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• EDITORIALS FEATURES ♦ HUMOR LITERARY ♦ University of Oregon, Eugene Vinton Hall, Editor Anton Peterson, Manager Willis Duniway, Managing Editor Hex Tussing—Associate Editor Dave Wilson, Harry Van Dine, Kalph David—Editorial Writers UPPER NEWS STAFF Carol Hnrlburt, Society Warner Gura, Chief Night Editor Lester McDonald, Lfterary Phil Cogswell, Sports Barney Miller, Features _ NEWS STAFF Reporters (listed in order for number of stories turned in last week): Kenneth Fit* gerald Virginia Wecntz, .lack Bellinger. Merlin Blais, Madeleine Gilbert, Frances Johnston, Caroline Card, Helen Cherry, James Brooke, Ruth Dupuis, Oscar Munger, Frances Taylor, Isabelle Crowell Joan Cox, George Root. Roy Sheedy, Duane Frisbie. Billie Gardiner. Willetta Hartley, Betty Anne Macduff, Ted Montgomery, Jessie Steele, Carl Thompson. Night Staff: Tuesday- Doug Wight, Dave Longshore, Mary Jr ranees Pcttibonc, Day ^Editor,/:' Thornton Gale, Lenore Ely, Thornton Shaw, Eleanor Jane Ballantyne. Sports Staff: Ed Goodnough, Bruce Hamby, Walt Baker, Ervin Laurence, Esther Hayden. Radio Staff: Art Potwin, director; Carol Hurlburt, secretary; Dave Eyre, reporter. Editor’s Secretary: Mary Helen Corbett Assistant: Lillian Rankin Managing Ed. Sec’y: Katherine Mancrud BUSINESS STAFF Harry Tonkon, Associate Manager Jack Gregg, 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 Adin. victor nauiman, rroraowoiim i Using Manager. Harriette Hofmann, Sez Sue Betty Carpenter, Women’s Specialties Kathryn Laughridge, Asst. Sez Sue Carol Werschkul, Executive Secretary Wade Ambrose, Ass’t Circulation Mgr. Bob Goodrich, Service Manager Caroline Hahn,, Checking Department John Painton. Office Manager UOrotny nuKHtn. nu*«;i uomik Copy Department: Beth Suhvay, Mirtle Kerns, George Sanford. Copy Assistant: Rosalie Commons. Office Records: Louise Barclay. Office Assistants: Marjorie Bars, Evangeline Miller, Gene McCroekey, Jane Cook, Vir ginia I’rost, Virginia Smith, Helen Ray. Mary Lou Patrick, Carolyn Trimble. Production Assistants: Gwendolyn Wheeler, Marjorie Painton, Miriam McCroskey, George Turner, Katherine Frcntzel. Ass’t Adv. Mgrs.: Jack Wood, George Branstator, Anton Bush Advertising Solicitors—1Tuesday: John Hagmeier, Cliff Lord, Jack Wood, Betty /,im merman, Kathryne Koehler. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated 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 poetoffice at Eugene, Oregon, ns second class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. Advertising rates upon application. Phone, Manager: Office, Local 214; residence, 324. Substituting for Heaven “A/f ARRIAGES are made in heaven,” said the old creed. JVJ. „Not so says Rita s Halle in the current issue of the Good Housekeeping magazine. “Modem marriages, at least the most successful ones, are made in college!” She uses figures for proof. The statistics, to he perfectly frank, are neither very complete nor extremely reliable, but they are significant. Between 3900 and 1930 there was an average of one divorce for every nine marriages in the land of the free and the home of the brave. But among married couples who had met while attending a co-educational college, there was for the same period only one divorce in every 75 marriages. In other words, if you marry your college sweetheart, your chances of getting out of it by way of the divorce court are less than one-eighth as good. Among the causes of greater stability of college-made mar riages which the author advances are the following: Decrease of Incompatibility, due to the greater mental con geniality of mutual interests and equal education. Less inclination to jealousy, which is minimized among the easy and democratic contacts of a co-educational campus. Courtships of two and three years while waiting for degrees and salaries. A chance to compare and choose. This last is undoubtedly the most important of the group. Colleges perform a eugenic service for the race of uncounted value when they bring together large groups of young men and women and enable the best specimens of each sex to itiek life partners whom they would otherwise have never met. In line with this fortunate arrangement, it would be interest ing and not a little amusing to conduct a secret questionnaire among the co-eds of the University of Oregon to find out just how many of them came to college with hazy or clear-cut inten tions of picking out a husband from the “flower of Oregon's young manhood.” The high ratio of women who marry either before or shortly after graduation hints at a serious amount of premeditation on somebody’s part, and the ambitions of the aver age unattached college male include everything but early mar riage. Oh, Well, we Love the Rain O PEAKING of spring terms at Oregon, it seems inevitable that ^ u picture of cloudless skies, bright spring dresses, topless roadsters, and canoes floating silently on the sparkling waters of the mill-race pops into everyone's mind. Students’ fancies run to pigging pigging that has a certain romance so lacking in the comparatively dull and lifeless days of fall anil winter terms which have so often been marked by drizzling downpours. He likes to make his resolutions, charac teristic of the first few days in each term, then chuckle as he realizes they’re all of boloney. Yea, just as though he'd forego the Sunday afternoon picnic, with sandwiches, pickles, ice cream, and potato chips, just to do a little of that back reading for his econ class. But to hear us thus speak of “spring term at Oregon” one might be led to believe that a lot of this dope about college “rah rah" is the pure quill and that each day of the term is a shining episode in the life of the University student. He might be led to think that the sun shines from morning till evening without a single blink. He may have heard some of the old folks speak of the wonderful "spring terms at Oregon.” If it doesn't rain over three-fourths of the time, we’ll con sider it good weather. It will be a successful spring term if canoeing weather lasts three days straight. It'll be the dough if it doesn’t rain the day our picnic is planned. We hope the sport roadster tops can stay down two days out of a week. Maybe the gals and their bright dresses won't be covered all the time with green slickers. It’ll be a break if it doesn't rain Junior j Week-end. Now, if the profs don't sock us too heavily . . . Oh, well, we love the tain! Ode to the Council yvEFUNlTELY now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their parties. No man need be a prophet to predict that ere the month opened today is over, campus politics will be of prime importance to several hundred college men and women. If University history repeats itself, several students will vio late the ballot boxes with illegal second and third ballots. Un fortunately, ’as last year, the number may be sufficient to cast several elections in doubt. 11 the executive council is to act on a matter which lnm bhadowed the council membership itse.lt, now u, the time to it. *********** * Now that we’ve dusted the * * cobwebs off the old typewriter, * * here we are all set for the last * * lap of the year. In order to * * insure the readers of this pa- * * per the most up to the minute * * news possible we have chosen * * assistants to patrol the mill- * * race, the graveyard, Skinner’s * * Butte, the A. D. Pi backyard * * and the A. T. O. picnic. With * * this added force there shall be * * little escape our attention, and * * none which we shan’t print. * *********** YES, ANDREW, A FERN WREATH AND ROSES WILL BE IN PERFECT TASTE. ♦ ♦ ♦ OUR USUAL OBITUARY John Yerkovitch slew her, Poor Cynthia McBce; She says, “I’ll remember, You’re an A. B. C.” # * * Sins Harper just walked in all bubbling over witii excitement. It seems that finally, after a Ions, Ions, stretcli of waitins, the A. T. O.’s will l>e able, without becoming conscience stricken and with a guiltless mind, to inform their rushees that Alpha Tan Omego heads the list of men’s fraterni ties on the Oregon campus. And tsk, tsk, how will the guile less rushee be able to tell that it’s tile list in the phone directory that they’re referring to. * * * We understand that the Pi Kap installation ball went off all right, but we’ve certainly got our opin ion of a bunch who’d give away as favors compacts weighing approx imately one and one-half pounds per each. As though it wasn't hard enough now to keep from looking like a shoplifter when you go to a dance, what with packing around the young lady’s lipstick, cigarette case, handkerchief, comb, reason ably sized compact, program, eye brow pencil, spectacles, and chew ing gum. $ * _fi=a=« AM) SPEAKING OI-’ COM PACTS, ETC., LITTLE Al. REL ICS SAY'S THAT COSMETICS AND SHORT SKIRTS ARE THE LOWEST FIRMS OF "IT.” * * * And also in regard to cosmetics we arise in defense of the co-ed and stoutly affirm that most of those of our acquaintance aren’t half as bad as they’re painted. # # * Vacation, according to all avail able dope, was a pretty quiet af fair. As usual, half the Sigma Chi house stayed over, but shades of Lucifer, many a loyal Sigma Chi alum would roll over and over in his grace to find out that the prin cipal vacation pastime was BRIDGE. Those members of the tong w ho didn’t play bridge sat and gently tossed water bags at all who passed by. Even in this sport, however, the old verve and fire were gone, .lodging from lack (if success we should say that the boys just didn't have their heart in it. The Alpha Gam and Alpha O house;; were well populated and from "them e Veeiited '(d emanate the only el eoetul activity j such as it was. The rest of the ; houses seemed to be closed up. The only thing which might have led one to believe that they v/ere in ; habited was the absence of lights. The S. A. E„ Phi .Sig, Fiji, Kap pa Sig, Sigma Nu, and Beta domi ciles showed a few faint sparkes o f activity occasionally, but nothing like it used to be. Here again eating, sleeping, and bridge were the only visible pastimes, or ^ maybe everyone’s getting just more cautious and discreet. * * * Oh yes, and then the Pi Kaps fNee A. B. C.’s) were having in stallation and this proved a life saver for all the co-eds left on the campus, what with dates neces sary for all the out of town dele gates. Of course this little dissertation by no means ends our research on the vacation activities. If any thing more comes to light we faithfully promise to pass it on, provided, our course, that we don’t pass on first. “Yes, the majority of college students fee ltoo sophisticated to partake in such foolery but my sophistication has gone some place—oh, well.”—Florence Ten nant, senior in sciences. * * * “When you’re young it seems to be more popular than when you are older. It isn’t losing its popu larity as far as time is concerned but people grow out of the habit..” — Harlow Allen, sophomore in for eign trade. sfs * * “I think it is every place but in comic strips and grade schools.”.— Esther Hayden, sophomore in jour nalism. * » * “I think it is just as popular as ever, although at high schools it is perhaps more enjoyed than at college.”—Katherine Miller, fresh man in fine arts. WINTER HONOR ROLL LISTS 140 STUDENTS (Continued from Tarje One) Forest Grove; George Barron, Ashland; Ralph Black, Parkdale; Gene Grewer, Clatskanie; Byron Brinton, Haines; Fred Calef. Mon mouth; Arthur Cannon. Toledo; Francis Coad, Cove; John S. Con way, Newberg; Quinton Harris, Hobart Mills, Cal.; Roy Herndon, Freewater; Bertrand Isaminger, Helix; Walter Keen. Los Angeles, Cal.; Rufus Kimball, Palo Alto, Cal.; William Kuykenrall, Klamath Falls; Joe McKeown, Mashfield. Students with no grade below II, but with one incomplete: Paul Hartmus, William Red lund, Robert Hunter, Byron Nich ol, Paul Walgren, David Wilson, Ruth Bracher, Margaret Ormandy, Portland; Verna Adams, John E. Allen, Herbert Doran, Janet Fitch, Lucy Norton, Eleanor Patten, Jeannette Smith, and Katherine York, Eugene; Ernest Alne, As toria; Richard Bogue, Merrill; Lloyd Brough, Rainier; Ronello Lewis, Salem; Roy Wilkinson, Gladstone; Helen Althaus, Trout dale; Ida Markusen, Junction City; Marie Ring, Monmouth; Helen V o e 1 k e r. Cornelius; Margaret Elaine Williams, Elgin. 1 1 Realistic Permanent Wave $4.75 Marcel.75c Finger Wave - - - 75c Manicure.50c All Lines of Beauty Culture Eugene Hotel Beauty Parlor Phone 647 Emergency Loan Fund for Women Set Up by A.W.S. More Than S200 Available For Use of Students; 30-Day Limit Set Establishment of an emergency loan fund for all women students by the Associated Women Students was announced by Margaret Cum- j mings, president, yesterday. At present the fund will total a little more than $200. The A. W. S. plan to add about $350 to this amount at the end of spring term. It is planned to build up the fund every year in order to have a con siderable sum at the disposal of women students eventually. Money Put To Use The initial deposit in the fund, > $213.65 has been transferred from | the A. W. S. infirmary fund, and may be diverted back into that' fund if the A. W. S. decides to do so. In the meantime the executive council of the body decided that the money should be put to some productive use. Loans up to $25 will be made from the fund, with the provision j that they be repaid within 30 days. The chief purpose of the fund is to help women students who | need small amounts of money for a few days. A service charge of 25 cents on each loan will be made to keep the fund growing and to make up for any possible losses. Fund Ready Now The fund will be available for use immediately, it was announced at the meeting of the A. W. S. executive council Monday night. Applications may be made at the dean of women's office. VIRGIL EARL TO AID BIGGS SPRING QUARTER (Continued from Page One) be taken into partnership upon his j arrival there in July, he said. In making known his plans for j the future, Dean Biggs said: “I regret, of course, leaving the Uni versity and leaving the associa tions and contacts that I have en joyed during the time I have spent as a student and as a member of the faculty here. They will al ways remain in my memory as most pleasant experiences. In leaving the University, however, I am realizing a life-long ambition in the opportunity which has been given me to practice law. ‘‘I believe that Mr. Earl is a splendid successor. His experi ence, interest, and training lie in the direction of personnel work, so j that the men should find him an able counsellor and a true friend.” Alum Returns to Campus Phyllis Hartzog, ’29, who has been studying for the past year in the Portland school of applied so cial science, has returned to the campus to do work for the Na tional Red Cross for the next term. She will also carry a few' hours of University work. Miss Hartzog is a member of Alpha Kappa Delta, sociology honorary, and Zeta Tau Alpha, social sorority. CAMPUS ♦ ALENDAR Archery—Girls interested in in tramural archery meet in the gym Thursday at 4. Social chairmen of men’s living organizations will meet at 4:30: p. m. today in room 110, Johnson hall. Important. Specialized Press class w'ill meet at the regular hour today. Eagle Scout club meets at the Anchorage Thursday next at 6 o’clock. Committee chairmen will have reports ready on rally. TWO FILMS SLATED FOR FACULTY CLUB SHOW (Continued from Page One) the ties and rails of the Turksib line; here the gangs of workmen, laboring at terriffic speed and ten sion, show the iron determination of the Russian governors and their supporters to build a great steel highway between two states of the U. S. S. R. They work with a kind of frantic desperation, prov ing that the efficiency mania which the Russians have caught from the Taylor Management people is an immensely potent driving force. Film Mot Propaganda “While the industrial workers who attended in Portland cheered some parts of the film, there is really no more propoganda in it than there would be in a picture of the building of the Union Pacific . . . if we could turn back history and show the driving of the last spike of that famous engineering feat. It may be doubted if the Bol shevists would use a gold spike, when they finish their line; other wise the epic touch would be much the same, whether in this grand land empire of ours, or in the stoll larger stretches of the U. S. S. R. “This picture should be an in teresting contrast, in its imperson ality to Galsworthy’s “Escape.” The Russian director, Victor Tur stream of events, in the dynamics of action; whereas Galsworthy’s film focuses on a significant group —Si ^fJowem>-ig3Utire Easter Greetings The Mercury Way Mail orders now for delivery at Easter The University Florist 598 13th Ave. East PHONE 654 I & Spring Term . . . brings you again to THE shop of the campus . . . & '!• sJ* Come in again for that good food . . . College Side Inn >f characters in a tense, almost nelodramatic situation. To see :wo such unusual films for one 15-cent admission, is unusual.” Spencer Visits Schools Carlton E. Spencer, professor of law, is spending the first two weeks of this term visiting high schools of Portland and Eastern Oregon. Professor Spencer is addressing students of these schools on higher education and vocational topics, and consulting with students indi vidually. Vacations Spent on Coast Members of the chemistry fac ulty all seemed to choose the Pa cific coast as the scene of their vacations. Dr. and Mrs. Leo Fried man spent a day at Newport, Ore gon, visiting Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Kunz, who spent several days there. Dr. Roger J. Williams and Dr. F. L. Shinn and family spent the vacation week at Siltcoos, where Doctor Williams spent the time in fishing. Incompletes Must Be in by April 13 A LL incompletes must be made up and the grades turned in to the registrar’s office by 5 p. m., Monday, April 13, according to a statement issued yesterday by Earl M. Pallett, registrar. 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