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EDITORIAL OFFICES, Journalism Bldf?. Phono 3300—Nows Room, Local 365; Editor and Manatrinff Editor, Local 354, BUSINESS OFFICE, McArthur Court. Phono 3300—Local 214. University of Oregon, Eugene llichard Neuberger, Editor Harry Schenk, Manager Sterling Green, Managing Editor * EDITORIAL BOARD Thornton (laic, Associate Editor; Jack Dellinger, Dave Wilson Julian Prescott. UPPER NEWS STAFF uscar Mungcr, .News r.o. Francis Pal lister, Copy Ed. Bruce Hamby, Sports Ed. Parks Hitchcock. Makeup Ed. Leslie Dunton, Chief Night Ed tionn i»ross, i/iterary r*n Boh Guild. Dramatics Ed. Jessie Steele, Women's Ed. Eloisc Dorner, Society Ed. Ray Clapp, Radio Ed. DAY EDITORS: Boh Patterson, Margaret Bean, Francis Pal lister, I)f ug Polivka, Joe Saslavsky, NIGHT EDITORS: George ('alias. Bob Moore, John Hollo peter, Doug Mar Lean, Bob Butler, Bob Couch. SPORTS STAFF: Malcolm Bauer, Asst. Ed.; Ned Simpson, Ben Back, Boh Avlson, Jack Chin nock. FEATURE WRITERS: Elinor Henry, Maximo Pulido, Hazle REPORTERS: Julian Prescott, Madeleine Gilbert, Ray Clapp, Ed Stanley, David Eyre. Boh Gould, Paul Ewing, Fairfax Roberts. Cynthia Liljeqvist, Ann Reed Burns, Peggy Chess man, Ruth King, Barney Claik, Betty Ohlemiller, Roberta Moody, Audrey Clark, Bill Belton, Don Olds. ASSISTANT SOCIETY EDITOR: Elizabeth Crommelin. COPYREADER8: Harold Brower, Twyla Stockton, Nancy Lee, Margaret Hill, Edna Murphy, Mary Jane Jenkins, Marjorie Mr Niece, Frances Rothwell, Caroline Rogers, Henriettc Horak, ^ Catherine Coppers, Claire Bryson, Bingham Powell. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Frances Neth, Betty Gear hart, Margaret Corum. Georgina Gildez, Elma Giles, Carmen Blaise, Bernice Priest, Dorothy Paley, Evelyn Schmidt. RADIO STAFF: Ray Clapp, Editor; Barney Clark. SECRETARIES—Louise Beers, Lina Wilcox. BUSINESS STAFF 1 A ri Mm* Uiihr TIpvtnpra i Pii#»n Mirr l?nn linw National Adv. Mgr., Auten Bush Promotional Mgr., Marylou Patrick Asst. Adv, Mgr., Gr ant Theummel. Asst. Adv. Mgr., Gil Wellington Asst. Adv. Mgr. Bill Russell Executive Secretary, 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, Anne Chapman, Tom Holeman, Rill McCall, Ruth Vannice, Fred Fisher, Ed Labbe, Eldon Huberman, Elisa Addis, Wilma Dente, Hazel Fields, Corrlnne Plath, Marian Taylor, Hazel Marquis, Hubert Totton, Hewitt Warrens, Donald Platt, Phyllis Dent, Peter Gantenben, Bill Meissner, Patsy Lee, Lorry Ford, Jeannette Thompson, Ruth Baker. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Patricia Campbell, Kay Disher, Kath ryn Greenwood, Jane Bishop, Lima Giles, Eugenia Hunt, Mary Starbuck, Ruth Byerly, Mary Jane Jenkins, Willa Bitz, Janet Howard, Phyllis Cousins, Betty Shoemaker, Ruth Rippey. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during the college year. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. The Emerald’8 Program for Oregon THESE are the constructive developments which the Emerald hopes to institute and help maintain at the University of Oregon: 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 committee. 4. Advocate a well-balanced athletic program. 6. Promote minor sports. 6. Subordinate extra-curricular activities to academic attain ments. 7. Maintain the Emerald on its present status as a rep resenta 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 Schurs. -- I CHANGE OUR STUDENT GOVERNMENT CAREFUL scrutiny of the student government articles now appearing on page one is all that is necessary to make evident the desirability of adopting the new plan which the Emerald advo cates. Mr. Prescott’s untinted narration of facts indicts Oregon's present system and endorses the arrangement which this paper recently proposed to replace it. His detailed accounts of the situation at other educational institutions show how mani festly the A. S. U. O. might be benefitted by a com plete redisposition of executive and legislative authority. The cardinal features of the Emerald plan arc a faculty legislative body and an advisory student parliament with the latter holding enough check on the former to maintain a reasonable balance of power. To date Mr. Prescott has discussed four schools whose systems are basically the same as that which the Emerald advocates. He has quoted facts anil figures to prove how much more success ful than Oregon they have been in their manipu lation of student affairs and finances. He shows undeniably the advantages to bo gained by abolition of our present setup and adoption of the Emerald plan in its place. Student fees arc lower at the institutions in vestigated by Mr. Prescott than they are at Oregon. This is a circumstance which wc all can appreciate in these times. The articles also point to numerous privileges and advantages which have been installed through faculty legislation and student advice. They are too numerous to repeat in these columns, but one in particular stands forth in striking contrast to what exists at Oregon. The constitution of the University of Florida forbids charging Florida students admission to any athletic contest in which Florida teams participate within tlie state. There is no need to relate how | much money such a ruling would keep in the; pockets of Oregon students. They would have been admitted free to the U. C. L. A. and Wash ington football games in Portland, to the Oregon State encounter at Corvallis, and to all the Oregon-! O. S. C. basketball conflicts staged on the latter’s court this winter. An inevitable conclusion must be gathered from the Emerald's suggestion and the information pre sented thereon. Oregon's present system of stu dent government is successful in theory, but a fail ure in fact. The day for executive boards on which alumni and students predominate are past. The trend towards faculty legislation and student sen-, ates and parliaments, in the van of which have marched America's greatest academies of learning. [ cannot be ignored. The greatest service we could do for generations of future University of Oregon students is to pass a constitutional amendment changing our student government plan to conform to the system now being inaugurated throughout the nation. This merits more than passing notice. II should receive careful surveillance and serious considera tion. A PLANNED CAREER ' I "'HE. EMERALD if yesterday carried a story on lu,w members of Mortar Hoard are selected To quote, "Emphasis is placed nol on the spectacu lar, or the number of times one's name appears in the papers, but rather on the real value of the work done, on tlie service one has given.” Perhap tins short pais graph will make elear i to many puzzled women the reason their sisters are chosen for this highest honor. Doing a few things well and maintaining at the same time a high standard of scholarship should be the goal of every freshman or sophomore woman with her eyes on Mortar Board. Too often the girl who is a leader and competent in many fields will allow herself to be loaded up With more activities than she can possibly partici pate in and get her studies at the same time. Acti vities, some of them at least, flourish and grades drop. Probation may follow with total abstinence from extra-curricular work. As the educated business man who reasons and carefully rationalizes each important move suc ceeds over the layman who relies on luck, or hunches, so will the intelligent activity woman who plans her career surpass her competitors and be rewarded with an invitation to fall in line be hind that impressive procession, Junior week-end. DECLINE OF THE HOTCHA SPIRIT AMERICAN universities have been frequently criticized by foreign visitors because they do not instill a curiosity concerning national and inter national affairs. The typical American collegian is represented as a coon skin coated individual, who drives a high powered roadster, carries a flask of gin, and knows all the road houses. The picture has been grossly overpainted. An interesting sidelight on this is offered by the Christian Science Monitor, which comes to the de fense of the modern university student: “College and university students seem to be ‘burning more midnight oil’ in study and less gasoline on pleasure drives. The rollicking, care free type of student usually depicted in humorous magazines and motion pictures no longer repre sents, if he ever did, the undergraduate of 1933. Evidence to this effect comes from school execu tives, students’ employment bureaus, and from ex pressions by student leaders. “Noting a tendency toward more seriousness, particularly among women students, a professor in Smith college recently stated that ‘there is much talk of politics, both, domestic and foreign; of the several political parties and of the capitalistic system. . . . There is no false pride shown by the students who are feeling a financial stringency for the first time. Very little is thought about what a girl has and more about what she is.’ “Some reports Qf scholastic records also indi cate more diligent application. A dean in Syracuse university, for example, cited the fact that fewer students had to be warned because of low grades in 1932. Such reports, of course, are not yet available from a representative number of schools. “More convincing is the evidence from meetings such as that of the National Student Federation of America in New Orleans during the Christmas re cess. The program reflected interest not merely in campus activities as such, but in national and in ternational affairs. In fact, the students there displayed mature judgment of delaying an expres sion of opinion whether the full payment of war debts should be sought by the United States. Their decision to conduct a poll on the question and then publish the students’ opinion allowed members time to obtain more information and to vote more intel ligently. “One of the most significant changes of view point on the campus relates to the evaluation of academic degrees. Formerly, as the federation was told by Mr. Edwin R. Morrow, assistant director of I he Institute of International Education in New York, a college education has been considered worth so much in dollars and cents. Now, with less pros pect of immediate employment after graduation, students must think of their training in terms ol' preparation for living, apart from monetary gains. This change alone may account largely for the ap parent determination of students to prepare to meet new conditions, whatever the world may hold in store for them." GIVE AUTHORITY TO THE BOARD 'T'HE OREGONIAN suggested yesterday that the legislature delegate virtually all authority in higher education to the board. The sooner that advice is followed, the better it will be for all Ore gon’s educational institutions. Higher learning must be kept as far from politics as possible. One of education's staunchest backers, E. G. Sammons of Portland, represented the board before the legislature ways and means committee. A fear less and conscientious citizen, Mr. Sammons “Eddie" to thousands of fellow Portlanders has been a valuable member of the state board. Few people in the state have as true an appreciation of higher education as Eddie Sammons. It is far better to let him and his colleagues on the board determine Higher education policies than to throw the situation into the political whirlpools of the legislature. ; On Other Campuses Open-Mindedness T IKK the poor, there ure present in every social -I-v group a certain number of narrow-minded and prejudiced individuals who pounce with a cer tain degree of malicious joy upon every new idea suggested. Often in government and social organi zations they are the cause of the failure of some needed reform of progressive thought. Steadfast adherence to one’s principals anil con victions is unquestionably one of the finest traits of character to be found. On the other hand, open mindedness tempered with toleration of other peoples thoughts will go a long way towards aid ing tlie progress and betterment of society. On this campus we meet daily this ever present j type of individual who scoffs at and condemns i practically every new idea that comes to light. Have you ever noticed his credentials? If he is condemning some new and progressive movement, tie usually admits before long that his knowledge is limited because he didn't have time to read the announcement carefully. If he is criti cizing some debate or discussion which has taken place, lie invariably reveals hi., absence at the time >f the argument and his ignorance of what actually! happened. Assuredly there is nothing more desirable than i controversy over and discussion of all progressive neasures. We need individuals who firmly adhere o llicit convictions. However, criticisms based, tpon hearsay and sketchy accounts of what is sup posed to have happened are not only dangerous, sut also detrimental to the progress of society— rattisc Daily Orange. A Message to Garcia This is one of a series of articles to zohiclt outstanding members of Oregon's higher educational system are contributing. Another will be published in the next issue of the Bmtfrald. By D. M. ERB (Professor of Economics* rriHE retiring president of Har 1 vard university, Abbott Law rence Lowell, in his final report to the board of overseers included a considerable discussion of what he has come to regard as the most valuable objectives in undergrad uate college education. President Lowell’s lifetime of study and ad ■ ministration in academic affairs, as well as the dignity of his offi cial connection, make his remarks worth pondering. Many of them are sufficiently generalized that they are of significance even for an institution as far removed from Harvard geographically, scholas tically, financially, and tradition ally as is the University of Oregon. The training of undergraduates is regarded by President Lowell as of primary importance. In one way this is surprising, for Har vard has two-thirds or more of its enrollment in the graduate schools of the arts and sciences and pro fessions. But the point is made that, “If the education of the un dergraduates is not serious and substantial all that follows is im paired; for habits of indolence or superficiality indulged in college arc hard to overcome, and slow down the march of students in pri vate life and in the professional schools.” It should be mentioned in passing that no undergraduate at Harvard is allowed to take any professional work, the idea being that specialization is sound only I when built on a broad foundation jof the basic arts, sciences, and hu ] inanities. * si* But what is the nature of the "serious and substantial" curricu lum which is approved, and where i does it place its emphasis ? The 'nature and the emphasis are indi jeated in the following list of ob jectives; 1. less lutiuiuimi uujecuve. 2. A greater correlation of knowledge. 3. A recognition of the principle of self-education. 4. A stimulation of more vivid intellectual interests. Students in the University of Oregon need to consider these ob jectives. In past years it was the custom to ask students in some classes at the beginning of the au tumn term why they were in col lege, but the monotonous unanimi ty of the answers soon caused the custom to be discarded as a bore to everyone concerned. If the stu dents had any answer which they were not embarrassed to give it was, "To learn how to make a liv ing," or, "To learn how to make money,” or some variation on that theme. Those of the faculty who do much advisory work are famil iar with the students, usually the more serious and more intelligent kind, who come into the office, an nounce that they are dissatisfied with their course, and doubt the value of staying in school, and who, after a little questioning, ad mit that the trouble is that they caft't see "any use" in a number of subjects which they are taking, meaning. f>f course, by “any use," any pecuniary or vocational ad vantage to be derived. Somew here, m some manner, ev eryone from cradle to college has failed to impress those students noth the filet education means oniethuig different than learning a trade. At no time have they be come excited at the prospect of knowledge just for the sake of knowledge, over the ambition to become catholic in their interests, over the glorious project of build ing the mind rather than storing it with specialized information, over the enormous personal satis faction to be derived from famil iarity with a wide variety of fields. Their scale of values does not in clude an appreciation of the joy to be derived from having in their intellectual selves a companion who is clear-headed, tolerant, ap preciative of the widest possible range of stimuli, self-reliant, and pleasant to have aroimd. No one has ever called their attention to the fact that at least two-thirds of their lives will be spent outside of their bread-winning activities, and that college is worth many times its cost if it only gives the student a basis for personal enrichment in those hours away from the job. * * * Of course there is a joker in all this. The student may well find that a shift in emphasis in his edu cational objectives, and that is all that has been suggested, may actu ally prove to be a direct cause of his economic success. More and more businesses and professions are asking that their prospective employees shall be intellectually alert even at the expense of some technical expertness, that they shall be men and women who are men tally pliable and versatife rather than mechanically perfect robots. But if that trend becomes more decided and more universal it will be merely a happy coincidence, making possible the killing of two birds with one stone. And it is ; suggested that in any event the larger bird may be education in the liberal sense rather vocational . training. Assault and Battery iitchcoek j| A friend of ours up at the Sign'. Chi manse showed us a bill they got up there the other day. Seems it was misdirected and read Sigma Pi instead of Chi. Opened it, though, and inside it gave the; date, etc. Chap had his letter head all printed, too. Said: In account with L. G. Helterline, vet erinarian. 630 Lincoln St. For Professional Services on Har ry Schenk. $1.50. Guess that sub stantiates the rumors we’ve heard about the hoof and mouth disease down at the SPT house. * * * Who are the campus burglars V Well, after discussing the matter thoroughly with Sterling (Sher lock Holmes! Green and Johnny (S. S. van Dinet Holopeter. who met the boys and thought they were guests of the house manager, we make the following choices: 1. A mysterious man named Harry Handball who has been seen in Pocatello, Idaho, quite frequently during the last few days. 2. A man named Cokey Cola who ihas been receiving letters from the National City Tile & Cement Works of Tuscaloosa, N Y . entirely too often. 3 An unidentified uian of indeterminate age who hao been seen loitering about the Theta house quite recently. (Maybe we’re mistaken about this. This man might be Royce Karl Rine hart who is known to be seen around there quite often and has a cousin who lives in Upper Cedar Flats, Minnesota.) ❖ H» * A news note tells us that the normal schools may be reduced in the near future. Sort of a less than normal idea, perhaps. * * * The junior class convenes to see whether they will shine shoes this year. This will undoubtedly give such prominent juniors as John Kendall, George Hibbard, and Neal Bush their only opportunity to shine. * * On the Police Blotter: Weldon Ross looking quite dapper . . . . Cynthia Liljeqvist smiling archly .... Lee Nelson asking for the whereabouts of the notorious Har ry Handball .... Eva officiating in the singing fest .... Ken Case living the life of the idle rich. promenade I by carol hurlburt By MONTGOMERY DICKENS (Pinch-hitting for Carol Hurlburt) AYR, Scotland, Jan. 27.— (Spe cial).— Back in the rain drenched hills of heather that flank this little highland village a frail Scotch lad was born 174 years ago this week. His name was Robert Burns. Slight of frame, he was a weakling among his giant play mates, but in him flamed the spirit of William Wallace and Robert Bruce. A great heritage was his. He was of the same breed as the men who drove the might of Brit ain from Scotland. His ancestors had stood off Oliver Cromwell, and he possessed their courage and tenacity, even though he lacked their robust physiques. Grown to greatness after a tur bulent career, he one day penned two lines that ring through the centuries: “Oh wad some power the giftie ! gie us To see oursel’s as others see us!" | Thought and speculation over that pensive aphorism cannot but paint a true mental picture of hu- I inanity in its many and varied as pects. The intellectual who is a tower of brain-power to himself; the athlete who cherishes an ex aggerated opinion of his own feats; the politician who imagines himself a great statesman—what would they do and say if they could see themselves as others see ! them ? What would Julius Caesar, on i that far-off day in Rome, have done if he could have seen his actions and character in the light that Brutus saw them ? Would Raleigh have ventured his safety if he had seen himself as his supposed friends saw him ;■ History would have been changed. The map of the world would be different today if Rob ert Burns' hope had been realized. ❖ * * ■ By "LEFTY" PLUTO WATER.. (Also rinch-hitting for Carol Hurlburt) /'’ATALINA, Jan. 27.—(Special 1,1 4 Well. Miss Carol, I visited a col lege today. It was Univ. of South- ■ ern California, which is in Los An geles. It was a quiet place and the 1st thing I thot was whether the girls at Oregon were as pret ty as the girls hear. You now, they call all the girl stoodents 1 hear co-eds I dent understand what that means, but pres- Veeck 1 has promised to explane to me' when he has the time. We met pres. Von Kleinschmidt. ; He is a swell guy, but I kinda stepped away from him when he axed me if I intended to go to the institooshun. I was in a institoo shun .onct when I was a kid, but this is the 1st I ever herd of a college pres, having one. We also met a fellow named j Howard Jones. He looked about. as tuff as one of Cigar face Al’s j men, but he was a fine fella. Hes football coche and somebudy told me his team didnt lose a game last yeer. That sounds imbeleivabel, but manger Grimm says its true. One of the players—they call them Troians—told me they playd Ore gon, too, when I said I was in trusted in Oregon. He said they beat Oregon 33 to 0, but I don’t see how anybudy could get that many runs. I axed him about that he sad they was no runs in football, but their was touchdowns. He said the tuchdowns counted six runs each. I axed’ him why this was, but he sad he didnt now. It seems like the Oregon boyz would only have lost 6 to 0 if they had had runs. Dear Carol: We nominate for promenade: Anyone you want. Ever try citro carbonate and orange juice. That’s fine for the flu. The Sports Staff. Questionnaire L= By BARNEY CLARK t’RIC W. ALLEN, dean of the school of journalism, submits the following questions as part of the necessary equipment of any well educated college student: 1. What American, holding high political office, is best known for saying, “What this country needs is a good five cent cigar?” 2. Mary is 24 years old. She is twice as old as Ann was when Mary was as old as Ann is now. How old is Ann? 3. Who jumped off the Brooklyn bridge ? 4. What state is the longest from east to west, from north to south, and up and down? 5. What present British terri tory got into the British empire through conquering England, and not through being conquered by England ? 6. Who was born over two thou sand years ago and hasn’t died yet? 7. At one time the American dollar was worth only 90 cents in Mexico, while the Mexican peso, wrorth 50 cents in that coun try, was worth only 25 cents here. A cowboy went into Mexico, ordered a drink, tendered two pesos ,at the bar and got an American dollar in exchange. He then crossed the line, bought a drink on this side, tendered his dollar in payment and got back two pesos as change. He kept this up until he ran into a herd of pink elephants. Question in eco nomics: Who paid for the drunk? 8. Parse this sentence: Teacher said that that that that that boy parsed was a pronoun. The answers to these questions will be found on page one of to day’s issue. Contemporary Opinion . . . Let the Board Do It 1Y|R. SAMMONS, chairman of the finance committee of the state board of higher education, tells the legislative ways and means committee that in the making of further cuts below what the board regards as bedrock in higher edu cational expenditures, the legisla ture should tell the board what activities to eliminate. A better way would be for the legislature to give to the board full authority to act. Such authority it now lacks. Mr. Sammons pointed out, for instance, that legislative action would be required to close any of the normal schools or consolidate! them. The board, rather than the ' legislature, ought to have that dis cretion. Throw into the legislature such questions as that and they will be decided on the basis of po-< litical log-rolling rather than by merit. The activities having the. strongest and most terrifying lob-1 bies behind them will be retained and the others will lose out. Such questions need to be decided on the basis of careful study and expert knowledge of the whole higher ed ucational subject. Decisions on that basis the board is qualified to make. The legislature is not. We have, for instance, at this moment the picture of Senator Woodward. For weeks and months he has been shouting publicly his devotion to drastic economy up and down and across—hew to the line and let the chips fall where they may. Now he is pleading for re tention of the experiment stations and extension work, at a cost of >300,000. Without in the least con lemning these activities, this news paper will say that it thinks the senator is merely yielding to strong jroup political pressure. He has -<een known to do that before low. It is a sample of what hap pens when the legislature takes nto its own hands details of what night to be expert administration, ■athcr than legislation The mam point may be stated A Decade Ago From Daily Emerald January 27, 1933 Lucky Penny? Coach Rutherford of O. A. C. buried a penny underneath the south goal posts on Hayward field before the annual homecoming classic last fall, “Just for luck.” Today Jack High, working with some other frosh, found it and was promptly offered $25 for it. He declined. * * * Sunday’s edition looked as ;f the head printer were suffering from astigmatism. The columns throughout the four pages slanted and wobbled in alarming fashion. * * * These Surveyors A survey conducted on the campus last week showed that the annual Junior Week-end is decid edly unpopular among many stu dents. The value of the “adver tising” the University receives from this event was branded as being of a "reverse nature.” * * * Pat Morrissette, in his “Literary Gossip” column, slams the movies in his first paragraph and then devotes the next three to review ing current films. # * * Reins of Government An Emerald reporter, browsing through some ancient files in the historian’s office today, unearthed the little known fact that the present student body government was originally in the hands of the Laureans and Eutaxians, the first organizations ever formed on this campus. Washington Bystander . . i...- — By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 26— ** (AP)—There must be some thing about the senate which makes it the favored place for elderly men of long political careers to round out their active days. Age rarely withers nor does custom easily stale a sena tor. Take former Senator Gillett of Massachusetts. He was in his eighties when he retired voluntar ily, and seemingly as hale and vigorous a man of his age as was 1 to be found. Some 40 years of political life had not worn him down physically. He was feared at golf, drove his own car and all that. * * * Or there is Carter Glass of Vir ginia, a power in the senate at 75, as forceful in debate, as unfailing in attendance as when he first came up to sit in the house 30 years ago. He has been in the thick of legislative frays for all 1 but a year or two of that time I when he served as post-war treas ury secretary. ! There is Senator Tom Walsh of Montana at 74, hero of as grinding a period of hard work in the oil lease investigation days as any legislator ever went through. He is a frail looking man, but always among those present. And Walsh runs his own car still, step ping on the gas in youthful fa shion at times. Or again, consider the case of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah. To ward the close of his seventieth year he endured the first political defeat on a 30-year-war of his own to stay in the senate. He was “lame ducked” out in the demo cratic sweep, with his way of life to reshape at that late date. And he opened his seventy-first birth day with a round of golf on a. crisply cold morning in prepara tion for the daily battle with the diy* practical aspects of govern ment that always have interested him. Consider Messrs. Borah, at 68, and Hiram Johnson, at 67. Was there ever a more fiery bit of de bate than that they staged about the war-debt incidents of the Hoo ver-Laval conference? Time has not teamed them perceptibly. The senate seems to conserve the gin ger of its members far beyond the normal span of undiminished activity among men. * * * By contrast look at the age at which presidents and former presi dents have died, including Calvlti Coolidge. A dozen of the 29 men reached their three score and ten oi beyond, John Adams' death at 90 being an astonishing contra diction of the general rule. ftince the war between the -tates only three former presi dents, Hayes, Cleveland and Taft, have reached their seventies, and all three died virtually at that age. again thus: The board of higher education, in the fullest spirit of co-operation for economy, has cut its budget to bedrock within the limitations of its powers. The leg islature demands further and deep cuts. The legislature, then, should Jive the board the authority nec essary to make the further cuts expertly. We fancy the board, no nore than the legislature, will wel come the added responsibility. Nevertheless the point is sound— Morning Oregonian.