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EDITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD EDITORIAL OFFICES, Journalism Bldg. Phone 3300—News Room, Local 865; Editor and Managing Editor, Local 354. BUSINESS OFFICE, McArthur Court. Phone 3300—Local 214. University of Oregon, Eugene Willis Dunlway, Editor Larry Jackson, Manager Thornton Shaw, Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAKE Ralnh David. Associate Editor. Stephen Kahn. Assistant Editor Jack Bauer, Dave Wilson, Betty Anne Mac duff, Editorial Writer Sterling Green, Asst. Managing Editor Jack Bellinger, News Editor Dick NeuborRor, Sports Editor Merlin Blais, Radio Director Roy Sheedy, Literary Kditor Geor*cc Sanford. Telegraph Editor Douk Wijsht, Chief Night Kditor DAY EDITORS: George Sanford, Jessie Steele, Virginia Wentz, Oscar Munger. SPECIAL WRITERS: Elinor Henry, Thelma Nelson, Julian Prescott. COPY READERS: Elsie Peterson, Bob Patterson. REPORTERS: David Eyre, Ruth McClain, Donald Fields. Parks Hitchcock, Almon Newton, Genevieve Dunlop, Hazle Corrigan, Harold Nock, Maximo Pulido, Eloise Dorner, Clifford Gregor, Francis Pallister, Madeleine Gilbert. RADIO STAFF: Jack Bauer, Roy McMullen, Charles Shoemaker. NIGHT EDITORS: Hubert Totton, Bob Patterson, Myron Ricketts, Doug Polivka, Clark Williams. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Dorothy McMillan, Catherine Watson, Lenore Greve, Adelc Hitchman, Shirley Sylvester, Mary Teresi, Delpha Hurlburt, Peggy Newby, Evelyn Schmidt, Margaret Corum, Gladys Gillespie. OFFICE ASSISTANTS—Lucille Lowry, Dot Dibble, Nancy Archbald, Hildarnay Hobart, Edwina Anderson, Dagmar Haugen, Louise McMunn. BUSINESS STAFF Advertising Mgr.Harry Schenk Assistant Adr. Mgr. Autcn Bush Assistant Adv. Mgr.Barney Miller National Advertising Mgr.Harold Short Promotional Mgr.Dick Goebel Promotion Assistant..Mary Lou Patrick Women's Specialties.Hnrriette Hofmann Classified Adv. Mgr '..George Branstator Office Manager .Marian Henderson Executive Secretary.Virginia Kibbee Circulation Manager. .Ed Cross Sez Sue.Kathryn Laughridge Sez Sue Assistant.Caroline Hahn Checking Dept. Mgr.Helen Stinger Financial Administrator.Edith Peterson MARKETING DEPARTMENT—Nancy Suomela, executive Becretary; Betty Mae Highy, Louise Beara. 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, 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. Let’s Have a New Deal! ■y^"ANTED: a student government that will permit the majority of student* to take a hand in determining policies that directly affect them. It is our c^fntention that the students of the University of Oregon have the ability to direct their own affairs intelligently. Democracy in student government is as desirable as in national government. If students in the past have not taken an active part in government it has been the fault of the system, not the students. Student leaders have admitted a weakness and have asked for the formation of a student forum as a body for the discussion of campus problems. But are these same student leaders willing to consent to the carrying out of their ideas to a logical conclusion—a student parliament with legislative power ? A student forum organized as an extra-constitutional body with no power but that of recommendation may serve to point out to student officers the direction of student opinion, hut there is no assurance that it will be followed. An executive may say that the forum is ill-informed and ignore its action. In other words, he remains in the same position as now free to follow his own conclusions. But to invest this forum, or a representa tive student parliament, witli legislative powers is to guarantee executive action. It is absolutely necessary that an organization be built up that can be kept alive by student interest. That student interest will be kept at a higher level in an organization with legislative power Is apparent. That such an organization is desirable from the standpoint of true democracy and responsible government should be just as obvious. Now that the opportunity has been presented for a complete reorganization of the government, every effort should be di rected toward the formation of a representative student parlia ment. If students have the right to take a hand in the deter mination of policies concerning themselves, the road should be made easy for the new plan. To deny this right is to challenge the very fundamentals of democracy. Derby Day rjnODAY is Derby day for Oregon's political dark horses. Their respective owners will jockey them up to the post at 11 o'clock when the campus meets at the nomination assembly. The University band will be on hand to supply suitable race track refrains. Brian Mimnaugh will pull ihe barrier, and the race to make nomination speeches will be on. (Length of tlie talks has been limited this year. For which, due thanks.) One day last week we offered our kingdom lor a horse preferably a dark one to enter the election lists and do battle with the one-party candidates then in the running. Our pleas were answered, so fully indeed, that the number of dark horses in the field became so great as to obscure the race track. The Roustabouts bless 'em were the first to brighten an otherwise dull campaign. Then their usefulness outlived, they retired to let a really serious opposition ticket get to work. Capable men and women they are, these office seekers who will he nominated this morning. Eleven o'clock classes have been dismissed for the race track classic. Put your money on a steed, and come on out for the fun. Premature and Immature rpHK smouldering question of high school fraternities blazed forth anew at Salem when a hunch of the boys tried to coerce a prominent athlete into joining their group. Kidnaping and assault brought the matter into the limelight, and scattered it over the front pages of Oregon’s press. Temporary suspen sion looms for ail fraternity members in the Salem high school, with more severe punishment for the seven boys involved in the melee. We have always been inclined to regard high school societies as weak and pathetic imitations of college organizations. More than that they could scarcely hope to be. They lack the close contact of membership that comes from a unified living organi zation, and the spirit and fellowship that marks the college fra ternity. They are premature and immature. It is our belief that the state law forbidding I lie organization of high school fraternities is well founded. Barely are such societies devoted to constructive activity. Too frequently they dogenerate into cliques that hinder scholastic attention and harass high school unity. They constitute a threat to the de mocracy of our secondary; institutions and. we are sorry to ay too otteu a demoralizing influence on their misguided member. By V. H. Hal For many months now I have noticed the book stands heaped with little yellow copies of a book called “A Fortune To Share.” When one sees book stores so well stocked with a certain publication the curiosity is frequently aroused, i Mine was. However, I procrastin ! ated, failing to purchase it be cause of some vague feeling that a friend would loan it to me. The opportunity to borrow it did i arrive when a young man came to me with a story that his hop.eful aunt had sent the book to him re questing that he read it and re port on it in his next letter. Such an idea displeased this boy and he asked if I would please read it and give him the dope so that his chance to inherit her fortune would j not be endangered. X read the book. It was filled with the philosophy of an insur ance man by the name of Vash Young and that philosophy of life was the fortune he had to share. It was indeed the function of an av erage mind in a search for happi ness. Vash Young found what he calls success by profiting by mis takes, following his list of “vir tues,” and being an all-around de cent man. The philosophy he has to share is what all of use received as we sat years ago upon our grandfather’s knee. No one can sincerely believe that the world would not be a more pleasant place to live if every man and woman would religiously fol low all of Vash Young's virtuous characteristics. The devil, instead, rears his ugly head and says, “Fie, don’t be tolerant! Don’t be gen erous! Don’t be cheerful! It does n’t pay.” And the devil, by the way, is an influential character. Vash Young's philosophy is ad mittedly that of an uneducated man. It is a shallow fortune, and it is mechanical enough to be sim ple. Compile your list of virtues and keep them in action. They may accumulate and become com plex, yet they will provide an ac ceptable god for any beneficiary. CAMPUS ♦♦ ALENDAR The outdoor gtimnusium is to be used for the scheduled women’s tennis matches only if it rains. The regular tennis courts will be used otherwise. The outdoor gym must be scheduled for in the main office of the women’s physical education building. Important meeting of old and new Kwama members tonight at 7:45 in upstairs room of College Side. Every member’s presence is required. Tonqued meeting at Westminster house tonight at 7:15. Officers wfil be elected at the meeting of the German club in Su san Campbell hull tonight at 7:30 o'clock. All members are urged to be present. Intramural archery meets today at 1 o’clock unless it is raining. There is to be a special announce Classified Advertisements Kates Payable in Advance 10c a lino for first insertion; 5e a line for each additional Insertion. Telephone 3300; local 214 1 OK RENT GUEST ROOMS modern $1 a day. 1105 Pearl. WANTED ---—__ WILE pay $1.50 for Andrews and i ^Percivul Victorian poetry. Call 78-t-W between 12-2 p. m. DRESSMAKING, hemstitch i u g , sewing. Over Underwood & El liott Grocery. Harriett Under-! wood. Phone 1393. CAMPUS SHOE REPAIR“guali ty work, best of service; work that is lasting in service. 13th ■ between Alder and Kincaid. MISCELLANEOUS KRAMER realty SALON Also Hair-cutting PHONE 1880 Next to Walora Candies NEW BEGINNERS’ BALLROOM CLASS Starts Tuesday- S:30 P. M. MERRICK STUDIOS SOI WUlamette Phone 30311 ’ ment of interest to all archers re gardless of whether they are work ing for W. A. A. points or not Come on out. International Relations clut meets tonight at 8 o’clock at In ternational house. Y. W. C. A. World Fellowship group meets at bungalow, 9 o’clock j tonight, to hear talk on Me'diter 1 ranean countries by Evelyn Schmidt. Anyone interested invit ' ed. All those interested in making the Obsidian club hike to Death , Ball Rock, Sunday, May 1, are to meet at McMorran & Washburne's corner at 8 a. m. Sunday morning. The party will drive in cars up the McKenzie, and will then hike four miles to the rock. Further infor mation may be had by calling Alice Madsen, leader, at 439RX. Y. W. C. A. discussion leaders meet at the bungalow, 4 today. Topic, led by Polly Pollitt, will be “The Art of Thinking.” Oregon Yeomen! Tickets for Friday night dance are being han dled by Merlin Blais, Robert O'Leary and George Bennett. Wesley club worship group meets tonight at 8:30 at 613 E. 11th ave nue. A Decade Ago April 28, 1922 Invitations have been issued for a formal musical to be given by the men of Friendly hall on Sunday af ternoon, April 30. * * * Construction of at least two new cement tennis courts, the repairing of the dirt courts north of the walk to Deady, and the preparation of a four-hole golf course were rec ommended in a report to President P. L. Campbell and the board of regents by the newly appointed committee on intramural sports, at its first meeting. * * * The privileged fish who inhabit the mill race were disturbed for about two-billionths of a half-sec ond when the whizzing form of a man shot through their translu cent realm last Saturday. Lieuten ant Knowles claims to be the first faculty member to venture into the race this year. * * Camping outfits and cooking utensils will be included in the commissary department of the stu dent geologists, who will camp un der the stars with the eroded walls of the Umpqua valley as their only protection against the winds of the night. From Kiddle the party will hike down the river to Roseburg and will return to Eugene Sunday evening. On the ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Recent Records Reviewed By LARRY FISCHER Jealousy Leo Reisman and his orchestra. O Cara Mia Jack Hylton and his orchestra. Two tangos presented by famous orchestras. Leo Reisman does a violin solo introduction that is worth hearing. The tango' rhythm is the best that's been heard for a long time, and the melodies are catchy. Hear this one. Time Alone Will Tell I Believe in You Jack Hylton and his orchestra. We like Jack Hyton and his ra dio popularity is deserved. This record, a waltz and a fox-trot, is as good as any he has turned out yet, and it' you haven't bought it yet, you should hear it. It's good for dancing and for just plain lis tening. VS ai’l'lc Appointed Head For Annual Talk-Fests Josephine Wattle has been ap pointed manager of the Jewett contests in public speaking for wo men. John L. Casteel, assistant professor and director of speech division, stated last night. .Miss Wattle is au English ma jor and a freshman. Her home is Astoria. These contests are the advanced contests for women, and the con test for undciclass women. Entries ma; be nude at the _peech office^ m Friendly hall. D ANCE ISKS ♦ * * UPSTAGE By BOB GUILD I l ■ ■ ... ■ — - | I hate to bring up an old sub ' ject, but where are all the mam ' moth movies we see advertised sc I often? We’re all tired of paying coin of the realm tfl see the sloppy outpourings of America’s out standing industry. And we’re tired of reading the same drivel about each super-gargantuan epic in turn. Aren’t we? Publicity is one oi those unnatural children. Movie publicity has played Gargantua till it has devoured its parents. It’s become a soporific. By the time we've waded through reams ol ubiquitous slosh by the Follyanan ias’ that conduct movie columns we’re too tired to object to what goes on on the screen. * * * By the same token I’d like tc see a movie column with fair crit icism in its annals. But "you can’t print that” is as potent a charm now as when Seldes wrote the book. Advertising managers won’t let the reviewer be a critic. As long as the ads for the pictures are so unblushingly praiseful, how ever, there’s no need to write it again under the guise of criticism. * * * The modern movie reviewer can not discriminate. There was a l good show at the McDonald over ; the week-end, lauded about as \ much as the poor one that was there before it. There is a really I fine picture this afternoon under | the auspices of the Faculty clufc | at the Colonial, and one line in j yesterday’s column and a half oi ! review about it. * * * Just to plug a bit: there are i two outstanding events on the cal I endar this week-end. Hamlet, and the Boardman-Thacher recital to night. If you want to be unkind, compare them and their publicity to a couple of movies and theirs. EMERALD ... of the A I R The mad scene from Hamlet, Shakespeare’s outstanding drama, will be broadcast this afternoon at 4:15 during the Emerald of the Air. The scene, in which the mad Ophelia is the leading figure, will be put on as it will be staged dur ing the presentation of Hamlet on Friday evening. Ophelia is played by Marian , Camp. Others who appear in the j scene include: Queen, Inez Simons; King, Jack Stipe; Laertes, Warren Gram; a gentleman, Martin Geary. I Miriam Stafford will play the cello as an additional feature of the I broadcast. KORE Broadcasts Big Oregon-Penn State Epic In the second of his weekly re vivals of famous Oregon grid en counters “'Rush” Hughes of KORE recalled the Oregon-Penn State game of January 1, 1917, in a broadcast last night. So far back in Webfoot grid history was this first intersectional contest in which Oregon engaged that it had slipped the minds of many Eugene fans until "Rush” made Oregon’s great 1916 team live again if only in a play-by-play account fifteen years later. At that time Hugo Bezdek made such an impression on the Staters that they never rested until they usurped Oregon's greatest football coach. Outstanding figures on the Oregon 1916 team were the Hunt ington brothers, Johnny Beckett, and Anse Cornell. The latter is now coach at the College of Idaho. Oregon Delegate Gives Talk to Vi omen Athletes New views on athletic awards, the point system, women’s partici pant^- in the coming Olympic games, and many other interest ing subjects of national interest were reported to the Women's Athletic association yesterday aft ernoon by the Oregon delegate. Miss Dorothy MacLeap, who at tended the athletic conference of American college women recently at the University of Southern Cal ifornia at Los Angeles. Archery, golf, tennis, and hockey reports were also presented at the meeting by various members. Plans are now being formulated for it he ,\V A., A. play „ which, will be presented at an A. W S. func tion on May 13. Positions on Men’s Edition Announced Plans for the annual men’s edi tion of the Emerald reached a def inite conclusion yesterday, when George Sanford, editor, and Parks Hitchcock, managing editor, an nounced the upper news staff ap pointments for the edition. This special edition is an annual feature. It is part of a contest between the men and women jour , nalism students, the winner to re ceive a party at the expense of | the defeated sex. The appointments are as follow: j sports editor, Joe Saslavsky; news i editor, Oscar Munger; society edi tor, Jack Bellinger; literary edi tor, Roy Sheedy; cinema editor, J. Almon Newton; day editor, Ralph Mason; night editor, Doug Poliv j ka; editorial writer, Hal Nock; special writers, Jay Seahorn and Sterling Green. Beat li3ts will be posted soon with the names of other men to work on the special edition, the editors stated yesterday. The mas culine edition will be published Saturday. _ Program Planned For Tonqued Meet A musical program, dancing, and refreshments will be the entertain ment for the meeting of the Ton queds, Eugene women attending the University, which will be held this evening from 7:15 to 8:15 at the Westminster house, Catherine Coleman, chairman of the mass meeting announced. Gertrude Lamb is to sing a solo | as the first number of the evening’s ! program. Other entertainers are Margaret Ellen Hill, who will play a flute solo; and Peggy Reynolds, ! who accompanied by Lucille Skeie ■ will do a tap dance. This is the regular monthly meeting of the group and the first to be held this term, Kathryn Lis ton, president, pointed out in urg ing all the members to attend. The committee which is assisting 1 Miss Coleman with the arrange ments is Pauline George, Gertrude ! Lamb and Dorothy Davis. Gale To Continue Work On Campus Next Year Thornton Gale, active in campus! affairs, probably will continue his 1 studies here next autumn. He originally intended to graduate this June, but yesterday decided to return in the fall to take a few additional courses. His decision : was somewhat of a surprise. The 1931-32 Oregana yearbook, which will be released next month, was edited by Gale and previous to assuming that position, he had been connected actively with the Oregon Daily Emerald. Gale prob ably will be connected with the Emerald staff again this fall. The Edited By Roy Sheedy LITERARY SIGNPOST CAPRICE VIENNOIS Reunion in Vienna. By Robert E. Sherwood. Scribners. The author of "The Road to Rome” and “Waterloo Bridge” has written a happy play here, a satiri cal piece that flaunts the princi ples of science and casts doubt on the success of democracy. Sher wood lays his scene in the Vienna of 1930, a decade after the people had removed the Hapsburgs from power. A few of the old guard decided to relive memories by holding a party on the 100th anniversary of Emperor Franz Josef’s birth. Among the invited guests is the beautiful wife of a famous psycho analyst and her former lover, Prince Rudolf Maxmilian, who has not seen her for ten yers. You will understand these characters better to know that Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt played the parts in New York, which parts seem to have been made to their order. Rudolf, mad, gay, and emotional, begs for her for one more night of love, but she escapes from him to return home. He follows her, ready to fight for his wishes. Her hus band meets him with a cool man ner, however, and completely re moves any thought of battle. Rec ognizing his foe as a scientist, Ru dolf attempts to bring scientific methods to bear, pleading that if he may have the doctor's wife for one night, she will soon forget him, and their whole lives will be cleared up. The doctor suddenly forgets his science, however, and shows ordinary husband-like jealousy, and with two or three twists in the plot, the plays ends with satisfac tion to all. “Reunion in Vienna" is consid ered by many critics to be Sher wood's finest. It is a little like Shaw, like Ibsen, like Chekov, and indeed, seems to take some of the finer points of all three play wrights. It is certain that Sher wood builds up to a glorious cli max, though from simply reading the piece, one at least fancies that there is a slight let-down in the last act. Pan Xenia Pledges Five Wednesday Pan Xenia, foreign trade honor ary, pledged five men to member ship at a regular business meeting last night in Gerlinger hall. The men are: Auten Bush, George Stockner, Bill Draper, Bob Wilson, and Theodore Natt. Bush is a junior in business ad ministration, and has been active in managerial work upon the Em erald, and is at present assistant advertising manager. Stockner, Draper, and Natt are juniors in business administration and have been active in foreign trade cir cles. Wilson is a senior in the business school and has had con siderable experience in commer cial fields. The Pan Xenia foreign tour, to be held this summer, was dis cussed at the meeting. The cruise will take in major points of inter est in the northern Pacific basin, stressing commercial relations be tween Oriental countries and the United States. Band Plays Sunday In Outdoor Concert The first of the annual spring outdoor concert series given by the University band on the mill-race will be given Sunday, May 1, at 7 p. m. These concerts are free to the students and townspeople. Two years ago they were given on the tennis courts between the old li brary and the Commerce building. The change was made to the mill- i race because of the ample seating capacity, splendid acoustics, and the beautiful setting. s The program for the first con cert as announced by John Stehn, director of the band, is Robinson's Grand Entree march by King; Poet and Peasant overture by Suppe; Echoes, medley of concert and operatic fav'orites, is a com position of Tobani; American Pa trol, Meacharn; A Spanish Villiage from the Don Quixote suite by Safranek; Marche Slave, a Tschai kowski composition; and King Cotton march, one of Sousa’s best known marches. School Head Speaks To Education Classes J. F. Cramer, superintendent of schools in Grants Pass, spoke at the University Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. Eight o’clock classes in theory and ob servation, secondary education, and child hygiene heard Mr. Cramer talk Wednesday morning on “Edu cation in Australia.” He described the organization in comparison to the education in Oregon. Members of Omega Delta Pi, underclass education club, heard the superintendent Tuesday eve ning at their meeting on the same subject. “HAMLET” SEAT SALE ON Dorothy Clifford, business mana ger for “Hamlet,” announces that the seat sale for the play is open at the Guild theatre box office from 9:45 to 5:15 daily, telephone 4 local 216. Friday evening at 6 o’clock tickets will be on sale at Gerlinger where “Hamlet” will be staged. Mysterious Bunk ONCE in a blue moon now some bright, old-fashioned cynic says: “Aw, I never read the advertisements. They’re full of bunk.” But when one starts to look for it, the “bunk” in adver tising shows a mysterious tendency to be absent. Speci mens of it are hard to locate. The reason for that is simple. Bad goods cannot be suc cessfully advertised. To stand up under the pitiless glare of publicity, merchandise must be honest. It must live up to its promises. Otherwise you would quickly cease to buy it. So advertisers discovered long ago that for them, too, honesty was the best policy. More!—the only possible policy, if they were to remain advertisers! Read the advertisements. They are not full of bunk. On the contrary, they are full of honest information and interesting news. They show you ways to be more com fortable. They make life easier. They help you to be happier and healthier. They teach you prices and values. No doubt about it—advertisements do you many a ser vice. Read them every day! the Emerald - ' **■ • . *.. • *