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An Independent University Daily William E. Phipps . Acting Editor Grant Thucmmcl . Manager Malcolm Bauer . Managing Editor PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Leslie Stanley, News Ed. Clair Johnson, Sports Ed. A1 Newton, Telegraph Ed. Mary Louice Edinger, Wo men’s Ed. Peggy Chessman, Society Ed. Ann Reed Burns. Features Ed. Rex Cooper, Chiff Night Ed. George Bikman, Radio Ed. DAY EDITORS: Velma McIntyre. Cliff Thomas, Mildred Black burne, Dorothy Dill, jjRcinhart Knudsen. EXECUTIVE REPORTERS: Ruth Weber, Margery Kissling, Betty Ohlemiller, Menryetta Mummcy, Dan Clark. REPORTERS: Margaret Petsch, Betty Shoemaker, Signe Ras mussen, Lois Strong, Jane Lagasseo, Bob Lucas, Dick Watkins, Hallie Dudrey, Marjorie Kibbe, Betty Tubbs,. Phyl lis Adams, Marion Fuller, Doris Springer, Eugene Lincoln, Dan Maloney, Fulton Travis, Jean Crawford. 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UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Grant Thuemmel, Eldon Haberman, Mgr. Fred Fisher, Adv. Bus. Mgr. Asst. Bus. Mgr. Jack McGirr, Asst. Atlv. Mgr. Ed Labbe, Nat. Adv. Mgr. Robert Creswell, Circ. Mgr. Don Chapman, Asst. Cir. Mgr. .ADVERTISING SOLICITORS: Robert Smith, John Do herty, Dick Ream, Dick Bryson, Frank Cooper, Patsy Neai, Ken Fly, Margaret Detch, Jack Enders, Robert Moser, Flor ence Smith, Bob Wilhelm, I’at McKeon, Carol Auld, Robert Moser. BUSINESS OFFICE: McArthur Court, Phone 3300—Local 214. EDITORIAL OFFICES: Journalism building.. Phone 3300 - Editor, Local 354 ; News Room and Managing Editor 355. A member of the Major College Publications, represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York City; 123 W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1206 Maple Ave., Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. The Emerald is a member of the Associated Press. The As sociated Press 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 tlx* first eight days. Entered as second-class matter at the postofficc, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. Progress and the Classroom DEAN Wayne L. Morse struck a chord vital to higher education last week when he used the matter of classroom freedom as the keynote of his address to those asesmbled in Portland to observe Founders’ day. It is just as esential that the student in political science or sociology be permitted to explore the in ricacies of the new movements to the right and left as it is that the young physicist experiment with the Wheatstone bridge. During their research and after their conclusions are drawn it is likewise essential that they be at liberty to discuss their experiments freely. The very life of any civilization depends upon progress. No body politic can remain stationary. Whenever it ceases to move ahead it drops back. It is the student i who delves into the new move ments which confront the people of the world; it is the student who is in the position to discard the chaff and select the best from the new and combine that with the best from the old. The University has always maintained this free dom of acedemic expression. Were it ever to pass into discard one of the most important functions of education would have been destroyed. How then would the world receive an interpretation of the undercurrents which arc powerful enough to push it on to greater achievement, and which are at the same time strong enough to throw it into oblivion? Who Threw in lhe Towel? ARE you one of those who "weep and for forlorn” just because Oregon's Webfoots took it on the chin Saturday? Have you given up all hope for and interest in the football season that is merely start ing? If you do fit into this class of black-robed mourners, just take a lesson from Prink Callison. This man, to whom the difference between a victory or a loss against the Husky probably meant more than to any other single Oregon booster, does not sit down and bathe himself in salty tears, be moaning the ill-luck of the past. He has bigger things to think of. One of them is the game with Idaho this week end; another is the annual classic with Oregon State; and yet another is the trek into the land of the once mighty Trojan. He is planning and building for victories in these games, not weep ing over the loss to Washington. Saturday’s set-back may not be considered more than a growing pain in the developmment of the mighty machine that can siill roll on to national recognition. The boys who played Saturday’s game are the same hcros who trampled over the Bruin of U.C.L.A. a week before. They received your support then; they need it more now. So come out from behind the towels. Because all of those who give up with one defeat, ami retire to the big plush chair for the winter arc going to miss a lot of fine football; and. what's more, they are going to miss the opportunity to be a contribut ing factor in tire new morale that will mean a win ning—who knows, perhaps a championship football team. Activities: Pro and Coil "OROK. Stephen Leacock of McGill university, says of campus activities: "Learning tor learning sake cannot survive amid the tumult of student, clubs and students' activities, and fierce and con tinued excitement of contested games, enthusiastic politics, students elections and mimic journalism. Student activities are destroying the student. Soon we must set up on the campus a monolith, ‘to the unknown student.’ ” Somehow, we canot quite agree with Porfessor Leacock. All of us will admit that we have known students whose devotion to activities and campus politics has led them far from scholarly paths. However, it is equally true that activities give zest to college life and valuable social training to the participants. Even the most academic mind can become surfeited with a bookish routine, and a man learned only in intellectual affairs is woefully out of place in the modern world, where the social element counts so much. Though we would be far from denying that ac tivities do not sway numbers of students from the straight and narrow path of academic progress, we feel that this deflection is overbalanced by the soc ial training given to a horde of others by these same activities. Adult? T^WO incidents last week-end hinted that college students are losing a little of their carefully nurtured sophistication. The Battle of the Goalposts and the painting of the Wahsington Chimes was a distinct throw-back to that callow and blatant per iod just before Lhe debacle of 1929, the w. k. De pression. Some observers had been hopeful that these last sobering years would have a maturing effect upon our college youth. The sportsmanship and courtesy exhibited during the contests between Oregon and Washington in the past few years have ben a move in this direction. Many spectators at the last game were impressed by the gesture of the Washington band in standing at attention during the time the Oregon band was parading. This civilized touch was mitigated, how ever by the prep-schoolish scramble around the goal posts after the game. Washington, of course, had some excuse in cele brating the end of their seven year touchdown drought, and it would be a little difficult to insist that Oreogn students stand idly by in any case and watch the immolation of their goalposts. The touch down famine has been ironed out now, however, and will no longer be an extenuating factor. Next year, therefore and by the grace of God, we may be able to give the impression that we are grown-up. This year we’ll have to be contented with saying ‘Boys will be boys”! The Passing Show THE ARMAMENT INVESTIGATION T AST March Senator Nye offered a resolution *-J calling for the appointment of a commission for the investigation of the munitions industry of this nation. The resolution also called for the appropria tion by Congres of a sum of money to be used in carrying on this research. At the time of present ing this resolution the senator himself offered some very interesting information on the activities of various foreign munitions companies. The final adop tion of this resolution was probably due in part to the light which the senator's speech threw on the activities of various foreign munitions companies. Our understanding is that the heads of the mu nitions companies are viewing the disclosures of the armament invcstigaton commission with consider able concern for their own future security amt peace of mind. After reading some of the facts turned up by that commission after barely getting under way it is easy to sec why the armaments chiefs are at least slightly moved. For one thing—the big boys aren't accustomed to this kind of treatment at the hands of their gov ernment. In the past they have been able to demand the greatest courtesy and cooperation from govern ments in their constant efforts to disturb the other wise peaceful relations of nations. For instance, just a few years back the United States navy depart ment detailed Commander James P. Strong to aid Columbia in tire proper arrangement of anti-air craft guns in her five harbors to be used in case of war with Peru. He suggested the exclusive use of guns made by Driggs, an American manufacturing concern. It is interesting to note that Commander Strong later accepted a very lucrative position as the head of Columbia’s air force. In other words, for some reason the officials of our Navy department saw fit to order an officer to assist in the fermen tation of war between two South American nations to the ultimate profit of a purveyor of murderous implements. Another outstanding example of aid being grae iousty given by certain government officials to a munitions concern in an efort to start war is shown by the prominent part taken by our department of state in 1928 in selling submarines made by the Electric Boat company to Spain. Our state depart ment even instructed our ambassador to Spain, Al exander Moore, to assist, in the negotiations. It is also well to bear in mind that these affairs together with many others of a like unpatriotic and subversive nature were going on while we were sending representative to so-called peace confer ences in all parts of the civilized world. \ ou may wonder why the newspaper accounts ot tlic resultb of ttte armamemnt investigation ceased so abruptly a few days past. Ii was recently reported in the press that the United States secre tary of state, Cordell Hull, requested that the of ficials of the conuuision apply the soft pedal to their very interesting disclosures. It seems that the head of the state department feared that hard feelings would arise it * lie activities of any more foreign officials in ibc armament business were brought to air. May it. be understood that we are trying to look it this sickening situation ot cooperation between certain officials within government and lawful mur derers with a desire to rescue our American ideals ot fair play and humanitarianism from the feet of international crooks, and with that aim in view, we m i.-Ii to sec every detail brought to light.— Idaho Bengal. Student Goodwill (Continued Front Pago One) ties French anil a score or more olher languages. Informal dances, concerts and teas are frequently given in the great hail ci the hou.: uvt other entertainment provided for the student residents. Oregon students planning to tra vel or study abroad may secure additional information and make applications it the Institute of In* . ternational Education. New York City, N Y . the director of the tatted date- I euaiatioa 1 am i France, or from the nearest French consulate. Oregon students intending to live and study at the Cite Vniver talro during the coming year, ire urged to make their applica tions is soon as possible because ot the great demand for actoiunm datiom,. Dean Morse Speaks Editor’s Note—The following is the complete text of the ad dress delivered at the Found ers’ day banquet in Portland Thursday night, October 11, by Wayne L. Morse, dean of the Oregon law scJiqoI. It is presented in full in these col umns because a large number of students, alumni and oth ers interested in the Univer sity were denied the privilege of hearing his remarks in Portland. Distinguished guests, alumni, and friends of the University of Oregon: I sincerely appreciate the honor embodied in your invitation to speak on this program. I am very happy to join with you and the thousands of University of Oregon alumni and friends who are paying tribute tonight to the founders of the state University. I shall not attempt to eulogize our benefac tors because their eulogy cannot be written. Even the words of a j poet could not portray our deep j feeling of gratitude, our apprecia- ] tion of the service the founders have performed, our devotion to the educational ideals which they breathed into the life of the Uni versity at its birth. They founded an institution which by its very nature was bound to exert a di recting influence in the intangible realm of human values and social forces. Their ideals and aspira tions, their perseverance, labors, and sacrifices, were the materials with which the University of Ore gon was built- not bricks and j stones. Their monuments are not < Deady and Viilard halls, not the campuses at Eugene and Portland, but rather their monuments are the unlocked minds of the stu dents who have come there, the | lives which have been enriched, I and the public service which the University — its faculty and stu dents—has rendered to the state and to the nation. In a spirit of reverence we j .should thank them tonight for building an institution of learning dedicated both as a shrine for truth and as laboratory for the searching and discovering of new truths. Recognizing our great in debtedness and obligations to them and to the state which has sup ported aiid maintained the Univer sity they founded, we should pledge ourselves anew to the mot to carved over the portals of John son hall “Knowledge, the Soul of a Republic.” j It is particularly fitting that in | these times we should so honor the founders of our University and pledge ourselves to protect and preserve it as a free institution in which untrammeled minds can search, study, and teach the truth as they see it. Tt. is to be expected that in time of great social changes and read justments such as those we are now experiencing, the hysteria of mass emotionalism will grip many, prejudice will blind some, and self ish desires will motivate others. Mass emotionalism is a social fe ver, present when a nation is sick with unemployment, with the loss of private fortunes in a single crash, with the necessity of dras tic modifications of long-accepted theories of government, and with fear and feelings of insecurity. It is only natural that such a fever will affect the reasoning of many people and that false causes will be advanced by mass-minded groups to explain unwanted ef fects. Thus today, even in the state of Oregon, institutions of higher j learning are falsely accused of be- j ing hot-houses for the planting and ^ growth of poisonous vines of radi calism. Categorical indictments that many professors are commun ists and that others are parlor pinks and that almost all of them are inclined to deprecating ques tion and criticism of existing American social, economic, and le gal institutions, are being circu lated by many well-meaning but misinformed persons and organi zations. They charge that Univer sity faculties are indoctrinating the malleable minds of youth with theories of social justice and po litical philosophy which are inimi cal to and incompatible with cher ished conceptions of American de mocracy. I think I know your faculty at the University of Oregon, and that I can testify that not a single member in it is guilty of advocat ing in his teachings, any of the so-called dangerous principles or theories. I do not mean that the chief tenets of the world’s "isms” are not placed under the intellec tual microscope of faculty and student analysis. I do not mean that the world’s social theories, an cient and modern, are not studied at the University. Imagine if you can, a political science department ignoring and failing to bring its students to an analysis of communism, fascism, and socialism, but limiting itself entirely to a study of the more generally approved forms of gov ernments such as the American representative system, the British parliamentary system, or the French cabinet system. What jus tification would there be for a so ciology department that failed to lead the student through the liter ature of changing social mores, that branded as educationally ta boo, a study of modern social forc es? How proud would you really be of an economics department that propagandized the capitalis tic system and did not submit the profit motive theory to compara tive analysis? Or of a law school that feared to point out defects in the administration of American justice, and adopted theories of justice and constitutional law should be placed beyond the pale of critical discussion. I am sure that most of those who have been misled into think ing- that universities arc anti American propaganda centers have not clarified in their think ing, the purposes and functions of a university. They have not the vision of the founders of the Uni versity of Oregon. They are not devoted to that almost sacred ideal that social progress demands that a university must be maintained and protected as the social power house for the generation and trans mission of the energy gained from truth and knowledge. They do not see that the shackles with which they would bind university teachers are destructive of the very soul and spirit of a true university. They seem to be unaware of the fact that their advocacy of the censorship of classroom teaching can produce but one thing that which they fear most—indoctrina tion. My friends, the moment the doors of your university are closed What Did ‘Emeritus’ Mean? By FREDERIC S. DUNN 1 was spending ttie summer of 1S9-1 in Eugene, an interim in my course at Harvard, when a bulle tin was posted before one of the local newspaper offices. It was repertorial news of a meeting of the Board of Regents, then in pro gress in Portland, detailing some important faculty changes. Professor Edgar McClure, also just home from Harvard and des tined so soon to have his career tragically ended, was standing be side me, a curious throng at our elbows. The telegram included the appointment of new incumbents to supersede Professors Bailey and Collier in their respective depart ments and the naming of these latter as •‘Professors Emeriti." It was the lirst experimental ac quaintance our University com munity had ever had with the ex pression. Some one inquired, Does that imply any accompany salary?" I recall that Professor McClure, with a tinge of soberness in his voice replied, "It may or may not," which were exactly the words employed by the evening paper. Edgar and 1 walked away with a dullness in our hearts »Wc could read between the lines and sense the truth mersl; trcui ttis absence of any appended statement. In fact, there was no monetary stipu lation. Our beloved old professors had been, well, just dropped, that was all, 'Emeritus’ in their ease meaning simply dismissed. Times have changed little since then, though not much. It is true, the University funds were at that period pitifully inadequate, and a new administration was clamoring justly for expansion and the crea tion of new departments and the infiltration of fresh young blood into the faculty. Yet. all that can be said in the defense of the action can never dissever, in the minds of the older alumni, the sacred memories of those two aged pio neers of our first faculty from this their dismissal, tt will always be as if we beheld them bowing their grey heads beneath the axe. Next year's catalog carried their names with the appended title 'Emeritus." nothing more, though the alphabetial list before and af ter was voluminous with pedigreed degrees and publications. Alma Mater has some pages which she would gladly, is such were possi ble. tear from her book of memor ies. Emeritus —yes. yes, if ever. t i'he next issue will contain I,hi Fight for Evolutioni. to free minds, whether student or j faculty, the moment the serpent head of censorship spits its way into a single classroom, the mo ment a single tenet of academic ; freedom is manacled and chained, ' that moment your alma mater will j cease to be a university. When that moment comes, then it will | have ceased to be as a beacon light pointing the way to knowl-1 edge; it will have bcome a spot light focused on the shibboleths of the powerful special interests which will have come to control it. It will be a temple of ignorance and propaganda. we must continue to keep our university a democratic strong hold wherein, unhampered by fear and insecurity, scholars can bring their best talents to the solution of the perplexing problems of the day; where students, in an envi ronment of unemotional fact find ing and theory testing, may devel op critical analytical attitudes, strong qualities of leadership and a consecration to principles free from dogma, prejudice, and parti san bias. A university, if it is to train leaders, and we need them, must challenge a student's preju dices. If the student is to be taught the difference between pre judice and conviction he must un dergo the mental pangs of cause to effect reasoning. He must come to understand the laboratory meth od of testing hypotheses. Of course it is to be expected that at first he will probably pass through a stage of doubting much that his parents, through experience, have found to be right and sound. At vacation time he may be very an- i noying and .seem impertinent with his questions, “How do you know that's right. I'll believe it when you prove it. What’s your evi dence.’’ Please do not judge him or the University upon the basis of his first coltish capers in the rich meadows of intellectual cur iosity. Whenever I find a student questioning and challenging a proposition, or advancing and de fending his individual point of view, I experience the thrill of knowing that a mind is suddenly becoming aware of its powers, that an independence of judgment is maturing, that potential qualities of leadership are being developed. we muse continue to maintain our university as a fortress of academic freedom so that the dev astating criticism of schools set forth in an article, in the current issue of Harpers magazine, enti tled “Forces that Control the Schools’’ can never be rightly ap plied to the University of Oregon. Permit me to read from this ar ticle writtn by Dr. Howard Beale, invesigator on- freedom in teaching for the American Historical Asso ciation’s Commission on Social Studies in the Schools. Dr. Beale writes: “The creation of a better social order requires critical analysis,' great faith, intense labor, and trained intelligence. Our schools are indispensable in the cultivation of these qualities. The creation of such an order also involves change. This would necessarily disturb powerful elements which benefit from the old order. It is these ele ments that control the schools, and they have always opposed change. They seek to use the schools to ‘develop character,’ to instill ‘re spect for law and order,’ to make •good citizens,’ and teach ‘patriot ism,’ but when alayzed, these terms all mean to the interested groups unquestioning acceptance of things as they are. Men who control the schools object to teach ers who stimulate thought and ere This way to PORTLAND RCUNDTRIP ONE WAY $2.49 $3.75 Ntxt time you go to Portland, try the train. Let the engineer time you for a change. Ride in a big, roomy coach on smooth steel rails. Southern FaelSIc A. J. GILLETTE- A$,eut ite critical attitudes. Teachers may express views on questions Lhat do not matter, but on any thing that does affect vital inter ests the schools must be 'neutral,’ which means that they may and inevitably do support present con ditions but must not crticize or try to improve them” . . . ‘‘The forces that control the schools and seek to prevent their participation in attempts to solve vital current problems are partly outside pressure groups, partly ele ments of the school system, and partly subjective forces within the educators themselves” . . . “Abundant evidence exists that schools and their teachers are of ten the football of politics. Ali too often attacks on schools, or some thing taught in them, or the con duct or views of their teachers, make excellent ammunition for the demagogue. Evolution and radi calism would have been much less serious issues if it had not been so profitable for politicians to cap italize on them. When politicians are in danger of losing on real is sues or when they wish to turn (Please turn to page 3) Who Cares? By BOB MOORE W?E hereby emit the editorial policy of “Who Cares.” 1. The smatter of jitter in this pillar of purity shall contain no smut. We shall employ no “peep ing Toms” to give us the low down on low lifers. We will do that our selves. 2. We shall refrain from fling ing pointed jests at Dick Neuberg er or Georgie Bennett. 3. Graveyard scenes will be treated with particular care and tact. 4. Free verse such as the fol lowing will be passe: Mary took it on the lam, The cart before the horse, A stich in time saves nine, She went from bad to worse. Social welfare groups will be given prominent mention. Also garden improvement clubs, etc. Wipe off your spectacles, and take down your long hair, girls, you'll probably like this. * * * We wish to heartily thank our many friends in helping us to se lect such an appropriate title for this column. The garbage man? No, it is just frosh politics in the air again. Radio evue By George V. Bikman Sue a saintly salesman, Bring him to account; Make him pay the price, lass, Just the right amount. Maybe it’s because we haven't been around, but conclusions drawn from personal experience bely all traditional flighty and generally disreputable traits which are supposed to be found in the field of Fuller Brush men and the like. Whence and whither these trite stories regarding the immor ality of the salesman, we wonder. Ah, but now we’re waxing philo sophical. A word to the wise, and even to the dumb clucks who read this column; today at 4:45 over KORE you’ll hear 15 minutes of enter tainment that should rival big time stuff . . . Our own Lou Parry the second Ethel Waters—and at the piano Buck McGowan. You'd better listen, see! And lest we forget, a paragraph of commendation both to Kenneth Clair, piano accordianist, and Frank Evanson, pianist, w h o broadcast Saturday last, and a sentence of cheerful thanks to Byrle Ramp, who performed nobly on yesterday’s program. All did well. Today at 6 the followers of Bing Crosby can hear the recently sur prised father of twins perform, with the Boswell sisters on the same half hour feature. Georgie Stoll—formerly of the Portland theater—and his orchestra will provide instrumental music. Sta tion CBS. Immediately following that, the Columbia chain presents Jan Peerce and Bettina Hall, musical comedy stars, featured with Ish am Jones’ orchestra. Miss Hall, a native of New England, was given her start by the theatrical produc er, Winthrop Ames, a fellow towns man from North Easton, Mass. She and her sister, Natalie, sang in church choirs and school and amateur entertainments, and Ames brought them to New York for their professional bows in the chorus of his Gilbert and Sullivan revivals. After that they sang for two years with the American Op era company, and later each ■ ascended to stardom on the musi cal comedy stage. Bettina's first important role was in the first “Little Show.’’ Send the Emerald to your friends. Subscription rates $2.50 a year. f JgTCT Watch! WATYAGOT? 11 oil re Scot eh don t Wednesday 's lime raid!