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EDITORIAL OFFICES, .Journalism Bldg. Phono 3300—Nows Room, Local 355: Editor and Managing Editor, Local 354. BUSINESS OFFICE. McArthur Court. Phono 3300—Local 214. University of Oregon, Eugene Richard NCuberger, Kditor Harry Schenk, Manager Sterling Green, Managing Kditor EDITORIAL STAFF Thornton Gale, Assoc. Ed. -lack Bellinger, Ed. Writer Dave Wilson, Ed. Writer UPPER NEWS STAFF XKJuy rtlllll’ .'Irttuun, xioofc. Ed. Oscar Mlinger, News Ed. Bruce Hamby, Sports Ed. Parks Hitchcock, Makeup Ed. Leslie Dunton, Bob Guild, Dramatics Ed. Jessie Steele. Women's Ed. Esther Hayden. Society Ed. Ray Clapp. Radio Ed. Chief Niffht Ed. DAY EDITORS: Bob Patterson, Margaret Bean, Francis Pal Itgter. Virginia Wentz, .Joe Saslavaky, Douglas Polivka. NIGHT EDITORS: Leslie Dunton, Hubert Totton, Myron Rick etts, Don Platt. SPORTS STAFF: Malcolm Bauer, Asst. Ed.; Ned Simpson, Dud Lindned, Bob Riddle, Ben Back. REPORTERS: Julian Prescott. Don Caswell. Hazlc Corrigan, Madeline Gilbert, Betty Allen, Ray Clapp. Ed Stanley, Fran cis Ballister, Mary Schaefer, Lucile Chapin, David Eyre, Bob Guild, Paul Ewing. Fairfax Roberts, Cynthia Liliequist, Ann Reed Burns, Peggy Chessman, Margaret Veness, Ruth King, Barney Clark. George Callas. COPY READERS: Harold Brower. Twyla Stockton, Nancy Lee, Margaret Hill, Edna Murphy. Monte Brown, Mary Jane Jenkins. Roberta Pickard. Marjorie McNiece, Betty Powell, Bob Thurston, Betty Ohlemiller, Marian Achterman, Hilda Gillum, Eleanor Norblad, Roberta Moody, Jane Opsund, Frances Rothwcll, Bill Hall, Caroline Rogers. RADIO STAFF: Ray Clapp, Editor; Benson Allen, Harold GeBauer. Michael Hogan. BUSINESS STAFF Manager, narry ocncmt Advertising Mgr., Hal E. Short National Adv. Mgr., Auten Hush Promotional Adv. Mgr., Nlahr Reymera Asst. Adv. Mgr., Ed Meserve Asst. Adv. Mgr., (Jil Wellington nr L. WIKI.. I3I1I | Circulation Nlgr., Grant Theum I mel | Office Mkt., Helen Stinger Class. Ad. Vljir., Althea Peterson Sez Sue, Caroline Hahn I Sez Sue Asst., Louise Rice The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Akso ciated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Mem her 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, 2H00. OUIt RHODES SCHOLARS III. IN TWO previous editorials the Emerald has at tacked the type of candidates selected for the annual Rhodes scholarships by the University of Oregon committee. We have pointed out how far the committee has drifted away from the balance of four qualifications laid down by Cecil Rhodes himself, and we have maintained that the qualifica tion of scholarship in candidates has almost eclipsed the other specified qualifications of fellowship, leadership, and sportsmanship. In this, the concluding editorial on this subject before the 1932 candidates are selected by the com mittee this Sunday, we will attempt to explain how this overemphasis on scholarship has grown up, to demonstrate the disappointing results of that over emphasis, and to make constructive suggestions for remedying the situation. Figures show that 70 per cent of returned Rhodes scholars become teachers. In.other words, the successful candidates have in the main been academically inclined youths who have regarded the scholarship chiefly as a stepping stone to a snug berth on some university faculty. With seven out of every ten Rhodes scholars in tent on a cloistered life in halls of learning, what chance have the young men "of power and promise” and "by character and circumstance likely to be of political and social influence in their country” ? We use those phrases because they were used in the first official instructions sent to the selection committees back in 1903. The reason for this situation is that the selec tion of the scholars is left almost entirely in the hands of college professors. It is only natural, no matter how regrettable, that they should favor can didates of their own kind. It is true that the dis trict committees, who finally pick the scholars, are composed largely of lawyers and other professional men, but they have to choose from the candidates that are forwarded to them by the faculty commit tees, so their hands are tied. Unless these faculty committees become more broad-minded, there is no hope of removing the overemphasis on scholarship unless prominent laymen are made voting members of the committee. Secondly, it is a waste of money to pick such a large proportion of academicians. Ithodes wanted these scholarships to broaden the outlook and in ternationalize the minds of political and social leaders in English-speaking countries. Our col lege professors are already our most truly inter national people. Most of them are well-travelled, cosmopolitan in outlook, well acquainted with the virtues of other civilizations. Why should the selection committees keep on picking candidates who are bound to become internationalized any way, through their teaching work? The Rhodes scholarships will never be of great value until the committees start sending over youngsters who are going to replace such narrow jingoists as “Big Bill" Thompson, William Randolph Hearst, Charles M. Schwab, and Gen. William Mitchell in the America of tomorrow. Why spend $192,000 a year to internationalize 90 internationalists? In many American universities, the students as a whole are allowed a voice in the selection of that university's candidates. This is but just, for ade quate testimony of a man's fellowship, leadership and sportsmanship can come only from his fellow students. Furthermore, a Rhodes scholar is in a very real sense the representative of his university's student body, and is the basis on which the English students and the other Rhodes scholars form their opinion of that university, it is certainly a reflec tion oil the fellowship and leadership aspects of a successful candidate if 90 per cent of his fellow students do not even know who he Is. Beginning next year, this student body should be allowed to express its approval of certain candi dates. A system should be worked out whereby that approval should be expressed without the inter- , play of “politics," and so that the committee would still be free to pick the men it chose. But the stu-1 dents would at least have had the opportunity to express their opinion on the type of man to repre sent them at Oxford. THE $ IS NOT OBTAINABLE 'T'O ANYONE confronted with the grave prob lem of getting together enough money to remain in college, another look at the picture which ap peared on page 1 of Thursday’s Emerald might not be out of the way. The photograph shows a young woman named Elena Percy driving nine head of cattle onto the campus of Louisiana State uni versity, which, incidentally, is Oregon’s opponent in an intersectional football game late this autumn. The caption goes on to explain that Miss Percy subsequently sold her nine head of cattle, and with the money derived therefrom enrolled at the uni versity. The rather spectacr'.ar exploit of Miss Percy is of no specific importance, but it points out a pow erful general moral. L ke innumerable other young men and women of the United States, Miss Percy found herself financially unable to attend college this fall. She was one of a vast group while she was in that predicament, but immediately became one of a select few when she showed the ingenuity and decisiveness to discover a new method of earn ing the money necessary to finance her education. There are numerous instances equally as com mendable, though perhaps not so sensational, as that of Miss Percy. They all illustrate the same general moral. Here at Oregon are conditions virtually identical to those at Louisiana State or any other American school. Students are pressed hard financially; jobs are few and far between; parents are denying themselves to give their sons and daughters a chance to obtain an education, and there also are opportunities for those sons and daughters to re lieve somewhat the burdens imposed upon their struggling parents. Jobs are difficult to find, that much is granted, but they are not impossible to obtain. There is a young man on the campus who is earning his way by getting orders for a large grocery firm; another is selling yearbook covers and printed material; several others are corresponding for newspapers; others are writing occassional feature stories for small magazines. And so it goes. Opportunity is what the indi vidual makes ol’ it. Shortly before the Santa Clara football game, a student who had been on the cam pus three years advised a newcomer to apply for a job taking tickets at Hayward field. The freshman pooh-poohed the idea, so the senior took the job himself and earned enough money to pay for two days' meals. HAMBY IS CRYSTAL-GAZING 'T'HE PROGNOSTICATIONS which Mr. Hamby ventures on the sports page this morning are entirely his own invention and the Emerald accepts no responsibility for them. In all fairness to our readers, however, we hasten to explain at this tinm that Mr. Hamby is not what one would call a "widely-recognized gridiron authority,” so his pre dictions must be taken with a grain of salt. Should anyone bet his hard-earned dollars on Mr. Hamby’s accuracy as a prognosticator, he does ' so at his own risk. In case some 200-pounder should do so, however, Mr. Hamby leaves Eugene for Portland today, and will remain secreted in the Rose City for several days. In only two of Mr. Hamby’s predictions are we vitally interested. He says Oregon will beat U. C. L. A., 7 to 6. We hope he is right in the outcome, but pray that the margin of difference is greater. He also predicts Purdue's Big 10 champions will down Wisconsin, 6 to 0. Doc Spears i3 coaching at Wisconsin, and Doc Spears was one of the ablest football coaches who ever set foot on Hayward field. So we conclude with: "Come on, Doc!’’ MRS. MOREY SAYS .... A FTER the first few years of married life, col lege women inevitably become dissatisfied and j unhappy. “They stir and yearn and think vaguely about what they might have been,” Elizabeth Morey makes this accusation in a recent article in Forum. After having no greater responsibilities than making her bed and attending enough classes to get passing marks, the average co-ed strolls forth from her alma mater with a sheepskin and an exaggerated opinion of her own worth. She has become a member of a privileged class, an elite few, above the plane of the rest of the world. When after a few years of marriage she finds herself unnoticed and neglected, she feels j hurt. Why has she wasted her talents on trying to make a home when the world thereby has lost a great artist of some sort? If the truth were known, so the author contends, these women have no spe cial interests or talents and never did have. They refuse to face their own mediocrity. A concert pianist will not neglect her piano because she an nexes a husband. We believe this author is correct in her assump tion that the average co-ed had no special inter ests even while in school. With a wealth of activi ties practically pounding at her door, with fascinat ing courses a bit out of her major line begging to be pursued, she slips through pipe geography and “lure of the arts” courses and daintily side-steps any extra-curricular activity which might interfere with her social or leisure life. Now is the time to acquire those special outside interests which will carry you through the stiffest depressions of pocket book or spirit. The opportunity is at hand. All you need do is take advantage of it. Sir Ronald Ross, 75, whose discovery that the anopheles mosquito carries the malaria parasite was responsible for controlling one of the world's most terrible scourges, died last week in London. They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. Shakespeare. ' A Decade Ago Itciiii Dailj 1.1nerald October 14, t»‘>2 No Early Dating AH dates made before the offl j cial opening of Senior la*ap week, October 30 to No\. Si, will not bind ; either of the contracting- parties. A four-way campus dance is set | for tonight, with the seniors dis porting themselves at tlie Campa Shoppe, the juniors whooping it i up in the men’s gym, the sopho mores waltzing at the Dreamlands , and the freshmen dancing in the i women's gym. * * * Then Vs Now The crippled \ursitj lines up against Multnomah todav minus Hie services oi Hal Chapman, quarterback; "Dutch” Uram, half back; and MoCraw and Akers from the line. Clipper Smith, who starred on Notre Dame, now seems to be the big man on the visiting eleven. There's a Keasou Kveuvatious for the new jour nalism building at the rear of Me < lure hall yesterday brought to light the tael that the structure must bi1 erected over a inucU hole in the Oligoeenc sandstone. Those who desire to witness the Oregon-ldaho game at Portland can secure a week-end round trip rate for $5.90. » Tomorrow They Meet - By KEN FERGUSON H Contemporary Opinion rT'HE Emerald’s recent sugges tion to play the Oregon-Ore gon State football game in Port land on a charity basis has aroused widespread comment throughout the state’s editorial columns. Some of the remarks on the situation is printed herein. This appeared in the Eugene Register-Guard: The alert editors of the Emer ald, student paper on the Uni versity campus, have brought for ward the suggestion that this year’s football game between the University and the State college should be played in Portland, with the profits of the game divided one-third to the University athlet ic association, one-third to the col lege association and the remaining third to Portland charity. The Emerald’s proposal will force a public decision on a ques tion that has been rumbling under cover for several weeks. This year’s game is set for November 5, the Saturday before the elec tion. The date was fixed long be fore anybody dreamed there ever would be an election involving one of the institutions. There is no way of changing dates in a compli cated conference schedule, but the embarrassments in playing this year's game in either of the college towns have long been obvious. The first suggestion to move the game came from Portland people who saw in the situation a chance to get a sure-profit game which might clear off the bonded debt on the Multnomah stadium. The of ficers of the Associated Students at the University were agreeable and went so far as to work out plans whereby alt the students of both schools could be given free transportation out of the addition al profits to be had in the larger city. The objections came from Corvallis, and the plan was reject ed finally. The Emerald's proposal opens the whole thing up again with the "cut” for Portland charity substi tuted for the not-so-popular plan of aiding the bondholders of Mult nomah stadium. With certain modifications, the' Emerald’s idea is entirely practicable and timely. Both schools will incur certain ex tra expenses in playing in Port land anil both are entitled to full compensation for all extra expense in transporting students and play ers and redeeming student tickets held on the Corvallis campus. These allowances might cut down the net profits quite a bit below the optimistic calculations of The Emerald, but there would still be a substantial share for each ath letic association and for Portland charities which are both needy and worthy. Both schools should prof it greatly in good will by making this cooperative gesture at a time when relations are supposed to be none too friendly. There need be no fear that this great annual af fair will be moved permanently to Portland, but in this particular year the change is desirable froth every viewpoint. Thousands who could not afford the long trip to Corvallis in addition to buying tick ets will be enabled to see a great contest. On the financial end the tifference is between a possible; maximum of 22.000 admissions and i possible 40,000 or even 50.000. Here is a situation where the ( chancellor and the state board might well step in to decide the ! question without further discus- j don. We hope the board will take ; this action when it meets next Monday.—Eugene Register-Guard. ‘ Here is what the Morning Ore gonian had to say: Play It on Home Grounds There recurs this year some ad vocacy of bringing the Oregon State-University of Oregon foot ball game to Portland. We think .it is a mistaken movement. That is the one game that ought to be played alternately on the univer sity and the college campuses at Eugene and Corvallis, respectively. It is a tradition of the years that is worth maintaining. Students of the two schools are the main factor to be considered in this. All of them want to see the all-Oregon game. Nearly all of them can make the short trip from Corvallis to Eugene or from Eugene to Corvallis for the occa sion, but relatively few can take time for a trip to Portland, nor can many afford the expense of rail roador bus fare and incidental costs for meals and incidentals here. The fullest attendance by students at this home-state foot ball classic ought to be facilitated I in all proper ways. That can only be done by making it a home-and home event. The university team has made an appearance in Portland this season and is to make another. The college team has played here. Portland always welcomes such events and “gates" are substantial. But university and college stu dents are entitled to have the all Oregon game played where most of them can afford to see it. * * This is from the Salem States man: The University of Oregon Emer ald, which we have had occasion to mention once or twice recently, is trying to put the state college “on the spot" by clamoring- for the 'Stater-Webfoot grid game to be transferred to Portland as a char ity affair. Advance notices of the “cam paign” which the Emerald plans to conduct sound objectionably dog matic, intimating that all parties concerned will be forced to show their hand and that the blame will be placed definitely if the game isn't transferred. The Emerald, as we have ob served heretofore, is being run by Dick Neuberger, former Oregon ian sport writer, who continues to have a Portland complex, and no doubt he counts upon, or has been promised, a lot of Portland sup port. We are not opposed to charity, nor do we question the necessity for large charity funds this year. But the need is not appreciably greater than last year, and we did not, at that time when the uni versity had its turn to decide where the game was to be played, notice any agitation nor any action to take the game away from Eugene and give it to charity. Instead, a post-season game was played in Portland for charity, the winner of the Stater-Webfoot game being scheduled to play it and Oregon State actually getting the call though the state classic was a scoreless tie. So now the university, and not tile college, owes Portland a char ity game, and we cannot see why 1 the college and Corvallis should be browbeaten and coerced. ;it looks as though young; Mr. Neu berger has ambitions to be a "Lit tle Caesar.” « * * The following was written by Burton Hutton in his sports col ULvn iu t *2? Corv^Ui? rimes. Its references to an al- ’ liance between Paul Kelty, editor of the Oregonian, and Dick Neu berger, editor of the Emerald, were proven incorrect the following day when the former advocated the re tention of the game at Corvallis: So the University of Oregon daily paper, the Emerald, is going to leave no stone unturned to get the state college-university foot ball game, scheduled for Corvallis, November 5, moved to Portland and then divide the profits 3-3-3 with one-third going to the jobless or any other kind of relief named. Mr. Djjck Neuberger, the Emer ald’s sophomore editor who is an Oregonian staff member, released this information “when in Portland yesterday.” The editorial carrying Neuberger’s comment was sup posed to have been published this morning. The university’s Port land daily, the Morning Oregon ian, printed it this morning, too. So that is the line now. No doubt the editorial was penned in the Oregonian offices and under the direction of anti consolidation interests, (university henchmen). No doubt that the drive by the university and Port land interests to get the Oregon Oregon State game moved out of Corvallis this fall now hits upon this Emerald editorial as a means of stirring up public sentiment against the college and Corvallis if they refuse to be sucked in by this “relief” hokum. Since Neuberger is an Oregon ian employe on “sabbatical leave” to attend the university and edit its daily sheet it would be only natural for him to work hand in hand with the powers seeking to keep that football game from be ing played in Corvallis this fall, the regularly scheduled location. They continue to talk about the increase in gate receipts. Portland has already shown that it cares lit tle for over one game. Additional expenses would be incurred in hav ing the game played in the “hog” city of Oregon. But it is not public relief which to us is behind this latest move, it is a last desperate foul drive to keep the game from being played in Corvallis for political reasons and those alone. We would be cha grined to think Carl Lodell’s office would fall for this line of bunk. We know he is too smart to be sucked in by a bunch of the political rack eteers which are seeking to run university athletics and at the same time discredit the state col lege which endeavors to play fair. Sooner or later the state at large will become aware that it is sup porting an educational institution of higher learning at Corvallis and a political melting pot at Eugene. promenade by carol hurlburt Since the days of the Ill-fated Narcissus, the women of the world, instead of the men. have been ac cused of Vanity. Recently, how ever, the homme du monde has be come clothes conscious. He bedecks j himself in a slightly more conspic- j uous fashion. Is it that men are becoming' vain, or is it that they are losing their self-confidence ? * * * To be correctly citified a man should wear a blaca bowler, which may supplement an outfit of grey or blue. The bowler is incorrect, however, unless worn with a stiff collar and black shoes. * * * Women change their minds so! • Two years ago they wore angel hats that sat on the back of the hf>;jh fc>** off the forshcsd Lsst spring the Empress Eugenie swooped elegantly upon us in full plumage. And now we wear cha peaux slapped sidewise on the head like inverted saucers. But from New York we hear: For the country, football games, and motoring (or do we motor?) ! the soft felt, worn with a soft col lar and brown shoes, is in vogue. . As to color, either a dark brown or a heather gray. The newest thing in the way of head-gear is the modified Hom burg with a curled bound brim. The new color is green, but while green is at present popular and , decidedly correct, we predict that! it will run but a brief course in \ the history of fashion. * * * Special from New York: “High fashion has gone low brow and the daring woman lets j her hat lie straight on a level with her eyebrows. If this style doesn’tj become her, she wears a hat that i dips down over the right eye. Hats rarely have brims and are high in the back. Have small decorations ' of little curled ostrich feathers or bows up in back and down in front. “Dancing hats are usually ap plique, have a small beguiling veil and reveal the hair, which must be fastidiously dressed, even in the topmost parts of the crown. Emerald Of the Air Bruce Hamby, Emerald sports i editor, will talk football, ultra plus. So tune in this afternoon on the 4:15 Emerald-of-the-Air program! and learn why Oregon has such a remarkable football team. Moonbeams By PARKS (TOMMY) HITCHCOCK Well! Well! Well! Today’s big ! scoop! It seems that Choppie Parke, Austin Colbert, and Chuck Wish ard are taking a course in SWED ISH FOLK DANCING up at the | Woman's building! The boys are right in the running as there are ! more women than there are men ; in the class. What’s this rumor about Butch | Morse being that way over a cer I tain Kappa ? # * * And speaking of Kappas, has everybody heard about the long ! and lovesick letter that Phoebe Thomas has received from the full back on the Santa Clara football team ? The last bit of dirt from Port land. It appears that some kindly soul made out a check payable to Sadie Zilch (bless her heart) and signed it Josie Zilch, and then dropped it in the center of the aisle on the rooter’s special. The conductor picked up the check (it was for seventy-five dollars) and gave it to. the station agent who promptly wrote down here to see who lost it. * # 4: A pal of ours Was Doctor Spears; He never stopped To wash his ears. * * * And what's the dope on Pozzo, the lovesick letter-writer—“Ge0, you’re nice looking, Mac. I’m just beginning to realize it.” Well! Well! Anselmo! What a note. $ * * And, oh, yes, what’s this on Grace Lynch? Didn’t she get a long letter from a certain friend in Washington, D. C., recently? * * * Up in the law school they’re boosting Don Eva for the post of best dressed man in the building. The only objection, a certain per son advises us, is that Don is a bit too stout. In fact, they go so far as to say that the chief difference between Don and the Graf Zeppe lin is that most people get a stiff neck from leaning back and gazing at the Graf. Who was that Adonis that Helen Raitcnen was admiring so intently in the libe yesterday? The A. T. O.'s have made a dras tic step to increase their popular ity. The other night, when they had an exchange dinner with the Alpha Chi's, they chartered a bus to go over and get the girls. Ev- i erything went fine, Neal Bush ad- \ vises us, except that one couple ; was left and had to hoof it. We wonder why (or who) is it that Ray (Why Dance) Green keeps chasing up to Portland ev ery week-end ? It must be pretty generally known by now that Michael, the great. Mikulak's name is interpret ed in his own language as Santa Claus. We wondered why those Kappas kept hanging around him. What’s this we hear about John Shaw breaking his schnozzle in three different places in a recent affair ? * * * The prize story goes to Doc Ire land. who fell asleep in Jimmy Gil bert's class and heard the ques tion, “If you were taking money for a debt, would you rather have gold or greenbacks?" “I’ll take silver,” shouts Ireland from his doze. A pal of ours Is Kenton Case; He leads his babe At an awful pace. And a certain person has been informing us of that trip to San Jose that Reischmiller and Long aker took in recently. * * * Mickey Vail seems to have tak en up bicycling. Why? The Pi Kaps notify us that they have a new vacuum cleaner and suggests that it might be a good place to pick up some more dirt. The Safety Valve An Outlet for Campus Steam All communications arc to bp ad dressed to the editor. Oregon Daily Emerald, and should not exceed 200 words in length. betters must lie signed, but should the writer prefer, only initials will be used. The editor maintains the right to withhold publi cation should he see fit. To the Editor: I wish to point out to your read ers that it may be easier to appre ciate the current series of edito rials on the Rhodes Scholarships in the light of two or three perti nent facts concerning Cecil Rhodes, Oxford, and England. The first of these relates to a previous will, invalidated by the one providing for the scholarships, but furnishing an index to the mo tives underlying this subsequent will. At that time he intended that his estate should be devoted to a secret society to further the inter ests of the British Empire and to reunite to it the seceded Ameri can colonies. No mention of this plan is made in the present will, but it seems reasonable that the original aim was not abandoned and that Rhodes adopted a differ ent means to the attainment of this end. It follows that all pa triotic and right-thinking Ameri cans should thank the committees of selection who have cunningly prevented our potential leaders from being made the dupes of this nefarious plan, sending in their stead bookworms, insulated against these subversive doctrines by the covers of pondrous tomes. Since the selection committees cannot in conscience follow the spirit of the will, they have very sensibly chosen to select people least likely to tread on the toes of our British cousins or to fill their minds with wonder concerning this strange, outlandish country and its strange, outlandish cus toms. It is rather doubtful wheth er Cecil Rhodes, the British Em pire, or Oxford university would esteem our notoriously mediocre and uninteresting student body of ficers; our professional gladiators, unable to represent Oxford at any sport except track and lacrosse, the two games we have in com mon; our budding journalists, “plus royaliste que le roi”—more reac tionary than the Mo’/iing Oregon ian; our boresome, fact-grubbing debaters; our activities people, the porters of bleachers and hangers of cheese-cloth, doing for nothing what is done at Oxford by people hired out of funds not needed for the building of basketball pavil ions and football stadia. Not only would these our lead ers make Oxford unhappy: they would themselves be idle and un happy, for there are no student body offices; the athletes on trips, being big boys, buy their own tick ets (out of their own money); there is no school of journalism; and there is no ritualistic yelling by the spectators at games. It is true, however, “that Eng land and the British Empire draw a good share of their public men from Oxford.” The reason is known to anyone conversant with English politics and diplomacy. The fact is that politics, either as diplomat, civil servant, or M. P„ is looked upon as the career for young men of ability and charac ter. In our country such young men, if ambitious, enter business, if not, remain in academic life. One hopes that the Emerald edi torial writers will return to the more serious business of denounc ing corruption in student politics, leaving their readers to contem plate the benevolent deception be ing practiced on poor, helpless Mr. Rhodes. Robert Jackson. To the Editor: The Emerald must be commend ed on this week's charitable feel ing.] Perhaps such spontaneous outbursts of sympathy will yet demonstrate that we, the younger generation, may save the race. But why should Portland's needy be the sole objects of our charity? Why should we not go three ways, say, with the Benton or Lane county chests? And why was not this charitable idea suggested for other Portland games? In September each student con tributes §10.25 to student body funds, and hopes to get returns largely in games. Although Port land is supposed to be “home ground.” he must pay again to see James there—after paying railroad fare. What “influence’’ is back of this game moving? The S. P. and O. E. for the additional fares? No. that is too crude. Doggone it, it looks like a nigger in the wood pile. just the same John E. Caswell.