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University of Oregon, Eugene FRESHMAN EDITION Bob Moore, Editor Barney Clark, Managing Editor ' UPPER NEWS STAFF Henriette Horak. News Ed. Ann-Reed Burns, Literary Ed. Harold Brower, Copy Ed. Douglas MacLean, Dramatics Ed. Jacl< Miller, Sports Ed. Libby Crommelin, Women’s Ed. Mary Jane Jenkins, Day Ed. Bob Avison, Asst. Sports Ed. Don Olds. Makeup Ed. John Hollopetor, Typographical Ed. Bob Butler, Asst. Man. Ed. Betty Gearhart, Night Ed. Bob Couch, Chief Night Ed. George Callas, Radio Ed. Ruth King and Roberta Moody, Society Ed. FEATURE WRITERS: Bill Marsh, Ann-Reed Burns, Peggy Chessman. REPORTERS: Marian Allen, Betty Ohlemiller, Peggy Chessman. Ann-Reed Burns, Eleanor Norblad, Ruth Storla, Douglas Maclean, Edna Murphy, Alfredo Fajardo, ! Don Olds, Ruth King, Audrey Clark. Harold Brower, Frances Rothwell, Stanley Bromberg, Roberta Moody, George Callas, Dorothy Ann Clark. COFYREADERS: Edna Murphy, Winston Allard, Boh Thurston, Bill Paddock, John Hollopetor, Ruth Brehm, Frances Rothwell, Libby Crommelin. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Betty Shoemaker, Jean Luckel, Portia Booth. EDITORIAL OFFICES, Journalism Bldg. Phone 3300—News Room, Local 355; Edi tor and Managing Editor, Local 354. BUSINESS OFFICE, McArthur Court. Phone 3300—Local 214. A member ot the Major College Publications, represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 165 E. 42nd 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, cfficial student publication of the University of Ore gon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during the college year. Erifercd in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates $2.50 a yeur. E Tradition OW THAT women have become thoroughly and almost universally emancipated it is high time that some one start a movement to free university freshmen from the bondage of tradition. Freshmen are not, of course, ill treated to the point of actual physical suffering as they were in the days when you had to go to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton to be an all-American, but they are still observ ing traditions founded in that day which have long since outgrown their usefulness. Only a few decades ago a town of 5,000 contributed perhaps four or five men to institutions of higher learning at a time. Today almost a third of the high school gradu ates get there. In the days when a man who had a col lege education, liked golf, or wore a wrist watch was con sidered either a snob or a pansy, there was a reason for green lids and some of the other traditions which marked every freshman’s introduction to his alma mater. Upper classmen clapped a green lid on his head and exposed him to frequent public spankings in an effort to knock some of the high school conceit out of him and to show him that he was a pretty small duck, no matter how large the puddle he happened to be swimming in was. Usually he needed it. Otherwise lie was likely to go home from Christmas vaca tion and treat the local lads to a superior frown when they suggested a game of Kelly pool or something similarly vulgar. Today an education is not an infallible sign that papa’s pants are full of gold bricks and a freshman’s conceit, if he had any, is usually knocked out of him long before the registrar receives his high school credits. The abolish ment of the green lid seems to have met with popular ap proval this year, A college is no longer the playground of the millionaire's son. Many students are financing their entire way through the university. Enforcing students to adhere to purposeless custom and tradition only serves to distract them from their primary purpose in college. Class of ’33 JP3 A few weeks another class of the University of Oregon will accept an engraved diploma and bid a farewell to Alma Mater. But will it be just another class? When these students entered the University they were told that a good job would be waiting for them upon graduation. During the course of their college education an economic change has taken place. The freshman of four years ago who was assured employment in return for his college education is now faced with the possibility of joining the army of unemployed. Students are thinking differently than their school mates of bygone years. A careful inquiry will reveal that the members of today's senior class is no longer character ized by the smug, complacent acceptance of things as they are. He is cynically skeptical of the infallibility of our economic system, lie is no longer awed by the majesty of big business. It is a hard uncompromising world that he is entering. He has none of the illusions of the perfection of the eco nomic system that hinded his predecessor. The study of economies has been to him a vital ami practical analysis of the mechanics of society, rather than an abstract sci ence. But while he sees the faults and weaknesses of our pres ent system, the senior of today is not deceived by the false voices of those criticising and condemning all that is ours, lie is convinced that progress is not to be made by radical changes, but rather by the gradual correction of the pres ent fallacies. It is stimulating to know that the class of ’dll is chang ing its views, and that college education is beginning to make of the student's brain a critical and analytical mechanism rather than a methodical storehouse. Port land, Ore. ~ EITHER the opinions nor policies expressed in the freshman edition are necessarily those of ttie regular administration of the Emerald. It is essentially an edition published by the first-year members of the staff and represents them rather than the Emerald editorial board. The executives of the freshman issue have not been asked to plagiarize the ideas and opinions of myself and my staff, nor have they been requested to adopt new policies. They have been given a free hand in the matter of both editorial and news discrimination and decision. For that reason, the regular staff does not consider itself responsible for what appears in the freshman issue nor obligated to continue policies expressed therein. We as limed a similar attitude regarding the women's edition and will do the nine when the men staff lumbers publish a special issue next week. RICHARD L. NEUBERGEU, Editor, Oregon Daily Emerald. Elsewhere on this page will lie found a list of proposed amendments to the A. N. l\ O. constitution. Needless to say, it is for the welfare of Oregon students to treat them with due coufddcr-dUou. Spring term 1933 is fatal! You talk of the moon, the mill-race, the magnolia blossoms. Andlsay that only the conventional are extreme. A la Lady Lou, goodness has noth ing to do . . . with our looks. * * * * The balloon-like sleeves have been pricked, and the leg-o’ mut tons have gone wherever all good muttons go. We are forced to shoulder everything . . . shoulders have become huge, immense, gi gantic. Schiaparelli has made them to jut out like trays, has padded them and made them to look like the epaulettes of Napo leon's marshals. She has made the silhouette re semble that of some slender and hipless Egyptian king with his enormous collar arrangement, which is broad but out of all pro portion. * » » Lanvin has made his shoulders Gargantuan by the use of folded squares of fur, cut at the elbow, or by quilted crepe or velvet on his evening wraps. * * * The other silhouette of the sea son is created by the bell-shaped coat with the full back. * * * The hat has gone even higher. The flat pancake on top of the wide • shoulders would give you a gnome-like appearance. To meet the emergency, Scharaparelli intro duced the circus hat with a clown’s peak, which appears to top you off with an exclamation point! * * * So far as hats are concerned, however, you can wear any kind so long as it is amusing and so long as you can get away with it. ■M 5l; -Ji In becoming extreme, the main thing to remember is to be ex pensive about it. Our slogan, "Take the cash and let the credit go." An extreme fashion when created in a cheap material is completely ridiculous. * * * If you want to be most awfully smart, wear lots of white pique, whole sets of it: hat, scarf, col larette or cravat, belt, bag, and gloves. One of the most piquant of white fabric hats is fashioned like the doughboy’s of 1916. * • * These bizarre styles all origin ated in Paris, for France is again designing for the French woman. The French franc is backed by one-third of the world’s gold and we have but recently abandoned mono-metalism. The voice of money is a loud and raucous one, but it remains to be seen whether or not the American woman will accept in totality the intricate French fashions. * « * If she doesn't accept them, she will look to some one like Kath erine Hepburn, most strikingly American of the women in the camera’s eye, for something dif ferent. Miss Hepburn’s clothes in "Christopher Strong” and "Bill of Divorcement" expressed the Amer ican woman’s spirit of adventure and sense of charm as have no other garments. They are severe, simple, but naively and flattering ly jcune fille. lit it; “But why talk of clothes, we want rules of romance,” you say. But hush, a woman, you know, should never tell. Here, however, are a few of the simpler ones: 1. A pin given in spring term should he taken lightly. 2. It is no longer considered correct to ask a girl canoeing un til you have more than a casual acquaintance. 3. Don't talk about the moon or love unless you think she is rather simple, and take her home as soon as she suggests it. "Old love, new love, any kind of love but true love.” * * * We select for Promenade: Betty Church, because of her daring white hat; Mary Lee Carter be cause of her striking tenuis frock of blue pique worn with white ac cessories; Jane Pales because of her short and gallant cape with the tray shoulders; George Chris tenson because of his famous "hun ger strikes"; the Millionaires be cause of their theme song, "Bro ther, Can You Spare a Dime"; Bill White because he dressed formal ly for the Mortar Board ball in a white jacket; and Johnny Mans, because of the graceful facility with which he planted his pin so early in the term. i-— -- -1 Emerald Of the Air Tile flush edition offers you a lf> minute news program at the regu lar hour. What!! . . . yeah, 5:fi). A musical presentation is on tap for Monday evening. Howevei. the exact elements of which this bit of entertainment will be com posed have not as yet been an nounced. A twist of the dial will reveal the contents. A twist of the dial will obliterate the con tents if you arc nut . atisfied. At j. lit i Freedom of the Press I (. YOU FROSlV^ C’K DO YOUR STUFF TODAY, rn. going on Y A ONE-day f VACATION/) I * ■ Fault and Flattery.... By BILL MARSH The Fiji tong is all agog. Bob Johnson walked right past a full length mirror the other day and didn't even pause for a short glance. Maybe it was something he ate. How was breakfast this morn ing? We didn't like our's either. & * * A gal I hate Is Sadie Mace; She always trumps My singleton ace. * * # Our platform for today: Stilts for Hack Miller if he insists on walking with Eleanor Skelley. * * * And then there’s the one about the student from dear old Heidel berg who went down to the barber shop to get a good five-cent scar. (O-w-w). * * * Got a good one on Ed Meserve. Seems he went to Portland over last week-end, and while in that metropolis had the pleasure of meeting the mother of the one and only Delta Gamma. When he left, fairly oozing courtesy, he bowed gallantly and said, “Good-by, Mrs. Van Kirk. Be sure to remember me to Mrs. Van Kirk, won't you?” Take a deep breath, Ed. You’ll feel better. # * * Mary had a little pony. On paper white as snow. To every quiz which Mary took The pony was sure to go. • She forgot to hide it from the prof, Which was against the rule, And now our Mary studies hard, in correspondence school. * * * Our idea of a dirty story is the third floor in the Phi Sig house. dim Travis got lost last week end, and no one could find him anywhere, so the police were in formed. During the afternoon of the second day of a feverish hunt dim was found asleep in a loge seat at the state theater, where the "Sins of Love" picture was run ning. We've been wondering about that cutiglitcncd expression on his face lately. * * * Good evening ladies and gen tlemen. This Is the Mousetrap re porter speaking from our studios on the cowcatcher of the Cascade Limited. Wonder what’s caused Herb King to do so much thinking recently? And speaking of mouse traps: noticed Dorothy Austin the other day. Still nosing around. (Get it?) Wonder what Jerry Murphy and Drew Copp were star ing at from the middle of the street outside the Theta house the other night ? M-m-m-m-m That’s an idea. * * * ’Ja hear about the fellow that wanted to borrow a hammer for the week-end? He had some nails and be wanted to go for a Sunday drive. All right, all right. We don’t like it any better than you do!) Donald M. Thompson, of San Francisco, California, who was pledged to Alpha Phi late last term, has been released from his pledge. His room is now open for inspection. No reasonable offer will be rejected. * * * * We really shouldn’t be, too harsh on the poor girl who habitually hides her face before going to bed. She was probably a sorority sirl in college. *> * * A skirt I hates Is Minnie Mulgc. She always prates, ■'I don’t indulge.” Ires i i contrives Dr. L. S. Cressman, professor of sociology, has “rigged up” from a janitor's stool, carpenter’s mate rials and waste, and a store box, a most ingenious photographic and dark room, in a closet in the base ment at Condon where he has his anthropological research labora tory. It is in this room that Dr. Cress man is photographing pictured skulls, and parts of them for use in a publication which he is pre paring. Miss Nell G. Best of the art department is working with him on the diagrams, which are made by a combination of free hand and pantograph drawing. The negatives of these diagrams are clipped carefully and set into an opaque card which has a hole cut in it similar in shape to the clipped negative. This causes the print of the photographed skull to be on a white background and makes it very clear for studying. Dr. Cressman develops his own films as well as preparing them for his manuscript. Junior pledges were voted on at the meeting of Scabbard and Blade, national military honorary society, recently. Those selected will be announced at the annual spring pledging to be held in con junction with a parade of the R. O. T. C. unit within the next few weeks. The list of freshman students in military to be considered in final awarding of the three medals for proficiency in military work was narrowed down considerably. Final eliminations and presentation of the medals is expected to be made at one of the last afternoon pa-! rades. Interesting Discussions Held At Pacific Forum by Experts' Four round table conferences Thursday afternoon and a lecture by Dr. Payson J. Treat, which cohcluded the Pacific Problems Forum which has been in session on the campus for the past three days. In Thursday afternoon's one o'clock meetings! Warren D. Smith conducting the problem entitled "Economic Geography in the Far East," pointed out the influence of the geographical element upon trade, illustrating with figures showing the per capita exports and imports of the eastern countries. By these same figures( he indicat ed the possible market develop ment for the importation of United States goods. At the same round table. A. L. Lomax, professor in the school of business administration, pointed out the geographic characteristics of Asia, Jappm. and Australia, which have affected trade with the United States. John Wade, senior in business administration, dis cussed the exportation of Oregon dairy products to the Orient. Simultaneously with Dr. Smith's discussion, Rev. Clay E. Palmer of the First Congregational tliurch. conducted a round table on "Paci fism and World Peace." He em phasised the necesoity of a new philosophy of life, one whfch would! attack the problem from all sides.1 A distinction between pacifism 1 and passivism was made by Rev, Cecil F. Ristow of the Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. Ristow maintained that passivism, being merely a state of doing nothing did not good, while active pacifism was a means of securing world cooperation and understanding. War, he said, settles no problems, but merely raises new ones. Dr. Warren D. Smith, speaking before Rev. Palmer’s round table, put forth his belief in the neces sity for a complete revision of the economic and business system of! the world in order to secure world | peace. Present business methods, he emphasized, are largely respou-1 siblc for wars. Dr. Victor P. Morris led the 3. o'clock discussion on the “Inter national Efforts at Economic Co operation and Stabilization.'' Lyle McCallum. senior in busi ness administration, gave a report at this session concerning the lum ber industry of the Northwest as it comes into competition with Russian lumber in Japan, China, and Australia. 11c went into fur ther detail showing the effect of the lumber tariff of 1930. and the retaliation tariff made by Great > i i Britain, which excluded American lumber from Australia. Dean Eric W. Allen, speaking at the same conference, spoke on the costs of an imperialistic program. He produced figures which esti mated the amount spent in the Philippines by the United States as 35 millions, and the amount made from the same islands as 20 millions. Dean Allen predicted that the only way the United States would manage to evade war with Japan would occur through extensive work with the countries at the league conferences. Dean Allen sees the United States joining this organization very soon. In the round table on “Interna tional Implications of the Con flict," Dr. Harold J. Noble showed the phases of China, Japan, Amer ica, Russia, and the League of Nations. Toyoichi Nakamura, Japanese ambassador at Portland, presented the Japanese viewpoit on practi cally every issue offered for dis cussion, stressing the fact that only the nation concerned can de termine whether or not it is act ing in self defense or not. At all the 12 conferences, there were enough townspeople as well as a fairly representative student group to warrant a good discus sion. Proposed Amendments rpHE PROPOSED amendments *- to the A. S. U. O. constitution follow. They are run here in ac cordance with the specifications of the constitution: Section 2. MEMBERSHIP SHALL BE OPTIONAL. All registered undergraduate students in the University of Oregon may elect to becqme members of the Association, and such member ship shall be regulated and con trolled as hereinafter provided in this Constitution. But all under graduate students of the Univer sity shall pay the building fund fee as may be regularly allotted, # # * To amend Article I, by adding the following section, which shall be known as Section 3: Section 3. Only registered un dergraduate students who are bona fide members of the Associ ated Students of the University of Oregon shall be eligible to ap pointment or election to the ex ecutive council or any of the com mittees subordinate to that group. Faculty members shall be except ed from the above ruling. All articles, or sections of arti cles, in conflict with the above section are hereby repealed. * * * To amend article II, section 1, to read: There shall be two regular meet ings of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon each year. The first meeting will be held the second Thursday in April of each year, in which nomina tions will be made as herein pro vided. The second meeting shall be held three weeks after the first one. At this meeting the newly elected officers shall assume their respective offices, after appropri ate installation. The secretary of the Associated Students shall cause a notice of each of the above meetings to be printed in the Ore gon Emerald for three consecutive days immediately preceding each meeting, stating the time and place thereof. To amend Article II, Section 2, Clause 1, to read FINANCE COM MITTEE. MEMBERSHIP. The Finance Committee shall consist of seven members, as follows: The comptroller of the University, or his representative, who shall act as chairman; the Junior and Sen ior Finance officers, the Execu tive Woman, the dean of men, one member of the faculty of the school of business administration who shall be appointed by the dean of that school, and one inde pendent, non - affiliated student, who shall be appointed by the di rector of dormitories. The grad uate manager shall be secretary, but non-voting. * * * To amend article II, section 3, to read: Three hundred members shall constitute a quorum. * * $ To amend article III, section 3, clause I, to read: Nominations shall be made from the floor at a general meeting of the Associated Students the sec ond Thursday in April. Elections shall be held on the seventh day following nominations. * * * To amend article III, section 2, clause 1, to read: Candidates for the offices of president, vice-president, secre tary, executive man. and executive woman must have completed at least six terms at the University of Oregon, must have received a junior certificate, and must need at least 30 hours to attain gradu ation subsequent to the term in which nomination takes place. * * * To amend Article III of the By-Laws, Section 2, Clause 1, to read: MEMBERSHIP. The president, of the Associated Students, the vice-president of the Associated Students, the dean of the law school or his representative, the faculty athletic representative of ' the Pacific Coast Conference, who shall act as chairman, one mem ber of the coaching staff to be appointed by the president of the University, the Executive Woman, and the dean of the school of phys ical education or his representa [ tive. In addition the graduate ( manager shall act as secretary ' and shall be non-voting. * * * To amend article III, section 2, clause 2, to read: Candidates for the office of jun ior finance officer must be of j sophomore standing and must have completed at least four terms at the University of Oregon and must lack 30 hours of attaining senior 1 standing at the time of his nomi nation. He shall become the senior finance officer upon the comple tion of his first year in office. To amend Article III, Section 3, Clause 1, to read: PUBLICA TIONS COMMITTEE. MEMBER SHIP. The Publications Commit tee shall consist of seven members as follows: The president of the Associated Students, the editor of the Oregon Daily Emerald, the editor of the Oregana, the secre tary of the Associated Students, a member of the school of jour nalism who shall be appointed by the dean of that school and who shall act as chairman, a member of the school of law who shall be appointed by the dean of that school, and one member of the school of social science who shall be appointed by the dean of that school. The graduate manager shall be secretary but non-voting. To amend Article III, Section 7, to read RECALL. A special stu dent body election, for the recall of any officer of the association shall be called by the president of the student body at the petition of 25 per cent of the members of the Associated Students. At this election it will require a majority of the votes cast to recall the of ficer in question. * * ♦ To amend article VI, section 2, clause 1, to read: The dues of individual members of the association shall be $15, payable $5 at the beginning of I each term. This money shall be I paid into the general fund. * * • To amend article VI, section 3, clause 1, to read: The payment of Associated Stu dent dues and fees shall entitle a student to vote, to receive a sub scription to the Oregon Daily Em erald, and, provided that he is not on scholastic probation, to partici pate in Associated Student activi ties subject to the provisions of this constitution and by-laws. ::: * * To amend article VII, section 3, clause I, to read: Nominating conventions shall be held by the out-going freshman, I sophomore, and junior classes on the second Thursday in April, at which time the president, vice president, secretary and treasurer shall be nominated. •P $ ip To amend article VII, section 3, clause 2, to read: Notice of the aforementioned nomination convention shall be given in two preceding issues of the Oregon Emerald. # # * To amend article VII, section 4, I clause I, to read: Class elections shall be held on the same date and in the same manner as elections of the Associ ated Students. To amend article VII, section 10, clause 3, to read : A class tax of 50 cents shall be collected at the beginning of each term by the treasurer of the Asso ciated Students. However, no pro vision in this article shall be con strued to impair the right of any class to levy such special assess ments as they see fit, providing that such special assessment be approved unanimously by the ad visory committee. * * * To amend article VII, section 11, clause I, to read: The incoming freshman class ! shail hold a nominating conven tion, called by the president of the Associated Students on the second Tuesday after the beginning of fall term, at which time a presi dent, a vice-president, a secretary, and a treasurer shall be nomi nated. * * * To amend section II, clause 3, to read:' The election of the freshman class officers shall be held on the Thursday following the Tuesday on which the nominating conven tion has met. They shall be con ducted in the same manner and subject to the same regulations as are the elections of other classes, except that the vice-president of the Associated Students shall have charge Qf said elections. * * * To amend article IX, section 1, constitution to read: Article VI, section 1, by-laws, to read: Amendments of this constitution may be proposed in writing at any regular or special meeting of the Associated Students, when they shall be read. The proposed amendments shail be printed in the Oregon Daily Emerald on the two following days and be voted on by ballot one week from the date of proposal. A two-thirds majority of the ballots cast shall be neces sary for the adoption of any amendment; provided, however, that there be at least 300 ballots C do t.