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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
jjicii. —Carl S chare.
A PAPER IS DEMANDED TOMORROW
THE EDITORIAL heads of the Emerald will in
sist that a paper be published tomorrow.
The executive council passed an unconstitutional
piece of legislation when it limited the Emerald to
four issues a week.
The by-laws of the A. S. U. O. call for a ‘‘daily
paper.
The judiciary committee has ruled that anything
less than five issues a week is not a daily news
paper.
Therefore, tne executive council will have openly
defied the constitution if it does not permit the
Emerald to publish an edition tomorrow.
The constitution is the safeguard of the student’s
right on this campus.
Each student pays $10.25 in fees to the A. S.
U. O. every term for these constitutional rights.
(Five dollars of that goes to a previously-voted
building fee. i
The students must have a say in the affairs of
their government.
The executive council was not within its rights
when it ordered the Emerald to reduce its publica
tion days.
If it is the students’ mandate that the Emerald
be published only four times a week, the editorial
heads of this paper will gladly obey their edict.
Until the students vote a constitutional amend
ment to article VI of the by-laws, the heads of the
Emerald will continue to insist that five issues be
published every week.
Let it be understood that the Emerald’s heads
are willing to publish on a four-day schedule if such
is necessary to the financial security of the associ
ated students, but they will do so only iF the stu
dents themselves order the change.
As yet the executive council has not taken the
matter before the student body. Until it does, the
Emerald will continue to demand a five-day paper.
However, should the council give the students
their proper voice in the matter, the Emerald will
support the reduction to four days a week, pro
vided, of course, that the graduate manager’s office
can present public figures to prove such is finan
cially imperative.
Wc reiterate the constitution must be upheld
if there is to be any semblance of order maintained
in our student government.
CAMPUS FIRE HAZARDS
T LEAST two very definite fire hazards exist
continually on the campus. They are the half
barred doors to the main floors of Oregon and Com
merce halls.
Practically every morning as students start to
leave these two buildings at the end of classes there
is a jam-up because only half of each door may he
opened. The other half is locked with some sort
of contraption which seems to defy all efforts by
students to unfasten them.
Should there be a fire in either building and it
be necessary to clear the building immediately, it is
probable that several students would be injured if
not trapped within the structure. Though there is
little likelihood of fire breaking out in either build
ing, this possibility should be considered.
It is not likely that the duties of the two jani
tors are so heavy that having them check ttic doors
in question each morning would be an imposition.
They have to unlock one half of each door and it
would not seem unreasonable to ask them to take
care of the other half. This also would facilitate
the movement of students between class periods.
AN ASSAULT ON HHiHKK EDUCATION
/AN THE rather ridiculous premise of "why
should 1 pay for the education ol some rich
man's son,'' the Woodburu independent mildly ud
vocates the withdrawal of state funds for the sup
port of higher education. The Woodburn paper
pomL. out that college,. are not operated tor th -
benefit of the general public and that students
take advantage of their facilities merely for per
sonal gain. It also emphasizes the benefits to be
derived from elementary and secondary education,
but says the advantages of higher education are
"obscure and hard to define.”
It would be agreeable to dismiss the Indepen
dent's statements as high school emanations from
adult minds, but with the axe of impossible econ
omy swinging dangerously closer to higher educa
tion all the time, it must be realized that Woodburn
is not the only place where ■mch mistaken and
"dark-age" opinions are nourished.
The Independent defeats its own purpose by
referring to us as “rich men’s sons.” From then
on we can be sure it is groping in the dark and
knows not what it says. The Independent defends
the elementary and secondary schools, but asks for
the withdrawal of state appropriations for the in
stitutions of higher education. The paper then pro
ceeds to claim that our higher educational institu
tions are not for public gain, but purely for per
sonal advantages. In this respect, how the Inde
pendent differentiates between elementary schools
and colleges, we must admit we are at loss to deter
mine.
We rather imagine it would be useless to try to
tell the editors of the Woodburn Independent of the
advantages of higher education. From the biased
nature of their remarks, it would seem as though
it would be futile to explain of the benefits of his
torical backgrounds, social science, philosophy,
economic theories and the scientific attitude. We
only can hope that the Independent, in its stand on
higher education, is an isolated publication among
the newspapers of the state.
A BOON FOR CRAMMERS
SEVERAL schools have inaugurated the plan of
filing final examination papers in the library
for the use of students at the end of each term.
Bound in book form, they are placed on reserve and
are available to students immediately preceding ex
aminations.
Some such a system undoubtedly would be a
good thing at Oregon. Many fraternities and sor
orities now file examination questions, but their
files are mostly incomplete and fragmentary.
Bound copies extending over a period of years would
prove a godsend to last-minute crammers.
To the independent student, who has no access
to examination files, such availability seems no
more than fair. Under the present arrangement
his competition with an affiliated man or woman
is not on a basis of equality. Although his study
ing must necessarily be of an individual nature,
access to examination files would place him on a
more equitable footing.
Professors may object to having examination
papers, extending over a period of years, made
available in the library. They may argue, and
truthfully so, that there are only a certain number
of fundamental questions that can be asked in a
course, and one of the prerequisites of passing
should be the ability to pick out these fundamental
principles.
But since the system exists and living organi
zations are allowed to keep a file of questions, it
seems to us that most equitable way of dealing
with the situation is to have them readily available
to everyone.
A court in Brantley county, Georgia, spent six
hours establishing ownership of a farmer’s hound.
Washington Bystander
By KIRKE SIMPSON
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12—(AP)—“Citi
zen" Franklin D. Roosevelt, returned to pri
vate life for a two-month interval before he becomes
President Roosevelt, put something in his first pub
lic address after his retirement from the New York
governorship that may prove significant.
It was said in that three-cornered democratic
love feast at Albany between Mr. Roosevelt, former
Governor A1 Smith, and the new governor, Herbert
Lehman.
"It is time for closer contacts between the presi
dent and the governors,” Mr. Roosevelt said.
* j|; sj«
From that and the fact that the president-elect
throughout his two terms as governor gave close
attention to the conference of governors, grows the
intimation that Mr. Roosevelt may have plans for
calling the governors into consultation early in Hia
administration.
The immediate subject he had in mind as he
spoke at Albany was elimination of overlapping
federal and state taxation. But since he was first
inaugurated as governor he has been hammering
at simplification of governmental agencies within
the states.
If he should summon the 48 governors into con
ference it is a safe assumption that lie would fol
low up that line in additoin to the overlapping tax
ation problem.
And as President Air. Roosevelt will be in an un
usually advantageous position in seeking to estab
lish a sort of council in his efforts to forward
cooperation between the federal and state govern
ments. \
All but 9 of the 48 governors who will be iu
office after the Roosevelt inauguration will be
members of his own party. There is a more top
heavy democratic majority among the heads of state
governments than in either house of the new con
gress.
It seems possible that a democratic president
could seize the opportunity thus offered to weld
the federal and state executive officers iuto a
more intimate relationship that might have some
permanent place in the national political scheme of
things.
$ * *
Still, Mr. Roosevelt s hopes of any such results
almost must be tempered by the fact that gov
ernors are potential nominees by tradition. In
recent years, since popular election of senators be
came a fact, there has been a wave of senatorial
ambition.
Eyen there, however, usually the senators most
talked of for possible promotion were former gov
ernors, and the same thing is true as to house mem
bers. Presidents AlcKinley and Harding were both
former governors erf Ohio.
In view ot the tact that the governorships are
the accepted training school for presidential lim
ber. Atr. Roosevelt might find it difficult to work
out any lasting machinery of l’ederal-state cooper
ation through such agencies.
Dirt, But No Dust By KEN ferguson
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I A Message to Garcia
I
By Dr. Fred N. Miller
(Head of the University Health
Service)
,rpHE Oregon legislature now in
-*• session will have for consid
eration many other important mat
ters besides balancing the budget.
One of the most important propos
als of recent years is the Basic
Science Act. This measure in brief
proposes that any person, before
he may be licensed by the state
to treat the sick or injured must
pass an examination in the basic
sciences. This examination is to
be given not by those who are
, treating the sick and injured and
who therefore might have certain
pfednttar therapeutic theories but
by experts in these basic sciences
of anatomy, physiology, pathology,
chemistry and hygiene,
j In very simple language this
means that any practitioner of heal
ing no matter what his methods
'or affiliations shall have a funda
mental understanding of the hu
i man body—how it is made, how
does it work, how may disorders
| be recognized correctly, what in
jmate (chemical) changes occur in
I its interior and what are the rules
Jfor efficient maintenance and op
! eration. In other words any prac
I titioner of the healing art like any
auto mechanic should understand
the machine he "tinkers” with.
The Basic Science Act proposes
that competent non-biased scien
tists shall determine whether or
not candidates to practice the heal
ing art does understand the basic
I or fundamental sciences that re
I late to the human body.
* * *
The Oregon bill has been very
carefully drawn after a study of
the way in which similar bills have
successfully operated in other
states. It will of course not affect
those already in practice. It will
also not pit one group against an
other for the examination will not
be given by medical doctors, chi
| ropractors, osteopaths or any oth
er group: in fact the bill specifi
| cally states that "no examiners
■ may be actively engaged in the
! practice of any method or system
j of healing or have any financial
i interest in. or be a member of the
j faculty of any school of healing.”
This quotation is taken from the
bill and refutes positively any
claim that may be made that the
bill imposes any disadvantage on
| any particular school or cult.
' Opposition to this bill by any
cult or school is tantamount to
admission that its candidates are
not trained in the basic sciences.
The supervision of this examina
I tion shall be by the State Board
of Higher Education which shall
1 "appoint such examiners as are
necessary to conduct the examin
ations provided for.” and “such
examiners may be selected from
the faculties of the University of
Oregon or the Oregon State Agri
cultural college or any university
lor college accredited by the Ore
gon State System of Higher Edu
cation.” Further to safeguard the
members of the various schools or
cults it is provided that the ex
aminers shall not know the school
or cult to which the candidate for
license belongs. Such an examin
ation will be perhaps even more
impartial than a final examination
given in any of our state institu
! lions of higher education or for
teacher certification.
I » * *
*\o matter how widely separated
our theories arc concerning the
! ’-oatmet: t of disease we should not
object to the necessity of giving
evidence of our knowledge of the
fundamental facts on which all
theories must rest. We should not
ask less of our so-called healers
than a garage owner would ask
of his mechanics, a knowledge of
the machine that needs service.
The states that have attacked
this problem with at least some
degree of success have enacted so
called basic science laws requiring
practitioners of all schools of heal
ing to be examined by non-parti
san educators in the fundamental
sciences. Only thus does a state
license in any healing school or
cult assure at least a reasonable
acquaintance with the underlying
facts concerning the structure and
functions of the body in health and
disease. It also gives at least some
hope that the practitioner will be
acquainted with the scientific
method. Altogether it is a sane
proposal in a field where neither
charlatanism nor ignorance should
be tolerated.
Assault and
Battery litchcock ||
We see that the boys from Al
pha Delta Sigma were parading
about the campus in sheets last
night. Trying to imitate the Ku
Klux Klan, we suppose. Our sug
gestion is that a bunch of indepen
dent Ku Kluxers organize tonight
and tour the sorority houses.
Might be useful.
' * * *
Which reminds us we ought to
announce the publication of our
new booklet: “Twelve different
ways to obtain entrance into a
sorority house and why.”
Examples—
1. Pose as the Fuller brush man.
2. Pose as the building inspec
tor.
3. Pose as Queen of the May.
4. Pose as Eddie Cantor. (In a
pinch, Mickey Mouse will do.)
5. Tell the girls you want a
date. They probably won’t believe
this, but try, anyway.
6. Pose as the dean of men.
7. Stay home and read the Col
lege Humor.
8. Pose as the campus prowler.
9. Just pose.
* # *
Now that Paul J. Schissler has
thrown his hat out of the ring, it’s
up to us to pick his successor. We
think that there is no one who
could fill the position more emi
nently than Dean Gilbert. He has
all the plunging drive and power,
and it has lo’rig been observed that
against him, the opposition never
had a chance.
* * *
Or perhaps we could put the
coaching deal at our sister college
on sort of a “technocracy .basis”
with all the Monday morning foot
ball experts at Corvallis and the
“Board of Strategy” at Eugene
handling the situation. It’s about
time that the football technocrats
got their due recognition, anyway.
Wouldn t have to pay them any
thing, either.
* * *
Jonathan Butler, much discussed
promenade by carol hurlburt
Those charming gentlemen, the
technocrats, who make night and
day hideous by the rumpus they
have raised, predict that if the
whirl of life goes merrily, madly,
on without any control, we ll all
end up in a terrific jam.
The French danced on the eve
before Waterloo, and even if we’re
heading toward a terrific hola
caust, we ll continue dancing . . .
till 12:15.
The Dean of Women has begun
to make out her social calendar,
and the formal season is on. (The
Krazy Kopy Krawl, however, is
strictly informal.)
* *
We've become quite elegant this 1
winter, and in the East there even
appears to be an acceptance of
formality in masculine attire.
"Tails it is!" College men at Yale,!
Harvard, and Princeton have be-!
gun to don formal dress for eve- i
ning. Out here in the West,
though, "where men are men find
women are careful." the tuxedo is
still acceptable. (You don’t even,
need to wear a black derby unless |
you want to.')
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Parisian gowns arc gorgeous,
sumptuous: fashioned of metal i
cloth, gold lame, brocade, and sil-;
ver tissue. Dramatic creations are
designed with capes and brassiers
of brilliants.
The 'debutante and co-ed are
dancing in chiffon, in net, and in
taffeta.
The chiffon is demure, graceful.;
and youthfully entrancing. It has
tiny sleeves made from floppy, ex
otic poppies, and a bunch of bril-1
liant poppies enhance the low dee
ollctage in back.
The fine and lace-like. 1
embroidered in glinting beado iud
bugles, or flanked with “star
dust.’’
The taffeta is romantic, white,
with a hint of Grecian influence
and a dash of cherry red.
* * *
Stunning gowns are made of'
sheath-like satin in black or of
thickly crinkled black silk crepe.
One of these crepe frocks has
shoulder straps looped through
gold and silver rings and was
worn with alternating gold and sil
ver bracelets.
Cartier has designed bracelets
of fur, set with semi-precious jew
els and lined with a flexible gold
alloy. These are to be worn with
colored evening gowns of the new
soft and supple velvet.
* * $
For the coming spring season,
Chanel predicts a great vogue for
tulle, and is showing a bouffant
froek of Havana brown tulle, j
which is to be worn with a big
sleeved jacket of tulle in turquoise
blue.
* * qS
Another of the newer innova
tions is the scarf, which is fast
ened to the gown with a cluster
of brilliants either at the front or
on one shoulder and draped to suit
the. wearer, or allowed Cb float
around the figure like a cloud Sr j
angel wings.
* *
If we could dance until the dawn
comes ‘round!
* * *
We Select for Promenade: Clav
Sherman, because he wears ‘a
brown siiirt of English cord cloth
with a brown suit. This shirt, by j
the way. has a round tab collar,
especially designed by Harveys,
which is very, very auart and
new.
special investigator, is no such
formidable figure in real life, as
jress reports would have you be
ieve. On the contrary, he is a
slight, mild-mannered man, rather
luick and nervous, inclined to be '
luite voluble, excited at times. 1
iVsks questions all the time. Al
ways interested in whatever is in
!ront of him at the time, whether;
t be a 20-page report or a stein. *
Vfight be called dapper.
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Campus Calendar !;
Heads of houses Oregana pic- j
:ure will be taken today at 12:40
it the east entrance of Condon. i
Oregon Yeoman meeting Mon
lay evening, January 16, at 7:30
>n the third floor of Gerlinger hall,
if you are unaffiliated, be there!
Tau Delta Delta, musical hon
orary, announces the pledging of
Norma Zintser.
Women’s intramural swimming
Friday at 4 o’clock.
- I
Social swim, 7:30 tonight, for |
men and women. Towels and suits
furnished. Come before the game.
Beta Lambda wiir meet Monday
at 7:30 in the Memorial Union
building in Corvallis. Eugene
members urged to be present.
_
There will be no open-house
meeting at the Westminster house
this Friday evening, since the
Wesley group is entertaining.
Everybody of the organization
meet at the dance at 8:15.
I
Emerald
Of the Air
Bruce Hamby, Emerald sports
editor, will give his first sports
talk of the winter term, which will
be a regular Friday feature, on
over KORE today at 12:15.
Saturday’s program will be an
nounced over the air. Monday’s
feature will consist either of a
fashions talk by Carold Hurlburt
or a musical program by Lenny
Hoyt and his Royal Collegians.
A Decade Ago
From Daily Emerald
January 13, 1923
More Big Business
Shy Huntington has not yet ac
cepted the one-year contract which ]
was offered him by the student
body through the executive coun
cil late last term. It is rumored'
he will not renew his $4,000-a-year
contract except on a three-year I
basis.
* # #
Dean Allen hopes to dedicate
the new journalism building in
March, during the editors’ conven
tion which meets from March 21
to 23. No classes will be held
there until after that time.
*s*
Wandering Girl
An undecided but splendid stu-'
dent has been wandering around
the campus trying to find a major
she considers worth changing to.
The only school she plans not to
visit is the domestic arts depart
ment, for which she is not, she
thinks, intended by nature and
temperament.
* * *
The old shack which stood west
of the Oregon building and was
used as a bicycle shed has disap
peared along with the unsightly
bulletin boards in front of the lib
rary and Deady hall.
* * *
Change Needed
Fire hazards on the campus |
were found to be worst at the lib
rary, McClure hall, Deady hall, and
the heating plant, in an inspection
made by Deputy State Fire Mar
shal Horace Sykes and J. S. Glea
son yesterday.
Contemporary
Opinion . . .
pUBLIC opinion in the United!
States can do a great deal to j
smooth the way of the second ses
sion of the Conference for the Re
duction and Limitation of Arma
ments. I urge as far as possible
mass meetings, which under stim
ulating leadership would be fea-1
tured in the papers; and individ-'
ual letters and wires to senators
and congressmen. I am inclined
to think that nothing is more ef
fective than the latter.
There are a great many people
in the United States interested in
what may be accomplished at the
conference. But many do not give
any indication of this interest to
their senators and representatives.
Mobilized public opinion in Great
Britain has already accomplished
a great deal; we have a more dif
ficult situation in the United
States because of our size and dif
ferences of many sorts, but I be- '
lieve it is possible to rouse the
people to a realization of the crisis
and the responsibility resting upon
the individual.
i The above was written by Dr.
Mary Emma Woollery, president
of Mount Holyoke college. It was
taken from International disarma
ment notes.)
Books
^olk-Say IV . . The Land Is Ours;
edited by B. A. Botkin, Univer
sity of Oklahoma Press.
Sojnewhat less than a half doz
n years ago, Mr. B. A. Botkin in
erested himself in the develop
nent of a new phase in American
iterature, which has since come
o be known as regionalism. In
he words of Mr. Botkin, the move
nent is restricted by no one mood,
jut gives free expression to “epic,
yric, idyllic, or satiric” alike. The
ndividual contributors are “dream
ers and interpreters seeking to
illy themselves to a native tra
dition that is at once provincial
md cosmopolitan, social and indi
vidual. Not content with a folk
heritage that leaves the individ
ual in economic and cultural bond
jge, they inquire not only ‘Where
did we come from?’ but ‘Where
do we go from here?’”
Regionalism has today many
prominent advocates in literary
circles; Mr. John Gould Fletcher
and Mr. Allen Tate may be listed
is two of the better known figures.
In this latest collection are in
cluded such well known writers as
George Milburn, Nard Jones, Mary
Austin, Alice Corbin, and Erskine
Caldwell. But without further in
troduction let us skip over them
to the final selection, “Paul Bun
yan: An American Symbol’.’ by
Pat V. Morrissette.
For those who have followed the
advance of Mr. Morrissette in
poetry, the remarkable and meri
torious progression of this his lat
est poem, over earlier work, will
become quite obvious. He had
shaped the American mythological
figure of Paul Bunyan, mighty
logger, into new epic proportions.
And aside from the freshness and
originality, the presence of a great
amount of color, and the reappear
ance of a spirit which has long
lain dormant in American litera
ture, there is in addition whole
sections of the finest and the pur
est poetry that Mr. Morrissette
has yet written. By way of illus
tration one might quote any of a
half-dozen passages to demon
strate the vigorous spirit and the
poetry. Such a fragment chosen
at random from the poem as
“Into chaos drive the chisel!
Out of order draw the strength
of song!
With hands of gods, of men, of
labor ...”
may well illustrate what Mr. Mor
rissette has accomplished.
The poem is divided into sec
tions, each devoted to a period in
the life of the hero and his big
blue ox. Disregarding the symbol
ical significance, the poem might
be dedicated to any man of less
gargantuan proportions. It is the
disillusion of the eternal idealist
that Paul Bunyan meets. In his
youth, his is the confidence of the
passage quoted above. And then,
impatient as experience grows up
on him, he asks irritably:
“Is it enough to sit upon the
prairies ?
Is it enough to eat and dance
and die?
Is it enough to flirt with poetry
and art?
Stand naked in the thundering
skies.
Lift new burdens as a free man
should.”
And then, with age heavy upon
him, he sees his defeat. Even lus
ty supermen, who are only less
than gods, must ultimately go
down; and in a passage which
communicates something not un
like physical pain, one of the most
poignantly sincere in the poem,
Paul Bunyan concludes that
“This is the bitter winter. This
is the desolation
The prophets knew when Time
was young with hope.
My battles are over, and over
in vain.”
In this handling of the ancient
American myth, Mr. Morrissette
has developed more of its poten
tialities than any modern Ameri
can poet, and, in doing so, he has
achieved a distinct personal tri
umph.
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