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Reason Triumphant
OLD man Oregon has a sore foot. He doesn’t like
it. He cuts off his leg at the knee._The foot no
longer hurts. Clever, eh, what?
The people in this state must realize the eon
amendment. It must not be passed!
amendment. It must not be pased!
It has never been the policy of the people of this
state to follow the dictates of a group of citizens
representing a single vocational interest in the ad
vancement of an impetuous and narrowly drafted
amendment to the constitution.
Yet at a time, when the nerves of the people are
frayed by the constant irritation of a cankering de
pression, when money and jobs are scarce as hens’
teeth, and the public conscience is dulled to things
other than the conservation of their own dollars and
cents—a single group of a single community in this
state flashes before the weary eyes of the public
the seductive proposal for the ruinous reduction of
taxes. And in the absence of some alternative plan,
it is unfair and unsound.
If those who prattle about the inevitability of the
adoption of some substitute measure really envision
its acceptance, why, in Jove's name do they not
couple it to their bill and attempt its justification f
This paper submits that in the absence of some
justification, the bill is not condusive to the best in
terests of the state but is aocuatcd by selfishness
on behalf of those sponsoring it.
It is embarrassing to contemplate the passage of
this bill by the state of Oregon.
Here is a state, one of forty-eight, fighting its
way valiantly out of the throes of a sickening de
pression. But the fight is too tought, the money too
scarce, and the pace too hot. The state breaks. It
races off on a tantrum of an un-advised slashing of
taxes. Schools are crippled. Not hurt, but crippled!
Governmental budgets wounded far beyond repair,
and a prospect for recovery as remote as odds on
the adoption of a sales tax four times the size of the
one defeated twice by a two to one count.What pub
licity! What prestige!
This sounds over-drawn and absurd ? It is
neither.
Please, it is very true. The bill must be ana
lyzed. Hasty or apathetic judgement if not a crime
against the state, will leave it in a pretty a very
pretty pickle.
Read the bill. Study it. And then kill it.
Washington Spraks A^aiu
^“><EORGK Washington, history informs us, was a
wise and farsighted leader. The “Father of
His Country ’ might well be living in Oregon today.
Were he here guiding the destinies of this common
wealth he could offer no more sagely advice to the
constituency regarding the proposed 20-mill tax
limitation amendment than the words he uttered in
his farewell address in September. 1790.
George Washington cautioned the people lie loved
as follows:
As a very important source of strength and
security, cherish public credit. One method of
preserving it is to use it as sparingly a-s pos
sible, avoiding occasions of expense by culti
vating peace, but remembering also that timely
disbursements to prepare for danger frequently
prevent much greater disbursements to repel it
—avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt,
not only by shunning occasions of expense, but
by vigorous exertions in time of peace to dis
charge the debts which unavoidable wars have
occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon
posterity the burden which v. c our.ehci ought
to bear. The execution of these maxims belongs
to your representatives, but it is necessary that
public opinion should co-operate. To facilitate
to them the performance of their duty, it is es
ential that you should practically bear in mind
that toward the payment of debts there must
be revenue—that to have revenue there must be
taxes—that no taxes can be devised which are
not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant—
that the intrinsic embarrassment inseparable
from the selection of the proper objects (which
is always a choice of difficulties) ought to be
a decisive motive for a candid construction of
the conduct of the government in making it,
and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures
for obtaining revenue which the public exigen
cies may at any time dictate.
305 X No
'T'UESDAY, thinking people of Oregon will go to
the polls and vote 305x No on the proposed heal
ing arts constitutional amendment. Voters who have
studied the measure know that such an amendment
does not belong in the constitution. They realize that
Oregon’s “basic science law’’ should be retained.
They know that high health and hospital standards
could not be upheld if the amendment were passed.
They are aware that the passage of this bill would
eliminate the medical staff at the University and
other Oregon institutions. Also that the bill would
jeopardize the workmen's compensation act.
The medical field has long been recognized as a
profession. In late years standards have been raised
and the field has become selective. The healing arts
amendment would change this profession to a “busi
ness” handled by incompetent and untrained “doc
tors.” Thinking people of Oregon will vote the
amendment down.
Smith and Schmidt
QMITH hates socialists, abhors communists. “Send
^ them back to Russia," he says. “Look at the
strikes. Bunch of I.W.W.’s, anarchists, communists,
socialists.” They’re all the same to him. He doesn’t
know one from another—hates them, though. They
are "un-American.” Smith won’t try to explain his
hatred for radicals. He can’t. It is a repulsion deep
within him. It is like eating snails, or birds’-nests, or
driniking beer with an ice-cream float. Radicals’
tactics are one thing: “Always sticking up for some
guy like Mooney—you know, that guy that shot
someone, or something—or those Scottsborough ne
groes, who are plenty guilty.” But, all in all, his
hatred is a confused totality that seems to be a part
of his nature, inexplainable.
Here is Schmidt. Schmidt is a communist. He’ll
tell you so. “You would be too, if you could see how
rotteply they treat the workingmen- -the thieving,
greedy money-bags of capitalism.” Schmidt doesn't
know a great deal about the economics of commun
ism. He has read any number of pamphlets on it.
The pamphlets' and papers have guided his views on
capitalism. It doesn’t take a great deal of economics
anyway to see what a rooking the laboring man
gets. And, with him, there is a connection between
capitalism and the lynching of a negro in Texas,
a thing his whole idea of the brotherhood of man
protests against—even though it was a mob largely
composed of working-men that committed the act.
Something of emotion, not mind, guides both
Smith and Schmidt. Smith and Schmidt are repre
sentative each of his group, unreasoning conserva
tive and unreasoning radical. Of course there are
conservatives who can present their cases logically.
Many there are of a radical bias, too, who can take
their stand with cold logic. But as a whole, emotion,
not fact, rules the popular mind.
It is a thing we must resist. Our problems must
be exposed in the light of the facts. Logic must
build from these facts. And, if a man, like the pro
vost at the University of California at Los Angeles,
says that he will never countenance an open forum
of students, and calls for intolerance of the discus
sion of new ideas, he should be resisted.
The (Carnegie Room
HATEVER cultural implications may or may
' " not be drawn from the current collegiate
scene, and under what cloaking of obscurity the ap
preciation of the arts is being forwarded, a univer
sity, despite the clamor of the hyper-critical aes
thete, cannot be regarded as totally devoid of cultur
al and intellectual stimuli. As Plato has adequately
remarked, culture and the intellectual approach are
not things that can be poured into the student; they
must be arrived at by a devious inward course, and
it can be safely said that the province of the uni
versity consists of the presentation of the opportun
ities for thought, which may or may not be put to
; their logical use according to the nature and capa
bilities of the student.
it is as a means to this laumlabic end that the
Carnegie Institute functions, a corporation that has
in the past been the backer of numerous beneficial
research problems in the University. The latest op
portunity the Carnegie Institute has afforded stu
dents is in the installation of an audition room in
the music building, equipped with an excellent re
producing machine, nearly a thousand recordings,
scores of hundreds of other musical opera, and a lib
rary of musical criticism and history under the su
! pervision of a trained librarian.
| The audition chamber is open at scheduled hours
, for students and their friends; it is the hope of the
| apportioning committee that the musical library will
i serve in much the same status and capacity as the
i orthodox library, a spot where the student may go
to study and be entertained, save with the folio in
the place of the tome, the companionship of the
world's greatest virtuosi in lieu of that of the nov
elist. The integrated conception of music, as of any
art. can come only after meditation and inward con
j cent ration, and it is to be hoped that the Carnegie
i facilities will provide the opportunity for these
means to the ultimate perception of music as a coa
i cmuutcd unity of feeling and expression.
|> EPORTS from the south toil us that student
; vigilantes, mostly athlete... are patrolling the
U.C.L A. campus. A touch of humorous, if not. trite
; drama is added by the tact that the group was or- I
ganized at a meeting in the hills near the university. |
The whole thing reminds us of the Robin Hood
game ■ we used to play as youngsters.
'•pJIE only mention made in the press reports of I
the purpose of the vigilante group at U.C.L.A. j
is that they are to 'purge the campus of radicalism. I
with forte if necessary.' We suspect tiiat the "force " j
part of it m umst appealing to the. aUiUU„.
The Day’s
Parade
By PARKS HITCHCOCK
i
Seething Spain
The Austrian Vote
¥F press dispatches from Spain
show nothing- else, it is the fact
that Premier Alejandro Lerroux
and his coalition cabinet will have
no release from the constant bar
rage of Leftist pressure during
the next few months. The recent
Catalonian rebellion came to a
very unsatisfactory conclusion
from the point of view of all sides.
Although ostensibly crushed, in
reality no striking blow was de
livered against the syncretistic un
ion of socialists, communists and
Catalonian secessionists who rose
against the Madrid government
last month.
Secession in Spain?
Not only Catalonia, but also As
turias, Old Castile, Leon and the
Biscayan provinces are still seeth
ing with discontent, most of which i
points to either one of two meas- 1
ures, i. e., the secession of the ,
norther provinces from Spain and
the establishment of an indepen- |
dent state or the overthrow of the j
conservative party in Madrid and
the establishment of a socialistic
or communistic dictatorship.
Embargo on News
Tightmouthed is Madrid, and
foreign correspondents are not be
ing allowed to penetrate any far
ther into Asturias than the chief
city, Oviedo, but it is pretty evi
dent that the working conditions
among the miners and laborers in
northern Spain are far from satis
factory, and coupling the natural
dissatisfaction of the working
classes with the age-old desire for
Catalonian and Biscayan indepen
dence, anything is liable to happen
; in the next few months.
Biscayan Descent
Both the inhabitants of the
Basque provinces and of Catalonia
speak a language and follow a tra
| dition that is far different from
that of Spain as a whole. A great
'many conjectures have been formed
as to the true national affiliations
of the Basques, but it is generally
believed that this very old and
tightly bound race is of Coptic
descent, and can trace its lineage
back to the ancient Assyrians. At
any rate, the Spanish situation
must be understood as something
far more fundamental than mere
temporal political discontent; it
has its roots rather in racial dif
ferences and a long-standing dis
satisfaction.
A USTRIAN fascists under the
guidance of Ernest von Stahr
emberg, royalist advocate, received
something of a set-back in the
elections this week. Of the 49
seats in the Austrian parliament
the fascists gained only 14, while
Chancellor Schusnigg and his par
ty seated 20 members, and the oth
er 15 seats went toi parties closely
allied to the administration.
Juggling Austria,
It is. of course, highly desirable
for the maintenance of the balance
of power in central Europe during
the next few years that Austria
remain in the hands of a conserva
tive party similar to that of Chan
cellor Schusnigg's or else lean to
ward the strong socialist faction,
rather than to the Nazis and fas
cists. As long as an anti-militar
istic and anti-despotic party such
as the present government is to
some extent holds the reins, some
hope may be held out for an equit
able division of influence between
the German and the Italian influ
ences, and it is upon this indeci
sion that the temporary and pre
carious safety of European poli
tics rests.
Temporary Safety
If, however, either interest gains
too great a hold over Austria a
serious diplomatic contretemps is
imminent. It is, by definition, an
unfortunate situation, yet it seems
highly desirable that Austria
should remain on the fence as long
as possible, and the recent elec
tions seem to confirm that posi
tion.
Emerald
of the Air
By GEORGE V. BIKMAN
<ODAY, the dull gray morning
after, we soberly inform you
that the Emerald-of-the-Air feat
ures. on this afternoon's program,
the accordian music of Kenneth
Clair, and the modern piano ai
rangements of Bob Kehres. This is
Bob’s first appearance as one of
our performers, and we warn you
he'll be good. The two should mane
a good combination.
Monday at l. 13 Roberta Ben
nett makes her singing debut.
Mary Ming will be at the studio
grand
•'The Gumps," eartoonland's
most famous family, will come to
life in a new radio series to be j
heawl over the Columbia network j
five times each week, starting
Monday. November 5. The episodes
will be broadcast from 9:15 to 9:30.
Mondays through Fridays. Some!
CBS highlights for tomorrow will I
be the New York Philharmonic 1
symphony orchestra, with Hans i
Lange conducting, at 13:00; Mil-j
ton Ager. composer of “Happy i
t PL'iit' turn to (oje S)
Hero of the Day
By SAM FORT
Candidates for Governor on Education
Editor’s note: Following- is a symposium of the policies regarding Oregon's higher education, which
the three candidates for the governorship advocate. An explanation of the source of the statements is
given in order to better explain the situation in which the assertions were made.
JOE E. DUNNE
The stand Joe E. Dunne, re
publican nominee, is taking in
regard to higher education in
the state may best be seen
from excerpts taken from a
front page story in the Regis
ter Guard for August 25, 1932.
in a story by Tom Potwin, Sen
ator Dunne was credited with
the following comments on the
educational program of Ore
gon.
Senator Joe Dunne of Portland
put himself unreservedly on rec
ord as being opposed to the Zorn
Macpherson school grab measure
while in Eugene Thursday after
noon. )
He told why he is opposed to
moving the University away from
Eugene; he told why he “butted
in” on the chancellorship question;
and again pronounced the doom of
the state board of higher educa
tion.
He announced that; he is against
moving the University because he
believes there must be two great
schools in Oregon, a big technical
institution at Corvallis and a great
liberal arts'school here.
“I butted into the chancellor
ship fray,” he said, “because I
used to be a good churchman and
was taught to kneel and atone for
my past sins. I voted for the pres
ent board of education. I regret
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Roarki’ Past
By FULTON H. TRAVIS
The Yukon, 1896—“Justice did
not cost anything, so it could not
be corrupted."
* * *
Lest we forget—Yesterday has
passed into the realms of history
and comes, therefore, under the
jurisdiction of this department.
How many forgot to send letters
home informing Dad and Mother
of the1 menace presented by the 20
mill tax limitation and the Healing
Arts Amendment?
Question—When did Dad's day
originate? Answer—1927, or at
least, 1929 was the third one.
While we re on the subject, let
Roarin' Past welcome those who
have made this column possible—
The Grads: and the Dads who
made the Grads possible.
1929 -There are about eight ox
carts to every automobile in Sal
vador. as indicated by an order
recently placed by the Central
American republic with a Portland
firm for 22.000 ox-cart licenses
and only 2,650 auto tags. (Accord
ing to that, would a bey friend in
Salvador be considered fast com
pany ?)
An ageless parody: "Y'ou can
lead a frosh to mid-terms: but you
cannot make him think!"—Sun
dial.
Pork Goes Tight
1929 — A sow and five pigs
caused a three-mile traffic jam on
a southern California highway
yesterday. The porkers had ap
parently eaten some mash that was
dumped on the wayside, and went
cavorting down the road tatoxi
. ate J.
CHARLES H. MARTIN
The policy of General
Charles H. Martin regarding
the state’s system of higher
education is outlined in a let
ter received Wednesday by Vir
gil L. McPherson, president of
the University of Oregon
Martin-for-Governor club. Fol
lowing is an excerpt from the
letter:
I have viewed with great alarm
the attacks which have fallen upon
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PETER ZIMMERMAN
Peter Zimmerman, the inde
pendent candidate for the gov
ernorship, while on the cam
pus Wednesday night, voiced
his opinions on educational
matters before a mass meeting
of students and townspeople.
Excerpts from the statements
concerning the higher educa
tion of the state made during
his visit in Eugene follow:
I am opposed to the vested in
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PURE QUILL
By JIMMY MORRISON
HEEEEEE! College is fun,
™ huh, kids? We all paddled
out of the swim down Willamette
last night like 2500 drowned rats.
But it sure was fun. However, do
you suppose the frosh who wore
pajamas in the parade would
agree ?
Notice to Dads and Grads:
In case the terms used in foot
ball are a bit hazy in your minds
by now, here are a few pointers
that may or may not help:
Pnnt—Two punts make one
quart.
Goal—That stuff you burn in
furnaces.
Time out — Timekeeper pulls
out his watch.
Fair catch—Two Thetas, a Pi
Phi, and a couple of D.G.’s.
Pass—You quit betting on your
hand.
Let’s hope the Montana kids
aren’t good mudders. If they
aren’t, they won't be able to get
past the first post and we can
scratch ’em.
Seems odd that although a mur
der is committed in the TJ. S. every
44 minutes, the guy that brought
up the 20-mill tax hasn’t been one
of the victims.
In the examination of Haupt
mann, New Jersey maintains that
he was cribbing at the Lindbergh
home.
All the phones at the Shack
were dead for a while last night.
Editor Bill Phipps thought there
was something phoney about it, but
can you see anything funny to it ?
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