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TODAY and tomorrow droves of Oregon stu
dents will migrate to Portland for the big
California-Oregon game. By train and by auto
mobile students will travel completely in mood
for one swell, exhilarating time.
It is not particularly difficult to enlist serious
ness of students in matters that are of intense
interest to the University. In the past students
have been alert and willing to fight things that
have threatened the well-being of the school.
The important factor in gaining support of stu
dents is the concreteness of the difficulty. In
other words if a tax-limitation bill, or a Zorn
McPherson bill arises before the students, some
thing that they can read, something that they
may see in black and white, they are spurred
into action and respond enthusiastically and ef
fectively.
The problem of conduct in Portland during
the rallies and during the football game is just
as pressing and real as one that directly effects
the physical and material properties of this
campus.
The student must realize that in spite of his
desire for independence, in spite of his confidence
in his ability to adequately govern his own af
fairs, that he is not an isolated individual. The
student of the University has a responsibility
to older, more judicial people, a responsibility to
people in the state that make his education
possible.
The situation is analogous to employer-em
ployee relationship. Any college man or woman
who, upon accepting a job, utterly ignores the
wishes of his employer for the careless fulfill
ment of his own caprice is definitely a ‘‘wrong
guy.”
An Appeal To
Common Sens
The students at the University of Oregon will
realize the effects on people of the state of
gentlemanly conduct and will certainly observe
the necessary conventions while in Portland.
Those that do not belong elsewhere.
To say that these students are not a credit
to their school is not a true picture of the whole
situation. They are manifesting the actions ol'
the immature child, who, lacking in experience
and maturity, just doesn’t know any better.
No Sunday Dancing
JpOR several days there has been, on the cam
pus, a seething undercurrent of resentment
against the recent request from the dean of wom
en’s office that there be no organized group
dancing in the living organizations on Sunday.
Perhaps a word of explanation will clear up
the present misunderstanding of the ruling. Ac
cording to the dean of women, no moral question
is involved. It is not a matter of "if it's all right
to dance six days a week, why not on Sunday?"
The office has no objection to student dancing,
ever, in fact it recognizes its values and benefits,
but the ruling that there be no organized danc
ing on tire seventh day of the week, that is,
dancing at the customary invitational teas, has
come about “out of respect for other people's
Sundays chiefly the residents around the liv
ing organizations who have slightly different
ideas of observing Sundays than tire college stu
dents. Those people are as much a part of the
community as the University, the dean of women
points out, and tiieir rights should also be re
spected, if a harmonious atmosphere and attitude
is to be maintained between the two groups.
Also, the dean of women’s office is not mak
ing a ruling against something which has been
an Oregon custom, or tradition, neither does
it object if members of the individual houses
dance within their group. The organized Sunday
tea dances have never been sanctioned, and ac
cording to the office, "just sort of crept up."
Their discontinuance lias been requested out of
consideration for others.
Oregon maintains a generous social program,
with dancing as one of the chief means of stu
dent entertainment. The dean of women's office
reminds us that it has always been generous in
granting special "hour" privileges when “big"
orchestras come to town, and has cooperated
with the students in their quest for enjoyment,
and feels that one concession on their part is not
too much to ask.
Oregon State
Slips Behind
By an announcement in the Oregon State Bar
ometer of last Wednesday, it is found that
progress in tlie drive for membership in that
school's student body has been sluggish. By Wed
nesday, October 9. 1 K!8 student body cards were
sold. Because of an increased enrollment, bung
ing this year’s total to nearly 3000, this report
is particularly depressing.
At Oregon the same date ovei -dJO cards
had been sold to a student body approaching
2700. The Oregon State percentage of sale;
amounting to only 38 per cent is in marked con
trast to Oregon’s encouraging mark of 77 per
Last year the situation was quite in reversf
with the college leading the University in the
student body race.
It is regrettable that students at Oregon
State do not find it expedient to support theii
student body.
Oregon State students should realize that this
unfavorable reaction to the purchase of student
body cards will eventually place them at a dis
advantage in the enjoyment of the manifold ac
tivities made possible by a successfully financed
program.
'HE college editor should make a slight dis-j
tinction between himself and his job. The job!
is important; he is not. The editorship is asf
responsible a position, in its potential power tot
help or harm the university, as the presidency?
of the university. |
The editor, unless he is a child prodigy, must ‘
proceed thoughtfully and with due regard for
the errors of his predecessors if he is properly
to fulfill that responsibility.—The Daily mini.
"1T7HEN “Al" Smith received an honorary
* * LL.D. from Harvard University, he told
the Harvard alumni that the country was safe'
so long as the constitution was respected, the
decision of the majority faithfully accepted, and
education available from bottom to top to every
lad who could prove his ability to use it. To
curtail freedom of teaching at any level) or to
build up agencies of propaganda oiftside the
schools and colleges as a means of preventing
freedom of discussion of political and social ques
tions would not square with such advice.—Har
vard Alumni Bulletin.
Tj' VENTUALLY the public may learn to evalu
ate colleges upon their deed, and hot upon
the reams of press matter that are sent forth
from some of our higher institutions.—The
Cornell Daily Sun.
cent.
Other Editors’ Opinions
Europe Firsthand
By Howard Kessler
I
T17K walked over the hills to Etanath, across
^ ’ fields green with fall rye or brown with
fallow. We strolled past wayside crucifixes,
through subtly quiet forests of firs, over springy,
moist soil, whitened with lime spread by peasants
from hand baskets, and it was a joy to look down
into the valleys where villages slumbered as
they had for centuries, to see oxen silhouetted
against the blue sky, across which light clouds
swept endlessly on their way, to hear the creak
of wooden axles and the shout of a lad to his
team as he drove them along the twisting road
a mile below.
All was utterly calm, except for the cheerful
singing of the field larks that lifted straight up
into the sky, and the faint long-drawn-out
whistle that reached our ears from the struggling
engine laying back a cottony streamer of smoke
as it labored up the mountainside; lovely, gentle,
simple Bavaria.
Fichtelberg is a town of 4000 people. In win
ter, when the snow lies 10 feet deep on the sides
of the Ochsenkopf, tourists flock in with their
skiis; in summer they come also; in spring there
are none. Off the highway, connected with the
modern world by three little battered coaches
that chug hesitantly up anil down the hills to
the main line, it is an admirable place to view
the pastoral lite of Germany, which is principally
an agricultural country. It rests in a valley,
somnolescent to look at, but a hive of activity
within; for in this, the poorest district of Ger
many, there is no letting up in the grim struggle
for life.
The average farm is five acres of rocky
brown soil sown to rye, oats and potatoes, and
from the intensive cultivation of these plots the
peasants fed three or four oxen, a few pigs,
chickens and geese. Horses are an unknown
quality as work animals, as there are but two of
them in the district. The great, gentle, oxen in
their wooden yokes do all the labor. Seeding is
done in the Biblical way, and the scythe is the
reaper, as women work in the fields beside their
men.
the looti is simple but substantial: back
wurst, wiener schnitzel, sauerkraut, and good
rich rye bread. There is no butter. It isn’t profit
able when farmers get 20 cents a quart for milk.
But no matter how straightened his finances,
Mein Herr can always have a few pfennig for
at least one evening a week at the inn, where he
may sip for two hours at a stein of beer, pull
thoughtfully on his meerschaum, and discuss
politics with Neighbor Schmidt.
No more lovable people have 1 ever met. Their
hospitality is amazing. No one knocks at doors,
but stranger or friend walks in and presents
himself. With my big, jovial German-American
friend as interpreter, l visited several homes in
this meager district, and always they brought
out their best wine, cigars, biscuits, coffee, al
ways rejoiced in being able to set something
before visitors, although it is difficult to ascer
tain their means of livelihood, or how they can
rear the large families of sturdy youngsters they
do.
After the children were sent oft' to bed, and as
Fraulein Babo worked in the kitchen, my host
Anton drew up a chair to the fire, lit his pipe,
and between deliberate puffs, gave me his opinion
of Hitler.
"That is a good man, 1 tell you," he said
nodding wisely. "He don't let nobody tell him
what to do. He just does what he thinks best.
And he'll show 'em too.
"Things are better in Germany, don't let no
body tell you different. All this blood spilled
don t get back here of course. We live purtv
much as always. But Der Fuehrer looks after
us."
And Herr Bubo's remark as 1 was about to
leave is typical of Bavarian hospitality: "Of
course I a oat take m.thmg You \va.- .a. gm-st.
OFF TQjsEORTLANDJ
innocent
Bystander
By Barney Clark
We god a code id the hed.
* * *
Anyone who says the Univer
sity of Oregon is not a closely
knit group should take a glim
al the tidal wave of coughs,
sneezes, sore throats, and bron
chial harkings that have spread
over the campus like wildfire the
last few days. We certainly live
in each other's laps all right, and
we’re glad that nobody in school
has poison oak.
“Dirty rushing’’ is the ominous
whisper that runs from group to
group as the Phi Delts come
swinging down the street, trailed
by their docile pledges. Interfra
ternity council G-men, hidden un
der the Phi Deit trophy cups dur
ing rush week, are reported to
have seen a continuous stream of
rushees led to the window of Ed
“Jumbo” Farrar, who indicated
the excavations for the new libe
with a sweep of tire arm, exclaim
ing proudly, “The new Phi Deit
house, my boy! It’ll be the big
gest and best on the campus!”
* * *
“Doc” Hoblett, Kappa Sig
dance maestro, and Carmen Cur
ry, songbird of Alpha Phi, have
together created a ballroom
masterpiece. Un-nained as yet,
it combines all the finer feat
ures of the Carioca and a ride
on a ferris-whcel.
This enchanting dance step
lias been further improved by
the smooth teamwork of Cos
grove Laliarre and Hannah
Crossley, and reaches its peak
in the undulating rhythm of the
Craig Fin ley-Helen Skillern
vaudeville team. Close observ
ers have declared that this new
creation will sweep the campus
by stornii if once given a dem
onstration. However, it is feared
that the originators will with
hold their secret in hopes of an
offer from Hollywood or the
Continent.
This wispy little pome is re^
speetfully dedicated to Ovcr
Emphasis-ln-Athleties and the de
parted spirit of Mr. Carnegie.
TERSE VERSE
"Joe College rises from the dead
When football rears its ugly
head!”
"Sorry I thought it was my
room.”
Objector’s Plea
To the editor:
Yesterday's stories in the Em
erald seemed to imply that my
tight for exemption is simply a
personal affair, but the truth is
that my cause is only a part of
the great national fight to abolish
ROTC training in institutions of
learning, in institutions which
alone have the true opportunity to
train and educate tire human mind
that war, no matter what kind,
can only bring harm and inestima
ble injury to society, not alone in
bloodshed and anguish to millions
of individuals but in social and
<.■ on ante maladjustment:- v me * >
take generations to re-establish.
I sincerely believe that both
compulsion and militarism are
anti-social in most cases and
' especially in the case of obligatory !
drill in the arts of murder. Re
j quired militarism is unpatriotic in
; my mind since this nation adopted
j the Kellogg Peace Pact and the i
j recent neutrality bill as measures
to insure peace, for the United
States. Compulsory training of
college men is quite comparable
to the child conscription in Italy
which is part of a large organized
fascistic plan to rob the people of
their natural, inalienable rights
and to propagandize them into a
potential war. The difference is
only in degree.
There are many more on this
campus, I feel, that think exactly
as I do, and I hope that they can
contribute later this term in a
pacifist movement aimed at plac
ing the question of compulsory
training before the state board of
higher education, where the final
authority rests.
Sincerely yours,
Gordon M. Connelly.
•n m na m m ra m rcn m ra nn rcn m rcn
Campus
❖ Exchanges
By Bill Marsh
It seems that there was once a
freshman. This freshman was hav
ing one helluva time finding the
room where his English comp class
was being held. A senior directed
him to the room. The frosh en
tered. A teacher was reading a
composition about the blossoming
of a beautiful romance on a moon
lit night in Venice. The frosh got
up and started to leave. “Where
are you going,” the teacher asked.
“I’m trying to find the English
comp room,” the lad replied. “This
is it,” the teacher said. The fresh
man resumed his seat. “Beg your
pardon,” he mumbled. “I thought
it was animal biology or some
thing;”
*i* & #
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On the campus
Mines, the students go to out-of
town football games in regulation
miner style. For several years
their football specials have con
sisted of long trains of fiat cafs.
* * * ... y
A flash from the Philadelphia
Inquirer says that western farm
ers are using a mixture of acid and
ground spinach to kill crop-de
stroying insects. We’d like to
know what purpose the acid
serves.
* * *
Money may not be able to buy
happiness. But it's sure a nice
feeling to be unhappy in solid com
fort.
* * *
From the “New York Times:
"Italian troops are advancing upon
Adowa with the greatest of diffi
culty. Roads are made in dry
stream beds. Tanks ana artillery
cannot make any progress against
the huge boulders of the narrow
canyons. The infantry, therefore,
is being forced to advance almost
unsupported. Every rock conceals
a nest of Ethiopian snipers. Italy’s
superior legions clean these out,
only to advance into more fire that
they cannot fight back. Guerrila
warfare is the order of the day.”
Which leads us to believe that the
only thing necessary for justifica
tion would be an Italian Kipling
to immortalize it.
By Woodrow Truax
October 14—October 18
Monday—Ned Gee as vocal solo
ist, accompanied by Chuck French.
Tuesday — The Co-ed quarter
hour presents University Co-eds.
Wednesday — Sportcast by the
Duckling reporter.
Thursday — Quarter hour of
classical piano music, featuring
Harold Ayres.
Friday—Greater Oregon Rally
committee and Dads’ Day commit
tee.
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