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• EDITORIALS . FEATURES • HUMOR LITERARY * , I 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 t Carol Hurlburt, Society Warner Guiss, Chief Night Editor Lester McDonald, Literary Phil Cogswell, Sport* Barney Miller, Features ___ NEWS STAFF Reporters: Vincent Mutton, Virginia Wentz, Oscar Munger, Genevieve Smith. Roy Sheedy, Thelma Nelson: Madeleine Gilbert, Jack Bellinger, Betty Anne Macduff, Kenneth Fitzgerald, Helen Cherry, Ruth Dupuis, Eugene Mullins, Willetta Hartley, Caroline Card, Jessie Steele, Merlin Blais, Florence Nombalais, Ray Whiteside, and Frances Taylor. Day Editors: Thornton Gale, Lenore Ely, Thornton Shaw, Eleanor Jane Ballantyne, Ralph Yergen. Sports Staff: Ed Goodnough, Bruce Hamby, Walt Baker, Ervia 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 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, As.s’t Foreign Adv. Mgr. Edith Peterson, Financial Adm. Laura Drury, Sec’y Associate Manager John Painton, Office Manager Dorothy STAFF Victor Kaufman, Promotional Adver tising Manager. Harriette Hofmann, Sex Sue Betty Carpenter, Women’s Specialties Kathryn Laughridge, Asst. Sex Su« 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 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. Rosina Forrest. . ^ „ . Production Assistants: Gwendolyn Wheeler, Marjorie Painton, Miriam McCroskey, Edward Clements. AsR’t. Adv. Mgrs.: Jack Wood, George Branstator, Auten Bush. Advertising Solicitors—Friday: Dick Goebel, Auten Bush, Vic Kaufman, George Bran stator. fr.lt I'titWl 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. In Others’ Columns rr'HAT the state of Oregon is coming definitely into the fore •*" ground of the larger national magazines as a subject for comments on liberalism is evidenced by three more or less recent editorials in Liberty, The New Republic, and The Nation. The University of Oregon was cited by Liberty, popular mag azine for the masses, as an example of strict action taken by authorities toward college liquor-law violators. As a definite result, comment has been evoked, according to Emerald ex changes, in a college circle including the Ka Leo o Hawaii, of Honolulu, and in the Daily Tar Heel, of North Carolina. A reprint from The N^w Republic concerning alleged action taken by faculty members on a communism editorial has been given previously on this page. And now The Nation scores the state of Oregon for the con viction in Portland of one Ben Boloff of sedition in connection with communistic activities, as well as the commitment of one youthful offender to the state insane asylum. Whatever may be the merits of any of the charges leveled and the comments evoked, Oregonians who are aware of the facts ought to form their own conclusion on the basis of those facts instead of harkening too seriously to outside writing. Jour nals—and the Emerald cannot save including itself at times— in this day of speed are prone to comment first on “spot” news and investigate afterwards. Outside comment is worth while, . bringing as it docs judgment from a different background. But comment without complete knowledge must sometimes be dis trusted. . So it is with favorable comment. The Harvard Crimson and ' Yale News, for instance, approving in the past the newer policy •* of the University of Oregon in paroling instead of punishing ~ student offenders according to merit, weaken their approval by not acquainting themselves with the details. The program which the Crimson believed to be pointing the way for colleges of the nation is not entirely in the hands of the student council, even though it depends for its support on student co-operation. Faculty members, such as Professor Wayne E. Morse, who conceived the actual working of the parole sys tem, have been a most important factor. While Oregon makes the news, it is well then—our moral runs—to keep in touch with the occasion as well as the com ment. Some Certain Recompense TJA.CK 1)1' the scenes of the Junior Vodvil, which opened tit a downtown theatre last night, is the secret for much of the success of college students in meeting a rather critical world after graduation. Granted that production of such shows has its effect on grades, on health, and on class attendance, such activities dem onstrate that students are willing to throw their entire energies toward meeting new problems and meeting them with enthu siasm. It is rare that any person not a college student, with work and study to do a-plenty, will contract to carry on the outside activities which find evidence in such productions as the vodvil. No other group is willing to devote the hours, to spend the sleep less nights, to pile work on work, as do the activity-interested college students. To what purpose? To this purpose alone: that the show go Oil, that the work be done, that the plan be perfected. The pro ductive enthusiasm which engenders such student activities surely has in itself some recompense for the work it brings. OBKUT li. LUCAS, executive director of the Hepubhean Na tional Committee, makes a statement quoted by The Nation worth reprinting in full. ■'Inasmuch as it seems to be hopeless to expect a reform in the textbooks which teach free trade, Internationalism, public ownership of private industry, and so forth, and inasmuch as it is apparently equally hopeless to expect the teachers in insti tutions of higher education to abandon their radicalism and so cialistic theories, the approach to the young man and the young woman who is about to become a citizen must be made inde pendent of our educational system.” And that, to us, seems just the fault of the piv-ent system of the two parties. Fault of the Universities Sft***J|t******* * "You can’t pull anything * * like that over on me,” said the * * worm as he climbed out from * * under the Irish bricklayer who * * was hauling a wheelbarrow * * full of bricks. Which reminds * * us that even a worm is smart- * * er than a lot of Oregon’s po- * * litical-minded students. Any- * * how, we fooled you that time. * * Bet you thought we were go- * * ing to pull one of those old * * Black Crow "worm” jokes. * ************ SONG OF MODERN YOUTH Consider your aunt, thou sluggard, Consider her ways and get wise, Or you may not get a cent When the old dame curls up and dies. * * * The moral of this little tale should be taken quite to heart. Don't believe everything an Alpha Phi may tell you over the tele phone. FOR ART’S SAKE (Second cousin to “For Heaven’s. Sake) Mike Mueller on a bright spring day Painted landscapes pink and grey, Painted farm scenes at their sourc es, Not forgetting barns and horses, Not forgetting trees and sky; Paint flows fast and colors dry. His is excellent rendition— Now they hang in exhibition. THAT’S JUST A TOUCH OF WHAT CULTURE DOES TO A POET. Which reminds us of the story of our uncle. He was an artist, too,—an artist in drawing cattle out of corrals when people weren’t watching. And lie was also hung In exhibition, hut that’s another story and we’re getting off the point. * * OUR AUSTIN ATTEMPT Mary had an Austin coupe Which caused her friends to smile. She drove it into class each day And parked it in the aisle. We had a good joke about Jack Stipe but Duniway wouldn’t let us run it. "This sheet must be kept clean at any price,” he roared, leaping to the top of his desk, and assuming an Aimce McPherson posture. We aim to please, so we’re not going to tell it, although a lot of people would be more pleased if we did. WE'VE JUST HEARD FROM GOOD AUTHORITY THAT 3 GIRLS VOTED AGAINST THE A. W. S. CONSTITUTION REVIS ION. WE’RE AT LEAST GLAD THAT 3 GIRLS WENT TO THE TROUBLE OF READING THE COPY OF THE CONSTITUTION WHICH APPEARED IN THE EMERALD. SCOOP! SCOOP! LAST MINUTE SCOOP! (We have just received a tele gram from the junior vaudeville officials to the effect that the show was a remarkable "hit.” Be low are all the lurid details.) Six eggs were hurled from the balcony of the Heilig theatre to score remarkable bulls eye con nections with certain vaudeville performers, at the show last night. Nor did Rudie Vallee and his sing ing have anything to do with it. The hen fruit managed to make its impression felt, although it came as a result of a "chicken” act from some deformed intellects who were, no doubt, gleefully imagining themselves members of the feathered family. An exten sive search is to be made today of all the Eugene kindergartens for finger prints that may lead to the arrest of the culprits. “THAT NEW IDEA’’ HIT; VODVIL ENDS TONIGHT (Continued from Page One) of events, wherein Jane finds that her name isn’t Clay, but Mud, is extremely interesting and laugh provoking. The final family re union in which the Judge, played by Leonard Dart; Jane, and Steve, also a witness, played by Don Con frey, and Katherine Colin as the mother, play vital and personal parts, is surprising to say the least. Blackouts appeared between every act, and all of them were good. Perhaps the most popular one last night was a dance panto mime wherein Marion Camp played the part of the alluring dark lady; McGowan Miller, the “Man from the South,” and Jack Walker impersonated the ghost. The act was carried out entirely by pantomime and all motion was portrayed through various dance steps. “A Tragedy of the Bright Lights” is a story wherein two city slickers corner a country boy who has just sold the farm and come to New York to get famous. They take him to a night club where they arrange to sell him the Brooklyn bridge. While these arrangements are taking place, they are entertained by the “Pony” chorus, tap dancing acts by Marian Camp and Hal Hatton, and Jane Stange and Louise Mar vin working in pairs. Bob Good rich, Ermin Harper, Torry Shell, and Henry Kaahea render several vocal numbers, and Mike Haimo vitch entertains with a piano solo, “Black Eyes,” by Tschaikovski. During the evening A1 Caphony, otherwise known as Norman Jes se, was put on the “spot” by members of a “tough” gang. As the papers for the deal are being drawn up the country lad goes out to call up “his dear old mother” and tell her what a great success he is going to be. After he leaves, the city slickers find that their watches, their wallets, and their tie studs have left with him. “Tht Spanish Fantasy,” last act -i 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. I PURSE and notebook at rally dance in men’s dorm. Call 2900. j Olive Ritan. j JEWELLED Sigma Chi pin. Find er call Emerald office. Reward. | (BLUE Parker pen with name on-! graved. Finder please call 917 j or Emerald business office. LIGHT tan camel's hair coat, Eu-! gene hotel Friday night. Call j 1320. Reward. \\ anted SECOND-HAND copy of Shake-! speare's Principal Plays. Phone 202S-J. Wanted To Buy TUXEDO on cash terms. Write Emerald business office. Physicians DALE AND SETHER Surgery, Radium, X-ray Mauer Bldg. Phuue 43. Plant Collectors Wanted ANY STUDENT, male or female, who would be interested in col lecting- and adding plants to the herbarium, on a monied consid eration, in the southern parts of Malheur, Harney, Lake, and Klamath counties, during the summer months may consult Mr. L. F. Henderson, curator of the herbarium. Such applicants should be permanent or tempor ary residents in such districts. 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 1060. C. I. COLLINS, resident manager. Dressmaking SHOPPE PETITE—Style light. Price right. Dressmaking, re modeling, hemstitching. 073 E. 13th street. Phone 1733. Schools Three private lessons in ballroom dancing for $0.00. MERRICK DANCE STUDIO S61 Willamette Phone 30S1 on the program was received bet ter than perhaps any other one part of the show. Don Bruzio, most famous bull fighter in all Spain has asked for the hand of Estralita, beautiful daughter of the inn-keeper. It is the father’s wish that his daugh ter marry this illustrious person. Don Evah, wandering troubador, enters the scene and wins the love of the fair Estralita. Don Bruzio comes and finds his promised wife in the arms of the troubador but before any serious trouble starts the Bull gets loose and the assem blage is thrown into a panic. Don Bruzio is badly worsted in his bat tle with the ferocious animal and it remains to Don Evah to quiet the animal. He accomplishes this by the use of kind words and a carrot and thereby wins the hand of Estralita. Gene Love as the inn-keeper, Emmajane Rorer as Estralita, Bill McNabb playing Don Evah, Jack Bauer as Don Bruzio and McGowan Miller and Jack Walker as the Bull, brought the house down in the fast play of comedy which makes up the fantasy. The grand finale, coming at the close of the fantasy and as part of it, included every member of the cast, all in Spanish costume and in the Spanish setting, singing and dancing to the theme song, “That New Idea.” Woman Attorney To Be On Campus Tuesday Next Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Dorothy McCullough Lee will be in the office of Mrs. Hazel Pruts man Schwering, dean of women, at which time students may talk with her about law as a vocation for women. Mrs. Lee is one of the tw'o women in the house of repre sentatives of the state legislature, and is active in child welfare and educational activities. She holds a J. D. degree from the University of California. Those students who would like to consult with Mrs. Lee should make appointments at Dean Schwering’s office now. MILLER,, PFAFF, WILSON TO VISIT EIGHT NATIONS (Continued from Cage One) been the recipient of prizes in many forensic contests, and is a member of Delta Sigma Rho, na tional forensic fraternity. He is past president of the Congress club on the campus and a member of Cosmopolitan and International Relations clubs. Wilson, a graduate of Lincoln high school, has been active both as a speaker and a journalist. While in high school, he w’on a trip to Europe for writing the best essay on the League of Nations in a nation-wide contest. In col lege, he was a member of the freshman debate team, and has served as a member of the edito rial board of the Emerald, student daily. He also was one of the main prize winners in the Murray Warner essay contest on Oriental ! relations. Four years ago, three men from the University of Oregon em barked on a round-the-world de bate tour. They are: Walter E. Hempstead Jr., Gladstone, now an instructor in public speaking here; Benoit McCroskey, Salem; and Avery Thompson, Salem. 'EAR AND 'AIR What Do You Think of Political Assemblies? “I think they are a pretty good thing although the houses have all decided before they go where they want to stand. It's one benefit is that one gets to see who he is go ing to vote for.”—Charles Aetzel, freshman in business administra tion. “I didn't know the school had so much pep until I heard it yes terday at the meeting.”—Nada Eh lers, senior in English. ‘‘They’re O. K.—they get you out of classes.”—Jim Blair, freshman in pre-medics. ‘‘They are an asset to a college group in that they promote a greater spirit of rivalry between the two parties. However, they of ten prove detrimental by side tracking opinions of undecided minds.”—Charles Purcell, fresh man in English. “I’m all for them! They give the students a chance to show en thusiasm that they would other wise have no way of displaying.”— Henry Levoff, junior in business administration. MOTHER’S DAY SET FOR JUNIOR WEEK-END DATE (Continued from rage One) and a daughter, or sons and daughters, in competing living or ganizations will be credited to each such organization. 5. Legal guardians will be con sidered mothers for purposes of the competition. 6. The prizes will be annually awarded and will rotate from year to year until won three times by the same living organization, whereupon they become the per manent property of such organiza tion. 7. Prizes will be awarded Sat urday, May 9, at the annual Moth er's day banquet. 8. Paul W. Ager, comptroller, Yes Today We Have ORCHIDS 7 ..yrr.vr.~~ TTNIVERSHY U... FLORIST PHONE 654 598 13th Ave. East Three blocks west of campus vill audit the computations of the egistration committee and will letermine the prize -winning louses. Students are urged to cooperate iy having their mothers register is the first official act upon their irrival in Eugene. Registration rooths will be in the first-floor obby of the Administration build ing, and will be open Friday at 5 a. m. NOMINATIONS FOR CO-OP BOARD NAMED TODAY (Continued from Page One) ng the nominations. M. F. Mc Clain, manager of the store, and red Park, president of the board, vill give reports on the year's bus ness. Any proposals for amend nents to the by-laws will be heard. The present plan under which :he Co-op is operating calls for a joard of directors of seven mem iers, five of whom are students ind two of whom are faculty mem oers. Each year one freshman is ilected to the board to serve his sophomore year, and two sopho nores are chosen to act during ;heir junior and senior years. Present members of the board nclude Ted Park, president, Ken Newport, Wallace Baker, Harold Short, Dorothy Jean Murphy, Dean T. F. Bovard, and Dean J. H. Gil iert. CAMPUS ♦ ALENDAR Phi Theta Upsilon Tuesday at 5. All girls dress in white. The Oregon Tennis squads will give exhibitions today on the courts near the old library at 3 p. m. AH Seniors should order com mencement announcements at the Co-op immediately as deadline is May 10. Hikes Postponed Two ^ Weeks, Says Manager There will be no hikes, either this week-end, nor the coming week-end, according to Ella Red key, student manager of hiking. The postponement was occasioned because of the play day held in Corvallis today, and Junior Week end, next week. The hiking this term has been under a new system, with differ ent girls taking charge and pre senting novel ideas to the hikers. So far there has been a hare and hounds hike, and a treasure hunt. The next hike will be held in two weeks. 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