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EDITORIAL OFFICES, Journalism Bid*. Phono ,3800—News Room, Local 356; Editor and Managing Editor, Local 364. BUSINESS OFFICE, McArthur Court. Phone 3300—Local 214. University of Oregon, Eugene Kk'hard Neuberger, Editor Harry Schenk, Manager Sterling Green, Managing Editor EDITORIAL HOARD Thornton Gale, Assoicate Editor; Jack BellinRer, Dave Wilson, Julian Prescott. UPPER NEWS STAFP Oscar Munffer, News Ed. Francis Pal lister, Copy E<1. Bruce Hamby, Sports Ed. Parks Hitchcock. Makeup Ed. Leslie Dunton, Chief Nittht Ed I .John lirosK, literary r.n Bob CuilH, Dramatics EH. Jessie Steele, Women’s Ed. I Eloise Domer, Society Ed, I Ray Clapp, Radio Ed. DAY EDITORS: Bob Patterson, Margaret Bean, Francis I’al Jister, Joe Snslabsky, Hubert Totton. NIGHT EDITORS: Bob Moore, John Hollopcter, BUI Aetzel, Bob Church. SPORTS STAFF: Malcolm Bauer. Asst. Ed.: Ned Simpson, . Dud Lindner, Ben Back, Bob Avison. FEATURE WRITERS: Elinor Henry, Maximo Pulido, Hazel Corriaan. , REPORTERS: Julian Prescott. Don Caswell, Madeleine Gilbert, Ray Clapp, Ed Stanley. David Eyre, Bob Guild, Paul Ewina, Fairfax Roberts, Cynthia Liljeuvist, Ann Reed Burns, Beatty Chessman. Ruth Kina, Barney Clark, Betty Ohlemillcr, Lucy ■ Ann Wendell, Huber Phillips. ASSISTANT SOCIETY EDITOR: Eliznbeth Crommelin. QOPYREADERS: Harold Brower, Twyla Stockton, Nancy Lee, Maraaret Hill, Edna Murphy, Monte Brown, Mary Jane Jenkins. Roberta Pickard, Marjorie McNiece, Betty Powell, Bob Thurston, Hilda Gillam, Roberta Moody, Frances Roth well, Bill Hall, Caroline Roaers, Henriette Horak, Myron Ricketts, Catherine Coppers, Linda Vincent, Claire Bryson. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Frances Noth, Maraaret Corum, Georainn Gildez, Dorothy Austin, Virainia Proctor, Cather ine Grlhhle, Helen Taylor, Mildred Maida, Evelyn Schmidt. RADIO STAFF: Ray Clapp, Editor; Harold GeBauer, Michael Hoaan, Ben Back. BUSINESS STAFF AOV. JUKI ., iVianr ftcyintriB National Adv. Mjrr., Auten Bush Promotional Mgr., Marylou Patrick Asst. Adv. Mjarr., Ed Meserve Asst. Adv. Mj?r., Gil Wellington Asst. Adv. M«r. Bill Russell Executive Secretai*y. Dorothy Anne Clark Asst. Circulation Mgr., Ron Row Office Mgr., Helen Stinger Class. Ad.Mgr., Althea Peterson Sez Sue, Caroline Hahn Sez Sue Asst., Louise Rice Checking Mgr., Ruth Storla Checking Mgr., Pearl Murphy ADVERTISING ASSISTANTS: Gene F. Tomlinson, Dale Fisher, Anne Chapman, Tom Holeman, Bill McCall, Ruth Vannice. Fred Fisher, Ed Labbe. Bill Temple, Eldon Haberman, Elisa Addis, Bill Connell, Wilma Dente, Hazel Fields, Corrinne PUth, Marian Taylor, Hazel Marquis, Hubert Totton, Hewitt Warrens, Donald Platt, Phyllis Dent, Peter Gantenben. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Patricia Campbell, Kay Disher, Kath ryn Greenwood, Catherine Kelley, Jane Bishop, Elma Giles, F^uprenia Hunt, Mary Starbuck. Ruth Byerly, Marp Jane Jenkins, Willa Bitz. Janet Howard, Phyllis Cousins, Betty Shoemaker, Ruth Rippey. The OreKon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday during the college year. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second cIuhs matter. Subscrip tion rates $2.60 a year. The American people cannot be too careful in guarding the freedom of speech and of the press against curtailment as to the discussion of public affairs and the character and conduct of public men. —Carl Schurs. A. S. U. O. SALARY REDUCTIONS RECOMMENDED ALTHOUGH they function more or less as a separate corporation, the associated students of the University are in reality a ramification of Oregon’s educational system, and their employees should be subject to a sliding-scale salary reduction identical to that recently imposed upon faculty members by the state board of higher education. No time should be wasted by the finance com mittee and executive council in passing an order to this effect. The latter group recently restricted the Emerald, baseball and track in order to reduce expenses, so it should welcome with open arms an additional opportunity to trim the budget. Because Chancellor Kerr and his colleagues on the faculty are to sustain wage cuts, wc see no valid reason why proportionate reductions should not be imposed upon the graduate managers and others hired by the associated students. If the executive council reacts favorably to the Emerald’s suggestion, the editor of the paper and several other executives of the publication will suffer re ductions along with the rest. However, that matters not, and at least those connected with the editorial side of the Emerald are glad to take the initiative jn recommending such a move. These are troublesome times. A period of eco nomic transition and adjustment has engulfed civi lization and no group can afford to demand higher proportionate salaries than its contemporaries. Many learned men, scholars who occupied long years and spent thousands of dollars preparing themselves for careers in education, have received drastic salary cuts this year. It is no more than fair that the employees of the A. S. U. O. should sustain reductions parallel to those suffered by these Individuals. We now await action by the executive council in this matter. It should not be long in forthcom ing. The state board of higher education minced no words in reducing the pay of its workers. TARIFF- AND BRAINS THE HIGH TARIFF on imported foreign brains should be repealed, thinks Professor Casimir L> Zdanowicz, president of the national federation ol modern language teachers. Professor Zdanowicz argues that the immigration act of 1924 has oc casioned all kinds of trouble to American colleges and foreign professors who have been in demand in this country. "The desirability of the foreign professor and the contribution he makes to American education has been widely appreciated,” he said. He referred to a recent question over the issuance of a visa tc Professor Albei t Einstein, which he said, "resulted in widespread indignation and fear that his learn ing might be lost to our students.’’ It might be explained that the 1924 law doe; not entirely prohibit the importation of foreigi teachers but places certain restrictions upon those not entering under the usual quota. The ridiculous heights to which the America! tariff and immigration policies can reach is here ex emplified in all its banal ramifications. The Ein stein case, a ludicrous ml tape incident, lias made America the laughing stock of tire world. Thai serious students and foreign professors should be denied admittance to this country is au evidence ol decadent bureaucracy. Professor Zdanowicz is right in his contention Couutries that draw around themselves the barrier; of superstition and nationalism, synonymous cx pressions, are doomed to a policy ol aggression Only through the interfiltration of various culture comes progress. The comparison of idea., aru. methods of technique bring about reform and ad vancement. Where is the traditions court ? Has the genera retrenchment eliminated that, too? li ii ha. tires we suggest three cheers for tbs retrenchment. THE KAMA COMMITTEE BUDGET THE BUDGET of the rally committee, under in vestigation by the Emerald, was released by the graduate manager’s office yesterday. The conten tion of the Emerald has been that the money spent by the committee has been out of proportion to other student activities, and that there was no at tempt this fall to trim expenditures. Here is the budget for 1932-33: Miscellaneous .$ 71.00 Equipments and supplies including cleaning . 50.00 Awards 1 at $12.00 . 12.00 Travel yell leaders— Washington . 18.00 The items listed are rather indefinite in nature, but in order to obtain itemized accounts it would ; have been necessary to go through each requisi tion. The total of $175 may not seem particularly j large, but it would have gone a long ways towards | stabilizing activities that have had to race rigid retrenchments, such as baseball and track and the Emerald. The Emerald seeks no quarrel with the rally' committee. It has perfect faith in the integrity of the committee’s personnel. It has on occasion j voiced its doubt of the value of such an activity, j In a year of financial stress it strikes us that $175 i is a bit too much to pay for an enterprise whose j value is dubious at best. You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.—John Morley. A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.— Thos. Hardy. The Puritan hated bear-bating, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.—Macaulay. Linen rags, strings, old netting, flax tow, and hemp are used as basic stocks by the French ; cigaret-paper industry. A Portland sports writer last night lambasted Doc Spears’ “pepping ’em up” methods. We can’t recall ever hearing the players kicking about it. The dumb public finance student wants to know if Governor Meier's sales tax plan includes any proposal for making sales to be taxed. On Other Campuses ..... UCLA OSC 18.00 6.00 Total . .$175.00 Foot ha II'h Future CHAME'IONSHIP of U. S. football was settled; by the U. S. C.-Notre Dame game at Los Ange les, or was it by the Pittsburgh vs. Trojan mas sacre New Year's day—or can this notion be wrong ? Quoting Newsmagazine Time: “Experts are well aware that the best football teams in the U. S. are , the eight professional teams in the National Foot ball league. . . A heavy college line weighs 1901 pounds from end to end. The Green Bay line weighs 220 pounds. . . An immense, swift precision which makes the game compare to college games as col lege games compare to the higgledy-piggledy con tests of gangling schoolboys. . . Serious injuries are rare . . . because . . . there is nothing to be gained by disabling (easily replacable) opponents.”1 And, really significant: “While college football gate receipts this year declined 15 per cent pro fessional receipts did not decrease at all.” As a big business, college football finds its su premacy threatened ns it was not by the American professional league that collapsed in 1927. The post graduate game can be frankly and openly profes sional. Crowd appeal can be emphasized always, in suring good games no matter who wins and no amateurish scruples. Phenomenal football finance did not come until the postwar prosperity frenzy, with its accompany ing rush to college and multiplication of interest in college teams. Some phases of football as a business have been justified because it supports other college athletics and physical education pro grams. The growth of professional football sug gests that perhaps a readjustment in collegiate amateur football will conic through economic pres sure rather than the moral insistence that so far ; has resulted in little beyond hyprocrisy. College and university supervisors of football I arc not noted for facing the facts so far as the public knows of their real motives, at least. Maybe I facts facts whose control is not within their juris J diction will force their hands and end the present ! gentleman’s agreement of pretending to be amateur diers "for dear old Rutgers” instead of semi-pro fessional livers for what financial and advertising value they can net. Possibly a public wise to “dear old Rutgers” will prefer, for big money, at least, the uptown competition of real professionals.— | Daily Iowan, University of Iowa. Boredom EYELIDS drooping, students fighting, hard to ward off sleep, minutes that seem like hours, ! the dull, monotonous drawl of the professor's voice that is the cold-fact lecture: an academic proce dure that suffers from acute dry rot. We all have ! experienced these bug-bear periods that mar an otherwise pleasant college day and, perhaps, have weathered them like Stoics. There must be some way of modifying the unbearable, of exterminating the routing statistical presentation of fact and ob viating the drudgery attendant to such a procedure. The professor’s sphere of influence should trans cend the class room. He should not feel that his only obligation is the dispensing of information that can readily be secured from recognized text books. He has the opportunity of commenting and criticiz ing. of giving his own viewpoints upon the subject under consideration: an opportunity of injecting his own personality into the discussion. Too often the tieccs ary facts are left unbridged by a commentary liason. The professor, lost in a labyrinth of detail, fails to create a background for his subject and a disjointed pattern of statements results. The drowsy atmosphere of wary iuattentiveness j that pervades the haunts of many lecturers would give place to a feeling of genuine regard if the lectures were improved in quality and increased in I listener-interest. We do not 'desire out scholastic food to be served in silver salvers but we are grow ing weary of eating from dented tin-ware. And a bit of seasoning too will work wonders with even ,111c toughest meat.—Peam-yp.aamu University cf i Petiaryhaai*. , The Castaways - - By ken FERGUSON A Message to Garcia (This is the second article by Dean Allen on the present crisis. The first, entitled, “Technoc racy," was published yesterday.) By DEAN ERIC W. ALLEN Dean of the School of Journalism JUST when the “Technocracy” craze was sweeping the coun try, boosting newspaper circula tions wherever the story was em phasized, and deluging the editors’ desks with letters from readers, a more sober and scientific analysis of the same critical situation was made public. Sober and scientific, yes, so far as manner was con cerned, but almost equally sensa tional in content. It warned the nation of possible violent revolu tion unless fundamental govern mental and economic changes are consciously and purposively made on a scale bigger than anything yet attempted. Where technocracy could be dis credited, and in some circles was, because Howard Scott's past rec ord was not clear, this report, (by the President’s Research Commit tee on Social Trends) given out with the president's written ap proval, was the work of fifty of the very best social scientists in the country possesses. While tech nocracy was the work largely of unemployed engineers in a bor rowed laboratory, this committee had had a million dollars or more to spend. While the technocracy story had leaked out by word of mouth, copyrighted magazine ar ticles, newspaper interviews ob tained under difficulty and rumors and speeches, and therefore be came enmeshed in a welter of dis putation concerning the accuracy of details, this report was issued in two great volumes of 1,600 pag es, with thirteen more volumes of supporting data to follow. The New York Times needed 43 col umns just to hit the high places. * * * Yet the resemblances between the two are fully as striking as the differences. The president’s committee was not so ingenuous as to propose an immediate dictatorship by engin eers, but it did warn solemnly against the present policy of drift. It did east a longing eye back upon the war-time economic dictator ship, and asked “is it beyond the range of men’s capacity some day to take the enhancement of social welfare as seriously as our gener ation took the winning of a war?" It did find that "modern civili zation rests upon power, upon en ergy derived from inorganic rath er than human or animal sources ... A larger proportion of work by machines and a smaller propor tion by human labor is to be ex pected in the future. There are, indeed, a few cases of wholly auto matic factories.” It did envision and predict fur ther limitations on the part pri vate property will play in the con trol of industry, but it did not rush in and propose its abolition. The committee mapped out four possible paths for society to fol low : 1. Drift, leading to possible disaster and violent revolution. 2. Drift, with some readjust ments as time goes on. 3. Dictatorial systems "in which the factors of force and violence may loom large. 4. Planning. Constructive so cial initiative. The committee favors tha last named. It calls on the public tor “willingness and (letermination to undertake important integral changes in the reorganization of . . . the economic and political or ders.” It calls for large scale in tensification of research every where, both organized and unor ganized, with greater emphasis on interpretation and synthesis. For the immediate present, however there is much suffering ahead. How were these events revived by public opinion? Technocracy was a nipe-days wonder. It wen: best in the tabloids, but the high brow magazines and some conser vative newspapers devoted much space to it. It undoubtedly in trigued the public mind, and be came a staple of conversation ev erywhere. Middle class opinion is busy now discrediting it, but its glittering Utopia is undoubtedly having an effect, working under ground and making the general public less willing to endure the several years of acute suffering implied in the policy of drift. !jt S|i # The report of the president’s committee was a dud. It is too long for anybody but a college professor to read, and it did not come out in fine sensational form like technocracy. It can be safely ignored (for a while, at least) by those who do not like its implica tions. promenade by carol hurlburt «MY wants are few but rather ■^■“•clear: Love, sleep and tfuth, beauty and beer.” —Old Air. While we Americans look avidly forward to a damp spring and summer, and while European champagne shares, beer and wine j stocks, go skyrocketing joyously! heavenward, the world of fashion i finds as great an enjoyment in the ■ last election. Palis has responded nobly and honored our new presi- j dent by naming one of the intoxi-1 eating new shades "Roosevelt red," which is a glorified wine color. * * S; With this Roosevelt red leading the colors of the new spectrum, to our way of thinking, deep maroon, cherry, and lip-stick red are still in the picture. Schapiarelli has created a ravishing shade of or Salary Reductions j Salary reductions already im posed upon faculty members and .V. S. U. O. employees: Amount Per cent ; First SRt«)0 5% Second SI,000 . 8% Third $1,000 11% Fourth St.000 14% Fifth S1.000 5% Each Si.000 thereafter 5% Substitution salary reduc tions. imposed upon faculty members, and which the Em- j erald recommends he extended to include A. S. 1.0. employ - ees: First $1,000 0% Second SI.000 . 14% Third S 1.000 . 20% Fourth $ 1.000 25% Fifth Si.000 __. 27% Each $1,000 thereafter .. 27% ange, which is just off orange, for the red-head. Then there is a dull gold shade, which is perfect for a languorous, golden brunette; and a delectably fresh-looking greenish-yellow shade, which should be worn by someone like Anne Frank. Grey is still the smartest color to wear under your winter wrap, but, while all the shop windows are full of grey gowns and grey chapeaux, take heed: the latest dispatches from the East and from Paris say that grey is going out and will be supplanted by beige. The trend in fashion is compar able to the swinging of a pendu lum. The pendulum swings to the left . . . and you have the extreme . . . and then it inevitably swings back. With our flat hats scooted over to one side, our high waists, our exaggerated shoulder-lines and balloon sleeves, we have suffered a wide flair to the left . . . and now the pendulum swings back, with a consequent trend toward the con servative. The waist-line seems ti be definitely going down. Your gowns will no longer reveal every curve in your lithe and supple lit tle figure ... so they say ... al though, while the moyen-age waist-line “conceals,” it still “re veals” ... if “it” isn’t one thing, “it” is another. Sleeves remain full, especially at the shoulder, but the huge leg-of mutton, which looked more like a perverted balloon than the upper part of a woman’s arm, seems to be on the wane. * S: * Ladies, it would seem, are to look again like gentlewomen, not like mannequins on parade. We select for Promenade: Dor othy Roberts, because she dresses with great chic and appropriate ness for the campus in a smart knitted frock of brown and yel low, wearing with it a rich brown leather jacket, brown and white spectator sport oxfords, and hand stitched pigskin gloves. W ashington Bystander . . By KIRKE SIMPSON Washington. Jan. io.--iap) The -stage, or perhaps the movies, lost an opportunity when Henry Ashurst, ex-cowboy, deputy sheriff and other things, became a senator from Arizona. It is not only that the senator is a master showman in action. He is the most appreciative audience any other senator could possibly hope for when he does something out of the ordinary. The thought was inspired by watching Ashurt's face as Huey Long of Louisiana pre-empted the center aisle during one phase of the Philippine independence bill debate and set out to block a re consideration vote. Long was very frank about it. "Some of our side have gone home." he declared. "They could beat us now." So Long began stalling around to force a recess—and succeeded. He rumpled his auburn curls and called on his quick wits for the twists and turns of debate tha' would keep the thing going with out stirring up enough resentment to start an anft-filibuster drive. * ¥ * Ashurst sat just behind Long. He vatchced Huey's work with a delighted grin. He awaited each new twist of Long strategy eag srly. It mattered not that they were in opposition on the point at issue. Long was putting on a good act, and Ashurst, a noted master of similar single-handed battles in the senate, was enjoying it. Which recalls that Ashurst prob ably more than any other senator seems to get a “kick” out of sen ate floor proceedings. Whether it is a cloak-room conference, a hard fought debate on the floor or the wrangling around a committee ta ble, the big Arizonan rarely has been caught in anything but a smiling, happy humor. Back when the Boulder Dam bill was in the making, Ashurst and his colleague, Hayden, shared in a prolonged filibuster that car ried the senate through at least one night in an effort to break it doWn. Ashurst’s upward of six feet and his general breadth gave little hope of physical limitations to his ora torical powers. * * * By the sound, he was sometimes in a towering passion of vehe mence. Yet if you looked closely, there was always a twinkle in the Ashurst eye. There nearly always is, although fellow senators have learned not to let it lull them into thinking Ashurst does not know what he is doing. It is just that he is en joying the show. 17 =71 Two Decades Ago, From Oregon Emerald January 11, 1913 Religious Fervor Forty-five first year journalists must go to church tomorrow—to write up the sermon. Division of the college year into four semesters was the radical re vision in the University calendar proposed at Thursday night’s fac ulty meeting. , Kappa’s Birthday Installation of Beta Omega chap ter of Kappa Kappa Gamma be gan today. It is the University’s fifth national. Bang’s Livery Company—Cab Service, Automobiles, Baggage Transfer and Storage. Phone 21. Inappreciative 1 The University of Washington Glee club journeyed all the way to Vancouver, B. C., at a cost of $160, and played before a $4.50 house Monday. The manager cancelled the rest of its engagements. * * :|: Go to the Y. M. C. A. cafeteria for good things to eat. Assault and Battery w&£* VWE'VE always wondered why those little domes were ever put on the front of the library on each side of the steps. Finally worked up enough curiosity to go over and ask the library people about it. They said that whoever had the building erected, thought that they ought to have street lamps or some such affair put or the front. The domes are the bases. Never got around to it though. Maybe they ran out oi money or figured that the Univer sity didn’t need any more light They’ve still got a fine place tc screw in street lamps, though. •i* -fc sjs We’ve traced down the real dope on the Rushlow-Londahl crockery deal. Londahl bought it frorr Rushlow, who in turn purchased it from George Bagley, who bought it from a man named Kjosness Letters to the Editor All “Letters to the Editor" must bear either the signature or initials of the writer, the former being preferred. Be cause of space limitations, the editor reserves the right to withhold such communications as he sees fit. All let ters should br concise and to the point. The editor of the Emerald solicits opin ions and constructive criticism from the members of the student body. Dr. Gilbert’s Poetry To the Editor of the Emerald: Sir: Dr. James Howard Gilbert, dean of the school of social sci ence, emitted the following ori ginal gem in his public finance class today. It’s too good to hoard, so I’ll pass it along to your readers: “The radical bum and the Com munist rat, So much despised by the pluto crat, Just borrow the lingo Of Science, by jingo, And is now esteemed as a tech nocrat.’’ The departure from the usual grammatical style is, I presume, merely a reversal to poetic license. 317X. whom no one seems to know any thing about. Kjosness has made public a demand that Londahl make payment for the crockery so the money can get back to him for the first purchase. It’s all sort of puzzling. S: * * The story has been drifting about that most of the Sigma Nu's are down at Newport looking for each other at present. It seems that one of the brothers wanted to drop out of school and the broth ers tried to talk him out of it and somehow or other they ended up in Newport. This is ail something of a puzzle, but when brother A's parents came down to see their son some more of the boys went down to Newport to bring the first expedition back. All still there, we guess. Interesting. Everybody has been wondering what these little stickers with “Watch for KKK, Saturday at Dusk," are. They’re all part of a widespread plan to advertise the Krazy Kopy Krawl, Alpha Delta Sigma’s annual big time. Some wit in the College Side had written after the three K’s, Kappa Kappa Klan, and then substituted for Saturday at dusk, “Any Dark Night.” Not bad. A friend of ours, a man named Larsen, Virgil Larsen, has been sporting a big cut over his eye for quite a while, now. Investi gated and found out that it’s all the result of a fight. Fights are getting pretty tame these days. We thought maybe it was a para chute jump or something. But just a fight. . . . Latest advices from the Minne sota Rotary club indicate that the name is to be changed. The two suggestions are: 1. The Holy Order of the Mystic Wine, 2. Fee Fi Fo Fum sorority. Mikulak is active ly campagining to get the presi dent's job when elections come around again. Cuppoletti is head man now, and between that and managing his Alpha Gam has quite a time of it. * * * Ned Kinney and Johnny Creech are living in an apartment this term down on what they call Pur ity Place. CLASSIFIED SMALL furnished 3-room house: bath, garage, $10 month, across from men’s dorm. 1258 E. 14th. LAUNDRY at lowestrates. Call and deliver. Phone 2293-W. FOR SALE--Pontiac sport road ster, at Blue Book price. 979 Patterson St. Special! $C-00 Enroll Today w A Complete Course in JAZZ PIANO For Beginners or Advanced Students Ten 1-Hour Lessons Open to a Limited Number of Students Only A Real Opportunity ENROLL NOW! 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