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University of Oregon, Eugene VIRGINIA WENTZ, Editor HARRY SCHENK, Manager CYNTHIA LdLJEQVIST. Managing Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Minor Henry, News &n. II izlc Corrigan, Sports Ed. Betty Gearhart. Nijrht Ed. rvutn .MCL/iHin, j^iwrary r>u. Eloise Dorner, Society Ed. Mary Jane Jenkins, Day Ed. FEATURE WRITERS: Ann-Reod Burns, Peggy Chessman, Henrtette Horak, Betty Anne Macduff. SPORTS STAFF: Roberta Moody, Assistant Editor; Claire Bryson, Portia Booth. Edna Murphy. REPORTERS: Thelma Nelson. Ruth King, Mary Lou Edingor, Betty Ohlemiller, RuthMcClain, Ann-Reed Burns, Henriette Horak, Peggy Chessman, Frances Hardy. COl’YREADERS: Claire Bryson, Eunice Elliott, Betty Shoe Maker. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Evelyn Schmidt, Portia Booth, Carolyn Schinck. BUSINESS STAFF Anv. mgr., Manr iwymera National Adv. Mgr.. Auten Bush Promotional Mgr., Marylou Patrick Asst. Adv, Mgr., Gr a n t Theummel. Asst. Adv. Mgr. Bill Russell Ejxecuuvt* oecremry, u\jruwiy Anne Clark Circulation M«r., Ron Rew. Office M«r., Helen Stintrer Class. Ad. Mgr., Althea Peterson Sez Sue, Caroline Hahn Sez Sue Asst., Louise Rice Checking Mgr., Ruth Storla Checkins? M»rr.. Pearl Muroby ADVERTISING ASSISTANTS: Tom Holeman, Hill McCall, Ruth Vanniec, Fred Fisher, Kd Lahbe, Eliaa Addis, Corrinne Plnth, Phyllia Dent, Peter Gantenbein, Hill Meissner, Patsy I^e, Jeannette Thompson, Ruth Baker, Betty Powers, Bob Butler. Carl Heidel, George Brice, Charles Darling, Parker Favier, Tom Clapp. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Betty Bretaher, Patricia Campbell, Kathryn Greenwood, Jane Bishop. Elma Giles, Eugenia Hunt, Gene Bniley, Marjorie McNiece, Willa Bits, Betty Shoemaker, Ruth Byerly, Mary Jane Jenkins. EDITORIAL OFFICES, Journalism Bldg. Phone 8300—News Room, Local 350 ; 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 postoffiee at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. , THE WOMEN’S EMERALD EACH year the women and men vie with one another in the journalistic field in editing an issue of the Emerald. Today’s paper is the result of the co-operation of the co-ed writers. It is fitting that the women should put out an issue during Senior Leap Week to round out the “Co-ed’s Revenge’’ or “Feminine Supremacy." For three days the girl has been the hostess and shown the men a good time and now in publishing the Emerald she has brought to a close a successful week. The Emerald today, however, does not feature women. It has attempted, on the other hand, to chronicle the events of the day with no effort to emphasize women’s activities. It has been the staff's purpose to follow the daily Emerald as close ly as possible. On this basis only could a fair com parison be made. WILBUR E. MINER V*7ILBUR E. MINER, known to the University ’ ’ as the donor of the office building bearing his name, died quietly Thursday night. Last Febru ary the Miner brothers, Wilbur and Henry, pre sented Eugene’s tallest edifice as a gift in trust to the University of Oregon as a permanent endow ment for teaching and research in the school of business administration. Mr. Miner was regarded as one of the Univer sity’s best friends. Through his gift, an income of $15,000 annually is coming to one of Oregon’s lead ing schools. With budgets pared to the bone, in flation of the currency staring us in the face, and no immediate prospect of increased enrollment next .year, a donation of this magnitude is a'God-send. One of the worst aspects of the depression has been its curtailment of education. It is men like Wilbur E. Miner who aid in the efficient function ' ing of the educational system despite depleted tax returns. OBIT—JOE COLLEGE ^TPHE CAMPUS at large has not yet noticed it but it has happened, nevertheless. That lethal agency, Depression, has accomplished the almost complete extinction of the picturesque type classi fied a few years ago under the collective heading, Joe College. * Joe was the subject-matter of untold thousands of younger-gemeratlon-ls-going-to-the-dogs editor ials. He provided inspiration for all those college comic magazines. His escapades were choice copy for the city editor to lay before avid readers, who could righteously exclaim at the frightful laxity of morals on college campuses. Jokesmiths sweated out reams of those co-cd-walking-back-from-an auto-ride quips. Joe's brain content was low, but his alcoholic content was high. Classes were annoying breaks in his day’s rou tine, for most of his time was devoted to impress ing the fair inhabitants of Sorority Row, the rest to seeking dance chairmanships and playing cam pus politics. Or he would lounge about his favor ite eating place, discussing women, clothes, women, football, and women. Cartoonists fitted him out with ti fur coat and a pennant and made him the symbol of the college youth of America. Colleges headed by business men and politicians instead of educators tolerated him even solicited his attendance. If his indiscretions exceeded all bounds of do cency, he was expelled. This pleased the newspaper men. But Joe himself was not dismayed. There were always more colleges. But nowadays, at least, he’s strangely missed. Fathers haven't the money to send their sons to college as a stop-gap between high school and hard work. Fraternities have to some extent been purged of the baneful influence—and for the last two years, the nation over, fraternity scholarship averages have been slightly higher than non-fra ternity. At the University of Oregon attendance has dropped off considerably, but grade averages have mounted. Spring term is several weeks old, yet campus political cliques, instead of being en gaged in feverish activity, are almost dormant. One ticket has been organized in desultory fashion for student body offices; there is no opposition. No body cares much. The majority of students now are primarily interested in getting an education. They’re willing to live on a pitifully few dollars a month to get it. Fifty per cent of Oregon's students are earning half or more of all the money that college costs them. Sound taps: Joe College is gone. He is un mourned by faculty and students alike. Of course, he’ll turn up again when times improve. But for the present he is gone, and college endeavor is thereby on a higher plane. So now there’s another independent state in China. Lwantung, the Japanese and the Manchou kuoans have named it. And as long as it's inde pendent, we can t call it Japan’s entering wedge into China proper—or can we ? “If you wish to win the sympathy of broad masses, then you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.”—Hitler. “It is time to put the ship of state into dry dock and scrape off some of the barnacles.”— Wragg. A petrified turtle was picked up by workmen excavating for the new federal building at Fort Myers, Fla. The city of Griffin, Ga., ended the year with a surplus of cash on hand, a reduced tax rate and all bills paid. “One meal a day is enough for a lion; it ought to be enough for a man.”—Fordyce. "It takes a human being, an artist, to get the feel of the dough and twist a pretzel right.”—Betz. Contemporary =Opinion= Not So Wet HILE the beer tycoons were busy pounding i the spigots into the millions of beer kegs that were soon to be America's legally, college news hawks thought opportunity at hand to gather some timely statistics on the reaction of the college stu dent to the new era of 'light wineg and beer.” Two notable straw votes among college cam puses confounded the prevailing public opinion that the nation's collegiate environments were, rela tively speaking, oases of home brew and hard liquor in the midst of comparative deserts. Both were within the state of Indiana, one at De Pauw and the other at Notre Dame. John Public might have found excuse to hide his surprise when he learned that Methodist De Pauw’s students voted themselves as being personally dry; but certainly we must have been openly chagrined to find that more than a thousand students at Notre Dame stated that they did not drink. More information from the poll taken at De Pauw shows that out of the 1,125 who replied to the question: "Do you drink anywhere near moderately to excessively?” 803 answered ‘‘no.” Four hun dred and thirty-nine favored the repeal of the 18th amendment; 683 were against it. On the other hand, the students voted 641 to 450 in favor of the repeal of Indiana's ‘‘Wright Bone-dry law.” Asked it they would drink if liquor came back, 710 voted “no" and 413 "yes.” Although the co-eds were I naturally inclined to express slightly drier views than the men, in none of the questions was there disagreement or conflict between the two voting elements. The results of these two polls show definitely that the American college student is not the human sponge that many have sought to have him brand ed. It shows, so far as any poll can show, that in the face of temptations to drink which have been just as great as they ever were, he has been cap able ot a degree of temperance that would match that of any of his predecessors. rite refusal to support the out-and-out repeal of the 18th amendment aligns the De Pauw students against the uncontrolled return of the saloon, but the support of the bone-dry repeal marks them as tail-minded people who would moderate their per sonal temperance with a just degree of tolerance for the rights of the public. Purdue Exponent. Advertising Honorary Pledges (iivp Orations Six pledges to Alpha Delta Sig nia, national professional adver tising fraternity, went through pre-initiation ceremonies garbed in sandwich cards and making ad vertising orations yesterday. At 10:50 a. m. these neophyte advertisers favored the audiences with choice bits of advertising speeches on tho steps of the old library. They are: William Meis sner, Ronald Rew, Darker Kavier, Howard Stevens, Puul Townsend, and Tom Clapp. AMOS BURG, EXPLORER, RETURNS TO CAMPUS (Continued from Por/e (hie) “He recalled his talk here at the University a few years ago as a grand flop. He said hi could not compete with tlie rain beating on the tin roof. I couldn't recall that lierlinger hall had a tin roof. 11 said that his recent trip made around the world by airplane cost $40,000, during which time be wrote the "Flying Carpet.” a best seller in many parts of the coun try for the past year. "At the speaker's table sat Stof fanson. Beebe, Wilkins, Bernt Bal rhen. Bartlett, and Hoy Chapman Andrews. Bernt Balchon is a big. blonde, boyish Norwegian, the cap able pilot who flow Byrd over the Atlantic and the South Pole. He came to the dinner in his tuxedo, with neither hut nor overcoat. Al though it rained, he said he could n't afford to buy them. "Bob Bartlett. Admiral Peary's captain when the North Pole was discovered, is handicapped in lec turing, especially before women’s clubs, where his vocabulary is so limited due to the elimination of curse words that he finds it diffi cult to express himself properly. "Frank Buck prowled around Asia for 20 years capturing wild animals and shipping them back to zoo* Just about the time the | zoos, hit hard by the depression, | began to feed their tigers and ele phants to the poor, Frank dis covered that he could lecture. He tells a cobra story that will make j the hair of men like Andrews 1 stand on end. He wrote a book and finally the movies plastered his face over every billboard in America. It was very profitable from an advertising standpoint, but Frank was working on a sal ary and did not share the per centage of the millions the film grossed. Frank is now out in In dia making a second film. ‘Wild Cargo.’ “Movies would be profitable for legitimate explorers if they could' make the pictures and get the money out of them after they pro-j duce them. The scientific angle is! not box office,’ for Hollywood be-, licves that the true, the living.) has uu place in pictures." Mi tor s note The second par; | of the interview will be published iu the neat n.ue >i the Emerald. The Co-ed Rules for a Week-end - By RHOEN YORK More On the < By ERIC W. ALLEN Dean of the School of Journalism rpHE departure of the United States from the gold standard, taken together with the imme diately following request of the ad ministration that a constitutional means be found of transferring to the executive the power to fix the value of money, creates a national and a world situation of extraor dinary interest. I doubt if even the most expert economists will dare to predict what it is all leading to. At any rate, for the next few days the student’s time will be much better spent in reading the daily newspa pers carefully than in reading his regular textbooks. History is being made very rap idly, right before our eyes. Things are being done in 24 hours that would ordinarily take 10 years. At the very least it is all ex ceedingly interesting. To miss the show would be to resemble the French girl who lived in Paris dur ing the French revolution and wrote in her diary every day, but never mentioned anything beyond food, clothes, and neighbors. As to local applications, if this inflation has added to the recent salary cuts, the faculty will soon be going about in nice long fringes, around the bottoms of their trou sers. But on the whole I am inclined to think this dictatorship thing is necessary, no matter whom it hits. By JAMES H. GILBERT (Doan of the College of Social Science) It is difficult to say what effect the policy of abandoning the gold standard will have on the economic life of America. The change in monetary standard, of course, opens up the possibility of unlim ited inflation, but no one can say how far this expansion will go or precisely what form it will take. The first and most noticeable effect will be felt in the field of international exchange and the ex port and import of commodities. The prompt fall in the foreign val ue of American exchange or rise in the value of foreign exchange in the American market ^ ill tend to check imports and to stimulate in some degree our export trade. These effects will last only so long as American commodity prices arc kept down in spite of the deprecia tion of the standard. If inflation takes place, prices will rise and the prospect of profit in industry will again stimulate enterprise. The rise in stock prices is anticipatory anil speculative and has no foundation in realized prof its. It is hoped by economists that expansion of the currency or even of credit will take place under controlled conditions and when prices rise toward the plateau lev el of 1924-1929 some form of man aged currency like the “compen sated dollar" will stabilize the price level and put business more firmly on a dependable basis. In flation must not be allowed to re product' the hilarious times of 1929. with the inevitable reaction toward another disastrous slump. The only cure for depression is repression, and those who are re sponsiblefor monetary and bank ing policy must beep this stubborn fact constantly in mind. The step taken by the Roosevelt administra tion opens the way for a recon struction of our financial system, with perhaps concurrent action of the leading nations of the world L it is later deemed desirable! jold Standard to get back on an unqualified gold standard, resumption should be easy with such a large share of the world's stock of gold in the hands of our banks. * * * By VICTOR P. MORRIS (Professor of Economics) It is too early to be able to say exactly what the administration has in mind in taking the United States off the gold standard, and until the exact moves are known one cannot predict the result. If outright currency inflation is the objective, then rising prices are ahead. These rising prices would relieve debtors but produce other difficulties. This type of stimulus to prices has almost al ways been dangerous. It would lift all prices, perhaps to levels far beyond what is intended, but would not necessarily close the gap be tween the prices, say of farm prod ucts, which have fallen unduly low, and the others. I am rather inclined to believe that the move has been made in order to give the administration an increased bargaining strength in the conversations with foreign powers which begin Friday, April 21. If this is the objective, dan gerous currency inflation possibly may be avoided. i< -— Washington Bystander. . WASHINGTON, D- c ' APril 21 ™ —Whatever else it may mean, the readiness of so many mem bers of congress to vest sweeping farm powers in Secretary Henry A. Wallace represents one of the most remarkable personal tributes ever paid a newcomer in public life. Six months ago the name of this intensely earnest young man from Iowa was almost unknown in Washington. He had been heard of as a farm editor, of a well known family, who had left the Republican fold to help elect Roosevelt. Now he is nominated as final arbiter of agricultural fortune in a vast scheme of control proposed to give the federal government a power hardly dreamed of before. A good many of those in congress who voted for this arrangement still are rubbing their eyes about it. As many said on the floor, and many more privately, they fell into line largely because they had faith in Wallace. Those who had seen him were impressed with his serious, almost evangelical devotion to a new deal and a square deal for the farmer. Those who had not seen him had been hearing much lately about his past performances, and liked what they heard. $ * * The number of senators and rep resentatives who really understood the technical language of the farm bill probably was very small: but they all did understand one sen tence of it. and after they had read that they understood also that the rest of the involved phraseology probably wasn't very important. For that sentence said: “The secretary of agriculture shall have power to provide for reduction in the acreage or reduc tion in production for market. 01 both, of any basic agricultural commodity, through agreements with producers, or otherwise.” # * * Of course, the peculiarities of the times cannot be overlooked in assessing the reasons why the bill rolled up, for instance, that tre mendous majority in the house. The feeling of crisis in the air and the urge of discipline doubt less brought in many votes. Yet when all is said and done, and every discount made, the thing simply could not have happened except for the existence of a very high non-partisan regard for the purposes, the zeal and the judg ment of Wallace. As one house member expressed it privately afterward: “I don’t know what this bill means, except that we are putting agriculture in the hands of one man. I do know that that prin ciple is right and that there are no better hands for the task than those of the present head of the department of agriculture.” * * * The secretary's real test still is ahead of him. He must undertake to do by regulation what succes sive congresses and presidents have failed to do by law. His daily associates know that he realizes probably above all others, that he is starting on a momentous adventure, along that stony trail of experimentation de scribed by the president himself as “an untrod path.” Whether he reaches his goal is another story. The impressive thing just now, for what it may be worth, is the extraordinary at mosphere of trust and respect in which he sets forth. MUSINGS I: By CYNTHIA LILJEQVIST TS7HEN you are caught in the ” graveyard with your girl: “Oh hello, sir, how are you sir, nice night, isn’t it, sit?—Nice moon, too, you say? Oh yes, it’s nice here whether there’s a moon or not. Oh no, I mean the peace, the sublimity. Yes sir, it’s a fine moon to read the inscriptions by. Now look at this one—Johnathan Matthews, 1872, Rest in Peace. Well think of that! Wouldn’t think there’d be much rest here, would! you? Oh no, I mean with frater-] nity initiations and all that, yes all that. That’s what I'm doing now, being initiated.—Graveyards are fine places to think things out, too—you can see your plan of action pretty clearly. (Tousled head appears around stone). Well, well, if it isn’t little Mary. Fancy seeing you here. Picking flowers for the house, you say? Too bad it isn't Memorial day. Maybe I’d better help you find your way out. Glad to have seen you, sir. Nice place these graveyards, don’t you think? Who was it that said: “ ‘Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree’s shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap* Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the ham let sleep.' ‘‘(Anyway, same to you, sir!)” Being caught on the mill race after 10:30: “Yes sir, good evening, sir. You're the caretaker, you say. Well you go your way, I’ll go mine. What am I doing on the race now? Can’t you tell? I’m playing Indian boy, my face’s red, and I’m making my last stand. After 10:30, you say? I can’t un derstand. The evenings are get ting longer, you know. Who am I with ? It’s my grandmother, sir, my poor old grandmother. She has Current LITERATURE THERE has been a quantity of financial, spiritual and intel lectual skullduggery in the last 10 years, and Irving Bacheller be lieves the more said about it ihe better. He has written “Uncle Peel” as a novel rather than a pronounce ment, but certainly he has taken small pains to make an ingratiat ing yarn of it. He has tried to add not to literature but to our knowl edge of ourselves, and he has suc ceeded. At the beginning there are the Gabriel Parkers, painter husband, affectionate wife, adoring daugh ter. They live in Florida because they love it, and live modestly but well. Gabriel cannot keep money in his pocket, but he earns enough so that it doesn’t much matter. Then the Florida boom. There is much money made overnight, and Gabriel has the sense to sell at the top—for, however, a limit ed amount of cash and a lot of notes. He is a rich man on paper, and his wife and daughter are taken up in New York by the People Who Matter. His wife is, as a matter of fact, taken off his hands by one of them, and his daughter marries the wrong— though a very eligible—man. At last there is the world crash, and the wreck of the People Who Matter. Through all the story walks Uncle Peel, an upstate New York banker who picks his way with amazing canniness among the bleaching financial bones about his feet. Uncle Peel sees through Ivar Kreuger as through a fluoro scope, and sees through the dense New York financial fabric quite as easily. So that when, through the benevolent machinations of Uncle Peel, the “true values’’ return it is no surprise to the reader. The book will be small comfort for those who have bet and lost, but it should be a good tonic. to have her air. Yes, it’s an old family custom. We’ve all needed the air for a long time. The canoe’s tied, you say ? Well it was pretty rough and grandmother gets seasick. I’ve been studying the stars. Prof. Norris, my phy sical science prof, told us all to do it and take our girls and teach , them and then everyone would know. Now see that star, it used to be way down there, way down there—look farther. Here we go, grandmother. So long.’’ t i t T T f X Get the | Classified | Habit... | t 1 T i t v Looking for a Place to Live? Need a Part Time Job? t Want to Sell Anything? Lose Anything ? jjf Need Anything? 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