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EDITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGE OF THE OREGONlDAILY EMERALD EDITORIAL OFFICES, Journalism Bldg. Phone 3300—New* Room, Local SEE; Editor and Managing Editor, Local 854. BUSINESS OFFICE, McArthur Court. Phone 8300—Local 214. University of Oregon, Eugene Willi* D uni way, Editor Larry Jackson, Manager Thornton Shaw, Managing Editor EDITORIAL Ralph David, Associate Editor, Stc Jack Bauer, Dave Wilson, Betty Anne Mac duff, Editorial Writers Sterling Green, Asst. Managing Editor Jack Bellinger. News Editor Molly Ann Cochran, Society Editor STAFF ?hen Kahn, Assistant Editor Dick INeuOerger, bporta jvaitor Merlin Rlaiii, Radio Direetor Roy Sheedy, Literary Editor George Sanford, Telegraph Editor Doug Wight, Chief Night Editor DAY EDITORS: Jessie Steele, Virginia Wentz, Oscar Mungcr, Margaret Dean. SPECIAL WRITERS: Elinor Henry, Thelma Nelson. Julian Prescott. REPORTERS: David Eyre, Ruth McClain, Donald Fields, Parks Hitchcock, Almon Newton, Genevieve Dunlop, Hazle Corrigan. Harold Nock, Maximo Puiido, Eloise Dorner, Clifford Gregor, Francis Pallister, Madeleine Gilbert. RADIO STAFF: Jack Bauer, Roy McMullen, Charles Shoemaker. NIGHT EDITORS: Hubert Totton, Don Platt, Myron Ricketts, Doug Fatfvka, Lea Dunton. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Dorothy McMillan, Catherine Watson, Ler.ore Greve, A dele Hitchman, Shirley Sylvester, Mary Tercsi, Delpha Hurlburt, Peggy Newby, Evelyn Schmidt, Margaret Corum, Gladys Gillespie. BUSINESS STAFF Advertising Mgr.Harry ScnenK Assistant Adv. Mgr. Auten Bush Assistant Adv. Mgr.Barney Miller National Advertising Mgr..Harold Short Promotional Mgr.-.George Sanford Promotion Assistant.. M*rr Lou Patrick Women's Specialties Harriette Hofmann Classified Adv. Mgr.George Branstator Office Manager .Marian Henderson Executive Secretary.Virginia Kibbee Circulation Manager.Ed Cross Asst. Circulation Mgr.George Chamberlin Sez Sue.Kathryn Laughridge Sez Sue Assistant.Caroline Hahn Checking Dept. Mgr.Helen Stinger Financial Administrator.Edith Peterson ADVERTISING SOLICITORS—Caroline Hahn, Maude Sutton, Grant Theummcl, Ber nice Walo, Bill Russell, Mahr Reymers, Bill Neighbor, Vic Jorgenson, John Vernon, Althea Peterson. Ray Foss, Elsworth Johnson, Mary Codd, Ruth Osborne, Lee Valentine, Lucille Chapin, Gil Walllngton, Ed Messerve, Scot Clodfclter. OFFICE ASSISTANTS—Lucille Lowry, Dot Dibble, Nancy Archbald, Hildamay Hobart, Kdwina Anderson, Bagmar Haugen, Louise McMunn. MARKETING DEPARTMENT—Nancy Suomela, executive secretary ; Betty Mae Higby, Louise Bears. 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 postoffire at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates, $2.BO a yoar. Advertising rates upon application. Phone, Manager: Office, Local 214; residence. 2800. The Clouds Lift TN THE midst of the educational upheaval we breathe a sigh of relief to learn that at least one matter of unsurpassed importance has been definitely settled. An official announce ment of courses scheduled for the University next year is now in the hands of all advisers. The feeling of doubt and un certainty that pervaded the campus will now be dispelled. See your adviser at once and plan your program for next year. To most students as wide a range of studies as ever will be offered. Despite the state-wide curtailment of funds, a lib eral education of unusual merit is in store for every student at the University. This statement is prompted not by a pollyanna attitude of faith and hope, but by a survey of the list of courses that will be provided next year. If it were our desire to “boom" the University for the pur pose of increasing enrollment, we might point out that no mat ter what course a student plans to take, the Eugene campus will furnish an excellent foundation. But it is our contention that the primary function of an institution of higher learning is the sound education of its proteges rather than the expansion of its student body. So if you are planning to major in pharmacy, or agriculture, or forestry, or pure science, or engineering, or home economics, we advise you to make Corvallis your next resting place. We do not suggest that you spend six or seven terms boning up on literature, languages and arts on this campus, and then get your professional training at the northern institution. Sound educational policy recommends fundamental training at the school where the major courses are offered and where the de grees are granted. To avoid confusion we wish to point out that pre-medical work will be given on both campuses. We do not care to follow the lead of a contemporary editor in grandiosely referring to the extensive lower division and ser vice courses that will be retained. Thorough education rather than institutional rivalry should be the function of slate uni versities and colleges. So again we urge you: sec your adviser now. Learn just what the University will provide next year. Study the lists, analyze your needs, and select the school best fitted for your education. Your adviser will help you. See him at once. Passing the Buck A^ilTlZENS o£ Eugene are faced with the serious problem at the present time of taking care of large numbers of transients that have been flocking to tire city in the last few weeks. The heavy influx of the unemployed and professional "hoboes” is said to be due to the fact that Eugene is an "easy spot” because of the generosity of its merchants. But the problem facing the good citizens of Eugene is not a unique one in these times. Every city has its transients, and especially is this true of those municipalities bordering along main lines of travel. The depression, which has released millions from the ranks of tire employed, has complicated the situations more than ever. Now tire professional "bums” have had their ranks augmented by numbers who are willing and able to work, but who can not find employment of any kind. American cities have met this transient problem in an unusu ally naive manner. In the good old game of "passing the buck,” transients are firmly notified to keep moving by the officers of the law in each town. This method, curiously enough, is expected to alleviate the burden of the town. Instead it obviously does nothing to solve the real problem, and it makes sure that for each transient hurried on today there will be another arriving tomorrow. Eor those cities that tried to meet the problem in the past winter by providing relief, there have been unfortunate results. A city that attempted to take care of the incoming unemployed, soon found itself overwhelmed by men that had been driven out of neighboring cities. In such a situation, the city had to give up its relief work or go bankrupt. Concerted action by all the cities of the country is dearly the logical method for solving the transient problem. Without cen tralized control of relief work, some municipalities arc bound to bear a larger share of the burden Lhau others. Eor one eit\ to proceed alone in solving the problem is a similar proposition to one city in the nation attempting to solve the depression. It can t be done. j The Safety Valve An Outlet for Campus Steam AH 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 l>e used. The editor maintains the right to withhold publi cation should he see fit. To the Editor: Last night was enacted another comic tragedy. The -senior class or rather about one-twelfth of it— met to elect the winner of the Al bert cup. Fortunately the faculty commit tee which made the nominations made such a selection that no mat ter which student the class chose it could not go wrong in bestow ing such an honor. But had the committee recom mended some person less desirable —and that person had chosen to drag “the brothers” or “the sis ters” around to the meeting to vote he could have bestowed upon himself one of the greatest honors available to a senior at the Uni versity. No matter how fair the elections up to the present time have been, the selection of the winner of the Albert cup should not be left open to petty politics or made a mere popularity contest. The winner should be selected by the faculty and the cup awarded with fitting dignity. Sincerely, W103. J By V. H. Hall Out of the pockets of the less ] miserly students pours nickel after nickel into the luring slots of the \ fascinating and seductive gaming machines, “Ballyhoo” and its rela tives. All the attractiveness of a carnival chance game has been combined with the charm of a me chanical toy and the thrill of skill ful manipulation in this little j plaything that swallows nickels to j no satiation. The “Ballyhoo” is one of those games of doubtful “skill” that has followed up the none-too-popular! boxed games of golf and basket-1 ball. It has struck home with a | crash and taken the University campus by storm. A “Ballyhoo” hox is now located in every popu lar establishment near the cam pus commercial center and each game is seldom idle. The construction of t lie thing is a flat, rectangular board with numbered holes into which small steel balls are supposed to drop. The board is speckled with tiny nails that interrupt and deflect the ball as it makes its journey in search of a stopping place. The ball, 10 of which are provided per nickel, is shot by hand from a firing pin at the base of the board. The numbers on the holes where the ball falls indicate the score. When all 10 are shot the total is figured. Most of these games pro vide a prize for the highest score and the lowest score made during the week. Others give so much in trade if a certain maximum or minimum is reached. It is this possibility of winning a few cents in trade that keeps the interest so high. I must plainly inform the public that these games are definitely not gambling. They are strictly "games of skill" a small sign on each says so. The winnings are merely small prizes to skillful manipulators. I watched a lad play at this the other day. Quite incidentally, it is a very interesting little game to watch. He changed a two-bit piece into nickels and saluted the machine. His hopes were high to make a nice killing a nice killing being the receipt of 15 or 20 cents in trade. One nickel, two nickels, three nickels were gulped down by the yawning, smirking, volup tuous contrivance. The fourth was more successful. The shiny balls danced into 200, 400, 500, 50, 200. 150, 300 and 100 making a total 2,500 a score that merited 15 cents in trade. That was good NEIGHBORHOOD Beauty Shop. Fingerwave 35c, marcel 50c. Special prices on all work. Open Sunday and evenings by appoint ment. 576 E. 16th. Phone 2376W. DRESSMAKING, hemstitch i n g , sewing. Over Underwood & El liott Grocery. Harriett Under wood. Phone 1393. CAMPUS SHOE REPAIR—Quali ty work, best of service; work that is lasting in service. 13th between Alder- and Kincaid. KRAMER BEAUTY SALON Also Hair-cutting PHONE 1SS0 Neat to \\d!urd Caudle? luck! The last nickel must be tried. It was, but no use. He had won the noble prize of one package of cigarettes which he took as trade He was happy, too, happy to spend 25 cents for them. It’s a good game—and profit able—. Would that I had enough nickels to play! A Decade Ago May 26, 1922 Since the end of March, Lemon Punch has risen from 27th to 5th place in rank among all college humorous magazines in the coun try, according to a letter received by Ernest Haycox. * * * Sun Dodger, publisher at the University of Washington, ranks first, Virginia Reel second, Pelican third, Colgate Banter fourth, and Lemon Punch fifth. * * * Owen Calloway, vice-president elect of the student body, is “at home” in Corvallis, .trying to re cover from a bad case of mumps in time to put the finishing touches on his junior year in college. * * * Soft voices, rich in harmony, blended with the evening song of the birds and of the night wind, in the twilight concert of the girls’ glee club, held on the steps of Mc Clure hall. * * * The ten best women hikers are to be awarded letters. * * * Elimination contests are in pro gress among the doughty ping pong players at the “Y” hut in order to pick a team to meet the city Y. M. C. A. quintet in a tour nament next Saturday night at 7:30 on the “Y” tables. T I i Phi Mu Alpha meeting tonight at 7:00 in the Music building. Election of next year’s officers and formal pledging. All mem bers please be there promptly. Wesley club worship group will not meet tonight. Freshman councillors meet at 5:00 today in room 110 Johnson. Imperative that all attend on time. Meeting of all freshman women at Pi Phi house tonight, 8 o’clock. S. S. Smith will speak. College Poetry society meets to night at 7:30 in men’s lounge, Ger linger hall. Kwama Initiation will be held in the women’s lounge at Gerlinger at 5 o’clock today. All new Kwamas meet in men's lounge before initi ation. Christian Science organization will meet tonight at the Y. W. at 7:30. Kappa Delta announces the pledging of Ruth McClain of Hood River, Oregon. i Theta Sigma Phi meeting today in room 104 at the shack at 12:15. Gamma Alpha Chi will meet to night at 5 at the Gamma Phi Beta house. All private equipment in the baskets in the men’s gym must be removed on or before Wednesday, June 8. CAMPUS ♦ ♦ ALENDAR ■" 11 ■l,4- ' '■ Anderson Chosen N?w Travel Group Leader Valborg Anderson was elected president of the travel group of Philomelete at a business meeting yesterday at Susan Campbell hall. Evelyn Schmidt will fly the office of secretary for the coming year. The group plans one more meeting; a dinner, to be held at the home of Eula Duke next week. The retiring officers are: Janet Fitch, president; Valborg Ander son, secretary; Emmabelle Stad den, sponsor. Exhibit of Rare Bindings Shown Here by Guild Those who enjoy rare bookbind ings will find the collection on dis play at the art building an inter esting one. The contributions, which were sent in from the Cali fornia Guild of Bookbinders, a non professional organization, will be on display fpr only a few days. An unusual bookbinding is a wood cut of "Voyaging” by Rock well Kent. Other bookbindings are made out of various types of leath er in all colors and sizes. EMERALD ... of the A I R “The Mad Hatter’s Economics” will be the subject of the Emerald of the Air program to be presented this afternoon at 4:15 o’clock. Al ice In her wanderings in Wonder land meets the Mad Hatter and they talk over the present econom ic situation. The parody was first presented in the New York Times by Harold Callender. Alice will be played by Jessie Steele and the Mad Hatter by Wallace Campbell. The . . . Edited By Roy Sheedy literary signpost THE CORN BELT State Fair. By Phil Stong. The Century Co. Life in the Middle West is no longer a matter of 34-cent corn and four-cent pork. “State Fair" has come, and it has come to stay. The novel is the story of a trip made to the Iowa state fair by the Frake family. Abel Frake, the father, goes in supreme confidence that his prize Hampshire boar, Blue Boy, will be declared the world’s best hog; Melissa, “Ma Frake" goes to look after her fam ily, and to show the home econom ic experts what miracles of per fection good pickles can be; Wayne and Margy go because they are young, and because the fair is LIFE spelled in capital letters. The author writes with a straightforward simplicity which enables him to display his Iowa to the limit of its possibilities. The opening scene in the village store, the night trip to the fair, and the activities of the Frakes at the fair —these are written about with a sympathy that speaks of close per sonal acquaintance, and yet with an eye for the last bit of humor that can be made apparent without danger of satire. Perhaps the most astonishingly successful character to be found within the pages of "State Fair" is Blue Boy, the world's finest hog. This ambulant lard pail pursues his way through the novel with a dignity and singleness of mind truly Falstaffian. No untoward activity on the part of fate discom mode him; he has fcis eye on his sole desire, and he keeps it there. The only possible weak spot in the novel is to be found in the handling of the affairs of Margy Do You Have The Jitters ? If so, don’t look under your bed, you’ll find— AN EMERALD REPORTER! Don’t scream when you see an eye winchelling through your key hole, it’s just another EM ERALD REPORTER! Don’t smash that bug crawling through your note book—it’s AN EMERALD REPORTER! Turn to the Emerald for the news of the campus —it will have it. The Emerald staff spends on the average of ten hours a day, five days a week ?lathering the campus news and getting it ready or publication. The Emerald is a well-balanced collegiate news paper. Not only does it contain all the campus news, but through an affiliation with the Associ ated Press, it carries daily the highlights of world events. Drama and book reviews, a society colnmn, movie criticisms, a well-balanced sport page, a thought ful, energetic editorial column, and caustic com ments from Webfoot Charley—all go to make up a really fine collegiate newspaper. If you’re wide awake—you’ll read the Emerald! The Oregon Emerald and Wayne, but to find weakness even here may be merely a matter of taste. Early in the novel the author establishes such an impres sion of the personal integrity of all his characters that it seems impossible for any of them to form such impermanent, emotional un ions as did Margy with Pat, the re porter from Des Moines, and Wayne with Emily, the daughter of the stock show manager. Any defense of these affairs would seem vitiated by the fact that they are apparently left unsettled at the end of the novel, and so a pos sible cause of future trouble for the Frakes. It is quite obvious that Phil Stong has a positive nostalgia for Iowa, and for all that Iowa repre sents, but it is equally obvious that he can no longer return. City life has put a slight—a very slight edge on his humor; he shows a tendency to create drama where no drama should be and though he does this simply, smilingly, his failure to avoid it is a fault. Nevertheless, “State Fair” has something more than appeal and promise. It has life, it has strength, it has understanding. Classified Advertisements Rates Payable In Advance 10c a line for first insertion; 6c a line for each additional insertion. Telephone 3300; local 214 WANTED WANTED — Passengers to east coast. Oldsmobile coach leaving about June 10. Call C. B. Beall, 1335. WANTED—College man to work for large New York concern this summer. Salary $24 a week. Traveling expenses paid. Apply room 317. Eugene Hotel. M. J. Winninghoff, 9-12 a. m. MEN STUDENTS with ability for summer positions. Must be of high type, neat in appearance, and ambitious. Must not be afraid of hard work or of meet ing the public. See Miss Bailey at business ad office to arrange for personal interview. HOUSE managers attention—See Burr Fisher for painting and decorating. Phone 2028W. LOST LOST—Black leather note book last Friday. Please call 162-R. LOST—Large gold filigree pin be tween Deady and Corner Elev enth and Kincaid. Call 2788— Reward. LOST—A pair of glasses in case near Igloo Friday nite. Call Jack Granger, 1920. LOST—Brown leather case con taining pair of glasses. Call Mal veson Parker, 772. LOST—White beaded formal purse, May 13th. Call 688 Kate Coch ran. LOST—Kappa Delta Rho pin. Re turn Alpha Delta Pi. Reward. FOR SALE FOR SALE—Chevrolet ’30 sports roadster. Good condition. Six good tires. Student owner must sell. Cash or terms. Phone Ken Hamaker, at 1906. FOR RENT FOR RENT—Sleeping room and garage. $6. 662 E. 14th St. ATTRACTIVE furnished kitchen ette apartment over garage. Miss Alice Capps. 3240-J. FOR RENT -Six room furnished house. University district. Call 2626-J. MODERN rooms for women. 1140 Hilyard St. 871-M. MODERN rooms for women dur ing summer school. 1158 Hilyard St. Telephone 922-W. MISCELLANEOUS RINGLETTE PERMANENT push wave $4. Includes two free sham poos and finger waves. Neigh borhood Beauty Shop. 576 E. 16th. Phone 2376-W. NEW BEGINNERS7-1BALLROOM CLASS Starts Tuesday—8:30 P. M. MERRICK STUDIOS 861 Willamette Phone 3081 CURLY'S BARBER NOOK INDIVIDUAL HAIR-CUTTING Advice on care of hair & scalp 406 Miner Bldg. Phone 509 4 y