Oregon Daily Emerald
Editor MALCOLM HAUER
Manager, (iraut Theummel
Managing Editor, J>an Clark
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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.