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EDITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD University of Oregon, Eugene Willis Duniway, Editor Eurry Jackson, Manager Thornton Shaw, Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF Ralph David, Associate Editor Betty Anne Macduff, Editorial Writer Rufus Kimball. Asst, Manatrinj? Editor Jack Bellinger, News Editor .vierjin isiais, jvamo ^ - Roy Sheerly, Lite rary Editor Walt Raker, Sports Editor •JOUR W IK*• BUSINESS STAFF Advertising Mjcr.Harry scnens Assistant Adv. M*rr. Auten Hush Assistant Adv. Mgr.Harney Miller National Advertising M*cr. ..Harold Short Promotional Mgr. Dick Goebel Promotion Assistant Mary Lou Patrick Women’s Specialties Harriette Hofmann Classified Adv. M«r.George Branstator uince .vjaiiHKiT .*»»* . . . .. Executive Secretary.Virginia Kibbee Circulation Manager Cliff I-or<l Assistant Circulation Mj?r. Kd Cross Sez Sue Kathryn LaUKhridsre Sex Sue Assistant Caroline Hahn Checkins? Dept. Mgr. Helen Stinger Financial Administrator Edith Peterson ADVERTISING SCl-ICITORSCaroline Hahn, Maude Sutton, Grant Ihcummc , avr* nice Walo, Bill Russell. Mahr Reymers, Bill Neighbor, Vic Jorgenson, John Vernon. Alathea Peterson, Ray Foss, Elsworth Johnson, Mary Codd, Ruth Osborne, Lee Valentine, Lucille Chapin, Gil Wallin&ton, Ed Messerve, Scot Clodfelter. _ MARKETING DEPARTMENT—Nancy Suomela, executive secretary; Betty Mae Hi«by, Louise Bears. OFFICE ASSITANT—Nancy Archibald. 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, 2800. Cougar Spirit Lies Dying <<TJUTCH meeker,” the tawny cougar emblematic of Wash ington State college spirit, is a mighty sick cat, we hear. Penned up in a little ten by twelve foot cage, unable to get exer cise, “Butch” can only lie still and look out sadly between the bars at a world which denies him his freedom. His appetite is dwindling, and students on the Pullman campus are becoming alarmed lest their mascot die on their hands. While a life with nothing to do but eat and sleep might appeal to many a lazy college student, as the Washington State Evergreen remarks, it most certainly is not to the liking of “Butch.” The cougar by nature is a roaming wild animal, living by its wits, stalking its prey with cunning to survive. Our heart goes out to “Butch Meeker,” a sick cat, broken in spirit, doomed to die in captivity. If Washington State college spirit is to be measured by the cougar’s agility, life and zest, then there most certainly can be nothing but inactivity and boredom at Pullman when “Butch” lies dying in his cage. Let the Washington State college campus build a much larger pen for “Butch” and take better care of him if they feel they must keep their mascot, or better yet let them give him to a zoo where he may have more room to roam about and regain an interest in life. We, too, agree with the Evergreen that while the school is planning to spend 3100,000 on an ice arena, a few hundred dollars at least might be spent for “Butch's” benefit. About Face TF Elmer Pendell’s lecture is a representative sample of the series planned by the free intellectual activities committee, the Emerald must recant and write ‘‘excuse it, please,” across the editorial printed Tuesday under the title, “In Layman’s Tongue.” At least 65 per cent of those present in Guild hall for the lecture were members of the faculty. And we venture the opin ion that very few undergraduates could understand the major portion of the address. We would be the last one on the campus to criticize Dr. Pendell’s paper, or doubt the value of a lecture series, but we frankly feel that the opening lecture shot at a mark much too high. Even Oregon students have their limitations. Bad times at the University of Washington. The feminist movement to elect a woman vice-president of the student body “flopped" when Tekla Aagaard, champion of the cause, withdrew from the race because she was not getting promised support. A new election committee of 30 members, the third to be ap pointed this quarter, has been named. Here at Oregon we have been spared so far the worries of campus politics. Let’s hope they don't break loose for some months. Secretary Stimson will replace Dawes on the American arms delegation at Geneva next month. It is hardly proper to send a brigadier-general to a disarmament conference. Ultra-violet rays of the sun are the cause of organic unrest which is known as spring fever, says a doctor at. the University of Michigan. And of sunburn, too, Doc. We hope the campus chess club’s games are broadcast. The games go so slowly that there would be little description of play, and hence some two hours of comfortable radio quiet. President Hoover and Mrs. Hoover have registered by mail in Santa Clara county, California. Now we're positive that the election is getting closer. So the band men “proved their metal" Sunday, as the re viewer said. What else could a fellow do with a trumpet or trombone or French horn in his hands ? WITH OTHER EDITORS “STl'OKNT AMBASSAOOHS" I An Oregon football team might'■ go to japan or an Oregon mara thon runner might attend the Olympic games in Antwerp with out doing us any more good than merely to bolster up our pride. Football players and runners are, by the very nature of their jobs, inarticulate. They may be good enough speakers, but no one asks them to speak. On the other hand, traveling' debaters are expected to talk, and wherever they go have an opportunity to say something for the state represented. That is why the University ol Oregon team, which returned early this month from a 30,OOO-milc journey through the Pacific basin, has been able to do a decided serv ice. llicy carried the message jt Oregon, and ol' Portland as an im port ant Pacific port, to untoK thousands in the South Sou islands Australia, India, the Philippines China, Japan and the Hawaiiai islands. They traveled and cam paigned for seven months at a to tal cost of $0000 a sum thu would send a football squad out a comparatively few miles. Members of the debate team having arrived home and reluruet to the University, have now re versed their procedure and are tell ing us at home of the peoples an. opportunities across the Pacific They are doing 11 interestingly, a their program this week at tin public auditorium in Portland dem unstinted. Both the "student am bassadors" and the University an to be commended.—Portland Ore Oomau. The Safety Valve An Outlet for Campus Steam All communications are to be ad dressed to the editor, Oregon Daily Emerald, and should not exceed 200 words in length. Letters must be signed, but should the writer prefer, only initials will he used. The editor maintains the right to withhold publi cation should he see fit. ANOTHER AUTOPSY To the Editor: While there are many students undergraduate as well as gradu-; ate, who will agree with “A Grad-' uate Student” in his criticism of some of the faculty members he "suffered under" during his first four years here, there are prob ably just as many who will dis agree with him. He intimates, quite clearly it seems, that the group to which he must give acknowledgment is a very small minority. Could it be possible that he is pessimistic, as many of us are, and exaggerates the shortcomings he sees in oth ers ? To refute his point as to lack of aim, I offer these selected exam ples from personal acquaintance: One instructor has promised that no student whose final examina tion in his course indicates that that student will be a "babe in the woods" when he is confronted with a political panacea similar to the present bi-metalism ballyhoo, will get a passing grade. An aim that I hope he sees fulfilled without using any flunks. Another opened the term by having his students write down what they considered to be the causes of the World war. His aim in the course is to have the stu dents understand the political and economical factors bringing prac tically all nations into the conflict. At least one instructor of a freshman survey course is trying to lead his students to apply the scientific method of approach to problems that confront them. And some seem to be doing it. For creative work, “A Graduate Student” has only to go to the art building to see plenty of it. There students are solving prob lems in domestic, civic and com mercial designing under the in spiration of instructors who ap parently wish to see more livable houses and more useful buildings. In the mathematics, science, lit erature, language and. other groups, the instructors are un doubtedly endeavoring to give the student a background which will aid him in solving problems he will meet later. My work at Oregon State col lege (then Oregon Agricultural college) certainly cannot be “graded as high,” but from it I obtained a talking knowledge of civil and electric engineering that numerous times in the past three years has been useful. From my work here, I have learned to ana lyze political, economical and so cial problems in the light of pres ent day conditions and not that of the conditions in which most of our politicians are mentally living. Could it^ be possible that with "A Graduate Student,” as it is with others of us, his failure to see an aim in those “specimens" under whom he "suffered” is really due to the lack of a well-defined aim in himself? AN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT I’AVN TRIBUTE TO HAUL To the Editor: Rumor was rampant last night carrying the statement that Presi dent Hall had resigned. It is no little wonder that such a rumor was not floating from house top Classified Advertisements Kates Payable in Advance 10c a line for first insertion; Oe a line for each additional insertion. Telephone 3300: local 214 LOST 1 LOST: Green and black Schaeffer fountain pen. Name engraved. Reward. Call Bob Needham, phone 1906. LOST Pair horn rimmed glasses in case between Condon and Old I Library. Call 120. • LOST Brown leather class note I book in men's gym. Initials G A. 1>. on cover. Finder please return to Gordon Day, Ph Kappa Psi, phone 70S. MlSCLLLANLOl S MA.NUSCFU1 ... ... . Experl typing work Ted l’urslcy. Phone 1913-J. Lo house top almost a week ago when the statement was made that the State Board of Higher Educa tion was to consider the possibili ties of combining the Oregon in stitutions under one head, prefer ably an outside man. It is little less of a wonder that the same thing didn't happen months ago when the possibility of a new joint administration was first sug gested. It may be that such a solution to Oregon’s educational problems is inevitable. But if so, may the implications of such sweeping changes not let the Oregon stu dents and faculty look blindly for ward without stopping a moment to grasp thankfully the hand of one who has given everything, health, time, energy, for the Uni versity. To Dr. Hall belongs the utmost of praise. If it IS finally decided that a new head must be found, then let r every Oregon student show in some way the devotion that Dr. Hall has won. Until that time Dr. Hall will remain president of the University of Oregon. He has proved himself far too big a per son to resign at a time like the present. His whole life for over five years has been heart and soul with "our University," and if cir cumstances make necessary the abolition of the office of president of the University, I offer a prayer that Dr. Hall can by some means be retained here. If he does we are certainly the benefactors of a rich heritage. If it can't be so, let us, his stu dents, express to him in every pos sible way the depth of gratitude we feel, and let him know that he is leaving behind a spiritual asset, comparable to his own ideals for us, worth a thousand fold the ma terial gains he has fought for. A STUDENT OREGON ♦ ♦ ♦ GRIPE Talk aboutcha Flaming Youth! Hev a look at this percy morsel we gleaned from Wennsdee’s Emer ald: Graduates and honor students, and embers of the faculty are al lowed access to the stacks as is done in the “open shelf” policy. Mebbc it’s just a coupla old flames that popped up unexpected. FASHION NOTE FOR HELL WEEK: ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR MODES SEEN IN THE LOCAL FRATERNITIES IS A BELT IN THE BACK. IT’S THE DUCDAME INFLUENCE 1 Dawn, steling forth from its deft retreat, Tall, slender, on its sensuous wings, Reveal, yet still conceal, From off mine hungering eyes, The Fern. And I, Wandering in the mist of ! Eternity, Seek not, yet all too soon j Find thin, wan traces of its treach ery. Blazoned, red, upon my Soul. * * as Some scoundrel mailed ua a let iter recently, in which he asks us where we got off writing such foul stuff. He also asked us how any body got so low as to run this dirt market. To which we coyly throw a typewriter at the managing ed. and print the questionnaire they give to all aspirants for this job: l)o you want to write humor? How long have you been crazy that way ? Is your 1. Q. less than two? Is your father an undertaker? If not, why not? What do you think of our Amer ican Women and Sky-Scrapers? W hat do you thin kof Prohibi tion? Have you paid your house bill, you liar? Who was that lady 1 secu you with last night? W eight ? Height ? Neck (Yes or No) ? State criminal record. Other records. (Victor, Bruns wick. etc.) (an you look through a keyhole with both eyes? It not, just how narrow-minded are you? Have you any Scruples? (How much is that in American money?) Who’s your little Hoozit? How are all your folks? KRAMER BEAUTY SALON Also Hair-cutting PHONE ISStI Next to Walora Candies NEW BEGIN NEKS’ BALLROOY1 CLASS Starts Tuesday 8;d0 P. M. MERRICK STUDIOS , obi \\ ilUuiette Phoue dual \ > \ \ TODAY’S POME (Or is it)' Jack and Bill went up the hill For both the boys were Fijis . . . (A wright, you thing up sum thing to rime with Fiji). ALRIGHT. ALRIGHT. DON'T CROWD. WE'LL GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY BACK. CAMPUS ♦ ♦ ALENDAR International Relations club meets tonight at International house, 727 East 13th, at 8 o'clock, to hear John H. Mueller speak on Russia. Everyone interested is welcome. A. W. S. council will meet at the A. W. S. offices at 7:45 tonight. All persons interested in trying out for extempore speaking con tests to be held tonight at Villard are requested to meet in room 8 Friendly hall at 4 p. m. to draw their sub-topics. Please bring your manuscripts. Arts and Craft group of Philome lete meets tonight at 9 o’clock in room 107 Arts building. It is im portant that all members be pres ent. German club meets in front of Condon hall today at 12:30 for •sin^otd Buegaaci Important Phi Mu Alpha meet ing tonight in the Music building at 7. Everyone be there. Christian Science organization will meet tonight at 7:30 at the Y. W. C. A. bungalow. Y. YV. C. A. industrial group will meet tonight at the Y. M. C. A. at 7:30. Jesse H. Bond speaks on the economic order of the new civili zation. Girls wishing to become mem bers of the Y. W. C. A. who have not yet signed membership cards should do so at once at the Y. ‘^Economic Organization for the BOOKS OF THE DAY EDITED BY ROY SHEEDY SULLIVAN HUMOR Broccoli and Old Lace. By Frank Sullivan. Liveright. By JANET FITCH This book is a very distressing one to review, because Frank Sul livan hardly ever ends up on the same subject he started with, and it's hard on anybody to write a sentence without changing the sub ject, after reading “Broccoli and Old Lace.” It's a habit, and it gets you, just like that. | These articles, coming one right after another just as quick as a flash, deal with quite a few things, and mostly sort of mixed up. Frank Sullivan is particularly smart at making something look like maybe a newspaper story, or a book re view, or an editorial, when all the time it is going to turn out that it was a weather report or a Greek tragedy or both. Nobody knows but Frank Sullivan. That’s the confusing thing about it. But after all, what difference does it make? Sometimes it seems as though all along he was intending to con fuse you. By the end you are sure of it. The New Yorker prints Frank Sullivan's stuff, along with Robert Benchley's and James Thurber’s, and Alexander Woolcott’s, and a darn good thing too, because there isn’t anybody that won't, if given the opportunity, enjoy a good hearty laugh. And the more they laugh at it all, the more it hurts; the whole thing is sometimes just too much, as we girls used to say. Too terribly, terribly much. It’s a 4 pretty much magazine, after all, and Frank Sullivan is one of the muchest men writing in America today. At any moment, during "Broccoli and Old Lace,’ ’one is apt to run into a lot of fun. New Civilization" is the topic for the Y. M. C. A. discussion group tonight from 7:30 to 8:30. Profes sor Jesse H. Bond will be the speaker. Phi Beta will hold an important business meeting this afternoon at 5' o'clock sharp at Westminster house. All active members and pledges be present. Music group of Philomelete will hold an important business meet ing at Kappa Delta house at 7:30 today. Alpha Delta Sigma will hold an important meeting today at 4 o'clock in Professor Thacher’s of fice. All members be there. Alpha Gamma Delta announces the pledging of Alvhild Erickson of Rainier, Oregon. Office girls of Y. W. C. A. and A. W. S. please meet at the Y bun galow today at 4:30 for business meeting and tea. Members of Theta Sigma Phi and Gamma Alpha Chi who are helping with registration of press delegates this week-end, see Arne Rae before 2 p. m. today. Sigma Delta Chi pledges meet ing tonight at 7:30 in the Journal ism building. Very important, be there. The expenditure for education in the United States in 1931, as esti mated by the federal office of edu cation, were $3,200,000,000. "BOOT SHOOT!” » criedihe willowy Winona c “And why not, my gal?” demanded Jo sephus Universitas (Joe College), thrust ing his classic chin against her heaving bosom. “Because,” replied Winona, “you will not be annoyed on the campus by his sloppy clothes any longer. He has promised that, if spared, he will change and buy his clothes from Eugene merchants who ad vertise in the Emerald." Good, clothing may be purchased from: De Neffe’s Paul D. Green Eric Merrell McMorran & Washburne Wade Bros. Oregon emerald