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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 EDITORIAL STAFF Ralph David, Associate Editor Jet* Bauer, Dave Wilson, Betty Anne Mac- Dick Ncubergcr, Sports Editor duff. Editorial Writers Merlin Blais, Radio Director Rufus Kimball, Asst, Managing Editor Roy Sheedy. Literary Editor Jack Bellinger, News Editor , „ „T' rancia Fulton, Society Editor Doug Wight, Chief Night Editor DAY EDITORS: George Sanford, Jessie Steele, Virginia Wentz, Sterling Green, Oscar Munster. SPECIAL WRITERS: Wilictta Hartley, Cecil Keealing, Elinor Henry, Thelma Nelson, Esther Hayden. COPYREADERS: Margaret Bean, Allen Holsman, Ralph Mason, Jane Opsund, Elsie Peterson, Bob Patterson. ., REPORTERS: Donald Caswell, Francis Pallister, Julian Prescott, Donald r iclds, Beth .■Bede, Clifford Gregor, Willard Arant, Maximo Pulido, Bob Riddell, Harold Nock, Almon Newton, Carroll Pawson, Bryon Brinton, Parks Hitchcock, Eloiae Dorner, Genevieve Dunlop, Laura Drury. Sam Mushen, .Madeleine Gilbert. SHORTS STAFF: Bruce Hamby, Malcolm Bauer, Joseph Saslavsky. RADIO STAFF: Jack Bauer, Roy McMullen, George Root, Bruce Hamby. NIGHT EDITORS: Les Dunton, Bob Patterson, Myron Ricketts, Clark Williams, Doug. Polivka, ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Barbara Jenning, Catherine Watson, Alice Tcitel baum, Louise Stein, Lenore Greve, Adele Hitchman, Desmond Hill. Wallace Douglas, Marion Robbins, Mary Teresi, Deljiha Hurlburt, Peggy Newby, Evelyn Schmidt. awu. BUSINESS STAFF Advertising Mgr.Harry Schenk A«iistant 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 .Marian rienaerson Executive Secretary.Virginia Kibbee 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 yoiUlSi AnsioiAiN in—neiene rerrm, 11,11.. Louise Bears, Cordelia Dodson, Louise Kice, Betty-Mae Higby. ADVERTISING SOLICITORS—Caroline Hahn, Maude Sutton, Grant Theummel, Ber 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 Wellington, Ed Messerve, Scot Clodfelter. MARKETING DEPARTMENT—Nancy Suomela, executive secretary ; Betty Mae Higby, Louise Bears. OFFICE ASSISTANT—Nancy Archbold. SECRETARIES: Josephine Waffle, Betty Duzan, Marguerite Davidson._ The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, ouring the college year. Member of the Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates, $2.60 a year. Advertising rates upon application. Phone, Manager: Office, Local 214; residence, 2800. The Red Mill Stopped Tj'MULATING Don Quixote of old, “Kid Depresh” tackled a windmill. But unlike the Spanish adventurer, the modern warrior won the tilt. Yesterday wc learned the outcome. The Junior class would-be production of “The Red Mill’’ has been cancelled. It is to be regretted that the juniors could not test their idea that a musical show would be a more suitable contribution to the year’s round of festivities than the annual vod-vil. But the class, through its leaders, has not allowed enthusiasm and class pride to be overcome by common sense, which in this case ruled that an audience or audiences sufficiently large to pay for either a musical comedy or vod-vil could not be obtained , in these (excuse it) hard times. Rather than attempt a show which at best could only break even, the class will bend its combined efforts to making its Junior Week-end a high point in its history. Necessity of abandoning thetfnusical comedy this year should not keep classes in the future from considering the idea seriously. Experience has shown the vod-vil obsolete. The new plan is surely worthy of a try by third-year classes in following years. Unorthodox Appointments rr-qilS YEAR’S Senior ball committee deserves the heartiest A congratulations, partly for providing a good dance at less than-budget expense, but more particularly for contributing a strong point in support of the case for student self-government. ’Thirty-two achieved the effect without the expense. And it was, the Emerald is inclined to believe, largely due to the absence of campus politics from appointments which brought this situa tion about. Senior ball appointments are a large part of the class presi dent’s “pork” with which he repays his campaign supporters. Every house wants to place a member on the committee. Yet here we have a case in which the class president appoint ed a man as chairman simply because that man was fitted for the job. How extraordinary. This appointee's house was not on the Wilson band wagon in class elections. Allen’s only quali fication was his fitness for the job. And the chairman, too, violated the boobish traditions of local politics in failing to appoint Wilson’s supporters. Ilorribile dirtu, he appointed among others, one of the defeated presiden tial candidates. Besides being a former political foe of Wilson. Barendrick also was capable of handling the ticket sales, and therefore doubly unworthy of the appointment. Other appointments were handled in the same unorthodox manner. Allen failed to recognize the importance of politics. The result was a good dance without cost to the taxpayers. The most severe criticism of student self-government has been that student activities run by students are excessively ex pensive, demand too much time for their relative importance. Now comes a case in which a student affair was handled by students without resort to involved campus politics, without running into a great deficit, and without taking the attention of the committeo members entirely from their pursuit of an edu cation. And it was a good dance, too. What are our sorority women going to do for spring-term dates now that campus candidates are no longer interested in buying their support? Have you heard about the fuzzy frosh who read of the can cellation of "The Red Mill" and thought that another night club had been scratched off the list? 9 nmmiHi!.. ‘ m.. mill;,ilia.m ■ • w -m BE ASSURED OF THE BEST —DEMAND Gold Medal Ice Cream Grade-A Quality PUT UP IX ATTRACTIVE COLOR COMBINATIONS Delightful Flavors — Drivks and Hulls PHONE 3<J3 Medo-Land Creamery Co. vWLallluii,. „;i, ,ii' ....... .;**., . . OREGON ♦ GRIPE \ OUR IDEA OF A FINANCIAL WIZARD IS A GUY THAT IN STALLS BLEACHERS FOR THE HENDRICKS HALL FIRE DRILLS. * * * PUNCTUATION POTERY .Johnny did a-woolng go, To see his red hot mamma, Her father made a - for him Now Johnny’s in a , . # * * ED GOODNOUGH, THE TYCOON, WAS SEEN WEARING A BURLAP SHIRT. AT WHICH ANNIE! CHORTLES, "HEMP, HEMP, HOORAY.” ’ * * * OREGON DISCOURTESY BOOK By PARSUL POST * * CHAPTER IV The Theater 1. If you have seventy cents, take lower floor seats. If you haven't that much, pick up stubs from lobby. If you happen to be a human fly, you can shinny down a radiator pipe to get downstairs. 2. Always come in after the show has started, whistling, and, if you haven’t a good voice, sing. This will take the folks’ mind off the show, which is probably no good anyway, and give you a lotta free publicity. 3. Mussing the hair of the per son in front of you while taking your seat is a delicate ail. True skill is attained when the person turns in his seat and bawls you out audibly. (Some fun, hey, boy?) 4. In each newsreel, watch care fully for political speakers and give them the bird, all except those ad vocating the return of light wines and beer. Whistle, stomp, and cheer, not that you agree with them, £ut it sounds great and makes your gal think you are a rounder. 5. If you are in a row of eight seats, in seat two, always go out on the aisle farthest away. This is lots of fun, as the folks that stand up for you block the view of the entire theatre, and doubles the ___ Classified Advertisements Rates Payable in Advance 10c a line for first insertion; 5c a line for each additional insertion. Telephone 3300; local 214 MISCELLANEOUS CAMPUfTsHOE REPAIR Quali ty work, best of service; work that is lasting' in service. 13th between Alder and Kincaid. NEW BEGINNERS’ BALLROOM CLASS Starts Tuesday—8:30 I’. M. MERRICK STUDIOS 801 Willamette Phone 3081 ~~KRAMER'BEAUTY SALON Also Hair-cutting PHONE 1880 Next to Walora Candies chances to get in a fight about mussing up people’s hair. G. If none of these get you thrown out, you can always leave. A RADIO NEWS REPORTER! T'OTHER NIGHT SAID THE SHANGHAI GESTURE IS DROP PING BOMBS. % * * | Which brings us around to the old dance marathon song, “Strain on the Hoof.” * * * AND WILL SOME HELPFUL SOUL VOLUNTEER TO TELL US WHY WOMEN’S OVERCOAT BELTS ALWAYS ARE LONG ENOUGH TO DO TWO LAPS AROUND THE AVOIRDUPOIS? (That’s a five dollar word, out on account of the depresh, you can have it for three ninety-eight; aw right three bucks, even.) Boyoboyoboy! cornin’ inta the last turn of our sentence. Any body wot wants this job fill out the application blank for the W. C. T. U., pass the Boy Scout sec ond class test, then give up. If you’d do this, there’s no hope for yull. •doous ujbp noA 'noA uo jpu} UT33UI AjaA-Aj3A V Al3[d pjnOAV 9AV mSnoqi da\ os ‘ino Slip) n;j 01 qoui jamouB papaau isnf om FOUR RUSSIAN SINGERS BRING STIRRING STORY (Continued from Page One) possessions, their steps literally wending through the blood of slain relatives and friends, they man aged to leave Russia. It was not long until their fame spread through western Europe and on January 7, 1928, they made their American debut at Town Hall, ; New York. In four seasons before ; the American public the Kedroffs | have won a triumph which rivals their conquest of the music world I of Europe. Oregon students will be admitted free to the Kedroff concert, upon presentation of their student body cards. Admission prices for others are fifty cents for reserved seats and twenty-five cents for general admission. The reserved seat sale will open at the Co-op and McMor ran & Washburne's today. SOCIAL CONTROL PLEA MADE BY DR. LAIDLER (Continued from Page One) cent dole in our breadlines and sim ilar relief.” Mr. Laidler is executive director of the League for Industrial De mocracy and author of two text books used on this campus. He was brought to Eugene by the Y. M. C. A., Congress club, Alpha Kappa Delta, sociology honorary, and two groups of the Y. W. C. A. SP DOLLAR DAYS! OVER WASHINGTON S BIRTHDAY For the Washington’s Birth day holidays (a 3-day week end), we will again slash roundtrips to all places on our Pacific Lines to approxi mately 1^ a mile ($1 for each 100 miles). Treat yourself to a holi day trip! It is cheaper to travel than to stay at home. These tickets are strictly First Class, good on all trains, coaches or Pullmans. A FEW SAMPLE ROUNDTRIPS: A FEW SAMPLE ROUNDTRIPS Portland .$2.30 Salem . 1.40 Medford . 4.45 Klamath Falls . .... 4.95 Los Angeles $21.90 San Francisco .... 13.50 Marshfield . 3.55 Seattle . 6.25 •T-aa Southern; FRANK G. LEWIS Ticket Agent, Southern Pacific company Eugene, Oregon Phone _.UU i I Laidler Listed for Talks to Classes At 9, II o’Clock LASSES in public utilities, A editing, and trade policies of the Pacific will meet together in 105 Journalism at 9 o'clock this morning to hear a talk by Harry W. Laidler, executive director of the League for In dustrial Democrecy, Calvin Crumbaker, associate professor of economics, announced last night. Mr. Laidler will also address the classes in trusts and com binations, and labor organiza tions at 11 o’clock in room 3, Education building. CAMPUS ♦ ♦ ALENDAR Physical Education club meets Thursday evening in Alumni hall at 8 o’clock, according to an an nouncement made by Vera Snow, president of the club, last night. All P. E. majors and minors are requested to be there. Very impor tant. Phi Mu Alpha meeting tonight at 7:00 o’clock in the Music build ing. Very important. All members be there. Kappa Sigma announces the pledging of Lester Jacobs, of Eu gene. The Grace Lutheran University club will meet Thursday evening, February 11, 7:30-10 at the par sonage, 1065 Ferry street. Group discussion, entertainment, and re- ' freshments will be on the program. Mr. Fred Gieseke is in charge of the entertainment. The girls who work in the P. E. department can get their pay checks between 9:00 and 9:30 a. m. and 1:00 and 1:30 p. m. today at the P. E. office. Mr. Alfred Herman of Antwerp, Eelgium, wlil speak tonight at a meeting of Pi Delta Phi at the home of Louis M. Myers at 1039 East 21st street. All members please be there. “Education in the New Civiliza tion” is the topic for the Y. M. C. A. discussion tonight. Dr. Nel son L. Bossing will be the leader. Both men and women are invited. House managers will meet this afternoon at 4 o'clock in room 110, Johnson hall. Christian Science organization will meet tonight at 7:30 at the Y. W. C. A. bungalow. Y. W. C. A. World Fellowship group meets tonight at 9 o’clock at the bungalow. Prose and Poetry group of Philomelete meets tonight from 9 to 10 at the Zeta Tau Alpha house. The German club will meet at the Westminster house tonight at 8 o’clock. All German students in terested are invited to attend. Beta Lambda will hold a meet ing at 103 Deady tonight at 7:30. All biology majors are cordially invited. G. A. Ross will speak. Woman in Her Sphere, Prose and Poetry, and Nature group members who plan to attend the BOOKS OF THE DAY EDITED BY ROY SHEEDY WAR ON WAR BOOKS Post-Mortem, A Play. By Noel Coward. By BOB RIDDELL Throughout Post-Mortem, Cow ard smiles at the war book. Yet in this play he himself has pro duced but a mediocre addition to that very category. With the pub lication of Henri Barbusse’s “Un der Fire” contemporary literature reached new heights of honest realism, and it would be ignorant to say the recent efforts of Zweig and Remarque were written with more than one eye on the best selling lists. Coward, however, se riously pokes fun at them, predict ing that “sometime someone will j go too far and say something that's really true” (about the war). In Post-Mortem he gives his ver-1 sion of that effort. He develops a smart plot and does sophistically sharp things that the others, less dance tomorrow night meet at the Y. W. C. A. bungalow at 12:30 to day to exchange dances. Hermlan club meeting tonight at 9:15 in the club room. Crossroads meets tonight at 7:30 in the Men’s lounge at Gerlinger hall. Ben Whitesmith will lead the discussion with “Remarks on Communism” as his topic. Eats. Oregana pictures for the Ger man club will be taken at 4:00 this afternoon in front of Condon. Tonqueds will meet in front of Condon hall at 12:40 today for Oregana picture. conspicuously revealing (though more sincere) had forgotten. The brand is apparent: young suicide, smiling boys at the front, and the invariable devilish millionaires up in London. Even in his most tan gling efforts to dodge the label “war book," and he tries hard, Coward is not convincing. The plot defends the hypothesis that in every man's life the scene must be exposed unprejudicedly real for one lucid moment, a sort of God’s-eye-view. Post-Mortem tells of that time in the life of a young Britisher, who during his dying moments is allowed to see the London of 1930. In the best post-war manner it is made insane, ugly, brutal. It is only because we hope it's all a vision that the story is acceptable. Our hero (a term objectionable to Coward and his ilk) visits his father, mother, “bud dy,” and sweetheart. The father turns out to be an unintentional caricature of the money-baron typ ical of the literature of disillusion; his mother weepy, sentimental, wronged; his “buddy” an artiste suicide, and his sweetheart an in veterate yawner. Most of the scenes would make worthy addi tions to the work of John Riddell in his less lucid moments. Though Coward's serious and adopts a sort of elevated attitude of semi-con sciousness, he attempts to describe I real and tragic circumstances. Maeterlinck and Mencken don't mix. The author does not differ entiate between satire and reality. That he may all the time be laugh ing at us and making an admirable I joke of the less enlightened war I book is the only hope for Post j Mortem. He’s adapted an impor i tant theme, done a second rate job, but it’s quite readable. John Held Jr "BOOT SHOOT!’ (sT^a, cried flte willowy Winona<iXe> “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. state Oregon emerald