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EDITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD University of Oregon, Eugene Willis Duniway, Editor Larry Jackson, Manager Thornton Shaw, Managing Editor Ralph David, Associate Kditor Betty Anne Macduff, Editorial Writer Merlin Blais, Radio Director EDITORIAL STAKE Rufus Kimball, Asst. Managing Editor Roy Sheedy, Literary Editor .Tack Bellinger. News Editor Walt Baker. Sports Editor Eleanor Jane Ballantyne and Lenore Ely, Doug Wight, Chief Night Editor Society Editors. DAY EDITORS: Jessie Steele, Sterling Green, K.itiii Phipps, Virginia Wentz, Oscar Munger. _ „ _ „ , ASSISTANT DAY EDITORS: Esther Hayden, Julian Prescott, George Sanford. SPECIAL WRITERS: Thelma Nelson, George Root, and Willetta Hartley. COPYREADKKS: Parks Hitchcock, Marie Kylstra, Marietta Morrison, Helen Ahrl, Robert Patterson. Elinor Henry. Valborg Anderson, l.arkin Williams, Ruth Osborn. REPORTERS: Jim Brooke, Fred J’ricke, George Sanford, Sanford Platt, Clifford Gregor. Sam Mushen. Harold Nock, Maximo Pulido, Willard Arant, Laura Drury, Margaret Ann Morgan, Genevieve Dunlop, Byron Brinton. Tom Ballantyne, Cecil Heckling, Mary I ranees Owen, Ruth King, Beth Bede, Shirley Sylvester, Donald Fields, Eleanor Skelley, Elsie Eschebeok, Aileen Kelly, Lee Parkinson, Madeleine Gilbert, Ralph Mason, Don Caswell, Ed ClementH. SECRETARIES: Marjorie Haas, Hazel Corrigan, Jeane Holden. SPORTS STAFF: Bruce Hamby, assistant editor; Estill Phipps, Joe Saslavsky, George RADIO ASSISTANTS: Jack Bauer, Ethan Newman. NIGHT EDITORS: Les Dunton, Boh Patterson, Myron Ricketts, Clark Williams, and Doug Tolivka. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Barbara Jenning, Catherine Watson, Elsie Peterson, Mary Teresi, Roberta Bequeaith, Lenore Greve, Adele Hitchman, Geraldine Faye, Byrne Doherty, D»»rothy Williams, Worth Chaney, Ruth McClain, Delpha Hurlburt. BUSINESS STAFF Advertising Mgr.Harry Schenk Assistant Adv. Mgr.Auten Bush Assistant Adv. Mgr.Barney Miller National Advertising Mgr.Harold Short Promotional Mgr.Dick Goebel Promotion Assistant.Mary Lou Patrick Women’s Specialties.Harriette Hofmann Classified Adv. Mgr.George Branstator Office Manager .Jack Wood Circulation Manager.Cliff Lord Assistant Circulation Mgr,.....Ed Cross Sez Sue .Kathryn Laughridge Sez Sue Assistant.Caroline Hahn Checking Dept. Mgr.Helen Stinger Financial Administrator.Edith Peterson OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Pearl Base, Nancy Archbold, Alma Tye, Marian Henderaon, Virginia Howard, Laura Hart, Helen Schacht, Helen Kalmbach, Betty Gorrill, Annabel Tuiloek, Mildred Laurence. ADVERTISING SOLICITORS: Caroline Hahn, Velma Hamilton, Jay BroVvn, Bill Price, Jack Dees, Maude Sutton, Chick Tokk, (Jrant TheUtnmel, Gretchen Winter meier, Clara Mary Fyson, llarlin Boats, Helen Nelson, Bernice Walo, Gabriel Furrer. Louise Rice, Florence Nomblais, Ella Me Fall, Joseph Saslavsky, Helen Sean, Bill Russell. PROMOTION DEPT. ASSISTANTS: Roarer Early. Jerry McGillicuddy, Bill Dobbin, Betty Goodman, Elsie Peterson. Mabel Harrow, office records. MARKETING DEPARTMENT: Nancy Suomela, executive secretary; Betty Mae Higby, Alma Tye, Laura Hart, Virginia Kibbee, Louise Bears. Dragging or Carrying l6 Hours TliTID-TERM warnings are out this week, a notice from Karl W. Onthank, dean of personnel administration, says in yes terday’s Emerald. It will be interesting to see how the number of mid-term warnings, sent to students with unsatisfactory mid-term grades, will compare with previous years. The current campus feeling seems to be that for some in explicable reason courses in all branches of the University are more difficult this year. Everywhere one hears, “I study as hard as I ever have, but I can’t seem to get anything out of it.” Conscientious students and the really inte ligent ones, of whom we have a few, are included in this group. The reason for the apparent increased difficulty in studies this year we have not ascertained. Perhaps professors, over loaded with teaching hours as a result of the lack of funds with which to hire an adequate teaching staff, do not have the time to smooth out the rough spots. These the students must get for themselves. If this is the answer, the students who can and will work will undoubtedly benefit enormously from the slash in the Uni versity budget. Likewise, students who are incapable of doing University standard work will be weeded out and perhaps will find a place for themselves where University education is not an essential prerequisite. Mid-term warnings indicate that it is time for students to check up and see just how well they are making the grade. The Libraries Open 'T'ONIGHT, for the first time this term, the libraries will be open on a Friday evening. Closed previously these nights at (> o'clock because of a cut in operating expenses, the libraries will be opened unti 9 o’clock Fridays because a campus-wide expression of student sentiment demanded the move. Opening of the libraries on a night when many students must prepare for Saturday classes comes as a victory for the student administration. It has been Brian Mimnaugh, student body president, who has led the fight for opening the libraries on Friday nights. He has won and so has the campus with him. Librarian Douglass' move will meet with a chorus of approval from the campus, we know. But his decision to open the libraries on Friday evenings is not a permanent one. The buildings will go back on the early closing schedule if their service is not reasonably used. But student appeals for opening of the libraries have been too insistent to let us believe they have not been sincere. In our opinion, the libraries are as good as open now on Friday nights for the rest of the school year. Quality or Quantity? TNIT1ATE quality or quantity? This is the question fraterni ties on the campus must face now. The change in the Uni versity’s grading system this fall and a consequent proposed rearrangement of grade points has put the initiation matter up to the men’s Creek-letter organizations squarely. There are three solutions open to the fraternity presidents. Houses can adopt either the 12 grade point requirement, the .75 of a grade point per hour plan, or use a double standard. The 12-point busis would make for quantity initiation. This lias been pointed out by Dr. C. L. Huffaker in a survey of the grades of more than 200 University students here. The .75 plan would approach quality more. The double standard would tend to bring a balance between the two forces. Wisely, the interfraternity council will not choose the initia tion standard for about two weeks. Fraternity presidents must have time to study all the ramifications of the three solutions open to them. House heads could best come to some decision by studying the mid-term grade reports of their pledges to see how many of them would fall into the various grade groups. If careful thought is given to the question these next two weeks, the best solution possible is sure to be readied. The humblest citizen of all the laud, when dad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.— William Jennings Bryan. Synthetically, we are eliminating workers, whereas syntheti cally we have found no method of increasing consumption.— Melvin A. Traylor. LEMON ♦ ♦ PALOOKA <ieez! you’re brutes for punish mpnt. .. well have some more. Wobbling over the campus . . . Henrietta Steinke again . . . en thusing the same male . . . Liz Wright the voluptuous witch . . . flashing a bright red dress with dollar-lai ge white polka dots . . . Bob DeGraffe leaning against a College Side pillar . . . Julius Re hal in his back-sided tin can . . . Ed Reames displaying hi.s opera tion . . . Joan Adams making a conquest ... a pair of bare feet sticking out of a dorm window . . . a vivid green dress going down the street . . . with a coupla broad white stripes running around the —uh—v/aist . . . making a very advantageous display. “ETHYL” Sound the cymbals and beat the eggs. Here comes Ethyl L. Co hol’s report on the Stigma Alfalfa Whoopsalong house, located on the corner of Sporteenth and Brawl der Streets: Dear Pal (Abb. of Palooka): This has been a long time coming, but consider what I had to go through to get it. The night I went over for dinner, X was met at the door by Kop Ee Ching, the oriental houseboy, who bore under his arm a surly looking beast, which I thought first was a (log, and later found out was a dog. Proceeding to a large room near the door, I discovered the bros lying about on the mantles, piano, and radio, all fast asleep. Observ ing this, and the houseboy having disappeared, I stole silently about the house. On the main floor I found the dining room, several small guest rooms, and one indescribable cham ber onto which I stumbled unthink ingly. In this room was another radio, a fireplace, a number of snapshots, and strangest of all, a sort of elliptical sphere on which were written several famous names' which I had seen somewhere but couldn’t place. I started upstairs, but Silver Thaw, whom I found later to be the house pride, interrupted me. With him was Garrison Stinkaid. I didn’t find out whether they named the streets after him or not. They pounced upon me with menacing gestures, and demanded what I wanted. When I told them, they merely roared deafeningly and threw me in the waste basket, where I lay stunned until dumped out into the tennis court the next Classified Advertisements Kates payable In advance—10c a line for first insertion; 5c a line for eaeh additional insertion. Telephone 3300—Local 214 LOST LOST—Keytainer with keys be tween Friendly and Oregon halls Friday. Finder return to room 3, Friendly hall. Reward. LOST Green Wahl fountain pen with name engraved. Phone 1516. LOST — A small brown zipper purse on October 19, in Com merce or on 13th street. Reward.' LOST Kappa Alpha Theta pin at rally. Marabel Braden, '26. Call Laura Drury, 2340. WANTED HELP WANTED — Out-of-town freshman to work nights for room and $15 a month. Apply 1245 Onyx, 6:30 to 7:30 p. m. ANY intelligent person may earn good income corresponding for newspapers: all or spare time; send for free booklet; tells how. Heacoc.k, 418 Dun Bldg., Buf falo, N. Y. LEMON O SHINE PARLOR Formerly in College Side Inn Bldg. Now at 285 Alder St. MISCELLANEOUS HARRIET UNDERWOOD 583 13th Ave E. Phone 1393 DRESSMAKING SALON Style Right Price Right Upstairs over Underwood & Elliott Grocery. SHOES REPAIRED—The finest shoe repairing in Eugene, qual ity work, and service. All soles stitched, no nails. Campus Shoe Repair, 13th between Alder and Kincaid. NEW BEGINNERS’ BALLROOM CLASS Starts Tuesday—8:30 P. M. MERRICK STUDIOS 861 Willamette Phone 3081 KRAMEiR BEAUTY SALON Also Hair-cutting PHONE 1880 Next to Walora Candies CONTRACT BRIDGE Culbertson System. Taught by Mrs. G. E. Lehman. 1774 Alder street. Phone 1180 for appointments. HOME-COOKED MEALS—All you can eat; $5.50 a week. 1217 University. 'Then Yon'11 Be Thrilled by Our Fall Flower Festival i Be sure to \ isit our Fall Flower Festival! It’s a delightful and amazing spectacle of beauty. Special educational exhibits that all the family will enjoy seeing. Admission free! See Autumn flowers at their loveliest! Novjtoll Sunday Included Open 9 n. m. to 9 p. m. ADMISSION FREE! University Florist 508 Thirteenth Avenue East Phone t>54 morning. X was enraged. I wanted to go back in there and tell them to their face that they had a lousy tennis court. Yours bruisedly, Ethyl L. Cohol. * # * Today’s short short short (I could go on like this forever) story. “SAM” Slapjack Sam drew his bifocals and fired. The great beast lay dead at his feet. Turning, he saw sev enty-two others charging down upon him (well, seventy-one, if you want to be mean about it). Thun dering on they came. On they came, thundering. Came they thundering on. (If you can think of any better way to pad this thing, do it yourself, you big dish of oatmeal.) Anyway, on they came, but the grisly old fighter was not fright ened. In fact he was not conscious. He roused himself from his coma just in the nick of time. He brave ly fought off the monsters, and, putting his hands in his pockets, singled out the leader of the herd. The great pachyderm withered un der his gaze. Finally, under a hot fire of cream puffs and pistachio nuts, the herd retreated in great disorder. Slapjack Sam grinned. The sun was settling behind the asure hills. All v/as silent. The tiger man had found his true happiness. Theater Workshop Moved To 13th and Onyx Streets The Theatre Workshop, former ly situated on the first floor of the Architecture building, has been moved to a house on Thirteenth and Onyx streets. It is believed that this change will be an improvement for the members of the Theater workshop and those of the pottery depart ment, both of which were crowded into comparatively small quarters. CAMPUS ♦♦ ALENDAR Alpha Delta Sigma—Important meeting today at 4 o'clock in Mr. Thacher’s office. All members must be present. Important Meeting of Skull and Daggers at the College Side Inn this afternoon at 4:30. Dr. C. Yr. Boyer of £TTe English department will read selections from English novelists Sunday eve ning at 7:30 in the Women's build ing. 1 International Relations group of Philomelete will have breakfast Sunday at the Anchorage at 9:30. Drama group of Philomelete will meet at 5 o'clock in the woman’s lounge of Gerlinger hall. Import ant. Election of officers. The Travel group of Philomelete will have an informal social meet ing at the home of Eula Duke, 1471 Villard street, tonight at 8. Philomelete group presidents will meet Monday at 12 o'clock at the Anchorage. Very important busi ness meeting. The Heart Bomb Of Aunt Eppie Dear Aunt Eppie: When I first came to school my hair was a very beautiful shade of platinum blonde. I became known far and wide as the “Platinum Blonde.” This new shade of blonde dazzled the boys and I was rushed on all sides for dates. Now I am losing my power, my beautiful hair is starting to fade. Truthfully Aunt Eppie, what would you sug gest ? Fearfully, Merry Beensent. Dear Merry: In a severe case like yours, I would suggest as the only remedy that you get out the old peroxide bottle once again. This will restore the glittering shade and bring the boys back, clamoring for dates; but remember, darling, all that glitters is not gold. As ever, Aunt Eppie. HONORARY HAS MEETING Phi Chi Theta, national women's commerce honorary, met last night to lay plans for teas and luncheons to be given by the organization during November. Vera Smolnisky was elected corresponding secre tary. Learn to Dance Before Homecoming! Will you be absent from the Homecoming dance or the famous Journalism Jambo ree merely because you can’t dance ? Join this new beginners ball room class and learn all the latest collegiate fox - trots and waltzes. You will dance a clever fox-trot in your first lesson. CLASS STARTS Tuesday—8:30 P.M. Ten Lessons $7.50 Co eds $5 Merrick Dance Studios 861 Willamette Phone 3081 , I liked Chesterfield right from the start. Everybody likes a cigarette that’s milder. Chesterfield is just that and tastes better too. It’s made from milder, better-tasting tobaccos. And pure ciga rette paper—the purest made. Smoke as many as you like—the last Chesterfield of the day is as mild and smooth as the first. Try one today— you’re hound to like them. They Satisfy! terfield SMOKED BY MORE MEN AND WOMEN EVERY DAY £ 1031, Iigojett & Myers Tobacco Co.