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University of Oregon. Eugene Sterling Green, Editor Grant Thuemnael, Manager Joseph Saslavsky, Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Doug Polivka. Associaie Editor; Julian Prescott. Guy Shadduck, Parks Hitchcock. Don Caswell, Stanley Robe. UPPER NEWS STAFF Don Caswell, News Ed. Malcolm Bauer. Sports Ed Elinor Henry. Features Ed Bob Moore, Makeup Ed. Cynthia Liljeqvist, Women’? A1 Newton, Dramatics Ed. Abe Merritt. Chief Night Ed Ed. Marv Louiee Edinger, Society Ed. Harney Clark, Humor Ed. Peggy Chessman. Literary Ed. Patsy Lee. Fashions Ed. (ieorge Callas, Radio Ed. DAY EDITORS: Bill Phipps, Paul Ewing, Mary Jane Jenkins, Hazle Corrigan. Byron Brinton. EXECUTIVE REPORTERS: Betty Ohlcmiller. Ann Reed Burns. Roberta Moody, Xewton Stearns, Howard Kessler. FEATURE WRITERS: Ruth McClain, Henriette Horak. REPORTERS: Frances Hardy. Margaret Brown. Winston Al lard. Clifford Thomas. Carl Jones. Helen Dodds. Hilda Oil jam. Thomas Ward. Miriam Eichner. Marian Johnson. Vir ginia Scoville, Gertrude Lamb, Janis Worley, Reinhart Knud Sen. SPORTS' STAFF: Bob Avison, Assistant Sports Ed.; Jack Mil ler, Clair Johnson, George Jones. Julius Scruggs, Edwin Pooley, Boh Avison. Dan ('lark. Ted Blank. Art Derbyshire, Emerson Stickles. Jim Quinn. Don Olds, Betty Shoemaker, Tom Dimmick, Don Brooke. Bill Aetzel. COPYREADERS: Elaine Cornish. Dorothy Dill. Pearl Johansen, Marie Pell, Corinne EaBarre. Phyllis Adams. Margery Kis sling. Maluta Read. Mildred Blackbttrne. George Bikman. Milton Pillrtte, Helen Green. Virginia Endicott, Adelaide Hughes, Mabel Finchum, Marge Leonard, Barbara Smith, Bill Ireland. WOMEN’S PAGE ASSISTANTS: Janis Worley, Betty Labbe, Mary Graham, Joan Stadelman. Bette Church, Marge Leon ard. Catherine Eisman, Marie Pell. NIGHT EDITORS’: Fred Bronn, Ruth Vannice, Alfredo Fajar do. David Kiehle, Boh Parker, George Bikman, Tom Binford. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Eleanor Aldrich. Henryctta Mummey, Virginia Gather wood, Margilie Morse, Jane Bishop, Dorris Bailey. Marjorie Scobert, Irma Egbert, Nan Smith. Gertrude von Berthclsdorf, Jeanne Mahoney, Virginia Sco ville. Alice Tillman. RADIO STAFF: Barney Clark, Howard Kessler, Cynthia Cor nell. SECRETARY: Mary Graham. BUSINESS STAFF William Meissner, Adv. Mgr. Fred Fisher, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Ed Labbe, Asst. Adv. Mgr. William Temple, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Eldon Ilaberman, Nat. Adv. Mgr. Ron Kew, Promotional Mgr. Tom Holman, Circ. Mgr. _ Bill Terry, Asst. Circ. Mgr. Betty Hentley, Office Mgr. Pearl Murphy, Class. Adv. Mgr. VVilla Bitz, Checking Mgr. Ruth Rippey, Checking Mgr. Jeanette Thompson, Exec. Sec. Phyllis Cousins. Exec. Sec. Dorothy Anne ('lark, Exec. Sec. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Gretchen Grew, Jean Pinney, Mar jorie Will, Evelyn Davis, Charlotte Olitt, Virginia Ham mond, Carmen Curry, Alene Walker, Theda Spicer, June Sexsmith, Margaret Shively, Peggy Hayward. 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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, $2.50 a year. DRAGOONISH YOUTH DISCIPLE of pacifism managed yesterday to get close enough to Syud Hossain, Moslem journalist and lecturer, to ask him what he thought of college military training. Mr. Hossain’s reply was unhesitating. “I am opposed to any form of training ’.hat regiments individuals, especially those forms which create a dragoonish youth." Mr. Hosaain’s reply was apparently eminently satisfying to the questioner, for it was promptly brought to the Emerald for publication. And since Mr. Hossain's view coincides precisely with our own, we have consented to give it the benefit of what ever circulation will accrue from reproduction in these columns. We were most interested, however, in those phrases "regimented individuals" and “dragoonish youth." Can it be that Mr. Hossain is ignorant of the fact that the entire American higher educa tional system is dedicated to the purpose of herding high school graduates into college, irrespective of native ability and inclination, and making of them so many Bachelors of Arts? Surely Mr. Hossain can not have spent as many years in this country as he has without realizing that American colleges are as standardized as Chevrolets; that American college students, in the mass, are herded on a factory-type conveyor belt through a four-year finishing process, with educa tional mechanics along the way hammering in a bit of history, screwing on a chunk of science, ap plying a thin coat of philosophy, attaching a modi cum of economics, and so on. And after fo\ir years of this processing, the youth is wrapped carefully in cap and gown, is issued a certificate of guaranty by the head of the factory, and is released on a market glutted with thousands like him. Mr. Hossain may have been perfectly innocent when he coined that word "dragoonish." But if lie has not learned it yet, lie will learn soon the awful truth that in attacking dragoonishness he is hewing at the very roots of the American educational system. THE THREE-WAY RACE IN GOTHAM NOT since Big Bill Thompson ran for tlie chief magistracy of Chicago on his trumpeted war cry, "Keep the King of England out of Chicago!" has any mayoralty campaign stirred such nation wide interest as the present three-way race now being staged in New York City. Former Congressman Fiorello LaGuardia, whom the book "Washington Merry-Go-Round" dubbed “the lone courageous member of the House,” has entered with his Fusion ticket to clean up the city and wipe out the stain of Tammany hall. His origi nal opponent, dull-witted John Patrick O'Brien, would have offered little opposition, but when a third candidate, Joseph V. McKee, entered the race With the stamp of Roosevelt approval, the fight be came desperate. It is quite possible that McKee will steal enough Fusion votes to allow O’Brien to take a wholly unearned victory. Every liberal newspaper and magazine in the country is supporting the LaGuardia candidacy, for LaGuardia’s record is evidence that he will make short work of cleaning up the mess of corrupt trac tion deals, politically mismanaged relief adminis tration, racketeering, and a thousand other evils that can be laid to the political manipulations of i Tammany hall. LaGuardia has never acknowledged allegiance, to any single political party. His support lias come from Democrats and Socialists as often as from Republicans. He attacked every reactionary policy of the Hoover administration, and is now branded by the McKee forces as an unstable "will-o-the wisp radical.” Wl feel with The Nation prat the charge of radicalism wtlFldfc M r * La Guardi .i 'v£?y Tew \ o't'es. for if ever New York needed a radical change in government, it is now. And New Yorkers must realize that they will gain nothing by trading one set of ward-heeling politicians for another; by throwing O'Brien and his Tammany cronies out of the city hall and putting McKee and his former Tammany cronies in. SALARIES AND PROFESSORS ■\7’J^STERDAY the Emerald teok occasion to com pliment two departments of the University upon the excellent rating they have maintained de spite drastic slashes in budget, and upon the note worthy spirit of cooperation and loyalty evidenced by the members of the faculty who, though under paid, remain at Oregon and give the school the high standing it continues to enjoy. Last week the University of Washington Daily carried on its front page an editorial under the pessimistic title "Wa: lington Totters,” in which it was pointed out that Washington’s professors are among the lowest paid in the country. Quo tations .are given from the report of Henry T Badger, assistant statistician for the United States department of interior, bureau of education, in which comparative salaries for full-time professors are listed. The report will likewise be of interest to the University of Oregon, for scrutiny reveals that Ore gon is only slightly higher than Washington in the ratings, and that Oregon full-time professors are receiving an average salary which places this in stitution in the lowest rank in this respect. Here is a list of average salary figures, selected at random from the report; Stanford . $5130 Michigan . 5117 Illinois . 4563 Minnesota . 4250 California . 4160 Washington State . 3200 Idaho . 3170 Montana . 3000 Oregon . 3000 Washington . 2925 It is evident that much the same condition ap plies at Oregon as at Washington. Some phrases from the Washington Daily's editorial will ring strangely familiar to readers of the Emerald: "Un derpaid professors are instructing crowded classes. . . . If conditions continue, Washington parents will soon be forced to send their children out of the state to other institutions. ... A University must be built of men. . . .” Yet Oregon’s condition, we are inclined to be lieve, is somewhat better than Washington's. Ore gon is not embarking upon a million and a half dollar building program, as Washington is. Politico financial meddling, a curse in past years, has been checked and under a reorganized and liberal board of higher education seems soon to be doomed. A University of Oregon Federation, uniting the ef forts of the Alumni association, Oregon Dads. Ore gon Mothers, the Associated Friends of the Uni versity, and the Affiliated Living Groups, gives promise of a statewide promotional program that should have a strong influence in increasing the size of the student body. Most important of all, Oregon’s strong faculty remains practically intact after two years of buffet ing, salary slashing, departmental budget trim ming, increased teaching loads, and, for a time, an almost litter lack of administrative leadership. Few faculty members have been lured by offers of higher salaries in other states, although many have re ceived such offers. Oregon has had as much of adversity as Wash ington, and has gone through experiences that were far more demoralizing. For months the very ex istence of the school as an independent entity was threatened. But Oregon has so far refused to con fess that it is "tottering." The same spirit of loyalty and determination that has carried the in stitution through school-moving fights, legislative butchery and political knifing will carry it on into a future which in prospect seems infinitely more rosy-hued. Contemporary Opinion A Significant Event MONO tne many interesting developments that - *• come to our “downtown ears” from the uni versity every week, perhaps none is more interest ing or significant than the announcement from the campus that Homecoming this year is to be, in so far as possible, an all-city-campus celebration. Even during the cooperative efforts of the: "town" and "campus” during the strenuous months; preceding the vote on the Zorn-Macpherson bill last i fall, there cropped out at times a feeling of distance between these two integral parts of the community. The campus felt at times that the "downtown pro fessors" were taking a little too much responsibility in matters that seemed to them to belong in the realm of university activity. And on the other hand, businessmen and citizens found cause to com plain, feeling that the campus folk expected too much in help from the Willdmette street gang. While to even express in words such a feeling seems to exaggerate its importance, the situation cannot be denied. In fact i? is not hard to find a similar reaction in any college or university center especially where the town is proportionately small. "But why must such a feeling exist?" is the natural question to ask about the situation. And the answer is simply that the city and campus have grown apart. Where are the presentday proto types of Sam Friendly. J. J. Walton. Tom Hend ricks, George Dorris, and a host of others? There are some, found especially in Eugene alumni, who are constantly in touch with university affairs, but far too few for the growttr that has transpired since lire institution's early days. And that is why we herald the Homecoming announcement as significant. It portends a day of I closer association with lire campus, when knowledge! of university affairs will be gathered first hand and not second hand through the few who maintain1 contact. And when Homecoming week-end comes around ikvxi week, mar Eugene citizens feel it is their duty to join in where they have been invited, may Eu-° gene alumni accept a little more of their rosponsi-1 btlity as hosts to returning alumni; and may there grow out of this week-end art even finer spirit of cooperation than has existed heretofore. Here's to Homecoming, 1933, may it be the first of a long teing of " tti-J hMf Ho>i>rcc>m>ijg Passing the Question Forward By STANLEY ROBE H/awToR c^oe snort I Honoraries-Cost vs. Merit Editor’s note: The following discussion of the excessive costs of most college honor ary societies is reprinted from the Purdue Exponent. CEVERAL times each year there ^ comes to issue the old ques tion regarding creation of some new student “honorary" group. Finding hesitancy upon the part of faculty on the point of recog nition, the student "promoters” have been known to become quite rabid. Few needs are more apparent than reactivation of many of the organizations now existing. It is small wonder that permission to create others has been hesitantly given. In cases where injection of new life is not plausible, a com plete and final dispersion would be a logical move. The “local” organizations may claim a right to remain in their present status, even though their major functions through a. rather long period have been only the an nual elections of pledges and offi cers. Their soundest claim for con tinued existence is their low cost of operation and entrance. On the contrary, national honor aries in nearly every case should be made to show some benefits to members in. addition to the doubt ful honor of membership as such. A number of these groups, which must maintain high initiation fees, make a sizeable gross dent in the student pocketbook each year. High Fees Faced It was said that the local chap ters of national honoraries “must” maintain high initiation fees. It should be understood that the high fees are not the choice of local groups, but are a result of forced assessments from national frater nity headquarters. Failure to meet the assessments of national groups automatically invites a forfeiture; of local charter. Numerous defenses of the high expense of ^national offices are j given. Perhaps the most common de fense is citation of the printing of a periodical magazine on affairs of the group. There are few ex ceptions to a general statement that any one of the magazines con sists of biographical material on the lives of a few prominent mem bers, "pep talk" type editorials, and names of new initiates in va rious chapters. Outside of the gen eral spiritual uplift, little material of professional interest is present ed. It would be impossible for such a periodical to present material of true professional interest in any scientific or technological field, for such would require prohibitive j extensive editorial facilities in any single field. The keeping of up to date direc tories ot members and the opera tion of employment bureaus for stranded members should not ne cessitate the establishment or maintenance of expensive national offices. High Salaries I'nnccessarv All material for active chapters, and they represent the only active portions 01 nearly any honorary, could be handled without a full time national office. The need for a salaried group of leaders is in itself a denial of the self-contained strength of the organizations. Kiom a professional standpoint, benefit from one ot the engineer ing or scientific societies, whose student member-hip ?$.- negli gible in contrast with the initiation fees of the honoraries, is relatively greater. Their periodicals cover items of professional, rather than membership, interest. Men or women who intend to en ter any but academic fields may learn from a majority of honorary alumni that a key has little or no aesthetic or intrinsic value two years after graduation, with rare exceptions. The same alumni will classify students who are willing to join the organizations as noth ing more or less than gullibles. This attitude may be neglected if the student wishes only that the hon or of membership last through his collegiate career. It is not unfair to challenge the honor fraternities to produce some more tangible assets of member ship than they now display, if ad mission prices are to be maintained for the upkeep of national offices whose excuse for existence is questionable. The national honor fraternities do not need high incomes for exist ence is proven by a prominent ex ample. Phi Beta Kappa, parent of all Greek fraternities, charges $5 for entrance, and within that charge includes the price of a key. Unified Action Needed The complaint of any single chapter would be insufficient to change the policies of a national group to the point of abandonment j of present high fees. It is not im- i probable, however, that a unified ■ action directed at a national office ! by a majority of chapters would result in substantial lowerings of J assessments now exacted from all; initiates. The fall pledging season for groups represented on the Univer sity campus is not far away. Chap ter officers would be wise to co operate with officers in other chap ters to force a great reduction in present costs of membership. The constitutional spirit of the honoraries is to be commended in every way. An undeniable notice- ; able tendency toward decay in many chapters has been the result of excessive costs than of any oth er cause. If the organizations are to exist as scholastic honoraries, let them prove their value as such by making membership an honor rather than a burden of expense to the student candidate. Innocent Bystander By BARNEY CLARK rT,HESE Phi Psi pledges are a foxy lot. They have at last devised an efficient way of mak ing their presence felt around the house. Wednesday eve they staged a walk-out, and look all the silverware in the house with them. That is, almost all the silverware, for Jerry Murphy made a flying tackle and recov ered 8 forks, 11 spoons, and 3 knives just as the last freshman disappeared into the night. The brothers are now eating in relays with the above mentioned implements, and the frosh are eat ing in the kitchen with nature's own tools; for the yearlings have the booty wel! hidden and refuse to report its resting place. THEY claim that they are keeping it for a wedding present for Bill Marsh, who is threatening to commit matrimony with his ever-loving sweetheart in Portland at any mo ment. Just the same, the broth ers are glad that no sorority is coming to dinner for some time yet! Innocent Bystander is gradu ally working up to a high pitch in the fiancee line. Last week he was engaged only to “Boo” Eton and lost her the next day to a Fiji. Today he is engaged to FOUR actual females, and has an extremely hunted look. The first maiden to succumb to I. B.’s charms was Marion Vin son, A. O. Pi's claim to glory. She was closely followed by Hilda “1 love kitties” Gillam, who refused to be left out of anything her roommate was in on. Betty Graham took the fa tal step because she felt that she ought to atone for Eton’s brutal treatment of B. Clark’s tender feelings, and “Smile” Jo hansen just followed the parade. This unexpected popularity has Classified FOR SALE—Men's oxford gray, single breasted suit. Excellent condition. Size 38. Call Best Cleaners. LOST—Ostrich skin bill fold in students’ stands Friday night. Finder please communicate with Jupe Prescott at 141 or 920. LOST—A Kappa Sigma pin. Re turn to Harlow Davis. . We have a complete line of ARROW SHIRTS McMorran and Washburne You’11 find complete new stocks at Eric Merrell Clothes for Men •THE ARROW SHIRT STORE IN EUGENE" gone to I. B.’s head, and he is | now going around throwing his j chest out four feet in front of him and smiling in a superior manner at the unfortunates who , are only engaged to one girl, or at the most two. The report reaches us via Bun ny Butler that Clay “Peaches” Sherman has a very special girl friend down around Eighth ave nue. w'ho is better looking than any six college gals put together. “Peaches," you will recall, was the best dressed man on the campus last year, per Hurlburt, and is now a leading contender in Sigma Chi’s College Side endurance sit ting contest. * * * OGDEN GNASHES “O. S. C. Spells ‘out’ to me!” “When you said ‘blind date’ I didn’t think you meant it LIT ERALLY!” The Emerald Greets — RALPH L. HOLLIN, one of those 1933 babes. FRANCES TIGGELBECK BEN RUSSELL KENNETH E. GRIMM Reading -and Writing PEGGY CHESSMAN, Editor A SCOOP on Robinson Jeffer’s “Give Your Heart to the Hawks,” a book of poetry expect ed to arrive in Eugene within sev eral weeks, shows the poems to be worthy of all the publcity which has heralded their publica tion. A pessimism throughout the poems might have ruined the sub ject matter had any other artist but Jeffers created them. As it is, they are beautiful in their somberness, full of intensive vigor. The plot of “Give Your Heart to the Hawks” is woven around a murder which culminated a rather gay beach party. After this som ber incident, the major characters are confronted with the problem of remaking the world in which they live, trying to disentangle themselves from the tragic net which caught them. It is a theme which only such a poet as Jeffers could create suc cessfully. With a power that is of ten daring he leads his actors through a life of inner remorse and outer suffering caused by pub lic opinion. A true wife, even in the face of disaster, Fayne Fraser, wife of the murderer, shields her husband, governs him with an iron hand when he is willing to admit his guilt, to confess all. With the cleverness of Portia, Fayne out wits the coroner and attempts to repattern their past, to outline their future. Whether she is successful or not, whether the memory of crime can be erased from the mind—that we will leave to the reader. Many people, not interested in a plot of this kind, will enjoy “Give Your Heart to the Hawks” and the other poems included in the vol ume for, as a native son, Jeffers can not forget to mention his Cali fornia.. Unequalled in beauty of ex pression are his descriptions of the landscapes involved in his tales. Ex-student Visits Campus Hally Johnson of Monmouth was a visitor on the campus the first of the week. He is a former art student in the art department. Mannequin By PATSY LEE T STARTED out for the Delta Gamma hotel yesterday after noon, but unfortunately entered the administration building by mistake. These white-pillared buildings g^t under my skin. With out a doubt, the D. G.’s have one cf the most beautiful sorority houses on this campus. In the first place, an elaborate mirror, which closely resembles a Victorian pier glass, greets the eye upon stepping over the threshold of Delta Gamma. It is luxurious, iavish, and most austere looking. Now, to get on with our work. Ruth Eaton and Evelyn Zentbaur have a most attractive boudoir. Brown and burnt orange are com bined most successfully in .its dec oration. Brown dressers boast ot cute little burnt orange knobs— burnt orange and cream plaid cur tains hang straight from the rod. And the furniture—it is most dif ferent. Dorothy Roberts and Ramona Grosser study (?) in a room called the “Morgue” by their honorable sisters. It is far from a morgue, however, as it struck Mannequin as being the most unique room in the entire house. If you please— a tailored couch of patterned blue glazed chintz with plaits and tight little pillows of the same material, a blue Numdah rug accompanied by two baby rag rugs on the floor, while strings of china elephants peep at you from a black book shelf. A whole series of dog pic tures hangs above a black dresser. Black and blue are the most dif ficult colors in the world to com bine, but they did it, and how! Caroline Rodger’s “Bird-Cage” (all the rooms are nicknamed in the D. G. tong) is a vision in bright yellow furniture and a deep brown Numbdah rug. The “clown” room of Louise Carpenter’s is a kick. Bright ta blecloth red and white checkered curtains hang at the windows, while a bright red and green Kap pa Sigma blanket covers the couch. The furniture is white and red, and a cute little radio nestles on a corner table. Spaciousness — that describes the room of Virginia Proctor’s with its green * furniture, white frilly glass curtains, and bright printed drapes. The modernistic shelves hold a vast amount of knick-knacks and books. Virginia Van Kirk’s orchid and pink study room is the true es sence of femininity. Little cloth puppies recline on the couch, and lo and behold, if they aren’t mu sical! She also has some interest ing looking bottle lamps on her bureau. I could go on indefinitely about the Delta Gamma hotel, but I can’t. There is something to set tle. In the first place, a discovery was made today. That is—there are some intelligent people on this campus—they even knocked me down today about using “we mo rons” instead of “us morons” yes terday. 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