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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1931)
. EDITORIALS ♦ FEATURES * HUMOR * LITERARY ♦ ► University of Oregon, Eugene Vinton Hall, Editor Anton Peterson, Manager Willis Iuinlway, Managing Editor Rex Tussing—Associate Editor Dave Wilson, Harry Van Dine, Ralph David—Editorial Writers UPPER NEWS STAFF Carol Hurlburt. Society Warner Guias, Chief Night Editor Lester McDonald, Literary Phil Cogswell, Sports Barney Miller, Features NEWS STAFF Reporters: Merlin Blais, Jack Bellinger, Betty Anne Macduff, Roy Shecdy, Willetta Hartley, Carl Thompson, Virginia Wentz, Caroline Card, Kenneth Fitzgerald, Madeleine Gilbert, Frances Johnston, Helen Cherry, Ruth Dupuis, Oscar Munger, Frances Taylor, Duane Frisbie, Jessie Steele, Vincent Mutton, Florence Nombalais, Genevieve Smith. _ ,, Day Editors: Thornton Gale, Lenore Ely, Thornton Shaw, Eleanor Jane Ballantyne, Ralph Yergen. Sports Staff: Ed Goodnough, Bruce Hamby, Walt Baker, Ervin Laurence, Esther Hayden. Emerald Radio Hour: Ralph David, Merlin Blais. Editor’s Secretary: Mary Helen Corbett Assistant: Lillian Rankin Managing Ed. Sec'y: Katharine Manerud BUSINESS STAFF Marry lonaon, mwcium; iu#iia8ci Jack Gregg, Advertising Manager Larry Jackson, Foreign Advertising Larry Bay, Circulation Manager Ned Mars. Copy Manager Martin Allen, Ass’t Copy Manager Mae Mulch**:*, Aaa’t Foreign Adv. Mgr. Edith Peterson. Financial Adm. Laura Drury, Scc’y Associate Manager Using Manager. Harriett© Hofmann, Sex Sue Betty Carpenter, Women's Specialties Kathryn Laugh ridge, Asst. Sex Sue Carol Werschkul, Executive Secretary Wade Ambrose, Ass't Circulation Mgr. Bob Goodrich, Service Manager Caroline Hahn,, Checking Department John Painton, Uifice Manager l70roiny Jaugnen. i/iuosmeu auvuiwiuk Copy Department: Beth Salway, Mirtle Kerns, George Sanford. Copy Assistant: Rosalie Commons. Office Records: Louise Barclay. Office Assistants: Evangeline Miller, Gene McCroskey, Jane Cook, Helen Ray, Mary Lou Patrick. Carolyn Trimble, Nancy Soumela, Katherine Felter, Magdalen Zeller, Rosin a Forrest. . „ . Production Assistants: Gwendolyn Wheeler, Marjorie Painton, Miriam McCroskey, Edward Clements. Ass’t Adv. Mgrs.: Jack Wood, George Branstator, Auten Bush. Advertising Solicitors—Thursday: Duane Friable, Jack Wood, Betty Zimmerman. 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 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. Pigs in Pokes "IT THAT would your reactions be if you wanted to buy a * * dozen oranges at the corner grocery and were told by the sale: man that you had to accept all that he chose to put into the bag, spoiled as well as good, or no sale? We may draw the curtain of discretion over your answer. Yet it would be hard to find a better analogy for the "ticket” system which is the Koran of student politicians on this cam pus. The students are browbeaten into the belief that it is their duty to vote one of the two leading tickets “straight”; the personalities of the individual candidates are submerged be neath the "machine.” The whole sorry matter sums up to this. Two parties are built up without any issues between them to justify their sep arate existence; raheour and bitterness which sometimes leave permanent scars are generated for no cause. So intent are the candidates upon beating out the other gang, that no one has time to present to the student body any intelligent ideas for changes or reforms in student administration. The platform is the same on both sides: "Stick by us and you’ll be in on the gravy next year.” Where is a man with enough courage to run for the presidency without a lineup of lesser satellites tied to him with a rope of promises—to base liis appeal for election on evidence of personal ability of a high type, on well-thought-out ideas as to how the student govern ment should be administered, on ussuranee of good government without any stultifying promises made to supporters? And where is intelligent support for such u man? Placing Responsibility JUST ten days ago at the University of Washington in the ** student elections, student association cards were required be fore ballots could he cast. Each card was punched and so rendered useless for the double-voting of the kind which an nually appears on the Oregon campus. The Emerald has for more than a year advocated the use of such a system. The results of past elections show that some check must be made on student ballots. The executive council has failed to act. To the administrative officers of the A. S. U. O. the plea must he turned. On George Cherry, president, and William Whitcly, vice-president, rests the responsibility of seeing that the coming student body elections are conducted fairly. The constitution expressly provides that the vice-president he in charge of elections. To these two officers the Emerald, at this late date, leaves their duty. On to Oregon rr^o t;ike a long step toward getting Oregon her share of the nation’s tourist traffic, $200,000 is being raised in the state to be used as a national advertising fund. The fund had reached $111,620.50 yesterday as 300 On-to-Oregon salesmen pushed nearer the desired goal. For many years Oregon has taken a back seat in the matter of placing its wares before the tourist trade. With scenic ad vantages over sister states, she has refused to capitalize on one of her greatest assets. It is said that tourists already bring into Oregon more money than any single industry this without any national advertising and publicity such as given California ■ and Florida. With $200,000 to be employed for advertising purposes. Ore gun should find herself in a position to compete with the other great scenic states. She has an advantage in natural scenery still unspoiled. The next care that Oregon should take is that the influx of tourists should leave this scenery unspoiled. She has enough for all. So long alter the federal commission report on higher edu cation is released, a Portland newspaper comments on the low percentage of Oregon students registered in liberal arts courses. Even at this late date, that paper forgets that the commission revealed that there are two schools in the state teaching liberal arts - one school not being included in that low percentage. University interest will be turned toward the University ut Washington, where a faculty committee has beeu appointed to consider abolition of compulsory military training. Hoover pronounces the capture of Suudiao as certain. Will they get hiitt ou liis income tax returns'.' ****** ****** * “Tra la, tra la!” we shout, * * bursting into the new campus * * political song, — “Changes, * * Beautiful Changes,” which re- * * minds us that somebody on * * this campus is going to be stu- * * dent body president next year. * * And after all, a worse fate * * could befall an Oregon student, * * for no one can ever feel safe * * from Misfortune in this mod- * * ern world. ******* ***** , * * * AND WHAT’S THIS WE HEAR ABOUT THE DELT CHICKENS WHICH ARE SCANDALIZING THAT PA^T OF THE COUNTRY BY ROOSTING ON THE BOYS’ CHANDELIERS? * * * No, no, don’t get us wrong! Wo mean real fowls. Tush, tush, little <ia t«a, whatever made you think of such a thing? Yours is a fowl mind. * ♦ X THE SON<; OF THE DELT HEN DELTA TAU DELTA, JUST FOR YOU I PLEDGE MYSELF AND FAMILY, AND ALL THE ROOSTERS FROM MY BROOD SHALL LITTLE DELTAS LONG TO BE. # * * As the Chi Omegas have adopted a wounded dog they should get to gether with the Delts and estab lish an animal farm. Hurrah, at last we begin to see a good pur pose to which the infirmary build ing could be put. It could be util ized as the headquarters for the farm. This is a worthy cause, and we hope that all students on thd campus will get behind it. At least, it would provide a place to put the campus water-baggers. Tlsh! Tisli! (meant to be a snick er). Yesterday’s Emerald carried a story about a gust of wind blow ini' in through somebody’s window and sweeping out the fireplace. Ye gods! What’d have happened if the door had been open. Most like ly the wind would have swept out the piano, or the kitchen stove. Moral, never let a strange gust of wind enter your room, unless you are sure it has no evil intentions. * * * * The other clay the Emerald car ried a story about a local boy, Ralph Yergen, whose relatives are quite famous. Well, Ralph is also somewhat of a song writer, and he recently wrote a beautiful lyric which he has dedicated to those college boys who wait on tables in the various houses throughout the campus. The name of the song is “Waiting For Tips That Never Come In.” * $ * THE THREE REARS . . (Or Ton Nights in tho Mill Race) Once upon a time three little hears decided to come to the Uni versity of Oregon, and when they arrived on the campus, after va rious and sundry experiences and several free meals, they pledged the Ally Oops. For the first few weeks of their college experience everything pursued its normal course in life, and the three bears were beginning to believe that, af ter all, the movies were right about college. One night, however, their dreams were all shattered. About one o’clock in the morning the pa pa bear came home in a furious mood (it was cheaper than a taxi Would have beenI and went to the pantry to get some cold chicken which should have been there. To his chagrin and fury file chicken was gone. He demanded jthat the other bears tell him who the culprit was, but no one knew. He next went to sit on the davenport but, Classified Advertisements Rates payable in advance. 20c first three lines; 5c every ad ditional line. Minimum charge 20c. Contracts made by ar rangement. Telephone 3300; local 214. Lost WILL the person who called the lost and found about Mary Ga ley's glasses please call her or leave a message at Univ. local 254. For Sale NASH sport touring. Runs A-l. Curtains and wind wings. Price $40. Carl McDowell, 906 W. 4th street. Dressmaking SHOPPE PETITE Style right. Price right. Dressmaking, re modeling, hemstitching. 573 E. 13th street. Phone 1733. I——----■-— For Kent THE BARTLE COURT Eugene's high class modern apart ment house. A real home for permanent tenants or short-time guests. 11th at Pearl. Phone 1560. C. I. COLLINS, resident manager. Schools Three private lessons in ballroom dancing for $5.00. MERRICK DANCE STUDIO 861 Willamette Phone 3081 Physicians DALE AND SETHER Surgery, Radium, X-ray Miner Bldg. Phone 43 After the afternoon and evening of study . . . drop in for a cool, refreshing drink. Gosser’s Food Shop li blocks west of the campus to his anger, perceived that frosh pants and various other bits of clothing were scattered upon it. “Who has been sitting in my dav enport,” roared papa bear, but again no one knew. Angered mightily papa bear went upstairs to go to bed. And when he pulled back the sheets of his bed, do you know what he found? Someone had saturated his resting place with Eugene’s wettest aqua. “Who watered my bed?” roared the in furiated bear, gazing wildly about him. Suddenly a loud snore was heard from the adjoining room. Papa bear, led by his fellow bears, j tip-toed softly towards the door and quickly pulled it open. There, sprawling in their beds, were the three little bears; on a chair were a few well-gnawed chicken bones; and in the corner sat a bucket half filled with wa ter. “Ah, I see,” growled papa bear,” we must teach them better.” So the three little bears were taken down to the mill race and thrown in, and from that time on never left chicken bones or water buck ets in conspicuous places again. The moral of this tale is evident, no doubt, to all. Little bears will always have a hard life when they begin to bare their feelings, and bear grudges against upper class bears, who always bear the upper hand. Those are the bare facts. THE SONG OF THE MEN Let’s hang McDougal,— The dirty pip-squeak. He said, “I love This Senior Leap Week.” REPUBLI C FAILURE IS KING’S ONLY CHANCE (Continued from Page One) met his nephew, the present cabi net member. Miss Thompson stressed that this provisional cabinet was not made up of inexperienced men, but of capable men of affairs. “The prime minister, Alcala Zamora, was trained as secretary ot Count Romanones, a liberal minister in the king's last cabi net, who was reputed to be the most acute politician in Spain,” she said. “Salvador des Madariago, who has just been appointed ambassa dor to the United States, is an author, and has been a member of the League of Nations. Some of Madariago’s books are at the University library here. “Largo Cabellero, a cabinet member, was previously a member of the Spanish congress also. He was first elected about 1917 in a fashion which shows the Don Quixote temperament of the Span ish people,” Miss Thompson con tinued. She told the following story about it: In 1917, Cabellero and three others were imprisoned for having incited a strike which, although it was intended only for the pur pose of getting higher wages, al most turned into a revolution. Since the men were innocent of revolutionary motives, they be came martyrs in the eyes of the Spanish people. All four men were elected to congress. Finally pub lic sentiment got them released from prison and they took their seats in congress. The Spanish people had the op portunity of electing these four liberal Republican men to congress before their imprisonment but true to their temperament, they waited until their sympathy was aroused l?J " \ ® Nestle Circuline Ringlet Permanent j Waves $7.50 and $5.00 Complete $7.50 waves give you a shampoo and finger wave service. PHONE 466 Ina Garrett Beau Monde Beauty Shop mill PAY CASH AND PAY LESS High, Wide and Handsome Flannel Slacks GRAY, TAN. AND WHITE — HIGH WAIST — WIDE BOTTOMS You'll say they 're handsome. . . . Braided Belts to match -95c Values $5.50 to $6.50 ERIC MERRELL before they were stirrec to action.! “The members of the cabinet are fine intelligent men of affairs, j who have been working for years for the ideal of a republic. Whether they will realize this or not, I do not know,” concluded Miss Thompson. AWS PRESIDENT GETS POSITION ON COUNCIL (Continued from Fage One) add to the duties of the secretary of the A. S. U. O., putting through the following permanent resolu tion: “The secretary of the associated students shall work in conjunction with the University administration to provide closer contact between the University staff (personnel) and the students. “Further, the secretary shall, as far as possible, provide for the re ception of campus visitors.” Two important advantages are achieved by the action of the coun cil in placing these added respon sibilities upon the A. S. U. O. sec retary, Cherry pointed out last night. First, he said, is the value to the students in making a maxi mum number of contacts bothJ with the faculty and with the many prominent men and women who visit the University. Secondly, he referred to the rep utation which the University of Oregon already has for its hospi tality, and expressed the desire of the associated students to main tain that reputation and to have this student body become known as “one of the most cordial groups of students in the country.” Cherry explained that under the new resolution it will be the duty of the secretary to arrange for all campus visitors to be invited to fraternities and sororities and to be extensively entertained during their stay, not only by faculty members, but also by the Oregon students themselves. CAMPUS ♦ ALENDAR Xature group meets Sunday aft ernoon at 3:45 at Westminster house. Nomination of new offi cers. | Delicious. fe at Din ner I ami easy to prepare. It is sealed and i| frozen . . . ready to slice for the table. MENU | BRICK 1 THREE-LAYER BRICKS Peach Macaroon 1 Red Pineapple | Caramel Pecan BULK I Caramel Pecan | Phone 1480 Ho Eugene Fruit Growers EXCHANGE A Decade Ago April, 1931 Is the political bee scheduled to start buzzing soon ? This becomes the usual question with nomina tions but two weeks away. Taxis and flowers but not dates will be taboo at the Junior Prom this year, says the general chair man. A replica of Dean Allen was found in the Saturday Evening Post. The cover was a portrayal of a porter carrying a valise with initials of E. W. A. on it. The man following the porter resembled the Oregon dean. Co-Eds Senior Leap Week Gardenias for Boutonnieres Fixed Right Delivered Right Priced Right from < UNIVERSITY ... FLORIST I PHONE 654 598 13th Ave. East Three blocks west of campus General Electric .Contributions to Health maiBBrKBiv Ti-t iwffrrmw-v Sunlamps are a popular feature of the swimming pool at Hotel St. George, Brooklyn, N. Y. at College at Home at Play $ I^OLLEOE-TRAIXED electrical engineers cooperated with the medical profession in developing G*E products that safeguard health. Notable among these are the x-ray tube, the G-E refrigerator, and the G-E Sunlamp. Of these three, the Sunlamp is the latest development, but it has already been acclaimed for its service in helpin'! i'umi uiai >iictui\ wmui iiictii* the happiness of good health. -Vt Cornell l niversitv, members of “cold - prevention classes” (under daily, brief, ultra-violet-ray lamp treatments)reported 40percent less colds than were reported by class mates in a group without this treatment. Heyond home ami college, the use of Sun lamps has extended to swimming pools and indoor golf courses. In the future, you may enjoy the Sunlamp as a standard fixture in offices, trains, clubs, and many other places where people gather. And you may continue to expect new. unusual, and useful develop ments from G-E engineering and re search. Among such products, there will doubtless be further contribu tions to personal health, comfort, and convenience, as well as to the promotion of industrial efficiency. '95-763