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University of Oregon. Eugene Sterling Green, Editor Grant Thuemmel, Manager Joseph Saslavsky, Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Doug Polivka and Don Caswell, Associate Editors; Guy Shadduck, Stanley Kobe UPPER NEWS STAFF Malcolm Bauer, News Ed. Estill Phipps, Sports Ed. A1 Newton. Dramatics and Chief Night Ed. Peggy Chessman, Literary Ed. Harney Clark, fiumor h.d. Cynthia Liljeqvist, Women’s E<L Mary Louiee Edinger, Society Ed. James Morrison, Radio Ed. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Ireu j'ishcr. Adv. Mpr. William Temple, Asst.. Adv. Mgr. Eldon Haberman, National Adv. Mgr. Pearl Murphy, Asst. National Adv. Mgr. h,(i L,ar>De, Lirctiiation Mgr, Ruth Rippey, Checking Mgr. Willa Bitz, Checking M*gt Sez Sue, Jarris Worley Alcne Walker, Office Mgr. ADVERTISING SALESMEN: Bob Helliwcll, Jack Lew. Bob Cresswell, Jerry Thomas, Jack MeGirr. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Grctclien Gregg, Doris O^land, Cynthia Cornell. 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, nil of December and all of March except the first three days. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as seoond-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. THE Of ARD AND STUDENT ACTIVITIES SELDOM does Eugene’s Register-Guard permit its feet to be swept off the ground of solid reality. But its editorial of Sunday, advocating the curbing of the "entire (student\ activity racket,” and suggesting the abandonment of conference ath letic relations, was mere building of dream castles, and hardly worthy of consideration by those com missioned to reorganize student government. Every serious student has long realized that universities would be much better off if the “whole weird structure of intercollegiate athletics” were toppled, and not a few have said so. But that is not a valid reason for Oregon schools to consider such action at present, or even for many years to come. We may harangue at "over-emphasis” on foot ball, at the nation-wide practice awarding schol arships on the basis of gross tonnage and line smashing ability—but we are jousting with wind mills. As long as America’s philosophy of educa tion is to educate everybody, as long as colleges compete among themselves instead of cooperating among themselves, as long as great student popu lations and fine physical plants are considered hardly secondary to scholastic,attainment, the sys tem of pseudo-amateur football and basketball will prevail. It would be foolhardy for Oregon to step out of line. Those who would be the first to applaud the sweeping change from the educational standpoint must immediately recognize that such a move would probably lead to an aggravation of the University’.? already grievous troubles. Could the University be sure that a majority of other colleges would follow suit, then the step might be taken. Until then, the approach to the problem is through advocating joint action of all conference schools, rather than urging isolated ones to try the perilous experiment * * * IN the matter of other student activities, the Guard's position is a bit more difficult to ana lyze. On Sunday it demanded a debunking of the "activity racket.” On Tuesday it acknowledged that orchestras, bands, debate clubs, concerts and lectures have obvious educational merit, and are presumably worthy of support. Apparently it is advocating complete separation of athletics from the so-called cultural activities. The Emerald is solidly behind any move to ex pand the educational activities, rather than deflate them. And the Emerald, plus probably 95 percent of the students, does not care how they are admin istered, as long as these three conditions are met: 1. That there continue to be a reasonable degree of coordination of the financial and functional administrations of those activities which necessarily have close relationships. 2. That proceeds from football continue to be available for the support of non-athletic ac tivities. 3. That there be no diminution of the part which students themselves play in the control of their activities. The crux of the Guard's campaign lies in its appeal for lowering the cost of attendance at Ore gon’s institutions. Herein we thoroughly agree and here relief is in sight. Were it not for the A.S.U.O.’s burden of debt, now fast disappearing, we believe that student dues could be immediately cut in half. There can be no doubt that the board of higher education will reduce the cost of enrollment as soon as it is financially feasible to do so. This issue lies entirely with the board of higher education, and there is no doubt that the board will slash fees at the eailiest opportunity. EASY A'S FRESHMAN writes today to Safety Valve -tV inquiring what ])olicies will be pursued by the committee on military training named last term for the hearing of petitions for exemption from drill. He is willing, he says, to take his “easy A's" this term, but does not want to spend valuable hours next year on the drill field. The only answer which can be given is that the committee has not organized a basis for procedure and has not yet designated what it will consider legitimate grounds for exemption. It is fair to say that it has been deliberating frequently and expects to meet again this week for the purpose of further studying plans for a policy of operation. Two students filed requests for exemption at the beginning of this term, but in neither case has a final decision been granted, since no code of allow able excusea has been formulated. Neither student, however, is now enrolled in military department : classes. It is surprising to the Emerald that the com mittee has not proceeded farther toward organiza tion. But it is likely, and indeed to be hoped, that the committee will be ready to submit a statement of policy well before the close of this term. Unless | adequate publicity is given its procedure and policy, so that freshmen and sophomores may know how to secure exemption, the committee will have failed to serve its purpose. NON-FEE-PAYING MUSICIANS 'T'HE EMERALD suggests for consideration of 1 the executive count.1, in session this afternoon, a dispute which is said to be causing serious dis turbance to the Univer: ity orchestra, now in re hearsal for a concert on May 7. Repeated statements from A.S.U.O. officers have declared that no non-member of the A.S.U.O. shall (be allowed to participate in the orchestra, band, or other student-supported activities. The orchestra, made up to a large extent of graduate students, supplemented by citizens of Eugene, is inclined to take issue with this ultimatum. It declares, rightly, that if the orchestra is to be beneficial to its under graduate members and worthy of representing the University it should be allowed to use its non student musicians. Likewise, the musicians question whether the amount of support given by the A.S.U.O. ($225 is the budgeted amount for the current year) is great enough to warrant the A.S.U.O.’s assumption of dictatorial powers in the matter. All of which raises a number of delicate ques- i tions: If the non-campus and non-fee-paying members of the orchestra do not purchase membership cards before May 7, will they be permitted to play in the concert? Will members of the band whose pres ence is necessary to the quality of its musicianship be barred from performing because of non-payment of fees ? The band is supported to the extent of about $1680: is that a sufficient subsidy to warrant A.S.U.O. control over it? The morale of the orchestra cannot be at its best while the issue hangs fire. A settlement should j be made today. On Other Campuses Arc There Too Many? TNDIVIDUALS have been expressing the opinion that there are too many honorary and profes sional organizations on the campus in which mem bership is an honor without being otherwise bene ficial. There is an overlapping of organizations in many of the departments of the University it is contended. Membership in several of these leads to excessive expenses as well as a loss of time in at tending meetings and in organization work, if the student has no direct interest in the organization. Organizations are to many individuals worth the money spent for them; but when a student joins an organization only to become a social lion, then his money and time could be spent elsewhere to greater advantage. Keys and pins will mean little to him after his short span of university life unless he has a personal interest in the things for which they stand. If there are too many organizations, the reform should come through them rather than from other sources. Many of the professional fraternities are accepting membership only from students who in tend to make their life work that for which the fraternity stands. In this way they are eliminating the tendency of fraternity members to pledge people because of their popularity rather than because of merit or interest in professional fields.—Daily Kansan. Students Are Adults urF the time ever comes when we are prepared to treat university students like adults we shall see further economies in administration,” Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, declared in a recent article in the Yale Review. "Universities,” he said, “have developed the idea in parents, or parents have developed it in universites, that the institution is in some way re sponsible for the moral, social, and intellectual wel fare of the student. This is very nice for the par ents; it is hard on the universities, for, besides being expensive, it deflects from their main task, which is the advancement of knowledge. A university can not undertake to give a student character or intellectual interest, he said. If it is to do its work properly the student must have these qualities when he enrolls. President Hutchins is not speaking only of the University of Chicago where he has made great strides forward in admin istration and contributed in no mean degree to the advancement of knowledge. He is speaking of any university which finds that it is spending too much money to do the work of a custodial establishment, a church or of a body-building institute. Parents who do not make adults of their children before they ship them off to college unquestionably are handicapping not only the school which receives the children but also the children themselves. If a boy or girl can not take care of himself or her self by the time college age is reached, it is unlikely that he or she will learn to do so without consid erable pain and without unnecessary trouble and expense for the school which receives him or her. The work of the university should begin where the work of parents leaves off. The duties of the two should not overlap. Indiana Daily Student. UNFOLDING OF SLOGAN MYSTERY IS SCHEDULED (Continued from Fane One) Printing, Babb's Hardware, Gor don’s, The Hub, Tiffany Davis. Army & Navy. Smart’s, Co-op. Hoffman Jewelry, Carson's, Cara way's, Pressman, Paul D. Green. Graham's, McCready’s, Preston &• Hales, Cressey’s, Bristow's, Oregon Pharmacy. Coe Stationery, Hender shott, and Old, YVortnmn & King. Thelma Nelson, journalism grad uate of 1933. has a secretarial po sition in tlie office of Arne G. Rae, assistant professor of journalism and C.i-1 manager for lire Ot^Joa | Editorial association. She began I work Monday. j ----- TWENTY HOUSES PAIR UP FOR CANOE FETE (('onliniieJ from Pa>je One) I “Captain, 1 mean Emperor," the man ventured “Procedo,” Cardinal Tongue an swered in bad Latin. “Don't burn ’em but have a mighty pageant and let these Christians produce it and thus keep the University at Eugene.” Tongue stroked his grizzled chin and cogitated "Splendid. 1 nom inate you editor." None other than our president friend liemic scuttled away happy but tired. And everybody and Popeye lived happily afterwards while t h e Christians rushed to their Cata combs and the Vesuvian Gasette printed the following pairings for the fete which will be repeated in other issues: Beta Theta Pi and Hendricks hall: Kappa Sigma and Susan Campbell; Phi Kappa Psi and Zetti Tail Alpha: Phi Sigma Kappa and Sigma Kappa: Pi Kappa Alpha and Phi Mu: Omega hall and Kappa Kappa Gamma: Delta I'p silon and Chi Omega: Sigma Alpha Mu and Alpha Gamma Delta; Stg ma hall and Alpha Delta Pi Phi Dtl'.a Tltctu and Gamma Phi Jb. ta. Withdrawing—In Good Order • By STANLEY ROBE Estimates Edited by J. J. G. MAD MAX MILLER, EDITOR 4\fAD" MAX they called him, iTI~ “Mad" Max Miller. His kind is scarce on any campus. The University of Washington has not seen another such in twelve years. X would like to tell some stories about this man. But first, if mem ory is short, remember that Max Miller is the author of three books that have been widely acclaimed - books that have received as well a tremendous popular reception. The first was "I Cover the Water front”; the second, “He Went. Away for Awhile”; and the third, “The Beginnings of a Mortal.” But they tell little of the strange story; there is no more than a hint of the "Mad" Max Miller. My information is second-hand; I have never met him. But I be lieve that Max Miller first came to Washington after the war. He started to school and was distin guished from the start by his un conventional opinions. By that I do not mean that he led the ad vance in the post-war moral dis integration; I do not mean that he was a leader of modernity. Far from it. Miller's opinions were, though unconventional, not the popular kind. He had that strange capacity, granted to-so few, of un covering, as though by an instinc tive elemental sense, the sham and hypocrisy, the superimposed and utterly irrational modes of action, to which all cultures at one time or another seem certain to fall heh. In all this time Miller poured his impassioned and bitter scorn upon the head of mediocrity. He was a savage raging Houyhnhnm in the midst of a bumbling herd of Yahoos. * * * 'X'HE' story is still told of how he wrote and published a book called “C Plus” ridiculing the average student, the average pro fessor who gave an average grade, in short, the sad average. I have also heard that the book was writ ten as a result of a similar grade given to him. Not, you under stand, because it was less than excellent, but because it was aver age. He would have appreciated an “A”; he would have accepted an “F” without dejection, but a “C Plus,” that was the insult too bitter to bear. Proud Max Miller almost left school that time. It was during his last year at Washington that Max Miller be came editor of the campus daily. Long before this he had withdrawn from his fraternity house and taken a little shack on the lake front. Here he lived alone with the husky dog that later became the school mascot. Here, seeing few visitors, he loafed, read into the night, and invited his soul. I should like to have known Max Miller at that time, the year that he became editor of the campus daily. It was then, I believe, that he came into his fullest reputation. Everyone knew “Mad” Max. Then it was that he published his fa mous editorial, “Ten Reasons Why I Am Mad ..." I remember one I reason. “Because I do not walk Innocent Bystander By BARNEY CLARK A HE we MORTIFIED! '' At last word has gotten out about the humiliating experience thal was ours in the Co-op a few days ago. Just to keep the record straight, we'll give you a blow-by blow description. We came in there one morning to get our Emerald and found a new man behind the desk. Calmly we reach forward and appropriate a paper and start to walk out. “Just a minute," says he sternly. "Do you have a student body card?” “Sure," say we, somewhat taken aback. “What's your name?" he enun ciates. We look at him, but he really means it. "Barney Clark," say we, smirk ing proudly and preening ourself just a little. He looks at us without a glim mer of recognition. “How do you spell it," says he. * « * From one of the members of the graduate department cwm's what we believe to he the final and ultimate solu tion to the registration prob lem. She (yes “she"! suggests that the Fniversity buy a num ber of penny arcade moving picture machines. (You know, these devices into which you j drop a penny and look at some thing entitled " V Night in a Harem" or some such). The original films she would re place with moving pictures ot each professor delivering his first lecture for flic term. Since the machines would be equipped with c.uli 0tu dent would know exactly what he was being let in for. and would avoid the repetition of such incidents as that of the young gentlemen who signed up for physical education and after two weeks woke up to the fact that it was only gym after all. We think it would be fun nier to leave the original films in, though. * * * OGDEN GNASHES “Underestimating your allure Makes your footwork fast and sure!" * * * “Hey, RUBE!!!!!” CLASSIFIED Advertisements Rates Payable in Advance 10c a line for first insertion; 5c a line for each additional insertion. Telephone 3300; local 214 DRESSMAKING PETITE SHOP 373 13th Ave. E. Phone 320S “Style right price right” LOST Black and white Shaeffer pen, near Condon. Finder please call Hague Callister. 1320. WANTED Einzig’s "Fascism.” The University library wants the copy of Einaig's “Fascism” that I loaned to somebody. J. £f. Barnett. down University Avenue with a girl on my arm and a sack of pop corn in my hand.” But that was not enough; Max Miller proceeded sharply and methodically to ex coriate the foibles and practices of collegiana. * * * rpHERE is another story told of Max Miller’s love life. Max often addressed this lady in his editorials by her initials. He might as well have spelled the name, letter for letter. It is a charming story; it is typical of the man. And there is no trace of maliciousness in my narration of it, only a deep respect and admir ation for a young genius who could be so gloriously, deliciously mad. Finally Max left school for the south seas, or Singapore, or Mal lorca, or Hong Kong, or some other equally exotic place—I have forgotten his exact destination. It does not matter. Regardless of his direction it was the mad quix otic quest that one could expect Max Miller to undertake. He did not finish the year at school, but made a dramatic exit with the last issue of his term as editor. It was splendid, that last editorial that he wrote. It was a moving i document (Miller was ever the | artist) in which he bid the school good-bye’, and in the next breath ! he gave the girl of the initials a j parting kiss upon the forehead. I And then “Mad” Max Miller was ! gone. He picks up his own story from there in his first book and carries it on into his second and third. Max Miller, I salute you! * * * T ONCE heard one who knew Max Miller say that he was only a tramp, a tramp reporter. I can not believe it. He is more . . . much more. Last year in Seattle I talked to those who knew the former editor back in those days, twelve years ago. “He was a queer duck, that Mil ler,” said one. “Yeah, yu never knew what he was gonna do next,” the other af firmed. For a moment they meditated in silence. The comparatively youth ful author might have been dead, judging from the hushed rever ence of their speech. “Yu know I never could under stand what that guy was up to. Never could tell what he meant when he talked to yu," the first concluded. "Yeah,” the second added. “He was a queer duck. Never knew what he’d do next.” 1 SEE none about me today, Max Miller, who are as splendidly mad as you were. No one mad enough to fight for his own con victions ; no one mad enough to bare hypocrisy with your courage. A cup around for “Mad” Max Mil ler! Emerald of the Air and Elsewhere By JIMMY MORRISON Fio Rito plays some pretty tricky stuff, but Hal Kemp has beaten him at his own game. Kemp gets off about two of those fast little clarinet and flute joints between melody notes to Ted’s one. But af ter all, it’s what you like that gets your vote, as long as it isn’t Lom bardo. Slim Taft—there seems to be a bit of an argument in the advisory board whether Slim plays fiddle or bass fiddle—is now playing with George Olsen on the road, some where near New York, no doubt. Slim used to play in the Oregon grill in Portland, and George got his start many years ago in Port land. Sweet voiced Ethel Shutta is George’s wife. •5s Jimmy Lunceford is at the Cot ton club, Lenox avenue at 142, New York. He plays a glorified impres sion of “Tiger Rag” that will get you . . . Rubinoff plays in the Roosevelt Grill . . . Isham Jones is at the Commodore . . . Ozzie Nelson's at the Park Central Co coanut Grove . . . Little Jack Lit tle is at the Lexington . . . Phil Harris is at the Palais Royal . . . The Safety Valve An Outlet for Campus Steam All communications arc 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. To the Editor: As X remember there was a fac ulty committee appointed to hear the requests of under-division stu dents for exemption from R.O.T.C. I have not heard of this commit tee since its appointment was an nounced. Is it possible to find out the grounds upon which exemption will be granted and the procedure required by this committee, or must we still submit to the mock hearing given by the military de partment? Many of us are willing to take our “easy A’s” again for this term but after a year's trial do not wish to waste our time there during the sophomore year. Has there been or will there be a statement of policy issued by this committee ? G. B. To the Editor: After listening to four of Sir Herbert Ames’ lectures on Euro pean politics and its relations to the League of Nations I cannot help but feel that the gentlemen at Geneva are not taking their job too seriously. While the story of “Sir George Foster’s little pink handkerchief’ and “Three cheers for Mr. Briand” are, no doubt, de lightful incidents in the lives of these gentlemen, however, they al so take a considerable amount of time and attention from such problems as the Sino-Japanese and the Bolivia-Paraguay’conflict. Furthermore Sir Herbert seems to base his conclusions on the as sumption that the present govern ments of Europe represent 100 per cent of the public opinion of the nations they dominate. With that Sir Herbert forgets that in each European country there are large political minorities which will share in the important decisions that Europe is awaiting. More direct methods of education in internationalism than the League of Nations idea will be necessary to prevent the worst holocaust that humanity has ever seen. GOTTFRIED HESSE. And dear old Rudy Valee is at the Hollywood restaurant. Today the Emerald of the Air W’ill present for your entertain ment and pleasure piano solos played by Frank Evenson. Tune in on KORE at 4:30. Tune in CBS at 6:30 tonight and hear Burns and Allen. Lombardo’s on the same program, but he does n't hurt it too much. Ted Fio Rito and his orchestra will be on at 7. Dick Powell makes a darned good master of ceremonies. That con tinuity last week, though—where he swore he was going to mention Old Golds on the program—was terribly feeble. He’d get about as far as saying “Old G—,’’ then he’d say, “Remember, I didn’t say it.” “Patronize Emerald Advertisers.” ■oTso&«-®VV These humble quatrains are composed To tell a sprightly talc Of how a witty junior nosed A senior with a frail. The tale, yc hearties, goes like this: It seems two lads were nuts About a certain little miss Whose name, we ll say, was Lutz. The junior’s Christian name was Tom; Ihe senior's name was Bert. They both considered lor the prom 1 he same blond, blue-eyed skirt. Now Bert had honors, letters; he Was quite the well-known lad. While two-bucks-ten and faith-in-me Were all that Tommy had. When blond Miss Lutz declined to go With Bert, he wondered why. i hat Tommy should get all the show Was quite a blackened eye. He learned the night the prom was thrown Why he had lost the date. tor lorn had made the timely loan Of someone’s Ford Y-8!