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~ EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD ♦* ©regutt Saiia ^mcraUi University of Oregon, Eugene Arthur L. Schoenl . Editor William H. Hammond . Business Manager Vinton H. Hall . Managing Editor EDITORIAL WRITERS Ron Hubba, Ruth Nnwman, Rex Tuaning, W'iIfrf-rl Hrown Nancy Taylor ... Secretary Mnry Klemm . Harry Van Dine Dorothy Thomas . Victor Kaufman .. Ralph David . Carl Monroe . Evelyn Shanor ... 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, Lenore Ely, .Jessie Steele, Betty Anne Macduff. Henrietta Steinke, Rufus Kim ball. Sterling Green, Merlin Blais, Bobby Reid, Helen Chaney, Roy Craft. Carol Wersehlcul, Jack Bellinger. Thorn ton Shaw, Carol Hurlburt, Roy Sheedy. Eleanor Jane Bal lantyne, 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, A«lele Hitchman. SPORTS STAFF: Jack Burke, assistant editor: Phil Cogswell, E<l Goodnougb. Fred Elliott, and Beth Sal way. Day Editor .Barney Miller Night Editor .Helen Rankin Assistant Night Editors Betty Carpenter, Warner Guiss, Katharine Patten, Doug Wight BUSINE 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 . Ned Mars, Virginia Richmond, Ruth Covington . Ina Tremblay . iSS STAFF . 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 Janet Alexander .Copy Depart) . Financial Administrator . Shopping Column ADVERTISING SOLICITORS: Katherine Laughrage, Gordon Samuelson, Nan Crary, Ina Tremblay. Production Assistant . Ed Kirlrv Office Assistants .,. Elaine Wheeler. Carol Werscbkul Office Girls: Beth 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.CO a year. Advertising rates upon application. Phone, Man ager: Office, 1895; residence, 127. 1 he College dwindle THE legend of college and the college man who is supposed to emerge with a high regard for himself is like Hans Christian Andersen’s story about the emperor’s new clothes. Two fairy-tale racketeers persuade the emperor that they have a cloth visible only to him who is perfectly honest. The emperor orders a royal robe. Empty bolts are brought in, empty looms made to simulate weaving and the racketeer tailors go through all the motions of making up a robe. The king does not dare admit he can see noth ing, for to do so would be to admit that he is dis honest. The courtiers do not dare to say anything, for if they did they would be set down as fools as well as knaves. At last the day of a great procession comes. The king strides down the street clad in purely imaginary raiment of the swindling tailors. The people have heard of the legend and they, too, fear to say anything. Surely they must be mistaken, for they are honest men all. At last up speaks a little child, poorly brought up by its parents you may be sure: “But, mama,” says tlie child, “the emperor hasn’t uny clothes on at all." So it is with college in a more benevolent way. The swindling tailors turn out to be honest college professors who pretend to hang the royal robes of knowledge onto certain college men’s kingly frames. After they have gone through the motions of drap ing the royal personage, they stand back and sur vey their work, imagining them clothed in intellec tual finery. These kings, who in this tale are the men who drift through college without getting much out of it, also think themselves better clothed than the hoi-polloi and look down on them. The people outside the college palace gates are told the kings will come out caparisoned in cloth of gold. They see little drapery in actuality, but hesitate to say so because they may be labelled dishonest. So about this time every year the hordes of kings dressed by professorial tailors stride out into the world imagining themselves dressed as Beau Brummels when in reality they wear only slightly more clothes than When they entered. Rooms or Hide-outs? A S THE summer season approaches, the thoughts of fraternity women turn to the national con ventions of their respective organizations which are held during the vacation period in various sec tions of the country. One of the most disputed questions which will come up for discussion is undoubtedly smoking and the presence of smoking rooms in the sorority houses. Most of the national Panhellenic fraterni ties have rules against smoking in public and against smoking rooms on the premises of the liv ing organizations. These two rules seem in direct contradiction to each other. One forbids the college woman to in dulge in a cigarette in public, and then encourages that very thing by not allowing her to smoke in the privacy of her house. True, some of the more progressive houses have smoking rooms which are sanctioned by the national administrations, but many more have them in direct violation of their rules. The rule against smoking in public is no doubt a wise one. It will probably have to be kept until the greater portion of the people in this country becomes accustomed 'to0 seeing women engaging in a habit formerly practiced only by men. If smoking rooms were allowed in the living organizations, the big incentive of “getting away with it’’ would be removed and the actual amount of smoking would decrease rather than increase. Co-eds would not be forced to retire to the grave yard, the garage, or a public eating house to in dulge in their cigarettes ,1. S. Only one more Emerald after today! Then what will the publicity hounds do for kennels? The Voting Daze VOTING days are here again, to paraphrase the opening lines of a current jazz hit. After a siege of prohibition polls which swept the country in town and college like a tidal wave, a lull settled down only to be disrupted again by a craze for voting, especially in the eastern sector where heavy firing has started anew the battle of Public Opinion, Part of the world is certainly interested in finding out what the rest of the world thinks. Take for instance Princeton, where seniors voted on two score of questions and persons. Among the things they selected was the best all-around man, most respected, most thorough gentleman, wittiest, biggest grind, favorite novel, favorite sport, favor ite beverage, how many courses have you flunked, would you marry for money, have you grown a moustache, how many times have you been turned down, have you ever been to a night club in New I York, and a host of other nonsensical topics. Rutgers held a similar poll on the most popular and unpopular persons, places, and pastimes. Now that these polls have been completed and i the results tabulated it is not untimely to say that ' great ado will be made over them, college machin ery clogged, college plants closed down, and holi days declared. Seismic disturbances are predicted over North America now that the world knows that college youth likes Norma Shearer better than Joan Crawford and gin better than moonshine. Let there be reams of college polls and let the questions fall where they may. Perhaps the slight modicum of thought necessary to decide whether one prefers Joe to George or Bodenheim to Beach is after all beneficial on the eve of final exams. Spoils the Game THOSE persons who must take their figures seri ously will find much to worry in a little feature story today which seems to imply that only the Adamses and Browns can get high grades and the Youngs and Zyxtyrcs must remain without Phi Beta Kappa keys. For the figures are true, and the seating ar rangements are thus, so these serious-minded stu dents and professors look and exclaim at their like ness. The A's are first in seats, they are near the first in grades one must be the cause. Perhaps it is better not to look at life so much by pattern. The grades are thus and the seats are thus—it’s worth smiling at to see the likeness. But the Adams and Browns and Youngs know that like ness is never identity. Yet for the serious-minded people we must say, “No, we do not mean it ’though it is true.” And that spoils the game.- R. T. Willamette had trouble deciding whether only the man or both sexes were to vote in its May Queen contest, many claiming that jealousy gov erned the women’s votes. But still there's nothing like setting a thief to catch a thief. Rudy Vallee was awarded a letter sweater with an "M” on it from Maine for popularizing its stein song. The M stands for Maine, not moo. Don Moe did fairly well on the Sandwich, Eng land, golf course the other day. Sandwich, no doubt, is the place where the slice originated. “University Social Life Nil Fifty Years Ago" headline. It is also nil about two weeks prior to finals. They play baseball games at night back East. We’ve seen too many umpires go wrong in the day time to put much faith in this night-game racket. Phi Beta Kappas at Yale anil Harvard indulge in an annual game of baseball. They probably find their keys help them when they try to steal home. Editorial Shavings S'. -■—■■——.—.— While they have banquets and other honors foi lin' departing graduates we would meekly ask that something be done for the perennial students. Daily O’Collegian. » * * After reading of weddings held in theaters, in airplanes, before radios, and while gently floating to earth in parachutes, we wonder why some origi nal soul doesn’t put one on at home. Daily Kansan. * * * The Japanese have a curious custom of taking off their shoes before entering a house. The same custom is observed by some married men in this country. Daily Nebraskan. • * • It is easy to identify the owner of the car; he is the one who, alter you pull the door shut, always opens it again and slams it harder. Daily Ne braskan. • * * The height of personality is embodied in a donkey, were we to judge by the psychologists’ re marks that character is indicated by the ears. Daily Kansan. • • • It’s going to be a lot of fun to have these sen iors hanging around for commencement when all the rest of us are studying for final exams. Indiana Daily Student. * * • There is some gratification in being a martyr, it you can attract enough atteiySftai. Purdue Ex ponent. • » * John Ringling says that tigers cost $8,000 each That is too much money for a pet, with goldfish retailing at 15 cents per. Daily Kansan. • » • We see that a gent named Howell has been picked to head the glee club, it occurs to us that this is peculiarly appropriate.—Michigan Daily. * * * We hope the finals won’t be final for too many, | including us.- The Pennsylvanian. • • • Would you call a back-seat driver an advocate of remote control? Purdue Exponent. • » • The biggest job is putting abstract ideas into concrete heads.—W. S. C. Evergreen. Famed Scientists Gather at University of Oregon Modern scientific problems will be attacked at the University of Oregon, Eugene, when experts , from all over the United States assemble, June 18 to 21, for the annual meeting of the American Associ ation for the Advancement of Science, Pacific division. Dr. Douglas H. Campbell, left, nationally known botanist of Stanford University, will give the annual president’s address at the opening session. The main speaker of the symposium on trees, which is one of the outstanding features of the meeting, will be Dr. Wilson Compton, center, secretary-manager of the National Cumber Manufacturers Association at Washington, D. C., a leading authority on wood utilization. Dr. Andrew Kllicott Douglass, right, director of Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, eminent astronomer, will describe his experiences as leader of the National Geographic Society tree ring expedition, conducted last year through the Southwest of the United States. .TfcSEVEN L SEEIis Dear Papa, At last, papa, I tinU I am poi fectly satisfied wit dis dump. A education is a fine tin£ to have believe me. I sure am a lot bettor off ilan a lot of dose bolds aroun hero seems to tink dey are. I just hoid dat we was going to hove amidder one of dose examina tions in a short time, an exam inations is me favorite dish. Dese mugs can't catch little Hank on none of deir questions! Questions, papa, is what dey asks in examinations, just like de dis trict attoiney asked youse last summer in de insanity trial whed der youse knowed it was wrong to bump off dat bank messenger. But dis is even easier dan dat, because most of de questions don't mean nutting anyway. When dey asks me whedder de Chinese am bassador to Poland had de same privileges as de Algerian minister to Mexico, I just says I don't know. Dey can’t soak a guy for dat, can dey? I ain’t even tellin no lie. But dere's one ting dat we’re going to have here dat appeals ! to me especially. Dal’s de new gamblin joint dey got started. It's about done now, an maybe youse tlnk it aint a hot layout. I aint never been inside of it, but if de folnishings is nnytlng like de walls on de outside, I ain't surprised if dey’ll have plush handles on de cues an gidd tops on de card tables. I guess I'll have to git Greasey j Gus to come back here wit me nex . fall. Dat guy's got de smoothest j ileal in Chi, and papa, youse j know yourself dat is saying a whole lot. When it comes to fine j arts, dat guy sure can deliver de goods. It's de best fine arts building I ever seen, too. Dey actually calls it dat. papa, but 1 guess dey're safe enough at dat, be cause dere aint a window in de whole joint! Dot's what I calls class. I’d hate to be de bull ! what tii Us he can raid dat joint. Vour faithful boy, —Hank de Rat. Dr. John R. Mez To Speak Abroad During Summer To Attend Opening Session Of League Assembly In Geneva Dr. John R. Mez, professor of economics, yesterday disclosed plans to leave Eugene on June 3 to make a tour of the world, in the course of which he will make several lectures abroad under the auspices of the Ameri can League of Nations association of New York. According to present plans, Dr. Mez will be in Geneva in Septem ber, to attend the opening session of the league assembly. Before returning to the United States, Doctor Mez will spend three weeks in Japan, where he will speak in several places, in cluding the Pan-Pacific club in Tokyo. He plans to return to the campus on January 2. Hollins college, one of the old- I est women’s schools in Virginia, is undertaking an experiment to j determine the desirability of no | sororities, having abolished all such organizations. CAMPU/ \ Bullet ii Town girls—meet this afternoon at 4 in 110 Johnson. -o Y. W. cabinet—meeting tonight at 8 o’clock. Important. -o All members of frosh track team— report on Hayward field at 4 o’clock for picture. -o lack Stipe's section of the Greater Oregon committee—meets in 110 Johnson at 5 o’clock. All frosh and varsity swimmers— meeting at 3:30 today at the of fice of the men’s gym. Impor tant. -o-—— W. F. Jewett—prize extempore speaking contest winners will re ceive prize money through mail from the comptroller’s office. Men students at Indiana univer sity have been offered the privi lege of going to the polls to de cide whether or not they shall be required military training. Scab bard and Blade at Indiana is mus tering votes to retain the present system, while the rank and file -eem to be ready to deal it a death blow. Summer Students Will Make Study Of Platoon System Portland Schools To Aid In Second Experiment Of University The University of Oregon will cooperate for the second time with the Portland public schools,! during the full six-week period of ; the Portland summer session, from ; June 23 to August 1, to hold aj summer platoon demonstration school. This was attempted last year for the first time and proved so successful that it is being repeated , this summer in response to wide popular demand, according to Al fred Powers, dean of the extension division. The demonstration school will be held within easy walking dis tance of the Portland center, in the Shattuck elementary school building, so that an opportunity will be open to platoon teachers and intending teachers to study a platoon school in regular opera tion. A limited amount of practice teaching and extensive and super vised observation may be part of the program, as desired for stu dents of education in the upper di vision of the University who en roll in this course, observation and practice in platoon demonstration school. Practice will be in audi torium, physical education, music, art, and library. Libby Scheduled For Talk Sunday To Discuss Armament at M. E. Church The London disarmament con ference and his ideas on whether the United States will enter into agreement on such matters will be a part of the material which Fred erick J. Libby, official organizer and ‘executive secretary of the National Council for the Preven tion of War, will discuss when he speaks at the First Methodist church here Sunday evening. Mr. Libby will come directly from Salem where he will speak Sunday morning. Word of his ar rival was received here by Dr. John R. Mez, associate professor of economics and political science. PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT Phi Kappa Psi announces the pledging of William Dirkee, of Santa Barbara, California. There’s a Silver Lining .. .iV 'Usm w C rant land Rice "♦—a— Famous Sports Champions Coca-Cola Orchestra —a-Every Wednesday 10:30to 11 pin. Fastera Daylight Sav ing Jiae -—a—a— Coast to Coast IS BC Network in the g*aUSe that refreshes So many unhappy things can happen to increase that old inferiority complex. Deans and Doctors, Mid-years and Finals, all dedi cated to the cause of making life a burden. Coca-Cola was made for times like these. 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