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V ifecu% PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon EDITORIAL OFFICES: JournAlisrti building. Phone 3300 Editor, Local 354 ; News Room and Managing Editor 355. BUSINESS OFFICE: McArthur Court, Phonfc 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 ihi$ fcaper an<I *dso the local news published herein. All rights of publication of Special dispatches herein are also reserved. William E. Phipps Grant Thuemtnel Editor BiwineHH Manager Kohert Mtwro Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Malcolm Bauer. Associate Editor Fred Col'ig. Robert Lucas, A^istant Editors Barney Clark, J. A. Newton. Ann Reed Burns, Dan K. Clark Jr. UPPER NEWS STAFF Reinhart Ktmdscti. Assistant Managing Editor Clair Johnson . ... .. .News Editor \.d Simiisim Snort- Editor Kd Kohbiiix George Rikman . Ann-Reed Bunts Telegraph Radio . Women Alary Graham J>i<k Watkins Marian Refitted y Features BUSINESS OFFICE MANAGERS 4i.Irion Jlanerman .. Adverti-in^ Newton Stearns. t >ic*k Keert, Carrol! AuM . Assistants Kdnimid Labbc . . . Merchandising Ed Morrow ... Assistant Dorris l!"1nies . Secretary william June ..National Advertising Fred IJYidcl . Circulation Kd Pvisiulx Production Virginia Wellington . . . Promotion Patsy Neal, jean Cecil . Assistants Ann Jlerrenkold GENERAL STAFF Reporters: llunryctla Mufrirtiey, William Po;im . Phyllis A<lams. Leroy MattingL I .aura M. Smith. Pelt} Shoemaker. IJeleo Hartnim. Leslie Stanley. Fulton Travi>. Waylk* Harhert, , Lucille .Moore. Halite* Diultey, Helene Keeler. Copy reader's: Laur'cne I'.rot kscliink, Judith Wodaege. Signc Has- | tmtssen. Kllantae Woodworth. iTnrc Igoe. Maigavel Kay, Virginia Scoville. Margaret Veness, J’ctty Shoemaker, Eleanor i " Aldrich. .Assistant Night Editor.^: Gladys J5att1eson. (ienfevievc McNiece, lietty Rosa. Louis Kruclcmun, Ellamae Woodworth, Marilyn Khie. Hetty McGirr, Dorothy .Ydaths. Day Editor This Issue ..Dorothy Dill The Oregon Daily Emerald will not he responsible for returning unsolicited manuscripts. Public letters should not be more than .400 words in length and .should lie accompanied by the writer’s signature and address Which will be withheld if requested. All communications are subject to the discretion ot j the editors. Anonymous letters will he disregarded. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of thi 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 it the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. Time to Oo All tin* Way I^AHltYINU mil the agreement reached at lost month's facility session. University educators will convene today, to lx* eon Fronted by I lie (|iieslion find without discus sion to decide whether military training; is lo remain compulsory or whether the basic courses are to be offered in tin* future on an optional basis. While a horror-stricken world ipiakes at Reiehfuhrcr Hitler's ullimatum of conscrip tion for the Herman army, sanely Oregonian intellectuals face the same question reduced from a national aspect to one of local I'Di versity application. Informed opinion Hit* world over decries \va r. Informed opinion shudders at I li e thought of throwing tin* finest of a nation's youth into war to In* disembowelled by shrapnel and burned to death by liquid fire —to sav nothing of the social and financial chaos that accompanies and follows the hell bound steps of bated .Mars. Informed opinion, which certainly has in its upper strata college professors, acts for the cause of peace. Surely a "roup of educators the Univer sity Faculty should Find little evidence to uipport the cause of compulsory military courses, which Imve doubtful educational value, as subjects which must lie taken by lower division men. ' fill’, tIn-* present policy of liberal rxemp tioi» ll'ees prael ieally all eonseielit lolls oil jecloi'N from niililary training. Since 1 lie family has gone on record as liberal to Ibis extent, Oregon students have '■very right to expect that tlieir faculty this tline will go all the way, slash the mi tape and openly put military training on an op tiolial basis. Miniirsola Saves Hie Hunker \\ntrtN sonorous voiced Dr. Malcolm >1. McLean of the I'niversity of Minnesota explained his pet educational reform, the "general college." destined to solve regis lent ion mortality, lie lottud Warm response from educators of the University of Oregon. I hiring the last year an Oregon facultv committee has conducted research ou the reason why many students who enter the University fail to remain for four vent's. This problem is common to virtually all 1 stale universities. It is little wonder, then. Unit our committeemen listened intently to an ingenious solution to a problem identical j to out' own. Dr. McLean's plan takes earn uf four 1 types of students who dtop out : I. Those in the lowest decile who can't i make the intellectual grade, and leave, dis j grunt led, suffering from an inferiority com plex. and bitter at t lie .school; -• Those who can't afford to remain i longer and are now I'otced to leave in the ! midst of technical, highly theoretical sub jects which in their unfinished form are of litt le benefit ; ■ >. I hose w hose courses are a repetition ol high school studies ami eonseiptentl\ hol ing and ineffectual : b Those who do not want to become specialists and are interested only m a gen eral eilueat ion. I'-aeli id these groups who left school be lieved it <lid not “get any thing out of I lie two years.” Realizing the great deficiency in an edit eational system that lost two-thirds of its enrollment. Dr. McLean devised his “gen erai college.' It provides a two year cur rienlum of ten generalized fields that would give the student a socialized background and an understanding of the everyday prob buns which will soon eonft-nrtt him. fur instance, the business course would teach a young man the wisest way to buy Ids automobile, or to read the stock market re ports; the eugenics department w ould teach a girl peart 'nil household methods and child < ,r and on down 11n li,t Another striking hmeuthe for tin by- 1 hr id educational plant is t lie appearance of large numbers of these students, who drop out prematurely, in important public offices in later years. Dr. McLean carefully reminded faculties throughout the country of the iimminent danger of fascism, and the fcusceptibilitv of these disappointed, half baked students to the glowing phrases of a Long or a Coughlin, lie believes it a solemn duty of state schools to serve an educational menu that will meet the talents and interest ol these students who often become our leaders. The plan is working well at .Minnesota, and since our problems of registration are similar, if might find equal .success at Ore gon. I util then the thorn in our side will continue to remind us that two-thirds of our tiix-payers children leave college unsatis fied. Strike? Not at Oregon! Hpl I HOI OIIOI T the nation plans are be ing perfected for a strike against war at 11 o clock Friday morning. In this I Diversity. students, sympathetic 1o the movement against war and militarism, are organizing for a demonstration on this t-ampus. .Students are carrying on negotiations, as t Jie\- should, with President Hover and other Officials of the I'niversity in an effort to seek official cooperation for a display against war. file mailer has been referred to a facility committee. Today the faculty will make its decision. Of all places, a university should be the last to oppose any effort made in the direc tion ol peace for a world which is yet wal lowing in the mire of the last war. Some students have indicated that a strike .will tie called il ollicial cooperation is hoi granted by the faculty. For this method the Fmerald holds no brief. A university particularly the ('Diver sity of Oregon--is no place for strikes and fill the stigma that is associated with them. Any demonstration Friday should be the result ot judicious student action and fac ulty sand ion. Students and faculty alike are charged Wilh framing cooperative plans so that Fri day s activities will lie carried on with the decorum that is ..ted of the I'niversity of Orgeon. The Day’s Parade By I’red Colvig. ^"CONSIDERING the cynicism that tones the ^ undergraduate mind that sneers at any thing older than a bi-swing coat one may not be quite in tune if he refers to the buckskinned genls who pioneered this country. But what those men did and thought does have a bearing- on our present educational problem. Rough though they were, it is said that the first thing they thought of after clearing an acre of land and erecting a cabin was to set Up a school. They realized the value to democracy of whatever rude sort of learning. Democracy, in its very first essence, must have a broad popular base, lacking which it be comes oligarchy fascism in a narrower modern meaning. It should Vie the democratic purpose of our educational system to diffuse such sensi bility, tact and taste as will enable our people to be really sovereign, over themselves and their environment. The whole sensible level of our people must constantly be upheld and raised to deal with the increasing complexity of society. Even the present age is a bustling headache that defies the comprehension of most of us. Shall our people give up, intellectually impotent, and flock to the “Pied Pipers" who with blustery prattle will leatl them into their gloomy fastness? Something like the "general college” plan recently outlined to the University of Oregon faculty by I)r Malcolm S. McCIean, who directs the general college in the University of Minne sota, may be the way our educational system will promote that necessary high level of sensi bility. 1'he plan calls for general, simplified courses in the arts and sciences, a system which might logically progress fiom the survey courses offered now in the University of Oregon. It is a plan designed not to produce experts, hut lo teach people how to live. It is a. plan not to develop scholars in the esoteric realms of ichthyology and early Anglo-Saxon verse, but to raise great numbers of our people only to a n higher level of mediocrity, it may be argued. Iiut nevertheless to a position where they will be ill of e able to find happiness. I he plan doubtless would improve the lot ol le expert as well, for too often he spends his «lays grinding away in his narrow corner, giving hinisell up to promote mankind, perhaps, but in the meantime letting too much of hto go by. The Passing Show uii ON I'llK l l‘(iK VI»K 'T'lll'. sustained increase in enrollment at Ore- ^ Sou State tun increase this term of 30 per cent ovei last spring; quarter! indicates that the educational outlook is definitely on the up grade We me out of the slump which seriously threatened the academic program a short time •<So, and the prospect, like the first fragrant blooms of spring outside, is one of pleasant days come. Hie greater enrollment, however, has not tound an equal increase in state minis being supplied the institution. Curtailment ot various phases of the program which was made necessary by the depression still severely handicap, out college in its endeavors to provide the best of educational opportunities for its 2300 students j Many comsi-s have been eliminated, and several professors have gone to other fields of endeavor Respite its handicaps, Oregon State has main- i tamed a program of a high type. The future is , tilled with glowing promises. Maintaining its high standards, the institution has continued to attract the best type of student However, more tinaucial aid trout the state when conditions seem better will do much to insure the maximum of c-ht" it renal 'ppv*»jntt < • j* urn, ,’t: »n —Oregon State Daily Barometer i Now Do You Believe in Kismet? Editor’s note: this is the first j of two articles written by the Emerald’s vagabond reporter following an interview with Jay 1 Allen, former University of Ore gon student and Emerald staff ! writer, who is now a free-lance Writer living in Spain.) By Howard Kessler MADRID Truly, the Wolkings of chance are strange. I understand this observation not to be entirely original with me, but I shall insist that it is warranted in the instance of which 1 speak. One February day of last year J your correspondent was called | upon to pinchhit for the Emerald j reporter who regularly covered the journalism school. Dean Al ! len was able to present him with | a story, in the form of a letter j from a former Oregon student, ! who had become a noted foreign correspondent, and who, during a visit to the States, planned a short call at the University. The Dean further stated that he believed the newspaperman would deliver a short address to the students of journalism. However, the noted correspondent could not appear. Ilitt-odtivihg Joy Alien To make a long story longer, a consulate clerk in Madrid intro duced me to an Associated Press correspondent, who introduced me to the A.P. chief for Spain, who gave me an introduction to a Jay Cooke Allen now of Malaga, Spain, who was the noted f. c. I found him in slacks and polo Anything Goes .-i-By Dick Watkins HIGHLIGHTS The Mills Bro thers were voted the year’s best harmony team on radio broadcasts . . . other “bests” include Fred Haring, (musical program); Mary Pickford, (radio actress); Jane Froman, (songstress); Bing Cros by, (male singer); Lawrence Tih bett, (classical singer); Helen Jep son, (outstanding new star) . . . these ten tunes were the most consistently plugged over the three major radio networks during the past week . . . “Soon” “1 Was Lucky” “Moon Turns Green” “Lullaby of Broadway” "Blue Moon” “Every Day” “My Heart Is an Open Book” “Lovely to Look at” “I Believe in Miracles” “Solitude” Add HI-LITES — Jack Hylton &. his far-famed English band have just recorded a swell medley of Sousa’s march tunes, acclaimed by critics the best of its kind ever attempted . . . no mean deal for a jazz purveying- outfit ... the re nowned Comedie Francaise, in Paris, subsidized by the French Gov't is having its grimy face lift ed, after decades of stagnation, for the tidy sum of $280,000 . . . Mue West’s films are barred in Sweden, Marlene Dietrich’s in Hungary, and that ill-assorted pix, the “Mertace,” tossed out of Brazil . Doug Fairbanks Jr.’s latest flicker, is a screen version of Puc cini’s grand opera, “I.a Boheme,” being produced in Britain . . . Carl Brissoh, (star of “Cocktails for Two,” and now being seen in “All the King's Horses,” has just .re corded 1(1 numbers for Brunswick (Please turn to frige three) Roberta Bennett Sings in Spanish • ^ -r-1---r- j By George Bikmnn Emerald Itadio Editor Roberta Bennett of the ruddy cheeks, auburn top, ruby lips and golden voice will be heard in a col orful program featuring Spanish songs. Byrle Ramp of the ever present smile and pleasant manner in his classically sedate style will accompany. That's the set up tot the Emerald of the Air program which will be broadcast over KOKE at 4:43 today. Lend an ear and you'll give a hand. Itroadway Varieties will he pre sented at 3:80 today over IBS with Everett Marshall, baritone, acting as master of ceremonies. At l.ily I’ons will sing with Andre Ivostelanet/' orchestra and chorus. For MIC One Man's Family is on at 3, -John McCormack at (i. Jim mie Fuller's tlosslp at Itay No ble at * :S0, and at f' Fred Allen takes the spot. IX'tails of the radio contest to! be held this spring between living! organizations for a cash prize will I be announced soon. Meanwhile, houses are being given a chance to present tentative programs over the air for the experience. Tues day on the Emerald of the Ail schedule is being >ct aside for that j Titos* interested should phone Zol u„ V(st, n i , i... * pb1.'*' number fell «i. i. the book he is writing about the politics of Spain. Crumpled paper was strewn over the floor of his , room in a villa exquisitely sftuat j ed at the top of cliffs overlooking the incredibly blue waters of the Mediterranean, and an orphanage being constructed by the railway workers’ union. On such a still, sunlit, enervat ing afternoon, I imagine Mr. Allen was only too glad for any excuse with his conscience that would al low him to abandon the labors of his profession. At any rate he set to talking about his days at Oregon with apparent relish. Meets Ruth Austin As far back as 1920 Jay Allen enrolled in the University and al though he never entered the jour (Please turn to page four) The Curious Cub The Curious One has come out from behind his whiskers and de clared his identity so that a lot of people whose friends have been li beled may now come and try the water-cure. Seriously, it's nice to be back. JOHN T. CROCKETT — a gen tleman. born in Rush Hill; Mis souri, March 12, 1910, is a very interesting person to know. Pie has a slow, almost lazy drawl deceptive to those who do not know he is fully capable of explod ing when pushed too far. He is brunette, has blue-grey eyes, a nice smile and ordinarily a sunny disposition. John especially enjoys moun tain climbing. He has, as one of his friends put it, “hit the high spots.” Hood, Black Butte crater, Belknap Crater, are just a few of the difficult Northwest ascensions he has made. He has worked at varied occu pations; several months were spent in different positions with the Oregon highway commission, the highest rating being that of fore man and technical expert. For hobbies, he enjoys photogra phy and he has a collection of real pictures, tennis, volleyball, ping-pong and the one in which he indulges most is the study of people. That, he says, is the mbst interesting entertainment he has found. Travel rates second and he has taken in almost all the states in the U. S. via everything from mule to airplane. His reading is mainly in the field of personnel work and psychology. Criminology interests him and he jokingly remarked that he reads every detective magazine he Can get his hands on. A person well worth knowing. The cub can say little more than that he is a staunch and loyal friend! The Labors of Hercules Had Nothing on This Again I See in Fancy .i. .i. ‘ 1—By Frederic 8. Dunn — The Small Pox Panic Of 1876 The earlier chronicles of the University are much punctuated with periods when epidemics raged in the community, occasions when academic work was suspended and the doors closed until one could look off to the threshing floor and behold the angel sheathe his sword. Those were the days when the conquest of plague and pesti lence Was yet to be accomplished and when scourges were practical ly allowed to run their course. Well do I remember the gruesome ac counts that came to our family cir cle of the yellow fever in the Gulf States, and of how we consumed quantities of belladonna and qui nine and calomel and “blue mass”, and wore little cloth bags of asa foetida about our necks. Yes, and I recall how, as a boy, I added to my nightly “Now I lay me,” one after another of the dread ailments that came to our SENIORS CAPS, GOWNS, AND COMMENCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS SHOULD BE ORDERED TODAY. THE ‘CO-OP’ attention, until I had a formula of three sets of four specific ill nesses each, twelve in all, from which I prayed God to save me. And, after my mother would give me my quota of belladonna pel lets from underneath the pendu lum in the mantel clock, I would lie feverishly awake in my cot, wriggling my toes to be sure that I would keep alive until morning. In the day time I would run for blocks past houses where red flags were displayed, trying, as I imag ined, not to breathe in a single germ of scarlet fever. 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