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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.
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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.
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