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Office M*r., Helen Stinger Class. Ad. M*r., Althea Peterson Sez Sue, Caroline Hahn Sez Sue Asst., Louise Rice Checkin* M*r., Ruth Storla Checkin* M*r.. Pearl Murnhy ADVERTISING ASSISTANTS: Tom HoJeman, Bill McCall, Ruth Vann ire, Fred Fisher, Ed Labbe, Elisa Addin, Corrihnc Plath, Phyllis Dent, Peter Gantenbein, Bill Meisnner, Patsy I ,oe, Jean nett#* Thompson, Ruth Baker, Betty Powers, Bob Butler, Carl Heidel, George Brice, Charles Darling, Parker Favicr, Tom Clapp. The Oregon Dally Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during thd college year. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, ,$2.50 a year. The Emerald’s Creed for Oregon “ . . . . There is always the human temptation to forget that the erection of buildings, the formulation of new curricula, the expansion of departments, the crea tion of new functions, and similar routine duties of the administration are but means to an end. There is always a glowing sense of satisfaction in the natural impulse for expansion. This frequently leads to regard ing achievements as ends in themselves, whereas the truth is that these various appearances of growth and achievement can be justified only in so far as they make substantial contribution to the ultimate objec tives of education .... providing adequate spiritual and intellectual training for youth of today—the citi zenship of tomorrow. . . . “ . . . . The University should be a place where classroom experiences and faculty contacts should stimu late and train youth for the most effective use of all the resources with which nature has endowed them. Dif ficult and challenging problems, typical of the life and world in which they are to live, must he given them to solve. They must be taught under the expert supervision of instructors to approach the solution of these problems in a workmanlike way, with u dis ciplined intellect, with a. reaspnable command of the techniques that r re involved, with a high sense of in tellectual adventure, and with a genuine devotion to the ideals of intellectual integrity. . . .”—From the Biennial Report of the University* of Oregon for 1931-32. The American people cannot be too careful in guarding the freedom of speech and of the press against curtailment as to the discusst&n of public affairs ami the character and conduct of public men. —Carl Sehurs. i WHY NOT TO REDUCE SALARIES THOSE who strive to balance the budget and build bridges and courthouses by slashing teachers’ salaries could put their time to no better use than reading the following excerpts from the biennial report of the University of Oregon for 1931-32. It appears in the recent bulletin of the state board of higher education: “. . . The administration always has been on the look-out for young and promising scholars for faculty members. With our low faculty salary scale it is impossible to attract mature men who possess both sound scholarship and the divine spark of spiritual leadership from established institutions. Our salary scale is far too low to permit such ac tivity ...” Those words were penned by Dr. Arnold Ben nett Hall before he resigned as president of Oregon to become chairman of the Brookings institution. When Dr. Hall wrote them, the drastic salary cut recently imposed upon our faculty had not yet been levied. What would he write today? Even then he admitted the futility of attempting to add out standing educators to the University staff. Does it seem logical that we can retain those wc have if further reductions are enforced? The present session of the legislature is con fronted with bills and committee reports that threaten to impose additional cuts upon faculty salaries. Huge reductions loom in higher learning appropriations, and it lias been assumed that the greater part of these slashes must he achieved by trimming the wage scale for educators. It requires no expert to determine the fallacy of that perspec tive. Personnel is the most important requisite of any educational system, and that of Oregon is not an exception. Faculty salaries already have been cut to the bone. Further reductions will be disastrous, anil they must be avoided. The Emerald has pointed to this fact on numer ous occasions in the past. It will continue to do so until ilefinite action is taken in one direction or the other. Should it deplorably come to pass that the professorial pay scale would be reduced even further, tin re will be but one eventual result the loss of many of out notable men and a stigma upon the University's reputation as an educational and cultural center. The necessity of avoiding such events cannot be questioned. TUI TAltlKF \\ \I.KS <ilU)\\ SH\KA 'C' VERY student who subscribes to the "Buy Ore -*-y gon" snibboleth should have read the editorial which appeared in Wednesday s Oregonian. There in the fallacy of erecting a trade barrier around ourselves was set forth. It pointed out that the wall which the "Buy Oregon" advocators hope to hold against incoming merchandise will be equally as effective in confining Oregon products to Ore gon. And without the rest of the world Oregon industries will not amount to a hill of beans, civi lization can get along without Oregon goods, but the reverse does not hold true. Those who have the phobia that it is patriotic to "Buy Oregon and "Buy America" should dis card it. It is not patriotic, but merely foolish. One of the principal reasons for the world discord and strife that e.u.-l i today u Uie va L ..ccuuiulation of tariff barriers that extend across the earth. They must be tom down if conditions are to improve. They are as great a barrier to progress as the Himalayas were to the barbarian hordes north of India. But somewhere there must be a Khyber pass, and perhaps it will be found in an advancement of liberalism and international ideals. It is encourag ing that the Oregonian, long the stronghold of the protective tariff, has seen fit to show the people of the commonwealth the fallacy of the “Buy Oregon” craze. The action must be regarded as an encour aging note of progress. Perhaps the doom of such anachronisms as the high tariff and the subsequent advent of liberalism is not so far away, after all. LIVING ON $13 A MONTH NOVEL experiment concerning the cost of student living has just been completed by the home economics department of Indiana university. The class prepared a menu, which includes three meals a day, costing $1.72 a week. This added to the average cost of a room for a week at Indiana gives a total of $3.32 a week, or $12.88 a month. Compared to the $50 most of the students were paying in the form of house bills a year ago, the sum is unbelievably small. But that it is possible to exist comfortably on this amount is proved by the fact that many Indiana university students are expending not more than from $16 to $20 a month, including the cost of necessary clothing and other incidental expenditures. Greek letter organizations at Oregon are having a difficult time competing with the lowered dormi tory and private residence charges for room and board. The average house bill still is in the neigh borhood of $40, while at many places board and room can be procured for half that amount. As a result, fraternity and sorority membership have decreased, and many houses are having a hard time making both ends meet. With a smaller member ship, it is the tendency for house bills to increase. A worthwhile movement of the house managers’ association is its attempt to reduce the large as sessments that confront fraternity and sorority members. Since the beginning of last term, by rigid economies, many, organizations have found it possible to reduce their house bills without under going any undue embarrassment. Such reductions have been made possible because of the declining price level. In order to reduce bills further, it will be neces sary to cut the large payments made for contrac tual obligations. Installments made on buildings erected in good times consume a large percentage of income. A lew finance companies have reduced these payments voluntarily, but there still are some ten organizations paying the same amount as three years ago. Under present conditions a house bill of $40 is out of proportion to the value received. They will have to be lowered, and they will be. The move ment of the house managers’ association is the first constructive step along this line. If the fraternity and sorority are to survive, they will have to make dra.stic cuts in their living expenses. PHILOSOPHY OF “ALKIE IN WONDERLAND” TT has been said that Wonderland in which a small girl named Alice found herself many, many years ago was a place which, as it were, topsy turvy. Various bits of this and that, which if swal lowed caused people to grow very small or very large, as the case might be, were found here and there about the place. Certain versatile animals talked in a most unexpected manner. Is it any wonder that they named it Wonderland? A couple of weeks ago the play "Alice in Won derland" was launched successfully in the New j Amsterdam theatre in New York City. Last year 1 a new edition of Lewis Carroll's book was pub lished with much success. Friday evening a cam pus group is using this so-called children’s book as a theme for its principal winter term social event, the "Mad Hatter's Banquet." What is the appeal that is found in this book? Is it the humor, the naiveness, the simplicity of style? It is a bit of each of those things, but dominant of all is its philosophy. Any college stu dent perplexed about personal problems or who hasn't been able to find just ihe right "slant on life" should spend an hour with "Alice." Its light ness hides a bi' of ii.s profound philosophical mean ing, but it is so much fun to read it, anil before ; he is through, anyone who attempts it will have done some real, deep thinking. 1“ “ _ f Contemporary —Opinion— Don’t Kill the (loose! TF we "Buy Oregon" exclusively we must make up our minds that eventually we shall be able to sell little except in Oregon. If we "Buy Amer ican" exclusively we must expect that our trade balance still in our favor although shrinking — will eventually go tHe other way. Zealots in Mr. ; Honest's provincial crusade will do well to regard I these facts and hold them in view. They are facts peculiarly pertinent to the Pa ! eific coast states. Oregon, California and Wash ington have a large foreign trade balance in their I favor. In these states we import less in proportion to our exports than does the country as a whole. We of tlie Pacific coast buy more from the east , than wc sell to the east. We need the outlet of our foreign markets to equalize the domestic trade balance. The "Buy American" agitation, if per sisted In and made effective, is certain to bring re j prisals on ns that will react heavily against us. | its effects, so far as the Pacific coast is concerned, 1 will be the opposite of keeping the money at home. A compilation of figures on imports and exports j for the first ten months of 1932 shows this: Exports. Imports. Europe . 8 649.612,413 $ 325.453,191 Northern No. America 213,266,237 156.138,229 Southern No America 100.762,963 139.094.056 j South America 77,287,849 172,437,122 , Asia 239,759.087 302,924,819 \ Oceania 31,097.520 6.244,447 j Africa . 30.557.209 19.767.375 Total 81.342.373.209 81.122.059.239 These figures, taken at the lowest dollar value since l9t)o, are by no means as favorable as those of normal years, but the balance is still in our i favor. It will be a grave mistake if iu the name | of a miscalled patriotism we shall kill the goose ! that law tin golden egg.—Morning Oregonian. , Use That Saw ! ByJKEN FERGUSON qnHE moot point at the present * moment is whether women will don trousers or whether they won't. And by that I don’t mean the kind that looks like sailor trow, but rather the kind which Mar lene Dietrich and Greta Garbo have affected for their private lives. These trousers are of tailored grey flannel and are made by Wat son, the men's tailor of Hollywood. They go by the name of slacks, are high-waisted, cut on straight lines, with rather wide cuffless legs, and button on the sides. # * * Some of the stars, such as Bette Davis and Kay Francis, absolute ly refuse to wear slacks; others have accepted them, and smart wo men are including them in their wardrobes for the South. They are being worn in either grey or navy blue, with soft woolly tops constructed on the order of the polo shirt. * * * I asked Bob Guild, critic extra ordinary i he can criticize every thing from Nietpehe to a woman's figure), what he thought about them. "Fine idea," he said. “We ought to make Roosevelt king and have him decree that women for the next three generations will wear them. A beautiful woman can get by, in skirts, without say ing anything, but if she has to wear trousers, she won’t be able to get by on her looks. She'll have to cultivate her mind. “Consider how her children’s children will have improved three generations from now. It would raise the intelligence standard of the race,” # $ !iS The moral, then, is apparent. If you want to do right by your chil dren’s children and posterity in general, wear trousers. But, sup pose, you counter, that cuts down my chances of getting married and having children. “Good idea," Mr. Guild would answer you as he an swered me, “the world is too pop ulated now. There shouldn't be if 1 Questionnaire -By BARNEY CLARK_ Alfred L. Lomax, professor of business administration, submits the following questions concern ing foreign trade which point out high-lights of interest to the av erage student. 1. Can the United States sup port the ‘‘Buy American” cam paign and at the same time con sistently urge congress to appro priate millions of dollars for new mail contracts for American built ships ? 2. Why is it that Japanese manufacturers are experiencing a trade revival while other nations of the world with depreciated cur rencies are stitl in the throes of a major depression ? Shipments of goods in Amer ican vessels from Oregon and Washington ports to California are classified as coastal: from the Pacific to Atlantic United States ports via the Panama canal as in tercoastal: to Hawaii from Pacific ports is also domestic commerce. How are shipments classified to and from the Philippine Islands? 4. When is cargo "alongside” a ship ? 0. What constitutes “the load ing" of a ship? The answers to Professor Lo max’ questions will appear ui an early i,.-uc of the Emerald. more than one child to every five families.” * * * I have gone into elaborate detail over this question of trousers just to show you how styles and fash ions can improve the chaotic con ditions of the world if women will only “do their bit”! * * * If you want to see some dramat ic innovations in clothes that may one day become fashionable, go to see Carole Lombard in “No Man of Her Own.’ Miss Lombard wears a black afternoon frock which is unusual because of a fluted ruff around the neck that is reminis cent of the Elizabethan era. White ruffs also encircle the upper part of the sleeves. Another stunning creation in which Miss Lombard appears is a dinner dress of a soft white glis tening material, cut on straight simple lines with a tiny collar (that looks like the collar on a small boy’s shirt) and a pointed neck. The startling thing about the gown is that the point at the neck line runs down to the very high waist which is circled by one of the broadest belts in existence. * * # We Select for Promenade: Jane Beebe, because she is in keeping with the spirit of the times, wear ing a gay scarf of brown and white silk, printed to read “Re peal the Eighteenth Amendment.” Assault and Battery -iifchcock I rI‘,HE immortal Tinker to Evers to Chance had nothing on Harry (you can't do that) Wei mar’s pigging activities. His trail is now Gamma Phi to Pi Phi to Theta to Alpha Phi to Kappa to Theta again. He’s all agog over Althea Peterson now. Yesterday it was Evelyn Kennedy. Tomor row it will be ... (A package of Post-Toasties for the right an swer. ) With the coming of spring it is our sincere hope that the budget will not permit the University to cut the brush away from the banks of the mill-race this year. * * * The popular theory that liquor and gasoline don't mix was re cently disproven when a group of pre-med students analyzed a bit of the'ir own private stock. * * * We publicity hounds feel that Oregon's basketball team would receive much more publicity if they lost every conference game instead of winning one or two. Perhaps they have already thought of that. * * $ Well, we see Scabbard and Blade took a light workout yesterday. Harry Handball says the pop-guns they were toting reminded him a great deal of senators and profes sors. all noise and no wallop. * * * Today’s choice bit from the law school tells the talc of Ward Win termeier. Seems the different classes had their .photos snapped. While his classmates stood about ten feet away getting their pic tures, Wintermeier, a second year student, stands iu the first year group. Never seemed to know the difference. » * • Headline: TOTTEN SETS MARCH FIRST FOK JUNIOR FOLIPHINO .Most of the juniors we know have been engaged in getting pol ished a good deal of the time since last March first. * * * Headline: GIANT FISH TRAP WILL LURE ATLANTIC'S DEEP DENIZENS. Sounds like one of Ken Shu maker’s classes. * * * ON THE .POLICE BLOTTER: A1 McKelligon with a pop-gun . . . George Branstator combing his hair . . . Rosser Atkinson studying . . . A1 Edwards playing pinocle . . . Johnny Powers warbling. Two Decades Ago From Oregon Emerald February 18, 1913 So Say We “Making love, poking a fire, and running a newspaper are three things which every man thinks he can do better than the other fel low,” said O. C. Letter, city editor of the Oregonian, in a talk to the journalism class Monday after noon. * * * Danger Signal “Slow Down to 15 Miles an Hour” was the warning sign at the entrance to the punch room at the Freshman glee last Saturday night. :i: :j: :js Consolidation The medical departments of Willamette and Oregon universi ties will be consolidated, it was in dicated at a meeting of the presi dents of the schools, together with the deans and faculties of the two medical departments, at Salem Fri day. What the -? Samuel Hill, of national promi nence as an authority on good roads, and a relative of the Hills of railroad fame, will give an illus trated lecture at assembly tomor row. * * * Something New! The freshman class at the Uni versity of Wisconsin recently hired a professional decorator to design the artistic side of their dance. * * * Co-eds at the University of Wis consin are accused of renting fra ternity pins for a week or two at a time from more fortunate girls 'who hold the pins as symbols of engagement, and are content to rent them for the price of theatre tickets or a box of chocolate bon bons. ' i Campuses __ Students and Leadership I JIYIDK society as you will into classes, there are in reality only two distinct groups those who lead and those who are led. The latter class comprise the great majority. But despite their minor ity it is the former group who shoulder the great burden of the difficulties Which face the nations and it is to them that the nation looks in the hour of national dis tress. In looking about us, it is forci bly impressed upon our minds how really few men there are who stand out as leaders in our own country. In times such as these when distress, unrest and social strife are very evident, Canada needs men of education, deep thought and vi.ion Not tan th present ills be rectified in a mo ment and in years to come, those who are to succeed the present leaders must be found. We think that we are justified in suggesting that these leaders will be found among the ranks of those who have been privileged to receive a higher education than the average. From the ranks of the college students of today will be drawn the leaders of tomorrow, to use a much-worn phrase. But to repeat this statement is not enough. If we are to succeed and help our country in the years to come the time to start is now. The conditions and situations fac ing national leaders are not new, nor will they be over in a few months. Problems of social jus tice, national health, international relations are as old as civilization itself. These will be the problems which students will have to face when they leave their college campus. Opportunities are un bounded for those who have the desire to find out the facts for themselves. We can be sure that they will not be solved by any snap judgment but only by study and thought. The nation needs men of vision. Students should start to prepare for leadership today. — McGill Daily. Burned at the Stake npHE action of the university faculty in attempting to put a quiet death to the many years of educational progress developed through the experimental college is one of the most serious blights on its record. After years of experimentation, and having had prepared for their consideration one of the most bril liant analyses of progressive edu cation ever made in this country (Dr. Meiklejohn’s report), the fac ulty last winter began its pathetic temporizing. Death by smothering was the fate decreed for the expe rimental college idea. The Bleyer committee was ap pointed by the faculty to consider the Meiklejohn report, and it fi nally drew up one of its own, in which is showed a pitiable miscon ception of the whole experimental college idea. Finally, on the basis of thi§ report on the report, Dean George C. Sellery was empowered to appoint a third committee to make a report on the report on the report. This third report was to investigate “educational changes in the freshman and sophomore years” including the experimental college reform which were thereby to be reported on for the third time. And now comes the information that Dean Sellery has not yet ap pointed the members of the com mittee, because in his own words, he has "not had an opportunity to secure sufficient data to provide such a committee.” This is no time to waste words. We realize fully that there are cer tain interests in the faculty bent upon defeating the experimental college idea on personal and prac tical grounds. Then let them come out into the open; stop appointing (or failing to appoint because there is not “sufficient data”) useless committees, announce to the edu cational world that the great Uni versity of Wisconsin has decided that it has wasted five years of valuable time and extra money in educational experimentation, and take the inevitable consequences thereof. Certainly a 75,000 word report on the college, in addition to the Bleyer report, is enough “data" for anybody. One can spend a lifetime searching for data—that quest is endless. Now is the time, however, to make a straightforward decision and the faculty seems incapable of such a bit of moral and intellectual exertion. Instead committees are appointed. Certainly, there would be a great burst of criticism if the faculty were to repudiate its five-year ex periment. Certainly, those who throughout the nation have looked to Wisconsin as the center of the new education would feel the blow keenly. Certainly, it would appear strange in the light of figures prov ing that universities with progres sive educational ventures within their organization are being flood Washington Bystander. . W/ASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—(AP> ” —Just a change in the tense of a verb or two and it is doubt ful that there ever would have been any such incident as the oust ing by the senate of Dave Barry, its 73-year-old sergeant-at-arms. What Earry wrote in the maga zine article provoking the storm was, "There are not many senators or representatives who sell their vote for money.” Had he said, ' "There have not been many,” pos sibly he would have filled out the few remaining weeks of his tenure in that second ranking post of di rect senate patronage. * * * Yet no one who listened either to that unprecedented examination of Barry at the bar of the senate or to the wordy fight on the sen ate floor, perilously close to blows at times, when the vote dismiss ing him was taken could doubt that he probably would have been called to some sort of an account ing for other remarks in that now historic magazine article. The word "demagogues" was too prominent to be overlooked by a senate smarting under daily edi torial lashings for dilatory rules and ways. Without that phrase in the pres ent tense about trading votes for cash, however, a mere reprimand might have been the limit of sen ate action, if even that in any formal way.. Senators themselves so often ridicule senate long dis tance talking habits that there are few of them who could not be cited as supporting much that Barry had said. As a matter of fact, the senate had voted overwhelmingly to oust Barry with no debate at all when Senator Norris, who presented the resolution from his committee call ing for that action, decided that a record vote would be desirable. He demanded a roll call after a roaring shout of “ayes” had al ready sounded. sis !j: H: When Norris stopped proceed ings to get everybody on record it gave Senator Logan of Kentucky his chance to thunder his denun ; ciation of “mob law” that set off I all that followed. And it also served to introduce the Kentuckian in appearance, manner and political background one of the most picturesque of sen ators, to his colleagues in more emphatic fashion than any pre vious incident since he came to 1 the senate two years ago. Marvel Mills Logan is a big, dark man, rivaling that ex-ama teur heavyweight, Barbour of New Jersey in heft. A mop of black hair, shot a bit with streaks of gray, flops down over his eyes when he talks. He has wit and good nature aplenty and an easy command of language that favors simple, homely expressions. Launched on a single-handed defense of Barry from the demo cratic side, Logan was cast in a role to his liking and made the most of it. ed with applications for entrance. Certainly, it would require an ex planation when Wisconsin’s enroll ment is falling rapidly, and when an increase would help the univer sity very materially. We, the students of the univer sity demand a definite explanation of this slow death by fire of the experiment at the stake of faculty cowardice. No additional reports can erase the disgrace of these months of delay, misunderstanding, and vacillating indecision.—Wis consin Daily Cardinal. Eight in Infirmary Business is picking up at the infirmary. Last week the number of inmates went down to one. Fri day reported Robert Couch, El wood Rear, Robert Collins, Ivan Elliott, Clifford Bullock, William Michel, Mary Elizabeth Lacy, and j Ruth McClain. Great-grandfather wore BIT lie liied in a different age. \Ce don't wear red flannels in this day of steam heat and closed cars. And we don't need so many heavy, hot foods. A bowl ot Kellogg's is sensible and refreshing. Rich in energy, easy to digest. Delicious for any meal. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek.