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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1935)
William E. Phipps Orant Thuemmel jrfjjtor Business Manager Bob Moore Managing Editor DEPARTMENT EDITORS Reinhart Knudscn . Assistant Managing Editor Clair Johnson . ltor Ed Robbins . George i’ikman Ann-Reed JJurris Leslie Stanley .... .. Telegraph . Women . Make-up Mary Graham .. Society Dick Watkins . Features Marian Kennedy .... .Brevities BUSINESS OFFICE MANAGERS uorris Jl'ilimv* Business Manager Eldon Haber man Advertising Dick Reum, Phil Gil strajj Assistants Ed Morrow ... Merchandising Carroll Auid, M a u d e Long .. Assistants ..National Advertising Fred Jleidel . Circulation Ed Priaulx . Production Virginia Wellington . .. Promotion Patsy Neal, Jean Cecil .. Assistants Ann Herrenkohl .... Classified Solicitors: Phil GiKtrap, Carroll AuJcl, Dick mum, .NoH Denson, K.h! Milk'i. John Dougherty, Dob Wilhelm, Le.s Miller, George Corey. __ GENERAL ST A Li* Reporters: Henrvetta Muinmey, William Pease, Phyllis Adams, Leroy Mattingly, Laura M. Smith, Hetty Shoemaker, Helen Bartrtim, Leslie Stanley, Fulton Travis, Wayne Harbert, Lucille Moure, Hallie Dudrey, Helene Beeler, Kenneth Kirtley. Copyreaders: Laurcne Hrockschink, Judith Wodaege, Signe Ras 'mussen, Ellainae Woodworth, Ciare lgoc, Margaret Kay, Virginia Scoville, Margaret Vencss, Betty Shoemaker, Eleanor Aldrich. Sports Staff: Hill Mclnturff. Gordon Connelly, Hon Casclato, Jack Gilligan. Kenneth Webber. Women’s Page Assistants: Margaret Petsch, Mary Graham, Betty Jane Barr, Helen Bartrum. Betty Shoemaker. Librarians . Mary Graham, Jane Lee Jay Editor...Virginia EndicoP Night Editor .Huey Frederick Night Assistants. Dorothy Adams The Oregon Daily Emerald will n«'t be responsible for returning unsolicited mauuseripis. Public letters should not be more than 300 words in length and should be accompanied by the writer’s signature and address which will he withheld if requested. All communications are subject to the discretion oi the editors. Anonymous letters will be disregarded. '$15*00 f«r ‘Social Events’? JN :i feeble iijkI almost pallid ic attempt to to lie clover the self-styled Student Kolief eoirmiittee devising: by various means fair and sincere on the parts of some petition eirenlators. and grossly unfair through the use of distortion and misrepresentation on tin1 parts of others of the group- lias framed a lengthy resolution directed against As sociated Students President .losepli Henner. Tin* lengths to which distortion, and mis representation are used In secure signers for tlm referendum by the same persons who charge Air. Kenner lias “ignored the. issues" are shown in tlie final paragraph of the resolution wliieJi condemns senate bill 201 as “the unwarranted student activity fee bill, which would authorize a .fib.00 fee Primarily for social and athletic purposes (the black type is ours). Even a Casual investigation by a rational, fair-minded individual would reveal that the money from student activity fees is not used "primarily for the uses, mentioned. To the contrary, an examination of the true situation reveals that during the last five years an average of only 97 cents of each term’s fb.OO membership in the associ ated students organization goes for athletics. Covered in this athletic subsidy of 97 cents per term is the entire athletic setup comprising the following: Baseball. Basket ball. Football. Track. Minor sports (cross-country, golf, swim ming, tennis i • Maintenance of all athletic fields. Maintenance of McArthur court. Membership in the Pacific coast confer ence. Women’s athletic association. Allocation of administrative salaries (in proportion to time spent on athletic admin istration. The remaining ^4.02 of each term’s tjtb.00 student fee is spent on the following projects most oi which have definite and admitted, educational value according to the great pre ponderance of educators, who by their posi lions have authority to speak on student administ rnlive affairs : Publications— Oregon Daily Emerald. Oregana. .Student directory. Football programs. Mllsic— University band (including one-half of the yearly salary paid to Director John Stehn i. .University symphony orchestra. .University chorus. Concert series (including world-famed artists). Forensics— JntercoUegiale debates. intercollegiate oratory. Other speaking contests. Lecture ami speakers series (including platform speakers of national and inter national importance). Student government— .Associated students. Associated women students. Philomelete-1 unuffiJiated women's group). Administ ration— Administmtive costs. Miscellaneous— Canoe fete. i iomeeoniing. Insurance. Interest cost. Rallies. btuuent tees (budget item for charging refunds to students withdrawing front the Universityi. General uu item between $250.00 end $500.00 yearly to cover ospcuditores not chargeable to specific budgets i 01 each bid.(It) in stioleul lees paid b\ a student cadi year over goes to the support ol tin items listed nltove wliiell the Student Uelirl committee fnlsel\ represent as "social events to unsuspecting: Oregon voters who do not know the situation. It is In tliis despicable in;ineu\et'iltg that tlie Student Jielief committee. either through ineyenseahLe ignorance or willful warping ol' farts, appeals to uninformed eiti/.eiis who • ire lured into signing their names to jieli lions whose import they have would like to node! 'land Inti cannot when they are so Inuli. foo'-.l 1'.- the unties et the ";mlr. Kelie! . mum I' t ee. For the Forgotten Man - By Robert K. French - Editor's note: This article was written by the noted eoinmentator, Robert It. French, exclusively tor and published here with the permission of the Association of College Editors is a biographical sketch of Harry L. Hopkins, national relief administrator. S the count ry faces the problem of feeding and clothing about 22,375,000 people, Harry Li. Hopkins, administrator of the FEKA, takes the spotlight. When General Johnson was gar rulously parading the country for NRA, Hopkins was quietly at work on the largest relief task this country has undertaken. During the fall of 1933 Hopkins, with some of his aides, toured the country, but when pkins was unassuming and convincing, Johnson was harsh and fiery, and he got the newspaper space. Hopkins looked, lis tened and talked, and out of this came the CWA, planned in early October in a Pullman drawing room on a train somewhere between Kansas City and Chicago as the group of men returned to Washington. Relief got under way, despite doubt and critisism, and 4,000,000 men were put to Hopkins brings to his position administrative ability and a time-worn idealism. He is essentially a social worker, for he has done nothing else since he arrived in New York City with a Phi Beta key, and a job running a boys’ camp. In New York City he directed fresh-air work and unemployment relief and was jn charge of di recting widows’ pensions for the Board of Civil Welfare from 1913 to 1917. During the war he managed civilian relief in New Orleans and the southern division of the Red Cross. Later he re turned to New York City to head the New York Tuberculosis and Health association. In April, 1932, Roosevelt appointed him director of New York state’s temporary emergency relief admin istration, ana in May, 1933, he left his $15,000 a year job to go to Washington to direct federal relief. Supervising the spending of $500,000,000 through nearly 5,000 local public relief organiza tions, Hopkins took a $5,000 cut when he became administrator of FERA. Likes Ideas Quiet, modest, lean of face and figure with slightly greying brown hair, he has the valuable cynicism of the trained social worker who loves his job. Old methods and ideas will not be ac cepted by him merely for their hallowed anti quity they must work. Hopkins likes ideas, however, and can make them work, but he misses one of his first assistants who recently left him because as he says "now I have to think up crazy ideas for myself instead of squelching the crazy ideas that you used to think up for me.” Born in Iowa, forth-three years ago, Hopkins came from pioneer stock. His grandmother moved the family by covered wagon from Massachus etts into the Middle West while his grandfather was fighting in the Union army. His father, a harnessmaker, lost his business in Lhe panic of 1893, and the family moved into Iowa because his mother liked Grinned college from which Hopkins was graduated in 1912. Capable Executive In Washington Hopkins has the reputation of an executive who can handle his assistants, his own job and politicians. He is admitted into the first rank of presidential advisors. For the most part Hopkins is mild, but lie can let loose when lie feels it will do the most good. His assistants are given full responsibility, but when they fail, they go out. He \vent after the “smug compla cency'' of Henry 1’. Fletcher, chairman of the national Republican party, and then tackled Wil liam E. Borah, Idaho’s perennial orator, when Borah accused the relief administration of polit ical disbursements. Hopkins has no illusions about relief, its psychological reaction on the unemployed, its difficulties of administration, the results attained and that relief is no temporary problem. "While we strove last winter," he has said, "to provide relief on reasonably adequate standards, a ma jority of the needy were improperly housed, feu and clothed. It is not only the parents we have to keep in mind but the children, who have to live under these squalid conditions. We shall have to answer for these conditions under which some of the unemployed have to live, and the effort made to date to correct them is no excuse. In every possible way we shall have to continue trying to do a vastly bettei job of not only ameliorating immediate needs but preventing de terioration of large numbers of our people." work. 1 he Passing Show Ol’RING oi' every yeai seen a great, new and ^ ever -inci-easing flood of embryo business men and women, doctors, lawyers, and engineers grad uated by the universities , f tJrir; continent. They are supposed to take their place in civilization and somehow or other civilization has had little or no place for them during the past five years. What to do? Tlu younger generation may very fairly place the blame for their dilemma upon the shoulders of the nations of the world. They at least had a start in the world, wen it they feel tire cold breath of adversity today but their children can find little or nothing to do in the everyday busi ness world, it is up to them to remedy this ; situation. the governments of the world arc at last, doing something about the situation whether they will eventually be successful can not lie said with any certainty They arc trying. Ifven if they do succeed, the present generation graduating from college will not feel the benefits of then efforts. Something must be done in the meantime Mint will go into action immediately. There arc many people in the business and professional w> rids who a 10 still earning tar. fat mine money ^ than they actually reipiire to load a comfortable' ; and happy life The business man must lealb.e that it is a poor way to economize by refusing positions to those who eventually will take their place when they arc gone. Who knows how much of this depression would not have been avokled if many of the best and most able of tlu present gonem I lion i t fattiei and mulhei hud inn died u; tlu | wilt Do v e .veil th ’ hepp ' ogam ■ u I result of oi:j own hi.,' McGill L>u_dy. Anything Goes .7-7--, By Dick Watkins HIT’N MISS The music of Little Jack Little's orchestra’piay ing for the NOTRE DAME'S U’s Senior Bali, wiii be broadcast next Friday at 7 over CBS . . . one of our campus sleuths informs us that OIL EVANS and band are plan ning to invade OREGON and make Eugene their hangout during the winter term social season here . . . they are now playing in var ious California cities and lately ap peared at Sacramento’s Hotel Sen ator, former stronghold of Dick Jurgens, who is currently making o name for himself at the Palomar Cafe in L.A.Jurgens by the I way is one of the bands slated to | move into Jantzen Reich Park this ! summer . . . from all reports AN SON WEEKS must have*packed | them in there at Jantzen over the ; week-end, for many of the return ling- local boys tell of a line-up at ! the gates, a mile long, so had to go elsewhere to jig . . we flatter ourselves that we’ve heard some sad bands in our time, but Chief Little Joe and his lads win the fur-lined bathtub, by a walkaway . . . we recognized some of their tunes as having been more or less familiar two summers ago, but most of the rest, without the shad ow of a doubt, belonged to the vintage of the early twenties, at best . . . well, they tried hard enough, anyway, and all looked ! very picturesque, at least . . . JUNIOR WEEK-END Far ' from being known but locally, the Junior Weekend tanks along with the best collegiate traditions to be found in the land, in fact several among us first heard of the U. of Oregon, in connection with the far famed CANOE FETE . . . the whole idea of Junior Weekend in itself is outstanding and is so well-known from coast to coast that it can compare favorably with other typical undergraduate affairs that are such a refreshing and integral part of American Collegians . . . Our Junior Weekend is to Oregon what June Week is to Annapolis; what the Winter Carnival is to Dartmouth; . . . the Charming Way : Derby to California; the Mardi Gras to Tulane; the Fancy Dress ; Ball to Washington & Lee; . . . | Senior Week to Stanford; the Wild West Show to Utah U. . . . Home coming to Texas; Derby Week to Kentucky; . . . the Blossom Festi val to Virginia JJ.; . . . and so on, down the long line of famous col-1 iege spectacles that go to make up campus life the country over. BRONX CHEER DEPART MENT—for all those nickel phone booths the telephone company (pals), have installed around about the l$th St. shoppes; . . . Oh Whoah! . . . for our hideous mis-use of the English language it; last Fri.'s edition . . . we never realized how many feeble-minded people read this stuff till we mac'e a measly grammatical error, and watched the moans come in . . . for 4-piece honky-tonk campus bands (?) that take out half-hour (Please turn to page 4) Vote on Military ChargedNotValid Editor, the Emerald: Although I realize -that the | crime of lese-majesty is a, serious one especially where the adminis tration of the University of Ore ! gon is singled out for attack, I feel j obliged to comment on what the : Kegister-Guard and the Oregonia,n I demurely refer to as “alleged in ! eligible votes" in a recent faculty j decision on the matter of optional , against compulsory military at the I University of Oregon. It is a well-known tact that if | an instructor (barreu from voting) had not unthinkingly cast a ballot the faculty would have gone on iccord 42-41 in favor of optional military. Realizing his error the instructor informed President Boy er of the matter, thus placing the responsibility squarely in the hands of the man who should be most in terested in re-opening the ques tion in order that a fair decision ! might be rendered. President Boy- i er, however, washed his hands of | the affair, insisting that he saw no reason why he should present evi dence of this irregularity to the faculty. The only conclusion that can be drawn from President Boy er’s stand is that he is not inter ested in a fair vote because the re sults of an unfair vote are quite satisfactory to him personally. No one questions President Boy er's right to vote as he pleases, but the obvious favoritism that he has shown to the compulsory mili tary group is hardly compatible with the ideals of fairness and hon esty that he stressed to the author of this letter several months ago. Edgar A. Goodnough. * Do iou Voter Again I See in Fancy - --- .— By Frederic S. Dunn - ——r Go-Getters, Those Founders of Ours When Eugene City was still a succession of $nud puddles, the few hundred “puddlers” had yet the energy twice to elect their little hamlet the capital of the State by plurality vote. Only sectional bick ering wrenched from them the prize. It was this keenness to sense possibilities, this alertness, that caused them to build three Colum bias on College Hill, one after an other, only to be quelled by incen diarism ana the feuds of the Civil War. And this same vigilance eventu ally brought them the State Uni versity in the face of tremendous competition. Strange that the rampaign should have been precip itated by a chance remark inad vertently dropped by the father of our University’s Fourth President. Principal T. F- Campbell of tly Christian College at Monmouth, later the State Normal, was lec turing in Eugene, and with intent to elicit support for his enterprise, proclaimed his institution as can didate, before the next session of the Legislature, for the funds available by virtue of legal enact ment. It was all that was needed. When it. was further learned that other counties were entering their claims (Please turn to page lour) Others may disappoint. I never do. I’m always mild, always fine to taste — because I’m made of fragrant, expensive center leaves, only. Turn your back on top leaves. They’re raw, bitter, stinging. Turn your back on bottom leaves. They’re coarse, sandy, grimy. Before I consider it worthy, every leaf must be a center leaf, mild, fine-tasting, fragrant. I do not irritate your throat. 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