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Oregon Daily Emerald Editor MALCOLM HAUER Manager, (iraut Theummel Managing Editor, J>an Clark MKMRKR OF ASSOC I AT ED PRESS' The Associated Press i- entitled to the use for P iblication of all news dispatches credited to it <■ not otherwise credited in the paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication o' special dispatches herein are also reserved. f 1 itori:. 1 Hoard. \’ed Simpson. Charles Paddock UPPER NEWS STAFF Sports Tali tor .Clair Johnson ake-up Editor. Hill Phipps News Kditor .LeRoy Mattingly Society Editor .Rob Lucas lOur.or Editor.Tom McCall Feature Editor. George Root Radio Editor Rob Moore Telegraph Editor. Reinhart Kmidsen J-ay Editor .Wayne TIarbert Night Editor .Bill Haight STAFF T •> Stanlev. George Junes. Hill Pease. George Rik Rnn, I)on (.'a^ciato. Woodrow Truax, Huey Fredricks, Ed Robbins. Darrell Kllis, Gordon Connelly. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student pub I ation of the l’niversit> of Oregon, Eugene, pub lished daily during the college year, except Sun d ivs, Mondays, holidays, examination periods, all (•' December except the first seven days, all of E'arch. except the first eight days. Entered as Second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Ore gon, Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. This, the annual men’s edition of the Oregon Daily Emerald, is a masculine offering. Just the right size to read be hind the open geography book, and with pictures enough to explain the story to the most illiterate, it should be just what the campus has been seeking—a news paper that doesn’t have to be read. Keys for the Preppers The keys to the campus, those elu sive jinglera. are extended today to £>00 hi«rh school athletes of the state of Oregon as they compete in the state interscholastic track and field championships. Now is a stood time to see the campus at work; that is, partially at work. Make if your home thie weekend, and do as vou will. YOU ARE WELCOME. Take Notice Mr* Blais Granting llmt students of the Uni verst iy of Oregon really want a stu dent union building—either new or second hand -there should be some action taken to meet that want. It has been suggested by Dean Joint F. Bovard and others that Gerlinger hall be remodelled to pro vide the facilities of a union bnild i tg. Such a scheme seems feasible in I ght of the limited financial means Mid also the desireabilities of the location and arrangement of Gerling (■ ■ hall, itself. There are, however, objections to s ich a proposal; chief of which has e one from Mrs. George T. Gerlinger. v ho was outstanding among those v ho inade possible the construction <•' Gerlinger hall. Such objections s lould be given consideration along \ ith the arguments of those who ad vocate such a transformation of the | resent women's building. To secure such consideration what could be 1 'ore practicable than a gathering in A lie ill were represented exponents for and against the proposal of Dean (-ovarii? In such a group, suggest t ons could he exchanged, advant ages and benefits weighed against disadvantages, and some common 1 iderstanding reached. It is the duty of the president of t to ASI () to call such a meeting. IT IS TIM K FOB ACTION’. The Forgotten Man Speaks Breaking' another of the so-called ‘‘periods of silence” that have hid den him from the public eye since March 1th, HKl.'l, ex-president Herb ert Hoover emerged from his polit ieal seclusion again yesterday just long enough to hurl additional in dictments of the XHA ami the pres y it administration policies in the teeth of the still prevailing Demo cratic gale. All the charges and counter charges against the program of the Roosevelt government are funda mentally the same as those made in former first citizen’s series of art icles printed last year in the Satur day Evening Rost under the caption “The Defence of Liberty.” In it, as in his many subsequent public ad dresses. he has maintained that the NR A, with it codes and schemes, is contrary to the first conceptions of American liberty, as formulated in tin* Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. The latest outbreak of wrath re veals that Mr. Hoover believes the NRA is “saddling the American people with their worst era of mo nopolies’’ and that “such schemes 1o avoid competition in business were rejected in my administration because they were horn from a de sire to escape anti-trust laws.’’ He says again, “this whole idea of rul ing business through code authorities with delegated powers of laws is un American in principle and a proved failure in practice.” Coming at a time when the nation is getting fed up with the New Deal and the NRA code-and-price-fixing saddle, Mr. Hoover’s must be taken as a shrewd political move towards renomination and a possible second try in the driver’s seat. As yet there is no way of testing how far he will get on this road to a second presi dential term. Time—and the 19116 Republican national convention — alone will tell! PASSING SHOW ENVIOUS EYES "Of all existing student Union build ings, the nearest and consequently most familiar to Oregon students is the lux urious $700,000 Memorial Union building at Oregon State college. Constructed in 1928 with funds subscribed by students, faculty, alumni and friends of the col lege, this spacious building has become the center of student social life, the head quarters of student government and the hub of all student and alumni activity." The above quotation comes from a recent article in the Emerald, University of Oregon student daily, which is now campaigning for a like building on the southern campus. Comments like this make one consider for a moment his blessings, and Oregon Staters may w'ell be proud of the facilities offered by their union. Increasingly popular as a center for student activity and social life, the Me morial Union has still many possibilities which have not been developed. With suggestions of all students, the new of ficers, who take their posts for the com ing year on July 1, can cooperate most effectively to enlarge the offerings of the building. The eyes of our neighbors to the south cast in this direction make us all the more cognizant of the sacrifices of those who made the building possible and the need for student cooperation to continue to build on the present excellent founda tion of services.—Oregon State Daily Barometer. BY BRAIN, OK CLUB A splendid ruling comes from Presi dent Boyer of the University of Oregon. That able gentleman places a strict ban on hazing on the university campus, and it is a highly intelligent act. "The use of physical violence is itself a bad tradition," says Dr. Boyer, "and should be stamped out. It is at best child ish, at worst barbaric if not sadistic." There is little more to be said on the subject. Enforcement of our standards and our traditions through force is far from a basic American principle. It is never to ■ be employed, under our ideals, until ab- ! solutely and unquestionably necessary. Uncle Sam’s Nightmare UWtflANA QUINlUPlItS . Hungerford in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette NOTHIN’ GOES BY DICK WATKINS CAMPUS — as Thramp-in-Chief of of this abominable section of yon Emer ald men’s rag edition, we’ll break the monotony of our current line of luke warm boloney and expose the social do ings of various and sundry campus tongs, over the week-end . . . the spring house dance parade was once again con tinued on its merry way last night by jigs tossed by three likely frat clubs for girls, namely, the Delta Gams, Chi O’s and Alpha Xi Delta . . . tonight, six of the Greek dives will open up their por tals to merriment and cheer, so the shin dig situation is well in hand . . . from left to right, count in the Pi Phis, the Chi Psis, Betas, Alpha Chi O’s, the A. D. Pis and the A. O. Pis . . . what bagpipe outfits are dishing out the tunes at all these brawls, we know not, and care less, so the lads who are sweating over the society page of this sheet can un load the publicity ‘plugs’ for the bands, this time . . . HEAR & THERE — An son Weeks plays tonight for the U. of Washington’s annual Spring Promenade, while previous to the affair, Weeks & his boys will all be dinner guests at the va rious sororities . . .Del Courtney who has been Jantzen Beach’s latest attrac tion hails from Oakland, and gathered his band together at the U. of California and played for campus affairs there, at the same time as did Toni Coakley, so the two, till Coakley got his real 'break,' there was much keen rivalry between by moving into the bigtime at S. F.’s Palace ... the PKINOETONIAN, Prince ton U.’s daily blurb has very definitely gone ‘anti-Hearst’ and is not only gath ering in names and signatures to make a protest against his policies, but are also urging all students to boycott any theatres showing the Hearst Metrotone Newsreels . . . the Eugene Hotel put on a smart deal by holding a free dance there last night, piped by the Ten Com manders, in honor of their new coffee shop's debut ... a very smooth and novel introduction indeed . . . we thought our recent visitors, Leo Davis and band had Guy Lombardo’s style down pretty pat, till we chanced to tune in on Ray Har beck's music from the L. A. Cafe De Pa ree, the other night ... he does such a fine imitation, that we could not tell it from the real McCoy . . . Harbeck, by the way, is one of the bands included on Jantzen Beach’s roster for summer en gagements ... in case you’re interested, the 4th Annual California Intercollegiate Track Meet will be broadcast this after noodn over NBC stations from 2:00 to 4:00 p. m. . . . then too, that new 12 piece outfit out at Willamette Park this eve, sounds like a pretty good bet, and might bear investigation from some of you who crave to tread the light fantas tic, between beers, a noche ... all for now, . . . adios. Our laws are set up to avoid force in di recting affairs. Our educational system in itself is to help foster a higher stan dard of living through avoidance of phys ical conflict, and a better understanding through mutual co-operation and help fulness. We are to be taught through development of the mental faculties, not through the wielding of a paddle or a club. Nor is a senior in college always a AGAIN I SEE IN FANCY By FREDERIC S. DUNN Orphaned by Caesarean operation, and dumped on Mrs Eugene’s back stoop, the State University was for months an unregistered baby. Universities and col leges by the score were scattered all over the globe, like a great grown-up family of aristocratic princelings, with gilded and vari-colored seals and ribbons at tached, and crytic Latin phrases, to cert ify a heritage going back into antiquity. And here was pinkly-born Oregon, blink ing, blanketed, broochless. There was no seal to give it formal authority. Despite the fact that it was an ag gregation of legal lights, the Board of Regents was not quite aware of this deficiency until in their first session of the University s second year. Judge Matthew P. Deady, President of the Board, was then authorized to devise a seal, and reported his invention of the following February. Probably the most conspicious use to which a seal could be applied was in connection with the gradu ation diploma and, since there was no class until in June of 1878, the need had not been considered as so very urgent. The Jusice of the Superior Court was supposed to know his Latin, but ap parently he did not, at least not as well as John W. Johnson, president. The Latin ized formula, as proposed by Judge Deady and adopted by the less Latin Board, read “Oregoniae Universitas.” Preferred Latin idiom demanded both an inversion of those two words and, as well, not “University of Oregon,” but “Oregonian University.” And then, if this latter were to be the norm, should the adjective ending, ensis, be attached to a supposed Latin name “Oregonia” or “Orego,” either of which would be perfectly plausible ? The second form would yield the adjective Oregonensi3, while the former might create Oregon iensis, though even nouns ending in ia could omit the “i” in the formation of the adjective. Professor Johnson was still discussing the matter with his classes when I first took Latin in 1883 or thereabouts. Evidently Johnson’s su perior mastery of Latin won the day and, to speak Latinly, “stet” could be placed over against “Universitas Oregonensis,” and the date August 30, 1888. When Vergil, near the beginning of the Christian Era, wrote his AEneid to commemorate the genesis of the Roman power, not all his sweep of fancy could have pictured to him so remote a concept as that of a new-born foundation on the farthest shore of an unknown continent coming to him for its magic formula. Its original setting was most majestic, the shadowy hero, Aeneas, reviewing in the realm of specters the throng of spirits destined to come into being in their proper chronological order, from Romulus the founder down to the la mented heir-aparent, Marcellus. There was a methodic, systematic scheme ob servable, a genius pervading the whole procession, an intelligence animating that entire pageant. It was a happy in spiration, thus transmitted through al most two millenia, wih which to christen a new-born college, “Mens agitat mo lem.” Not many Universities can claim so appropriate a talisman. Next in the series: LATIN PREPOSI TIONS IN METER. better judge of the proper action than a freshman, any more than every man of mature age is a better director than some of fewer years. All knowledge does not comes from long experience. All dis coveries have not been made by older men. Many splendid examples have been set by those of brief experience, and much of accomplishment has come from young men. Nor has it been necessary to call the army, with its force, into action to establish a better order of things in the nation. Dr. Boyer is very correct in eliminat ing the hazing and paddling activities at the university. The way to teach, for the most part, is through the brain, not through the seat of the pants.—The Ore gon Journal.