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WASHINGTON CO-OP ON THE SPOT
A STUDENT committee, backed by the Wash
ington Daily and officers of the A. S. U. W.,
is conducting an investigation of the Washington
co-op store. The student committee charges that
students have had to pay unfair and irregular prices
on books and other merchandise. During the in
vestigation the co-ops of other institutions will be
studied as well as the office management of the
local store.
If Washington wishes to know how the busi
ness is carried on successfully at other colleges,
we would suggest a study of the Oregon co-op sys
tem. Here we receive our textbooks practically at
cost, yet the store is able to return a handsome
profit on its other merchandise. This in spite of
the competition of surrounding businesses. Prices
charged for books are practically always the same
us the publisher’s wholesale list price.
Every student at Oregon is part of the Uni
versity co-op. He takes a direct part in the elec
tion of the board of directors and an indirect part
in the formation of their policies. If any student
is dissatisfied with the way the store is being run,
he Is perfectly privileged to bring his allegations
and evidence before the annual meeting.
We congratulate the Washington student body
on their courage in facing a crucial situation. While
we don’t believe that in most cases such drastic
action is necessary, student government is always
justified in carrying on any Investigation that it
'deems necessary.
Generally satisfactory adjustments can be made
without the necessity of involving the whole col
lege in scandal. Occasionally tiie real situation Is
misunderstood by the campus. The Washington
store may charge its prices because of the neces
sity of meeting overhead and other expenditures.
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made public.
When actual injustice is done, however, we are
glad to see that student government can air its
own linen. Sometimes strong political factions are
able to dictate policies over a long period of lime, j
When these policies become corrupt or inefficient,
it is the prerogative of the students not only to
demand an investigation, but dismissal of the of
fenders. We await with interest publication of the!
investigating committee's report.
1NTKAMIKAL FOOTBALL! WHAT?
AT Stanford, generally recognized as one of the
nation’s notable universities, they are eon
ducting an intramural football program and hav
ing a bully time doing so. The young undergrad
uates are so enthusiastic in the contesting of these,
encounters that the excitement and color rival that
of varsity games. There are numerous other col
leges in the country besides Stanford busily en
gaged in staging intramural football games, but
the Palo Aito school is a prime example, both be
cause it is so relatively close to Oregon and be
cause its program is so wide in its scope.
Every male student at Stanford has an oppor
tunity to play football. Those able to make neither
the varsity nor goof squads can participate in intra
mural competition. Freshmen can try out for the
freshman team; if they can t climb the grade there,
it is their prerogative to change to the intramural
league.
Intramural football here at Oregon would be a
welcome Innovation. The reasons are obvious You
can’t operate a successful golf club if you permit
only those who shoot below 75 to play. Neither
can football be a complete success if only the top
notchers can compete. Intramural football here,
not between houses and halls, necessarily, but be
tween the classes, would attract at least five times
as many as now take part in varsity football.
Certainly it would be of immeasurable value to
the football coaches. Right now on the varsity
bench there are boys figuratively eating their
hearts out because they don’t play. Wouldn't it
help both them and the coach if they could get
into an intramural game once or twice a week?
What coach wouldn’t welcome a system that would
enable him to watch virtually every athletically
i inclined boy in school show his stuff on the foot
| ball field ? He would be certain to note more than
■ one varsity prospect in action.
The vicarious pleasure obtained watching a,
football spectacle from the stands hes its value,
but to the boys who love the game itself, nothing
I ever will replace the thrill and zest of actual com
petition. Wc realize that the adoption of an intra
mural football program would encounter consider- j
able difficulties, not the least of Which would be
finances, but it is wo thwnlle thinking over care-j
fully.
.Should regulation f lotball be thought too rough
and bruising for Intr imural requirements, there!
always is the possibility of ‘‘touchball.” It does!
not need the elaborate protective equipment neces
sary for regulation football, yet it Is a game of
action and skill.
’TWAN Tift, NIGHT BEFORE UHRISTMAS
WE look With sympathy and toleration upon j
the young man who thinks his toy train is|
the Overland limited. In the same manner we re-;
gard the little girl who plays With dolls. The identi
cal applies to our attitude towards the chydren
who sit up Christmas eve waiting for Santa Claus.
These things being considered, we must arrive
at the conclusion that the senior class looked at
Tuesday night’s freshman walkout as its compo
nent members would have done had the freshmen
suddenly decided to hang their stockings by the
fireplace and Wait up all night for Chris Kringle.
The attitude of the seniors towards the walkout
was encouraging. If next year’s upper-classmen
are as sagacious, freshman walkouts, which have
about as much place in the life of an educational
institution as a cfoss-country running expert in
the athletic system of a state penitentiary, will be
extinct.
The freshmen don’t hang up their stockings any
more on Christmas eve, but their method of pro
cedure the night of their yearly walkout is deplor- ■
ably similar. They go about mysteriously on tip
toes. They whisper: “We’ll sneak out and no
body'll know anything about it.”
Fifteen years ago those same freshmen said:
"We’ll sit up tonight, and nobody except Santa'll |
know anything about it.”
And the big seniors growl: "Let the kids have t
their fun. They think we don’t know anything
about it. But we'll show 'em. We’ll just pay no !
attention and let it go at that.”
Fifteen years from now those same seniors will
say: "Let the children have their fun. They think
we don’t know anything about it. But we’ll show |
’em. We’ll just pay no attention, and then pretend
we’re Santa Claus ourselves after they fall asleep.”
The seniors played the part of adults Tuesday
night. The freshmen, trying to believe they were
putting over something Which they knew they j
weren’t, were little children waiting for Santa
Claus.
And you don't believe in Santa, do you, boys j
and girls?
A SUGGESTION ABOUT BOOKS
WITH another Book Week at hand, we nat-1
urally turn our thought to the library and
its contents. Most of us turn for guidance in read
ing to the librarians. However, we must remem
ber that there are members of the faculty who,
although they are especially interested in their
own particular field, are yet so widely read that
they are inspiring and intelligent guides to stu
dents interested in reading worthwhile books.
Some of us are apt to think only of the libra
rians when thinking of books. It is gratifying to
know that many of our professors are not only
interested in assignments in their own special fields
but have also taken upon themselves to be what
Emerson called "Professors of Books.”
A student who competed in the recent freshman
reading contest paid especial tribute to one pro
fessor who from time to time mentioned books,
which although they were not connected closely
with the course, opened up to the freshman vistas
of knowledge which might otherwise have been
closed to him. We wonder if all the professors
realize the great opportunities which they some
times neglect because they are too interested in
the day-to-day assignments of their classes.
MASS MUSK’ PRODUCTION
EVERY Tuesday and Thursday at 9 o’clock more
than two hundred students brave the long
walk and the inclemency of the weather lo assem
ble at the music building in search of cultural in-j
spiration. Under the direction of Dean Landsbury
the two hundred aspirants listen to phonograph
records, organ, piano, and so forth, in an effort to
note some of the things introduced in the lectures.
The name of the course is Listening Lessons.
It may sound easy, and would be, if the chief re
quirement were only wide-open ears and an ability j
to sit in one position for fifty minutes. This is j
far from the truth. Regular examinations are given j
and much outside research is required.
The course is really a serious attempt to give
musical background to students who have had no
training at all. The appreciation of classic music
in opposition to popular music is stressed. The
mechanical and technical aspects of music are illus
trated and explained.
There has been noted in American universities i
a decided lack of interest in cultural and political
subjects. Students of other countries are usually
leaders in appreciation of the arts and in debating
political questions of the day.
It is only necessary to enter any fraternity
house around dinner time to leach the musical pref
erence- of the average Oregon student. Music of
the “hotcha" type is prevalent with little or no
emphasis placed on the higher forms. We do not
decry this nor attempt to explain it. we merely
stale it as a fact.
An attempt to instil musical appreciation into!
two hundred people is an ambitious project, if not
necessarily a successful one. It is deserving of
commendation, and a great deal of sympathy for :
the problems facing the instructor. If the course
is able to convert even ten per cent of the class,
m- would say that it has been more than success-11
fill. We will be rather curious to see the gradii- .
ated products' reaction in the years to come. When ,
at home alone, will he turn his radio to a sym
phony orchestra or tilt tune m on ja«w?
1
Done Your Part By KEN FERGUSON
CAMPUS
CARAVAN
-By DAVE WILSON_
HPHE big trouble with freshman
A “walk-outs” is that the brats
always come back.
* * *
Two graduates of Scottish uni
versities have applied for fellow
ships at the University of Oregon.
Now how in the world did the
news about the Oregon men’s re
action to the Y. M. C. A. finance
campaign reach Edinburgh so
soon ?
St * *
Personality portrait—Cecil Es
py, president of the senior class
and director of traditions enforce
ment, puffing away on his pipe as
he watched the Alpha Delta Sigma
horseplay from the senior bench.
* * *
Which makes me think that Stu
dent Body President Bob Hall
should imitate Hoover and ap
point a commission to decide just
what is the “campus” as far as
the no-smoking tradition is con
cerned.
* * *
The women’s debate squad is I
just starting work for the sea
son, but they’ve got their rebuttals
for every debate well in hand. Any
woman's answer to any argument
is “just because.”
H: * *
If our co-eds really want to get
into the spirit of the “Holland
idea” decorations for the Sopho
more informal, they'd better offer
Dutch-treat on taxi fare and
checking charges.
* * *
Eugene telephone operators;
sometimes cut in a calling line just
a bit too soon. Echoes such as
“ and the big bum wouldn't kick
through with the money number,
please,” are intriguing but hardly
educational.
* * * .
The Women's Athletic associa
tion sponsors a sorority menu con
test as a feature of health week.
Entries typed on the backs of pos
tage stamps will be disbarred.
Promotion experts for the "Jour
nalism Jam” dance are asking
Glen Godfrey, Colonial theatre
racketeer, to run screen slides ad
vertising their affair. Now if they
can only get Willamette park and
the Campa Shoppe to display pos
ters for the Jam . . .
* * *
And speaking of theatre mana
gers, don’t waste time inviting
Ray Jones, McDonald magnate, up
to the tong for Sunday dinner.
Within 24 hours after word went
'round he had invited his Phi Delt
hosts to a free matinee he was
booked solid till the second week
in April.
* * *
Warren D. Smith’s geology
hopefuls explored caves on Row
river but "found nothing of im
portance.” Why bother to go out
of town when geological specimens
of rare interest await anyone with
the courage to explore a score of
fraternity basements?
* *
Believe it or not . . . Jimmy Gil
bert will be out of town today,
will not meet his money and bank
ing class, land promises that there
will be no absentee quiz. The dean
must be planning to buy a new
car!
* * *
Two rats were seen in the Em
erald office last night. Another
census will be taken in two w^eeks.
Washington
Bystander
By KIHKE SIMPSON
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. (AP)
Exigencies of the campaign
having led President Hoover to
California to vote, for the first
time there was lacking that Arm
istice day custom established by a
decade of observance the presi
dent's journey to lay a wreath on
the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
At first, following the inter
ment ceremonies 11 years ago, it
was presidential habit to make
that visit to Arlington cemetery
the occasion for a patriotic ad
tress. In later years, however, the
public address has been omitted.
Yet Washington rarely lacks
or fitting oratorical reminders of
he significance of the day, since
t is now also established custom
>f democrats, particularly sutyiv
>rs of the presidential regime of
>\ oodrow Wilson, to pay honor to
ds memory at his tomb in Wash
ngton cathedral on Armistice day.
I’his year Newton IX Baker was
^elected to deliver the address in
hat setting.
$ $ it
Which again reminds the By
dander of the odd experience the
'levelander has had down the
.oars since his task as war time
tecretary of war was put behind
dm. Not only lias he heard him
•elf hailed by the soldiers who
ommanded the armies as a great
ecretary. but he has also come to
it recognized by his party geuer- •
ally as logical inheritor of Wilson
idealism, logical spokesman for
the conceptions of the dead leader.
Baker, it is recalled, spoke at
\\ ilson s tomb in April at a memo
rial service incident to the gather
ing in Washington of the demo
cratic national committee to lay
the party groundwork of the 1932
presidential campaign.
Subsequently, as Mr. Baker's
name shifted in and out of the pic
ture in connection with the race
tor the democratic nomination,
there arose a storm of debate over
liis present day attitude as to
American membership in the
League of Nations. Mr. Baker
never entered personally into that
debate. Vet he could have referred
all interested persons to that April
speech at Wilson's tomb had he so
elected.
* * *
Mr. Baker then paid tribute to
Wilson's "long vision" of a new era !
in international relationships. That
vision "was too profound and Ulti
mate," Baker then said, to be
"speedily accomplished."
Contemporary
Opinion*. . .
Does It l*ay ?
IT seems to be a favorite pas
time of professors in schools
of business to try to figure out
whether or not it pays to go to
college. From their reports, of
course, it always pays. The most
recent investigator is Prof James
C Egbert, of the Columbia tm
versity Business school, whose re
port shows business school grad
uates earning annual salaries
ranging from $360 to $100,000.
One item that is noticeably lack
ing in most attempts to determine
the value of a college diploma is
the amount of the expenditure
necessary to get the diploma. In
any business venture, in order to
figure the ultimate profit one must
be deducted from the returns.
Therefore, in figuring out the value
of a college education, its cost
should be considered and not just
the graduate’s salary.
The wide range between the sal
aries of graduates, $360 to $100,
000, would indicate that a college
education is not always a paying
proposition. A college education is
of value only in proportion to the
graduate’s ability to make use of
such education. As many an un
employed graduate can tell you,
college is no royal road to success.
What you get out of college de
pends largely on what you bring to
it. If you are the $100,000 man,
you may require the University to
help you attain the maximum of
your potential ability. But if you
are the $360 a year man you are
wasting your time and money in
college.—The Minnesota Daily.
promenade
by carol hurlburt
rpHAT eminently charming and
personable young man, Henri
the Stylist, (known to his busi
ness acquaintances as Mr. Harris),
will give the co-eds “a break,” so
to speak, this afternoon when he
makes his first formal appearance
on the campus at the A. W. S.
style show.
Mr. Harris young, charming, at
tractive, I have said, (I do not
know whether or not there is a
Mrs. Harris), but more than that
he knows style from A to izzard;
he is considered one of the fore
most stylists of the Northwest. By
a mere glance he is able to tell
just what kind of gowns, what
kind of suits, or coats or hats you
should wear. And then you can
say that fashion is a woman's
field!
k’s * *
The fashion show will be held in
Alumni hall from 4 to 6, the mod
els parading against the romantic
background afforded by the wide
marble staircase . . . yes, Mr. Har
ris is bringing four models with j
him. They are the Misses Virginia '
Malian, Irma Logan, Corrine Fox,
and Mrs. Fox. Both Miss Fox and
Miss Logan are former Oregon stu
dents. Miss Logan was graduated ;
last year and is a member of Mor
tar Board.
* * *
Mr. Harris will speak on ’’This '
Thing Called Fashion' and his I
mannequins will wear not only
campus clothes, afternoon and
Sunday tea frocks, formal evening 1
gowns, coats, hats, and accessor
ies. but they will show the dan
ties and most intimate pieces of
lingerie. Mrs. Fox will show ma
ture models which are designed
to be of interest to the house
mothers.
* * *
If you are interested in the sort
of thing which Henri advocates, j
here is some information which
came by special delivery from his
office:
Generally speaking . . . evening
gowns this season follow pretty
closely the Moyen Age. The cycle
of years swings around tanspo dt i
waltz. Most designers are busily
engaged cutting bustles. Every
one is slashing yards and yards of
Lyons velvet with shears which
turn, compass-like to the eighties.
"Victorian furniture is being
dusted off, and here and there dra
peries loop like curtains over long
skirts. Trains swish through
“drawing rooms” and waists are
• tiny. Three-quarter length sleeves
bare alabaster wrists and on or
nate tables alabaster hands extend
I blanched pals for cigarette ash.”
* # *
The presentation of this style
' show is largely due to the influ
1 ence of Anne Baum, who was
; president of the A. W. S. last year
! and is now acting as merchandise
adviser at Liprnan and Wolfe's.
During Miss Baum’s last visit
here, I suggested that she include
a fashion showing for men as well
as women, but she couldn't be pre
vailed upon (or perhaps it was Mr.
Harris who couldn't be prevailed
iupon!) At any rate, I offer my
j sincerest sympathy to all the beau
' brummels of my acquaintance.
* * *
We Select for Promenade: Aus
tin Shea, because he wears a dou
ble-breasted suit with cloth-cov
ered buttons. We also select Rich
ard Lewis Neuberger, because he
wears a new sports suit of very
rough tweed.
The Safety Valve
*
An Outlet for Campus Steam
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cation should he see fit.
To the Editor: Recently the Em
erald carried an editorial concern
ing the activities of the so-called
“Oregon Rally Committee.”
At first I was somewhat skepti
cal, and thought the committee
was receiving some undue criti
cism.
And then I went to the rally
dance Wednesday!
After that, I don't think the edi
tor was beyond his rights in con
demning this group, because who
has ever heard of a rally dance
without music? This is the first
time since I have been on the cam
pus, and I’ve been here five years,
that I have ever seen such a poor
excuse of an impromptu dance.
Several hundred students gath
ered at the gym to celebrate the
overwhelming defeat of the school
grab bill, and what did they find
there? Nothing but a vacant hall,
and the University band puffing
and banging and trying to play
something that didn’t sound too
much like a military march.
I have no fault to find with the
band, in fact I have been a mem
ber of that organization for the
past three years. They played as
well as could be expected under
the circumstances. But in spite of j
what any rally committee thinks, |
a military band can not play dance
music.
Just who fell down on the job
is hard to say. Perhaps it was no
one individual’s fault, or perhaps
there were no funds available to
pay for a regular dance band. In
spite of all the committee may of
fer as excuses, there is no real
valid reason why they couldn’t
have had some kind of music there
that would have satisfied the aes
thetic desires of the student body.
Thefe are always plenty of men
who will gladly donate their serv
ices for such an occasion, and al
most anything would have been
better than what was had Wednes
day.
It seems to me that some of
these white rally sweaters should *
be called in and put in moth balls \
unless those who are wearing
them can show a little more spirit
and cooperation with the rest of
the student body.
A Band Member.
A Decade Ago
From Daily Emerald
November 17, 1922
Not George?
A telegram from Howard God
frey, representative of Sigma Del- j
ta f hi at the national convention
at Manhattan, Kansas, reports i
that the Oregon chapter ranks
first in three chapters in activities.
* * Jj:
“No salesmen in the stands" is
the new rule adopted by the exec
utive council Wednesday night.
* * *
Publicity Hound!
Hammer and Coffin announces
the pledging of Francis Linklater,
George Godfrey, Snooks Moore,
Knot Dlgerness.
* * *
The first Oregon man to make
a touchdown against O. A C gets
a new $10.00 Stetson hat from the
Wade Brothers store.
* * *
Now It’s Nameless
Hereafter the small structure
bark of the administration build
ing will hi- known as Rock hail.
Quartz hall, Rock Crusher, ‘and
the Dump ran so eiose in the geol
ogists’ voting that it was decided
to compromise with Rock hall.
* * S
If the Aggie football team is as
confident of victory as the Cor
vallis publications, they have the
commg battle over and settled al
ready.
Upstage ...
By BOB GUILD
Missings: If the Guild theatre
could seat more, more people
could laugh their heads off at
‘‘Once in a Lifetime," as we did
last night—Warren Gram hardly
needs any make-up to play the
irascible incompetent, Glogauer.
He postures too convincingly,
waves his hands, shouts broken
German.
* * *
Very good shot Lawrence Vail,
playwright, is lost—or perhaps
it’s Glogauer, executive, that's 'y
lost. Vail can't find his boss, rants
around the room, asking brokenly
for the mogul. Comes a page, with
a placard—"Mr. Glogauer is in No.
9"—more ranting. Comes a page
“Mr. Glogauer is on No. 4"- more
ranting. More page—“Mr. Glo
gauer is on No. 6."—Explosion!
❖ * *
Says Playwright Vail—“Damin
it, I can’t stand this! I'm going
to the men’s room, and if Mr. Glo
gauer comes in, I’ll be on No. 3!”
Curtain on that scene.
* * *
If the scattered crowds that at
tend rehearsals these days are a
fair criterion, people will like the
play. They should. New York
critics call it “the savagest, laugh
ingest, funniest, and most sarcas
tic dig at the exposed ribs of Hol
lywood” they’ve ever seen. I ven
ture to say they’re right. Just
now it’s very funny—all it needs
is a little speeding up to be very
savage, indeed.
* * Jjs
This is the first play since Ham- )
let, and coincidentally the cast
numbers exactly the same—an
even 40. There the similarity ceas
es. Which reminds me that Eugene
O'Neill, in the new “American
Spectator," advocates playing
Hamlet in masks. Ever since “The
Great God Brown America’s pre
mier playwright has had a weak
spot for masks. He says “it ex
poses that queer, tangled conflict
of the mind and soul of a charac
ter.”
* * *
A little divorced from our cir
cles, but interesting, is the forth
coming presentation, in Cleveland,
of Thornton Wilder's translation
of Ander Obey’s "Le Viol de Lu
crece,” with music by Deems Tay
lor, settings and costumes by Rob
ert Edmond Jones, and Katherine
Cornell in the title role. This
should be the most outstanding of
the new pieces.
# * sjt
Mr. S. Stephenson Smith, the V
University’s outstanding authority ’
on critical matters will bring the
clear light of his understanding to
bear on the first night of “Once
in a Lifetime.” May the cast take
this to heart.
Emerald
Of the Air
The Emerald-of-the-Air brings
you 15 minutes of music, featuring
a trio of female voices, a piano
soloist, and a saxophone ensemble
of popular numbers.
Get the habit! Let’s have your
ear! Hotcha!
Powers Visits Campus
Alfred Powers, of Portland, dean
ot the extension division, was a
visitor on the campus yesterday.
Dean Powers supervises all exten
sion classes in all state institu
tions of higher education. He is *
work head °f 311 corresP°ndencc ”
Graduate Seriously 111
Edward & Daniel, '29, under
went an operation for the removal
ot a tumor November 7, at the
Peter Bent Brigand hospital in
Sori°nH Mr' Daniel did graduate
work here, and for two years
'•chf? La Grande normal
school. Before his recent illness,
ie was engaged in graduate work
it Harvard.
Grille Dance
FRIDAY NIGHT >’
Nov. 18th
Campa Shoppe
(Formerly Cocoanut Grove)
'1
-—New Prices—
40c—10c—80c Couple
ABBIE GREEN
And His Baud
Don’t Forget
Ureeu Parrot Table Service
in Connection
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