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The Emerald's Creed for Oregon
" . . . . There 1h 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 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 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 Hfo
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 ischttrs.
MOTHERS, AN INVITATION TO YOU
TO you, the mothers of Oregon, who are our
honored guests today, we offer an invitation
far different from any ever before extended in
these columns on Junior Week-end. It is one that
is unique among the many messages which our
illustrious predecessors have penned in the past.
And because of that distinction we regard it a
privilege and pleasure to extend our invitation to
you.
As you know, this is essentially and fundamen
tally an educational institution. All else is, and
should be, subordinate. Thus we do not invite you
to attend the canoe fete; we do not urge your
presence at the dance; we do not advocate your
watching the baseball game; we do not request
you to stand in the reception line at tea. We want
to see you do all those things and enjoy yourselves,
but you have an obligation to look after here, and
we invite you to fulfill it.
Your children come to the University of Oregon
to obtain an education, to acquire culture and
knowledge. Which is why many of you have made
heroic and self-imposed sacrifices that the finances
necessary for your children’s attendance here might
be available. And so we invite nay, urge you
to take this opportunity to scrutinize carefully the
procedure and mechanics of your children's educa
tion. Track meets, luncheons, dances, water carni
vals all are pleasant, but none is essential. If
you have to forsake any of those events to inquire
into the details of your children’s educational prog
ress, Jo so, regardless of what you miss. It will
be well worth your while.
* * *
N this campus are many notable faculty mem
bers, men in whom the fires of leadership and
courage have been kindled for many years. They
want to meet you, they want to inform you of the
progress and attainments of your children. Pro
fessors are not the aloof, crusty individuals the
movies anil Saturday Evening Post would have
them be. They are human beings, with frailties
and weaknesses, even as any of us. And. just be
tween friends, it truthfully may be said that they
would be flattered to have you call upon them.
Do not hesitate to make available the opportunity
of visiting these instructors today. You can l'injl
out from them how your children are progressing,
whether your son is out of place in social science
and should transfer to physical education, whether
your daughter is not finding her niche in English
and should change to home economics.
The members of the faculty have the interests
of your children at heart. They are men who have
dedicated their lives to the education of young
people. So it stands to reason that they will wel
come any attempt on your part to investigate their
work and its correlation to the scholastic attain
ments of your children.
And we also invite you. mothers of Orgon, to
take under your surveillance the conditions under
which your sons and daughters are educated. Look
at the classrooms and laboratories. From those
halls men and women have gone forth to save hu
man lives, to administer justice, to influence public
opinion, to serve their country. And from those
halls men and women will march forth in the fu
ture to perform similar feats. Among them will
be your sons and daughters, your descendants in j
this great game we play.
* * *
IN the lecture halls which we hope you visit
today have sat students who have gone forth to
greatness. In those young people were instilled
knowledge and ideals and courage, and they had ,
the essential character to use those sterling quali
ties. What is true of the past is applicable to the
present and the future. Among the Oregon stu
dents of today are men and women who someday
will make their country's laws at Washington, oth
ers who will hold great editorial powers and influ
ence reaction to those lav/s, still others who will
administer and interpret them.
These leaders of the future are your children.
So take it upon yourselves to visit the Univer
sity today. And by the University, we do not refer
to its activities. We mean the fibre and root of
the institution, that part which existed before most
of us were born. We admire the University’s rami
fications; we like its outside enterprises. But we
arc proud of the University itself. We know you
will share that pride if you accept our invitation
today.
WE CONGRATULATE MISS GILBERT
'■y'O Madeleine Gilbert, editor-elect of the 1934
Oregana, the Emerald extends its congratula
tions. The editorship of the year-book is only more
success in a long list of personal triumphs. Her
personality, ingenuity, and experience make us
feel confident that under her leadership, next year’s
book will be an outstanding and exceptional one.
We are assured by members of the Oregana staff
that Miss Gilbert will have their complete confi
dence and backing.
We commend the publications committee for the
manner in which it solved the perplexing problems
concerning the Oregana editorship. We feel that
committee’s solution was both fortuitous and in
telligent. Miss Gilbert’s selection has gone a long
way to restore campus confidence in the Oregana,
the publications committee, and the executive
council. No honor which any women’s honorary
on this campus can bestow is too high for a person
of Miss Gilbert's attainments. She is deserving
of both praise and distinction.
AS MAN TO MAN (POLITICS ASIDE)
T^TE congratulate the six students who were
* ™ pledged to Friars yesterday. Their induction
into an organization which has been formed for the
purpose of honoring notable juniors and seniors
is an event of considerable significance.
But there was another side to the Friar pledg
ing which was equally significant, but not so hon
orable. On the lav/n yesterday were at least half
a dozen students who fulfilled every requirement
of Friars, but were not invited to. membership.
Some of them were independents, others belonged
to fraternities. Some were athletes, some Phi Beta
Kappas, some newspapermen. All were fine, up
right youths. They are intelligent, have splendid
characters and can live up to the qualifications
which Friars profess to uphold as efficiently as
anyone whom Friars delighted to honor yesterday.
We say this as no reflection on the students who
were pledged. It is uttered as a commendation of
those deserving students who were not taken in.
Yesterday Mortar Board pledged 13 new mem
bers; Friars initiated six. Why the latter group
did not take in more, we do not know. What is
more we do not care. All we know is that there
were at least half a dozen upperclassmen on the
campus who deserved to be pledged to Friars and
were not inducted. Naturally those slighted were
hurt and grieved, but they can console themselves
in that Friars was the loser, not they.
No organization such as Friars can afford to
permit politics, class distinction, personal preju
dices, affiliations or similar elements enter into its
selections. Once that happens, the entire purpose
of the body is defeated, killed deader than Judas
j Iscariot. Equal treatment for all, regardless of
connections or peculiarities, is a principle for which
the founders of America sacrificed their lives. We
advise Friars to consider more thoroughly and care
fully in the future or the honor coincident with
their pledging will be conspicuous by its absence.
We did not agree with the logic in Mr. Mafsu
oka's recent speech here. But his last quotation,
taken from Rudyard Kipling, we pass on in all
good faith and friendship to the Friars:
"But there is neither east nor west,
Border nor breed nor birth
When two strong men stand face to face.
Though they come from the ends of the earth.”
For the benefit of our guests, we have reprinted
the Oregon Daily Emerald plan for low-cost living
tor hard-pressed students. Since its approval from
j many members of the press, we have heard con
i siderable demand for its reappearance. We reprint
it in the continued hope that it may help to main
tain living expenses here on as low a level as pos
sible, thereby making the financial burden as light
as is compatible with existing conditions. We hope
the parents of Oregon approve our purpose.
On several occasions recently the editor has
been forced to withhold from publication bitter and
vitriolic letters wlucn their authors refused to stand
behind. We must insist upon signatures being at
' taened whenever any communication attacks an
individual >r his reputation. We are willing to
stand behind our criticisms and we must expect
our contributors to do the same. Anonymous let
lors ot condemnation and denunciation have uo
place m those columns. The editor.
in connection with Tom Tongue's radical new
platform for a revival of school spirit. Newt Smith
now is selling 3.2 per cent beer at the College
Side inn.
The picture ot a huge black hand, carved on a
t lilt by the Licking river by prehistoric peoples and
made black by vegetation, was destroyed years ago
by blasting for the Ohio canal.
Holiday cruises have become extremely popular
in Croat Britain, with 253 special boat trips aJ
j rt.o.iy .cUt-JuleU tor -pirng and summer mouths.
Our Honered Guests - By Stanley robe
Getting a Job As a Teacher
(Editor’s note: The following article by
Carl W. Ziegler, professor of education at
Lafayette college, in the New York Her
ald-Tribune, tells how the unemployment
situation has been effecting college gradu
ates seeking positions as teachers. It
should be of considerable interest to the
campus.)
rpARIFF barriers in some forms
have a provoking way of gen
erating into unexpected situations.
One wonders just how far this ten
dency may lead in the future to a
modified form of the feudal do
main where a lonely castle on a
frowning mountain side strove to
be quite complete within itself as
an isolated unit with moats, draw
bridges, and forbidding battle
ments.
In the field of public education,
at present, not merely a tariff but
an actual embargo seems to be
developing in regard to permitting
any one but a native of one’s own
community to obtain a position in
a public school system after grad
uation from a liberal arts or a
state teachers’ college. Although
always a factor to be considered
in the locating of beginning teach
ers, in 1932 college placement bur
eaus and commercial teachers’
agencies found that this condition
was becoming very pronounced and
they have predicted that in 1933
it will have become well nigh uni
j versal in cities under a population
of 200,000.
Private schools both below and
within the college field have oc
casionally experienced this tenden
cy. but for the most part their ad
ministrators have consi s t e n 11 y
avoided any indication of favoring
their own graduates for teaching
S positions in their institutions.
Very large cities generally have
introduced the requirement of two
years or experience on me part or
a teacher before his being consid
ered for any position at all; small
towns in the vicinity of the metro
politan areas have followed their
example or because their wealthy
citizens have presented very few
of their own sons and daughters
for entrance into that profession,
j this question has never become a
paramount problem in such dis
tricts.
Moreover, in communities any
where in which strong corporations
control the political fortunes of
the educational world there is us
ually noticeable a conspicuously
successful effort to demand that
educational administration be giv
en a free hand to select members
of their teaching staffs, regardless
of local affiliation, from those best
fitted to carry on their work.
Nevertheless, all prospective
teachers during the coming months
i are going to be forced to face this
situation. It was with the desit.'
to obtain the attitudes of school
superintendents in regard to this
i question, therefore, that recemiy
I over a score of administrators
were requested to state their opin
ions frankly concerning the matter
with the understanding that their
i statements would not be quoted in
such a way as to indicate their
I authors.
There i ■ no unanimity in the
opinions expressed. At present, un
der existing conditions, the major
ity. however, believe that more
1 harm than good results from tak
! mg as a member of a school staff
young men or women who have
profited by no teaching experience
as instructors outside of the sys
tem in which they were once stu
dents. Practically all of them re
late that there is a growing tea
; denev for this to be the case. One
uperinteudent. Uowcvei. in a --mall
school system stated that last year,
of all years, his board passed a res
olution that no natives should in
the future be appointed to teach
ing positions.
Administrators say that rarely
does a school board place on its
minutes any resolution in regard
to its attitude, but that even where
seeming impartial written tests are
the custom, though oral examina
tions or other methods, all except
local candidates are likely to be
eliminated. Bill Morgan’s father
pays taxes in Podunk, therefore
his son deserves a position. Henry
Zimmer played a great game at
halfback for dear old Siwash while
he was in high school, hence Henry
must be brought back to coacn
his old high school team. “I’ve
known Mary Pearce since she was
knee-high to a grasshopper, cer
tainly she should be given a teach
ing position in our eighth grade.”
* * *
The main arguments against
such a procedure are generally ed
ucational, although here and there
appears a suggestion that it is
ease and comfort in administration
that are back of the arguments.
For instance, the individual stress
es the difficulties of handling
teachers where social and politi
cal affiliations are very strong
among members of his staff. As
he pathetically puts it:
“Often I find that some teacher
possesses more power than I do
myself in regard to the issue that
arises. The first thing I know
about a problem is when a mem
ber of a board comes to me and
.... ■ ■ .. ■
demands why I have not been
aware of a certain situation that
exists in a certain school.”
Most objections, however, are
distinctly educational. One super
visor contends that it is very dif
ficult for a native to handle dis
ciplinary troubles as parents and
friends feel, occasionally justly,
that he is taking it out on a pupil
some personal grudge against the
mothers and father. At its worst,
this would be true of the instance
where a teacher told a boy: "Oh, 11
know your parents. They always
were trouble makers and you’re
just like them.” An exaggeration,
you may say, but many superin
tendents could cite somewhat re
lated instances.
More serious, however, are other ,
objections. Such is the tendency j
for teachers to teach in their class
es, the same colloquialisms in
speech, the same peculiarities in
idioms to use the same methods of
teaching, to exhibit almost entire-1
ly the same attitude towards life !
with which they themselves were i
familiar in their childhood days, i
This means inbreeding with a dire
ful effect. One is reminded of the
story of a recently arrived immi
grant who, desiring to learn the
language of his adopted land, ob
tained a boarding place in the
home of a family in the city to
which he had traveled. For sev
eral months he studied sedulously
to speak fluently the language
which he heard, only to discover
later to his chagrin that he had
merely acquired another foreign
tongue.
Unfortunately the greatest of
fenders in the employment of na
tives in teaching are likely to be
those very communities in which
new points of view, new attitudes,
new methods of procedure are most
For the Benefit of Our Parents and Guests
We Present Once More the
OREGON DAILY EMERALD PLAN
For Reduced Living Costs for Hard-Pressed Students.
(Editor's note: The followina plan hos received favorable comment
throni/haut the state, from newspapers and lead ini/ citizens. Its advocacy
has been credited with helpintt to reduce Ikcina casts an the campus to a
certain extent. II e repeat it herein for the benefit oj those who are our
honored attests today. Even shojtld the specific plan which we present not
be adopted, we hope the persistency with which it has been advanced will
help to keep lk‘in<i costs at a minimum, thereby beiiuiino the facilities of
the I niversity within reach of the i/fcatcst number of youths in this period
of financial distress.)
'T'O PRESERVE the benefits of higher education to students fae
-* ing financial problems that prohibit continuance at the Univer
sity under the present scale of board and residence charges and to
offer the opportunity of collegiate training to greater numbers of
students with limited funds, the Oregon Daily Emerald submits the
following proposals for reduced living costs.
Confident that students intent upon obtaining an education will
gladly forego many of the luxuries and conveniences now offered
in campus living institutions, recommendation is hereby made that
administrative authorities investigate the feasibility of establishing
a low cost living program that will provide board and residence at
a cost from $10 to $15 per month.
With dormitory facilities now being only partially used, provi
sion might be made for renting units i such as Friendly and Hen
dricks halls) at bare maintenance costs (light, heat, water, laundry),
allowing residents to perform the necessary cleaning chores under
the supervision of graduate students.
Provide a simple, balanced diet, consisting of the less expen
sive foods, and arrange for residents of the group to perform all
the necessary duties in connection with preparing and serving
meals, except the actual cooking. By diverting a portion of the
funds to food that students now pay for rent in private homes,
students can be given regular, nutritious meals, a necessity many
are now failing to obtain.
The Oregon Daily Emerald believes that scores of students are
ready to make substantial sacrifices to obtain an education, and
will willingly enter into a supervised, cooperative plan that will
permit them to continue at the University at the reduced costs
proposed above. It is suggested that immediate attention be given
this proposal so that definite provision may be made for reduced
living costs-for the ensuing term
needed. It is much more cheerful ]
to recall the anecdote of the well
known dean of a famous college,
who thundered forth that if he j
ever discovered all the members of
a faculty agreeing on a given ques
tion he would at once fire half of
them and enroll 50 per cent of1
those who would have new ideas to |
suggest.
* * *
Some superintendents claim, al
so that individuals teaching in
their home towns take less interest
in their work. They feel that, due j
to a large acquaintanceship, so nu- !
merous are their varied activities, |
many not even directly related to
education, that they often either
neglect their educational duties or
enter tneir classes too fatigued to
carry them on effectively.
Occasionally, they believe that
natives even dare to neglect their
duties and to avoid whole-hearted
cooperation with their superiors,
confident of their power to retain
their positions o"n account of polit
ical influence.
The arguments are not, however,
all on one side. There are many
reasons, especially in these times
of educational trials and tribula
tions, in favor of selecting natives
as teachers which several superin
tendents have mentioned in them
letters. It is argued that a young
man or woman is able to live on a
much lower salary, if he accepts
a position where he can board with
his parents or even more distant
relatives.
Moreover, it is argued, that a lo
cal appointee is likely to remain
as a more permanent fixture in a
community than one who is look
ing forward. to moving, elsewhere.
Even though such a one does re
main on account of lack of ambi
tion or unwillingness to make the
necessary effort to advance him
self, it is felt by some that the
lack of a large turnover of teach
ers adds decidedly to the efficiency
of the system.
One chief advantage, according
to another supervisor, is that a
student coming back to familiar
ground knows very well what to
expect from students and commun
ity. He fits in more quickly with
his situation, he avoids wounding
pet prejudices and prides, he is
more sympathetic with the weak
nesses and peculiarities of his fel
low men.
One very progressive superinten
dent is sincerely convinced that
‘‘so long as these people receive
their teacher training in institu
tions of proper standards outside
the community, I see no argument
against employment.”
At present, the percentage of
such teachers in most communi
ties, where two years of experience
are not necessary for appointment,
is likely to run from 50 to 75 per
cent or even greater. There is a
pronounced tendency for this pro
portion to increase. School boards
generally realize they are elected
by the people and are subject to
recall by the voters. Consequently,
it is improbable that they will re
sist the pressure of their constitu
ents to appoint to teaching posi
tions their sons or daughters or
other relatives.
Various solutions have been sug
gested for this problem, some im
practical, others fully capable of
realization. The most radical is
federal certification by which na
tional civil service examinations
should be held for which applicants
from any part of the United States
would be eligible. Such a plan
would resemble procedures in
France and also in Germany pre
vious to 1914. Even if desirable,
such a law seems quite impossible
of realization in America for many
years.
A second solution is actually fea
sible. This is to lay the responsi
bility for minimizing evils result
ing from the employment of na
tives primarily on the teacher
training institutions and, secondar
ily, on the supervisory forces in a
school district. This demands, how
ever, that in state and private col
leges the political influence must
be reduced to a minimum or entire
ly eliminated.
There is no reason why a young
man or woman genuinely educated
for his profession may not return
to his home town and become a
greater asset to his community
than one coming in as a complete
stranger to its problems. Teacher
training institutions, however,
must face the necessity of elimin
ating from their students all those
who intellectually or in undesirable
character traits are unfit for the
handling of educational problems
in a critical period of American
history. Moreover, they must be
absolutely free to do so without
arousing hostile retaliation from
political influences. The depression
has emphasized the fact that many
more individuals are anxious to en
ter the teaching profession than
are required for annual replace
ments. Quality both in natural in
telligence and in excellent prepa
ration can, therefore, easily be
stressed henceforth, with only
benefit accruing to the public
school system as a result.
* * *
Finally, it is up to the individ
ual aspirant for this profession to
ask himself very seriously wheth
er he should return tc his home
community to teach, even though
the opportunity- to do so is offered
to him. Here again his college
should aid him with wise advice.
He should ask himself whether he
will be more inclined to relax his
efforts to continue his educational
growth among friends and reta
in eo or whether their sympathy
Current
LITERATURE
By JOHN SELBY
IN your mind's eye you see your
self, some spring afternoon,
suddenly telling the office force
good-bye. You fling your coaL
over your arm and, without a look
behind, you disappear into the
country. There you get back to
fundamentals, and live the full
and simple life.
It can be done.
It has been done, indeed, and
by Gove Hambidge, the writer.
What is more important to the
world at large, he has told about
the success of his experiment in
a little book he calls "Time To
Live,” which can be read in an
hour, and which might bear fruit
throughout the succeeding life of
the reader.
Five hours in the morning Mr.
Hambidge works. The rest of his
time he lives, in the broader sense
of the word. Instead of a couple
of free hours daily he has 10, and
the 10 he employs as he chooses.
It happens tha^ he chooses to live
and work in the country, reserv
ing the city for occasional plunges,
as it were.
He has time for simplicity, or
primitiveness, whichever one pre
fers. He raises both vegetables
and flowers, and he tends fruit
trees, most of the year with noth
ing on but a pair of shorts. He
soaks up the sun, he walks and
he builds things.
Likewise, be has time for recre
ation, for games (the less conven
tionalized ones), for sports, among
which he prefers swimming, for
the crafts such as leather work,
for music.
But more particularly he has
time for friendship, under which
heading he groups both friendship
with his fellow man and that
."closest of all fellowships, between
husband and wife.” His family
relationships are made all the
more rich because his wife and
children are sharing with him the
game of living.
All in all, there is perhaps only
one class for which Mr. Hambidge
has no message. It is that whose
interests are hopelessly static,
whose minds are wholly passive.
Washington
Bystander. .
By KIRKE SIMPSON
W/A.SHINGTON, May 12.—(API
” —A definite Roosevelt tech
nique for handling highly contro
versial legislative problems seems
to have crystallized out of the
farm relief and inflation projects.
There is so much similarity be
tween the presidential method of
endeavoring to enlist all active
factions in congress behind his
proposals in both cases that it in
vites attention.
It is to be recalled that Mr.
Roosevelt pledged himself to get
behind any bill upon which farm
| spokesmen could agree. Unable
to induce such an agreement, the
administration cut the knot by in
cluding all the major proposals
i within the scope of the bill it pre
! sented. That practically insured
| support of the adherents of each
j to the bill as a whole.
The key to the situation was
j that all methods were made per
missive instead of mandatory. It
was left to the secretary of agri
culture to select and apply that
which promised the best results.
And to sweeten it to general
legislative taste, the farm mort
gage relief proposals were added
as a new section.
Chairman Smith of the senate
agriculture committee, whose pow
erful support was won despite his
distaste for the leasing and allot
ment plans, likened the bill to a
sandwich with a tasty top slice—•
his own cotton plan and an ap
petizing bottom slice—the mort
gage relief section—which made
what lay between more palatable.
Yet even in this form the senate
debate on the bill dragged out.
And, with time essential if what
ever result the bill might have in
cutting down agricultural sur
pluses and boosting farm prices
j was 1° be effective on this year’s
! crops, the debate turned on cur
rency inflation.
and assistance will actually enable
him to develop more rapidly his
own potentialities. Will he, on th;
other hand, in the long run pro
gresses farther amid conditions
where he must advance through
his own efforts and responsibilities
and sink or swim by his own en
deavors? Strong personalities nev
er have developed amid ease and
lack of difficulties.
It seems reasonable and fair,
therefore, in the present situation
to refrain from a harsh one-sided
criticism of the tendency to em
ploy native individuals in the
teaching profession. It appears
far more wise to emphasize the
possibility of so eliminating unde
sirable candidates in our teacher
pfeparmg institutions that only
competent men and women shall
be graduated from tiieiu.
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