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University of Oregon, Eugene Richard Nenberger, Editor Harry Schenk, Manager Sterling Green, Managing Editor — EDITORIAL BOARD Thornton Gale, Associate Editor; Jack Bellinger, Julian Prescott. UPPER NEWS STAFF n.... xioti-a F.H. I John Gross. Literary Ed Francis Palliate?, Copy Ed. Bruce Hamby, Sports Ed. Parks Hitchcock, Makeup Ed. Bob Moore, Chief Night 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, Doug Polivka, Joe Snslavsky. NIGHT EDITORS—Bob McCombs, Douglas MacLcan, John HoIIopetor, Boh Couch, Don Evans. SPORTS STAFF: Malcolm Bauer. Asst, Editor; Ned Simpson, Bob Riddle, Bob Avison. Bill Ebcrhart, Jack Chinnock, and Robert,'! Moody, Jack Miller. FEATURE WRITERS: Elinor Henry, Maximo Pulido, Haxle Corrigan. REPORTERS: Julian Prescott, Madeleine Gilbert, Ray Ed Stanley, David Eyre, Bob Guild, Paul Ewing, Liljeqvist, Ann-Reed Burns, Peggy Chessman, RutI Barney Clark, Betty Ohlemiller, Roberta Moody, Clark, Bill Belton, Don Oids, Gertrude Lamb, Ralph 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 Rothwell, Caroline Rogers, Henrietta Horak, Catherine Coppers, Claire Bryson, Bingham Powell. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS—Betty Gearhart, Portia Booth, Jean Luckel, Margaret Corum, Carolyn Schink, Betty Shoe maker, Ruth Vannicc, June Sexamith, Carmen Blais, Elma Giles. Evelyn Schmidt, Cynthia Liljeqvist, Frances Neth, Frances Hardy. RADIO STAFF: Ray Cflapp, Editor; Barney Clark, George Callas, Marjorie McNiece. SECRETARIES—Louise Beers, Lina Wilcox. Cyttthia 1 King, Audrey Mason, BUSINESS STAFF ■ n—a I gvo.iitlv. gneretarV. Uorothv Adv. Mgr., Mahr Rcymora National Adv. Mgr., Auten Bush Promotional Mgr., Marylou Patrick Asat. Adv, Mgr., Gr a n t Theummel. Aast. Adv, Mgr. Bill Rowell Executive Secretary, Dorothy 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 Checkinnr Murr.. Pearl Murnhy ADVERTISING ASSISTANTS: Tom Holeman, Bill McCall, Ruth Vannlce, Fred Fisher, Ed Lahbe, Elisa Addis, Corrinne | piath, Phyllis Dent, Peter Gantenbein, Bill Meissner, I’atay Lee, Jeannette Thompson, Ruth Baker, Betty Powers. Bob Butler. Carl Heidel, George Brice, Charles Darling, Parker Favler, Tom Clapp. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Betty Bretshcr, Patricia Campbell, Kathryn Greenwood, Jane Bishop, Elma Giles, Eugepla Hunt, Gene Bailey, Marjorie McNicce, Willa Bits, Betty Shoemaker, Ruth Byeriy, Mary Jane Jenkins. EDITORIAL OFFICES, Journalism Bldg. FB5n^83o5—5JS35 Room, Local 3S5; Editor and Managing Editor, Local 354. BUSINESS OFFICE, McArthur Court. Phone 8300—Local 214. A member of the Major College Publications, represented by A J. Norris Hill Co., 321 E. 43rd St., New York City; 123 W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1206 Maple Ave., Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during the college year: Entered In the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, 82.60 a year. , The Emerald’s Creed for Oregon “ . . . . There Is always the human temptation to forget that the erection of buildings, the formulation of new curricula, the expansion of departments, the crea tion of new functions, and simitar 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 a9 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 shoxild 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 rre 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 too 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 Schart. ROOSEVELT DEFIES LOBBYISTS LINCOLN STEFFENS, crown-prince of muck rakers, observed in an interview recently that the grafters he exposed were more honestly and sincerely desirous for the betterment of conditions than the so-called reformers and the paid advo cates of professionalized goodness. They and their ilk gave him, he insinuated, a very large pain in the neck. In spite of the odium of Tammany Hall, and its taint of special privilege, Roosevelt has been less the tool of powerful lobbying groups such as the American Legion, the W. C. T. U., and the Federated Churches of America, than any politi cian of recent times. The “gravy” that accrues as a matter of course to any backer of Tammany has been Extremely slow in coming. To date it is almost non-existent, with the guests at the Democratic bancpiet fuming at the delay. This we regard as a most hopeful sign. Not because we believe that all of Roosevelt’s policies are faultless, but because, he has not so emascu lated his party with conflicting and pacifying prom ises that it is helpless to act. Whether good or bad, Roosevelt at least accomplishes something, and he accomplishes it with a speed that brings amaze ment to the eyes of competent political observers. For the time being anyway, the militant W. C. T. U. and the rest of the professionalized lobbyists have been stopped. Congress for the present will not be flooded with an endless stream of bills ad vocating the purely local interests of every com munity and group in the country. In the exigen cies of the times the meddler, reformer, lobbyist has been sidetracked. In a year or two he will again come with his cohorts, his endless petitions, and his attempts to gain upward tariff revision for tlie interests he represents. Perhaps by the time be does return there will have been so many changes in legislative procedure that his reception will be extremely cold. DANCES CROWD CALENDAR TF you plan on attending every social event of A spring term you have before you a task thut should give pause for reflection and thought. To the already over-crowded social calendar has been added the Frosh Glee, the last free major dance of the year. Through some oversight of the first year “powers that be” it was shifted from winter term to spring, further complicating the over burdened calendar. The Junior Prom, Mortar Board Ball, and Frosh Glee round the schedule out to three major dances, a host of minor affairs, and sonic thirty odd fra ternity and sorority dances. Altogether, with the obligation.- of Senior Leap week und Junior Week end, it is an imposing and wearying projpect. in ■* fact, in order to attend all of them would require practically every week-end of the remainder of the term. Surely some coordinated schedule could be worked out between these conflicting functions. It is certain that some of them could be given during | winter term when the calendar is relatively empty.' If thl3 is not possible, at least the dances could j be scheduled so that they would not come within a few days of each other. We have no criticism of the number of social events, though probably during a depression year it would be better taste to limit the expenditure ; on dances. But we do think that their scheduling might be more intelligently and efficiently handled. I SENIOR PRIVILEGES SENIOR privileges, those long-awaited “extra hours” that all senior women enjoy spring term, are in danger. Like all privileges, they are being abused. Perhaps waiting four years for an extra half hour time on week nights and forty-five min utes on week-ends, is too much for the exuberant senior in the springtime, and the temptation to stay out just a few minutes longer and have one of the sisters come down and let her in, is irre sistible. However, the abuses have been exceeding the observances of the specified hours to such an ex tent lately that senior privileges for the rest ol' the term, and possibly permanently, may be abol ished. One of the tests of good behavior comes this week-end, when seniors frolic until 1 Thurs day, Friday, and Saturday nights. The old tradi tion of staying out all night Friday is taboo this year, and reported violations will result in cancel lation of privileges for the remainder of the year. For the sake of all who enjoy these spring term late hours, senior women are asked to observe the rules of the administration. Freezing milk for storage has been successful in India. The city manager of Ames, la., is named J. H. Ames. Iowa births in 1923 exceeded deaths by nearly 14,000. Forest products rank third in Tennessee as a source of cash income to farmers, being exceeded only by cotton and tobacco. After having helped to save 378 lives at sea in 34 years’ service, Alfred James Spurgeon of the Clacton-on-sea lifeboat, England, has retired. Use of charcoal-gas for operating motor trucks and buses was recently demonstrated at a confer ence held in China by the governor of Hunan pro vince. Contemporary ==Opinion== A PEW months ago a member of the Univer sity administration publicly made the state ment that scholarship was becoming a student ac tivity on his campus, under the stimulus of the new plan. In an interview published in today's issue of The Daily Maroon, President Robert Maynard1 Hutchins expresses as his belief that only those activities which serve an educational function de serve to exist on the campus. And for the past two years the leaders of extra curricular affairs have watched the decreasing number of student participants, the disappearing campus elections, campus traditions, and student organizations. Obviously, there is something happening to stu dent activities on this campvis. Strangely enough, the faculty member seems to be more cognizant of the trend of events and to have made a more accurate and constructive analysis of this trend, than have most students. A great many dyed-in the-wool activity men and women have for time immemorial gauged a student’s success in college by his possession of a C sweater and the lengthy list of activities which appears after his name every time it is published in The Daily Maroon. They are now bewailing the decreasing number of such individuals and such indications of a thriving "campus life.” They are finding it difficult to reconcile tnemselves to the fact that Green Cap clubs, class rushes, honor societies campus elec tions, and similar aspects of college life as it is lived on typical campuses do not match the aca demic pattern of this institution, primarily because the student has been left no time for them. • The sooner seniors and juniors realize that this University is primarily interested in educating stu dents and adding to the world's fund of knowledge gained by research, tlie sooner they will discon tinue wasting' their time wondering what is hap pening to student activities and why? The prestige lot that institution is resting today upon its great. I pioneer contributions to education and research, i and not upon its student activities, football teams, ) or other accomplishments of like nature, i There will always be a real opportunity for a j student newspaper and literary publications to ex | ist on this campus, no matter what the scholastic j emphasis or speed of educational production may ( become. These organizations will continue to pro vide opportunity for training and development of ■ executive ability to their staff members. There , will always be an active group of dramatic and ■ musical organizations on the campus, for these, | loo, merit existence from an education, cultural point of view. There will likewise be an increas ingly important number of literary, debating and ; departmental organizations, providing botli social and academic channels for the release and expres sion of student interests and energies. Rut there will shortly be no further place at all lor class officers and elections, including a "senior class" president. There will shortly be no place at all for "senior class” honor societies male or female. As for contests to select campus beauty and personality queens, a "comic” monthly, and I the countless other forms of college traditions and j organizations, the picture provides no space lot 1 them whatsoever. On the whole, we arc inclined to believe that little of value and a great deal of hoakuiu v.tl! I be loot.—\\. E. I'.—Chicago Daily Maroon. Play Ball! - - - - By STANLEY ROBE BALL PAPxK Washington Bystander. . By KIRKE SIMPSON W/ASHINGTON, April 18.—(AP) ” —When “Mayor” Mary Norton of Washington, D. C., otherwise Representative Norton of New Jer sey, chairman of the district com mittee of the house, shepherded the district beer bill tactfully through its last legislative stage, she disclosed an appreciation of the drama of the moment. To the vast majority of house members and Washingtonians in the gallery it was just the local ordinance under which the legal ized 3.2 brew could be quaffed. They were deeply interested in the practical side of that, ont in the significance of the hour in the long history of the prohibition controversy. Yet the passage of that bill cleared the decks of congress of anything more than incidental as pects of the prohibition wrangle. For the first time in two decades it was free of the subject, at least until the fate of the prohibition repealer should be decided. The controversy over prohibition first began to force itself into con gressional debates so long ago that Mrs. Norton probably was little more than a girl. Yet when she yielded time to Tom Blanton of Texas, implacable dry, in that last debate, she seemed to appreciate that this was in deed a history-making moment: * s|i * Mr. Blanton so took it. Ever since the swift-grinding machinery of the present special session started up to add a beer bill to the prohibition repeal proposal he has stood steadfastly ti his guns in opposition. He has not been content with a mere voicing of his disapproval from an inconspicuous place among the house benches. Most often he has taken over a small secretarial desk that flanks thd lower terrace of the speaker’s ros trum and has boomed from that vantage point. "Soon we will have beer sold in this capitol," Air. Blanton said. "But it will not be with my vote. Speaking only for myself as one of the 435 members of this house, I have done everything within the power of one mortal man to stop the efforts to repeal the eighteenth amendment, to stop the passage of the beer bill, to stop the taking of restrictions off of medicinal liquor." * * * And that sums up nearly 17 years of Blanton's activities in the house as far as prohibtion is con cerned. Mrs. Norton's gesture had given him an opportunity to round it out with that final chance to nail the dry flag to the masthead and go down, beaten but unbowed. Current LITERATURE By JOHN SELBY IT is usually diffficult to get in * to another world, where all the values are surprising, and the col ors seem clangorous. But it can be done by reading “Solal." “Solal" is a novel, of course, but the reader has no feeling that the story is the important thing; it is rather * if M Albert Cohen had created a senes of pictures in some very handsome but fragile ma terial, pictures that periodically shatter to give place to new ones. Solal is a Jew, son of a rabbi on the Grecian island of Cepha lonia. He was born beautiful, a lit tle mad, but irresistible. Ever his father, outraged by his disregard of the talmudic tradition and, in deed, everything else Solal chose to disregard, could not stand against him. Suddenly, still a boy, Solal dis covers that he has power to make himself loved. He has luck, and very little fear. From that time until the final tragedy there are almost no moments when Solal does as other men; his career is incredible, or would be if some one else had written it. M. Cohen never permits a doubt to creep in. But the pictures are the import ant thing. Cephalonia itself, where “a diamond stream flowed from a | scarlet rock into the sea which was breathing with the justice of eternity” will not be forgotten soon by M. Cohen’s readers. It is the same with the five Jewish friends, with Uncle Saltiers epic venture into Italy on the trail of the fleeing Solal, with, in fact, nearly every page. It is almost unfair to add, in these days when racial and nation al “souls” are being dragged up for examination on all sides, that “Sol al'’ offers an embodiment, as it were, of the Jewish soul. But it does, and quite a different one from that by Ludwig Lewisohn. “Solal" is translated skillfully from the French by Wilfred Ben son. It is M. Cohen’s good luck that his astonishing first novel should have been put into English so intelligently. Letters to the Editor All “Letters to the Editor" must bear either the signature or initials of the writer, the farmer being preferred. lie cause of space limitations, the editor reserves the right to withhold such communication# as he secs fit. All let ters should be concise and to the point. The editor of the Emerald solicits opin ions and constructive criticism from the members of the student body. To thr Editor of the Emerald: IN response to your editorial of April I8th. in which you censured the sophomore class for holding the Whiskerino Shuffle the night of the finals of the band contest, and also cast blame upon the class for not holding the dance in a University building, I, as one of the two remaining class officers, have this to say; In the first case, it would have been impossble to delay or put off the date of the dance for another week. The date set was scheduled I purposely because it was the date | that conflicted the least with any 1 all-campus function billed for this Spring term. The Mortar Board ball, certainly an all campus dance of the first magnitude, is sched uled for the next week-end, and the Frosh Glee the weelc-end fol lowing. This was why the week end of the loth was selected, in that it conflicted with nothing out i side of the band contest. I am per j fectly sure that no one stayed away from the band contest to at tend the Whiskerino Shuffle, and | therefore believe that bur dance did not interfere with the attend ance at the band contest in the slightest. On the second charge, that of the building in which/the dance j was held. The Campa >6hoppe was selected because of ius sise an.I it' superior floor, for one thing, for its excellent grill seren e and table. tha< near of the ifnlvcrcity. husld igo offered, aud Justly because oi / the nominal fee charged for its rental. Trusting this will clear up the doubt that may exist in the minds of a few, I remain, Sincerely, ED MESERVE. Assault and Battery SSSS, JAY COBBS and wife are in Mex ico City now. Say they're study ing the language and customs. Mostly the old Spanish customs. * * * We nominate for the Keg club and the free pass to the Colonial: Leighton Gee, because he appar ently was teaching a Chi Q to swim out at Sow Meadows the other afternoon. We understand that Ross Bates was entertaining friends of the family over the week-end. Good work. Latest dope on the College Side booth-sitting contest. Only three more days, and then the winner gets the bottle of brew: Willoughby Dye .37 hours T. Blakeley Hamilton 33 hours 1 Jim Smith .28 hours Benny Baseball .22 hours ! Julius Rehal .18 hours | Lloyd Speer .16 hours Joe Stoll has been disqualified because he is not a member of the A. S. U. O. Bob Leedy with drew. Said the competition was too great. * * * We understand Mark Thomas overslept last Sunday when the Fiji breakfast was slated. Too bad. * * * Linda Vincent wants Bud Pozze and Duke Shaneman to withdraw their threats to throw her in the millrace or she'll sue them. «• * * We understand some of the Sig ma Nus got a gun shoved in theit faces the other day. ON THE POLICE BLOTTER Bull Vv'right and his Alpha Ph: chauffeur . . . Harry Hansen anc a brand new moustache . . . Dor Thompson helping the girls quafi on the Alpa Phi fire escape ... Poz zo getting himself a date for the Mortar Board ball . . . Walt Grej mad because ho couldn't get in to the Whiskerino jig free . . Bob Johnson giving Harrisor Spain the big run-around over D G.’s . . . John Creech claiming he’s too high hat to go to the Mortal Board jig . . . Norman Burke grin ning. . . . PUBLICATIONS CHOICES DUE THIS AFTERNOON (Continued from Page One) ! probably not then, but would b ' put up by petition just in time t< j get on the ballot. Plans for a meeting of th< Roustabouts were taking shap yesterday and it is anticipatei that this group which follow none of the established part; lines, if any are left, will ente a list of candidates. While th group is composed primarily o athletes, it is understood that non athletes will receive a good rep resentation on the ticket. Roustabouts Add Life Last year the Roustabouts add ed to the campaign a measure o life entirely neglected by the othe two parties, which did most o their work in quiet conference with fraternity and sorority pc litical bosses. This year the ath letes are planning to force thei opposition to make a definite ap peal to the voters on ground other than those of patronage. At least one candidate is draw ing up a ticket for the senior clas elections. The class campaign: however, do not attract much ir terest until after student body oi ficers have been named and the suffer from a waning of politics enthusiasm. GRADE ANALYSIS COPY TO BE GIVEN HOUSE! (Continued from Page One) complished with what past result indicated it would accomplish. Graphs Show Standings Several graphs are also present ed, giving the position of th: groups in various phases of thi analysis. The material pertaininj to each house is given for severa groups within the house and fo: various years. Each house is supplied w'ith tin figures which were used in com piling the report for the organiza tion as well as a summary of th< scholarship condition of the house A portion of the report is print ed in today’s Emerald. This show: the relative standings of all organ izations based on several points. Emerald Of the Air When yeu get all scrubbed up for' dinner this evening and are lolling around wondering what to do with yourself till the cook holl ers “Come and get it," turn ths dial to KORE and suffer through 15 minutes of Emerald news. It’s only moderately painful— and you can always turn the darn thing off. The time is 5:45. education cut to hit SCHOOLS A HARD BLOW (Continued from Page One) when the group was existing only on the barest necessities. This is what will happen to higher edu cation. In the biennium just con cluded funds were approximately $3,927,000. Then the legislature went into direct action. The high way commission and the national guard were not cut too drastically, but every axe that fell shaved an other few dollars off higher edu cation. When the platitudes had ■ ceased to fly and the demagogues had rested their vocal organs, a sum total of about $1,745,000 had been removed from the approgria ! tions for higher education. 1 It takes no mental prodigy to realize that such a reduction can : not help but cripple the state’s ! institutions of learning. The only 1 hope is that business will revive ’ soon enough and the state's ’ statesmen will come to their , senses soon enough to repair this 3: almost irreparable damage. A E | generation of youngsters are growing up in this commonwealth and to them the state owes a debt that should not be forgotten. The obligations to the youth of the state are more important and sig f nificant than those to the motor f ists and farmer, or any other ^ group for that matter. Situation in Balance Right now the situation is squarely up to the board and the r chancellor. Through no fault of theirs, they are faced with a vast 3 and difficult problem. They must meet it Monday. It is hoped they meet it well. One of the things 3 they should consider is the value ’’ of a noteworthy faculty. Such a group has been established at the University. To cripple it now 1 would be to cripple it for years 1 to come. If it is kept intact it probably will expand and flourish coincident with any revival of eco g nomic conditions to become one of the outstanding faculties of the nation. That is a vision to strive s to attain. Sociology Honorary Meets For Initiation An initiation ceremony and in l formal banquet was held last ■ night by Alpha Kapa Delta, na tional sociology honorary. The in • itiation was held at 5:00 at Dr. Philip A. Parsons home after ■ which the group went to the An chorage for dinner. Ard Haven . acted as toastmaster for the ban quet. Paul Forman welcomed the : neophytes followed by Madeleine Gilbert, who responded for the in itiates. Zuilleme Tibbets, EXPLANATION: The chairs rear left leg is made of tubing. A hole is bored in the stage and the chair is placed so that the tube leg is over it. An assistant pushes the rope up through the chair leg under the victim’s coat. ILLUSION: Some member ot the audience is politely requested to sit down on a chair. The magician tells him that his coat seems to be bunched i up in the back, and oilers to correct it. Whereupon he pulls out a big t' coil of rope. ITS FUN TO BE FOOLED... IT’S MORE FUN TO KNOW! Let’s look at the cigarette ad ; vertising trick called “Ileal - Treatment.” ' explanation: Ail cigarette to ! baccos are treated with heat. But it is not from “heat treat 1 ment” that a cigarette gets flavor and mildness. Mildness, flavor, throat-ease —all come from the use o costly, ripe tobaccos. It is a fact, wall known by lea tobacco experts, that Camel: are made from finer, more expensive tobaccos than an^ other popular brand. ! Camels have ’given more people more pleasure than any other cigarette. Smoke F Camels, and enjoy the fine deli i cate flavor of costlier tobaccos. > ; KEPT FRESH IN THE WEl-DKD HUMIDOR PACK ..JUST COSTLIER TOBACCOS IN A MATCHLESS BLEND