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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
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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
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