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Night Editor This Issue .
Rex Cooper
Fogotten Guarantees
JTREEDOM of the press is not a new issue.
That constitutional guaranty has been
emblazoned in newspaper and magazine
comment, collegiate and professional, during
the last few months. ,
But what, asked Secretary of the Interior
lekes, speaking in Washington at the recent
convention of the Intercollegiate Daily
Newspaper Association, of those other tenets
of American liberty—freedom of speech and
freedom of assemblage?
Are not, queried the cabinet member and
public works administrator, those constitu
tional guarantees just as essential to Ameri
can liberty as freedom of the press?
In answer we agree with Secretary Ickes
and answer unreservedly, yes.
Freedom of the press in the United States
has a guaranty that can take care of itself.
Possessing tremendous power and influence
through its own media, journalism can, if
necessary, make a terrific fight through the
press to sustain the freedom it now enjoys.
What, then, of 1 he minorities? What of
the minorities which do not possess great
numbers or great spheres of influence, yet
which the Constitution was designed specif
ically to protect?
It was in behalf of those minorities that
Secretary Ickes spoke. They are the groups,
he declared, that government should pro
tect—they whose opinions can only be car
ried on where there exists freedom of speech
and freedom of assemblage.
In the maze of activity of the last few de
pression years these two constitutional
guarantees have been trampled under foot
by sundry interests and factions—-greedy
and unscrupulous—whose only thought has
been of means to perpetuate their own posi
tions.
The problem has its application not only
in distant, far-removed corners of the na
tion, but here in Oregon—right at home.
Oregon students and other residents of the
state have seen these constitutional guar
antees of freedom of speech and freedom of
assemblage unceremoniously yanked from
their lives.
It lias happened in the last two years in
Medford, Portland—yes, here in lOugene—
particularly were these rights hampered (lur
ing the longshoremen’s strike last summer.
Upon the minorities the United States
depends to a great extent.. Those groups are
usually the initiators of reform, stabilization
—the sounding hoard from which the trend
of a representative democracy must conic.
Freedom of the press surely must be
maintained in the United States, but along
with that freedom — equally important,
equally essential—must be the right which
safeguard the minorities—freedom of speech
and freedom of assemblage.
Making Tomorrow Today?
AN the profit system plan? Can planning
find a place of security in the present
system for the millions unemployed, provide
a declining ease for the unemployable aged
and succor other unfortunates; can planning
end war and disease? In brief, can capital
ism by planning save itself from Ihe angry
lists of those who now are shut from its
circle of favorites —can it prevent the blood
of a communist revolution or the calamity
of fascism?
This is no question academic. There can
be. no doubt but that our present economy is
doomed unless it takes upon its conscience
the duty of spreading a broad and unstinted
measure of social justice.
1 iibridled laissez-faire lias been stowed
in the attic with the whalebone toothpick
and the mother of pearl ear spoon; anti
quarians will drag it. out one of these years,
blow off the dust amt laugh—not loudly,
if the memory of its injustices lies within re- [
call.
Wh'&t is this planning that is being at- j
tempted? It is regrettable that Marshall
Dana, who spoke yesterday in Gerlinger j
hall, had no time to illuminate the bare I
sketch he was able to present. He did, how- j
ever, sound two of the planners’ watch
words: “Possession by production” and
“Service to ourselves through our kind.”
By which phrases, through their smiilar
it.y to the socialist shibboleth of “Produc
tion for use, not for profit” and to the
token, “Service,” it is aparent that their
method will be to secure a more equitable
distribution of the gods of production and
to mitigate present inequalities, securing to
a hog-tied laiss:;. 'sire the blessings claimed
by the socialists.
’I’liis is not the planning of grammar
school civics boks. whereby a nettled suburb
anist petitions :> soiling council to have a
noisome tannery removed from his neigh
borhood. It isn’t the kind of planning where
the Rotarians, the Kiwanas and the Lions
lunch and pow-wow over the advisability of
a new sewage system for Mudville.
This new planning is a massive thing
that proposes to end poverty, not with a
Christmas basket and a bundle of old cloth
ing, but by levelling the muzzle of social in
surance against it. and by determining
scientifically how to utilize our resources
of production to the most general good.
It is a kind of planning which looks to its
fulfillment through old-age pensions, medi
cal, maternity and unemployment insurance,
through the husbandry of our oil, forests
and water-power, and through the retire
ment of submarginal lands from production.
Will it work?
It better.
Emerald Staff!
TJTEAR ye! All aspirants 1o positions on
the Emerald winter term kindly tear
themselves from pressing social and recrea
tional engagements and rally in 105 journal
ism at 4 this afternoon. Today’s session will
be the final organization meeting before
the staff is announced for the term.
The Passing Show
BARBARISM ON WAY OUT—MAYBE
'TMIETA Chi, in its annual convention during
A the Christmas holidays, took a progressive
and highly desirable step when it passed a resolu
tion abolishing Hell Week, heretofore considered
an indispensable part of the mysterious process
by which common mortals become members of
Greek letter societies.
Such action is not new, however. It has been
taken before and so far seems to be nothing more
than a gesture in the right direction. Individual
chapters persist in continuing the playful and
asinine pranks that usually characterize initiation
I>eriods, despite the express disapproval of their
national organizations.
Hell Week, as most enlightened fraternity men
will themselves admit, is nothing more than an
outdated remnant of the barbarism that once
prevailed in collegiate circles. Cannon fire, arson
and other similarly harmless idiosyncrasies were
once favored by university playboys but have
now faded into the limbo where Hell Week be
longs.
Such national action as Theta Chi has taken
is highly commendable. It needs only to be put
into practice.- Stanford Daily.
PUTTING IT UP TO YOUTH
npHE new generation may be “young,” said
Edward A. Filene, noted writer on social and
economic questions, speaking before the N.S.F.A.
conference last week, but it is socially more ma
ture than the generation which preceded it, the
generation which holds the reins at present. The
speaker declared his faith in the ability of to
morrow’s leaders to solve the great social prob
lems that loom ahead. Young people, he said,
have the “richest legacy” of mistakes to guide
them than any generation ever handed down to
another.
If awareness of a situation and a record of
past blunders insured understanding of that in
stitution, Mr. Filene's optimistic prophecy mighi
be more easily accepted. But history shows us
people making their favorite mistakes over and
over and over. And while today’s young people
may have grown up in a social crisis, their
awareness of problems unsolved insures neither
understanding of the forces at work nor ability
to control them.
Glib prophecies of the younger generation’s
success in dealing with its problems can have
little value in bringing about deeper study or
more careful thinking. The fact that crises con
front us is far from arguring our ability to meet
them. Too many people already are content to
blunder along in the old way, on the chance that
things will turn out all right. What youth needs
is not reassurance as to its ability, but a chal
lenge to it.—Dally Kansan.
The Greek Parade’
By DICK WATKINS
Presidents of the United States
that have worn fraternity badges
include James Garfield, Delta Up
silon; Chester Arthur, Pst Upsilon;
Grover Cleveland, Sigma Chi; Ben
jamin Harrison, Phi Delta Theta;
William McKinley, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon; Theodroe Roosevelt, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; William Taft, Psi
Upsilon; Woodrow Wilson, Phi
Kappa Psi: Calvin Coolidge, Phi
Gamma Delta, Franklin Roosevelt,
Alpha Delta Phi Herbert Hoover,
was once pledged by Sigma Alpha
Epsilon while at Stanford, but re
signed. due to the opposition of the
Barbarians, a group of campus in
dependents.
* * *
First ladies of the land who have
worn sorority pins include Mrs
Calvin Colidge, Pi Beta Phi; Mrs.
Herbert Hoover. Kappa Kappa
Gamma; and Mrs. Rutherford
Hayes, Kappa Kappa Gamma,
(honorary member).
* * Hi t
Sigma Alpha Epsilon was placed
in the very peculiar position of
having two chapters in the same
institution when St. Stephens Col
lege was taken over by Columbia
University.
W * »
The late Marshal of France,
Ferinand Foch. commander - in -
chief of the allied armies in the
World War was an honorary mem
ber of Phi Sigma Kappa.
* * *
The Chaning Way derby con
ducted annually by the Sigma Chi
chapter at the University of Cali
fornia is the most unique sorority
rushing exhibition in the college
world. Several chapters of the
fraternity at other campuses are
now running off similar stunts
under different names.
Thomas Arklo Clark, originator
of tlic office of dean of men iu the
American college system, is a
member of Alpha Tau Omega and
served liin fraternity for several
terms ns Worthy Grand Chief
(national president).
» * *
In order to help the Chi Psi
chapter at Yale, to whom his son
Paul belonged, build a new lodge,
Andrew Mellon. ex-Seeretary of
the Treasury, purchased $100,000
worth of non-interest bearing de
benture bonds.
Admiral Byrd, who belongs to!
Kappa Alpha (s) dropped his
fraternity's flag on the South Pole
when he flew over it on his famous
flight, while Admiral Peary,
planted the flag of his fraternity.
Delta Kappa Epsilon, at the North
Pole when he discovered it. after
many weary weeks of marching
* *
Phi Beta Kappa, founded in 1770
was the first American society to
bear a Greek-letter name. Kappa
Alpha in', founded at Union Col
lege. N. Y m lSC 1 is the oldest
secret brotherhood of a social and
literary character, and although it
has been in continuous existence
One Man’s
Opinion
By STIVERS VERNON
One of the most interesting and
illuminating books we have ever
laid our hands on is by T. T. Geer,
former governor of Oregon. It is
entitled “Fifty Years in Oregon."
In it Mr. Geer graphically de
scribes the events of pioneer days
with an interpretation of their sig
nificance in the light of more re
cent events.
However, it was not those sig
nificant incidents which aroused
our attention so much as it was
the wealth of anecdotal material.
He describes one event in particu- j
lar which, with hi:; own comment
on the subject, is particularly in
teresting.
It seems that a certain Daniel
Delaney, a farmer living near Sa
lem, was brutally murdered and
robbed. The murder was commit
ted on January 9, 1865. Suspicion
centered on one George Beale, a
saloon keeper in Salem and he was
speedily tried and convicted. He
and a companion were hanged in
the public square in Salem on May
17 of the same year.
Here are a couple of excerpts
from Mr. Geer’s description of the
auspicious occasion:
“Persons efire from the sur
rounding counties—whole families
eating their luncheons in their
wagons, having tied their teams
nearby, in order that none of the
details might be missed ... It
would be a difficult matter to find
today (1911) a man in Marion,
Linn or Polk counties, who was
living in them in 1865, who was not
present at the hanging of Beale
and Baker. Most of them at the
time said they “had business in
Salem that day anyway,” and be
ing there, attended the hanging.
That people would not flock to see
such a gruesome sight today, if
the opportunity afforded, is an evi
dence that some progress has been
made along certain lines—or
would they?”
Mr. Geer’s faith in human na
ture is touching. We are inclined
to believe, however, that if one of
our notorious criminals of the
present day were to be publicly
hanged, there would be such a
crowd as no football stadium in
the country would hold.
Suppose for example, Bruno
Richard Hauptmann were to be
convicted and sentenced to be
hanged—as Walter Winchell is so
earnestly promoting. There is no
place of gathering in New Jersey
that would hold the mob who would
gather ’round if it were to be a
public affair. We are not at all
sure that one of the great broad
casting hook-ups would not re
produce the event over the ether.
Can’t you just hear MacNamee
handling the assignment: Or, "now
that we have given you a picture
ot the setting, Ford Bond will de
scribe the actual hanging. Come
in, Ford!"
Nope, the American people have
not fundamentally changed since
that early day. A public hanging
would still "pack ’em in.” The
project would be a promoter's
dream. The directors of Madison
Square Garden would drop dead if
such a gigantic should get by
them. Oh well figure it out your
self; maybe it’s not a half bad
idea.
ent of the present vast system of
American college fraternities, it
has but ten chapters and less than
3,000 alumni. Sigma Phi, founded
in 1827, in another college, yet to
day has but twelve chapters all
told. Delta Phi founded at Union in
1827 also, completed the "Uuion
Triad." It too has been ultra-con
servative, having only a total of 20
chapters, after 108 years of exist
ence.
REBEC IN PORTLAND
Dr. Rebec, head of the philoso
phy department, is in Portland to
day to confer with the graduate
students in the Portland extension
school.
Little Man What Now?
By ED HANSON
Secretary Ickes Speaking
Editor’s Note: Highlights of the
timely address delivered by Harold
L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior
and Public Works Administrator
to the recent convention of the In
tercollegiate daily newspaper as
sociation in W ashington are quoted
below:
There is one topic I would like
to discus with you, because I think
it is particularly appropriate. We
have heard a good deal during
these last few hectic months about
freedom. A good deal has been said
about the loss of our liberties. I
suppose you men at once 'related
all of those assertions to your
selves and began to check up just
what liberties you had lost. I
haven't lost any myself, but per
haps I don’t know what a liberty
is. “Our constitutional rights are
being invaded.” All sorts of stuff
like that are being said. Organiza
tions are springing into being to
preserve for us our constitutional
rights and our human liberties. By
the way that they are preserved
to us, we don't know whether we
are in danger of losing them or
not. The latest organization is
what-—what is it? The Knights of
Liberty or Liberty League. And I
am sure that our liberties will be
entirely safe in the hands of those
gentelmen and their legal retain
ers who have sprung to the defense
of those liberties.
* *
But, while we are on the subject
of liberty, I may confess that is
something that 1 am very much
interested in. That part of the Con
stitution of the United States that
means most to me is the guarantee
of the right of free spech, free
press and free assemblage. I think
they are in the Bill of Rights in the
first ten amendments. I haven’t
looked at the Constitution for a
long time, but that is where they
were when I last looked. And I
don’t think that they have been
deleted or transplanted or amended.
I think they are still there.
1 think all of us make the very
human mistake of emphasizing
that right which happens to mean
most of us. We ignore the other
rights. Now, I think all of those
rights are equal. You know a lot of
newspapers, I think in some in
sanees, with tongues in their
cheeks, purport to be worrying
about the supposed effort, of the
administration in these days to
Here's to the YoungMen of the World
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abridge the right of freedom of
the press. As a matter of fact, the
press in these United States is
freer than any press anywhere in
the world, and always has ben.
The point I am trying to make is
that there are other rights which
are just as precious, just as es
sential, just as necessary, if we
are to maintain our democratic in
stitutions, as the right to a free
press. Those rights are the rights
of free speech and of free assemb
lage.
* * *
Now, I submit to you that there
are very few people in the United
States who are interested in the
right of free speech and of free
assemblage. I notice newspapers
from time to time properly and
justly are insistent upon the main
tainance of their own right of free
speech, openly advocate, and in
many cases, condone total disre
gard of rights which are equally
embedded in our constiution, and
which are equally important to us
as citizens, namely, these other
two rights—free speech and free
assemblage.
There are occasions in this coun
try during- times of industrial un
rest where people are denied the
right to rent a hall, to exchange
views, to adopt resolutions; where
people are denied the right to meet
on a vacant lot, where meetings
are broken up by the night sticks
of policemen, by deputy sheriffs—
those deputy sheriffs, in some in
stances, being employed, carried on
the payroll of the particular plant
against which, let us say, a strike
may be in progress.
I have never heard anyone worry
very much about the impairment
of the right of free assemblage if
those who are seeking to maintain
that right, and insist upon it, who
happen to think differently from
us. But if a group happens to en
tertain views, or want to express
views that are radically different
'from ours, we rather condone a
suppression of the right of free
assemblage--and the same goes
for the right of free speech. If
they are of a different religion
than we happen to profess, if they
are of a different color of skin,
their rights don't seem to be so
very important after all.
* # *
Now, it is dangerous for you,
and it is dangerous for me to sub
scribe to the theory that funda
mental constitutional rights may
be turned on or off, just as you
turn water in a spigot on or off
to suit your own convenience. Once
let the impression got abroad
through the land and possess peo
ple generally that these rights af
ter all are not fundamental, but
are a matter of temporary conven
ience to a particular party which
may be in power, and your rights
don't amount to anything. And
the man who today denies rights
to somebody else, tomorrow may
find that those rights are denied
to him.
* * *
A majority can always take care
of itself. Some people have an
idea that these rights are meant
for majorities. Majority doesn't
need any written word or any writ
ten constitution that it may do
thus and so. It always has the in
herent power in itself to enforce
its own will. These lights were
intended to protect minorities, and
the smaller the minority, the more
it needs those protections. It is al
ways the little fellow, it is always
the small group. :t is always those
who ate more or less inarticulate
who need the protection of the taw.
protection of our statutes and pro
tection above ah thmga of the Cas
fctitution.
Music in the Air
By George Bickman
and Dick Watkins
No drama on today's half-hour
program. That begins Friday next.
With fish, yes. Just talking to
Jimmy Morrison, demon, which
makes us sound unbalanced. Jim
volunteered his guitar services as
accompanist for our popular vo
calists. He said he'd like to play
with Lou Parry on Tuesday. We
not liking such cracks, he gets the
air on Friday—today with Bruce
Martin and Bob Thornton. They
go on at 4:30. In addition, Stan
Bromberg will bring you all the
latest flashes in radiosky. So long,
Jim.
Friend Bebe Daniels and Friend’s
hubby Ben Lyons crash the head
lines to inform you that they will
make a special appearance on the
Hollywood Hotel program with
such radio headliners as Dick Pow
ell, Jane Williams, and Ted Fio
Rito’s orchestra over CBS tonight
at 6:30. There! take a breath.
On NBC: Beatrice Lillie, come
dienne, with Lee Perrin’s orches
tra at 6:00; First Nighter at 7:00;
Pause That Refreshes at 7:00, with
Frank Black; Intimate Revue at
6:30; Rishard Himber with Joey
Nash at 9:15.
By DICK WATKINS
Some swellegant new records
out include darbs by RAY NOBLE,
"Over My Shoulder," and a modern
version of the beautiful “Blue
Danube" played at a rapid catchy
tempo. NOBLE still remains by
far the best arranger in the game.
Some good Decca numbers in
clude BING CROSBY’S "With
Every Breath I Take” and “June
in January,” both from his new
picture. GUY LOMBARDO has
also recorded the same two tunes.
GLEN GRAY’S CASA LOMA
come through with “Where There’s
Smoke There's Fire,” and “Blue ^
Moon.” However their record of f
“Panama” isn’t worth the wax its
made on. “What a Difference a
Day Made,” and “What Can You
Say in a Love Song,” by the DOR
SEY BROTHERS are okay from
all angles as well as are JOHNNIE
DAVIS' “You Gotta Give Credit to
Love” and “Between Showers."
ORVILLE KNAPP, the fast climb
ing coast lad, puts out with finesse,
"Naturally," and “If You Love Me,
Say So.” JACK HYLON’S “St.
Louis Blues" and “Hylton Stomp"
are worth a dime two-bits in any
language. Two new Brunswick re
leases by DUKE ELLINGTON,
“Sump’n 'Bout Rhythm” and “Sad
dest Tale" keep the Harlem King
in circulation, with HAL KEMP
holding up the rear guard with
“I’ve Got an Invitation to a Dance"
and “One Little Kiss.” KEMP’S
“Hands Across the Table" and
“Flirtation Walk” are also worth
an honorable mention.
The song hits in 1922 were
“Three O’clock in the Morning’’
and “That Old Gang of Mine,”
while in 1934 they were the “Cari
oca,” "Cocktails for Two,” and
“Love in Bloom.” GOGO DELYS
late with the BIG TEN song hits is
now on PHIL BAKER’S pro
grams; we predict that those
choice tunes, the “Touch of Your
Hand,” and “With Every Breath
I Take” will prove to be two of
those linger-on-indefinitely songs;
TOM COAKLEY is now featuring
on his nightly broadcasts a new
song composed by one of his solo
ists, DUDLEY NIX, entitled “So
Lovely and So Sweet.” It should
take the country by storm the
same way as did TOMLIN’S “Ob
ject of My Affection.” FREDDIE
BERGIN puts out sweet music
nightly over NBC from S. F.’s Bal
Tabarin.
PRESS EMPLOYS NINE
The University Press is utilizing
the time of nine FERA workers
this term Professor Robert Hall, -
superintendent of the press stated.
The boys are being used in the
press and the composing rooms.
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