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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD ©tegutt ®s!!m lEmerali University of Oregon, Eugene Arthur L Srhoonl . Editor William II. Hammond . Business Manager Vinton II. Hall . Managing Editor EDITORIAL WRITERS Ron Hubbfl, Ruth Newman, Rex Tusfting, Wilfred Brown Nancy Taylor ...Secretary UPPER NEWS STAFF Mary KV>mm . Assistant Manajfinsr Editor Harry Van Dine .— Sports Editor Dorothy Thomas . Society Editor Victor Kaufman ...- P. I. P. Editor Ralph David . Chief Ni*ht Editor Carl Monroe ... Makeup Editor Evelyn Shaner . .. Theater Editor GENERAL NEWS STAFF: Dave Wilson, Ignore Ely. Jessie Steele. Betty Anne Macduff. Henrietta Steinke, Rufus Kim ball, Sterlinw: Green, Merlin Blais, Bobby Reid, Helen Chaney, Roy Craft, Carol Werschkul, Jack Bellinger, Thorn ton Shaw, Carol Hurlburt, Roy Sheedy, Eleanor Jane Bal lantyne, Anne Brieknell, Thelma Nelson, Lois Nelson, Betty Harcombe, Thorn ton Gale. GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORTERS: Helen Raitanen, Esther Hayden, Phyllis Calderwood, Elaine Wheeler, Helen Chapin. Dorothy Morrison, Barbara Conly, Virginia Wentz, A dele Hitchmnn. SPORTS STAFF: Jack Burke, assistant editor; Phil Cogswell, Pal Goodnough, Fred Elliott, and Beth Salway. Day Editor .Barney Miller Night Editor .Warner Guiss Assistant Night Editors Helen Rankin, Katharine Patten, Eleanor Wood BUSINESS STAFF George Weber, Jr. Tony Peterson . Jack Gregg . Addison Brockman ... . Jean Patrick . Larry Jackson . Ken #Siegrist ... Ina Tremblay . Betty Carpenter . Edwin Pubols . Ellen Mills . Katherine Laughrige . Bettv Hagen. Nan Crary . Ned Mars, Virginia Richmond, Ruth Covington . Ina Tremblay . . Associate Manager . Advertising Manager ... Assistant Advertising Manager . Foreign Advertising Manager . Manager, Copy Deportment . Circulation Manager Assistant Circulation Manager .. Assistant Advertising Manager ... Assistant Copy Manager . Statistical Department . Executive Secretary . Professional Division . Shopping Column Janet Alexander . Copy Depart) .Financial Administrator . Shopping Column ADVERTISING SOLICITORS: Harold Short, Auton Bush, Gor don Samuelson. Production Assistant . Fred Hellberg Office Girls: Beth Thomas, Marjorie Dana, Ruth Covington, Nancy Taylor. Francos Drake, Nora Jean Stewart, Elaine Wheeler, Carol Werschkul. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Afitu* elated 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, $2.1»0 a year. Advertising rates upon application. Phone, Man ager: Office, 1805; residence, 127. Why Have Debates? A SCORR of years ago: Hundreds of people crowded into the big Villard hall assembly room to hear Oregon debate Albany college. De bate was enthusiastically received on the campus and ranked with literary societies as a "worth while” activity for students. Last Saturday night: Half a hundred, mostly faculty, saw McLaughlin defeat Medford for the scholastic championship of the state of Oregon. Why this decrease of interest in forensics ? Is its value to participant and student less? No. Then why should they draw mere handfuls of audi ence whereas formerly a debater competed with athletics and one year not so long ago at Oregon a pep rally was postponed for a debate? Perhaps the answer may lie in the widened scope of human interest. Dances and theaters, providing entertainment of great appeal to students, eclipse forensics. People are lazy enough mentally to turn to some pastime which brings a maximum of sat isfaction and thrill with the least amount of brain work. Going to a debate entails considerable close attention to argumentation and intense concentra tion if one is to get anything out of it. Does it follow, then, that the human atom is drifting away from the intellectual toward the sensual? A correspondent in this issue cleverly analyzes and satirizes the small attendance at the state championship debate. This is not only true of in terscholastic meets, but of collegiate also. No amount of publicity and ballyhoo will bring out a crowd to witness something it does not want to see or hear. After a week of lectures and ad dresses the student body evidently wants a change and a relaxation from unnecessary mental activity. No matter how appealing the question for de bate, liow world-shattering the issue to be argued, the interest is not there, nor the attendance. Then why not do away with debates? Because there are advantages to be gained by the partici pant. Speakers are in demand the world over. The orator who can sway the mob is the man who runs world affairs much more easily than the wizened man behind a big mahogany desk. Civilization has a definite niche for orators and debate is the work shop for developing them. Audiences are tools for orators to work with. When debates lack audi ences they lack part of the equipment necessary to turn out the most efficient product. Denying a Debt TT IS n rather unusual act for a responsible man -*• to borrow from Peter to pay Paul, only to deny his obligation to Peter. Tt is a rather peculiar reasoning which arrives at the conclusion that debt can be escaped by borrowing. Times are certainly out of joint when the A. S. IT. O. can float a bond issue to avoid bankruptcy of a fund, yet declare it owes not any man. Those students at the assembly last week who understood that the association is temporarily, at least, free from financial worry are right. But those students who mistakenly believed that the associated students are free from debt are $150,000 wrong. When that $150,000 bond issue is paid, and all other debts are paid, then tlie students will be out of debt. How can they be so free until it is paid? Nor because security for the issue is the build ing fund tax of $G0 to be assessed each student who registers for a full course nor because that Issue is the security, are the students out of the red ink. They are borrowing from those yet to come to the University; they are pledging that winch they own not. They are giving for money a promise of that which they do not have. There are still red marks on the books. -R. T. Among the Panthers, Huskies, Cougars, Crimson Tides, and Golden Bears in the sport world, it is pleasing to note that back in Indiana a high school team calls itself the Loganberries. Athletic Triumphs ATHLETICALLY speaking, Oregon stepper] out into the limelight with a vengeance over the week-end. Starting in over in far-away England, Don Moe set the world to talking by breaking the course record in the Walker cup matches and aiding the United States to win the trophy. Down in Los Angeles, Vincent Dolp shot consistent golf to cap ture the championship of Pacific Coast conference schools. On home ground, Ralph Hill ran the man who had beaten him twice in close competition into the ground and broke the world’s intercollegiate mile record with four minutes, 12 seconds and a fraction, just a shade under the record made by the world’s greatest runner, Paavo Nurmi. Those three young rnen have won highest possible honors for the University and are deserving of all the credit Oregon can bestow upon them. New Orleans has sidewalks the same color as grass. This should save a lot of money wasted yearly on "Do Not Walk on the Grass” signs. E! ——---—--—'.<? Campus Forum a. ... ■ .- —..——.—.—'a To the Editor: One of the four East-West Oregon champion ship debaters, when he entered the little auditorium in Johnson hall Saturday for the final all-state con test, was heard to remark, "This is an awfully small place in which to hold a state championship debate. Isn’t there a larger auditorium we might adjourn to?” That was before the crowd had all arrived. Some time after his remark, and by the time the splendid musical numbers were played, the audience had doubled in size, making in all, four debaters, two coaches, three judges, one state chair man (also chairman of the evening), one Univer sity extension worker (sponsoring the whole series), two trophy presentors, three musicians, twenty five others, approximately; total, approximately forty-one (a few more or less—at any rate, it be came necessary to move "front and center” in order to overcome the insulative effect of many empty seats). The musicians also had other engagements and (we surmise) politely excused themselves. The chairman in his introductory remarks implied that many of the campus talents had other engagements, for he said these three excused musicians “saved the day,” whatever that means. Now just why did all these forty-one persons crowd into this nice little auditorium? (It seats 196 persons, not including the piano stool, and the chairs are well designed for comfort.) For fifteen of them the answer is indicated above. They were, as a result of their own choosing, “it” for one of the six reasons indicated. * * * The balance of twenty-five persons were distrib uted about as follows: No college debaters. (Not one, as far as I could determine. Speak up, if I am in error.) Four college students. (One or two may have been overlooked, but hardly in such an audience.) A group of three a former teacher of one of the contestants, his wife and their 7-year-old son (or was the boy 8 ?). Twelve college instructors, and so forth. Six college instructors’ wives. Total twenty-five other persons present. The fact that so many college students (and no more) were present is interesting. We are wonder ing if one of them from each of the houses that was entertaining these guests of high honor did not accompany him or her (there was one woman on the Milton-Freewater team, and she won the debate, too. Why not, don't they always?) out of sheer courtesy, or mayhap prompted by future pledging designs. You see a few real intellectual lights help considerably, particularly if the house is about to "go national.” Presence of the third group (a family group) is self-explanatory. Of the last two it might he argued that at least six of these came rather than stay home alone. This is indeed a poor argument, for faculty homes also have children to dispell gloom and over quietude. Nor was there any evidence on the part of any for the need of a nice quiet rest or nap. Indeed, since one becomes more or less inured to it, he would snooze better at home in an armchair with the whole family talking, singing and (or) quarreling, for this debate was a fast and furious battle of words. We admit to missing the table pounding emphasis a bit, but the gunlike finger pointing was as effective as usual, and the vocal expression was more than ample to preclude the possibility of a snooze. True enough, one tired fac ulty wife did drouse a little, but the debate was pretty well won by then. No, it wasn’t for any of these reasons. * n * Could it be that these people were there to speak a word of encouragement to the debaters in the hope that they will eventually enroll as students at Oregon rather than at Pacific, Albany, or Cor vallis? Possibly so, but it would be unfair to en tertain this idea exclusively as a motive when we recall how ardently they congratulated the con testants after the forensic battle. About all that is left is interest in one or all of the three forms: (1) friendship for the contest ants and enthusiasm for Oregon; (2) interest in a question full of live political and economic issues for Oregon: and (3) sheer love for the smell of forensic powder. For us, personally, it was all of them. These all seem like legitimate reasons for our attendance at such a contest, even on a busy Saturday night. (We are in such a minority that we become timorous and must try to justify our offish conduct.) But being legitimate for us, why weren’t you there? Condone yourself, for the advertising was lame, perhaps second page you know. (You see, sub sidizing debaters in high schools and colleges hasn’t become big business yet.) Besides, this was the busiest week-end so far this year, and there were so many, many others - people, and things, and do ings in addition to good movies and pigging. That this was an oversight on your part can readily be pardoned. Certainly, certainly! Just another manifestation of thorough lack of proper perspective, kinda like tlie gnat and camel idea, only backwards, that’s all. j. DeWITT DAVIS. TStSEVEN s SEERS A SLIP OF THE TONG A bunch of boys were whooping it up At the Kappa afternoon tea; And the boy who pounded on the music box Wore the pin of an S. A. E. Behind the sofa shooting craps Sat a dangerous Sigma Nu, And watching his luck was his light o’ love, The Theta known as Lou. When out of the night that was 50 below And into the din and glare Suddenly there stumbled a Phi Delt frosh With Crisco in his hair. A mighty hush fell o’er the crowd Eut he looked them in the eye, Then he was f»een to sway and fall Into the arms of a Gamma Phi. He looked like a man with a foot in the grave As tho he'd been to a Chi-O tea, But he arose and stumbled to his feet, Supported by a staggering Spee. “C’mon, Kid, have a coke or two,” Said a Pi Phi known as Madge, And the boy that vended the bub bling brew Sported a Chi Psi badge. He looked like a man of the open air, Who’d lived under sun and moon; His eye fell on the piano where An Alpha Phi warbled a tune. He pushed the singer outa the way And tottering with leaden feet He stumbled o’er a Beta >vho lay. Snoring and fast asleep. He flopped on the stool like a dog at bay And there was a tear in his eye, At the pathetic way that boy could play “The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi.” Have you ever been in the great alone, Out by the Tri-Delt dump ? In the open air, miles out there, Somewhere over the hump? With only the cry of a Fiji frosh As he wails his woes to the sky Or the musical smacks of resound ing hacks From the mansion of Theta Chi. And then the music changed So soft you scarce could hear; From the bloodshot eye of an Al pha Chi There dropped a glycerin tear. The music ceased and hardened hearts Gave way like a broken dam, Eut most of all did bright tears fall From a red-nosed Delta Gam. An unhappy maid leaned on a chair And with a voice of pathos and woe Sang the story of the noble Delt Who loved an Alpha' O. “Let’s make whoopee,” a D. Z. cried (She did it in a six-foot plot For a Phi Sig leaped upon the bar And throttled her on the spot.; The stranger turned and his eyes they burned In a most perculiar way, His tattered cords were glazed with dirt, He sat, and I saw him sway. “Boys,” said he, “You don’t know me,” “Though I’m filthy as a pig, I’m telling you right, I’m here to fight Whoever calls me a Kappa Sig. “But, first of all, I want to thank That unknown Sigma Nu, Who stole away my fiancee, The Theta known as Lou.” As I ducked I heard the cream puffs fly And light with a sickening wham, I bumped into an A. D. Pi And sat on an Alpha Gam. A Zeta Tau screamed and an Al pha Xi Delt Her a stinging blow in the eye, And the Kappa cook wore a start led look An the pin of a Phi Kappa Psi. They turned on the light and a hellish sight, Greeted our horrified view; Sprawled on a beam and pumped full of cream Lay the dangerous Sigma Nu. While afar down the track the echoes came back, A note of anguish, despairing and blue; The stranger abased, was being mercilessly chased By the Theta known as Lou. —Cornelius. If You’re Tired of studying, drop over for some of our food specials. . . . You may feel better. THE ANCHORAGE College Ice Cream Our patrons are our advertisers . . . quality, purity, and service al ways win. Special Menu for This Week BRICK Peach Ice Cream Pineapple Hawaiian Delight * * * BULK Hawaiian Delight Eugene Fruit Growers Association Phone 1 480 8th and Ferry | CAM PUT. Asklepiads—will meet tonight, at 7:30 in room 105, Deady. -o Oregon Knights—meet at 7:30 to night in room 4, Johnson. Very important. Alpha Tau—will meet in the wom en's lounge of Gerlinger hall to night at 7:30. -o Sigma Delta Chi—meeting tomor row at Anchorage, noon. S. S. Smith, speaker. -o Drama group of Philomelete—will meet at the Y. W. bungalow at 7 o'clock this evening. -o German club—meeting will be held at the Y. W. bungalow tonight. Program and refreshments. -o Regular \V. A. A. council meeting —at 7:15 tonight in the clubroom of Gerlinger building. Very im portant. -o Philomelete groups—prepare their stunts for Saturday afternoon. Meeting of presidents to be an nounced later. -o Music group of Philomelete—will hold a meeting today at 3 in West minster house. Girls please bring instruments and music. -o Pot and Quill—will not meet this evening on account of the Matrix Table. Meeting postponed to next Tuesday. -o Play Day directorate—heads of all committees appointed by Edna Dunbar meet in Miss Duncan's of fice at 5 on Wednesday, May 21. Very important. -o. International relations group—of Philomelete meets tonight at 5 o'clock in the Y. W. bungalow for supper and election of officers. Please bring 15 cents in addition to the regular dues. -o Ye Tabard Inn Neophytes—Kauf man, Kelly, Guild, Hillis, and Puustinen, report to Mr. Thacher's office in Journalism building be tween 10 and 12 a. m. today. Chapter meeting tonight at 7:30, at Mr. Thacher’s residence, 1992 University street. -o Women out for intramural archery —may practice after 4 o’clock class, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, as well as the regu lar 4 o’clock hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Charles M. Ziegler, St. Louis in surance man and former Univer sity of Maine football star, has been bequeathed a fine old brick villa in southern France, where lie was billeted during the war. CLASSIFIED ADS PIANO JAZZ—Popular songs im mediately; beginners or ad vanced; twelve-lesson course. Waterman System. Leonard J. Edgerton, manager. 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