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Educate the Politician JN .11)08 President Charles William Idiot of Harvard university hart it in mind to in clude in tin* school a department for the instruel ion and preparation of students for public office. This idea resulted in the pres ent school of business administration at Har vard. More recently that school planned to in struct students in the l ine points of handlin'; government business ventures. Hut. as yet there is no material develop ment of the idea for preparin'; students for public office. In fuel, there lias been little done a I oil}; this line in the whole country, lei alone in the institutions of higher learning. There is one privately financed venture known as the National Institute of Public Atlairs which devotes itself particularly to training students lor public office. It is now considering applications from students at many colleges and universities, including this I Diversity, for internships in Wash iugton, I). ('. during l'Yhruary and March for practical experience in government business in preparation lor leadership in public ef fairs. ’I’his is the only hint of any instruction in political leadership which has been given any wide circulation. Polities is a rather uncertain profession to adopt, as lar as making a living at it is concerned. So uncertain is it, in fact, that it is practically useless to seek public office " itliout leisure and a high pressure publicity agent, and both ot these call for mimev, which very few potentially capable politic ians have. Without doiihl l here arr many vmin^* uicii with l lie,sc iptaliI ic;i | ions and aspira tions in lliis mill otlier universities. W'h\, then, sliould they not have aviiilalilc. at least in some institutions, courses which are dc voted to the |>rc|>nration id' capable, inlelli Sent men and women for public office'/ I ntorlunately the principal reipiisite these (lays for public office is to yet in the public eye. _( Wit .ness the unbelievable polit ical po\\ cr which lluey Lony Inis crabbed for himself.) Such political drimiyoyties would not llourish under a system which includes edit cation in politics. They would either be trained to til their positions or he unable to cope with the competition in public life. t ivili/.at ion is based upon the amount of usetul knowledge which one jrencratiou can luind down to the next. Sootier or later ii will lie realized that political experience will have to be handed on. just as is experience in business, science, farmiuy, medicine or anv of the innumerable fields for which men piipaie themselves duriiiy a colleye course. Mnlu-riuliiuc Oils Havr “JSl III -MAN individual starts as a single cell which contains a yroup of jjoucs. rather more than half of which lie obtained from his unit her and the remainder from his lather. Ibis is his or her inheritance." explained IH*. h. U. Lluestis, professor of zoology, speaking before a student croup the other ni ' y '-t i in association with pica: and- e,' citi,.;. yi yup • of c«Us ox anotkei and ■where higlibrowed, horiiriinmedglassed groups of colls throw btmdlcs of blackspnck )<>d celulose cells at it until it is thought that its cells have fallen into an order deserving to clutch a scrolled group of cells certified by the almoHthiglmsgodnlmighty group of cells that run the college and it is sent out to mingle with all the other groups of cells which swarm over the infinite number of cells that make the world. And he may wind up by not proving any reading Winc.fiell and McIntyre, listens to Eddies ('‘antor et Wynn, rides in elevators, streetcars, subways, automobiles, aeroplanes, dirigibles, submaries, etc., etc., becomes like all the other groups of cells, and marries another group of cells, and produces loads and loads of oilier groups of cells until it finally shuffles off for a final mingling with all the groups of cells that are only dust on the great terranri n group of cells which was once only a singh cell. And lie may wind up by not pricing any t hing. Hut of course this is only the raving of a yawningwithspring group of cells at mid termtime. Asleep in llie Deep TTSI AHLY, sea tragedies are fairly well ^ spared out. and llie furor of public in dignation over one Inis died out before the next occurs. In the last few monlhs. however, we have had three major ship wrecks, two appalling in 1 heir loss of life, and all of them oceitring to the same company. Obviously, something is wrong, and there is a public anxiety, especially among college students, to discover where the blame belongs. It does not belong wholly on the should ers of the shipowners. True, the crews they select are inexperienced, undrilled in fire fighting and life-saving, the equipment is poorly inspected, seldom used (only one life boat on the “ Morro Castli-" had been out of its chocks since 1IK10), and insufficient for the large number of passengers. Hill the real seat of the trouble is uol there. It lies in the fact that the public de mands luxury, large lounges.•elaborate quar ters. and gigantic boats, in which the pro portion of seamen to passengers is so small as to preclude the possibility of adequate control in an emergency. The shipowners are business men, and they give the public what, it demands. If would Ik* lidal to any one company to install tin* safety devices now proven and available, because the devices would restrict 11n* luxury, the si/e. and thus the false sense of security now provolant. The present precarious condition can be rectified, we believe, without excessive gov eminent control. long legislative process, bickering, lobbying, and lopheavy connnit Iees of invest igation. A tentative proposal advanced by Ad miral Win. S. Sims seems entirely feasible. The only necessary legislative act is to create a law requiring every steamship company to insure t he life of every passenger tor some thousands of dollars before I he ship is al lowed to leave the dock. The rest can be left up to tin* insurance companys without the slightest fear of the outcome. An unsound, ill-equipped ship, with a poorly trained crew would have no more chance ol obtaining insurance than a man in the last stages of liearl disease. And with out insurance il couldn't sail. This method might work a hardship on the shipowners at lirst. but between the profits of an individ ual and Ihe saving of human life there should be small choice. ___ II all the people in the slate who broke j frallic rules were laid end to end. we could walk easier. —--—. - | The Passing Show IHANCIOLLOK KKI.KCTION KULVVKl) rTMIK report from the Portland meeting of the state board of higher education that the selee j tion of a new chancellor must be again delayed j is hardly news. It's like the old fable of “the man biting the dog"; when a chancellor is selected it will be news, indeed. Meanwhile Chancellor W. J. Kerr waits impatiently for the promised retire ment, or so it is presumed. Nevertheless patience is tlie only prescription I for those who have endured for more than two years. II is imperative to regard the very prac tical difficulties which confront the state board. For what the state of Oregon is able to offer, it is not easy to attract really first class men. It probably will be necessary to pass entirely over the lists ot experienced college and university presidents and make the selection from among youngei and relatively untried men. Such a selec tion must be made with the greatest care and it consumes time. Furthermore, unpleasant as it may be to face the fact, it is diiticult for the board to make any very specific offers to any man till after the legislature has tixed the appropriations for the coming two years. And there is the additional difficulty ol obtaining a strong majority in the board itself. there may have to bo somo changes in tho j board before anything constructive can be ac i eomplished. Tlioro are some members who would bo well pleased, to prolong tho present situation i indefinitely without change There are others whose absences have made it difficult to get cou ; sistent amt i oneerted action at meetings. The 1 recent appointment of Mrs. Kent rice Walton Sai'kett will -trcngtlien the boaid in this respect, but positive actum will be difficult till there ate ! nun members regularly m attendance at all nioet j ihgs. Nevertheless, there is hope that this long ! deferred aetion will not be delayed beyond the i coming June. If it is so delayed, it will be difficult i l" best rain accusal ions of bad faith which will I create turmoil m the system. Oe.-pito all the glowing reports ot accomplish' meuts, there wdl be no real progress m those chools til 1 the ■:: ^: ii:! i".-." > > n... j ..g,.. | Map i lutiillcu.-Lu.t-ur lv-0i.iter-Guard. The Day’s Parade _____ By Parks Hit-'hoock _ Hails in the RFC cpdlE administration, with an ob j vious eye cocked toward gov I ernment ownership and control of public service operations has of re cent months loosened the bank I ruptcy laws with the hope that J delinquent and unsuccessful carrier I agents v/ill carry their failures fee i the government via the RFC. Government Ownership? Although Transportation Co j ordinator Joseph B. Eastman pub licly announces that the govern ment has no mind to take over the I railroads, acute capitol observers are not so sure. At any rate, they feel that if the bankrupt railroads prefer to go into government re ceivership rather than trust their i management or liquidation to pri vate boards and private capital, i that the administration is not go ing to frown upon them. Wheeler Speaks Senator Burton K. Wheeler (who by the bye is chairman of the in j terstate commerce committee! is not so bashful about sponsoring federal ownership; he believes that j if the railroads can’t be run suc cessfully under private capital j that the government should take | them over and insure the people of proper transportation facilities. Rails Hard Hit Railroads have been loud in their complaints during the years of the depression; they claim that they have been hit harder than any oth er industry; in many districts lines have been suspended and the num I ber of operating trains cut down. Bar to Fluctuation Senator Wheeler and other of his mind believe that if the rail roads were stabilized and run with out exorbitant profit in times of prosperity that a large hunk will be cut out of the pie of those speculators who make their living by fluctuations, and that equaliz ing the profits of one of the na tion's largest businesses will tend to keep busines as a whole on an even keel. Information from a high gov ernment official discloses that a supreme court ruling on the Gold Clause may be issued Saturday, • with the ultimate result that na tional traders cannot profit by the outcome, whether it be in accord with or adverse to the administra tion, and foreign traders can profit hugely due to the fact that United States citizens will celebrate Lin coln’s birthday by closing banks and stock exchanges. Effect on Stock Market Without any ruling on the gold clause, stocks have been dropping steadily. Of course this is in ac cord with the common opinion that the supreme court can do! nothing else except rule adversely to the administration policies, i. e., that of dollar inflation. Still, in our opinion it would not be wise to render the decision Sat urday, because, after all, the de cision has been withheld in order that the administration officials may devise some feasible plan whereby the government can re coup, and by rendering the decision Saturday, the supreme court would absolutely do away with any fi | nancial gain on the part of the American stock traders and actu ally give all profits to foreign trad ers. Administration's Coup According to "high up" officials, however, the administration has some plan whereby no actual loss will be incurred by the government, but still great losses are likely to be incurred on the domestic stock market. The only possible reasons where by the supreme court could render a favorable decision would be those of common welfare and ex pediency and not wishing to put the administration on the spot, and i he only way it can withhold the decision is by the latter reason. Tax oil Speculation If the decision is rendered Sat urday. however, high officials have advocated a 95 per cent tax on all domestic stock and bond transac tions in order to suppress foreign speculation and profit. Domestic Traders Prayer In the event of such a decision Saturday, all that domestic trad ers can hope for is such a tax. Any other movement by the Democratic influence which is at present very prevalent would necessarily do much toward putting them in dis favor with the big financial kings oi tliis "free country” and thereby cause them to lose a great many followers. C race Moore Bi« Hit at Auto Show lt\ Dick Watkins Emerald Feature Editor Here, there and everywhere— A few short glimpses in tune with our times; Grace Moore, of "One Might of Love" fame was tecently paid .$5,000 for nK”0-min juate duly appearance at the San 1 Francisco auto show . . the auto | show lasted for eight days so fig j tire it out for yourself . . . The American premiere or Fratu Lc • ' " 1 } ’ • i » !\» ^ . itini jlroddcsst la.! mouth over the MLc was apparently very successful judging from comments sent in from all over the U. S. and will soon be due for a repeat perform ance . . . just for good measure, v. e’ll remind you that Lehar com posed the “Merry Widow,” recent ly made into a film . . . A radio fan recently sent in the following letter to one of the big agc 3) r Ladies, You've Our Sympathy’ Editor, the Emerald: This, male-shemale argument is getting nowhere. And, indeed, why should it? Tired of writing trivial ities, blurbing meetings to which no one was attracted, blowing up propagandist balloons which caused no flurry in their flight, one of your writers decided that, by God! someone was going to pay some at tention to something she wrote. Re sult: an attack on the male of the species. I submit a poem from Ted Cook's column anent poetesses, which, by substituting gal reporters for ver sifiers, might cover the subject: Those ladies who, with nimble pen, Deride in verso the ways of men, Arouse in us a male desire To know the girls who go through fire Anti brimstone for some worthless male, And, scorched, it down to write and wail In neat and salable quatrain; And then get scorched and write again. Miss Fishlauk, Jacobson, and count less more who don’t think men amount To much, attack us, rifles primed With sad reproach, quite nicely rimed. For men are very seldom true, And never to a lady who Is sure to mold them into verse; \\ ho breaks her heart to swell her purse! Ah, ladies, you’ve our sympathy, For what a hell your life must be! Or are the men who've done you wrong Existent, only in your song? A CONSTANT READER Our Oregon Girls Editor, the Emerald: Glorious they are. those glorious creatures who call themselves Ore gon women. Truly we are humbled, being only those unwanted males who come to college in search of attain ing that called education which, if properly applied, may be the pre cious basis for acquiring that which makes us so attractive to the opposite sex. We mould ourselves, build our selves that we may lure the woman of our dreams. We place our wo men upon a pedestal and do hom age to the exalted goddesses from the lowly depths from when ce we bow our heads in profound worship. That is our attitude that results from the environment of the Amer ican adolescent. That is the atti tude that results from our reading and thinking during the formative ages. Then we come to college that we may achieve the things that shall make life beautiful and happy. Im mediately we are confronted by those pulchritudinous Oregon wo men of whom legend abounds. First, disillusion creeps into our fevered brains and our gentle hearts, then follows sadness. Our picture of Oregon women, real, human, understanding becomes but a distant memory. Instead we are confronted by giddy daughters of small-bore, fifteen-cent society folk, who mortgage homes and businesses that their sweet child may derive every benefit of a col lege education with a fur coat and shiny car for which she may be pledged to a sorority, and so snare some hapless, sophomoric Lothario before she finishes her freshman year. Those are the Oregon women good sports, regular that should be showered with our affections. And someone wondered what ails Oregon men! Sincerely, Laurence Lawrence. SATISFIED CLASSIFIED. “GET IT?” - - - - -.— .- — — — A Again I See In Fancy — -By Frederic S. Dunn - Was It at Dunn’s or McCIung’s The very mention of 'Lish Apple gate is suggestive of “that reminds me.” He belongs to that twilight between the prehistoric and the au thentic, with the savor of both clinging to him. A very real per sonage, he yet is invested with an aura of the unreal which seems to require substantiation and affida vit. For example, there has arisen an error in the literature surround ing him that involves a confusion between the two Applegates, Elisha and Jesse. They were quite differ ent characters, Jesse having noth ing in common with 'Lish or the University, save that he was uncle to the former. The true story of the startling part Elisha played in the subscription list has been edi torially ascribed to Jesse by those who did not know the real setting. The greater fame of Jesse and the larger role he assumed in the pio neer life of the Oregon Territory have tended to concentrate atten tion upon him and to eliminate the name of Elisha who had no such standing in the community but who did own a spectacular, if somewhat ludicrous, element in the founding of the University. Like the fabled "wise men of Notting ham," ’Lish Applegate saved the University in a very real crisis. The preservation of a sketch in profile of Jesse Applegate among the archives of the University has led me to fear that the contusion is rather general. We should have a portrait of 'Lish, but it would be difficult to p'aint him now, just as it is impossible to describe him. Then this same dimmed recollec tion has thrown a controversial air about the scene of that signing of the subscription list. I have al ways heard that it was in my fath er's store and certainly must have derived the impression from ac counts given me by my parents or my elder sisters. But last spring, at the Annual Ladies' Night of the Round Table, Judge Laurence T. Harris, '93, followed his admirable discussion of the pioneer legislative ventures of Oregon with a refer ence to this famed incident w7hen 'Lish Applegate sealed the sub scription with a sum that every one knew was an impossibility for him. The burden of Laurence’s sum mary wras that this occurred in Mc Clung’s store, his authority being Chris Marx, who got it from T. G. Hendricks, both now deceased. 1 have made much inquiry among those who could remember, who either can not now recall the exact provenance, or emphatically name Dunn’s. J. H. McClung had not yet moved to Eugene to join the firm known so long as Mc Clung and Johnson, or the Grange Store, where the Tiffany-Davis Building now stands. Underwood . (3) Wiliiam Henry Harrison. (4) Jefferson Davis. (5) Yes. (6) Twice. (1) Sidney 15. Wood. (8) >lt. I>elee. (9) Nevada. (10) February 23, 1894. Kirby Kittoe, LL.B. ’32, is now associated with the law firm of Beach, Simon and Greene, Pacific building, Poitland. C. H. Greene, firm member, received his LL.B. degree from Oregon in 1916. Send the Emerald to your friends. Subscription rates $2.50 a year.