An Independent University Daily PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon EDITORIAL OFFICES: Journalism building. Phone 3300 Editor, Local 354 ; News Room and Managing Editor 355. BUSINESS OFFICE: McArthur Court, Phone 3300—Local 214 William E. Phipps Grant Thuemme Editor Manager Malcolm Bauer Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Parks Hitchcock, Barney Clark Assistant Editors Robert Moore, Robert Lucas, George Root, Fred Colvig, Henriette llorak, Winston Allard, J. A. Newton UPPER NEWS STAFF •\-. VJ I T ..T.V1 Clair Johnson, Sports Ed. Dan Clark, Telegraph Ed.^ Mary Loti ice Edinger, Wo men’s Ed. Peggy Chessman, Society Ed. Kex Gooper, Chief Night ICd. George Bikman, Dick WatkinSi Radio Ed. A1 Goldberg, Asst. Managing Ed. Day Editor This Issue.Reinhart Knudsen EXECUTIVE REPORTERS: Ann-Reed Rums, Henricttc Iforak, Robert Lucas, Eugene Lincoln, Margery Kissling, Margaret Petsch. REPORTERS: Betty Shoemaker. Signe Rasmussen, Lois Strong, Jane Lagassee, Hallie Dudley, Betty Tubbs, Phyllis Adams, Doris Springer, Eugene Lincoln, Dan Maloney, Jean Crawford. Dorothy Walker, Bob Powell, Norman Smith. COPYREADERS: Margaret Ray, Wayne Harbert, Marjory O’Bannon, Lilyan Krantz, Laurene Brockschink, Eileen Don aldson, Iris Franzen, Darrel Ellis, Colleen Cathey, Veneta Brons, Rhoda Armstrong, Bill Pease, Virginia Scoville, Bill Haight, Elinor Humphreys, Florence Dannals, Bob Powell. SPORTS STAFF: Caroline Hand, Bill Mclnturff, Earl Buck r,um, Cordon Connelly, Fulton Travis, Kenneth Kirtley, Paul Conroy, Don Casciato, Kenneth Webber, Pat Cassidy, Bill Parsons, Liston Wood. SOCIETY REPORTERS: Regan McCoy, Eleanor Aldrich, Betty Jane Barr. WOMEN’S PAGE ASSISTANTS: Regan McCoy, Betty Jane Barr, Ruth Hieberg, Olive Lewis, Kathleen Duffy. NIGHT EDITORS: Paul Conroy, Liston Wood, Scot George, Reinhart Knudson, Art Guthrie. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Dorothy Adams, Betty Me Girr, Genevieve McNiece, Gladys Battleson, Betta Rosa, Louise Kruikman, Jean Pauson Ellamae Woodworth, Echo Tomseth, Jane Bishop, Dorothy Walker, Ethel Eytnan. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Eldon ilaberman, Asst. lius. Mgr. Fred Fisher, Adv. Mgr. Jack McGirr, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Dorris Iloimes, Classified Mgr. Janis Worley, Sez Sue. Jvi .Lab be, IN at. Adv. Mgr. Robert Creswell, Circ. Mgr. Don Chapman, Asst. Cir. Mgr. Fred Hcidel, Asst. Nat’l. Adv. Mgr. ADVERTISING SOLICITORS: Robert Smith, John Do herty. Dick Retim, Dick Bryson, Frank Cooper, I'atsy Neai, Ken Fly. Margaret Detch, Jack Endcrs, Robert Moser. Flor ence Smith, Bob Wilhelm, Bat McKeon, Carol Auld, Robert Moser, Ida Mac Cameron. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Dorothy Walker, Wanda Russell, Bat McKeon, i'atsy Neal, Dorothy Kane, Carolyn Hand, Dorothy Kane. 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 postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, £2.50 a year. Sports for Students CONTRARY to the teachings of the bluenoses who shudder and throw up their hands in ex asperation as they tell us that college athletics are purely on a commercial basis, there is still very def initely “sport for sport’s sake,” namely, intramural and all-campus sports. There is no crowning glory attached to the win ners in intramural contests at Oregon. There are no engraved trophies; not even a metal badge. Win ning Learns are seldom remembered from week to the next. The emphasis in this type of physical edu cation is directed to activity for the resulting bene fits of competition, rather than the great desire to win. Before the year Is completed students who are athletically inclined will have had the opportunity to indulge in approximately 20 various types of sports. This comprehensive program is designed for the average fellow who is not endowed with suf ficient prowess to make a varsity team. The highly commendable ideal behind the program is to have every ablebodied student ‘playing some sort of game for the enjoyment and benefit he may get out of it. It is true that there are “spoils of victory," but in this instance the “spoils” arc evenly distributed among all participants. It is also true that the ad vantage of intramural sports is not confined merely to the development of physical agility. The social izing values of such contests have far-reaching ef fects in these impromtu games where officials and spectators are minimum factors. The players es tablish friendships with a large number of fellow players as well as opponents. Intrammural sports also serve as a boon to the sometimes too forgotten matter of recreation. And often, potentional varsity men are developed through this type of activity. The rapid st rides which this movement has made on the University campus since its initial appear ance is sufficient proof of its merit. Students are coming to recognize the importance of exercise and its relation to health and greater scholastic achieve ment. The Tron Horse* highis Bark A few months ago the Union Pacific railroad *- drove the opening wedge for a new era of railroad transportation in the United States when it startled an already speed mad American public with a streamlined train capable of more than 100, miles per hour. ilardly had the nation formed its initial group! reaction to the new train when the Burlington'; “Zephyr" flashed across the plains averaging 77 miles per hour, with a top speed of 112.5, for the 1000 miles between Denver and Chicago while head lines announcing the record splashed across the front pages of the daily press. Opinions were forthcoming immediately. The age of steam was doomed; at least, Insofar as rail roads were concerned. It was the beginning of the end for the “iron horse." The dawn of the Diesel era was breaking. But those who made the predictions drew their conclusions a bit hastily. They reckoned without the fight that steam was to make before it passed from the scene of fast rail transportation. Last summer one major railroad made a test run between Chicago and Milwaukee’, using the con ventional steam locomotive and regulation steel I coaches and Pullman cars, to open the attack in be half of steam. The test was unannounced and the results were not meant for the public, it took but i a short while, however, until word leaked out that the experiment had been most satisfactory, and that the railroad which made the test could at least equal, with its present equipment, the time nude by the new Diesel-powered train. The most recent note sounding ihe approaching war between steam and Di.e.jcl came last week when the Buitiaior- Ohio road aanouuc^J that -v.ork was practically completed on a new .streamliner locomotive, which, if it fulfilled expectations, woulc f prove superior to any of the new trains using Diese' engines. All details concerning the “revolutionary’ steam creation have been guarded with utmost secrecy and will not be divulged to the public until final tests have been made. But the fight is on. Time and engineering in genuity will decide upon the future of rail trans portation in the United States. And it is entirely possible that the “iron horse”—rejuvenated and I with lifted face, perhaps—but still the same old "iron horse” will continue to play the leading role in American railroading. Democracy Doomed in Spain i "\7'ESTERDAY the gag that has silenced news of the Spanish rebellion slipped long enough to allow the report that a thousand socialist rebels ; were killed early this month when their forces en tered the city of Oviedo. Everything leads one to believe that the grass is [ dry and tindery over the whole Iberian peninsula, | and sparks are dropping as regularly as some rash young peasant drops his plow to answer the fancied call of destiny. Loyal forces may for a while be able to slap out the outland spotfires; but is is only a matter of time before some fated man will arise who will breathe upon the smouldering passions with a spirit that will start a conflagration raging from the Pyrenees to Gibraltar. The event is primed -restless, impoverished peasantry; general resent ment a.gainst the minority Robles group that con trols the republican forces. All that wants is lead ership, some wild figure with enough dash of or ganizing genius to seize popular acclaim. The republic was predestined a flop in Spain. Suppose that representatives of the thirteen American colonies in 1787, instead of setting up a republic, had permitted aristocratic forces Lo pre vail; that there had maintained until 1930 in this country a dynasty descended fromm George Wash ington; that King George IV of the United King dom of American has been compelled by the pres sure of economic unrest to abdicate. Suppose that our republic had, instead of an 150 year tradition of democracy, an agelong history of monarchy; circumstances otherwise being as they are now, with people prone to blame governments for their economic difficulties, with such a sanc i tion to autocracy, how much chance would we have of averting the dictatorship that surely is fated to Spain ? Waiting 1TUROPEAN powers, it would seem, refuse to ac cept peace or disarmament as a possibility Mussolini is trying to “give boys a passion for military life through frequent contacts with the armed forces whose warlike traditions and glories will be rc-evoked,” by means of drilling youths be tween the ages of 8 and 18. Hitler fires the young people of Germany with his oratory and by this means has built an organiza tion of drilled men far in excess of the 100,000 al lowed by the Versailles treaty signed at the end of the World .war. Yugoslavia assumes that the terrorists on whom rests responisbility for the assassination of their King Alexander arc an Italian organization, and troops are rushed to the border. Bulgaria, Jugoslavia and Rumania discuss treat ies to stand united against Mussolini. And the latest information from the other side is that France intends to strengthen her air defenses. Some military experts, according to the Associated Press, credit Gemany with a plan for an air war fare that would send some 400 or more bombing planes over Paris, Lyons and Marseilles, in which cities are the principal airports and armament plants of France. All of these countries are afraid some other nation is going to try something. Each thinks his neighbor wants to grab off a chunk of his territory, and the neighbor thinks the same of him. Suspicion is the watchword in Europe today. The countries are, on a larger scale, in the same situa tion as were the Cuban troops during a recent up rising when they began firing into a crowd of dem onstrating civilians when an auto backfired. As long as these countries are suspicious of their neighbors they will be standing with nervous fingers on triggers of bayoneted guns, and they will have no peace. It is only a matter of time before the backfire comes. The Passing Show Academic* Freedom Jakes A CADEMIC freedom, long vaunted as one of the most precious prerogative of American schools and colleges, apparently is not as soundly en trenched as has been thought. Or it may be suc cumbing to the current passion for regimentation, like so many other institutions of national life. Take the ease of Ralph E. Turner, formerly as sociate professor of history at the University ot' Pittsburgh. He was also chairman of the Pennsyl- i vania Security league, which lobbied in the state legislature ofr an old-age pension and a minimum < wage law. Apparently well-liked and able, his con tract was renewed at the university for one year i last May On June 30, however, he was notified of his dismissal from the university staff. Among the : regents are Andrew \V. Mellon and E. T. Weir of the Weirton Steel company. It may or may not be significant that the University of Pittsburg has : $ 1,000,000 of its $1, 650,000 expansion fund quota i unfilled. It is a semi-public school. It is apparent that our vaunted academic free- i dom is still non-existent in many places. As a gen- i: eral rule, grade and high school teachers arc notor ious for their sterile and hide-bound orthodoxy, and.’ this may very often be ascribed to the attitude of! local businessmen and the school board, which is . ordinarily composed of such men. . It is significant, therefore, that the last conven- - tion of the National Educational association, the teachers' organisation, has as its most important i agendum the question of academic freedom and ten ure. Also significant is the action of the American Uivil Liberties union in issuing a pamphlet. "School : Buildings as Public Forums." criticising the with- 1 holding ot the tight of addressing public meetings ■ iu schools ti> speakers who do not meet the approval . of the school authorities. We need to consider the tacts, before we lapse too far-into uatmual 'cemplal- 1 cac; —iitaec Mu'Dali; If Shoes Could Talk By sam fort i John Straub on Infant Baptism By FREDERIC S. DUNN Spurious tales have been cur rent from time to time, of the “greenness” of the man who came to the University as a tutor, was thereafter elected to a full profes sorship, and ended his half-cen tury’s activities on the campus as Dean Emeritus of Men. I myself do not believe a third of these sto ries, but their evident intent is to illustrate the insophistication of Dr. John Straub when he came to Eugene so long ago, bringing with him his beautiful little wife and two handsome kiddies. One legend is to the effect that he did not know what a rake was or what its use, and that once, when he found himself seated in a buggy and the reins were thrust into his hands, he finally said to Lhe nag, “Well,—anyway,—begin." I well remember the arrival of the Straubs, for they first occu pied rooms in the Alexander home, on the corner just below our own, where the Fisk Flats now stand, at Oak and Eleventh. That ivy oovered stump was a great oak tree then, whose branches extend ed far out into the street. Tutor Straub was asked to play Santa Claus for the neighbors that first Christmas, a role for which he was admirably adapted by his geniality ind jaunty air of cheerfulness. It was this latter characteristic which,- - so said his jealous rivals of before and after,—made him oreak all records as Presbyterian Sunday school superintendent, be cause he had the whole cradle roll ■rying for him. Professor Straub in good humor was a decided wit, though I do not relieve that he excelled our worthy :ontemporary Tim Cloran of Re liance languages. The Webfoot of 1900 made his daughter, Leila 3 traub-St afford, say “My papa ells jokes and teaches Greek.” ideally, it was never quite as bad is that, for 1 took both under him. de may have memorized more and nore jokes after I was graduated, nil I remember there was much, very much, Greek and only a nodicum of humor. Once, two Mormon missionaries ■ailed, whom Professor Straub en ertained with much sobriety and lecorum, plying them with inquir es of all sorts, until finally, “What ibout polygamy?” “Oh!" was the 'eply, "Vou know under the con ititution, we are not allowed plural mintages.” "Well, gentlemen, I ;uess I am not interested,” John Straub abruptly cut in and curtly lismissed the emissaries. Later he icard from a student whom the wo had immediately accosted, that he Mormons were horrified to neet with such flippancy in a uni versity professor. But a joke of national fame was lehieved by Professor Straub when i delegate to the Presbyterian Gen ■ral Assembly at Philadelphia. Ar ming late, he seated himself by •hanee among the Texas represen atives, m the midst of a very crit cal debate incident to the revis on of the Westminster Articles of Confession. A most drastic motion vas proposed, expunging the arti lc that had formerly made infant laptism a requisite. Whereupon, ip rose the sttauger and moved that th. amsaduisut bi made r.-- j troactive.” The assembly was thrown into a riot of mirth, and it was not until sometime afterwards that the identity of the jokester was made known. To the astonishment of radio fans, shortly before Dean Straub’s death, Doctor Harry Fosdick re ferred to this same episode, how a Greek professor “with a sense of humor,” had, by the suggestion of a sweeping retroactive amendment, absolutely dissipated any possible logic to the contrary. (The next issue will contain “His Beard Could Bristle.") “On the Bandwagon” By DICK WATKINS The noted New York orchestra leader, JACK DENNY, recently remarked that altogether too many dance bands play too similar to each other and there is a crying need for more individualism among the country's music makers. Come to think about it, there really are only a scant dozen bands that can qualify as having any kind of a dis tinctive style setting them apart from the rest of the trade. A few that can be mentioned and the arrangements they feat ure that makes them easily rec ognizable, include: HAL KEMP, (muted staccato trumpet effects), EDDIE DUCHIN, (bis own phe nomenal piano playing plus tempo), TED FIO-RITO, flutes, clarinets and trap novelties). ISHAM JONES i fine use of brass section without being too obnoxious about it), RAY NOBLE, (unique orchestra tions, and sheer ability to blend all instruments perfectly), GUY LOMBARDO, wailing saxaphones), GEN GRAY’S CASA LOMA, (trumpets and rhythm), WAYNE KING, (waltz arrangements and good tempo), OZZIE NELSON, (heavy brass section well used), TOM COAKLEY, (double piano, fine violin section and bass-saxes), JACK DENNY, (tenor saxes and rhythm), ANSON WEEKS, (vio lins and steady beat), JAN GAR BER. (ability to ape the Royal Canadians and go them one bet ter). * $ * DO YOU KNOW That GEORGE GERSHWIN was paid $50,000 for allowing his clas- ; sic "Rhapsody in Blue,” to be played in PAUL WHITEMAN'S ; picture, “King of Jazz "? That out of the 20 members of FRED WAKING’S present com pany. only three of them were part j of his original Penn State college band ? —That GUS ARNHEIM is an hon- j orary colonel on the staff of the ; governor of Kentucky? - That GLEN HURLBURT, the arranger who put TOM COAKLEY in the Palace hotel and keeps him the most prominent orchestra on the coast, hails from Portland and is totally blind? —That PHIL HARRIS has broken up his orchestra and now broad casts his weekly programs , with a studio band from New York?' —I hat DUKE EUJLNGI ON S re ! cording of “Ebony Rhapsody,” i one of Victor's best sellers of th< year, despite it only being out i short time? —That WALTER WINCH ELL'! recent advice to musicians an( j other professional entertainers wai ; “To get the money while you’ri ‘hot’; because you’re a long timi I ‘cold’ ?” Emerald of the Air By GEORGE Y. BIKMAN — Today our star of the blues | heavens—the husky-throated imi | tator of the dusky Ethel Waters— takes the air. We mean your gooc friend and mine—Lou Parry. Lou | is one of the few Emerald-of-the air broadcasters who have meritec a regular spot on the weekly ! schedule. She crawls light next tc the mike and sends searing torch songs and longing love lyrics intc the eager ears of a waiting aud ience. Yessir, Lou has had seven phone calls to date. At the piano there will be seated, patiently waiting for Lou’s plaintive wails, Buck McGowan. We humbly submit that Buck is fast coming to be recognized as one of the finest disher-outers of popular music on the University campus. Hear him today at 4:45 and decide for pourself. Tomorrow we give you the broadcast feature entitled ‘This Is News!"-—a high sounding phrase which means that excerpts from the campus daily are deliv ered in a manner quite satisfying to news - hungry students and townspeople. A scoop is promised! Some of This Stuff Is PURE QUILL By JIMMY MORRISON TJLENTY of people were in the social swim of open house Sat urday night. Even the Phi Delts were croaking “Tally-ho” in a mild sort of way. They “just about wrecked” the Alpha Chi house, it is said. “If the men will be prompt in their arrivals and departures, it will greatly facilitate the machin ery of open house.”—The Emerald. Looks like somebody threw a wench into the machinery. The Thetas surprised most of the boys by coming down from their perch and acting what might quite easily be called human. They have a number of quite spritely little galS' * „ „ ’«• *.«’* Wonder what crack Bikman made in his radio column which excited Janis Worley nearly to the indiscriminate slaughter of this humble writer? She said the lad didn’t mention her name, but she CLASSIFIED AND SWAPS Polly Want a Cracker? Then Advertise! Swap Ads Are Free! BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES Dollars Daily! Spare time. No selling. Facts—other of fers — 10 c. International Agency, Cincinatti. LOST AND FOUND LOST—Brown pig skin glove down town Monday. Call 688. LOST—Trench coast at Pi Beta Phi house Saturday night. Bill Johnston, Omega hall. LOST or exchanged during open house, grey double breasted topcoat. Finder please call Dick Hill. 1212-W. Reward. TO SWAP TO SWAP Coral colored earrings. Phone 2810. V. V'an Dyke. PHONE 3300 Classified Department 5! thought an insinuating finger was ! being pointed toward her. Professor Crumbaker pulled off ! a prize in an econ class yesterday | morning: “Presidents (of the U. i S. by all means) don’t have to ; prove they know anything; other > wise they wouldn’t be elected.” * * * What frosh who ever entered Oregon has not patted himself on the back for thinking up an orig inal pun on Deady hall which, in i variably runs something like this; “Oh yes inDeady, that’s where I have my physical science.” * * * i While not sold on the merits of repeal, Senator Bluenose Label ad mits it has its pints. I The frosh are doing it up green. : Not only is there a lot of mud ! flung in politix, but they’re even i changing the syle of their chosen legwear. “Salt and pepper” pants are the things now, according to a spicy report. | Emerald Chief (Continued from Page One) Heed Burns, Robert Lucas, Eugene Lincoln, Margery Kissling, and Margaret Petsch. Additional writers on the reer torial staff include Norma Smith, Dorothy Walker, and Bob Powell. Two new copy readers were added to the staff. They are Florence Dannals and Bob Powell. Ethel Eyman and Dorothy Walker were named to fill vacancies on the night editor’s staff. PORLAND FIRE CRUSHED PORTLAND—Moving virtually every piece of apparatus in the city, Portland firemen today crushed to the ground a water front blaze which had enguifed part of a $1,200,000 terminal, and held the fire loss to an amount believed by owners to be about $175,000. Send the Emerald to your friends. The Day’s Parade (Continued From Page One) materially and Socialist-Democrat Upton Sinclair in his bitterly con tested fight for the governorship of the Golden State. First election promise of famed novelist-aspirant Sinclair: to free Mooney. Will Mooney Be Freed? With this point in mind, then, Mooney’s present demand may be interpreted more as a political ges ture for his backer and only hope, than as an actual effort to obtain his release through regular legal channels, now long proved violent ly prejudiced on the case. At any rate, to imprisoned agitator Moo ney, freedom appears much closer than any time in the past 19 years. * * * TN the wake of the Morro Castle A disaster comes the encouraging news from the department of the navy that naval officials will tigh en the restrictions placed upon the rechant marine in an effort to put a stop such as the disaster last month in which 132 people lost their lives. Government officials Vill now rigidly inspect privately owned ships in an attempt to de termine seaworthiness, while nav al training schools plan to extend their scope of action to embrace the instruction of mariners in the merchant marine. Government Watches This action seems to indicate that the government is at last taking some active interest in the supervision and protection of the commercial and passenger fleets. To cap this action it would be a welcome sight to see the federal government attack the question of automobile fatalities, and attempt ing to apply a national surveil lance and approach to this alarm ing question, rather than leave the matter up to the often incompetent management of the individual states. Are You Willing to The Emerald is “your paper” - - - daily it brings you news of the happenings on your campus In every issue many merchants are bringing you messages in their ads which are worthy of your attention. Before you buy any merchandise, learn to patronize only Emerald ad vertisers—they are patronizing your paper. THERE ARE THREE THINGS THAT WE ASK YOU TO REMEMBER ALWAYS— Road your Emerald.ails. Patronize Emerald advertisers. Tell the merchants that you saw their ads in the Emerald. “influencing HOOU Moderns'' Oregon Daily Emerald “Influencing 0000 Moderns'’