Oregon daily emerald., October 10, 1935, Page Two, Image 2

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Later Hours
On Food
WITH the advent of the associated women
students’ " highly commendable new pro
gram, the moral and mental needs of Oregon
women seem well cared for. But the AWS has
forgotten another great need—the physical. To
be explicit, food!
It is to fill in the AWS’ oversight and to
hearken to those women, who, though their souls
may be bursting with activities and education,
still utter cries from hollow stomachs, that the
Emerald takes its stand. Ordering food should
be permitted after closing hours.
The present rule, which prohibits food from
being delivered to sororities after 10:30 on week
nights and 12:15 on weekends, seems illogical.
Before closing time women can go out to eat. It
is only after hours, when the nearest a girl can
get to the outside world is a cautious peek
through the window, that ordering food is really
practical.
As for dating, this rule is quite a handicap.
Many a girl has her evening quite blighted by
the thought that she will have to come home and
retire hungry since dances do not end in time to
even let her gobble a hot dog before the nouse
lights flicker. (Not to mention the fact that her
swain probably hasn’t hot dog money anyway.)
Of course, late ordering of food might make
the Oregon girls fat. But, then, a woman’s avoir
dupois is her own secret affair; and, if she wishes
to add a pound, she might as well do it with the
comfort of modern civilization. On reflection, in
deed, it seems that University women well may
need a little extra food, since many of them —
particularly the freshmen—are so young, so
energetic.
Of course food should not be obtainable at
all hours of the night. But no house rules send
girls to bed before 11 on week nights and 1 on
weekends, from a half to three quarters of an
hour after closing time, which, after all, might
as well be spent in eating.
Why not change the food-delivery dead line
to bedtime hours instead of closing hours?
The Advent
Of !Chinese Mocus*
^"'"iHINESE Mocue, a disease bearing a striking
resemblance to our native Hookworm infec
tion, has during the past few days broken out in
several places on the University of Oregon cam
pus. Plans are being made for the segration of
the infected persons.
Students are asked to guard against contact
with those afflicted with the disease, little being
known of its contagion, although doctors are
thoroughly aware of its alarming percentage of
fatality. Thus far scientific means of attack have
failed in the majority of cases.
The disease finds its maturity in three dis
tinct periods covering three months, or one term
of the school year. College freshmen and first
year law students are especially susceptible.
The Mocus usually attacks in the early fall
and the stricken person feels within himself the
development of a "put off" attitude. Lack of
regular class attendance is an early sign. Some
people in the first stage of the Mocus may be
identified by their endeavor to put themselves
across in ( lass by sheer lung power lacking in
background. This is an unmistakable symptom
The second stage of the disease is reached
when all the symptoms of the first are plainly
manifest. The lack of interest and a self asserted
dislike of classroom work is characteristic of
this period, this is followed by a growing sense
of restlessness and worry. There is a tendency
for the afflicted during this phase to put honor
uside and cheat during the periodic examinations.
A general feeling of regret and self-dissatisfac
tion strikes the patient at this time.
The final stages of the malady finds ttie
sufferer in a quanderous state of uncertainty
and discontent. He is troubled with delusions
and imaginery ailments. He tends to rationalize
and offer excuses. Very often during this period
the patient sufters from tremors. 'Plus symptom
usually develops a few hours before final exam
inations. During his last moments the afflicted
person finds himself in a panicky state of mind;
keen remorse pierces his soul. He dies hard.
Other Editors’ Opinions
TJRESIDENT Roosevelt opposed the neutrality
legislation passed by the recent congress,
holding that the executive officer could involve
the country in war anyhow, if he so desired,
and that a motion to bind ins actions was worse
than useless.
Those who feared from this incident that th?
president was of warlike temper, can now
breathe in peace. Certainly his action of Satur
day, declaring Italy and Ethiopia in a state of
war and imposing an American embargo on war
supplies, and his action Sunday, stating that
Americans who travel on ships of the belligerents
must do so at their own risk, are reassuring from
this standpoint. The neutrality act of necessity
left wide discretion to the president. He was
directed to impose the embargo following the
outbreak of war or during its progress. He was
directed to order Americans off belligerent ships
when he found this necessary for the mainten
ance of peace, or the protection of American
life and property.
Mr. Roosevelt has chosen to recognize a state
of war in advance of any other country except
Ethiopia. He has chosen to bar travel on the
ships of the belligerents before most of the
countries have admitted that there is a state of
war. The peace advocates and the advocates of
American isolation ct uld ask no more.
It is, incidentally, a history-making reversal
of the traditional American stand on interna
tional law and freedom of the seas. During the
world war the government of the United States
not only insisted on the right of American ships
to travel the sea lanes, but it also insisted that
Germany refrain from sinking, without warning
and without assistance for the passengers, allied
merchant ships with Americans aboard, even
when these ships were armed. It was on this
issue that the United States and Germany finally
came to grips.
On February 4, 1915, Germany declared a
forbidden zone around the British isles and an
nounced that every enemy merchant ship would
be sunk. A week later the Wilson government
dispatched a note asserting that Germany would
be held strictly accountable if American shipping
was sunk or if Americans lost their lives. There
followed several sinkings, climaxed by that of
the Briti&'h liner Lusitania, May 7, 1915, with
1152 persons lost, of whom 114 were Americans.
'The German government then for a time modi
fied its submarine policy, but without agreement
being reached on the right of neutrals to travel
unmolested under the flag of a belligerent. Bryan
resigned as secretary of state primarily because
President Wilson would not consent to having
Americans warned off ships of belligerents which
carried munitions.
The situation then dragged along, with many
Americans and much American property being
lost, until January 31, 1917, when Germany pro
claimed unrestricted submarine warfare in a
zone around the allied coasts. The general
destruction that resulted caused Mr. Wilson to
call congress into special session on April 2. He
delivered his message, and on April 4 the senate
passed the resolution of war by 82 to 6. The
house passed the resolution in the early-morning
hours of April 6 by 373 to 50.
At that time the United States was insisting
upon rights v/hich today it disavows at the first
sign of European warfare. The Morning Ore
gonian.
Europe Firsthand
By Howard Kessler
THE simple exclamation ‘‘Heil Hitler!” has
more meaning; in Germany today than any
other two words in what language you choose.
It may be translated freely to "Hello,” "Good
bye,” "How are you?” “Yours truly,” “Dear Sir,”
“Yes," “Who done that?”, "Wait just a minute,
please,” "Who was that lady I saw you with
last night?" or "Make mine beer,” and it can be
stretched to include a great deal more.
Thus I was rather embarrassed as I sat in
the editorial office, returning the lusty "Heil Hit
ler's!” (accompanied by the customary raised
right arm) of the employees who bustled in and
out with copy, with a rather inadequate "How
dy,” and a timid half-motion of the arm. I wore
a khaki shirt, brown leather jacket, brown
whipcord breeches, and was evidently mistaken
for a Nazi official.
Editor Schemm, in a uniform that was much
like mine, led in Managing Editor Schmidt, who
almost spoke English, and who ushered me
around the plant. Tanned and sporty, young
Schmidt was also efficient. He drove me around
to the ministry of the Ostmark, introduced me to
an Herr Franck, and departed with a friendly
shake of the hand. Herr Franck put me through
to Herr Vollerath, assistant to the minister of
propaganda, who found an interpreter in Herr
Beelitz, a German journalist. Beelitz asked me
to be in the lobby of my hotel at two o'clock,
and 1 walked back to the Reichsadler slowly
! through the rain, trying to fit the pieces to
j gether.
That afternoon a sleek brown Horch eight
i stopped before the hotel, and the Amerikaner
was whisked away. We spent several hours visit
ing all the museums and palaces of Bayreuth;
the "Ermitage,” summer home of the Mar
I greaves, once the ruling house of Bavaria; the
j Margreaves opera house, finest in Europe a few
centuries ago; the world-famed Testivaplatz;
"Villa Wahnfried," the home of Richard Wagner;
the palace of the Margreaves; the tombs ofCosima,
Siegfried and Richard Wagner, Jean Paul, Franz
Liszt, Chamberlain, and Hans Schemm. 1 met
Herr Ruckdeschel, governor of the province, a
clear-eyed young man. as indeed are most^of the
officials in this essentially youthful regime. He
, asked my opinion of Germany's government, and
while 1 paused to choose exact words he looked
as anxious as a playwright watching a producer
i read his manuscript.
Vollerath and Beelitz together with the news
paperman’s young son, who wanted to glimpse
a real American, escorted me to the theater in
the evening, and next morning when 1 left Bay
reuth it was in the Horch. fan- they insisted upon
driving me to nay destination, a distance of forty
I nailes. There they ordered a banquet, presented
j me with several travel volumes, located the man
! for whom I was searching, and left me in his
: good care.
Of coaarse it was propaganda. 1 knew it and
they knew I knew it. althoaigh not once was
there an attempt made to convince me of the
I efficacy of National Socialism.
But is was a very pleasant kind of propa
j gunda ar.J 1 could stand a lot ef it.
Youd better
come i
OBR A
house
ADOLPH^
"...And Sudden Death”
!•- —
Editor’s note: This is the third
and concluding installment of
"... And Sudden Death” which
has been recommended by Read
er’s Digest for everyone who
drives an automobile. The Em
erald is reprinting the article
for the benefit of any one who
may have missed it.
By J. G. FURNAS
Flying glass- safety glass is by
no means universal yet—contrib
utes much more than its share to
the spectacular side of accidents.
It doesn’t merely cut—the frag
ments are driven in as if a can
non loaded with broken bottles had
been fired in your face, and a
sliver in the eye, traveling with
such force, means certain blind
jness. A leg or arm stuck through
l the windshield wrill cut clean to
jthe bone through vein, artery and
muscle like a piece of beef under
the butcher’s knife, and it takes
little time to lose a fatal amount
of blood under such circumstances.
Even safety glass may not be
wholly safe when the car crashes
something at high speed. You
hear picturesque tales of how a
flying human body will make a
neat hole in the stuff with its head
—the shoulders stick - the glass
holds and the raw, keen, edge of
the hole decapitates the body as
neatly as a guillotine.
Or, to continue with the decapi
tation motif, going off the road
into a post-and-rail fence can put
you beyond worrying about other
injuries immediately when a rail
comes through the windshield and
tears off your head with its splin
tery end not as neat a job but
thoroughly as efficient. Boc.ies are
often found with their shoes off
and their feet all broken out of
shape! The shoes are back on the
floor of the car, empty and with
their laces neatly tied. That is
the kind of impact produced by
modern speeds.
But all that is routine in every
American community. To be re
membered individually by doctors
and policemen, you have to do
something as grotesque as the lady
who burst the windshield with
her head, splashing splinters all
ever the other occupants of the
car, and then, as the car rolled
over, rolled with it down the edge
of the windshield frame and cut
her throat from ear to ear. Or
park on the pavement too near a
| curve at night and stand in front
of the tail light as you take off
the spare tire which will intmor
italise you in somebody’s memory
as the fellow who was mashed
three feet broau and two inches
thick by the impact of a heavy
1 duty truck against the rear of
your own car. Or be as original as
the pair of youths who were
thrown out of an open roadster
this spring thrown clear but
each broke a windshield post with
his head in passing and the whole
top of each skull, down to the
eyebrows, was missing Or snap
off a nine-inch tree and get your
1 self impaled’by a ragged branch.
None of all that is scare-head
fiction: it is just the horrible raw
: material of the year's statistics as
scan in the ordinary course of duty
by policemen and doctors, picked
at random. The surprising thing
is that there is so little dissimil
arity in the stories they tell.
1: s hard to imd a surviving ae
cident victim who can bear to talk.
After you come to, the gnawing,
searing pain throughout your
body is accounted for by learning
that you have both collarbones
smashed, both shoulder blades
splintered, your right arm broken
in three places and three ribs
cracked, with every chance of bad
internal ruptures. But the pain
can't distract you, as the shock be
gins to wear off, from realizing
that you are probably on your way
out. You can't forget that, not
even when they shift you from the
ground to the stretcher and your
broken ribs bite into your lungs
and the sharp ends of your collar
bones slide over to stab deep into
each side of your screaming throat.
When you’ve stopped screaming,
it all comes back you’re dying
and you hate yourself for it. That
isn’t fiction either. It's what is
actually feels like to be one of
that 36,000.
And every time you pass on a
blind curve, every time you hit it
up on a slippery road, every time
you step on it harder than your
reflexes will safely take, every
time you drive with your reactions
slowed down by a drink or two,
every time you follow the man
ahead too closely, you’re gambling
a few seconds against this kind of
blood and agony and sudden death.
Take a look at yourself as the
man in the white jacket shakes
his head over you, tells the boys
with the stretcher not to bother
and turns away to somebody else
who isn’t quite dead yet. And then
take it easy.
President Boyers Speech
Editor’s note: Following is the
text of Dr. C. V. Boyer’s opening
message made to the students at
the assembly of Tuesday, Octo
ber 7. This message eontains
much that is instructive and
clearly outlines the purposes and
principles of the university that
is the University of Oregon.
The purpose of a university edu
cation is to fit men and women to
earn a living, to live fully, and to
reshape the world in w’hich they
live. In other words vocation, lei
sure, and citizenship. I do not
specify character, because charac
ter is fundamental to all three.
The University does not give a
man all the instruction necessary
to becoming a skillful carpenter,
salesman, or banker. The Univer
sity does not teach special trades
or businesses, but it does not look
down on them. Where greater
learning is required than may be
had in the high schools or the
trade schools, it offers the oppor
tunity to acquire that learning. It
strives especially to train men in
basic knowledge, habits of
thought, and means of investiga
tion that will enable them to suc
ceed in any business. It does not
aim to teach men how to become
rich, for it is with living, not with
possessions that it is concerned.
The University is primarily a
place of the mind. We realize that
without some degree of security,
without health ant. comfort, the
average man is not going to de
velop into a high order of being.
But we realize also that the earn
ing of a living involves something
besides the acquiring of comforts.
There is a just pride in the suc
cessful conduct of any business. It
calls for planning, foresight, ap
plication, skill, self-denial, and
courage. It calls for fire and en
ergy. There is the thrill of the joy
of living in the successful conduct
of business. Those who are unable
to earn a living are not only un
happy themselves but retard the
development of all. I am no believ
er in the old theory of uncon
trolled individualism, but it never
theless remains true that business,
rightly conducted, is the means
w hereby each individual in advanc
ing the material interests of him
self advances the material inter
ests of others as well. The good life
is interested in fitting men to earn
a living.
But. just as charity is said to be
gin at home, so does success in
earning a living begin in the school
room. Your main business while
you are in the University is to do
the work that is laid out for you.
If you are too lazy, too easily dis
tracted, too fond of popularity, too
weak or ill, to apply yourself to
your present task of learning you
will probably be equally unsuccess
ful in later life. You will be with
out the knowledge, without the
training, and without the charac
ter to meet liffe successfully.
For what does the University of
fer ? It offers you the foundations
of knowledge upon which our pres- j
ent industrial, scientific, artistic, |
I * I
I Protests Decision
To the editor:
For the first time in two years
a student who has been refused
exemption from military training
has stated his intention to fight
the case. Gordon Connelly of the
Emerald staff has definitely stated
that he will not under any cir
cumstances take military training.
His objections, as stated to the
faculty board, were as follows;
(1 ( military training is of no bene
fit to him and has no part in his
higher education. (2) he believes
himself intelligent enough to
choose the subjects he wishes to
take in college, (3) military train
ing does not warrant a position
j as a compulsory subject in the col
lege curricula.
It should be noted that his
reasons for refusal are the identi
cal reasons why five hundred stu
! dents endorsed a petition to the
faculty last year.
It should also be noted that it is
plainly up to the students who1
championed these views last year
j to support Connelly in his fight
: for exemption.
Connelly has not attempted to
evade the issue pleading conscien
tious grounds, which are recog
nized by the Oregon state consti-;
tution, or cited schedule conflicts !
as reasons for exemption. More
' than 100 exemptions have already
j been granted for these reasons.
Plans to obtain backing for Cou
1 nelly's cause are in progress. Al
ready several groups have signi
fied their intention of doing so.
Sincerely,
Joseph Reid.
md spiritual civilization is built. It
brings you in contact with the
facts upon which all the generali
sations with which you are famil
iar concerning nature and society
are based. It enables you to find
aut things for yourself. It trains
you in research which is only an
other way of saying that it is
teaching you methods of determin
ing truth. It reveals to you what
evidence and proof really are. It
enables you to see right through a
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Radio ❖
❖ of the Air
By Woodrow Truax
In preparation for the game in
Portland Saturday, the radio de
partment of the Emerald will de
vote its quarter hour to the Ore
gon Rally committee. Roberta
Moody will be in charge of the
broadcast, and will introduce the
members of the Greater Oregon
Rally committee.
Tonight the associated students
in cooperation with he alumni will
present a program over stations
KGW and KEX. Prominent Ore
gon grads will present short talks.
Campus
❖ Exchanges
By Bill Marsh
A columnist on the Oregon State
Barometer tells us that he at
tended a dance last week-end—an
Oregon State dance. He was so
utterly disgusted with the rowdi
nes, the intoxication and the gen
eral bad smell prevailing that he
left early. It must have been some
shindig if it was too much for a
newspaper columnist! Seriously,
though, we of the University
should take note. A few lowbrows
managed to make the better class
of Oregon State students ashamed
of their college. With the week
end of the Cal game in the offing,
there is no reason to believe that
our own assortment of lowbrows,
plain and fancy drunks, etc., won’t
behave in such a manner as to
make us ashamed of our college.
Then why not lock the door before
the horse is stolen? Why don’t
the house presidents arrange to
assess fines on any of their mem
bers who are seen making them
selves obnoxious? After all, we’re
going up to Portland to blow off
(Please turn to page three.)
We want you to pulleeze take time off from all the
exciting preparations for the game to read what Polly
views—you see Polly is going up to the game too. and
for that very reason she has been shopping around
for all the necessities to take along.
POLLY saw a darling future green dinner dress in HAD
LEY’S window the other day and knew that she just must
have THAT dress. Of course she must because who wouldn’t
look flattering in green chiffon velvet shirt waist dress with
corded puffed sleeves and a peplum. The buttons on this dream
of a gown are fascinating, reds, greens, yellows, in fact every
hue sparkling in artificial light —it’s stunning; revealing, the
decolete that’s always good—its a dress that should be in every
co-ed’s wardrobe, including YOUR'S too!
POLLY found just the perfect
footwear at GRAHAM'S for the
football game. These smart snappy
sport shoes as POLLY exclaimed
to her friends. Brown or black
slacks is what she calls them and
they are the only thing for fall;
trim, flexible and just the right
weight before the heavy winter
brogues. POLLY had a hard time
deciding between the brown $6
pair which is trimmed in seal and
can be worn in the Prince of Wales
pattern or tied around the ankle
cue muic pnucu tpo.ju uicujk sueue ur uruwa tin
with saucy flaps and the new trouser crease over the vamp.
Any of the three would suit the need and POLLY will tred
smartly to the big game this Saturday.
Have you seen POLLY in that alluring black formal with
two huge red poinsette’s in front'? It's dashing and different
with a class all of it’s own. C. J. BREIER CO. featured this
style and it has that touch that reminds us of medieval gowns.
This particular style has a V flounce in front and back with a
stunning tucked inch role along the edge of the flounce. This
drapery is modern and oriental with a tinge of medieval and
who could ask for more—all in one dress, it gives just that
notion of college sophistication and what a thrill POLLY feels;
it’s perfect and what if she SHOULD get red roses to match
the flowers—the last word!
POLLY bought an adorable afternoon dress at GORDON’S
this week to wear on her big date Saturday evening. Every
co-ed must have a smart street dress for this occasion.
POLLY’S new creation is rust, the saucy thing for fall, with
a lovely satin vestee— and remember those little chocolate
penny candies of Hershey's special that you used to love w'hen
you had a spare penny—well the gold volcano's on POLLY’S
dress remind you of these, attractive on the pockets and sleeves
It’s gold and rust. Vogue’s pet for autumn.
Mind your bumps says Polly—
you know some of you need just
enough to smooth the curves for
your formal.-;—the tu-way stretch
garments called, “The Imp” gives
just that needed support. They
may be had in girdles or dualistel
styles and with the inviso grip
garters so nothing under your]
frock will show—Then there is the
panty girdle for those who prefer!
the knee high hose. These are all'
priced from $1.50 to $5.00 —■
POLLY peeked at these problem
solvers in the "BROADWAY
INC.”
POLLY'S last minute date before the train is the dash to
LOVE'S BEAUTY SALON for a shampoo and finger wave to
keep that grand permanent in trim. These hair cuts are only
35c and the shampoo 50c. Attractive coiffeur is one of POLLY'S
charms and what girl can afford to have unruly hair with
Polly intriguing at any college gathering.
With exchange desserts now in full swing POLLY needs
a new dinner dress. No one could ask for a better selection
than she found at McMORRAN AND WASHBURNE'S. POLLY
selected a powder blue crepe with large metallic cloth sleeves.
It is striking in it's style and the simplicity is completed with
buttons down the full length of the back of the dress.
First of all Polly needed some buttons and a buckle for the
suit she just finished knitting-and what do you think she
found ? Buttons made of cocoanut—honestly—and in the cutest
shapes -there were little fat tropical fish—and tropical leaf
shaped buttons and all with a buckle to match. They are
dark brown with a white fleck in them and Polly was told
that they are much stronger and more durable than wood.
These original Hawaiian inspirations were found at the
ORIENTAL ART SHOP.
MILL'S BEAUTY SALON fixed POLLY'S hair last week
and did you notice the different hair-do, classy don't you
think ? A shampoo cnee a week gives her hair that shining
gloss and brings those golden glints out, and remember, gentle
men prefer blonds.
And she can dance A collegiate compliment that is the
recommendation any girl would like. University co-eds can
all dance and "date” too if they take advantage of the dancing
lessens offered now at MERRICK'S DANCE STUDIOS. POLLY
going to do :emc improving too ;o jtart new mart lasoes