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(A rcaon An Independent University Daily PURLfSHEl) 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 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled to the use for publication if all news disjir^hes credited to it or not othei wise credited in *his paper and u.so 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 VV. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1031 S. I Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. William E. Phipps Grant, Thuemmel j Editor Manager Malcolm Bauer Managing Editor The Oregon Daily Emerald, official 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 of March except the first eight days. Entered as second-class matter it the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, £2.50 a yeai. Day Editor This Issue .Mildred Blackburne Night editor this issue . Bob Couch Troubled Oil on Peaceful Waters JN possibly Hie most important judgement yet placed upon new deal legislation, the supreme court, in a vehement eight to one decision, has just declared unconstitutional the section of NRA which gave the federal government power to regulate the interstate flow of “hot oil,” or oil produced in viola tion of the quotas established by state laws. Despite the fact that this declaration throws out of the hooks the most valiant effort congress has yet made toward hus banding this vital resource, there is a saving bit of humor in the situation. We find it very laughable that the most long-drawn ululations in lament of the de ceased statute have been voiced by operators in the east Texas field, the area where ef forts to control production meet such stub born opposition, the area where local govern ment and bootleg operators conspire to keep the great wells gushing against all cautioning from far-sighted conservation ists. Their wail is that, without the control exercised by federal law, oil will flow so freely that the dollar-a-barrol price by which the crude product now goes can no longer be maintained—and that from leaders in the most notorious “hot oil” district in the country. Producers in other states hound them selves to the quotas in the most cricket man ner. Not so with the Texan's; officials in that state opposed any kind of restraint, up on private exploitation, and they winked at the sub cringes by which greedy operators ran out illicit oil to be sold at a price which owed its amount to the iorbearance of the s.uie and sporting producers of other states. It is true that even with the loss of Ibis : eel on of the NRA, oil can yet he regulated in some measure by the code of the oil in dustry, but the temper of the supreme court, being as it apparently is with regard to legislative delegation to the executive, how much longer the important codes will remain in force is a mailer for doubt. What then will happen to this resource which now is almost the blood of this coun try? Conservationists warn us that it is be ing exhausted at an alarming rate. Control and the resulting artificial price will result in its intelligent and economical consump tion, and doubtlessly \Y ILD bring about sav ing methods of production. \\ e say \\ ILD because il is impossible for this country ever to return to the feral of a kind of exploitation whose only plan is greed. Peace and Propaganda YK S I we wrote an editorial called "War Inevitable." It suggested that the efforts oj the peace societies would prove miavailing unless they found some wav to strip war of its glamour, its excitement and advent tire. Today, we will attempt to show ulmt steps would he necessary to achieve this end. To begin with, it would be necessary for the group to have an advertising appropria tion as large as that of any major cigarette Company, for this is primarily a propaganda proposit ion. Second, the group must have a corps of lobbyists fully as largo and active as the munitions men. and a director who is clever, unscrupulous and persuasive. They should begin with an illustrated billboard, magazine, and newspaper cam paign. Not the dignified, restrained matter printed heretofore; but headlines that shriek their message, pictures that hum it on the brain. Make the horror, waste, ami insauit\ of war IdVK for everyone able to read or see. Show them broken, mangled men across a field gun; fire glutted houses; the horribly smashed wreckage of war planes; cold, mute bodies piled like faggots; sour, shell-pitted fields and a skyline of mutilated trees. Associate every branch of the army, navy, and air lorce with some scene of hor ror, and hammer it home. da\ after dav, month after month, year after year. Film talkie shorts with martial music as their background, and for their .scenes havoc, destruction, and death; so that the thrill is gone even from the bugles and the drums So much for influencing the public mind. As tor the legislative bodies, congress men can he bought, threatened, or persuaded until legislation with teeth is enacted, taking away all the profits from munitions manu facturing. and applying the same penalty as treason hears to any person convicted of inciting war for personal gains. This cauiupign, with the support of the ministry, the newspapers, and the schools behind it, should stamp a horror of war on the minds of the nation. But, this burden cannot be assumed by one nation alone. Every important nation must inaugurate it at the same time, for under the present system of balance of power, the United States or any other na tion that attempts to proceed alone would be penalized severely, and perhaps disaster ouslv, by the more greedy and self-centered countries. Fist an ageement must be eached be tween nations, and then the campaign can begin. How About Tennis? 'I'ENNIS lias lot.;' been regarded as a slow game; one in which players bat'a ball back and forth over a net. until, one or the other player misses. During recent years, however, tennis has assumed considerable importance in sporting circles. It is now rec ognized as a game of speed, stamina and skill. A promoter, one Mr. O’Brien of New York, has organized a group of the greatest players in the world into a professional troupe dangling unbelievable amounts of money before their noses. II. Ellsworth Vines is said to have earned $75,000 his first year as a professional. Recently Fred Perry, the world’s lead ing amateur player, is said to have refused some $40,000 to speak the simple sentence, “I am a professional tennis player.” All of which leads to the statement that there must be something about the game which a great many people don’t know. There; is on the University campus a competent group of tennis players who last year made trips to Corvallis, Salem, Mc Minnville, and Seattle to defend the good name of the alma mater. This group of tennis players offers the suggestion, whi.eh we heartily endorse: that exhibition tennis matches be held in the Igloo, 'the suggestion was that they be held between halves of basketball games or im mediately after the game. Varsity Tennis Coach Waslike is fav orable to the proposal. He thinks it’s a good idea to introduce the practice of playing in doors now that tin1 so-called rainy season is upon us. I’lie Emerald would like to know the findings ol the campus in general on this subject. Letters to the editor are still being published. Any pertinent remark upon this subject will get space. People who live in glass houses should be glad they have a house at all.- Daily Texan. Very often, too often, sophistication, A\Iiieli ought to be by convention a virtue supplying a finishing touch to one’s nature, is interpreted into a repugnant, acquired boredom.—Daily Illini. One Man’s Opinion By STIVERS VERNON /COLUMNISTS, following the newer concep tion of reader interest in newspapers, are as inevitable as the approach of tuition payments. Sooner or later, everyone who aspires along lines of newswriting, takes a whirl at writing a col umn. Anti it isn't a bad idea. There is nothing so deflating' to the ego as to hear some scathing remark made about one’s own private and par ticular brain-child. And, we are told by the old heads, what every college journalist needs is to have his colossal ego knocked down, trampled upon and otherwise eradicated. "One Man" will probably take his turn along with the rest, at being murderously exterminated. His claim upon existence will be based upon a cognizance of the little things which creep into the day's news. He humbly promises not to try anil interpret a lot of psuedo-significant facts from the standpoint of their right or left wing movement. He will, from time to time, attempt to call attention to certain of those things which don't make a darn’ bit of difference but are just plain interesting. Kor instance, nobody cares if Charles Williams, an amateur prospector from Phoenix, stumbled around in the Superstition mountains and fell over jtiOO worth of dental gold. Still, its the sort ot stuff that opens vast fields for prognostication. Ati/oua, like Mux Miller’s waterfront, is always good for a feature story. The Superstitions have been there just about as long as the rest of the state but nobody seems to know much about them, it all started back in the Apache days when a bunch of the boys wandered off the reser vation and lifted a bit of hair. Even the It. S. cavalry couldn’t follow them when they retreated to their protecting hills and had sense enough not to try. In later days prospectors have combed the hills for the fabled lost mines. Now Mr. Williams comes forth with a whole list full of ex-bridge work Its a phoney, officials tell us, but well bet a hat the incident will spur hundreds of people from Phoenix's winter population into i search of the hills. The Superstitions are a great place. We used to pass that way quite frequently and we still cant understand why the sight of them makes people wonder about their dead ancestors. But they do. By the way, what has Oregon got that could be sold to the world via a first-rate story like that of the dental gold? Some day this state is going to re-discover her romantic beginnings. W hen she does, publicity stories will begin to tlow which will make the California don? look like four pennies in a sand-stonu. Still, perhaps is is just as well that we pursue our modest way without any ballyhoo. At least, the ireighLtrauu don t unload several hundred dead-beat.- a day outo our population to support. That's what comes of bragging about bq; grapefruit. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury at ff Trial of Century ” I Twelve men and women bearing names rooted in the American tradition nave pledged open-minded consideration of the evidence in the : trial of the German carpenter, Bruno Hauptmann, on charegs of murdering Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. Here they are, seated in the jury box in the courtroom at Fiemington, N. ,1. Back row, left to right, are Koberl Cravath, Elmer Smith, Philip Hoekenbury, Mrs. Mary Brelsford, Liscom C. Case and Howard Biggs; front row, George Voorheos, Mrs. Ethel Stockton, Charles F. Snyder, Verna Snyder, Mrs. Bose I Pill and Foreman Charles Walton, Sr. That Sixth Commandment By FREDERIC S. DUNN , j a \F that dekalog which came " * clown from out our Oregon Olympus, the simplest of all its provisions! was yet the most treach erous. To infringe upon the others required elan (cf. two out of every three cross-word puzzles), but the majority of us could, without any preparation whatsoever, be indict ed on the sixth count. The student who now stalks through the halls as he does the street, who takes the cue from ‘loud speakers’ be-' I hind closed doors to accost his pal J as loudly, who sings or whistles the last hit from the stage as he I hangs up his hat or opens his lock | er.— today’s student could not im agine Hope Abbey Mausoleum more silent than were the corridors of Deady Hall once, under the spell of that ‘sixth commandment’. (Thou shalt not) ‘stand or sit around the doors, or make any dis turbing noise in the halls of the college building’. Ghosts of Jake Auger!—was that a dog I just now heard howling at the door of Room 104 Oregon Hall? The revolution of half a century since the delivery of our dekalog has ‘revoluted’ con siderably. Rash Freshman of 1888, with no green cap to publish your unso phistication, treading nonchalantly the lower hall of Deady and stop ing to discuss the dispatches on the bulletin board with a fellow unsophisticate, — ssst! -— what is that sound at your elbow? A door opens,—a crispy-bearded, stern eyed man, with a thumb in his copy of Cicero’s Orations, and still looking over his shoulder to de claim ‘Come back at two and have that subjunctive correctly learned’, this strenuous personage now ac costs you with: ‘Gentlemen, you know the rules of this University. What do you mean by talking in the hall? Just walk into my room and practice sildnee a while'. Oh! my! 1 nave known this clas sic president to rush out upon a thoughtless group and herd them into his room by the dozens, where they would be obliged to stand up against the wall, because there were not seats enough to outfit thorn all. And I have been seated on the top step at the west en trance of Deady, with a bunch of boys gathered about, when some one, startled by a step from be hind, would exclaim in a hoarse whisper, ‘Look out. Here comes Johnson’, and those boys would vanish, some actually leaping from the parapet to the ground in order to scram around the corners of the building. Not exactly an angel with a halo fastened to his collar button was our President John W. Johnson. Horace's delightful description of the little coquette, pretending to hide in a corner, yet finally com plaisant to her suitor's demand for a. ‘date’,—he used a Latin word, but she seemed to know her Latin, -well, there were as convenient angles in Deady as Horace ever could have wished, against which to paint his eternal picture. But the student of the eighties, who dared used them thus clandestinely was evoking the lightning. Old grad of four five decades ago, did you ever stand at the foot of the stairway in Deady, some one just above you, leaning over the bannister, and all of a sudden, have that some some one dart up the stairs, leaving you to turn and face the bass viol? Well, I did. Oh! that ‘sixth commandment’ was some commandment, all right, all right. (The next in the series, THE EPICENE NO MONOPOLY OF EEN JOHNSON'S.) Music in llie Air By George Bickman and Dick Watkins 1,'MERALD of the Air fans would *1 no doubt be moved today, if this were summer, when they came in contact with the moving air waves to be released by Stan Bromberg and his magic violin (hocus-pocus) on the broadcast today over KOBE at 4:15. And if that won't do for you, the scintil lating rhythms of Milt Sugarnmn at the piano should provide the finishing touch or is it “blow"? Just in fun, boys. ' A highlight on the CBS broad casts for this evening is the Fred Waring program at 6:30. The ex collegiate vendor of Henry Ford's pride will present his famous or chestra and glee clubs he's added another one, of girls in a halt hour of soothing sound. On NBC: Kudy VaJlce’s variety hour at 5:00; Show Boat at 0:00 with Frank McIntyre, Conrad Thi bauit, Muriel Wilson: Paul White mans Music hall at 7:00 with Helen Jepson. soprano; Book Pa rade over KPO at 9:45. SIGMUND ROMBERG, noted composer of the "Student Prince" and other hits, and currently di rector of the Swift radio hour, has started a campaign to revive the sadly neglected "one-step" as a means of livening up American dancing. CAROL LOFNEK whc faded into obscurity after he and PHIL HARRIS came to the part ing of the ways when their far i famed Hotel St. Francis hand broke up. is again back in harness | doing a first-class job of dishing j out sweet music from the Bnkei j hotel, in Dallas,-Texas His night 1 1> broadcasts feature an opening , style not unlike EDDIE DUCH1N. a LOMBARDO sax section and muted trumpet effects a la HAL ! KEMP. Staging a comeback in i the face of this modern cotnpeti Itton is nowadays nothing short of ia miracle, incidentally PHIL HAH I R!S since giv ing up has band hat been the singing master of cere monies at a smart N. Y. dine and dance rendezvous, along with his ever faithful side-kick, LEAH RAY. * * * ARTHUR MURRAY, noted dance authority says, "Band lead ers should know how to dance. I can always tell which conductors arc dancers because they know enough to balance and alternate their programs with fast tunes and slow ones." LEO REISMAN, Brunswick recording artist and musical chieftain of the Philip Morris programs for the fourth straight year, recently celebrated his 14 consecutive years of broad casting, having first appeared on November 1, 1924, his band being one of the air lane pioneers. GOU NOD'S famous opera "Faust" will be the next presentation of the Op era Guild, Sunday afternoon at 5 over NBC, and will be sung in English. “PINKY" TOMLIN’S “Object of My Affection,” introduced over three month3 ago by JIMMIE GRIER still continues to be top dog among new tunes, last week for the second time in a row, led the BIG TEN. TOMLIN, by the way, has signed to sing and per form in JEAN HARLOW'S next picture. It begins to look as though the shortest road to film-fame is to croon your way in. RAY NO BLE’S newr hit “Isle of Capri” is catc/iing hold fast and bids fair to rival his “Very Thought of You.” The best arrangement heard of it as'yet is by DICK JURGENS’ or chestra from S. F. Others’ Opinions Editor, the Emerald: TN Wednesday’s issue of the Em x erald there appeared an editorial entitled "War Is Inevitable.” It ex claimed in the most despairing of terms that mankind is inately evil and that war is far too glamorous and filled with pageantry to even think of eliminating it. That such a defeatist attitude should be expressed in a supposed ly dynamic college newspaper is nt less surprising than it. is depress ing. College students have long been associated with confidence and headstrong desire for progress. The world w'as “their oyster.” Nc problem has been too big for them to tackle. All they knew was that right must triumph and though all the rest of the world fail, they would ultimately solve the diffi culty, and yet there appears in a University daily an editorial drenched with despair and indif ference declaring that there is nothing we can do about it. War is inevitable. What if such an attitude was fostered concerning crime, unem ployment, etc. ? Is it not just as reasonable to believe that “The I poor will always be with us”? that excitement and adventure of ! crime will always make it appeal ing and therefore render its ex tinction impossible ? We cannot. We must have courage and confi dence in our own abilities to solve the problems of society. Most of our courses in the University are taught with this aim in view. Man has during his existence triumphed over enormous difficulties and as long as he retains belief in himself there is no reason why he should not continue to do so. Let us take an aggressive determined attitude toward the problems of the world. Those who throw up their hands in WIN 1000 PHILIP MORRIS CIGARETTES Forecast varsity basketball scores. I 000 Philp Morris cigarettes every week to the person correct or most nearly correct in their forecast of the week’s varsity games. 200 Philip Morris cigarettes to every person correctly forecasting the total scores of the week’s games or 'the exact score of any one game. For further particular*. see notices posted in Fo-op store and convenient locations. Forecast on Oregon vs. O.S.C. despair have no place in the ranks of the leaders. We admit that war is undesir able therefore let us search out ways of combating it and let these ideas fill the editorial columns of our paper. R. K. Stearns Appoints Lull To Oregana Position Robert G. Lull, senior in business administration, was appointed last night by Newton Stearns, business manager of the Oregana, to serve as organization manager of the publication. He will arrange the amount of space to be alloted to the various living organizations and honoraries and will contact the officers of the groups immediately to make ar rangements. Lull hast served as promotional manager of the yearbook until yat terday. This position, according to Stearns, will remain vacant for the present. Helen Stinger was recently ap pointed to serve as assistant busi ness manager by Stearns. Send the Emerald to your friends. Records to Teach French, Spanish Of great benefit to all French and Spanish students is the new method of learning to understand spoken French and Spanish by Beans of phonograph records which has been instituted by the Romance languages department. Every afternoon from 3 to 5 be ginning January 9. in room 5, Ore gon hall, all students interested may listen to perfect French and at the same time follow the text of the selection as given in the manual accompanying the records By this method one can soon learn to understand the selection as giv en on the record without the aid ol the printed page. ‘‘It is hoped that by regular at tendance at these laboratory pe riods, students will learn to under stand the foreign language readily by the end of the year," said Dr Ray P. Bowen, head of the Ro mance languages department. The selections are all from master pieces of prose and' poetry, anc are spoken in the normal tongue by native born Spaniards anc Frenchmen. 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