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EDITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD ■ — ■■■ p ■ — i mmm — ■— ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ — ■ ■ ■■ ■— ■■ i — » «■ •* ■ ■■ ■ > ■■ ■ ■■■ —' — —1 ■ — m m **" d EDITORIAL OFFICES, Journalism Bid*. Phone 3300—News Room, Local 355; Editor and Managing Editor, Local 364. BUSINESS OFFICE, McArthur Court. Phone 3300—Local 214. University of Oregon, Eugene Willis Duniway, Editor I^arry Jackson, Manager Thornton Shaw, Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF Ralph David, Associate Editor, Stephen Kahn, Assistant Editor Jack Bauer, Dave Wilson, Betty doff. Editorial Writers Rufus Kimball. Asst, Managing Jack Bellinger, News Editor Anne Mac Editor Dick JNounorKer, sports senior Merlin Blaui, Radio Director Roy Sheedy, Literary Editor Francis Fulton, Society Editor Doug Wight, Ghlel wight tuiior DAY EDITORS: George Sanford, Jessie Steele, Virginia Wentz, Sterling Green, Osca: Munger. SPECIAL WRITERS: Wiiietta Hartley, Cecil Keesling, Elinor Henry, Thelma Nelson, Esther Hayden. GOPYREADERS: Margaret Bean, Allen Holsman, Ralph Mason, Jane Opsund, Elsie PeterBon, Bob Patterson. REPORTERS: Francis Pallister. Julian Prescott, Donald Fields, Beth Bede, Clif ford Gregor, Willard Arant, Bob Riddell, Harold Nock, Almon Newton, Carroll Paw son, Bryon Brinton, Parks Hitchcock, Eloise Dorner, Genevieve Dunlop, Laura Drury, Sam Mushen, Madeleine Gilbert, Victor Dallaire. SPORTS STAFF: Bruce Hamby, Malcolm Bauer, Joseph Saalavsky. RADIO STAFF: Jack Bauer, Roy McMullen, George Root. Bruce Hamby. NIGHT EDITORS: Les Dunton, Bob Patterson, Myron Ricketts, Doug. Polivka, Wal lace Douglas. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Barbara Jenning, Catherine Watson, Alice Teltel baum, Louise Stein, Ignore Grevc, Adele Hitchman, Desmond Hill, Marion Robbins Mary Teres i, Delpha Hurlburt, Peggy Newby, Evelyn Schmidt. Feetjof Clay TT IS with mingled feelings of surprise and satisfaction that we A view the changing editorial policy of our worthy contempor ary, the Morning Oregonian. From a stand-pat platform of rigid protectionism they are gradually turning toward approval of a more modern and liberal program of international trade, and at least assuming what we consider rational economic perspec tive. We specifically refer to the editorial condemnation of France’s new policy regarding imports. Under the headline, “France Imitates Others’ Folly,” the editors of the Oregonian berate the policy of that country of fixing import quotas for 15 groups of commodities. They also point to the increased duties and the newly imposed surtaxes on imports. , The Portland paper is vigorous in its criticism and forceful in its terms. "Restrictions on commerce are strangling other countries'. . . . Each state’s exports are thus limited by other state’s barriers. The flow of raw materials is clogged and the industries that use them suffer. France sees thq ill effects of this policy, yet joins in the work of economic strangulation.” All over the world the fallacy of the virtue of high tariff is becoming more and more apparent. Only a short time ago over a thousand prominent economists voiced their pronounced dis approval of the Hawley-Smoot tariff act. To every university student of economics the unsound position of protectionism is self-evident. The law of comparative advantage is hounding the dogma of high tariff to an early grave. So we hail with approval the changing stand of the Ore gonian. It requires courage and determination of a high order for an 80-year-old newspaper to reverse its position on a prin ciple which it has so long upheld. But age is no guarantee of good, nor reverence of righteousness. Old ideas must give way to the new. And ancient idols must often be shattered. Our faith in the Morning Oregonian is being reestablished. How about an open and complete denunciation of the principle of high tariff, Mr. Kelly? Please surprise us again. Lindbergh Legislation TT TOOK a 19-months-old baby to push the cables from Shang hai to one side in American newspapers. Thousands may continue to die in the Whangpoo marshes, but their fate is of secondary interest when Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., gets himself kidnaped. It's the kind of human interest story that managing editors dream about on dull days. Charles Augustus, Senior, professes to abiior publicity, which has made $10,000,000 for him since the day he set the “Spirit of St. Louis” down on the Lc Bourget airfield. Now lie’s in for another dose of public attention, but this time it will consist of sympathy, not adulation. The nation sympathizes while national guardsmen mobilize to look for the missing heh to the Lindbergh-Rforrow millions. And congressmen who have been backing a bill making death the penalty for kidnaping have added a powerful weapon to their political arsenal. It is to be hoped that under the excitement of the moment Congress will not pass another federal law to take its place beside the Mann act as a legislative monstrosity. Is America, instead of continuing towards the abolition of capital punish ment, to stnrt back to the days when the hangman's noose awaited anyone who stole a silver spoon or a loaf of bread? Has capital punishment succeeded in checking the fine art of murder in these United States? Not if statistics are to be trusted. The present penalties for kidnaping are severe enough to deter anyone who believed that the law was sufficiently alert to apprehend him. What's the use of capital punishment if our law officers can't catch the kidnapers to bring up for trial? Why? We Don’t Know ‘‘•yiyHY, WHEN students have shown in this class a marked preference for flesh-and-blood music instead of ‘canned’ phonograph and radio music, do we have such a small atten dance at flesh-and-blood concerts?" asked Dean Lands bury of his Lure of Music class the other day. Well, why is it ? When instrumental compositions are played, on the piano, organ, or violin, in the music auditorium for the Lure of Music class, they are received very enthusiastically by the students. When, however, phonograph records arc played, the class's in terest falls considerably. In the light of this, from a group of 1150 students, why is the attendance at concerts small? We don't know. But we can guess. We guess, for one thing, that students arc lazy. They don't want to take the trouble to go to a concert. And they still are a wee bit afraid of being considered "highbrow" if they let concerts interfere with show and similar important activities. Classes such as Lure of Music and Appreciation of Music Through Understanding are very instrumental, wc believe, in overcoming this laziness by making students realize their real liking for music, and by showing them that “highbrowness" ha. very little,to. do-with;appreciating.aaU.cujo}mg!good music. A t They do a little reminiscing, mo i rali/.lng, and sermonizing. Ink-slinging dandies of the early eighteenth century had a coffee house or two to concoct their daily blitherings in. There was a time when the coffeehouse was the; seat of the nation’s culture. Coffee houses and University went hand in hand, even as now, but strange to tell, the University of those be nighted days was a veritable hot bed, we’re told. That is to say, people learned things. Not that they don’t now . . . Sure, we all learn things . . . didn’t you hear the one about the . . . but we’re digressing. As we were saying, they had coffeehouses and intelligence. Now we have the newest wriggle in dance steps and the College-side. There must be a reason for the discrepancy. They didn’t allow women In the coffeehouses in that enlightened era. And they fought duels over chastity. Thecof feehouse was man’s I domain, outside of regular parlor hours. They would flick a mean liandkerehief when the occasion arose, and bulance a cup of tea or a jug of beer with equal proficien cy. You don’t even have to bal ance it now. They bring you your coffee and set it on little tubles along with three cookies. Women are everywhere, especially there, and no one; fights duels over any thing. These earlier ink-slingers made themselves the butt of coffeehouse joking, even as now. But they didn’t have to spend the best years of their lives over a Salisbury bun in order to "belong,” in the par lance of the day. It was assumed that they had a home life. Now our home life is right there, along with all the assorted greekesses in town, making dates, studying, pre tending to study, philandering, catching up on sleep, making po litical appointment^ in simpler words, just broadening ourselves. We like it, we suppose, but why? The bridge is punk, the conversa tion banal, and the women so so, and well—everything. And we wonder what happened to the old desire that men had when they were young to learn things of val ue. We wonder what happened to the classical college tradition. And if we are a cross-section of the Oregon people, and the legislature another, then we don’t wonder why Oregon is so impoverished. And while we’re moralizing, let's Classified Advertisements Kutcs Payable in Advance 10c a line for first Insertion; 5e a line for each additional Insertion. Telephone 3300; local 214 LOST LOST Pair dark rimmed glasses in case between Music and Com merce buildings. Helen Ferris, 1307. WANTED DRESSMAKING, hemstitch i n g , sewing. Over Underwood & El liott Grocery. Harriett Under wood. Phone 1393. MISCELLANEOUS CAMPUS 'SHOE REPAIR Give those shoes of yours new soles and heels. Your appearance is noticed more by others than by yourself. 13th and Alder. YOU can earn up to $1.00 per hour during spare time. See Mr. Burke, Room 409 Hotel Osburn. CAMPUS SHOE REPAIR Quali ty work, best of service; work that is lasting in service. 13th between Alder and Kincaid. NE\\'_BEGINNERS7-BALLROOM CLASS Sturts Tuesday S:30 P. M. MERRICK STUDIOS 801 Willamette Phone 3081 KRAMER BEAUTY SALON Also Hair-cutting PHONE 1SS0 Next to W'alora Candies go to town on the thing. The spring political tactics, such as they are, were hung in the balance yester day. All the political war-horses on the campus were there. Such old favorites as Potwin, Wilson, Hedges, etc., ad infinitum, made the usual speeches, all good. Have been good for the past twenty years. Much furore about Oregon infancy, political debauchery, and other things we probably knew, and didn’t think to mention. One of our more learned editorial writers informed us from the Em erald front page that this would be the Campus’ greatest chance to revive a lagging school spirit. It may have started out as such, but it ended just another assault on an old Oregon tradition. Another reform. Why not let the kids have fun? No one but a few sententious old naivettes and the politicians themselves ever took all the pleasant tumult of campus politics so seriously, any way. Let’s get around the band wagon in the spring. Let’s yell for a favorite. Let’s have some fun about it. We've a sneaking hunch that if there were less reform and more fun about all this we’d still have a chance to get something out of college. We never saw anything very de moralizing about those tennis court rally dances in the evenings or a little good old shouting over can didates. A nice little anarchistic editorial, huh ? Sure. i CAMPUS ♦ ♦ ALENDAR Biff Sister meeting today at 5 p. m. in 105 Journalism. Last meet ing of term; important that all be there. A meeting of the Condon club will be held tonight at 7:30 in the men’s lounge room at Gerlinger hall. There will be a Kwaina meeting tonight at 7:45 in the upstairs room of College Side. Everyone is asked to attend. Thespian meeting at 7:30 in the women’s lounge at Gerlinger hall. Important! Guest speakers. Visitors are welcome to hear G. H. Good, principal of the Edison school, address the class in moral education this afternoon at 3 o’clock in room 4, Education build ing. V. W. C. A. World Fellowship group meeting tonight at 9 at the bungalow. Christian Sclenee organization will meet tonight at 7:30 at the Y. W. C. A. bungalow. There will be a Daly club meet ing tonight at 7:30 in room 110 Johnson hall. “Religion for the New Civiliza tion.” Discussion led by Dean Phil ip A. Parsons at the Y hut tonight from 7:30 to 8:30. PAN XENIA MEN LEAVE FRIDAY FOR CONCLAVE (Continued from Fage One) ary in the absence of Orville Gar rett, president. The delegates will leave the campus tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock and expect to arrive in Seattle in time for the opening' session on board the President Madison at 11 o’clock Saturday morning. The yvvill return here Sunday. The convention in the past has been held under the auspices of the Pacific Foreign Trade insti tute. but this year the accommo dations aboard the President Madi son are to be furnished through the courtesy of the American Mail line. l.omax Ktinning for Officer Speakers on the program in clude: J. F. Middleton, internation al president of Pan Xenia: T. F. Klwell, international vice-presi dent: A. F. Haines, vice-president of the American Mail lines; and Harvey Rohrer, trade commis sioner of Manila, Philippine is lands. Professor .Lomax. prominent among national economists and business experts, is considered in the running for the post of inter national president of Pan Xenia. GAMMA ALPHA CHI CONTEST FOR ROLLINS GIRL Name. Plume Dale. Hour Name of entry. Plume. i ! i Votes for Co-ed In Rollins Contest Due at I o’clock ^OON' today marks the close of the Kollin’s girl contest sponsored by Gamma Alpha Chi, women’s advertising hon orary. Exactly at 1 o’clock the bal lots containing the names of Oregon co-eds suggested as the advertising model’s double will be taken out of the box in the old library and handed over to the judges for selection of the winner. Use the coupon in this morn ing’s Emerald and win two fifty for the lady of your choice and for yourself! DR. CONDON, MISSIONARY IN OREGON TERRITORY (Continued from Tagc One) During a winter of dreadful severity, after 10 years of success ful missionary work, Dr. Condon took his wife and four children to The Dalles, where a capacity population of lawless characters called for vigorous missionary service. Gold had just been dis covered in eastern Oregon, and a steady stream of reckless, gold maddened persons carried on a series of shooting, stabbing, and thieving affrays. The young man loved his work, but not as he might and later did, put his heart and soul into the study of nature. He outlined his sermons while rambling about in the hills. After finishing the next Sunday’s talk he would search the quarries and bluffs for rock speci mens. His interest aroused by fossils brought him from the eastern Ore gon fields, Dr. Condon spent all of his spare time in the John Day country. It was here that he opened a new page in the history of ancient Oregon. Until his death he searched con tinuously for fossils and his in tense hunts netted him the re mains of ancient horses, camels, elephants, broad-faced oxen, huge dogs, the rhinoceros, oreodon, my lodon, the mammoth, and other creatures. His greatest pride was a specimen of an entirely new and hitherto unknown genus, in termediate between the sea lion and seal. He appropriately named the genus “Desmatophoco oregon ensis.” As his collection of fossils grew, Condon’s name became known throughout the Northwest, and news of his discoveries drifted east to famous geologists and members of the government geo logical survey, then in progress. About 1872 the state of Oregon began to show interest in its own geological wealth. The legislature effected the passage of a bill cre ating the office of state geologist for Dr. Condon, with a salary of $2,000. However, the bill was amended to carry a salary of $1,000. thus hampering the work of this office so much that it was of little value, beyond the work that the state geologist was al ready doing. ASSEMBLY PLAN WILL CONTINUE SPRING TERM (Continued from Cage One) we want, not group voting; indi vidual thinking and not mob ac ! tion. Animosity aroused during ' election week creates barriers be tween houses that is hard to 1 break." The theme of genuine in dividual interest in voting ran through her entire speech. Admitting that the action taken by the women was a good ideal, Potwin argued that it was prema ture and could only be worked out successfully when selfish interests of houses were gone and when har mony reigned on the campus. Potwin Sounds Warning "The new system will put poli tics behind locked doors of chap ter rooms," Potwin said, sounding a warning that secret sub-rosa fra ternities might invade the campus political field with success under the new plan. "Is it better for houses to be nominally non-parti san and secretly lined-up, or frank, open, and confessed in their pol icy'.’" he asked. Political bosses in living organi zations were seen by Potwin as the greatest evil in the present po litical set-up. "If they were abol ished." he said, "we could have student government by intelligent individuals." Open discussion after the two talks was rapid and illuminating Those who spoke were: Beth Ann Johnson. David Wilson. Jack Stipe. Ford Fletcher, Lucille Kraus, Walt Evans Katherine Taylor. Bob Hil ler. and Ann Baum. YWCA Conference At Seabeck Offers Big Opporunities Theme This Year To Be on The Possibilities of Creative Life Women students at the Univer sity of Oregon will again have an opportunity to attend the North west Student conference of the Y. W. C. A. at Seabeck, Washington, June 18 to 28, according to word received by Helen Chaney, presi dent of the local association. “Some of the possibilities of a full and creative life in a complex civilization" will be the theme of this meeting, which will have as its membership students from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. i Miss Leona Saunders, student at the State College of Washington, Pullman, will be in charge of the j conference. Leadership at the conclave will include Mrs. Annie M. Fertig, dean of women at the State College of 'Washington, who will lead a dis cussion group; Dr. Marjorie Heit man, Spokane, conference physic ian; Miss Mary Pittman, girl re serve executive in Bellingham, Washington, who will lead a dis cussion group; Miss Grace Stein beck, general secretary, Portland city Y. W. C. A., who will lead the morning worship services; Miss Ellen Rowland, Washington, ’31, music director. Other speakers and leaders are still being selected. Platform addresses, discussion groups, and personal interviews will be the methods employed by the conference in its development of the theme. Poetry groups, ten nis, swimming, hiking, rowing, eve nings around a camp-fire, and in formal competitive sports are pro vided in the recreation schedule for the ten days. Plans are already under way for the local group to send its dele gates to the conference. Selection is based on genuine interest in world problems, ability to partici pate in discussions, and desire for orientation in the world. Women who have attended the Seabeck conference from this Uni versity are: Hope Shelley, chair man of the local Seabeck commit tee; Ann Baum, Helen Chaney, Elizabeth Scruggs, Mary Klemm, Daphne Hughes, Mildred Wharton, Dorothy Morgan, Frances Keene, Claire Maertens, Margaret Edmun son, Adelaide Benjamin, and Kath leen McNutt. PARSONS, MORSE URGE DEATH FOR KIDNAPERS (Continued from Page One) Parsons. The complicated ma chinery of extradition would be eliminated. “Under Jewish and civil law, kidnaping was punishable by death and under common law it was a misdemeanor and was punishable by imprisonment, fine or the pil lory," Dean Morse explained. “In Oregon, under section 14-234 of the Oregon code, kidnaping is punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than 10 years. “Advocates of capital punish ment today have failed to present convincing evidence that such punishment acts as a deterrant. To a large extent the demands for capital punishment represent emo tional reactions to the commission of heinous crimes.” Dean Morse felt that there would be too many provisions of the law to be considered before he could state whether it would facilitate apprehension and con viction. G. H. Good, principal of Edison school, will address the course in moral education this afternoon at; 3 o'clock in room 4 of the Edu-1 cation building. Visitors will be! welcome. 1 BOOKS OF THE DAY EDITED BY BOY SHEEDY VERY RECENT HISTORY Only Yesterday. By Frederick Lewis Allen. Harper and Brothers. By ft. S. Most history is interesting but some is fascinating, and this "in formal history of the 1920’s,” which period the author claims is a distinct era, comes in the latter class. It is the story of everything of importance to our lives that happened from the signing of the armistice to the end of 1930. “Ev erything” includes politics, eco nomics, morals, literature, art, fads, heroes, sports, inventions, and murder trials. It is a review of the newspaper headlines as they appeared in those taut 11 years of post-war prosperity, bull markets, trans-Atlantic flights, Red scares, short skirts, flappers, radio, Mah Jong, bathing beauty contests, lit erary revolts, oil scandals, and Listerine. We can all remember the events described here, though some of them will be a little vague in the minds of college students. The value of the book lies in its complete summing up, its con densed form, its birds eye view of the whole picture. Not only is the subject fascinat ing but Mr. Allen, who is associate editor for Harper’s magazine, proves to be a Very clever writer with a keen wit and sharp insight. The work is highly educational and yet in a very sugar-coated, form. Once beginning the book, you will have a hard time dropping it. We would like to see “Only Yesterday" made a reading re quirement for every graduate of every college in the country. It’s that good. Pre-Medic Students Invited To Attend Show at Deady All pre-medics students and others interested are invited to attend the motion picture show ing of “Spinal Anesthesia,” which will be given this evening at 105 Deady hall at 8 o’clock, according to an announcement made by Harry Smith yesterday. Dr Sante Caniparoli will ex plain the pictures. The film is being shown by the Asklepiads, a local men’s pre-med honorary fraternity. 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