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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1931)
EDITORIALS FEATURES HUMOR LITERARY University of Oregon, Eugene Madeleine Gilbert, Editor Anton Peternon, Manager George Root, Managing Editor David Eyre, Joan Cox- Editorial Writers UPPER NEWS STAKE Lois Greenwood, Literary Bruce Hamby, Snorts Kenneth Fitssuerald, Features Alfred A titan z, Cartimns Gwen Elsemore, Chief Nisht Editor Hermino NEWS STAFF Day Editor: Frances Taylor. Snorts Staff: Bill Eberhart, Joe Saslavsky , Reporters: Caroline Hahn. Caroline < ard. Ruth Dupuis Byron Brinton, /.wanck Clark Williams. Dorothy Williams. Barbara Jennings, .Jane Cook, iloin Daniel. Frances Row. .Jay Brown. (Jay Hamilton. Wilbur Thibault, Eaura ^)rury .John Throne. Don Goodall. Mary Bohoskey. Vivian Malone. Reynolds Alien, hvere t . Cole Raleigh Graver, Thomas Hurtfeild. Irwin Elder. Irwin Lawrence. Jirn ('r°P" | kite, Ed Cross, Louise Barclay, Barbara Dielschneider, Katherine Manerud, Llean.i. Sheeley. Frances Johnston. Niitht Staff: Adrienne Sahin. Mary Belle I’olies, Harold Birkenshaw, George Kerr. _ 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 Adrr.. Laura Drury, Scc’y Associate Mnnager John Painton, Office Manager Dorothy Victor Kaufman. Promotional Auver tiaing Manager. Harriett* Hofmann. Sex Sua Betty Carpenter, Women’* Speclaltla* Kathryn Laughridge, ABat. Sex Sue Carol Werachkul, Executive Secretary Wade Ambrose, Aaa’t Circulation Mgr. Bob Goodrich, Service Manager Caroline Hahn,, Checking Department Hughea. Clasaificd Advertising Manager The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated StudentB of the University of Oregon, EuKene. issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the coUcko year. Member of the Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffiee at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates, I2.B0 a y«ar. Advertisi if rates upon application. Phone. Manager: Office. Local 214 , residence, »24. Living Machinery PROBABLY no single campus function or no one activity re ceives the criticism and unfavorable comment centered in student political machinery. Class politics are characterized by house lineups pledging support to a straight ticket. In analyz ing the situation, it is evident that much of the criticism is just. Voting the straight ticket irrespective of the merits of opposing candidates destroys the independence of students, lowers the gen eral political morale, and eliminates the true spirit of free com petition. The ticket lineup is valuable only in organization, in the selection of candidates and their presentation to the class voters. Nevertheless, politics have an important function to perform in any college or university. The selection of student officials undoubtedly is responsible for a large share of the interest in campus activities. When the enthusiasm of alert, progressive students is aroused, the driving power behind student functions is augmented. But constructive criticism, not mere acquiscence, is required if politics are to be efficient and impartial. It is only through recognizing and facing fearlessly vital campus issues that candidates for office will exert any constructive in fluence in student affairs. Political candidates, moreover, will have no more ability than the voters demand, and the problem resolves itself into educating students to the point where they realize that not mere good intentions but intelligent decisions are necessary. While organizations have their part to play in a political scheme, they must not hinder independent judgment and refuse to take cognizance of individual merit. The Fraternity Ostrich NOT long ago, when the customary slips were mailed notify ing students of unsatisfactory grades, the recipient was asked whether the atmosphere of his living cpiarters was con ducive to study. The reply was definitely negative. In the case of fraternity men and women, the first excuse to be offered was that "the house is always noisy" and "it’s never quiet enough to get any work done.” The inevitable result of such a situation for it is true that the fraternity inmate either joins in or cynically endures per petual noise is that serious students and upperclassmen whose influence in such an organization is particularly desirable, must move to other quarters. The fraternity system is always under criticism which it does not attempt to meet. Its problems arc vital ones, which it has so far refused to face by playing the ostrich, and ducking its head to criticism, while its faults remain glaringly evident. Yesterday’s Shadows 'T'O the freshman, it seems incredible that this, his first year -*• of University life, so long and anxiously awaited, should be so hurriedly enjoyed; that within three more weeks it should become an experience of the past. The freshman s future at Ore gon will be based both on what he has done and what he has failed to do. What has the first year meant to him? It might have meant the development, through personal contacts on the campus, of a genuine interest in and understanding of his fellow students and professors. Perhaps it has meant a constant strug gle with tlie difficult effort of orientation. Perhaps it has meant the continuation of a normal, somewhat noisily happy existence. To some it has meant the rigour and experience of extra-curric ular activities, and to some it lias opened new vistas of intellec tual achievement as well as social consciousness. The change is almost inevitable. The wise freshman realizes that, in order to adjust himself, he must relinquish many old ideals in the wake of new thought. He does not fetter himself with outworn standards. He no longer attempts to begin a new day with yesterday’s shadows. Genuine or Hypocritical—Which? r^pwo students meet each other on the campus. One nods his 0 head and grunts a cold “hello.” He is not human. The other wears a smile, throws back his shoulders, offers his hand and a good word for the world. But what of him? A co-ed can wear a smile and say a sweet “hello.” But does she always do it ? A student will talk all afternoon with a guest of the house. But will he greet the fellow on the street? Does the campus politician have the same friendly greeting two days after the election? There are many selfish, cold, disinterested men and women. They are a recognizable type. Equally numerous are those who are not what they seem- those who put on a "front" only when they will profit by it. But look around. There are still a few gems in the rock pile. Watch these shining bits of humau per sonality. See their genuine smile. Notice their alertness, their optimism, and their unselfishness. Feel the warmth of their heart. Hear tilth d word. Then it down and ask yourself "How can I, myself, be like this true type that I admire?" FROSH FROTH ♦ ♦♦ v ************ ' tj i. I • . I * Oh now, you louzy juniors, * * Sc"' ;•» and sophomores be- * i * ware, * 1 * The frosh control the dirt * | * si :iet, * j * And nud besmears the air. * ************ Which, said and done, we are now in a position to say that we are glad of taking advantage of this occasion. It being so near the end of the year, those people whose precious names we haul through the slime of these columns will have very little time for re venge, And we have enough faith in ourselves to know that we can go into hiding quite effectively for the few remaining weeks of school. Well, now that that’s off our chests, as the pedestrian said after being run over by an Austin sedan, we invite you to spend what little time you have at the College Side with us. * • * * SOMEBODY I HE MUST BE Aj G’HINAMAN OR A WOP) IS I KICKING ABOUT ROTTEN j FOOD. AT LEAST HE MADE SOME CRACK ABOUT “SMELLY DE BUTTER.” * * * Oh, now we understand. He's talking about the general. Oh well, at least yesterday’s Emerald gave us some sidelights on the qualities of college men. Butler, according to the headline, would have been a 'real college fellow. The story goes on to say that he shoots straight from the shoulder (so do the R O T C rah rah boys), he is sincere (which, according to little Ga Ga, positively lets him out as a college man i; but he is not a fire eater. (That last re mark positively proves that Butler couldn’t be a college man. For we know that college men consume fire, sometimes in the form of dynamite.) * * * OH WELL, MAYBE THE REA SON THAT HE ISN’T A FIRE EATER IS DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE’S “STORMY PETROL.” Some of the boys at the next table to us ate from Sigma Hall. Well, anyhow, we saw the wait ress bring in six spoons, and there are only three on the table at the present time. However, that’s be side the point. The lads are talk Classified Advertisements Kates Payable In Advance j 20c first three lines; 5c every | additional line. Minimum charge 20c. Contracts made by arrange ment. Telephone 3300; local 214 Wanted ______ AN UPPERCLASSMAN to han dle a dance program, stationery ! and Christmas card line on the j-~ campus during 1031-32 school ' year. Apply The Master Engrav ers, Hughes Building, Portland, Oregon. Give activities, frater nity and references. 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 i 1560. C. I. COLLINS, resident manager. Miscellaneous TALKING PICTURE ACTING IAN exceptionally high-grade home course in Talking Picture Act ing is offered to a few ambitious people. Postal brings informa I tion; no obligation. Miller Serv ice, 207 Poppy Ave., Monrovia, Calif. i _ TAKE your daily dozen at “Flight" DAILY'S ARCHERY Range. Across the mill race from the Anchorage. Arrows 10c doz or 25c per half hour. HUSBAND and wife driving to • Portland, room for two passen gers for the round trip. Share expenses; leave Saturday. Cal! ' 307T-W. Schools Three private lessons in ballroom | dancing for $5.50. MERRICK DANCE STUDIO 861 Willamette Phone 3081 Physicians ~ DALE AND SETHER Surgery, Radium, X-ray Miner Bldg. Phone 43 ing about the newly organized j “Sigma Hall Hiking Club." The boys were reported to have arisen by some queer urge about mid night the other night, and to have hurried out to Spencer’s Butte, after which "Walking my Baby. Back Home” was the theme song of the party. A good time was almost had by all. * * * HEY WAITER, ESCORT A FINGER BOWL INTO OUR MIDST. SOMEONE’S GOING TO TELL A DIRTY STORY. * * * Our error! Katherine Manereud just dropped around to tell us about some of her experiences back stage at the junior vodvil. She simply wanted to describe the exquisite scenery for us. We; thought she might have something' to say about how to scramble1 eggs, but when we broached (now, George Root, you little devil, we didn’t say poached) the subject she referred us to the Phi Delt house. * * » WE WISH SOMEONE WOULD LOOSEN UP AND DROP A NICKEL IN THE PHONOGRAPH SLOT. CHEAP BUNCH! * * * In looking about the room we notice a lot of our acquaintances engaged in various and sundry occupations. Nancy Suomela is I sitting all alone. No doubt she’s thinking of a young man who, it is claimed, started for Portland last week end, but returned three times to say good-bye to her. Mil dred McGee and Lenore Ely are trying to cook up interest in their domicile by describing the new cup which now graces the Alpha Xi Delt parlours. Tsh! Tsh! Girls': You now have something to drop cigarette buttes in when the house mother suddenly puts in an ap j pearance. Sheldon Dunning is lis tening, but his mind is on other things. Strange disease, this po ljUcalosis! WELL, WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF FROTH, SO LIKE THE COL ORED WOMAN SAID AT HER MARRIAGE "ADIEU!" GUILD HALL WILL BE SCENE OF ANNUAL PLAY (Continued from Page One) nounced later, according to the di rector. There will be only one perform ance and no seats will be reserved, Mr. Matson said. Admission will i be 25 cents. | ... Odor of the ’OH’ The following upperclassmen must report at 2:40 on the steps j of the Women's building to receive their just punishment for various . and sundry misdemeanors: J “Cap” Roberts who was seen at a late houf last night conversing with a young co-ed when he should have been at home in his wee trun dle bed enjoying his beauty sleep. Cal Bryan, Lord preserve us, j who was boldly smoking a big black cigar in front of the Oregon building yesterday. This is a dou bly serious offense as Cal doesn't come from the south. John Penland, tsh, tsh! He was meddling in frosh politics. Johnny Yerkovitch v/ho was seen lolling nonchalently in the Chi O parlor where it is rumored he is trying to cut some poor frosh out of his rights. (And is she a pip! Boy!) John Allen whose presence is maliciously solicited because of passing out punk cigars which broke down the pillars of decency in those gatherings of society in which their stench was most of fensive. Merlin Blais must appear! No excuse accepted. He was seen at a very late hour last night prowling around the Z. T. A. shanty. Jerry Lillie, whose undue cocki ness has been a subject of much comment on the campus in recent times will be whaled first. Mack Miller was spotted yester day without a white hat. His hack ing will come right from the heart.. Gene Tarbell will be whacked (get that) on general principles. At least we are being original, as we haven’t heard of any frosh yet being hacked on their general prin ciples. Any of these men who fail to appear on the steps at the ap pointed time will be taken care of by the frosh commission, (that's not a promise.) Signed: - VERY SILLY, Pres. Frosh Whack’m Society. LIEUT. PROUTY TELLS OF WORK OF BUTLER (Continued from Page One) quite a problem for the command er in feeding and keeping this ; number in good condition. Sixteen [ kitchens each of which would feed | approximately 10,000 men in one hour, and new wash houses reme , died this situation. “He’s the greatest rustler I've j seen,” declared Lieutenant Prouty. j “When there were no trucks, | horses, or lumber, Butler spent '"three days traveling around France j until he located lumber and trucks, j Then he came back to camp and ■ sent his men out for these sup 1 plies. “I am very proud to have served i under General Butler. It is one of : the high spots in my life,” the lieu I tenant added. GENERAL ELECTRIC 8-inch Fans -FANS $6.50 3-inch Fans We now have a factory-trained expert on our Radio Service Staff White-Marlett Electric Co. S78 WILLAMETTE Memorial Day MMLTSBfo MBBBBBMBWBMWWPBBBKMBWBP - MMUtW ————— ARGAIN Oregon Electric Round Trips! Portland Rainier - St. Helens . . .$ Corvallis <M CO Cl Seaside. Astoria. Salem. ,85 DISTANT POINTS Helena.$18.10 Boise - - - - - 12.95 Butte.18.15 Salt Lake.21.40 Spokane 10.40 Seattle. Tacoma.5-45 Pendleton.6.95 Vancouver.9.55 Walla Walla - - - - 7.55 (Jo Thursday. Friday. Saturday—May 'J*J. :>0. Kotuni limit Monday, Juno t>. similar 1’on i'aros to otlior points in territory outlined. Details, train schedules, etc., will be furnished on call. Oregon Electric Railway V. S. APPIXMAN. Ageut LOl' 1. KXOtVLTOX, tiou. Agent l'hone iJO Portland PHONE 110 Webfoot Varsity Ready for Dual 1 Meet With OSC — Duck Track Squad Winds Up Workouts for Annual State Contest Workouts for the coming meet with Oregon State tomorrow af ternoon on Hayward field ended last night and Coach Bill Hayward stated that his me nwere ready j for the invading Beavers. With the exception of two or three events Hayward has defin itely decided upon his entries. His decision as to which race Ralph Hill will enter; the mile or two mile, is keeping many of the dope sters worrying. Oregon . State coaches are unable to decide where to place their best man in an ef- I fort to take at least one of these events. The complete list of officials for the meet, as announced by Hay ward, follows: Referee and starter—Walter Hummel. Timers—Art Morris, Jack Lucky, Russ Cutler, Doc Swan, and Nolan. Judges of finish—Paul R. Wash ke, Dr. Hal Chapman, Paul Schiss ler, and Conklin. Field judges—Dr. H. W. Titus, Homer Dickson, Earl Boushey, Vern Eiler, Tom Chapman, W. Bristow, Prink Callison, Gene Shields. Inspectors—Pat Beal, Jerry Lil lie, Wade Rutherford, Chuck Ed wards. Clerk—Reuben Ross. Announcer—Bob Maut.z. Scorekeeper—Hack Miller. Press--Harry Van Dine, Sam Wilderman. Assistant field inspectors—Sher wood Burr, Bob Voegtly, Norm Daniels, Irv Huesner, A1 Hakan son, Carson Mathews. YEOMEN, HENDRICKS HALL WIN TROPHIES (Contilined from I’nije One) Christine Baxter and Laura Par cells, sopranos; Agnes Petzold and Dorothy Ann Jones, second so pranos; and Geraldine Johnston and Amy Hughes, altos. Alice Holmback accompanied them. The songs sung wrere: Women’s division—“Lift Thine Eyes,” from Mendelssohn's "Eli jah,” and "On the Steppe" by j Gretchaninoff. Men’s division—“Lo, How a Rose | E’er Blctoming,” by Praetoris, and "Wait Till Ah Put on Ma Crown" by Reddick. Burial Mound Subject Of Paper by Scientist j In conclusion of a research pro ject on which he has been working, Dr. Luther S. Cressman, professor of sociology, will read a paper on June 16 before the anthropological section of the American Associa tion for the Advancement of Sci ence on the subject, “A Burial Mound in Southern Oregon." The general subject of the meet ing of the division is to be the “An tiquity of Man in America.” Dr. Cressman has been working on the mound for the past year and accompanied by Dr. Warren D. Smith of the geology department, left yesterday afternoon for Gold Hill, Oregon, for two days of fur ther excavation of the burial mound. CAMPUS ♦ ALENDAR 1- -"- •“ 1 ~ Tsui Delta Delta formal pledging tonight in the lounge of the Music building at 6:45. Members must be present. Independent men wishing to rep resent the Yeomen in the Jewett extempore contest notify Merlin Blais today. Two representatives will be chosen in tryouts Monday. Eugene Mattress and Upholstering Co. 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