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Arthur L. Schoenl . Editor
William H. Hammond . Business Manager
Vinton H. Hall . Managing Editor
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Mnry Klemm .
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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
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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
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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.
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Y. W. cabinet—meeting tonight at
8 o’clock. Important.
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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.
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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.
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