the eastern end of the present struc ture. More seats can always be sold to the fete. Last year scores were turned away after the last general admission ducat was sold. The answer is “Build more seats!” Some of the boys down at our house spent about forty consecutive hours working on the Canoe Fete. And to think they shot Lincoln. And abolished the vodvil because it took too much time! Tickets for the big University spring dance at U. of Penn, cost $10 apiece. Prom-trotters at Ore gon pay about enough to tip a check girl back at Penn. | Ihi CollegiatePulse j ft.—.,—---ii CO-OPERATIVE BUYING (Montana Kalinin) Last Wednesday evening the second meeting of the association for co-operative buying among all of the fraternities took a definite step forward in electing officers and practically coming to an un derstanding on the buying of coal next fall in car load lots. The representatives who form the asso ciation are to be commended for their progress. The economy of co-operative buying is evident from the report made by one of the representatives on the buying of coal in carload lots by several fraternities last winter. It was reported by a com mittee at an earlier meeting that about ten per cent was saved by these organizations. From the reaction of those present at the meeting, buying of this sort will be engaged in next fall. It has been found that fraternity buying has not been uniform as far as prices and quantities of supplies are concerned. There has been a range in quantity buying from 25 cents worth of potatoes to 50 sacks. The fraternities have not been paying equal prices for their quantities. The plan sub mitted by a committee of the association is to buy groceries by making out lists and receiving bids from local merchants. Although the organization is but a week old, the gradual work into the plan is taking place. Buy ing in the future among the fraternities will be a saving to each house by considerably cutting down expenses. Each week the association holds a meeting at one of the houses where new plans for buying are considered. The organization is accomplishing its purpose week by week and next year we foresee a well-organized association to do the buying of the several groups by co-operative buying. ■■ . -——■—..————-ip’ You’oe Answer These to Test Your Knowledge of Campus Current Events 1. How will the fresh get to their class picnic, and where is It to he held? 2. Where has Dean David Faville spent the last two w£ek»? S. What was the name of the winning canoe float, and what hnppencd to it ? 4, Who won the flivver race yesterday ? 5. What football game will l>e played today? au. 6. What dot's Or. Kelley think about deferred pledging? 7. What frosh are going to paint the “O"? 8. What prominent Oregon Oad front Califor nia Is in Eugene this week-end? 11. What honoraries held elections yesterday and who were those chosen? 10. What will he the decoration motif at the Junior Trout? —------i I Emerald Corner for Notables L---- r. ----i£ This is the eighth of a series of interviews by the Emerald * with prominent students on the Oregon campus. Dukes may wait on tables in a night club, princesses scrub floors ' in a bank, and college graduates just out of school dig ditches. Why do they do it? They must live somehow. That is why one finds George Barron playing piano in jazz bands instead of letting his fingers roam through the runs and crashing i I chords of a Liszt or Chopin as he is wont to do when studying at the ! scnooi oi music. Me isn i me iype;i he does not look like a jazz pian ist. Although he says he’s Scotch, it would seem more appropriate if his name were a wee bit differ ent. Not that George dislikes jazz. Anyone who can tease drags and fox trots out of a Steinway as well as he can could hardly hate it. Just because it is necessary that a person live somehow, George plays in orchestras for a living until the day when he can teach music himself. He’s been at the Campa Shoppe with the Vaga bonds all winter and will help entertain the crowds at a well known beach in Portland this sum mer. Dancers in college are more ver satile than the regular dance crowds, in Barron’s opinion. “You can play four or five tempos at a college hop, but at a ‘rat race’ only two tempos—fast and slow wili get over,” he said. Because of his Scottish ancestry, George is interested in bagpipes. In fact, he has his grandfather’s pipes right now and admits a great suppressed desire to get them out some day, go up to one of the lit tle rooms in the music building and scare everyone there with wild shrieks such as a novice gets out of bagpipes. Through four years of college Barron has maintained a 1.7 scho lastic average. He is a music ma jor but denies that grades are any easier to get in music than any other subject. “You have closer contact with your teachers and you have to work, harder for an GEORGE BARRON hour of piano than any other sub ject I ever took. When a student pays as much for an education as musicians do, he naturally works harder than an ordinary student would,” he declared. George is president of Phi Mu Alpha, men’s music honorary, has been in the glee club four years (he’s a fifth-year student), Uni versity quartet, polyphonic choir, and took an active part in the prize-winning Phi Sigma Kappa Emerald radio program. This year he has told the campus what’s good and bad in the musical line through his position as Emerald music critic. < Tk SEVEN L SEEKS “It’s sure nice,” said Philosof ickal Pete, business ad major, “that they don't quit serving the campus luncheon till after lunch. That's my idea of a balanced meal if you’ve got a twin broth er that isn’t hungry.” Hi * # “What do you suppose made that punch taste like tin?” quer ied little Blue Eyes. “Anything,” said Pete, “is likely to taste like tin if you miv it with administration meat loaf, mustard and putato chips.” * * * Even ltiuldha has his weak moments. We understand he lost liis head when the Kappas begun working on him. I.ook what lias happened to that Buddha over in (lerlinger hull. lie’s had a hard time, too. * # * •'J' "Pretty tough,” says Dr. Con fuzus, more or less of a direct des cendant of the great man of China, “on our old friend Buddha. He was a great guy, but he would n't listeu to reason. Now if he would only accept my theories as to life among the molecules— He didn't continue, because a typewriter bouuced off of his head. To comply with repeated re quests—demands, even the Seers have taken on an "Advice to the Love-worn" department. Late last night our Aunt Fannie took care of the following over the tel ephone : “Oh, Aauht Fannie,” said a trembling voice over the wire, (of course, it couldn't have been Toni Stoddard’s) “I am an un assuming young man, and have no vicious habits, not being ad dicted to the fiendish drug nico tine much. My friends tell me I am almost good looking. I took the girl I love to the Canoe Fete, and I lost lier ticket. Was it nice of the ushers to throw her out?” “Vos,” Aunt Fannie answered. * *• * FAMOUS LAST WORDS My flunk is higher than yours. Hank Says Ideas Differ Contributors to Hank de Rat's word defining contest try their grey matter on “Joe." Monday’s word will be "pigging.” Drop your contributions in the Seven Seers box in the main libe. JOE MEANS A Joe is a good-time boy, who wears his pants long enough to cover the holes in his socks. He knows all the good women on the campus. Is an authority on foot ball and pool, and generally ends up selling life insurance. » » * T. G. A fraternity urp walking clown a graveled alley memorizing two volumes of the Encyclopedia Brit tanica. A. L. S. * * * A guy's who’s too lazy to spell out his full name, “Joseph.” L. S. * * * A “Joe” is a boid, a guy, a heavy, a bloke, a cove, a bozo, a fellow. HANK DE RAT. CLASSIFIED ADS PIANO JAZZ—Popular songs Im mediately; beginners or ad vanced; twelve-lesson course ! Waterman System. Leonard J Edgerton, manager. Call Stu j dio 1672-W over Laraway's Mu-1 sic Store. 972 Willamette St. tf SUMMER EMPLOYMENT — Two men for summer employment; (.12 weeks), salary and traveling expenses. See Mr. Bentley, | room 621, Eugene hotel. LOST Black and gray Schaeffer pen. Call 127. Reward. i CAMPUS ! -Bulletin Congressmen — Blais, Bateman, Booth, Bellinger, Gamer, Goff, Laub, Campbell, Saunders, New man, and Lyles meet in room 4, Friendly hall, Sunday at 10 o’clock. -'■—o PI Lambda Theta—meeting Tues day noon at the Anchorage. Elec tion of officers. Living quarters at Massachu setts Tech will be equipped with radios. Beta Pi, national honorary in tercollegiate chess fraternity is to establish a chapter at Ohio State university. rv™. ,.i„ ni'rrtin ..... Do You Know? I The two Heilig theatre tickets for the best contribution this week go to George Thompson. Prizes of Heilig theatre tickets will be given again next week. That at the University of Penn sylvania during Ivy week the two most unpopular professors are chosen by the senior class and burned in effigy at an impressive ceremony ? That Oregon State recently made a strong bid for recognition in the Hall of Fame by shattering all existing records for farm cat erpillar tractor endurance runs? That in an independent survey for deferred pledging it was found from among eight different houses freshman pledges were 10 to 1 for deferred pledging? Mothers9 Pins Go Fast * * * * Students Urged To Buy The Oregon Mothers’ pins are selling well, Miss Marian Phy, ex ecutive secretary of the Oregon Mothers, said late yesterday after noon. She urged that all students buy the pins for their mothers. The emblems will be presented to the mothers at the banquet to night with appropriate ceremony. The pins will be on sale until this noon in the lobby of the Ad building, and after that they may be obtained at the office of the dean of men. The pins sell for $1 apiece. Moroni Olsen Players (v \ \ Present w White Wings A Comedy by Philip Barry New Heilig—Monday, May 12 75c to $2.00 See Joseph the Horse—there are two men in him. 9)9) “Things To Make Mothers Visit Pleasant” are numerous and varied. There are candies in special Mother's Day packages, lovely flowers, and lingerie and costume ac cessories that she will appreci ate. Of course, with the Jun ior Week-end activities . . . Canoe Fete, and all the other things . . . you have been so busy that perhaps you have forgotten some sort of remem brance for Mother. Now i3 your last chance, and here’s some of the things I’ve seen that might help you to make your choice. “Go-to-Meetin’ Stockings . . . are always the ideal gift, and never overdone. Mother's Day is a chance to give her lovely gossamer hose that she woirtd not perhaps buy for herself. Some of the most outstanding bargains in Eugene, at the Bus ter Brown Shoe Co., on Willam ette, are: Gold Maid, La France, Berkshire — at $1.00, $1.49, $1.95, $2.95. For That Sunday Dinner Mother would love to have a gorgeous corsage. And if you have forgotten to get her a gift in the rush of the week-end, this gesture solves the problem of appearing in a poor light. Of course Mothers aren’t sup posed to read this. This is just between us gels. Raup's Flower Shop is the ideal place to order your corsage . . . because they always do their utmost to get things just right. Like the Gowns Themselves Hats must be just the right style and color. The little mil linery shop next to the First National Bank carries a line of different and clever hats for every occasion. Many of them are hand-modeled. Just to be sure you find it, look for Letitia Abrams—878 Willamette. Handbags of Fashion are cleverly done in morocco leather in natural colors. In case you have forgotten Mother . . . she .would be delighted with such a gift. And as an acces sory to it . . . she would love a dainty Irish linen hankie with an applique. The U. of O. Ko ed . . . I noticed, has just such bags and hankies . . . and it is so convenient to the campus, too. It’s Always the “Luxuries” That make such satisfactory gifts. Little odd pieces of pot tery . . . new costume jewelry . . . nice lingerie . . . new linens . . . or just anything that you have a special yearning for. Of course your Mother has a lot of these "wants” . . . just as you do. And at McMorran and Washburne's you will find just the remembrance for Mother's Day. Make the Day j Complete . . . For Mother with a corsage to wear to church on Sunday. And it will be nice for dinner time, too. The University Flor ist specializes in attending to ' the needs of the students. And recommends flowers for a great many occasions. Call us right | away for immediate delivery.