EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD
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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
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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
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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.
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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?
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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
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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.
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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.
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Cosmopolitan club picnic—Satur
day, May 17. Be sure to sign up
at Y hut.
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Congress eluli—will meet tonight.
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Ticket sab’—for commencement
play, “Yellow Jacket,” opens to
day at Co-op.
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Students who have not called—for
their Oreganas at the graduate
manager's office are asked to do
so at once.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Temenids Choose ISeiv
Officers at Meeting
Dorothy Eberhardt, junior in his
tory, was chosen president of
Temenids, campus branch of the
Order of Eastern Star, in a meet
ing of the group held yesterday
at which new officers were elected
and installed.
The following girls also received
offices in the society: vice-presi
dent, Katheryn Feldman: record
ing secretary, Lucy Spittle; cor
responding secretary, Emma Bell
Stadden; treasurer, Bernadine
Carrico; editor, Cora Rae; guard
ian of the gate, Helen Hieber.
The next meeting of the group
will be held on Tuesday, May 27,
it was announced by Miss Eber
hardt.
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