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University of Oregon, Eugene
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Thank You, Mr. Baker
\ N Order of the “O” man, Walt Baker, comes to the defense
of that august body today with a communication, which,
due to our previous acquaintance with the writings of the afore
said Mr. Baker, we are glad to receive and consider, yet are
prone to take lightly.
Let our correspondent be answered. Editorials in the Em
erald—and it is the common practice in the newspaper world—
have always been unsigned.
For the four years we have been associated with the Em
erald, the paper, under a succession of leaders, has always op
posed the "library steps” hacking sessions. Its suggested rem
edy has always been abolition. Let Mr. Baker know that had
the Order abolished the “steps” Wednesday night the Emerald
would have replied with the highest praise of their action. Un
fortunately, the Order changed its mind. We followed suit.
The tone of our correspondent's communication appears to
indicate that there is a crying need for ENFORCEMENT of
traditions. Webster defines a tradition as “a custom which has
prevailed, as from generation to generation.” Have our "tradi
tions” ceased to be traditions, so that they must be enforced
at the end of a paddle?
Mr. Baker expresses righteous indigination at the fact that
the Emerald has not decided "whether it is for or against tradi
tions.” That is easily answered. The Emerald is for any tradi
tion which it feels is constructive, but the "library steps” do
not fall in this classification.
And, in closing, let me say (this is Willis Duniway writing,
Mr. Baker) write us again some time.
From Good-Will To 'War’
rpwo of the University's good-will ambassadors, the Pacific
"*■ basin debaters, have registered in school, and will take up
their scholastic training where they left off last May.
One, Roger A. Pfaff, has enrolled in advanced military train
ing.
At first glance, this was a blow to an idealistic conception
of him. Last spring he was awarded many prizes as the author
of essays and orations on world peace and disarmament. Since
that time he has seen much of thfiS’world. He has traveled in
the great ulcer of world stability today- Manchuria, China, anil
Japan. Surely he had the opportunity to learn the foolishness
of war as an implement of national policy.
Yet Pfaff has enrolled in advanced military training. He will
study more intensively how the instrument of war may be used.
However, after a discussion with Mr. Pfaff, the idealistic
conception was restored to its balance. His contact with tho
sore spot of today’s civilization has merely tempered his ideals -
not destroyed them.
He no longer dreams of a situation in which the world's na
tions will live in brotherly love. In the antipodes he saw trade
barriers being thrown up retaliatory to American tariffs. In
China he saw barbed-wire barriers being thrown up retaliatory
to Japanese invasion.
He has learned something of the way the wheels of the world
actually run. He has been disillusioned of the dream that men
can live, at the present time, in perfect peace and brotherly
love.
He has learned that many governments of the world cannot
control their own activities that Japanese war lords defy the
civil government, that Chinese soldiers plunder their own people
on the march.
He has reasoned that total disarmament is not possible until
the governments of the world are stable and controllable. While
still clinging firmly to the premise that much of the present
world armament is wasteful, he recognizes that some of that
armament is needful. A machine gun on every housetop would
be wasteful; but a lock on the front door is a necessity.
So Pfaff has signed up for advanced military training. He
has acquired wisdom in his travels. The ideals of the classroom
are gone, and in their place has come a practical outlook on
affairs which is still, somehow, coupled with a hopefulness and
confidence in the future that merits the heartiest approval and
congratulation.
Three Times Daily
'UK young woman who smiled o'ut at us from the advertise
ment on the page was very attractive, and our hand paused
in its rapid run through the magazine. There was a soft light
on the young lady's face, her eyes were closed, and her lips
slightly parted. We thought at first she was about to be kissed,
and looked elsewhere on the page for the man to do the deed.
But we were wrong. She was trying to whistle. And she
didn't look at all moronic for you surely remember the remark
the eastern college professor dropped some time ago that all
persons who whistled were morons. Interested, we read the ad.
The young lady', we found, was telling women beauty seekers
to whistle from two to five minutes every day "to keep lovely
lips kissable.” That was a new one on us.
What a host of things the various ads would have us do every
day! W hy, if we did them ail, we might never get anything
else accomplished. We are to do setting-up exercises every’
morning, cat three yeast cakes a day, brush our teeth and mas
sage our gums thrice daily, gargle with this or that the same
number of times, pause some time during the afternoon and
refresh ourselves, cat an apple a day to keep the doe away,
chew gum after every meal, smoke such and such a brand of
cigarettes regularly, drink orange juice . . .
Ihiee times daily—the words are fast becoming a : lugaii of
American life.
OREGON ♦
,♦ ♦ GRIPE
IN REGARD TO THESE YAR
NEW AUTOMATIC PHONES
THEY'VE PUT IN THE MEN’S
DORM, WE SUGGEST THIS
SLOGAN: “I'D DIAL FOR DEAR
OLD SHERRY ROSS.’’
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0ClAL PRESTi
m
S3
And now, with malicious, crimi
nal, half-hearted, half-witted fore
thought, we present our latest
atrocity. This is in direct comp
with Dull and Staggers and the
hoys in the back room.
the
OREGON DISCOURTESY
BOOK
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by PARSUL POST
Introduction
To create at Oregon the Sing
Sing type of man, and the Poker
Nell type of woman, absolutely of
proper conduct and a darned nui
sance at all times is the purpose
of this little guide.
Round I
The Introduction.
1. The man should always be
presented to the woman. This is
with the exception of Slug Pal
mer.
Example: “Hey, Susie, Thissis
Joe.”
2. Kicking the lady in the shins,
sifting ashes in her face or slap
ping her on the back while being
presented are looked upon with
disfavor by many.
3. If the gentleman is wearing
a hat, he -should remove it. If he
was wearing no hat, the lady
should remove hers. Somebody’s
gotta do it.
4. If you are being introduced
to a Pi Kap, be careful nut to
shake hands. Permament disabil
ity has often resulted '"'iii *hls
fox pass.
5. When meeting others, al
ways put your breath beyond susp
-oh, pardofi us.
6. When a number of people are
to be introduced, the last one to
meet everybody is the nigger
baby.
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THIS GREAT BIG NEWSY
CAMPI . . . The Delts are raisin
wuppeh about the new buzzer sys
tem installed . . . Noble Jr. is far
ing fine, thank you . . . Jupe Pres
cott, and his C Sax pipe . . . At
MeKelligon, his limp . . . Cay Me
Vey, and her "Bouncing Baby” ap
ple pie . . . here's another Lucretia
i—
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Borgia in. the making . . . she was
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in search of borrowed funnygraft
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about the libel suit Norblad
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“Do they have two basketball
games so they can seat every
body?” . . . (Authentic) . . . our
futile attempts to explain the
phenomena . . . the best improve
ment we have to offer on the Libe
steps sitchiation is bleachers for
the upperclassmen.
Here’s a hotcha for you blokes
to mull over. Little Irwin sneaked
it into our stack of papers a week
ago come Chewsday, and as we’re
short on idees this mawnin, comb
this outta yer beard:
Innpintariss
Innokesnoniss
Innmudcelslss
Inclaynonniss
Say it fast, and maybe you’ll
get it. Answer tamorra.
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Cat ’n’ Dog-gerel.
My dream gal may be homely,
With a face like a canned sardine
To these eyes of mine, she is di
vine,
For slie drives a V-16.
CAMPUS ♦ ♦
ALENDAR
Theta Sigma Phi luncheon for
women at the press conference will
be held at noon today at the Green
Lantern.
Professor II. C. Howe, of the
English department, will give a
reading Sunday at 7:30 in alumni
hall of the Gerlinger building.
Skull and Dagger meeting at
College Side at 4:15 Friday after
noon. It is very important that ev
ery member be there.
House managers for fraternities
will meet today in front of Condon
at 12:40 for Oregana pictures.
House managers for sororities
Tonight
sh;\ Ol'T FROM Till’.
HOI'sK AND TP IN’ i s.
DINNERS THAT ARE
Dl FEE RENT . . . WITH
FOOD THAT IS DELI
CIOUS.
Ye?-. your friend* will In
fouud here!
Lee Duke’s
sororities will meet today at 12:30
in front of Condon for Oregana pic
tures.
Members of the George Wash
ington’s Birthday party committee
will meet at the Faculty club today
at 4 o'clock to discuss arrange
ments.
Phi Theta Upsilon members and
[ group presidents, must be in the
woman’s lounge at Gerlinger hall
at 4 o’clock Sunday for Philome
lete initiation, dressed in white.
Philomelete members who are to j
be initiated Sunday should be in
: the sun room at Gerlinger hall at
least five minutes before time
scheduled for group initiation.
The class in piano pedagogy, un
der Mrs. Jane Thacher, will meet
on scheduled time at 4 o’clock on
Friday in the ensemble room,
school of music.
I
I
BAKER DEFENDS “ORDER”
I To the Editor:
j Came yesterday another criti
| cism of the Order of the “O”—
! their shortcomings, faults and mis
j steps. Always when such destruc
tive criticism appears in the Em
erald, it is unsigned. Whether the
writer, feeling his views to be in
the minority, invariably holds out
his name, or he is ashamed to have
himself associated with some of
the spurious trash, is perhaps be
side the point.
What IS pertinent, however, is
why all the panning when not one
single solitary suggestion for the
betterment of existing conditions
ever finds its way into the edito
rial columns of the Emerald. It
seems that the attitude of the fire
and vinegar journalists’ thought
less and unwarranted drivel print
ed against the Order is all “con”
i with no backing outside of a
| flim'sy personal prejudice. Why
| don’t these same writers get their
, heads (or head) together in a con
I structive effort to sanely suggest
| a remedy, if such be needed ?
In all probability, if the Order
j of the “O” had voted to discon
! tinue the Libe Steps, some
thoughtless rattlebrain would put
in with an article condemning
them for the destruction of one of
i Oregon’s oldest traditions. It
[ seems to run that way—the Order
j does something; and the Emerald
j is all against it—and with no sug
| gestions for betterment.
Perhaps some day the Emerald
will decide whether or not it is for
or against traditions, so that the
service organizations and the Let
termen’s club, who are honestly
trying to build up rather than tear
down, will be able to accomplish
something. It is generally the
people that decry the most force
fully that do the least to improve.
WALT BAKER
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 be used. The editor
maintains the right to withhold publi
cation should he see fit.
CO-OP REPORT SHOWS
FALL IN 1931 BUSINESS
(Continued from Page One)
“Although we were unable to
add to our capital through profits,
we have reduced our stock of mer
j chandise, and have in this way re
| duced our outstanding indebted
ness by approximately $4000 dur
ing the year.
“The store now is in the best
financial condition it has ever been
in.”
I From 1930 to 1931, total sales
I fell off 11 1-2 per cent. Among
| the five departments of the store,
! textbook sales suffered least, drop
ping only 2 per cent. This is the
department which does by far the
I largest volume of business. In
1931, the sale of textbooks amount
ed to $36,045.
Athletic Goods Suffer
Sales of athletic goods suffered
most, with a drop of 27 per cent.
Compared with 1930 figures, the
business of the five departments
fell off as follows:
Textbooks .2 per cent
Stationery ..20 per cent
General books.11 per cent
I Athletic goods .. 27 per cent
Candy, cigarettes, and
drug sundries. 12 per cent
No salary cuts have been made.
McClain reported. The staff of the
store had been reduced from seven
to six, and now consists of Mc
Clain. who receives $3300 per year,
and five other persons working full
| time, at an average salary of
$102.50 per month. In addition to
j these salaries. $1935 was paid to
students for part time help in 1931.
Since October 1. 1931. the terms
ot lu^ contract have entitled Me
Clain to an increase in salary of 1
$25 per month, which he has not
taken, in view of the present slump.
Salaries Big Item
The four biggest items of over
head expense for the Co-op as
shown in McClain’s report, are:
Salaries.$950 per month
Rent.$250 per month
Insurance .$90 per month
Advertising.$90 per month
Forecasting 1932, McClain looks
for continued falling prices, and
consequently another lean year for
the Co-op. He said:
“I can see little or no prospect
of making any profit for the year
1932, because we expect still fur
ther decline in prices on the mer
chandise which we have on hand.
“We expect, also, further de
cline in our volume of business,
due to both the decrease in enroll
ment and to lack of funds on the
part of the students.”
The University Co-op is owned
entirely by the student body of the
University of Oregon. It is a coop
erative association, organized un
der the state laws of Oregon. It
is not connected in any way with
the A.' S. U. O. organization, but
is a separate corporation, of which
each student is a member.
Launched 11 years ago with no
capital, the Co-op now has a net
worth of $33,000.
The corporation is governed by a
board of directors known as the
Co-op board, consisting of five stu
dents, elected annually by the stu
dent body, and two members of
the faculty. Its present personnel
is as follows:
Wally Baker, president; Ralph
Walstrom, Ethan Newman, Doro
thy Illidge, George Turner, Dean
James H. Gilbert, and Dean David
E. Faville.
At the annual Co-op meeting, in
the first part of May, any or all
members of the Oregon student
body will be given an opportunity
to inspect the complete audited
records of their corporation, Baker
announced.
PIANIST MAKES MODEL
PLANES IN WORKSHOP
(Continued from Page One)
low-wing monoplane with a 40-inch
wing spread. This ship has flown
about three times the height of
Mr. Hopkins’ house after taking
off, and when gliding the propellor
keeps idling until the ship makes
a landing. Another interesting
model is exceedingly light and has
a 30-inch wing spread. It is pro
pelled by rubber and flies about
400 feet after taking off, and when
landing on its small rubber wheels
runs gracefully along upon the
ground.
The latest product of the pian
ist’s skill is featured by air wheels.
These wheels are made of rubber
balls from the “five and ten.’’ One
of Mr. Hopkins’ favorites, however,
and one of his prettiest planes, is a
Lockheed-Vega scale model which
does not fly, but occupies a per
BOOKS OF THE DAY
EDITED BY ROY SHEEDY
AFTER Ht.'LEY
The First Mrs. Fraser. By St. John
Ervine. Macmillan.
By BOB RIDDELL
Thank the Lord we’ve at last
stumbled on a sophisticated volume
that is neither malicious nor un
necessarily prophetic. Indeed,
while pages of “The First Mrs.
Fraser” are pure Huxley, Ervine
tempers it with much candid il
lusion and humor that applause is
inevitable. This adaptation of the
successful drama loses none of the
original's charm and spontaneity;
Ervine at times deviates into a
sort of prose poetry, some episodes
are smart-aleck, but ultimately the
book is to be remembered as the
sane and kindly story of a middle
aged woman, and a middle-aged
man whom she had once married
and still loved.
It is to Mr. Ervine’s credit that
the characters about whom the
tale revolves have their foibles, yet
remain charming and likeable to
the end. Mr. Fraser is a blustery
Scotchman, who through two mar
riages fails to learn the true na
manent hangar—a space upon Mr.
Hopkins’ Steinway in his studio.
None of his ships have flown at
the initial trial, Mr. Hopkins ex
plained, but he perseveres until
his patience is rewarded by seeing
his creations take to the air and
sail through space as graceful as
the flight of a bird. And in talking
with Mr. Hopkins one gathers from
his enthusiasm that he derives a
satisfaction in a sense similar to
the creation of a musical number
of his own composition. Indeed, as
Mr. Hopkins views it, it is not such
a far cry from the technical exe
cution of a difficult musical piece
to the making of an intricate me
chanical device.
“The craftsmanship, the tech
nique and the painstaking detail
which are required for fashioning a
thing of wood and paper that will
fly through the air,” he said, “are
closely allied to the technique nec
essary for the performance of a
musical composition in an artistic
manner.”
He said that undoubtedly he
would have turned to mechanical
construction for a livelihood if his
aptitude and passion for music had
not proved to be the stronger.
“For as long as I can remem
ber,” he said, “I’ve liked to plan,
fashion and construct every sort
of device that has to do with trans
portation.”
One of the biggest thrills of his
life, he said, was when he attend
ed the first airplane meet in Los
Angeles in 1910 and saw Glen Cur
tiss, one of the most famous of the
American pioneers in aviation. The
ture of woman. When worried by
his second wife he bizarrely con
fides in the first Mrs. Fraser, who
manages affairs competently after
that. His sons, one an ultra-smart
unbelieving young Cambridge boy,
the other a dull, stodgy, business
man, afford more than some humor
with their ridiculous conceit and
seriousness. Of the Fraser wives,
the first is in her middle fifties,
the second young, beautiful and
very stupid.
Amusing among the numerous
incidents, is that of the first Mrs.
Fraser’s journey with her sons,
from an artistic, modern, play
house (whose plays invariably had
first scenes in a brothel to a sty
lish night-club, where she was sur
prised to notice that it was the
habit of modish persons not to
laugh.
In the Huxley manner, we are
introduced to an argument be
tween a lover and his love, on the
art of Jacob Epstein. For the rest,
Mr. Ervine exposes humanity hu
morously, but as devastatingly as
the most vitriolic work of the
youngsters.
French flier, Farman, was also on
the scene. “I was just a youngster
then,” he said, “and probably few
boys at that time thought of trying
to make airplanes as a pastime,
but I went straight home and be
gan at once to make planes. Need
less to say,” he laughed, “those
early models did not fly as suc
cessfully as the more recent ones.”
It was not until two years ago,
when Mr. Hopkins was helping a
neighbor’s boy to put together a
monoplane from a miniature avia
tion set, that the urge came upon
him to experiment on his own ac
count, and he is still at it, much
to the great delight of all the boys
and a goodly number of the small
girls in his neighborhood.
Little Beverly, Mr. Hopkins’ 5
year-old daughter, already shows a
decided preference for making
things with tools to playing with
dolls, and strangely, so far, she has
displayed a complete indifference
in the piano as an instrument of
music.
There was rather a wistful look
on Mr. Hopkins’ face when he took
down from a shelf in his workshop
a sailboat with a torn sail and a
broken mast and rigging. Such a
proud and perfectly made little
sailing model, gay with red and
white paint.
“Mrs. Hopkins,” he explained,
“was distracted one day for some
thing to amuse our'2-year-old son.
What chance has even a very stur
dy sailboat or one that has partici
pated in happier days in many a
sailboat race in California—at the
mercy, finally, of even a very small ‘I
The Truth!
“ALL OF US OVERLOOK GOOD THINGS PART OF THE TIME, AND
A LOT OF US OVERLOOK THEM ALL OF THE TIME.”
A successful Eugene merchant called this to our attention
the other day when we were talking to him about adver
tising.
“Many of those who read current advertising in the papers
are apt to jeer at phrases such as
Lowest Prices in 15 Years
and
A New Low in ValueS
The funny part of it is the fact that such statements are
true!
“Never in the history of our business have prices been so
lo wand quality so high. My advice is-buy now and
save money later!”
And that is what we say, too. Current advertising of the
Oregon Daily Emerald gives you tips on real values and
where to buy. The Emerald is read by 3000 moderns
whose buying power is over two million dollars a year.