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University of Oregon, Eugene
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Thornton Shaw, Managing Editor
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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others interested are invited to
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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. The film was
secured from the H. A. Metz lab
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