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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon EDITORIAL OFFJCES: 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 Pres? is entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not othei wise credited in this paper and a<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., Chieagn; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. William E. Phipps Grant Thuemmel Editor Business 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. Olark Jr. UPPER NEWS STAFF Clair Johnson . Assistant Managing Editor Reinhart Knudsen . News Editor Ned Sirrmson .. . . . .... .. . Snorts Editor Rex Cooper . Ni&ht Chief Ed Robbinc . Telegraph Oeorjre Bikman .. Radio Dan Maloney . Special Ann-Keed iiurns . Women Po««y Chessman. . Society Dick Watkins _ Features BUSINESS OFFICE MANAGERS En Labbe .. Bill Jones .. Advertising ... Assistant Virginia Wellington. .Sez Sue Patsy Neal . Assistant Jbldon Maberman .. .National Advertising Fred Heidel . Assistant Dorris Holmes . Classfled Day Editor This Issue . Dorothy Dill 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 tt the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a yeai No-Man Blinds Polyphemus rT'J]E inevitable lias happened in Louisiana. Censorship of the press lias been de clared in recalcitrant Baton Rouge, and news comment subversive to the authority of der Kingfish will be punished. It is the inevitable declaration of author ity when it finds its right questioned. So it always is when long-established authority finds physical or even spiritual unrest nib bling at its props. Monarchy fought the popular challenge through strict censorship by taxing printed matter or by monoplizing printing for the state. Religion is still trying to meet the drift away from her folds by the use of indices prohibitorum and by wreaking the indignation of her faithful upon the way ward. Intolerance of opposition, though, is even more severe when an upstart authority finds itself challenged. Bower hitched to the rising star of a single personality—Napoleon, Bis marck, Mussolini, and Hitler—always has to stifle the cries of those over whom the star drags the wagon. It is t he way of authority trying to main tain itself. There will probably be squawking, loud and long, about freedom of the press, and possibly demands that Franklin I). Roosevelt release the bird of freedom from the pitfall and the gin of Bayou state intolerance, but there is no hope from any power l^igher than the supreme court of the state of Louisiana. Freedom of the press in the federal consti tution means only that the congress of the United States shall not pass laws abridging the freedom of the press. It is no restraint upon the states. miry i ccuj^in/ios iimt. nu mituu how mill’ll I lie public seems to lie with him, it is a fickle giant; and, like Ulysses, he sees the need of putting out the Cyclopean eye. While we hope that the rebelliousness in Louisiana is the sincere expression of a los ing popular intelligence of lluey Long's menace, we fear that it is only an excitement aroused by certain business interests against whom the Kiugfish is discriminating. Lonis ianans, for the most part, are still standing with their mouths admiringly agape at their dictator's clever audacity. When, and if the people of Louisiana . recover pride and confidence enough to pre fer their own rule to that of an ignorant boor, lluey can whistle for his censorship, because in the final essence censorship de pends upon the prevailing mood of the people. Frank Irving Cobb, late great editor of the New York World, knew the futility of suppression: “Two thousand years of history bear witness to its folly. Nobody ever succeeded in bettering the weather by putting the thermometer in jail, und nobody will ever remove the eause of unrest and discontent by trying to suppress their mani festations.’' When the spirit of a people is thoroughly aroused suppression is still worse than use whether it he of law, belief or taste mere legal poseription is only a straw across the flood. 1 util the time that a people is thoroughly aroused suppression is still wrose than use less, for it only incenses men with the hurt feeling that their thought is unfairly eon serihed, us is exemplified by the feeling now gaining ground that thought in Oregon is unwisely hog-tied by the criminal syndical ism law. A President’s Party nPODAY President Roosevelt's fitly -second birthday is being observed wit h birthdav balls in 5000 communities, liven Alaska, Porto Rieo, Hawaii and the Canal Zone have scheduled parties. The proceeds from these affairs will be used in the tight against infantile paralysis which President Kyosevclt has fostered, in and out of public office. Seventy cents of every dollar of profit will be used locally and the rest will be sent east for use by the JfirtJiday Hall Commission for Infantile Paralysis. The use to which the President has turned these parties in hi-, honor is typical of the highly social mind, in the scientific sense, uliieh be possesses. The people ns a whole haw- been quick to recognize his basic com mon sense. Nothing could have been more logical, more modest, nor more indicative of ■good sound souse than such an action. It ■ merely confirms the popular view of Frank flin I). Roosevelt. a rl'lie local party will be a dance at Mc Arthur court this evening. The program will begin at. 8:80 with a short appearance by the Eugene Gleemen, and will finish with dancing. The fee is a dollar a couple. With no wish to be commercial, we might remark that there are few better uses to which a dollar could be put. The President’s birthday party is one of the most interesting social events of the year. Any student who can find a dollar and a date should be among those present. One Man’s Opinion ___By Stivers Vornnn Not all the fad s which came to light during the tv/o day stand of the state press conference on the campus, were concened directly with the printing of a better newspaper. In the courses of the various speeches and papers presented before the assembled editors, a number of these facts were driven home against our consciousness in a light other than that of a newsman. Of these facts and figures none were more potent than those given by Dean Allen in his treatise on the problem of newspaper circula tion. To the newspaper publisher they presented a definite answer to the question of whether or not Oregon is a good field, compared with other stales, for the publishing of news and feature material. By and large, however, the figures had more significance than that. They held the answer to the problem of Oregon’s place in the national sun. Whether it is due to the close proximity of such a self-advertising state as California or from some other reason, Oregonians are op pressed by an inferiority complex the like of which has rarely been seen on this planet. We are all proud enough of our home state, all right -but it is a sort of defiant proudness that says we arc that way in spite of our state’s de merits instead of because of her divers merits and accomplishments. What a change from the days when Oregon was a fabled promised land of milk and honey and any resident thereof swelled up like a horned toad and proclaimed to all and sundry the fact that he was from Oregon, the land where the soil yielded so many crops per year that there weren’t men enought to harvest them. Now an Oregonian in the presence of a southern Californian finds his tales pale by com parison. Arid it is not all because they breed a superior brand of liars down south either. The facts about Oregon's progress and her supremacy in many fields are not generally known and con sequently are not bragged about. The top-notch bragging point of them all is the fact, gleaned from Dean Allen's speech, that Oregon ranks FIRST in per capita literacy among the states of the Union. Think it over. With all our farm and small-town population, the per capita ability to read and write is higher in the states of Oregon and Washington than in any other—even the old Massachusetts Bay aristoc racy. Thai in itself gives us an excuse to blow some buttons off our collective vest. we are noi poor either as the Dean took pains lo point out. In spite of the miserable flivvers of the college lads, this state ranks sixtti in per capita wealth. (Must not have counted us!) Forty-two other states have residents whose per capita wealtii is less than ours. And we are a civilized bunch too, we Oregon ians. At least twelve of the national magazines witli a nation-wide circulation, including tlie “big slicks,” estimate that Oregon is from 10',?' to 1110'; better market for their publications than is the national average of states. In women’s per iodicals, Oregon is tiic very best market in the United States on the basis of her population. (Wee small voice: California is seventh!) So on down the line. Oregon, instead of being a wilderness state perched on the edge of the continent and populated by a bunch of long hairs, is a splendidly developed region populated by the most civilized people in the nation. Oregon’s place is in the bright of the sun, not in the depths of the cellar. It’s a swell place to live but we’ll never convince the world as long as wc spend our time apologizing for the rain. The Passing Show Tin: eoixuuu pkksk Press comment on the recent convention of college editors, held in Washington, D, would seem to indicate that these college journalists have sold their souls to Hearst, in return for a gay round of cocktail parties, banquets and luxurious trips. The current issue of News Week for in stance, suggests that Air. Hearst has thus man aged to squelch the outbreak of critical college editorials which followed the declaration of his jingoistic attitude on war. The News Week, however, has been aping Air, Hearst itself, in overlooking the purpose of the convention to play up its more sensational as pects. To all appearances ihesc young men may have been merely spending a few gay vacation days. As a matter of fact, they had some real business to attend to. And while one might not care lo say that they took advantage of Air. Hearst s lavish hospitality to get together for their own purposes, it amounted practically to that. These oT college editors believe that a free and untrammeled college press would be a valuable addition to American journalism. Last year, however, five college editors were suspended or expelled for trying to replace the puerile editorial izing of the average college paper with really vital and pertinent criticism. And as long as this situation exists, there is no possibility of a worth while college press. 1 lie solution of the problem is to set up some : ort ot machinery whereby such cases may be tried, and the ousted editor given a chance to defend liiinselt before impartial judges. That was the main purpose ot the convention. It was ac complished, along with a few minor purposes which did not include education in Hearst policies. — Daily Kau-au. The Day’s Parade ___ By Parks Hitchcock - - The Senate Again Protects the People JT seems higiily probable that Mr. i Roosevelt will be forced to re linquish the teeth of his plan for American entrance into the world court if Senator Robinson’s (Dem ocratic leader) concessions are any forecast of the way the wind is shifting among that august body of our legislators. String Again The new reservation attached to the bill with the apparent hope of passage) provides the eternal string which makes such honest attempts to further international stability futile; issues may not be subjected to the court’s jurisdic tion, without a prior treaty (rati fied, of course, by the Senate) with the country with which the dis agreement arises. Of;, Brave New World! To simple folk, who either fail to understand or innately distrust the circumlocutions of our govern ing body this clause merely means that we shall enter' the World Court and submit to them any cas es where we feel that a competent body of unprejudiced judges will declare us to be in the right, but if we feel that we are in the wrong, congress will of course refuse to submit the case to the jurisdiction of the court. Gentle Jiu-Jitsu By this excellent bit of legerde main our legislative body will again definitely reassert its complete lack of integrity, while the very fact that opposition to the original action for entry into the court has forced the administration to in sert this clause, cannot but reprove the instinctive cowardice of the majority of our legislators. Inaction a la Carte During the Hoover regime they realized the frightful economic mess in which the country was embroiling itself, yet they stub bornly refused to take any action for fear of incurring the anger of their constituents; for years they drank alcoholic liquors and semi publicly derided the ill-fated Pro hibition act, yet it was not until the people finally expressed their overwhelming disgust that they were prepared to take action; at present they allow the threats of the rapacious Degion to intimidate them into backing an act which they cannot help but feel is wrong and stupid. Promotion in Proportion Their careers arc in general mo tivated, not by the desire to see sane and reasonable legislation proposed and enacted, but rather by the eternal hope of advance ment and re-election, while the stupidest observer could point out that their measures are usually at least four years behind the wishes ol the people. Kcactionary Bloc And now, when the forces of reason seem to be temporarily in the saddle and the country is eon 11 oiled by a man who seeks his mo tives not in personal profit and aggrandizement, and a motion which bids fair to advance us at least a step towards the mainte nance of peace and the prevention of that ultimate stupidity, war, is placed in the hands of that learned body they spend their time in nothing save cavilling and equivo cation, imposing endless reserva tions and restrictions. And if it be thought for one mo ment that our legislators oppose the entrance into the World Court because of principles and motives that we of the people can hardly! be expected to understand, let it be considered for a moment that it will hardly be those senators, grown hoary in demagoguery, who must face the imminent possi bility of war, nor will it be those revered limbs that are exposed to the bullets of the enemy. Ray Noble Wins Dance Band Poll j$y Dick Watkins Emerald Feature Editor With Kay Noble so far in the lead that he is almost out of sight of the rest of the band contenders, it is useless to go polling any fur ther so we’ll wind up our little game with the grand finale today. Some 427 votes to be exact were tossed in my hat during the week the contest has been running with practically every horntooting out fit in the whole U. S. being men tioned sooner or later. Noble gathered in more votes for first place than did the next six bands put together, and was1 mentioned in some place, on near-! b every ballot turned in. so ue! will have to concede him the win ner, without the shadow of a doubt . . . the remaining nine in ranking order are. t’asa korun, 1 rod Waring. Jan (ierber, Ted Kio Kito, Guy Lombardo, Eddie Ouehin, Duke Ellington, Tom l oakley, and Jack Hylton . . . t'oakley wins the nominal i u as the favorite coast orehesti >. by ,i walkaway, although Jimmy Grier and Hal drays >n were given a lot ot good boost. The Ten C'om tiMudtr- wck jiaii melt mcatiou than any other band in Oregon, which was a nice showing too, for the local youths . . . All in all, this has been a lot of fun and darn interesting to see how many of you stand on this matter, and will shoot the results eastward pronto, for there seems to be a national college poll going on in which we were asked to en ter ... so muchas gracias again, foi your cooperation and interest on this deal. Don't forget about that Presi dent's Birthday Ball being held to night in the Igloo. It is going to be a great affair with two bands purveying the music so there will be all the dancing you want. The proceeds are going for a very worthy cause, so your attendance up there will be a fine thing, and a good time can be had by all. Callis To Play On Radio t oday By George Biktnan Emerald Radio Editor Dowell Callis, classical pianist makes his first appearance of the term on the Emerald of the Air broadcast today at 4:45 over KORE. To get in good receptive mood, listen to the Curtis institute of music in concert from Philadelphia over CBS at 4:15; a biographical sketch and the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be featured On the same network Little America will stage its President birthday ball at 7:00 this evening. Col. Frederick Palmer, noted war correspondent, will speak from New York, and Mists Elisa Ford, model who posed for the birthday ball posters, will dance (via wire less) v/ith the men of the Byrd Antarctic expedition in the two way broadcast. At 11:30 Roosevelt himself will speak. Ted Fio-Rito outfitted his NBC bandsmen in smart new basketball uniforms and last week lost a spir ited baseball game to Nick Stuart and his orchestra members, 18-11. Convinced that his outfit is still “The Tops'' Fio-Rito and his catch er, Announcer Tom Hanlon, chal lenged the victors to another game scheduled for next Sunday. On NBC today: Mary Pickford and stock company at 5:00; John McCormack with William Daly’s orchestra at 6:30; One Man's Fam ily at 7:30; the President's birth day party at 8:30. Lettermen (Continued from Page One) ing- specially designed in keeping with the motif of the affair. Tickets on Sale The opening whistle will blow at 9 o'clock, and precisely at 10 the features will be presented. Songs, dances, and speeches are being rehearsd by 15 (odd) mem bers of the football team, with a couple of baseball stars, swimmers, and track men thrown in for good measure. Here are a few hints on what to expect—one hairy-chested football player will represent a bathtub, another Mae West, a third a tiger woman—or a female Tarzan, as the case may be. Tickets for the dance went on sale yesterday afternoon, and all Order of the "O" members are canvassing the campus. “They only cost six-bits, fellers,” says Arne Lindgren, chairman of the Limp. "And it's strictly informal, too,” chimed in Bob Miller, Sher wood Burr, Howard Patterson, Winton Hunt, Cosgrove LaBarre, Eddie Vail, Ned Simpson, and Fred Nowland, the other members of the committee. Tw o Teams Guests Members of both the Oregon and Oregon State basketball teams will be honored guests at the dance, and presentations of fam ous campus personages will be made from time to time by the master of ceremonies. The winner of the coaches' dance will be pre sented with a pair of ear-muffs, which are guaranteed to keep out the sounds of moaning Monday morning quarterbacks. Tuesday high-point men, and Wednesday home run hitters. A special dating bureau is also being provided for the benefit of girls who don't know any Order of the “O” men and who want to have dates with them. Just phone 1024 and ask for Bob Parke, dat ing bureau head, and all requests will be filed. Ballet Russe (Continued from rage One) Tatiana Kiabouchinska in the dance of the bluebird. Lichine's command of the stage, his prowess in the sheer technique of the clas sical ballet, completely captured the audience, and from the popu lar point of view marked the eve ning as his. It was distressing, however, to the reviewer to see Tamara Toumanova's amazing "elevation sur les points." raising of the body upon the toes of one foot from a completely prostrate positioni in the same ballet go t o m p 1 e t e 1 y unapplauded. The choreography of this ballet seemed somewhat dull when compared with the elaborate and symphonic choreography of Massine's "Lc Boutique Fantasque." The third ballet was easily the favorite of the audience, the Pol for the principals vert neetesar. Now We are Getting Some Place SClEHTlff PROGRESS I i to satisfy the audience’s enthusi S asm. In this ballet was evidenced j the popular conception of the Rus I sian dance, a wild, bold, untram melled performance, which reached a climax of almost orgiastic pro portions. The glamorous, even lurid, settings of Roerich, the pounding barbarism of the music of Borodin, the lavish costumes in bold, fiery colors, and the surpass ing dance of Tamara Toumanova, terrifying in its elemental and barbaric furore, combined to form the most moving ballet of the eve ning. Baranova, the most touted of the four Ballerinas of the com pany, (Baranova, Toumanova, Dan ilova, and Riabouchinska I did not appear Monday evening in a solo dance. Of the entire company Tou manova was esily the most dra matic personality on the stage, al though her technique seemed in ferior to that of Danilova and Roa bouchinska. The entire perform ance told us that the ballet may be” just beginning a new era. Resume (Continued from Page One) vering of the advanced Japanese forces. The official Chinese central news agency reported the Japanese yes terday occupied the villages of Chiaochiaweitze and Yohochen, five miles east of Kuyuan, mean while withdrawing from Tung cnetze. Jury Convicts Denny PORTLAND — By a 10 to 2 vote, a circuit court jury today convicted Edward R. Denny, re puted Communist leader, of charg es of criminal syndicalism. Judge J. P. Stapleton announced 1 Denny would be sentenced Friday morning. This was the third con viction on criminal syndicalism ! charges of persons arrested here last summer in a series of raids of alleged Communist gatherings. Denny was accused of presiding at one of the gatherings. Again I See In Fancy - - By Frederic 8. Dunn — - And Nimrod Was A Mighty Hunter The happy little city of today can not appreciate how some of its beautiful residential districts were cnee swamp, or barren hillock, marooned in swamp. They say Rome was once just like that, therefore—but there is too much play somewhere in that “fallacy of ambiguous middle.’’ Anyway we had the swamps, all around us and right in our corporate limits. There was one in our front yard, sepa rating me from the girl o’ my dreams, such that my classmates would occasionally greet me with “My bonnie lies over the frog pond.” That’s right too, -— the frogs would keep us awake, of nights. Older residents will recall how Alder Street was simply an en trance into the country or a way to the two cemeteries, and that only two structures relieved that great expanse, the McMurray and Driver homes, which were miles cut from town, though now only on 18th, and 23rd streets. When ever I tramped out to Dr. Driver’s for milk and eggs, it seemed to take me hours in transit. And then there was the vast desert between the University knoll and Judkin’s Point, the dis trict we now know as Fairmount. Both the low lands to the west of Driver's, where the Amazon played at will, and to the cast of McMurray’s and on northward through Fairmount, would be transformed into great lakes in time of heavy rainfall. The ducks and geese knew all about it, long before the donation claims were surveyed and allotted on which Eugene now stands. Our first President knew it too. He had to go through some mud to get to the nearest sidewalk from his first home on West Broadway, just beyond Charnelton Street. A One gallon gasoline a week saved by engineering student CHOKE CUT 1/2 ON EACH COLD START Three cold starts every day with a saving of % cup per start saves a full gallon per week. At this rate, a motorist should get 126 to 252 extra gasoline miles during winter -p'Only Super-SHELL is Vs—" Thermalized. That means it is made to vaporize more ef fectively at lower temperatures. The result: you use the choke only half as long. And you can save up to a cupful of gasoline on every cold start. You even save in the mildest winter weather — and enjoy smoother, faster starts. Why not try Super-SHELL today? farm-bred boy before he traveled across the continent to Yale, his nostrils sniffed in the aroma of the watery lowlands around Eu gene. Unquestionably, too, he heard the honk of the geese as they swarmed so low overheaa. And our first President became a famous Nimrod. It was a regular practice of his, in the rainy season, to lose no time, after the close of Friday’s schedule, in donning big pocketed coat and high rubber boots and striking for the duck resorts in the Amazon or Fairmount districts. Many of his similies and meta phors were derived from his hunt ing experiences,—“the man that tried to pull himself over the fence I by his boot-straps,” "the hunter that swung his gun around as he discharged it, in order to bring down the entire flock.” On occasion President Johnson would invite a student to accom pany him, very frequently Bill Cardwell, '84, then rooming with Ben Beekman at Underwood Cas tle. They would start out on Fri day evening and sometimes not reappear until Sunday morning. And the President seldom permit ted any engagement, social or oth erwise, to interfere with those weekend duck-hunting expeditions. The two, Johnson and Cardwell, professor and student, would re turn weighted down under belts loaded with birds. Thereafter Cardwell, says B.B.B., the Under wood boarders would gorge them selves on duck or goose. Oh! Piffle, let's go mad! Behold what civilization hath wrought! Next in the series TOO MUCH PARALLAX. Send the Emerald to your friends. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING BEAUTY SALONS Individual finger waves, 35c. Love's Beauty Salon. Phone 991. DRESSMAKING PETITE SHOP 573 13th St. E. Phone 32w8 "Style Right—Price Right” NEW SHOP Aladdin Shop at White Elec tric Co. OREGON STUDENTS Have your car serviced cor rectly at Ernie Danner’s Asso ciated Service Station. "Smile As You Drive in '35.” Phone 1765. Corner 10th and Olive. 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