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University of Oregon, Eugene Sterling Green, Editor Grant Thuemmel, Manager Joseph Saslavsky, Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Doug PoJivka. Executive Editor; l)ou Caswell, Associate Editor; Guy Shadduck, Stanley Robe UPPER NEWS STAFF ucorge wallas, rsews J^a. Bill Ilowerman, Sports Ed. A1 Newton, Dramatics and Chief Night Ed. Elinor Henry, Features Ed. warney ^laric, uumor 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-Reed Burns, Howard Kess ler. REPORTERS: Miriam Eichner, Marian Johnson. Ruth Weber, Leslie Stanley, .Newton Stearns. Clifford Thomas. Henry* etta Mummey. Helen Dodds, Henriette Horak, Dan Clark. George Jones, Roberta Moody, Peggy Chessman. SPORTS STAFF': Clair Johnson, Asst. Sports Ed.; Don Olds. Margery Kissling, Bill Mclnturff. COPYREADERS: Elaine Cornish, Dorothy Dill, Marie Pell. Phyllis Adams, Maluta Read, Virginia Endicott, Mildred Blackburne, George Jones. WOMEN’S PAGE ASSISTANTS: Mary Graham, Bette Church, Ruth Heiberg, Betty Shoemaker. NIGHT EDITORS: George Bikman, Rex Cooper, Tom Ward. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Henryetta Mummey, Irma Egbert. Margilee Morse, Jane Bishop, Doris Bailey, Mary Ellen Eberhart, Dorothy Dykeman. RADIO STAFF: Howard Kessler, Eleanor Aldrich. SECRETARY: Mary Graham. UPPER BUSINESS STAFP Fred Fisher. Adr. Mgr. William Temple, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Eldon Haberman, National Adv. Mgr. Pearl Murphy, Asst. National Adv. Mgr. Jui Labbe, Circulation Mgr. Ruth Rippey, Checking Mgr. Willa Bitz, Checking Mgt. Sez Sue, Jan is Worley Alene Walker, Office Mgr. ADVERTISING SALESMEN: Rob Helliwell, Jack Lew, Bob Cresswell, Jerry Thomas, Jack McGirr. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Gretchen Gregg, Doris Oiland, Cynthia Cornell. BUSINESS OFFICE, McArthur Court. Phone 3300—Local 214. A member of the Major College Publications, represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42ud 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. Quell the Bickering AGAIN the swimming team is the center of con troversy. Without breaking into the open, dissension has been whispered for the past week, because the A.S.U.O. refused to grant letters to those members of the swimming team who had not purchased student body cards. First reactions are not favorable to the swim mers, who last term made earnest pleas to the stu dent association for aid and recognition, but whe have now shown themselves unwilling even to con tribute to its support. It is a bit hard to justify their previous attitude with their present uncon cern as to the financial seaworthiness of the organi zation which made possible the team’s activities. But as in all such controversies, there is another side, and in this case, a strong one. The swimming team, when it sought support, entered into quite a definite agreement with the A.S.U.O. It offered to pay many of its own expenses and to buy its own sweaters. Naturally, nothing was said about membership in the A.S.U.O., for optional member ship was then undreamed-of. The swimming team has lived up to the letter of its agreement, whatever may be our estimate of its sportsmanship in the present argument* And it would seem that the A.S.U.O. cannot do less than live up to its share of the agreement, if it would keep its own record for sportsmanship clear. Thus far A.S.U.O. officials have trod a danger ous path with delicacy. They might easily have alienated the affections of a large portion of the campus by a stubborn attitude in regard to the exclusion of all non-members from activities main tained by it. It readily granted non-members the privilege of playing in the orchestra, and it has made admirable disposition of the problem of par ticipation in the campus luncheon, as shown else where in this issue of the Emerald. A conciliatory attitude in the swimming dispute will do much to restore harmony. Stubborn in sistence on membership qualifications can only re sult in further strife but a conciliatory attitude, while it costs nothing, will quell much bickering. Athletic Fiesta OREGON’S athletes face their busiest program of -the year as a fortunate coincidence with the annual celebration of Junior Weekend festivi ties, beginning tomorrow. The number of Webfoot stalwarts to perform will be around the 100 mark, and competition in four different sports is promised for visitors to the campus. Tomorrow Bill Reinhart’s vaisity baseball team will open a two-game series v>*tlh Washington on Reinhart field, and the University freshman track squad will participate in a telegraphic meet. Saturday is the big day. The second game of the baseball series is on the program. Bill Hay ward's varsity trackmen will try to upset the visit ing Washingtonians for Hie second successive year. The varsity and yearling tennis squads and the , varsity and freshman golf teams will do battle with Oregon State. The only tiling wrong with a program like the one we face this weekend is that it will be impos- I sible to see it all. It is, in reality, too much of a good thing. Humor Through the Ages ■^ITE pause in tribute to those subtle humorists * * who filled the columns of the Kmerald in the halcyon days ol' 1920. Theirs was a kind of wit which even our own clear Barney Clark could scarcely imitate. Such finesse, such gushing laugh producers are no more. Witness the writing of one of these talented journalists, whom we may pro- j sume was only a unit of the campus legion of mirth provokers. Fourteen yearit ago a page 1 story heralded | the purchase of a new Templar roadster by Bill Hayward. ‘'The car is red and blushing all ewer from so many admiring glances," says the writer. ‘‘Bill says it's some car." We almost got cramp when we read: "One thing about the car Bill will never get thirsty while out driving for there are springs all over it.” Hayward hankering for apt esl v.a. oppressed by a reference to the gaggy gag that he mistook the mile posts for headstones Tn a cemetery. “Bill comes up the street so fast that he has to turn corners in the middle of the block,” continues the story. "As an innocent bystander,” the writer says, “we will issue a warning: Bill drives so fast that if you are standing on the curb when he goes past, look out, for the breeze created by the speed of the car is liable to give you pneumonia.” Mother Goose would be a good name for the car, suggests the journalist, for he has noticed that it had a red rid ing hood. Perhaps in 15 years when we are alumni, we too may pick up the 1949 Emerald and read a most devastating commentary on our feeble attempts at humor, of which we were so proud when we wrote them. But woe is woe, for humor it seems is just one of those gauges cf advancing civilization. If in .15 years we can look back at our humor and laugh at its absurdity, v, e have progressed. Being human, however, most of us will probably say, "Give me the good old days.” ‘Busybodies’ STUBBORN unwillingness to credit college stu ^ dents with having at least a little sense is exemplified in a brief address last week by Dr. Harry A. Garfield, retiring president of Williams college. The good doctor scored students in the Massa chusetts institution for their lack of interest in compulsory chapel, their desire to wipe Latin off the “required” list, and called them “busybodies” because they were impatient at the delay of the trustees in appointing his successor. Summarily dismissing a protest against the rapidly - disappearing institution of compulsory chapel on the basis that the objection had been indirect, and anonymous, Dr. Garfield said that the appeal should be disregarded. He thus thoroughly overlooks the fact that ti e idea of forcing colle gians to make obeisance to ancient and outmoded customs is rapidly fading. College students are entitled and should be entitled to a hearing on any problem which concerns them. In regard to the complaints against the Latin lequirement, Dr. Garfield airily declared that the matter was an administrative one and was not in the domain of student body interest. Surely he should be aware of the progressive tendency away from insistence on the venerable classics as the sine qua non of an educated person. To label students as "busybodies” because they show an interest in the selection of a leader of the school they are attending appears to be a bit of verbal spite. Perhaps if the typical college popu lation of America were composed of more “busy bodies,” they would long ago have refused to be j led around like timid flocks of sheep. Silverites on the Make ^''lONFUSED thought and demagogic politics have trundled out another of those die-hard silver bills before the congressional rostrum. Not satis fied with the silver-purchasing act of last Decem ber, advocates of the metal have thrown together the Dies-Thomas bill, and silver once again be comes pretender to the financial throne. Unanimously reported by the senate agricultural committee, the proposal would open sale of farm products in foreign markets in exchange for silver coin or bullion. Of first importance, however, is the provision that the foreign silver thus obtained may be valued as high as 25 per cent over the world price. The government, through the December act, is already buying up all home-mined silver at sixty four and one-half cents an ounce, half again as much as the present world figure, and the agree ment holds good for four years. Yet by embracing the cause of the farmer, the silverites intend to push the government into the world financial whirl pool to bring closer their objective of a silver price of $1.29, which is twice the present pegged price for new-mined domestic metal. Loud barking rather than sound logic is respon sible for reopening the silver controversy. Timely light was thrown on the silverite ramparts when the administration's investigating committee dis closed silver holdings of numerous big banks, amounting in four New York institutions to more than forty million ounces. Mining interests last year produced only seven and one-half millions in silver, less, for example, than three per cent of the nation’s wheat crop. These are "vested interests." Into the fold of silver advocates lias also been drawn a strong col lection of inflationists, and of course farmers, for the latest proposal is supposedly in their behalf. For two generations the white metal has been a favorite political bogey. Bitter experience, we arc on the point of admitting, has not bared to the nation's lawmakers what is basic in a financial system. Not the hoarded metal wlfich makes up a "standard,^' but credit, by which in normal timer Americans carry on more than ninety per cent of their business relations, comprises the maladjusted portion of the financial system. On Other Campuses A Substitution pKOM Mexico City comes one of the most instruc tive pieces of information ever to penetrate the American bottler. Pertaining to a proposed ‘‘Uni versity City," news dispatches disclose that the Mexican government is planning to unify the pres ent National University, buildings of which are scattered all over the city. The proposal suggests that the university move into the buildings now occupied by the War Min istry, the government arsenal and the munitions factory. This plan might well be adopted by all other nations, for if .til edifices and structures for the I preparation and perpetuation of war were meta morphosed into institutions of learning, the most severe and chronic ailment of the world would be eradicated. However, it is unlikely that nations will observe the example set by Mexico. Even in our present state of civilization, preju dices, jealousies and petty considerations prevent open-minded action on the part of suspicious and ! ambitious governments. Until the day arrives when education triumphs over war. the world will blindly disregard progwouw plan,.—Daily Californian. The Tiny Boat Needs One Too! By alfredo fajardo 016 BUSINESS r Junior Weekend, UT TUNC I ! I By FREDERIC S. DUNN A S the geologist or the anthro ^ *■ pologist might say, there have been four distinct periods in the evolution of Junior Weekend. This present'class of 1935 was consid erably less than embryonic when the first febrile symptoms were detected by Dr. Luella Clay Carson in 1890. She succeeded in segregat ing the bacillus and named it Jun ior Exhibition. It was the incipient step in one of the many activities, now become traditional, promoted by this won derful woman. She was but lately come to the Faculty as Professor of English and Rhetoric, and her object in instituting Junior Exhi bition was to give the future Sen ior a foretaste of Commencement ordeals. It must be remembered that graduation originally involved an oration by each member of the class. Two enterprising members of the then so-called Board of Re gents, Henry Failing of Portland and C. C. Beekman of Jacksonville, by the bestowal of funds to pro vide prizes, had metamorphosed Commencement Day into an ora torical contest. So the first epoch was simple enough,—an evening devoted to orations by each member of the Junior Class. My own Class of ’92 was the second to carry on. There were eight of us, all males, a feat never equalled before or since. It was this unique feature that prompted us to essay, as a codicil to our orations, a musical number, , a double quartet. No encore! As I find scribbled in an old diary of that date, ‘Then came the bene diction, and the fateful evening was over.’ We realized we had been duly ‘exhibited’. By the time I returned to the Campus in 1898, a second phase was in process of forming. Junior Exhibition was still maintained but had become a weak finale to what was eventually dubbed Junior Day, at first a holiday perforce and lat terly authorized. The elegiac hap penings of the day were taking precedence over the staid evening formalities, and there was now a kinship to 'class rushes’ in large i eastern colleges of a generation ago. The chief feature was the fly- j ing of the Junior Class pennant from the pole that used to stand to the northwest of Villard Hall and its maintenance there by the Juniors against molestation by the Seniors or, if you please, all the rest of the student body. During the period of my absence from the Campus, there must have ' been some previous fraces, prompt ing the Class of 1900, in the spring of '99, to unusual precautions in guarding their flag. And, by the way. that flag, in bright cerise and { white, the class colors, ‘bore the' strange device'. M C M. Some one on the Faculty, not a Roman, was | heard to ask, ‘Who's Mac M., any way? Well, when he appeared on the Campus that day. the class flag had already been fastened to the top of the pole, but. about a third of the way up, out of reach of attacking parties, a dry-goods1 box was suspended and securely balanced, and in said box sat a Junior on guard, the lawn hose in his hand. He was Walter B .Dil lard when I chanced to pass. And Walt, now County Clerk of Lane, peered over the top of that look- I out and watched me narrowly, to | see whether l had any intentions ,'t shinning up the pole. 1 was a Freshman on the Faculty and he j . j:u't ^tiite sure of me. Walt can not now recall whether he was a “pillar saint” all the pre ceding night and the rest of that day, and whether Mamie McAlister or some other femme of the class tossed doughnuts up to him,—or not. At any rate, that Junior Day. passed without casualties. But it put an idea into the heads of next year’s Class of ’01. They had been a lively, noisy, self-con scious bunch all their days and they opined that there would be a big offensive against them. So their ruse was to display their pennant from one of the towers of Deady Hall and to barricade the stairways. No flannel flaunted in a bull-ring could have been more effective. The whole University saw red, including some marooned Profs who were trying to hold classes ,all the while cursing their fate, that they themselves, could not take up the pibroch and the slogan, or something worse. Never shall I forget the rout and the sweat of the battle that raged in the open between Deady and Villard and through the hall ways of Deady. Alas! I am neith er Homer nor Bede the Venerable nor Mallory. But who was that who just now fell ‘with a grizzly groan' ? In the twinkling face of Richard Shore Smith, as we sat reminiscing, the other day, in the First National Bank, there was no trace of an opaque eye he discov ered in that ‘glorious melley’, thir ty four years agone. ‘Who stepped on you, Dick?’, I queried. ‘I myself was trying to teach scansion to a Vergil class and peeked out of the window ‘as often as I dared.’ ‘Damfino’, replied Dick. You see, Dick used to read the J. T. Trow bridge stories in the Youths Com panion. 'But I think it was one of my own classmates who trampled on me by mistake. He’s on the Faculty to-day’. And, sure enough, ensconced in his office in the Extension Build ing, a peaceable gentleman enough, is one ‘who remembers that famous day and year', for he was one who bled for his flag. Go ask Prof. W. Gilbert Beattie to recount to you the saga of Junior Day of 190(t Sixth in series, Friday, “Univer sity Day, Junior Weekend's Ex tinct Forebear.’’ Under the Mikeroscope By JIMMY MORRISON LIAVE you been wondering * where Red Nichols has been keeping himself and the boys ? Red Nichols and his “Pennies,” popu lar dance orchestra, are playing in the Walled Lake Casino, Walled Lake, Michigan, Nichols and his original “Five Pennies” first won votes more than a decade ago through their extensive phonograph recordings. The orchestra has grown in both size and popularity since that time and has been occu pied with theater, dance, and ra dio performances. Known as one of the country’s leading “jazz” trumpeters. Nichols plays in his orchestra and conducts it. Why not take a night off and go to Portland to hear Duke Elling ton? He'll be at the Music Box in person for a week starting Satur day with his black-face orchestra, and those boys aren’t foolin’. A 30 minute broadcast a day over KGW is rumored. * * * Rush Hughes, son of Rupert, and the guy who used to give those realistic broadcasts of the games by telegraph over KORE, is now none other than master of cere monies for “The Shell Show,” which you can get Monday nights over the NBC network from S to 9. Georgie Stoll’s music adds inter est to the program. ¥ ffc One of the funniest things about radio comedians is that they don’t stay funny very long. It’s a sad thing, too. And here’s something to meditate upon: The Marx Brothers, Groucho and Chico, have been adjudged a Flop po, and are no longer kilocycling. Ed Wynn calls it a day with Texaco May 29. His “Sooo” never gets a laugh any more. Eddie Cantor is losing his grip, too. Listeners chant, "We don't want Cantor” when he comes on the air. * * * Sigma hall burlesqued “The A REFRESHING FOOD GOLD MEDAL ICE CREAM Many attractive color combinations to choose from - - - or we will make up any special color combi nation desired. ASK ABOUT IT! Medo-Land Creamery Co. 675 Charnelton PHONE 393 March of Time" Tuesday, even to the sound effect of the airplane when “Time flies on." The boys did some imitating that would have gone over in big time, per haps. Most humble apology for the lousy broadcast of news yesterday. Some people can dish it out ,but they can’t take it. Dance Bands Tonight 6:00—KFI, Paul Whiteman . KSL, Glen Gray. 7:20—KOIN, Isham Jones. 8:00—KPO. Jimmy Lunceford. 9:45—KQW, Anson Weeks. 10:10—KYA, Jesse Stafford. 10:15—KGW, Tom Coakley. j 10:30—KSL, Gus Arnheim. KDYL, Jay Whidden . | 11:00—KPO, Ted Fio Rito. : 11:30—KFI, Carol Loefner. ! Kappa Sigma will be on the air j today at 4:30 with 'their contest I program. | GOVERNMENT TRENDS EXPLAINED BY U'REN : (Continued from Page One) j at the primary election, May IS, i allowing a ten-juror verdict in ail j but capital cases, the couneil j manager form of city government, | the spending of government bil | lions for farm relief, federal mort gage-carrying assistance, investi gation of the munitions makers, and the recent liberal construction placed upon the constitution by a supreme court decision. Questions Asked “Last, but by no means least,’’ he said as he ended his list of signs of progress, “are the mil lions of students graduating from schools, colleges and universities. All of these have some training in learning to think. They will not be content either to suffer the pangs of unemployment and un deserved poverty or relief by sub sistence homesteads between de pressions. But even if they could, why should free Americans, the heirs of all the ages, live and la bor for mere subsistence?” A lively question-and-answer period followed U’Ren's 40-minute speech. Preceding the talk, a let ter was read from Paul R. Kelty, Oregonian editor, and a souvenir “pledge” signed by the 20 mem bers of Score was presented to the speaker. Kelty's letter com plimented the club, saying that U'Ren was one of Oregon’s most useful citizens. Included among the guests at the banquet were W. M. Tugman, managing editor Register-Guard; John Anderson, managing editor | Morning News; Rev. Ernest M. ! Whitesmith and Rev. Clay E. Pal ! mer. Outstanding faculty mem ! bers, many of them friends of Mr. Innocent Bystander By BARNEY CLARK VWE always thought you could ™ tell the Kappa “type,” but ap parently we were wrong, all wrong. Even the Kappas can’t do-it. We refer, r course, to the recent amusing incident of the babe who dropped in on the tong one p. m., and stuck out her mitt, and gur gled: “So happy to meet you all. I'm a Kappa, from Idaho.” They were delighted to see the gal. and with true Kappa hospitality they wel comed her in, and immediately set about, finding ways and means to properly entertain her. After much thought they called up one of the hill houses and asked for the best looking man on the premises. When the gentleman reached the phone, they informed him that they had a treat in store for him: a real live Kappa from Idaho. Well, the poor boy bit, and took the babe out. He returned her safely and all seemed well. Then some Kap pa got a brain-storm and asked the gal what the name of the Ida ho chapter was. She couldn't re member; Then they asked her where her pin was, and she said that a pearl had dropped out and it was being repaired at a jewel ers. The sisters then went into a hud dle. When they emerged the gal was gone. A couple of their ama teur sleuths trailed her down to the bus terminal (we don’t know why), but there they lost the scent. (We predict, though, that there will be a bad smell around the Kappa tong for some time to come). We asked the gentleman who took her out what sort of company she was. Said he: “Not bad. not bad. She seemed more intelligent than most, and she was good-looking, too.” Just the same, he was a little irked. U’Ren’s, also were present. These liberals were James D. Barnett, R. C. Clark, Wayne L. Morse, James H. Gilbert, Walter A. Dahl berg, Orlando J. Hollis, John T. Ganoe, Charles G. Howard, Waldo Schumacher, Samuel H. Jameson, Paul E, Raymond, George Rebec, S. Stephenson Smith, and Harvey Townsend. Mrs. Allen to Write Mrs. Sally Allen, wife of Dean Eric W. Allen, of the journalism school, left Eugene Wednesday for two weeks to finisn writing a novel. 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