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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1934)
University of Oregon, Eugene Sterling Green, Editor Grant Thuemmel, Manager Joseph Saslavsky, Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Doug Polivka and Don Caswell, Associate Editors; Merlin Blais, Guy Sbarlduck, 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. Barney Clark, Humor Ed. Cynthia Liljeqvist, Women’s Ed. Mary^Louiee Edinger, Society George Callas, Radio Ed. DAY EDITORS: A1 Newlon, Mary Jane Jenkins, Ralph Mason, John J'atric, Newton Stearns. EXECUTIVE REPORTERS: Ann-Reed Burns, Newton Stearns, Howard Kessler. Betty Ohlemiller. FEATURE WRITERS: Ruth McClain, Ilenriette Horak. REPORTERS: Clifford Thomas, Helen Dodds, Hilda Gillam, Miriam Eichner, Virginia Scoville, Marian Johnson, Rein hart. Kmidsen. Velma McIntyre, Pat Gallagher, Ruth Weber, Rose Himelstein, Margaret Brown. SPORTS STAFF: Bill Eberhart, Asst. Sports Ed.; soil, George Tones, Dan Clark, Don Olds, Betty Bill Aetzel, Charles Paddock. Clair John Shoemaker, COPYREADERS: Elaine Cornish, Dorothy Dill, Marie Pell Phyllis Adams, Margery Kissling, Maluta Read, George k' k V,rglnia Endicott> Corinne La Barre, Charles Pad \V OMEN’S PAGE ASSISTANTS: Mary Graham, Bette Church, Donna Theda, Ruth Heiberg. NIGHT EDITORS: Bob Pirker, George Bikman, Tom Bin ford, Ralph Mason, A1 Newton. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Ilenryetta Mummey, Vir ginia Gather wood Margilee Morse, Jane Bishop, Dons Bailey, Alice Oilman, Eleanor Aldrich, Margaret Rollins Marvel Read, Edith Clark. RADIO STAFF: Barney Clark, Howard Kessler, Eleanor Aid rich, Rose Himelstein. SECRETARY: Mary Graham. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF vviiJiam Meissner, Adv. Mgr. Ron Rcw, Asst. Adv. Mgr. William Temple, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Tom Holman, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Eldon Haberman, National Adv. Mgr. Pearl Murphy, Asst. National Adv. Mgr. Ed Lai)be. Circulation Mgr. Fred Fisher, Promotional Mgr. Ruth Rippey, Checking Mgr. Willa JJitz, Checking Mgr. Sez Sue, Janis Worley Alene Walker, Office Mgr. BUSINESS OFFICE, McArthur Court. Phone 3300—Local 214. EDITORIAL OFFICES, Journalism Bldg. Phone 3300 —News Room, Local 355 ; Editor and Managing Editor, Local 354. 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 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. PEACE AT LAST r|~'HE fair promise of harmony in higher educa tion, held out at the state board meeting of January 15, when acting presidents were appointed for the University and college, seems near fulfill ment. The new executives, Deans C. V. Boyer and George W. Peavy, are not to be mere advisory rep resentatives of the faculty, but are to have exten sive powers in controlling budgets, curriculum and personnel for their respective schools, will have the right to attend meetings of the board, and wfien disagreements arise, will be allowed to appeal their cases directly to the board. Rare statesmanship is shown by both chancellor and board in thus redrawing the lines of authority within the state’s system. The chancellor, as chief administrator of the centralized system, has re linquished many of his former powers and preroga tives, yet there remains not the slightest doubt that sectional and factional interests are to remain subordinated to the interests of higher education as a whole. Great powers invariably carry with them grave responsibility, and the acting presidents find a tell ing check on their authority in Item 2 of the board's inclusive 12-point definition of powers, which makes the acting president “responsible for the promo tion of faculty am* student cooperation and for keeping the program and objectives of his institu tion in harmony with the program and objectives of state supported higher education." In other words, it is implied that it is the president's duty to see that there are no more public outbreaks such as the recent one involving Roscoe C. Nelson and Chancellor Kerr. Fortunately, the board has itself set up machinery for rendering such outbreaks un necessary, by providing orderly channels of appeal from faculty and students of any institution direct to the highest authority in the system, the state board. further, the action takes from the chancellor's hands the details of administration in the two major institutions, and gives him the opportunity to devote the major portion of his time to the de velopment of a really unified scheme of higher edu cation, as the chancellor’s functions were originally planned and recommended by federal survey spe cialists. A chancellor who divides most of his time between two campuses, attending to the individual administrative, educational and spiritual needs of two distinct institutions, cannot possibly do justice to his job of coordinating work and furthering the progressive development of the six campuses which comprise the entire state system. Psychologically, the results of the board's ac tions are enormously beneficial. Dean Morse's hon est, outspoken criticisms are thoroughly vindicated, the air is cleared of apprehension, and the fear of political interference; the University can now feel I that it has an able spokesman of its own. Most important of all, the heavy atmosphere of distrust and suspicion which has long charged the educa tional atmosphere can now be dissipated, as both institutions unite behind their new leaders and move confidently forward unhampered by political squabbling and harmful publicity. AN *11)1 CATION \1. V( lUKVKMK.VT rTHE people of Lansing, Michigan, have organized a structure for adult education that promises' to set an important precedent in American culture. Night school class for adults had been held under financial supervision of the city in Lansing for some time until it was found necessary to dis continue the plan last May. But the citizens of Lansing, under the leader- j ship of Try. Narvesen, local Y M. C. A. secretary, j succeeded in setting up a "People's University”1 that now has over 2600 adult students and 71 in structors. The students pay no fees and the in-j structors receive no salaries. The University has! no limitations of housing. The students attend) classes one evening a week. This strange “campus" runs all over the city! of Lansing. The Y. M. C. A., the directors' room cf a bank, the administration building of an auto P’-"f-t. churche and synagogues, and the municipal courtroom in the city hall art fluint ot tin place.^ where classes are held. Everything is on a free basis. Instructors teach the courses while holding down regular jobs in other lines. Study can be obtained in languages, arts, crafts, political sciences, religions, and most of the other principal divisions of higher education. The Lansing plan is a community enterprise in the direction of popular culture that is highly commendable. We suspect that it has arisen through the sobering influence of the past few years. It represents intellectual curiosity and cul tural sincerity of the very highest type. If organized education can do anything to aid in such movements as the Lansing plan, it should bend every effort to do so. APPRO AC . TO FASCISM P’ASCISM, the prevailing governmental philosophy of two of Europe’s g eatest powers, is not the remotest of possibilities in the United States. Firm as American democratic institutions may seem, there exists cause for serious concern in events taking place in practically every locality. The un usually provocative assembly address on Monday by Whiting Williams gave voice to a national move ment, the strength of which is too little recognized. A man like Hitler is what America needs, the speaker inferred; there are two roads from which to choose. The road to collectivism he blocked with a tale of the horrors of Russia’s starving mil lions; the other road is the old road, the continu ance of the capitalist “production for profit” sys tem, accompanied by government cooperation. We need a man like Hitler, we are to believe, thus top ping off the plan with an administration such as those prevailing in Italy and Germany. Whiting Williams’ suggestions have been thor oughly discounted in these columns and in carnpus wide discussion. It is dangerous to forget, how ever, the strength of those forces which are actually working toward just the sort of program the visit ing speaker suggested. The precipitous rise of Hitler to dictatorship in Germany demonstrates the importance of under lying national sentiments. The silver shirts and khaki shirts in this country have received little attention, and it is more than probable that fascist control would not come about through these organi zations, largely for lack of leadership. The indus trial forces of the United States have undoubtedly been brought closer to harmony through the N. R. A.; and national industrial organization has been a vital factor in both fascism and its offspring, nazism. Important as any factor, however, is national feeling. The beginnings of a powerful nation-wide sentiment may be seen in the strong popular sup port accprded President Roosevelt. How close to the surface this feeling stands was indicated two weeks or more ago when a Portland newspaper printed a cartoon on inflation, entitled “The king can do no wrong,’’ and suffered for its temerity by answering an all-day flow of telephone calls made in protest by scores of readers. Fascist principles present a political expedient that cannot be dismissed by condemnation of a speaker. The national political current has shown strong disposition to swerve toward a social older embodying these principles. If the American people must make, in the next few years, a choice between i socialism and fascism, there is slight doubt in the minds of many political observers that spntiment will be with the latter alternative, though in reality it is a policy of retrenchment, of delaying the ulti mate issue of collectivism. OVERFLOW ADOLLAR-A-YEAK-MAN is Vice-president Burt Brown Barker, as most of us know. Mr. Barker offered to serve for that modest sum when the University was in dire financial extremities not so long ago. and his offer was naturally snapped up with alacrity and a great deal of grateful forehead scraping. Well, even so simple a thing as paying a man a dollar a year has its difficulties for the i bookkeepers of the state system of higher edn- 1 cation. For one thing, they have to send out, every month, a check to Mr. Barker for eight cents. (Postage is three cents, and the charge | for every check drawn is two cents, which would make the handling charges come to 62 per cent of the salary outlay, as we figure it.) Also, the poor bookkeepers are driven to distraction because of the fact that Mr. Barker doesn’t like to cash his salary checks. He re gards them, whimsically, as very interesting souvenirs, and he's saving them up. perhaps against a rainy day. This makes it very diffi cult. for the accounting wage-slaves, who must carry forward from month to month an ever mounting balance of uncashed checks. But we must get on with the really inter esting phase of the situation. It seems that Mr. Barker made it very clear that he didn't expect to have his salary cut, when everybody else was taking a seven per cent slash on sal aries under $500 a year. And the business office agreed cheerfully that his one-dollar an nual stipend should remain intact. Weli, month after month the 8-cent checks kept coming in, and as the year approached its close, Mr. Barker looked forward to the De cember pay envelope, which, he anticipated, would round out the year with a 12-cent check. The pay envelope arrived. With anticipa tory fingers Mr. Barker opened it and lifted out the pay check. It was made out for 11 cents. « * * Overflow is pleased to announce its first plagiarism. Somehow we feel that this should be some thing of an event, and we have seriously con- ; sidered passing out cigars. We proudly present the Letter department of TIME, January 20, page I, column 1. para graph 5, lines 6. 7, and S. in which the Editors state; "This supplement will contain an OVER FLOW of controversy, correction, and informa tion . . A simple thing, but our own. The authors of Overflow extend their most heartfelt professional sympathy to the artist who was called upon to do a caricature of Irvin s Cobb for hi tcceut ndicated auto biography. Sea Serpents Are Nothing New By STANLEY ROBE frUE AOR/YING AFTER? The University’s Early History Editor’s note: This is the second of a series of inter views with Dr. F. G. G. Schmidt, head of the depart ment of Germanic languages and literature, and oldest in service of the University fac ulty, on early history of the University of Oregon: By DOUG POLIVKA plLED among German books of every description in the office and class room of Dr. Schmidt are the catalogs of the University of Oiegon for every year that he has been with the institution. Of par ticular interest is the catalog pre ceding Schmidt’s coming to the University, that of the year' 1877. The catalog consisted of four pages pasted within a blue cover, with the title, Catalogue of the Oregon State University- Eugene City, Oregon—1877. The catalog lists the faculty at that time as Professor J. W. Johnson, president; Professor Mark Bailey; Professor Thomas Condon; Mary P. Spiller; and Mary E. Stone. By-laws of the University, num bering 17, are given on the first and second pages of the inside leaf. The following are reprinted be cause of their difference from pres ent day regulations; 1. The school year of the Uni versity shall consist of two terms of twenty weeks each without an intermission. 2. The faculty may give a vaca tion to the school not to exceed eight days during the holidays at Christmas. 3. The tuition to the Collegiate Department is $20, payable in ad (Continucd on Page Four) Innocent Bystander By BARNEY CLARK A sinister rumor has reached us from the Theta Chi house. It -hints that Jack Granger has OC TOPUS blood in his veins. An example of the care the movies take to get correct dialect was seen in “Whoopee” the other eve: Says a cowboy to the Indian lad fa graduate mining engineer): “I hear you’re getting to be quite a mining expert!” Indian lad: “Well, I’m woiking at it!” This coy little note was left in our typewriter, so we opened it and read: “I have just discovered that the chemical sign for HEAT is the Delta (here was a little drawing of the Greek letter). What does that make the Tri Delts? (Signed) “IMA NURSE.” Speaking of the Tri-Delts re minds us that we forgot to tell you six readers that we wandered into College Side while the Roland Hayes recital was going on and saw three of the charming girls sitting in a booth. Going up to them we said severely: “Why aren’t you at the re cital ?” “Oh,” said they, “we couldn't go. We had the Phi Psis up for dinner, and we were just too ex hausted!” Hm-m-m-m! Today’s Ogden Gnash is dedi cated to the Love and Marriage lecture series. OGDEN GNASHES "It isn’t sex—• It’s the after effects!” “One more beer, and I’ll go home!” 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 j To the Editor: According to Whiting Williams one of the fundamental grounds for indictment of the Soviet Union | is the starvation of Russians to the appalling extent of 5 million j in one year. Due to the contra ! dictory nature of statistics about i the Soviet Union generally, no one | is in a universally recognized po sition either to refute or sustain Mr. Williams. The economic problem that has faced Soviet Russia for sixteen years has been one of scarcity. For many years America's eco nomic problem has been one of plenty. Yet, apropos of Mr. Wil liams’ position, sufficient temerity is manifest by the January De lineator to suggest that rank star vation is stalking—not the Uk raine—but America, whose “ala baster cities gleam undimmed by human tears.” Mildred Adams, writing for the Delineator, opens with the follow ing statement, “It sounds almost like a tale of foreign famine; chil dren hungry right here in our own United States—so hungry that they faint on school doorsteps, so hungry that they have to be put to bed in hospitals and fed off trays. . . . Hunger that steals in to the bones and robs them of their strength. Hunger that re sults in an appalling increase in what doctors call malnutrition dis eases.” Documented statements by re sponsible relief agencies from Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit and elsewhere, as well as national pronouncements from ultra-con servative sources, such as the Children’s Bureau and the Child Health Recovery Conference held in Washington in October, are presented by Miss Adams. Miss Adams attempts no sensa tional demagogy in citing her fig ures, but shows the extent of starvation amongst children in America, quoting the Children’s Bureau of Washington, “ . . It is probably quite safe to estimate that today somewhere in the (Continued on Page Four) wjamglbd iWavESj| S&iiiiSi Lines in your face come from jangled nerves Jangled nerves can make you look older than you are. And that’s bad news for any woman — or man either. Look in the mirror today. See if you already have any of those telltale wrinkles that conic from nervousness—and, if you have, do something about it. 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