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(0 rc iHittlpJfjmetals University of Oregon, Eugene Richard Neuberger, Editor Harry Schenk, Manager Sterling Green, Managing Editor __| EDITORIAL BOARD Thornton Gale, Associate Editor; Jack Bellinger, Julian I’rescott UPPER NEWS STAFF Oscar Munger, News Ed. Francis Pallistor, Copy Ed. Bruce Hamby, Sports Ed. Parks Hitchcock, Makeup Ed. Bob Moore, Chief Niprht Ed. Jonn <»roas, j-.iterary r.a Bob Guild, Dramatics Ed. Jessie Steele, Women’s Ed. Esther Hayden, Society Ed. Ray Clapp, Radio Ed. DAY EDITORS: Boh Patterson, Margaret Bean, Francis Pal- j lister, Doug Polivka, Joe Saslavsky. NIGHT EDITORS Bob McCombs. Douglas MacLcan, John Hollopeter, Bob Couch. Don Evans. SPORTS STAFF: Malcolm Bnuer. Asst. Editor: Ned Simpson, Hob Riddle. Bob Avison, Bill Ebcrhart, Jack Chinnock, and Roberta Moody. FEATURE WRITERS: Elinor Henry, Maximo Pulido, Ilazle : Corrigan. REPORTERS: Julian Prescott, Madeleine Gilbert, Ray Clapp, Ed Stanley, David Eyre, Bob Guild, Paul Ewing, Cynthia Liljeqvist, Ann-Reed Burns, Peggy Chessmnn, Ruth King, j Barney Clark, Betty Ohlemiller, Roberta Moody, Audrey | Clark, Bill Belton, Don Oids, Gertrude Lamb, Ralph Mason, j Roland Parks. 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 Roth well, Caroline Rogers, Henriette Horak, Catherine Coppers, Claire Bryson, Bingham Powell. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS Betty Gearhart, Portia Booth, Jean Luckel, Margaret Corum, Carolyn Schink, Betty Shoe maker, Ruth Vannice, June Sexamilh, Carmen Blais, Elma Giles, Evelyn Schmidt, Cynthia Liljeqvist, Frances Neth, Frances Hardy. RADIO STAFF: Ray Oapp, Editor; Barney Clark, George Callas, Marjorie McNiece. SECRETARIES—Louise Beers, Lina Wilcox. ~ BUSINESS STAFF Adv. Mgr., Manr Key mere National Adv. Mgr., Auten Bush Promotional Mgr., Marylou Patrick Asst. Adv, Mgr., Grant Theummel. Asst. Adv. Mgr. Bill Russell executive ?->ecretary, uorotny Anne Clark Circulation Msr., Ron Rew. Office MKr., Helen Stinser Class. Ad. M^r., Althea Peterson Sez Sue, Caroline Hahn Sez Sue Asst., Louise Rice Checking Mgr., Ruth Storla Checkins Msr.. Pearl Murnhy The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during the college year. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. The Emerald’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, arid similar routine duties of the administration are but moans 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 bo 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 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 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. EXCELSIOR! □ 67-YEAK-OLD reformer, his courage anil per ceptivity undiminished by the swift flight of the years, today will look from his lofty place on the ladder of life to those who are just beginning to grasp its bottom rungs. Once again, as he has on countless occasions in the"past, Lincoln Steffens will attempt to instill in a group of the nation’s youth the valor and desire to think for themselves. Lincoln Steffens is a thinker himself. He is not concerned with yesterday's rainstorm nor tomor row's entertainment, but is occupied in wider circles. He estimates human beings, their frailties and their strengths. He looks back over the high road of history and he looks down the road into the vista of the future. And, shrewdly valuating what he sees, he visualizes the destiny of civilization. On more than one occasion ho has rebelled vigorously against what he saw and in those instances his courage and tenacity have stampeded his foes and rallied his friends. Probably Lincoln Steffens has talked to more college students than ever passed through the por tals of the University of Oregon in all its decades of existence, in that vast group there have been students whose blank minds and spineless back bones have been as impervious to Mr. Steffens' cold logic and vivid facts as blank paper. But there have been students who have thought, m whose keen minds Air. Steffens planted the seeds of ideas and purposes. And from the latter group there have emerged leaders of their fellows youths with the valor and audacity to defy llie status quo, to seek for themselves the truth. » « « OUCil a man was Galileo, who centuries ago was willing to be tortured because ho refused to accept the ancients’ conception of natural phe nomena. Before him there were Jesus Christ and his disciples, men in whose mind the fires of ideal ism burned with head that Roman swords could not turn aside. More recently there have been Wash ington, Lafayette, Jefferson and the immortal back woodsman, Abraham Lincoln. An idealist with courage was Woodrow Wilson, whose zeal for his country broke him in mind and body. An even more ardent attacker of the fortresses of reaction is Upton Sinclair, who refuses to print what he does' not believe. And all these men and more are the type of Lincoln Steffens. Though the world be against them, they have had the will to succeed and the determination to hold their own. Retreat they never do; go forward they always will. So today we have an opportunity to hear the words and logic that have made men think since time immemorial. We will hear the cry to progress and advance the cry that encouraged the Chris tians to overthrow Rome, that urged the Russian serfs to rebel against the lush, that called the New England citizenry from its farms to war against the redcoats, that brought bluc-coated cavalry from the plains of the west in answer to Lincoln's plea. * * * A N1J THERE will be some of us who will neglect this golden opportunity, either because of lack of intelligence and courage or by foolishly remain ing away. But there will he some in the audience at Gtrlingei hall who will take from Mr. Steffens' addi't.ideal; and purposes to urge than on tu greater conquests and new advancement in the days to come. It is no crime to progress; it is absurd to be reactionary. In the words of William Allen White, also a celebrated journalist: ‘‘The ideal student is always in revolt. Con formity is death to youth. Later in life youth will learn to conform with wisdom; but at the home plate, with the bat in its hand, before the bases are run, youth should revolt, free, on its toes rarin' to go.” _ GOING NOWHERE FAST THE CURTAIN is raised and the farce is on. One political party sits in Buddha-like com placency viewing, with drooping lids, the untroubled panorama. Spring term politics have caused as little stir as a blond in the follies. The lethargy has crept into the publication field as well. Only three students entered their names for editor of the Emerald, two for editor of the Oregana, and one each for business manager of each publication. Self government has reached a sorry level when all the elective offices are practically uncontested. The race indeed is short and the victory hollow. The highest office of all, president of the Associ ated Students, draws only one man who believes he is qualified to hold the job. Our alleged student democracy has foundered itself under its own weight of bureaucracy, house allignments, ticket voting and lack of real issues. For all practical purposes it matters not whether Luke McGluck of Marccla, or Jim Zilch of Canyon City is elected. Neither of them stand for anything nor take sides upon any issue. All they can promise their back ers is the rather dubious honors to be bestowed in the way of committee chairmanships. Nor can we blame a disgruntled student body for looking with cynical eye upon the ingratiating gyrations of office-seekers. It is hardly worth our time to go to the polls so that some quasi-politician can later be addressed as “Chairman of the Electric Light Bulb Committee.” But in this ironical tirade of ours is a note of desperation. We ask vehemently: “If student gov ernment is not worth having, why have it?” If it is not, what is there to take its place? No one can doubt the decadence of the present system. Leader ship, decisive action, and a thorough housecleaning are desperate needs at the present time. THE SHOW MUST GO ON SOME time ago the cinema “cashed in’’ on films depicting the backstage melodrama of an actor's career. The Jazz-Singing hero sang most soulfully to an audience that did not know that he knew that his aged mother lay dying. A last perform ance might mean the death of the matriarch of the stage- but the show must go on. Or the sad eyed heroine was forced by dramatic tradition to sing baby songs while a misunderstood lover was speed ing away. These scenes are but petty melodrama com pared to those enacted in life before Joe College and Betty Co-ed of today. The instructor in Romance Languages literally re-enacts the “Last Lesson in' French’’ before an unsuspecting audi ence. The history professor must go on with a very learned dissertation describing minutely the details of the 15th Century Inquisition just after he has leqrned that “in the interests of economy” his services will not be required next year. Or Dr. So-and-So discusses the “subsistence theory of wages" just as the board decides on a salary cut which will make it impossible for him to continue payments on that little home four year's savings will be swept away; that long planned sumiper in seclusion which would enable him to write that book which the world has been waiting for fades— at the moment of realization into a mere tantaliz ing dream; and the little woman who is bringing their potential president into the world must do so without the comforts she so richly deserves. Sentimental ? Perhaps. But not an exaggera tion of fact. If you have an eye for drama, here it is. But the show must go on. On Other Campuses Deflating College Athletics TWO YEARS ago when ihe Association of Amer ican College Professors and the Carnegie Foun dation for the Advancement of Teaching were de crying the overemphasis of college sport, the high er institutions gave little heed and continued to expand their athletic programs. Today everything has changed. Throughout the nation, college and universities, faced with ever mounting deficits in athletic budgets, are curtail ing sports programs far more drastically than was advocated two years ago. Writing in the New York Herald-Tribune, W. O. McGechan, describes this deflation process. "We find that college sports are being deflated so swiftly and effectively that even the advocates of deflation are alarmed," McGechan declares. | "They wanted a gentle and gradual deflation, not the explosion that comes from the pricking of the ' balloon. And, if we are to judge from the wailing from many of our great institutions, some of the colleges have not yet begun to deflate." The extent of the curtailment of college athletics 1 in recent months is revealed in a survey conducted bv the New York Times. According to the survey, in every section except in the Rocky mountain area, where there has never been any football inflation | and where the falling off in football revenue has not had such serious consequences, schedules have been curtailed, salaries and personnel have been reduced, squad rosters have been cut down and other economics effected in order to balance bud ge's. At many institutions activities have had to : be suspended in both major and minor sports. Although the deflation of college sports started i in the cast, it already has reached the Pacific coast ! as evidenced by the recently announced budget cuts at Berkeley, Oregon, and other Coast conference universities. With receipts from football at this university far below expectations and with the A. S U. C facing an 81S.000 deficit for the year, it is a foregone conclusion that athletics as well as other activities here will be drastically curtailed. The results of this forced deflation are difficult 1 to foretell. Undoubtedly the trend toward intra 1 mural ports will be stimulated. Perhaps the time will come in the not too far distant future when 1 universities will be able to present a sensible, sane program of athletics for the benefit of all students. ! instead of the present highly professionalized brand 'of sport, for the benefit of the few —U u L A ( Bruin. Pan Ameaican Day - - By Stanley robe n KALEIDOSCOPE (News and comment from and about persons and institutions prominent in current educational circles. ! r--—— j rpHE EVER-INCREASING acti I vity of the university professor in political and governmental af fairs and his continued gain in prominence in the news has reached its peak under the new administration, which, in fact, “places the university on trial,” an editorial in the current “Colum bia University Quarterly” de clares. Pointing to the varied comment caused by the participation of Pro ' fessor Raymond Moley, Rexford G. j Ttrgwell and A. A. Berle in the re I cent campaign, the editorial ex presses no opinion one way or the other, but asserts that intelligent and tactful academic advice might possibly “mark a new era in our history.” “Professors have become news; their cloistered detachment, with its unreality or its ultimate philo sophy as you will - - seems now but a curiosity of history,” says “The Quarterly,” of which Profes sor Dixon Ryan Fox, of the de partment of history, is editor. “The fact is that the lineal de scendants of the academic scholars of a hundred years ago, the clas sicists, the philosophers, the math ematicians, the rhetoricians, the pure scientists, are about as much •detached' as were their ancestors. Their work finds little hospitality in headlines unless it is skilfully i simplified and perhaps somewhat ' denatured by a competent journal ! ist. “But during the last 50 years while the world's life changed with i constantly dizzier speed, universi j ties—which exist to answer the world's general questions — have paid more and more attention to | what are called the social sciences, j The name is half-humorously ; given and accepted, but no one questions the growing prestige of the economists, the educationists, I the political scientists, the sociol ogists. the psychologists and their hod-men, the historians.” * * * Continuing, the editorial asserts j that in view of the fact that “the data and ideas presented by the i successful presidential candidate in the late campaign were sug \ gested by a coterie of Columbia professors." it is only natural that i the professors should make the headlines, although it denies that 1 they sought such prominence. "It was not expected that aca demic influence on national and ; state affairs would arouse univer ! sal gratification," it states. "There ’ have been protests, honest as well •as dishonest. A Boston financier recently interviewed on a return ; from Europe asserted with much ' vehemence that the main trouble with the country was this profes sor influence, that it had been so for 10 years . Professors, he said, were cowards and weaklings any way; only such minds would shun life and accept the bounty of men who fac^d battles in the real 1 world and won a success. * * * "Henry Ford a day or so later | intimated that professors knew very little of what they were talk ing about. Then Representative Tinkham instructed his colleagues in the Capitol on the wicked inter nationalism of two Columbia .cqolars The journalist. David I Lawrence, headed a syndicated article: ‘Congress says thumbs down on professors.’ "Obviously, referring to Mr. Roosevelt’s Columbia aids, he said that while the legislators would gladly call upon professors for fact material, any assumption of leadership by them would be re sented; it was a side-long warn ing to the president-elect against employing academic spokesmen. * # #' ■ "The professor interest has never been so prominent in Amcr- ] ican politics before outside of Wisconsin. How #hr is it practic able in a democracy? And how desirable? These are the ques tions very much to the fore in a new national administration. If offered with becoming tact from Columbia or elsewhere, academic influence may set an immediate impress upon statesmanship, pos sibly marking an era in our his tory. The university is on trial.” —New York Herald-Tribune. Assault and j Battery Iitchcock Seven hundred bandsters are expected on the campus today. It is rumored that the Chi Psi’s are now taking flute lessons. # Si if We nominate for the Keg club: George Belts because he has moved into a new apartment. (This means a free pass to the Colonial.) • sfc 4* * DK. SMITH TAKES EIEI.I) TRIP TO EXAMINE ROCK (Headline, Ore. Emerald) Rock of Ages, or the Econ De partment ? Latest dope on the College Side booth-sitting contest: Willoughby Dye .13 hrs. Blake Hamilton . 8 hrs. Jim Smith . 7 hrs. Jupe Prescott . 5 hrs. Harry Handball . ’a hr. It is claimed that Dye is a ringer as he is not actually registered in school at present, but he objects strenuously to this charge. He will continue in the contest. >i« >!« After last night’s walkout of O. S. C. players on the boxing card, it looks as if the traditional Orange had turned one shade lighter. * % * ON THE POLICE BLOTTER: Hack Miller waiting for his pants to be pressed . . ., . Ralph Brown back at his pigging .... George Howard watching the beer sell .... Roland McMasters walking down the well known street . . . . Sandy Platt watching somebody else lose their nickel on the slot machine .... Althea Peterson driving the Peterson jollope. . . . Contemporary Opinion . . . (Editor's note: Because of re cent controversies here over the manner in which the federal bud get should be balanced, the fol lowing from the New York Times is of special interest to University students.) Routine Costs r| HE untiring director of budget, Mr. Douglas, is planning fur ther economies at Washington. He has made it clear that the ad ministration does not intend to stand on the large reduction it has already made in the outlay for veterans’ relief. It is also seeking means of retrenchment in the rou tine costs of the government. That there is opportunity for substantial savings here may be demonstrated by comparing expen ditures last year with those ten years earlier. Such a comparison does not ignore the realities of the situation. For the purchasing pow er of the dollar last year was 33 per cent greater than in 1922, and EASTER SERVICES 9:30 and 11:00 o’clock » Sermon-Subject @ ‘•ATTAINING | IMMORTALITY” § First | Congregational Church a Clay E. Palmer, Minister s Be Prepared | Now Is the Time to Get the Spring Togs Cleaned and Pressed | Get in Line With Spring by l laving ^ our Cleaning Work Done Now 7th and Charnelton Sts. Eugene Steam Laundry I 178 8th West Phone 123 p} the same amount of government funds could be expected to stretch further. Yet instead of falling, as the purchasing power of the dol lar rose, the routine costs of most federal departments increased greatly during the period. Com parative figures for 1922 and 1932 are shown here, in millions of dol lars: 1922 1932 Agriculture .$144 $319' (Commerce . 21 53 j Interior . 77 81 Justice . 18 52 Labor . 6 15 Navy . 459 358 Postoffice . 68 203* State . 10 19 Treasury . 156 288 War . 402 467 Total .$1,361 $1,855 Only in one case, that of the navy department, did expenditures decline between 1922 and 1932— largely in consequence first of the limitations imposed by the Wash ington treaty of 1922 and then of failure to build up to those set at London eight years later. Expendi tures in one other department, that of the interior, advanced only slightly. But elsewhere large in creases were recorded. In terms of dollars, the greatest were in the department of agriculture, which has immensely multiplied its real and imaginary services to the farmer; the treasury depart ment, which is charged with a large part of the expenditure for public works, and the postoffice department, which had a heavy deficit in 1932 and will have an other this year. In terms of per centage of increase, the postoffice and the departments of commerce and justice were the largest gain ers. The administration has two pow ers Much can be used effectively in curtailing routine costs. One is authority, already exercised by the president, to reduce federal salar ies. The other is a practically free hand in the rearrangement and consolidation of bureaus and com missions. If, on the energetic in itiative of Mr. Douglas, routine costs can be brought back to the level of 1922, and if the resultant economy is added to that already i achieved by retrenchment in vet , erans’ relief, the administration will perform the remarkable feat of cutting nearly $1,000,000,000 from last year’s budget. Emerald Of the Air Fred Peterson and his Rhythm Club boys from the Campus Shoppe have successfully over come all handicaps imposed by pneumonia and airplane accidents and are prepared to entertain you this evening from 5:30 till 6 o’clock. This program of popular dance ! music will be punctuated with sev eral interesting and entertaining features. Tune in for a half-hour of musi I cal mirth and melody. Classified Ads TUTORING GERMAN —By ex perienced teacher educated in Germany. Rate, 50c per hour. Miss Sropp. Phone 2630W. 1798 Columbia street. Current ! LITERATURE By JOHN SELBY T¥ERE is something new for the parlor table. It is called “Great Americans as Seen by the Poets,” and it is, strictly speaking, ini product of a great nostalgia. For five years, recently, Burton Stevenson lived in Europe. The longer he lived there, the better America looked to him. He took a vow. When he came home, he would do some thing about it. He compiled this anthology, a quaint libation to his country’s historical past, and perhaps rather a valuable one, for it is obvious that the history which endures best is rhymed and metered. What curious partners have re sulted! Arthur Guiterman and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; William Makepeace Thackeray and Mrs. M. M. Webster; Walt Whit man and Zona Gale; Fitz-Greene Halleck and Vachel Lindsay; Ham lin Garland and Herman Melville. And what curiosities, for that, matter, including several by that great contributor to anthologies, “Unknown.” There is a poem, for example, on Benedict Arnold be ginning: “Arnold, thy name, as heretofore, Shall now be Benedict no more: Since, instigated by the devil, Thy ways are turned from good to evil.” There is a certain naivete in the presentation of the biographical data which introduces the poems. Some of the verse is quite fine, notably Lindsay’s "Old Old An drew Jackson.” It was not Mr. Stevenson’s pur pose to print all the verse that cluster about any one name; nevertheless, there may be a sur prise for some in the number and quality of poems about such mod erns as Woodrow Wilson and Charles Lindbergh. The whole work is enclosed be tween two apostrophes. The first is “Dear Land of All My Love” by that gentle poet-flutist, Sidney Lanier; the last an apostrophe to Lindbergh by John G. Neihardt. giuniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiwiiriiMiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.. 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