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‘The Chief Thing’
\ GAIN members of the University drama division
tread the boards with a major production,
this time Evrcinov’s “The Chief Thing," uniquely
labeled “a comedy for some, a drama for others."
Twenty-nine student actors are included in the
cast, which will perform tonight and make addi
tional appearances on Friday and Saturday eve
nings, amid settings which would redound to the
credit of a professional troupe.
Under the direction of Horace W. Robinson of
the drama division, pre-curtain comment indicates
that "The Chief Thing" will maintain the high
standards which have characterised previous pre
sentations in which University actors and actresses
have appeared since , last fall.
A Lesson in Crime Prevention
T TIGHLY significant in their startling contrasts
are reports issued from London and from New
York concerning the ubiquitous problem of crime.
From the English city comes the news item that
only one out of 21 murders during last year in Lon
don’s population of more than 8,000,000 remains
unsolved. On the same day appeared an article
indicating lhaL the number of homicides in the
United States has doubled since 1900, the present
annual carnage being 11,000 to 12,000 slayings.
The glaring discrepancy between the situations
in the United States and in England is a reflection
of the ineffectual system of police and judicial pro
cedure in this country as compared with the expedi
tious methods used overseas.
Constructive efforts have been all too infrequent
in the United States to neutralize the mounting
power of lawbreakers. Bribery, intimidation, over
crowded courtroom dockets, the skyrocketing
growth of the kidnaping racket these are only a
few of the symbols of the light regard in which
the statutes of the land are held.
Thorough revision of the judiciary system in
America is the focal point around which attempts
to submerge the criminal element in the country
must concentrate. The United States might well
borrow a few suggestions from England, where
judges are appointed to lifetime positions with ade
quate remuneration and need not cringe before the
power of an electorate unresponsive to its obliga
tions.
Throwback
T the University of Michigan a new publication
*- has made its appearance. It is called the
“B.M.O.C. Handbook," the initials standing for "Big
Men On the Campus.” Listed in the book are all
the recognized campus big shots: athletes, student
editors, college politicians, and others who come
under the heading of "jolly fellows." A brief thumb
nail sketch is given of each man.
Such a book is an undesirable reversion to an
outworn era in American college life. It is an echo
of the giddy twenties, of the country club atmos
phere that went by tlie boards with the depression.
It is an instrument of snobbish favoritism and
vanity.
It means that an artificial campus peerage Is
being set up, working against the democratic char
acteristics that have come to prevail. Making the
"Big Man" book will become a matter not of
achievement but of crafty wire-pulling and well
considered hand-shaking.
It is to be hoped that, such publications do not
become prevalent in colleges throughout the coun
try—and if our faint knowledge of current under
graduate psychology is correct, they will not.
A Baseball Team
TJILL REINHART’S baseball team, aspirant for
-*-* northern division championship honors, will
make its second conference appearance before home
supporters this afternoon in the first of a two-game
series against the Idaho Vandals coached by Rich
Fox, the perennial umpire-baiter.
The Oregon team—colorful, ambitious, composed
largely of a highly capable group of hustling sopho
mores—is an entertain1-.g combination of offensive
and defensive skill, combined with an uncanny
ability to outfight opposition. The Oregon players
deserve all the verbal bouquets which can be
showered upon them, for they coolly engineered a
stirring seven-run rally to overcome Oregon State
in Corvallis Saturday. A record unsullied by de
feat is the result.
Perhaps attendance at the games here will start
on the upgrade when the realization dawns that
Oregon is represented by a baseball team with an
unquenchable desire for victory.
On Other Campuses
Joe College Is Disappearing
MONG the many stupendous changes taking
■*- place in the world today, is the evolving of a
new type of college student. If one will open his
eyes and observe, he will note that he is being per
mitted to witness an upheaval in the development
of the young generation.
The war era and its succeeding, approximate
fifteen-year period brought to us a swift, giddy, and
thoughtless group of people. The college student
is not different or worse than the rest of the popu
lation but gives you an emphasized view of the
trends of the day. As usual the college men and
women have done their part to impress upon us
the foolishness and unsteadiness of the post-war
period.
However, anyone who has been thrown with the
college group for the past three years has noted a
change. The “rah-rah” boy is already “old stuff.”
It has long been unfashionable at the better schools
to engage in the unreasonable type of football ral
lies. The bearcat runabount and the coonskin over
coat are alike in abeyance. Cheer leaders still hold
forth at the big games but mostly for the delecta
tion of the alumni in search of their youth. Most
striking and amazing of all is that the undergrad
uate is beginning to admire mere scholarship!
The day of the “polite moron” seems distinctly
past. Time was when the impeccable frame of this
personage loomed large upon the campus horizon.
Mere grinds, bookcrackers, and scholars were dirt
for his elegance. He trod the campus amid the
jingle of many watchchain keys, the aimless flot>
of the 20-inch bell bottoms, and the aroma of gin,
perfume, and ignorance. But hia day is definitely
doomed on the campus. Somehow it has taken the
depression to suggest tp young men and women that
one doesn't succeed in life by failing in college and
that courtesy and smart in the polite sense make
the gentleman and the lady. Such is the evolution
as it walks hand in hand with fate and time. Ken
tucky Kernel.
Educational Gifts Drop
IFTS to educational institutions suffered a
sharp decline in 1933, according to indications
shown in a compilation of all publicly announced
philanthropic gifts in six large cities of the coun
try. . . .
The total of such gifts to educational institu
tions in the six cities covered was $14,552,988 in
1933, as against $59,498,928 in 1932—a decrease of
$44,943,940. , . .
The total for all forms of philanthropy reported
in the six cities in 1933 was $142,543,547 as against
$176,008,914 in 1932, a total decrease of $38,405,367.
or less than the decrease in educational gifts
alone. . . .
In 1932 educational institutions were the great
est benefactors, outstripping every other form of
philanthropy. . . .
The cities covered were New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia; Baltimore, Washington, and Boston.
Yale Alumni Weekly.
OVERFLOW
T T AFPY and content with our copy of the May
Day edition of The Daily Worker, we browsed
pensively through its mildly stirring accounts of
"guns against the ribs of the workers," conditions
in Pennsylvania coalfields, the “two-faced policy of
ttie socialist party," and tirades against capitalistic
war.
A cruel blow it was, then, to notice the rubber
stamped imprint of the book store which distrib
uted the papers:
The New Era Bookshop
(OVER THE ARMY AND NAVY STOREl
This week’s tribute is to Timothy Cloran, pro
fessor of Romance languages, who found himself
under the necessity, a couple of months ago two
just heard about it yesterday> of ejecting from his
classroom one of those ubiquitous campus dogs.
"You can't come in here," he said, propelling
the dog through the door with one foot and closing
it tightly. Then he turned to his class, saying apol
ogetically. "I've got to draw the line somewhere."
BLOODSHED AND RIOTS
REPLACE OLD CUSTOMS
(Continued Prom l\uie One)
of May day has taken away the
simple beauty there remains in
the rural districts a remnant of
these pleasures, that is the wind
ing of the may pole (the original
may pole was a branch decorated
■with flowers), girls m bright
dresses dancing through colorful
formations while they wind the
gay colored streamers.
Health day also grew from th
original May clay, and the5 day is
observed in many schools, espe
ciallv in Mexico.
With the close of the nineteenth
century labor organisations adopt
ed May 1 as a day of annual dem
onstration, out of which has grown
the clashes with police and troops
who attempt to prevent the march
ers.
So today we sec the beautiful
quiet enjoyment of gay songs and
appreciation of nature, when all
were free to observe May day as
they wished, only people in two
couulrie ■ left who can r .pn ,-s
their joy without being shot at.
thrown in jail, or at least driven
from the streets. They are Russia
and Germany.
While “The Worker," a commu
nist paper, prints headlines. '■
“Shorter Hours and Higher Wages.
Unemployment Insurance." below
a banner which says. “All Men
On the Streets May 1." practically
every city has mobilized troops, i
police and federal men to stop any
demonstration with force, and
have limited the parades to cer
tain section of tils city.
By STANLEY ROBE
To the Vandals
IYER OUT
The Revolt Against Drill
(Continued from Page One)
one knows whether they will really be of avail against the new
and more deadly gases that have been invented? A former
head of our chemical warfare service has declared, for example,
that three drops of our own Lewisite gas falling upon any hu
man being will shrivel him up whether he has a mask or not.
The only real test of gas masks is in a gas chamber full of the
deadly fumes. No one has yet suggested such a chamber on
any university campus, yet the military man says that the
B. 0. T. C. is useful as it teaches habits of command, subordina
tion and discipline. To what extent anywhere? Enough to fit
a boy to take immediate charge of men on the front line? I
have not heard of any officer who would suggest such a thing.
Let me quote here from Beverley Nichols after an investi
gation of an K. 0. T. C. corps at the English school from which
he was graduated. You will find it on page 96 of his “Cry
Ilavoc. tie quotes tne neau1
master as Writing that “there'
is no question that the War
Office considers the O.T.C. s
are valuable to provide a re
serve of officers in the case of
war.’’ Mr. Nichols then con
tinues as follows:
Indeed! And for this reason,
we are to suppose, it encourages
the youth of England to exercise
themselves in manoeuvres which
bear less relation to modern
warfare than the antics of the
back row of a charity pageant!
For this reason it spends £100,
000 a year in keeping from the
youth of this country any sug
gestion of the word gas! For
this reason, to ‘provide a reserve
of officers,’ it teaches them to
stand in rows, and gaze down
antiquated rifles at meaningless
targets, in the vague idea that
somehow or other they are doing
something gallant, and being of
service to their king and coun
try!
If the O.T.C.'s are 'valuable
to provide a reserve of officers,'
it is high time they ceased this
hypocrisy and came out into the
open as military institutions. At
the risk of seeming' wearisome
1 really must emphasize the al
ternative , . . either the corps
is a military institution or it is
not. You really cannot escape
from it. You cannot go' shuf
fling about between your two
stools ad infinitum. And if it is
a military institution, as by now
you may be inclined to admit,
you must open your eyes and
prepare to be honest enough to
grant that it is an institution
which is, or should be, primarily
devised for killing, and that if
you allow your boy to join it,
this is what you are encourag
ing him to do. The object of
an army on active service is to
kill as many enemy soldiers as
possible, in the shortest time,
with a minimum expenditure of
the taxpayers' money. The ob
ject of the O.T.C., therefore,
should be to teach boys to kill
other boys. If it does not do
this it is a mere waste of time.
It would be far better if the
boys took off their heavy tunics,
with the tight collars, and the
puttees that are the best recipe
for varicose veins yet invented,
and did a little Morris dancing.
May 1 point out further that
the National Kducationat As
soeiation lias declared that ''it
is tin' almost universal testi
mom of educators and physical
tra-iniujr instructors that mili
tar\ trainin'* anil military drill,
in the sense of training with
a musket and military accoutre
tuent, does not give school pu
pil the be t pebble pliy ical
development.’’ Then let me
cite right out of the military
•ramp itself, from the lips of
Lieutenant Colonel. Herman J.
Kohler, who was awarded the
Distinguished Service Medal
for training ‘200,000 army men
in the system of physical train
ing in use during the World
War, these words which ought
to be over the portals of every
university gymnasium in* the
country: “It (military drill) is,
in my opinion, positively in
jurious. I deny absolutely that
military drill contains one
worthy feature which cannot
be duplicated in every well
regulated gymnasium in the
country today. Thorough phys
ical training develops all the
necessary soldierly qualities to
the- greatest degree, and does
tl without injury.'’ I could
cite a number of other similar
.quotations, but tins is tile most
valuable coming as it does from
a distinguished army officer
for many years in charge of
the physical training of the
West Point cadets. It is the
more striking because of the
[common assertion on the part
of military pirn that military
I exercises afford the best way
of training youth in obedience,
truthfulness, cleanliness, order,
promptness, industry, team
work. and subordination. Of
course, when military men ad
mit that the training makes for
subordination they confess
what must be the greatest in
dictment against the whole
system. The military system
forbids thinking; it trains men
to act on specific order: it
tends to destroy individual in
itiative— the best proof of
which is .the familiar army
habit of dodging responsibility
and "passing the buck.”
In most colleges tlie* detailing
of officers is an injustice to en
terprising ami able men in the
service. Outside of a few
larger institutions, like the I ni
versitv of Illinois, where there
is a large body of men to han
dle. most of the actual drilling
could be done by non-commis
sioned officers. There is evi
dence that the War Depart
ment itself recognizes this in
that the new proposal before
Congress for creating addi
tional li.O.T.C. s calls for the
detailing of a retired officer
and a non-commissioned officer
to each new R.O.T C. unit, and
not active officer:. Certain!}
no one could maintain that an
army officer is thereby advanc
ing himself professionally if he
drills boys in a college or a
high school for four years.
But after all it is the com
pulsory feature which is the
worst of all. The whole trend
of education is, or should be,
toward greater and greater
self-government. We are get
ting away from the regiment
ing of pupils’ minds and, de
spite certain reactionary tend
encies in our universities, it is
only fair to say that the prin
ciple that barring certain pre
scribed courses, usually a few
in number, the best thing is for
tiie student to pick Ins own
course of instruction. There
are constantly growing pro
tests against the rigidity of the
curricula in the preparatory
schools, the responsibility for
which those schools lay at the
door of the colleges. But that
is a different thing, after all,
from compelling students to
learn how to kill their fellow
men. For that is the essential
purpose of military instruction
if it is any good whatever. 1
know very wrell that in th?
land-grant colleges it is as
sumed that the Morrill Act
compels this. There is consid
erable doubt as to the correct
ness of the interpretation, but
if it is correct then what we
should do is not to continue to
drill hoys inefficiently for the
next war. but to demand that
Congress repeal that feature of
the Morrill Act. Instead of
which we see thousands of hoys
dragooned into drill which they
perfunctorily perform with all
the reluctance which comes
when boys are unwillingly com
pelled to do something that
they do not like. And that the
great majority does not like
those drills is shown by the
convincing fact that only a rel
atively small group of men con
tinue to drill after the compul
sory requirement is withdrawn.
The University of Wisconsin
has abolished compulsory mili
tary drill, and within the cur
rent academic year DeUauw
University has abolished its
unit altogether, after abolish
ing the compulsory feature
back in UJ28. I hope with all j
my heart that the University j
of Oregon will do the same
without loss of time. Certainly, |
as 1 have said before, there are
infinitely better ways of using j
the money expended by the;
Federal Government. But if the
Federal Government will not i
come to the support of higher
education as it should in this
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least let the colleges and uni
versity refrain from wasting
the time and effort now be
stowed upon training for war
when the whole moral and
spiritual world is doing its ut
termost to abolish that institu
tion. rightly called the “sum
of all villainies,” from this
earth. The preparation for- it
can never be anything else than
instruction in an anti-moral,
anti-social, and anti-Christian
form of human behavior.
OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD
New York—April 25, 1934.
FRESHMAN PICNIC TO
BE AT GOSHEN MAY 20
(Continued from Page One)
ments, and other events will fea
ture the afternoon.
The house having the greatest
percentage of its freshmen present
will receive a prize. luose in
charge of organizing the event in
the living organizations are:
Marjory Will, Marjery Kissling,
Marian Moore, Lee Chapman. Jes
sie Long, Gretchen Gregg, Mary
Jayne Boyle, Jean Stevenson, Rose
Gore, Doris Bird, Bud Moore,
Starla Parvin, Thelma Cook, Bette
Church, Peggy Carper, Margaret
Ball, A1 Davis, Shorty Freeman.
Peter Brooks, Bob Helliwell, Leon
ard Jacobson, Linn Latourette,
Newton Stearns, Don Duncan,
Craig Finley, Cecil Barker, George
Marks, Ted Blank, Ken Miller, Mel
■ Johnson, Bob Knapp, Jack Rodda,
Harry Campbell, Pat Fury, Avery
Combs, Jason Bailey, Dorothy Dill,
Carl Danielson.
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
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April 27, 1934.
Dear Sir:
As a member of the drama di
vision for some time, I have been
wondering at the comparatively
small student attendance at the
plays being given wholly for the
benefit of the students themselves.
Being on the “inside,” somewhat
has given me the opportunity of
seeing to my surprise a caliber of
production comparable to some of
the best professional productions
to be seen in the larger cities.
The settings which are created
for our University plays are as
complete and elaborate as any one
would care to see. For instance,
how many realize that our theater
workshop is the best and most
complete of any school stage on
the coast? The directing is splen
did and the names of Winslow,
Thienes, Wappenstein, Schloth,
Karafotias, Stewart and others
should speak for themselves.
Can nothing be done to bring
this really excellent opportunity to
the attention of the University
students whom this work is pri
marily proposed ?
Anything, Mr. Editor, that you
can do will be sincerely appreciat
ed.
Very truly yours,
BOB DODGE.
Innocent Bystander
By BARNEY CLARK
WOIKERS OF DE WOILD—
UNITE
Yesterday was Hay Day, and it
filled us with a sense of brother
hood and a strong desire to de
stroy the capitalist class. We
looked all over for some bloated
plutocrats to harass, and were
much annoyed when we couldn’t
discover any, leastwise around the
campus. About the nearest we
could come to a real genuine plu
tocrat was Newt Smith, and he
looked sort of down-hearted, so we
didn’t have any real inclination to
harass him.
We gave up our search for the
capitalistic class then in despair,
and went to look for some work
ers to help us put on a demonstra
tion against “boss-control,” Fas
cism, Wall Street, over-production,
double-entry bookkeeping, lock
outs, and Intellectual Integrity.
Here we were stopped again. The
workers were all busy (what there
were of them) and refused to dem
onstrate. We began to feel foiled,
like a two-bit Havana cigar.
We brightened up, though when
we heard a rumor that J. Jorgen
sen Jukes and Kasper Kallikak
were to be the principal speakers
at the evening demonstration
downtown. “Ha,” said we to our
selves, “With these members of
America’s two most prominent and
distinguished families, we should
go over big.”
Our exultation was short-lived,
however. News soon reached us
that Jukes was no longer in Eu
gene even, but was at the Colora
do School of Mines. The report
stated that he was again running
for student body president, with
the slogan of “What's Mine Is
Yours!” Kallikak was also there,
running for exercise.
We gave up in despair then. We
didn’t even go to the meeting. We
heard later, though, that Don Cas
well attended and proposed a new
slogan: “Workers of the World—
Unite! You Have Nothing to Lose
But Your Brains!” He is doing
nicely and will soon be out of dan
ger.
OGDEN GNASHES
Roses are red,
The workers unite,
Make me a capitalist
Just for tonight!”
* * *
“Comrade!!!”
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