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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD O . . __. ©regun %ailJ ^meralii University of Oregon, Eugene Arthur L. Schocnl .. Editor William H. Hammond . Business Manager Vinton II. Hall . Managing Editor EDITORIAL WRITERS Ron Hubbs, Ruth Newman, Rex Tussing, Wilfred Brown Nancy Tnylor .-.— Secretary UPPER NEWS STAEF Mary Klomm ... Assistant Managing Editor Harry Van Dine . Sports Editor Dorothy Thornes . Society Editor Victor Kaufman . P. L P* Editor Ralph Dnvid . Chief Nitrht Editor Carl Monroe . Makeup Editor Evelyn Shaner . Theater Editor GENERAL NEWS STAFF: Dave Wilson, Lcnore Ely, Jessie Steele, Betty Anrie Macduff, Henrietta Steinke, Rufus Kim ball, Sterling Green, Merlin Blais, Bobby Reid, Helen Chaney, Roy Craft, Carol Werschktll, Jack Bellinger, Thorn tori Shaw, Carol Hurlhurt, Roy Sheedy, Eleanor Jane Bal lantyne, Anne Brirknell. 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 Went*. Adete Hitehmnn. SPORTS STAFF: Jack Burke, assistant editor: Phil Cogswell, Brad Harrison, Ed Goodnaugh, Spec Stevenson, and Beth Salway,____ Day Editor .Elise Schroeder Night Editor .Helen Rankin Assistant Night Editors Beatrice Bennett, Betty Carpenter, Virginia Rich mond, Eleanor Wood BUSINESS STAFF George Weber, Jr. Tony Peterson . Jack Gregg .. Addison Brockman . Jean Patrick . Larry Jackson . Ken Siegrist . Ilia Tremblay . Betty Carpenter . Kdw'in Pubols . Kllen Mills ... Katherine Laiighrige .. Betty Hagen, Nan Crary . Ned Mars, Virginia Richmond, Ruth Covington ... Inn Trnml.liiV . Associate Manager . Advertising Manager . Assistant Advertising Manager ... Foreign Advertising Manager . Manager, Copy Department . Circulation Manager Assistant Circulation Manager Assistant Advertising Manager .. Assistant Copy Manager . Statistical Department . Executive Secretary .. Professional Division . Shopping Column ’anet Alexander . ..Copy Departi . Financial Administrator . Shopping Column ADVERTISING SOLICITORS: Harold Short, Auton Bush, Gor don Samuclson. Production Awaistant . Fred Hellberg Office Girlfi: Both Thomaa, 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 duily 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. Heroes Both HE MADE his way through the crowd of students erupting from the big stucco administration building. A rakishly set hat topped off an immac ulate light suit . . . flashy tie, brown and white shoes ... a rich tweed coat. The door opened to show him his way down the marble corridors, stair ways that led to the dean’s office. Into the mahogany suite he strode, soon to enter the door marked "Dean." “How do you do! . . . How do you feel after the game ? . . . Get hurt bad when you tackled Red Burnham? . . Kinda tired, eh? . . . Yes, that was a pretty hot game . . . sure earned this scholarship check. . . . Too bad it isn’t more.” • * * T TE WAS pushed here and there by the crowd that erupted from the business office. A rather shabby felt hat sat dejectedly above his hair that needed cutting, topping off a pair of well-worn cords and sweater, clothes neither rich nor flashy. No one noticed him as he climbed the marble stairs. . . . He wus out of place—spoiled the picture . . . shoddiness, shiny rails. Waiting on tables did not pay much. His folks at home could not spare money for his college edu cation. Bills were heavy enough there without sending any money away. ... So he was working. It did not leave much time for studying, but one has to live on something besides ambition. His presence at the barred window created no furor. He stood a while before anyone noticed him. When he got his check it seemed pitifully inade quate to pay his expenses, for his room and books. * * * npHE two men left the building together. One strode to a car and got in beside the girl who was waiting for him. The other went down the street to a florist’s. “Mother's Day, you know. Take the price of three roses out of this check. . . . Yes, just three . . .” Wooden Figureheads rpHE campus has seen its last of politics this year. At least the official variety of rumor and-report rivalry has ended with the selection of officers by three classes yesterday to serve them the coming school year. Four students were elected by each class to carry out the multifarious and multitudinous duties which attend a class office. Magnitude unconsciously breeds a maximum of interest in an activity and the number of votes cast in the class elections is directly proportional to the importance students place on those offices. Where little attaches to the position little concern is held over the results. Cut down the duties of an office and make it a figurehead and the tide of student interest in it ebbs away until the incum bent stands high and dry on a hollow pedestal of fictitious prominence. In the past, the paper has taken the stand that there are too many class offices which are only a name. Regardless of the merits of the elect it still holds to the same opinion. What profits it to P elect capable students and then figuratively place them in an empty office without even a desk? There are few duties of a class which a presi dent could not discharge with facility. But so long as there are four officers elected to carry out the business of the classes next year let these officers look around them for something to occupy their time. If there is nothing for them to do, if they cannot put their ingenuity to work and make work for themselves, then probably the class could get along just as well without such an office. Let there be a dearth of figureheads and the campus will be better off for the lack. Laugh and Live THE big, round muzzle of a .44 bored down on the Cisco Kid from over the top of a dusty boulder. “Reach for it, you-” came from be neath the sloppy grey felt sombrero in greaser English. Cisco Kid was startled, surprised, but not scared. Prom on top his pinto pony he elevated his hands toward the Gemini twins. As his hands went up so did his head and he laughed aloud and raucously. That—in the words of an eastern psychologist— was beneficial to the Cisco Kid's health in more ways than one. It may be easy to laugh when 1 you’re happy, but it is when you laugh at death and pain that laughter does the most good. Through stimulating respiration and circulation, increasing the blood pressure and sending more blood to the brain by breaking up every train of thinking and every sustained activity, bodily and mentally, the benefit to health is obtained, to quote the technical words of explanation. A laugh can do a lot. Laugh when you’re eat ing dinner. Laugh when you say something that 190-pound behemoth does not like. Laugh when your date turns you down for another fellow. You can get another yourself. Laugh to drive away the blues and shake off the worries. A good healthy ha-ha will do a lot more than a half-dozen stam I mered explanations when your sweetheart finds a pink letter in your pocket. It drives away the em barrassment when you get caught picking up that lost golf ball before it stopped rolling. Be non chalant. Forget the tobacco slogans and laugh with the rest of the world. The battle’s half won when you go into it with a smile. A German inventor is working on a device which, if perfected, will make it possible to place a printed book in a machine and have it read aloud auto matically. Great idea—students in Condon could learn Taussig through ear-phones and use their eyes for the usual purpose. Some gardener has crossed cabbage and aspar agus. Now if someone could cross beefsteak with spinach, these house lunches would taste better. J TMCollegiatePulse j Bi. -—.■. .. .. „ -.—'& THE FRATERNITY’S FUTURE (Michigan Daily) It is difficult for us to see how the fraternities on the local campus can view their present status with equanimity or their future with confidence. Wherever they turn outside their membership they are charged with snobbery, extravagance, moral turpitude, sloth, selfishness, and barbarism. Har vard junked the whole system in favor of dormi tories back in The 1880's. Princeton and Yale have followed siut, reducing fraternities to the status of ping-pong parlors; and now Michigan is experienc ing a wave of dormitory propaganda which bids fair to go hard with the fraternity system. The fraternities are not entirely guiltless. Founded with high ideals of Christian fellowship and mutual aid, they have for the most part been careless of this heritage. Some of the bad influ ences that inevitably arise in college life have been tolerated instead of defeated in the chapters. A general mockery of serious academic work is per haps the most serious of these bad influences, though certainly its complimentary tendency the encouragement of drinking, loafing, luxury, and ease should receive mention. Fraternities have rather generally failed to show cause why they should continue to exist except as superior rooming and boarding houses, and even this rather hollow excuse will hardly hold water when the university can provide dormitories. Fraternities, of course, will spring to their own defense on the ground of their lasting loyalties anil friendships, and it cannot be gainsaid that these sterling virtues are a product of the associations they foster. But unless this university goes com pletely country-club (the direction in which it has recently been headed), we fail to see how it can permit the continued existence of these distinctly anti-academic groups. The fraternity might be permitted to leaven the business of learning with companionship and recreation, but it cannot be al lowed, as it has been in the past, to actively dis courage scholarly achievement. We do not advocate the abolishment of fraterni ties. We simply warn them that if they would pre serve their usefulness, and perhaps their very exist ence. they must radically alter their attitude. They must reorganize as small colleges, preserving their standards of membership and individuality, but adding a serious constructive purpose to their ex cuse for existence. It is encouraging to note that the alumni of at least two of the older and better established fra ternities on the campus are already thinking along these lines. ---------•—“—•tei Now That You’re Read The Emerald Answer These to Test Your Knowledge of Campus Current Events 1. Who was thi> winner of the Jewett contest? 2. What did yesterday's varsity baseball game turn into? 8. Can sophomores wear cords, or can juniors grow mustaches ? 4. What Oregon golfer left for California? 5. What decided the freshman editorship of the Emerald? b ti. What will happen at the assemhly Thurs- | day ? | 7. To what position was Professor Wright chosen ? 8. Who won the Webfoot tennis match? !). Who will read a play at tiuilil hall tonight ? 10. Who will tlie frosh meet in track today? TkSEVEN ! * SEERS f jA \ Contributions were exceptionally i good for today. The box over in j ;he old libe certainly does attract ligh class art. Scan this poem, for instance. I Isn't it the smoothest thing you had come sparkling into your system? Note in particular the subtle thought behind the amazing rhythm. It’s not a bit juvenile, either. , Hank do Hat, Forgot his Rat; So Hank Rot shot, On the spot, Where he sat. And Hank, to his disRiist, Found he couldn’t trust, That spot, Where he Rot shot. Perhaps this rat, Is not so hot; Hut believe it or not, Hunk Rot shot. —A. B. C. Isn’t that darling? Guess it must be real good, because it does n't seem to mean anything. Here’s some more contributions: 1. It is rumored that spring seepage has caused senior mus taches to be rather thin in spots. i 2. Prof.—There’s a striking sim ilarity in these examination pa pers. Grader—Yes, they are from a pony chorus. TODAY'S DUMMEST ENTREE The guy who dated the movie usher to a show. * # * ADVICE TO THE LOVE-WORN Dearest, darling Aunt Fannie: I love a girl sweetly, and I know she’s crazy about me. There’s a drowned fly in our ointment, however, because 1 have not told her everything. 1 have false teeth! What shall 1 do about this? —Horrified. Dear Horrified: Fat mush. —Aunt Fannie. * * * AS WE SAID BEFORE— “This is too much." Alexis Lyle Picked Prexy of Honorary Alexis Ryle, sophomore in busi ness administration, was elected president of Phi Chi Theta, na tional commerce honorary for wo men, at a meeting of the group held yesterday at 5 o’clock in room 101, Commerce building. Other officers chosen were Frances Rupert, vice-president; Thella Wood, secretary; Gladys Collins, treasurer; Juanita Kil born, reporter; Verno Smolnisky, historian; Gladys Bennett, grand councillor. Installation of these officers will take place soon, it was announced by Lucile Cornutt, retiring president. Johanna Koberstein has been chosen to represent the chapter at the national Phi Chi Theta con vention, to be held June 19 to 24 in Boston, Massachusetts. H. Wright Commander Of R.O.T.C. Parade Harvey Wright was named yes terday by Major F. A. Barker to act as battalion commander for the parade which assembles at 4 :f)0 this evening on the R. O. T. C. drill field. Crosby Owens will act as adjutant. Company com manders are to be Francis Stur gis, company A; Eugene Laird, company B: Carl W. Nelson, com pany C; George W. Jackson, com pany D. The personnel of com pany E will be divided among the other four companies. EMERALD OF THE AIR -By THORNTON GALE - "Flint's Followers,” popular campus band, will be presented again tonight at 8 o’clock in the “Emerald of the Air” broadcast ing over KORE. This is the third appearance of the orchestra at the local station, and comes as a re sult of many requests by telephone and letter, for another engage ment. Paul Hunt, former chairman of the Greater Oregon committee, will speak on the “University of Oregon, Past, Present and Fu ture.” This is the fourth of a series of talks by prominent peo ple of the campus. Slim Eward, soloist, will be pre sented in a medley of popular numbers. * * * Congress club, campus discus sion group, was featured last night over KORE in a travesty session of the United States congress. For 15 minutes, pseudo senators flung highfaluting words about the broadcasting room of the sta tion. Those taking part in the dialogue were Merlin Blais, presi dent of Congress club, Paul Laub, Don Campbell, George Bateman, Jack Bellinger, Robert Gamer, Kenneth Campbell, Lercy Goff, Don Saunders, and Wallace Camp bell. “The Troublesome Trio,” Slug Palmer, Kelley Slocum, and Bob Goodrich, was presented in a se ries of vocal numbers. Bob Good rich sang one solo accompanying himself on his guitar. Carolyn Haberlach, studio girl, and director of the women’s mu sical numbers, played two request piano solos. The Traveling Troubadors, Lar ry Fisher and George Kopchik, played two violin duets. In the midst of their first number, “The Perfect Day,” they were cut off by Frank Hill, manager of KORE, because the piece is a copyrighted song of Amos ’n’ Andy’s and is not allowed to be broadcast ex cept by them. KGW, Portland, was also stopped last night in the middle of the piece, said Mr. Hill. Disregarding of copyright puts a station in danger of losing its license. Bob Stoltze, of Flint’s Followers, finished up the radio hour with a piano solo. The usual broadcast of late Oregon Daily Emerald news was interspersed throughout the program. Alumni Directory To Be Published In Old Oregon 6,967 Graduates’ Names Listed in May Issue Of Magazine The 1930 edition of the Univer sity of Oregon Alumni Directory, to be issued as the May number of Old Oregon, official alumni magazine, will be off the press about the first of next week, it was announced last night by Miss Margaret Boyer, acting editor in the absence of Miss Jeannette Calkins, alumni secretary. The cover, a four-color half-tone of the administration building, is now being printed, and nearly half of the actual list of names is fin ished. The index will go to press the latter part of this week. Names, addresses, degrees, and occupations of 6,967 Oregon grad uates are listed in the directory, according to Miss Boyer. The alumni are segregated according to the classes with which they graduated. The index lists all the names in alphabetical order, giv ing class and page number. Mar ried women are listed again under their maiden names. Braille Press Donates 70 Books to Library A gift of 70 volumes of Braille books has been received from the American Braille Press, publish ers. from the Paris office. These books, some of which are in French and some in English, will be shelved with the other Braille books which compose the library for the blind on the campus. Most of these books are by well-known authors such as A. Dumas, Joseph Conrad, A. Douglas Sedgwick, and Tolstoi. The Daily O'Collegian of the Oklahoma Agricultural college is conducting a prohibition poll. Lat est returns list 116 for modifica tion. 109 for enforcement, and 45 for repeal. [CAMPUS’.! J . Bullet in». Eugene girls—meeting in room 110, Johnson hall, today. Appoint ments will be made. -o Cosmopolitan club picnic—Satur day, May 17. Be sure to sign up at Y hut. -o Congress eluli—will meet tonight. -o Ticket sab’—for commencement play, “Yellow Jacket,” opens to day at Co-op. -o Students who have not called—for their Oreganas at the graduate manager's office are asked to do so at once. -o Emerald staff—meets today in room 105, Journalism, at 4 o’clock. All junior women—must buy tick ets today at bungalow for Junior Senior breakfast, Sunday, May 18, at 8:30, Gerlinger hall. -o Woman in Her Sphere—meets Sunday from 5 to 6 in the wom en’s room, Gerlinger hall. PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT Delta Gamma announces the pledging of Mary Pat McGowan. 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 LOST—A lady’s blue spring coat. Finder please call 851, Fransetta Prideaux. FOUND—Gold ring. Phone 1441. A dean at an eastern university advocates the formation of a “Su per Kindergarten” for the non serious collegiate, and activity mad college students. 1 Hank Says Ideas Differ Correspondents define pigging today. Tomorrow's word will be "fraternity.” Put your contribu tions in the Seven Seers box in the main libe. • * • The art of going with a girl for four years without developing any thing more serious than a habit. —T.G. * * * If pigging means going out with a girl, then serenading and hog calling must be synonymous. —D. D. * * * When a guy goes around in a daze with a haunted look on his face, like, say Slug Palmer, then he must be pigging. —Art Potwin. * * * Fussing, wenching, queening, dating, squirling, jilling, blimping. —Hank De Rat. j Do You Know? [ a'.——..—is Heilig theater tickets are given for the best contributions to this column. That a 4-year-old child was re cently initiated into a national so cial fraternity in Florida? * * * That the president and presi dent-elect of the A. S. U. O. ap pointed a member of a sub-com mittee of the executive council to a position he cannot constitution ally hold—and left off the name of a person constitutionally a member of the committee ? * * * That a tennis ball lodged into a hole in the wall of the Gerlinger building during a practice tennis match there two years ago, still remains there securely? —M. B. I The Personal Gift Your Photograph KENNELLL-ELLIS STUDIO “Eugene's Own Score" McMorran <&l Washburne PHONE 2700 Again Our New York Office Scores a Hit! 25 Knit Suits Thursday at 9 A. M. at Actual $19.50 to $22.50 Values Lovely new knit suits ... at an insig-. nificant cost . . . and an important member of the summer fashions. And certainly these are exactly what you are looking for ... so well made . . . and so lovely in fabric and color. 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