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affairs and the character and conduct of public
men. —Carl Schurs.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT AT OREGON
I.
THE GOVERNMENTAL structure that once was
heralded on this campus as the salvation of the
students now looms as an over-balanced juggernaut
that eventually will crumble like the tower of Babel.
Unvyise legislation, levies that lacked foresight and
indiscriminate building projects have brought it to
a crossroads where it knows not in which direction
to turn.
This is the fault of no particular individual or
individuals, but rather is the fault of a system that
provided for no change in the times. When business
conditions were still on the waning end of the post
war exhilaration, the students voted taxes upon
themselves, built a barnlike structure, which we
jokingly call the "igloo,” and assumed various
other obligations. All this was very pleasant while
money jingled cheerfully in the students’ pockets.
But—
‘‘He who lives by the sword
Shall perish by the sword.”
The general business collapse, the effect of
which is felt increasingly today, found Oregon's
students holding the sack for legislation that was
imposed by the predecessors. Today each of us
pays a $5 building fee every term because obliga
tions to that effect were voted by students who
long since nave passed from campus affairs. The
fallacy of this is apparent at once. The state board
of education, the graduate manager and virtually
everyone else in authority have been alternately
damned and vituperated for the presence of the
building fund, when they were in no manner re
sponsible for it and its attendant evils.
There was nothing obligatory connected with
the legislation which our campus predecessors
voted years ago. They assumed the taxes and then
moved on without sustaining the effect of their
legislation.
For the past three months the Emerald has;
studied the student governments of America’s lead- j
ing colleges. Some were good, some were bad, but ;
in every instance those that were successful in
cluded two vital elements faculty legislation anil j
student advisory boards.
Thus we come to the constructive work before
us. As a substitute for our present unwieldy legis
lative organization, that centers about the immo
bile executive council, we suggest a legislative
body consisting of faculty members and an advisory
group in the form of a student parliament, the
latter to be presided over by student officers.
We realize advocacy of such a plan entails con- j
siderable difficulty and obstacles, but, from close
observance of other representative colleges that
have used similar systems with brilliant success,
we are certain that it has advantages not to be
overlooked. We feel sure it is a constructive sug-1
gestion well worthy of serious consideration.
Faculty legislation has been abhorred by suc
ceeding generations of college students, but, as we
emerge from the sickly and adolescent "rah-rah" !
era of the past, it looms increasingly feasible. It j
is incongruous not to be willing to entrust at least
a major portion of our extra-curricular affairs to
the men in whose hands we place our educations.
Then there is always the factor of an advisory par
liament to consider. Jt would act as an effective
check on the faculty group.
I HE VI K V Or FAME
HOW FAR is the acclaim of the multitude a cri
terion of value ?
Without a doubt, everything, whether social,
political, ethical, moral, or literary is based on
values. As Ntetache so aptly said. "Life is founded
on continually changing evaluations."
It has become a commonly-accepted sophistry in
our western civilization in the past lew years that
a man’s value increases directly according to the
cumber of times his name reaches print This
rattier ndiculou. conclusion u drawn, ot course,j
Emerald’s Platform for Oregon
rpHE FOLLOWING are the constructive
-*■ developments which the Emerald hopes
to institute and help maintain at the Univer
sity:
1. Advance educational ideals.
2. Promote intellectual achievements.
3. Reorganize the student government |
structure.
(a) Establish a student parliament in an
advisory capacity.
(b) Establish a faculty legislative com
mittee.
4. Advocate a well-balanced athletic pro
gram.
5. Promote minor sports.
6. Subordinate extra-curricular activities
to academic attainments.
7. Make the Emerald a representative col
lege newspaper of a representative school.
from the supposition that the more valuable men
reach the limelight.
Say rather, the more ambitious men. As Mark |
Barron writes in his syndicated column, a New
Yorker at large, “Some time ago a certain jour
nalist began to search for the present whereabouts
of about 50 famous persons whose exploits were
front page topics some 15 or 20 years ago. . . .
“The journalist had his agents working in every
part of the country and Europe. Yet, in the space j
of three months, they have been able to discover
hardly more than half of these one-time celebrities.”
"Fame is evanescent,” as Schopenhauer said,
and yet it is amazing to view the immense amount
of effort that most people exert to gain a credit
able reputation, say rather notoriety, in the mind3
of thousands of people of whom they neither know
nor care. While our charlatans, scoundrels, and
panderers to the public tastes, receive the acclaims
of the masses, how fares the genius?
A few words from Remy de Gourmont, that
master Epicurean and brilliant critic .... “Every
original genius is at first ignored or opposed by the
mass of his contemporaries. ... In a democratic
country one enters directly into fame, and the more
cultivated the country is, the more widespread its
average education, the harder it is to cut a way
through the wall of indifference.”
What price conformism ?
THE THEATER OF THE FUTURE
TTI7TTH technicracy, reports on social trends,
’ " and other similar toffies filling the newspapers
and making table talk all over the country, it is
interesting to contemplate how the new leisure
which may come to man might be employed.
The theater, admittedly one of America’s wan
ing institutions and a leisure pastime, comes in for
some searching criticism and analysis in January’s
"New Outlook.” No less a personage than Arthur
Hopkins, producer and writer, surveys the slowly
expiring legitimate stage.
Mr. Hopkins deplores the stark realism of the
stage today. To quote him:
“We have granted realism such license as the
glamorous theater never knew or wanted. We
have been broad-minded to our own discomfort. All
conceivable ugly caldrons have been permitted to
bubble and boil and exude their stenches while we
caressed our bumps of liberality and fixed our
faces in silly masks of tolerance.”
But neither does he propose that subjects of
everyday life be abandoned. "When the theater
touches everyday life, let it bring some new illumi
nation, some new understanding. Let it deal freely 1
with the mass problems of daily life but in terms
that bring light, in terms that bind us closer to
gether. When beauty returns to the theater, its
vitality will cease to ebb.”
Hopkins predicts the success of the civic theater,
locally promoted and supported. Worry over box
office and hits will no longer cramp the style of
playwrights. In their hands will lie the salvation
of a “mechanized land, in danger of becoming a
citizenry of robots.”
Washington Bystander
By HERBERT PLUMMER
-t^TASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 16 —(AP)—The pos
sibihty tli.it a new face may be seen among1
the leaders of the next congress appeared as mem
bers of the house gathered in the capital for the
short session and earnest discussion of the political1
set-up after March -4.
Of course a great big "if’' will be the deciding
factor.
That both tlie next speaker and floor leader of
t lie house will not come from the same section of
ttie country is the belief shared generally "on the
hill.”
At the moment perhaps the three most promi-!
nent candidates for the privilege of wielding Jack |
Garner's gavel are Rainey of Illinois, the present j
floor leader; Byrns of Tennessee, chairman of the I
appropriations committee, and McDuffie of Ala- j
bania, the whip.
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The election of any of these men promises a j
shake-up down the line in democratic organization.
If Byrns or McDuffie, for example, is elevated '
to the speakership the veteran white-haired Rainey
would have to choose one of two jobs both among |
the most powerful and influential in the house. !
The first is to continue in the post of floor
leader. The second is chairmanship of the ways
and means committee.
The departure of the present chairman of that ,
committee, Collier of Mississippi, and the unsuc
cessful attempt of Crisp of Georgia to enter the j
senate has placed Rainey at the head of the list
Rainey's consent to become chairman of ways
nut means, too, might avert a possible controversy
in the party as to who will get the job.
However. Rainey still has his eye on the speaker
ship and his supporters are confident of enough
rotes to elect him.
* * *
But should a southern democrat defeat him and ,
;ie go in as chairman of ways and means, a new ]
lloor leader would emerge in the next congress.
Two names figure largely in discussions of who ■
Vi will bo.
The first is Tom Cullen, so-called "boss'' of the '
lammauy delegation in the house.
The second is the young, tall and handsome John I
McCormack of Massachusetts who has made Ins .
nark .o a member ol ways ami mean.,. i
The Onlooker By ken Ferguson
A Message to Garcia
By S. STEPHENSON SMITH
(Professor of English)
rpiIE U. S. A. has long operated
-*■ on a waste basis. We called
it a rising market, or prosperity,
or a big boom. Our margin was
so wide, our resources so great,
that we ran along recklessly,
scrapping our cars and radios and
other gadgets every year or two,
and buying the latest novelty in
new models. We have been hauled
up short. Yet so strongly are our
minds set on production economics
that we are listening avidly to the
technocrats, who are proposing to
cure us by a hair of the dog that
bit us. They did not invent their
term, by the way. Our old friend
William Henry Smythe, an engin
eer who hangs around the Faculty
club in Berkeley with his dog
James, used the term in a series
of articles about the time the
World war broke out. And he
leavened his proposals with a large
grain of sense, for he stressed the
need for popular consent to a ra
tional system of production and
distribution—and did not suggest
a soviet of engineers, as Howard
Scott and Co. are proposing.
As Lord Salisbury used to say,
when someone suggested calling
in a group of experts to save the
situation, “Who will then save us
from our saviors?” No, I do not
believe a soviet of technicians will
have us out of hand. This partic
ular New York crew seem inno
cent alike of politics and aesthet
ics; and above all, they ignore a
most important branch of econom
ics. But then so do the University
economists and the schools of bus
iness administration. I refer to
consumption.
a movement to stay consumers
economics which has been under
way for three years or more, in
New York, is of much more inter
est to University students and fac
ulty. It lias had no such fanfare
of publicity as has greeted tech
nocracy. It lias gone along quiet
ly, surely, anti modestly. I refer to
the Consumers' Research, found
ed by such converted advertising
men as Stuart Chase, and by a
former chief of the bureau of
standards in Washington, F. J.
Schlenk. They furnish to their
subscribers a confidential service
which tells the brutal truth about
ill sorts of commodities which we
buy. It is a kind of gratuitous ad-'
vertising, based oil the findings of
physicists, chemists, and other ex
perts, who buy samples of nation
ally advertised products and find
but just what is in them, how long
they will run. how much of them
is real value, and how much sheer
water" and sales costs and ad
vertising pressure! They cannot
inblish this material broadcast, be
■ause the law of libel is so favor
ible to vendors in this country
hat you cannot tell the real truth
ibout a product on sale without
vetting hauled into court, lienee
heir service is issued only to sub
icribers, who must agree uot to
broadcast the material.
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These bulletins cover such sub
eets as foods, radios, musical in
struments, office supplies, build
ng materials, gas and oils, house
lold equipment and supplies of all
finds, and many other items,
heedless to say, this service is
supported by the subscriptions of
onsumers: it is non-profit mak
ng: and it has so much dynamite
n it that "Time" refused to ac
■ept the advertising of Consuiu
r.- Fe catch
I tiad the service inure than
worth the price in the delight
which I feel in learning the real
truth, crisply told, about the over
advertised and over-praised prod
ucts which I had long bought;
moreover, it has saved me $40, just
20 times its cost, in the year I
have taken it. I am frank to say
that I should like to see a course
in consumption economics, based
on mucn material as this, in every
college and university curriculum.
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We are fortunate in having here
and at Corvallis many courses
which somewhat take the place of
such work. I should have said that
the movement of which Consum
ers’ Research is a part, lays no
less stress on taste and aesthetic
values in consumers’ goods. Well,
if you can spare the time from
working for grades, and studying
the genteel art of “getting by,”
you should advance your real edu
cation by travelling around the
two campuses and looking in on
the work of the following:
Miss Avakian’s work in pottery,
weaving, and home craft work.
Mr. Andrieni’s work in stage
design.
Mr. Zane's exhibits in home dec
orations and design.
The magazines in the art li
brary.
Mr. Hart’s murals in process.
Mr. Sinnott’s landscape garden
ing.
Mr. Wilcox’s exhibits in archi
tectural design.
And then listen in on Miss
Starr’s discourses on textiles and
dress design; and Miss Wood’s
sound lore on food selection and
food chemistry. You might even
travel to the other campus for
some other purpose than attending
a football game or a house dance.
It doesn’t take as long to travel
from here to Corvallis as it does
to go from one college of the Uni
versity of London to another; and
the interests of the two schools
are identical when it comes to the
evaluation . Also, a visit to the
Cooperative farm would be in
structive. Now that we are all on
short commons, we should learn
to make more things for ourselves,
and discourage the trash trade in;
things of ordinary use. And if we !
can't make our own, we should at j
least develop our critical wits so
that we know good fabrics, beauti
ful pottery, fine architecture,
sound landscape design; and learn
to know good cookery when we
taste it. These all belong to the
fine arts, and they are all cardin
al items in consumption econom
ics.
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I conclude with a few suggestions j
for reading along this line:
Stuart Chase—“Men and Ma- j
chines,” “A New Deal.”
William Morris—“News From ;
Nowhere.”
Lewis Mumford—“Sticks and
Stones.”
Consumers’ Research publica
tions.
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And finally, we should try to
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promenade by carol hurlburt
Where is Eugene ? Is it north,
south, east, or west? Is it sum
mer or winter? Is it the begin
ning or the end ? Or is it half
way between Paradise and Para
guay? Where are we or why are
we or are we ?
If you ever stopped to consider
the situation seriously, you would
realize what a charming place Eu
gene is. It is neither here nor
there. You can wear summer
clothes in the winter, or winter
clothes in the summer. You can
dress luxuriously in furs one day
and don linens the next. You can
turn night into day, burn the
candle at either end or both, stand
on your head, or walk on your
hands, if you want.
$ $ ^
In recognition of our quixotic
habitation, we have to consider the
subject of sun-burn fashions and
the cult of the semi-nudists long
before the inhabitants of Salem.
Portland, or Pendleton.
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The new southern styles are di-j
vided into two schools: those for
the damsels who want to get sun
burned and those for the damsels
who want to stay lily-white and'
flower-like.
* * *
Followers of the first school go*
in for violent shades,—"hempy.j
rusty, 'wild, wonderful Goona
Gooria shades," while those forgot
ten ladies who sit "in the greatj
in-doors" drape themselves in the
palest of evanescaut pasteis.
* * *
The bathing-suits arc onc-picce
and have a hapd-knit look. They
have a bracelet neck, a fitted
brassiere top. and leave the back
to nature. Some are of the two
piece specie, which means that the
top is a bra..sere and that there
n nothing but .'kin in-between.,
Naughty! Naughty! The idea is to
go completely pagan.
* * *
The newest colors for bathing
suits are grey and light cocoa, but
you shouldn't wear them unless
you tan the shade of a bronze
monkey. Other colors which the
semi-nudists have hailed are Irish
green, royal blue, orange, emerald,1
maroon, and dragon yellow. Only
heavy knit bathing suits in white,
are smart. The discreet bathing
suit .... if you must be that way
.... was formerly of wool jersey,
but now comes in celanese jersey,
which dries almost immediately. ,
* * *
If the good God blessed you with
shapely appendages, trunks are
the thing for tennis. Worn with
white tops, socks, and sneakers.
Tennis dresses are shorter, falling
just below the knee cap. and have
a wider hem. Are down to the
spine in back and have a short
cape for protection against the
elements and conservatives.
$ * $
One of the newest whimsies
(and it promises to be more than
a mere whimsy) is to finish off a
light skirt with a dark top. The
skirts are often cut like the di
vided bicycle skirt and come in
oyster-white or string .... which
is the dirty white color of China
mans cord.
The sweater-top is most beguil
ing when it comes in a sun-drench
ed hyacinth blue, in maroon.
Fascisti black, or screaming citron
yellow.
We select for Promenade: Nancy i
Suomela, because she met the
K.K.K. bravely on Saturday "af
ter dark'' in a frock of gentian
red. all very moderne with full
sleeves and wide shoulders, and a
devastating little cloche of the
saiue red dipped down over one
eye. t
build a public conscionce which
jvould not allow men like Thorstein
Veblen, the patron saint of tech
nocracy, to die of starvation, neg
lect and disappointment, in a cab
in down behind Stanford, where
he once taught. We should know
a good economist when we see one,
and listen to him in time, and I
hope we will listen to Stuart Chase
and Schlenk with more attention
than we gave Veblen twenty years
ago.
Our suggestion as the only solu
tion for the Emerald-Executive
council fracas, is that they com
promise. Let's publish the Emer
ald four and a half days a week.
Oh, Solomon . . .
* * *
We see the Chinese killed an
Italian soldier the other day in a
minor brawl. Maybe he liked
spaghetti better than noodles.
$ * *
Literary thought:
Voise
Grows woise.
♦ * *
A certain friend of ours has
been bragging his way about the
campus extolling the virtues of
“my girl in the South.” The New
Orleans influence, you know. May
be she was that Mardi Gras we've
been hearing so much about.
* * *
Our sincerest pity goes out to
the valiant clean-up committee at
the Krazy Kopy Krawl. Must
have been a lot of work to sweep
those people out from under the
tables.
* * *
If a fellow-columnist, chic, Car
ol “Fashions" Hurlburt thinks she
can scoop us for a minute and get
away with it, we’ll fool her. We
might nominate Jake Stahl for
Lemonade, but we can think of a
better one. Started an investi
gation to find out who the myste
rious prowler at the Theta igloo
was. After long hours of research
we narrowed the field down to the
following five suspects:
1. Butch Morse.
2. The Fuller Brush man.
3. T. Blakeley Hamilton.
4. Anselmo Leonardo Y Ferante
de Pozzo.
5. An unknown man in a light
grey overcoat about five feet,
eight inches with blond hair parted
rather far back and a square face.
Now, nerts to you, fellow-column
ist, chic, Carol “Fashions" Hurl
burt.
* # *
Cougar sharpshooters Huntley
Gordon and Bob Cross invaded the
portals of the College Side the
other evening. They might try
their unerring eye on the slot ma
chines.
Books
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By JOHN SELBY
ECHNICALLY of course, Mary
Austin’s “Earth Horizon” is an
autobiography. And it is difficult
to say what additional it is, al
though it is obvious that few auto
biographies are so overflowing
with richness as this.
The facts of the Austin life are
interesting enough, but quite out
side the value of the book. Per
haps the value lies chiefly in the
writer’s uncanny ability to assimi
late the essence of nearly every
thing with which she had contact,
to digest everything intellectually
and emotionally, and to return it
to the world clothed in words that
no one can misunderstand.
The flavor of this book may only
be suggested. This, for example,
about the post-boom days in Los
Angeles: “The unwatered palms
had a hurt but courageous look,
as of young wives when they first
suspect that their marriages may]
be turning out badly.” Or this:
“In San Diego, in those days . . . .
if you took a handful of the top:
soil, half of it hopped out and the
rest of it ran through your fin
gers.”
* * *
Carl Sandburg, with his biog
raphy of Abraham Lincoln behind
him, now sets forth to tell the;
truth as he sees it about Mary
Todd Lincoln. “Mary Lincoln,
Wife and Widow,” is one of the
few intelligible stories about this
character. Sandburg makes no at
tempt to gloss over the behavior I
of his unfortunate subject. Rather,!
he describes her as she was, and
then tells why she was so.
He is convinced that Mary Lin-i
coin was the victim of an inherited i
brain disease that progressively!
grew worse until she became in
sane: that she was not a deliber-,
ate virago, and that there were'
long periods when she and her
distinguished husband lived a nor-i
Letters to the Editor
All “Letters to the Editor" must bear j
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 secs fit. All let
ters should be concise and to the point.
The editor of the Emerald solicits opin
iems and constructive criticism from
the members of the student body._j
To the Editor of the Emerald:
In Answer to Dean Gilbert
Yes—
’Tis a pity that in men
There has always been a yen
For power, or wealth to place
upon the shelf.
That for two pins or a groat
Some will slit a fellow’s throat,
Nor think of life they took in
gain of pelf.
Perhaps,
That’s why college cleans grow
simple
And divulge a smiling dimple,
Nor realize they’ve lost their
self respect,
When they, with winning voice
and rhyme,
Rejoice in legal social crime,
Confusing scientific study with
sect.
—Anonymous.
A Decade Ago
From Dally Emerald
January 17, 1923
Sports of Sorts
The O. A. C. Barometer divulges
the fact that the Aggies are en
during all year football practice.
A look at their record for the past
few years indicates the need.—Ep
Hoyt.
Students will ballot today on
the proposed change from the
three-term to a semester basis.
According to data collected yester
day by Emerald reporters, student
opinion opposes the semester plan.
* sis
Stricken Astoria
Ten representatives of the Uni
versity are helping with relief
work at Astoria, according to
Ralph D. Casey, of the journalism
department, who spent Saturday
viewing the scene of the big fire.
Among them are Dr. Phil A. Par
sons, director of the Portland cen
ter of social work of the Univer
sity of Oregon, and Miss Elnora
E. Thomson, in charge of the pub
lic health nursing.
* * *
It is inteersting to note that
those burned out in the Astoria
fire were all the dentists, all
banks, nearly all doctors, and the
principal hotels, but not a school
or church was burned.
* * *
Hitting His Stride
Forty students are enrolled in a
two-liour extension class in ele
mentary news writing conducted
by George S. Turnbull, professor
in the school of journalism, on
Friday evenings at the Lincoln
high school in Portland.
mal and quietly happy married
life. ; Sandburg infers tha,t un
hampered by disease Mary Lin
coln’s well bred self would have
been an important aid to her hus
band.
The appendices have been ex
panded in this case to include half
the book, and in them may be
found most of the material from
which the biography was written.
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Duff Gilfond has written a very
readable book in “The Rise of St.
Calvin.” Mr. Coolidge is “de
bunked” in a gently satirical text
that is happily free from scurrility
and full of evident attempts at
fairness.
But the prize for strangeness
goes to Richard Stokes, one-time
music critic in St. Louis. Mr.
Stokes offers in print the complete
libretto of a light-to-grand opera
entitled "Paul Bunyan”—ready for
the composer to set. The verse is
ribald, satiric, fantastic by turns,
and surprisingly often it is amus
ing, too.
None of that expresses the
uniqueness of the book. It is not
news when a composer goes
storming about looking for a lib
retto. But when a librettist (a
class commonly thought to be
starving in the highest garrets)
writes one without a composer in
mind—that's news.
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