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e a on An Independent University Daily PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OE 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. This issue, published by the pledges of Sigma Delta Chi— Robert Lucas, Editor George Root Stanley Robe E. V. Lincoln Mohan V. Raj Lawrence Quille • Stivers Vernon is not in accord wiih the usual policies of the Oreogn Emerald. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otheiwise credited iti ♦his paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A member of the Major College Publications, represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York City; 123 \V. Madison St.. Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of ♦he 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 yeai. QUERY |N the bare, grizzly court room of an eastern Ore ' gon town, a man, woman and two boys sat darkly considering the dragging passage of time. The youngest lad was 11 years, his older brother 14. The little boy nervously, almost frantically gnawed at his dirty fingernails, and the older child was morose and still. His face was shadowed by a cavorting mass of blond hair that was far too long. The little boy was apparently as yet a young animal, irrespon sible, lackadaisical, without benefit of reason. But the face of the older child was a mask of grief and conflict. He knew, not clearly, but he knew what was the matter. The mother was sniffling, now and then mopping her eyes with a knot of handkerchief. The father frowsy, unshaven, sat stupidly staring at the ceiling. Presently the judge, a rotund, paunchy man, en tered the room and took his place before the long, low desk. The two children eyed him dumbly, the mother blew her nose, and the father scratched the back of his neck. The judge asked the boys to come forward, and after scrutinizing the small faces, asked the older brother why they had robbed that store. With the aid of the chief of police, the boy told the judge that he didn’t know why, and licked his lips. The young er brother nodded not gay, not sad. He just nodded. This was the third offense for these children, and it was serious. The judge beckoned to the father, and the man climbed off the back of his neck and shambled toward the desk. No, he couldn’t do anything with those two kids. He had three others and he couldn’t do much with them either. He didn’t know what was the matter; he had given them lots of good thrashings too. His wife couldn’t do much either. He didn’t know why. Perhaps squalor and dirt and misery was the answer. Or perhaps the fine edges of reason had been nicked by a rampant society. It is true that there will always be gradations of individuals. There will always be a large variety of capacities, wills, and t.emperments. But does that justify the needless arraignment of children on the starting line of what promises to be a race with the devil and the law ? Some people are repulsed by the wickedness of the conception. Others accept it as inevitable. Still others think about it. VIVA MORSE! EAN Wayne L. Morse and the faculty of the ' University of Oregon law school are to he con gratulated upon the splendid honor afforded them by the Order of the Coif in granting the law school the thirtieth chapter of that old and distinguished hon orary of the legal profession. It is a truly great tribute to the efforts w that body of young men to ward lifting the Ore^d 1 law school to a position of national prominence. Dean Morse is a young man. And he has veered from the dogmatic, the decadent pedagogical meth ods employed by many schools of higher education. He has long been a student of the complex lego social problems present in modern society. He has guarded against methods leading to what he terms "legalistic inbreeding.” Rather, Dean Morse would educate law students "to an understanding of ir reconcilable differences between the law as it now is and the findings of the social sciences.” In short, he has attempted to correlate the lawyer’s theories and those of the social sciences. There are those who are inclined to speculate as to why men, the caliber of Dean Morse are wont to remain in a small school in a relatively undeveloped state when "rich” fields exist elsewhere. But Dean Morse is the kind of a man who lives to create, develop, and advance institutions am' j thought. And he is happy in his own right. Inci dentally, perhaps he likes too, good "bosses," and ; miles of fragrant open country. Who knows? SOUR NOTES ON THE SAAR ■\TITITH Nazi propaganda in the form of racial ™ * fidelity and storm troopers saturating tlie Saar Basin, and with the cancellation of debt payments by the French government, in favor of fortification! of the Franco-German boundary, the approaching Saar plebiscite threatens to become the "short cir cuit" m the already taxed dynamo of world affairs, i The Saar is a region about the size of the average! American county. It is 20 miles square, and is in habited by 825,1)00 people -the large majority of whom are of German descent. In this region, which separates Germany and France, are to be found vast coal and iron industries, and about it there rages a storm of controversy be tween France and Germay. The height of this storm will be reached on January 13. And at this time the world will look upon the scene of the drama with grave concern. The Saarlander's plebiscite is set for January 13. A plebiscite, of course is an expression by the whole people on a given matter of public interest. The procedure sounds simple enough. But it is t causing diploma ts and laymen of both France and [ Germany to mutter odd, incoherent sounds. And it is causing governments throughout the world to: stroke their chin whiskers and contemplate once' more their machines of destruction. By the Treaty of Versailles, the mines of the Saar, then German possessions, were given to France in payment for damages done French vil lages during the world war. And France has used the Saar industries these past fifteen years to ad advantage, a very distinct advantange. But the Treaty also stipulated that after 15 years the people be given permission to indicate their wishes with respect to government. As the day for the plebiscite approaches, France advances a host of reasons why the Saar should re tain its status quo. But Nazis, not content with such academic methodology spew propaganda, advocating the Saarlander’s acceptance of Germany as the “Vaterland.” To keep the Saar from Germany, if not for France, the French government has announced con cessions which would make a continuation of League control more attractive. A greater degree of self government was declared possible in a memorandum presented before the League Council by the late Louis Barlhou in September. Although barred by law, Nazi storm troopers are said to be pouring into the region, threatening and pleading with the population to vote for Ger many. They are spending hundreds of thousands of marks in an attempt to make Saarlanders conscious of historical, racial and economic ties between the Saar and the fatherland. Realizing the importance that the election may assume, the Council of the League has made every effort to insure a fair vote. However, remembering the methods of the Nazis in securing "votes of confi dence’’ in the past, one may doubt the effect of the regulations of the committee on the plebiscite. Count Jean de Susannet, French soldier and ob server of international affairs, sees the possibility of war as remote "unless” the Germans attempt a “putsch.” And there were rumors with some basis of authenticity, brought before the League in Octo ber, that the Nazis are planning to march into Saarbrucken immediately after the vote is taken on January 13, and before the council can announce the result. It is hoped throughout the world that for the sake of international peace, the title “Saar Ballot” will not be re-written as “Saar Bullet.’ NOW IN NOVEMBER T ATE November on the campus. The leaves, most of them, lie on the ground,- a brown scattered carpet. The strong winds have freed the trees of their burden of dead branches and the last, lonely clouds are searching the sky for the summer that is forgotten. There is an openness, a clarity about everything. The bare vines make strange spider-web patterns on the exposed sides of the buildings, and along the street the rattle of the dry seed-pods in the naked trees can barely be heard for the voices of students passing in twos and threes in and out of the buildings. Arms heavy with textbooks, talk in the air of Thanksgiving-, football, term papers nearing the deadline, “can Europe hold the peace,” just three weeks more—so much to do, so little done, papers overdue, vacation at Christmas, “they expect so much work this term,” what of the Saarlanders should they stay German?, so much to do, just three weeks more—. A slight wind mgs at the sodden leaves, but there are only a scattered few left to dance about at night and disturb the hoot-owl in his nest high on Villard’s roof. It was a long dancing autumn for the leaves but they are gone now. We have come away from our fall-fright, the long autumn when we fled in terror as the winds blew and the leaves whirled in a frenzy. The. winds have died down, the leaves are sodden and brown and quiet, and it is a steady, sure wind that blows the haze from the blue-grey hills beyond the river. We have now to meet the winter, but the panic of leaves has passed and we can build slowly and strongly toward a surer spring. “Now in November we see our year as a whole.” THE PASSING SHOW OLLEGE students in this country must con- j centrate just as much on the professor as the subject. Education becomes partly a question of per sonalities, previous reputation, and resignation," writes Richard A. Lester, of the department of eco nomics, Princeton university. This, Mr. Lester believes, is because of the fact that students remain for four years in the same col- i lege with the same group of professors doing the! professing and the examining, more and more em-i phasisis put upon knowing the professor instead of! upon knowing the subqeet in all of its phases rather than just those in which the professor himself is especially interested. Samuel P. Capon, chancellor of the University of Buffalo, stated recently that our colleges and uni versities are more autonomous and self-contained than such educational institutions anywhere else in the world with the result that American educational history of the past three decades is filled with "The conflicts, the wasteful duplications, the indefensible compromises, and the narrow provincialisms which : are as familiar as they are unnecessary." Mr. Lester points out that the Vale School of 1 Law and the Harvard School of Business Adminis- 1 tration are attempting to meet that challenge and to 1 initiate a much-needed reform in intercollegiate re- ' lationships. A four year course in law and business, 1 one year at Harvard and three at Vale, was an- 1 nounced and hailed as "a new departure," the "first course of its kind in the country." and a "novel ex- ! pertinent in American education 1 Transfer students can well appreciate and under stand the narrowness and lack of exchange that 1 exists between American colleges today. Educators j 1 stress the broadening influence of spending several |1 years in a foreign university, but little is said of di- j 1 viding one's college career among several local uni- : versities. The students who do manange to spend a year or so at different universities usually do so ; “upon request.’ - As air. Lester suggests that one is supposed to i select his college as he does his wife, for life “The) ] prospective freshman is supposed to fall in love with. : but oue alma mater and to remain true to her the CONJURERS’ CONVENTION EDUCATION IN INDIA By MOHAN V. RAJ TT will be a surprise to those who look upon India as a land of mystics, and fakirs, all leading a backward and slothful life, to real ize that India once was a great country even as Greece and Italy were, and to realize that India still has vast dormant potentiali ties. One authority describes an cient Hindu India in the follow manner: "Ere yet the Pyramids looked down upon the valley of the Nile,—-when Greece and Italy, those cradles of European civili zation, nursed only the tenants of a wilderness,—India was the seat of wealth and grandeur. A busy population had covered the land with the Ynarks of its industry; rich crops of the most coveted productions of nature annually re warded the toil of husbandmen; skillful artisans converted the rude produce of the soil into fab rics of unrivalled delicacy and beauty; and architects and sculp tors joined in constructing works, the solidity of which has not, in some instances, been overcome by the evolution of thousands of years . . . The ancient state of India must have been one of extraordinary magnificence.” Kulo of Moslems Under its old Hindu regime, In dia was universally educated as well as literate. While the Mos lems ruled, however, India retro gressed and was only partially lit erate. Although there was a de cline in literacy and education un der this rule, India compared fav orably in these lines with Europe n the medieval ages. In the latter part i>f tHe eighteenth century. In dia had as much education and lit eracy as Europe. Today, under the adverse condi ions of British lule, India is un ible to obtain universal literacy, vhich is necessary in this modern ige for economic efficiency. This ■an only be secured through selen itic knowledge, which in turn can ■ome only through literacy and brmal instruction. It is not be ■ause the Indians lack sufficient character and intelligence to ob tain these. It is rather because of unfortunate economic conditions. Little Money for School The Indian government, under British authority, allots less than two per cent of its revenue for the combined departments of educa tion, sanitation, public health, ag riculture, irrigation, industrial de velopment, and scientific research, while 48 per cent of its revenue goes to maintain army and police. These facts can be verified from British Blue Books for the year 1919-1920. In other years, practi cally the same thing is repeated with very little variation, if any. In addition to maintaining a huge military machine, Indian revenue is drawn upon to pay approximate ly 150,000,000 as costs of. trans portation, as pensions for retired British officers who are no longer resident in India, and as upkeep of India offices in London. It is because of all these maintenance expenses for British needs that In dia is only able to apportion less than two per cent for this and al lied purposes. In contrast to this state of af fairs are figures announced recent ly by the Department of Commerce in Washington, D. C. One state ment was to the effect that in cit ies of more than 30.000, the funds allotted for school expenditures were 37 per cent of the total city revenue. Of this, the American people rightly feel proud, consid ering it. a good civic investment. Education Not Compulsory After all of Britain’s 150 years in India, education there is neither universal, compulsory, free nor wholesome. What little education is imparted is not modern, nor suited to modern economic condi tions. Vocational training of ev ery kind is neglected. No provi sion is made for technical educa tion which India needs the most. Under these circumstances only S per cent of the boys of India and 5 per cent of the girls receive any form of instruction. Vet—as has j been mentioned — the standing army and police force are amply equipped and well provided for and much revenue goes to main tain British retired officers in the ease and comfort that such an of ficail position demands. Low Wages of Indians In proportion to the earning ca pacity and salary of the Indians, the cost of education is practical ly prohibitive—small though it seems. Consider an average Hindu family, the head of which if he is better educated and occupies a gov ernment position, may earn about $30.00 a month. Now, if this fam ily is composed of three sons and two daughters—just an average sized family—let us decide how they will be sent to high school. If there is no high school in their village, as is the case most frequently, they will have to go to school in another town. That entails the fol lowing monthly expense for each boy: Fee, about $2.00; books, about $1.00; hotel charges, about $6.00; and railway fare, about $1.00. These are low average estimates. They, however, place the cost of educating one boy at about $10.00 a month, and the education of three boys at that rate comes monthly to about $30,000. This is prohibi tive. The man's income is proba bly greater at $30.00 than many of his countrymen earn, and yet he cannot educate his sons on it because he has still himself, his wife, and two daughters to sup port. For this reason innumerable boys in thousands and thousands of homes coming from even edu cated families are denied the privi leges of an education. Depletion of Revenue In the elementary schools, which are pitiably few, the average cost of educating an Indian pupil is estimated at $3.00 a year, of which the government contributes $1.50. The courses under this rate are not adequate or satisfactory, nor do they reach more than a few of the many Indian children. In contrast to these expenditures European est of his college years—yes, even until he draws i ip his will.” Aside from the lack of intellectual stimulation hat is present in our system of limited transferring, here is another fault which arrests the development >f the individual student. The particular type of stu lent who suffers the greatest loss from this is the ■o-ealled "big-shot." Take the case of a student who has devoted four •ears of his college life to a certain activity. He carcely ever thinks beyond the narrow borders his work He becomes swelled with his own m. 101 t:mee and imagines himself quite an important ndividu&l. This t\po of person uili -pond several jcar» after graduation trying to adjust himself. It will require that length of time for him to achieve any set of actual values. Cheap student flattery will protect him from any real intellectual stimulus. Perhaps the “big-shot” in university life will never be able to adjust himself to the world. He has been encased for too long a time in an artifical shell of self-admiration that has developed into a thick skin. It it were possible to transfer from one univer sity to another without losing a number of dollars worth of credits, it is quite probable that the self satisfied • big-shots'' would not see the advantange of such an exchange However, we think it would do them good.—The Daily llimi. 1 children in the elementary schools maintained separately in India are educated at a cost of $60.00 a year, of which the government contrib utes $40.00. These courses are far from satisfactory and inclusive than the Indian ones. Still, the fact remains that the funds ex pended on all education in India, certainly come from the pockets of the tax-paying Indians. Yet the children of these very Indians are denied in their own country equal distribution and equal opportunity. Here is a case of “Rob Peter to pay Paul.’’ Courses Not Adequate In spite of depletion of India's revenue by England’s gnawing off great chunks to support the army and the police, and a resultant in ability to take care of educational needs, India through the untiring efforts of the Indian National Con gress for the last 75 years, has now a higher percentage of liter acy than Roumania, Bulgaria, Greece, many of the Russian states, and some of the South American republics. What could India not accomplish for the education of her people if, instead of a fraction of two per cent, she could devote to her schools the 37 per cent which has given the United States such high educational efficiency ? BOOKS /'"VVER the NBC comes this list twenty books, all published in the twentieth century, that Har ry Hansen, the radio reviewer feels that “every cultivated person should read”: Youth—Joseph Conrad. Crock of Gold—Janies Stephens. Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust. Call of the Wild—Jack London. Sea and the Jungle—H. M. Tom linson. Abraham Lincoln—Carl Sand burg. Along This Way—James Weldon : Johnston. Of Human Bondage—W. Somer- 1 set Maugham. Forsyte Saga—John Galsworthy. 1 Sons and Lovers—D. H. Law rence. Education of Henry Adams— H. Adams. Autobiography of an Idea—J. H. Sullivan. The Good Earth—Pearl Buck. The Magic Mountain—Thomas | Mann Maria Chapdelaine—Louis He-! mon. My Antonia—Willa Cather. Casuals of the Sea—William McFee. Case of Sergeant Grischa—Arn-1 old Zweig. Outline of History—H G. Wells. Modern American and Modern j oritrsh Foe try—Louis Untenneyef. ' COMMENT AND DISCOURSE By Stivers Vernon i Inasmuch as this is the first and probably the last stand of this column, the temptation is great to make it a series of profound medi tations on current subjects. The large difficulty with that idea is that our stock of profundity is a bit low this morning. Anyway, we have observed that there is nothing quite as ludicrous as a college stu dent trying to be profound—partic ularly one who is sentenced to write a column, whether or no. Its like an executioner cracking funny jokes to the condemned. Anyway, dear public, you are hooked. We shall write this here column or blow a fuse in the attempt. Of interest to us are the current yarns appearing all over the front pages which have to do with the discovery of the bodies on one of the Galapagos Islands. We seem to be perennially interested in any thing that takes place in those ex otic islands much frequented by overgrown lizards and dead-beats from the outside world who can't make a living anywhere else. All those glowing reports of the “trop ical paradise’’ and “equatorial Gar den of Eden” sandwiched in be tweeen divers prognostications re garding the identity of the bodies, arouses in us a slight suspicion that the islands have fallen into the hands of southern California real estate promoters and are on the verge of subdivision. Or maybe its just the suspicious nature with which we are endowed. Anyway, we have a friend who “went Gala pagos” as a photographer with a white-collar expedition. He re ported that the islands were "a helluva place where critters crawl over you while you sleep and you mortgage your soul for a drink of water.’ Even so, these press reports will no doubt arouse in many a breast a yen to run down some Sunday afternoon and poke around a bit. We admit to such a feeling. We al ways did want to see one of those eight foot lizards which deflate like a toy balloon after they are dead. Too bad somebody can’t cook up some such gorgeous yarn about our McKenzie country right here at home and drag in a little busi ness. Which reminds us of the CCC’s latest contribution to the pleasant vale of the McKenzie. At Perry Thompson's instigation, a very complete winter sports layout is being constructed just above Lost Creek Needless to say, these facili ties will be most welcome to those of the student body who enjoy win ter sports. After seeing the short at the Mac the other night in which the glories of old Dart mouth’s winter sports program were propounded, we wonder why Oregon students do not take a greater interest in these activities. With the new facilities completed, it looks as though skiing and kind red sports would become a natural for the student week-end. Wonder how long Sammy Wil derman will contain himself and refrain from shooting the works at “Herr Hooey” Long. Haven't heard of any public reply to the telegram that Sammy sent the Kingfish or at least, none that lives up to the reputation .Mr. Long has built for himself as a rip-snorting, fire-eat ing catamount. Maybe he is cast ing about for a suitably libelous re ply. Together with ten million oth er souls, we would be greatily de lighted if somebody would goad the Kingfish on the subject of his Louisiana Staters till he breaks out in a rash. That graduate mana (Please turn to page 4) EDDIE CANTOR— lias been appointed ail honorary member of the Cleveland Sight Saving Club. In his speech accept ing the part Mr. Cantor •said sight saving should be a national activity—foe we start our uational an themn "Oh Say Can You See.’’ The Sight Saver’s pledge binds you to use adequate lighting and to secure ad equate eye care service. Please resolve to sign that pledge today. Dr. Ella C. Meade Optometrist 14 West Eighth Phone 330