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University of Oregon, Eugene Sterling Green, Editor Grant Thuemmel, Manager Joseph Saslavsky, Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Doug Polivka. Associate Editor- Guy Shadduck, Parks Hitch cock, Don Caswell, Stanley Robe. UPPER NEWS STAFF Lion Caswell, News tLd. Malcolm Bauer, Sports Ed. Elinor Henry, Features Ed. Bob Moore, Makeup Ed. Cynthia Liljeqvist, Women’s Ed. A1 Newton, Dramatics Ed. Abe Merritt, Chief Night Ed. Mary L<oulee luimger, bocjety Ed. Barney Clark, Humor Ed. Peggy Chessman, Literary Ed. Patsy Lee. Fashions Ed. George Calias, Radio Ed. DAY EDITORS: 13ill Phipps, A1 Newton, Mary Jane Jenkins JIazle Corrigan, Byron Brinton. EXECUTIVE REPORTERS: Betty Ohlemiller, Ann-Reed Burns, Roberta Moody, Newton Stearns, Howard Kessler. FEATURE WRITERS: Ruth McClain, Henriette Horak. REPORTERS: Clifford Thomas. Carl Jones, Hilda Gillam, Miriam Eichner, Marian Johnson, Virginia Scoville, Ger trude Lamb. Janis Worley. Reinhart Knud sen. Velma Mc Intyre, Pat Gallagher, Virginia Catherwood. James Morrison. SPORTS STAFF”: Bob Avison. Assistant Sports Ed.; Jack Mil ler. Clair Johnson. George Jones. Edwin Pooley, Bob Avison, Dan Clark, Ted Blank. Jim Quinn. Don Olds. Betty Shoe maker. Tom Dirnmick. B^ll Aetzel, Bob Cresswell. COPYREADERS: Elaine Cornish, Dorothy Dill, Marie Pell, Phyllis Adams, Margery Kissling, Maluta Read, Mildred Blackburne, George Bikitjan, Milton Pillette, Virginia 13ndi cott, Adelaide Hughes, El win Ireland, Nan Smith. WOMEN’S PAGE ASSISTANTS: Janis Worley, Betty Labbe, Mary Graham, Joan Stadelman, Betti: Church, Marge Leon ard, Catherine Eisman. NIGHT EDITORS: Ruth Vannice, Alfredo Fajardo, David Kiehle, Bob Parker, George Bikman, Tom Binford, Bob Becker. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Henryctta Mummey, Vir ginia Catherwood, Margilie Morse. Jane Bishop, Dorris Bailey, Irma Egbert, Gertrude von Bcrthelsdori, Jeanne Mahoney, Alice Tillman, Barbara Beam. F31oi.se Knox. RADIO STAFF’: Barney Clark, Howard Kessler, Carroll Wells, El win Ireland. SECRETARY: Mary Graham. BUSINESS STAFF William Meissner, A civ. Mgr. Fred Fisher, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Ed Labbe, Asst. Adv. Mgr. William Temple, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Eldon Haberman, Nat. Adv. Mgr. Pearl Murphy, Asst. Nat. Adv. Mgr. Kon Kcw, Promotional Mgr. Tom Holman, Circ. Mgr. Bill Perry, Asst. Circ. Mgr. Betty Hentlev, Office Mgr. Willa Bitz, Checking Mgr. Kutli BSppey, Checking Mgr. Jeanette Thompson, Exec. Sec. Phyllis Cousins, Exec. Sec. Dorothy Anne Clark, Exec. Sec. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: (irctchen Creiftf. Jean Finney, Char lotte Olitt, Virginia Hammond, Carmen Curry. Alcne Walker, Theda Spicer. June Sexstnith, Fegwy Hayward, Laurabelle Quick, Doris Osland, Vivian Wherrie, Dorothy McCall, Cynthia Cornell, Marjorie Scobert. AI i V ERTISING SALESMEN: Woodie Evcritt, Ilernadine Franzen, Margaret Chase. Dave Silven, Hague Callister, Dick Cole. Bob Cresswcll, Bill Mclnturff. Helene Kies, Vernon Buegler, Jack Lew, Jerry Thomas, Tom Meador. EDITORIAL OFFICES,_ Journalism I!Mg. Phone 3300—News Room, Local 355 ; Editor and Managing Editor, Local 354. BUSINESS OFFICE McArthur Court. Phone 3300— I-ocal 214. A member of the Major College Publications, represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd S’t., New York City; 123 W. Madison St., Chicage; 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, 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. RUMOIt TF one more well-intentioned but loose-tongued -*• individual buttonholes us and relates in guarded tones a “pretty reliable rumor" that he has just heard that which “might bear investigating,” we solemnly vow that there will be one less citizen in our fair city of Eugene. No single feature of the work of a newspaper man is more annoying than the incessant pestering of that lowest species of the pants-wearing genus, commonly termed the rumor spreader. Wfc venture to estimate that if all the hours wasted by news papermen in chasing down “pretty reliable rumors” were laid end to end they would come pretty close to approximating the distance in light years be tween the Senior bench and the star Arcturus. What is most maddening to the journalist is the fact that only about one-tenth of one per cent of the rumors he hears have even the slightest basis in fact; and the dubious atom of truth which may be present is so buried in the mass of pure inven tion that it is rarely worth the trouble of investi gating. Rumors never have any purpose, end or aim. They are merely the stock in trade of light-witted, loose-tongued individuals who satisfy their craving for attention by winning an avid hearing from other equally idle souls. Ever since the incident of Roscoe C. Nelson’s speech and the ensuing events, this campus has been fertile ground for the germination of weird rumors parading as respectable reports. Such amazing truths were revealed that the campus found itself ready to believe anything, and a veri table epidemic of rumoritia spread with alarming speed. Among the victims have been persons hold ing high positions in thy state, intelligent and scrupulous members of the faculty even the Uni versity's athletic representatives. To point out the vicious nature of such rumors or, by exposing them, to show that they are ground less and transparently ridiculous, would only serve to give them further circulation. Experience has shown that the best, way to nip j a rumor js to laugh at its spreader, scoff at hisi story, and promptly forget the whole thing. We i recommend the method. liACHELOK OF ARTFULNESS . . . “We labor and toyle and plod to fill the j memorie and leave both understanding and conscience empty. Even as birds flutter and skip from field to field to peck up corn or any grains and without tasting the same carrie it in their bills therewith to feed their little ones: I so doe our pedants glean and pick learning from books and never lodge it further than their lips only to disgorge and cast it to the wind.”—Montaigne. "IlfK cannot hope to improve, but we may try * ~ to apply the thought of this fine philosopher. There are, after all, only two reasons why one should spend the four finest years of youth in aca demic preparation: it may be to make ready to teach others, or ii may be to bring a more perfect understanding to one's self of the bewildering ava lanche of events that is the human life. Yet in either of these cases there is no use or logical justification for the highly complicated sys tem of pedantry which comprises a deplorable share of our educational machine. Instead of subjecting their brains to a thorough overhauling during their stay at college, a great portion of our students merely spend their time soaking up a series of pat facts or partially digested thought which they promptly and accurately re gurgitate at examination time. A.- simple as that. This task done, they arc rolled over, stamped with an euucational "O. K.,” wrapped in a fresti diploma and popularly consigned to the company of learned men. What a mockery higher education is if this L an appreciable part of the scheme For unless col lege stimulates the organism of the informed brain into a dynamic, incandescent thing that moves of Its own machinations, it has failed of its real pur pose. The student who leaves coliege unchanged save for an addition of facts does not deserve asso ciation with an institution of real integrity. In a spirit devoid of destructive intent or vaunt ing agnosticism, we offer the following for consid eration : Everyone deplores the outlandish and senseless practice of "cramming” for examinations, which sends the student to the test dripping with recently and liberally acquired information which evaporates in a few hours, but sometimes lasts long enough ; for him to dump it on paper and make an impres I sion. But—are any of our educational activities more I than thorough cramming, for which there is no I examination in real life where it will profit him? j Does not he go out to fac o a half-century of exam ination in which more is required for passing than a vast encyclopediac warehouse ? ^ We wish to state that no criticism is intended for the group which makes up the great majority of sincere, reputable educators. We have, we be lieve, spoken for them, not against them, in pro pounding what we believe to be the doctrine of genuine education. But we charge the system of education with vulnerable parts which are allowing the whole to be weakened, and the reputation of the college de gree to be seriously damaged. We charge, in short, the serious possibility of graduating from college with a high-school mind. AN ASSEMBLY HALL 'T'HE University may feel fairly well assured of the success of its pleas for an adequate infirm ary and a central library, and these two buildings are undoubtedly the major needs of the institution at present. But every time a distinguished speaker, such as Dudley Crafts Watson, appears to address the stu dent body, he must make his talk in a gymnasium. He i3 confronted by an especially tinny address system which serves largely to distort his voice to all corners of the hall. The audience must sit on uncomfortable folding chairs. Consider the impression such surroundings must make on the guest speaker. Overhead dangles unsightly athletic equipment. The floor creaks ominously as the inevitable late comers arrive. The audience quickly becomes restless on the hard seats. The speaker moves an inch too close to the micro phone and his voice squawks like nothing human. He moves too far away and he is afraid the faulty acoustics will render his words inaudible. The need for a new assembly place is not as urgent as the need for a library, but certainly the need exists. It should be so designed that an ad dress system is not necessary, and it should be equipped with reasonably comfortable seating pro visions. ’it will probably be years before such a project can become a reality, but at least the need should be recognized and administrative authorities should be looking forward to the time when it may be filled. Headline in the Oregon Journal says, “Scot's Shout at King Stuns Parliament.” We wonder if parliament was stunned more because the Scotch man did something for nothing than it was because he shouted at the king. At Fordham university it appears that the fac ulty are appointed by name. Father Deane is dean, a Father Whalen acts as dean of discipline, Mr. Shouten is in charge of debating, and Mr. Voekal (pronounced vocal) is in charge of the glee club. Contemporary Opinion Oh—Forget It! 'T'HIS office has been deluged by football alibis, ever since the crushing defeat of Oregon at the \ hands of the Trojans on Saturday. There are as j many alibis fluttering about as there are football fans, which includes the major portion of the popu lation. Perfectly natural of course, but also foolish. Football is the most uncertain game in the sporting world. That is one reason why it is so fascinating. Between two teams, at all evenly matched, any thing may happen, and the final result is seldom known, until the final whistle. As a result it is as futile to waste time alibi ing a defeat, as unduly extending the celebration of a victory. For nine times out of ten Lady Luck had a lot to do with both. Far better to take both in stride and transfer one's interest and attention to the next contest. * * * * * That as a general rule, is what the football play ers do. Being human they are downcast by a beat ing and bouyed up by victory; but once either has happened, they proceed to forget it, and concentrate on the next hurdle. That's what the Oregon players are doing now. They arc getting ready for the game with St. Mary’s, Thanksgiving. And the Southern Califor-j nians are getting ready for Notre Dame. It was tough to lose and sweet to win, but that's "all in the day’s work" on Monday morning. A similar philosophy might well be adopted by; the football fans. But the truth is the fans take football more seriously than the players, at least as far as the results are concerned, in fact foot ball is not so much overstressed on the football field, as in the grandstand; not so much within the team as outside it. As above stated this is all natural enough. Non combatants are invariably the most combative: the j “blood thirstiest" warrior is not in the trenches, but is fighting with his imagination before the club fire. But a little toning down on the alibi business would lie in order. Oregon played great football in the first half, and with a few "breaks" instead of none in the second, the result might have been very different. But that is always true. In fact that is football. The thing to do about a football game that is over is to "forget it." Speculations, with their "it's" and "buts", should be left to the next game, or if the season is over to the next year. This is better sportsmanship, better sense, and , better for the greate"-! outdoor "ame that the mind of man ha-, ever mvented. -Medford Mail 1'ribuue. j It’s Time to Come Down By STANLEY ROBE An Artist in Oregon’s Treasure House By ELINOR HENRY riVE perfect things that man A has done—the sculptures of Phidias, the music of Beethoven, the plays of Shakespeare, the por traits of Jan van Eyck, and wood block prints of Hokusai—these were praised by Dudley Crafts Watson, American artist and speaker at yesterday morning’s assembly. “And here is a whole room full of them!” he exclaimed as he stood in the room devoted to the Japanese prints made by Hokusai which are only a part of the many in the Murray Warner collection of Oriental art., “I could spend a whofe day here,” he said, his ex pression showing the pleasure it would be to him, then added, in a more scholarly tone, “a whole day —with profit.” It was comforting—after seven or more information-seeking and beauty-imbibing trips to the mu seum—to know that even a na-1 tionally famous lecturer on art; could find few words to express I his ecstasy at each group of ob- j I jects in Oregon’s “treasure house.” | Over and over he used superla j tives and such adjectives as “beau tiful, lovely, exquisite, marvel out.” He called a tomb-figure •horse “the best I have ever seen.” Of a tall Chinese painting he ex claimed, “That’s the most beauti ful one I have ever seen.” The magnificent throne room held him spellbound. He praised the care in arrangment of exhibits shown by Mrs. Gertrude B. War ner, museum director, who was his guide through the collection. He asked innumerable questions about lighting and other protective steps taken by Mrs. Warner, saying en thusiastically, “You are years ahead of your time.” The large number of rare Chi nese paintings particularly inter ested him. “Do you know,” he said in a half-questioning tone, “there are only four real Chinese paint ings in all of the Chicago Art In stitute.” Watson and Mrs. Warner found a mutual ’ friend in Helen Hyde, American artist, whose original I water color paintings adorn the i I walls of one small room in the Prince Lucien Campbell memorial building. The battered stone “God of Mer cy” which stands in the hall of the second floor attracted consid erable attention from the man who was official lecturer for the fine arts department of the Cen tury of Progress exposition in Chi cago this summer. Mrs. Warner told how the statue was unearthed by famine-stricken workers paid with Red Cross funds who were building a road where an earth quake had caused a landslide in 900. She regretted the pitiable state of the gentleman’s nose ,but Watson agreed with her that it was better to leave the idol as it was, rather than attempting re pairs. “A Japanese print in every school room,” this is the unique plan for building friendly rela tions suggested by Mrs. Warner's guest. He was warm in his approv al of the museum as a peace pro ject as well as a splendid collec tion of the finest of Oriental art. Reading -and Writing PEGGY CHESSMAN, Editor be in doubt about (^HOULD you the wisdom of some of our rec ommendations, select your reading material from the suggestions of William Lyon Phelps, Yale profes sor, author, and critic. He lists 100 books which he deems are out standing in all the literature pub-1 lished since July, 1932. Here are some of the fiction books he mentions: “Obscure Des tinies,” by Willa Gather; “Human Nature,” by Edith Wharton: "Hu man Beings,” by Christopher Mor ley: “The Bulpington of Blup," by H. G. Wells; “Jenny Wren,” by E. i H. Young; "Hardy Perennial," by ( Helen Hull; “Imitation of Life,” by Fannie Hurst; “Papa La Fleur,” by Zona Gale; “Pageant,” by G. B, Lancaster; “Valiant Dust,” by P. C. Wren; “The Sheltered Life,” by Ellen Glasgow; “The Burning Bush,” by Sigrid Undset; “Family Affair,” by Lillian Gill; “God’s Angry Man,” by Leonard Ehrlich; “The Flowering Wilderness," by John Galsworthy; “Forgive Us Our Trespasses," by Lloyd Doug las; “Mother and Four,” by Isabel Wilder; "Ann Vickers,” by Sin clair Lewis; “The Narrow Cor ner,” by Somerset Maugham; and "Never Ask the End," by Isabel Paterson, “Zest," by Charles G. Norris, al though a novel, gives an excellent and powerful picture of man as a polygamous animal. Bob Gillespie, hero of the story, advances the the ory that marriage for life is a mistake, and the readers will sympathize with him for a time, for his life is made exceedingly miserable bv an unhappy marriage Innocent Bystander By BARNEY CLARK 'T'HE old-fashioned party lino tel-' 1 ephone has a rival in the Em erald's system. Five (count ’em) people listened in on Janis Wor ley's verbal tete-a-tete with Mike Miktilak. After speaking to an audience like that Mike should have no hesitation in getting up and addressing a rally crowd! Incidentally, it has been whis pered that “Michael Mikulak" means "Santa Claus" in Slovak ian. He looks like that to Cal lison. anyway! Dr. Conklin, of the psychology Conklins, produced a mild sensa tion in his class the other day when he raised a map that covered the blackboard and revealed, print ed in LARGE letters, the phrase "Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More!" The class assumed that he was trying to test their reac tions. but the good doctor was as surprised as they were! Ike “Lenny" Doom was per turbed !he other day up".' te eming a letter which began: “How is my darling HUBBY this morning?” It was postmarked “Seattle,” and Ike is in somewhat of a quandary, as he cannot remem ber clearly exactly WHAT hap pened in Seattle after the Wash ington game. Five S. A. E.'s were on the in jured list after the football epic' with the Sigma Chis. They wore more padding, too. S. P. T. is, next on the list for the White ( Cross men, and it looks like a busy, day for the dispensary. Hasn't Prink overlooked something? Ed Goodnottgh is thinking of writing a burning letter to the editor, scoring the lack of spirit on the part of Oregon coeds, who, so far. have not produced a single feminine prowler to match the score of candidates provided by the male populace to date. It doesn't sound like a promising cause to us! OGDEN GNASHES : This ede is sting To Thomas Tongue.'1 with a woman thrust upon him because his mother thought the match advantageous. However, subtle though it may be, there is a moral to the tale, and proof is given that perhaps the old system of marriage “till death do us part” is the best in the long run. Sven Hadin's latest, “Riddles of the Gobi Desert," is now available. His ability to collect material of the deepest mystery about foreign lands makes his tales convincing ly exciting. Mannequin! By PATSY LEE AY SCAR WILDE was once asked, “What is the most artistic | color?" His immediate reply was. “All colors are artistic. As in mu sic, so in color: one note is not more beautiful than another. The concordant combination of notes is music; the concordant combin ation of colors is beauty.” How true! And how important color is in the selection of clothes. Color has four fundamental requi sites in connection with the choos- , ing of practical ensembles. Here they are: 1. Suited to purpose. 2. Suited to material. 3. Suited to cut of the costume. I. Suited to mood which the cos tume is intended to reflect. There are three ways in which color may be combined in clothes --the one-color plan, or the shad ing down or up; the two-color plan, I a combination of two harmonious shades; and the multi-colored plan, dashing, perhaps, but dangerous to most Complexions. Your mood may be expressed, or then again the intensity of your personality may be shown by the variety of colors you dare wear_ Classified FOR SALE—Men’s light tan~polo coat. Very reasonable. Size 3S Call Best Cleaners. LOST—Black and white Sheaffcr pen. If found call Willa Bitz. 917. LOS!' A brown suede pouch yes terday containing glasses, money and compact Finder please re turn *o Marjorie Ann Donoca Call 204. not that you should run around in 1 violent red or passionate purple! The idea is—don't subordinate yourself with riotous colors, but then again don’t be too somber— I allowing your personality to do everything for you. Orange is the warmest color— blue the coolest. The more lumin ous a hue—the warmer it is. i Warm colors are advancing—cool colors are retiring. Warm hues- correspond to some temperaments. Story’s "How to Dress Well" gives the following two examples: "Rosa, the Italian beauty, may wear vivid red, and like a flame, express fire and thrill. This harmony of likeness in coloring may give way to Rosa j decked with pale blue, and no less : will be the attraction because of the contrast of nature and color. | “Helga, the girl of Norway, coldly distant with golden hair and blue eyes, chooses a cool color — a silvery green like the ice floes of her native haunts—and in her harmony of likeness is as distant ly enthralling as the ‘‘Lady from the Sea.” Her portrait is alto gether logical, just what one would expect. A contrast of color with her temperament may make her incomprehensible, and as fascinat ing as mystery novel.” Another thing—luminosity in creases size. Brilliant textures in crease size; shadowy textures de crease size. JOHN DUNBAR WANTS TO TEACH COLLEGE ENGLISH (Continued from Page One) all departments of work, with a comprehensive examination in the senior year over one's major sub ject,” he explained. He is interested in regionalism in American literature, which can not be studied or understood with out a background of English liter ature. He believes that the present effort in regionalism will lead to something worth while, though it hasn't yet. In a country this size it is difficult for an artist to unify and synthesize, so one must pick a part or portion of the country for feeling. He does not care for Emerald of the Air ONCE again you are favored with a program of popular melody crooning. Louisa Parry, the "Ruth Etting" of the Emerala of-the-Air, will satisfy your sense of syncopation if you but dial KORE at 4:30. Maxine McDon ald, pianist extraordinaire, accom panies. The Emerald Greets — i _ i JOHNNY HARE, the handsome Beta. ELMER ARNE KOSKELO, from Finland. MARCUS F. DeLAUNEY. FRANCES C. JENSON. JEAN ROBERTSON. the modern American novel, nor does he like escapists like James Branch Cabell. He believes that Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, is the finest work ever written by an American, although his favor ite book is Tristram Shandy. Dunbar likes tennis and golf and to collect fine books. He ad mits a fondness for San Francisco and declares that it is “the finest town west of the Mississippi.” He likes both classical and jazz mu sic and believes that every well regulated family should have a collection of phonograph records so that music may be had how and when it is wanted. 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