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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.
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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
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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.)
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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.
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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
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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.
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! 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.
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