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A member of the Major College Publications, represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co.. 321 E. 43rd St., New York City ; 123 W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1206 Maple Ave., Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. 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, $2.60 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 Ih 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- \ fives of education .... providing adequate spiritual and intellectual training for youth of today—the citi- j zenship of tomorrow. . . . “ . . . . The University should be a place where classroom experiences and faculty contacts should stimu late and truin youth for the most effective use of all | the resources with which nature has endowed them. Dif- i fault and challenging problems, typical of the life I and world in which they are to live, must be given them to solve. They must be taught under the expert I supervision of instructors to uppronch the solution of these problems in a workmanlike way, with a dis ciplined intellect, with a reasonable command of the techniques that ire 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. -- 1 The American people cannot be too careful in guarding the freedom of speech ami of the press against curtailment as to the discussion of public affairs and the character and conduct of public men. —Carl Schurs. THE EMERALD FLAN— A LIKE-SAVEIt FOR NEEDY STUDENTS rpHE VOCIFEROUS approval of numerous stu dents yesterday removed all doubts as to the advisability and necessity of the Emerald's plan for reduced living expenses for hard-pressed stu dents. Inquiries and messages of commendation were received at the Emerald office throughout the day, many of them coming from students who are interested vitally in the furtherance of the pro posal. There is no doubt that if the plan is put into effect the hopes of many down-and-out students for weathering the spring term will be brightened immeasurably. That the Emerald's plan for pro viding board and room at rock-bottom rates is practical is evidenced by the fact that several groups of students are now boarding at rates vary ing between $5 and $7.50 per month per student. With the University dormitories far from filled to capacity it is quite apparent that by shifting the j present occupants, both Friendly anil Hendricks j hall coulu be made available for the new project during the spring term. A charge of perhaps $2 to $5 per month would probably cover such costs as heating and lighting. And the University would be out practically nothing. There is no income from vacant rooms. The members of the editorial staff of the Emer ald concede that their plan would not provide palatial residences nor “par excellence" menus for the impoverished students. The facilities would perhaps fall far short of present dormitory and fraternity service. Simple fare and bare rooms might be the order of the day. But to students who must sink or swim, economize or quit, the' plan may prove a god-send. And to them an edu cation is worth fighting for. Regardless of cries of “impractical,” "untimely," and "undesirable” which may come from the cynical and the critical, the Emerald will press on in the effort it has commenced to bring the cost of staying at school down to rock-bottom. THAT EXTRA FENNY FOR POSTAGE npu THOSE who write frequent letters the recent, increase in government postal rates represents the expenditure of considerable money. College students, because a majority of them are away from their homes and have more Ilian average cor-: respondence, are included in this group. It also! applies to professors and faculty personnel, who write numerous communications to contemporary instructors. Investigation by the Emerald reveals that the average Ongon student writes approximately l* or 15 letters a month. Perhaps this figure is a trifle high, but it serves the purpose. Thus, if each student spends 15 cents extra each month because of the one cent increase m postal tale the item ^ amounts to approximately $2,400 during the course of the school year. When viewed from this perspective, the undesir ability of the new rates is apparent at once. In these days of mortgaged homes and insolvent busi nesses, $2,400 would send seven or eight student* through the University for a year. At colleges as large as Wisconsin or California the sum attains tremendous proportions. The general trend In current legislation is re duced taxes. All America, from the farmer who watches his grain decay in its bins to the clerk who labors for $8 a week, pleads for immediate relief from the staggering tax burden carried by this country. Yet, our national legislative bodies recently committed the incongruous mistake of making more costly a service that is used by pluto crat and proletariat alike - the postal system. It is a tax which places the greatest burden upon the poor man, a condition American legislation j should seek most to avoid. The man in comfortable circumstances easily can pay the extra penny the government requires on his mail, but to do this several times a week by a family that is having a difficult time keeping body and soul together is no simple tax. There is little liklihood that congress will move in the near future to lower postal rates to the old two cent level. The national budget is too far from being balanced. However, the nexus of figures and statistics gathered here provides food for thought upon the subject. The fact that similar informa tion may be obtained at virtually every educational institution in the nation at least makes it apparent that the intelligent youth of the country would not cry over the abandonment of the three-cent postal rate. Contemporary =Opinion= Mow Much Education Is Enough? OUT OF 1,000 children in the elementary schools the number that goes on to high school is 605 in the United States and 179 in Germany. The number that goes on to college is 177 in the United States and 52 in Germany. This familiar fact doubtless underlies the criticism uttered the other day by a group of foreign educators of our Ameri can system of “mass production” in education. The point is, of course, not new. When American educators are reminded that they are sacrificing quality to quantity, it is an ancient warning that will apply to other phases of the national life. American civilization is thin, and not only in mat ters of the mind. We are, presumably, first among the technologically advanced nations. Yet even here v/e are frequently said to be a nation of prac tical engineers, of marvelous improvisors and adapt ers and short-cut men, rather than fundamentally trained technicians. Americans are always supposed to be out for quantity results. With us it is not even the great est good of the greatest number. We start out with the greatest number and are willing to accept a lesser good in order to make it go all around. That is why our educational system, under whicu one child in five goes to college, is not so good as the German system, under which one child in every 20 goes to college. HTHIS view of the matter reveals a curious mis understanding of how things operate in this country. It puts the cart before the horse; or, as we should say in a technological age, it puts the gears before the spark. American civilization is obviously thinner than the civilization of Europe. Our educational system does not dredge down as deep as in Europe. Our scientists are not, in the main, as devoted or as laborious as their foreign colleagues. But the reason is not that we consci ously and deliberately spread ourselves thin. We are rough-and-ready, superficial, if you please, be cause we are young and new. We are still impro visers, because we are still pioneers. Foreign observers are mistaken when they think our schools are not so good as they should be be cause we have deliberately set out to prepare every child in the country for college, and have accord ingly lowered our standards. The fact is that our educational standards have risen as attendance in school and college has been going up. Thirty years ago, when 52 persons out of every 1,000 in this country were in school, our schools were not so good as they are today when we have 73 persons in the thousands at school. If, within the framework of unrestricted educa tional opportunity, we can work out methods by which tire specifically gifted student shall not be handicapped by the normal mass, all the better. But vve must rid ourselves of the inclination to blame the masses for our shortcomings in quality. * # # BRAHAM LINCOLN, being almost self taught, ■ would be an argument against mass produc tion in education. But Abraham Lincoln, in order to educate himself, had to know how to read. The case of quality against quantity in education might be carried to the point of advocating illiteracy for plain people. There was very little popular school ing in ancient Greece, where the human mind man aged to set up some very impressive records; or ill Renaissance Italy, or in the England of Shake speare. And yet it is only a few disciples of Nietzsche hete and there who would today oppose universal and compulsory education in the ele mentary grades. But once you admit that the masses need a knowledge ot reading and writing and the elemen tary facts of history and geography to qualify as men and as citizens, where can the line be drawn? It is education for a man to be able to read his Bible and his newspaper; but a man can never know too much in order to read his Bible and his newspaper witli the fullest profit. As a matter of tact, the line cannot be drawn. Europe, today, with '.lie growth ot democracy, is being American ized by a popular invasion of the high schools and colleges. It to a familiar complaint that once upon i time people had only a few possessions, but they were ot the best. Today the world is swamped with a multitude of cheap things. But sometimes it will pay to look into one's heart. Perhaps those few Hung.- ot the past impress us as good chiefly be cause they were few. Perhaps the many things' that overwhelm u» today impress us as cheap mainly because so many plain people ha> e access, to them.-—New lorli lime The Idealist ... ByjKEN ferguson promenade by carol hurlburt i i\F course I don't want to make ^ you jealous, or anything like that, but there comes a time when even the most painful of subjects must be brought into the cold light of objective discussion. So, without any further pream able, we'll plunge right in . . . the same theory that a dive into cold water is easier than wading in an inch at a time . . . the Palm Beach season is now in its third week. * * * Imagine it: nothing to do bu1 to play, to lie in the sun, to dance, to make love casually . . . white sand, a tropical moon, waves gent ly lapping on star-drenched coral reefs ... or are there coral reefs at Palm Beach ? * s * But if you are looking for bright spots instead of bright lights, it will interest you to know that there are more shops open now in this haven for God’s favored peo ple than at any time since 1929. * * * And what do they wear, these favored of fate ? They wear terry cloth beach suits with wide com fortable trousers, jaunty little jackets that stop at the waist and sleeves that stop at the shoulder. They shade their hot-house faces with wide pancake hats of straw or linen. * * * They wear shorts of white duck with stripes of bright red or navy running coyly up the sides. They sun-bathe in striped sweaters that have absolutely nothing over the shoulders except narrow straps. v •!* The smartest tennis dresses are of wide wale pique in bold, diag onal, candy stripes. Piquant bows perch on the shoulders and the frock laces up the sides. * * * The dress, however, that makes me absolutely ill with envy (and a dress is the only thing, animate or inanimate, of which I have ever been envious) is of black linen cut with a divine sloppiness. Two pearl buttons fasten the round neck. The sleeves are minus, and with the frock one wears a floppy white Panama hat. white gloves, anV white buckskin pumps. * * * And whether I like it or not, they are copying Garbo and Deit rich, "whose faces have changed a thousand homes," by wearing navy blue slacks with grey string tops. $ * * Nautical anchors are everywhere in evidence, even to the pique mid dy blouse and the dashing naval officer. (Oh. for the life of a win ter resort!) * * * One of the most sought after1 men of the colony is the young I Duke of Spoleto. whose presence: has inspired a whole wave of black shirts. One lunches in a white lin en skirt and a black shirt, looking! like a Fascist even though one! doesn't act like one. * * * You remember the saying, "Like master like man"? The fashion ables have changed it now to read "Like master like maid." * $ # If you are terribly in love, you and your fiancee, or husband, wear trousers and skirt cut from the ame piece of grey flannel and duplicate navy blue and white polo, shuts. * y « Under that tropical moon, which' you have already heard about, you flutter in chiffon or are charming ly demure and helpless-like in clinging lace or glistening net. * * * And having come to the moon-, we find the subject too painful to be continued. After all, we’re web footed. ❖ * * We select for Promenade: Betty Holman, who is strikingly up-to date in one of the new tailored suits of brown wool. Cut on straight lines, it has mannish rev ers and waistcoat of brown and white checked flannel. Miss Hol man completes the outfit with brown suede shoes, suede gloves, and a vagabond hat of brown felt. Washington Bystander.. By K1EKE SIMPSON V^ASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—(API ” —It is odd that substantially the same figure—15,000,000 votes —should have provided the great est consolation for two successive ly defeated presidential candidates. A1 Smith so fondly cherishes that total, rolled up for him in 1928, that he rarely made a politi cal speech in subsequent years during which he did not trot it out for inspection. It spelled ultimate victory as he saw it; a view sus tained by what happened four years later so far as his party, if not himself, was concerned. And now comes Herbert Hoover, n his Lincoln Day presidential val-; edictory in New York, to say his 15,000,000 votes in 1932 assure early recall of the party to nation al power. He described that figure as “the irreducible minimum” of the party since it was polled dur ing popular reaction from the de pression. ' % * ♦ That, plus reference to the idea that the “Young Republican” movement of ’32 was highly signif icant, was about the extent of the party rallying call Mr. Hoover was expected to sound on his last oc casion for a presidential address on his part. If he sticks to the notion cred ited to him of retiring into a vast political silence for nine months at Palo Alto, it may be the last Hoover word of that period . to throw any light on his own hopes or plans for the future. Examined in connection with those considerations, that Hoover rallying cry takes on considerable significance. It implies that he leaves office confident that anoth er four years, or eight at most, will see the political tide washing the other way—and the clear inti mation of his words that four years will do it. If it takes longer than that, Mr. Hoover himself hardly could ex pect to figure in the predicted res toration of his party to power. His age would be a decided bar. * * * Wherefore, if he feels as confi dent of the soundness of his analy sis of the last election as his words imply, and if he actually hopes for a belated vote of confidence in himself to wipe out the sting of his '32 defeat, Mr. Hoover must have had 1936 in mind when he framed that New York speech. The experience of Smith in 1932, LETTERS to the EDITOR All “Letters to the Editor” must hear either thr signature or initials of the writer, the former brine/ preferred. Because of space limitations, the editor reserves the. right to withhold such comm unirations as he sees fit. All letters slu>uld be con-cise and to the point. The editor of the Emerald solicits ojjinions and constructive criticism from the members of the student body. Correcting a Statement To tlio Hditor of tho limcrald: Sir: I note this morning an Em erald editorial statement contrary to fact and contrary to news state ments secured from us by Emerald reporters and printed with sub stantial accuracy in the Emerald. No one connected with the Uni versity administration has ‘•an nounced that all students residing off the campus would probably be compelled to move into the dormi tories next semester,” nor any thing which could be reasonably construed to mean that. What has been said is that students who wish to reside elsewhere than in their own homes, or in organized student groups, i. e., fraternities, sororities, dormitories, must as usual file an application, but must do this earlier and with more com plete information than has been furnished hitherto. There has been no change whatever in Uni versity regulations affecting stu dent residence. The call for early applications is to prevent the usual registration day jam with its in evitable consequence of standing in line, and hurried and sometimes unjust decisions. Getting more complete information as to rea sons and need for residing “out" will obviously aid the committee to give equal treatment to all in similar actual circumstances. Whether or not more students or less receive permits to live out ■ depends accordingly on the show ing of fact iu each case. Students vho cau afford to live o> organ ized groups and receive the beue fits which they offer will be ex pected to do this. The inference is reasonable that, with rates reduc ed in dormitories, and in sorori ties and fraternities, fewer stu dents than formerly will be com pelled by lack of funds to live out. But there has not been, nor so far as the writer is aware, is there contemplated, any change in regu lations to compell students to live in dormitories or organized groups when they can show genu ine financial need for lower living costs than are afforded in such groups. It is perhaps not neces sary to discuss here the reasons for existing rules and administra tive policies, designed to balance as fairly as possible the burden of "hard times" among fraterni ties. and sororities, dormitories, householders, and students of widely varying financial resources. But students, now in college can not know, as some of us do from experience, how greatly student living conditions have improved both in cost and quality since the dormitories were built. Thousands of students who never lived a term in the dormitories have had or now receive the benefits of the better standards of living which the dormitories have set in the University community. Knowing your desire to have statements in the Emerald cor rect as to fact, I assume you will be glad to see that appropriate correction is made. KARL \V. ONTHANK UedU of Per.,<wpel Administration. however, does not tend to brighten Hoover prospects for a return en gagement as a presidential candi date. Smith’s 15,000,000 votes in 1928 dwindled to a mere handful of delegates to the 1932 conven tion. And however he might figure as a vote getter in an election, a! presidential aspirant must first get over the nomination hurdle. A Decade Ago From Daily Emerald February 22, 1923 Spring Has Came! Aw, shucks! What's the use of working? With baseballs flying and canoeing becoming popular itI certainly is an effort to put out a college daily. * * * Enter an Author • Carl Sandburg, one of the fore most of modern poets, will recite some of his verses to an audience of Eugene people and students to morrow night at 8:15 in Villard hall. Exit a Singer A large audience of University and Eugene people turned out to ' hear Paul Althouse, the famous operatic tenor of the Metropolitan Opera house, sing at the Metho dist church last night. * * * On With the Play Fritz Leiber is to play Macbeth here Monday at a downtown thea tre. Assault and Battery &XT* Today’s choice tid-bit comes from Mrs. Ernst’s English comp class. Seems somebody asked her to use the words analyze and an atomy in a sentence. Old gag, but she pulled out a pretty funny an swer: My analyze over the ocean; My analyze over the sea; My analyze over the ocean; Oh, bring back my anatomy. Straight goods. Kind of astound ed the students, though. * * * The story is going the rounds that Chuck McCormack had a pretty tough time out in the coun try the other day. Got stuck in the mud and had to call out the house fire regiment to come out and get him. Too bad. * * * The Guard comes out with the following banner headlines: HOLMAN CHARGES HELD BASELESS. Sounds like the Oregon baseball team. Must be getting close to spring again. Campus economists propose a ■ new living plan that would enable ; students to pay only $2.25 a week. Harry Handball asks us if we mean to say that any sorority is paying more than that for food. * ♦ si: Twenty-one students complain that they lost their student body tickets at the gates of McArhur court the other night. If that’s all they lose in this university they’ll be lucky. * * * Our idea of the interview that i goes on between the gate-keeper I and the offending student is some- ! thing like this: G.K.—Gotta card? S.—Yeah. G.K.—Well, listen, buddy, that 1 card belongs to Stanley Kostka (or Bruce Hamby or Andrew Car negie.) S.—The hell it does. Why now you remind me of it I guess it does. Musta grabbed the wrong i ticket. G.K.—Where were you on the night of June 13? S.—I dunno but I used to live in Chattanooga, Tenn. G.K.—Gotta drink? S.—Not one that you'll get, you ham. * G.K.—Well Igotta take your card and take it to Hugh Rosson. S.—But officer, I swear I was only doing thirty at the most. G.K.—Tell it to the judge. And say, brother, could you spare a dime? ON THE POLICE BLOTTER: Dave Wilson exhibiting a new to bacco pouch . . . Johnnie Rogers plus hod . . . George Godfrey pro moting . . . Doc Pollard ambling ! . . . Rod Lamont still in circula tion. 11 ^————— ■ . Books By JOHN SELBY pEBKUARY is the Lincoln month 1 in the book calendar. This February has not been burdened with Lincoln books, but there have been two or three of great interest, and not the least of these is "President Lincoln." by the late William E. Barton. All but three chapters of the two-vol ume work had been completed by Dr. Barton when he died. His friend, William H. Townsend, wrote i these. As the title indicate, “President Lincoin" is not a "beginning-to end” biography, but rather a story of the presidency. There is not! much going back to pick up old trarL. eitther. Dr. Barton having preferred to assume that his read-' A New Yorker At Large vjniriiMiiiiinuniiiiiHMUiiiiiiminniiiiinirifiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiH^iiiiiiii’.niHiiiimm By MARK BARRON 1UEW YORK, Feb. 21—Vignettes -*■ ’ of the town: Pier detectives watching for gamblers who ply their trade on transatlantic liners. . . . The East 23rd street shop that sells arti ficial eyes. . . . The Manhattan society editor who owns a farm on the St. Lawrence. . . . Readers of discarded newspapers in Union • square. . . . Shop girls eating their lunch in the cemetery at Trinity church. . . . "No Tipping" signs in chain sandwich shops, and the smiles of the pretty waitresses when a customer disregards them and leaves a dime. . . . Girls wearing slacks, sweaters and berets strolling along River side drive. . . . The purser on that French liner who had his shoulder blade shot away at the Marne. . . . New York girls who try to look like Katharine Cornell. • # * * Clatter of milk wagons over Momingside heights at 5 a. m. . . . Deaf mutes ih a spirited conversa tion on the local to Bronxville. . . . Pianist in that celebrated tavern in the Forties obligingly rendering all request numbers on the night before his departure for a Saranac sanitarium for an indefinite stay. . . . E. Phocian Howard with his silver hair and shrieking shirt col ors. . . . Ditch diggers on Sixth avenue gathered around a bon fire. Jimmie Durante unloading his “schnozzle" at Grand Central at 9 a. m. while sleepy cameramen snap away with their flash guns. . . . Ship news reporters huddled on the afier deck of the customs cutter as it plows through the chill morning towards Quarantine. . . . Bootblacks on a Lexington ave nue doorway playing contract. Cops chasing autograph hunters away from important "first nights.” . . . And adulation-seek ing celebrities at these same nights trying to put themselves in the way of these signature col lectors. . . . Rene, Broadway’s most famous hat check girl, has her first book published. . . . The daughter of a Bronx rabbi, she calls hundreds of stage and screen stars by their first names. * * * The row of bookmakers who make their bets in West 47th street. . . . It’s difficult for detec tives to catch them because they must have evidence of making at least three bets with the same man before they have a case. . . . The crab flake man who shouts his wares in Harlem side streets. . . . Gladys, the stout negro singer who performs in three different Lenox avenue clubs. Advertising executives, sartori ally perfect, lunching in Madison avenue restaurants. . . . Aviators who live in Coney island hotels during the winter. . . . They get low rates and are near all the air fields on Long island. | ers have already a certain knowl i edge of the background. But neither is “President Lin coln” one of those minute studies in which every heart-beat of the victim is analyzed and pondered | over, tiring every one but the writ I cr himself. Dr. Barton has pre : sented all the angles necessary to ! understanding of his subject, but he has done it with a light and fa cile touch. * * :5s Joseph Tausek has written a lit tle book about the Getysburg ad dress that will shock a good many whose knowledge of Lincoln is su perficial. For in it he shows that the world has the Gettysburg address only because of an afterthought; that Lincoln had not been considered of sufficient importance to the occa sion to be accorded principal place on the program, and that, indeed, i his treatment in Gettysburg was hardly better than insulting. He calls it “The True Story of the Get tysburg Address.” There is also L. Pierce Clark's "Lincoln, a Psycho-biography,” in which Dr. Clark analyzes his sub ject in the manner of a psychia trist. The current crop of novels is re markably good. It includes “Pageant," by G. B. Lancaster (her name really is Lyt telton i, as full-blooded a tale as has been printed in a good while. The background is Tasmania, from its days as a penal colony down through three generations. it includes also David Garnett's Pocahontas, a novelized version of the familiar tale in which idylls of life in the Chesapeake country alternate with scenes of the fierc est cruelty. Perhaps the distin guishing quality pf the book, how ex er, is Mr. Garnett's beautifully restrained, but live, prose. It is almost unique among modern writ ers. Walter D. Edmonds is again writing about the Erie canal, this time in “Erie Water," a lusty story of the big ditch's creation. And Erskine Caldwell is offering some more “starkness," Georgia starkness in which one family and its inlaxvs create a whole series of triangles each pointing toward tragedy. But it is mostly first rate writing.