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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 otherwise credited in ♦his paper and feiso 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 E. Phipps Grant Thuemmel Editor Manager Robert Lucas Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Parks Hitchcock, Fred Colvig Assistant Editors Malcolm Bauer, Barney Clark, Bob Moore, J. A. Newton, Ann-Reed Burns, Dan E. Clark Jr. UPPER NEWS STAFF Clair Johnson .'.. Assistant Managing Editor Reinhart Knudsen . News Editor Ned Sim niton .. Sportfi Editor Rex Cooper . Nijjht Chief Ed Robbins . Telegraph Georpre Bikman . Radio Dan Maloney . Special Ann-Keed Burns .. Peprgy Chessman . Dick Watkins . Women ... Society Features BUSINESS OFFICE MANAGERS rj<i urtum: nu*i-iuoiu« Bill Jones . Assistant Virginia Wellington ..Sez Sue Patsy Neal . Assistant .. National Advertising Fred Heidel . Assistant Dorris Holmes . Classfied GENERAL STAFF Reporters: Wayne Harbert, Rhyllia Adams, Signc Rasmussen, Ruth Storla, Marjorie Kibbe, Helen Bartrum, Bob Rowell, .lane Lagassoe, Charles Paddock, LeRoy Mattingly, Fulton Travis, Dhodp. Armstrong. Hnllie Dudrey, Norris Stone. Copyreaders: Victor Dallaire, Margaret Ray, Virginia Scoville, Dan Maloney, Margaret Veness, Betty Shoemaker. Assistant Night Editors: Gladys Battleson, Genevieve McNiece, Betty Rosa, Louise Kruikman, Ellamae Woodworth, Ethyl flyman, Betty McGirr, Marilyn Ebi, Helen Worth, Arlene Reynolds. Sports Staff: Bill Mclnturff, Gordon Connelly, Don Casciato, Jack Gilligan, Kenneth Webber. Women’s Rage Assistants: Margaret Retsch, Mary Graham, Betty Jane Barr, Helen Bartum, Betty Shoemaker. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of th,e 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 ol March except the fitst eight days. Entered as second-class matter ftt the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a yeat. You May Quote Us “A BOUT forty editors of the state, some of whom brought along their wives, concluded today the first annual Oregon newspaper eonferenoe— ”—Oregon Daily Emerald, April 26, 19111. Today, newspapermen of Oregon dailies, weeklies, and semi-weeklies will gather on University grounds expecting to shatter all previous attendance records at the Oregon press conference. They have built up a fine old tradition— these newspapermen). Fine, because it offers great opportunity to raise the standards of journalism, and because it makes for unity between the men whom we know to be the greatest molders of opinion in the state. Most of these press representatives have at tended previous conferences. They enjoy their short stay here, not only from a jour nalistic standpoint, but from the friends they make on the campus and the hospitality shown them by the students. Likewise students at Oregon arc1'glad to renew old acquaintances and to make new friends. An Opportunity is presented to give the state editors a, chance to see college life at first hand; also to show these newspaper men what the University is doing in behalf of its students. Many living organizations have com plained because theta1 Inis boon no provision made for time in which they might act as hosts for part of the assemblage. It is hoped that in spite of heavy convention schedules, luture arrangements along those lines may be made. But for the present, the Emerald speaks ior the entire student body in welcoming newspapermen of Oregon to the University campus. Not Your Standard, Mr. Hearst Y0,rj{j': obsoliitt-ly right, Mr. Ilearst, we should fight for freedom of the press in the United States! And wc will go you one further and light just as strenuously for freedom of speech and freedom of assemblage. Because you know, Mr. Ilearst, the constitutional guaranties ot free speech and free assembl age appear right with freedom of the press in Article L of the Bill of Rights. V\ e believe in our constitution, Mr. Ilearst, even though wo say so at the risk of being platitudinous. And no single one of Hint constitutional triurn vent te can he iso lated—either we maintain all of them, or they all disappear as rights of all people in a democratic yation. Bet’s talk plainly, Mr. Ilearst. \ ou are in the midst of what you term a drive for freedom id’ the press. [excellent ! on say von want a tree press ; so do we. But you want freedom of the Hears! press: we want to maintain the freedom of the press. We are thinking of freedom of the press as an inclusive term not applying only to the Ilearst press. Vet, at the same time you effuse designed ami rabble-raising tirades for the freedom of the press you control, you come out openly for suppression of the free press' bosom companion —free speech. You know very well, Mr. Ilearst, that the United States cannot maintain a sembl ance of a free press unless its people have free speech. When you disagree with some thing you want to express your dissenting opinion. Not everyone in this country agrees with your policies. Those people likewise have a right to express their opinions. That is freedom. M here, Mr. Ilearst, can you or anyone else detect freedom in a situation such as the one you advocate in which your standard or that of some other particular group or interest becomes the dividing line between expression and suppression? it's real freedom that we want to keep in the 1 uited States, Mr. Ilearst, and we have confidence enough in tin* people of this na tion to believe they will keep freedom of speech, freedom of assemblage and freedom not only of the Tlearst press but of all the press. No, Mr. Hearst! We find it impossible to set your policies or opinions or whims as the standard for freedom in the United States. Emotion Versus Logic PUBLISHED on this page is a communica ■*" tion from Horace I\ Slugg, which, if we have struck rightly through the jungle growth of his figures, demands treatment of Oregon consistent with our Moscow deal ings, in event that we decide to venture our selves upon the currently bruited question of whether or not the Oregon criminal syn dicalism law should be repealed. Slugg takes , I ■ view which is so widely accepted now: tint, the jailing of radicals results only in (heir becoming figures of martyrdom and aids their cause—and that their ideas, left to a sickly, submerged ex istence, are only perverted to become more insidious that ever. We won’t deny that. In fact we will say even more along the same line of thought. Stern shackling of opinion gives the im pression that suppressed matter must be such telling truth that it cannot be allowed open expression. Exposing a radical idea to the bright glare of logic will result cither in its being hooted out as an impractical dream or in its being accepted. Accepted, the new idea, will gradually win converts and insinuate an evolution in the policy without violence. Allowell to simmer with the lid clamped down, the radical mess will generate steam and blow the political pot to smithereens. Hut, Mr. Slugg, what logic do you expect to be applied in times like these. * Look at the adherents which the eco nomic. buffoonery of the Townsend plan has won. It has been given free discussion, and, it there is not a great deal more legislative sanity than is likely, it will either be enacted or be allowed to obstruct the enaction of sound legislation. J Aese aro tunes oi insecurity, when a bfge share of men aro frantic- at tJio peril in which 1 hey find their livelihood. Minds are tindery as July grans for the flame of eloquence. In 1929 Dirk DeJong probably was ridi culed as a wild dreamer. Should the flame of his emotional oratory be uncovered now among inflammable, restless minds? Is that logic and free discussion? 1 here are two sides to the question, Mr. Nlugg. And, even if we do, deep in our hearts, incline to your way of thinking, we expect you to grant that there arc certain things which cannot he shouted. Shall a man whip a mob into a frenzy and yell: “Grab your pitchforks, boys!”'? Is that fair, even to the mob? Free discussion may expose a question to Hie penetrating light of logic, or to the flame of eloquence. Where shall we draw the line? Human happiness demands one thing, logic; public safety condemns the other, enflaniing oratory. Where shall we draw the line? Suppose we say to draw the line between truth and untruth. Who is going to be such an eternal judge as to discriminate as to the validity of concepts? Now we must finally-side with you; that no one person or single group of persons is qualified to say “This is good,” or “This is bad. ” , Truth must always emerge from the old Soeratian formula of discussion, openlv and impartially. And it would appear that the Oregon law punishing what is known as “criminal syndicalism” is an unwise restraint upon the evolution of truth—that it should be re pealed. And, as a substitute protection against hysterical oratory, we must have faith in a common sense which we hope will come when the shackles have been struck off. One Man’s Opinion By STIVERS VERNON c observe with mingled emotions a story in the Emerald which announces that the symphony orchestra in its concert Sunday will play Schu bert’s "Finnish Symphony" as a part of its pro gram. This column is not in the business of cor rection but the mistake is entirely too ludicrous to overlook. Mr. Schubert in his balmiest moment never conceived a "Finnish Symphony." His work wliieh has become known as the "Unfinished” symphony, is a standard number listed in the repertoire of every major orchestral organization in America. The name "Unfinished" is derived liom the fact that it has less than the four movements of the conventional symphony. We might suggest while we are perfectly awaie that such a blunder will not alter the fate of the nation that the scribe do a little miscel laneous checking of his musical knowledge before submitting the finished product for publication. I’oor Mr. Schubert wo can almost hear his agonized writhings in his grave. While wo are on the subject of music, don’t go to the concert ot the Eugene Junior Symphony Orchestra with the idea that you are to hear a flock ot infants tooting on hunts and sawing on fiddles without producing anything but noise. Go. by all means, and you will hear a program which might grace the concerts of the New York Phil harmonic or the Philadelphia Symphony. You will not have to know anything about technique to appreciate this program. Since music is es sentially an appeal to the emotional instincts, kit. Kex Underwood s selection of the program assuies 'every listener of a genuinely sincere ex perience in enjoyment. The man who can sit through Ippolitou Ivanow's exotic "Caucasian Sketches" and remain unmoved is simply as cold as a clam and should be shoved back In the mu 1 where he belongs The same is true ot Beetho ven'. booming Egnumt Overture, the Unfinished Symphony and the Farandole of Bizet. From past acquaintance with these numbers we know that each lias a definite appeal to the senses. The Day’s Parade By PARKS HITCHCOCK Japan’s Actions Russian Reprisal A MOTHER paragraph of United States history has been re peated by the Japanese who again sent a few troops and airplanes against the Chinese. The United States practiced such means to an end in Central and South America; Japan in China. Progression The Nipponese are as forward today as they were backward 60 years ago. They have been ocei dentalized, and the occidentals may soon regret the fact that they pro vided a certain background in deal ing with foreign countries from which the Japanese now adopt their foreign relation policy. The Japanese political set-up is rather peculiar. While the son of heaven is nominally the head of the government, the militarists are actually in power. They are forced to make political coups to keep the Japanese satisfied and pro vide enough money for their re gime. Constant Coups To this end the militarists have kept things moving in the orient. Nothing is said about an action until the action has been complet ed. Then the military attache’s office announces, as it did last night, that “the desired conditions within the disputed area have been accomplished, therefore no fur ther action is likely." Another Move Now, however, the Japanese de mand the removal of General Sung Cheh Yuang, governor of Chahar, the province lately under dispute. It seems strange that the Chi nese always do the wrong thing, and the Japanese merely move to rectify the errors, but so say the Japanese newspapers. Evidently their view of the situation is that might is right. Incidentally Japan might take a wee bit more of China in a few weeks—unless the Chinese should stop being so completely in the wrong. Japan vs. United States While the Japanese do not seem to be worried about any develop ment in China, she is very much concerned about the United States’ proposed action to fortify some of its possessions in the Pacific. Jap anese statesmen who caused the abrogation of the 5-5-3 naval treaty evidently overlooked this recourse which the United States might take in the event that the treaty were scrapped. Political Upheaval Unless we are very wrong, a cer tain political upheaval will take place in the land of the bamboo (also the land of the NRA sign makers, and American flag mak ers) in a short time. Such a mistake or oversight is bound to cause at least a reprisal unless the militarists strengthen their stand by again righting a wrong done by China. * * * IN an effort to completely stamp * out any terrorism other than its own. the Soviet government sen tenced twelve operatives of the ministry of interior to concentra tion camps with from two to ten year sentences. This move, together with the ac tion a month or so ago in which TO people, most of whom were guilty of nothing other than being related to some of the participants of the assassination of Sergei Ki rov, Soviet leader, was made by the “Comrades” who perhaps felt that their unjust ness in killing these citizens would bring a rath er nasty reprisal from the people. Censorship Such an action is not civilized and certainly would not be tolerat ed in any "free” country. In a country such as Russia, however, with press and book censorship, the people are allowed to know “only that which leads to their betterment" and consequently, are not informed of such actions. Jewell Tells (Continued from l’age One) two tux teacher schools. “We are not work'd about Portland high schools, the small schools are the state's worry now," said Dean Jewell. In explaining some points of the plan, he stated that all subjects will be taught by the laboratory method, which he explained as the method of learning by doing. Math ematics, he pointed out might be termed the language of measure ment under the new system. Newspaper Men ( ContimieJ fn'in Page One) teet a Publishing Business With the Least Possible Expense." Adjourn for Banquet The editors wil then adjourn and attend the annual banquet to be held at the Osburn hotel at 6:30. At 0:30 they will attend a show as guests of the Colonial theater. DOKOTHV LEWIS BETTER Dorothy P Lewis, secretary of the social science department and the wife ot Leslie Lewis, assistant professor of English, is convalesc ing nicely in the Pacific hospital. She expects to return to her posi tion sometime next week. ■ ;•.f Syndicalism Slugrg Criticizes Criminal Syndicalism Law Editor, the Emerald: Ink is hardly dry on the editor ial gasp of horror that issued when! leports came that 120 Russians, who were involved in a counter revolutionary plot which the Ki rov assassination brought to light, had, with short shrift, been exe cuted. You will recall that you added your humble breath to the gasp, remarking that, if a body politic were not to become sluggish and break out with boils, it must needs; have the tonic of rebellious voices! - that, if Russia would actualize i the humane purpose vaunted for! her system, she must mix democ : acy with her economics. Of course that is Russia. And this is the United States. In the United States, in Oregon, it is all right that a non-conform ir.g idea, like a corpse weighted down and sunk in a spring, can fes ter annd suffuse its corruption. In the United States, a society whose deepest s’cot is the right of rebel-1 lion against injustice, whether fan-! cied or actual, it is all right that members of a non-coilforming group should be entombed where their ideas, like an insidious mold I that generates in darkness, mayj creep from the dungeon and roti the foundations of our civil edifice, j A century and a half of quiet gentility have dubbed it best that we darken the memory of those rebellious scape-graces who begat our social body. Nowadays, to re cite the Declaration of Indepen dence is like for Maggie unwitting ly to hark back to the laundry days. -«• juung re now got mmselt ar rested^ the other day for standing on a street corner and declaiming: “We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalien able rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.—That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.—That when any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.’’ They could say that then. But that was 150 years ago. And this is the twentieth cen tury. And while, in historic revery, we raise a lot of hell about Spanish Philip's inquisition, when he en tombed and did nastier things to non-conformists, it is all right for us now to stick them away for five or ten years for criminal syndical ism. And make martyrs o fthem. We live two or three hundred years too soon to know what kind of hell, in historical revery, schol ars will raise about us. And, if you say that Russia should mix democracy with her economics, who knows but that they will say we should have mixed democracy with our democacy! Respectfully yrs., HORACE P. SLUGG, Esq. Do Wo Get Money's Worth Jan. 22, 1935. Editor, the Emerald: I have taken heart on reading your editorial entitled “Did Mr. Hearst Get His Money’s Worth?”! The question which arises in my mind is whether or not we are get- i ting our money’s worth. I take1 little interest in politics concern ing state and nation, but when, what appears to be a glaring and rank political discrimination, oc curs here on the campus, I like to | know why. I wish you would write j an editorial in explanation of the | question I present. tsetore the worm today are myr iads of questions concerning' eco nomics. politics, social welfare, etc. All of these problems we stu dents must sooner or later decide upon. One of them is the problem of Communism. From every side, come unfavorable reports. The pa pers warn us of the "Reds" and aeery the activities of Bolsheviks. They wail for protection from bloody terrorists and. between sobs, urge us on to every precau tion lest the Soviet engulf us. But there is never the thought that if one hundred million souls are con tent to live in a communistic so ciety, there may be some good therein. But how are we to judge? What do we know about Commun ism ? Several speakers have recently discussed this question on the cam pus. All but one were national ists. They defended capitalism and denounced the Soviet state. In stead of examining, they con demned its principles, and indict ed its agents. They presented one side of the question and one side only. One visitor, Scott Nearing, was a protagonist of Communism. He was sponsored, not by the Univer sity. but by an independent club The hour and the hall allotted him were the poorest available- He had tc speak in Yiliard hail on a Sat urday night when the Sophomore Informal w a* be.ng held. Of the ! Today and Tomorrow Ey STANLEY ROBE two hundred present, perhaps 30 were students. On the other hand, when Mr. Chamberlin was to speak classes were dismissed, Uni versity time was “sacrificed” and the best auditorium on the cam pus was given him. Hundreds of students were forced to attend the meeting. In short, the students were able to hear but one side of the question. Just how fair a pre sentation was that? Is this how we learn the facts so that we may later render intelligent judgments ? The University must be shame fully biased and is obviously ob structing a clear view of the prob lem. Perhaps its purpose, after all, is not to teach us to think, but rather to make us mentally stag nant, to mold us into unquestion ing, unseeing robots, to chisel us down to passive conformists, and to guide us as so many sheep of a flock. If so, we are not getting our money's worth. What do you think ? The Boor* Is Radio Show By GEORGE Y. BIKMAN Although we haven't gone in to a trance with the editor about this, it should be fairly safe to make this announcement. It will give you ambitious guys and gals something to ponder on. Next term another radio contest is to be held, sponsored by the Emerald of the Air, as has been customary in the past. Woody Truax is to manage the business end of the undertaking, and he reports prospects indicating big ger and better prizes. The Emerald players take the air today at 4:45. The play is “The Boor,” by Chekov, famous Russian fellow. Bill Cottrell will be the boor, or something. Sorry we don’t know his leading lady's name but we expect her to be good. “The March of Time,” radio pioneer series of news dramati zations, formerly sponsored by Time, will be broadcast today at 6:00 over CBS for the big type writer people. A good program. Over the same network a half hour broadcast of the fancy dress ball at Washington and Lee university from Lexington, Virginia, will be released at 9 o'clock. On NBC: Fashion flashes at 5:30; Beatrice Lillie at 6:00; Frank Black at 7:30; Intimate Revue at 8:30; Richard Himber, with Joey Nash at 9:15. 'Bye. Noble Holds Lead In Poll By DICK WATKINS With four dozen more votes rolling in overnight, we find the “best ten’’ lists still putting Ray Noble further and further in the in the lead and a few others down the line being shuffled around. Noble now has well over a 100 first choice mentions al ready (that 6 yesterday was a misprint, it should have been 63), with his country man, Jack Hylton not too far behind, for he is still in third place. Fred Waring also remains at No. 2 even though he only polled half as many as did Noble, while Garber moves up into fourth, Lombardo up into fifth, Fio Kito sliding down three notches into sixth, and Duchin taking a nose-dive also down into seventh. Coakley drops to eighth, and the Casa Lonia whose stock dropped sharply today is now way down at ninth, while Isham Jones comes into the rating for the first time at tenth—that’s the score so far, and we’ll keep the polls open for a couple of days more and have one final reckon ing. Coakley still remains the cam pus' favorite coast band, and El lington is just about the only negro outfit given any recogni tion at all. Roy Fox and his Lon don band received some good boosts while Little Jack Little, Don Bestor and Ozzie Nelson de serve the honorable mentions to day. We regret to state that Tom McCall's local horn-toothmg » *9 _ctfr monstrosities hit a new low with the day’s vote returns and has bounced out of the picture en tirely, into the null and void, Tough luck, old man, we offer our sympathy. Smith’s Style Rule Now On Sale at Co-op Store A ready desk guide, the Style Rule, for assisting students, re porters, and copy-readers in cor recting copy was placed on sale at the Co-op recentnly. The pamphlet, written by Prof. 3. S. Smith, contains all of the ele ments of grammar, rhetoric, and literary mechanics. It is printed on five cards small enough to fit into students' pockets. The distinctive feature of the ‘Style Rule” is that it consists of questions rather than examples and rules. Professor Smith bases his style rule on over 50 grammars, rhetorics, and manuals. He also made a thorough study of the style sheets of leading newspapers. Included in the work are the five points of diction, the paragraph, lyphens and numbers, the sentence punctuation, capitalization, and er rors in diction. Send the Emerald to your friends. Subscription rates $2.50 a year. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING BEAUTY SALONS Individual finger waves, 35c. Love's Beauty Salon. Phone 991. DRESSMAKING PETITE SHOP 573 13th St. E. Phone 3208 “Style Right—Price Right" LOST AND FOUND LOST: Orange Parker foun tain pen. Name engraved. Phone Ercel L. King, 2669-R. LOST: Black Shaeffer ever sharp lost on campus. Reward. Return to Emerald business of fice. NEW SHOP Aladdin Shop at White Elec tric Co. 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