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( PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 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 this paper and .also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. William E. Phipps Editor Bob Moore Managing Editor Grant Thuemmel Business Manager EDITORIAL BOARD Malcolm Bauer, Associate Editor Robert Lucas, Aassistant Editor, Ann-Rced Burns, Dan E. Clark, Jr, BUSINESS OFFICE MANAGERS Dorris Holmes . Assistant Business Manager Eldon Haberraan Advertising Dick Reum, Phil Gil strap . - Assistants Ed Morrow .... Merchandising Carroll Auid, M aude Long . Assistants William Jones ... .National Advertising Fred Heidcl . Circulation Ed Priaulx . Production Virginia Wellington .. . Promotion Patsy Neal, Jean Cecil . Assistants Ann Herrenkohl .... Classified Solicitors: J nil unstrap, Carroll Aukl, Dick Kcum, .Noel Denson, I Rod Miller, John Dougherty, Dob Wilhelm, Les Miller, George Corey. DEPARTMENT EDITORS Reinhart Knudscn . Assistant Managing Editor | Clair Johnson . News Editor ; Ned Simpson . Sports Editor i J’Al KODDinS . George Bikman .... Ann-Reed Burns .. i ciegrapn .. Women Mary oranam . Dick Watkins .. Marian Kennedy .. . society ... Features .. Brevities Lclvoy Mattingly Chief Night Editor 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, Hallie Dudrcy, Helene Beeler, Kenneth Copyrcaders: Laurene Brockschink, Judith Wodaege, Signe Ras mussen, Ellamae Woodworth, Clare Tgoe, Margaret Ray, Virginia Scoville, Margaret Veness, Betty Shoemaker, Eleanor Aldrich. Sports Staff: 35ill Mclnturff, Gordon Connelly, Don Casciato, jack Gilligan, Kenneth Webber. Women’s Page Assistants: Margaret Petsch, Mary Graham, Betty Jane Barr, Helen Bartrum, Betty Shoemaker. Librarians . Mary Graham, Jane Lee I)ay Editor I his Issue .Newton Stearns 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 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. Subscriotion rates, $2.50 a year. 'llie Oregon Daily Emerald will not be responsible for returning unsolicited manuscripts. Public letters should not be more than 300 words in length and should be accompanied by the writer’s signature and address which will be withheld if requested. All communications are subject to the discretion of the editors. Anonymous letters will be disregarded. Distasteful Inertia TPIIK Oregon Daily Emerald is still of the opinion that the military trainin'*' qnes lion is jio burning, major issue on lliis cam pus. Tim liberality with which exemptions from compulsory drill are granted lias brought ItOTC, in actual practice, to a status closely paproaching tlxc optional feature. rlhe Emerald is still convinced that much dissent ion among Oregon students could be avoided if the present liberality were carried one step further, and military recorded as optional. However, the troublesome military prob lem which has been before the faculty for the past several weeks have developed into a nasty mess. Student groups have become openly hostile; the faculty factions are daily building more resentment against their op ponents. The breach between those who favor compulsory drill and those who oppose it is widening. And the matter still hangs in the fire. I'lie controversy has developed to a point where it is downright distasteful. Dr. ('. V. Boyer, president of the Ihiiver sity. has been criticized freely during the last lew weeks. The Emerald believes some ot the criticism directed toward the presi dent is justifiable, and much of the criticism is unjust iliable, both from the method of criticizing and the underlying motives for that criticism. The recent faculty vote, in favor of com pulsory military training by a count of 4.'l to 42, has brought to the attention of the students a marked fault in the faculty-con structed procedure for such action. And as the situation now stands there is no con clusion to be drawn by either faculty or the students as to who are eligible voters at faculty meetings. (Stipulations regarding voting privileges among faculty members appear conspicuous by their absence. It is evident that at the memorable faculty meeting at which the first ballot was taken some voted who should not have voted. The Emerald believes that this awkward situation should have been remedied before this time and believes that President Boyer is at fault in not tit tempt ing an immediate settlement of this diffi culty. However much ol the criticism directed toward President Boyer is unwarranted and l*cll.\. I he president is entitled to respect in the expression of his conviction. Ppon being placet I in the awkward position of deciding such a vole by the expression of his con viction, and upon the performance of his duty with firmness and dispatch, there is no place for a concentration of petty rebukes upon Dr. Boyer s action. I he whole situation balding to endless quibbling and triutless discussion must be remedied. I 'mil a final and definite hearing is given the question id' military drill, the I diversity cannot hope for a united front against more important problems. Canot* Felt*—Oregon's Own ^^1 I s I AN DIN’D amoii"- tlu* many Oregon traditions ineluded in .lunior Weekend itxell one ot tlii1 l niversity s most glorious —is tlu‘ ('anoe fete. 1 onifrlit tlio liriljiiiiii'i*. the splendor of llir l'anoe Fete will a train .sot the I'niversit.v of Oregon singly apart from the rest of the collegiate world. loniuht the Oregon eampus with its his lorie millruee heeomes the festival spot of the I'nited States. 1 he ('anoe Fete was originated at Ore t;on. It is a truly Oregon tradition it exists on the eampus of no other college or univer sity. To those witnessing tlu* spectacle lor the iirst time it is a never-to-be-forgotten thrill, lo those vhe i. i' . I hiii>>li'...j<! nf luily to i see it i'or the tenth tune it is still a thrill. i Big Business Liberal Editor’s note: Although Michigan’s Sen ator Couzens was Henry Ford’s first business manager, even Huey Long would back him if he were nominated for the presidency of the X nited States. This interesting article con cerning Senator Couzens is taken from the United States News through the courtesy of the Association of College. Editors. A s y°u Saze from your seat in the gallery of fhe United States Senate upon members of that deliberative body you may not pick out James Couzens as strikingly unusual. He may look a little more kinetic than deliberate, may suggest the fighter rather than the pleader. You wouldn't thinx, though, just to look at him, that he was so very different from the rest. Yet he is. And as if it weren’t enough to belong to that conspicuously small category of business men in government, he is also the big business man, the successful business man and—here, as the final fillip to the tale—he is a big business man who believes that one of government's most import ant functions is proper handling of the working man. He has a hard job. It’s easier for a lawyer to be a lawmaker than it is for an executive to become a legislator. The devious ways of achieve ment which a parliamentary system requires are enough to give the average business man the jitters. But Senator Couzens seems to flourish under the system. It keeps him going from 9 a. m. until 6:40 p. m. every day. And it’s just about his whole life. He’s not a great reader and doesn't play much golf. Why does he do it? Well, it may go back to some seeds planted when as a boy he listened casually to the intrigu ing if not althogether convincing flights of ora tory that emanated from the tireless larnyx of an itinerant single-taxer, standing in the back of a wagon and shouting his wares to all who passed. Lure of the Railroad Or it might be because of a habit of his since boyhood of gripping the task in front of him hard and, with unfaltering singleness of purpose, hammering it through to completion. His contact with the world of work began early. As a high school boy in the little town of Chatham where he was born, in Ontario, Canada, he skated and swam, pumped the organ in the Presbyterian church of which his father was a iaithful member and, when he got the chance, ex plored the mysteries of the railroad yards. Soon he was to learn a lot more about rail roads, for before he had finished high school he got a job as newsboy on the short line train. This was the end of his formal education. The rest he acquired himself. It wasn’t long till he had a better job, but he had to leave his native country to get it. He moved across the border to his future home, De troit. As car-checker for the Michigan Central Railway he began his American business career in 1890 at 17. On that 12-hour-a-day job that paid him the munificent sum of $40 a month, he set the pace that took him to the top. He wasn’t just a check er. He was a worker. And scon he was promoted to the freight desk. First just one of a small army of clerks, but soon he was the general— and nobody missed the fact. Las Buggy Pioneering And so when Alex Malcolmson, Detroit coal dealer, wanted a man, Freight Clerk Couzens attracted him. About that time a young engineer in whom Mr. Malcolmson was interested needed money to perfect a horseless carriage on which he was working. Mr. Malcolmson provided con siderable of the capital so much, in fact, that he thought somebody ought to watch it. So he sent Mr. Couzens to do the job: By mid-June, 1903, the new motor buggy bus iness had reached the stage where Mr. Couzens recommended its incorporation. Thus the Ford Motor Company began its corporate career with Mr. Couzens as business manager at $2,500 a year and Henry Ford drawing down all of $300 a month. As you may know, the business went rather well after that, and when Mr. Couzens and Mr. Ford et al, came to the parting of the ways in 1915, the former was well enough fixed so that he could afford to take a little time to look around for another job. But for a man who had lnul the responsibilities of a business that had grown from nothing to be the largest of its kind in the world, long idleness wasn’t bearable Rapid Political Rise He did, however, wait until the next year before he started his bank. By the end of another year, he began to feel the desire for some kind of public service. So he accepted appointment as Commissioner of Police in Detroit. Here was something to keep anyone busy. It did, and so effectively that the people made him j mayor and re-elected him. When a vacancy oe- | eurred in the United States Senate in 1922, the Governor didn't have much choice. “Senator Couzens" it has been ever since. Destiny drew a pretty clear and straight line when James Councils’ life was plotted. Porbably his mother, approvingly contemplating the neatly arranged woodpile behind the little frame house on Colburn street, never envisaged her indust rious son. with his passion for order, as some day directing a huge motor plant. Vet she did have a comfortable feeling that he was going some where. The word “efficiency." which Mr. Coun cils did so much to make synonymous with the name of Kurd, wasn't quite so much in the pop- , nlar mind then as it is today. But the thing that il stood for was pretty deeply impressed on the j brain of this lad who couldn't quit until the j ■ ticks were neatly piled. that's the way his mind has worked ever since. And Mr. Councils' theories of business are the ones that prompt his effort in the Senate. His well-known battle to tax great fortunes and re tire public debt lias been prompted by no desire to build a Utopia of leisure. He learned in making l-ords tliat there was ih> use producing if you didu l have a consumer at the end of the moving belt, sui'.iller fortunes <ud bigg l wage make Unrigs move, lie bcliavs . i Lazy-Voiced Lou Gets Radio Spot By George Bikraan Emerald Radio Editor Little Lou Parry, lazy-voiced lady of lullaby, will take front cen ter spot on the Emerald program today at 4:45 over KORE. Chuck French, ex-squire of the knightly carriage, will do his good deed astride the seat of his faithful black and white charger, the studio grand. It's to be a special program, and good enough to be rated among other fine weekend attrac tions for mothers. The Handel and Haydn society of Boston, one of the oldest and most distinguished choral groups in the country, will present a me morial concert dedicated to Handel and Bach over the Columbia net work tomorrow at I i :30. The chorus will be augmented by an orchestra. At 8:45 Sunday morning the Blue Danube blossom time fes tival will be described from Vienna. Dizzy and Daffy Dean of the St. | Louis Cardinals, and Sheila Bar rett will be guests on A1 Jolson’s | broadcast over NBC today at 5:30. j A t 6:30 some of the scientific ob-: jectives of the National Geographic society-U. S. army air corps 1935 stratosphere flight, scheduled to get under way early in June will be described. Major General B. D. Foulous and Brigadier General Oscar Westover will speak. Today’s Emerald is brought to you by the following advertisers. Willamette Park Old Mill Ballroom Campus Shoe Repair Chesterfield Cigarettes Newman's Fish Market Chase Gardens Patronize them. If Itlsn’t One Sea Monster, It’s Another! -.... ■ .-. - - ■ i Again I See in Fancy — tty Frederic 8. Dunn .— — The Literaries Open Barrage Helmet Lodge, JCnights of Pyth ias, is occasionally disturbed by weird spooky sounds, from behind, :rom above, from somewhere. The doughty warriors glance suspic iously at one another for a mo ment, with nervous hand on hilt of sword, and then grin slyly, to recall that these are the banshee whisperings of goblins that used to tramp, tramp up those stairs and drone their lessons in what was once the only public school Eugene commanded. Pythian Hall itself was, however, preceded by a little structure of one story and much smaller com pass, where, one afternoon in Oc tober of 1876, a group of men from the University met and organized the Laurean Society. Shortly there after the women of the University formed the Eutaxian Society, and thus early did the two, m. and f., enter the ark together, offering Tor many years the only semi-so cial activity known to our own diluvians. The program, purport, and of ficiary of the two Societies were identical. Their elections came of ten enough to provide chances for all aspirants and an interesting change of personnel. Their ses sions were weekly,—on Fridays,— the Eutaxians in the afternoon, the Laureans in the evening. The program was a rigid one of reci tation, essay, and debate, with an occasional open session by one or the other Society. There never was a joint debate in which both sexes participated, an innovation left for the post-drluvians. I still have my copy of Robert’s Rules of Order, which we could quote and practice as glibly as the sailor does his compass. By special en actment of the Board of Regents, the north-east room of the Univer sity building was dedicated at Laurean and Eutaxian Hall, where also Professor Johnson met his Latin classes, until the erection of Villard Hall gave him a place where to hang his coat and hat without having to make a speech to the Eutaxians. The pretentiousness of topics es sayed for debate by the Laureans quickly attracted state-wide at tention. The Oregonian is quoted by The Guard in its issue of Nov. 25, 1876, as saying: “Last Friday evening the fate of America was discussed, ‘Does the present aspect of affairs portend the downfall of the American Republic’.’’ This was the time, you may recall, when Hayes and Tilden were disputants for the Presidency and Oregon was curiously involved in the electoral vote. The affirmative led by Jake Wortman won the decision, i.e. America was doomed to chaos, in spite of the brilliant negative dc | fense of Henry McGinn. And what do you think? Those naughty Eutaxians actually at tacked the question “Is morality indispensible from religion.’’ And, friends, we are still here. Next in series: DOCTOR CAR SON’S MARGINALIA. Why Patronize the Emerald Advertiser BECAUSE VOl’U interest is II[S interest—1118 interest is YOUR interest. BECAUSE Ills advertising makes YOUR Emerald possible i'iv* times eaeh week. 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