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C MmfaB; EDITORIAL OFFICES. Journalism Bldg. Phone 3300—News Room. Local 355; Editor and Managing Editor, Local 354. BUSINESS OFFICE, McArthur Court. Phone 3300 Local 214. University of Oregon, Eugene Richard Neuberger, Fditor Harry Schenk, Manager Sterling Green, Managing Fditor EDITORIAL STAFF Thornton Gale, Assoc. Ed. Jack Bellinger, Ed. Writer Dave Wilson, Ed. Writer UPPER NEWS STAFF Betty Anne Macduff, Asst. Mg. ! John Gross, Literary Ed. Ed. ! Boh Guild, Dramatics Ed. Oscar Munger, News Ed. j Jessie Steele, Women's Ed. Bruce Hamby. Sports Ed. j Esther Hayden. Society Ed. Parks Hitchcock, Makeup Ed. Ray Clapp, Radio Ed. Leslie Dunton, Chief Night Ed. DAY EDITORS: Hob Patterson, Margaret Bean, Francis Pal lister. Virginia Wentz, Joe Saslavsky, Douglas Polivka. NIGHT EDITORS: Leslie Dunton, Hubert Totton, Myron Rick etts, Don Platt. SPORTS STAFF: Malcolm Bauer, Asst. Ed.; Ned Simpson, 0 Dud Lindned, Bob Riddle, Ben Back. REPORTERS: Julian Prescott, Don Caswell. Hazle Corrigan, Madeline Gilbert. Betty Allen, Ray Clapp, Ed Stanley, Fran cis Ballister, Mary Schaefer, Lucile Chapin, David Eyre, Boh Guild, Paul Ewing. Fairfax Roberts, Cynthia Liljequist, Ann Peed Burns, Peggy Chessman, Margaret Veness, Ruth King, Barney Clark. George Cal las. COPYREADERS: Harold Brower, Twyla Stockton, Nancy Lee, Margaret Hill. Edna Murphy. Monte Brown, Mary Jane Jenkins, Roberta Pickard. Marjorie McNiece, Betty Powell, Boh Thurston, Bitty OhlemiJIer, Marian Achterman, Hilda Gillum, Eleanor Norhlad, Roberta Moody, Jane Opsund, Frances Rothwell, Bill Hall, Caroline Rogers. RADIO STAFF: Ray Clapp, Editor; Benson Allen, Harold GcBauer, Michael Hogan. BUSINESS STAFF .manager. riarry ocm-im Advertising Mgr.. Hal E. Short National Adv. Mgr., Auten Hush Promotional Adv. Mgr., Mahr Reymers Aast. Adv. Mgr., E<l Mesorve Asst. Adv. Mgr., Gil Wellington Asst. Adv. Mkt., Hill Russell Circulation M^r., Grant Theum mel Office Mvrr., Helen Stinger Class. Ad. Mki'., Althea Peterson Sez Sue, Caroline Hahn Sez Sue Asst., Louise Rice The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Asso ciated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Mem ber of the Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the post office at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates $2.50 a year. Advertising rates upon application. Phone Manager: Office, Local 214: residencce, 2800. CHARITY TO THE FRONT THE EMERALD this morning concludes its ef forts to urge Oregon and Oregon State to play a charity game in Portland November 5. This paper believes it has done its part in suggesting the enterprise, and now withdraws from the cam paign, leaving the decision to the authorities of the two institutions. There has been considerable condemnation of the project and there also has been some praise. The Emerald has been influenced by neither. It still believes the original suggestion a good one and thinks the University and college would be contributing a commendable service to the com monwealth by playing for charity at Multnomah stadium. Its previous statement that charity, and char ity alone, prompted the original suggestion is re iterated by the Emerald at this time. Castigations and insinuations that there were other motives are untrue, and herewith are summarily denied. When it first started the movement, this paper had in mind the creation of a situation similar to that which has existed for three years between the United States Army and Naval academies. Each autumn the two great military institutions have played their annual game at neutral stadiums, pre ferably those with the largest seating capacity. The receipts have gone to charity, and the midshipmen and cadets have been transported to the contest from Annapolis and West Point in special trains. The rivalry between the Army and Navy in the East is analogous to that existing between Oregon and Oregon State in Oregon, and this paper be lieves a similar arrangement could be worked out in regard to a benefit football game. Even if a charity contest is not played this sea son, the Emerald hopes that its suggestion may bear fruit in that direction in the years to come. If that occurs, then the efforts of this paper will not have been in vain. NOW TURN TO PAGE I T> EAD Mr. Prescott’s story on page 1 this morn ing. Then consider how many like it you have read in previous years. What’s the matter with politics on this campus? Unless some im provement is shown in the near future, student | government lube will die a natural death. You can't continue something that is forever the object j of criticism and condemnation. Last year at this time the freshman elections of 1931 were running the gauntlet of denunciation. Now another fresh man election is under fire. Obviously something must be done about this. If no logical solution presents itself, a revision In the system of class governing might be advisable. No elections are better than elections conducted under dubious circumstances. The Emerald is advocating no change at this' time. It merely suggests that you consider the situation carefully. The paper wonders how many other people on the campus thought the same of the election as Herb King. AUTUMN RAIN’S /"lO-EDS in slickers. The flash of blazers blue, yellow, brown, dripping with the unexpected downpour. Cigarette butts stopping sewers as the water gurgles plaintively through matted grates. Co-ed raincoats are more colorful than in former years. Many whites, blues, and toned-down reds. There are recollections of other days, of other | nights, with the quadrangle hazy in misted moon light. Autumn is the saddest time of the year. | Leaves scrape protestingly along the pavements as the expectatoin of winter hangs heavily in cool afternoons and the dusk of dinner time. Strangely enough after four years, the first rain of the season never fails to leave this impres sion with us. An impression of spring far behind, of winter approaching. Even the temporary color of I he football season fails to dispell the gloom of 1 rain. , ON MU. WILSON'S KKMAKKS ^AUR Mr. Wilson becomes iiuite irritated else where on ihi- page over the fact that a young lady, whose year , in our school number only two, sat on the senior bench several days ago. We hope that the young lady whom Mr. Wilson mentions will not take his rebuff to heart. Mr. Wilson was himself a sophomore once, and before that a freshman, so he speaks kindly, and his mood is more fatherly than hostile. But Mr. Wilson is absolutely right when he says the traditions committee should begin to function. We agree with him in his urge that tire committee start at once. Believe u. il Barker when ue say that your I brief pause on the senior bench is not the cause 1 for our rebuke of the traditions committee. We would not expect the traditions committee to be so unchivalrous as to ask someone as fair as your-; self to move on just because you didn't happen to ! i be a senior and were sitting on the senior bench. j j But there are any number of freshman boys j walking around the campus without their little: I green caps, and it is these offenders whom the j traditions committee must seek out and reprimand. So, thank you, Miss Barker, for calling the at-1 I tention of Mr. Wilson to the laxity of the traditions j I committee ,and thank you, Mr. Wilson, for ealling ! our attention to your comment thereon. ----_ OUR RHODES SCHOLARS n. “Cecil Rhodes was too much a man of the world to suppose that attainments of the strictly academical sort are all that are essen tial to the making of a man. His bequest wisely provides that not scholastic tests alone shall be applied in the selection of the benefi ciaries, but that these shall be supplemented by tests of character, and even of physical en dowment, to an extent that on the whole sub ordinates the intellect to the sum total of the other qualities of mankind.” * * * ' i 'HE ABOVE statement appeared in the “Dial magazine of May 1, 1902. It was publishei shortly after the terms of the will by which Ceci Rhodes established the Rhodes scholarship had beei made public. It is an interpretation of the inten lion of Rhodes which was universally accepted a that time. And it is republished in the Emerah just four days before our faculty committee meet: to nominate the University of Oregon candidate: for the 1932 Rhodes scholarships. Cecil Rhodes wanted “men four-square” to go his scholarships. He recommended in his will tha they be given students who combined most equit ably the following traits: 1. Literary and scholastic ability and attain ments. 2. Qualities of manhood: truth, courage, devo tion to duty, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellow ship. 3. Exhibition during school days of moral fore: of character and of instincts to lead and take at interest in his school-mates. 4. Fondness for sports. It goes without saying that a Rhodes scholai should have shown himself of keen intellect by i scholarship record well above the average. Bu Cecil Rhodes considered the other side of a man’: character to be so important that he virtually re peats himself three times in his list of qualifica tions in order to make it most emphatic. What do points 2, 3, and 4 in his qualification: sum up to? If we look beneath their surface wi can hear the spirit of Rhodes saying something like this: “I want young men who are interested in life who find zest in living. I want young men wh< are natural leaders among their school fellows who are willing to fight for a cause. I want youne men who know the meaning of sportsmanship, whc like team-play and clean competition on the play ing field or any other field. “I do not want young men who are interestec only in themselves and their studies. They are apl to be amiable introverts, devoid of spirit and of tht instincts of leadership.” Rhodes’ ideas were sound. His apologists ofter say that the tradition of Oxford scholarship is oi more importance than the intention of his will. Wt disagree. The Rhodes scholarships were never in tended to be research fellowships, to be handed out to “finical pedants” as a chance for a three year flight into the higher reaches of mathematics, physics, or Roumanian poetry of the Dark Ages. Rhodes intended his scholarships for men oi "power and promise,” for “men who by character and circumstance are likely to be of political and social influence in their country.” That’s the type he wanted, and he said as much one, two, three times in his list of four qualifications. It is too bad that within 30 years after Rhodes’ death, the University of Oregon committee of selection seems to be blind to the significance of three out of the four qualifications for a Rhodes scholar. YOUTH’S CHALLENGE TO YOUTH f^iOLLEGE men are men who like to consider themselves a bit in the future of things, never in the past. They want to be up to the minute on everything that’s going on in the world, both on the campus and off. It is natural for them to go to older men for advice, but it is among the young men that they seek their leaders. He who serves in a position such as that of ex ecutive secretary of the campus Y. M. C. A. should be a man who has experience enough to act in an advisory capacity and who has youth enough and life enough to be a real leader of young men. We believe that the men who have held such positions in the past were essentially men of this type. Yet, we believe that the University is especially fortunate this year in having a man just graduated from college, himself a graduate student here, as executive secretary of the student Y. M. C. A. Under his guidance, the “Y" should be able to carry forward a real program that will have some real meaning to the campus. Julius A. Oettinger, n stamp collector, has dis covered, after some research, that there are 28 vil lages and cities in the United States named Wash ington. Six of these join in claiming the honor of being the first so named. Washington, Va., he says, really is the first. Most of them are very small in population. Washington, D. C., is the largest and the smallest is Washington, W. Va., with a population of 36. More titan 450 counties, rivers, lakes, mountains and forts are named after Xhc first president, the only stale in the Union not hav ing a geographical object so named being Wyoming. The historic U. S. S. Constitution, as well known ts "Old Ironsides," now in harbor at Washington. D. C., has a postoffice hidden away in it, where those who wish may mail letters which will be stamped “U. S. S. Constitution—Washington. D. C." and an unofficial catchet picturing the frigate .sail ing closehauled with sails set. More than 500,000 letters have been mailed m this postoffice since the first stamp was cancelled in it September 10. 1981. 1 try to malic the enemy wonder what 1 am joing to do.—Grant. How About It? - . By KEN FEhGUSON CAMPUS j CARAVAN _By DAVE WILSON-1 : /pHERE wasn t much or a cara 1 van along 13th avenue yester day. Along came a little drizzle of rain, and everyone ran for cover. It’s the first wet weather we’ve had in Eugene for six weeks, but if it lasts for three days half of us will be growling about “this awful climate." * * * Several things happened before the rain began. F’rinstance: Elea nore Barker, only a sophomore, re clining on the senior bench. It’s high time for our traditions com mittee to swing into action. We don’t give a whoop whether the frosh wear green-lids, or tuxedos, | or chips on their shoulders, but when underclass .women start us ; ing the senior bench, something must be done. * * * Said traditions committee must have a lot of faith in the frosh. Everyone knows they won’t wear those jockey-caps unless there’s some sanction (translator's note: means of enforcement, such as hacking) behind the tradition. A good rule is never to have “no faith in nobody,” particularly doc tors and nurses. A friend of ours took a heat-lamp treatment at the infirmary the other day. The nurse just forgot him for an hour or so, and now he’s being treated for a bad case of "baked boosom.” * * * Personality snap: Betty Anne Macduff saying : "Gosh, l m sleepy! I was up till eleven o’clock last night!” * * * A month from today: Automo bile enforcement committee still making rapid progress in review ing petitions for cars. They ex pect to be out of the trenches by Christmas. * * * Did you read where an ex-pro fessor at Oregon State has been promoted ? Now he’s “assistant director of education” at San Quentin. * sjs * Statement of Policy The “Caravan” feels that spicy bits about sororities and fraterni ties are a drug on the market. The Greek tongs are like the poor in more than one way this year, but they're always with us. So far this column hasn’t given any so rority a publicity break, and what's more, it's not going to. We haven’t had an invitation to tea for six months. * Sit * But did you read the story about the San Diego State college prof who declared that the “average fraternity and sorority, especially the ritualistic sort, is a subversive and frustrating institution.” (Yes terday’s Emerald). That guy must have been the Campus Prowler at more than one college. | promenade by carol hurlburt “In the west a kiss is worth nothing; In the east a man's life is worth nothing.” I paraphrase: On the campus a kiss is worth nothing; In a nudist’s colony clothes are worth nothing.. * * * Color is the thing which can change a woman from looking like a long cold drink of water to look ing like a wisp of flame, and the j vogue in color changes more rap idly than the line and cut of La , long’s latest creations. And here is news that will make a number of us feel passe even this early in the season: our spe jcial correspondent in New York City, Beth Ann Johnson, who was grduated from the University of Oregon last spring, writes: “Wine is practically out here already, and j tlie brighter and lighter shades of i red are much newer. Wine is still smart, however, for accessories. * * * » * * “The shade of shades worn by the elite is gray. .Combinations of gray and brown are dashing and in excellent taste. A very dark brown is also good." * * - * Gray is one of the hardest col ors to wear. To do it justice a wo man should have a certain air of ! aristocracy and distinction. Should know how to carry herself, should have a fine skin and a clear com plexion. * $ * But if you can wear gray, by all means invest in a new outfit, be cause gray adds an air of tempt ing reserve and mystery to the wearer. The newest thing out in the line of men’s apparel is the brace, to be worn in place of a belt with draped trousers. It seems that belts aren’t practical with the new pleated waists, which are almost two inches higher than the old ones. * * * These braces, by the way, are creating somewhat of a sensation. They are made of leather (pigskin is exceedingly popular), are quite narrow, and are equipped with small clips. * * I The unhappy beau brummell will find these clips a god-send because they attach to the shirt front, hold ing it flat across the chest and prevent it from wrinkling around the collar. Can be purchased at the Collegiate Men's Wear shop on Thirteenth. * * * We select for Promenade: Car lyle Sprague, because she wears an outfit of the bright new red, bandelero. A coat of rough nobby wool with wide mink-trimmed sleeves, a dress of soft wool crepe which boasts a detachable neck piece of leopard. With this ensem ble, she wears black accessories. Three Decades Ago From Oregon Weekly October 13, 1902 The April Frolic Clannish'.’ The junior maidens of the Fni \ ersity .of California gave the freshman girls what they termed a Dove Party. In reality it was a tcmininc edition of the old stag party of the sterner sex. We hope no such fad will come in vogue here, as it looks to be so clannish. * * * Senator R. A. Booth of Eugene has in the last few days made a gift of $11,000 to Willamette uni versity. * * * Well Received! I lit annual reception of the lit erary societies to new students took place in the gymnasium Sat urday evening. * * * Philologian and Laurean liter ary societies meet in Deady hall at 8 p. m. on Friday. Eutaxiar ' literary society also meets ir Deady hall Friday, but at 4 p. m # ♦ ♦ Librarian Wore Frosh Crown! M. F. McClain was elected presi dent of the freshman class at theii first meeting, held Wednesday af . ternoon in Viiiard hall. Safety Valve An 6utlet for Campus Steam All communications are to be ad dressed to the editor, Oregon Daily Emerald, and should not exceed 200 words in lenpth. Letters must be signed, but should the writer prefer, only initials will be used. The editor maintains the right to withhold publi cation should he see fit. I When the suggestion was orig inally made to move the big game to Portland it was defeated. Now, lo and behold, in the name of char ity, everyone thinks it would be a grand idea to play there. It shows how much people can be swayed from a rational attitude by some one waving an emotional appeal in their faces; they just can’t seem to get on the bandwagon quickly enough. If charity is to be a factor why not play the game at Corvallis and give charity a cut opt of the re ceipts, and use that money for helping local conditions which are just as bad, and where there isn’t as much wealth to help the needy as in Portland ? It may also go further! There will be many more stu dents who can afford to go to Cor vallis to see the game than can go to Portland. Doesn’t charity start at home? Portland, for a long time has been trying under one guise or an other to have the game moved there; and do you think for one moment that if we play at Port land this year that it is going to be easy to have the game at Eu gene next year? They will say, “look how much more the game can draw in Portland," and we will | be left with a few “breathers" | played at Eugene with all the big games at Portland. If charity is the real reason for the move and if so, just how much will the needy benefit from the game ? It bears every taint of a success ful oil promoter saying to his none : too promising neighbor—“Brush your teeth four times a day instead of three and you will be a suc cess!” Portland is trying to get our only last big tradition and if we aren't careful, our university goes next. (Signed! Ivan Kafoury. To the Editor: In connection with the com mendable effort of the Emerald ] to have the Oregon State game j played at Portland for the benefit I of the needy, may I suggest that i the endorsement and cooperation j of Dr. Kerr be secured as an ' added impetus to this worthy | move. The appointment of Dr. Kerr to I the post of chancellor of higher 1 education was a tribute to his sin j cerity of purpose and an acknowl 1 edgment of his freedom from in i stitutional bias. I feel certain that he will have the moral cour age. as well as the requisite vi 1 sicn. to risk criticism of the dis i grunt led and add his influence to ] effecting a transfer of the annual game to Portland. Critics of the proposal maintain that the motive prompting the suggested transfer of the game is an effort to hit the Zorn-Mac pherson school moving bill. Even assuming that this were true, the spirit of impartiality that has actuated Dr. Kerr in all his offi j cial duties would induce him to commend the shift of the scene of the game to a neutral zone. As to the alleged “upset” of a traditional series, may I suggest that the University more than meet this argument by offering to play the 1933 game at Corvallis j instead of Eugene. At any rate, an opportunity is presented to Dr. Kerr to demon strate to the students of the Uni versity and the citizens of the i state his ability to rise above the J moment and voice in clear and un ! certain language his approval of j the humane and thoughtful pro I posal that the Emerald has spon j sored. Stephen B. Kahn. i---, Moonbeams By PARKS (TOMMY) HITCHCOCK SCOOP Well, well! Our student body prexy and little Marian have agreed to sign articles at last. And WHAT a surprise! They’ve only been going around together these two years. * $ * From J. C. President to Student pre*y! * * ® Vote on for mighty Bobby Hall I Speaking of ballots we’ll get them j all. ! So cast another one for Bill Bow erman. We’ll give ’em Hell for M. Tarbell, Oh, politics is fun. * * * Hey Nonny-nonny! * * * # A guy we hate Is Tommy Clapp He picks his teeth With a bottle cap. * * * i The feature event of the eve ning, folks: Don Eva, the SAE ' threat, »vs. a milkshake. After 40 miles the milkshake scored a i win via the knockout route! * * * And what’s the deal about these four Phi Psi's paying such 1 marked attention to one Delta Zeta in Portland? * * * A pal of ours Is Walter Gray He always knows Just what to say. * * * Well, well, well! Was it li'l Vir Emerald Of the Air Benson Allen, director of musi cal presentations, has arranged a musical program featuring Sigrid Christ in vocal numbers with Helen Shive as accompanist to re lieve the tedium of “news notes” on the Emerald-of-the-Air broad cast at 4:15 this afternoon. Emerald and Register - Guard editorials were read and comment ed on over the air yesterday. ginia Howard (who incidentally is a second cousin of the well-known dance maestro, Cole McElroy) swiping the sign from the Collitch Side last night? * * * I met a gal her name was Mabel She was an Alpha Chi Omega She could tell a mink from a sable, But she never purchased one. Tune: I had a dog and his name was fido. * * * WHAT'S the deal about little Maryann McNamara, the erst while Fiji sweetheart, promenad ing a Phi Delt pin around the campus ? Oh, M-C-N-A-M-A R-A! * * * A guy we know Is Carl Lodell, When asked for dough, He raises-spinach. * * * And, Oh, Jean Frazier and other Thetas! We heard you serenading last Sunday's rooter train. Pretty good, too. * * H* And remember: Prosperity is just around the corner, as the Sig ma Chi said as he gazed at the Chi Psi lodge. This ’n That What’s Happening at the Colleges CLINTON, N. C., Oct. 11.—(IP) —The 225 students of Presbyterian college here, who left the campus in June rejoicing in the decision of the board of trustees of the insti tution lifting the ban on dancing on the campus, are eagerly await ing the board’s reaction to the rec ommendation of the Presbyterian synod of South Carolina that the restriction be again placed on the students. The synod had before it, as well, a resolution to prohibit the stu dents from dancing anywhere and to make it a sin for members of the church in the state to dance, but this resolution was defeated. DeNeffe’s ; Offer the Latest in Rain Togs Trench Coats $3-00 to $6-50 Suedene Ulsters $7.50 * Corduroy Polos $9.00 All Designed and Created for 1 his Oregon "Mist” DeNeffe’s McDonald Theatre Building !
