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• EDITORIALS FEATURES • HUMOR LITERARY ♦ ’T'" ~ -- "" University of Oregon, Eugene Vinton Hall, Editor Anton Peterson, Manager Willis Duniway, Managing Editor _ Rex Tussing Associate Editor Dave Wilson, Lois Nelson, Ilarry Van Dine—Editorial Writers UPPER NEWS STAFF Editor’s Secretary: Mary Helen Corbett Carol Hurlburt, Society Assistant: Lillian Rankin Harney Miller, Features Phil Cogswell, Sports Lester McDonald, Literary Warner Guiss, Chief Night Editor NEWS STAFF Reporters: Lois Nelson, Merlin Blais, Betty Anne Macduff, Roy Sheedy, Ted Mont- j gomery. Jessie Steele, Isabelle Crowell. Jack Bellinger. Betty Davis, Helen Cherry. , Virginia Wentz, Jim Brooke. Joan Cox. Kenneth Fitzgerald, Madelene Gilbert, i Dupuis. Beverly Caverhill, Frances Johnston, Ned Mars, Oscar Munger, Carl Night*Sta!'f°: Monday George Blodgett, George Kerr, Mary Belle Fobes, Adrienne Sabin, j Day Editors: Thornton Gale, Lenore Ely. Thornton Shaw. Sports Staff: Vincent Gates, K»l Goodnough, Bruce Hamby, Ervin Laurence, Esther Hayden. _ _ Radio Staff: Art Potwin, director; Carol Hurlburt, secretary; Dave Eyre, reporter. BUSINESS STAFF Harry Tonkon, Associate Manager Jack Gregg. Advertising Manager Larry Jackson, Foreign Advertising Ken Siegrist, Circulation Manager Ned Mars, Copy Manager Martin Allen, Ass’t Copy Manager Mae Mulchay, Ass’t Foreign Adv. Mgr. Edith Peterson, Financial Adm. John Painton, Office Manager Dorothy Harrietts* Hofmann, Sez Sue Betty Carpenter, Women's Specialties Kathryn Laughridge, Asst. Se* Sue Carol Werschkul, Executive Secretary Larry Bay. Ass't Circulation Manager Bob Goodrich, Service Manager Marie Nelson, Checking Department Hughes, Classified Advertising Manager Copy Department: Beth Salway, Mirtle Kerns, George Sanford. . Copy Assistants: Joan Bilyeau. Viola Morgan. Office Records: Louise Barclay. Office Assistants: Marjorie Bass, Evangeline Miller, Jean McCroskey, Jane Cook, Vir ginia Frost, Roselie Commons, Virginia Smith, Ruth Durland, Mary Lou Patrick, Carolyn Trimble. _ _ . . .. „ , Production Assistants: Gwendolyn Wheeler, Marjorie Painton, Marian McCroskey, George Turner, Katherine Frcntzel. . Advertising Solicitors This Issue: Victor Kaufman, Auntofi Bush, Jo Prigmore, Glifi Lord, Ellsworth Johnson, Jack Wood. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the 1 college year. Member of the Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the poitoffice at i Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates, $2.60 n year. Advertising i rates upon application. Phone, Manager: Office. Local 214; residence, 324._ Among Portland Friends JT'UGENE nrul University people who harbor some little ill-will ^ toward Portland business men who, they believe, are trying to take the annual O. S. C.-U. of O. football battle to Portland, can now rest a little easier. Aaron M. Frank, life member of the Oregon Alumni associa tion, who did more than any other man (save Kitzmiller, per haps) to make University football in Portland a success this year, is determined on keeping the contest on college gridirons. “Concerning the bringing of this game to Portland, I have in no uncertain way gone on record and have been active in keep ing the game in Corvallis and Eugene,” Mr. Frank has written to an Emerald communicant, VV-103, who intimated that Port land men wanted the game there. “There are many other games that can be played in Portland. My stand in this matter has been, I thought, well known to all who were interested and especially to the residents of Eugene and Corvallis and the stu dent bodies of both institutions.” Ft becomes ratfior a question as to the identity of the “promi nent business men” who look forward to the game’s migrating to Portland. Undoubtedly there are those men in that city who would favor it and it is just as possible that the University is at fault. In the cry for bigger and better gates and gate receipts the University has often cast longing eyes Portland-ward. Eugene attendance is so limited that opponents are hard to find. With pressure on officials both for profits and “big” games, they could naturally welcome a Portland invitation. Students themselves are making necessary any "home” contests away from home, so they may be doubly thankful for Aaron Frank’s stand on the matter, and assured of his hole-hearted interest in the affairs of the students. A Figuring for Vacation UT'vO we have any vacations this term?” ^ Someone asked that question yesterday because he was growing aweary of the long grind of college studies. Unceas ing study it seemed to him and he was not in the least pleased when he could find no extra days off in winter term. We sym pathized in this manner: , In the whole school year from Freshman Week to Commence ment there are 8 months and 23 days. Classes normally meet (including Saturdays as regular class days), except for Fresh man Week 0 days; Armistice Day 1 day; Thanksgiving 3 days; Fall term examinations 0 days; Christmas vacation 12 days; Winter registration 1 day; Winter examinations ti days; Spring vacation 0 days; Spring registration 1 day; Junior Week-End 2 days; Memorial Day 1 day; Spring examinations 0 days; Commencement 1 day; Sundays tnot included any where in list above I 38 days. Who wouldn't sympathize with a college student who gets only 60 days of vuoatiou out of approximately 200? Why, that averages 50 class days a term unless that poor grind enters school on tlie last possible day each term! Even then he can skip only 3-1 days to average less than 30 class days a term. No wonder our student grew aweary with his intensive study. It must be intensive study to complete a term’s work in 30 days. Essay on Rat-Racing OOMEONE asked the other day :f it was a crime to rat-race. u Immediately grasping the true conception of the word ■'crime," which, according to W'bstei. means an act that sub jects the doer to legal punishment, we answered that simply holding one of the iair sex gently in arms and skipping merrily about a dance fit: r could not come under that classification. But, was the retort, that was the wrong meaning of the "rat Kice” term. Hence, we discover two definitions: 1. To scurry at an accelerating speed in scarcely ti dignified position around a more respectable dance floor. 2. To slink from a fraternity house and attend, unaccompa nied by a lady friend, a non-campus dance. If the latter, we answered, is the most prevalent conception of a rat-race, it is less justifiable for us to commend or appro bate the practice Wish-waggling with a dame that didn't look bad from across 'the-hall should not be up to the ideal pastime for the average college man. The second definition of Webster's "crime" gives us an explanation of why fraternity men leave their pledge pin:; and membership emblems on the dres.-cr be fore attending such an affair: “A grave offense against morality or social order." Ho, wt do not advocate this form of rat-iaeing. we concluded, but, a- I... .aiuiiuoii l,o. 2 —who iaits? Emerald Extras History Making; First With News The Emerald made history Sat urday with the publication of two extras, telling first of the finding of Mrs. Lila Thatcher, house moth er of the Chi Omega sorority, and later of her sudden death at the Pacific Christian hospital. The r erald was first on the campus v ith the news. The first extra wa off the press and being distribute 1 to living organizations shortly a. ter 10 o’clock Saturday morning and the second extra was in the hands of campus readers be fore 3:30 in the afternoon. As far as could be learned yes terday, the occasion was the first time that the Emerald ran an ex tra on a real news story, although ten years ago a special edition was put out on the result of an Ore gon-O. S. C. athletic contest which Oregon won. I CAMPUS ♦ ALENDAR Kwama meeting at College Side today at 5 p. m. Asklrpiads will meet at 7:30 to night in 105 Deady. Susan Campbell will be at the • new men's dormitory Wednesday night for the Dime Crawl. I’hi Chi Theta will meet at 5 o’clock at 106 Commerce. Mem bers please bring $1 dues. German club will meet at West minster house at 7:30 tonight. Program and refreshments. .Music will feature the program of the Pi Lambda Theta informal dinner at the Anchorage this eve ning at 6 o’clock. Members of the education honorary who are bring __I w The ♦ ♦ ETFOOT “All the News That’s Foot To Print” ' “What’ll ya rent ycr canoe 1 for?" and other remarks which" serve as positive signs that1 spring is creeping upon us. Sev-' era! members of the state board of highway safety have been, heard to laud the mill-race as,, an artery of transportation on,, the grounds that it eliminates i one-armed driving. EPITAPH We'll kill the bloke, Be it man or gal, Who says: "Yes, it’3 nice, But now in Cal-” ♦ * * NO, NO, KATHERINE, HOW MANY TIMES MUST WE TELE YOU THAT MANUEL LABOR IS NOT A SPANISH TOREA DOR. Little ■ Alec just came bursting into the sanctum indignantly claiming that some University man just gave him a false direc tion when he wanted to know where to find Arnold Bennett Hall. He says that they hadn't heard of him, but that they sent him to Friendly hall. He further more remarks that he wishes that he could find the guy that gave him this bum steer. Tsk, tsk, Alec, Sherlock Holmes was a piker alongside of us. If the guy gave you a hum steer, he must have lived in the house that has OX printed on the door. Many students are beefing over the fact that the house bills are getting so high that it is becom ing difficult for them to stay in school. Daily we receive letters requesting advice on the best methods of cutting down on living expenses. sh * * We have made a research of all the better methods for accom plishing this but the most supe rior dodge that we’ve heard of yet is the one that Kletcli I'dall uses. He goes to school during the week and tijen moves over to the I’nt versity infirmary for free lodging during tin' week-ends. This cuts down approximately two days’ ex penses out of every seven. * * * A Iso, along with ail the sorori ties on the campus, we have been trying to run down the dope on whoever it was that serenaded with the phonograph last Satur day night. It sounds like the Kappa Sigs, but the majority of the listeners seem to be of the opinion that it was the Delts. However, we won't say that that's right. SOMEONE HAD THE NERVE i TO SAY THAT IT ESTAB ' DISHED A RECORD OF SOME I SORT, BUT WE'LL WAGER IN joiTR OWN PUNIC FA. ' THAT THERE WERE MORE RECORDS B R O K E N THAN THERE WERE ESTABLISHED. * * * Yes, despite a!) rumors to the contrary, there was reali\ a per j soil oner who dint with his boots on. It seems that ho was a mili tar> officer who was oast ashore alone oil a desert island in his lull uniform. We haven’t got the dope on the much heralded Phi PM week-end party up the McKenzie yet, but we don't imagine that there was much out of the ordinary hap pened which would interest our readers. EMERALD HOKE CONTEST The Sigma Pi Thus turned Ho ratio Alger and gave a graphic presentation of the simple but no ble country boy cast adrift among the wiles of the large, wicked metropolis. Among some of the f -' formers were Kenny Lord, one toe halves of the famed har mony twins, who warbled a bit, a trio, and an assortment of varie gated brass. A nice comfortable half-hour program with an excel lent moral tag. The Alpha Ni Delta broke the time-honored custom of going in for women's trios and blossomed forth with a full fledged quartet. This is a new tradition and de serves mention. They also did away with continuity. The pro gram, so we hear, had somewhat of a classical trend instead of the usual feminine boop hoop a doop stuff. This is another surprising point that might deserve recogni tion. Billy Gardiner was master or rather mistress, of ceremonies, and growled into the mike just like a regular announcer. All in all it wasn’t so bad, at least not bad enough to make the listener shut the radio off. Zcla Tan Alpha Entertains Faculty at Sunday Dinner Zeta Tau Alpha entertained members of the faculty at a din ner Sunday evening at their chap ter house. The guest list included: Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Packard, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pallett, Miss Ernest ine Troemel, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Leighton, Mr. E. P. Kremer, Dr. and Mrs. S. Schmidt, and Dr. and Mrs. A. Huestis. PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT Sigma Alpha Epsilon announces the pledging of Bond Jordan of Sacramento, California. V alentine For He r? Let us suggest an attractive book of poetry lleaut it'ully bound mil lions of tho host authors . . in limp leather or j} oiislu'il rail. Priced From $1.50 to $4.00 on THE BOOK BALCONY of the \r * CO OP' ing guests are asked to call Mrs. Leighton at the school of educa tion and make reservations. Cosmopolitan club will meet at 7:30 tonight at the International house. All members welcome. , Tuesday 5 o’clocks will be held today at the Y. W. C. A. bunga low. All girls are invited. Due to the recent death of Mrs. Lila Thatcher, housemother, Dime Crawl will not be held at Chi Omega. Alpha Tau is to meet in the women’s lounge of Gerlinger hall for a short business meeting, at 8 o’clock today. Amphibian club, members and pledges, meet at 7:30 this evening in women’s pool. Camp life-sav ing will be demonstrated. Varsity women’s debate squad meets at 7:30 tonight in Room 2, Friendly hall. Every member MUST be there. Very important. Bring all of your cards and read ing notes. Mid-term examinations for all psychology lab sections will take place at 7 o’clock tonight in the assembly room of Villard. No classes are scheduled to meet this week. All Order of the O men are asked to report to the steps of the old library at 12:40 Thursday morning to have their Oregana picture taken. Due to a conflict in appointments last week, the picture was not taken at the time announced previously, so all men are urged to turn out on Thurs day, and be on time. Dr. Caswell, W. Bowman Will Attend Church Meet A conference of the Presbyter ian church workers will be held in the First Presbyterian church ;of Albany, Oregon, February 7, it was announced by Dr. A. E. Cas well, professor of physics, and chairman of the committee on field activities, under the auspices of v/hich committee the conference will be held. The aim of the convention will be to discuss the raising of funds for current expenses and for be nevolences of the churches of the Willamette valley. Rev. M. S. Weber of the Central Presbyterian church, Dr. Caswell, and Wayne Bowman, freshman in social science, are among those going from Eugene. 0!siaiEjajsjaia®siEJSisiaiaEisMaisi3®Mis®0®aiaiMSMEMi3JEMaiaEJSMaiag Y esterday... Mr. Groundhog rami' out of liis ■winter quarters— and lie saw . . . 11 IS SHADOW! According to the ancient folk-lore, he did a turn-about-face, and will stay in for another six weeks. Nevertheless spring seems to be in the air, flowers are blooming, the birds are singing, and the frogs are croaking. Time to get onl those spring clothes and send them to— Eugene Steam Laundry i —The 178 W. 8th Street Phone 123 gJt^ttiifiUfiUdURiJnurJJtiUfnJfinuM Don’t Miss the Contest Now that tiio Kmcralii-KOi;K content i- in full swine, be -'lift' your house can enjoj it. See about a radio to day ... or yvt that old one fi.\ed up a bit. Expert Repair Work White-Marlatt Company 878 Willamette Phone 254 A Decade Ago Tuesday, February 1, 1921 2,000 Portlanders enjoy glee club concert. * * * The top of the east bleachers on Hayward field was blown off dur ing the windstorm Saturday. Guild hall will present “The Tale of Two Cities,” February 24 and 25. * * * ! Petitions are to be presented to the athletic council pertaining to the graduate coach system which is being threshed out by students and alumni. CURRENT CONDITIONS DESCRIBED BY STUDENT (Continued from Page One) citizenship while in grammar school. The greater per cent of the teachers in the Philippines are na tives of the islands and products of the Filipino schools. There are j about 325 American teachers | there, however, and the head of the bureau of education is an American. Nearly all the elemen tary schools are in the hands of native teachers. Desires Island’s Independence “The greatest benefit that Fili pino students studying abroad can derive for themselves and give to their native country,” says Padil la, “is their greater ability to look at Filipino national affairs from an international viewpoint. Of course, it all depends on how much the partcular student has develop ed such an ability in himself.” When asked whether or not he believed in the independence of the Philippines his face lit up with sudden enthusiasm. His reply was quick, but firm. “I certainly do! Ninety-nine per cent of the func tional government is already in the hands of the native Filipinos, and it is quite noticeable that the present government is not in a de plorable condition.” The only United States officials in the islands at the present time are: the governor-general, the vice governor-general, five mem bers of the supreme court (which consists of nine judges in all), about ten American judges in the courts of first instance, and about 450 teachers, engineers, and scien tists. “The sentiment among the people,” says Padilla,” is strongly in favor of independence. Filipinos Not Savages “There is less propaganda now than formerly was the case in rep resenting all Filipinos as savag es," he claims. “I admit that there j are savages in the Philippines but they do not belong to the Filipino nation so-salled. These savages are descendants of the aboriginal | inhabitants of the islands, whereas , the Filipino nation, or people, are descendants of civilized Malays who migrated to the islands as early as the eighth century. There are many powerful leaders in the Philippines, and the islands are not lacking in capital leaders that can run a respectable government. At the present time there are not many American-educated leaders, j Most of the men in charge of the : government are products of the native schools.” Eugenio Padilla does not believe in militarism. In fact he is quite emphatic in his denunciation of such belief. "However,” he says, "the Filipinos are also making the error of having a legal compulsory military education in public high schools and universities. Perhaps . it's more or less a result of aping i a certain American militaristic | class.” , Eugenio intends some day to enter the service of the Filipino government. There, he believes, he can put to good use the econom ic training he is now receiving at the University of Oregon. IT I 'EAR AND 'AIR What do you think of the Campus social life? “I think it's a fine, good thing. It gives me a job on the Emerald and gets my name into print twice a week.”—Carol Hurlburt, social editor of the Emerald. * * * “Interesting, fascinating, but perplexing.”—Dick Isaacs, sopho more in business administration. “I think it's important. Those that don’t need social development when they reach the University have a good time, and those that do need development, socially speaking, have the twofold advan tage of receiving this develop ment as well as enjoying them selves.”—Ruth Irwin, junior in journalism. “If it weren't for the interfer ence of studies it would be a splen did thing.”—Marion Frost, sopho more in architecture. I Fellowships Offered by University of Chicago The University of Chicago is of fering three fellowships of $1,500 each for the years 1931 and 1932 in its graduate library school. The fellowships will be awarded by the president upon the recom mendation of the committee on fellowships and scholarships. The following are the requirements: Possession of a bachelor’s de gree equivalent to that conferred by leading colleges and universi ties. The completion of at least one year in an accredited library school, or equivalent in experience. At least one year of library ex perience under approved condi tions. A poster has been sent to the University library which has been posted on the bulletin board for students interested in this work. Dr. and Mrs. Boynton Back From Southern Trip Dr. W. P. Boynton, head of the department of physics, and Mrs. Boynton returned yesterday from Sutherlin, Oregon, where they at tended the funeral of Hammond Weggoner, father of Walter Weg goner and \father-in-law of Dr. Boynton’s daughter. Valentines Valentine Cards for your VALENTINE PHARMACY llth and Alder Spring is here . . . keep your shoes shining . .. Across from Sigma Chi Don’t Miss It Frank Hayward Presents Arlington Laity And His MOVIETONE RECORDING ORCHESTRA Of Hollywood THE SEASON’S PREMIER DANCING EVENT AUGMENTED WITH DANCERS SINGERS ENTERTAINERS -IN PERSON Eleanor La Mai—Fanchcn Marco Star Annette and Andre—Feature Dancers Irene Hudson—Exhibition Dancer WINTER GARDEN One Nite Only Friday, February 6th. Couple SI.GO