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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon EDITORIAL OFFICES: Journalism building. Phene 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 lor publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited tu •his 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 K. 42nd St,, New York City; 123 \V. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San rrancisco. William K. Phipps % Grant Thuemroei Editor Business Manager Robert Lucas Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Parks Hitchcock, Fred Colvig Assistant Editors Malcolm Hauer, Btirney Clark, Bub Moore, J. A. Newton Ann-Reed Burns, Dan E. Clark Jr. UPPER NEWS STAFF Clair Johnson . Assistant Managing Editot Reinhart Knudsen- .-.-. News Editor Ned Simpson ... Sports Editor Rex Cooper . Night Chief Ed Robbins ... Telegraph George Bikman . Radio Dan Maloney . Special Ann-Reed burns . Women Mary Graham . Society Dick Watkins . Features BUSINESS OFFICE MANAGERS Assistant—r red r »sner Executive Secretary — Jean Cecil Advertising Manager — Ed Labbe Assistant—Bill Jones Merchandising Manager— Eldon Habcrman Assistant—Ed Morrow Assistant—Cliff Thomas ASBifliuni/—.uauue L.on g National Advertising Man ager—Fred Heidel Circulation Manager — Car roll Auld Classified Manager- Dorris Holmes Sez Sue — Virginia Welling ton Assistant—Patsy Neal Copy Man Ed Priaulx GENERAL STAFF Reporters: Wayne Hartort, I'hyllis Adams, Signe Rasmussen, Ruth Storla, Marjorie Kibbe, Helen Bartrum, Rob l’owell, Jano Lagassee, Charles Paddock, LeRoy Mattingly, Fulton Travis, Ha Hie Dudley, Norris Stone, A1 Fajardo. Copyreaders: Victor Dallaire, Margaret Ray, Virginia Scoville, Dan Maloney, Margaret Venesa, Petty Shoemaker. Assistant Night Editors: Gladys Battleson, Genevieve McNiece, Betty Rosa. Louise Kruckman, Ellanine Woodworth, Ethyl Eyman, Betty McGirr, Marilyn Ebi. Sports Stair: Bill Mclnturff, Gordon Connelly. Don Casciato, Jack Gilligan, Kenneth Webber, Tom McCall. Women’s Page Assistants: Margaret Petsch, Mary Graham, Betty Jane Barr, Helen Bartrum, Betty Shoemaker. Night Editor This Issue ...Rex Cooper 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 At the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, J2.S0 a year. Opportunity for the Senior Class ? | 'IIEKE an* many direcl and indirect re lationsliips liHwccn (lie University and tin* city of Eugene. Of Ihose which may In* classified as direct is beautification. t is impossible to underestimate the value of beautiful surroundings from the stand points of (“ither I lie University or of Eugene. Concentrated alti'iition upon Kugene’s parks directed by various civic and service organization* in close cooperation with the city council, the water board and tin* county court. In Ibis movement the l rni versity has played an important part as il should. Dr. DeCou as chairman of commerce park com niittec has contributed a great driving and organizing force for a more beautiful city. Professor Ciitbbert lias offered valuable artistic and technical guidance in landscap ing. University students have been commis sioned to play important roles in improving the county park blocks in (lie court bouse a rea. Hut in spite of the progress made so far. as Editor Anderson points out in an editorial reprinted from the Morning News under the Passing Show, needs still exist. Directly affecting the University is tin* sad appearance of its “back floor" Agale street, which borders the tennis courts and Hayward field. Equally important and even more dis tasteful to the eye is the east front of the graveyard which faces University street and Me Arthur court. Nothing has been done to beautify the parking strip or llu* weed covered bank. Nothing lias been done to screen the graveyard from pnssersby. Dr. DeCou and Professor Cuthberl favor the use of adaptable evergreen shrubs which do not demand the expensive irrigation and attention that lawn requires. Doth the Agate street parking strip and the University area, between the women’s building and Isth street could lie made beautiful at small cost by the use of shrubs. The senior class is looking for a suitable gift to present to the University. Where could a like amount of money be put to such advantage as in living green monuments which would attest to the glory of the class of d.'i on .Agate and University st reels? Wanderer domes Nome /'Ad4K(iON S own explorer eomes back to ^ his iilnni nmter. Amos Bury, one ol' the most fittnous of flii> nation s votin'’' explorers ami ad venturers, will wen ye tin1 lure ol' ilie sens, the romance of the world wanderer about bis audience of students and towns people wben he tells them of strange Imp pollings in far-away places today and to morrow at the Colonial theatre. Many men have gone from the academic fold of the I diversity to become nationally famous. ()ne of the most noted of these is Amos Burg. Knrollod in the 11 uivarsity from Id'Jti to lb’js, Mr. Burg majored in joirrualism. A victim of wanderlust since he was I I. he left Oregon and set out on another of his now famous .journeys. Since that time he lias been commissioned by the National tieograplin* magazine and has written several artciles for this leading pietorial periodical lie is a member of the most exclusive explorers’ club in America, the Kxpluivrs’ Club of Now York, lie is a friend and con fidant of Crank Buck. Admiral Bird, and of many other explorers ami fellow members of this elull. Mr. Burg is tall, slender, with brown hair and blue eyes that are sel in ,i uuucd and weather beaten face, lb has a charming personality, - diffident and modv. t about liis travels. When lie can be per uaded to ’ tell stories of Li is fascinating wanderings, lie can spin a web of enchantment for his lis teners b.v making them relive with him his thrilling adventures and his interesting ex periences with strange peoples in foreign lands. Amos Burg is a true son of Oregon. lie Was horn in Portland, lie went to school here, lie lias done invaluable service for his state, writing an article for the National Geographic on the Oregon country which was so attractive that it drew many people and students to the state. The University is proud to claim Amos Burg. One Mem’s Opinion I. i - By Si fivers Vernon - - STEPPING for a moment into the realm of sport, with due apologies to that department, we might remark that there is no ecstacy on earth to compare with the joy that would fill our heart should Oregon State wallop the Trojans this weekend. There is, on second thought, but one thing that could more completely fill us with bliss. That would be for the Oregon football team to perform a similar service to humanity next autumn. : 1 But that is too far away to worry about yet. For the present we would be hugely gratified if the Beavers would retain for the Northwest the coast basketball title. i _ l As is the case with a thousand other Oregon students, this desire is not fostered by any great affection for the Corvallis institution but rather by a deep-seated and mighty animosity for tha all conquering Trojan, w This obsession of ours about US.C is like one of those mighty hatreds one reads about in books. It provides impetus for our life or some thing. Anyway, we probably have it only slightly worse than the average Oregon student. The dif ference being primarily that we lost a lot of dough betting on Oregon before we learned of ihe Trojan jinx. The Passing Show EUGENE (jHASPS AN OPPORTUNITY cities, even in the ever-green Northwest, have had as fine an opportunity as Eugene to develop beautiful parks. And few have exerted themselves as little in that direction as Eugene. It is true that Eugene years ago set aside two spacious and potentially charming areas as parks Skinner’s butte and Hendricks. The city also en joyed the two county park blocks and then it had the millrace and the river and the boundless reaches of mountain and stream within a few minutes’ drive. Perhaps the wealth of easily ac cessible natural park has been principally respon sible for Eugene's delay in taking full advantage of the park possibilities within its-borders. What ever the cause, both Skinner's butte and Hend ricks park have been allowed to run down at the heels. And the courthouse park blocks, trodden j by thousands of feet, have remained as unhand some as any public square. However, it looks very much as though the period of neglect has passed. Perhaps the avail ability of federal. work relief funds had some thing to do with it. Perhaps the driving force of ; Director Koch of tlie transient camp and his transients’ sample accomplishments showed what could be done with a minimum of expenditure. Perhaps the people generally had grown tired of the shabbiness of their parks. Perhaps it was a combination of all those factors with the rise of earnest anil intelligent leadership. Whatever the cause, more actual advance has been made in city park improvement work during the past few' months than in any recent period. Through cooperation of the county court, the city council and the water board, the park blocks are to be beautified. The University is now as sisting the project by surveying the ground and preparing' recommendations concerning soil I changes, thinning of trees and suitable planting of grass, shrubs and trees. Last Armistice day found the entire community interested a good share of it actively so in beautification of the barren south slope of Skinner's butte, as the first step in making the area a memorial park. That also was a cooperative project in which the city council, the water board, the park commission, the veterans' group and the fores! service worked under leadership of a new Chamber of Commerce park committee. Trees were planted and under brush and litter cleared out. The water board it self undertook to maintain a small park near its new reservior and has since agreed to furnish old pipe for laying a water system over the whole south slope to insure the growth of the young trees already planted and those to be j planted later. Money, of course, is scum; in these days of ■ reduced budgets but it appeals entirely possible 1 that with KKKA assistance provision may be ! made for irrigating The plan presented recently j by Chairman t'eCou of the chamber park eom j mittee calls for a relatively small original out lay and almost no maintenance cost With water available it will be no trouble at all to make the butte's south slope into a charming park. The park committee isn't satisfied with its fine progress. It has now raised its eyebrows over I the unkempt condition of the boulevard parkings in the streets out beyond the Iniversity. I-awns are said to be out of the question because of lack of irrigation facilities, but that hasn’t stopped the committee. Again the advice of Professor Cuthhert of the Cniversity has been asked and low growing shrubs are reported as the answer h the problem Ke-ideuts along Agate and Vitiat'd are considering direct action. Alt the shows what can be accomplished when . a good-sized group of people decide something should be done, and when public bodies show a w illingness to cooperate with each other and with the public Well wager that if a poll of the local voters were taken it would rove it a general wish for park development. II would probably show a desire, not only for beautification of pres ent parks and parkings, but also for establish ment of new .ate.-, especially on the west side | i i MonimjE .New ■ I ° Rhapsody In Ink —. By the Octnpim - TIME APPEARS IN A LOW BURLAP SLIP. Sports Last week, Newton Crum, Phi Gamma Delta's new president, laid a safe bet . . . Loudly wagered Prexy Crum from a parapet of his country mansion. Three Trees: “S!I5 goes to the mar who ran get a date with my .Ian” . . . Department of justice officials since then have searched every lo cal .suds salon for Crum, against whom have been filed charges of violating the Sherman anti-trust law. An excited voice rang into the ear of a Eugene-telephone operator some three nights ago: “794-J please, and hurry.” The operator did hurry, too-, for she recognized the commanding tones of the University's blur chinned student body president, Joe Renner . . . Whilst the conversation raged unheard beside her, the mistress of the wire ways pondered at the enigma that Renner had created ay his call. Reason: 794-J was Nelson’s num ber. Art .Pure, old Octipusse is having a set-back a relapse—a period of degenerate stagnation. The result: (With apologies to Longfellow and Kipling, and any of the rest of you mugs who feel you've been chiz zled on l: I ' Worley, Crum. Squorly, Dum. II Labbe: Gabbe, Crabbe, Shabbe. III Phipps Sipps. Slipps, Tripps. » * * TIME GIVES THE CROWDS THE SLIP, The Curious Cub “Worthwhile People in a Nice Way.” 4 * * Today, as the curtains part, who should be standing in the glare of the baby spot but BETTY SHOE MAKER a journalism major who was born in Roseburg, September 22, 1914. "And I have a habit of more than one birthday a year,” she added. This is, she explained because she likes cake! Betty, in common with many other fine people, has brown hair and eyes to match, is about the right height and has a swell dis position. , Sports? She informed Bruin that she likes archery (a fact which gives point to our little narrative) anil is an eqestrienne, as well. She is a member of Alpha Delta Pi and is affiliated with the women's athletic association. Dates? "Very good dancers,” she said, “and brains to a certain ex tent!" She amecled it to, “Certainly, they have to have brains,” and when she saw these quotations on the note-paper the Curious One had, she threatened to tear up the notes! Betty isn’t high-brow -thank goodness!) She likes short stories. ! Poetry? "No!" (quite emphatic). The University? “It’s a marvel ous institution." Her voice was ironical very. Betty’s a very nice person to i know and if this writeup would seem to make her apear facetious, ! put it down to the ability to think 1 tor herself, not cussedness, because i she is a really gracious individual! Writer Forwards Sports Opinion Killtor, the Kincrald: The basis foi the true construc tion of any column dealing with thirties has as its prime requisite I not the experimental background in any field of sporting endeavor, but rather the wealth of materull amassed by the commentator on the divers branches of the field. Yom sports critic is too definitely concerned with the narration of in timate achievements and too little £■• mr.le-;l iij the c uitiilo of hi ■ [craft. L." king the proper fotiudu; tional materials for an Interpreta tive analysis of the various activi ties which he views and upon which he must render critical judgment his every effort has smacked of the adolescent. His recent article, decrying the employment of the "freeze" in a close basketball contest, and his assertion that it was a "Charlie Mahan” who gained immortality for his five drop-kicks against Yale, are specific instances of a lack of scholarly presentation of the materials at hand. Your sports commentator must be a student of the sports that he i.' attempting to analyze, and Mr Simpson, in passing judgment on (Please tarn to fia-ie three) Fee Comment Editor, the Emerald: I am not at all sure that the immediate reason for writing this, my first letter to the Emerald, is worthy of consideration, but the issue of student body fees has greatly interested me, and has seemed important. The immediatf cause for this answer: the Bick ford, Cushing, Travis, letter of yesterday’s paper. No matter who gets the benefit of the publicity in this fight for optional fees, the issue remains the same. Mr, Neuberger has been wise enough to take a leading part in a live controversy from its be ginning. Let the proponents of the move for optional fees throw their weight with the machine that has been set in motion, and something is likely to happen. There is a sure method of de feating such a move as the one un der discussion. That is to split the ranks of its friends. Neuberg ei has been accused of working on this proposition as a method of gaining publicity. How are we to judge the motives of others who attempt to lead revolution within revolution ? Evidently, disgruntled propon ents of the optional fee controversy ere unaware that in their hearty denunciation of leader Neuberg, er they are merely adding to the clouds which already obscure the issue. EUGENE T. STROMBERG. Many Musicals Featured in Films By Dick Watkins Emerald Feature Editor CINEMA Some of the new filmusical shows now being pro duced, or already made, include Rudy Vallee’s “Sweet Music”; Buddy Rogers in an English hit, “Dance Band”; Irene Dunne in “Sweet Adeline”; “AH the King’s Horses,” with Mary Ellis and Carl Brisson”; Grace Moore in “On Wings of Song”; “Folies Bergere,” starring Maurice Chevalier; Jer ome Kern’s “Roberta,” with Fred Astaire; Bing Crosby in Tarlcing ton’s "Mississippi”; “Naughty Mar ietta,” with Jeanette MacDonald; Max Reinhardt’s colossal spectacle, “Midsummer Night’s Dream" (over $150,000 spent on it so far and much still to be done . . ADD CINEMA Speaking of pictures, that “Clive of India" film was the poorest example of an epic picture we have seen in many a moon ... a pity that such a splendid cast shuld be wasted on such a miserable production, whose theme had endless possibilities of truly showing the heroic part Clive played in building the vast Indian empire for Britain . . . Also, that (Please turn to payc three) Toney Baritone On Air Today By Jane Lee Emerald Radio Sec’t That toney baritohe. Don Car ruth, will make a “C" trip this af ternoon at 4:45, hitting all points west in a fifteen minute vocal tour. Don is the modest lad who was the soloist for the Westminster quartet last week -and he's any thing but modestly good! Request programs head the score for NBC this evening. Lawrence Tlbbett is on at 5:30, and at 6:00 golden-throated Grace Moore will give an all request program. Also an orchid-and-seallion battle of repartee is scheduled for Ben Ber nie’s program tonight at 0:00. "Ben” is taking the bull by the horns and inviting his perpetually friendly enemy of the air-waves, \\ inchell, to appear as his guest artist. W hen those two get togeth er at the same “mike" anything is liable to happen. Continuing through the day are varied rhythmical programs with Leo Reisman's orchestra at 8:30; and at 10:15, Tom Coakley at the Palace Hotel After 11:00 it's time tc sign off with Lombardo at the odv* .Her. 1! you ran t lake hei out, tunc in. Again I See in Fancy ---By Frederic S. Dunn --- The Grandfather of Clocks on the Campus It was not a “grandfather’s clock’’ such as used to stand on the floor, towering as high as one’s head, and ticking so cheerfully as to keep the whole manor in rhythm yet it was the grandfather of ali time-pieces on the campus, the first to hang on varsity walls. And when President Johnson’s Latin classes shared the Laurean-Eu taxian Society hall in the north east corner of Deady, it was the “regulator” for the entire institu tion and proudly vaunted the title across its glass front. I can truthfully say that no one looked into the face of that regu lator oftener and more appealingly than I. For I watched the provok i ingly even swing of that pendulum I and the exasperating tedium of those clock-hands not only a stu dent in Prof. Johnson’s classes, but I also subsequently as pretentious ! successor to a great master. This : sounds most ungracious, that as --- instructor I could also pray |oi speed in the passage of time, but those were days when everyone took Latin,—gastropods, monads, isoscles, et al., except a few who wriggled out of requirements through some disability or other wise. And with a teaching-load that for years was upwards of thirty hours, is any wonder that I sometimes pondered whether Seth Thomas was a candidate for dam nation or beautification ? But that"regulator I came to re gard as a precious heir-loom of a golden age. As the Latin depart ment peregrinated from building tc building, it was my request that the clock should accompany me. until it came to rest on the wall of Oregon, 107. I used to push a table over to the wall in order to stand upon it and wind and set the clock whenever the janitors of then would forget it. Perhaps it was because I had to watch it over my left shoulder, pc rhaps it was that the regulator lost its pace in dreaming of past generations,—at any rate, its serv icing became more and more fre quent, and finally all the coaxing and winding could not induce the pendulum to swing. A tick or two, and it would die. And thus it remained, its hands pointing pathetically, helplessly, at ten minutes of eleven, while I sought in vain for requisitional aid We were in the throes of one of Dur delectable referendum cam paigns,—the Latin budget was nil, —the regulator meanwhile indicat ing, as if with uncanny premoni (Please turn to page three) Answers (1) Prohibition. (3) Benjamin Franklin. (3) Florida. (-1) Jaw bone of an ass. (5) Died at age of 969. (6) Hamlet. (*) Seven red, and six white. (8) Agnostic. (9) 32. (10) Marie Antoinette. I Fussed by a Faux Pas? Cj/(/ C/o/(/ ^ hen L nele Eliner steps on your bridal train just'' as you are about to ankle dovn the aisle . . . don't let the episode upset you. lake time out for a sumn -smooth Old Gobi. And presto! . . . You'll feel serene again. Darn clever . . . these O. Gs. AT TRYING TIMES * > I # OLD COLD