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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1933)
University of Oregon, Eugene Richard Neuberger, Editor Harry Schenk, Manager Sterling Green, Managing Editor ' EDITORIAL BOARD Thornton Gale, Associate Editor; Jack Bellinger. Julian Prescott ' UPPER NEWS STAFF Oscar Munfrer, News Ed. Francis Pall is ter, Copy Ed. Bruce Hamby, Sports Ed. Parks Hitchcock, Makeup Ed. Bob Moore, Chief Nitfht Ed. John Gross, Literary Ld Bob Guild, Dramatic* Ed. Jessie Steele, Women's Ed# Esther Hayden, Society Ed. Ray Clapp, Radio Ed. BUSINESS STAFF Adv. Mgr.. Manr Koymors National Adv. Mgr., Auten Bush Promotional Mgr., Marylou Patrick Asst. Adv, Mgr., Grant Then mmol. Asst. Adv. Mgr. Bill Russell executive ^erreuiry, uuruuij Anne Clack Circulation Mprr., Ron Rew. Office M«r., Helen Stinprer Class. Ad. Mprr., Althea Peterson Checking Mprr., Ruth Storla Checkinir Mirr.. Pearl Miin>hy DAY EDITORS: Boh Patterson, Francis Ballister, Doug Polivka, Joe Saslavsky. Ralph Mason. NIGHT EDITORS—Boh McCombs, Douglas MacLean, John Hollopeter, Bob Couch, Don Evans. SPORTS STAFF: Malcolm Bauer. Asst. Editor; Ned Simpson, Bob Riddle. Bob Avison, Bill Eberhart, Jack Chinnock, and Roberta Moody. Jack Miller. FEATURE WRITERS; Elinor Henry, Maximo Pulido, Hazle Corrigan. REPORTERS: Julian Prescott. Madeleine Gilbert, Ray Clapp, Ed Stanley, David Eyre, Bob Guild, Paul Ewing, Cynthia Liljeqvist, Ann-Reed Burns, Peggy Chessman, Ruth King, Betty Ohlemilier. Roberta Moody, Audrey Clark, Bill Belton, Don Olds, Gertrude Lamb, Roland Parks, Frances Hardy. WOMEN’S PAGE ASSISTANTS: Jane Opsund, Elsie Peterson, Mary Stewart, ami Elizabeth Crommelin. COPYREADERS: Harold Brower. Nancy Lee, Margaret Hill, Edna Murphy, Mary Jane Jenkins, Frances Kothwell, Caro line Rogers, Claire Bryson. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS -Betty Gearhart, Portia Booth, Jean Luckel, Margaret Corum, Carolyn Schlnk, Betty Shoe maker, Ruth Vannice, June SexamUh, Carmen Blais, Eima Giles, Evelyn Schmidt, Cynthia Liljeqvist, Frances Neth, Frances Hardy, Gwen La Barre. RADIO STAFF: Ray Olapp, Editor; Barney Clark, George Callas, Marjorie McNiece. SECRETARIES—Louise Beers, Lina Wilcox. A member of the Major College Publications, represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 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, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during the college year. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. The Emerald's Creed for Oregon ____ “ . . . . There is always the human temptation to forget that the erection of buildings, the formulation of new curricula, the expansion of departments, the crea tion of new functions, and similar 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 leads 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 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 ore to live, must he 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 t 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. 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 Schurs. THE BUDGET IS PASSED Portland. May 9. TJ'OR better or for worse, the stale board of higher education has adopted the chancellor's budget and now' the people of Oregon will have an oppor tunity to see how efficiently $2,278,000 can operate institutions which four years ago required nearly twice that amount. In the boom year of 1929-30 educational funds ware at their zenith, there being approximately $4,850,000 available for the schools. Probably this was too much, but it was not two million dollars too much. Sooner or later the people of this commonwealth will realize that higher edu cation cannot be conducted on starvation rations without there being a severe penalty. The effects of this will not be felt immediately, but will come to light gradually in future generations of unen lightened, dogmatic, uncultured young men and women. Such a picture is terrible. But it is true. Even more disconcerting than this is the fact that not all the appropriations provided for in the recently adopted budget will go to the cause of higher education proper. Among other things, $22,000 will operate a radio station at Oregon State college so that the farmers may listen to the latest prices of cabbages and wheat and cauliflower. Another $43,858 will go to agricultural research. A smaller, indefinite sum will help the inflated infor mational service publish bulletins telling the farmer how to raise more crops so the present over-pro duction crisis may be relieved. In these times agri cultural research is not essential, as witness Presi dent Roosevelt’s recent recommendation that fed eral funds for such work be discontinued. * * * "OUT to get back to the topic before us. If the slate board of higher education determines that ,the state college with its 1,971 enrollment should receive far more funds than the University with its 2,047) registration, that is the board's decision and we will have to accept it. The people of Oregon have entrusted the destiny of higher learning with in the borders of the state to nine of its citizens. We can do little more than abide by their decisions. All we can do is present to the board our views and pleas and let the members of the board act upon them as they see fit. And so we reiterate to the board and chancellor our old, old plea, first ex pressed four months ago at the state legislature: Let higher education be primarily for ttie youth of the tate Subordinate ail outside activities to education proper. Abandon re search, radio and such enterprises temporar ily, continuing them as soon as the current financial exigencies have passed. Spare no institution in this wholesale elimination of extra-eu ricular expenditures. Let all schools suffer likewise in this respect. Devote the bulk of the funds to instruction, the nucleus around which all the institutions function. Consider the faculties above administration and all other units. Make higher education for th< youth of the commonwealth, and serve their interests by maintaining the re spective faculties on a high plane coiumcu suiatc with their intellects and positions. * * * 'T'O TH'K board and chancellor we addle- this -*• plea. We hope they heed whatever logic they see iu it, and .ve are sure they will. Newspaper re ports to the contrary notwithstanding, the budget has not yet run the complete gauntlet of investi gation. In Mr. Eddie Sammons’ carefully-worded motion was a clause to permit the board to revise the budget as it sees fit. This was typical of Mr, Sammons' keen vision. In the first place, it pro vidfcs for any sharp fluctuations in enrollment which might take place in the near future, permit ting the board to shift funds as is necessary. In the second place, it gives to board members the privilege to recommend changes and alterations when they think it imperative to do so. The budget has been passed, but changes there in are not unlikely. Let us hope when they are made that they are of benefit to the youths in our educational system, for it is for them that the Ore gon state system of higher learning was created. And it is for them that it will endure. When all of us lie beneath the land or have been cast to the winds, future generations of children will look to the system for their knowledge and culture. To them we owe a debt. We must preserve the sys tem. Let us fulfill our obligations to them as well as our predecessors looked after us.—R. L. N. GRATITUDE FOR A HIGH HONOR TT^TE WISH to take this opportunity to thank the ” ’ National Scholastic Press association for the very flattering rating it accorded the Emerald in its recent survey. We feel more than honored to have been named for the highest honor received by a paper on the coast. That the association should have been so generous, we are more than grateful. To those who helped make it possible for the Emerald to obtain this high honor, we wish to ex press thanks and gratitude. The many students who have worked assiduously on the paper, Mr. Hall and the members of the press, those who have been our advisors, all are equally deserving of praise. We are delighted that their efforts have been vindicated and cleared of the criticism voiced some months ago by a minority group of dis gruntled ftnlookers. We cannot help but feel that the attainment of the rating of all-American in its class marks a new era in the history of the Emerald and the inaugura tion of a period in which it will exert greater in fluence than ever ovef the Oregon campus. And this in no small measure is due to the students who make up its staff, from copyreaders and proof readers to the editors. A GOOD PILOT DISCARDED "IITE REGRET the ill-advised action of the inter ~ ^ fraternity council in electing a student to the presidency of its body and the relegation of Dean Virgil D. Earl to an advisory capacity. Ill-advised, we say, because it comes at a time when the inter fraternity council more than ever before needs the advice and dignified example of an older man who is cognizant of the situation on the campus. Dean Earl, wc feel, has given to the council the force of his prestige. His leadership and advice have prevented the interfraternity council from many mistakes in the past. With a student head its future conduct has no surety of balance nor discretion. Once this year that body stepped out of its role of arbitrators of fraternity destinies and penned a bitter and vitriolic denunciation of the Emerald and its policies. This denunciation was an attempted retaliation for the Emerald's advocacy of lowered-living cost for students, an advocacy which later was ap proved and encouraged by practically every news paper in the state. In today's Emerald, W. A. Tug man, courageous managing editor of the Register Guard, in offering his congratulations to the Emer ald for its all-American honor rating, points out this low cost living plan as one of the signal con tributions and achievements of the Emerald. But the gentlemen of the interfraternity council see it otherwise; their viewpoint darkened perhaps by the momentous decisions they must make. That their opinion is contrary to that held by the rest of the state does not make them wrong, only different. We sympathize with Dean Earl in his position. We feel that he has been unfairly and brutally dealt with; that he has been given no more con sideration than was the preposterous denunciation of the Emerald. But if this is a fair example of the inner workings of the “holy of holies" of the interfraternity council, perhaps Dean Earl is to be congratulated for a fortunate and timely escape. He can now, without the necessity of assuming even slight responsibility for the grave considerations of the interfraternity council, exert what restrain ing influence he can upon those young gentlemen. Contemporary —Opinion= Yes. We Have No Secretaries O DOUBT it is the well known shortage of trained stenographers, typists and office sec iclaries, .it the present time, that persuaded the state board of higher education to accept Chancel lor VV. J. Kerr's recommendation to boost "secre tarial training" on the Corvallis campus to a four year course with an attached degree of "Bachelor at Business Science" despite the appalling re trenchments that have been forced on the rest of | the educational "system." Employers all over the state of Oregon land elsewhere) are just crying their eyes out to get more secretaries, especially those with bigger and better collegiate backgrounds and diplomas all tied up in pink and blue ribbon. Perhaps there are plenty oi young men and women graduates of the commoner sort of schools who know how to take shorthand and type and how to tell the unwelcome visitor that "Mr. Blaha is in fonccrence.” But, what we need in this country is more sec retaries who know what is wrong with business. Let it be shouted from the housetops so that all i Oregon businessmen can hear. A way lias been found to bring business back! Get a secretary with lots of background, a fancy degree and a dicky sorority (fraternity) pin on the chest, three degrees north by northeast of the point where the diaphragm impinges upon the heart. it that is a threat we face it right cheerfully. But we shall leave it to the harmonizers to explain the expansion program to the rumbling taxpayers of the metropolis and the canyon cabins. They will want to know all about more and better secretaries. They must be told solemnly We laugh.—Eugene Regular-Guard. i Coming Up ... By STANLEY ROBE CAM PUS A Summary of the R.O.T.C. (Editor's note: The following is a report prepared by the Uni versity of Winconsin on the Reserve Officers’ Training corps. It should be of interest to University of Oregon students.) YOUR informal committee ap -*• pointed to study the matter of awarding scholastic credits for in struction in the basic military course, and to make recommenda toins, has completed its investiga tions and submits the following report: The committee approached this problem by analyzing the program of instruction offered by the de partment of military science and tactics, by conferring with the military instructors, and by formal and informal interviews with a number of students and graduates who had 4iad military instruction at Wisconsin. In order that the whole problem may be more readily understood, we wish briefly to outline the courses of military instruction used by the R. O. T. C. The en tire military course is divided into two major periods. The so-called basic course comprises the first two years. The second period of two years is designated as the ad vanced course. The problem of the committee concerned the basic course and particularly that pro posed for 1933 and 1934. The com mittee was supplied with its com plete detailed schedule. This was analyzed in conference with the professor of military science and tactics. Major Gonser, and his as sistants. In making its suggestions and specific recommendations the com mittee was guided by the principle that academic credit should be granted only for work that has distinct academic value and is given in a manner consistent with the university tradition. In con sequence, the following facts were regarded as highly significant: 1. The committee wishes to point out that the proposed course differs markedly from that fol lowed in the past. The change, it is believed, results in a decided improvement in that there is a larger emphasis on subjects which concern general education and in formation. 2. The significant changes in the course proposed for 1933 and 1934 are as follows: * * * In conformity with a new fed eral policy, the instruction has been decentralized and a larger opportunity is given to meet local conditions in the several universi I ties. While the general require j meats are mandatory, nevertheless • the local authorities are free to choose electives and generally to adjust the course to local situa , tions and facilities, in short, there is considerable flexibility, and the local authorities have far more re sponsibility in arranging the course of instruction. The entire proposed course is now a logical sequence of progressive develop ment and as such is based on a I sound pedagogical procedure. The proposed course particularly cm , phasizes the need of leadership so i that the student may be qualified , ..' a future instructor. As examples of changes in the , proposed course we cite the fol 1 loving: Previously. bo hours ol each year were devoted to drill, etc. In the new schedule 36 hours are assign ed to a somewhat similar activity although this has been changed so as to increase instruction in lead ership. For the hours thus made available electives have been sub stituted, which are definitely of an academic nature, such as mili tary history and current interna tional situations, and 16 hours of map-reading and sketching. 3. Your committee sought infor mation as to the content of these courses, inquiring into the method and technique of instruction, seek ing thereby to obtain information as to the non-military educational value of the new schedule. Viewed solely from this standpoint, we be lieve that, out of the total of 192 hours actually spent under in struction in the two years basic course, and not considering any hours spent in preparation, read ing or study by the student, 103 hours or 54 per cent can be re garded as intellectual training and not solely as military in its use fulness. For example, as concerns the first period of 13 lectures cov ering such topics as “The National Defense Act,” “Military History,” and “Current International Situa tions,” we are of the opinion that these subjects offer desirable and general information and may be useful to any citizen. The six or eight hours devoted to “Sanita tion and First Aid is, in our opin ion, educational and, incidentally, is not taught in any other course at the university excepting in the professional school of medicine. Of the six hours devoted to lectures and conferences on “Military Or ganization,” we believe that at least half, if not more, of this in formation is useful and applicable to many every day problems in which the activities of groups are coordinated for some definite pur pose such as big construction pro jects, large business establish ments .transportation, education, supervised recreation, etc. Of the 16 hours devoted to "Map Reading and Sketching” we believe that at least 12 can be credited to desir able technical training. This, we believe, has a wide application. Under the general topic of “Lead ership,” to which in the proposed schedide 36 hours are devoted, the instructional objective is primarily the organization and handling of men. This begins in the exercise of command and responsibility over smaller groups and eventu ally extends to larger formations. It is not designed as a tactical ex ercise for manoeuvre but to give necessary training to future pos sible instructors. In weighing a procedure such as "Rifle Marks manship" and "Weapons" gener ally, to which 15 hours are as signed. we estimate that approxi mately three hours of such time might be regarded as useful gen eral information. The mechanism of the weapon and the physical science concerned in its use arc applicable to other professions than the purely military. * * * Thus the two years of the basic course when weighed in this man ner can. in our opinion, be regard ed as devoting at least 50 per cent of the time to general training that is educational and valuable for civil life. And this translated into actual hours of work fully equals the amount usually required to earn one credit per semester. 4. The methods of instruction and technique used compare very favorably with the practice in the university at large. Progress is checked and proficiency must be attained for any credit award. The committee wishes to make two general suggestions having to do with the relations of the de partment of military science and tactics to the university as a whole: 1. The department of military science and tactics cooperated cor dially with your committee. Some suggestions made by the commit tee were adopted. Our conferences suggested the desirability of more contact between the general fac ulty and the department of mili tary science. We were informed by the commandant that such help would be very welcome. We, there fore, incidentally suggest that the general faculty of the university appoint a standing conference committee on military science. 2. It is further suggested by the committee, and this suggestion is in perfect harmony with the orders of the war department em bodied in the new decentralized program and with the wishes of our military department, that the portion of the work in the basic course dealing with “Current In ternational Situations’’ be so or ganized as to make use of the university experts in this highly technical field. * * * Ill making its more definite recommendations your committee was guided by two considerations which were regarded as of para mount value: First, the course given by the department of mili tary science and tactics is in its aims not unlike the other pro fessional and semi - professional courses maintained by the college of letters and science. Second, each two years in the course, the basic and the advanced, is a single unit, and should be recog nized as such. As a result of its studies, con ferences and interviews, the com mittee makes the following recom mendations to the faculty of the college of letters and science: 1. That the basic course in mili tary science be given a total of four scholastic credits. 2. That the advanced course in military science be given a total of eight scholastic credits. 3. That each two year period be regarded as a unit and that credits be granted only upon the comple tion of each one of these units: that credits each semester be en tered on the registrar's books as provisional until the course, basic or advanced as the case may be, has been completed. * * * For those interested, there is ap pended in outline the proposed basic course with comments on the general educational value of this course. There is also appended a list of some of the larger universities, whose problem is not different from our own, showing in each case the scholastic credits assign ed to basic military instruction. In arriving at its recommenda tions the committee did not take into consideration the federal pro visions or the action o£ other uni versities but weighed the proposed ba_-ic course in military science entirely in the light of its possible usefulness in times of peace; as to whether such information and in struction was useful; as to wheth er it could be regarded as intel lectual training that might have social value. The committee did not take into account its military j objective, although this, in Its judgment .should also be included j because the basic course is pre paratory and an essential founda tion for the advanced course. The advanced course qualifies a succes ful student for a possible • profes- ] sional career in that he is eligible j for a commission in the regular army in the event of vacancies not; filled by graduates from West Point. When such a professional objective is considered there 13 ad ditional reason to grant scholastic credits for fundamental instruc tion. Questionnaire -By BARNEY CLARK =1 Following are the answers to the questions on poetry propounded in the Emerald last week by George Williamson, assistant professor of English: 1. Shakespeare presents this tantalizing question. The bed piques our curiosity, but loes not answer it. That Shakespeare did not publish his plays was not un usual; it was unusual for Jonson to publish his “Works” even as late as Shakespeare's death. 2. This is, of course, raree Ben Jonson, who was buried under a block of blue stone variously re ported as from 14 to 18 inches square; the standing position is thus explained, although it has been suggested that Ben wanted to be ready for the resurrection. 3. The sermon was the most popular literary type during the 17th century, as the novel is to day. One might say that both are frequently concerned with a world in which few of their readers live, but that for “aspiration” the palm | goes to the 17th century. As for t progress, I will only say that many novels mane me giaa 10 turn back to the sermons, where I can find some of the greatest English prose. 4. Poets who went mad in the age of reason and good sense are Swift (for he was something of a poet), Cowper, Stuart, Collins, and Blake; but whether this was the fault of the 18th century I leave you to discover. 5. This old gentleman is Jer emy Bentham, the great English utilitarian, who has been mummi fied so that the Benthamites may pay homage to him each year. Would Carlyle think this carrying materialism rather far? 6. No, you don’t catch me on this one; but the question is being asked by such men as I. A. Rich ards in “Science and Poetry.’’ If pressed, I might answer that I suspect it will turn out not to be a question at all. However, if Og den and Basic English, or Rich ards and systematic ambiguity, are given enough rope, I may be dis appointed. You may think, but can you see and feel Nature as “neu tral'’? Will you one day? Assault and Battery Hitchcock I Campus rumor has it that Ro land (McDougall) MacMasters has been hunting about to find his pants. Too bad. # ♦ & Our suggestions as to the best way to get anything to eat at the forthcoming campus luncheon are listed as follows: 1. Come at 7:30 in the morning. 2. Phone up the ice cream com pany at about 10 in the morning and tell them that the address for their delivery has been changed and you want them to drive to the Eta Bita Pi fraternity or what ever it may be. 3. Eat your meal at the College Side or Taylor’s. We nominate for the Keg club and the famous free pass to the equally famous (or infamous) Co lonial theatre: Jim Dutton, be cause it is understood that he is going in for pigging this term. * * * JEAN. FAILING ANNOUNCES MEET OF CLUB HEADS — (Headline, Emerald) University professors ? 4 « A clipping from a California paper statqs that students will be given a $5.00 tuition refund at the U. of O. Just like California to put optimism into everything. * * * WHOS WHO IN WEBFOOT ATHLETICS (After the manner of Jack “Gangway" Miller). In a little town somewhere in the vast limberlost of Oregon was born Rosser P < adooka i Atkinson some twenty-five years ago. Little did his parents realize what a hot shot he was destined to be. If they did they would notN have named him Rosser. No. not by any means. Many, many years went by. and after shining in everything includ ing moon, little Rosser P(adooka) came to the big university. And was he a shot ? Children, need you ask? And now fans. P.osser Pi Adukai la the big parlor athlete at the r — i Current LITERATURE By JOHN SELBY IT may possibly be that Sherwood Anderson is, after all, best as r. short story writer. Mr. Anderson has been, since his "arrival" a good many years ago, under the blight of being "impor tant." It has been difficult to take his novels at their face value, be cause always there has been the necessity of ferreting out the in ner meaning that would crystallize their content into something of moment. That something of moment has been there, very often. It is an elusive something, perhaps often est merely the embodiment of a state of mind or a psychological impression. Occasionally it is only a long mood picture, or irritation at a condition about which littie can be done. Now comes "Death in the Woods,” a volume of 16 short sto ries, some as good as his race track pieces of years ago, some .very slight indeed. These, too, are mood pictures—the clothing in words of a situation, or a transi tory emotion. But they are short, seldom repetitions as are the nov els. in me rvetuxii mcic 10 uic man who comes back to his boy hood home and does not fit. He does not fit, but he suspects that he i3 missing something important. There is the mood and manner of Left Bank Parisian expatriates in “That Sophistication.” The problem of the artistic urge is to be found in “The Lost Novel,” and the jittery husband who suspects his wife in spite of everything is drawn from life in “There She Is —Taking Her Bath.” “Death in the Woods” is proba bly the finest of the lot, as those who have read it in former incar nations will agree. In it Mr. Anderson succeeds ad mirably in putting on paper the fleeting beauty of a moment, and in suggesting the exact back ground that makes the moment possible. Washington Bystander. . By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON, D. C., May 9— President Roosevelt has been so busy in and about politics since his college days that one is apt to forget that he at one time practiced law in the minor courts of New York city. Yet he did. He saw much of the seamy side of life in the ebb and flow of cases before the bar of what are known as the "People's courts,” which come in closest touch with the mass of mankind. It was perhaps a curious con j tact for a man of young Franklin i Roosevelt’s social and educational 1 origins. Here was an only son of a family running back to Dutch | colonial aristocracy, a Harvard | man with private tutors and grand tours of Europe as elements of his educational preparation. One could imagine his starting out in life in almost any other en vironment than those drab and dingy courtrooms to which the submerged social element bring their daily woes and conflicts for settlement. • Yet in that earliest environment : the man who as president wields today more unchallenged power \ over the destiny of 120,000,000 people than any other American has ever known in peace times | made a discovery that was to be the keystone of his career. It was there, by his own say so, that he found “the forgotten man,” the man who was to make him presi dent. Not that young Roosevelt knew him then by that name, probably. It was just a matter of the awak I ening of his mind to the mass im portance, in any philosophy of government, of the daily grist of petty personal stories, pathetic, laughable, utterly human stories that flowed before the bar of the “People's courts.” Aside from every other element that enters into the striking story of the man who fought his way up from the very sidewalks of New York to a place all his own in American political annals, his ori gin among the forgotten men gives him his greatest popular appeal. Yet, strangely enough, it is an other New Yorker, sprung from the other extreme of the social order, who now stands out as the champion of a new order, clothed with vast powers of performance and backed by unprecedented pop ular support. What can he achieve to readjust the economic balance for the forgotten man? Theta house. That shows what a fine boyhood will do for $ feller. $ $ ON THE POLICE BLOTTER: Jack Cate glaring . . . Bob Leedy getting ready for the big “beer” trial . . . Barney Miller back look ing over the old green pastures ■ . . A1 Luhrs driving the pride of the Fiji busses . . . Bob Sleeter looking for a telephone . . . Spike Powers, the dressing-room flash ■ ■ ■ Bob Zurcher strolling the drag. . .