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e PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene. Oregon EDITORIAL OFFICES: Journalism building. Phone 3300 Editor. Local 354; News Room and Managing Editor, 355. BUSINESS OFFICE: McArthur Court. Phone 3300—Local 214. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS MEMBER OF MAJOR COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York City; 123 W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. Robert Lucas Editor Charles Paddock News Editor Clair Johnson Managing Editor Marge Petsch Women’s Editor Eldon Haberman Business Manager < Tom McCall Sports Editor The Oregon Daily Emerald will not be responsible for returning unsolicited manuscripts. Public letters should not be more than 300 words in length and should be accompanied by the writer’s signature and address which will be withheld if requested. All communications arc subject to the discretion of the editors. Anonymous letters will be disregarded. The Oregon Daily Emerald official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, published daily during the college year, except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, examination periods, all of December except the first seven days, all of March except the first eight days. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. A Salute to Townspeople MORE than 100 Eugene merchants have agreed to close their establishments during the Idaho-Oregon game this next Saturday. Again we salute Eugene townspeople. One of the most encouraging signs of im proving times at the University of Oregon this year has been the hearty support given the school by people in downtown Eugene. It was largely through thoir cooperation that enrollment at the University rocketed to a new four-year high. The merchants of Eugene, led by McMorran and Washburne, the First National Bank, the United States National Bank, the Heilig theater, the Safeway stores and Irish's Cash stores, con tributed over $500 to the fund of the Greater Oregon committee, which over the summer, car ried on promotional work for the University. At Chamber of Commerce meetings members are repeatedly asked to cooperate with the Univer sity in furnishing jobs for students. And now these town people vigorously sup port the associated student program for the year and promise continued help in the future. The Emerald feels the need of acknowledging the favors of the downtown group and will pub lish the names of the concerns that have con tributed to the financial aid of the Greater Ore gon committee as well as those that have agreed to close their doors for the Saturday game. It would be fine indeed if the students in some way would express their appreciation to these con cerns. The Final Expense Of Imperialism THE Philippine bugaboo has cropped up again. Preparations for inaugurating the com monwealth next month are well under way, thi3 form of government to last ten years with in dependence as the ultimate goal. Already mis givings concerning the islands’ fate have ap peared. The Filipinos have confidence to burn in their ability to govern themselves, but the rub comes when commercial relations are considered. Here the ever-popular Japanese scare enters into the picture. Some groups in Manila have even pro posed a protectorate by the United States to take the place of the commonwealth set-up. The McDuffie-Tydings bill of 1934 also brought closer realization of the difficulties in keeping up trade with the United States. Because of tariffs, this market may be lost, even now rapidly diminishing. The bogey of Japanese im perialism must also be considered here. Such a protectorate has slim chances of being established. Our trade with the islands now amounts to about 125 million dollars yearly. Such a small volume, yielding only a slight profit, does not warrant spending money to support a colon ial government. Naturally Manuel Quezon, presi dent-elect of the commonwealth, opposes the project. After all, we have had the privilege of enjoy ing whatever advantages that the control of the Philippines presented us. We paid to take over the islands and in all probability we may have to pay to get rid of them. i Europe Firsthand By Howard Kessler KT us say that you have hiked or cycled all day along' the Rhine valley and the River Neckar, the hills on either side studded with ruined fortresses and towering castles, the plains between sheltering old-world villages and green-and-brown-striped fields running down to the broad river upon which sail-boats glide ser enely like elegant swans, You round a hill-side and face an even more stunning prospect, fruit trees blooming white and softly hiding a village that balances atop the hill, its church spire sil houetted against tufts of clouds in a blue sky. The hostel guide informs you that there will be shelter at Dilsberg, and since it is six o'clock and the sun is setting the tree-tops ablaze on the western hills you push your wheel up to this perfect jewel of a cobblestoncd old town and are guided to the youth hostel, a modern stone house with dozens of bicycles ranged outside. A neat little hausfrau greets you, looks at your card and shows you to a room, well-aired and containing four beds, Pullman style. The linen is spotless, the walls are white, and you sigh happily as the rucksack is discarded and you go to the sanitary washroom to remove the dust of the road. Other youths are about, greet ings are exchanged, perhaps you meet an old u -.pi iiutai.ee. mere atv many „ii'is .b bo} s in the hostel, as many men as boys. Men of forty mingle with boys of fourteen, laugh and talk and ask what luck. Famished after a day in the open you cannot consult a bill of fare, which is for tourists and plutocrats. We cook our own meals from the hostel larder, and since the evening is fine, you take the steaming dish out to a long table under the trees and move in alongside a lad from Thuringia. Hunger is too keen to permit much talk until the food has disappeared. Then a low murmur of conversation arises and occasional bursts of laughter. Life is good, you feel, sitting in the cool of the evening with a breeze playing through the leaves overhead and an effervescent young lady relating her adventure of the day trom across the table. After supper, and as twilight casts shadows in the valley, you take a stroll around the village, stopping perhaps to that with an old townsman feeding his chickens. There is a castle in Dils berg, but more int.e esting that this decayed heap, a tunnel-like c;:ve extending 100 feet into the side of the hill and carved out of solid rock. Then from the graveyard, where white wooden crosses keep peaceful, everlasting watch, there is a breath taking view of the River Neckar coasting slowly by far below. When you return to the hostel it is almost dark and on the broad veranda two youths with guitars and one with an accordian are playing softly while the mixed and reclining crowd listen contentedly or sing in accompaniment. Regulations prohibit smoking and drinking in the hostel. Ten o'clock is retiring time and the exercise of the day makes bed very appeal ing. In the brisk early dawn the place is astir. Every member must leave things in good order, and after breakfast you are again on the road, perhaps in the company of some new-found friend, with your goal for the day any one of several youth hostels, depending on your whim. Other Editors’ Opinions The Thinking Student ^'"'iOLLEGE men and women aren’t getting a fair break! For years we older people have been accusing them of wasting their time and their parents’ money, rah-raliing and petting. Now that large groups of them are beginnig to think seriously about such momentous subjects as war and peace, they are either slapped on the wrist by some college administrations or accused by publicists of indulging in “emotional sprees.” The college authorities who are cracking down on the anti-war strikers ought to come clean and admit that they are not conducting educational institutions but adjuncts to the army! As people grow older they grow more coward ly. Too many are afraid to strike out into new paths. Let the oldsters keep their hands off the young people who are trying to make this a better and a safer world to live in! They prove that we aren’t stuck fast tin yesterday. Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, in the New York World-Tele grarn. College students are thinking too much -for the welfare of those who have run the govern ment. At least, college students are thinking. It has been a common habit to label everything new in governmental and economic thought as radical. The fact is that many college students are more conservative than their elders. How ever, they know why they are conservative. They are taking an interest in political things. This is what frightens the elders; they fail to con sider what it really means. The entrance of more and more college stu dents into politics, the emphasis on training for political positions means a new era of political thought in the United States. It means that some day politics will be a dignified profession. It means that men will hold offices for which they have had some measure of training. It means that the voting public will be conscious of what is going on in government, and why. It means that the vote-buying illiterate gangster will be ousted from public office. It does not mean that red flags are being hoisted above the administra tion buildings of our colleges and that college students are being taught to be good little di sciples of socialism. The Colby Echo. Courses in Humor ' | 'HIS idea, originating in Chicago, that the centenary of Mark Twain's birth should be ! commemorated by the establishment in colleges ! here and there of “chairs of humor,” seems at, first blush lo imply a lamentable lack of humor in its sponsors. For, if you can teach humor in the colleges, so you can teach tragedy and piety; you can teach sympathy or the lack of it: you can teach compatibility of temper and cut down domestic strife by fifty per cent. The gifts of the comic muse, like the gifts of the other eight, are bestowed upon mortals at birth. You could never teach a man to be humorous or to appreciate humor who, like the acquaintance described by Oliver Wendell Holmes, bat ished all gaiety from his heart and ! till joyousness from his countenance, and “no I doubt would cut his kitten's tail off if he caught her playing with it." There is this, however, to be said for the idea: It the colleges could take young men who have humor in them and teach them how to use it wisely, they could rid the world of heaps of ■ rubbish. . . . Even the gift of delicate humor must ue handled with care, if a man gets the reputation of being a first-rate humorist nobody will listen to him when he wants to bo serious. I Worse yet, most of use feel a little superior to the man \ ho makes us laugh. We have a pleas- | ant sense of patronizing him when we permit him to tickle our ribs. The born humorist, therefore, j might profit by a course in college and be warned in time to avoid the pitfalls along his path of merrymaking. In this field the colleges might do a noble work. The Boston Evening Trans- | cr.pt. I Again I See In Fancy MEET STUDENT NO. 1 You should drive out to Cres well, only a jaunt of twelve miles from town, to meet Student No. 1. No decrepit old man here, as you might expect from the period he represents, but bright-eyed, active, busy, as if only near the half century mile stone. He was chop ping stove-sticks recently when he cleft forefinger and thumb from his hand and endured agony, not so much of pain, but of enforced idle ness, until the stitches could heal. That story which he contributed to the Oregon Emerald last spring, was composed, memorized, and dictated while he was still unable to write with his wounded hand. He can pick 101 boxes of apples per day, while husky youths be side him can tally only half as many. No one disputes “Billy” Scott’s claim to have been issued the very first receipt for payment of tui tion. He was there to matriculate on the very day the University opened its doors, there to hear Harry McGinn make his maiden speech from a settee when the President’s back was turned, there to hear Mary Spiller ring that ponderous hotel bell to assemble her flock. And he was there, because his father was Chairman of the local Executive Committee of the Board of Regents, and his grandfather was the first janitor. His two sis ters, Dora and Rose, were there also to yield moral support to their brother as a beginner. But I hard ly think, to judge from this octo genarian’s eager face and ready wit, that Billy needed any assist ance from any number of sisters. His father. W. J. J. Scott, was a pioneer merchant in Eugene City, one of those inextinguish able geniuses who secured the lo cation for Oregon’s capital three times and eventually, at least, its State University. The old store, whose discarded sign “Scott and Dunn” I have seen many times, was situated where the Del Rey Cafe now stands. The frame build ing was removed to make way for the brick walls of the present structure and stood for many years facing inward and westward upon the City Park Way, back of one of the many automobile estab lishments now lining High Street in that block. The original home of the Scotts in Eugene still stands, though in somewhat revised form, on the south side of Thirteenth Aevnue, fourth door from Alder Street. The joists and beams for that house were hewn in Creswell not far from where Billy now has his dom icile, and were brought to Eugene behind four-horse teams across the Camas Swail. He was living in this house, that winter of ’76-’77, when late in December he was routed out after midnight to unlock the doors of the University and liber ate those three Eutaxian girls from their unexpected incarcera tion. And what that wide-awake pio neer boy can tell you of the old days! The low-down too on the First Faculty!—their peccadillos, their frailties, their dyspeptics, their pet pleonasms. Billy Scott remembers them all and suffers no hesitancy in recounting them. Would you like to hear Student No. 1 relate the story of—, well, Ladies and Gentlemen, Associated Students of the University of Ore gon of 1935 and 6, Faculty, Alum ni, and Citizens of Eugene, I have Fort Peck Dam Gets Steel fCore5 L ■ J Driven I- feet into the earth. thousands of tight ly-interlocking steel girders, shown in foreground held in place by cables, ure grad ual!} forming a wall extending four miles across the base of the giant earth-fill dam at Fort IVek, Montana. Intended to help the dam resist the tremendous pressure created by an artificial lake 173 miles long, this steel "core" is an important feature of tho $100,000,00b flood control dam that will span the Missouri. the honor to introduce your oldest brother, of the Student Body of 1876 and 7, Mr. William Scott. (Next in the series, “H-O-G SPELLS HAWG.” Radio ❖ ❖ of the Air By Woodrow Truax The first co-ed broadcast is over and are the women who partici pated glad. The studio was a mad housq just before they were to go on the air. Miss Patsy Neal, who is in charge of the co-ed quarter hour, can now boast of a few grey hairs, because responsibility of the broadcast rested with her. The campus news was given by Miss Dorothy Elsensohn, who im itated the Richfield reporter by giving her portion of the program at double time. One of the out standing performances on the co ed program was the piano solo by Miss Helen Jones. Miss Jones played two numbers of her own composition. The concluding an nouncements were given by Wood row Traux, because the co-ed an nouncer seemed afflicted with a bad case of St. Vitus dance. The Duckling reporter will be on the air at 3:45 today with a sports cast of frosh and varsity sports from the University of Oregon campus. The sportscast is a fea ture presented every Wednesday. Frosh Politics (Continued from Page One) to the ability to carry out the job i successfully. j “2. The aforementioned appoint- j ments to be made, not by the pres- | ident alone, but by a freshman ex- ! ecutive committee composed of I the class officers and advisors. “3. A closer cooperation is to be formed with the sophomore class in the observance of the class traditions, such as the soph-frosh mix. “4. More frosh activities. "I have heard it said that every year the same political platform is given by each party. I am not presenting a platform. It is a con structive plan that will not only make for a more unified working class, but one that will make every freshman glad that he or she is a member of the class of 1939." •Me.Vvoy Wants Equality McAvoy released the following statement to the press last night:1 "It is only after consideration that I have decided upon a program or platform and it is quite brief but | absolutely definite. I believe that' the freshman class should be granted a greater proportion of activities in keeping with the in creased enrollment. At the present we have only three major oppor tunities for our expression. This is not enough. We must have more activities for our class to sponsor. With the support of the class l will insist and demand that every member of the class will be given a chance to help the class in put ting over its activities if they are willing to work. In Review By Stuart Portner Tims Today c Heilig—“King Solomon of Broadway. Ends today. Mac—“Big Broadcast.” Ends to day. Mayflower—“G-Men” and “Dar ing Young Man.” Ends today. Hex—"People Will Talk” and “Woman in Red." Ends to day. State—“The Mystery Man.” To day only. vt the McDonald rHURSDAY The American cinema group laving failed to satisfy the desire if film audiences for the adventure licture, it developed upon the Brit sh to revive the successful melo irama. Ushering in a new espion ige and detective mystery entitled ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps,” an ef fort that bids fair to outdo their brmer achievement, “The Man (Vho Knew Too Much,” British laumont studio has brought to the icreen a powerful production that s even more sensational than the Peter Lorre film. The picture, co-starring Robert Donat, of Monte Cristo fame, and Madeleine Carroll, who returned to England after an unsuccessful American career, was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, most astute di ector on the Gaumont lot. Hitch jck has utilized the full poten tialities of both actors and has created a motion picture that is extraordinary in its breath-taking sequences. In "The Thirty-nine Steps" we are presented with a detailed ac count of four or five days in the life of a young man who has been accused of a murder which he did not commit. Pursued throughout England by police who believe him guilty of the crime, the hero dis covers that he is also being trailed by an organization of internation al spies who are desirous of mur dering him because of the infor mation which he has gained con cerning their activities. Given personalities whom he has been able to mould, and a story which is dramatic, Director Hitch cock has created a swift moving Tendance. The production is Of such quality as to be a certain member of the select group of ten best pictures of the season. On the same program at the McDonald will be the first of a series of Annapolis films to come to Eugene, “Annapolis Farewell.” Sir Guy Standing and Richard Cromwell play the father and son leads with power and intelligence. Tom Brown and Rosalind Keith, the latter a newcomer to the screen, are in the supporting cast. Campus •> Exchanges By Bill Marsh Just a trifle over half of the stu dents at Oregon State have pur chased student body cards. Which reminds us. It might be a good idea if we were to do a little study ing of our own. Student body ac tivities are fine things especially when the card gets us in free. But they don’t do anything about bol stering our sadly sagging grades. N * * The Bible says, “The meek shall nherit the earth.” We’d like to be iround for a little while after the inheritance taxes are paid and see row long it takes the un-meek to = et it back. A scurry of alarm ran through many fraternities when one of the strongest, Psi Upsilon, gave up its charter at Yale. There is no need for alarm. Psi U at New Haven was financially solvent and gave ip their charter voluntarily. The fraternity system has had body slams directed at it for the last Hundred years, principally because ihe fraternity system stands for something of an aristocracy to which every Tom, Dick and Harry s not eligible. Yet Greek-letter so cieties have lived and grown stronger. Jingoist antagonism has lot and will not destroy the bonds aetween men who wish to be ac cively associated with each other. s * * From Rome: High dignitaries of :he Italians state made what they ihought was going to be a noble gesture the other day. A group of :hem appeared before II Duce and eery pompously volunteered for service in East Africa. They prob apilllHlilllllllllilBIIIHIIIlIVliailllHIIIIHIIIBIIIIIBIII! ably thought that Mussolini would pin a few medals on them and send them back to their banks. In stead of that they got their bluff called! Mussolini gave them actual commissions in the Italian army. Come on now, Moose old boy, where’s your sense of humor? Can’t you see the boys were only kidding? Although Zebulon Pike, in 1806, discovered the peak which bears his name, he was balked by snow, ice, and hunger, in his attempt to scale the mountain. Major S. H. Long made the first ascent in 1819. Send the Emerald to your friends. |lllllllllll(|llilllllllllllll!!lilllll!llllllllllllllillllUlllllliHiHIIIII!!!HII>ll!llllllHllllllllllllllllllg | If they’re not on : | the campus they’re | at the j 3 TREES INN | | Whether it's in the A. M. § | or P. 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