There Was an Old Miller
I. ... -- -
By FREDERIC S. DUNN
IF a stranger were passing down
Eighth avenue in the later eigh
ties perhaps wondering which was
the most likely saloon in which to
find entertainment for the evening,
he might have been startled to see
brighter lights than usual in the
upper story of a frame building at
the intersection of Olive street
Still more puzzled would he be at
the sounds of revelry descending,
involving the tread of feet to the
accompaniment of mixed voices
singing:
“There was an old miller,
And he lived in a mill;
The mill turned ’round with a
free good will:
A hand in the hopper
And the other in the sack:
The ladies step forward
And the gents step back.’’
“Surely not an Elks’ ball,” he
mused. (Editorial note: A curious
anachronism;—the Elks did not
take the town until the fall of
3 8981. He was still musing when
a honking bevy of students drove
up to the curb and disembarked
with noisy, demonstrative gaiety.
(Editorial note: Again, two cur
ious anachronisms in one sentence;
the first “horseless” was introduced
to Eugenit.es by Ax Bill in 1897.
And studednts were not boisterous
or noisy until,—say the era of Clint
Haight or Lee Travis.
The stranger wanted to know
and like “the Ancient Mariner,”
“he stoppeth one of three.” "It’s
a social given by the young peo
ple of the Congregational church
and they’re playing at ‘Jolly Mil
ler’.”
The pastimes of then may seem
juvenile and colorless, in contrast
to the regimented social calendar
of today. A dancing academy,
somewhat informally maintained
by Bill Alexander and "Deacon”
Ed Davis, half-brothers, on the cor
ner of Twelfth and Alder, only a
block removed from the Twelfth
street stile, was regarded with
looks askance. An habitue of the
dances was in jeopardy of expul
sion. The sound of the fiddle might
as well have been the hiss of the
serpent.
And, in the absence of any or
ganized effort through University
authorization, the churches and
quasi-religious bodies ventured to
fill the need and were eminently
successful. Various hails and lodge
rooms were requisitioned at differ
ent periods, some becoming popu
lar resorts. The one that provides
the caption for this story had or
iginally stood on the corner of
Willamette and Eighth,—Crane’s
jewelry store,—its upper story at
one time the constituted place for
Masonic meetings.
Resourceful chairwomen like
Anna Roberts - Stevenson never
permitted us to note the absence
of anything so mephitic with “dan
ger ahead” as cards and dancing.
One such committee, for instance,
started a group of us on “Forty
nine Blue Bottles a-Hanging on the
Wall.” We became fagged at the
end of six stanzas, but I can recall
Arthur Veazie and his future wife
in the gallery of Rhinehart’s hall,
regaling the rest of us on the floor
below with the remaining verses.
About the time 22-and-a-half bot
tles had been removed “from off
the wall,” we were ready to throw
Art out, but refrained out of def
erence to Agnes.
(The next issue will contain
“We Did Not Go to War With
Chile.”1
‘Master Dance’ Offers
• New Rhythmical Study
Members of Master Dance will
sponsor intramural dancing1 class
es for women Tuesdays at 5:00
and Fridays at 4 :00.
Maxine Goetsch and Miriam
Henderson will lead the group
Tuesday, November 6, and all wo
men students interested in danc
ing techniques, dance composition
and rhythms are urged to attend.
HAUPTMANN LAWYERS
SQUABBLE
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-(AP)
Dissension flared in the legal camp
of Bruno Richard Hauptman today
with two lawyers claiming the
right to defend him at his forth
coming trial on charges of slaying
the Lindbergh baby.
! Committee Plans
Forum Meetings
The faculty committee on free
intellectual activities of which Dr.
Dan E. Clark is chairman, met on
Thursday afternoon to plan a pro
gram for the coming year. A se
ries of forum discussions to be
held on alternate Thursday eve
nings was approved, and Profes
sor Orlando Hollis of the school of
law was made chairman of a sub
committee to make arrangements.
The committee also discussed
plans for a series of university lec
tures which will be open to the
general public, but which will ap
peal especially to those interested
in scholarly presentations in the
various fields represented in the
university. Dean Karl W. Onthank
was appointed chairman of a sub
committee.
LOW KATES UPHELD BV F. D.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 MAP)
Conceding that low interest
loans would slow the vast new
housing program in some sections,
President Roosevelt ruled it was
more important that the principle
of low rates be established than
that the program be hurried at the
expense of home owners.
Candidates
(Continued l'roin ■ page 2)
JOE E. DUNNE
that past sin and now I’ve gotta
get in and do something to cor
rect it.”
The visitor resounded again what
he believes to be the death knell
of the state board of education.
"We have both houses of the
legislature lined up to kill the pres
ent board and system,” he said.
“We'll institute a new system next
session. We’ll have a board made
up of three members, one from
each congressional district. They’ll
all be Oregon men, but none of
them will be graduates of any
Oregon institution.”
CHARLES H. MARTIN
(Continued from page 2)
education through the sudden and
seriou;* inroads upon their budgets
in an effort to effect economies in
state expenditures.
I shall strictly respect the right
Dunk a Doughnut
Dads and grads who attend the Oregon-Montana game today will be high pressured by these eight
attractive doughnut saleswomen. The sale of the “sinkers” has been conducted on the camuus during the
past week, and is being sponsored by the campus Y.W.C.A.
of the board of higher education to
have a free hand in the conduct of
its affairs and shall seek out for
nomination to the board only those
citizens who by inclination and
thought are equipped to devise a
program of education for the com
ing generation, paying attention
neither to party affiliations nor to
social and financial groups.
The people have in no uncertain
terms commanded that the College
and University shall have separate
existences and be free to operate
along well-differentiated lines and
certainly I understand the nature
of a command.
Spells Disaster
To me, the effect of the tax lim
itation measure spells only disas
ter and such ruthless attempts at
economy can mean nothing other
than abandonment of an ordered
system of education, quite apart
from confusion to result in other
activities of the state.
I desire to see the educational
system both in the elementary
schools and in the schools of high
er education resting upon a solid
financial base, with budgets de
signed for demonstrated needs and
freed from passing whims of agi
tators or proponents of weird the
ories. How best to attain this end
will be determined by a state sur
vey of resources having for its
purpose the draft of a 10-year plan
of operations, which would set our
course and provide the proper
means of financing the state activ
ities.
PETER ZIMMERMAN
(Continued from' paye 2)
terests that are working to muffle
higher education, an institution
which should stand free from any
entanglements of any such inter
ests.
I am definitely opposed to the
proposed 20-mill tax limitation
amendment which is to be voted
upon in Tuesday’s general election.
It is a vicious measure designated
to smash those very ideals and op
portunities of education which
mark America as a leader, and pio
neer in a field where education has
been brought within the reach of
practically every man.
We can never hope to attain the
lights of civilization unless we
maintain the highest possible free
dom in our institutions of learn
ing, as- well as the freedom of
thought, speech, and press in the
scheme of our social order.
Higher appropriations should be
made for educational purposes in
the state of Oregon by raising
revenues from taxation from
sources which are well able to pay,
by a graduated tax on high in
comes, inheritances, and a proper
ty tax—on property beginning
with $50,000 or $100,000 net worth,
placing the heavier proportions in
the higher brackets of net worth.
Send the Emerald to your friends.
FRIE-CHIEF
The Fastest Starting
Winter Gas
GRAVES TEXACO
STATION
Corner 11th and High
Theater Revue
McDONALD — “Madame Du
Barry," a Warner Bros, pro
duction featuring Dolores Del
Rio.
By R. KNL'DSEN
Janet Gaynor and Lew Ayres
who gained so much popularity in
“State Fair,” are teamed together
again in “Servants Entrance” ap
pearing Sunday at the McDonald
theater.
A gay lively pcture, “Servants
Entrance” depicts the experiences
of a young headstrong rich girl
who in order to show her indepen
dence leaves home to make her
own living. Walter Connolly, a
rich motor car manufacturer, is
played as Janet Gaynor's father.
Displaying all of the purported
inconsistencies of her sex, Janet
has a difficult time trying to make
up her mind which of two men, Lew
Ayres and G. P. Huntley, Jr., she
likes the better, flitting first from
one to the other according to her
moods.
The picture is taken from a nov
el by Sigrid Boo and is directed
by Frank Lloyd.
New Hollywood Invention
Science is taking a hand in Hol
lywood again with a recently per
fected invention to add depth to
pictures. The contrivance is mere
ly in the form of revolving mir
rors which are attached to either
side of the camera. The shot is so
arranged that first one side of
the photographed characted vs em
phasized and then the other before
a direct frontal hit is made.
The combined on a single nega
tive lends a soft yet clear-cait pic
ture with remarkable depth.
TORC ELECTS ADAMS
Verne Adams was elected presi
dent of the Radical club at a spe
cial meeting Thursday night at 9
o’clock. He appointed a. commit
tee to search for prospective mem
bers. Regular meetings and dis
cussion groups are on Tuesdays.
Vote
X 53
for
County
Commissioner
WALTER J.
HILLARD
an Oregon Dad
who is a staunch supporter of the university, whose
father was one of the first rlonors.
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It is with greatest of pleasure that the University of Oregon and the city of Eugene again welcome you to the campus and to Eugene
1 his week-end has been planned for your entertainment weeks in advance-may it be a happy one. The students and these representative merchants of Eugene hope that
you will greatly enjoy these few days which have been especially set aside for you. S F
the^studer^rbody — rnedCthenEugIneacrtizenstiVe °f ^ University students’ friendship and trade and it is their hope to strengthen the bonds between you—the University—
These merchants extend to each of you a personal invitation to visit their establishments so that new acquaintances might be made and old ones revived.
YE OLDE OREGON
Barber Shop
CAMPUS SHOE SHOP
Across From Sigma Chi
COLLEGE
FLOWER SHOP
Phone 3018
Welcome to
CAMPUS SHOE SHINE
Across From Sigma Chi
Welcome to
CAMPUS GROCERY
LUNCH COUNTER
124!) Alder
UNIVERSITY
Barber Shop
12:!!) Alder
UNIVERSITY TAILOR
Walter Zarewski
1128 Alder Phone 2641
THE OREGANA
Confectionary
11th and Alder
UNIVERSITY GROCERY
MEATS
790 East lltli
VARSITY
Service Station
10th ami ILilyard
UNIVERSITY RADIO
and Fixit Shop
770 East 11 tli Street
GOSSER’S
r>r»0 Hast 1:5th Street
CRYSTAL
Barber Shop
40 East 10th
3IGWART ELECTRIC CO.
Electrical Contractors and Repairs
’hone 71S i)5ti Willamette Street
KUYKENDALL DRUG
Company
S70 Willamette Street
Eugene, Oregon
ELLA MEADE
Optometrist
14 West 8th Avenue
From Fifith Avenue to You
H. GORDON AND COMPANY
DR. SAM TYLER
Opt omet rist
921 Willamette
BYRON-HOSELTON
“The Mini's Shop'’
32 East 10th Street
OFFICE MACHINERY
and Supply Co.
1047 Willamette
WHITE PALACE
SANDWICH SHOP
47 East 10th Street
CORSON’S MUSIC SHOP
:U> East 10th Street
“ Every tiling Musical”
OREGON Shine Parlor
OH) Willamette
‘’Best Service”
)
MODERN ENGRAVING
Company
Phone 207
WATKINS COFFEE CUP
Lunch
Broadway, near Oak
WARD’S
“The Friendliest Store in Town1’
CHASE GARDENS
MANERUD
UUNTINGTON FUEL CO.
Coal, Wood, Oil, llogged Fuel
BEARD’S
957 Willamette
Women's Wear
SETH LARAWAY
Jeweler
LANE AUTO CO.
(14 East 10th Street
He Soto and Plymouth
BUSTER BROWN
Shoe Store
WILLIAMS
Self Service
77 East Broadway
WADE BROTHERS
DEL REY CAFE
—Good Eats—
“Where you are proud to be seen.”
MANN’S TIP TOP LUNCH
48 East 10th
THE BROADWAY, INC.
00 East Broadway
ORIENTAL ART SHOP
l-l! East Broadway
Gifts and Deeorative Furnishings
KIRKLAND’S
Floral Shop
971 Willamette
GILBERT’S SHOE CO.
881 Willamette
MERRICK’S
Dance Studio
861 Willamette
SKEIE’S JEWELRY
9-7 Willamette
REX SHOE SHINE
975 "Willamette
BROWN MOTOR CO.
195 East Broadway
ANGELINE DRESS SHOP
G3 East Broadway
‘'The Store of Personal Service”
SAFEWAY STORES INC.
Broadway and Oak Streets
"Outstanding Food Values”
L. E. SIMMONS
Authorized Ford Dealer
COLLEGE SIDE