Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, February 20, 1931, Image 2

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    . EDITORIALS * FEATURES ♦ HUMOR ♦ LITERARY •
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University of Oregon, Eugene
Vinton Hall, Editor Anton Peterson, Manager
Willis Duniway, Managing Editor
Rex Tussing—Associate Editor
Dave Wilson, Harry Van Dine, Ralph David—Editorial Writers
UPPER NEWS STAFF
Editor’s Secretary: Mary Helen Corbett
Assistant: Lillian Rankin
Barney Miller, Features
Phil Cogswell, Sports
Carol Hurlburt, Society
Lester McDonald, Lfterary
Warner Guiss, Chief Night Editor
NEWS STAFF
Reporters (names arranged in order according to efficiency during the past week) :
Merlin Rials. Billie Gardiner. Ruth Dupuis, Hetty Anne Macduff, Jack lie!linger,
Frances Johnston, Caroline Card, Virginia Wentz. Kenneth Fitzgerald, Ted Mont
gomery. Joan Cox, Oscar Monger, Roy Sheedy. Isabelle Crowell, Carl Thompson,
Hetty Davis, Madeleine Gilbert, George Root, Jim Brooke, Duane Frisbie, Jessie
Steele, Frances Taylor.
Night Staff: Thursday—^-Eugene D. Mullins,
Dorothy Johnson, Stan Price, Earl Kirchoff, Gwen Elsinore.
Day Editors: Thornton Gale, Lenore Ely, Thornton Shaw, Eleanor Jane Ballantyne.
Sports Staff: Ed Goodnough, Bruce Hamby, Walt Baker, Ervin Laurence, Esther
Hayden. _ _ _
Radio Staff: Art Fotwln, director; Carol Hurlburt, secretary; Dave Eyre, reporter.
BUSINESS STAFF
Harry Tonkon. Associate Manager
Jack Greg?, Advertising Manager
Larry Jackson, Foreign Advertising
Larry Bay, 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
Victor Kaufman, Promotional auvvr
tising Manager.
Harriett!* Hofmann, Sez Sue
Betty Carpenter, Women's Specialties
Kathrxn Laughridge, Asst. Sez Sue
Carol Werschkul, Executive Secretary
Wade Ambrose, Ass’t Circulation Mgr.
Bob Goodrich, Service Manager
Caroline Hahn,, Checking Department
Hughes. Classified Advertising Manager
Copy Department: Beth Sal way, Mirtle Kerne, George Sanford.
Copy Assistants: Joan Bilyeau, Viola Morgan. Office Records: Louisef Barclay.
Office Assistants: Marjorie Baas, Evangeline Miller, Jean McCroskey, Jane Cook, Vir
ginia Frost, Roaelie Commons, Virginia Smith, Ruth Durland, Mary Lou l atricK,
Production Assistants: Gwendolyn Wheeler, Marjorie Painton, Marian McCroskey,
George Turner, Katherine Frentzel.
Ass’t Adv. Mgrs.: Jack Wood, George Branstator, Anton Bush.
Advertising Solicitors This Issue: Bill Barker, Dick Goebel, Victor Kaufman, George
Branstator, Betty Zimmerman, Aunton Bush.
The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the
University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during tne
college year. Member of the Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at
Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. Advertising
rates upon application. Phone, Manager: Office, Local 214; residence, 324.
Future Aid For Unemployment
T AST week Eugene business men voted down the proposal of
^ a general five-day week that had been suggested as a means
of partially relieving the unemployment problem in this city.
There has been some criticism of their action on the grounds
that the business men weren’t willing to make a sacrifice to
help out in the present depression. Others have felt that they
were justified in voting down the proposal. But the real ques
tion that presents itself is whether such arbitrary methods of
unemployment relief can lead to a permanent cure.
Instigated by President Hoover, the United States has at
tempted a comeback from the* severe economic depression
through the use of methods such as the one just mentioned.
Various governmental agencies have been instructed to spend
millions of dollars in construction work in order to employ some
of the several millions of men who have been idle for months.
Factories have been asked to keep as many men employed as
possible, and business concerns have been expected to help in
every way.
But while these steps may gain some Immediate relief, what
has been done to secure premanent recovery? After all, there
is a limit to the money in the government coffers, and the
way the tax burden is distributed at present, higher taxes to
replenish the treasury would only cause more suffering.
So while there many not he anything essentially wrong with
the program for relief as laid out by the government, it should
be remembered that such relief is only temporary, and that fur
ther steps should immediately be taken to secure permanent
economic stability. Crises such as the present may not neces
sarily belong in the business cycle according to some of the
newer school of economists. They believe that it is possible
through the means of planned production in industry, including
agricultural production, and supervised distribution to eliminate
most economic ills.
In Germany, Chancellor Bruening has by fiat forced the
prices down on all trade-marked goods in the retail trade, which
amounts to about 40 per cent of the total market goods. To
relieve unemployment ho has shortened working hours so that
employers would be forced to take on more men. The plan
seems to ho working for the moment. Other countries have
ulso resorted to drastic measures in endeavors to meet the situ
ation. But the United States goes on in Its same way.
However the economic stability of ttie world is to he perma
nently assured, machinery must he set in motion promptly to
seek that end in order to avert further human suffering. If
the revolutionary economic changes of other countries prove to
he sound, the ultra-conservative United States may also prepare
lor a change. For the army of unemployed cannot forever be
pacified by arbitrary relief methods.
The Battle of the Books
1> AY P. BOWEN, chairman of the romance language depart
ment, writes a letter which lias something of the flavor of
Jonathan Swift’s more acrid epistles, in which he defends the
text-book policy of the course in third-year French literature.
The editorial which was published in this column last week
was not intended as an attack on the text-book policy of Doctor
Bowen’s department. The controversial course in French litera
ture was chosen as an example of a whole group of courses
which require excessive text-book expenditure, thereby forcing
students who take them to depend solely upon the reserve library
for their texts in subjects of a more general nature. The choice
was made because we are enrolled in this course and are familiar
with its requirements.
Dr. Bowen points out that the figure of $11.25 as the year’s
book expense for the literature course is too high. There are
not nine books required, he says; there are but eight, and their
cost is a mere $8.65. Our estimates erred from strict veracity
in adding to the fall-term allotment the French-English diction
ary which is indispensable for satisfactory work in the course.
The standard Cassell dictionary is priced at $2.50. This price,
added to $8.05, gives a total of $11.15.
But Doctor Bowen’s flawless arithmetic lias shamed us. We
were content to quote a hasty estimate, which, when compared
with accurate figure.-, from Doctor Bowen's book-lists, is proved
to be 10 cents over the correct amount. Our mistake lias been
exposed; we repent, and otter the romance language department
10 tenU worth of apulogie .
WThe ♦ ♦
ETFOOT
“All the
News
That’s Foot
To Print”
AROUND THE BLOCK—Nancy
Thielsen, the local Theda Bara . . .
Professor Mez relating a few gusty
anecdotes . . . Moco Forstra laugh
ing at them heartily, the big apple
polisher . . . Do you know how to
divide a glass of water by five . . .
Pour it into a glove . . . simple
. . . Wonder what Brian Mimnaugh
does in his spare time now days
. . . Vint Hall's new radiator cap
. . . No, dear readers, it isn't a
co-op art object but is a dog in
stead . . . No plagiarism intended,
Mr. Roters ... Ed Wells rearrang
ing his tie and patting his hair, the
old sissy kisser . . . Wonder if Art
Potwin hennas his hair ... He and
Thelma Kern would look well to
gether . . . Not that we're try
ing to play cupid or anything . . .
Principally because it’s too cold
to go running around in Dan’s of
ficial costume . . . Bob Holmes, the
blues singer . . . Sally Addleman,
another of the same ilk . . . If
we had Jack Hempstead’s match
less vocabulary we'd make a for
tune selling patent medicines . . .
or barking in a carnival . . . Max
Carmen, the local Trotzky . . .
Kayo Mullins and his ultra col
legiate bonnet . . . Don Eva, all
time champion fag bummer of the
University . . . The chap that al
ways gripes us is one who insists
on saying ‘Frankfurter’ instead of
plain, unadulterated 'hot dog' . . .
Dorothy Hughes making eyes, the
shameless minx . . . Will someone
please tell us how many times
Martha Nikirk waltzes up and
down 13th between the College
side and the Ad building per day?
. . . Merlin Blais on the track of a
The Safety Valve
An Outlet for Campus Steam
All rornmunicationa arc to be ad
dressed to The Editor, Oregon Dally
Emerald. They shall not exceed 200
words. Each letter must be signed;
however, should the author desire, only
initials will be published. The editor
maintains the right to withhold pub
lication should he see fit.
DEFENDS COSTS
To the Editor:
My attention was called to your
editorial of February 12, in which
you claimed that the coats of texts
in a French literature course are
excessive, amounting, as the low
est possible figure, to $11.25 for
nine books. You do not say what
course in French literature, and so
it may well be that you have in
mind all the courses in French lit
erature combined into one. In
that case you do not exaggerate
the facts. If, however, you refer
to what is commonly known as
“Third Year French Literature,”
your statement must be based on
third and fourth hand informa
tion.
The fall term there were two
books used: one costing 80 cents
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BUNCH of keys In a leather key
tainer. Name stamped on it.
George Stadleman. Phone 324.
PERSON taking trench coat from
Commerce building Thursday
night was recognized by owner
as he left building. Your name
in hands of police. If not re
placed by Saturday night, war
rant will be issued for your ar
rest.
[WILL the person who lost a wo
man's silk scarf call at the lost
and found department of the de
pot.
Por Kent
3 BOOM Furnished Apartments
Clean, cozy, cheerful. Private
bath. Entire upper floor. Own
er lives below. lboO Patterson.
Phone 213U-W.
Physicians
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Surgery, Radium, X-ray
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Schools
Three private lessons in ballroom
dancing for $3.50.
MERRICK DANCE STUDIO
.>61 Willamette Phone 3l'Sl
big news story, the busybody . . .
Addison Brockman, self-styled
product of civilization . . . And a
prominent dramatist to boot . . .
which is incongruous to say the
least . . . Dick Maguire, the satin
toned Fiji teijor . . . And to think
that he used to be a baseball pitch
er in high school . . . Today’s sug
gestion: That the university place
a spittoon every 10 feet up 13th
street for the express benefit of
Hank Hayden . . . Ugly rumors
that Prexy Cherry has fallen a vic
tim to 'gym itch’ . . . None escape.
* * *
And what’s this we hear about
•Brute’ Stauffer, the Kelsey Slo
cum of the Bachelordon house,
muking the bad mistake of going
in swimming in the men’s gym
tank at the same time that the
younger members of the local V.
M. C. A. were allowed the use of
it. It seems that the pool master
huuled Mr. Stauffer out of the
tank hy the scruff of the neck and
demanded ten cents from him be
fore he would allow him the privi
lege of the pool, that being, he ex
plained, the customary fee which
the local Y. products paid.
It can’t be denied that the
clothes borrowing habit is one of
the most mooted problems in the
University but we never paid much
attention to it until last night
when it was forcibly brought home
to us when we saw Carson Math
ews in Joe Freck’s hat and rain
coat. We might suggest that Car
son room with someone his own
size.
►
and the other, an anthology of
French poetry to be used through
out the three terms, which I see
you highly recommend, costing
$1.30. During the winter term
there were three texts for the stu
dents to buy: an anthology of
Seventeenth Century prose, which
should again meet with your ap
proval, costing $1.60; and two
plays, one costing 80 cents, and
the other $1. In the spring term
we shall use three different texts,
which will cost 75 cents, $1, and
$1.40, respectively. The total of
eight books comes to $8.65, which
is far from an average of $1.25
each. We have, so far as I know,
never asked a student to buy even
one text on the Sixteenth Century
French literature, let alone the
half dozen volumes you mentioned
in your editorial.
However brilliant your sugges
tion as to an anthology was, we
seem to have anticipated your
thought, as wc already use two
such legitimate curtailments to
reading and expense. There seem,
however, to be two rather serious
objections to our using an anthol
ogy to cover the entire course.
First, there exists no such collec
tion; and secondly, if there were
it would be quite too cumbersome
to carry about, at least if the stu
dent were expected to have with
him books for other classes.
Might I add that in general
modern language texts are consid
ered the cheapest lif all books
that the students have to use?
Moreover, iince a great part of
the reading required of our French
students is collateral, these books ,
are to be found in the library in
the reserve reading room. The
aim of the department of Ro
mance Languages has always been
to keep the cost of our courses
as low as possible for the students.
RAY P. BOWEN,
Chairman of the Department
of Romance Languages.
’EAR AND 'AIR
Should Hell Week Be
Abolished?
What Do You Think of
Campus Politics
"It is one way of keeping busy
during spring term."’—Elizabeth
Strain, junior in English.
“They’re all right because they
help everyone when they get out
in civic life.”—Leo Laurin, fresh
man in business administration.
* » *
"I think they are exciting but
over- emphasized.” — Margaret
Cummings, senior in English.
"Campus politics are not run
right because they do not give the
independent a fair chance.”—Ed
Martindale, freshman in pre-law.
A Decade Ago
Friday, February 18, 1921
The stage is ready for the battle
between Oregon and California for
the Pacific coast basketball cham
pionship.
John Stark Evans to present
five organ recitals through the
Lenten season. They will be giv
en at the Methodist Episcopal
church.
. * * $
Donald F. Shaepard, an exper
ienced gardener, has been engaged
by W. K. Newell, superintendent
of properties, to work on the cam
pus.
* « *
40 freshmen turned out for track.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Kappa Delta announces the
pledging of Rose Smith, Mill City,
and Valeria and Harriet Talcott,
of Caldwell, Idaho.
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warn
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SPECIAL - -
Sunday
Dinners
—for— .
STUDENTS
Tiny Tavern
Blair—On Highway to Corvallis
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■ I he men about the campus are I
I noticed for their neat appearance I
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| snappy haircut. i
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Barber Shop
BILL — GLEN — STUB
CAMPUS ♦
ALENDAR
Phi Beta will meet at 7 o’clock
tonight in the women's lounge of
Gerlinger hall.
Prose and Poetry group of Phil
omelete will meet Sunday after
noon immediately following the
concert, at 1399 Agate street. Last
meeting before initiation.
Woman in Her Sphere group of
Philomelete meets Sunday from
5:30 until 0 in the men’s lounge
of Gerlinger hall.
All men engaged in selling tick
ets to the Oregon Yeomen dance
report to Merlin Blais this after
noon at the Journalism building.
Mother’s Day directorate pic
ture of last Junior Week-end, un
der the direction of Kathryn Lan
gerberg, will be taken today at
12:45 in front of Condon, for the
Oregana.
An important Theta Sigma Phi
luncheon will be held at 12 sharp
at the Anchorage today. Miss
Martha L. Root, international
journalist and traveler, will be the
guest speaker. '
INDIA WORLD-MINDED,
STATES DOCTOR NAG
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tions of the late middle ages in
Western Europe. Later western
adventurers and traders carried
their corrosive materialism into In
dia and China with their tragic
defamation of religion and ideals
of peace. Then Japan learned her
lesson from the Occident, and like
a thunder clap she brought before
the Occident the fact that the
West is not all, that there is an
other element belonging to human
ity, an Oriental one,” the speaker
said.
‘‘Gandhi, as the embodiment of
the national and international
spirit of India, is attempting to
give India her rightful place among
the nations. In 1913, when Rabin
dranath Tagore won the Nobel
prize for the world’s best contri
bution to idealistic literature, In
dia went beyond her ideas of na
tionalism, and adopted a desire to
aid not only herself but also the
entire world with her principles of
international relationships.”
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Salem . 1.40
Albany . .95
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February 20th, 21st and 22nd
Return by midnight following Tuesday.
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Saturday and Sunday
Leave Eugene-7:45 a. m.
OTHER NORTHBOUND TRAINS LEAVE DAILY
11:45 a. m. (extra fare)—1:30 p. m.—4:35 p. m.
6:05 p. m.—3:00 a. m.—4:03 a. m.
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