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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 dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in Ihit paper and also 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 \V. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. William E. Phipps Grant Thuemmel Editor Business Manager Hubert Lucas Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Parks Hitchcock, Fred Colvig Assistant Editors Malcolm Bauer. Barney Clark, Boh Moore, J. A. Newtoi\ Ann-Reed Burns, Dan E. Clark Jt. UPPER NEWS STAEF Clair Johnson . Assistant Managing Editor Reinhart Knudsen .-. News Editor Ned Simpson .—. Sports Editor Jtex uooper . iNignt urwei Ed Robbins . Telegraph (George Bikman .Radio Dan Maloney . Special /\nn*n««u uunis . *» PcKtcy Chessman . Society Dick Watkins . Features BUSINESS OFFICE MANAGERS Manager—brant J*. j neuin me l Assistant—Fred Fisher Executive Secretary — Jear Cecil Advertising Manager — Et Labile Assistant—Bill Jones Merchandising Manager— Eldoni Hnberman Assistant—Ed Morrow Assistant—inomw Assistant—Maude Long National Advertising Man ager—Fred Heidet Circulation Manager — Car roll Auld Classified Manager — Dorris Holmes Ses Sue — Virginia Welling ton Assistant—Patsy Neal Copy Man Ed Priaulx GENERAL STAFF Reporters: Wayne Harbcrt, Phyllis Adams, Signe Rasmiiflsen, Ruth Storla, Marjorie Kibbe, Helen Bartrum, Bob Powell. Jane Lagasaee, Charles Paddock, LeRoy Mattingly, Fulton Travis, Rhado Armstrong, IfalHo Dudrey, Norris Stone. Copyreaders; Victor Dallaire, Margaret Ray, Virginia Scoville, ; Dan Maloney, Margaret Veneea, Betty Shoemaker. Assistant Night Editors: Gladys Battleson, Genevieve McNiece, Betty Rosa, Louise Kruekman, Ellamae Woodworth, Ethyl Eyman. Betty McGirr, Marilyn Ebi, Helen Worth, Arlene ( Reynolds. Sporls Staff: Bill Mclnturff. Gordon Connelly, Don Casciato, | Jack Gllligan, Kenneth Webber. Women's Page Assistants: Margaret Petsch, Mary Graham. Betty Jane Barr, Helen Bartrum. Betty Shoemaker. Jay Editor ..Virginia Endicott Night Editor This Issue ...... Mohan V. Raj The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, published daily during the college year, except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, examination Reriods, all of December except the first seven days, all of [arch except the first eight days. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. In the Balance JflNAL outcome of the northern division basketball t'iiee now depends largely upon Oregon’s hustling Webfoorts. Bill lie in hart’s youthful anil lately bril liant tribe looms as the factor which may swing the fickle pennant pendulum either toward the outstretched arms of Oregon State’s Slats dill or within the reach of the grasping fingers of Washington’s Hoc Kd mundson. Buried deep in third place, far from the fop in the victory column, the spa.Vking Ducks can still control the spoils which heroic battling could not bring to them. No longer are the Web fonts regarded as arch-enemies by the flying Beavers. While dhe Orangemen will be pressed to the utmost to hold thier slim lead on their trying road trip when they meet Washington State and Idaho, the Ducks meet the Huskies Monday 'and Tuesday in the series that can turn the tide for or against the Gillmen. Four games in five days is no snap for a team that has been pressed as hard as State lias been by Oregon in the last sessions. The Vastcrn jaunt is anything but a nice ipiiet ^tarty, and the dope indicates that either the “Vandals or the. Cougars- or perhaps both will shave a game or two off that precious .Orange lead. If it will make Mr. dill rest any easier, we offer the prediction that Mr. Reinhart s fast-coming sophomore youngsters will break even against the pack in Seattle. Tim rejuvenated Ducks have been playing that kind of hard, fightingl basketball during these last few contests that .just can’t he | denied. It’s a great team that Oregon Inis right i now—great in every sense of the word since they found themselves after the mid-season slump. Win or lose Oregon has a right to he proud of the team find has worn the hemon ^ ellow into those last games against Wash ington and Oregon Stale hut we have a feeling that the Ducks are about to break into the win column again Monday or Tues day. And if Oregon State fails to hold its laurels on the road, it. may be the Web foots that will make it possible for Southern Cali fojnia s Trojans to fight for the coast title ill Corvallis instead of in Seattle. Maybe ll's Iowan Humor simply can't imagine ii happening al tile I ’niversify of Oregon, ami it is imt easy to accept seriously the orgaiiizntion or man im If 111 ot his duty to his count r\ to flic League for the Tromotion of War. No young man or young woman who has a drop of red blood in his or her virus, it seems to us, could even consider it seriously, since neither is so unthinking. unpatriotic nr unmindful n] hsi duty to las country to want to promote war -openly or otherwise by a league for that purpose. If 1 he organizers of (bis league are so misguided as to believe themselves standard bearers lor a group of \tiling collegians, we suggest that they go to a motion picture now being exhibited under the title. “The hirst World War. and then see how they feel about promoting war. Ur if this, is impossible, let them look through the hook ol war photographs under •the same title, noting part ieularh the three dramatic pictures labeled respectively, “This was a chuf'eli"; “This was a tree”; “This was a man/’ These suggestions, however, are not ad dressed to that stroug majority of students who have slum n in various ways that they are ueditdstd to the promotion oi peace. Their strength on the luhersity of Iona campus is nearly 10 to one, as is shown in figures from the Literary Digest peace poll tabulated recently so the the pro-war league still has a long way to go. On the surface, it seems to us that some young lowans are just hungry for publicity. OneMan’s Opinion ---Ry Stivers Y’ernon \\ 7"E do sincerely hope that British members * * of the bar did not see and hear all the things which were published about the Hauptmann trial. Our English cousins have some peculiar ideas concerning the solemnity and dignity with which the wheels of justice turn. They would probably be unable to understand the rah-rah methods which our American courts employ in a famous trial. In the first place a prosecutor would be speed ily evicted from the courtroom who would cry “Liar!" at the accused. The idea behind the prosecuting attorney’s shriek was of course, to impress the jurors with the fact that the accused was uttering falsehoods in his own defense. Nor would a defense counsel be permitted to have his client arise upon receiving a signal and scream “Mister, mister, you are lying." Pretty canny work from the American standpoint but wholely disgraceful from the British. We repeat, we hope the British barristers didn't see the account of those scenes in the peper. They would certainly have a good laugh at American court methods. Such incidents should cause the face of all good American citizens to turn a bright and unmistakable scarlet. A page in the London Illustrated News shows the principals in the Hauptmann trial, including the defendant, his chief counsel, the prosecuting attorney and the presiding judge. Elsewhree in the issue are pictures of certain members of the British bench and bar. Boy! If we were accused of some nasty deed we’d certainly hate to have those old chaps on our trail. They'd tie a can to the tail of a criminal before our American courts had selected a jury. The contrast between the stern and impartial faces of the English men and the boyish, happy go-lucky demeanor of the Americans was too great to escape notice. It made us feel vaguely ashamed. As our contribution toward the fight on crime we move that a few score British judges and several hundred British barristers be imported to preside over the trials of American criminals. There would be fewer killers in jail and a lot more of them under the sod where they belong. The Hauptmann trial jurors association will shortly take the stage. Since the trial the mem bers of the jury have organized and will shortly appeal' in a New York theater at so much per so many. It we weren't accustomed to such proceedings we would be definitely shocked. As it is, we can only shake our read wearily and wonder what will happen next. As we have said a thousand times more or less- the reflection is not so much upon the actual participants although goodness knows they show their caliber pretty plainly by ■-hell action but upon the blear-eyed public which demands such exhibitions. It is a shocking com mentary upon not only the intelligence but upon the decadent morals of the American people. If we believed that all Americans were so slushy minded as to care about seeing such notorious characters as the Hauptmann jurors, we would forthwith prophesy the decay of the American nation in the very near future. Thank heaven, there are a great number of levelheaded citizens to whom such exhibitions are not only repugnant but to whom the action of the jurors is an insult. The Passing Shoiv TRAIN MEN I’Oli CIVIL SERVICE ITH new problems confronting the govern ment, there has been a demand for men better trained and educated to take part in public administration. For the present these demands have been met by members of the “brain trust.” but they can be temporary government advisers only. As a result, a second demand is being real ized, that for permanent additions to the supply of trained and competent public servants. The recent report of President. Coffman's com mittee on public service personnel made, among others, the following recommendations: "exten sion of civil service requirements to appointive offices in both national and local government, repeal of residence laws pertaining to geographic apportionments of appointments, and repeal of limitations on terms of service for reasons other than incompetency." These recommendations are intended to bring action to end the spoils and patronage systems now prevailing. They may be acted upon soon by Congress. A bill will be brought before the house which provides for placing all new positions made necessary by the New Deal under civil service requirements, it is contemplated that il be retro active, but it may meet with opposition on this score; yet it deserves support of responsible con gressmen. It widespread civil service requirements were put into effect, elections could be simplified by making more offices appointive, thus placing great powers, and yet great responsibility, in the hands of a few individuals. Preferential voting could then become effective. These new possibilities suggest rising stand aids, which can only be met by education and training of young men for public civil service. Already the- govemnent has appropriated vast sums lor education. More specific recognition, however, of llye need for trained men is that made by the Nutional Institute of Public Affairs. The institute, among other activities, is now offering three-month interne-hips in public administration to university students. These interneships arc available to graduates and undergraduates of high schulutship, who have demonstrated marked interest in polities and government. U ttb these new trends in the preparation of public servants we may see the administration ot the increasingly grave problems of government placed m more competent hand Wo train young ' : '• mllit tr service W !•„. not train them lor public civil service? -Minnesota Daily. Take Your Choice Editor's note: Below in the column to the left are the objections to last Saturday's Emerald story presented by certain members of the optional fee group who attended the meeting. These statements are held by those members to be an accurate account of the session. They were hunded to the Emerald with the request that they be ! printed late Thursday night by Howard Ohmart. Below in the column to the right are the exact words of the Emerald news story which has been charged as “distorting the facts” and “misrepresentation.” They are herewith presented to Emerald readers: It was definitely announced at the Friday night optional fee meeting that at least 200 signers had been obtained on the petitions for voluntary membership. The statement regarding frater nity and sorority coercion in com pelling students to join the ASUO was made by Charles Paddock, re porter for the Emerald. Dick Neu berger agreed with his remark. Dick Neuberger did not say that optional membership was respon sible for the increase in enrollment. He said the coincidence of events was interesting to notice, but def | initely declared the former was i rot responsible for the latter. I At no time during the meeting was it stated that Dick Neuberger was to lead a group to Corvallis to obtain signers at the state college. Although information was lacking | as to the exact number of signers obtain on the campus here, esti mates ranged from 50 to 200. Although information was lack ing as to the exact number of sign ers obtained on the campus here, estimates ranged from 50 to 200. Declaring that optional student body fees were responsible for a large share of the increase in Uni versity enrollment this fall and that most of those students now paying fees were forced to do so by the fraternities and sororities, Richard N. Neuberger appealed to the 20 students answering his call for a mass meeting last night in the Y hut to join in the campaign against the Wheeler bill which would provide for restoration of compulsory fees to the campuses of the state. Petitions circulated on the cam pus yesterday were taken to Cor vallis last evening in an attempt to add names of state college stu dents of the same opinion in the matter. From Corvallis Neubergei and an undetermined number of followers were to go to Salem to appear before the house education al committee Saturday morning. Rhapsody In Ink - Uy fhe octopus —asa TIME BOUNCES ON. Art The Octopus has been receiving numerous little ‘billet-doux’ from "Eye Witness" who claims to have all the dope on the Hug-Wagner auto camp feud. Octi busied him self yesterday and after three quarters of an hour swimming 1 around the men's swimming pool, discovered the "Peeping Tom of the Golden Star” to be Chuck (Little Goona) Reed, Beta breast stroke ace. Aviation Out of the night came a mu sical tunc last midnight: “Voo hoo Sigma Nus, good night!” A cute tune. The Gamma Phis spouted it. However, out of the night came another sound: The sound of a bird—the bronx cheer type. The girls laughed loud. Again came the noise. The girls played lights on a nearby men’s rooming house. Two gallant men were outlined in a window minus prop er attire. Who were tin* men? Only the Gamma Phis know and they won’t tell—selfish girls. Theatres Scene: the Green Parrot coke factory. Char a c t e r s : Daryl Evans, handsome Kappa Sis' hero, and a telephone. Action: “Hello, hello! Yes, this is the Green Parrott—yes, we deliver. Let’s see—two liani luirg'ers. What did you say the name was—Mary Spiller? S-P I-L-L-E-R? Well what’s the ad dress? Mary Spiller? No! No! What’s the address?” (That one has Oeti groggy!) Dirt will no longer grace our column! Last night Octi received this letter from our editor with admonitions to cease libel and dirt unless it was too good to keep out. Dear Bid: May 1 call your atten tion to the following excerpts from B’riday's Emerald: After such an apparently well planned campaign the DG’s must have been disappointed to have failed in even a small part of their plan. JIM W A ITS says that he did n't know what he was getting into when he planted his pin on BETTY JEllERS last week, (i’/iMiV turn (a (Httjc jour) Answers (1) Sit, till. CD Switzerland, (d) Three — Susanna, Hamlet, and Judith. (1) Beat Pennsylvania It to 0. Lost to Harvard 7 to (i. (at Stromboli, (til Ireland. (7) 11107-08. (8) .Name of man who peeked at Lad\ tied!' > (!•' IJjn 'id. (10) 111 per ci ut. Irate Father of 5 Flays Laurence Editor, the Emerald: Came to my hand this day a copy of the Emerald of Feb. 6th, and note the article, "Our Oregon Girls.” Wish to ask who is this fellow who signs himself “Laur ence Lawrence.” I surely would like to see him coming into my of fice looking for a job after he is through with his very degrading position of mud-slinging. Does he think that all our girls come from mortgaged homes and fifteen-cent society? How about his own back ground ? It is plainly to be seen that he has never reach the first grade in the common decency and respect due the sex who are re sponsible for the very foundation of civilization. Don't worry, Laur ence, you will not be led into mat rimony by these level-headed girls, even though, they were sent to Oregon instead of California, where men are men, and do not need to bo told so. I have two sons who graduated from Oregon and if I ever thought they were guilty of expressing so low an opinion of our fair girls, I would disown them. In passing, will say this is not very good advertising for your school. It should also be borne in mind that a great many fathers of girls pay taxes to give you this school, and I'm sure your uncalled for attack on the girls will not be very well received by them. By a Father of two boys and three girls. Portland, Ore. Opposes Coercion Editor, the Emerald: Your news item in today’s Em erald, entitled "Rigid Enforcement of Colorful Oregon Traditions to Begin," interested me very much as a fine illustration of how thor : oughly national and international ! phychology permeates all groups and proceeds in much the same way always. The mood of the pub lic in all countries seems ready to i yield to fascism and to accept | somebody’s dictum as to what shall or shall not be done. A small group ! of men under a leader gets togeth | er and draws up rules for others j to obey. Oddly enough, the others do obey. Is it not a pity, though, that this spirit should crop up here at Oregon and take the place of the much older western attitude of “live and let live"? Why not let: students, and even freshmen, wear and do what they please while at! the University, so long as they re main well within those widely ac-' cepted limits of living and conduct ? The fascistic conformists will get! them all soon enough when they, are launched in the great business i of earning a living. Tradition is! not tradition if it has to be backed up by decrees or any sort of coet - ■ [cion. These ten rules mentioned are' I not tradition if they must be en-i | forced. Traditions are automatic! and go their way unnoticed .except by the outsider to whom they arc I unfamiliar. RAY T. BOWEN, llugcnc. Oregon. i.-cuJ the Eiatrald !o yom friends j subscription raleo K'.bO a year. In Washington's Day YOU'RE GOlKiG TOO far! YOU'RE MOT GOIMG FAR £NOUGH» I I Sir John Simon’s Hand Across the Sea -- Bv Edward Price Bell - - Editor’s note: This interview with the British foreign secre tary is the second of a series written by Edward Price Bell about prominent European states men for the Association of Col lege Editors and the Literary Digest. A strategist and tactician, a thinker, basic, acute, thorough, logical, lucid, a,great lawyer, per haps the greatest lawyer his coun try has produced in our day, Sir John Simon, British secretary of state for foreign affairs, is, at this moment, at the pinnacle of his mo ral, intellectual, and diplomatic ^jower. Sir John has been in parliament, altogether, a quarter of a century, unchangeably a Liberal. Leader of the National Liberals, the largest Liberal group in the house of commons, and closely as sociated with the conservatives (more and more of whom are be coming' National in spirit), he is seen by some as prime minister in a future National government. Not a few persons believe, and it often is said, that Sir John Simon is Jewish, and rich. He is neither. He comes of English and Welsh non-conformist stock. Simple Man of Potver What does this secretary of state for foreign affairs in his admir ably-placed watch-tower, a senti nel observing the down of 1935, think of the look of the world? He will reply in terms not unlike these: "Blue patches grow somewhere larger in the international sky. We have passed through a year—1934 —of quite exceptional strain and danger, and yet the general peace of the world has been preserved. “Selective alliances and special Music Notes From Hither and Yon By Dick Watkins Emerald Feature Editor HERE AND THERE. Johnny Green and his orchestra have just moved into the swank St. Regis in N. Y., replacing' Fred die Martin . . . Green who is a for mer Lombardo arranger, was re sponsible for such swell hit tunes as “Body and Soul,” “I Cover the Waterfront,” “Out of Nowhere” and “Easy Come, Easy Go” . . . Jack Denny and Hal Kemp are r.ow doing most of the announcing for their respective broadcasts . . . work will be started soon on a S>500,000 campus theater at Stan ford university . . . Fancy that! Jack Fulton, late of Paul White man's troupe and buddy of Bing Crosby, now has his own band play ing over CBS and does his own vo cals . . . Crosby persuaded him to give up the trombone for singing . . . Have any of you been notic ing the similarity of style between the Williams-Walsh band from the Mark Hopkins and Anson Weeks at the St. Francis? . . . Williams was former arranger for Meeks while Walsh was ditto on the trom bone . . . Two operas are clue to be broad cast today from the Metropolitan . . . one is the revival of Pergolies’s 200 year old comic opera, “La Ser va Padrona,” and other is Done iLetti's familiar opera, “Don Pas quale,” with Lucrezla Bori and Tito Schipa singing' the leading roles . . . tliis broadcat starts at 10:55 a. m. over the NBC . . . Another good bet today over the NBC is Sigmund Romberg’s program at 5:00 p. m., featuring an original sketch on the life of George Wash ington with music specially com posed by Romberg . . . other music \x ill in elude selections by Elgar. Gounod. Lehur, and Romberg’s own "Blossom Time" . . . Three sororities are the only tongs tossing shindigs this eve. with Sherwood Burr and his wolves again being on the gravy train piping the mu-ic foi all three (Please tuni to page jour) The Curious Cub “Nice people in a nice way.” Young Bruin, in search of some one interesting, appealing, yet not spectacularly'“’wen-known,'* came upon Velma McIntyre who was fencing with Henriette Horak— the weapons were heavy rulers and it was a spirited combat. Velma was born December 11, 1913, in Milwaukie, Oregon, which is still her home town. She is a journalism major, in her junior year. She has gray-green eyes, is brunette, and always seems to be going somewhere in a hurry, her hair flying. For a hobby, she likes people. “I don't do anything else; I don't col lect stamps, or keep a scrap book—” she broke off and laughed, shrugging helplessly- “what else do people do for hobbies?” Velma enjoys sports in general with tennis in particular. She said: "I used to be able to beat people, but I can't any more.” Velma never tries to play herself up. Al ways she is in the background, working steadily and lending a helping hand wherever possible, but because she is quiet a great deal of the time doesn't mean she has no ideas of her own. Concern ing the University, she remarked; “I think it's an experience, but I'd like to see it changed. Classes 1 bore me; I'd like to have a univer sity where assignments are given out and professors are friends and fellow workers. Classes. I believe, only serve to interfere with a per son's attempts at following down some particular vein of informa tion which interests him. Of course, it does broaden the mind if you are interested at all in other people's ideas." Her reading discrimination is al so highly intelligent: "I like Shel ley—a little—although he's usual ly too sentimental, and I DON'T like Edgar Guest.” As a partiug shot at Young Bruin: "—and I've never been a camp-fire girl, although 1 do weal white shuts and red tics:" I i combinations, with little opportun ity for friendly and rapid general consultation, have given way to something much better: interna tional consultation, regular, syste matized, and everywhere used for purposes of peace. This, I think, is a big blue patch in the sky.” Sir John has not had, invariably, a sympathetic British press re specting his work at the foreign of fice. He has been suspected, ap parently, in some quarters, of a lack of enthusiasm fur the League of Nations. It would seem, however, that these interpretations are yielding to fuller knowledge of what he has done. Certain it is that one listen ing to him detects no suggestions of lukewarmness toward the league, or lack of fervor for peace “We enter 1935 with our confi dence in the League confirmed,” said Sir John. “Whatever its de defects may be, it is ihe world’s main bulwark against war. Its de fects are capable of correction. ‘Let There Be Peace’ “Powerful nations now not in it, (Please turn to page three) CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING BEAUTY SALONS Distinctive finger waves, 35c. Love's Beauty Salon. Phone 991. DRESSMAKING PETITE SHOP 573 13th St. E. Phone 3208. “Style Right—Price Right” LOST February 14, between Oregon building and Mill street, three flat keys on small chain. Re ward. Apply Emerald business office. LOST One cowboy boot, finder please call Frank Bounds, phone 865-W. Reward. SERVICE HAVE your car serviced cor rectly at Ernie Danner’s As sociated Service Station. Unex celled personal service. ‘‘Smile as you drive in ’35.” Phone 1765. Corner 10th and Olive. 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