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University of Oregon, Eugene Sterling Green, Editor Grant Thuemmel, Manager Joseph Saslavsky, Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Doug Polivka. Associate Editor; Julian Prescott. Guy Shadduck, Parks Hitchcock, Francis Pallister, Stanley Kobe.... UPPFP NEWS STAFF Don Caswell, News Ed. Malcolm Bauer. Sports Ed. Elinor Henry, Features Ed. Bob Moore. Makeup Ed. Cynthia Liljeqvist, Women’s Ed, A1 Newton. Dramatic* Ed. Mary Louiee Edinger, Society Ed. Barney Clark. Humor Ed. J'eggy Chessman. Literary Ed. Patsy Lee. Fashions Ed. George Callas. Radio Ed. DAY EDITORS: Rill Phipps. Paul Ewing, Mary Jane Jenkins, Hazle Corrigan, Byron Brinton. EXpCL’JI VE REPORTERS: Betty Ohlemillcr, Ann Rccd Burns, Roberta» Aloody. FEATURE WRITERS: Ruth McClain, Hcnriette Ilorak. REPORTERS: Frances Hardy. Rose Hitnelstein, Margaret Brown., Winston Allard. Stanley Bromberg, Clifford Thomas, Newton Stearns. Carl Jones. Helen Dodds, Hilda Gillam. Thomas Ward, Miriam Eichner. David Lowry, Marian John son. Eleanor Aldrich, Howard Kessler. SPORTS STAFF: Bob Avison. Assistant Sports Ed.; Jack Mil ler. Clair Johnson, George Jones. Julius Scruggs, Edwin Pooley, Bob Avison. 'Dan Clark, 'fed Blank. Art Derbyshire, Emerson Stickles. Jim Quinn, Don Olds, Betty Shoemaker, Tom Dimmick, Don Brooke. COPYREAPEKS: Elaine Cornish. Ruth Weber. Dorothy Dill, Pearl Johansen. Marie Pell, Corinne LaBarre, Phyllis Adams, Margery Kissling, Maluta Read, Mildred Blackburne, George Bikman, Milton Pillctte. Helen Green, Virginia Endicott. Adelaide Hughes, Mabel Finchum, Marge Leonard, Barbara Smith. WOMEN’S PAGE ASSISTANTS: Janis Worley, Betty Labbe, Mary Graham, Joan Stadelman, Bette Church, Marge Leon ard. Catherine Eisman. NIGHT EDITORS: Fred Bronn, Ruth Vannice, Alfredo Fajar do. David Kiehle, George Jones, Abe Merritt, Bob Parker. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Eleanor Aldrich, Henryelta Mummey, Virginia Catherwood, Margilie Morse, Jane Bishop, Doris Bailey, Marjorie Scobert, Irma Egbert, Nan Smith. Gertrude von Berthelsdorf. Jean Mahoney, Virginia Scoville. RADIO STAFF: Barney Clark, Howard Kessler, Cynthia Cor nell. SECRETARY: Mary Graham. BUSINESS STAFF William Meissner. Adv. Merr. i Rill Pprrv CAT err Fred Fisher, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Ed Labbe, Asst. Adv. Mgr. William Temple, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Eldon Haber man, Nat. Adv. Mgr. Ron Rew, Promotional Mgr. Tom Holman, Circ. Mgr. Betty Hentley, Office Mgr. Pearl Murphy, Class. Adv. Mgr. Willa Bitz, Checking Mgr. Ruth Kippcy, Checking Mgr. Jeanette Thompson, Exec. Sec. Phyllis Cousins, Exec. Sec. Dorothy Anne Clark, Exec. Sec. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Gretchen Gregg, Jean Pinney, Gail Huffofd, Marjorie Will, Evelyn Davis, Charlotte Olitt, Vir ginia Hammond, Carmen Curry, Alene Walker, Theda Spicer, June Sexsmith, Margaret Shively, Dorothy Hagge, J’eggy Hayward, Laurabelle Quick, Martha McCall. Doris Ostand, Vivian Wherrie, Dorothy McCall, Cynthia Cornell, Marjorie Scohert, Mary Jane Moore. Margaret Ball. ADVERTISING SALESMEN: Woodie Everitt, Don Chap man, Frank Howland, Bernadine I'ranzen, Margaret Chase, Bob Parker, Leonard Jacobson, Dave Silven, Conrad Dilling, Ross Congleton, Hague Callister, Cy Cook, Harry Ragsdale, Dick Cole, Ben Chandler, Bob Cresswell, Bill Mclnturff, Helene Ries, Vernon Buegler, Jack McGiriv Melvin Erwin, Jack Lew, Howard Bennett. Wallace McGregor. Jerry Thomas. Margaret Thompson, Andy Anderson. Tom Meador. > The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, published daily during the college year, , except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, examination periods, all of December and all of March except the first three days. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class' matter. Subscription rates, $2.5b a year. 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 Avc., Los Angeles; ('all Building, San Francisco. A NEW CONSTITUTION \ THREATENED squabble over unfair tactics at the freshman election Wednesday has for tunately been averted, but the incident serves to point out one of the glaring faults of the A. S. U. O. constitution: There are no regulations to pre vent the type of chicanery lhat was alleged to have taken place, and no punishment is provided for cor rupt election practices. The Emerald has pointed out before that the vice-president of the student body was wasting his breath when he announced previous to the election that any stuffing of the ballot box would mean the disqualification of the candidate whose backers committed the offense. He would have had no con stitutional authority to take this step. This is but one of many weak spots in the con stitution. The faults come to light infrequently, on such occasions as the Wednesday election. It is to be the task of the new constitutional revision com mittee to ferret out these defects and repair them an enormous task for any group of 10 or 20 stu dents. The committee’s work will be faulty and incomplete unless every interested person on the campus gives willingly of his ideas and suggestions on the subject. Now is the time to make election irregularities a thing of the past; it is the time to put teeth in all the regulatory provisions of the constitution; now is the time to make student self-government an actuality, instead of a mere name. The Emerald offers its columns as a foium for discussion on the new constitution. Suggestions are solicited; every student who has in mind a provision that would improve any section of the present out-of-date docu ment is invited to send it in. Many of the sug gestions will be published, in the hope that they stir other students to a consideration of the prob lems of student government. Every suggestion, published or not, will be referred to the revision committee. Out of it all, there should arise an A. S. U. O. constitution that will give student govern ment a new lease on life. THE SETTING FOR, ANOTHER WAR rT"'0 cap their triumph over the Central Powers in 1918 the Allies imposed the Treaty of Ver sailles on a war-weary but ever gullible world. In .1933 there are few who are not willing to concede that the Treaty of Versailles may have some flaws. Europe had its friction points in 1914. Ami Eu rope has its friction points in 1933. Before 1914 attention was focused on the Balkans. Today our eyes are directed toward the Pomorze (Polish Cor ridor) and Austria. Back in the eighteenth century Frederick the Great of Prussia came to the conclusion that East and West Prussia should not be separated. Accord ingly, Prussia's share of the first partition of Poland was the Pomorze. Now Frederick could travel from West Prussia to East Prussia without quitting Prussian soil: By 1919 the Polish population of the Pomorze was still in the majority, but the German minority was not insignificant. At. this juncture the Allies decided to discover what Poland looked like in 1775 and re-created that hapless state. Besides ante dating European maps previous to 1919 the Pomorze has beedme a delicate factor in European politics. For East and West Prussia are now divided. Modern German state .ren are just as determined as was Frederick the Great that the Pomorze must be in Teutonic hands. Resurrected Poland is just as determined that the Pomorze remain a portion of the Polish republic. Poland’s ally, France, is also wedded to the status quo, and would no doubt resent German action aimed to regain the coveted strip of ground. The Polish corridor is a breeder of war. Ger many eventually will tilt with Poland for its pos session. First Germany must find an ally. And allies are not hard to find in jealous, suspicious Europe. Meanwhile German trains must cross th3 Polish corridor, and amateur Polish artists amuse themselves by drawing uncomplimentary pictures of Hitler on the boxcars. COMPULSORY “ACTIVITIES” orrvHE greater number of those underclass women who attended did so under compul sion—the Y. W. C. A. was regarded as a stepping stone to campus ‘activities,’ and houses gave ‘ac tivity points’ for participation in Y. W. C. A. ac tivities.”—from Wednesday’s Emerald. Was it because the activities referred to above had so little to offer that the majority of partici pants had to be forced or bribed to take part? Or was it because of a lethargy on the part of under class women that they had to be induced to enter into the activities? When cognizance is taken of the enthusiasm, freshman women put into such things as class elec tions and some other activities, the last idea is [ abandoned. If it is the first, why are the first and second year women, who have plenty to do in cur ricular activities, led into such outside distractions? The answer is found in the activity-point sys tem. It seems that practically all of the women’s Greek letter organizations have as a prerequisite to initiation certain achievements in academic, so cial and extra-curricular lines and to meet these qualifications the pledges have to devote so much lime to some activity. It makes no difference whether the activity gives to the participant anything in return for the effort expended. She must do her bit for one term. After that little is cared whether she carries on. That is, unless the house has political ambitions for her. If so, she is urged to keep on the job that she may in her senior year bring credit to the house by being a “big shot” on the campus. Such a system is valueless and can even be harmful. It belongs to a day that has passed, and has no place on the campus of a modern university. As one of our favorite professors would say, “it is very vicious, very vicious." On Other Campuses Prodigies us Politicians 'T'HE University of Wisconsin will begin this fall a novel experiment in education provided it can find 10 prodigies of learning. Through a tutorial method, the university ex pects to train a few extraordinarily brilliant stu dents for intelligent public leade.ship. The name of the new course is “classical humanities,” and it will comprise an exhaustive four-year study of Greek and Roman civilization. In addition to being precocious intellectual giants, prodigies eligible for the course must have had four years of Latin in high school. Viewed realistically, this effort to educate stu dents for politics is one of the most nonsensical ever projected by pedagogs. Just how a four-year study of Greek and Roman civilization will fit the prodigies for leadership in the maelstrom of Ameri can government will be beyond the ken of most people, even the most visionary. The Wisconsin professors have made the mis take of confusing the means, and a comparatively insignificant means, for the end. A knowledge of Greek and Roman civilization offers ^ ,,/d back ground for an attack on present-dny problems, but to subject a group of prodigies to four years of study of classical history is silly. They could learn all they need from Greece and Rome in a few weeks of study, and for practical purposes this would not include learning those two difficult ancient lan guages. It will be a safe bet that in four years the Amer ican people will not look to the 10 Wisconsin-trained prodigies to lead them out of whatever morasses they may be in. Oklahoma Daily. Innocent Bystander By BAKNKY CLARK rT'HE freshmen this year are u •*- very bright and ambitious crop. Witness the high-powered election just terminated. Airplanes fireworks, auto parades, every thing but Hose Festival floats, and we don’t know why they over looked that. Just good clean fun: However, some nasty-minded gentleman comes in with the sad tale of the 1*1 K. A. fresh Mho walked in und wanted to vote, only to l>e told that they were just fresh out of Imllots, and wasn't that too had. Other peo ple point to the election hoard und raise their eyebrows in a sinister manner. The same nasty-minded gentle man is responsible for the report that the ballot-boxes were put in a Hammond cat and carted up t< the Igloo to be counted, weighing j ten pounds more ut the end of the ! ride tlian at. the start. Atmos jpherie conditions, maybe! The sanctimonious l*ht Dolts wore all evoltect the other I*. M. to discover that their prize group of pledges, ai| twenty of 'em, had eloped with the Alpha l*hi anti (lamina l’ht frosh and disappeared with great com pleteness. The brothers did some high-class Sherloeking, lint it wasn't until the next morning that they discovered that they had been right next door all eve ning, in the < raftsmen's club. Such a business! Two of lhe cute little pledge.-, Dick Decvers and Chuck Heltzel. didn't show up until DdSO the next A M They claimed '.hat they had ipent the night at the !t. ii. c. a. vve assume mat mere is no connection between this story and the resignation the same morning of three members of the Y. VV. C. A. Cabinet. Anyway, Diek and Chuck took 150 apiece under the shower, and 150 is out in any man's language. * * * The report that Bessie Corri gan's silver spittoon had been found in the Chi O laundry chute has at last been proven unfounded. A base canard, say they! A startling news flash from College Side informs us that MleUex Vail has changed his name to Cynthia Dale. At least, Mrs. Smith reports that that's the way phone ealls intended for him come in. Them's fightin' words, stranger! OGDEN GNASHES Says Ike Donin— “I'll never data Ganuna Flii Beta!” Mho’s afraid of the big, bat! w olf! Ask Crystal Ball • - - - By STANLEY ROBE WASHINGTON OREGON) The New Germany By RICHARD NEUBERGER Editor’s Note: Few magazine articles in recent years have aroused as much interest and dissension oh the campus, as this descrip tion in the current issue of The Nation of Nazi anti-semitic atrocities. The author was editor of the Emerald last year, and traveled through Europe during the summer. He is the first Oregon student to write for the lib eral weekly and one of its youngest contrib utors. It is reprinted by permission of The Nation; because of its length, the article will be divided into four installments. It is copy righted, 1933, by The Nation, Inc. 44 r'kAILY publications fan the fire ” of hatred and bitterness. In Nurnberg a notorious Jew-baiter, named Julius Streicher publishes Der Sturmer, a newspaper devoted entirely to anti-Semitic propagan da. Every Jew who achieves prom inence, among them such Ameri> cans as Governor Lehman of New York and Samuel Untermeyer, is denounced as a murderer and a criminal. Across the bottom of the paper each day is written in black inch-high type: “Die Juden sind unser Ungluck! (The Jews are our misfortune.) Frequent bul letins from Goebbel’s office put more kindling on the funeral pyre of culture and tolerance. "Much else that I saw in the ‘new Germany’ further substan tiates the conclusion that those who believe in liberty are finished in Hitler’s Reich. Jewish mer chants, professional men, and hum ble workers and their families are facing slow starvation. Jewish children live in an atmosphere they cannot understand, in which they are persecuted by their school mates. Jewish families are afraid to venture on the streets; they have no protection, no rights. Jews are barred in many towns from the public swimming pools. Jew ish athletes can belong to no sports clubs, which makes the German efforts to retain the 1936 games in Berlin on the ground that there will be no discrimination, one more piece of hypocrisy. Socially and economically, as well as political ly, the Jews have been ruined. Those who have not suffered physi cal violence are experiencing men tal torture almost as severe. “The fate of those who spon sored the cause of the masses has been equally terrible. Labor-un ion officials, socialists, and liber als have been murdered and their homes plundered. Under the guise of saving Germany from the com munists, Hitler has crushed ruth lessly all ‘left’ tendencies. He pos es as the savior of the laboring man, but the staunchest advocates of workers’ rights have suffered most at his hands. Thus we see the new Germany’ as a land in which a racial and religious min ority has been sacrificed on the altar of political expediency and intolerance, in which democracy and civil rights have been abol ished, from which culture and in dependent thought have been ex pelled, which is preparing its chil dren to be cannon fodder on the battlefields of a future war. ’ But ruthless and relentless as Hitler and his lieutenants are. there is one weapon they fear. The Nazi mayor of a large Ger man city told me his party dread ed economic pressure. At pistol point the storm troopers have forced their victims to deny all stor-ieu of atrocities in an attempt to lessen the indignation abroad. They realize a tight international boycott can kill even the monster they have created. A boycott which shuts out German merchan dise. reduces the passenger lists of German liners, and keeps tourists out of German', . an ; con ’ rite an end to the most gruesome chapter of modern history by dethroning Hitler and Hitlerism. "This is not alone the battle of the Jews—I saw intellectuals, lib erals, pacifists, Social Democrats, almost as badly off. It is the fight of everyone who believes in per sonal liberty and civil rights, a fight for the principles on which America was founded. For that reason it is depressing on return ing to the free and wholesome air of America to find such a concern as R. H. Macy and Company, chief ly owned and operated by Jews, purchasing merchandise in Ger many—because it is cheaper. One of the store’s principal owners is Jesse I. Strains, American ambas sador to France, who ardently voiced his belief in democratic ideals in an Independence day ad dress in Paris. Actions speak louder than words, however. The Strauses might better follow the example of their Christian com petitor, Lord and Taylor, which recalled its buyers from Germany shortly after Hitler inaugurated his reign of terror, and regardless of price established the policy of not buying one pfennig’s worth of Nazi goods. (The End) Reading -and Writing PEGGY CHESSMAN, Editor IF you are in doubt about what to * read or just which books are really good, by all means consult this list of the 40 most notable American books of 1932. They were selected by the American Li brary association, following the final ballots of distinguished li brarians, literary critics, and uni versity professors, i Here they are: Biography “Earth Horizon," Mary Hunter Austin. “Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes,” Silas Bent. “Beveridge and the Progressive Era,” Claude Bowers. “The Life of Emerson,'' Van Wyck Brooks. "The Story of My Life,” Clar ence Seward Darrow. “Mark Twain’s America,” Ber nard De Voto. "Sherman: Fighting Prophet," Lloyd Lewis. “Grover Cleveland," Allan Nev ins. "An Autobiography," F r a n k Lloyd Wright. Science "Nonsuch Land of Water,” Wil liam Beebe. "Thrills of a Naturalist's Quest," Raymond Lee Ditmars. "Man and Metals." Thomas Rick ard. Law “Convicting the Innocent," Bor chard and Lutz. "Society of Nation," Felix Mor ley. Economic and Social Problems “Modern Corporation and Pri vate Property,” Berle and Means. “Farewell to Reform,” John Chamberlain. “A New Deal,” Stuart Chase. “Bolshevism, Fascism, and Cap italism,” George S. Counts. “Rethinking Missions.” “War Debts and World Pros perity,” Harold Moulton and Leo Pasvolsky. “Economic Tendencies in the United States,” Frederick Mills. “The Power Fight," Hilman Raushenbush. “Recent Social Trends.” “A Planned Society,” George Soule. Political Science "Interpretations 1931 - 1932,” Walter Lippmann. "Can America Stay at Home?” Frank Herbert Simonds. 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Many are in the Co-op col lection. Emerald of the Air EMERALD OF THE AIR . Which of these two great ques tions are you pondering over? 1. To read or not to read. 2. What to read ? What to read? Solve these immense problems by sending for our free booklet, or better yet, tune in on KORE at 4:30 today and be enlightened on the matter of what book to read next. Peggy Chessman, lit erary editor, will criticize latest scriblings for 15 minutes via afore mentioned radio station. Mannequin By PATSY LEE I^ORDUROY has passed through the mediocre stage of being just a song, undecorative mate rial which had no earthly good for anything except upperclassmen’s trousers. Today, we find corduroy, both silk and cotton, fashioned in to the most lovely garments! This stiff, ribbed material was one of the most expensive and elaborate fabrics at one time. In fact, the original name was “core du roi", or material of the king. After centuries of complete negli gence, it is now returning to the realm to which it rightfully be longs. Irene B. Bury of Hollywood has designed the most intriguing loung ing pajamas in this fabric of kings. The colors—oh, the colors—are so harmonious that anyone would melt before them. While brows ing through McMorran’s yester day I happened onto an entire section given over to corduroy. These mannish-looking pajamas have huge wooden buckles and but tons for the sole decorations. A brown and cream pair with wide stripes running horizontally across the shoulders just shrieked smart ness and complete comfort. As long as I am on the subject (Continued on Page Three) The Safety Valve An Outlet for Campus Steam All communications are to be addressed to The Editor, Oregon Daily Emerald, and should not exceed 200 words in length. Letters must be signed, but should the writer prefer, only initials will be used. The editor maintains the right to withhold publication should he see fit. To the Editor: The letters of Goodnough and Brimlow regarding Neuberger’s treatment of the Hitler fascist re gime as he encountered it during his recent travels, I feel should not go unanswered. Apparently Goodnough and Brimlow are of the sort who desiccate simple realities until in place of the reali ties they have a collection of phil osophical bric-a-brac. How can the documented testi monies of Neuberger be tossed away as rubbish on the basis that some frustrated woman back in the nineteenth century grew hys terical over the degradation of race here in the United States and emotionalized on the glaring facts; or because a certain British poet told his readers that they must either enjoy or be bored by his writings ? Goodnough and Brimlow’s criti cism is irritating but simply ir relevant to the material presented by Neuberger. Neuberger saw things and wrote down what he saw. He talked to people, not to press agents. He tramped through Germany; he didn’t ride the rub ber-neck wagon. He wanted to find out what was going on amongst the people, not to be lec tured at by museum guards. He went there to witness actuality, not to be “cultured.” The data which Neuberger col lected he has written down. If some hypersensitive souls can read what Neuberger has composed and realize that the experiences re | lated were encountered man-to man, and that those scenes de scribed could be multiplied many fold from every hamlet, by-road, city, and section of Nazi Germany today; and that moreover, the amenities which the delirious ones conjure up to lave their tender fancies, exist as fragments of broken minds and broken wisdom —if Goodnough and Brimlow would deal with these realities as realities instead of worrying about hypotheses they might discover something really tangible with which to occupy their contempla tion. Respectfully yours, RICHARD ELLIOTT BOLLING The Emerald Greets — i JOHN (JACK) HITCHCOCK Who says he doesn't want to be a journalist because brother Parks . . . etc., etc. GEORGE JETTE Whose girl over at Hendricks tells us he is going to be a great landscape architect. Good land, George! JULIA LABARRE DOROTHY ROBERTS HELEN SHIVE This shirt knows your body When you put on Arrow's new form-fitting Mitoga -you'll swear it was made only for you! It drapes in at the waist, eliminating those old-time blouse effects. It conforms to your shoulders ... tapers with the arms. The Mitoga is made possible, first, by Arrow's skilled tailoring, second, by Arrow's own Sanforizing process which sees to it that the Mitoga keeps its perfect fit through a lifetime of launderings. The Mitoga comes in most all Arrow styles, patterns, and collar versions. "Follow the Arrow and you follow the style”