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The Glorious future By ED HANSON 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. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled to the use for publication of all news dispr^ches credited to it or not otheiwise credited in this paper and $».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 W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. William K. Phipps Grant Thuemmel Editor Manager Robert Lucas 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 at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, £2.50 a yeai. Day Editor This Issue .Mildred Blackburne Night editor this issue . Scot George On the Way Up 'T'lIE queries, “When are they going to grant the appropriation for the new li brary?” and “Are we ever going to have a new library?” which used invariably to pop into conversational lulls finally have been laid their good six feet deep and and patted down. .So long has Oregon dreamed and planned for its construction and so disappointing have been the setbacks to its realization, that the heartening news of PWA’s approval of the $350,000 allocation was almost past credence. We realize, by the start that the tidings gave the run of us, into what sloughs of in difference we had drifted. We realize, too, the gratitude we owe to the quiet service of men like Vice-President Barker, Dean Gil bert and Dean Morse, who have worked so tirelessly for a greater Oregon. They call it “Oregon’s New Deal.” It is, and the expansion of spirit that it has wrought is pantomimed by the smiles, the new swagger, and the run of jubilation over the campus last night. Time it was that Ore gon should have a new deal after the des tructive attempts of the Zorn-MaePherson bill and the tax limitation bill, and after the discouragement of the; depression-necessi tated retrenchment that bit into our running expenses and left us pathetically under staffed. Things are. looking up; Oregon is build ing again; and the mercurial gleam of our good news may mark that the days of de jecting skimping are near an end. Cast Your Ballot CJTUDENTS of the University have re ceived ballots from the Literary Digest which is cooperating with the Association of College Editors in conducting a pc'liee poll in major universities and colleges through out the nation. The national standing of the University in such a movement will rank largely on the percentage of answers which are turned in, in comparison with those from other institu tions. The Emerald believes that this is a move of great importance, and that each and every student should take the time to mark the ballot after adequate consideration is given the questions. The questions are necessarily broad in their application—much more so than would appear after a superficial reading. They are of a type which calls for independent opin ion. That opinion, when passed, should he based on as great a number and variety of aspects applying to the subject as possible in the light of the individual’s experience. Men and women in college are reputedly unfavorable to war. Many are actively so. lienee the poll’s importance lies in two as pects: in tht' revelation to the country how young people think on these matters, and in the opportunity to make a widely publi cized move against war as an instrument of international relations. You Would Kuow the 1'rutli Y()l Ki*y you'ro tirecl of platform speakers who appear before an audience with an axe of their own to grind? A on say you re bored by speakers who select a subject, then orate brilliantly but avoid impartial criticism while they present in glowing terms only one side or phase of a given topic? -A tip, then we offer you. Kat a hearty lunch today, relax for a few minutes, walk to Gerlinger hall and Jisteu to William Henry Chamberlin. fieri' is a man who offers you a rare op portunity. On the maze of contradicting re ports spread over the nation by vacationing sightseers who drift through the Soviet I I'uion, from propaganda expertly distrib uted and from mangled news from a eon sored press Mr. Chamberlin does not have to depend for his interpretation of the situa tion in the r.N.N.K. 'Since taking over the Moscow correspon dency of tile Christian Science Monitor in 1 d--, Mr. Chamberlin has been in the Soviet, reporting, inquiring, interviewing officials and laborers— engineers! and kulaks per- ) sous in different activities in the classless proletariat of the Bolshevist state, lie has | written hooks—his last an absorbing critical I analysis, "Russia’s Iron Age.’ off the press last October. He knows, from long personal experience on the fvussiaa irout, the inside working-, of Ike Soviet regime. Graduated from Hav er ford college in I’emmylvania. I* hi Beta Kappa. Mr. Chamberlin has become the ace of flic Moscow correspondents, dust return ing from Moscow, lie is qualified to paint a word-picture of the Soviet I'uiou as it is today. I One Man’s Opinion By STIVERS VERNON As a general thing we have a great deal of respect for Harry Carr, who writes the “Lancer” column for the Los Angeles Times and is a mem ber of the board of directors of the same paper. Carr occupies a unique place in California journalism. He has, in his column, done much to mold public sentiment into an awareness of cer tain of the little things which make life enjoyable in California. He is a gifted and incurable romant icist—perhaps that’s why so many of us read his column. The mere fact that we don’t always agree with him is neither here nor there—unless, of course, he says something which gets under even our leathery skin. For instance, his remarks of January 13 about the forests of Oreg n. In the paragraph we are quoting he is speaking of Gilbert Gable of Phila delphia. “He is now building a wharf and a railroad through a forest in Oregon and has been count ing the trees. Far from mourning the death of them, he says that if the whole United States army started cutting timber and worked night and day, they never could destroy the forests. New trees 250 years old would have grown up in the path of the cut timber before they got through the first time.” We appreciate the fact that Carr devotes his space to even so brief a compliment to Oregon's most splendid asset. However, by printing such a statement from Gable, Carr is indicating that there is no occasion for concern over Oregon’s forests and that an intelligent program of con servation of them would be a waste of time. At least that’s the way we would interpret it. With this idea we must disagree. Any author ity on forest life will tell us that the growths of timber which are suited to the exacting needs of the modem wood-working and building arts are not so numerous-as might seem at first glance. True, there are millions of board feet as yet untouched but these under the system of despoilage which prevailed a few years ago, would soon disappear. It is here that the forest service has intervened and enforced a conserva tion program of logging operation which will as sure us of adequate forests in years to come. What we are more concerned about are tho.se areas of timber which have little or no commercial value and to which Carr’s column no doubt re ferred. Here too, is a point upon which it would be unwise to proceed hastily. Carr would agree with us that such natural features of the landscape as the forests, have more value than that which they will bring when sawed into lengths. He know3 because he has spent so much time and space combatting the ravages of the plant diggers who insist on tearing up and lugging off the cactus of the California deserts. Even the lowly jack pine is of infinite value to Oregon. The traveler from out of the state does not as a rule make the distinction between merchantable timber and that which has no market value. He is impressed only with the verdancy of the vista in every di rection in which he may look. He is not favorably impressed with slashed areas in which dead snags protrude from a mass of undergrowth. It looks like waste to the thrifty farmer or merchant from the mid-west. California has sold the world on her deserts and sunshine. Oregon with her plentiful rains has the witchery of her evergreen forests, her mad cap streams and her sentinel peaks. Oregon, too, has something the world wants. But she will never supply the demand by assuming that her forest resources are inexhaustable. The Passing Show LIBERALISM IN COLLEGES A new class of radicals—“parlor pink radi cals”—is being built up in the colleges today. That is the opinion of Drs. C. L. Morgan and H. H. Remmers of Purdue University, who talked at length on the question before the session of the American Association for the Advancement of Science a few days ago in Pittsburgh. The professors said that college students are in favor of the government's going further into socialized control than the New Deal has so far. They advocate government ownership of rail roads, public regulation of business, and heavy taxation of large fortunes and incomes. 1 lie report of the science meeting asserts that "women students are even more radical”; that students' "mothers are more radical than their fathers.” Tho reports at this convention are not alarm ing. This liberal trend is to be expected on the p.ut of students that face such an insecure world to make a living in. In the early and middle twenties no college graduate had anything to sear, because the educated were in demand. But American industry, paralyzed by a system that necessarily made the rich richer and the poor poorer, cannot now assimilate new talent unless needed revision is made. When Air. Smith today talks of control and regulation in industry by the government he is called a "radical." That name has been applied to every liberal thinker that ever lived. When Teddy Hoosevelt fought for the Pure Food and lhugs Ads and tried to regulate the trusts; when Napoleon said, "I'll someday change the map of Europe"; when Senator Nye told the DuPonts in the munitions investigation that "it was impos sible for the government to tax profits out of "a1, *,ut if oil right for it to conscript the lives of individuals to go to the buttlefront": all of them we- - ailed "radicals." So being a "radical" is not a disgrace. Bead the "Challenge to Liberty" today and you Mill find allusions to "radicals" running the government now. because they are placing the welfare of one hundred and twenty millions be fore the welfare of a few thousand who cry re peatedly "that their property rights are being tukou away from them Radicalism when taken too far is nearly as bad as conservatism when taken too far. The Nazarene carpenter who said "love you1 enemies" was called a radical and a tool. Yet He made a record that will stand for a while.—Daily Texan. Day’s Parade Ey PARKS HITCHCOCK Will War Withdraw? Dr. Townsend in Congress In their own conservative way the Literary Digest people have hit upon something of a bonanza. It is not to be presumed that this avowedly mild journal of contem porary affairs ever thought for one beautiful transcendent moment that the precedent that they were establishing when they asked the public whether they thought Al fred E. Smith could defeat Mr. Hoover at the polls, would ever roll up to such astounding if slightly boring figures as the present poll t on the asininity of war is guar anteed to attain. The Same Old Kiddle It was almost inevitable, of course, that the Digest should eventually turn its hand to answer ing the modern Sphinx, and it is equally certain that the people of this occasionally soverign state j will raise their collective hands in one momentous “aye” to the infer ential question: “Do you want war? and then (heaving, no doubt, a theoretical sigh of relief) will re turn to their preparations for the next tete-a-tete between the mys terious figure, Death, and the equally inaccessible if slightly less mysterious Messrs. Dupont, Krupp, and Zaharoff. Caesar Speaks The prerequisite for any such sanguine poll as the Digest has ! now undertaken is, of a necessity, I a popular reputation for infallibil ity, for in this instance it is liable to be some little time before any one rises up and with an accusa tory finger cries “I told you you’d be wrong,” at Digest officials, a contingent that was far from im possible when the Digest conducted polls on such harmless, yet inevit able things as Mr. Roosevelt's vic tory, or “Why does a chicken cross the road.” Vote It Out? If, in these disillusioned days, one has one real drop of the red blood of idealism in his weary veins, he cannot but attain a cer tain remote degree of mental en thusiasm over the picture (so soon to be realized) of ten million busy brokers and shopkeepers casting an early morning eye over their Digests and smiling happily when they lear that ‘‘We Will Not Have Another War," by a sixty per cent vote. Although Sinclair is practically dead and buried as far as politics are concerned, several of his fellow Californians still insist on bringing up plans to make the United States approach that unattainable state of Utopian idealism. Representative McGroerty of the state of trembling land and with a tempestious and unstable popula tion has introduced the much talked about plan of Dr. Frances E. Townsend which calls for the payment of $200 per month to every person over sixty by the gov ernment. A Sad State Strange to say, the only red tape which would ensue, were this bill to pass, would be that the poor people receiving this mere pittance must spend it ere they receive their next two pictures of Jefferson Davis. The exponents of this measure say that it would put more money into circulation, increase the aver age citizen’s income, and enable these citizens to pay additional taxes to pay the people over sixty their $200 so they could put. it into circulation, etc., etc. Taxing the Brain But, then, the increase in taxes could not possibly make up for the many, many additional pieces of paper with the engraved head of Mr. Davis. If such were the case, the tax would be 100 per centum on the increase, and there would be no benefit, to citizens engaged in | business. Rather, it would be but j one more time when a demogogue I had passed the fleece of a sheep over the signs organs of the lay man. Makes Money (Continued from Piific Our) will bo necessary in the original plans. Board Must Approve Plans Chancellor Kerr also stated that after the money is available, con tracts will be prepared, the ap proval of the state board of higher education will be obtained, and contracts forwarded to Washing ton for approval of the officials there. Following their return here, i: will be necessary to advertise for bids. The routine should be completed, the chancellor said, and the contracts awarded in time for work to begin this spring. He particularly emphasized that there will be no delay insofar as the Board is concerned. The immediate library project was presented to the PWA in Oc tober of 1933. according to Dean Gilbert, at which time it was ar gued on the basis of the ueed at the University for such a building. The petition submitted for the con sideration of the administration was compiled largely from a num ber of surveys made in respect to the use which Oregon students made of their library facilities, it w as found that statistics show that Oregon students make from three to four times as much use of li brary books as the average stu dent in American clIIcj.ol and uni* \ ersitiess. Someone has been holding out on us, but the truth will out . . . It took a long time to get on the inside on this one ... “In case you didn’t listen to the Oregon-S.C. game over the radio, you. might not know that Maury Van Vliet, Kap pa Sig from Oregon and star play er. was believed to be urged on to bigger and better plays by the presence of our lady of affairs. Eleanor Day, in the grandstand . . . later, the story goes, he almost missed hi3 train saying goodbye • . we can't kid ourselves any longer ... the little gal must have what it takes!!!’’ . . . This tasty morsel appeared in the U.C.L.A. Claw, gossip blue book of the southern campus . . . Good decep tion on the part of the nimble backfield acc . . . but it’s nice to be in the know, even if a few months behind. * * * What’s more, one Dottie June man from down S-e-o-u-t-h is ‘.porting a Theta Chi pin from some Oregon lad . . . Just which of the hill boys is minus his custom a ry brass ? And then have you ever won dered if Earbara Weston, Pi Phi flash is making or breaking train ing rules for basketball's Bob Mil ler ? ... or if even a super woman could separate the Fiji’s blonde Mike Pinkstaff and Eill Hutchin son ? . . . why Jim Fvingrose is ob vious by his absence from campus functions and the usual bright spots ? ... Is there no free lanc ing bit of pulchritude who will remedy this situation? Why eternal triangles were very much in vogue last term? . . . especially the one featuring Tom Aughinbaugh, Jack Woodward and Dot Ann Clark, sparkling little Tri Delt white job . . . Looks promis ing, from all appearances, for Tom this term . . . Why it is that peo ple act so stiff at campus dances? ■ . . every man carries himself as though some other man had his eyes glued on him alone. Why conversations such as this one heard in the Side never crack the printed pages. Bob Parke, Beta hero: “Do I hate conceited football men!” and Ed Farrar, Phi Delt hero, right back at him, “Hello, Bob, how are you?” Campus Brevities Leaves School Due to Illness Kathryn Greenwood left Wed nesday for her home in Portland where she will remain the rest of the term. Miss Greenwood was forced to leave school due to ill ness. Entertains at Dinner Catherine Coleman, Elizabeth Bendstrup and Nancy Archbold were dinner guests of Mary Snider Saturday evening. Following din ner the party motored to Corval lis to attend the basketball game. Instructor 111 Joseph Angell, instructor in Eng lish, is in the infirmary with sinus trouble. During the absence of Mr. Angell, his classes have been i taken over by other instructors in! the department. Returns After Illness Wanda Russell of Oklahoma City, who attended school here j last term, was stricken with ap pendicitis shortly after arriving at her home for the holidays. She is, expected to return to the campus' today. Buck in School Corwin Calavan, law student, who underwent an appendictome January 3, was able to attend classes Wednesday. Visits in Corvallis Eleanor Higgins visited in Cor vallis over the weekend. While in Corvallis she attended the Aloha Tau Omega winter dance. Buck After Illness Doris Springer, who spent sev | era! days last week at her home in Portland due to illness, returned to the campus the early part of this week. Visits on Campus Mabel Holmes Parsons, profes sor of English in the Portland ex tension center in Portland, visited the campus Monday. While in Eu gene, she was a guest at the home of Dr. and Mrs. George Rebec. Attends Congress in Salem Dr. Warren D. Smith, professor 1 of geography and geology, left the campus Monday to attend the Ore gon Mining congress which is in, session in Salem. On Business in California I Hugh E. Kosson. graduate mana ger. is in Berkeley. California, on ] a business trip j Attends Committee I Meeting Dean James K. Jewell of the I -school of education spent the day j in Salem yesterday where he at- j tended a committee meeting. Motors to l’ort la ml I Ida May Cameron had as her | guests Venita Brous and Edwina j f.uder.oa uho motored with herj Our First Scapegoats Students of eocene days were neither more cherubic nor more diabolic than these of contempor ary classes, if I can believe what George A. Dorris, ex-'80, has been telling me. He avers that he is the only survivor of a limbo of the “unredeemed” of that earliest student body, and that the boys,— he said nothing about the girls ex cept one, and she it was who snatched him from the abyss,—the boys just naturally gravitated (or precipitated) to three different stratifications. The top and bot tom layers were fairly well de fined, but the intermediate lam ination was rather “wobbly, you understand,” and George used the proper gestures. An old ■ photographic group of that time reveals a triumvirate of >oung men, whose lolling, noncha lant, easy-come-easy-go, attitudes are precisely what you would ex pect of the characters attributed to them by their lone representa tive. With George are shown his two pals of sulphurous reputation, George Noland, ’82, whom his as sociates dubbed “Spartacus,” and Absalom C. Woodcock, ’83. These three, it would seem could be ex pected to do anything at any time and anywhere, an indispensible triad in any imaginable deviltry fresh from the crater of old Ve suve. It is most significant, however, that “Spartacus,” by reason of his braininess and high average in scholarship, was forgiven most ev erything; while all of Woodcock's lurid past was forgotten when he was nominated by the Regents as Tutor on the Faculty. Dorris did rot say how he himself escaped, other than he left the University in time,—in time to keep a rival in the choir from marrying that girl. In the days of wrhich Volstead wotteth not, there used to be a famous brewery on the south side of Broadway, between Willamette and Olive streets. Some good peo ple of Eugene were convinced that Weinhard's abutted upon hell and, with “golden texts" flaming before their eyes they walked the north side of the street. But others were not so convinced. That triumvirate to Portland last Friday. The girls visited their parents and returned to the campus Sunday evening. Visits Home in Salem Claudine Gueffroy returned to j the campus Sunday evening after j spending the week-end with her, parents at her home in Salem. of imps for instance, had no scru ples against descending into the vortex and there, in lowest Tar tarus, would guzzle-guzzle. "It was a starry night in June’’ (maybe), “the air was soft and still” (except for the guzzling), the triumvirate had been swelled to an octette, if not in numbers, at least in capacity and brotherly love. A perfect tartaric time they were having in the jolly good fel lowship of such kindred spirits as, perhaps, Henry McGinn, ex-’80 and Jim Raley, ex-’81, not yet the Col onel of La Grande, when, to their honor, in stalked John W. John son, Praeses Universitatis Oregon ensis,—stalked, looked, paused, noted each one, grinned not, spake not, stalked back up the stairs and out again. The imps in silence looked at one another and there was simultan eously flashed “Well, goodbye, boys. I might as well go home and pack up.” But not a word was ever said to them. Next in the series, ONE WAY TO TEAR OUT PARTITIONS. Music in the Air By George Bikman and Dick Watkins The Emerald of the Air today brings you Stan Bromberg with his magic violin. Milt Sugarman accompanies on the great studio grand . . . And tomorrow some thing new. Consider yourself being kept in suspense. Kay Thompson ,who rose to fame on the “California Melodies” program, heads the new girls glee club to be heard on Fred Waring's hour program tonight on CBS at 6:30. She is a protegee of Ray mond Paige, CBS conductor in Los Angeles. At 5:30 the chain pre sents Everett Marshall, heading Broadway Varieties. On NBC: Richard Himber (KEX) at 4:00; Rudy Vallee’s Va riety hour at 5:00; Paul White man's Music hall at 7:00; Standard Symphony hour at 8:15; Waltz Time at 10:15. The BIG TEN this week will in clude “The Continental,” for the ICE CREAM SODAS THE OREGANA Follow tlu' Crowd " after ]■:«,•!i Class to the COLLEGE SIDE 1 here's a Reason! * ■ Better Food at Better Priees lu Cheerful Surroundings MEAL TICKETS—*.i.00 FOR 3! ■ 14th time, “June in January,” “Winter Wondeland,” Tomlin’s trusty "The O. of My A.” and a new tune by Noel Coward — The Opera Guild this Sunday presents Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana,” while on Saturday, VeiMi's “La Forza del Sestino,” will broadcast from the N.Y. Metropolitan with a. cast including Martinelli, Reth berg, and Gladys Swarthout. — The first organ, exclusively de signed for radio has recently been installed in the NBC’s San .Fran cisco studios. Jimmy Grier is fast becoming known as the ’star maker,’ around L. A. for Wjthin a few weeks, four members. of his orchestra ensemble have broken into the films, namely, “Pinky” Tomlin, Betty Roth, Mildred Stone, and Harry Foster. — Kay Thomp son, late of Tom Coakley’s band is now being featured on Fred Waring’s radio programs. — inci dentally, Coakley and Mickey Gil lette, NBC conductor are both full fiedged lawyers. — The first per son to recognize Mme. Sehumann Heink’s talent as a singer was a run in a Prague convent who was teaching her the Mass. — Phil Harris, former band now booked under Nick Stuart, is now playing at the Palomar Cafe in L.A. —Guy Lombardo is expected to come out here to the coast again after he gets through his present 20-week contract to play a series of free dances sponsored by an oil firm. Both Kay Kyser’s and Hah Kemp’s orchestras originated at the Uni versity of North Carolina and both have very distinctive playing styles and orchestrations, Kemp being mostly known for his use of the muted staccato trumpet effect and Kyser for his glee club arrange ments. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Froze up! Col Ding it! But Classified thaws anything_ it gets RESULTS! Small investment too—10c per line. DRESSMAKING PETITE SHOP 573 13th St. E. Phone 3208 “Style Right—Price Right’’ NEW SHOP Aladdin Shop at White Elec tric Co. TUTORING Tutoring in German, French Spanish. A. Van Moock, B.A. 715 13th Ave E. Phone 1825-W. OREGON STUDENTS Have you car serviced cor rectly at Ernie Danner's Asso ciated Service Station. “Smile As You Drive in ’35.” Phone 1765. Corner 10th and Olive. PHONE 3300 EMERALD CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT