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University of Oregon, Eugene Sterling Green, Editor Grant Thuemmel, Manager Joseph Sasiavsky, Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Doug Polivka and Don Caswell, Associate Editors; Guy Shadduck, Stanley Robe UPPER NEWS STAFF Maicoim liauer, iNews &a. I? ill Bowerman. Sports Ed. A1 Newton, Dramatics and Chief Night Ed. Elinor Henry, Features Ed. uarney i^iarK, wumor ivi. Cynthia Liljeqvist, Women’s Ed Mary Louiee Edinger, Society Ed. James Morrison, Radio Ed. DAY EDITORS: A1 Newton, Mary Jane Jenkins, Bob Moore, Newton Stearns. EXECUTIVE REPORTERS: Ann-Rced Burns, Howard Kess let*. Roberta Moody, Peggy Chessman. REPORTERS: Miriam Eichner, Marian Johnson, Ruth Weber, Eleanor Aldrich, Leslie Stanley, Newton Stearns, Clifford Thomas, Hcnryctta Mutnmcy, Jlelcn Dodds, llenriette Ilorak. SPORTS STAFF: Clair Johnson, Asst. Sports Ed.; George Jones, Don Olds, Margery Kissling, Bill Mclnturff. COPYREADERS: Elaine Cornish, Dorothy Dill, Marie Pell, Phyllis Adams, Maluta Read, George Bikman, Virginia Endicott, Dorothy Dykeman, Mildred Blackburnc. WOMEN’S PAGE ASSISTANTS: Mary Graham, Bette Church, Ruth Heiberg, Betty Shoemaker. NIGHT EDITORS: George Bikman. Rex Cooper. Tom Ward. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Hcnryetta Mtimmey, Irma Egbert. Margilcc Morse, Jane Bishop, Doris Bailey, Mary Ellen Eberhart. RADIO STAFF: Howard Kessler, Eleanor Aldrich, SECRETARY: Mary Graham. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF j' 1 cii risner. ;\av, ;wgr. William Temple, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Eldon Haberman, National Adv. Mgr. Pearl Murphy, Asst. National Adv. Mgr. jmi i^aoDe, oirctuauon Mgr. Ruth Rippey, Checking Mgr. Willa Bitz, _ Checking Mgt. Sez Sue, Janis Worley Alene Walker, Office Mgr. ADVERTISING SALESMEN: Bob Hclliwcll, Jack Lew, Bob Cresswell, Jerry Thomas, Jack McGirr. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Grctchcn Gregg, Doris Osland, Cynthia Cornell. 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 Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York City; 123 W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1206 Maple Ave., Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, published daily during the college year, except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, examination periods, all of December and all of March except the first three days. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. Frank Fullback’* Grades: In Reply A FEW days ago the Emerald commented upon the report of the North Central Association of Colleges and High Schools in which it was stated that in 11 colleges out of 64 surveyed in the middle west 25 percent of the athletes flunked out of school. The Emerald presented several aspects which might tend to modify the startling appearance of such figures. But since that time another interesting and significant survey has been made which enables us to see how Oregon’s athletes stack up. N. Thomas Stoddard, assistant graduate man ager, has made a. report, printed elsewhere in thi3 isauc, allowing liuiu tile Oicguh aulilcfe uas <t ilighci grade point average than the level of all the other men in school. Athletes have an average of 1.3242. The all-men average is 1.2973; the all-men's-organi zation average is 1.2520; and the all-fraternity average is 1.2115. These figures are even more significant in that in tie case of basketball (1.42), baseball (1.35) and track (1.371 the averages were taken during the playing season. Football averages were taken for last term. Stoddard's figures are exceedingly gratifying to those of us who have been worrying as to whether or not athletics were doing the damage claimed for them by educators. No matter what the scholastic standing of athletes elsewhere in the country, Ore gon athletes are certainly not lagging behind the rest of the school. The Remedy of Portland'* Mayor TJREWEHY representatives were asked by Port land’s Mayor Carson last week to lower the alcoholic content of their respective brands of beer. He told them point blank that the people didn’t vote to “wallow in liquor” when they repealed the 18th amendment. Although no official action was taken to sanc tion Carson’s request, it was generally felt in met ropolitan circles that the city council approved. A Salem news item yesterday told that the city council was considering the enactment of an ordi nance limiting the alcoholic content of Salem beer to 2.75 by volume, or 3.5 by weight. Several weeks ago Eugene's legislative body unsuccessfully attempted to place a “dry zone” around the University. Should the Eugene city council ever again de cide that certain sections of the city need purifica tion, the Emerald suggests Eugene follow the footsteps of the two up-state cities. It is evident that it is the only proper and workable way out. “Nips” NEARLY two thousand years ago the stocky slant-eyed people of Yamato began a series of conquests that brought a group of islands off the coast of China under their domination. The inhabitants of the Korean peninsula referred to these islands as the “land of the rising sun,” and the name, Nippon, is supposed to have been be stowed by the Korean .. That Venetian wanderer, Marco Polo, heard of the “dwarf islanders” during his travels in far Cathay, but to his Occidental ears “Nippon” became “Ziparg.” Before the name h^d been bandied much further “Zipang” had been converted into French “Japon” and English “Japan.” Thus when Commodore Matthew Perry convinced the Shogunate that the islands should engage in normal trade relations with other countries, the Nipponese found they were Japanese as far as the rest of the world was con cerned. Modern imperialistic Japan has borne up silently under such impolite Occidental tinkering with its name, but the worm has finally turned. The Jap anese- -pardon, Nipponese have officially decided that they are to be Nipponese whether the United States, the League of Nations, and Russia like it or not. Unless the supposedly invincible “moral force” of world opinion can induce the islanders to remain Japanese, it is probable that in the future William Randolph Hearst will have to wage head line wars on the Nipponese. But, will the Nipponese resent being called “Nips” as much as they did the word “Japs”? Correction IN yesterday’s Emerald interviews with candi dates for A.S.U.O. offices, the sections of the interviews carried over to page 2 were altered by mistake, so that the interview with Bill Berg, can didate for vice-president on the Bauer ticket, was substituted for that of Norman Lauritz, candidate on the Renner ticket. All those portions of inter views on the front page were correct. On Other Campuses Planning the Revolution No Longer Necessary IT appears that there have been few men to waste the time and money of the U. S. congress like Dr. William A. Wirt. Among the more important disclosures that the Gary educator made before the investigating com mittee was the charge that Mrs. Franklin D. Roose - velt’s subsistence farms were “communistic” in nature. To which Mi.4. Roosevelt is said to have an swered: “If it is communism to give persons an opportunity to earn their own living and buy their own homes, then let Dr. Wirt make the most of it.” And to which we say that if it is communism to give such government aid to unemployed (i.e. un able to provide for themselves) persons, then it is likewise communism to care for the aged, the help less, the sick, and the insane in government owned and operated farms, sanitariums, and hospitals. The principle is exactly the same. And if Dr. Wirt persists along this line of reasoning, then it is com munism to allow the government to assume the responsibility for the education of our children through the public school system, with which he lias been associated fot years. Dr. Wirt’s charges are like the cries of "Wolf, wolf,” which the shepherd boy uttered in Aesop's famous fable. The investigating committee has found only that the brain trust is planning sincerely lor a better America in which the welfare of the people will be the supreme law. Furthermore, Dr. Wirt is far behind times when he charges that the young men occupying high positions in the presi dent’s unofficial cabinet are plotting a revolution. Has he been asleep for a year? The revolution has occurred, and the nation is on a firmer basis be cause of it. The whole political philosophy of the American government has undergone changes that cannot be called other than revolutionary: we have spent billions for relief, we have regulated private industry to a degree never before attempted, and we have gone into the power business and municipal housing on a larger scale than ever before. Yet Dr. Wirt says the brain trusters are "planning” a revolution. Daily Trojan. On Jane Thacher’s Program .1 Editor's note: The following interview with .lane Timelier, professor of piano in the Uni versity school of music, who w ill give a piano recital tonight, was written by Louis I*. Artau, as sociate professor of music. It Is a description of the selections on Mrs. Thacher's program. ,4H/|RS. THACHEK, 1 wonder if ■lTl you would tell us something regarding tlie numbers which you are to play Thursday evening ' You know there are so many dif ferent ways of imparting infor mation to the public, from the ex planatory remarks preceding a recital, or during the groups to the regular to conventional pro gram notes,” I asked Mrs. Timelier yesterday in her studio. Mrs. Thacher replied, "Well, to begin with, you already know that this program is made up entirely of numbers which various friends and musical acquaintances have desired to hear. Some are being played again; others are new to my program. The ballet of 'The Happy Spirits' is from an old opera of Gluck's 'Orpheus,' this particu lar opus is the only thing now played from that ballot. The sec ond number, the Konmrma of Mo zart's, was originally written for strings. Iganz Friedman lias made a beautiful arrangement of it for piano solo. To begin to analyze a romance let us just appeal to the imagination and then pure music in romantic flavour." "Now for Brahms, r might give you just a hurried sket H of my ideas about Brahms music, it is often harsh, dogmatic, with som ber passion, often very reserved. Because he was an unsatisfied and rebellious person, his music often reveals agitation. There is his Rhapsody, the one in B-minor, the final number of my Brahms group. It is written •agitato,' an agitated, restless state of mind, it seems to be Brahms' mental rebellious state against the world and himself. It is rugged and north German. There are two beautiful passages, one in D minor, which is poignant, even nostalgic, then the trio in B in which one can feel an expression of Brahms' love of the outdoors. "But, to get back to Brahms. With all these characteristics, yet, side by side with such expressions will be found passages of great tenderness, of exquisite dreamy quality like those in the 'Two In , tenutozzi' und in tin oue portion of the Rhapsody. His music is ro mantic without sensuousness. Chopin's is romantic and sensu ous. The first of the Intermezzi is m a style that we are accus tomed to think of Brahms harsh, reserved, appossionato. full of somber passages. But the second 'Intermezzi' shows a totally differ ent Brahms, one of gentle melody and tenderness. The ‘Capriccio in B minor' might be called anything, being scherzo in style, with a Hungarian flavour, which might be iu all probability a hang-over from his youthful association with Rimini, the Hungarian violinist." Mrs. Thacher paused. * * * "The Chopin Nocturne in G, which opens the second group of the program, is so familiar to everyone, with its cascading thirds, fourths, and sixths which are magically euphonious The whole thing is painted with an ethereal brush. The middle section is one of the most beautiful ever penned, more like a barcarolle than a noc turne. It is very well known with its subtle shifting harmonic hues. "The Chopin Sonata in b flat minor." Mrs Thacher continued, has often been pronounced not onh Cliupiu m.uierpWt, bin on. of the greatest works in all piano literature as well. There are four movements. “The first movement, Grave, tells of the life of a knight of me dieval Poland. Fighting for his j native land, he suffers the priva-1 tions and horrors of warfare, the | hardships of camp and battlefield. The music hints at impending j tragedy. In the second movement, | Scherzo, the hero has returned tri-1 umphant. He is greeted by an idolizing populace. In the midst of the celebration to welcome him while accepting the honors be stowed upon him for valor, al- j though outwardly calm, nis thoughts wander. He becomes impatient and longs for the mo ment when lie can be off to receive j another welcome, the one which awaits him in his native village. No blaze of glory, no crowd to greet him there. But there is j one—. “The third movement, Marche j Funebrc. Filled with pride of | conquest, the hero now approaches his native village, his heart filled with the esteem of his country men, for he is about to realize his dream. But his reverie is inter rupted by the sound of a distant bell. It is a somber sound, slow, sad it can mean but one thing, a procession bearing to a last resting place some departed soui. A group of monks, a band of mourners are escorting to the burying ground in the churchyard the bride to whom he was hasten ing. “The fourth movement, Presto, is a vivid imitation of the wind a.s it rushes over a forsaken grave. Despair, gloom, a sense of hope lessness and utter loss—dolorous music this. “To speak of variation always throws a scare into people, taut this ‘Theme and Variations’ of Paderewski’s is varied. “The Scriabine Poeme and ‘The White Peacock’ are the only really modern numbers on this program. “The only excuse for the par ticular Moszkowski Waltz on the program is that it was requested by one of our distinguished co workers.’’ Delta Upsilon Golf Team Is Finalist Delta Upsilon went into the finals of the intramural golf tour nament yesterday with a 7'2 to 4Va victory over the Chi Psis. In the Beta-Kappa Sigma clash one more match remains to be played with the Kappa Sigs leading 5 to 4. The winning D.U. team was composed of Stan Smith Rill Rice. Jack Lew, and Chuck Kleinegger, while the losing Chi Psis had Stan Haberlach, Jim Wells, Bill Neigh bor, and H. Callister. In the Beta and Kappa Sigma match today Art Ireland and Dick Near will fight it out for the right to gain his team's entrance into the finals. Pre-Legal Group To Meet Tuesday The pre-legal student association will meet for the ‘last time this year Tuesday, May 1, at 7:30 p. m. in room 105 Oregon. Each mem ber of the law school faculty wall give a brief outline of the first year law course which he teaches. Special stress will be placed on the methods of instruction and ob jectives of the course. Orval Thompson, president of the organization, announced that the program has been planned so as to be of special interest to those students who plan to enter the law school next fall term, but will be of value and interest to all pre law students. YWCA Upperclassmen To Give Pothiek Dinner The annual spring term Y.W. C.A. potluck supper will be given! next Tuesday evening at 6 by the upperclass commission. The mo live for the supper is to advertise Seabeck, the "Y’s” summer camp. The upperclass c o m mission through Eleanor Wharton, general chairman for the event, extends an invitation to all upperclass women and freshmen. An unusual program is being arranged by Jean Lewis. Other chairmen are Charlotte Olitt, food; Betty Church, personal contact; and Margilee Morse, pub licity. The upperclass commission and the purpose and contact directo rate are having a pep meeting to day at l’j :30 noon and all are asked to attend. Timelier Will Talk With Portland Alumni Group \V. F. G. Thacher of the Eng lish and business administration departments will meet with the alumni chapter of Alpha Delta Sigma, men's professional adver tising fraternity, in Portland Fri day to make plans for the adver tising conclave and celebration for tiie tenth anniversary of the founding of the chapter. Thacher will also consult with those ill charge of the convention of the Pacific Advertising Clubs association, which will bo held in Portland early in July, regarding the educational department of ’ Inch Ip? i> the chairman. Do Your Duty5^- - - By STANLEY ROBE MARK 7OUR BALLOT WI s ELY On Liberal Student Movements Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of stories deal ing with liberal student move ments in the United States. By ELINOR HENRY npHE various “freedoms’’ guar ■ anteed to citizens of the Unit ed States by the constitution have come to be accepted on the Uni versity of Oregon campus as “na tural rights” of students and fac ulty members alike. But colleges elsewhere are not so fortunate, ac cording to Monroe M. Sweetland, recent campus visitor, who has visited almost 150 colleges and universities since last September as an organizing secretary for the student League for Industrial De mocracy. Emphatically not a communist, Sweetland nevertheless has not in frequently found himself labeled “red” and locked out of a sched uled meeting place by college au thorities who feared that their stu dents might, as the young social ist leader expressed it, “start their brain cells turning over.” Sweetland spoke enthusiastical ly of the successful anti-war dem onstration directed by his organi zation, the L. I. D., and other lib eral groups. Undoubtedly he will be still more enthusiastic when he reads th* following editorial ex pression of the Nation of April 25: “First prize in the students' anti war demonstration on April 1“ goes to Vassar college, which marched 300 strong, with Presi Innocent Bystander By BARNEY CLARK i^F all the concentrated displays of asininity ever perpetrated by mind of man, we believe the political rally held last night rep resents the supreme high pinnacle of idiocy. Only by the grace of God and the intervention of the kindly fate that guards fools and drunkards was a serious accident averted. We don't know yet what kept some of the discarded torches and bits of burning waste in the streets and the gas tank of some car from coming into disastrous contact. The deluded automatons grossly mislabeled “college stu dents” who marched in the parade were constantly getting burned by flaming gasoline dripping from the torches as it was. We have always been vociferous advocates of ‘“Oregon spirit," but when mob hysteria reaches the peak it attained last night; when such tremendous effort is put forth to place one or the other of two relatively unimportant men in a liivial and almost purely honorary position, we begin to wonder. It makes the validity of the doctrine of student government seem a lit tle doubtful. Even J. Jorgensen Jukes, with his maniacal motto, “Put Ignor ance in the Igloo’’ and his list of mentally deranged candidates does not reach the heights of insanity gained by his two serious contem poraries. Jukes is only feeble minded. Some day we MAY have a can didate that will not be of the “campus politician" type. Some day we MAY have a candidate that will have a valid and constructive platform. Some day we MAY have a candidate that will not deaf in vote-swapping and childish pub licity stunts. But if that day ever comes, five will get you fifty that he is snow under by a 20-to-l ma jority. "jane thacher to peay* TONIGHT IN RECITAL * -* (Continued from Page One) Thacher selected the numbers from ones she has presented in former appearances, and also gave consid eration to requests for certain numbers. Program (liven Her complete program will be: I Gluck-Friedman. Ballet Mozart-Friedman Romanza Brahms Two Intermessi, Op. 11S Brahms Capriecio B-minor, Op. 76 Brahms . .Rhapsody, B-minor, Op .79-1 Chopin.Nocturne G Op. 37-2 Chopin . .Sonata, B-flat minor. Op.35 1. Grave 2. Scherzo 3. Marche Funebre 4. Finale-Presto III Padereewski Theme and Variations, Op. 16-3 Charles Griffes The White Peacock, Op. 7-1 Scriabine . Poeme .Uoszkowski Waltz in F. Op. 34-1 Staff to Be Chosen Plans for the all-men edition of the Emerald, are under way. ac cording to Don Caswell, editor of the special edition. A new typo graphical make-up will be used. The staff has not been completely i boson yet but will be announced * 4 NERVOUS BREAKDOWN COMES UPON JUKES * _ "* (Continued from Page One) marching down Thirteenth street carrying a flashlight and playing a harmonica, shouting “Kallikak!! We want Kallikak!!” between crescendoes. Bl’LLKTIN New York, April 26.—(Special) Standard Oil rallied strongly in 1 the market today following news ; of the .orchlight parade held on ' the University of Oregon campus : last night. BULLETIN It is rumored that Mickey Vail i has been employed by the Jukes interests to hide in the ballot box today and swallow all ballots not marked for Jukes. CLASSIFIED Advertisements Kates Buyable in Advance 10c a line for first insertion; ! 5c a line for each additional insertion. Telephone 8300; local 214 DRESSMAKING PETITE SHOP 573 13th Ave. E. Phone 3208 “Style right—price right” LOST—Green and black Wafc! pen Call Margery ihayer, 63Sp dent McCracken and a group of trustees in the front line, through the streets of Poughkeepsie carry ing banners calling for internation al peace. In New York City, where between 10,000 and 15,000 students from different schools and colleges took part in t.he demonstration, Columbia university carried off the honors in point of numbers, with a mass meeting of 2,000 persons, including faculty members, which listened for two hours to speeches denouncing war, and sent a few hundred representatives to boo and hiss a counter-demonstration at tempted by Eugene S. Daniell jr., famous as the man who threw a stink bomb into the New York stock exchange. “The booby prize in the shape of a fine large onion was won by the mother of American universities, Harvard itself. There the young gentlemen who were not interested in the peace meeting, except to annoy it, amused themselves by shouting 'Heil Hitler!’ and throw ing eggs and tomatoes at the speakers. ‘ On the whole the demonstra tion was a huge success. It aroused a large amount of interest among students and faculty, it received generous notice in the press, it brought to a climax the silly sea son among cleans of colleges, no ticeably in the actions of Dean Gottshall of the College of the City of New York, who refused permis sion for a campus meeting and went himself to help the police suppress it when it was hold de spite his protests. There is every reason to believe that a strong pac ifist sentiment exists among Amer ican students. The Student League for Industrial Democracy and the National Student league, which sponsored the anti-war strike, de serve great credit for helping to make if manifest.” Emerald of the Air and Elsewhere By JIMMY MORRISON THE engagement of B. A. Rolfe, “The Men About Town,” and “Believe-It-or-Not" Bob Ripley on that Saturday night NBC program has been extended for another year. Tst task. B. A. Rolfe is the guy who used to pain you with his awful band cn the Lucky Strike programs. He was recently voted the worst band on the radio. * * * The name of Joe Renner might easily remind one of the name of Joe Penner, radio’s most favored star comedian. Penner is another one of those guys who thought he had to be seen to get any votes. Bing Crosby runs Joe a close sec ond in the race for foremost radio star. Yesterday Delta Upsiion cam paigned diligently for 15 minutes to assure University students that Jukes is the man for student body president. Jukes’ press correspon dent must have been working over time, because he is certainly a very versatile young gentleman. Dan Clark, Jr., performed a difficult feat for radio work. He read his stuff without giving the listeners the impression that he was read ing. His voice sounds well on the radio. Bob Lucas, D.U. crooner pianist, played and sang o.k. ex cept in “The Old Man of the Moun tain,” when he didn't play many of the right chords. The Yeomen are scheduled for aerial work this afternoon at 4:30. *PLANS FOR ANNUAL j EVENT TO BE FRIDAY —_-— -t|t (Continued Prom Pane One) mittee of Oregon Mothers, re gents room, John Straub memo rial building. 10 a. m.- Mass meeting of Oregon Mothers, Guild theater. 3-5:30 p. m.—Tea for mothers by Associated Women Students, Gerlinger hall. 5:30-3 p. m.—Banquet for mothers, faculty, and students, John Straub Memorial hall. 8:30 p. m.— Canoe fete. Sunday, May 13 8:30 a. m.—Meeting of executive p/V.n 1 o ~ ~ f' /"A v. r> regents room, John Straub Me morial biulding. 11 a. m.—Special services for mothers in all Eugene churches. 1 p. m.—Special dinner for moth ers in all living organizations. ALPHA DELTA SIGMA LADS PUT OUT LABOR ; I Continued From Page One) semblance of actual, if exaggerat ed, saw-mill buzzing, car-door slamming, millrace trickling, and libe-steps hacking (old style). There was even the sound of brok en traditions. The only effect they do not hope to reprpduce is the loud shriek of the sweater worn by the villain in one scene. The once-popular University made picture is to reopen official ly tonight, between showings of the Lee Tracy feature, “I’ll Tell the World.” It will be put on once each night during the regular schedule Friday and Saturday. At 11 o'clock Friday night the entire bill will be run especially for mem bers of the senior class participat ing in Senior Leap Week events, though others may attend. HEAD THE NEW BOOKS These 1934 copyrights rent for 3c per day Economy of Attendance - Stuart Chase Dr. Martino - - Wm. Faulkner Collected Poems - V. Sackville-West Memories of My Childhood Selma Largerlof Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald How Odd of God - - Lewis Browne Too Good to Be True - G. B. Shaw Nine Tailors - - Dorothy Sayers While Rome Burns Alexander Woollcott “HIGH HAT” RENTAL LIBRARY of the