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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. 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 Avc., Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, J,os Angeles; C-ill Building, San Francisco. William E. Phipps Grant Thuoromel Editor Manager Malcolm Bauer Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Parks Hitchcock, Barney Clark Assistant Editors Bob Moore, Robert Lucas, George Root, Fred Colvig, Henriette Ilorak, J. A. Newton UPPER NEWS ST AFP iXClIUiUJ L AIIUU3C1I, Clair Johnson, Sports Ed. Jan Clark, Telegraph Ed. Ann-Reed Burns, Womens Ed. Ceggy Chessman, bocieiy Eu. jimmy .uunibon, xiumor na. Kex Cooper, Chief Night Ed. Conge Eikman, Dick Watkins, Radio Ed. Ai Goldberg, Asst. Managing Ed. bay Editor This Issue Night editor this issue . Mildred Blackburne . Bob Couch EXECUTIVE REPORTERS: Henrieite iiorak, Uan Clark, Cynthia Liliqvist, Ruth Weber. REPORTERS. Signe Rasmussen, Lois Strong, Jane Lagassee, Hallie budrey, Betty Tubbs, Phyllis Adams, Doris Springer, ban Maloney, Dorothy Walker, Bob Powell, Norman Smith, Henrietta Mumrncy, Ed Robbins, Florence Dannals, Ruth Weber, Helen Bartum. Margery Kissling, Wayne Harbert, barrel Ellis, Eleanor Aldrich. COPYKEADEKS: Margaret Ray, Wayne liarbert, Marjory O'Bannon, Liiyan Kraut/, Laurene Brockschink, Eileen Don aldson, Jns l" ranzen, barrel Ellis, Colleen Cathey, Veneta Brous, Rhoda Armstrong, Bill Pease, Virginia Scoville, Bill Haignt, Elinor Humphreys, Florence bannais. Bob Powell, Dorothy Walker. SPORTS STAFF: Caroline Hand, Bill Mclnturff, Earl Buck ,*um, Gordon Connelly, J'ulton Travis, Kenneth Kirtley, Paul Conroy, bon Casciato, Kenneth Webber, Pat Cassidy, Bill Parsons, Liston Wood. 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OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Dorothy Walker, Wanda Russell, Pat McKeon, Patsy Neal, Dorothy Kane, Carolyn ilaud, Dorothy Kane, Marjory O’Bannon. The Oregen Daily Emerald, olficial 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 oi March except the first eight days. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, £2.50 a year. A Professorial Inquisition ECENTLY there appeared in a prominent news paper of this state a letter from an ex-college man who would shed light on the enigma of who is to blame for the disturbances in the institutions of higher learning throughout the United States. He referred to the deplorable incident at the University of California at Los Angeles, where five students were suspended for the supposed advancement of communism. The aroused patriot points a bitter finger and directs a bitter pen toward the illusionary enemy that is polluting American government, morals, and religion. And toward whom does he point that ac cusing finger? The American college professor. And in his wholesale indictment of such men, he must needs include those at the University of Oregon. We are graciously informed, and with no end of literary virtuosity, that "in the name of science and of psychology, students are taught that, old stan dards are breaking; that everything is in a flux; that marriage is old fashioned; that morals and conven tions are ever changing; that the Bible is untrust worthy; that anthropology contradicts Genesis; that emotions must be expressed, and not repressed; that to have moral scruples Is a sign of a warped person ality; that the sexes must associate promiscuously.” The champion of such balderdash is genuinely sincere. He, like many others, feels deeply the stag gering ills that ravange this country. And, as is the favorite pass time of people who are being washed by the storm in this best of possible worlds, he issues an inquisition for the prevention of chaos. Some such “emergency prophets” point heaven ward and sigh. Others point earthward and groan. Still others assume the form of vegetables, and wait until they are boiled. But some are not content to generalize, and must cast wildly about for solu tions. Eventually all form of theories, institutions, and government truckle to the searching eyes. This is as it should be. Progress springs from analysis, criticism, and suggestion. But why should the layman point to the university professor and de clare that in him is born the demoniaele artifice for the destruction of man. That the campus, one re treat for the objective unravelling of the Gordian knot, should harbor such malevolent and illaudable characters is electrifying at least! What would our eensurer suggest ? Would he have his children taught by stereotyped robots with metal tongues clacking forth knowledge pumped in to the grease cup from ’oft times decadent books of decadent times? Would he have American youth be come impervious to the forces of a changing world, and remain apart and bovine as to the facts? It is granted that not infrequently college pro fessors are fired by their lambeut flame of intellect and visualize the salvation of mankind by the om nipopence of their knowledge. These men are in a position to do harm, and often do. But the college professor of the 20th century is equipped witli the habits and accouterments of re search, and serves as a dispassionate influence in an impassioned world. For the college student of today to be enlightened by the politic and prudent professor, with due re spect to his ratiocination, is one answer to "whither America.” Science Simplified VlflL.L V. Norris, associate professor of physics, pave a lecture on “Energy" the other night, attracting so many students that it liad to be given over again last night to accomodate the three hundred turned away. A large part of the success of this lecture was due to Mr. Norris’ presentation of the subject mat ter. He made his facts vivid, clear-cut. and exciting. He discussed physics from the layman's, not the . scientist’s, level. His ability as a lecturer is attested by the awakened interest and expressed approval of his listeners. It is a source of satisfaction to those interested in things intellectual, too, that so many of our un- j dergraduates could be lured away from the movies ! by a chalk-taik on a subject suspiciously close to the j academic. University Morale COME lofty-browed intellectuals have been throw ^ ing rocks at the rally committee for, lo, these I many years. It has been a favorite indoor sport with some, along with jabbing at football over-emphasis, ' fraternities, and the “rah-rah” spirit in general. It’s | fine verbal exercise, but we doubt its validity. After all, a university should not be a mere cul-. ture factory. It should possess a spirit and back ground, a tone that \ ill induce in its members a deep-seated loyalty f id interest. Spirit is only another word for nr rale, and a university depends on morale as much as any other group. In times of adversity %.nd discouragement a uni versity needs to have its spirit bolstered, as much a3 any army or athletic team. This is the function of a rally committee. Sometimes the actions of such a committee may seem childish, the results negligible, and the objective paltry. Then the function is con demned, when in reality the execution is at fault. There is a definite place at Oregon for the rally committee. Whatever criticism they have been sub jected to has been due to short-sightedness on their part and to too close a concentration upon the field of sports. A deeper understanding of their duties and pos sibilities, a broadening of their function would un- | doubtedly have a profound effect upon university morale. It would produce a student body which j would act with unity and concentrated force, and . bring to college life a new color and a new warmth, ; sadly needed in these grey days. The Passing Show Kewarcl in JJeieat 'T'HAT well-known and much-abused expression, "school spirit.,’’ has been little more than a trite phrase at S.C. for the last three years. Surfeited with winning, Trojan students began to take the attitude that gridiron victories were more or less inevitable. The amazing success of the football team endowned the present crop of seniors with indiffer ence and with a feeling of the impregnability of the football team. This year the student body has experienced the effect of a scries of disheartening defeats, yet never has the determination to win been stronger. Rallies have been better attended and the yelling more vociferous, as witness the California game. It would have been easy for the students at S.C. to maintain a supercilious attitude toward gridiron warfare. The best way to get over defeat is to de preciate its importance. Trojans, therefore, can gather some measure of satisfaction out of the losses that have thus far been suffered, and look to a new era in S.C. football where victories will not be regarded as forgone conclusions, but will, nevertheless, be as frequent as in past years.—Daily Trojan. Procrastination 'TVHERE are two things you can count on in col lege. One is that you are going to have examina tions and the other is that at least half the students in the colleges are going to wait until the last possi ble moment to start studying for those examinat ions. Someone—Shakespeare, Emerson, Ben Johnson or maybe it was Ben Franklin —once said, "Pro crastination is the thief of time.” It really doesn't matter much who said it. Maybe he just said it to get himself quoted. The main thing is that he knew what he was talking about. Yes, procrastination is one of the world’s great est faults, and college students are the worst offend ers. Let's see. I believe that I’m a pretty fair example for the average college student, not an “A” student and not an “F” student. Just an “in between.” I’ve been here four years and have learned a good many things in that time. There’s one thing, however, that j I haven't learned and evidently never will. That is | to do my work as I come to it. It seems that one, I with vivid recollections of previous cramming orgies j before his eyes, would avoid those pitfalls the next time. It evidently doesn't happen that way, however. After each examination rash resolutions are rife. | “Never again will I leave all my work until the last night. Never again will I have a reoccurrence of that last-minute cramming ordeal," the students solemnly i vow. No, there's not a reoccurrence. Not until the next j time, anyway. Yes, collegians are funny people. They never learn -Texas Christian Skiff. Corporate* Stale linllvlioo r ■ 'III! name of the Corporate State is misleading reports that it is a revised NRA, made by the uninformed and the proponents of the government systems in Italy and Austria, are false. The latest piece of Mussolini ballyhoo has ap plied another fine-sounding title to another form of trtekery. In the Corporate State the government is one in which every form of enterprise is a part of ai] corporation that is presumed to run the country. But the joker in the pack is that labor, the consumer, j i sunt agriculture have no comparative power. The ; executive branch of the twenty-two corporations . that make up the government is so constituted that "big business” is the kingpin. !, In keeping with the boy army of it Duee, the system is an effective mask for the war that Italy ] and Austria las well as the majority of the Euro pean countries'i. are sure will and probably will come as soon as the loaders fool there will be a profit for their country in conducting the war. To the student of the last war and the average 1 person who is not blinded by a patriotism that is wholly destructive to the very source of their pat riotism, the fallacy lies in the question of who can create profit from destruction. The type 01 person running the Corporate State can make money from ihe war the person who is fooled by such a high-sounding name is the person who'will pay for these riches of "big business." Daily lUuii. The Day’s Parade By PARKS HITCHCOCK Aryan Culture Spanish Ministers (Jut 11 Dtice and the Newborn of Reichfuehrer Hitler’s plan to forward a new' German culture came to light the other day with the announcement by the musical section of the Nani “charn ber of culture” that unemployed musicians up to the number Gf 4,000 have found work through the chamber's intercession during the last year. The chamber likewise announces that is hopes to place the remaining IS.000 musicians o. the unemployed rolls within the next year. No Hebrews, Hr. Hitler? The one joker on this otherwise laudable plan, is of course, that ail musicians to be eligible for this honor must be pure Aryan stock. The universal law's of culture and ert have been circumscribed to ad mit only the faithful into “Uncle” Adolf’s corral. The chamber has little to fear from Semitic virtuosi, however. Most of the talented Jew ish artists who have formerly found an artistic haven among the cultured circles in Berlin, Bayreuth and elsewhere, now shy at the very mention of Germany. A Limit to Thought Although we cannot help but sympathize with the Reichstadt in its attempC to build up a strong and lasting national culture, Chan cellor Hitler and his confreres may be warned that no art of any pro portions can arise in such a con stricted atmosphere as that of the Nazi state. Dr. Ihlert, the member of the chamber’s board of directors who made the announcement, can pension and employ all the music ians he wishes to but a lasting aesthetic and cultural development, is a non sequitur, and a non se quitur it must remain until a tol erant racial policy is adopted by the parent nation. OPAIN’S government took still ^ more of a Rightist trend last week with the announcement by Premier Alejandro Lerroux that he had demanded the portfolios of twc of his cabinet members. Members who got the Premier's axe were Ricardo Sampcer Ibanez, minister of state, and Diego Hidalgo, minis ter of war. Tightening the Chains Senor Lerroux's latest move was aimed at those who might possibly encourage the overthrow of the present government and a renewal of the late Catalonian war of se cession. The ousted ministers were charged with leniency in their treatment of rebels in the recent revolt. * * * DIAPERS w i 11 be standard equipment for the Italian Fas cist! according to latest reports that Mussolini will induct all male babes into membership at the time of birth. Then in all probability, anyone using contraceptives will be sentenced to be hung for being an enemy of the country and deci mating the ranks of the Black shirts. Picture to yourself the next Eur opean war. Above the beat of drums and the thunder of artillery will be heard Junior’s rattle and ferocious cries of dada and mama as he jabs his bayonet into the foe. It is probably Mussolini's idea to use the Babe Bridgadte as shock Iroops and to send them marching back of the lines to the tune of "Little Man You've Had a Busy Day” while the regulars ‘mop-up.’ Posture Contest (Continued from Pai/r One) lit t; Alpha Xi Delta, Elinor Whar on; Chi Omega. Olive Lewis; Pel a Delta Delta. Geneva Stafford; Delta Gamma. Margaret Keene; Delta Zeta, Lillian Hart; Gamma ?hi Beta, Jane Brewster; Hen irieks hall, Grace Burley; Kappa Vlpha Theta, Cynthia Liljequist; vappa Kappa Gamma, Betty Lab >e; Phi Mu, Echo Tomseth; Pi Seta Phi, Mary Ellen Eberhart; Sigma Kappa, Pauline Conrad; Su ■an Campbell. Grace Bowen; Zeta ran Alpha. Bertha Shephard, and Drides, Bernice Stromberg. Friday at the campus tea at l ). m. the contestants will be udgcd on poise and carriage by Dean Hazel P. Schwering, Mrs. Mice B. Macduff, Miss Harriet rhomson, and Miss Maude Kerns rhere will be three prizes awarded o the winners by Dean Schwering. Plans are being made to have a >icture taken of the winning con* estants by George Godfrey Ro x'rta Moody is chairman of the .losture contest, assisted by Doro hy Rinehart, Jean Stevenson. Eu liee Elliott, Pauline Moore and Uura. r_. KissliuD. Boats and Arithmetic By ED HANSON ENGLAND 5 •U.S. 5 JAPAN 3> When “The Old Mill Race” Was Younger By FREDERIC S. DUNN By P’REDERIC S. DUNN J^UGENE no longer has an ‘old u est inhabitant’ to tell of the Mill Race when it first meandered. The mills had long been grinding when, as a boy, I used to ‘pole’ rafts up and down its lower stretches. I owe my first ducking to an old buggy-horse that started to roll in the shallow water at the end of Seventh Ave., where the old Court House now blocks the way. And whither have wended the turtles that sunned themselves • on the half-submerged logs below the Broadway Bridge ? But when the University was built so alluringly near, the Mill Race became a self-appropriated adjunct of student life, all the mills and factories notwithstanding. And long before the canoe appeared, the standardized vehicle was the flat-bottomed skiff, propelled by at least two, or better still, by three sets of oars. The stylish par ty consisted of three couples, three men at the oars. The paddler of the present who drives his little craft so skim mingly over the ripples, little knows the vanished glories of the old time skiff, heavy and cumber some as a lumber wagon in com parison, the blood blistering in the palms of the hand, the perspiration slithering into our mouths. Not only was the skiff as unwieldy as Noah's Ark to row. but the Race of that era was a tortuous, clut tered, undredged channel, infested with low bridges to bump you off and stumps just below the water line. While on the lookout for the one you could count on meeting with the other. And those flat bottomed boats were just the cut est contrivances to balance, first on one stump and then on the next, often capsizing,-- and you not in shorts or Jantzen reds, oh! no! .cm, ui a rnuuy uneiuoon. auer we had watched the train come in and were gathered on the Post Office corner, where the First Na tional Bank now stands, some one would be sure to pipe up with 'Let's go up the Race'. And six of us would hike up to Dr. Patterson's, where Clyde stabled his boats, and we were off, perhaps not to return till after dark, when we would be obliged to use lanterns, if we had them, to descry, if possible, those impish obstructions. A favorite mooring place was at the junction of Mill and Tenth, to reach which it was necessary to cross private property. Right of way had apparently never been le gally obtained, and groups of pic nickers had been coming and go ing. evidently with little regard for the owners and latterly to their unquestioned annoyance, as a party of us, one large, moonlit night, discovered to our anguish. We had returned and were about to land, when a voice in Scandinavian ac cent yelled at us not to step on his property or he would shoot. We just could not pacify that curs ing berserk. He w axed louder and more profane, the more we tried to reason with him,—and he won out. We had to go on down the stream and tie up at the bridge 'the best we could and tote the girls out through the mud and ooze. Every time I hear ‘Hay bane Swade’, I think with mortification and disgust of that shotgun, poked at us from an upper window. (The next issue will contain ‘THE FIRST VARSITY SONG’.) Emerald of the Air By GEORGE Y. BIKMAN QUR rooter's lid goes off to Bob Cathey, who participated in the poetry program yesterday. Be cause yours truly copied a page number incorrectly, Bob found him self in front of the mike looking at a page of a rambling Chinese thing that he had never seen be fore. But like a trouper, Bob went into it. It happened to be the middle of the poem, but that was all right, because it was only a lot CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING A new broom sweeps clean—• A Classified ad yets results! 10c per line DRESSMAKING PETITE SHOP 573 13th St. E. Phone 3203 “Style Right - Price Right ’ All types of sewing. Eve ning dress remodeling spec iality. Reasonable prices. Mrs. B. Wise, 2170 Alder st. Phone 115-W. BEATTY SHOPS City Barber and Beauty Shop. Permanent wave com plete $1.75. Finger wave 25c and tip. Expert hair cut 25c and 35c. 855 Oak Street. Phone 319. PHONE 3300 Classified Department of disjointed impressions. So after reading a chunk out of the middle, Bob read the first part, then the last part, and concluded the mix-up in neat style by giving the title. Well done, Bob. Today Stan Stromber, who made a hit last Thursday with his violin, takes the air with Milt Sugarman at the piano. A varied program will be presented. Time, 4:45. Donald Novis, tenor, who rose to stardom by winning the Atwa ter-Kcnt contest in 1928, will be featured as soloist in the weekly "Forty-five Minutes in Hollywood” broadcasts over the Columbia net work beginning tonight at 7 p. m. This will be the first time Novis has broadcast over the Columbia chain. Maria Sifveira, soprano, (Please turn to page 3) PURE QUILL By JIMMY MORRISON IT all began when Ernst opened a window in his Lit of the Mod ern World class. He asked a male student sitting nearby if he minded. "Yes, I'm cold,” the kid an swered. “Very well then; you may sit over there next to Miss Cooper,” said Professor Ernst. And he was in Ernst the other day when he admitted never having heard "The Man on the Flying Trapeze.” .. r Here is a little deal which al most slipped by the ears of Snoop and Conquer, the campus spyer outers: The Sigma Nus’ calf got a bit rah-rah at their house, so they took him over to the,Alpha Phi house, where they supposed he would feel more at home. The kiddies didn’t like the gift and were noticeably inhospitable to him, ultimately de manding that his owners come and remove him. All of which reminds ono of words Shakespeare might have said: College women with their prittle prattle Remind me of a bunch of cat tle . . . wmmm 12:45 CONTINUOUS 11:45 • NOW PLAYING • • PLUS • mm® mums RANDOLPH SCOTT ( ij ,, / SAIL PATRICK^ By Long Distance telephone, a sales executive recently "covered” more than 153,000 miles in three business days. He spent a total of eight hours in talking with his agents in 194 cities — using Sequence Calling Service. 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