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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1930)
. EDITORIALS • FEATURES • HUMOR ,♦ LITERARY ♦ University of Oregon, Eugene Vinton Hall, Editor Anton Peterson, Manager Itobert Allen, Managing Editor EDITORIAL WRITERS Dave Wilson, Rex 'fussing, Bill Duniway, Harry Van Dine UPPER NEWS STAFF Neil Taylor, News Editor Jack Burke, Sports Rarnev Miller. Features Carol Hurlburt, Society Lester McDonald, Literary Warner Guise, Chief Night Editor Editor’s Secretary: Mary Helen Cornell NEWS STAFF Star Reporters: Lois Nelson. Merlin Blais, Ralph David, Elinor Jane Ballantyne. Reporters: Betty Anne Macduff, Lenore Ely. Jessie Steele Isabelle Crowell, Thelma 1 Nelson, Helen Cherry, Jack Bollinger. Hetty Davis, Helen Rankin, BetR Salwny, George Thompson, Roy Sheedy, Thornton Shaw, /ora Beeman, Rufus Kimball, Vn ginia Wentz. Ted Montgomery, Jim Brook, Carl Thompson, Isabella Davis, Elcano Coburn, Joan Cox. Allan Spaulding, Fletcher Host, Kenneth Fitzgerald. General Assignment Reporters: Mary Bohoskey, Eleanor Coburn, Joan Cox, Fred Fricke, Eleanor Sheeley, Barbara Jenning, Madeline Hilbert, Katherine Manerud, Katherine King, George Root, Frances Taylor. Day Editors: Dorothy Thomas, Thornton Gale, Phil Cogswell, Lenore Ely, Thornton Shaw. . Night Staff: Monday Harold Birkenshaw, George Kerr, Marion Phobes, Marion Vor land • Tuesday Eugene Mullens, Byron Bnnton, Lois Weedy, George Sanford. Wednesday Doug Wight, Eleanor Wood, Dorice Gonzel, Betty Carpenter ; 1 nurs day Stan Price, Earl Kirehoff, Gwen Elsmore, Rila Swain: Friday—Fred Fricke, Elsworth Johnson, Joseph Saslavsky. George Blodgett. aDorts Staff: Mack Hall. Bruce Hamby, Alfred Abranz, ■ Erwin Lawrence, Kelman Keagy. Vincent Gates, Mali - Heymers, F'.sther Hayden, Ed Goodnough. BUSINESS STAFF Jack Crogg, Advertising Manager Larry Jackson, Foreign Advertising Ken Siegrist, Circulation Manager Addison Brockman, Assistant Manager John ra inton, Office Manager Hetty Carpenter, Women’s Specialties Harriet Hoffman, Scz Sue Carol Werschkul, Executive Secretary The Oroeon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Kuyene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Member of the I'acifie Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates, $2.5(1 a year, rates upon application. Phone, Manager; Office, Local 214; residence, 324. Advertising New Era for Sure AT EVERY student assembly one phrase is predominant in the speeches of campus leaders, whether they be the student body president, the graduate manager of the University, or chairman of the rally committee. “The University has entered upon a new era,’’ these speakers tell us, and the assembled students listen calmly with scarcely a show of approval or doubt. “A new era,” they say, hoping by constant repetition to drive home a point so obvious that we wonder how any member of the student body overlooks it. A new era for sure, and here are ade quate proofs of it: “Doc" Spears and his undefeated Oregon team, which is with out a doubt in the best condition a Webfoot eleven ever was at this early stage of the grid season. A new constitution, created last spring term by a group of conscientious students after weeks of work. Reorganized student body finances, putting the administration on a firmer foundation. A band of over 75 pieces that is unrivaled for the quality of its playing and display of pep. A band that did wonders in Seattle and Portland and helped put over the Oregon-Washington game. And lately a proposal by John Stehn to add a 30-man drum and bugle corps to the musical organization. The high national ranking of the schools of music, medicine, architecture and allied arts, business administration, and journal ism. A freshman handbook of traditions adjudged the best pub lished in the United States. A yearbook that is being improved with each edition and which last year claimed wide renown. A famous Oregon spirit that is growing stronger with the years. Oregon students, read the above proofs carefully. Get them in mind. Then will you realize why we join with student leaders in saying “A new era.” Spoon-Feeding Industry NEW YORK CITY- The gum of .11150,000 weekly is to be raised by an Emergency Employment committee consisting of finan cial and industrial leaders in the city, with Ihe president of the Bankers Trust company at their head. The money is to be used to create $15-a-week salaries for 100,000 unemployed men who are the heads of families. Work in public parks for which the city has no appropriation will give several thousands employment under this plan. * * * Springfield, Illinois: Governor Emmerson has picked 45 of the leading bankers, industrialists, and social workers of Illinois to serve on an emergency unemployment commission. The commis sion is to meet soon to endeavor to figure out ways to employ more people, both by reducing hours and days of work for those now employed and by speeding up public construction work in the state. Washington, D. C.: President Hoover lias appointed a special unemployment committee consisting of cabinet members, which will assist state and civic commissions in their endeavor to handle the present unemployment situation. * » » News items of this soil, which one sees in nearly every news paper of late, tire disquieting. It looks as though the United States is no longer in a position to be condescending toward the “dole" system for the unemployed in Great Britain. The raising of special sums by individuals in pay salaries for civic work, and the pro posed reduction of working times in order to employ more people may properly be considered as modified forms of the dole, for they are methods of spoon-feeding invalid industry. Unemployment was very real to college students who looked for work this past summer. It is not very often that a prevalent economic condition breaks through padded academic walls of the universities to the students in the way that the present business depression lias. Enrollment figures from universities in all parts of the land show that more students have registered this year than last, an increase which registrars attribute to a belief that many men ami women, unable to find work at a satisfactory salary, prefer to come back to college on the strength of reserve funds. It will be interesting to observe what happens to these in creased enrollment figures as the school year grows older. Shrink they undoubtedly will, and if conditions are not improved a year hcnct. we°wager that very few university publicity agents will be mailing their enrollment figures to the newspapers next full. But misfortune may be healthy: and financial worries may do, something worth while for tiie young men and women of America --jar them out ol a complacency in regard to their futures born of an unnaturally prosperous decade, and bring home to them the realization that even in this advanced day the old law of the sur vival of the fittest is in force. Hi- who has the best education will be farthest removed from economic anxieties when the busines cycle is unfavorable. We read that Doady has rare collections hid on upper Moor. Must be the loot letl h\ the campus prowl* r—or better jet—wc ma\ find some of our lost fountain pens or pet clams. Hooray! The report comes in that jobs have beta found for 1 student*,. What in the world will tin* other „„otl do.' A Boon to the Mind ORGANIZATION of a group in the University to forward plans for free lectures and educational talks on the campus is worthy of considerable commendation. This group is called the Committee on Free Intellectual Activities and has as its purpose the enlarge ment of the intellectual scope and broadening of the educational area. It is their aim to bring to the campus persons who are par ticularly qualified to deal with questions undertaken by the various departments in the University. An attempt is being made to secure lecturers who may travel through this vicinity unseen or unheard. Plans organized by this committee call for special sessions where distinguished scholars may lecture. This extra-curricular instruc tion i: s met with hearty approval from officials of the University and it vas found that special funds could be had to secure a scholar who v ould not otherwise come to Eugene. V, die this is an excellent idea and may hypothetically work efficiently, cooperation of faculty members and students is neces sary to bring about its physical operation. Although at times stu dents are serious-minded and so scholastically and intellectually inclined that they will attend an evening meeting to hear a learned speaker. However, it has been shown many times that the majority will not be present on such occasions. For this reason we believe that the classroom should be thrown open to those particularly interested. In case this is found impossible, some entertainment should be announced to make the evening sound attractive to the sometimes capricious student. After all, he is the type needing the extra-curricular instruction. This committee should not confine itself to lecturers. Demon strators of various sorts may prove of interest to several depart ments on the campus and might be scheduled for a class period or two. Too, the committee may arrange work of a laboratory nature including visits to places of special interest. A substantial organization with a worthy cause, we believe, ought to be supported by every student and official on the campus. Quick action will be essential, as Mr. Townsend, chairman of the committee, declares, because “if action is delayed a few days until the person in question has left the region, that opportunity is lost.” Early Greek Organizations (This is the first of a series of' articles revealing the formation ! and early history of fraternities on the University of Oregon cam pus. ) Back in 1900, those good old j days when Villard wasn't quite so j wheezy and Oregon had only 200 men in her student body, the first Greek-letter fraternity on the cam pus, namely Sigma Nu, was in stalled. It was just 28 years after Ore ! gon’s founding and some of the prominent men in University af fairs were clamoring for a closer relationship through affiliation with a national fraternity. So, taking time-off from studies and i sports, Luke Goodrich and Clifton McArthur, acting as instigators, looked into the matter and found a chapter of the national Sigma Nu established in California and an other in Washington. Isolated al most entirely from the eastern nectoins, the two western chap ters were only too glad to welcome a third group which would reas sure their standing. With the problem of finance con fronting the Oregon leaders, there ensued probably the first, if not -THE WETFOOT “ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FOOT TO PRINT’’ GOOD MORNING! How DOES IT FEEL TO GET BACK TO THE GOOD OLD CORN COB MAT TRESS AFTER A WEEK-END OF LUXURY AND EASE. BUT DESPITE THE CORN COB MAT TRESSES. WE’D STILL DYE FOR DEAR OLD OREGON (AS THE SPINSTER SAID, POURING A BOTTLE OF SHOE BLACK J ING OVER HER HEAD.) Utile Phidias, our column pro phet, sa.vs that inasmuch as Dud's day will soon he here, we can ex pect a very touching scene. * * * TODAY’S EPITAPH Mourn not for Julius Dumbest in the nation, Said Pigger'fi guide was A stable publication. Sadie, put down that flower pot. * # * INSTRUCTIONS IOU USING DIGGER'S GUIDE 1. One of tlio first requisites CAMPUS ♦ ALENDAR Westminster Guild, foreign study j groups, meets at Westminster house tonight from 9 to 10. All I co-eds invited. \lpha Delta Sigma meeting' to day at noon at the College Side Inn. Very important for all mem bers to be there. Club constitu tion will be discussed. Independent men interested in organizing “Oregon Independent club" for students not living in organized halls or houses are re quested to meet at V. M. C. A. hut at t> o’clock this evening. Meeting ot the initiated Oregon Knights at -t ;30 in room 4, John j son hall. All members are re quested to attend. Congress club will meet tonight at 7:t!0 at the College Side. I’reshiuen—Come to the V. \V. C. A bungalow today between -1 and o to the Nits and Wits party, rite nominating committee for the Kro.-h Commission will be chosen out of the group there. All come. Orange, N. .1.. and East Orange, 1 N. ,J„ have different laws about Sunday movies. A theater owner i whose building is located on the i dividing' line betw een the two j cities ropes off the East Orange side of his auditorium, and thereby obeys the law in that city, while ne puts on his Sundae movies in the Orange side of the theater. which is necessary for the proper use of this publication is a well developed sense of humor. • If you see your name spelled with a T instead of an A, why just laugh it off. That's the reason that they put the address behind the name, so you can tell whether it is your name or not. Even this is not al ways infallible. 2. —When in search of a girl’s name, the best policy is to shut your eyes, poke a pin in the page, and whichever name you punch, choose that. By putting your trust in providence this way you are much more likely to hit the right name than if you went at it ac cording to directions. 3. — Whenever feeling melan choly it is always a good plan to open the pigger’s guide and look for funny names. This is also a great help to the Emerald, as it is good for one feature story a year. If you arc too lazy to look at the guide yourself, just wait for the story. 4. —You can toll it this year be cause of the red back instead of the conventional gray. This was instituted after all these years so it would make it easier for your room-mate to find it. 5. —It is also a great help if you carry it around with you at all times. In case you are arrested you are saved the difficulty of having to think up false names. Simply flip open the pages of this invaluable volume and take the first name you come to. It is em barrassing if the first name which you see is your own and you give it unconsciously. This is to be guarded against. * * * AIN’T IT TRUE? I'll always trust a woman, And always give her a chance. But I begin to doubt ’er When she points out ’er Sorority sisters at a dance. Not clearly worded but then we have to have some poetic license (no license required, we’re strict ly amateurs.) WE SEE WHERE ANOTHER INTRAMURAL SONG CONTEST IS BEING SLATED. THIS WILL GIVE OFFICERS A GOOD CHANCE TO CLEAR UP SOME OF THEIR POLITICAL PROM ISES BY AWARDING JUDGE SHIPS TO THOSE FOR WHOM THERE IS NO OTHER OPEN ING. She was only a telephone opera tor, blit she had his number. That being the ease, we are positive it couldn’t have been one in Eugene. I Independent Men Meet I his Evening To Organize A meeting of independent men will be held at the Y. M. C. A. hut at S o’clock this evening in order to organize a social inde pendent group, it has been an nounced by H. Russell Lee. Men unaffiliated with either houses or halls are asked to attend. Temporary officers are expected to be elected at the meeting, and a committee appointed to draw up a constitution. -See THE NEW STANDARD . GENERAL f| ELECTRIC \ CLEANER Step out with a smile a t your saving In the G-E cleaner are found so many features you'll won der how it can be scld for The .Wir Standard Model has ^ added suet ion. ruggedness, beautv at the old price. Power’s Furniture Co. llth and Wiliaiuette Streets the only, “football installation” in ! fraternal history. It so happened ; that on December 1, 1900, the Washington football team was scheduled to play a game here in Eugene, and, although that was to be the date of the installation, there was not enough money avail able to pay the traveling expenses of the “installers.” However, when the football team arrived it was found that it had been well padded with Sigma Nus, and in the eve ning, after the game, the weary but loyal athletes installed the Gamma Zeta chapter which thriv- ; ed as the only campus national for ! its first four years. The charter j members were Luke Goodrich, j Clifton N. McArthur, Clarence M. Bishop, Clyde A. Payne, Charles A. Redmond, Condon C. McCor nack, Frederic J. Ziegler, Edward N. Blythe, and Richard S. Smith. Goodrich was at the time presi dent of the senior class. McArthur was associated students president, manager of the track team, first editor of the Oregon weekly, and probably the most outstanding man of his day. It is he whom Mc Arthur court is named for. With the coming of the World war, every fellow in the house en listed at once. Records show no outstanding events in the period of readjustment following the war. In 1924 the chapter house at 11th and Pearl streets was gutted by fire, which routed the members out during the night. Although the old house was not destroyed altogether, it was rendered unin habitable for awhile and is still standing today. Not until 1926 was the present house erected. Among prominent alumni are: Fred Steiwer, Dean Walker, Bart Spellman, Bob Cronin, Dick Smith, and Brick Mitchell. Sigma Nu is classed as a mili tary fraternity, having its found ing at the Virginia Military Insti tute in 1869. The officers of the Oregon chapter are George Sta dleman, commander, Edward Fish er, lieutenant commander, and Kelsey Slocum, treasurer. Between Classes Yesterday we saw DICK BOGUE looking scientific; MARY GALEY entering the A. D. I*i portals; DOR OTHY ILLIDGE looking just plen ty arty; JACK DANT eating snails; ELINORE CLEVELAND shuffling up University street; NED MARS wiping his glasses; KAYO MULLINS being entertain ing; WALT NORBLAD walking up the street with his shirt out; POL LY JORGENSEN greeting old ac quaintances at Condon; HAR RIET HUGHES rushing madly to class. President Hall Returns To Eugene on Thursday Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, presi dent of the University, will return to the campus tomorrow after at tending the Pacific Coast Regional Committee of the Social Science Research council in San Francisco, which was in session Monday and Tuesday. Dr. Hall who was one of the founders of this organization acted as chairman of the group. The committee, considered by scientists to be one of the most prominent organizations of its kind in the nation, made its program for the year. Today Dr. Hall attended the in auguration of Robert Gordon Sproule, the new president of the University of California at Berke ley. Strong muscles and nerves of iron don’t come from just will power and exercise. “The best all ’round athlete” of the senior class will be the man who keeps a close watch on his vitamins. Shredded Wheat saves those who are out for athletic honors, a heap of time and worry. Shredded Wheat con ‘Best All , ’Round Athlete” tains in a most easily diges tible form all the vitamins, proteins, mineral salts and carbohydrates necessary. In training and out, eat a bowl of Shredded Wheat every morning with plenty of whole milk as thousands of other successful athletes do. "OF COURSE, SIR. YOU LL BE WEARING YOUR CAMPUS CORDS, SIR!" When your man-servant, Meadows, lays out your clothes tomorrow morning, notice how lovingly he handles the Campus Cords! Meadows knows the finest corduroy when he sees it. Mea dows knows you’re turned-out to your credit in distinctive -i) Campus Cords. Campus Cords are right — well-tailored, correctly cut. Straight hang with wide, but not extreme, bottoms. Two inch cuffs. Wide belt loops, two front slash pockets, one flap pocket. Made of finest corduroy, narrow or wide rib, in the distinc tive cream color, and other shades. Leading stores sell genuine Campus Cords. Be sure that the label is inside the waistband. camrbJP um rwcJ CAU CORDS ELOESSER-HEYNEMANN CO. San Francisco . . Los Angeles . . Portland CAMPUS CORD/ tioue genuine without this Can’t Bust’Em trademark