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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon William E. Phipps Grant Thuemmel Editor Business Manager Bob Moore Managing Editor 'EDITORIAL BOARD Malcolm Bauer, Associate Editor Fred Colvig. Robert Lucas, Assistant Editors Barney Clark, J. A. Newton, Ann-Reed Burns, Dan E. Clark Jr. « GENERAL STAFF Reporters: Henryetta Mummey, William Pease, Phyllis Adams, Leroy Mattingly, Laura M. Smith, Betty Shoemaker, Helen Bartrum, Leslie Stanley, Fulton Travis, Wayne Harbert, Lucille Moore, Ilallie Dudley, llelene Beeler, Kenneth Kirtley. Copyreadcrs: Laurene Brockschink, Judith Wodaege, Signe Pas mussen, Ellamae Woodworth, Clare Igoe, Margaret Ray, Virginia Scoville, Margaret Vcness, Betty Shoemaker, Eleanor Aldrich. Spoils Staff: Bill Mclnturff. Gordon Connelly, Don Casciato, Jack Gilligan, Kenneth Webber. Women’s Page Assistants: Margaret Putsch, Mary Graham, Betty Jane Barr, Helen Bartrum, Betty Shoemaker. Librarians .. Mary Graham, Jane Lee1 Night Assistants Kllarnae Woodworth, Night Editor. . ....... Gordon Connelly 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 «>t December except the first seven days, all of March except the fir-i eight days. Entered as second class matter at the postoiticc. Eugene, Oregon. Subscriution rates, $2.50 a year. Student Union Fifth? IN making allotments In 1 tic I 'ni vcrsily for I lie construction nf new buildings. federal and slide officials have before them ;i pre pared lisl of building projects, the comple 1 inn ni' which would equip the I’niversity of Oregon ;is a first class instntinn nf higher learning should lie equipped. The first five buildings on this list, in order nf suggested priority, as shown in yes- j lerda.v’s lanei'iild. are: 1. Completion nf the new library. It. Additions In the heating plaid. •S. I’hysieal education plant and men’s ; gym. i 4. Humanities building. n. Student union building. Why. asks the Ibuerald, is the student union placed fifth on I his Iis1 t With the construction of a new and ade quate 000 library already assured, is there any reason why an additional grant i should lie requested in order to make addi I lions, which, although included in the orig inal plans, were omitted in the final con struction because of financial limitations'! With the completion of the library, the 1’ni ver,sity will be well provided wit It library facilities. Of course, the additional stack and reading room space may at, some time in the future heroine necessary, but at present such a project might better be put near the hot- I tom of the building program rather than in t he number one posit ion. The second project, 1ha1 of adding to the healing system, is a necessary one, hut is already underway, and has been sufficiently planned for to make it unnecessary to con aider any further grant for this work as affecting funds which might be available for the remaining projects on the list. A new physical education plant is a need j .which cannot he denied. The probable cost of an adequate plant, according to the com- j inittec in charge of the building program, j .would be approximative :f'4b().(l()(J. The consideration of a new humanities building to provide additional classroom space for classes in literature, languages, and similar subjects, seems highly improper in view of the need for the next proposal in the tentative program, a. student union building. With the construction of the new library, I lie opening of the old library for the law school, and the resulting evacuation of Oregon hall, there will be ample class room space available for the hiinuuiit ies: and. in ease the Condon reserve librarv should In' translerred to the new structure, i lie additional space acquired by such a move would serve to dispel the most insistent de maud for a building such as that suggested as four!h in priority. All of which brings us to the prospect of ! a student union building with hut one other project in a more favored light. That is the ! new physical education plant. The Passing Show U;T l S UK SPONGES—SOMETIMES k SPONGE being absorbunt, one should be ^ * like a sponge in i lassrooms amt at lectures; also at oilier places where knowledge is given." Thus an editorial in a junior high school paper advises. The analogy is a good one, and the idea is i not so bad for a junior high school kid. But the same idea is held by many young men and women of college age as well, and for them it is not so good. Too many students still have, the "teacher said so' attitude toward education. Too often there is (he sad case of the university freshman who has acquired the idea back in primary and sec ondary schools that a teacher Is something above the ordinary man as regards the validity of statements which precede from his mouth, and who continues to think so throughout his college j Professors are not willful liars or dishonest i persons, to be sure, but the possibility of their 1 being wrong about some things is evet present. Being humans they have no doubt done a little “sponging" themselves. And even if they get all they expound out of books, still the possibility of .error is great. For as a local professor once told an undetgraduate class, "You should read hooks not to try to discover what the author is trying | to tell you, but rathei what he is trying to keep from you." Authors are usually humans too And by the time the professor has read something by a mis informed writer and lias given it his own little personal touch, then ihe chance of the matter becoming a bit shady is great. So we would say, "Let us be sponges some times," but not until we have analyzed the load, ! strained it thoroughly and investigated its sou: s And then may tee be ready 10 jucerw our. ?ivt at any time. -Pally Texan. years. Wiping Out War - - - By Johll f'hnn-ilwrliiin - Editor’s note: John Chamberlain writes the daily column, “Books of the Times,” in the New York Times, 'this article is pub lished below through the courtesy of the New York Times with the permission of the As sociation of College Editors. WITH Hitler taking the bit between his teeth, and with France, England and Russia ail showing visible signs of perturbation (although Ernst Henri told them a year ago what was coming, and others, including General Tasker Bliss, uttered a premonitory “I told you so” the day after Versail! it may not be the precise moment to be flippant about war and the rumors of war. Yet Sir Norm n Angell’s “Peace and the Plain Man” (Harper. $2.50) invites flippant treatment. Rhetorically speaking, the book is pos itively brilliant. But, as I read, I was haunted continually by Lawrence Dennis’s epigram: “While the free traders were winning all the arguments, the pro tectionists were winning all the elections.” Sir Norman wins all the arguments, but his oppon ents simply won’t come around of evenings to the Oxford Union. Which leaves Sir Norman in the plaintive position of one crying: “If only the world were intelligent, it would listen to me.” Which is true. Sir Norman Can Help If you want to refute the militarist who sits next to you at the dinner table, Sir Norman can help you. With Sir Norman’s aid, I can imagine a conversation running along in this fashion: General Smirkontheface: "But, my dear man, War is inevitable.’ Caspar Milquetoast (brave with four cock tails under his belt and an evening of Sir Norman behind him): “Which war? Any war? Plainly, militarists don't believe that all wars are inevit able, because they urge more armament, on the ground that that will help to preserve peace.” General S.: “But, human nature is essentially quarrelsome.” Caspar: “That is why we must have a League of Nations or institutions of discipline. If human nature were perfect, regulatory institutions would be unnecessary. If man were not a fight ing animal, there would be no need for courts, police and decalogues. Just because man’s a fighter, you don’t assault your neighbor when he dislikes you. Or, if you do, (he police stop you.” f .m/i/gt/t" Unman nahuvtor Genet'll] S.: "But you can’t, change human nature.” Caspar: “You don't have to. But you certainly car. change human behavior. Man was once can nibalistic, believed in human sacrifice to the gods, upheld the Ordeal by Fire, sanctioned dueling.” 1 General S.: “But war is a spiritual cleanser. I Without it, man would grow soft." Casper: “J thought you said in your last lecture that we needed armaments to insure peace?" General S.: "Well, 1 was only making a point that those people at the Community Centre would understand. War will continue ns long as man is selfish.” Caspar: “But war demands of men the great est possible unselfishness, the greatest sacrifice j of all, life. It destroys property, wealth and trade. If men were intelligently selfish, war ! would not take place." General S.: "But what would you do if a brute attacked your sister?" Caspar (swallowing another drink): "I'd give him a sock on the jaw. But if conditions were I such that women were liable to violence, I'd try to cooperate in organizing a system of police, courts, and so on, which is precisely what those who use your arguments as analogous to the restraint of violence in the international field refuse to do internationally." General S.: "But would you leave your house unlocked ?” Caspar: “No. Bui if 1 had to depend on the strength of the lock, with no reliance on the community, with its police and nuigistrature, my house would be plundered anyway. Defense must be collective and cooperative or fail. The League is an etforr. at such collective defense made weak. I admit, because the householders fail to pay Bie international tax (in trust) to support it." iicneral K.: "But capitalist nations must have markets for the disposal of their surplus goods.” Caspar: "Britain had victory in tills over its most powerful commercial rival. Are British cap italists more able to dispose of their surplus than they wore before the wai Mr. Smith Drcidrs General S.. “Some capitalists, however, may benefit by war." Caspar: "Some capitalists vvouUl benefit by a new Great. Kile of London; all industries rein I - iny to the building trades would boom. It does not make arson a capitalist interest." Here we come to the crux of the matter. We hn\o wats, not because ut the things which Sir Norman talks about for some 1100 puses, but be t Huse the* game ot power is. like poker, not onlv a same ot indisputable cartls, but also a game of bluft. And any one who is willing to bluff must take the chance that the bluff will he called. Wars tesult when some one calls a bluff that is made by a man who is too pround to buck down, or who thinks the man calling the bluff is himself bluff ing. II or Is tin Irridrnt In other wonts, war itself is never solely a matter of policy, but an incidental accident incur red in pursuing (other) policies This being true, does it mattei much whether men bluff by the old diplomacy or over the green baize tallies of Geneva .’ Of course, it we had a world with nl\ one reigning elite . . Hut hush, hush, little man. you're suggesting international socialism or one imperialist victor, such as Home of the Pax Montana. Anti how ate you going t > get Uianee unit Mussta. or Japan anil the United States, to agree on either of these? P. o. If you know you'ie Lving in a munitions factory you Wj'l . .>;■■■ ml ; - ’ C mat'lu-' ntonud A ny thing Goes By Dick Watkins - By Dick Watkins CAMPUS — Well, Anson has come to town and breezed out again like a flash, and we re still trying to figure out why we couldn't have nabbed him for a campus dance, especially when nothing would have pleased he and his boys more, and such an en gagement could have been so easily arranged . . . although Weeks has not what you call an entertainment orchestra, he put on a darn good show at the Mac, and sounded vastly improved over the last time we chanced to hear him in action . . . His array of talent is nothing to be sneezed at either, especially the singing of Freddie Williams, a newcomer to his out fit, on that “On" Night of Love” encore.Weeks’ 45-minute stage performance was more than we had bargained for, and was run off so smoothly, we have nothing but orchids to toss at this writing . . . the band play:; next at Seaside and then open up Jantzt n Beach I*nrk for the season, on Sat eve . . . next they head north to Van couver, thence to Seattle where they are lined up to play at the IT. of Washington's Spring Infor mal on the 18th . . . what gripes us so darn much is the fact we could have had him ourselves for the .11 MOK FROM next weekend, had we only gotten off the dime a couple of weeks ago when it was first known he w a s coming through here, and made a few in quires into the situation. yesterday, Weeks himself said he would have been available up till only a few days ago, and then we could have had a From that was worth tossing . . . Owell, no use crying over spilt milk, but it stands to reason, that since so little good music is available around these parts, whenever a prominent band does stroll through here, having them play at a cam pus dance would be a fine thing, and would be well supported by the student body ... in fact, what harm would there be in hav ing- the ASIJO sponsor such an af fair, from time to time, forin stance? ... on other coast campi such as Cal., Stanford, CSC, Wash., UCLA, etc., the student body regularly features such event.: as part of their membership privileges, and actually make money on the deal at the same time . . . recently, even the Pas adena Jr. College had Lombardo at one of their hops; Tom Coakley played for the Cal Senior Ball; Jay \\ hidden plays tonight for another It. of Wash, jig, and so it goes .... prominent orchestras nearly always prefer playing- for college proms, for, as Hal Kemp recently remarked, “college stu dents appreciate them better,” and also, because of the favorable pub licity it brings to them . . . Well, tliis is enough of a ‘beef’ for one sitting, so we’ll sign off, but any how, it’s all food for thought . . . ■such is life in the north woods . . . Burg Speaks (Continued from Page One) storms which sweep the North Pa cific. The steering gear was swept away ten times, and given up for lost by the captain. As one tre mendous wall of water broke over the ship's fore deck and sub merged it in 20 feet of water the captain cried, “She'll never come up!" Coal Swept Away But she did struggle up from the depths with her lifeboats, deck bunkers, and coal swept away by the mountainous sea, and limped into Unalaska with the men stok ing the boiler in the stokehold standing lcnee-deep in water. The Russian crew deserted in Unalaska and Mr. Burk was left with only two others, a Swede and a Siamese sailor, on leek to steer the ship to Yokohama. f irst Pictures of Tribes • His most recent trip was his journey down to far off Tierra del Kuego. the jumping-off place of civilization at the southern-most tip of South America While there he made the first moving pictures of the tribes and country in that region ever made, lie was given up for lost by several supply ships which were searching desperately for him but he always showed up. chugging out from among the ice bergs in a small surf-boat, the Dor jun. He was caught in several vio lent gales which are eternally sweeping across the wild stretches of land and water in that even wilder portion of the world. lb' cruised for miles up and down the western coast of lower south America among the muuct ous islands, that line the shore for tundreds of miles up the western side of that continent from Cape Horn m a Chilean navy training yj-tir- Cu •- IJ • . C1J. T’nO |ed state- la stopped otf lor otcr Appeal for Peace To Be Broadcast By George BIKMAX Emerald Uadio Editor Th£ most widespread appeal for International peace in world his tory will be made over NBC net works today between 12:15 and 1 p. m. Thirteen leading men and women in the world affairs are to speak from six different countries. The impressive list includes Brince Tokugawa of Japan; Vis count Cecil of Britain; .Madame Krupskaya, widow of Lenin; Ma dame Ivy Low Litvinoff, wife of the Russian foreign commissar; Monsieur Joseph Paul-Boncour, former premier of France: Sir Ron ald Lindsay, British ambassador; Alexander Troyanovsky, ambassa dor of the L.S.S.R.; Arthur Hen derson, president of the disarma ment conference, and Hiroshi Sai to, Japanese ambassador. On the Columbia network glam orous Grace Moore will be guest i rtist on Lire hour long dramatic musical revue, Hollywood Hotel, at 5 o’clock, a new time. Richard Himber's fine orchestra will fol low, with Stuart Allen and David Ross. At G:30 a special broadcast from Louisville, Ky., will bring a description of the set up on the eve of the Kentucky Derby. A Musical Letter from San Die go, featuring that city's symphony orchestra, will be broadcast this afternoon at 1. Nino Marcelli will direct the 80 piece orchestra in se lections which will call to mind the Spanish atmosphere of the forthcoming San Diego fair. a month to take color pictures of the greatest coffee plantations in the world in Brazil. Mr. Burg is a former student of the University and comes to the campus at frequent intervals to do research work and write. Dean Onthank (Continued from Page One) from every quarter of the campus could meet and develop common understandings, it is now.” Expanding upon this serious want, he continued, “There is a practical need for facilities of many kinds, large and small, for a lunch zoom for commuting stu dents, for offices for important but neglected student groups, for suit-1 able rooms where dances may be held on the campus without com peting with athletic and depart mental uses, and where banquets may be served to Oregon Mothers and Dads without driving the dor mitory students out of their own dining room, for suitable rooms for student councils and commit tees, for quarters for the alumni association, for a small dancing room where informal and inexpen sive parties open to all students, and especially those who cannot afford the more expensive func tions, may take place frequently, and for many other uses which are indispensable to the proper student social and recreational life." Emerald Commended Dean Onthank commended the Emerald “for reopening interest in the union and for clarifying under standing of the real part it would play in student life and activities. ' "The experiences of a large num ber of universities,” he concluded, "indicate that a student union, if designed to provide for the partic ular needs of the campus on which it is situated and kept within suit able limits as to expense, is one of the most indispensable units in the university plant.” And What Else? COME OM — WE'LL KILL THIS BOTTLE Again I See in Fancy — - tty Frederic S. Dunn ; - The Little Brick Church Diagonally across the intersec tion of Broadway and Pearl from the Eugene Hotel, which itself now occupies the site of a. meat market on scaffoldings above a swale, was once a little red brick church whose history is curiously interwoven With that of the early University. Eugene used to refer to it quite intimately and affectionately as the Brick Church. Its modern flourishing successor on Oak Street with the Greek facade, the cam panile and the carillons, should not take offense at corroboration of boy-hood impressions which I find in contemporary news-items, that it was otherwise known in those clays as the "Campbellite Church.” Civic programs u'ere frequently staged in the Brick Church. Here W'as where Abigail Scott Duniway first propounded equal suffrage to Eugenites. Here lectures were given on all conceivable subjects and for any legitimate purpose. Since the University was so far away and the streets so inade quately lighted and transportation facilities nil, the several downtown churches were much command eered. And it was the uncompleted con dition of the University building which made the Brick Church a welcome adjunct in time of public demonstration. “The chapel room”, as the news constantly has it, meaning the one large auditorium in the upper story, was still under construction when the academic year closed, just the day oeioie the Furth of July. Messrs. Douglas and VanAlstein, contractors, had not commenced work on plastering "the chapel room" until late in Hay, anu were not ready for hard finishing until well into June. Meanwhile the Brick Church pro vided the "chapel" for the closing exercises of the University's first year. On Friday, June 29th of 1877, Mrs. Spiller's and Miss Stone's classes in elocution were for the first time heard there, in solo, an tiphony, and chorus,- in all the diapason of the speech-arts, at the expiration of which “Judge J. M. Thompson presented to each a beautiful book as prize in differ ent studies,”—prizes in reading, spelling, and arithmetic. Does Ida Patterson, ’86, much esteemed Principal of our Washington School, recall that she was the only cne to earn a "double"? Fitting prelude to the glorious Fourth that followed, which saw the first fire-works ever displayed ir. Eugene and was climaxed with the Fire Men's Ball in the old Court House, was the University's quasi-Commencement. There was no^class as yet to be graduated, but the aggregation of declama tions, recitations, and essays was appalling, except to Editor Harry Kincaid whose story in the next is sue of The Journal retailed a smil ing compliment for every partici pant. He even included "the large and intelligent audience." The gamut of subject-matter ran from GET THAT SUMMER HAIRCUT at the CAMPUS BARBER SHOP 849 East 13th Street Leo Deffenbaeher. prop. r-—--— "Mefital Power” by Laban Wheel er/to "The Brides of Enderby" by Rose Scott. A pity that Eugene could not have preserved its Brick Church as a museum, or even as a mere me morial, as Boston still welcomes pilgrims to its Old North and Old South Churches! We are reckless, prodigal, in our advance and then deplore the evanescer.ce of our tra ditions. Next in the series: GO-GET TERS, THOSE FOUNDERS OF OURS. mam I msmistwniam and | S3 I ■ If your shoes need | | repairing, bring ® them in today. ■ THE CAMPUS SHOE REPAIR 1 Opposite Sigma Chi House. g(ais®siai5®a/s®aiMiaiMaa®aiEisfS!i! 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