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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1934)
University of Oregon, Eugene Sterling Green, Editor Grant ThuemmeJ, Manager Joseph Saslavsky, Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Doug Polivka and Don Caswell, Associate Editors; Merlin Blais, Guy Shadduck, Parks Hitchcock, Stanley Robe UPPER NEWS STAFF Malcolm Bauer, >iews Ed. Estill Phipps, Sports Ed. A1 Newton, Dramatics Ed. Abe Merritt, Chief Night Ed. Pe&f?y Chessman, Literary Ed. Barney Clark, Humor Ed. j Cynthia Liljeqvist. Women’s Ed. Mary Louiee Edinger, Society Ed. George Callas, Radio Ed. DAY EDITORS: A1 Newton, Mary Jane Jenkins, Ralph Mason, j John Patric, Newton Stearns. EXECUTIVE REPORTERS: Ann Reed Burns, Howard Kcss ler. FEATURE WRITER: Henriette Ilorak. REPORTERS :Miriain Eichncr. Virginia Scoville. Marian John son. Reinhart Knudr.cn, V’cima McIntyre. Ruth Weber, Rose IIimelstein, Margaret Brown. Eleanor Aldrich. Leslie Stanley, \cwton Stearns. Fred Colvin. Guy Shellenbarger. SPORTS STAFF: Bill Eberhart, Asst. Sports Ed.; Clair John son, George Tones, Dan Clark, Don Olds, Betty Shoemaker, Bill Aetzel, Charles Paddock. COPYREADERS: Elaine Cornish, Dorothy Dill, Marie Pell, Phyllis Adams, Margery Kissling. Maluta Read, George Jlikman, Virginia Endieott, Corinne LaBarre, Mildred Black WOMEN’S PAGE ASSISTANTS: Mary Graham, Bette Church, Ruth Heiberg, Pauline George. NIGHT EDITORS: Boh Parker, George Bikinan, Tom Bin ford. Ralph Mason, A1 Newton. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Henryetta Moinmey, Vir ginia Catherwood, Margilee Morse, Jane Bishop, Doris Bailey, Alice Tillman. Eleanor Aldrich. Margaret Rollins, Marvel Read, Edith Clark, Mary Ellen Eberhart. RADIO STAFF: Barney Clark, llotvard Kessler, Eleanor Aid rich, Rose Himelstein. SECRETARY: Mary Graham. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF William Meissner, Adv. Mgr. Ron Rew, Asst. Adv. Mgr. William Temple, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Tom Holman, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Eldon Haberman, National Adv. Mgr. rear! Murphy:, Asst, national Adv. Mgr. Ed Labbe, Circulation Mgr. Fred Fisher, Promotional M gr. Ruth Rippey, Checking Mgr. Willa liitz, (’becking Mgr. Scz Sue. Jarsis Worley Alene Walker, Office Mgr. ADVERTISING SALESMEN: Bob Ifelliwell, Jack Lew, Margaret Chase, Bob Creaswcll, Hague Callister, Jerry Thomas, Vernon Buegler, Phil Gilstrap, Jack McGirr, Gertrude Boyle. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: C.retchen Gregg, Maryanne Skirving, Janet Hall, Dolores Belloni, Helen Dodds, Doris Osland, Mary Jane Moore, Cynthia Cornell, Mae Schmellbacher, Pat Nelson, Thelma Cook, Betty Gallaher, Vivian Whfcrrie, Jean Pinncy. BUSINESS OFFICE, McArthur Court. Phone 3300 -Local 214. EDITORIAL OFFICES, Journalism Bld|£. 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. THE SMART BLUE EAGLE A WISE bird is this Blue Eagle, now become the • symbol not only of the NRA, but of the entire New Deal. Yesterday he screamed welcome news from the front page of the Emerald, telling poverty stricken students of the government’s proposal for relief funds to help them support themselves while they are engaged in winning an education. A wise move, this plan to help young America become an enlightened and progressive America. But that is not the sum and substance of the wisdom displayed. The funds are accompanied with the stipulation that they are to be given only to those whose attendance at the University would be impossible without them. The government doesn't want any more recruits I to the army of unemployed coming away from the campuses of the country. And the small amount which tlie student-relief program will require is well spent if it succeeds in keeping this flood of intelligent and articulate youth off an already glut ted labor market. It is of a kind with the CWA appropriations for adult education. Young educators, out of a job, could conceivably become a very troublesome sec-j tion of the population if they took it into their heads to blame governmental policies for their plight. So they are set to work teaching other jobless ones, and these other jobless ones are like wise given something to think about besides their own misfortunes. Thus are the disadvantages of the "new leisure” minimized, and thus does the far-seeing Blue Eagle turn appropriations for education into a double edged sword for its own defense. RISK OF THE MINOR SPORTS T TNLESS we’re badly mistaken, Oregon's revived minor sports program this year will be a grand success, considering the monetary investment. Ore gon swimmers splashed glory all over themselves in a recent meet with the University of Washington squad, and appear by comparative scores Lo have an excellent chance of swamping Oregon Slat" college in Gerlinger hall tomorrow afternoon. A hard-working wrestling squad is rounding into shape in the hope of getting some matches with Northwest colleges, and a strong boxing team is being groomed for its first test, an off-the records smoker with Oregon State college, spon sored by the Order of the O. Minor sports are thus far meeting with a warm reception. They are reminiscent of the days when intercollegiate sports were actually amateur ath letics, unspoiled by big-money football schedules, athletic “scholarships,” and $2.50 stadium admis sions. The University swimmers, wrestlers and boxers are athletes who fight and play merely for the pleasure they get out of competing and win ning. They receive no privileges in return, their awards are trivial, in many cases they must pay for their own equipment. As professional boxing fades in popularity and professional wrestling becomes a stereotyped and prearranged "exhibition," many students will be glad to be spectators at genuine matches where the contestants are actually lighting tooth and nail to win. We prophesy that the smoker to be given by the Order of the O and the O. S. C. lettermen' - club will be a financial success, and will awaken ihe athletic department to a realization of the campus interest in a well-developed minor sports program. COMMISSIONS FOR THE AD MEN rT''HE editorial staff of the Emerald is pleased at j the action of the executive council Wednesday in setting up a system for the payment of commis- j sions to solicitors of Emerald advertising. The move seems to be in the interests of both justice and expediency. The seven and one-half per cent commission will not amount to a large wage, but it will, we hope, have several desirable effects. There will be first of all a measure of compen sation for those who put in their time hustling ads for the paper. Soliciting is a fine business expe rience, but in these days we can understand it be ing pretty tough sledding. The small commih..:,,.; will justify the student’s I spending his time and should make it possible and I desirable for many able nen to participate on the business staff. The compensation will lead to greater produc tivity, since it adds incentive to getting result ;. The added advertising lineage that should come from this will more than pay for the outlay for student commissions. And everybody’s happy. And of course, increase in advertising lineage doesn’t exactly work a hardship on the news and editorial side of the paper, either. With advertis ing wasting away these last few years and less students for our staff, reporters have had to be overly productive to get the paper filled. More advertising means less work for news writers, a i better quality of news and features for our readers. So the Knights of the Poison Pen waive their traditional feud with the Knights of the Almighty Column Inch, and say that they’re mighty glad to see the sister profession getting a break. They've been doing the dirty work for quite a while now. and deserve a share of the money they earn for the paper. i 1 -■ .... ... .. -1 On Other Campuses j “Public Debt Is a Public Blessing” PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT estimates that the United States will have a $32,000,000,000 debt by 1935. How much money is $32,000,000,000? The j largest corporation in the United States, the Amer ican Telephone and Telegraph Company, is valued at $4,000,000,000. Put out at 6 per cent interest the income on the debt in one year would pay for all the property destroyed during the Civil War and in five years would furnish the Allies enough money to pay their World War debts to the United States. Spending a $1,000,000 a day a man could not spend $32,000,000,000 in eighty years. How does this amount compare with the debt incurred during the history of the United States ? The total United States debt in 1860 was $81,000, 000. The debt mounted into the billion dollar class during the Civil War, reaching $10,000,000,000 by 1869. The World War debt brought the United States into the twenty billion figures being at its peak in 1919, approximately $26,000,000,000. In June, 1929, this debt had been lowered to $17,000,-! 000,000. Is it beyond the power of the government to repay what it has borrowed without resorting to inflation? History leads us to believe it is possible but not without tremendous effort. From a posi tion as a debtor nation in 1789 with a national debt of $75,000,000, the United States by 1835 had paid all its debts and was accumulating a surplus at the rate of $35,000,000 a year. An example of the revenue the government can raise when needed is J presented in the financial history of the World War. In 1915 the United States income amounted to $692,000,000. By additional taxation this amount rose to $3,696,000,000 in 1918. During the period following the close of the World War to 1929, the United States in addition to granting federal loans and paying current expenses reduced the World War debt by $8,000,000,000. Alexander Hamilton has remarked “a public debt is a public blessing.” To this might be added a word of warning that of Robert Morris who felt it wrong to "increase our debts while the prospects of paying them diminish.” Carnegie Tartan. OVERFLOW ■t'lRANKKNSTEIN, the man whose patchwork monster got out of hand and turned upon him, had nothing on us. We started this thing of funny names last Saturday, and it's getting out of control. This is positively the last. Miss Starr, instructor in home economics, tells of a schoolmate of her grandmother’s whose name was Isabella Arabella Aristalula Thiberia Happalona Carver Camp. Seems sort of like an anti-climax after Happalona. The same source reports a family with Margaret. Marian, Marcia, and Mark. And lest you missed it, an unknown correspondent in yesterday’s Safety Valve informed us of a family that boasted Bessie, Tessie, Clessie. Jessk-, Wesley, and Be.-,K s. And the same operative who reported the fifteenth child who was named “Plenty Nellie," also told us of a colored girl he knew who was named Altoona Pennsylvania Jones. As Irvin S. Cobb once said, it's like getting on the Twentieth Century Flyer and getting off at Podunk. * » * Theta Chi's “Kimmel." Beta’s “Bruno," S. A. K.'s “Junior." and Dell's “Queen Kong" are definitely in the doghouse. The graduate manager's office has sent an ultimatum to the four fraternities that will put the pups on athletic probation. Excerpts: "The canine problem is once again causing us considerable difficulty. . . . Football games, basketball games, concerts, and various other events have been held up until somebody's dog was removed from the scene . . . The dog does not particularly enjoy attendance at these functions, and you will be doing us a real serv ice in cooperating with us in keeping your dog away from these events. “Bast Saturday evening . . . tlie 'between halt feature was forced from the floor because of the preseme of a dog. ... If we do not re ceive your cooperation iu this matter at will be necessary to take more drastic steps." Secure ... . By STANLEY ROBE Anti-Fascist League Formed (Continued From Page One) and fascism, the United States has recently made provisions to in crease her navy to the fullest ex tent allowed her by the armament conference. This will only lead to an increase of armaments. Blais mentioned formation of small groups in the United States as a step toward fascism. He said that the Silver Shirts were rum ored as being 200,000 strong' in California, and told of the march of several hundred in SeatLle, Washington, last summer. “At present they are on a decline,” Blais declared, "but a change of forces would bring these groups together.” * * * Following Blais, Charles Pad dock read a paper on “The R. O. T. C. and Its Fascist Implications.” Paddock said that the meeting was an outgrowth of the "Com mittee of 25” which launched a campaign to abolish or acquire op tional membership in the R. O. T. C. on the University campus. "If students had shown more interest in the question,” Paddock stated, "the faculty would have voted differently.” He urged that the group make the R. O. T. C. question a mass appeal to the stu dents, an issue affecting their per sonal lives. In order to carry this plan through Paddock made the ■ following suggestions: 1. A committee of action be formed to distribute material con cerning the question. 2. A committee of action be formed to promote discussions, speeches, and thought on the mat ter. 3. A committee of action be formed to see that the question receive adequate publicity through handbills, the Emerald, and other publications. 4. A committee of action be formed to contact other groups working with the same purpose in view. * * * Suggesting that the assembled group become a part of a national association with a similar program, Lester VanLydegraf, sophomore in journalism, read the following sec tions from a creed adopted at the United States Congress Against War. held in New York City, Sep tember 29 to October t. 1933. pro posing that the persons present consider their content: 1. To expose everywhere the ex tensive preparations for war being carried on under the guise of aid ing national recovery. 2. To oppose all developments leading to fascism in this country and abroad, anti especially in Ger many. 3. To forth committees of action against war and fascism in every important center and industry, particularly in the basic war in dustries. At the conclusion of V&nLyde grafs reading, the chairman ad journed the meeting for three min utes. During Blais' talk, Richard Neuberger. former editor of the emerald, and Stephen Kahn, a lav student, had joined the group. When Ireland again called the meeting to order. George Bennett, senior in political science, asked the purpose and program of the organization. VanLydegraf ex plained that it was entirely up to the individuals of the group Not satisfied with the answer. Bennett accused the organization of being sponsored by the coiuiau nist party, and stated that a mem ber of the Young Communist league had accused him of being the leader of the Silver Shirt or ganization in Eugene. The discus sion then became quite personal, with Richard Bolling, admitted member of the communist party, demanding that Bennett tell who made the accusation. After Boll ing had expounded approximately 15 minutes on the principles of the communist party and threatened to leave if his presence were not desired. * * Bennett explained with powerful eloquence that a friend had told him that a Young Communist had accused him of being the Silver Shirts' leader. Both Bennett and Bolling apologized to each other, with Bolling denying that a Young Communist league existed in Eu gene. George Teltoft, freshman in business administration fall term, told the group that he was cer tain that the meeting had been planned by the communist party. Following Teltoft’s statement, Bennett and Bolling again en gaged in a lengthy debate. The Bennett-Boiling argument had no more than quieted down, when Kahn asked who was spon soring the meeting. No one pres ent appeared to know, but when Neuberger again asked Bolling if the communist party was the in stigator. Bolling said that he mimeographed the handbills and delivered them, and that the meet ing was his idea. Bolling added that Bennett, Freerksen, Fritz Hesse, Norman Lee, Clayton VanLydegraf, Lester VanLydegraf, and ho himself had formulated the idea of holding a meeting to discuss the struggle against war and fascism. Blais was to have attended the meeting, but did not. ❖ * * Bolling slated that three of the members of the initial body were communists, but denied that the communist party was behind the program of the group in any way. Following the election of offi cers, Bolling made a motion that the group cooperate with the com mittee of 25 to call for a revote of the faculty on the R. O. T. C. question, since it was declared that one member of the faculty had admitted that he had voted contrary to his wishes because he had not understood the voting method and because several facul ty members were out of town at the time the vote was taken. * * * Wallace Campbell, spokesman for the Committee of 25, an organ ization which professes to have no connection with the newly formed organization, said that it j would not be wise for either group to ask for a faculty revote, since j it would require a two-thirds ma jority to allow the question to again be brought before the facul ty. Bolling withdrew his motion. The league decided to hold iLs second meeting Tuesday, February 20, at the same location, the Craftsman’s club. "Patronize Emerald advertisers.’’ CLASSIFIED Advertisements Rates Payable in Advance 10c a line for first insertion; 5c a line for each additional insertion. Telephone 3300; local 214 ‘ DRESSMAKING — Ladies’ tailor ing, style right, price right. Petite Shop, 573 13th Ave. E. Phone 3208. PATTERSON-Tuning. Ph. 3256W. FOR a general tailoring on men's and women's clothes call on The University Tailor. Cleaning and Pressing prices reasonable. 1128 Alder. Phone 2641. CORSEN'S Music Shop, 856 Wil lamette St. Sheet music. Come in and see us. ALLAD1N GIFT SHOP—55 West Broadway. LOST Between men's gj'm and McArthur court, between 2:30 and 4:30 p. m. yesterday, one $20 bill. Finder please call Oland Roher, 1920. Reward. STUDENTS’ Professional Directory Dr. Will E. Moxley Dentist 410 Tiffany Bldg. Dr. Perry A. Baker Dentist 804 Miner Bldg’. P110M-: 845 Dr. Sam Tyler Optometrist 921 Willamette St. SIXTY INVITATIONS FOR MATRIX TABLE ISSUED (Continued from Page One) Other guests on the campus who received invitations to the affair were Ida Mae Nickels, represent ing Master Dance; Mrs. Ottilie Seybolt of the National Collegiate Players; Pot and Quill members, which include Joan Cox. Margaret Davidson, Joann Bond, Elinor Fitch, Mrs. Guy Wernham. Gerald ine Adkins, Ruth Warren, Mary Kessi, Florence Jones, and Mar jorie Neill. Elinor Henry and | Betty Wilson will represent Orides, Edna Whitmer, Mu Phi Epsilon, and Patricia Sherrard, Phi Beta. The following representatives from each living organization W'ere invited: Alpha Chi Omega, Louise Bar clay, Mary Jane Burdick; Alpha Delta Pi, Velma Hamilton, Berna dine Franzen; Alpha Gamma Del ta, Elsie Peterson, Alvhild Erick son; Alpha Omicron Pi, Jean Aikin, Patricia McKenna; Alpha Phi, Caroline Card, Alice Wede meyer; Alpha Xi Delta, Lucille Stewart, Eleanor Wharton; Beta Phi Alpha, Caroline Schink. Gladys Gillespie. Chi Omega, Josephine Waffle, Elise Oehler; Delta Delta Delta, Elinor Stevenson, Madeleine Gil bert; Delta Gamma, Esther Wil cox, Pearl Base; Delta Zeta. Do lores Burke, Kamilla Klekar; Gamma Phi Beta, Helen Burns, Miriam Henderson; Kappa Alpha Theta, Martha Goodrich, Frances Helfrich; Kappa Delta, Margaret Pollitt, Mary Snider. Kappa Kappa Gamma, Dagmar Haugen, Stephanie Smith; Phi Mu, Geraldine Hickson, Lucy Ann Wendell; Pi Beta Phi, Lucy Howe, Mary tine New; Sigma Kappa, Charleen Purcell, Virginia How ard; Zeta Tau Alpha, Pauline George, Margaret Mortensen; Hendricks hall, Theresa Breslin, Maxine Goetsch; and Susan Camp bell, Helen Harriman, Valborg An derson. Emerald of the Air - - ... — rTHE ether program for this af ternoon will consist of news of the day broadcast by Ted Kara fotias, your reporter for the day. All the vital information is at your command during this quarter hour I of spoken journalism. ; The Emerald’s contribution of | news flashes, feature stories, hu | mor, and editorials come to you at :4:30 over KORE. rrvHE Thetas, Pi Phis, and Kap *- pas got lovely valentines from the Chi Psis. The Thetas got theirs first. At about 11 o’clock their doorbell rang, and when they answered it, they found a large wicker laundry basket on the porch. In the basket was the recumbent form of Ben Chandler, securely trussed, clad in shorts and equipped with a gorgeous red ribbon around his head. A note attached to his frame read: “To Pure-hearted Peggy: Though tied with twine, For you I pine; Won't you be My valentine?” It took them some time to re lease Mr. Chandler from his bonds. The Pi Phis got their valen tine shortly after this. It turned out to he Bill McCall, dressed in a pair of pants and a sheet and likewise securely tied up. The Pi Phis wouldn’t believe for a long time that they had re ceived a valentine, so by the time they got around to carving McCall out of his cocoon he was in a semi-rigid condition from the cold. He was labeled “For Marjorie Linebaugh.” * * * The Kappas were somewhat sur prised to find “Yutch, the Kappa Killer” on their front stoop, even though their prize package wa; addressed to “Lipstick Labbe.” That no other houses receiver valentines was attributed to the fact that the Chi Psi freshmen barricaded themselves on theii sleeping porch with trunks, chain and tables, and refused to come out and play with the upperclass men. Which was a great pity in deed! Our Meritorious Motorist for today is Henry Mann, the Ghost of College Side (he haunts the place). In addition to giving I. B. rides, he discusses techni cal points about automobiles with him, a virtue that I. B. prizes above all others. Heinie gets TWO citations for this. OGDEN GNASHES “I hate to walk Along the street Nursing sore and aching feet Watching drivers whizzing by Giving me The icy eye!” “I never could STAND a man that snores!” AFTER A A BOWL of Kellogg’s Rice Krispies with milk or cream restores the energy that studies take out of you. You’ll sleep better and feel better in the morning. So delicious and so easy to digest. No other rice cereal is like Kellogg’s Rice Krispies in flavor or nourishment. And only Rice Krispies snap and crackle in milk or cream. Try Kellogg’s Rice Krispies tonight. A grand dish after a party or date. Ask for them at your campus restaurant or eating club at breakfast or lunch. Extra delicious with fruits or honey added. Rice Krispies are served everywhere. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. Listen!—