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Night Editor This Issue .Rex Cooper
Time To Join in
F>ROBABLY flic outstanding reason that
the United States has remained out of the
league of nations and the world court is
that, our political leaders are loath to jeopar
dize what they believe to be American sov
ereignity.
American sovereignty is, of course, a
great thing, inasmuch as we are in a position
to be as nearly independent of the rest of the
world as any nation can he. We are large
enough and have sufficient resources that
we could, for a time perhaps, defy the world.
As long as we remain thus the rest of the
world has to conduct its affairs with the
probable attitude of the United States in
mind. They must he careful not to offend
or defy the United States as our good will
and, in the end, our trade are of vital im
portance to them.
The basis of our democracy is a coopera
tive society of free individuals. We all rea
lize that no one individual could survive
without the cooperation of the rest of so
ciety. The older one grows under this system
the more lie realizes that he must live and act
as one of the group. In this type of society
we have attained one of Ihe highest, if not
the highest, degree of individual and collec
tive freedom in the world. The analogy be
tween individuals and nations is very close.
This nation is yet young. Its opinions are
not so mobile as those of the individual, but
in essence they are the same. They could be
no other way, since they are a distillation of
individual opinions.
President Roosevelt, one of the most ad
vanced individuals in the country, realizes
that the United States must necessarily join
with other nations of the world in the man
agement of world affairs, especially those
between nations. Wednesday he recom
mended that the Senate ratify the partici
pation of the United Stales in the world
court.
Senator Hiram Johnson as representa
tive of a less progessive and more arrogant
element of American populace who arc fear
ful for American rights, attacked Roosevelt’s
plea noisily and sarcastically, saying that
it would lead to the United States’ entry in
to the league of nations, as though that
would be the end of the nation.
Senator Johnson, though we sincerely
hope not, may prevail for the time being,
and thereby hinder a very progressive move.
Ilis motive is, nationally and internationally
speaking, selfish in that it; would preserve
American sovereignty in an attitude of de
fiance and high-aud-mighty isolation.
Following the recent triumphant success
of international diplomacy in the peaceful
disposition of the ticklish Saar problem and
with the return of Germany to the league of
nations a probability, the time is ripe for
the United States to take steps in an attempt,
to strengthen the machinery which uses ar
bitration and mediation to iron out inter
national rifts.
Russia’s Incubator Baby
T> ALPJI Barton Perry, professor of pliil
^ osophy at Harvard university once said:
“When one’s leg is broken one puts if into
a plaster east, but one does not therefore
conclude that freely moving limbs are a fail
ure and should be permanently abolished.
The ultimate purpose of the rigid east is to
restore the usual freedom of movement.’’
He spoke of dictatorships: “Their use is
to keep one alive until the better life can be
resumed. They are useful when swift, re
medial action is important at all costs m
times of civil war, actual or threatening, and
in times of panic or desperation in such
times political procedure must be tempor
arily altered.”
October, l!M7, in Russia after Leuiu's
coup d’etat, was a time of panic and despera
tion for the revolutionary leaders, who
feared that Trotsky had set the fuse with
a rash want of preparation—feared that
revolutionary sentiment was not widespread
enough for their venture to succeed. The
plaster east ’ was slapped on; what Wil
liam H. Chamberlin yesterday termed the
ruthless dictatorship of the proletariat
leaders was established: “the Communist
party in power, the others in jail!”
( hamberlin, whose word on Russia is one
of authority, affirms what other reports
have made us believe, that the dictatorship
with all its old revolutionary ruthlessuess
still holds the Soviet in ail iron fist: strang
ulation of any voice raised to oppose the i
Idea, “liquidation” of heretics, “dictator- |
ship of a select party which in turn is |
strongly disciplined by the single man at the !
top—Stalin.”
( hamberlin tells us that we do not really ^
know what our liberty means in this countrv
ot ours. We wear it easily, like a comfort
able old coat. “Like water or air,” he say.-., !
don t notice it so much when it
abounds; we struggle when it is shut off.”
\\ e do know what our liberty means to
us.
We know how much the health of the
body politic depends upon the tonic of re
- hellions voices.
And that is what we wonder about Uus
sia: are they never going to take off the
cast ; is the thing never going to walk by j
if sell, or arc people always going to have to
lip-toe in the shadow of a rifle squad?
People don't live only to eat and drink,
if Russia is ever to solve the problem o;
human happiness, it must mix democracy
with its economies. Until then it will be run
with the miserable purpose of an ant-hill.
Sodden Pathways
'V\7’iTIl the winter rainy season at its
T T height, the need for repair of the cam
pus paths has become sloppily ajjparent.
Particularly do those portions of the pedes
trian highways which bear heavy traffic
show the effects of the famous Oregon
“mist.”
Cinders, processed and rolled, once gave
safe, dry footing to those walking about the
campus. But now the crowned walks no
longer give adequate drainage in countless
spots, and mud and water have taken the
place of the, secuiv cinders making walking a
task and Avct feet the rule rather than the
exception.
And between the dispensary and Mc
Clure where the path curves to the side door
of the journalism shack, overhanging eaves
which do not boast gutters and drainpipes
allow the rain to beat on the cinders, wash
ing them away and furnishing a free shower
bath to all of those who pass during a storm.
We feel that the present is the logical
ti.ne for action to place the campus paths in
order. With FERA workers at their disposal,
there appears no reason why these small but
badly needed repairs should not be made by
the authorities in charge of campus and
grounds.
One Man’s Opinion
By STIVERS VERNON
Our burden of woes has been greatly lifted by
the sojourn of Mr. W. II. Chamberlin on our cam
pus.
Of course, we knew it wasn’t really so but all
those movies about foreign correspondents had
naturally left some picture in our mind as to
what to expect. The trouble with the mass con
ception of the famous foreign correspondent of
today is that too many people have seen Lee
Tracy characterize such parts on the screen.
So, it was to our eternal gratification that we
saw instead of a rip-snorting, fire-eating cata
mount of a news hound, a gentle, refined and
scholarly man whose idea of news is interpreted
in terms of its significance to humanity rather
than as sensational scare-head stuff.
Funny thing about those movies—we hear so
much ballyhoo about the authenticity of sets and
characters, that we come to believe everything
the movies tell us. So, future foreign correspon
dents, don’t worry about the grip-o'-steel hand
shake, the roving eye of the eagle for news nor
encourage the tempestuosity which may seem
becoming to such a job. Instead, take a tip from
Mr. Chamberlin and learn something about your
fellow man and encourage a scholarly insight into
what underlies national affairs.
Our hat is off to Mr. Chamberlin, a gentleman
and a scholar.
What would you think of a state legislature
which acted in this manner:
“Oil tiie last night of the session of '89 an
hour before adjournment, there was no business
to attend to and the members, with the permis
sion ol' the speaker, devoted themselves to all
sorts of recreation not known to parliamentary
law. Colonel Robert A. Miller was ill the ehair
and Roberts, of Coos, had introduced a resolution
ousting him from his position on account of an
arbitrary ruling. Miller put the motion oil the
adoption of the resolution and though it received
a unanimous vote of approval, declared it lost.
“At this juncture, when all was in an amus
ing disorder, Blundell (Douglas county) climbed
into his chair and from it to the top of his desk,
from which vantage point he shouted:
“ ‘Gentlemen, 1 do not propose to shirk the
duly which rests upon me as a representative of
the people of Douglas county by submitting to
tin1 tyranny ot the gentleman from Jackson, who
happens for the moment to be the presiding of
ficer of this House. If any one other member will
follow my lead, I will take the gentleman from
the chair l>y force and—’
“At this point, McCoy of YVaseo, a giant in
stature, took Blundell around the waist with his
right arm and, with his legs kicking wildly ia
tiie air, carried him down the aisle and into the
main lobby of the capitol.”
All of which goes to prove well, just what
does it go to prove anyhow? At least, the boys
used to have some merry times up in Salem dur
ing the old days. G. T. Geer teels of many such
amusing iucldenis in “Fifty Years in Oregon."
At that, well bet those times can’t hold a
candle to some of the fun that goes on down at
the Senator in 1935.
The Passing Show
COLLEGE EDPCATION PAYS
College educations are worth on an average of
572.000 each, according to statistics compiled by
the Massachusetts department of labor, and the
college of business administration at Boston uni
versity. this conclusion is based on a comparison
ot the incomes of high school graduates and those
of college graduates.
When a boy goes to work at 14, he reaches
his maximum income at 30 and averages less
than 51,200 a year. Since his income depends
largely on physical strength, it falls off gradually
alter he is 50. He earns approximately 515,000 j
between the ages of i t and 00, and not more than J
52.000 of this comes in the years when he should |
have been in high school.
The high school graduate goes to work at 15 I
and passes the maximum of the untrained man i
wiUun seven years, rising steadily to his maxi- |
mum of 52.200 at 40. His total earnings from IS |
to 60 appioximate $78,000, making the cash value j
of his high school education $33,000
Although the college graduate does not start
work until reaching the age of 22. his total in- i
come is $160,000. By the time he is 25, his in
come has equalled that of the high school gradu
aU' at 40. The average income of $6,000 a year !
at CO is often surpassed.
All oi which .seeniy to prove the comment ot
Prof. Jmume Henley in Percy Marks'. "The
Plastic Age. —"The average college graduate is
a pretty poor specimen, hut in all, he is about the i
bt t we haw -The Pail' mini.
Day’s Parade
By DARKS HITCHCOCK
Senator Wagner's
]\etv Social Measures
Again We Hear It
The president's program for so
cial security marks the advent of
the second and (it is to be hoped)
more permanent feature of the
New Deal. It must be evident now
even to the most calloused among
the opposition that Mr. Roosevelt
has in his own mildly erratic way
achieved a. large degree of success
ir his primary aim to ferry the na
| tion over the rough spot of tem
! porary economic distress. Whether
| 01 no the taxpayers will be able
Roosevelt Confident
The administration, however, is
confident that they will, and in
that frame of mind is proposing
various modifications on the social
structure which it trusts will be
come a permanent feature of our
governmental system.
Answer to Townsend
Of a necessity, old age pensions,
unemployment and health insur
ances are to be a part of the pro
posed modification; other amelia
tory measures will follow. But it
is necessary, in order to gain a
true view of the administration’s
program, to view this new action
as something more than a recovery
program: Mr. Roosevelt is thor
oughly of the mind that the coun
try is rapidly emerging, and now
seeks to institute reforms that will
assure the continuance of a certain
cegree of economic security during
this and succeeding governments.
Care Must Be Exercised
If congress keeps this feature in
mind and proceeds to debate the
new measures cautiously and care
fully we will have advanced an
other step towards the adjustment
0." our national equilibrium; if this
new social order is quickly and in
expertly improvised, on the other
hand, it will mean greater eventual
catastrophe than any slip-up in
the original recovery plans, whose
flexibility has already been proved
by the numerous mistakes which
were made with no great damage
to the essential scheme.
But the very intention of per
manence in the "latest bills must
serve as a warning lest they be
loosely and carelessly thrown to
gether, only to cast the shadow of
their incompetence upon some fu
ture generation.
* * * ,
In accordance with the trend of
congressmen’s thoughts—to delay
actual payment of bonds issued fc>
the purpose of starting great pro
jects, some truly laudable ones
such as the Bonneville dam, and
others such as keeping the birds
out of trees in Washington, and
thereby supply more men with
jobs- -using the age-old principle
of his brethren once again,, State
Senator Hazlett of Hood River
urges that principle payments on
the Bonneville debt be deferred for
!>0 years.
Whether these projects be great
or foolish, the payment for them
will not fall upon the present gen
eration of voters, but on another
generation of taxpayers.
Of course, in order to secure
backing for such projects (and se
cure votes at the next election)
t h e commendable congressmen
must allow the taxes of the citizens
to increase materially.
Applied Psychology
Therefore they approach the cit
izenry with the excellent, if some
what morbid, psychological per
suasion that they will not have to
worry about any increase in taxes.
Consequently the taxpayers say
“Go ahead. Such measures can’t
hurt us, and we might benefit by
them.’’ These people worry not
about the consequences which are
to fall on a future generation.
They gamble, but they can’t lose.
They can only win. They take:
great chances with other people’s I
futures, but as the day of reckon-1
ing is far away, they cannot seel
that far and do not pause a mo
ment to think of the wisest action
in the long run.
English Impression
And Expression
By Howard Kessler
Emerald Foreign Correspondent
LONDON Two months in Eng
land . .. with these results:
Liverpool: a dirty, dark, dull,
dump.
London: the only city in Eng
land.
Oxford: a rambling, chiming
cluster of spires, to all appear
ances, utterly dead.
Bristol: the old and new make!
a terrible brew,
Southampton: waiting for some
thing.
Penzance: off season in a tourist
town
Never a poor meal, yet they say
English food is the poorest in
Europe. Somebody is wrong De
pression in can-opener manufac
ture.
“God Save the King!"
Poverty in the north, prosperity
in the south, so the south passes
the hat for the north.
England, the peace-maker, gent
ly leading Hungary to kiss Jugo
slavia. France to embrace Ger
many.
Incredible loyalty of the English.}
Ot course v, e v.. uld tight for the I
Music in the Air
By George Bikman
and Dick Watkins
Being as how this column seems
to mention in it sooner or later, ev
| erything but the kitchen stove, a
word or two might be said about
military bands, for a change. By
far and wide, the peer among the
world’s great military bands is
that of the famous French Foreign
I Legion, which played for the Co
lonial exposition held in Paris in
1932. The skill and fame of this
band is no doubt due in part to
the fact that from time to time
many master musicians find their
way into the ranks of this regi
ment of lost souls; men who in
former years had been among the
world’s leading conductors, direc
tors and musical artists. Why
they join, no one knows and few
care, but by their enlisting, they
have given La Legion the finest
band in existence. Other fine
bands include that of the Royal
Belgian Corps of Guides; the Mex
ican Tipica; the Coldstream
Guards; the Garde Republique;
and the Royal Italian Carabinieri.
In this country, the U. S. Marine
Corps; the Arthur Pryor, Cr^a
tore and Goldman bands, top the
list, all of them frequently ap
pearing on the air.
Glen Gray’s Casa Loma orches
tra is incorporated with ten of the
fourteen musicians owning stock
in it. Originally the band hailed
from Detroit, but now can be found
1 mostly around New England, for
during this season of the year,
they may be seen playing for nu
merous college proms. They
j played their first college job at
Princeton in 1930 and since that
time have played for almost every
big collegiate event from the U.
of Maine in the North, down to
Washington and Lee U. in Virginia.
The Casa Loma band are right up
there now among the top-notch
ers in the tune-purveying industry,
having one of the best spots on
the radio programs and each
month making an ever increasing
number of well-orchestrated rec
ords, on Decca discs. Jay Whid
den’s orchestra whose theme song,
"Lovely Melody” is familiar to lis
teners up and down the coast, have
arrived in the Hawaiian Islands to
play an engagement on the Roof
Garden of one of the big' Hono
lulu hotels.
Facts About Greeks
By Dick Watkins
Delta Upsilon founded at Wil
liams college, Williamstown, Mass.,
in November, 1834, recently cele
brated its centennial at the site
of the mother chapter. At this
convention two Canadian charters
were granted, to the University
of Alberta and the University of
British Columbia.
The Detroit Tigers, baseball
world champions, include four for
mer college stars on its roster;
namely, Eldon Aucker, Phi Sigma
Kappa; Gerald Walker, Sigma Chi;
Mickey Cochrane, Lambda Chi Al
pha; and Tom Bridges, Sigma Al
pha Epsilon.
The Theta Chi fraternity, at its
winter national convention recent
ly held during the holidays, passed
a resolution abolishing the use of
“Hell Week" in its system, a step
already taken by a number of Oth
er Greek letter societies.
The mother chapter of Kappa
Kappa Gamma, the Alpha, found
ed at. Monmouth college, Illinois
in 1870, but which ceased to exist
in 1884 due to faculty opposition,
has just regained its charter and
been revived with much pomp and
ceremony.
Governor Alf. Landon, of Kan
sas, who was the only Republican
governor re-elected at the last!
elections, is a member of Phi Gam
ma Delta.
Ruth Bryan Owen, U. S. minis-j
ter to Denmark, who holds the
distinction of being the first wo
man envoy ever sent abroad to
represent our government at a
foreign capital, belongs to Delta
Gamma.
The Banta family are about as
fraternally prominent a family as
one could expect to find anywhere;
for while George Banta is presid
ing over the destinies of his fra
ternity, Phi Delta Theta, as na
tional president, his wife is serv
ing in a like capacity for her so
rority, Kappa Alpha Theta.
* * *
Miami university, Oxford, Ohio,
is commonly known as the “moth
er of fraternities;” for it has been
the site of the founding of five
national college fraternitiess, not
only the famous “Miami Triad,”)
Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Chi and Phi
Delta Theta, but two younger ones.
Sigma Phi Sigma and Pi Kappa;
Tau.
king if another war
Blimey!”
started.
Bed and breakfast at every ho
tel starts you out strong.
Lack of American cynicism.
"We'll pull through" in face of
disastrous fishing season. Never)
a thought of revolution.
What, no skyline?
“Play the Game!"
Tut, Lit. tut. .such weather! Rain
every day for a month.
Cornish courtesy, masking a
shell of reserve.
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By STANLEY ROBE
Winter Campaigns
Chief Justice
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lawyers, judges, prominent men in
the field of legal education, and
law school professors, who came
from distant points to attend the
conference.
Leading Articles Listed
Some of the leading articles in
the issue are: “Whither the Law,”
an address given by Albert J. Har
no, dean of the University of Illi
nois school of law; “Possibilities of
Simplified Code Pleading and
Practice” by Ralph H. King, for
mer president of the Oregon Bar
association and attorney at law in
Portland, Oregon; “Legal Controls
Through Administrative Law,”
given by Harold Shepherd, dean
of the law school at the Univer
sity of Washington; “The Consti
tution as an Institution,” by Karl
N. Llewellyn, professor of law at
Columbia university, New York
City; “New Bottles for Old Wine,”
by Herbert Goodrich, vice-presi
dent of the University of Pennsyl
vania and dean of the law school;
“Solving the Crime Problem by
Statute,” by Max Radin, professor
of jurisprudence, University of Cal
ifornia; “Some Problems of Crim
inal Prosecution,” by Newman F.
Baker, professor of law at North
western university; and “The Work
of the State Bar Committee on
Crime,” by A. M. Kidd, professor
of law, University of California.
Articles by University of Oregon
men include “Social Responsibility
of Law Schools,” by Burt Brown
Barker, vice-president of the Uni
versity; and Charles G. Howard's
discussion of “Is the Restatement
an Aid in the Clarification of Local
Law?” Ronald H. Beattie, former
ly with the University of Oregon
a,s a social statistician, now with
the Bureau of Public Administra
tion, University of California,
spoke on “The Practical Value of
Criminal Statistics.”
Morse Writes Foreword
The foreword, written by Dean
Morse, gives the history of the Pa
cific Coast Institute of Law and
presents the aims of the confer
ence. “The primary purpose of the
institute is to bring together once
a year on the Pacific coast for con
ference discussions, members of
bench and bar, legal scholars and
nationally recognized social scien
tists," Morse said. The institute
will be maintained as a permanent
organization with standing com
mittees charged with the task of
analyzing various regional prob
lems involved in the administration
oi justice in the Pacific coast area.
Twenty-five hundred copies have
been made, said Mr. Howard, and
about 1500 will be mailed to mem
bers of the bar association in the
United States and abroad, as well
as to libraries.
Speech Meet
(Continued from Paijc One)
have a chance to win one of the
three prizes which will be awarded
—$25 for the first place, $15 for
the second, and $5 for the third.
The winning participant will be
chosen to represent the University
at a similar state contest which
will be held at the Willamette uni
versity February 28. Two prizes of
$20 and $10 will be given to the
two winners of the state contest.
Benefits Pointed Out
John Casteel points out that all
participants will benefit from tak
ing part in the contest. It will
prove excellent training for those
intending to enter the W. F. Jew
ett oratorical contest which will
be held a week later; and will aid
all seniors who anticipate entering
the Failing-Beekman orations
which will be held at the com
mencement exercises this spring;
and all students who plan on en
tering essays in the Warner prize
contest will find much of the ma
terial usable for that purpose.
Rules Outlined
Four rules have been outlined
for the W. F. Jewett extempore
speaking contest. They are:
1. Speakers will prepare by in
forming themselves thoroughly on
the material indicated by the gen
eral subject. (Consult bibliography
at the reference desk in the library
and at the speech division. Casteel'
will give valuable suggestsions to.
those signing up.)
2. On the evening of the contest'
speakers will draw in turn in the;
order of speaking three sub-topics
from a list of 12 prepared by mem
bers of the faculty. From these
three sub-topics the speaker will
use the one of his choice and re
turn the two rejected.
3. Speeches shall be given extem
pore, without the use of notes.
4. Length of speeches is to be
not less than 8 nor more than 10
minutes.
Drawings for the talks will be
held at 7 o’clock on the evening of
February 14 at a place which will
be announced later. The contest
will be open to the public, Mr. Cas
teel said.
Renner Sets
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listed as the new traditions that
are to be enforced:
“That there be no smoking on
the campus.
“That there shall be no ‘pigging’
at athletic contests.
"That the tradition of hello walk
be revived.
“That seniors only be permitted
to sit on the senior bench.
“That no freshman be allowed
to wear a tuxedo.
“That the Oregon pledge song
shall be sung preceding every as
sembly.
“That freshmen and sophomores
may not wear cords; and that the
former should wear the customary
freshman pants, and the latter,
moleskins.'
Hello walk, for the benefit of
freshmen and new students, is lo
cated between the old library and
Deady hall.
Live Creatively
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ley who suggested renovizing the
bungalow.
The financial project was intro
duced by Isabelle Miller, who dis
cussed various methods for rais
ing the freshman share of the bud
get.
Vivian Emery and Wilhelmina
Gerot discussed learning to live
creatively by making acquaintanc
es and through wholesome recrea
tion.
Group singing and piano solos
by Mary Field completed the pro
gram.
Successful Merchants Know
That It Pays to Advertise.
Most of the more successful merchants have built their
volume of business which they now' have by advertising.
They realize the merits of good advertising and place ad
vertisements in good mediums consistently through the
years.
The Emerald has a complete coverage on the campus
as it is read daily by the students, faculty and friends of
the University.
This is an advertising medium which the successful
merchant cannot afford to overlook in his attempt to in
crease his business.
By advertising in the Emerald, merchants are able to
tell about their values and merchandise to a class of people
who are in a position to make purchases from them.
EMERALD ADS GUIDE THE STUDENTS’
BUYING HABITS.
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