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University of Oregon, Eugene Sterling Green, Editor Grant Thuammel, Manager Joseph Saslavsky, Monaging Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Doug Polivka and Don Caswell, Associate Editors; Merlin Blais, Guy Shadduck, Parks Hitchcock, Stanley Kobe UPPER NEWS STAFF Malcolm Bauer. News r,d. Estill Phipps, Sports Ed. A1 Newton. Dramatics and Chief Night Ed. Elinor Henry, Features Ed. reggy ^nessman, literary e.<j Barney Clark, Humor Ed. Cynthia Liljeqvist, Women’s Ed. Mary Lonlce Edinger. Society Ed. George Callas, Radi* Ed. BAY EDITORS: A1 Newton, Mary Jane Jenkins, Ralpk Mason, Bob Moore. Newton Stearns. EXECUTIVE REPORTERS: Ann Reed Burns, Haward Kess ler. Roberta Moody. FEATURE WRITER: Hcnriette Horak. REPORTERS: Miriam Eichner, Marian Johnson, Velma Me Intyte, Ruth Weber. Margaret Brown, Eleanor Aldrich, Leslie Stanley. Xewton Stearns. Fred Colvig, Clifford Thomas. Robert Lang. James Morrison. SPORTS STAFF: Bill Eberhart, Asst. Sports Ed.; Clair John son. George Jones, Dan Clark. Don Olds, Bill Aetzel, Charles Paddock, George Bikman. COPYREADERS: Elaine Cornish, Dorothy Dill. Marie Pell, Phyllis Adams, Margery Kissling, Maluta Read, George Bikman, Virginia Endicott, Dorothy Dykeman, Mildred Blackburne. WOMEN'S PAGE ASSISTANTS: Mary Graham, Bette Church. Ruth Heiberg, Pauline .George, Betty Shoemaker. NIGHT EDITORS: George Bikman, Ralph Mason, Rex Cooper, Tom Ward, Orval Ettcr. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Henryelta Mummey, Irma Egbert. Margilee Morse, Jane Bishop. Doris Bailey, Alice Tillman. Eleanor Aldrich. Margaret Rollins, Marvel Read, Edith Clark, Mary Ellen Eberhart. RADIO STAFF: Howard Kessler, Eleanor Aldrich. SECRETARY: Mary Graham. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF William Meissner, Adv. Mgr. Ron Rew, Asst. Adv. Mgr. William Temple, Asst. Adv. Mgr. 7 Tom Holman, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Eldon Haberman, National Adv. Mgr. Fred Fisher, Promotional Mgr. Pearl Murphy, Asst. National Adv. Mgr. Ed Labbe, Circulation M*r. Ruth Kippey, Checking Mgr. Willa Bitz, Checking Mgr. Sez Sue, Janis Worley Sea Sue Assistant, Jean McCusker. Alene Walker, Office Mgr. ADVERTISING SALESMEN: Bob Ilelliwell, Jack Low, Bob Cresswcll. Hague Callistcr, Jdrry Thomas, Phil Gil strap, Jack McGirr, Gerjtrude Boyle*, Blaine Bullah, Mary anne Skirvinsr. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Gretchen Gregg, Janet Hall, Dolores Belloni, Doris Osland, Mary Jane Moore, Cynthia Cornell, ' Mae Schellhflchcr, Pat Nelson, Thelma Cook, Betty Gallahei, Vivian Wherrie. Jean Pinney. BUSINESS OFFICE, McArthur Court. Phone 3300—Local 214. EDITORIAL OFFICES, Journalism Bldgr. 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; Cal! 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. SCANNING THE BOVARD PLAN THE Bovard plan for reorganization of all student activities, explained in yesterday’s Emerald, represents one fairly detailed proposal for solution of the A. S. U. O.’s difficulties. But by the very magnitude of its scope, it seems almost certainly doomed to failure. The plan would with one swoop take all extra curricular activities out from ail but the most re mote control by students, and would place them under the direction of appropriate departmental heads or deans. The athletic department, with all its far-reaching tangle of conference relations, coaches’ hire, scholarship awards, promotional and publicity program, upkeep of playing fields and properties, gate receipts, football schedule making, purchase of equipment and supplies—all would be placed under control of the department of physical education. The Emerald, instead of being respon sible to the associated students, would be respon sible to the dean of the school of journalism. Thus through the entire list of student activities. Instead of a central commission to act upon all the delicate intertwintngs of function and finance in that group of activities, there is offered merely a “fee commission,” whose function would be to allot fee receipts to the various activities. The nearest that students would get to a voice in de termining the policies of the activities in which they are interested would be as members of mere advisory committees on which alumni and faculty members would also serve. We can be thoroughly sympathetic with faculty control over (he disbursement of student fees, since it would establish definitely the Instructional char acter of student activities and would readily solve the legal questions involving that dubious organi zation known as the A. S. U. O. But the Bovard solution is a bit too strong for general acceptance. Very few students would willingly submit to the virtual exclusion of undergraduates from all posi tions of control in the handling of student activi ties. Knowing the petition-circulating proclivities of University people, we venture to say that if the Bovard plan were submitted to the state board as the University’s recommended solution to the A. S. U. O. problem, it would immediately be followed by . a petition signed by a vast majority of the students, proclaiming their right to a voice in student gov ernment. For it is, after all, students who partici pate in extracurricular activities, and it is students’ money which goes to support them. Note: The two editorials following represent examples of the work of two candidates for the editorship of the Emerald. At the request of the editor, both concern events of national or international interest, in order that the publi cations committee may have specimens of their work in fields of larger than mere local in terest. CONGRESSIONAL SPRING Submitted by Candidate 2. OPRING of'a congress.' >nal year offers something ^ different for nature lovers. Birds twitter mer rily about this time every year, but it is only bien nially when the senators and representatives twitter apprehensively along Pennsylvania avenue. There is abundant evidence to indicate that the major parties are resorting to the usual tactics to insure victory in the fall. Energetic Democratic bloodhounds have been busily engaged in digging up the misdeeds, real and alleged, of the Hoover administration. As ’a result the public has been treated to sensational air mail and postal depart ment disclosures. Recently the Republicans opened their campaign with gusto. Only a year ago Ogden Mills, ex-secretary of the treasury, was a lone voice crying in the wilderness, but the past fortnight has seen a growing wave of agitation concerning real and fancied radicalism among President Roosevelt’s advisers. William Wirt, Gary, Ind. educator, has proven to be an excellent stalking horse for the G. O. P. Educator (platoon system) Wirt has let it be known that certain members of Roosevelt’s brain trust are paving the way for a communistic revolution. According to the Hoosier schoolmaster, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a "Kerensky” as well as a New Dealer. The American Lenin lurks in the back ground, awaiting the propitious moment. Wirt’s charges have provided excellent campaign ammunition for the Republicans. Aware of the tremendous hold of Roosevelt on the public mind, the opposition has been hesitant in attacking Amer ica’s number one hero. (Charles A. Lindbergh has been demoted to number two and may drop still further if his sources of income are carefully an alyzed.) Instead Republican accusations are to the effect that our president is "ill-advised.” If the sturdy yeomanry of the nation does not rise in its wrath and return a conservative Republican ma jority to Washington, they charg^ the country will insidiously but inevitably lapse into communism. The American public has been hoodwinked so many, many times by such Democratic and Repub lican propaganda that it would seem that their strategy would be obvious to all sane thinkers William Wirt’s charges, nevertheless, may be the origin of another “red scare” in the United States that will rival the one of 1921-22. INSULXi EATS PEANUTS Submitted by Candidate 3. 'T'HE spectacle of a Samuel Insull masticating -*• the well-known monkey food which formed the theme of that favorite of a few years back “The I’canut Vendor" is comically symbolic of human uselessness. Samuel Insull, the erstwhile financial “great,” was reduced to eating peanuts in a house of detention in Turkey! Cruel fate but to Samuel Insull’S credit, it may be said that he seemed to enjoy eating his peanuts, purchased by a warder. The Grecian stand in refusing to make trouble for Turkey, which seized the fugitive Chicago utili ties magnate from a Greek ship in compliance with an extradition request from the United States, is commendable. Greece was within its rights on the basis of international law in asking the Turkish government to explain its seizure of Insull, but Greece’s Premier Tsaldaris displayed a tactful bit of statesmanship in refusing to place the matter before the world court at The Hague. Had he submitted his complaint, he would have added another barrel of T. N. T. -small, it is true, but potent to the tense situation which is ready to burst over troublous Eurasia. In that area, which already resembles all too uncomfortably a zoo in which wild animals have been released from their cages, a Greek protest would have further inflamed the beasts ready to pounce upon each other. It was a case of seeking revenge for that old stereotyped "honor of tlie coun try" against the desire to avoid adding a discordant note to an already cacophonous tone of affairs. Greece nobly took the latter course, the far more enlightened of the two. Scanning the Cinemas McDonald “Harold Teen," Hal LeKoy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Chick Chandler. Also, “Lazy River,” Robert Young, Jean Parker. COLONIAL “Cross Country Cruise,” Lew Ayres, June Knight, Eugene Pallette, Ar thur Vinton. Also “Puss in Boots.” By J. A. NEWTON | |N the Colonial's bill with “Cross Country Cruise” is a kids’ pic ture called "Puss in Boots,” which is supposed to contain the most talented children in the world. The kid who takes tire part of “Puss in Boots” I would call the best actor. The "hero,” a very beautiful hoy, sings in three lan guages, while it is hinted strongly that he knows eight. He sings with melodramatic gestures. Imi tative fervor, and an exaggerated vibrato. He's sharp in the Lily Pons altitudes, too. It's done rath er crudely by a company which calls itself “Amity.” But maybe the kids didn't notice that. On the other hand, “Cross Coun try Cruise," is quite acceptable, if you're not too particular. Contains a juic;, murder, a ne.v blonJ, June Knight, and a very worldly-wise I little girl who lives by her wits is Alice White. Alice White is a girl who is smart, but is handicapped by a 1928, flapperish appearance. I await tile day when she becomes an important person. She deserves it, now that a few hard knocks have put some common sense into' her head. * * * "Harold Teen," in the main, deals with the trouble and interest aroused in the comic strip of thej same name when H. H. Snatcher, the big city financier, comes to j Covina and makes a play for Lil- J lums. Snatcher's daughter organizes a junior league, and they put on a show in which Lillums and Har old are U.*: stars, the latter in a dance number. Hal LcRoy. the actor (?i, is well known on Broadway as a hoofer. This picture exhibits, wrongly, of course, the high school set as n silly bunch of adoiescent saps with little but petting and kissing on their minds. “Hazy River": The popular tune of the same name is nowhere pre sented in this show. Prodigal son ol wealthy famih get\. out of pris-j on and heads for what looks like a “sure thing" at a shrimp can nery in AlabanV. Who does he meet but Jean Parker. Two pals rob everybody, and especially the villain, of their eye teeth, and with the money thus garnered they pay off the villain's note on the shrimp business. Dr. Smiili |{<‘<rins Two Hour (geography (Hass Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the geology and geography depart ments. is giving a two hour course in field geography beginning this term. It is the first time the course has been given in the Uni versity. Six students are enrolled. A two square mile piece of land between the campus and Spring field is being utilized for observa tion. The topography, drainage, soils, mineral resources, weather and climate, plant and animal life, characteristics of the people, dis tribution ot the population, and economic activity of this section arc being observed. Notices Seal tint All notices of standing toward graduation should have been re ceived by the end of this week by all seniors who expect to graduate this term, it was announced yes terday from the business office m Johusou hall. Where’s a Better Hole - - By STANLEY ROBE Mr. Neuberger Speaks (From the Oregon State Barometer) ’T'HE following letter to the Ore *- gon State college Barometer was written by Richard L. Neu berger, proponent of optional stu dent body membership. Neuberger charged the Barometer with re ferring to him in libelous fashion, in calling him a “Bolshevik.” The letter, with the prefatory editorial remarks of the Barometer is here reproduced: | AST week in referring to the entirely unnecessary turmoil into which student government on the two major Oregon campuses had been thrown, the Barometer referred to it as being caused by Ihe actions of a small group of “bolsheviks” on the University of Oregon campus. No names were mentioned; but Mr. Richard L. Neuberger, erst while sophomore editor of the Daily Emerald, appears to have taken this all unto himself and is now threatening the Barometer with a suit "in a court of law be fore twelve citizens of the United States of America.” When shown the threat, one man well versed in the law re marked that had Mr. Neuberger's name been mentioned, the real “bolsheviks” might have had cause to claim libel, for they rebelled only when they had a grievance. Mr. Neuberger is distinctively dif ferent , however, for he is always in a state of rebellion without any grievance because he can't be happy unless ho is making trou ble. So, he had nothing to holler about concerning the Barometer editorial. True to his nature therefore, with nothing to holler about, he hollers. Anyway, we are glad to append part of Mr. Neuberger's 950 word epistle and let Barometer readers draw their own conclusions: School of Law, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, April 3rd, 1934. Mr. Warren Reid, editor Oregon State College Barometer Corvallis, Oregon. Dear Mr. Reid: In a front-page editorial in a recent edition of the Barometer, you referred to the University seeking' voluntary student corpo ration membership as a band of “bolsheviks.” As I recall, this was one of several epithets which you hurled at the group, and in an adjacent column you said I was the leader of the movement. Be fore proceeding, let me correct the last statement. I share the lead ership of the group with Mr. James Landye of Portland. Could 1 claim the sole captaincy, l would be proud to do so, for I am con fident that the efforts of the group have been to the best welfare of higher education in Oregon. . . . Let me assure you we did not undertake this campaign, nor venture the criticism which we were certain would come, for our selves. The associated student fee was no personal object in my cam paigning against its enforced pay ment. for 1 -hall contribute my five dollars this term to the loan fund for needy students. The suc cess of our efforts tingled the sensitive pocket-nerves of certain people, and we expected them to be chagrined. Now that they will have to conduct a value-received campaign to persuade students to join the corporations instead of having the state force membership upon the students, they are some what incommoded and see them selves with additional work on their hands. However, Mr. Editor, we did not anticipate the libelous epithets and contumely you have hurled at us. Let me tell you I am as opposed to bolshevism as I am to fascism. Recently I refused to join an anti fascist club at the university be cause among its sponsors were several alleged communists. I have as great an antipathy for the reg imentation of bolshevism as I have for the brutality of fascism and Hitlerism. And surely you know I have been an active opponent of the latter. Needless to say, we feel your personal attack, by attempting to sully our reputations and defame our characters, has been con temptible. Instead of adhering to the fundamental issues involved, and basing your criticism on facts and logic you have resorted to libel and. have attempted to hold us up i to scorn and ridicule by referring to us as “bolsheviks.” And you do not even make it clear to your constituents that you thus excori- I ate us because we asked that the ; laws of the state be obeyed in order that needy and deserving students, many with families in dire financial straits, may be re lieved! Therefore, Mr. Editor, will you please print this letter in as prom inent a position as you printed the aforementioned editorial ? Will you j please accompany it with a gen- i tlemanly and dignified retraction and apology for your libelous epi thets ? And will you please have your retraction published in a place of equal prominence ? If you do not care to do this, I shall give you an opportunity in a court of law before twelve citizens of the United States of America to prove that I am a “bolshevik.”—Very truly yours, (signed) Richard L. Neuberger. Innocent Bystander By BARNEY CLARK t'VEN our own paper puzzles us sometimes. Just the other day one of our budding reporters referred in a story to the ‘‘Living Women’s Organizations.” Imme diately after spotting this, I. B. and a group of the lads gathered together and attempted to figure out what group would come under this heading. After some thought, we suggested that the easiest way to locate it would be to discover what the Dead Women’s Organi zation was, and then pick its op posite. Don pricked up his ears at this, and mentioned that per haps it had something to do with ! women in the Graveyard. We said no, as all the women we had seen in the Graveyard were pretty live ones. The conference languished after this, the members going off muttering under their breaths, "Living Women's Organizations Living Women’s Organizations." Just something else to worry about! Apparently the attempt of the I’hi Belts to raise their own garden vegetables lias in flamed the imaginations of the Kappas. A report reaches us that they had a LAMB there the other week. Not a leg of lamb, but a real live lamb, slightly woolly around the edges. The report hints that they plan a merger with the IMii Belts, under which they will raise livestock, and the I’hi Belts will raise garden truck .the matured product to be divided equally . However, after the report came in, we learned that the Kappas had had lamb THREE times this week. \pparentl> they could n’t wait for the animal to rip en, and chickened out on the l'hi Belts. Day before yesterday the Tri {belts were silting calmly down to lunch, when the door opened and in came Jim Ghormley .Don Law. Bob Helliwell. and Max Donnelly, each bearing a plate- two sand wiches, a bottle of milk, and a napkin. These gentlemen proceed ed to arrange places for them selves at the table and occupy them. After they had been com fortably settled, Ghormley arose and announced that the Delt na tional had requested that they personally investigate the new, Tri Delt pledges, and he would be obliged if someone would drag them forth and line them up. He then sat down with a graceful ges ture, and commenced on his meal. The pledges, however, lost their appetites. OGDEN GNASHES Swing low, sweet chariot, Koll, Jordan, roll; With optional membership We're In the hole!” "If I can walk a straight line, will you sell me another glass of beer ?” OWN A ROYAL PORTABLE PAV AS YCU USE IT! Precisely the model you need! Latest design.. low est price! Complete! Easy to use.. arti if you ie never | typed before! Built for a life time of writing conveni ence! A small initial pay ment, and it is yours! Pay the balance on easy terms. UNIVERSITY “CO - OP” EUGENE Royal Typewriter Company, Inc 2 Park Avenue, New York City The Safety Valve An Outlet for Campus Steam All communications are to be addressed j to The Editor, Oregon Daily Emerald, j 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 see fit. > — - ■ To the Emerald: No doubt the intent of your ed itorial in today's Emerald on the Warner prize contest id admirable. Unfortunately, from lack of full information, you have done an in justice to the donor of the prize, Mrs. Warner; and also have given a misleading impression as to the contest itself. Mrs. Warner has been acutely conscious of the presence on this campus of "students in actual need.’’ During the winter quarter she gave several hundred dollars, and has held herself ready to give more if needed, to poverty strick en students. This gift has had no connection with the prize contest. The fund has been administered by the dean of men. Mrs. Warner has not wished publicity for her philanthropy. You confuse philanthropy to needy students with the Warner prize contest, one of many years standing, and having objectives quite different from support to needy students. The aim of this contest is to arouse interest in the peoples of Eastern Asia in the hope that this interest will lead to knowledge and understanding. It is for this reason that the prize donor has specified that the con testants shall have taken some campus course dealing with the Far East. It is her belief that the knowledge and information ac quired in the essay writing is too specialized to completely satisfy the objective. She wishes to en courage as wide and extensive a study as possible; not to subsidize needy students through the indi rect means of contest participa tion. Your statement that the course requirement was inserted as an inducement to enroll in ‘ certain courses is distinctly misleading. Last year, on behalf of the con test committee, I especially ex pressed the wish that this require ment be dropped. For the reasons stated above this recommendation was not accepted. Let me again point out that in your editorial you have shown an MILK SHAKES— * that taste right SANDWICHES— that are made right GOSSEE’S 550 East 13th inability to distinguish between the purposes of the contest and the purposes of subsidy funds, and that you have done a grave injus tice to Mrs. Warner who, without the slightest suggestion having been made to her, has contributed so generously to the assistance of needy University students. Sincerely yours, HAROLD J. NOBLE, Chairman, Warner Prize Committee. STUDENT ASUO ROSTER RISES OVER HALF MARK (Continued from Page One) privileges may be secured. At this same time sales representatives will be named in these groups. A revised list has been made of the membership of the Committee of 50, student organization work ing in conjunction with the cam paign, which will meet today at 5 p. m. in room 110 Johnson hall. List Designated Following are the names of these who will serve on the group and who are rec^uested to be on hand this afternoon: Keith Wilson, Keith Powers, Bill Russell, Howard Kemper, Grant Theummel, Ralph Walstrom, Ray Mize, Don Thompson, Bill Phipps, Jack Vaughan, Bob Zurcher, Hal Birkinshaw, Lester Goldschmidt, Ladd Sherman, Irwin Nilson, Mer vin Rodda, Chuck Wishard, Tom Tongue, Neal Bush, Otto Vonder heit. Dick Near, Sterling Green, Mal colm Bauer, Jack Cate, Ed Mar tindale, Elizabeth Bendstrup, Mary Stewart, Rosalind Gray, Jean Cook, Janet McMicken, Eleanor Wharton, Caroline Schink, Joseph ine Waffle, Eleanor Stevenson, Pearl Base, Lois M. Hunt, Peggy Cullers, Helen Burns, Frances Helfrieh, Dagmar Haugen, Alberta Baldwin, Marjorie Linebaugh, Vir ginia Howard, Margaret Mortin son, Ida Mae Nickels, Valborg An derson, Gordon Powell, Laura Goldsmith, Verne Adams, Margery Thayer, Nancy Suomela, and George Bennett. “Patronize Emerald advertisers." I I CLASSIFIED Advertisements Kates Payable in Advance 10c a line for first insertion; 5c a line for each additional insertion. Telephone 3500; local 214 FOR SALE CHEAP—Lady’s rid ing boots. Size 5, in excellent condition. 1274 Lincoln, or phone 1387-R. "Patronize Emerald advertisers." They pick you up every 50 miles Without vacuum tubes, Long Distance tele phony would hardly be possible. But with these little tubes placed in “repeaters” or amplifiers at 50 mile intervals along the line—even a whisper carries from coast to coast! With many tubes used in tandem, individual per formance must be almost perfect— or cumulative distortion would render speech unintelligible. That today’s Long Distance connections are so reliable and clear, is a tribute to the skill used in making Western Electric tubes. Manufacturing nearly all Bell System apparatus, Western Electric contributes much to the quality of telephone service. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM J Wliv NOT TAKE V TRIE HOME BY TELEPHONE? —TONIGHT AT HALF• PAST EIGHT
