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EDITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD University of Oregon, Eugene Willi* *Dunlway, Editor Larry Jackson, Manager Thornton Shaw, Managing Editor Ralph David, Associate Editor Betty Ann# Macduff, Editorial Writer Merlin Blais, Radio Director EDITORIAL STAFF Rufus Kimball, Asst. Managing Editor Roy Sheedy, Literary Editor Jack Bellinger. News Editor Walt Baker, Sports Editor Eleanor Jane Ballantyne and Lenore Ely, Doug Wight, Chief Night Editor Society Editors. 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.ueorgc uran«i»ior 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 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 fates upon application. Phone, Manager: Office, Local 214; residence, 2800. Farewell, Minor Sports "l¥TITHOUT a dissenting vote (in legal phraseology, a directed ^ ^ verdict), the executive council of the A. S. U. O. Wednes day abolished tennis and golf from the 1932 sports program. Because of similar action on the part of other schools in the northern division of the conference, in line with agreements be tween the several graduate managers made in December, Oregon teams will have no conference competition in these sports, the athletic committee explained. Graduate Manager Rosson made it clear that the suspension of the minor sports was due to this lack of conference competition, and not to a lack of funds. A provision of the council provides that outstanding athletes in tennis or golf may be entered in major competition, which may be interpreted to mean that Don Moe, Western amateur champion, will represent the University in important tourna ments this spring. The situation at other northern schools is not so fortunate. At the University of Washington, tennis, golf, riflery, and all freshman sports except crew and basketball will be abandoned for the remainder of the year. This means that there will be no Babe baseball team, or track team. A deficit of $54,000 must be made up, the Washington board of control estimated. The failure of football to draw the crowds planned accounts for their situation. The chief justification for the strong emphasis which has been placed on football was that grid profits supported minor sports. Now that football gate receipts fall down, to the tune of $50,000, the minor sports must go on the shelf. Those close to the football box office, the heart and pulse of modern collegiate athletics, have already predicted that the golden days of the gridiron game are over. National financial straits are not entirely responsible—interest in the game is fad ing, say the prophets. The multitude are tiring of plunking down $1, $1.50, or $2.50 to see college boys in moleskins. Their private suspicions as to the amateur status of the players also may be having its effect. But few will venture to predict bigger gates for next year. If Washington must cut minor sports (and coaches' salaries) because the football gate fell off this season, the same is liable to occur in the future. With the finances of football gone, where do tennis and golf get off? Knowing-When-T o-Stop VX7HY not endow a professorship in the art of kuowing-when to-stop ? We hear a great deal about the arts today—the fine arts, the art of conversation, of thinking, of making ends meet, of handshaking and of getting by, of washing dishes in fact, we conclude that anything can be done artistically as well as effec tively. We propose to add the art of knowing-when-to-stop to this growing list. In the hubbub about campus overorganization one hears the complaint that a few students do all the work, while many with real capabilities are never discovered. All the jobs would not be held by a few persons if those few had learned that the art of knowing-when-to-stop is a vital attribute to the art of living. He who wisely chooses what he wishes most to do and to accomplish, eliminating every other pursuit, is a step ahead on the road to satisfaction. Few campus “activity leaders" realize the all-importance of knowing-when-to-stop. Every job offered they must accept in order to increase their “prestige.” They forget that perhaps more prestige may be gained by doing one or two jobs better than anyone else has ever done them, than by doing a multitude of jobs sloppily. One must be a specialist to live. Why should not college students decide early in their school career what form their art of living is to take, and then bend their efforts to develop that art, leaving the extraneous details for someone else to special ize in" What's noisier than a bunch of A. D. S.'s planning the K. K. K. in the next office? We're going to ask Roseoe Ates, the famous screen stam merer, to be Oregon’s yell leader. He would do well on Dean Gilbert's “Trrr, trrr, trrr, Trappers! Trappers! yell and ulso on “Wehu, Wehu, Wehu, Ducks.” Have you cast your vote? The poll will be large, we esti mate. However, we refrain from the obvious "What's in a Name ?" The earthquake in Portland yesterday was faint. Some of the residents were too, when they felt it. Mellon's Gulf Oil company got a hand in the oil fields of Colombia, Representative Patman says. Dig up the stones ubout Teapot Dome, and substitute “Barco." The 300 who flunked out of the University of Washington last term makes our own 30 seem rather small. Maybe the depression hasu't hit them—or is it the stale hoard of higher education? OREGON ♦ ♦ GRIPE WOULDJA GET A LOAD OF THE NEW MONICKER WE'RE SPORTIN THIS MAWNIN, IF THE PRINTER DIDN’T DOUBLE [CROSS US. QUITE SUBTLE, lAINNIT. AND TO GOOD OL’ LESLIE NEWHOUSE, THE BUS INESS AD TYPHOON, GOES THE HONOR OF HAVING HIS BRAIN CHILD IMMORTALIZED IN 36 PERNT TYPE, 27 CENTS AND OUR ADVICE TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY IN SELF DE FENSE. This one is so old and feeble you probably have forgotten it or vvern’t born when it went the rounds. It seems that two gents met, one looking for his friend, and asked the other if he had seen him. The man said he had. “Was he drunk?” asked the first. No, I guess not, but he had a start that would be worth two bucks to anybody that was gonna get drunk.” Km# Headline in yestidday's Emerald: “Executive Council Slashes Tennis, Golf; Robb Grid Manager." STOP, THIEF! * * * TODAY'S BLURT Ol’ King Cole, was a merry old soul, But now he gives me a pain. EMERALD The Max trio, composed of Max ine Reid, Maxine Moore, and Max ine Gross, will present today's Em erald of the Air program at 4:15. Fifteen minutes of popular selec tions have been planned for the broadcast. Dale Brown, Theta Chi piano shark, will act as accom panist. William C. Cover! Will lie Honored at Luncheon ■s Presbyterian Official To He Guest At Westminster House A luncheon to honor Dr. Wil liam Chalmers Covert, secretary of the board of Christian education of the Presbyterian churches of the United States, and Mrs. Covert will be given today at 12 o'clock at Westminster house. The women of the Central Presbyterian church of Eugene will serve. All officers of Westminster association have been invited. Dr. Covert and his wife have Classified Advertisements Kates Payable in Advance 10c a line for first insertion; 5c a line for each additional insertion. Telephone 3300; local 214 MISCELLANEOUS “HARRIET UNDERWOOD 5S3 13th Ave E. Phone 1393 DRESSMAKING SALON Style Right Trice 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, 13tk between Alder and Kincaid. ~ KRAMER BEAUTY SALON ~ Also Hair-cutting PHONE 18S0 Next to Walora Candies NEW BEGINNERS7"BALLROOM CLASS Starts Tuesday—4:30 P. M. j MERRICK STUDIOS obi Willamette Phone 30*1) For when they bring his pipe and howl, They’re wrapped in cellophane. i VER THE TRANSOM . . . Jip, (gip, gyP. gyPPe) the Side dog, getting his nose bumped on the door . . . we knew it would happen someday . . . Don Eva nearly start ing a revolution with his move ment to cut off the ends of the ping pong tables at the yumka hut . . . 5 feet by 9 feet or fight . . . Heathen Newman getting out a petish to stop him . . . prepare for the millenium . . . Kjosness shaved . . . Jim Brooke, the ex-this, and “Quite” Goodnough staging a bonebraking fest in the sports of fice of the shack . . . why don’t we see so many green lids no more? . . . Order of the “O” can’t afford paddles . . . it's the depresh . . . our ide# of a soft job would be scene shifter in "Journey’s End” . . . or running an elevator at Uni versity High . . . Where do life guards go on their vacations ? . . . and how about starting a home for ex-house-managers ? OR AS THE GEOGRAPHY PROF SAID HOLDING UP A MAP OF FRANCE, “IS THAT NICE?” 1 been on a trip through the West to hold educational conferences with the ministers and laymen. While here on the campus lie ex pects to have interviews with Pres ident Arnold Bennett Hall and oth- ( er members of the administration. He is particularly interested in the college church work, such as that of the Westminster association. Dr. Covert was born in Franklin, Indiana, and there belonged to the church where the father of Presi dent Hall frequently preached. He is the author of such widely known books as: “Glory of the Pines,” “Wildwoods and Water ways,” “New Furrows in Old Fields,” and "Religion in the Heart.” From 1913 to 1924 Dr. Covert was pas tor of the First Presbyterian church of Chicago. His present na tional headquarters are in Phila delphia. Chicago Dramatic Coach To Be Heart! in Reading W. L. Heestand, reader and im personator from Chicago, will give “The Bishop’s Candlestick” from "Les Miserables,” by Victor Hugo at the Sunday evening meeting of the Wesley Foundation. Heestand who was until re cently employed as instructor of history in Elkhart high school, Elkhart, Indiana, and dramatic coach at Trinity Methodist church there, is traveling through the United States presenting religious readings and pageantry as a hobby. He has been highly recommended by those who have attended his performances, Dorothy Nyland, di rector of the Wesley foundation, said. The reading will begin at 6:30. There will be a social hour before the meeting, with Thelma Shuey, social chairman, in charge. -Nt>« Campus Actors Sought For Oiic-Act Productions Tryouts for the Studio plays to i be given this quarter will be held; in the Guild theater today at 4' o'clock. The tryouts, which are! open to everyone, are held for the : purpose of finding new campus actors. The plays are all one act and include: "Pan in Pimlico" by Helen Simpson: “The Intruder" by Mae terlinck: “The Gooseberry Manda rin" in “Plays of American Lite and Fantasy"; "Will o' the Wisp" by Doris Halman; and one of Eu gene O'Neill’s sea plays. There is a special need for a fat! man. tall or short, a thin scrawny j man not very tall aod also several j women characters. CAMPUS ♦ ♦ ALENDAR Mother’s Day committee of 1931 will have Oregana picture taken on east steps of Condon hall at 12:30. Homecoming committee will have Oregana picture taken on the east steps of Condon hall today at 12:40. House managers will meet in front of Condon hall at 12:45 sharp today for Oregana pictures. Mathematics club meets at 12:35 sharp today in front of Condon hall for Oregana pictures. All members be present. Mu Pi Epsilon meets at 12:40 sharp today in front of Condon hall for Oregana pictures. All members be present. Students in graduate school must register before 3 p. m. Fri day, January 15, or pay late reg istration fee. Undergraduates have only until 12 o’clock Saturday, January 16, to add courses or to register in the University. Tryouts for the Studio plays will be held in Guild theater today at 4 o’clock. All interested in act ing are urged to come out. A luncheon in honor of Dr. Cov ert will be given this noon at West minster. All officers of the West minster association have been in vited. Saturday is the absolute dead line for house pictures for the Ore gana. Woman in Her Sphere group of Philomelete will meet Sunday at 4 in the men’s lounge of Gerlinger hall. Tryouts for selection of entrants in remaining speaking contests scheduled for January 21. Any one interested see Mr. Hempstead at speech division. ENGBERG COMPARES EUROPE AND U. S. (Continued from Page One) Europe has developed in the all around sport. The momentum has come from the United States. There is one thing that I would like to see developed here and that is skiing in the proportion that you find it there. There are about two million people in Vienna and at the first snow almost half the population are going skiing. They get much pleasure out of going in large masses on skiing tours, up to the forest in the mountain, to the small challais. “I think that after Paris, Vi enna is probably the greatest cen ter of American activity in Eu rope. There are many medical and music students there.” When asked if he had to choose between America and Europe for a permanent home, Mr. Engberg replied, “I find myself very much at home over there inasmuch as I have command of the language and would find myself content. Though if I were to have to choose between the two, 1 should stay here. “There is one place where their tradition doesn't keep them from what they want. Outside of jazz, which they have received with rather open arms, they favor their own composers. The largest crowds attending performances at any one time saw ‘The Revellers.’ Oper etta is drawing from all Europe the best talent, somewhat to the j chagrin of the opera enthusiasts, j I don't think there is any harm | in a tendency of that sort, it isn't going to hurt operas in the least. Fauber, a great star, is now play ing operettas, but they will go to see him in opera too.” “Is vitaphone tuking the place' of operas?" His answer was, “My thinking doesn't mean so much to that question, because they seem to be! doing it. Of course there is the infinitesmal difference that you do find in the performances, in which! the opera has the advantage. They are made up for on the vita phone side by the fact that the scope of the film is not limited to the stage, the transitions can be' more rapid, the detailed expres sions can be brought close, and in many instances the text can be clarified better.” PLEDGING ANNOl NC EMfciVI’ Delta Gamma announces the pledging of Jean Failing of Port land.* Chairman Stress Buying of Tickets For Krawl Early Reservations for the' Krazy Kopy Krawl, annual dance sponsored by Alpha Delta Sigma, professional advertising fraternity and which is being given tomorrow night at the Cocoanut Grove, should be se cured immediately through organi zation ticket representatives, which are listed elsewhere^ in this issue, or at the College Side, according to an announcement made last night by John Painton and Bob Holmes, co-chairmen. Special ta bles will be reserved for either liv i n g organizations o r private groups, they revealed. Dick Goebel, in charge of decora tions, announced that something plenty new and different would greet those in attendance. “She’ll be decorated from stem to stern,” he vouchsafed in his best nautical style. ‘Not a bare place anywhere” he promised. Slick Jackson, in charge of fa vors, admitted that he had prob ably the finest collection of sou venirs gathered yet. “All of them just the right size to get a good grip on to throw,” he said. "Use ful as well as ornamental.” Francis Mullins, in charge of features, was rabid. “Dancers, chorines, trios, soloists, after din ner speakers — everything — oh lord” and he sunk back in an ec stasy of achievement. Harry Schenk, president of the organization, announced that the committee will meet today only if notified. Religions To Be Diseussetl By Westminster Group John Caswell Presents First Topic Of Term “Mythical Religions of Greece” was the first of the proposed topics on the term project of the West minster men. “Early Rivals of Christianity” is to be discussed Wednesday night. John Edwards Caswell will lead the discussion. Unlike Christianity, early Greek religions had little theology to start, it was pointed out. Chapels were underground and hand-carved out of solid stone; some being large enough to hold 100 people. All meetings were held in secret, and women were not admitted. Some of the Greeks who could af ford it would join several organi zations to make sure their chance to be saved, it was learned from the discussion. MRS. BARKER VISITS CAMPUS Mrs. Burt Brown Barker was a campus visitor Wednesday. She made the trip from Portland to attend the Co-ed Capers, women students’ annual frolic. PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT Pi Kappa Alpha announces the pledging of Bree Cuppoletti of Vir ginia,. Minnesota, and Lloyd Faust of Eugene, Oregon. ‘JOURNEY'S END' HAS EMOTIONAL INTEREST (Continued from Tar/c One) Jack Stipe, playing Hibbert, was particularly good in two scenes in which he was given opportunity to express his feelings that he just couldn't go on. Bob Ferguson, the German soldier, had only one scene, but he did it creditably. Martin Geary, the Colonel, and Ethan Newman, as Captain Har dy, had some good bits. Eldon Woodin, orderly, w a s another member of the cast with but short lines. The scene of the play, laid in a dugout in the British trenches on Monday, March 19, 1918, was cer tainly a monument to the work of the production staff, headed by George L. Andreini, who was as sisted by members of the theatre workshop class. The dugout seemed to the audience to actually reek of bacon smell. It looked cold and rat-infested. The action of the play was a lit tle weak at first, but picked up | after the entrance of Captain Stanhope and continued to improve throughout the play, reaching its1 height in the last act. KRAWL TICKETS FOR EUGENEANS AT ’SIDE’ (Continued from l'age Oned sen: Theta Chi, Parks Hitchcock; Alpha Epsilon, Sam Mushen: Al pha hall, Clark Williams; Gamma hall, Sherry Ross hall and Omega hall. Roy Sheedy: Sigma hill. Ber nard Asheim: Zeta hall. Dick Neu berger; Friendly hall, Steve Kahn. Roger Bailey also announced that any of the representatives selliog ten tickets is entitled to one free ticket. BOOKS OF THE DAY EDITED BY ROY SHEEDY The World of Light. A Comedy in Three Acts. By Aldous Huxley. Doubleday, Doran & Co. By BOB RIDDELL In this first dramatic effort, Huxley tells the smart, mature tale of a human foible. While ob viously below the level of his more ambitious work, it is told amus-1 ingly, simply, and to his credit is I not, as it might so easily have been, a naive venture into impres sionism. He suggests, not too originally perhaps, that it is man's stumbling tendency to supplant reality by a world of illusion. Pos sessed of such an urge is a Mr. Wenham, wealthy bookkeeper of mid-Victorian ideals, who jumbles reality with psychic phenomena and occasional ventures into in decent verse. Hugo, his son, a Cambridge don harrowed by the finite perplexities of academic en deavor, unconcernedly engages himself to a girl he neither loves nor admires. Having blundered into truth in the same uncon cerned manner, he turns tail, goes on a trip of exploration and is re ported dead. His father, imagin ing he’s gotten him on the psychic wires, writes a best-selling book on the phenomena. It is the crowning Huxley irony, that on Hugo’s untimed return into the world of living, it should be more difficult for his family to welcome him than to give up their best selling name, and superstition. This is not a study of moral de linquency, but of confusion, man’s inability to separate reality from illusion. The World of Light is significant; it is Huxley’s reaction from his youthful bombast, his first venture into sane maturity. AGE DISCUSSES SEX Bernard Shaw. By Fran’ Harris. Simon and Schuster. By BOB RIDDELL There’s a dread secret to be found in this book, if in disagree ment with all critical ethics one really opens it. Those double chinned, swivel-chairing columnists of the big city have been raving so blindly about the cute finesse of Shaw’s editing they’ve over looked it. The truth is, Harris, some days before his death, real izing the comparative impotence of his own name, took his pen, stuck Mr. Shaw’s in the upper right hand corner and suavely wrote be low it an amusing autobiography. Harris’s life was not dull, nor is the book; indeed you must be wary to ward off these masters of ballyhoo (plural, because Shaw with his usual good luck got in the last word and tells us what he thinks of his biographer ... at least part). Harris is dead now, but he was banging when he wrote this. Imagine a more amusing sit uation than Harris aged 70, and Shaw two years his senior, dis cussing the sex life. But even these sparse pages dedicated to Shaw are not properly biographi cal, they chalk up another portrait according to the distorted eye of Harris, a dash here and there and that’s that. It was Harris and the Saturday Review that shot Shaw to fame. Shot dead is the verdict of Harris, for he smirks at anyone who falls short of the Harris ideal, and Shaw’s a success, a cardinal breach of the Harris morality. Indeed, it’s the basis of most of his criti cism. Fame bothers Harris; it necessitates a revision of stand ards. In the nineties while Harris, pro fessedly a go-getter, was reorgan izing the Saturday Review, Shaw, meek and shy, blushed into Wil liam Archer, a gentleman with a pull, and being impressed by some thing or other, Archer showed him to Harris. In the columns of the journal Shaw, down and out, was given a break, and a fine job of ballyhoo; so good, indeed, that he soon turned to more lucrative work. He’s a millionaire now with something of a reputation; Harris is dead. But before the last act in his tragedy he scrawled this creed. NEW BOOKS ARRIVE The library announces the ar rival of two more books. “Trails to Innermost Africa,” by G. N. Roerich, is an account of the ex plorations of the Roerich Central Asia expedition which covered a period of five years. The second book, “A Naturalist in Brazil,” by Konrad Guenther, is a record of a year’s observation of the flora, fauna, and people of that country. DALY CLUB TO SELECT ADVISER At a special meeting of the Daly club last night, it was decided to select a member of the faculty to serve as an adviser for the group. A luncheon honoring the new ad viser will be held as soon as he is selected. Oregon Agrees LOOK up at the windows of any fra ternity house these cold days and you'll see that Oregon men smoke, and smoke a lot. You'll see ’em lounging around with a pipe or cigarette during their spare time. On 13th Street . . . along the main drag . . . in the Co-op . . . everywhere the Oregon man goes he takes his pipe and his cigarettes. The majority of men when buying tobacco on the campus trade at the following stores: l NIVERSITY CO-OP COLLEGE SIDE CM VERS IT Y PH A KM AC V OREGON PHARMACY LEMON O PHARMACY THE COTTAGE the emerald
