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✓ University of Oregon, Eugene Richard Neuberger, Editor Harry Schenk, Manager Sterling Green, Managing Editor " EDITORIAL BOARD Thornton Gale, Associate Editor; Jack Bellinger, Julian Prescott. “Upper news staff Oscar Munprer, News Ed. Francis Pallister, Copy Ed. Bruce Hamby, Sports Ed. Parks Hitchcock, Makeup Ed. Bob Moore, Chief Niprht Ed. John Gross, Literary Ed 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, Dcug Tolivka, Joe Saalavsky. NIGHT EDITORS—Bob McCombs, Douglas Mat-Lean, John Hcllopeter, Boh Couch, Don Evans. SPORTS STAFF: Malcolm Bailor^ Asat. Erl.; Ned Simpson, Ben Back, Bob Avison, Jack Chinnock. FEATURE WRITERS: Elinor Henry, Maximo Pulido, Hazle Corrigan. REPORTERS: Julian Prescott, Madeleine Gilbert. Kay 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 Paries. WOMEN’S PAGE ASSISTANTS: Jane Opsund, Elsie Peterson, Mary Stewart, and Elizabeth Crommelin. COPYREADERS: Harold Brower, Twyla Stockton. Nancy Lee, Margaret Hill, Edna Murphy, Mary Jane Jenkins. Marjorie McNiece, Frances Rothwell, Caroline Rogers, Henrietta Horak, Catherine Coppers, Claire Bryson, Bingham Powell. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS—Betty Gearhart, Portia Booth, Jean Luckcl, Margaret Corum, Carolyn Schink, Betty Shoe maker, Ruth Vannice, June Sexsmith, Carmen Blais, Elma Giles, Evelyn Schmidt, Cynthia Liljeqvist, Frances Neth, Frances Hardy. RADIO STAFF: Ray CJlapp, Editor; Barney Clark, George ('.alias. Marjorie McNiece. SECRETARIES—Louise Beers, Lina Wilcox. BUSINESS STAKE Adv. Mgr., Mahr Reymers National Adv. Mgr., Auten Bush Promotional Mgr., Marylou Patrick Asst. Adv, Mgr., Gr a n t Theummel. Asst. Adv. Mgr. Bill Russell Executive Secretary, Uorowiy 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 Storla Checking Mirr.. Pearl Murohy ADVERTISING ASSISTANTS: Tom Holt-man, Hill McCall, Ruth Vnnnirc, Fred Fisher, Ed Labbe, Elisa Addis, Corrinne Math, I’hyllis Dent, Peter Gantenbein, Bill Meissner, Patsv Lee, Jeannette Thompson, Ruth Baker, Betty Powers, Bob Butler. Carl Heidel, George Brice. Charles Darling, Parker Favier, Tom Clapp. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sun-lay and Monday during the college year. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 u year. _ The Emerald’s Creed for Oregon “ . . . . There in always the human temptation to forget that the erection of building**, 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 lends 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 bo a place where classroom experience’s 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 ore to live, must be given them to solve. They must la; 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 1931-32. The American people cannot be loo 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. CAMPUS TRAFFIC HAZARDS MAYOR LARGE of Eugene has placed before the traffic committee of the city council the Emerald’s request that stop signs be placed at the intersections of 13th and University and 13th and Kincaid streets. There can be no doubt that such precautions are badly in need. In the past few months there have been several near mishaps at both corners. At the request of numerous stu dents and faculty members, the Emerald sent a brief letter to Mayqr Large, urging that these regulations be considered seriously by the city council. + * * tj'OR SEVERAL years 13th street, because it con * nects indirectly with both the east and west portals of the Pacific highway to Eugene, has been a speedway for motorists passing through the city. Barney Oldfield himself would not travel much swifter than some of the maniacs who bullet through our fair campus.’ From their speed one might derive the entirely erroneous conclusion that the prime desire of the drivers is to get on the outside of Eugene without having seen any of it. Aral all this activity, appropriate only to race tracks, takes place while students are passing back and forth from classes! JM * in WE DON’T want accidents to cast a pall over the campus. Those of us who think financial exigencies are bad cannot but know that injuries and death are infinitely worse. Every precaution ary measure should be taken to prevent accidents. Which is why the Emerald communicated immedi ately with Mayor Large upon realizing the hazard of mishaps at the aforementioned corners. Prob ably tiie traffic committee members will order the installation of stop signals at the two intersections immediately. It would be well if they do. MU. ItOOSKYJ'lLT IN ACTION Every letter that passes through the British post office is stamped with the ad monition “Buy British." The machines which do tire stamping bear the label “Made in the U. S. A."- The World Tomorrow, Nov. 9, 1932. O ACTION of President Roosevelt's to date is half so significant as that which tic and Sec retary of State Cordell Hull contemplate in the immediate future. The president's determination to tear down the tariff walls that hem in America looms as one of the great economic benefits of the 20th century. If congress gives him the support his purpose merits, he will wipe out the "Buy America1' shibboleth and stimulate trade in one master stroke. Such action would be a blood transfusion for this country’s commerce, now sligntly anaemic. Across the face of the earth today extend trade barriers that have proved curses to progress and amenity. They have fostered back-biting nation alism, perverted ideas about, other peoples, greedy industrialists and malicious political dynasties Commerce among nations has become a “dog-eat dog” proposition under the influence of high tar iffs. The sponsors of these barriers delight in call ing them 'protective' tariffs. Mr. Kuo.vvcU realizes they are "destructive tariffs" and has pointed them out as such. That the new president intends to urge legisla tion to wipe out this evil is news which should cheer the nation far more than such relatively in-! consequential moves as the legalizing of beer and j the establishment of new farm-relief agencies. Countless misinformed souls believe the tariff to j be a boon to the country. They do not realize its; malicious ramifications how it benefits the big manufacturer and grinds down the farmer and mer chant, with its walls that make them pay more for the shoes they wear and the food they cat. But Mr. Roosevelt will show them. The new presi dent already has shown the country far more than it expected; it is encouraging that there is more action to come. We are behind him. Are you? Tomorrow night's smoker is the first enterprise the Order of the "O” has originated in a month of Sundays. It is encouraging to see the organization revive. Delinquent taxes have caused more than 2,000,000 acres of land to be transferred to the state from land owners in Michigan. On Other Campuses Justifying “Hell Week”— “A broken nose and broken hand bones were tne result of fraternity ‘Hell Week’ held at the University of Wisconsin during the past four days. The first injury was sus tained by a freshman who hit his head on a faucet while being ‘ducked’ in a bathtub, while the second injury resulted when an upperclassman hit a freshman on the hand with a paddle.” THIS news item might have been written last fail during the fraternity “Hell Week” period, but these occurences were kept very (piiet by the two fraternities involved. They are both true! The Daily Cardinal, during the time it has ad vocated a saner method of orientating freshmen into fraternity life, has often been accused of at tacking a "scarecrow." “Hell Week” no longer exists, the good fraternity men have insisted. Does the above item bear them out? * * * In endeavoring to determine the arguments em ployed by fraternity members in justifying the re tention of the sadistic tortures of “Hell Week,” the editors of the Daily Cardinal have had many lengthy and heated discussions. The arguments of the defenders of the system may all be classified under one of the four following headings, viz: 1. “Hell Week” makes the initiate appreciate membership in the fraternal organization, and gives him a higher regard and respect for the fraternity. 2. The activities of the week bring freshmen closer together in the bonds of friendship and broth erhood. 3. The trials and tribulations forced upon the neophytes “uncover a man's true nature.” 4. The freshmen, by paddling and humiliation, can thereby be disciplined. The repetition of the answers to these argu ments are particularly pertinent at the present time, in light of the fact that many of the Greek letter organizations are now planning “Hell Week” activities to be held within the next three or four weeks. 1. If a fraternity must beat and humiliate tho real purposes and objectives of its organization into a neophyte, it certainly cannot justify its existence. If the ideals and friendships and mutual benefits that result from membership in a fraternity are not of a high enough character to induce a desire lor membership in it, why keep it going at all? 2. Yes, physical injury and humiliation does, to a certain extent, knit the freshmen together into one body, but "not in harmony with or love for their fraternity but rather in hatred for a system that permits an inferior, as the paddle wielder fre quently is, to torture a man because the one tor tured waa born a year later and so is a freshman instead of a sophomore. We would, however, re port having observed tlie all too frequent case whore one man is treated more severely than thei others only to stir up deep prejudices in his breast which sometimes last throughout life. ... If tor ture brings the freshmen closer together, why not lot the other classes benefit? Why not let the fresh men torture the juniors, and tHe juniors the sen iors, etc.? If torture is a good thing, why stop with a week, why not keep it, up throughout the four' college years? If torture discovers the man who won't take punishment why not increase the sever ity ot the tests and find out which are the 'best' men, that is, why not carry the punishment as near death as possible without killing the freshman?” This is tho general secretary of the Sigma Nu fra ternity, Mr. Vernon M. Williams, speaking. 3. If. after a man has been pledged to a fra ternity for from three to five months, the members of the organization have not uncovered “his true character" (whatever that may meant, one cannot certainly commend them very highly for their abili ties as judges of human characters, if the neophyte I "takes ' all that is given to him during a “Hell Week, and it he does have a forceful character, he will soon tell the group that he lias no desire to join, an organization made up of hoodlums and play boys. And by the way, is a man's character proven by tHe amount of paddling and humiliation he can live up under? I Returning to the old "spanking and humilia-1 tion system of disciplining a freshman is like tell-1 ing him that he lias no reasoning power anil that he is yet a child. And any man that is worthy of j mombeiship in a worthwhile fraternal organization i oi mini} would licit be asked to join that organiza tion if lie did not possess an active and forceful reasoning power. The fraternity is made by the! men who compose it. and a good fraternity is made up of reasoning men. la addition, fraternities do not attempt to discipline the active members by, any of the methods used on ttic neophytes, if the i system is so good, why not extend it to those who have crossed that mystical threshold of brother-' hood? The a tives are not perfect, either. Why maintain the inequalities between the two groups?! The thinking and active leaders ot the worth while fraternity will deliberate long before he al low hi. group to coutiuue the "Hell Wed; system W i.con.ui Cardinal. MATSUOH/ ft m t r i KALEIDOSCOPE LNews and comment from and about persons and institutions in current educational circles.J P : . - - ... By K. M. KAPPER-JOHNSON (Professor at School of Citizen ship, Syracuse University TPHREE great problems face us * today: armaments, tariffs, war debts. Like three great giants, they seein to sneer at our puny ef forts to loosen their grip upon our world. But hard times make men desperate, and by a concerted ef fort we might loosen their hold, if we were united. Some of us, how ever, want to tackle only one gi ant—some of us oppose arma ments, some tariffs, some debts. We fail to see that only coopera tion can rid us of their dominion: and cooperation in each of these problems. It is a truism of inter national life that you cannot suc cessfully follow two opposite poli cies at the same time. You can not cooperate if you are isolated; and your isolation is spoilt if you cooperate. Which policy shall be followed ? With this in mind comes the question: how shall one cooperate ? Here is a problem of every nation. We have not yet become accus tomed to the condition of close in ter-relation in which we find our selves. In spite of America’s one and one-half billion dollars in Germany and her five billion dollars in Latin America, her treaty rights in Chi na, her possessions in the Carib bean and the Pacific, there are Americans who cannot think in terms of cooperation, just as there are Englishmen who cannot, in spite of two billion dollars in the Argentine, oil rights in Persia, and a trade worth $650,000,000 in Eur ope. We wish for disarmament - we perceive that putting over $700,000,000 per year into arms is not conducive to American pros perity either now or in the future when we might use those arms. So we desire to cut down these costs. But that means coopera tion; it means persuading others to do the same. * * * Now this persuading is a most difficult thing anyhow, anti is ren dered more so if a policy of eco nomic nationalism through tariffs is being followed. Tariffs mean tariff wars, mean intensified con flict for the export markets and few states have forgotten that one of the most important causes of the last war was the economic ri valry of England and Germany was the competition for markets and resources in Morocco between Germany and France. They know that high tariff walls are a sure indication of economic nationalism and they fear the possibility of war which may result and may in the present world demand all the arms they can muster. You cannot fol low internationalism in arms and nationalism in economics. In the present situation, how ever. when the economic life of so many countries has been built up on the basis of a high tariff and none more so than the United States it is clear that tariffs can not bo drastically reduced in a short period of tftne. Some indi cation then must be given of fu ture intent. There must be an in ternational agreement to reduce tariffs over a period of time. Mean while another step might be taken to relieve the constant friction of cut-throat competition. * *' V At present, the United States is demanding payment of $250,000. ooo iv annum in oar d^bt and b; her tariff, refuses to lake pay ment in goods. This means pay ment in gold or U. S. bonds pur chased with the profits of surplus exports. Quite clearly, since im mediate and effective reduction of the tariff is out of the question, a contribution to the problem might be made by reducing the war debts. If this would mean an alleviation of the intense competition neces sary for an export surplus to pay the debts, or of the bitterness en gendered when the gold supply of a nation is attacked in order to obtain payment of a debt, for as Senator Borah said: “To attack a nations gold hold ings creates about the same kind of fear and fright and uneasiness among the people of that nation as the attack of an invading army," and that does not conduce to disarmament. America's contribution, then, might well be a willingness to co operate over war debts, to lessen the economic friction resulting therefrom, while Europe should lessen . the intense fears and ha treds resulting from arms. The two go hand in hand. Lessen economic nationalism, be it engendered by whatever cause, tariffs or debts, and you weaken the hold of arma ments. Cut down your armaments and you lessen suspicion, remove the need for tariffs protecting war utility goods, and add 5 to 10 per cent to the national income which can be spent on productive enter prises. Keep your armaments: you will engender suspicion and fear, give rise to tariffs to protect the home producers, weaken the enemy: you will encourage a bitter nationalism to insist on the payment of wa>' debts and reparations. Keep your tariffs: you will become involved in economic conflicts where arms will be regarded as an inevitable accessory and a protection, and war debt repudiation is a neces sary consequence. Political isola tion or cooperation, economic con flict or prosperity? Which shall it be? Assault and Battery Hitchcock || The week's funniest snapshot is Phil Corrigan carrying Fifi (or some other small pooch > over to the Alpha Xi Delt house in a shoe box. * * * i Where, Oh Where, Has My Le ' gal Beer Gone? might be the theme song of the day. Obaks pre dicts a shipment early this morn ing. though. 0 • * ‘ « » * We understand that Raymond J. (Senator Butch> Morse is plan ning a trip to Manhattan, and we don't mean New York. * * * We nominate for the Keg dub and a free pass to the Godfrey cinema emporium. Fred Stanley because he is Oregon's old man of j the mountains. * ft C Another old timer, Hal Paddock, was on the campus the other day. j Got in a session with Lawyer I Leedy on their famous canoe trip down the river to Portland. « » * Heien Einford, Lou Webber and i their me.t put out a pretty good brand of show the other night at the igloo. We object to the fenced off dancing floor, though. The place was so crowded you couldn't tell who was dancing and who was just standing around gaping, any way. sj: * # ON THE POLICE BLOTTER: Bob Officer playing checkerboard •football . . . Joe Stoll still at the .pinochle ... Ed Charles sans mous tache . . . Mahr Reymers in train ing for the big bout Wednesday night . . . Dale Fischer with a red beard . . . Rosy Gagnon driving . . . Honest John McCulloch enter ing the Side . . . Jake (Garland tc you) Stahl sipping a coke . . . Mariana McNamara squinting. Ii .—— '■•-■■'■-^=7 Washington Bystander. . TC/ASHINGTON. April 10.—(AP) ” A greater tragedy for the hopes of lighter-than-air aviation enthusiasts than even the death of nearly four score men in the loss of the giant navy air battle ship Akron marked that disaster For with the' ship went Real Admiral William A. Moffett, whose faultless courage and dynamic en ergy did much to keep alive in the face of repeated setbacks of Amer ican governmental interest in har nessing the upper airways for the uses of peace. Nor could even the Akron trag edy have blighted the glowing en thusiasm of Admiral Moffett. Moffett glimpsed a vision when he was drafted to head the navy’s aviation service in an hour fraught with grave concern for the saii©i folk. He dreamed of a day when shut tling fleets of great air liners would weave the continents of the world closer by whole days of time in the commerce of peace. No fit ter resting place could he have found than amid the shattered fragments of the mighty Akron the product of his own flaming enthusiasm. * £ # William Moffett was a gallanl man-o-warsman before he shiftec to the skyways. At Vera Crtu nearly 20 years ago he brought his . I cruiser, the Chester, into port in the dark to moor her-broadside to the city shore line despite the crowded shipping in that inner harbor. The Chester’s guns were there at daybreak to take their part in what followed. j And when, years later, with Mof-! fett commanding the Great Lakes ^ ■ naval station, the aviation contro versy stirred by Brigadier General “Billy” Mitchell and army com rades of the air threatened disrup tion of a unified air and sea serv ive held vital by the navy high command, it was that same quality in Moffett that singled him out. The navy needed an enthusiast, a'good showman, to sell to its own air personnel, to congress, to the public, the idea that the fleet is one fleet, whether in air, on the sea or plowing the dark depths of the wa ters. * * * Moffett was not a technician save in that quality of imparting his enthusiasm to others. And he threw that ability with remarkable skill into the task of meeting the cry for a separate air service. The proof of Admiral Moffett’s appointment as that of the right man in the right place lies in his double reappointments. ‘Three presidents approved his work. l'\ And to him a vital part of that work was the belief that he must share every risk with the officers and men under him. MUSINGS By CYNTHIA LILJEQVIST | I rpODAY we present three-act ■*■ play entitled, “The Adventure of the Excuse,” or, “As You De sire Me.” ❖ ❖ * ACT I Place: Campus Dispensable. Personae: Dr. Cant-help-at-olli, Joe College. Joe College: Hello, Dr. Cant helpatolli, how are you this fine morning, and how is Mrs. Cant-1 helpatolli, and the little Couldn’t-1 helpabitties ? Oh yes, yes, that’s \ right. AWFULLY nice $iy, isn’t j it ? Too bad you doctors always work in the insides, isn’t it? You know, I slept right through that class I have to pass, this morning. Yes, I ALWAYS sleep through it. Oh no, I mean if I’m not awak ened. You don’t USUALLY give excuses for over sleeping? But you say there ARE exceptions? Thanks doc. * * * ACT II Place: Campus Dispatchery. Personae: Big Athlete, doctor. Big Athlete: Cood morning, doc, GIMME an excuse for a couple of classes, will ya? Thanks, another one for good measure, you say? Thanks. Well, see you tomorrow. * * # ACT III Place: Campus Disposery. Personae: Dr. Haze, Josephine College. Josephine: (pocketing handker chief with recent rake-up wiped off). Oh, Dr. Haze, I REALLY think I’m AWFULLY sick. I spent a very bad night. I coughed a good deal. It’s an old family trait. Yes, l I’m pretty light headed. You say my throat doesn’t look very IN FLAMED ? Maybe it hasn’t got that far yet. Oh yes, always fine. Light treatments, you say, and sleep ? Oh, I hadn’t thought of that. Watch my diet? Oh I NEVER eat very much at meals, anyway. What hour do you want my excuse for? Oh, the last two I guess. Thanks, Dr. Haze. Opened Under New Management Come In and Pay Us a Visit UNIVERSITY GROCERY (Across Kappa Sigma) I _ PIPES Values, 75c to $1.50 While They Last Only 49c UNIVERSITY PHARMACY The Students’ Drug Store 11th and Alder Phone 111 Ice Cream Specials for Easter Individual Molds Egg Center Bricks rgg Custards Sherbets GOLD MEDAL QUALITY l’Jioue 393 MedO’Lcind Creamery Co. By JOHN SELBY 17-OU will find an easterner, stum 1 bling toward death through the early winter, in Merle Colby’s '■New Road.” And then you will find him stumbling into Hagar, who has just finished burying her husband in the soil of northwest ern Ohio. First, because they must, later because they wished it, the east erner and Hagar combine forces. From a wagon load of odds and , ;nds and the country itself, the two build first a house for themselves, later a settlement, finally a town. But so much building and so much success must make changes in the builders—and it does. Mar tin Ward, who was the easterner, grows a shell, along with a good many other things. And finally his town, which has been built quite as much by the westward movement of the ’twen ties and 'thirties as by the effort of its chief citizen, is depopulated by the very thing that created it. There is a great deal more, but the detail is unimportant. What is chiefly to be wondered at is the fact that here is a novel of the soil and the primitive emotions de riving from the soil that rings true yet is neither drab nor laden with factitious nonsense. Martin and Hagar and Miguel and Madame Perkin (whose estab lishment is guarded by a group of ancestral portraits imported from New England)—these are flesh and blood people. Which is another way of saying that in his effort to provide an American saga, Mr. Colby has not bogged down in what might be called a Scandinavian literary tra dition—namelv that a series of sentences wr.tten as it were, under a leaden sky, about leaden people, is applicable to the pioneer scene. “New Road” might be a small chunk of American history, if his tory were ever written about the interesting detail of a country. CAMPUS CALENDAR (Continued from Page One) speak on some phase of her Euro pean trip. Workers for the women's Emer ald meet Thursday at 4, in 104 Journalism. Very important. Tonqueds social meetings to night at 7:30 at Westminster house. W. A. A. council meets tonight at Gerlinger hall, 7:30. Phi Beta will meet tonight at 7 in Gerlinger hall for installation of officers. Sigma Nu announces the pledg ing of Chester Phillips of Berke ley, California. ssiaisisisisjsisisiaisisisisEisEiaiaiajfiiap-j I C. B. 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