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tftraRi) PUBLISHED BY TIIE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF tiie university of Oregon University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS MEMBER OF MAJOR COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York City; 123 \V. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Beattie; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. Robert Lucas Eldon Haberman Editor Business Manager Clair Johnson Managing Editor „ „ „ Charles Paddock Tom McCall News Editor Sports Editor Marge Petsch Women’s Editor 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. Blatant Horns And Vacuums DURING the climax of the freshman political fiasco, election day, a new source of irrita tion made its debut on the campus and very effectively indeed. Enterprising young henchmen of both candidates drove to and fro on the cam pus blowing what they would affectionately term horns; but we would take exception to the name and most certainly to the practice. The noise machines nursed by these exhuber ant young fellows assume various degrees of size and complication. Often they are long and shiny, and are of bright bras. Occasionally they grace the exterior of the automobile, giving it the appearnace of a steam calliope, but at the same time rendering said calliope mute by com parison. Some of the infernal machines of neural disintegration are concealed beneath the hood, making them doubly vicious and immune to attack. A blast from these horns, if at all aided by the wind, is sufficient to reduce a learned pro fessor to a slobbering idiot. Two blasts will call out the Albany national guard. Three blasts re moves all enamel from the teeth. The horns do have their use. They could be used to inform the United States of a declaration of war, or to call hogs in Kansas. But as to their use on the Oregon campus much is left for con jecture. As a matter of fact why don’t the boys either discard the devils, or refrain from using them on the campus. The prospects of a faculty complete ly decerebrated by sheer force of sound waves, or of studying library students eating the chair legs is disturbing. We recall an old blurb something about a loud laugh bespeaking a vacant mind. Well- ! Sifting Towards Tax Sanity A YOUNG college man’s brigh* idea has given rise t0 national organization the “Sifters.” The group of college men and women will aim to study, wade through and sift the tax dilemma in each state; to make a scientific survey, and present the results to the governor of each state, and to the federal government. The project receives our heartiest praise. Too long have commencement speakers cleared then throats, thrown out their chests, and with the proper amount of the quake in the voice sent forth thousands of college graduates to “create a new economic system, a new civilization,” or a new something else. “The world is yours,’’ they have said, " go forth and bring order out of the chaos in which we left it.” We venture sp say that out of these thousands of black gowned graduates, perhaps not even a handful were familiar with the economic staff of the country taxation. The Sifters, ’ two from every university in the country, must necessarily become experts in this field. They will have the cooperation of university specialists, and experts on taxation in each state. They will have to delve into the lield from A to Z, and perhaps make deep fur rows in slightly plowed ground. A Herculean task, almost, but through this experience these students will become experts, and a percentage of them will undoubtedly become leaders in the field when our generation shall take over the helm of government. The University’s representatives in the "Sift ers are Ann-Reed Burns and William O. Hall. In appointing them President C. Valentine Boyer expressed his faith in their ability, intelligence, and past experience in money and banking, and cither studies dealing with taxation and finance. We wish to extend our congratulation, and offer our cooperation, to the University's two future taxation experts, and to all of the other "Sifters." We think it’s a good idea! War, Peace And Hesitancy A CADKMIC learning has peculiar effects on those it inoculates, it develops, not so much a positive attitude, as a great variety of shades of opinion. On questions of the day it is particu larly difficult to marshal any considerable group of college students behind a given significant, position. Sometimes admirable, this situation more often causes the yearner after a better civilization to shake his head dubiously. Is it realistic, for instance, for students to have such a wide range of personal positions on the question of war and peace, and its relation ship to military preparedness and propaganda. There is the ardent militarist who shoulders aims ;tt the drop of a hat, the patriot who wants peace by thorough preparation, the good citizen who wants reasonable preparation, the liberal j who would operate on a minimum of prepared- i ness, the indifferent who does not care, the class war radical who would transfer imperialist war into revolution, and, finally, the pacifist who will not sanction preparation and will not bear arms. It is to laugh, when so soon America may be faced with war as a grim reality, ti will need, does need now, positive action, by one or botu ol the extremist groups. When war comes there ate those who fight and those who will not. if America wants war then its "super” patriots must make haste to spread favorable propa o ganda. But if America wants peace its wat resisters must act quickly, positively, unitedly There is no longer time to quibble over hair breadth differences of opinion. Students partic ularly, must step forth without hesitation. One interested in a dynamic education, which has these positive results, cannot but admire those students who are objecting to the war machine as they see it. There is something very admirable about positive action, even though it be extreme. I - Financial Woe And The Bystander \ BSENT on the campus yesterday was the Bystander, tabloid sheet published over the weekend. The Bystander retired because of di minishing adverti.v . While those in charge of the Bystander arc to be complimented on the excellence of their first rendition, it is still more noteworthy that they realized the limitation placed on such a venture by an already estab lished medium, the success of which as a lab oratory and educational advantage, depends on the financial support from the restricted field of University advertising. However the initiative and skill of the original Bystanders attests to the developing powers of the school of journalism and to their own per serverance. Europe Firsthand • By Howard Kessler (Continued) T OTTERIES are, of course, a national institu tion in Spain, and I haven't quite decided whether selling tickets is a business or a spare time hobby of most Spanish citizens. Certainly, everyone from children who can scarcely lisp, to wrinkled hags in black shawls, carries them around, offering one to each passerby. They cost five pesetas (75 cents) for a fifth part of one, which is the percentage of a ticket usually bought, and ten national lotteries are held every year, netting the government a nice revenue, as the money from all Lickets not sold which win prizes goes to the treasury. Vendors approach, selling churros, cakes, pea nuts, raisins, pineapples. Young fellows carry large, red metal cylinders, with a sugar and water lollypop inside and a spinning wheel on top, with pointer and numbers from one to five. Pay one cent and take a whirl. If your luck is in you land on number five and receive five candies. Burros are always to be seen, patient little donkeys with baskets hung on either side, or carts behind. They cost little, are the principal means of transportation for the poorer classes and get into lots of streets an automobile cannot. Boys keep handing us advertisements until we have quite a stack of literature. Bullfight next Sunday, Salon Royal has a star attraction, new picture at the Certvantes, sale at Imperial Calzados—this distribution of leaflets is Spain’s principal advertising medium. The crowds pass- soldiers from the barracks at Ceuta, Spanish Morocco, with their red fezes; laughing senoritas in mantillas; workmen in blue denim; guardia civiles in olive drab and pictur esque black board hats; a rancher wearing a stiff grey bolero; large matrons in black who undu late; blue-uniformed middies from the Spanish fleet; the ever present carabineers with guns strapped on their backs. It is becoming chilly, so we enter the cafe, which is already filled. The din is stupendous. Everyone talks and gesticulates madly in the smoke-filled and stuffy room. There is a steady hiss as of escaping steam, as waiters are sum moned in this way. Coffee is the prevailing drink and talk the principal stimulant. Spaniards pass between tables, slapping friends on the back, see someone at the other side of the cafe and shout “Ola!” Waiters rush about with pots of coffee in one hand, milk in the other to supply the demand, “Cafe con leche!" Drunkenness is not a problem in Spain any more than in the rest of Europe. You never meet a Spaniard under the table. And while we are on the question of morals, Spain has 2,000 homi cides a year for its 22,000,000 population, most, of them performed in the sanctity of the home. Punishment is certain, if not swift, death by the garrote, choking life out of the criminal. They say of the Madrid cafes that they are the “talk palaces of the world," which is more or less true as of all other Spanish cities. In Barcelona there are 506 cafes, as well as 980 bars and 15 beer halls for a city of one million Other Editors’ Op inions | 'V/J'OST noticeable in the past few years has been the lack of interest in school activities on tiie part of freshmen and sophomores. By the time a student has reached the third and fourth years of his college life he realizes that there is a lot more to campus life than classrooms, laboratories, textbooks, and instructors. He be gins to suspect that the fellow who said, half of a college education is gained outside of the class room, wasn't far from the truth. Too late he wishes that he had become interested in some of the activities that were open to him as a freshman. Freshmen can get in on the ground floor of activities. But now is the time. Into the picture comes the old slogan, “he who hesitates is lost." Not actually lost perhaps but certainly the late comer is at a great disadvantage. $ow is the time for members of the freshman class to become interested in some of the score of campus activities. Some activities pay cash divi dends. in others the reward for service is experi ence. friendships, pleasure, and a silver or gold activities key, not valuable in itself but priceless in its capacity to recall campus experiences. Any freshman who leads the existence of a bookworm, who leaves the campus as soon as the last class is ended, who takes no interest in the extra-curricular program Is a parasite. He takes all he can get. He gives nothing in return. Vw druogic fecii. 1 In Review _ By Stuart Portner | Films Today: Heilig — “Freckles,” through Wednesday. Mac — “Dark Angel,” and “Wings Over Ethiopia,” through Wednesday. Mayflower — “Don't Bet on Blondes” and Mystery Wo man,” through Wednesday. Hex — “Glass Key” and “Calm Yourself,” through Wednes day. State — “Mr. Dynamite” and “Ladies Crave Excitement,” today only. AT THE MCDONALD For his first production of the present season, Samuel Goldwyn i has revived that clear and power ful drama of marital romance, “The Dara Angel.” The new ver sion of the film, successor to the Ronald Coleman-Vilma Banky ef fort of a decade ago, and rewrit j ten by Lilliam Heilman, author of last year's successful Broadway production, “The Children’s Hour,” and Mordaunt Shairp, is mounted in superb fashion against tthe pho tography of Gregg Toland. With pre-war England as the setting, "The Dark Angel” re volves about the attempt of an in dividual who has suffered a physi cai affliction to remove himself from the woman he loves in order that he be no burden upon her. It is in this major sacrifice and in the crisis which arises between the two male leads for the hand of the woman that the film produces drama of a nature that has not been paralleled in many motion pictures of the past. Sidney Franklin, director of “Smilin’ Through,” an earlier sen timental attraction, has recreated for the audience the poignant at mosphere which made of the for mer film such an emotional suc cess. The picture does not descend to the artificial depths of cinema offerings produced in less dexter ous manner, but is maintained throughout with a balance and a force that afford the adult true entertainment. Herbert Marshall and Frederic March render their most artistic performances in months, while Merle Oberon, who discarded the Oriental slant of her eyes for this role, plays “Kitty Vane” with un derstanding. Janet Beecher, Frie da Inescort, John Halliday, Claude Allister, Henrietta Crosman, David Torrance, and John Miltern are to be discovered among the featured players. Air Y’ ❖ Listenin’ By James Morrison Emerald of the Air Tuesday is Coed Quarter-Hour i day at KORE. Miss Patsy Neal will review the weekend’s society ' events, while Miss Jacqueline I Wong, Chinese pianist, though she plays strictly modern American jazz, will present several hot piano solos. Miss Wong played a pro gram a week over KGW in Port land last summer. This after noon's broadcast starts at the usual time 3:45. Local Hand A. B. Loud, the Willamette Park dance magnate, tells me he has a long list of M.C.A. (Music Corpor ation of America) bands booked | to play at the Park on weekend evenings this year. Hooray for I Loud. It has long been known that I a college crowd is the hardest on earth to lease, but any band ! booked under the wing of the Mu sic Corporation or America, which incidentally books all of the ma jor dance bands in the country, possibly excepting a few of the more aloof, like Glen Gray s Casa Loma band, the Mills negro bands, etc., is bound to be a pretty fair deal here in Eugene, in spite of the protesting critics. Orchids to Art Holman for h s greater and finer 12-piece orches tra playing Wednesdays. Fridays, and Saturdays at the Green Pai rot Palms. The lads, most of whom are young professionals from Port-1 land, really do all right. Holman turns out special arrangements that rival the best in the country,; and those symphonic At reductions have what it takes. Fields at Fttrk Ernie Fields, v>ho appeared with I ~ — his black boys at the Park last weekend, commendably held his volume down and then let the lads blow when the right times came. Too many poor bands blow so loudly all the time that when they're supposed to play a cres cendo, they just haven’t any more blow left. The outstanding num ber of the evening was "Rhythm Is Our Business," copied directly from Jimmy Lunceford's recording by the tinkling guitar player. Jack Mills, a white band,—not the Mills Blue Ribbon orchestra — is due for a night at Willamette Park Friday, November 1. If one can judge by his recordings, he'll be worth hearing. \ BC-CBS Programs Today 4:30 p. m.— Sensible IFashions. KGO. 6:30 p. m. Eddy Duchin and his Fire Chief orchestra- national finalists, KGW. 7:00 p. m.—Popeye the Sailor Man. KGO. 7:00-- The Swift Studio Party— with Sigmund Romberg, composer; Deems Taylor, commentator; Hel en Marshall, soprano: Morton Bowe, tenor, KPO. KGW. 8:30—The Camel Caravan. KSL. 10:00—- Paul Pendarvis' orches tra, KGO. 10:30 Tom Gerun's orchestra. Jimmie Grier's orchestra. 11:00- A.1 Lyons' orchestra. Send the Emerald to your friends. 1 Subscription rates $2.50 a year. ' Campus ❖ ❖ Exchanges By Bill Marsh More About Benny We can hear our reader now as he mutters, “Wattinell is this Marsh boob running, a column or a free advertisement bureau for Jack Benny?” At any rate, the worthy Mr. Benny has broken into pii^-t once again with his now famous icicle gag. According to Jack an icicle is a piece of water that has gone Hollywood. And while we’re still on the sub ject, you may as well know that Don Wilson, the Benny announcer, is going to buy a five-acre date farm near Palm Springs. From of habit, Don will probably raise force of habit, Don will probably raise dates in six delicious flavors including orange, lemon and lime. * * * Make-up Just before distributing the pa-; pers for final examination a pro fessor at Fordham noticed a coed j who was very busy applying pow-1 der puff, lip rouge, and w orking j over the paint job in general. “My dear young lady,” he | quipped sarcastically, “ all that I work is not necessary. This is not a make-up examination.” * * * Hint to those who are in love: j Two can live as cheaply as one, but it costs more. ❖ * * It is said that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damnable lies, and statistics. * * * Musical Classes Philippine farmers till their lands to the accompaniment of na-: ----| 1 I ! . . 1 : Real Leather ZIPPER CASES $2.75 and up. See 1 liese Cases — Durable and Keonomieal — I Valley Printing Co. Stationers ! , Phone 470 76 W. Broadway | tive orchestras. It makes them work faster. Why not adopt the same system here in Eugene for the benefit of students dragging their weary dogs from one class to ! another. "In a blue and pensive | mood,” would be a good tune to play for the studes on their way to philosophy classes. “You are My Lucky Star,” for the frosh on their way to Professor Norris' as ‘ tronomy class. And how about "I J Cover the Waterfront,” or, “I | Can't See a Thing,” for the bridge ! bums who haunt the murky Inte ' rior of the College Side, j * * * Sound-Proof Sags New York City is having an an ti-noise campaign. Some chap at Columbia U. has perfected rubber horse shoes so that people won't be disturbed as old dobbin brings them their morning milk. Campus Calendar (Continued from Page One) sspecially to girls not living on the campus. * * * International relations commit tee of the YMCA meets at 4 p. m. today at the Y hut. sis * * Westminster dramatics group will meet Tuesday at 4 at West minster house. Bill Cottrell will speak on some of the recent trends of the theater and stage. Hs % % Cosmopolitan club will hold a short business meeting Tuesday night at 8 o’clock, in YWCA. All foregin students, as well as others, are urged to attend. * * :Js Order of the O meeting today noon at the Beta Theta Pi house. * * :i« Emerald staff meeting in 104 journalism building Wednesday at 8. * * * AWS council meeting at 4:30 today at the College Side. * * * WAA initiation at Gerlinger hall at 7:30 tonight. * * * Yeoman council meeting today at 3 p. m. at the YMCA hut. * * * YWCA current events group meeting tonight at 9:00 in bunga low. Dean Allen to be speaker. All persons interested are invited. -f® Theta Sigma Phi luncheon meet ing at Anchorage at noon today. Old members and pledges must be present. Important. * * * Charm school group meeting at Alpha Phi house 5 o’clock today. Please attend. * * * All Phi Theta Epsilon members are asked to pay dues to the treasurer, Marjory Will, at the College Side today, between 4 and 4:30. * * * Student Christian council meets at Westminster house at 5 p. m. today. William Clark, represent ing the student volunteer move ment, will speak. Eugene ministers will also be present. * * * Yeomen council meets at the Y hut today at 3 p. m. * * * Frosh council will meet today at 3 p. m. in the Y hut. * * * Phi Beta meeting tonight at 7:00 in Gerlinger. WAA Initiates ('Continued front Page One) check in WAA. For associate ticipated in some intramural sport, or must have one-half an activity check in WAA. All members, either associate or active, are asked to be present at the initiation. Hear the New DELCO RADIOS Phone 1619 856 Olive Urop in at Decker’s after the show and most any other time. — Dinners 25c — Decker’s Cafe 258 East Broadway Next to Eugene Hotel “EUGENE’S- OWN STORE” McMorran & W ashburne MERCHANDISE OF MERIT ONLY --PHONE 2700 A NEW DUDLEY FIELD SHOP On College Side Row With Campus Representatives BERT MEYERS CLAY POMERY • Melano Demutli Pipes, regular $3.50 .$1.00 0 Iliekok Bueksin Belts . qo 0 Wool Sox .50e t o $2.50 • ,Ves • , .50c to $1.00 : ; 0 llat styles you re looking for .$3.50 and $5.00 i 0 Suspenders and Carters ..50c, $1.00 and $1.25 1 • Goose kin Rain Jackets . $6 00 | ( ® Parka Rain Jackets . gg , j 0 Sport Coats .j HERMAN SEES | Your Campus Needs 1 l for those “Leather jackets” that look * so well and cost so little. I i i l i Pigskin Jackets $5.98. A Zipper or button type. * H 9 Herman’s Men’s Store * Willamette at Kijrhth ^ , , | 111 11 I ■ K c ■ ■ I 1 l ^t I I I t l I ft.::