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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE 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.f Neyv York City; 123 \V. 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 wiil be withheld if requested. All communications are 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 se\ .1 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. Colonel Leader Chosen for Speaker \ T today’s assembly there will be featured two things; the speech of Colonel John Leader, wartime oldster and romantic character, and the nomination of a junior finance officer of the student body. Following a decision of the administration that assemblies be held at irregular intervals pending the possible student interest in a given speaker, this assembly should be a show of great, interest. Students will see before them on the stage the figure of a man whose name during the war made newspaper headlines regularly throughout the state. His abilities to play on the emotions of the people have been displayed on the Portland auditorium stage when he held people in the cup of his hand. He will tickle the inner recesses of the sense of humor by a dry, and easy wit. He will por tray the gallant picture of our brother Britisher “who doesn’t know what his country wants but is ready to die for it!” Compliments to the assembly committee for the excellence of its first choice. As to the junior finance officer, he too should be congratulated on escaping the furor and bald erdash accompanying the regular annual politi cal campaign weeks. OW that the interfraternity council is re ” solved to re-establish itself as a going organization, details take the spotlight. An organization with the best of intentions and the most inspired motives is chaotic unless there is a constant, well informed assembly for the transaction of business. To have a council that changes personnel many times during the year is to have a council in which a steady, in ductive approach to a given problem is impos sible. The interest and work is choppy and in consistent. This has been proven by the correla tion between the often-changing membership of past councils and the work that they have com pleted. Several members of the council have sug gested that all fraternity elections take place simultaneously, and that at these elections the first two men (the house voting first, second, and third choice for president) be those who would be official members of the interfraternity council. The suggestion is a good one. Those men would undoubtedly be the top choices of the houses who are seeking adequate representa tives and capable executives. These men would be the most respected in the house and would be the most effective in the management of the personnel. It is very unlikely that both men would leave school at the same time. Surely one of the two members could be present at council meetings. When the council irons out its attendance and personnel difficulties then it will be ready to tackle the details of the constitution and pro grams. Council Membership Difficulties Education A Medium to—? TPO most of us our school years are filled with dreams of the future. Blight, rosy dreams they usually are but sad to say they are dreams that will seldom be realized in their entirety. Tlie first few years out of school are apt to be anxious, disappointing ones. We may find that the world is not the same as it seemed in our fanciful expectations. Money may be harder to earn than we thought. Our theories may fail. Modern life is not a stable thing. Its institu tions are forever changing and its tempo con tinues to increase year by year. To the recent college graduate it presents a puzzling front. One life to live! We all want the best from it, and it is the best that we intend to have -when we start. No other thought enters our minds. But, are we starting right? How are we to know or to judge? There is a man a human being if you please - everyone knows him. His appetites have be come so jaded that he feels that the future is not big enough for him, and that life henceforth is to be dull and uninteresting. He has ceased to love and be loved. He looks at a past filled with nothing but memories of deceit and ruth lessness, and reckless indulgence, lie has faced disillusionment after disillusionment, and has lived to feel the pain that he has inflicted upon others. Now, in middle life, he seeks to hide within himself the knowledge of the fact that he has sought vainly for happiness through antici pations misdirected during the formative years of his life. May we judge by him, or cun trial and error be our only proving rule? There is a solution; one that is basic ia its scope; It is ttie acceptance of education as a medium to happiness rather than as a means to monetary heights, ‘■Kducatlon," said Thomas Blaisdell. "is glean ing from men and books and laboratories; from Bold and forest and whispering wind; but it is more—it is learning promptness and thoughtful ness and every form of purity; it is mastering of mind and spirit, appetite and passion, thought, word, and glance. It is knowing that nothing but service brings worthy living. It is the implant ing of good habits, the acquirements of efficiency and the development of twenty-four carat char acter.” Europe Firsthand By Howard Kessler JpERNANDEZ v/ill talk to you. Fernandez, the bull-necked, brass-voiced, booming Spanish Amercian taxi driver will tell you what is wrong with Spain from the observations of his twenty years in North an 1 South America. You are seated be:ode him in his big cab on a street corner of Vigo, Spain. It is cold, and Fer nandez rubs his calloused hands vigorously, pull3 his coat collar closer. He speaks. The Spaniard (says Fernandez), he is smart but too slow. The Spanish have no ambition. When he makes a little money, the Spaniard puts it in the bank. Here, there are no financiers, what you call “beeg shots.” Corporations from America have all the markets. The government too, does not do as much for the people as in your country. They tax us for this, they tax us for that, mi amigo, they tax us for everything. Look what you pay for automobiles. A new, six-cylinder car costs §2,300, when you get the same thing in America for §800. And tires, anywhere up to §90. And gaso line! Ah, mi amigo, is it any wonder there are so many ox-carts on the road. A car for every 130 people, and nobody knows how many burros. (Here Fernandez pauses to shout, “Hola, bonita!” and a few other remarks at a comely senorita passing by. “Hola, bonita!” has its most approximate English translation in “Hello, beau tiful!” so you inquire if the young lady is a freind. The husky taxi driver laughs loudly.) No, no, senor, I have never seen her before in my life. But in Spain we speak to senoritas with no introduction. You are not in America now. Here, the man is still the boss. I think maybe I get married sometime. I am getting old and want to settle down. Many Spaniards do as I. They go to America, make plenty money, come back to their home andd buy a few houses. Then they live on the rents. They don t make much, just enough for sleeping and eating, and that’s all the Spaniard care about anyhow. Me, I have this taxi, and do pretty good. Once I drove the Prince of Wales. You will put that into your paper senor? Good, I like to see it. Maybe you send me a copy? You should know about the banks in Spain. Senor, they are lousy. In America you can get a million dollars in ten minutes; here, quita alio, you wait all day for ten pesetas. (You are interrupted by a lad who approaches I1 etnandez and offers him two small wrenches. The bargaining is short and mutually agreeable, the driver fishes in his pocket for a silver coiii which he gives the youngster in exchange for the tools. His explanation is succinct.) Another Spanish racket he steals ’em and I buy ’em cheap. Muy bien. I tell you a little while ago, mi amigo, how we talk to strange women. Now, don't get me wrong. The Spanish are very strict. Here, you never see a man and a woman together if they ain’t married, unless they got a duenna along. When you go to the show you will see two women with every man. No, senor, he is not carrying a spare. You got to have a duenna, a chaperon, every place you go with a good girl. The Spanish are very practical. When they see a girl and a boy together without the old lady, they think, if not, why not? r Other Editors’ Opinions A Fitting Ideal ‘pUOBABLY in America more than in any other country in the world there exist.s the ideal of the “all around man." And it is not to be vondeied at, for the schools, colleges and litera ture of the country tend to inculcate in the jouthful mind an unreasoning' disdain for "nar rowness.'’ Princeton can by no means be considered the exception. Nearly every year the Senior Class officially prefers a Phi Beta Kappa key to an athletic letter, yet scholarship uncoupled with extra-curricular interest is mentally recorded as the index of a "grind." The professor whose im mersion in his subject is so great that he forgets niH personal appearance is “queer." Ihe inescapable result of this powerful but intangible pressure of social sanction, acting up on every American student through his associates m school, in college and in the outside world is to develop in many undergraduates here an over whelming ambition to be an "all-around man." The victims of this pressure are likely to engage themselves too heavily with an energetic extra curricular program. Frequently the result is that by Junior year they have so many diversified in terests that they are unable (o do justice to atm :>ne. Such a program if carried on after gradua tion will place them in the danger of becoming dilettantes who know a little about everything a,ui nothing about anything. And yet when ex amined in the most cursory manner, it can be seen that the dilettante is far loss valuable to himself and certainly to society than is die popularly scorned “queerie." At least the special ist has learned the secret of the happy life to lose himself in some subject or ta dt. iu which he is genuinely interested. And. as so ,ften occurs, the fruits of his labors are of some bene fit to the rest of humanity. But there is an idea! which is higher than tu it of either the dilettante or the ultr.i-special ist. That is to devote oneself whole-heartedly tovsome line of endeavor, however narrow, white at the same time maintaining the interest of an amateur in other subjects. This philosophy has guided men of culture ever since Aristotle first promulgated the "Golden Mean" and is partic ularly applicable to the life of the scholar.'Tt is a fitting ideal for college men. The Daily Priucetoniaa. IDAHO History of Connelly Case Editor’s Note: Campus gossip seems to indicate that when Students read to day that Gordon Connelly will have a new hearing on his military objection case they may well ask, “What’s this all about? Wily, who. what is this.” The Emerald here attempts to outline and interpret the case. Gordon Connelly is a sophomore who took ROTC during his fresh man year. As the end of the year drew nearer he began to feel that he must make a stand against the course. Returning to school this fall, he did not register for the class, but presented a petition, in the usual form, to the faculty committee on military education. When this objector first ap peared before the committee he had three bases for exemption: (1) military training is of no benefit to him, and has no part in his higher education; (2) he does not believe a course which gives only one side of a question should be compulsory; (3) military training does not warrant a position as a compulsory subject in the college curricula. On these grounds the faculty committee refused to exempt him. “Mr. Connelly petitioned for some thing which neither the faculty, nor any committee has power to grant. The rules of the board of higher education provide that mil itary training shall not he option al. Failure to clear the military requirement places a student in the same position as failure to clear any other requirement . . These were the words of Carlton E. Spencer, chairman of the com mittee. Connelly, however, was firnT”m his conviction, and has refused to return to drill. Late last week he again appeared before Professor Spencer, asking for a rehearing on the grounds that he was will ing to substitute for the drill re (Please turn to paijc jour) Air Y’ ❖ •> Listenin By James Morrison Emerald of the Air Apologies to Jacqueline Wong, pianist on yesterday’s program. It was stated in this column that Miss Wong was to play some hot jazz solos, but it happened that she played some excellent classical music instead. Nevertheless, she can play both types equally well, and it is hoped she will appear again. Today Willie Frager will con duct the Emerald Sportcast, inter spersed with college songs by Chuck French at the piano. Dance Bands Duke Ellington’s new Victor re cording of “Accent on Youth” is a bit of all right. It's not often that the Duke sits down with his dusky lads and hashes out a char acteristic arrangement on a popu lar tune, but on this smash hit of today he gets the smooth Elling ton effect with all the trimmings. Turning from the sublime to the ridiculous, have you heard the Dorsey Brothers’ orchestra lately —the band that used to be so smooth ? The boys are turning commercial on us, like Lombardo, only not so bad. They’re reverting to the old Dixieland ruckety-chuck and Boom Charlie- Charlie of days gone by. Yet evidently plenty of people like that style of “jazz,” because they’re still making plenty of records for Decca. The Dorseys had a split-up late ly, Tommy having quit and started a new band. Bob Crosby, Bing’s “little” brother, has at last broken off his vocal engagements with the Dor sey Brothers and has acquired a band of his own. His style of play ing, however, is far from original, and smacks considerably of Mrs. Dorsey’s boys’ latest tactics. Imagine dancing to the music of Benny Goodman for only 70 cents! That’s all it cost last summer in the gigantic Palomar in Los An geles. \!iC-CBS Programs Today 6:00 p. m.—John Charles Thomas, noted operatic baritone, will sing “Trees,” by Rasbach, as his opening number. Other selec tions will be “Brown Bear” and “I Love Life,” by Manna-Zucca; Verdi’s “Eri Tu”; “Stuttering Lover," by Hughes, and Harrison's “In the Gloaming.” Frank Tours’ orchestra will accompany. KGW. 6:30—Warden Lawes in “Web of Crime." The story of a convict who begged to be transferred from one prison to another to keep him from committing another crime is a true story taken from one of Warden Lawes’ own experiences. KPO. KFI, KGW. 7:00—Conrad Thibault, popular baritone, will star again in the Log Cabin Revue. He will offer “Double Troub’e” and “I Live for Love,” from the “Big Broadcast”; “I Found a Dream,” from “Red Heads on Parade.” He will also lead the ensemble in “Chloe” and “If My Love Could Talk." Harry Salter's orchestra will play “I Get a Kick Out of You,” a beautiful 64-measure tune from the show “Anything Goes.” KPO, KGW, KFI. The sale of charms is one of the principal means of income for Chinese priests. One of these con sists of drawing of a horse on a sheet of yellow paper, sold to par ents who have sick children. JITNEY JIG 5c a dance EVERY WEDNESDAY EVENING Dancing 7:30 - 10:30. Art Holman and his orchestra. GREEN PARROT PALMS % What Big Bill Tildcn says about smoking Camels is worth any smoker's attention. "I’ve got to keep in top physical condition,” says the 42-year-old "Iron Man of Tennis.” "I smoke Camels, the mild cigarette. They don’t get my wind or upset my nerves. 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