University of Oregon, Eugene Sterling Green, Editor Grant Thuemmel, Manager ■Joseph Saslavsky, Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Doug Folivka and Don Caswell, Associate Editors; Merlin Blais, i Guy Shadduck, Parks Hitchcock, Stanley Robe UPPER NEWS STAFF Malcolm -Bauer, News Ed. Estill Phipps, Sports Ed. A1 Newton, Dramatics Ed. Abe Merritt, Chief Night Ed. Peggy Chessman, Literary Ed. Harney (.lark. Humor Ed. Cynthia Liljeqvist, Women’s Ed. Mary Louiee Edinger, Society Ed. George Callas, Radio Ed. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF wnnam Meissner, Adv. Mgr. Ron Rew. Asst. Adv. Mgr. William Temple, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Tom Holman, Asst. Adv. | Mgr. Eldon Haber man, Adv. Mgr. J earl Mtirpny, Asst, national Atlv. Mgr. Ed JLabbe. Promotional Mgr. ! Fred Fisher, Promotional Mgr. ' Wm. Perry, Circulation Mgr. , Ruth Kippey, Checking Mgr. i Willa Pift. Checking Mgr. j Alene Walker, Office Mgr. j 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. THE NEW PRESIDENT lYyj'OST resolutions are just so many words. Most unanimous declarations of support to an in coming executive are merely perfunctory gestures —dutiful observances of the social and parliamen tary amenities. But it was obvious that the reso lution of the University faculty pledging to Dean C. V. Boyer “full and unqualified support in pro tecting and safeguarding the interests of the insti tution and in promoting its ideals” did not fall into that category. It is particularly gratifying to the Emerald to note the steadily strengthening current of support for Dr. Boyer from both faculty and students The new president is a modest man, more inclined to action of the calm, deliberate and judicious type, than to spectacular speech or deeds. Nevertheless he is a fighter—endowed with a native determina tion that prompts him to decide issues quickly, take his stand firmly, and never recede from that stand. The choice of a leader could not have been a hap pier one, and we say this not merely as our owt.\ opinion, but as that of many well-informed persons both on and off the campus. The state board of higher education, the chancel lor, Dr. Boyer and his colleague, Dean Peavy, will have settled, by the end of this month, the reor ganization of the system to conform with the board’s new program, and will have laid down the new lines of authority and responsibility. Inevi tably there will be in some quarters efforts to make the power of the acting presidents as slight as pos- j sible, to reduce them to the status of mere admin istrative deans, or liaison agents between faculty and chancellor, rather than between faculty and board. Such a lineup would of course completely miss its mark in settling the problems of higher educa tion. One of the reasons for the last outbreak was the closure of direct channels of contact between faculty and board. The confidence and support which Dr. Boyer already commands should reassure the board that any powers it vests in him will not be misplaced. THE ANNUAL BOASTING TTRRE at Oregon we hear little about “over emphasis” on football—-which is not strange, considering that Oregon netted over :)!20,000 profit through the stadium turnstiles this year but our daily grist of college papers tells us that the annual lambasting of gridiron commercialism is in full swing. The professors who like publicity, the edi tors frantically probing for issues, the progressives and intelligentsia, are all in good form. We ourselves can’t see that football adds much to the cultural stature of America’s youth, but neither can we see that it does any harm. Profits from football maintain quite a number of beneficial student activities: concerts, orchestras, lectures, student newspapers, forensics, and the like. And the reformers may as well become resigned to the fact that football is good entertainment, and as such, will always drag in the cash customers. Fur thermore, as long as the colleges have a monopoly of tire best football talent, they'll continue to capi talize on it. Wc like the Stanford Daily’s few paragraphs on the subject, in more facetious vein, gleaned from a recent issue: “The Columbia Spectator crowd who are still lampooning foot sail in general and the Columbia-Stanford Rose Bowl game in particu lar, are playing an off-key solo, in this writer’s j opinion. After all, they really have no profits to object to, and the whole argument, as we have always heard it, was to take the profits out of football and thereby de-emphasize it. The team won honor of a certain sort, which, if j not to be glorified, is certainly not to be sneered at.; they had a heck of a good vacation, with the opportunity to see and hear something new. “The educational advantages of a trans continental tour are something to work for; and it more of the staff of the Spec tator Imd similar experiences, (lie rough edges of their provincialism, or metropoli tunism, if you must, would not he so ob vious. "We have always looked on football the same as rochefort cheese, zipper fasteners, or Guy Lombardo’s dance band, as useful or in termediate things, to be taken or left alone, according to the individual’s discretion. They are not colossal subjects, of universal impor tance, and may as well be left to those people most interested.” OMENS OK IDS I IF 1933 could be characterized, as the New Yorker characterized it, as "the year the dwarf sat in J. P. Morgan’s lap,” there must be a similar key note for 1934. And if our guess on the present trend of campus affairs is accurate, 1934 will go ringing down in history as the year the red flag was hoisted over the law school. A momentous occasion, sirs. When the staid and aloof law school rises in its wrath, it is time for the reactionaries to quake. These are parlous! times for the old guard. Not only do the law grad uates wish to deliver themselves front the tyranny of compulsory fee payment to the A. S. U. O., but they would rescue even the downtrodden under graduates ot the campus. A plan brought forth from the law school, you might say, by a Caesarian operation performed by Dick Neuberger. This js tae year the red tlug npples. U 1 ■ the' year of beer, among other things—when a thirsty! undergraduate body got tired of walking three! blocks to the outside of the “beer zone,” and put up such a holler that campus restaurateurs defied University officials and tacked up the Acme and Rainier signs. It is the year that the state board of higher edu cation decided its definition of insubordination could stand revision Tt i« the year Delta Upsilon., nee Sigma Pi Tau, finally made good on its rush week promises. It is the year the music school, taking its cue from distinguished precedent, rose in a body and denounced carping, critical censoriousness— and the Emerald’s amateur music critic almost lost his job. It is the year that a motor accident hurled George Bennett—all 230-odd pounds of him -40 feet through the air, wit’ t damaging him or the pavement. The campus is jubili at because we didn’t get to play in the Rose Bowl. The Co-op store will sell “Ulysses.” Compulsory military training gets a body blow. The English department introduces a course in choral reading: “Group reading of poetry and rhythmic prose for choral effects.” Strange and portentous events occur on every hand. The new year, now 20 days old, is appar ently to be a year of upsets and surprises. Well, let them come. Nineteen-thirt.y-three was not a year for the weak and faint-hearted, and we lived through that. i-:--- -- i OVERFLOW Tj’ROM the Southern California Daily Trojan comes this interesting little tidbit: “I don’t know if it’s possible for a man or woman active in campus life to comprehend the pride that swells the heart of an alumna when the strains of “Fight On” come crashing out of the loud speaker of the old radio in a little mid-western town. Or the longing of that same heart when on the screen of a col lapsible-wooden-chair movie house flashes a news item of the Los Angeles flood. . . .” We’ll wager the pictures of the earthquake just tore her heart out with homesickness. Our weekly offering of Barometer humor arrived yesterday, and as usual we pass it on to you: “A petition has been signed by several hundred university students asking that it not be compulsory for students to join the associated students. We are entirely in sympathy with them. If we went to the U. we wouldn’t want to belong to the student body, either.” Only ten students signed, Barometer, only ten. * * * Two days ago we apologized to Mr. Robin son of Gosser’s restaurant for carelessly inti mating that disorderliness prevailed in that very estimable and reputable establishment. Other things have happened since which have discouraged us mightily, and we’re thinking of issuing a blanket apology to cover everything. We apologize to the school of music for criticizing the orchestra, since we learned from musical experts that he criticized the things that were good and failed to criticize the things that were not so good. We apologize for his judgment. We apologize to Colonel Barker for saying he was a professor of military tact. We meant tactics, even though it happened on the day of the campus courtesy contest. We apologize for calling Spook Robertson, the basketball player, a “sharp-shooting dead ewe.” We mean dead-eye. It must have been a typographical error. As a matter of fact, we apologize for being alive. * * * A New York man, we see by the papers, hoarded some $200,000 in gold. That's what we might call a Star Hoarder. On Other Campuses I IF Baron Munchausen were to rise from his grave and take up residence on the Bryn Mawr cam pus, it would ho like a homecoming for the old ex aggerator. In fact, he might he able to pick up a few hints on the technique of telling stories based on a modicum of truth. All day he could sit and embroider on fact in the company of the campus fiction mongers; for here the Baron would find that stimulus so necessary for the successful story teller. His anecdotes could be enormously improved by the occasional insertion of such emphasis as "1 screamed with laughter, right in his face, my dear! She (He) fell flat on her this) face. 1 thought I'd fall apart on the spot. I've never seen anything so howling . . . Don't think it hasn't been charming!" Whimsy aside, the fact remains that the sober charm of understatement has no place in our conversation. Every happening, however small in the beginning, is before long puffed into alarming proportions until, for example, an inad vertent remark of a professor in class becomes a delirious joke at which half the class, unable to contain its mirth, rolled in the aisles. Not only is the subject matter of conversation strange and false, but sentences become loaded with meaning less adjectives and oaths intended for emphasis; and all sense of proportion and all regard for fact is lost in exaggeration of a very silly type. We have always with us people who think in super-normal terms, and who see everything twice! magnified; they may be left to the tender mercies j of the psychologists. Still, we hope we are not mis-1 taken in thinking that three-quarters of the college is normal or subnormal, and that the only trouble is that they are too lazy to make sense or nonsense without the aid of exaggeration. We would not mind the general inaccuracy if it had the spice of originality, but too often we can trace every phrase of a certain person to some more dominant con versationalist whose bon mots she is borrowing. At first trial the game of tracing expressions to their, sources is interesting and amusing, but by and by it becomes a little drear and the plagiarism seems a positive vice. We are sick of playing the game and would be enchanted if romeenV anyone would: take it away.—bryn Mawr College New--. Our Guests - - By STANLEY ROBE UoFO WELCOMES - STATE EDITORS At -the SIXTEENTH ANNUAL OREGON PRESS conference ‘Truce Plan’ Elicits Varied Comments Editor’s note: Following are several editorial comments from the state press on the new' “peace plan” in higher education. Disapproval, doubt, and hope tor the success of the new plan are being ex pressed by Oregon’s newspa pers. Junction City Times: The state board1 of higher educa tion met and effected a compro mise. Apparently in turn for al lowing them to retain Chancellor Kerr the investigation against Morse was dropped. Perhaps it was necessary to drop the investi gation in order to retain the chan cellor. Anyway Dr. Kerr seems to have a strong political pull. They called it in the interests of har mony. There will be no harmony until a new man entirely free from the old fued is installed as head of all the educational systems. The installation of Dr. C. V. Boyer as president of the Univer sity and Dr. George W. Peavy as president of the Agricultural col lege was a move in the right di rection. It was absurd to try to run these institutions without a working head. But the bone of contention has not been removed and there will be no complete har mony until it is. The election of Willard L. Marks as president of the board of higher education appears to have been a good move. The Gervais Star: Hon. Willard L. Marks, former state senator from Linn county, president of the senate, and sev eral times acting governor, now a referee in bankruptcy cases, ;is now chairman of the state board of higher education. No fairer or abler man could have been chosen. All disturbing elements from the outside of the University, College and Normal schools should give the new chairman and the facul ties a chance to iron out all dis agreements without butting in. Most of us have plenty ability to criticize, but few of us know how to give constructive criticism. Suc cess to you, Mr. Marks. Benton County Herald: The board‘of higher education took a long stride toward bringing about solution of the school prob lem this week when they appoint ed a president for each the univer sity and the state college, and left W. J. Kerr chancellor. Both men named for the presidency are men fitted educationally for the posi tions and are men in whom the people have confidence to bring harmony where it has been lack ing. Chaneellpr Kerr has earned his position and it is with a great deal of satisfaction to friends of both schools that the board saw fit to leave him there. Now that the personnel of the board is definitely fixed and the two schools are pro vided with proper heads, Oregon may look to the two schools going ahead in fine shape the coming school year. Pendleton East Oregonian: For the sake of higher education' in Oregon it is to be hoped that the new policy adopted by the board of education will work. There ts satisfaction in the fact that Dr. \V. J. Kerr continues as chancellor. Because of his expe rience and liis thoroughly recog nized managing ability he is the logical man for that position Un der pre ent financial condition* thej task of carrying on the'higher in stitutions of learning is not an easy one and the board is in real need of Dr. Kerr’s services. In addition the situation at Washington, D. C., calls for proper handling if Oregon is to be saved from irreparable damage to the ex periment stations and the exten sion service. Roseburg News-Review: The effect of the decision of the state board of higher education naming a president for each of the major institutions will be that of legalizing, and making official, representation from the two insti tutions and their faculties in the administration of their affairs. ' Actually it seems that lack of proper representation is what caused the flare-up last fall. Dean Wayne Morse spoke his mind as unofficially representing the uni versity faculty. The incident was unfortunate in its method but ap parently unavoidable, as the au thority was then constituted. The faculties then had no rights of ap pearance before the board except through the chancellor. Under the circumstances that method of reaching the board with their trou bles was not feasible. Like most other things, the suc cessful and harmonious operation of institutions of higher education depends almost entirely upon the1 man or men at their head. There \ is nothing wrong with Oregon’s system of higher education. The members of the board are splendid public-spirited citizens who seek only the successful operation of the institutions. The “single exec utive” plan of administration has apparently been the unwitting cause of what trouble there has j been. It is likely that the plan of' having a president or head on each campus will go a long way toward' ironing out such difficulties as may; arise in the future. Scanning the Cinemas MCDONALD — “My Lips Be tray,” Lilian Harvey, John Boles, El Brendel. Also “Eight Girls in a Boat,” Dor othy Wilson, Douglas Mont gomery. Sunday, “Son of a Sailor,” Joe E. Brown, Thel ma Todd. Frank McHugh. COLONIAL — "S. O. S. Ice berg,” Rod LaRocque. Sun day, "Warrior's Husband,” Elissa Landi, Ernest Truex, David Manners. Also, “Lady for a Day,” May Robson, Warren William. By J. A. NEWTON Indecision Yours truly is in a tough spot. I want to put both pictures on top. However, we award the spot to “My Lips Betray” as thorough light entertainment. As . the girls behind me cooed from time to time, “Isn’t she sweet?" or “How Cute!” All of which is very trite but to the point,1 for coeds. Or were they high school lasses? It’s so difficult to tell. El Brendel is the king's chauf feur who picks up the little cafe dancer as he delivers the king’s new car. The rumor gets around that the girl is the king’s favor ite. The king does a bit of per sonal research, and sure enough,— But why should I tell? You guess who becomes the king's favorite. Boles sings a nice tune, the title of which I’m a bit uncertain, but hazard the guess that it’s “I Guess I'm Falling in Love.” There is a pleasant musical background throughout the show. Sunday comes the mouth which could swallow a dreadnaught, Joe E. Brown. Witness the gag: Brown: "Why, if I did that he’d slit my throat.from ear to ear!" Gob: "Looks like somebody beat him to it." Couple of Bests "S. O. S. Iceberg” is my vote for one of the finest pictures in a cou ple of years. 1 ran out of all my adjectives in Thursday’s issue when it was first reviewed. Students of photography, direc tion, and pictorial composition will find this extraordinary material. This is drama outside the human scope. Sunday comes on of the pepu j lar pictures of the past year and ] another which in addition to being popular was marked by most crit ics as one of the ten best of the year. The former being “The Warrior’s Husband,” and the latter being “Lady for a Day.” “Warrior’s Husband” is built on the mythical stories of the Ama zons with a lot of hokum thrown in. Elissa Landi, while she does things (em I blushing?) which you’d never think a Landi should do, is nevertheless as pleasant, and a little more so, than usual. “Lady for a Day” is the story of a poor old apple seller. “Apple An nie” who, with the help of a few kind-hearted gangster friends, keeps up the illusion which she has built for her daughter in her let ters. HALF-PINT KAYO COPS FIRST IN COMIC STRIP (Continued from Par/e One) sibly influenced a wee bit by Pop eye's new profession. To prove that intellectuals also enjoy perusing the daily cartoons, four of the "perfect students” who last fall gained all A’s in their subjects, were questioned. Martha Goodrich and Edward M. Hicks strengthened the Popeye senti ment, Lloyd G. Humphreys voted for “all the fellows in 'but Our Way,’ ” and the fourth denied reading the comic strips. First prize for the best fence straddling remark, goes to Joe Saslavsky, managing-editor of the Emerald, who stated, “I do not read the comic strips, but if I did read the comic strips, I would read ‘The Nebbs.’ ’’ Henriette Horak, Emerald fea ture writer, came through with the most facetious verdict. “I read VM WUMHUMA ft 4 t The P I PERFECT GIFT 1 a , i §j Miss Saylor’s ■ jj Unusual Chocolates {( 5 and a large variety of jj§ ■ Home-Made Candies |j THAT WILL PLEASE | | McCrady’sCafe ■ <§ 3*8 Wilhuaette St. * r:» ft * * ft ft ft ft 9 » ft 1 the comic strips for the psycholo gy implied in them.” There were eight students who were comic strip abstainers, but who knows that even these strong willed personages sometimes peek furtively into today's paper to see how Popeye gets rid of the Brui ser boys? | Reading Writing PEGGY CHESSMAN, Editor | VJ7HAT with the modern news ™ papers filled ea,ch day with stories of the latest developments in Germany, Hitler’s most recent move, the failure or success of some League of Nations’ project, it seems only logical that Reading and Writing should inform its readers, few though they may be, of the recent books published on the next war. “America Faces the Next War” by Frank H. Simonds, author of “Can Europe Keep the Peace?" tells just how the last war came, why the next is coming, what Hit ler wants, what Germany wants, why the League has failed, and presents the question: Shall the United States remain neutral or shall it become a belligerent ? Al though there are few of us who would advocate a next war or propaganda that would lead us to ward it, it is only wise to read the words of an authority on in ternational affairs, to see the rea sons he prophesies a war in the comparatively near future. Another group of material along the same line is the book issued by the Interparliamentary union, “What Would Be the Character of a New War?” While it is not so emphatic in its views of the possi bility of a war very soon, it does offer an interesting depiction of a war in the modern century. Then, when you have completed a study of the wars of the future, read the very authentic “War Memoirs of David Lloyd George” and be completely disillusioned on the subject of international fights. This great statesman, the only man to remain on the British cab inet during the entire period of the World war, tells us in the straightforward, pleasing style of a clever diplomat the results of war, and its inconsistency and fu-1 tility. Conklin Gives Talk Dr. Edmund S. Conklin, head of the psychology department, spoke to the Shakespeare club recently on the value of reading. Innocent Bystander By BARNEY CLARK W/E always knew there was tal ent concealed in the Pi Phi house. If we ever doubted it, our misgivings were set at rest by their latest contribution to art. It is nothing else than a song, or, at least, the words to a song, based on the tune of “You’re Gonna Lose Your Gal.” We didn't get all the words, but the first part runs as follows: “You’re gonna lose your pin, You’re gonna lose your pin. They’ll smell synthetic gin, dear. When they come down to let you in, dear—” That's all we know, but its is a very promising ditty. The prize bit of repartee for the week goes to a gentleman who, for obvious reasons, shall he nameless. We were talking to him,, and out of a clear sky he remarked, “You know, Tank McCallum always reminds me of a movie I once saw!” “So,” says we, “what was it?” “The Birth of a Nation,” says he! * * * We have been trying to find out all day whether Fritz McKinney and his two stooges, who have been trioing around in a very ur bane manner for the past week or so, intended to take a piano along on the “hill” serenade. We asked George Callas, who didn’t seem to know much about it, and he said that he didn’t think that they need ed a piano; they sang without it. Personally, we couldn’t picture Mc Kinney without a piano, so we fig ure that they took one along, prob ably with Jack Cate carrying it! !|! Sfi Stevie Smith, the nee bright craeker of the English depart ment lost his customary suave poise the other day when a Kappa freshman told him that she thought he was a wit, and turned a bright crimson. All he could think of in reply was, “That reminds me, I haven’t blushed for years!” You and Jameson both, Steve! . 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