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University of Oregon, Eugene Sterling Green, Editor Grant Thaenomel, Manager Joseph Saslavsky, Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Doug Polivka, Executive Editor; Don Caswell. Associate Editor; Guy Shadduck, Stanley Rob* UPPER NEWS STAFF Ceorge Lallas. Aews J^a. Bill Bowerman, Sports Ed. A1 Newton, Dramatics and Chief Night Ed. Elinor Henry, Features Ed. uarney ^iaric, Humor r.a. 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, JLeslic Stanley, Xewton 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 Dykcman. RADIO STAFF: Howard Kessler, Eleanor Aldrich, SECRETARY: Mary Graham. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Fred Fisher. Adv. Mgr. William Temple, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Eldon Haberman, National Adv. Mgr. Pearl Murphy, Asst. National Adv. Mgr. ivl cabbe. Lirenunon Mer. Ruth Ripper, Checking Mgr. Willa Bitz, Checking Mgt. Sez Sue, Janin Worley Alene Welker, Office Mgr. BUSINESS OFFICE, McArthur Court. Phone 3300—Local 214. ADVERTISING SALESMEN: Bob H ell i well, Jack Lew, Bob Cress well, Jerry Thomas, Jack McGirr. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Gretchen Gregg, Doris Osland, Cynthia Cornell. A member of the Major College Publications, represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd S't., New York City; 123 W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1206 Maple Ave., Los Angeles; Cal! 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 secomd-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. What Next? AN audit by the secretary of state has dumped another load of grief on the shoulders of the state board of higher education. This time it is revealed that dormitories at the University of Ore gon and Oregon State college have been operating under illegal subsidies obtained by diverting to them funds designed for other educational purposes. The disclosure is hardly surprising to those who have watched the number of students living in the University dormitory dwindle during the past three years. Fewer and fewer students have been coming to the University, and an ever-increasing percent age has been financially unable to live in the men’s and women's halls. Oregon’s brand new dormitory, opened in the fall of 1929, has had hard sledding— the building has become, in fact, almost as noto rious a white elephant as the A.S.U.O.’s McArthur court. While fraternities and sororities were falling by the way at Corvallis and Eugene as a result of the depression’s ravages, the dormitories had to con tinue operations. They were filled at first by rigid rulings forbidding non-fraternity underclassmen to live elsewhere and preventing students once en rolled in the dormitory from moving out. These methods could not keep the quarters full, and ap parently subsidization was the only recourse, al though the dormitories already had the advantages of tax exemption, freedom from street assessments, and since October, 1932, exemption from charges for heat, light, water and such telephones as were used for administrative purposes. The problem now raised of finding a source of revenue to maintain the dormitories is one of the utmost difficulty. The revelation that the dormi tories, which w'ere supposed to earn enough from operation to retire their own bonded indebtedness, have been costing the state thousands of dollars a year, will be simply another blow to public confi dence in the administration of higher education. Obviously this gobbling of educational funds must stop yet it is fully as obvious that the dormitories themselves must be continued and must be paid for. The situation is full of headaches for Oregon's higher educational leaders. Most damaging are the charges of actual mis representation, typified by such expedients as in creasing, on paper, the income of the dormitories by refraining from charging them for light, water, and heat, and so rendering dormitory records worthless from the standpoint of determining ac tual profits or loss. Even more serious is the charge that statements have been published to the effect that "the department of dormitories has been en tirely self-sustaining." An exposure like the present audit report may do more harm to Oregon’s higher education than a year of constructive publicity can repair. Such revelations as this have already done terrific dam age to enrollment. The settlement should be made promptly and openly, and the public must be made to realize that such misrepresentation is not con doned by the state board and is not to he a future policy of the system of higher education. Above all, higher education must put its house in order so that an incident of similar nature shall never again occur otherwise the damage to Oregon schools will bo well nigh irreparable. Fighting Wings for China HINA'S fighting face, with only recent world notice, ha.'i been taking on one of the grimmest features of the modern martian countenance. Air planes are doing for the now ascendant Nanking government what armies approaching millions have not been able to do lor centuries; namely, smash the ambitions of far-scattered rival warlords. Provincial rebellions are on the decrease, if news dispatches are not misleading; and China's internal strife has simmered down to the open rivalry of the Nanking and Canton governments. Airplanes 300 modern fighting ships of the air have given the former under Chiang Kai-shek an advantage that a force of 600,000 men in the field has been unable to win. Observers feci the matter is one of time when the weakened Canton contingency will collapse. China - taking to the air, we are told, u not the whim of a pig-tailed coolie playing with fire crackers. Those planes are American-made fight ers—finest in the world—and some Italian bombers. Air-minded, footloose soldiers-of-fortune are losing their jobs to natives trained by a former com mander in the United States air corps and his staff of 14 pilots and mechanics. Orders for more planes have gone to foreign lands, especially to the United "States where roundabout credits have been ob tained through wheat and cotton loans. China, if unified even through fear from the air, would be a new force in Asiatic affairs. The same people who were forced into dismal submis sion by Japanese bombs at Chapei may in some not distant year meet her island neighbor on equal mili tary terms. Or, on the other hand, the conserva tive Chiang Kai-shek may yet find active alliance with Tokyo of advant in quelling the reds of western China and smashing the soviet menace to the northwest. Fighting wings have broadened the horizon for the Chinese dragon. California v. Kidnaping qpwrCE within the last few months the state of California has shown that it intends to take the leadership in doing something about kidnaping. The San Jose lynchings, whatever their moral or political implications, at least indicated an enraged, militant citizenry that was tired of the outworn structure that was failing in its attempt to control kidnaping. And when Judge Charles W. Fricke pronounced the life sentence upon three abductors of William F. Gettle, 24 hours after their arrest, a new model was set up in the field of kidnaping justice. The question of ethical propriety in wringing a confes sion by trickery may be dismissed—justice was served. This demonstration of police and judiciary etti ciency was made possible by the new California kidnaping law, which gave the instrument of pun ishment into the hands of the judge. The law has been carefully drawn. It provides for a graduation of severity of punishment ranging from a compara tively light prison sentence to the death penalty, applied according to the degree of the crime. It gives substantial time off if the victim is not in jured. Thus it combines the two qualities of being harsh enough to be feared, yet offering the victim a considerable amount of protection while he is in the power of the kidnapers. The victory of justice in the Gettle case should be carefully considered in every state capital, and, most of all, ,in Washington. Kidnaping is not a local problem. Though cases are comparatively rare, it spreads an umbra of terror over every part of the country. It is far too delicate a thing, far too dangerous, to be dealt with by small-time jurists and two-by four sheriffs. It is a positive crime against reason that the apprehension and prosecution of such kid napers should be left in amateur hands. A strong branch of the department of justice devoted exclusively to the handling of kidnaping caseii, with agents within reach of every possible locality, and federal judges who have power and know how to use it is the only solution to the prnhlprr? More than this, the deadlines of the kidnaping laws and their administrators must be made known and feared by every prospective kidnaper. The time to frighten the criminal is certainly not when he has a hostage in his control. An intense cam paign of publicity will be as valuable and necessary as the structure itself. Only by the accomplish ment of these things can the pestilence be abated. On Other Campuses College President Looks at Life CUTTING in hia office in Education hall yesterday ^ afternoon, President Winkenwerder was asked the question: "Should students being graduated this June, take graduate work if they fail to find em ployment?” The president Was not long in answering. "No,” he said, "no, unless they have ample financial sup port. "Students in these times should take the first job given them. If they owe money for their edu cation they should pay it back and start life with a clean slate. If they have plenty of money and can not find work the best thing for them to do is to : return and specialize in their field. Then, when conditions improve they will have that much more knowledge." Students upon hearing that may think a presi dent of an educational institution who suggests that students take the first job offered them upon grad nation is disloyal to education standards. They may i say that a college education is not worthwhile if ! one must “grab the first job” that is offered to him. But they think incorrectly. This is a day of lax times. This is a day when millions are unemployed and are loking l'or work. College graduates will join these millions. When June rolls around mother and father can hardly be expected to keep their son or daughter at home until conditions are better. They are not expected to and if they are the right type of parents they won't. Of course, President Winkenwerder does not in fer that the graduate take the first job offered him such as digging a ditch, selling newspapers or mag aine subscriptions. The first job offered should be taken if it is in the student's field of endeavor. College graduates, despite their four years of training and social polish, arc immature. They have a lot crammed in their brains. They have i much of know ledge, but there is always more to I learn. They must start at the bot tom ami work to the top. I1‘ they are pharmacy students they can't expect (anything better than "jerking soda" at first. If they are forestry students they must expect to build forest trails for a few months. If they are journal ists they must expect to be cub reporters for a while. If they are potential teachers they must teach less desired classes for a “period. With very tew exceptions, graduates must start at the bottom ir tlieir chosen fields atid then work up, having be ! bind them fertile years of experience which will i always be at their command. | They must,, follow the philosophy-of success of , irans-Atlantic flyers: Ifs not where you take off that counts; it's where you laud.—Univeroitv of | Washing-ton Dali.'. This Time It's Baseball By STANLEY ROBE noktm* 1049. Kumbakatoo By FREDERIC S. DUNN 'T'HE uninitiated might imagine * it a twin city in the Soudan, or a new bird from the Grand Cha co, or one of Hiawatha’s undiscov ered ancestors, or some cabalistic charm. With those who knew, it did have somewhat this last sig nificance. It never failed of elicit ing response. I do not know how early in the Book of Chronicles of our First Faculty- a marginal note should be scribbled by the next copyist, ‘About this year, President John son first used the phrase, ‘Come back at two'. I am secretly nop ing that those earlier classes who always seemed to my youthful ad miration so grown up, so dignified, so wise,—that they too knew the efficacy of that snapping talisman ic dictum ,‘Come back at two’. Could rt have been only so recent ly as my own generation? We were such a younger lot, it is true, the harvest of opening the Uni versity to all students who may not have had the advantage of lo cal High School preparation. We were immature, rather irresponsi ble,—huddled into the catalog as Sub-Freshmen, or Pre-Paratory, or something as inelegant. John W. Johnson, First Presi dent of the University and Profes sor of Latin, knew his Andrews and Stoddard’s Grammar from pre face to index. And since he knew that Latin Grammar as he did, he expected his pupils to know it as well. Nothing could be more ideal istic, nothing simpler. But,—well, listen. 'Miss ***, where did you learn to pronounce Latin that way ? Out in the backwoods somewhere? Come back at two’. ‘Mr. ***, where were you last night ? Come back at two and re cite as if you had some sense’. His insistence upon perfection in recitation, backed by vocal tirade, made President Johnson much feared by those who did not know him at heart. I have seen a girl rush from his class-room in tears. There is an apochryphal story of another girl, still living in Eugene, who resented his inquisition and threw her book at him. A class mate of mine, afterwards appoint ed to the Board of Regents, would rest his hand upon the. settee in front of him and make it tremble with his agitation. Another class mate. now a popular dentist in Portland, n o r mall y loquacious enough .would actually see m tongue-tied, speechless, in the Cae sar class. President Johnson was particu larly impatient toward hesitancy in the pronunciation of proper names. Many a time I have heard him shout to a stammering ‘non-pre pared', 'Oh! call it Tecumseh and go on'. And that was meant to be as parallel a travesty on the Indian name, for he accented it on the first syllable as if ‘teck\ and the last syllable was ‘seeh\ exactly as a prepper might pronounce the word when confronting it for the first time. And once it was my ill luck to stumble, it was something like the future passive infinitive of a semi-deponent verb, and I heard the ominous oracle directed at me, Mr. Dunn, come back at two'. So 1 joined the post-noon caravan, having taken great care meanwhile to learn that evasive verb form. Upon reciting it correctly, it was comforting to have Persident John son look straightly at me ami pro nounce, mt so oracularly. 'Mom, Mr. Dunn, why couldn’t you have done as*well this morning? You know better’. I know I reddened under the indictment of that just reprimand which yet fell like ben ediction from those lips. Yet a strong thesis can be made in his defense. My Class of ’92 was well aware that we had come under his tutelage at a time in his life when he was commonly ru mored to be suffering from indiges tion. Dyspepsia used to be a fre quent medical term in the nineties, supplanted now by the more mod ern terms we hear sponsored over radio by the promoters of of this or that nostrum. Perhaps the first symptoms of the illness which sub sequently caused his death, were becoming evident. It was general ly conceded by our time that Pres ident Johnson was more irascible than he used to be. There were days when his physical suffering certainly wrought havoc with his temper. Ail of which, in these long after years, softens our mem ories of the grim school-master who dared demand one-hundred percent efficiency at the expense of his health and comfort. Another teature must be men tioned which sharply contrasts the methods of language instruction of then and now. One whole term was devoted to the memorizing of paradigms and forms, with no ap plication of all that mass of con gealed matter to any sentence con struction howsoever simple, until after Christmas. Surely, experi ence has shown that such a meth od is exceedingly difficult for both instructor and pupil. It forced President Johnson to spend his en ergies as a task-master, a drill sergeant, and we,—well it was a senseless riddle to us until we saw the first sentence in Andrews’ First Reader, which happened to be 'Amo te'. So, there were reasons for his proverbial harshness, which leads me to reiterate, that those who knew President Johnson at heart, did not find him the ogre which was the popular conception of him. I shall never forget my first per I sonal contact with him, other than in the stricture of class-work. I was having a prescription filled for my mother in Osburn’s Drug Store, when I was embarrassed to have him come in and, seeing me, take a position by my side. I had been in such awe of him,—and here he was, right beside me, talking pleasantly. And, in recoghition of our being released from class-room restraint, he called me by my first name. ‘How do you like Latin by now, Fred?’, he said. And, when I replied that I was liking it first rate, he went on to say something which I positively know was a very great rarity, Y‘es, I can see that. You are doing well’. Ah! that ij had a phonographic record of that! priceless remark he made to me! And President Johnson could joke. It so happened, during my first year at the University,—well, it didn't just happen, but ft was a fact, nevertheless,—I had accom panied Miss Harriet Dunning, a niece of the President’s, by the way, to several Campus functions,! and we were getting to be rather ‘steadies’. When Harriet regis tered the next year at President Johnson's desk,—for the President did it all in those primeval days, —he looked up over his glasses and dryly asked, ‘Harriet, are you Dunn yet or still Dunning?’ Do you remember, Harriet ? And was my face red? Tenth in series, Friday, “That Star-Chamber in the Back of Os burn’s Drug Store.” Innocent Bystander By BARNEY CLARK YNNOCENT BYSTANDER at this time wishes to take the oppor tunity to extend a note of sympa thy to Mr. James C. Ghormley. The occasion arises from the fact that Mr. Ghormley is a senior and a member of Delta Tau Delta. The sophomores and freshmen of this fraternal organization have had a tradition of long- standing that seniors must be forced to walk at least once a year. * * .t We were informed last night that, in order to assure Mr. Ghormley of plenty of exer cise, he was to lie taken to a point some 20 miles above Oakridge. I'port arrival there, lie was to lie given a pair of STUDENTS’ Professional Directory Dr. Will E. Moxley Dentist MO Tiffany Blclg. i I Dr. Perry A. Baker Dentist 804 Miner Bldg. PHONE 015 Dr. Sam Tyler Optometrist 021 Willamette St. shoes without laces, a pair of • pants without buttons or belt, and an old sweatshirt. The boys, left on their trip about 7:30 last night, and since the spot they picked for the hike was some 20 miles at least from civilization, it is to be assumed that by the time this paper reaches .you, Mr. Ghorm ley has had a large amount of heaith-giving exercise. So this is college! * - =r Und coomes it now! Platt Da vis comes right out and calls the kettle black. He says that he may fall in love occasionally, maybe ev ery week or so, but he at least doesn't do what Burr does, which is to miss four beats on his guitar every time a girl who is even re motely good-looking comes withni twenty feet of the band. It is this, he claims, and not his own gentle and almost pensive affection which hah ruined the morale of the dance aggregation. . At a late hour last night, Burr could not be reached for a state-' ment, but don't worry, there will be one, there will be one. OGDEN GNASHES “Blow, hlbw, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As this ungodly weather Which won't make up its ' mind!” * * * “—I’ll have to see my lawyer first!" MOOT TRIAL DECISION CAUSES VOID CLAIM (Continued From Page One) the extent of $3365. The defense asserted not sufficient causal con nection, between the taking of gas and the injuries of the plaintiff, to render Goodwin liable for those injuries. Previous to the suit, Al Schnei der and Virgil Langtry, defense attorneys, attempted to tender to the court the 75 cents, which Win termeier had returned to Goodwin two days after the robbery, to be paid to the plaintiff if he lost the case. The plaintiff attorneys, how ever, refused the tender—and went ahead with their claim for $3365 damages. The jury, when the last argument was finished, was out for only five minutes—-returning with a decision for 68 eents for the plaintiff—which is, rather than 75 cents, the exact price of three gallons of gas. SPRING CONCERT TO BE GIVEN TONIGHT (Continued From Page One) bone, cymbals, bass-viol, bagpipes, and fife. This number is also sung in the German language. Billy Hill’s “Wagon Wheels,” will be sung by a Gleemen quartet, in cluding Leland Robe and Dean Beistel, tenors, Dale Cooley, bari tone and arranger, and Alfred Frese, bass. The composition is by the author of “The Last Roundup,” and “The Old Spinning Wheel.” The mystery number and Fry’s special performance follow. “The Grasshopper,” a pseudo-operatic presentation, gives the biography of a grasshopper, who finally slides into a turkey gobbler’s maw, and thus meets an untimely demise. This number is guaranteed to bring roars of mirth, according to mem bers. Tickets for the event, which are 40 cents, are on sale at McMorran and Washburne. [Under the Mikeroscope By JIMMY MORRISON HARRY BARRIS, that funny lit 11 e singer - composer - pianist who’s married to Loyce Whiteman, will be master of ceremonies at the new Music Box Night Club opening in San Francisco tonight. Harry’s latest tune, you Know, is “Little Dutch Mill.” Of course, when he was under contract with Arnheim he wrote scores of jingles, such as that clever cycle he used when he was courting Loyce— “Now's the Time to Fall in Love, “I Surrender Dear,” and ‘‘It Hap pened to Me.” Harry, it will be well remem bered, was one of Paul Whiteman’s original Rhythm Boys with Bing Crosby and A1 Rinker. Bfng' Crosby is just about through with his present radio se ries, and he maintains that when he gets through making “She Loves Me Not” in Hollywood, he’s going to take a rest. But you can’t rest much when you’re in demand, so he is scheduled for a bunch of personal appearances this summer in the East. Bing will be back on the air in the fall. Well, that just about settles what Bing and Harry are doing, but does anybody know what happened to A1 Rinker? He. appeared in Paul Whiteman’s “King of Jazz’’ several years ago, and was with the boys while they were at the Grove, but since then he has dropped out of the picture. It wilt be appreciated if you’ll phone any information you know regarding Al’s fate to this writer at 1906. Big-time Fio Rito got his start tinkling on a piano in a movie house with the handsome remun eration of five bucks a week. His trombonist sounds like he is just one of the boys in the pit whom Ted just brought along out of kind ness of heart. And if any of you witnessed that foul vaudeville they put on last winter at the Rex, you’ll understand what a pit trom bonist usually sounds like. Dance Bands Tonight 3:45-4:15—KEX, Duke Elling ton 6:00—NBC. Paul Whiteman CBS, Glen Gray 7:20—KSL, Isham Jones 7:45—KSL, Henry Busse 8.00—kiu, Jimmy Luncerorcl 9:00—KSL, Gus Arnheim 9:45—KSL, Earl Hoffman 10:10—KYA, Jesse Stafford 10:15—NBC, Tom Coakley 10:30—CBS, Gus Arnheim KFI, Jimmy Grier 11:30—KFI, Caro} Lofner Duke Ellington, the “Aristocrat of Harlem,’’ who is broadcasting over KEX every afternoon this over KEX every afternoon this week at 3:45 from the stage of the Music Box .will make way for Ted Lewis, who will be there all next week. Lewis used to have about the worst band on the air a year or so ago, but Del Parks and Hubie Totton, boat musicians who just sailed into Eugene after a 20,000-mile trip, both say old Tittering Ted sounded pretty good when they heard him in ’Frisco. “Patronize Emerald Advertisers.” Call RAILWAY EXPRESS to set your baggage home QUICKLY and ECONOMICALLY You probably have 101 things to do and think about before leav ing the university for home and vacation. 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