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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
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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!
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