EDITORIAL OFFICES. Journalism 81d|?. Phone 3300—News Room. Local 356 ; Editor and Managing Editor, Local 354. BUSINESS OFFICE, McArthur Court, Phone 3300—Local 214. University of Oregon, Eugene lUchard Neuberger, Editor Harry Schenk, Manager Sterling Green, Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Thornton Gale, Assoicate Editor; Jack Bellinger, Dave Wilson, Julian I’reacott. UPPER NEWS STAFF uscar MunKiT, newa Francis Pal lister, Copy Ed. Pruce Hamby, Sports Ed. Parka Hitchcock. Makeup Ed. Leslie Dunton, Chief Nijrht Ed U'JMII UIUBOI UllViai; Ell] Hob Guild, Dramatic* Ed. Jessie Steele, Women’s Ed. Eloise Dorner, Society Ed. Ray Clapp, Radio Ed. y DAY EDITORS: Rob Patterson, Margaret Bean, Francis Pal lister, Joe Saslabsky, Hubert Totton. NIGHT EDITORS: Bob Moore, John Hollopetcr, Bill Aetzcl, Bob Church. SPORTS STAFF: Malcolm Bauer, Asst. Ed.; Ned Simpson, Dud Lindner, Ben Back, Bob Avison. FEATURE WRITERS: Elinor Henry, Maximo Pulido, Hazel Corrigan. REPORTERS: Julian Prescott. 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OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Patricia Campbell, Kay Disher, Kath ryn Greenwood, Jane Bishop, Elma Giles, Eugenia Hunt, Mary Starbuck, Ruth Byerly, Mary Jane Jenkins, Willa Bitz, Janet Howard, Phyllis Cousins, Betty Shoemaker, Kutn Rippey. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued Tuesday, Wednesday, 'J hursday and Friday during the college year. Entered in the postoffice nt Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscrip tion rates $2.50 a year. The Emerald’s Platform for Oregon 4 THESE are the constructive developments which the Emerald hopes to institute and help maintain at the University ot Oregon: ]. Advance educational ideals. 2. Promote intellectual achievements. 3. Reorganize the student government structure. (a) Establish a student parliament in an advisory capacity, (h) Establish a faculty legislative committee. 4. Advocate a well-balanced athletic program. 5. Promote minor sports. 6. Subordinate extra-curricular activities to academic attain ments. 7. Maintain the Emerald on its present Htatus as a representa tive college daily. 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 S chars. STUDENT OPINION AND FACULTY ACTION BRING SUCCESS rpHE RETENTION of the “Dally” in the Emer ald’s masthead and the continued publication of the paper on an eight-column form represents one of the most far-reaching attainments of the school year. Particular credit for the achievement belongs to Robert C. Hall, superintendent of the University press, whose opportune cost reductions were, in the last analysis, what actually decided the issue. Others who assisted materially in helping To maintain the paper on its present standard were Eric W. Allen, dean of the school of journalism; George Turnbull, advisor of the Emerald, and the graduate manager’s office. The fact that virtually all those responsible for bringing order out of chaos were faculty men heark ening to student sentiment is a powerful argument for the Emerald's recently proposed governmental system a student parliament with a faculty legis lative group. It was the executive council that precipitated the excitement and confusion which reigned between the time of its last meeting and yesterday, and it was faculty men, backed by the strong voice of student opinion, that brought about the happy solution. The Emerald yesterday suggested a student par liament in an advisory capacity and a faculty com mittee in a legislative capacity. Is such a setup not comparable to the one which straightened out the Emerald’s own dilemma so satisfactorily? Unquestionably the students wanted the Emerald maintained on its present basis. Faculty members, conducting a nuriled but extensive research into the situation, conferred with the editor of the Emer ald and his staff and the result is the continuance of the paper as a dally. This is a timely and incontrovertible argument for the Emerald's plan. Thinking students will do well to give it thought. DEBUNKING MILITARISM Tl*ADISON, Wisconsin, has just been shown how it coutd be protected against enemy aircraft. Major Otto Piltz of Milwaukee, member of the U. a coast artillery, did the showing at a monthly meet ing of the Reserve Officers association at the Uni versity of Wisconsin. The Daily Cardinal, Wisconsin student paper, points out the Improbability of such attack and brands the address as a militaristic attempt to spread war psychology through the mass of people. Says the Cardinal ironically, “We should like to inquire: How in the name of reason can it be con ceived that the city of Madison. 1,000 miles from the Atlantic coast winch fronts an ocean practically impossible for a large airplane fleet to spau, 2,000 miles from the Pacific ocean which has never been crossed by aircraft, how this city protected Unu could, without the most Impossible flight of the imagination, be in danger of an air attack. "So far as Canada is concerned, there is no danger whatever. Throughout our history, and for more than one hundred years, our relations with Canada have been entirely cordial, our policies never basically divergent. The longest unfortified boun dary-line in the world marks off the division be tween Canada and this country." Not being tactical experts we are as puzzled as the Cardinal editors. It seems to us that an aerial defloration of Madison is in the realm of zaney fancy; that it will occur only in the misty future when the Buck Rogers, A. D., sort of thing be comes reality. But by then, if some of our experts’ predictions materialize, even the postoffice at Dex ter will have become jaundiced by the "yellow peril” and it will be too late to do much of any thing anyway. One of the most curious paradoxes in state uni versity training is the attempt to adjust the op posed theories of enforced military training and liberal arts education. On the one hand we have an emphasis on nationalism and huge armaments, on the other internationalism, disarmament, and a better understanding of world problems. This in congruity has been fostered by the military ele ment and has no real place in a modern educational system. THE IMPORTANCE OF PERSONNEL \ UNIVERSITY is only as good as its personnel and sooner or later this must be realized by the people of the state of Oregon. Great educa tional institutions are made of blood and bones, not of sticks and stones. Modern equipment is impor tant, but skilled educators are essential. In the current frantic rush towards specialization and vocational courses, personnel has been overlooked. It has been subordinated to the extent that intel lect and scholarly ideals have come to be forgotten elements. Thought is not given twice to the slashing of an educator’s salary, but the abandonment of a building or road project will entail hours of dis cussion and columns of publicity. The one im perative need of every college and university is an outstanding faculty personnel. Far better to have scholars delivering lectures in ramshackle halls than to have unintellectual speakers expounding their platitudes and hollow phrases in million-dollar "temples of learning." The latter are but empty Parthenons without keen intellects to occupy them. One of the principal reasons personnel has been shoved summarily into the background is the high ly specialized system with which we are confronted in a deplorably large number of our schools. It no longer is quality, but rather quantity in regard to the establishment of courses. The curriculum has been stuffed until it looks like a timetable. It places a premium upon endurance and patience! rather than intelligence and initiative in obtaining a degree. * In a recent report the Oregon state board of higher education asked: “ . . . . what other depart ment has accepted such reductions?" No answer is necessary. Yet higher education is the very root of progress and advancement, and back of this is the need for a personnel adequately capable to maintain this essential department on a high level. When a negro minister was arrested on a charge of vagrancy at Miami, Florida, he brought his con gregation into court as evidence of occupation. . Approximately 950 students of elementary: school of New Orleans have enrolled for French classes. tr—.71 On Other Campuses Illinois fans “Hell Week” pRATERNITY and sorority pledges are rapidly J approaching that awesome or awful time when they will be elected to membership in the organiza tion. There are a great number of fraternities and sororities on the campus that still have the anti quated "hell week” on the calendar for the neo phytes. VVe were under the impression that this prac-! tice went out with the invention of the horseless | carriage as far as initiations generally are con cerned. The old idea that the pledge should be made to appreciate the badge by a week of real "hell” has been stretched about to the breaking j point. Many houses have in the past few years abol ished paddling, and some of those who did abolish it have gone back to it as a means of education. It has been fully proved by educators that you can’t beat education into any person by means of a dub or paddle of any kind. The paddling was found to stir up resentment in many houses, and most of those that abolished the practice are glad that they did. Those who proudly point to the fact that they have abolished paddling make it hard to understand their actions when the equally proudly boast “we have a real hell week at our house.” It seems somewhat inconsistent. There remains another group that proudly points out that “our hell week is educational.’’ The spirit is there, but usually the upper class flesh is weak and the pledge is made to “properly appreciate" the great transition that he is about to experience by means of a few more or less humiliating encounters. The Daily Cardinal from the University of Wis consin carries the story of sorority pledges that fainted during hell week and a number of pledges who received more or less painful marks from a so-called “Inspiration Week" in another organiza tion on that campus. It is not that the pledges “can’t take it." They can do that end of the game j all right, and we uo not intend to pun at this point. “Hell Week" under that name or under any j other name smells the same. The time has come , when the interfraternity council and the Panhellenic council should be able to handle the situation in a better manner than the houses have shown them selves able to control Hell week is merely a futile hold-over from the ancient days when men were men and the dean’s office knew your past history lor generations. It has no place m our present i system of education or organization. Now is the time to do something about it before the regularly scheduled pre-initiation ceremonies are held. After someone gets hurt there is uo use taking up the matter except for future reference.-—Daily liiui: I I University of Uluiow i. Passing the Buck - - By ken ferguson >__* A Message to Garcia By JOHN H. MUELLER (Professor of Social Science) 'TiHE orgy of generosity and good will on the occasioA of the re cent holiday season—a period tra ditionally designated for the charity drives of many types, has left many reflections in its train as we awakened from our charitable ca rousal and experienced an intel lectual "morning after the night before.” To disparage in any way this seasonal virtue would be highly inept in that it would appear to discourage one of the most saving qualities of our much maligned human nature; but since the be ginning of the period of depression there has occurred once again i reappraisal of the place of charity in our social scheme and a revis ion of status of the recipient of such generosity. The whole concept of charity and almsgiving has in the last cen tury or so undergone a transform ation in meaning and duplication. Enjoined upon us by the Bible, made sacred by tradition and ex alted by poets and social philoso phers, frequently nourished by a Lady Bountiful complex, it has been tacitly assumed that "it droppeth as a gentle rain from heaven “and blessth him that gives and him that takes." One of the earlier challenges suffered by this generous social philosophy emanated from the pe riod of individualism, now fre quently characterized as "rugged,” which thrived during the 18th and 19th centuries. According to that principle there was attached to the recipient a stigma somewhat in proportion to the virtue exercised by the giver. Somehow, in an age of "equal opportunity,” when "I am master of my fate" and "cap- j tain of my soul," the need for j charity can arise only out of some personal defect of character or feeble perseverance. Accordingly such "failures” were deprived of political privileges, and even today the acceptance of charity under certain conditions is a ground for deportation of aliens within five years after their entry into the United States. In the most recent elections the law which deprives recipients of poor relief of the rights of suffrage was again in voked in some New England states. However, in the more funda mental analysis of our modern in dustrial society, the onus of pov erty is found to rest on the fluc tuations of economic cycles, the mobility of population, the breakup Of family solidarity which resulted from the shift from agricultural to urban organization, the increas ing personal hazards of accident and disease, and many other fac tors wholly outside of personal vo lition of individual responsibility. When crimes are few and social relations intimate, the biblical de vice of charity adequately covered the needs of the underprivileged. When, however, social problems become complex and social rela tions casual and anonymous, the attack thereon must be corre spondingly circumspect. The tra ditional virtues of thrift and indus try. of law-abiding and moral be havior. do not guarantee, as they formerly tended to do. that secur ity which everyone desires. That has been the lesson learned during the current period of depression. « « » i? rtr.'p'-'Ui-c 1" thdt pv'mt of \ tew. which m lire winds of many i leaders has been crystallizing for several decades, there has arisen a rather fundamental revision of our social philosophy. The “ideal” of charity has already been abolished and professional agencies have ap peared in its place. These attempt to analyze the causes for the indi vidual inadequacies and adminis ter their relief with the view of rehabilitating their clients — a function which pure charity will never attain. Whenever, however, these causes lie deep in our social and economic organization, the professional agencies are helpless; and much more all-inclusive meas ures are necessary. The device which has gained the attention of many students of social problems is that of social insurance, which is no more or less than a plan to distribute the risks which, accord ing to the exposition of the issues just presented, no individual alone can or should be expected to carry. The United States has not been forced to face this problem as have the European countries. Among many other reasons the rapid ex pansion of industry, the supply of free land and the open spaces of the west served to drain off the unrest of the east, just as in the stjll earlier days the American col onies had drained off the European restlessness. Consequently, Eur ope has been experimenting with social legislation for nearly a half century while the United States es sentially still relies upon charity. The objections to charity are 1) it is in reality an unofficial tax, 2) it weighs most heavily upon the moderately secure class and therefore constitutes an unequal burden; 3) in its dispensation it pauperizes and degrades; and therefore 4i tends to neglect the worthy who are reluctant to util ize this means of support, and to indulge the unworthy; 5) it closes our eyes to the more underlying I’i ... ' " -| I Two Decades Ago From Oregon Emerald January 18, 1913 A Wet Fraternity Six feet of water stood in the basement of I’hi Gamma Delta this morning. Two of the boys took advantage of the flood and went canoeing in the pond bound ed by the Mu l’hi Epsilon house, the liappu Alpha Theta house, and their own house. » * « A committee of the Michigan state senate has requested the stu dents of the University to refrain from carrying pistols to celebrate victories. * » * Walk Uprightly “A graduate from the journal ism department,” said E. N. Blythe, 'OU, head of the Oregon ian copy desk Friday atternoon, “goes out with a double responsi bility—that of making his owe reputation and upholding that of the University.” * * * This year, two issues of the Emerald will appear during exam ination week, when it has never heretofore been published. * * * I n-Deterred Pledging It h as been noted in past years that the practice of pledging high school students results in injury to the pledges themse!'■>, to ill lratermtKs, aud to the l uiversity. 1 problems by treating merely the symptoms of social organization. * * * In recent years, however, near ly all states have enacted some form of social legislation to cover certain of the more common haz ards: industrial accident, widow hood. and old age. Still more re cently Wisconsin, by the legisla tion of 1932, has passed an act de signed to insure against unem ployment, while many states, no tably Ohio, have appointed com missions for the study of this haz ard. On January 1, 1933, the Com mittee on the Cost of Medical Care completed its work, which com mittee, while not recommending state medicine, made suggestions definitely discouraging to the pre vailing individualistic practices. * * * »It would appear, therefore, that Charity, which, with Faith and Hope, has traditionally been looked upon as one of the pillars of per sonal contentment and social se curity, has been required to carry too great a load. Charity may still be legitimately invoked to cover the “acts of God” or “natural ca tastrophes” but the mistakes of man need a more sound and syste matic coverage than is afforded by occasional sentiments of generos ity of goodwill. promenade by carol hurlburt The new clothes that Paris, that designing old woman, has concoct ed are discreet, reserved, "gen teel,” and make you look like the kind of girl a man's mother would want to have for a daughter-in law. They are designed to inspire a man with domestic ideas and make him long to lay his life, his liberty, and the pursuit of his hap piness at your feet. * * $ Gone are our most flamboyant curves. The new silhouette is straight and is accentuated by knee-length squarish coats hang ing absolutely straight and wide over a straight slim skirt. Jackets have the look of a cardigan. The fitted silhouette no longer clings and confines. You can heave a sigh and let your ribs expand. No longer need you bind your waist until it looks like a giraffe on parade. Neck-lines are still high, and the idea seems to be that you should take on the pro portions of an untrammeled sky scraper. and I don't know whether that means you should simulate a telephone pole or the Empire State building. * * * The new sleeves, even, are straight and flat; coat sleeves are plain: dress sleeves are fitted only at the wrist if at all. The three quarter length sleeve is highly de rigeur. * * * The outstanding color for day time wear is beige. Grey is a close second . . . and for spring time, try wearing grey accessories with frocks for which you formerly chose black. Black, in keeping with the mor bid spirit of this age of depression and convention, still overwhelms us. New colors are dark Havanna brown, purplish blues, and navy combined with grey. There are de lectable shades of salmon-pinks, coral-pinks, rosy and ruby reds, grenadine, lemon, orange, straw berry. apricot, and peach. Looks as it' we were going to turn into fruitarians! ** .> » By tliio tune you have heard mucfi and read more about the moyen-age waistline, but if you know what the moyen-age waist line is and how it differs from the low waistline of our post-war pe riod, you, dear reader, are style wise. The post-war waistline was down around the hips and certain ly didn’t give your figure a lithe some, lovely grace. Not so this new line, which lies at the base of the waist and serves as an out-line for the framework of the pelvic bones, anotomically speaking. The only garment in the mem ory of man which had this same disarming line was that of the nautch-dancer's skirt. # # # We Select for Promenade: Those Three Musketeers of our lighter hours, who were seen in at Tay lor’s Saturday evening en role: Tubby Linklater, our Athos, strik ingly garbed in Tyrolian hiking trunks; Bernie Hughes, as Porthos, clad in a high silk opera hat, and Duke Shaneman, that gallant Aramis, arrayed in a sun-helmet. Slightly torrid, but it proved that, as Aramis, the Duke was ready for “anything." Washington Bystander . . By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17— ’’ (AP)—It sounds odd that a man still should be junior senator after reaching his 75th birthday, with a record of house cabinet and senate service of 30 years behind him. Yet when tall and courtly Sena tor Ashurst arose to congratulate Senator Carter Glass of Virginia upon his 75th birthday anniversary he had to address himself to “the junior senator from Virginia.” * * * The Ashurst estimate of the veteran junior was but character istic language, for Ashurst dotes on a sounding, well rounded phrase. Yet the Arizonan called j attention to the fact that his Vir ' ginia colleague, for all his concen j tration on the dry statistical stuff j of banking and currency legisla tion, is himself a man of note in the use of the English tongue. “With much literary grace Sena tor Glass speaks a classic English to which the muse has apparently intrusted her deepest and most sustained meditations,” Senator Ashurst said. That may be “Ashurstesque” hyperbole in a measure, yet there is a lot of truth in it, too. Every press gallery veteran grants that the Virginian, whether in making : an extemporaneous argument on a ! bill or just indulging in the verbal battles with which his congres sional career is studded, employs an exceptional capacity to fit words together. * * * The trouble as to general recog ' nition of Senator Glass-’ exception al powers of English construction is that throughout his congression al career his audiences on the floor or in the galleries always have been so much interested in what he said as rarely to take note of how he said it. Since the first hours of the dis cussion which led to enactment of the federal reserve act in which he had so large a share in the house, the Virginia senator has been accepted as an authority in his chosen legislative field. In view of his years, it is not surprising that few observers think Senator Glass would give even passing consideration to a Roosevelt proffer of another term as treasury secretary. He has - r* To the Editor of the Emerald: Read Page One! Sir: In the “Emerald’s Platform for Oregon” yesterday, the Emer ald declared itself in favor of "es tablishing a student parliament in an advisory capacity.” The same edition announced that the Yeo men had passed a resolution favor- a ing the calling of the parliament. Why, may I ask, has the parlia ment not been called to order? It surely has not been overlooked, for last term attention was re peatedly brought to bear upon the fact that the parliament was ready to convene as soon as the vice-president of the student body would act in his official capacity. Never before has student leader ship been in such an apathetic condition on our campus. If there was ever a time when an efficient legislative or advisory body of students was needed, it is now. The machinery for student self-expression is ready to swing into action. Will the proper stu dent body officials avail them selves of this opportunity to con tinue a truly constructive enter prise ? —J. R. Wilson To the Editor of the Emerald: Parliament Wanted Sir: The Emerald seems greatly to disturbed over the cut in its bud- * get. We should all iike to see it continue on the daily basis, but a smaller paper would serve the pur pose just as well, if not better. A small paper could be read more conveniently at the breakfast ta ble. An 8 by 10 advertisement fills but a quarter page. If the pages were the size of Saturday’s Emer ald, the same advertisement would cover a full half page and so be more impressive. Another advan tage that advertising would re ceive would be that more students would take the time to read it if there were not so much else in the paper. But what could be just as well eliminated or what could be best removed from the Emerald? “As sault and Battery” and "Promen ade” are not essential; the edito rials for the most part would be better if expressed in fewer words; the sports page might confine it self to University of Oregon j sports; the names of the entire Emerald staff do not need to ap pear in every issue; and Ken Fer guson’s cartoons might be drawn on a smaller scale. strongly indicated that the details of administrative office irked him deeply at the treasury and that his escape to the far more congenial senate atmosphere was a happy moment. * * * That he now should be pictured as prospective chairman of the senate appropriations committee rather than of the banking and currency committee on which he has also served since he became a senator is not so easy to under stand. His seniority gives him the selection. If Senator Glass does take over the appropriations job, one thing seems certain. 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