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SENIOR SENSE
'T'HE senior class is to be complimented upon its
wisdom in the decision to establish a student
loan fund as its graduating gift to the University.
The annual dispensation of the accumulated
funds of the class has too often been squandered
on expensive and useless mementoes of the group’s
college residence. Benches, busts, and the like are
pretty little gestures when a few hundred dollars
is chicken feed, but we can’t afford them in these
times.
It is perfectly natural that graduating classes
are loath to leave the campus without setting up
some sort of object that will be a permanent re
minder of its existence. A peculiar, maudlin little
vanity springs up n the hearts of seniors along in
the spring of the last year. The possession of a
considerable sum of money that must be spent in
one lump is a temptation to the satisfaction of this
vanity in the form of a memorial.
The subordination of this vanity to the demands
of present expediency, of sacrificing a pretty •paint
ing or statue to the cause of helping a student
through .school is sensible and commendable. The
distinguished educators who are usually commem
orated in memorials, we are sure, would prefer that
the money spent in their deification be spent to
that purpose. If one worthy student is enabled by
this financial aid to complete his education it will
be worth all the benches, busts, and portraits money
could buy.
PLAY BALL!
HEN Oregon's baseball dub opens its 1031
' ” home season this afternoon against Oregon
normal in one of a series of pre-conference con
tests, followers of the Webfoot version of the na
tional pastime will see a potential contender for
the coast conference northern division champion
Coach Bill Reinhart has molded together an
array of real baseball players. He has a strong
pitching staff, probably the best infield in the north
west, a better than average outfield, the only weak
ness apparent at present being the lack of material
behind the plate.
Despite the Thursday loss to Oregon normal at j
Monmouth, the Duck swatters have too much talent
to become discouraged over an early season defeat, i
They are capable of heartening faithful Oregon
fans, who have seen a decided upsurge in Univer
sity varsity teams since last September.
Oregon’s 1934 edition of baseball history has
wonderful possibilities possibilities which will
probably be turned into the reality of a fighting
contender for the conference pennant.
LABOR'S PLEA POSTPONED
TN what many observers call the greatest achieve
ment of the administration thus far, President
Roosevelt last week forestalled an impending strike
in tiie automobile industries, involving some 250.000
workers. Under the guidance of the American
Federation of Labor, the workers had demanded
that their employers live up to the letter of Section
7-a of the NHA codes, which was supposed to per
mit labor to organize as it sees fit, independently
of the hiring companies.
Labor's most effective weapon, the strike, was
the alternative threatened. For the first quarter
of 1934 more than 300 strikes were called in other
industries, and the threat of the automobile work
ers therefore seemed far from being parlor talk.
The President intervened personally, and persuaded
labor and capital to submit their differences to a
triumvirate named by himself.
* * *
The company union, long a sore spot with labor,
was the underlying issue, though the employers'
were vehement in leveling charges at the A. F. of'
L., leading independent organizer of labor, as out |
of date and too cumbersome for modern industry.
The company union, organized under company .ui -
■hip.
pices and company finances, and seldom holding;
meetings of the workers themselves, has usually
proved a mere pawn in the hands of company direc
tors. Under the NRA, efforts on the part of in
dustry to organize these puppet unions have been
redoubled, for the codes give labor a voice in its
own destinies, and industry must prevent that
voice’s being too outspoken.
Section 7-a has been too weak to protect labor’s ;
right of independent collective bargaining. The
administration's answer to the pleas of labor is the
pending Wagner bill, which in reality would add
little to the original provision. It would still allow
a company to dismiss men for agitating for “ob
structing commerce”—another of those vague,
elastic clauses which destroy their apparent inten
tions. The railroads in 1926 were placed under
much more effective Itbor-controlling restrictions
than the NRA provision, and there was at that time
no "New Deal” philosophy to give such a rule wide
spread popular support.
The issue of the con pany union is a long way
from satisfactory settlement. Big business is bit
terly opposed to most of the Roosevelt plans, and
accuse him of pro-labor policies. Labor, on the other
hand, is conscious of capital’s efforts at acquiring
control of the NRA machinery. Industry has re
cently granted some pay increases to its employes,
but the fundamental question of independent col
lective bargaining for these same employes is not
for one moment considered a solved one. The un
diminished popularity of the chief executive will
doubtless undergo additional strain in the field of
industrial regulation as the months move past.
This editorial is submitted by one of the
three candidates for next year’s Emerald edi
torship. Petitions of candidacy will he submit
ted to the publications committee next Tues
day.
1904 OK 1914 ?
Submitted by Candidate 2.
IDEALISTS may well wonder if their passionate
support of the League of Nations and other in
struments of internationalism during the last dec
ade has been futile. The withdrawal of Japan and
Germany from the League in recent years has
practically antiquated tnat august body, whose only
material foundation was the vengeful Treaty of
Versailles forced on the Central Powers by the vic
torious Allies in 1919. The Concert of Powers is
rapidly giving way to the old Balance of Power,
while “open covenants, openly arrived at” have
been pigeonholed in favor of pre-war diplomacy—
in other words secret covenants, secretly arrived at.
Students of international relations generally
concur in the belief that the stage is being set for
the next war. France and her allies will oppose
Germany and her allies. When? Perhaps this
year if frightened French jingoists can convince
their government that Hitler must be crushed in
a “preventive war.” Perhaps next year, when the
German inhabilants of the rich Saar Basin vote on
whether they will trust themselves to the tender
mercies of Hitler or unite with their French neigh
borsfor Saar citizens it is the tiger or the lady.
The Stavisky scandals in France may eventually
precipitate the next world struggle. The activities
of "Handsome Alex” have led to savage attacks
on the government from the extreme 'left to the
extreme right. Internal dissension comes just at a
moment when French nerves are on edge over Ger
man rearmament. For generations statesmen have
used foreign war as a means of quieting- internal
disturbance and uniting the people against a com
mon external foe. Since Great Britain and the
United States have refused to grant an advance
guarantee against German aggression, French
leaders may decide to crush the Hitler juggernaut
before it can gain additional momentum.
But it is more probable that war is still a decade
off. Germany is insistent upon rearmament, but
realizes that she must have capable allies in order
to oppose successfully France, Poland, and the
Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, and Jugo
slavia). Consequently, Nazism lias temporarily
bowed to Fascism in Austria and Hungary. By
allowing Mussolini to extend his influence over
these countries Hitler Is paving the way for another
"Miitcl Europe,” this time consisting of Germany, |
Hungary, Austria, and Italy. 11 Duce in turn is j
supporting German rearmament. Once this Mitle1
Europa is created Great Britain will be left holding J
the balance of power an exact parallel with the
situation in 1914. Will Great Britain be so anxious
to join France now that the menace of a German j
navy no longer exists ?
On Other Campuses
Take Slu- Hand Down
ttl?RATKRNITY men are obstinate," according to
the editorial columns of the Daily Californian.
Its reason for this declaration, which is not so strik
ing as it seems at first glance, is the old depression
story finances.
"Paced with financial oblivion, Greeks sit
serenely upon their own front lawns, thumbing
their noses at rival tongs, and defiantly turning
down all proposals of joint action for joint bene- ■
fits.” That's the editorial description of concerted
action among fraternity men on the Berkeley
campus.
At Stanford, houses have financial troubles too.
and they chiefly start with laying $11-1 on the line
every three months. But we had a fraternity
financing problem too, and when a "temporary
slump” showed up, the How had sense enough to
get together and form a co-op.
They got together on a few more things and
quit cutting each other's throats they rushed the
whole freshman class instead of concent rating on
throat cutting over part of the class. They even
went so far ns to get a united political ticket. The
result is that Ma Mu Mu at Stanford is not won- !
dering how to keep the dear old traditions alive
like its brother chapter across tire bay.
Tho Daily Cal progressively suggests to obsti
nate Greeks that, to save themselves from unwel
come oblivion, “reforms could now be made." They
suggest a number of things that the How on the
Farm has worked out and made use of in recent !
I
years.
It is one tiling to be obstinate and thumb your !
nose at your neighbor when tunes are good. It's 1
still another to do it when rations are short and
new members few. But what's even worse is to
keep your hand up in front of your face, so that
you unit . ea .across tin bay.— The btewford Dail\.
Play Ball
By STANLEY ROBE |
The Honorary--A Racket?
By FRANCIS FULTON
/'COLLEGE honoraries are on the
spot. Throughout the country
campus editors have long been
looking askance at the vast growth
of honorary or professional Greek
letter societies, which compete
for chapters in colleges and uni
versities the nation over.
Some few editors have even ven
tured to compute the great
amount of money poured into
vague national offices in the form
of initiation fees and dues, for
which the students receive a “gold
plated pin and a thin national mag
azine.”
This week the Washington
Daily made a hurried study of
contributions to honoraries
and found that students on
tlie Husky campus were toss
ing approximately $10,000 an
nually on the altar of the
Great God Honorary.
Costs Are High
While many social fraternities
have reduced their initiation fees,
colleges and universities have
slashed their tuition charges, and
costs of clothes, meals and room
ing accommodations have struck
rock-bottom levels, the cost of na
tional and professional honoraries
have in general remained the
same, except in isolated cases
where group action among neigh
boring chapters has brought
enough pressure upon the national
offices to effect retrenchments.
A middle-western daily recently
felt so keenly about the situation
that it attempted to bring the sit
uation to the attention of under
graduates the country over by or
ganizing a coordinated campaign
through college dailies, to wage
warfare against the evils of the
honorary system and effect such
reforms as are possible.
Ilonornnes a Racket?
ICvcn more significant is a
report published by the Na
tional Association of Deans
and Advisers of Men, in which
it was stated that American
college students are paying
$279,0(11) to headquarters of
scholastic honoraries. There
uas nothing bashful about the
report of the deans’ associa
tion. In so many words it
charged that “national honor
aries as a whole are another
form of ‘racketeering’.”
In several instances locally it
has been hinted that honorary and
professional fraternities have con
tinued in existence long after the
unifying interest has died out in
the local group, and that they are
merely being sustained by perfunc
tory business meetings, giving lit
tle attention to the professional or
scholastic activities which they
were supposedly fostering. In a
few instances honorary groups J
wore found to be pledging second-!
rate students in their respective
fields, since they could not find a
sufficient number of outstanding j
students who could afford the na
tional initiation fees. In such eases
the honorary fraternity is com
pletely forgetting its function of
rewarding meritorious scholarship.
It is perpetuating an expensive;
exterior, but neglecting the basic
purpose of stimulating lively dis
cussion and professional work
among its members, in such cases
the suggestion has been made that*
the local group drop its national
affiliation and proceed with a
smaller but more lively group of
students.
Orguniiation Is. Loose
The national headquarters of
any society loosely organized as
the typical honorary finds it vir
tually impossible to keep close
check on the financial condition of
its local chapters. Herein lies an
other evil which a few have sought
to remedy. The local honorary
group frequently contracts debts
in the sponsoring of its varied so
cial and professional activities,
and as these debts pile up from
year to year, there is little compul
sion upon successive generations
of students to devote earnest ef
forts toward their retirement.
This naturally brings about a
harsh reaction on the part of bus
iness men and merchants against
the college or university in which
the honorary exists, as well as an
• ■_- .
attitude of distrust against repu
table Greek letter social organiza
tions.
Without doubt there are honor
aries and professional fraternities
whose functions are useful and
whose central offices are earnest
ly endeavoring to serve as fully as
possible their vast undergraduate
and alumni membership. Toward
these no criticism should be direc
ed—they should, rather, be en
couraged. But grave doubts are
justifiable in the case of a great
many organizations, and it is
more than possible that the busi
ness of promoting and managing
“honoraries” has become indeed a
full-fledged racket.
I
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
see fit.
.. ' — "
Note: Having been refused
space in the Innocent Bystander
column for his daily effusion, Bar
ney Clark, humor columnist, fell
back upon his rights as a private
citizen and demanded publication
of the following editorial in the
“Safety Valve” column. Still meet
ing refusal, he flourished what ap
peared to be a pistol, threatened
suicide, and sat down at a type
writer to write his farewell to this
world. This is it:
Dear Editor:
Ever since the first day I came
to work on the Emerald I have
longed to see an editorial of mine
in print. All my efforts seemed
futiie, but at last I have evolved
a plan. No one can refuse a dy
ing wish, and so, with my last
breath, 1 implore you to publish
this, my masterpiece. Thanking
you in advance, I remain.
Very truly yours,
BARNEY.
F. S.: My editorial tollows:
"Historic Harvard,” or "Woodman,
Spare That Elm!”
By CANDIDATE 7 (or 11)
A little group of radicals in the
law school (Mee start, eh? Of
course, it has nothing to do with
Harvard, hut what we need is a
new hand at the elm). Anyway,
this little group has been trying
to keep one of the noblest and
most altruistic movements in the
history of Oregon from the suc
cess that it deserves. We refer
(you really have to be the size of
Georgie Bennett to make the edi
torial "we" seem appropriate), of
course, to the voluntary movement
on the part of the student body
(Yes, all sixty of 'em) to form a
loan fund to send Richard L. Neu
berger to the Harvard law school.
The spokesman of the radicals
attempted to hide their real pur
pose in this underhanded warfare
by making a bombastic statement
in which ho declared that, "We
have long known that there was
rivalry between Oregon and Har
vard, but we of the law school do
not intend to let our desire for |
supremacy force us into using un
fair tactics."
Obviously, this is mere trickery.
The radicals are encouraged in j
tins futile mud-slinging in an at- 1
tempt to keep Neuberger in the
Oregon law school and thus add i
lustre to its reputation. They j
cannot be big-souled enough to
hun a wider field in which;
his abilities will have full scope,
even though it cost them consid
erable advantage. We, too, real
ize the sacrifice that we are mak
ing.
The radicals shall not succeed.
If it takes every cent we have,
Neuberger shall go to Harvard
(or Amherst, or Princeton, or
Yale, or any school on the East
coast). Assurance of our victory
is given by a secret agreement
reached with Claude Ingalls, edi
tor of the Corvallis Gazette-Times,
in which he pledges his complete
support in combating the radicals
on the Oregon campus. This is
done at great personal sacrifice,
and is only made possible by ex
treme deviation from his usual
editorial policy.
Another point. How can we of
the Oregon campus pursue a self
ish policy, when the Oregon State
Barometer, with fine unselfish
sportsmanship, rises above its
slight disagreements with Mr.
Neuberger and offers to contrib
ute from its own sadly depleted
funds toward the great cause?
They want to see him go East,
too.
Students of Oregon, let us
scotch this viper in our bosom,
crush these small-souled men. Let
us resolve that, cost what it may,
Neuberger shall go to Harvard!
Thank you,
BARNEY.
April 6
To the Editor:
A further example of the blat
ant coercive use of the “power of
the press” became apparent this
morning with the publication of
the list of the percentage rank
ings of various living organiza
tions in their enrollment in the
associated students. It' is well
enough for the Emerald, as the
organ of the associated students,
to support the so-called “drive” in
its editorial columns, but such >a
patent attempt at coercion as this
method of social indictment begins
to pall on even the most gullible.
Far from enemies of the asso
ciated students, there are some of
us who feel that such subversive
propaganda as appeared in your
columns this morning makes the
Emerald (long an avowed advo
cate of personal libertiest the tool
of an outworn political machine!
which would desire nothing better
than to raise an accusing finger i
at students who find no need of
the stimulation of the activities!
sponsored by the ASUO, and amid
cries of “slacker.”' cast a stigma
upon individuals and organiza
tions which respond less readily
to normal and legitimate adver
tising pressure.
Respectfully,
G. P. H.
Patronize Emerald' Advertisers.'
Reading
-and
Writing
PEGGY CHESSMAN, Editor
■\M"UCH to the chagrin of the ed
itor, it has been brought to
light that this column has failed
to the utmost in satisfying its
readers, few though they may be,
and that all phases of literature
have not been given equal amounts
of publication.
We reprint here a letter of com
plaint, handed in by none less than
a member of our teaching corps:
Dear Reading and Writing
Editor,
I regret, to note that your
column has failed to take an
enlightened interest in an im
portant branch of literature.
As an old subscriber, I look
to yoi i for guidance and inspi
ration. Can you not supply us
with a good list of detective
stories measuring up to the
following high canons of crit
icism :
1.—The baronet should be
found dead on the library
floor not later than the bot
tom of page five.
2—There must be no ghosts,
no terrors, no international
crime conspiracy, and no mys
tery except who done it.
3. —The chief constable
should call in Scotland Yard
in the third chapter, and the
inspector assigned must be
shrewd, pertinacious, and
courteous, and speak excellent,
though somewhat stilted Eng
lish.
4. —It must be apparent af
ter reading the book that ade
quate clues really were re
corded in chapter seven, but
not noticed at the time.
5. —The girl must be a dan
dy, but no love interest until
the next to the last page.
Yours for a highbrow col
umn,
FACULTY READER.
Following upon the theory that
the customer is always right,
Reading and Writing takes this
opportunity to humbly apologize
to its readers for this oversight,
and will in the future undertake
such measures as will cover the
ENTIRE field of literature. How
ever, we must bear in mind that
“you can please some of the peo
ple all of the time, all of the people
some of the time, but never ail of
the people all of the time.” Life
is rather futile is it not ?
To its public Reading and Writ
ing now appeals loudly and earn
estly. It has spent the best part
of two days and nights trying in
vain to discover some detective
story that will fall in the above
mentioned category.
The nearest Reading and Writ
! ing came was “London Calling,”
by Val Gielgud and Holt Marvell,
i but the authors spoiled the whole
thing by killing Sidney Parsons as
late as page ten. Scotland Yard
was busy, there were no ghosts to
speak of, no international crime
mixup, and the love interest was
slight.
“The Mystery of the Fiddling
Cracksman,’’ by Harry Stephen
Keeler, and "The Return of Ar
sene Lupin," by Maurice Leblanc
ran “London Calling” a close sec
ond, except that the authors could
not resist the temptation to in
volve a woman in both cases and
the love interest sprang up as
early as the second chapter.
Unless some of the readers can
make better suggestions, Reading
and Writing will have to write
THE detective story. In the mean
time, does anyone know who wrote
the letter ?
Innocent
Bystander
By BARNEY CLARK
The editor refused to print our
column today, so we had to run it
in Letters to the Editor, or Safety
Valve, or whatever it is. Tuesday
we will write our own obituary,
because no one else can do it as
well as we can. Goodbye now!
The Student
Church
I ROSEBELLE HIMELSTEIN
A FIRE, mist, and a planet,
A crystal and a cell.
A jellyfish and a saurian,
And caves where cavemen
dwell—
Then a sense of law and beauty,
And a face turned from the clod,
Some call it Evolution,
And some call it God.
W. H. Garruth.
First Congregational
“Will America Submit to Regi
mentation?” Rev. Clay E. Palmer,
minister of the First Congrega
tional church, will attempt to an
swer this question tomorrow dur
ing the morning service at 11.
After the morning service the
University students will climb
Spencer’s butte.
Baptist
Rev. Bryant Wilson will speak
at 11 a. m. on “Freedom in Christ.”
At 7:30 in the evening the topic
will be “Life After Death.” The
Linfield college quartet from Mc
Minnville will sing at 9:45 a. m.
Westminster House
Edith Grim will lead the morn
ing discussion group at 9:45. The
usual social half hour will be held
at 6 p. m. and from 6:30 to 7:30
John Caswell will conduct another
discussion group under the title of
“What Is the Prune Purpose of
Existence ?”
Central Presbyterian
“The Winged Words of Jesus”
will be the subject on which Rev.
Milton Weber will preach at the
11 o’clock service. At 7:30 p. m.
he will also speak on “The Scrip
tural Exposition on Fate.”
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