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A Menace lo Freedom
TTOW long a tether should be permitted to the
discussion of social problems at a university7
Is it right to restrain man's thoughts in his endeav
ors to aid mankind? Is the one good and true way
lof scoial progress already chalked out? Is there
fruit that must be forbidden to the undergraduate
mind? Must thought in an institution of higher edu
cation become merely the drill of old dogma?
Five student leaders at U.C.L.A. recently were
suspended charged with attempting, through their
positions in student government, to establish an
open forum and to put ahead the National Student
League, an organization which the school author
ities assert to be communistic.
We are not commmunislic; we are not even so
cialistic; probably, in the line of what we believe,
we would fall into the ranks of the conservatives.
But, if that is our classification as to what we have
accepted, at least we preen out selves as being liberal
in what, we have offered our mind.
Surely in an American university, where one
would expect a free stride on every avenue of social
thought, open forums for the discussion of man
kinds problems are not going to be forbidden. Sure
ly, if communism, as a solution to the ills upsetting
our economy, is a menace and a delusion, it is right
to expect its dangers and inadequacies to be laid
bare in the cold light ( f tree debate, rather than to
allow it to fester as a deep, unreasoned thorn of re
bellion.
I
Six i lours a Work
** A RT when really understood is tlie proviiue o'
^ every human bring.” Robert Henri, (ho in
spiratioal teacher-painter recognized no extra-cur
ricular activity In the pursuit of ii. “When Rio art
ist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work
may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring,
self-expressive oreatlire "
Henri’s whole life was spent intensely and solely
- not. as the common bland assumption holds, for
“art's sake,” so much as for the spirit of art, art
as an awareness a . harpening of one’s sen abilities
and powers of perception until the whole physical
world spreads out before one like a fascinating can
va», profoundly strange and interesting in its entire
ty profoundly colorful ami revealing in each re
lated part of the whole pattern. For art has no
bounds, no section-posts or race or country; behind I
it and with it are the same spirit and the same
creative principle. Art is an incentive to .life.
Here on the campus a wary student stops before
the tall, ornate door of the museum of Oriental art.
hesitates for a moment, and then asks the kindly
doorman, “How long will it take me to see this col
lection of art?” It is an understanding smile tha
accompanies the door-man’s answer when he says
"Well, some folks see it all in fifteen minutes, bul
others, many others, come fifteen or twenty times.'
and, we add, they find each time something new
something to admire through wonder and amaze
ment at its profundity, and something to own, actu
ally own, through that only invincible method ol
ownership—understanding and appreciation.
Six hours a v/eek the museum is open to the pub
lic and to the students, and the museum librarj
in Gerlinger is open every week-day afternoon. Anc
the rest of the time, whether we realize it or not
art, if we wish it, is in everything we do, ready tc
temper our activities with a keener appreciation
“Art tends toward balance, order, judgement of rel
ative values, the laws of growth, the economy o!
living—very good things for anyone to be interested
in.”
Plain Horse Sense
JT has been a durned dry season. The corn’s with
ered on the stock, and the grain’s been heckled
aplenty by the swirling dust blown from the hard,
parched earth. Yes, and the cows have moved stu
pidly about in a fruitless quest for something green.
But the vultures overhead know it isn't there and
continue to hover hopefully.
Farmer Brown has been thinkin aplenty these
days. When he drops his aching body into the vast
armchair by the old oil lamp, he reads the Pleasant
Valley Crier and wishes that the “kid” was here tc
brighten things up a mite. But the ‘kid” was in col
lege, and that’s where he belonged, and that’s where
he stays until he graduates if it took ten tussles
with mother nature and taxes.
Farmer Brown sees in the Crier that there is a
tftx limitation bill up at the next election, Sounds
mighty attractive too. The city fellers say that this
confiscation of property must stop; the property
tax is out of proportion, and it’s unfair, and it must
be displaced by something else. And Farmer Brown
thinks they’re right! By the great horned spoon he
oughta know! He’d paid taxes, and he hadn’t much
left either just about enough for the kid, thank
God. Cist taxes. Good idea.
But Farmer Brown also reads that the schools
will be hurt and hurt plenty too. They will lose good
professors, abolish fine courses and activities. Yes,
and they might have to close down for a spell too.
Schools would slip back in an age when slipping
means lower standards, and lower standards mean
wasted time, and wasted time means defeat. Farmer
Brown knows that things move fast now days.
“No, by crackie,” he reasons, “it would hurt the
“kid.” It ain't right and it ain't reasonable. We
aren’t living in an age like when I was a boy when
this Oregon education stuff was a-slippin' and a
sloppin’ in its effort to get goin’: This is 1934, and
American education is essential and not to be sniped
at by hurried tax reduction bills. There must bo
other ways. They better dig ’em out, because they
can't, stop my kid. And besides it just ain’t horse
sense!
And on election day Brown hitches up old "Bess”
and drives into town.
Farmer Brown has a fine boy and the boy has
a fine lather. They are firm and steady. They are
what we need right now.
The New York Hearld-Tribune editorially pro
claims (hat President Roosevelt spoke to the bank
ers recently ”1100 amiable words, rich in butter
ial. Perhaps Mr. Roosevelt though a little grease
might help the wheels of tlie banking machine to
keep up with the New Deal.
Arrives the Emerald's music critic, after sleeping
through a couple of Tuesday morning classes, and
says, “Say, this Kreisler fellow is pretty good!”
The 20-mill tax limitation bill fight is getting
warm. It is making a valiant attempt to smother
Upton Sinclair's EPIC in its quest for the headlines.
People in our sister state, Washington, are strug
gling with a “40-mill tax limitation bill. Oh, my
gosh!
"Big Cheese Plant Doubles Its space headline.
"Well," says the Emerald cynic, "it looks as thougn
polities is due for a boom.’
The Passing Show
W hal a Boner
rpHK supreme court of the state of California has
{fronted a new trial to David A. Damson, con
victed of murdering his wife on Memorial day, 1983,
and sentenced to hang for his crime. The court or
dei \1 a new trial lor Damson on the ground that
he was convicted on mere suspicion. Yet, according
i > the New Republic, October 24, the chief justice
made the verbal statement that he and his col
leagues believe that Damsou is guilty.
\\ liat expectation does this chief justice have for
a iair trial lor Damson, il' he allows such a state
ment to be made public? How does lie expect to
timl a new jury whose members will not be swayed
by Hii opinion, d they are at alt uncertain about a
pioper decision? The evidence in the case is almost
enliielj circumstantial, and circumstantial evidence
always leaves just cause for doubt. Therefore, a jury
1,1 whom such evidence is entrusted should certainly
not tie influenced in any way by a preconceived opin
ion about the case.
Whether this supplementary statements of the
alitornia chiet justice was given in confidence and
was not expected to tie made public, or not, it cer
tainly show s, a woeful lack of forethought on the
['ait ot i‘ th tne judge and the reporter, if not a will
tlit breach of faith. Daily Kansan.
Emerald
of the Air
By GKORGE Y. BIKMAN
edition <>1 tlic Kmeiald-ol -
the-Air id being written in the
perfect setting for a ghost story.
There are two ffliohenug, dancing
candle* here in the pres roc in, am!
now some fellow of iciportanw
comes in to tell us that it’s again.
regulations to uu tin. mean.- 01
jlituumauon. Gee, aua with laired
in the li.imi. What'll we do? An 1
this column's gotta come out.
Our NBC stuff came today. But
with one candle on this side of the
room, and that being continually
borrowed by some unrecognizable
blond, oi is she brunette, we just
don't see how we can read the
stuff to copy it. So you NBC fan*
will have to wait.
Follower.' of the popular piano
team of Buck McGowan, who
plays up that, and Chuck French,
who plays clown that, will get ,t
chance to hear the boys do then
ditties today at -Flo. Its tin last
local appearance of the bey., wt
believe, before they appear on the
Broadway stage in Portland as
part of the rally hullabaloo.
The three best bets on the NBC
schedule today ate Yallee at 5:00.
Show Boat at o.OO. and Paul
Whiteman at 7:00. Fred Waring
comes on CGS at 0:30 for a siz
zling and soothing half hour. At
7:00 on the same lieok-up "45
Minutes in Hollywood” brings
film stars, previews and music.
We ll he thankful when tomor
row conics, because then we ll get
a cbailee to lead this Its a good
thing we type with the touch sy-..
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The Day’s
Parade
By PARKS HITCHCOCK
Pacific Air Route?
Harmless Hari-Kari
Childless City
TJROSPECTS that fruits of the
many trans-Pacific flights, such
as the one now under way by Cap
tain Kingsford-Smith a,nd his com
panions, might not be so far off
seemed a step nearer last week as
the administration perked an alert
ear to the advice of Dr. Hugo
Eckner, Graf Zeppelin commander,
and Paul W. Litchfield, American
dirigible tycoon.
Germans in the Air
The Aviation Commission has no
desire to be outstripped by the re
markable progress in the air
shown by the Germano-Dutch in
terests, not only in Europe, but in
South America, ana is now serious
ly considering the establishment of
j a regular Hawaiian air schedule.
Whether dirigibles o r heavier
t.han-air craft will be employed in
this service, if and when inaugur
ated, is the problem over which
ex-Oregonian Vidal and his associ
aterr are now pondering.
The Airplane's Bid
It is for that reason that the
government is keeping its eyes on
capable Captain Kinksford-Smith.
If heavier-than-air flight can prove
that it is capable of standing the
gaff of long-distance service it
may well get the bid over the di
! rigible, a mode of transportation
whose American record has un
fortunately been marred by a long
series of lamentable calamities.
Dr. Eekener Speaks
Dr. Eekener advises the Ameri
can government to employ dirigi
bles in the California-to-Hawaii
project in a trial line to test their
permanent value as carrier agents,
with a view toward ultimate ex
pansion to include lines to South
American and European ports. The
genial German airmman has in
vited the United States to join
with and enjoy the facilities of the
Zeppelin Corporation (German
owned) and Holland in arranging
schedules and service.
Reports in February
If tlie commissions report in
February approves of the new ser
vice on the Pacific coast, no small
battle will be precipitated between
the two chief California cities for
the honors as terminal point of the
line that may eventually extend
to both Australia and the conti
nental Orient. San Francisco edi
tors have already signified their
intention of asking the base for I
j the bay cities, and those ac
quainted with Golden State psy
I chology can hardly expect Los
j Angeles to be far behind.
Boost to Oriental Position
Although it is too early to re
ganl the trans-Pacific air service ;
as an accomplished fact, it would
be well to consider the possible!
ramifications of such a plan if it
were put into effect. It is to com
mercial ventures of this scope that
most of our reliance upon amic
| able relations between Washingto
I and the Orient must be placed. If
f it. is lound necessary to subsidize
the project heavily, nevertheless, I
j the diplomatic and ultimate inter-1
! relationarly value of the tie-up
j cannot be ignored, and it is the j
j opinion of many qualified editorial
[thinkers that, commercially suc
cessful or not, the air-route should
be put into efect at the earliest i
possible opportunity.
* * ❖
\ N interesting commentary up
*- on the times comes from Ber- j
lin: So-called "anti-suicide” gas is’
being given a trial in Hamelin, the
Pied Piper town. The city gas
works, are now employing a gas,
that although still explosive, is
without the well-known deleterious
effects of the ordinary lighting
and heating mixture. If the gas
proves successful it will be in
stalled in major cities all over Ger
many and will force disgruntled
anti - Hitlerites and persecuted
Senimitics to turn to poison and
the rope for relief from the ob- ‘
noxious Teutonic esardom.
''HE alarm expressed by New
York City Health Commission
er John Rice last .Monday tha'
New York may soon become a city
of old people because of the si':
per cent drop during the last SO
years in juvenile population, can
hardly be shared by most of r.
Many people are realizing, that, al
though an urban center possesses
many marked facilities for social
intercourse, it is hardly the place
in which children can be given the I
greatest care Commissioner Rice s
figures demonstrate interestingly
enough that those families who
can aford it choose a suburban lo
cation for the upbringing of their
children. In truth it is not a la
mentable fact but rather one high-1
ly creditable to the canity of
Dad Still Triumphant By ed hanson
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Siui
By FREDERIC S. DUNN
^N early member of the class of
'88 did not pursue Kis academ
ic course to graduation. A tall,
slender boy, Milton F. Davis,
abandoned the campus to accept
an appointment to the U. S. mili
tary academy at West Point and
thereafter followed a soldier’s ca
reer with honor and distinction.
Once, when he returned on a fur
lough to visit his old classmates,
it was just too bad for the rest
of us. The way those coeds flut
tered around Milt in his handsome
cadet uniform was scandalous.
Any half-dozen would have jumped
from a second-story window if he
had whistled, a.nd there was no
one to court-martial him if he had.
The long, fascinating list of
promotion, of honorable service, of
citations for gallantry, of high of
fices in peace and war held by this
boy of ours who left us to become
a brigadier-general! We used to
think that U. S. Grant alone could
wear epaulets like that!
Mapping the Sierras, first to as
cend the mountain named in his
honor, explorer of the Grand Can
yon, recipient of the Silver Star
citation in the battle of Santiago,
governor of El Caney during the
yellow fever epidemic, chief of staff
r>f the 3rd brigade until the end of
the Philippine insurrection, chief
of staff in air-service during the
World war, superintendent of the
New York military academy at
Cornwall-on-Hudson, — is it any
wonder that Alma Mater opened
her reticule to give Brigadier-Gen
eral Milton Fennimore Davis an
honorary degree, to date back to
the year in which he would in reg
alar course have received the B.A. ?
This was in June of 1928, and sub
sequent alumni lists include his
name as of the class of 1888.
It was a great disappointment
Alien word came at a late moment
that General Davis could not be
present to receive his degree. We
A'ere all ready to “ovate" in his
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Oregon's One Honorary B. A.
honor. The Baccalaureate services
were held that year in the First
Methodist Episcopal church and
the speaker was distinguished as
having been for the third time in
vited to preach the commencement
sermon. He was Rev. Herbert S.
Johnson of Boston, Massachusetts,
son of the first president of the
University, and old friend and
school fellow of the general him
self. The letter had given Herbert
permission to utilize, in exemplifi
cation of his theme, a harrowing
experience of his in the Grand Can
yon of the Colorado,—and that ser
mon I shall never forget. It was
in 1895 that General Davis, then
but a young officer recently grad
uated from West Point, was sent
to explore the canyon and, through
some mishap, found himself, alone,
bleeding, starving, struggling up,
up, out of the depths, to reach the
blue sky, as if miles above him.
He fell, he fainted, he was all but
crazed with the terror of his plight,
when at last he clutched the rim
of the precipice and, groveling
there, found God. A soldier, then
to declare his faith,—it was a won
derful citation.
Oregon has not been lavish with
her honorary degrees. This is one
of which she can never be ashamed.
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w Where to Buy It” is
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PURE QUILL
By JIMMY MORRISON
I^/HEE; Hey. look, the “humor”
i * column gets into the paper at
j last. For the past few days the
! only person who laughed at the
: so-called jokes has been the hu
mor editor. After you read them,
you will probably admit he was
right, even if they had been pub
lished. The Emerald has been so
full lately that Phipps said only
the good stuff was to go in,
so-o-oo-oo.
It’s history now, but you can't
deny it’s the pure quill.
Prink Callison ought to sign
“Cotton Top” Serge Jaroff to play
on his football team. Did you no
tice Mr. Jaroff invariably surge
through the line for first downs?
Half the time he was running the
wrong way, but most of his end
runs were excellent.
Some of the campus women took
> quite a fancy to the Don Cossacks.
Between singing groups they
were clamoring for a word or two
with their brothers from across
the waters.
Laura Goldsmith’s ability to
| "Peak Russian bagged her a date
with a burly Cossack after the con
j cerL and the pair was later seen
Russian down to the back room of
; the College Side.
Velma McIntyre told one of the
bewhiskered gents., in her ..best
French, “Vrotre musique est bon,”
whereupon he replied that , he
though the American girls were
very pretty.
Henriette Horak also did well
by her curiosity. She talked
French to the boys. We couldn't
understand much that she said,
but at any rate she was certainly
going to town.
The Ducks looked like they were
going to salt down a big score in
the Utah game, but the Utes al
I ways met them at the goal line
with plenty of pepper.
The Phi Psis’ stoc krose in the
eyes of many of the campus lads
since their Beer Brawl Saturday
(Please turn to page 4)
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his woe was ended.
For he knew beyond a. doubt
That he could run an awful
lot
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attached—
No wonder at all, that he’s
newly patched.
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