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University of Oregon, Eugene Richard Neuberger, Editor Harry Schenk, Manager Sterling Green, Managing Editor EDITORIAL HOARD Thornton Gale, Associate Editor; Jack Bellinger, Dave Wilson Julian Trescott. “ UPPER NEWS STAFF uscar Mungcr, news r^ii. Francis Pallia ter, Copy Ed. Bruce Hamby, Sports Ed. Parks Hitchcock, Makeup Ed. Bob Moore, Chief Night Ed. uonn urosB, ijiwmry r..u Bob Guild, Dramatics Ed. Jessie Steele, Women's Ed. Esther Hayden, Society Ed. Ray Clapp, Radio Ed. DAY EDITORS: Bob Patterson, Margaret Bean, Francis Pal lister, Doug Polivka, Joe Saslavsky. NIGHT EDITORS: George Callas, Bob Moore, John Holio peter, Doug MacLoan, Bob Butler, Bob Couch. SPORTS STAFF: Malcolm Bauer, Asst. Ed.; Ned Simpson, Ben Back, Bob Avison, Jack Chinnock. FEATURE WRITERS: Elinor Henry, Maximd Pulido, llazle Corrigan. REPORTERS: Julian I’rescott. Madeleine Gilbert, Ray Clapp, Ed Stanley, David Eyre, Bob Guild, Paul Ewing. Cynthia Liljeqvist, Ann-Reed Burns, Peggy Chessman, Ruth King, Barney Clark, Betty Ohlemiller, Roberta Moody, Audrey Clark, Bill Belton, Don Oids, Gertrude Lamb, Ralph Mason, Roland Parks. WOMEN’S PAGE ASSISTANTS: JAne Opsund, Elsie Peterson, Mury Stewart, and Elizabeth Crommelin. COPYREADERS: Harold Brower, Twyla Stockton, Nancy Lee, Margaret Hill, Edna Murphy, Mary Jane Jenkins, Marjorie McNiece, Frances Roth well, Caroline Rogers, Henrietta 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 Paiey, Evelyn Schmidt. RADIO STAFF: Ray Cflapp, Editor; Barney Clark, George Callas. Marjorie McNiece. SECRETARIES—Louise Beers, Lina Wilcox. BUSINESS STAFF i, til... n_ i.'...1.1_ r, __ r»_il_ National Adv. \lgr., Auten Bush Promotional Mgr., Marylou Patrick • Asst. Adv, Mgr., Gr a n t Theummel. Asst. Adv. Mgr. Bill Russell Executive Secretary, Uorothy Anne Clark Circulation Mgr., Ron Rew. Office Mgr., Helen Stinger Class. Ad. Mgr., Althea Peterson Sez Sue, Caroline Hahn Sez Sue Asst., Louise Rice Checking Mgr., Ruth Storln Checking M?r.. Pearl Murphy ADVERTISING ASSISTANTS: Tom Holeman, Hill McCall, Ruth Vannicc, Fred Fisher, Ed Labbe, Elisa Addis, Corrinnc I’lath, Phyllis Dent, Peter Gantenbein, Bill Meissner, Patsy Lee, Jeannette Thompson, Ruth Baker, Betty Powers, Bob Butler, Carl Heidel, George Brice, Charles Darling, Parker Favier, Tom Clapp. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Betty Bretsher, Patricia Campbell, Kathryn Greenwood, Jane Bishop, Elma Giles, Eugenia Hunt, Gene Bailey, Marjorie McNiece, Willa Bit/., Betty Shoemaker, Ruth ByerJy, Mary Jane Jenkins. 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, os second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year._ The Emerald’8 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 un 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 und world in which they are to live, must be 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 a dis ciplined intellect, with a reasonable command of the techniques that i 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 1UJI-32. The American people cannot be too careful in guarding the freedom of speech and of the press j against curtailment as to the discussion of public affairs and the character and conduct of public i i men. —Carl i>cliur3. i I WAIT UNTIL NEXT TERM NOW THAT the A. S. U. O. administration has made another mistake In adhering to the re quirements of its constitution, the advisability of | attempting to vote upon the proposed constitutional i amendments before the conclusion of this term; looms as questionable strategy. We believe any \ such endeavor should be deferred until next quarter. Tlie 11th hour attempt to rush through the changes,, as now contemplated by the student administration, is in keeping with neither the principles of sound government nor executive efficiency. The student officers have nothing to blame ex cept their own neglect and carelessness that the | amendments cannot bo voted upon this week. Had last Friday's meeting been announced 2-1 hours in advance, there would have been no delay and the judiciary committee would not have been compelled to spend several hours in executive session yester day afternoon ruling null and void all business; transacted at the illegal meeting. True, the student body president was ill for sev eral days before the meeting. But he is supposed to have several other officers to assist him. The constitution lists a vice-president, a junior finance naan, a senior finance man, a secretary, a senior man, and a senior woman. Surely one of them was sufficiently hale and hearty to give notice of the meet ing. However, let bygones be bygones. These facts are cited only to show that the student administra tion has no excuse tor tailing' to call the meeting according to constitutional requirements. The pro visions were neglected so obviously that three such experienced arbiters as Wayne L. Morse, Earl M Pallet t, and Virgil D. Earl had no choice but to rule the meeting unconstitutional. Thus the administration stands at fault. Then why penalize the student body by attempting to rash through the amendments in the last few days before examinations? There is neither precedent dor logic behind such action. When the amendments finally are to be voted upon, students will be occupied in last-minute pre parations for final examinations. The Emerald ends publication for the term early next week, so there will be no paper in which to concentrate and in terpret student opinion and ideas on the matter. Why should the amendments be passed this I term? Even if the procedure of voting upon them inteilet es slightly with student polities next quai • ter. the world isn't going to come to an end. The administration, now that it has precipitated tin I enforced delay by its own negligence, owes it to the; student body to make that delay slightly longer. Our advice is to defer action upon the amend ments until spring term. In the interlude the actual reasons and purposes behind the changes cun be presented to the students. This has not been done as yet, although it generally is regarded as being ! ot material assistance to those who cast the ballots. IMF * UiMK.II l ot Nil ATION ill MULLS JN WAGING its vigorous campaign against any *urthcr reductions of faculty salaries, the Finer-' aid is not laboring under the delusion that economy! m every branch of public activity i. uautcc ary. Education must certainly make some retrench ment along with other institutions supported by the tax paying public. But its contribution should be in line with the general economies practiced and no greater proportionately. In order to minimize the ill effects of the neces sary economies the Carnegie foundation for the ad vancement of teaching has three proposals. First, that the economies practiced be general and to be on expenditures of all kinds. Second, the reduction of the type of courses offered by colleges when similar courses are offered by more competent neighbor institutions. Third, the adoption of a “share the work" plan among faculty members to provide maximum employment compatible with curtailment of classes. The voluminous report of the Carnegie founda tion does not really solve anything at all. In the very nature of things the economies practiced would necessarily be general. Some saving might be achieved by the abandonment of courses that are duplicated at nearby colleges. In Oregon the action of the state board of education has reduced such duplication to a minimum. The Emerald seriously questions the merits of the third proposal of the Carnegie foundation, that of a general reduction of salaries rather than eli mination of departments and teaching personnel. It si our contention that it is far better for an edu cational institution to have fewer men of outstand ing capacity than a greater number of mediocre pedagogues who are retained because of sentimental reasons. Any further general salary reductions will mean that Oregon will lose the majority of its outstanding educators. ■■ I, .. - AND A TWO-OENT STAMP /CAMPUS skeptics who scoffed at .the Emerald proposal to reduce boarding costs to $1.54 a week may be startled to learn that 23 University of Iowa students have been keeping the wolf from the door for the weekly sum of $1.52 apiece. And. for another dollar a week they get the door to keep the wolf from. Although they have cut 2 cents below the Emerald estimate they still get three square meals a day—and gain weight on them. But it’s hard to startle campus skeptics. Even the cheerless news that three Oregon students are sticking it out on a weekly food budget of 74 cents apiece arouses little comment among the bridge experts and slot-machine sharks. While to them grand-slams and top-notch scores constitute “matters of state,” they give little heed to the tough tussle their less fortunate friends are making to stay in school. They are the campus rah-rah boys who have imposed the “hotcha-cha” stigma on the word collegiate, and made college synonymous with coonskin coat and silver hip-flask. They have been largely responsible for making educational institutions over into social tea parties, turning college bred into the classic four-year loaf. To them, and their ilk, it’s considered quite the thing to poke fun at any constructive effort to as sist students who really desire an education—to students who are willing to work for it. Countless investigations have revealed that here on the coast those students who must earn all or part of their expenses achieve markedly higher scholastic ratings than the knights of the coca cola circle. While the state is indiscriminately spending thousands of dollars providing four gay years for campus playboys, perhaps the least we could do is offer some constructive plan to lighten the burden of living costs for those students who really want an education. Undoubtedly in the hysteria of inflation, the schools, like trie colleges and universities, did some things that they can now do without. But the things that communities propose to do to them in the hysteria of economy far surpass the wildest aberrations of bull-market days. We hear a great deal about frills. What are frills? Teachers' sal aries appear to be frills in some cities. The health of school children is a frill in others. Since night schools are a frill in one community, we close them and throw 75,000 people into the streets. The plain fact is that the schools are under attack because it is easier to get money from them than it is to correct the fundamental iniquities and antiquities of local government. Only a people that had no conception of the place of education in its national life could contemplate the ruin of th£ next genera tion as the best remedy for governmental insol vency. Robert Maynard Hutchins, president, Uni versity of Chicago. Contemporary ===Opinion== Causes of War U. M. H. COCHRAN of tHo University of Mis souri, in an article in the American Mercury, sots forth the following causes of war; (li To got into control at home; (2) to avoid losing control at home; (3) to turn attention from unsatisfactory conditions at home; (4i to enrich themselves at home. In other words, the blame is placed entirely up on some group "at home" which is attempting to maintain or increase its power and wealth. But what is there new in that? Not a thing. \\ e have always recognized these causes of war. The only trouble with the American people is that they recognize these forces at work in the other countries but not in their own. And the only trouble with the other countries is that they are! capable of analyzing these forces in the United States but not*within their own borders. So it goes | throughout the whole world. Pei pies, through self- ■ interest either cannot or will not check powerful political groups which lead them towards war. I lie War of 1812, the Mexican war. anil the; Spanisii-A merican war were struggles in which considering only the causes we can take little; pride. Out opponents were more guilty than we wore, and possibly the resul's have justified the lack of strict ethics, but the fact remains that the American sentiment which made possible these pui iicular wars spread throughout the nation from some compact and interested group. The border people were partly responsible m 1812, the south in ■ 184t>. ind the yellow press had a hand in I8t>8. Yet even in linse cases, we were much put upon by tho.-c we finally fought, and it is difficult to see how we could have acted otherwise, unless, possibly, it was in the controversy with Spain. That country ! might have acceded to our just Uomaadc without ic art to aiub — Ortgeuiiui. |j ________ 4 The Parasite - - By KEN FERGUSON * ..- —■ — ■ .. .. While Oregon Waits --- Iowa Acts (Editor’s note: The following is reprinted from the news bulletin of the University of Iowa. It proves more conclusively than ever the validity of such a plan as the Emerald proposes for Oregon.) TPO THE list of pioneer ventures representing man's ingenious response to economic necessity add Kellogg house, a 1933 model of cooperative dormitory at the State University of Iowa. ' Operating as a club, which im plies pleasant social life as well as the equal sharing of expenses, Kellogg house is now the home of 23 college men who have given Jjpwa a new all-time record of ?roup success in reducing the costs of higher education. When Iowa was still one of the frontier states with high hopes but little wealth, the state university Announced in its catalogue that 'the price of board varies from $2 to $3 per week.” Seventy years later, the men of Kellogg house, Ander the guidance of their own ingenuity, are getting three good square meals a day at an average 3ost of $1.52 per week. A still stronger comparison can be made oy citing the fact that during the /ears of inflation following the world war the average cost of board went as high as $6 per week. The university furnishes the building, equipment, heat, light And water and charges room rent At the rate of $1 per week per nan. This means that $45.36 will, pay the total cost of room and Poard for an entire semester. Many factors enter into the Amazing record of Kellogg house which shines even in comparison with the state's and the univer sity's pioneer days before the civil war. Certainly the first of these is the revival among American .ollege students of the same old lefiant. untamable resourcefulness if the true pioneer. It is no mod ern economic, scientific or tech nological scheme which explains the success of the students in Kel logg house. Plenty for Your Money You can buy a lot for a dollar nowadays. But what good does that do you if you haven’t the foliar? This is only one of the problems that Kellogg house faced And solved. Several of its boys 3ame from Iowa farms. Their par ants had food materials in abun dance but no ready cash. We can ase your vegetables aria fruit, we 3un use meat land don't forget the 3hickens), said the student man Agers of Kellogg house. And so Ancient barter capie in to play its role. It was agreed that only the wholesale price should apply in such cases. Potatoes came, . . . Apples . . . fresh butchered beef And pork . . . yes, chickens. One )oy received enough credit for pro visions brought from home to pay iis board bill for an entire semes ter. Every member works at Kellogg louse. The low room rent is made possible by the fact that no hired iclp whatsoever is necessary. The x>ys tend the furnace, sweep and 'lean, make the beds, wash the windows. And all this is a glori ms venture, not in any sense a lardship. Their Own Expert looks When it comes to cooking, tlie dub members use their experts •xclusively. One of them has had vide experience and he presides i head ebrf PuK-taiitij! food taturaliy holds an important place but variety is emphasized. None of the old boarding house tradition at this club. Today—here’s fresh country sausage. Tomorrow — children (stewed this time because it goes much farther that way). Next day—two of the boys have promised to go hunting again, and that means rabbit. The boys are proud of their meals and enjoy en tertaining student and faculty guests occasionally. One day turnips appeared on the menu and made a big hit. The head steward had bought them for 25 cents a bushel. Vegetables of all kinds are served frequently for two reasons—they are cheap, and every good cook knows they are great promoters of health. It’s a matter of record (and Kellogg house can give you statistics if that’s what you want) that every man has gained weight since the opening of the club last fall. The building, pleasantly located on a wooded knoll, was originally constructed as a public school. It became university property with the extension of the campus to the west side of Iowa river. By slight remodeling it was transformed into a dormitory for men with the opening of school last fall. A new cement floor, now being laid, will permit the moving of the kitchen and dining room to the basement and this in turn will re lease first floor space for dor mitory rooms. It will then be pos sible to accommodate a much larger number of men. "Last summer,” says Robert E. Rienow, dean of men, “we realized that there were many boys who were going to have to earn their room and board if they were to go to school. It was just as apparent that there were not going to be enough jobs. An inexpensive co operative dormitory seemed the only solution.” Inspection of available space in the university showed a room in the Iowa Field house where 12 student firemen and nightwatch men had once slept. It seemed conceivable that with some changes set-ups could be arranged and a cooperative dormitory start ed. As a result, the long room above the offices in the east end of the field house is now the col lege home of 75 men who pay $1 a week room rent. Applications for admittance to the field house dormitory were many, and soon exceeded the available accommodations. Anoth er checkup brought the Kellogg building into the dormitory group, j Board Idea Develops -At about the same time it was reported to Dean Rienow that three boys were eating their lunches in the dormitory at the field house. The dean made in quiry and was told by the boys that they were trying to spend only 25 cents a day for food, that they were living on sandwiches and milk. There was really no place else for them to go. But it is an evident truth that a student cannot live on sandwiches and milk alone and keep up his health and his classwork. Further ques tioning disclosed the fact that one of the men had earned his board last year by cooking for a pro fessor's family. His recommenda tions were good. "Are there some dishes and a cookstove around the university?” asked Dean Rienow of the supei intendent of grounds and build ings. Both were found. They had been used in Die old universits hospital. The stove was set up and Kellogg house was ready to offer both board and room. The boys in Kellogg house who could buy their food at regular prices or who had board jobs moved to the field house. The three men in the field house dormitory who were spending 25 cents a day for meals moved to Kellogg house. j About this time a restaurant closed and three university boys ; lost their board jobs. They moved I into the new dormitory. Another i restaurant laid off two men. A local hotel changed hands and dis- ! charged three boys. So by ones and twos and threes, new boys moved into Kellogg house. Each case was carefully investigated by Dean Rienow. Only those who ab solutely could not pay regular board and room rates were ad mitted. Becomes a Keal Club "But we don’t want Kellogg | house to be recognized as a cheap dormitory for those who have no money,” Dean Rienow explained. "We want it to be thought of more as a club in spirit, as a group of men drawn together by their congenial interests, those of going to school and of supplying their living needs as cheaply as possible. Because the men who live there are aware of this and because of the success of the project, I feel sure that Kellogg house will be. re tained from year to year.” Frederic Beebee, graduate stu dent, serves Kellogg house in the double capacity of proctor and business manager. Explaining the low rate successfully maintained by the club, Mr. Beebee said: "We buy bread wholesale, milk by the gallon, cheaper cuts of meat. We shop around and learn the stores where certain articles of good j quality are cheapest. We buy at' special sales.” Here is a sample menu picked at random from the bulletin board in the kitchen at Kellogg house: BREAKFAST Oatmeal Toast Prunes Coffee or Milk i LUNCH Creamed Beef on Potatoes Turnips Carrot Salad Chocolate Pudding Bread and Butter Coffee or Milk DINNER Meat Pie Harvard Beets Fried Potatoes Baked Apples Bread and Butter Coffee or Milk This is a fair sample of the meals for a day and no two days ate alike: yet the average cost has been kept down to $1.52 a week. A regular schedule of jobs has been worked out, the same boy do ing the same work all the time. At 5 o'clock one boy gets up to fix the furnace and start a roaring fire in the range. Another gets up early to fix the fruit and cereal, another to prepare the j toast and coffee for the 7 o'clock breakfast. (Everyone must get up at 6:45 as breakfast is not served after 7:20. t Another boy waits on the table. Four men clean up the dishes and the room: everyone is ready for 8 o'clock classes. The duties during the day are arranged in accordance with class; schedules. From S to 9 one boy prepares potatoes and other veget ables and at 10 the cook arrives and begins definite preparations for lunch. The menu for the week is posted on a bulletin board in the kitchen. Two more men arrive at 11 At 12.10 lunch is served) at the long table. The same boy waits tables. Three clean up af terwards. Man-Slied Evening Meal The evening meal is the big meal of the day. At 4 o’clock four men start the dinner preparations. The clean-up necessitates five men this time. Then one boy fixes the wood for the next day and scrubs. On weekday evenings, study hall reigns from 7 to 10. Two of the men are study hall supervisors. “And it is really quiet,” asserted Mr. Beebee. Kellogg hduse has a constitu tion. It provides for the election at the end of each semester of a senate composed of four men. In the election everyone is eligible to vote for four representatives and the highest four compose the sen ate. The person who receives the largest number of votes is house president. In addition there are scholastic, table, dormitory, ath letic, social, and judiciary com mittees composed of three mem bers each. House meetings are held every other Sunday evening. The personnel of Kellogg house includes five graduate students, two boys in engineering, two in the college of medicine, two upper classmen in the college of liberal arts, and the others liberal arts freshmen. The association of the older and younger men gives the club an excellent social and acad emic balance. The field house dormitory organ ization is very similar to that of Kellogg house. The set-ups are the same. Everything must be kept clean and attractive, and in spection is provided for within the organization. There is a study hall, and study hours and quiet are rigidly enforced. There is a sen ate. The work is divided into groups of six. Two care for the dormitory, two for the lavatory, and two for the study hall. Eastlawn is now a cooperative dormitory for women. Seventy two students reside there at pres ent. The cooperative plan en ables girls to earn one-half the cost of their board. This requires an hour and a half of service each day for each girl. Big Success at Iowa The plan of cooperative dormi tories is being carried out in sev eral schools this year. Recently another middle-western university announced that food and quarters in a men’s cooperative dormitory would be offered for $28 a month. Another nearby university has found its cooperative dormitory to cost the students more than if they roomed in a private house. At Iowa’s Kellogg house, how ever, men are successfully running the cooperative dormitory on less than $50 a semester for both room and board. As the end of the first semester draws near, their experi ence to date has given them high morale and real enthusiasm for the months which are to follow. They have abundant health, pleas ant campus activities as individu als and as a group, excellent scholastic standing, and pride in the success of their venture. —mmmmm—mm-t Assault and Battery g£ss The Rt. Hon. Senator Butch Morse, Esq., has gone in for fi nancial deals in a big way. Re ceived a telegram the other day from a Denver brokerage house, reading: YOUR ORDER ONE HUN DRED SHARES GENERAL ELECTRIC AT ELEVEN AND ONE-HALF CONFIRMED STOP NEED FOUR HUNDRED DOL LARS TO HOLD. Then they phoned him up long distance. The senator is having a hard time figuring it all out. Don't blame him. * « * We select for Lemonade: Royce Karl Rhinehart, Rosser Atkinson, and Harry Weimar, because they are still keeping certain Thetas busy. * * • Rumor has it that Helen Raitan en phoned up a local newspaper to verify the rumor that President Hoover declared war on Japan. Not to speak of unemployment, et al. * * * Headline Ore. Daily Emerald: VICE-PRES. IN CHAIR High or low? Local capitalists have donated the Miner building to the Univer sity. Our idea of a real gift would be the Eugene hotel. * * * ON THE POLICE BLOTTER: Chuck Gillespie checking over the stock market . . . Mervin Rodda talking about the Alpha Chi house • ■ . Johnny Londahl keeping in shape . . . Chuck Stryker warbling ■ ■ Lyle Smith strolling . . . Emerald Of the Air Another program of Emerald news will be broadcast today at lunch time. Some of it's good and some is just fair, but don't judge tUl you've heard the Emerald-of the-Air. Bruce Hamby's 15 minutes of sports will be heard henceforth at !.’:15 on Saturdays, instead of Fri days. The musical programs will ,e pre-euted on Fridays from 12:15 . to 12:15, beginning this Friday. I They Want to Bead Us! To the Editor of the Emerald: Sir: Why not more Emeralds at the Co-op? For the last four is sues of the paper many students have not been able to get copies for the simple reason that there are none available. This condition ^ has existed all year. How about it, circulation department? E. NEWMAN. CINEMA By PARKS HITCHCOCK rpHE McDonald puts on a very choice bit again this evening with the production of “Washing ton Merry-Go-Round.” In it are Lee Tracy and Constance Cum mings. Really, this is saying enough, but we might go on to mention that their customary good performances are realized again. The plot is what we would ex pect Comrade Stalin or the Bet ter Government league to put on. but it's slightly melodramatic j touches are redeemed by excellent w acting. Alen Dinehart is just a ’ touch too suave and villainous, but the chap who plays the part of the befuddled old senator counteracts any deadening effects we might have felt. Of course, it’s all about Wash ington and the bold, bad, political rings plus the young congressmen who comes to oust the same politi cal machine that put him into of fice, but it’s marvelously well ! treated; we assure you of this. ' This young lady named Constance i Cummings is not only a luscious I bit upon which to rest your eyes j but she has that sensible yet chic | air that so delights us in some few , actresses. And then for Tracy— j anyone who has seen him in “Bles sed Event,” and “Night Mayor,” knows what to expect. Recommended. .» # * * Glen Godfrey holds forth again j tonight with his “Grand Hotel.” He’s playing to immense crowds and well he may. Cinema addicts will find a “Grand” show at a “Grand” price—15 cents. The rhe j torical gymnastics have pretty well I been exhausted over this picture, so we will just add: if you haven’t seen it yet you are probably one of those people who is just get ting around to read “A Farewell to Arms,” or to think of buying last autumn’s clothes. Very fine. • S' S' Comments have been coming to us regarding the McDonald’s new j price policy. We’re not complain 1 ing, as it costs us nothing anyway, | but theatre-owners—consider the | student. A Decade Ago From Daily Emerald March 1, 1923 Wanderlust A four-line ad in yesterday's 4 Emerald stating that anyone wish ing to take a trip to the South Seas should call Bob Lane, today resulted in calls from more than 50 students. Bob is trying to get up an expedition to buy a small boat in which to cruise about southern waters during the sum mer. ❖ # $ Embryo Dime Novelist Ernest Haycock, student in journalism, recently sold his first novelette to Street and Smith. His story deals with rum-running on the Pacific coast. The novel which is 30,000 words long is said to have commanded an unusually high price. , * * * An attempt will be made at the next student body meeting to place golf on the register of var sity sports. * * * —And Keep Moving ± The council today moved to pro- At duce a book containing a collec tion of Oregon songs. Several new songs are advocated and any new ones submitted will be care fully inspected. Blind Staggers ‘‘The Three Sins,” production by the Guild theatre shown for the first time last night was a decided success in tht» eyes of the Emerald re\ iewer. Stage decorations aud costumes, consisted mainly of solid colors such as red, yellow, blue, and green, were praised as being sti iking in effect and beauty.” CLASSIFIED PETITE SHOP — Dressmaking, hemstitching, alterations, etc. 573 E. 13th. Phone 3208. TYPING—Accurate and efficient. Coirecticns made in grammar and •■•pelling. Phone Elinor Hen ry at 1005J.