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An Independent University Daily William E. Phipps . Acting Editor Grant Thuemmel . Manager Newton Stearns . Managing Editor PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OE THE. UNIVERSITY OE OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon EDITORIAL BOARD Don Olds. Associate Editor; Winston Allard, Barney Clark, Charles Paddock, Bill Phipps, Robert Moore Eeslic Stanley, News Ed. Clair Johnson. Sports Ed. A1 Newton. Telegraph Ed. Mary Louiee Edinger, Wo men’s Ed. Peggy Chessman, Society Ed. Ann Heed Burns. Features Ed. Rex Cooper, Chief Night Ed. George Bikman, Radio Ed. DAY EDITORS: Velma McIntyre, Cliff Thomas, Mildred Black burne, Dorothy Dill. Reinhart Kuudsen. EXECUTIVE REPORTERS: Margery Kissling, Betty Ohle miller, Henryetta Miimmey, Dan Clark. BUSINESS OFFICE: McArthur Court, Phone 3300—Local 214. EDITORIAL OFFICES: Journalism building. Phone 3300 Editor, Local 354; News Room and Managing Editor 355. REPORTERS: Margaret Petsch, Betty Shoemaker, Signe Ras mussen, Lois Strong, Jane Lagasseo, Bob Lucas, Dick W'atkins, JIallie Dudley, Marjorie Kibbe, Betty Tubbs, Phyl lis Adams, Marion Fuller, Doris Springer, Eugene Lincoln, Dan Maloney, Fulton Travis, Jean Crawford. COPYREADERS: Margaret Ray, Wayne Ilarbert, Marjory O’Bannon, Eileen Blaser, Lilyan Krantz, Laurenc Brock schink, Eileen Donaldson, Judith Wodacge, Iris Franzen, Darrel Ellis, Colleen Cathey. Veneta Brons, Rlioda Arm strong. Bill Pease, Marian Kennedy, Virginia Scoville, Bill Haight, Marian Smith, Marceil Jackson, Elinor Humphreys. SPORTS STAFF: Caroline Hand. George Jones, Bill Mcln turft. Earl Bucknum, Gordon Connelly, Fulton Travis, Kenneth Kirtley, Paul Conroy, Don Casciato, Kenneth Webber, Pat NIGHT EDITORS: Paul Conroy, Reinhart Knudsen, Art Guthrie, Alfredo Fajardo. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Dorothy Adams. Betty Me Girr. Genevieve McNiece, Gladys Battleson, Betta Rosa, Louise Kruikman, Jean I’anson, Ella Mae Woodworth, Echo Tomseth, Jane Bishop, Bob Powell, Ethel Eyman. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF (•rant 1 huemmel, mis. Mgr. Kldon Haberman, Asst. Bus. Mgr. Fred Fisher, Adv. Mgr. Jack Mcwirr, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Ed Labbe, Nat. Adv. Mgr. Robert Creswell. ('ire. Mgr. Don Chapman, Asst. Cir. Mgr. A member of the Major College Publications, represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 JO. 42nd St., New York City; 123 W. Madison St.. Chicago; 1004 JOnd Ave., Seattle; 1200 Maple Ave., Los Angeles; Call lJuilding, San Francisco. The Emerald is a member of the Associated Press. The As sociated I’ress is entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publica tion of special dispatches herein are also reserved. 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 except the first seven days, all of March except the first eight days. Entered as second-class matter at the oostcffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. An Emergency Arises the readers of the Emerald: It is my sincere hope that the Associated Stu dents of the University will bear with me during the interim in which your official publication, the Oregon Daily Emerald, is without its ,du 1 y appointed editor. In filling the breach temporarily until the pub lications committee selects a successor who meets with the approval of the executive council, I depend upon your consideration in meeting the unexpected predicament in which the Emerald finds itself. Upon the Emerald staff, harmoniously and continuously functioning in the true Emerald tradition, falls the task of supplying you students and readers a newspaper whose contents are treated from a cam pus viewpoint. Since I was informed of my temporary duties at the late hour of seven o'clock last evening, the Emerald is today handicapped editorially. The heavy task of filling this morning’s editorial col umns with timely and pointed interpretations was taken over handily by volunteers who met the sit uation with ability and dispatch. No changes in the present staff of the Emerald will be made except those essential to meeting the present emergency. It is my earnest desire during' the short time I am to serve you in the position of acting editor not only to give you the news in which you are vitally interested, but to hand over to the permanent editor a smooth-working newspaper organization which is the objective of every laboratory of a journalism school. William E. Phipps Second Choice I^RESHMEN come to the University with certain preconceived ideas as to why a colege education is valuable. Numbers of them, a major portion, per haps, feel that a college man has a greater chance for financial success in later life. Still others come for no better tcason than that their.friends are coming and that it is the correct thing to do. Most of them are not sure of their objectives. They have vague, half-formed ideas as to what they intend to he. A friend has sold them on the idea that journal ism offers the widest field, or their parents have convinced them that business administration is the only sure and sensible course to pursue. Few of them have had any opportunity to really test their own abilities and talents and discover for them selves the caree rfor which they are best adapted. The University administration has been wise in adopting a liberal policy in allowing students to change their major at any time during their college course. Though at first glimpse such action might seem to foster vacillation and weakness of purpose on the part of the student, closer analysis will reveal that even two years is short enough time for a stu dent, not yet sure of himself and unable to cover adequately the multitude of vocations offerd by the i curriculum, to discover that his selected major is i not his particular bent. Undoubtedly many students go through their entire four years at the University ! in a course that is unsuited to them merely be cause they feel that if they changed their major they would lose the value of all the courses they l took prior to the change. Such reasoning is faulty. The first two years in most courses are designed to give the student i ground-work in all fields pos sible. and the knowledge gained there is equally applicable to the scholastic superstructure of the next two years. Thus it would seem a wise procedure for the 1 students to pause at the completion of the first two years and say to himself, “Is this the work 1 want to do? Have 1 not come across some other subject to which I am better adapted bv talent and tem perament than the one which 1 first chose? ’ And if the answer is in the affirmative, there is uu i reasonable alternative but a change t Seven’s a Nice Number WHEN 187 Portland business men can forgo; their work for a day to journey to Seattle and stage their annual “Challenge Day” prior to I the Oregon-Washington game, it would seem that; the active undergraduate student body could at least match this spirit by attending the game. He who fails to go to Portland without some I very pressing reason for not doing so is not only showing up as a pretty poor sport, but is passing up a chance that he will later regret. Because if there is one time in the year when the grad envies his undergraduate brethern it is when he peers around a post from his end-zone seat (price 52.201 at the mass of students seated smack on the sidelines. It is, perhaps, the sternest reality the alumni runs into. As for the game this Saturday, it leaves almost nothing to be desired. Oregon, with its astonishing winning streak of six years in which Washington has not scored, will try desperately to get past the Washington hurdle and not only keep the slate clean but go on to an even greater year than 1933 And Washington, with its championship aspiration, killed in every one of the recent games, is getting mighty tired of being stopped by Oregon. The rally train is cheap, the game free (if you have your cardi and the pre- and post-game fes tivities gay. Don’s cheat yourself out of the most fun you’ll have in college. Benefits of Peace pOR the first time in several years the state’s in stitutions of higher learning are increasing their attendance. The university and the college will have about 2500 full time undergraduate students apiece this year, an increase of between 25 and 30 pei cent over last year. This splendid gain has twr causes: Improved economic conditions and cessatioi of the warfare between them, probably the latte more than the former. Several years of fighting had just about wrecked the prestige of the schools in this state. Students who could go elsewhere pre ferred to do so. Nearly a year of peace and quiei has done much to restore the feeling of pride in the schools and Oregon boys and girls now want to go to Eugene and Corvallis instead of outside the state. Everyone hopes this condition will continue and ap parently there is good basis for such hopes.—Baker Democrat-Herald. The new national recovery administration should find the work schedule of cinema actress Eileen Ingles to its liking. Miss Ingles works but 20 minutes a day, and then never more than 30 seconds at a time. Chief reason: She was but 4 days and 11 hours old when she made her first appearance be fore the camera in the daily grind. Those who are too sensitive to bear up under the tear gas floating over strike infested sections of this country, may find the “peace and quiet” of sunny Spain or southern France more to their liking. That is, if they are not bullet-shy. De Die in Diem Empty Honoraries A T THE opening convocation at Oregon State college Wednesday President Peavy voiced sus picions that have been entertained by many another adult college man and woman. His suspicions are directed against certain of the 35 national honorary fraternities represented on the college campus. "We are not convinced that the honoraries are ben eficial,” he said. “Thousands of dollars are taken from the campus each year for support of national offices of the societies, and particularly for support of high salaried secretaries.” Earlier he mentioned the levy for “hardware,” meaning the highly deco rative pins emblematic of membership in the hon oraries. Dr. Peavy will probably find that he has ruffled the feelings of some of his faculty folk but others will cheer his stand heartily. Reaction will be simi larly divided among alumni, depending a good deal on whether the alumnus in question received any benefit from his honorary. How many national honoraries are represented on the University campus, we do not know. The number must certainly be as large as the college representation. Some have made noteworthy con tributions both to student development and to campus life. Two such worth while organizations that come to mind are Sigma Delta Chi. journalism, and Mu Phi Epsilon, music. These have served ad mirably for a long time and others have probably done as well. However, we have in mind one or two which have struggled for years to stir some enthusiasm and failed utterly. Election to their membership is welcomed each year; a few lunch eons or dinners are held; ringing speeches are made, and the organization's activities are remanded" to conversations between a few zealots. Each time the zealots meet they say, "Well, we surely must dp something to get the organization going again.” And there the matter ends. Such groups serve only one worthy purpose: to spur students to greater efforts to win membership. The responsibility for failure of local chapters to give real service does not ot necessity lie with the fundamental idea of the organization or motives of the national officers. There may never have been any need for a few of the organizations and ii i.. possible that some national secretaries have been1 most interested in perpetuating well-paying jobs, > However, when a local chapter grows moribund the' fault usually lies in tile chapter itself. Students have many interests, a good share of them pulling atten tion away from school work. Unless the honorary V program can be made at least as interesting as other campus activities the local charter might better be relinquished. * * * It is significant that some of the most successful, of honorary fraternal activities on the Oregon cam pus have been carried on by purely local organiza tions. usually upperclass discussion groups. And their success has varied according to the character of faculty and students. It would seem that, except in a few instances in which real service is rendered by tiie national organization itself, the national affiliation is mostly empty and expensive honor. Dr. Peavy's task, of course, will be to determine which nationals actually serve and he will find it difficult to draw the line between those valuabi-' nationals and the others which give an appeuance >f vitality by the true vitality of the local chapter .tsell s-Eugegc Morning New.-. I The Medicine Man By alfredo fajardo Our Nearest Neighbors the Chichesters By FREDERIC S. DUNN A comparison of the lithographed drawings that used to serve as frontispieces of early catalogs of the University, with the highly idealized plans of ‘the Greater Ore gon’ now framed and hanging in the corridors of the school of fine arts, or the sketches mailed last Christmas by the Manerud-Hunt ington Co., reveals a barrenness in the former almost pathetic. The present student generation, many of them the grandchildren of the first classes to be graduated, can scarcely comprehend how their forebears could endure such bleak vacuity. But, always, a glance at those stereotyped pictures shows two structures in addition to the one college building, or, later, to the twin halls that were for so long i our sole campus possessions. Not so lonesome after all, for the sev enties and eighties had neighbors close by. The original quadrangle was a portion of the McMurray donation claim and abutting upon it to the east was the estate of the Chi chesters. (The ancestral line in England may have practiced a clipped pronunciation of the name, but we gave every syllable its full time and force,—the ch as in chew and the I like y n my.) Farther east there was not a roof or frame of any sort until you came to the neighborhood of Judkins Point,— only a great pasture, seared with ravines anti gullies and often swamped by rains. So, it was a warm, homey feel ing the early students had for the Chichester's just across the fence. And it was reciprocated. Old grads tell comfortable tales cf the kindly attitude toward them on the part of Mr. and Mrs. Chichester. When the great barn was stored with ap ples, the students, not so excessive in numbers, were occasionally in vited to help themselves. An ex 79er once said to me, ‘I can still sniff those Bellflowers and Win ter Pairmains.’ The picturesque farm house still stands, though considerably mod ernize , across the street from Col lier hall, the chancellor’s residence. The Sheldons must feel a satisfying pride to know that they are the heirs of such a storied old land mark, relic of our colonial era. Then there was a windmill, on great stilts, with flying tails that whirled and sometimes creaked, to the terror of a team of young hors es my father was once driving through the deep highway cut and almost to his death. The huge barn, covering the site of our Extension building and post office, was burned to the ground one night in the late nineties. It made a terrible glare which shone through the windows of Villard hall as we ran from the town side, filling us at first with absolute conviction that Villard was on fire. In my dash up 11th avenue, I passed Dr. Condon, all alone, pant ing, exhausted .terrorized with the fear that his priceless collection of fossils was iost. It was a great re lief to discover the real locale of the fire, -but Chichester's barn, where alums of old munched apples between classes, was no more. (The next issue will contain "Binary Stars and Logarythms.") Tramping Norway in Winter -BY HU H VKI) NELSON PUGH (Editor s note: Mr. Pugh is .1 U'J'1 grad uate of ilu' University of Oregon. All pub lication rights of this travel sketch arc reserved In the Oregon Daily Emerald.) V Aide was surprised to find I could not dance. She thought ev ery one in America was jazz-mad and danced continuously for -!8 hours at a stretch. She was equal ly incredulous when I told tier how, in tlie community where I was born and raised, dancing had been forbidden as an unholy practice. My eagerness to learn, however, pleased her and site showed me how to walk a few steps. The dance music stopped. The radio program was over and not one bit of advertising had marred 1 the performance. Only at certain times of the day is advertising al-1 lowed, Jorgensen explained. The government exercises a complete monopoly of broadcasting, and carefully censors all programs. The program had interested me in the Norwegian civilization and culture, it brought home to me the realization that Norway was a country with a personality. This growing desire prompted me next morning to ask of my friend if he had anything 1 could do about tIre place for my lodging for a week I or two just long enough to get some idea of the construction of i [he Norwegian language. I told him 1 should like very much to be ible to read one of Ibsen's dramas in the oiigmal language. “Sure there is plenty to be done ibout the place. Only recently we .■.lit a new garage and remodeled he house There is plenty of scrap .umber that needs sawing into fire wood. And there are still a few trees of apples in the orchard to be picked," was the spontaneous reply to my question. So, for two weeks I lived as a member of the family. Only my democratic ways prevented me from falling to the low estate of a farm-hand. The first day I returned to Oslo to purchase a grammar, a lexicon and a copy of "Per Gynt” in Nor wegian. I drew from the public li brary a history of Norway, a copy cf Per Gynt in English to crib from, and a book of Bjornson's poems. Fru Jorgensen had also come to town for the day. Together we spent the morning at the home of her mother. The mother, like the son-in-law, spoke English. Another guest was an engineer who had helped survey a railway route, the Natron cut-off, in my native Ore gon. He had some snapshots of the railway construction engineers, and among them was one of a former University of Oregon classmate of mine. In company with the engineer and Fru Jorgensen a visit to the Bygdoy Folkmuseum was made. Among the many interesting things seen I recall especially the 1000 year old Viking ship, the ancient wooden Stave church with its weird pagan architecture, and Hendrik Ibsen's study with its complete ab sence of books except for the large family Bible. The old woman who acted as attendant mentioned with awe how King Haakon VII comes frequently to the museum to show his guests about. On our v.av home that night the I police stopped our car. The coun- | tryside was all agog over a rob- i Pery that had deprived one of the neighbors of every movable stick i of furniture in his house. We were 1 carrying no furniture, fortunately, and were permitted to go on. (To be continued) En Paassnt - - - Editor’s Note: This column will contain materia! by nationally known authors on matters of current campus interest. Today's article is taken from the booklet. ‘‘Gentlemen Preferred.” and is published by permission of Elizabeth Woodward and the Ladies Home Journal. IT’S IP TO DATES How well to know a girl before i you ask her for a date ? Why hesi- i tate ? If you like her and she j seems to register in your favor on ! first meeting—shoot. It's quite | correct though rather sudden to phone the very next day. The best way of getting around to a first date with a girl you’ve just met is to unearth some hobby that you have in common. If she likes you she’ll help you along to the extent of confessing a deep love for your hobby. Then you can take her mo torboating, to play golf, tennis or swim, or to see some new movie. And away you go. Blind dates have their charms and their pitfalls. You may get a blind who is altogether charming, attractive, intelligent oy whatever you like in women. On the other hand she may be a dud. The kind who couldn’t possibly wrangle a date on her own. The best rule about blinds is to be sure of your go-betweens. If they have good taste in women, you won’t be af flicted with a young lady whose only virtues are that she knows all about Greek sarcophagi and can finish cross-word puzzles after ev eryone has given up. There are ways and ways of asking for dates. The most common is by telephone. Therefore, there is a particular allure about dates ardently re quested by special delivery or scrambled together by telegraph. If you ask for a date well ahead of time by word of mouth, you must confirm it later by telephone. And there’s an art to telephone conversations. Start and finish them brilliantly and abruptly. And hang up before either of you gets talked out. Like, “Well, I’ll be over at eight. I love you. Good-by, dar ling. Don’t fall out the window.” Leave her holding the receiver, pleased and dazzled. (To be continued) The Calliope All communications are to be ad dressed to The Editor, Oregon Daily Emerald, and should not exceed 200 words in length. Letters must he signed, hut should the writer prefer, only initials will be used. The editor maintains the right to withhold pub lication should he see fit. To the Editor: I have been informed of none of the details of the situation, but of course consider it distressing that the student administration again has seen fit to harass freedom of editorial discussion on this cam pus. As I have said before, I am not aware of the facts which must lie behind this action, but if ever an editor were condemned without a trial, that editor is Mr. Polivka. He was in office for approximately one week. If the students of the University want their paper to express the lib erty of thought guaranteed in the Bill of Rights of the constitution of the United States, I urge them to search thoroughly the underly ing facts of this situation. This is not the first time an editor has been under fire for expressing his sincere convictions here. But I prophesy it will be the last time an editor will dare to do so unless the students investigate this con troversy. I have an abiding conviction that the militant newspapermen of this state, the liberal leaders of the commonwealth and other public spirited citizens at least will de mand a full airing of the facts, whatever they may be. RICHARD L. NEUBERGER. Learn to Dance You'll Dance in Your First Lesson New Class F or Beginners Thursday b p. m. 6 Lessons $5 Co-eds. ,$t.50 MERRICK DANCE STUDIO S61 Willamette Phone jos! Ether Without Nausea By HOWARD KESSLER i Emerald Foreign Correspondent i Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, ■ Oct. 9.—Frankly, now, isn’t the advertising you hear over the radio a bitter pill you must take to gain ! the sweets ? How much of the specious blah intersts and enter-; tains you? Do you believe (hon estly now) that if you use Mugg's Mintergreen chewing gum you will never suffer from flat feet? Having gained favorable ans wers to these questions I shall tell you the story of the Canadian Radio Commission, which presides over the coast-to-coast broadcasts in Canada and sees to it that not a word of advertising matter en ters into them. For about two years now the commission governed by a gentle man name of Hector Charlesworth, has arranged and sent out pro grams from Halifax to Vancouver. Considering that letters praising the programs exceed by three to one letters of criticism, it is safe to asume that the venture has been successful. I do not believe the United States could adopt such a system without a rather bloody revolution, particularly since the radio fans have been spoon-fed with free lance programs of a kind they like best, since the beginning of radio. But the C, R. C., patterned after the British Broadcasting company in England, has done well. The population of the country, its ex tent ;and the sparsity of radio stations (a few dozen)’ are in favor of such a supervised pro gram. The proximity of the United States networks reacts against the educational type of material which it would be possible to present if Canada was isolated. However, even with competition so great, Canada has more high grade programs than your repub lic—and still keeps its listeners. Over a 12-monthly period, the main divisions of broadcasts were: concerts, 874; variety programs, 365; dance programs, 309; ad dresses, 160; novelty entertain ment, 126; distinguished artists in recitals, 96; organ recitals, 73; educational programs, 68; choirs and choral groups, 53; bands, 51; comedy, 50; children’s features, 50; dramas, 49; symphonies, 46; old time features, 41; events, such as descriptions of the English derby, Harmsworth trophy race, 35; op eratic broadcasts, 29; chamber musoc, 25; French operas, 17; Eng lish operas, 17; sports, 7. Contrast this with the records of the Na tional Broadcasting company, i which report 13 purely educa tional programs during the same period, and not nearly as much high class music. Oh, yes, the commission has its faults. The necessity of announcing half the programs in both French and English is very unnerving to the fam who must listen to much which he does not understand. The comedy programs are not comical. But the music, which, after all, is the piece de resistance of radio, is very good. Absence of advertising naturally means absence of keen competition on the airwaves, and by a line of direct reasoning you can proceed to the absence of huge-salaried radio artists and producers. Idea men rate from $10 to $50 for one program “idea”; radio writers are paid from $25 to $200 for work on a single program; artists, $10 to $75 for each performance; and an nouncers receive no higher than $100 a week. When a Canadian radio man or woman does develop into a box-office attraction, the mingy rates paid here hold no lure, and he or she is prompt to desert to the U. S. The “March of Time” programs are written and produced by a Canadian; Rubinoff’s ar ranger is also a Canuck; and sev eral others of my fellow-country men have found more money and fame across the border. Several times a week there are exchange programs between the N.B.C. and the C.R.C., which us ually are dance music. But no “Get well and keep well with Phooey-Phooey, in either the small or the large bottles;” no agonizing breaks in what is other wise fine entertainment; and no opportunities for Canadian man ufacturers to make fools of them selves. When will we get together ? Many Books Added to Co-op Rental Shelves The High Hat rent and sales li brary at the Co-op outgrew its old borders at the front of the store this summer and has been moved to the back of the store where the office was last year. With more and more new books coming in, there was no space at the front of the store for them and many had to be taken upstairs. The new site at the back of the store is large enough to take care of the whole collection. The office has been moved up stairs. Send the Emerald to your friends Subscription rates $2.50 a year. j CORDUROY! HERE’S a grand suit that will see you through the present semester in great style. It’s another of those keenly tailored outfits of Corduroy that has assumed such an important position in the style picture. Tailored from Crompton Corduroy,the“Two-Hinge” Suit features the side-pleat sports back jacket—a versa tile garment that can be worn with the suit or as an odd jacket with flannel slacks. Ask your dealer to show you some of the new con ceptions in Corduroy... or write directly to us for a catalogue of styles. . . . CROMPTON-RICHMOND COMPANY-INC. 1071 SIXTH AVENUE AT 4 1ST STREET, NEW YORK CITY ©1934 r-R Co. Inc*. 34-119 P.O. 20S 1st College Newspaper Ad 105 x 2 Celebrate at VICTORY DANCE! Saturday Night Big Floor Show Dance to Bob Goodwin's Band INVERNESS GRILL —entertainment—dinners— For -'Reservations Phone 565—Fisher