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University of Oregon, Eugene Sterling Green, Editor Grant Thuemmcl, 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, 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 Ed. George Callas, Radio Ed. I)AV EDITORS: A3 Newton. Mary Jane Jenkins, Ralph Mason, j John Patric, Newton Stearns. EXECUTIVE REPORTERS: Ann-Reed Burns, Howard Kess ler. FEATURE WRITER: Henrietta Horak. REPORTERS rMirium Eichncr, Virginia Scoville, Marian John sor, Reinhart Knudsen, Velma McIntyre, Ruth Weber, Rose Himehstein. Margaret Brown. Eleanor Aldrich, Leslie Stanley, Newton Stearns. Fred Colvin, Guy Shellenbarger. STORTS STAFF: Bill Eberhart. Asst. Sports Ed.; Clair John son, George Jones, Dan Clark, Don Olds, Betty Shoemaker, Bill Aetzel, Charles Paddock. COPVREADERS: Elaine Cornish, Dorothy Dill, Marie Pell, Phyllis Adams, Margery Kissling, Maluta Read, George Bikman, Virginia Endicott, Corinne LaBarre, Mildred Rlnrk WOMEN’S PAGE ASSISTANTS: Mary Graham, Bette Church, Ruth Heiberg, Pauline George. NIGHT EDITORS: Bob Parker, George Bikman, Tom Bin ford, Ralph Mason, A1 Newton. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Henryetta Mummey, 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, Howard Kessler, Eleanor Aid rich, Rose Himelstein. SECRETARY: Mary Graham. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF William Meissner, nav. Mgr. Ron Rew, Asst. Adv. Mgr. William Temple, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Tom Holman, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Eldon Ilaberman, National Adv. Mgr. Fred Fisher, Promotional Mgr. reari xviurpny, nssi. i\auonai Adv. Mgr. Ed Labbe, Circulation Mgr. Kuth Rippey, Checking Mgr. Willa Bitz, Checking Mgr. Sez Sue, Jam's Worley Sez Sue Assistant, Jean McCusker. Alene Walker, Office Mgr. Bob Cress well, Hague Calltater, .lorry Thomaa, Phil Gil jjtrap, Jack McGirr, Gertrude Boyle, Blaine Ballah, Mary , anne Skirving. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Gretchen Gregg, Janet Hall, Dolores Belloni, Doris Osland, Mary Jane Moore, Cynthia Cornell, Mae Schellbacher, Pat Nelson, Thelma Cook, Betty Gallahei, Vivian Wherrie. Jean Finney. 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 Ilill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York City; 123 W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1206 Maple Avc., Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University oi Oregon, Eugene, published daily during the college year, exceot Sundays, Mondays, holidays, examination periods, all of December and nil of March except the first three days. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. WINTER-TERM MiNDUP CLOSED weekends. Examination schedules. Is suance of new housing permits. Baseball practice. Much talk about next year’s basketball team. Sure signs, all of them, of the end of winter term, traditionally the dullest of the year. Dull, did we say? We beg your pardon. There were a few events of interest, if we remember. There was the vindication of Dean Wayne L. Morse. There was the appointment of Oregon’s sixth presi dent, Dr Clarence V. Boyer. There was the op tional membership melee. There was the Battle over Beer. There was the Tiff over the Triad. There was the Military Muddle. There was the amendment fiasco and the Bedsheet Ballot. We could go on enlarging the theme in allitera tive fashion for some time, but Managing Editor Saslavsky has done the job for us, in a compre hensive account of the term's great events on this pago. The list will astonish by its scope and va riety. It was a term crowded with suspense, tri umphs and disappointments; a season significant in the history of the University of Oregon. With this issue the Emerald suspends publica tion for four weeks, and hopes for another season as lively and stimulating as the quarter now ending. Until April 3, goodbye—and happy holidays! HURRAY FOR OUR SIDE! ! ! HEN Oregon knocked over Oregon State last ▼ * night by it healthy margin of 33-25, it made certain of doing no worse than a tie for second place in the northwest division. And, what may be more important, clinched its share of the annual lour-game duel with the Staters. We've already handed Bill Reinhart two orchids for his fine comeback this year, building a powerful squad from the wrecage of last year. And for last night's performance he deserves the whole bouquet. The team goes to Corvallis tonight to round out a great season with the Beavers on their own floor. If we win if will be the second great sport achieve ment of the year, following on the heels of an un commonly good football season. So fling your notebook in the waste basket to night, let your term paper cool off, and leave your cramming until the last night before exams, and go with the team to help them wind up a big year at Corvallis. FIVE STUDENT TYI’ES \ NALYZ1NG college students has become a *• popular pastime for critics of higher educa tion, and with their findings one group attacks the methods of educating, and another attacks the numbers being educated. As good a classification of students as we've yet heard was expressed dur ing an informal talk by Dean Wayne Morse, of the law school, the other evening. Five types of students enter the halls of learn ing, points out Dean Morse. The first type includes the student who is just plain indifferent. He goes to college without knowing just why; his folks foot the bill. He seldom questions what his professors put forth, though economic fears may prompt these dispensers of learning to withhold the obvious if i’ seems a bit daring-. He gets his degree and becomes one of the millions. The constitutional conservative falls into the second group. He finds comfort in the status quo; why should he argue and dream and plan and strive for change? The here and now is its own defense and justification. This group is quite often well versed in history or literature, but dynamic con clusions are not in the nature of its members. Third in the list is the hedonist, unconsciously so, for he does not know hedonism is a philosophy. He knows “pleasure and pain” as the leading mo tives of life, he seeks the one and avoids the other. He it is who gives the administration occasional trouble and must be reprimanded or sent to an other environment. Fourth group is the idealist and crusader. He is the most forceful of college students. He is the leader of leagues and protest movements; he em braces the cause of fre dom jand justice. He is never at rest, and no idet 1 is too impractical for his support. And lastly, there is the critical realist. He is the doubter and skeptic, the eternal asker of ques tions. He is the "why” student. He has the cour age to disagree, the energy and mental discipline necessary for practical affairs. He knows how to use the intellectual tools necessary in any directed attack on the social problems of the day. Too often, however, he lacks initiative, purpose, the drive that gets things done. Out of this deficiency comes the suggestion of the union of the last two groups, the critical realist and the idealist or crusader. To hold the idealist down to the practical is the task of the realist; to give purpose to the realist, that of the idealist. With any group successfully uniting these two emi nently useful types of student, it is possible to pro duce surprising results in fields of practical social and political activity. IS NOTHING SACRED? . . And moralized the slow decay Of Scottish youth in modern day . . . Sir Walter Scott, “Lady of the Lake.” WE see by the Emerald that Pi Mu Alpha, music honorary, Will conduct a “smoker” in the music building, the entertainment for which will consist of musical selections. It has been pretty generally understood that we men have been on the decline, but we didn’t think it had gone this far. The term “smoker” has always been associated with a smoke-filled hall where he-men could puff on cigars while watching sweaty athletes propound the manly arts of fisticuffs and wrestling in the squared circle. It is one of the last of our havens of masculine complacency, one of the last frontiers of the proud male, across which the woman, flushed with the heat of battle and victory in other fields, has not passed. And now what do we have ? A "smoker” in a music building, listening to shaggy-haired maes troes making a sucker out of Beethoven and Brahms! It’s a dashed insult, that’s what it is. suh! ! We call upon all men among men to rise and do battle to this desecration of our last holy of holies. The smoker and the locker room are the only re maining sanctuaries of he-manhood. Are we to stand by and see them torn down and dispersed among the infidels, going the way of the rest of our institutions, the cigarette, the polls, and the barber shop ? Confound it, gentlemen, is nothing sacred? Space forbids publication in this final issue of the Emerald of on article in the New York Times of Sunday, February 25, pertaining to higher edu cation in Oregon. It is a letter from Charles D. Byrne, director of information for the Oregon sys tem of higher education, setting the Times aright on a recent article by Wallace S. Wharton describ ing recent educational activities involving Chancel lor Kerr, the state board of higher education, and Dean Wayne L. Morse. Wharton's article, which was reprinted in the Emerald of February 15, is according to Byrne, “replete with inaccuracies.” On Other Campuses Klchi's in Private Hands TJELIEVING that “riches in private hands often -spell ruin for coming generations" Drs. Wil liam J. and Charles H. Mayo, surgeons, gave $500, 000 last week to the University of Minnesota to be used for the promotion of medical science. The case stands out in direct contrast to most of the persons in possession of large sums of cap ttal. For the most part, they will leave the bulk of their gains for the seednd generation to squander. National inheritance tax measures of a drastic nature should be taken to prevent the inheritance of millions of dollars by persons who have had no part in the earning of the money. The capitalistic system has failed and it is now time that some action be taken to control the mil lions of dollars that could be spent for educational and other beneficial causes. Control of the major part of inheritance is one of the best ways to bene lit humanity. There is no sane reason for a person receiving millions of dollars of unearned capital ! just because he happens to be the son of a mil lionaire. 1 It is encouraging to see that there are some persons of wealth who recognize the uselessness of trying to leave a path of ease and luxury for their sons and daughters who, more likely than not, will be more harmed than benefited by the money. We tip our hats to the Mayo brothers. Okla homa Daily. ASSEMBLY TALK AND BANQUET ARE SLATED (Continued from Paije One) Gerlinger hall students, faculty and townspeople, spet king on "Can America Live Within Itself?" Not only will he tell of lus observa tions in this country, but will draw on his extensive travel background as well. Classes will be dismissed. During the afternoon Villard will spend some time in the Mur ray Warner museum of oriental art and then will tour the campus and the city. The vi ;t of V::lard has aroused a wide interest in I tie early history j of the University, with whieh Hen ry Villani. father of the journalist, was so prominently identified. It , was Henry Villard who noted an item in the Portland Oregonian.; soon after the institution was, opened in 1S7(>. in which it was stated that the University build ing Deady hall, was about to be sold to satisfy creditors who had! furnished material and labor for itsj construction. Without solicitation, he wired; from New York to his friend. Judge Matthew P. Deady, president of, '.he board of regent ', a»l.iu0 . the amount of the indebtedness. Upon| receipt of an answer Villa id tele-j graphed a check for $7,000. which was sufficient to retire the de mands. This was the beginning of j the interest the railroad builder took in the struggling institution Duennas to Hear Mrs. Marl Mrs. Virgil D Karl, state presi dent of the A A IM\ will speak at a meeting of the house mothers in room 1 Johnson hall Monday after noon on "The Scholarship Work of the American Association of Uai \ tr it' \\ omen. ' The Sword Hangs Near T By STANLEY ROBE Winter Term in Retrospect By JOSEPH SASLAVSKY (Emerald Managing Editor) SELECTION of a new president ^ for the University, cancellation of charges of “insubordination” against Dean Morse, maintenance of R. O. T. C. work on the campus on an optional basis, well-attended concerts presented by R o 1 an d Hayes and the Eugene Gleemen, CWA relief work for nearly 200 students, a farcical election with the watchword of “vote for the first six,” the sixteenth annual Oregon press conference, ban of the Miami Triad dance, rejection of a demand for optional member ship in the A. S. U. O., the rise of an aggressive basketball team— these are among the outstanding events of the term, as chronicled by the Emerald, which suspends publication for this quarter today. An imposing list of speakers ap peared on the campus. They in eluded Chester Rowell, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle; Whit ing Williams, well-known lecturer, who scored the Russian govern ment; and a group of lecturers who presented the annual love and marriage series and the sequence offered by the Committee on Free Intellectual Activities. Two outstanding men have yet 1 to appear on the campus. They are C. Grant LaFarge, noted ar chitect, who will speak today, and Oswald Garrison Villard, long known as the fearless editor of a fearless magazine, the Nation, who will speak next Tuesday. The University was again suc cessful in sending a candidate to England under the Rhodes schol arship. Robert Hayter, who grad uated from the University last june and is now enrolled in the University of Oregon medical school in Portland, Will study at Oxford during the coming three years. The A. S. IJ. O. presented a se ries of musical treats attended by appreciative persons and others who may have acquired a taste for them by this time. The Univer sity band appeared twice, the or chestra once, and the Hayes and Gleemen concerts were included in the musical program. Frances Brockman appeared as soloist with the orchestra, while Howard Hal bert, instructor in violin, was pre sented as soloist with the Port land Symphony orchestra under | the direction of Willem VanHoog-[ straten. Faculty members of the Univer- j sity received nationwide attention during the term. O. F. Stafford, head of the chemistry department, broke into national headlines on; three occasions, with his work on "heavy water," his discovery that acetamide is the greatest known solvent, and his invention of what is believed to be the cheapest pos- j sible method of obtaining charcoal from wood waste. I Robert H. Seashore, associate professor of psychology, and his graduate assistant, Raymond Adams, in a series of psychologi cal tests, found that University R. O. T. C. riflemen exceed other groups of students in muscular coordination. This finding may possibly lead to an economical method of selected sharpshooters for the army. Joseph W. Angell, graduate as sistant in the English department, developed in his research work the fact that Matthew Arnold had borrowed many of his ideas from the Frenchman,, Ernest Renan. An article by Angell dealing with his findings will make a July appear ance in an internationally-known French literary journal. Ernest G. Moll, assistant profes sor of English, is the author of a favorably received book dealing with the appreciation of poetry. Other faculty members were honored with selection on groups functioning on a national basis. The ubiquitous Oregon traditions broke into the headlines during the term, as they commonly are in the habit of doing. A new court was established by Student Presi dent Tom Tongue and soon after wards brought upon itself the wrath of many Oregon coeds who resented a suggestion of the court that their house presidents serve as Emily Posts in the matter of high heels, earrings, and smoking on the campus. The drama department was ex traordinarily busy with several ope-act plays and two major pro ductions, "Gods of the Mountain” and "Cradle Song." The usual lineup of wintea term social activities was offered— Krazy Kopy Krawl, Senior Ball, Beaux Arts Ball, Coed Capers, VVhiskerino Shuffle, Masked Ball, and the annual Matrix Table ban quet, given annually by Theta Sig ma Phi, women's national journal istic fraternity. The University sports realm in cluded the reestablishment of a Webfoot swimming team, which bids fair to become northwest in tercollegiate champions, coached by able H. S. "Mike" Hoyman. Bill Reinhart's scrappy hoopsters vault ed from the cellar to restore hope in the hearts of faithful followers oi the Duck casaba-chasers' for tunes. A smoker (billed in a gen teel manner as an "exhibition") between Oregon and Oregon State boxers and wrestlers ended disas trously for the Webfoot leather tossers, while the University grunt and-groaners broke even with the Orange hair-pullers. Among the other highlights of the term were the installation of the Delta Upsilon chapter on the campus, improvement of the pul chritude of various buildings on the campus, faculty offer of un qualified support to President Boy er, a survey showing' that sorori- j ties pay more for meals than .do fraternities, a serio-comic petition 1 presented by cadet officers against the optional R._ O. T. C., the fuss over beer, protest against the Mi ami Triad ban story, faculty ex pressions of sincere regret at the passing of Secretary of State Hal E. Hoss, creation of a faculty com mittee to grant exemptions from R. O. T. C. courses, faculty dinner given in honor of President Boyer, establishment of an anti-war and anti-fascist group and its conse quent removal from a session at the Craftsman’s club and its still later change of name to Oregon Radical club, circulation of student petitions urging that the United States reopen the League of Na tions membership question. It looks as if we had started something, so we’ll just sign off immediately. J 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- j 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. ALLADIN GIFT SHOP—55 West Broadway. TELEPHONE 206 Call Day-Nite—Day or Nite Day-Nite will call Day or Nite Towing Repairing—Storage Call at 645 Olive THE EAT SHOP- Now the O-; Duck-Inn, specializes in tasty meals at reasonable prices. LOST Pair pigskin glasses. Re- ' ward. Call 2788. LOST -Silver Eversharp Wednes day. Call Joy Snead, 2340. FOR MEN. housekeeping rooms I with plenty of hot water, pri vate plumbing, steam heat, at 1 money - saving rental. Phone'! 1187-J. 610 East 12th. THE PERSON IS KNOWN who took the diamond and emerald rings from my purse at the sculpture dept. Re turn these to me by mail by March 10 and prosecution will not be pressed. ELLIOTT’S GROCERY and DELICATESSEN 2 one-hall pound packages Brookfield assorted cheese .... 25c Large, fresh Rhubarb Pies.25c One dozen Hot Cross Buns.20c Phone 95 13th and Patterson i 1 no Innocent Bystander By BARNEY CLARK TTERE it is—the last column ® ® of the term. And there you are, six pasty-faced readers, ex pecting me to turn out some thing good for you to remember me by. To hell with you! You can take yourselves and your pasty-faces off to Corvallis for all I care. There’s not much difference between the two for that matter. Corvallis and hell, I mean. Another person I am mad at is Cynthia Liljeqvist, who came "ushing up to me the other day md says: “Why is Carl Sandburg Iectur ng over at Oregon State and not lere?” Smirking brightly, I replied, ‘Because he wants to get close :o the soil.” Lily looked at me a long, long ;ime and then she quipped, “We jot a different kind of dirt over lere.” Nice gals, these Thetas! The scene of this drama is laid, gently, on the Theta Chi sleeping porch. As the curtain rises, we see Winston Allard come sleepily out on the porch. He gazes at a bed usually occu pied by a pledge. Suddenly his eyes widen. There is a form on the bed, swathed in covers. Not the large masculine form of the pledge, but a small form, like that of a six or seven year old boy. It is breathing heavily. Allard approaches cautiously and peels back the covers. And lo—Grandmother what big eyes you have—it is Kummel, the Theta Chi pooch. These Theta Chis believe in luxury, even for their dumb friends! * * * We want to report the settling of a problem of major importance. For a long time a number of the great brains on the campus have been doing some Grade A concen trating, attempting to select a suitable name for A1 Wall's newly formed band. The aggregation was awfully good and they wanted to do it justice. We ourselves at tempted to help. Our prize sug gestion was “Wall's Walleyed Wallflowers.” This didn’t seem to ^EiElSJBIElSiaiSEISISJEMSiaiSJSJSISlSiaMSl set so well with Al. as a matter of fact, it took a couple of strong armed friends to keep him from wrecking an expensive guitar on us. At last, however, the matter has been settled. Al himself has selected “Al Wall's College Knights.’’ Personally, we think it has more allure if you leave out the “K”! “I'm not tight—just playful!” ■ . i Emerald of the Air T'ODAY being the last broadcast of the term, we compensate our dear listeners with a half-hour program in place of the usual 15 minutes. Bert Daniels presents the Crazy Collegiate Capers half-hour fea turing Al Wall and his College Knights. In addition, a bevy of gangsters will be released on the ether. They are Dan E. Clark jr., Line Devereaux, and a sensational new find who does a “Gracie Al len.’’ She is known on the campus as Adelaide Hughes. Crooning and vocal harmony are supplied by Lou "Helen Morgan' Parry, Ed “Don Novis” Perry, and dios of KORE at 4:30. Program originates in the stu dios of KORE at :30. WOMEN TALK IN SOUTH ON SCHOOL FINANCES (Continued from Page One) a special assembly at the Ashlanc normal school. The largest audi ence numberr-l about 75. 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