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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 \V. Madison St.. Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Beattie; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San 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 he accompanied by the writer’s signature and address which will 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 seven days, ail of March except the first eight days. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. National Affairs For Assemblies? THESE days so many people wonder why more interest in political affairs, both state and national, aren’t discussed by college students. Where is the intense interest on the part of our younger citizens in matters over which European, Latin and Oriental students grow excited? Most certainly the coming national election involves important principles—the expansion of government into fields previously declared taboo, old age pension plans and social security legisla tion that carry with them innovations in taxa tion. What do students think about the position of the constitution and its present place as the hub about which billions of dollars are whirling? Perhaps the assembly committee might con sider bringing to the campus recognized pro ponents and opponents of disputed political theories. And then perhaps the interfraternity council could encourage attendance at these as semblies ? This program, with recognized disadvantages, might yet serve to stir some campus opinion and thought about matters that will affect the pocket books, the social habits of every Oregon student. Just a suggestion. THE creation of a campus social chairman whose duty it will be to make of the campus social life concerted, harmonious events seems to be a praiseworthy step in a progressive as sociated women students’ campaign for a mod ernized and well-organized campus life. It will be the responsibility of Bette Church, selected to fill the newly-organized post, to con fer with campus dance chairmen as to the clothes appropriate for each of the functions, to decide the proper apparel for exchange desserts, to plan the attire for receptions, both campus and inter organizational, to edit a campus etiquette booklet to be entitled “Curtsy Book" and to inform the men when flowers are in order and when it is unnecessary to send them. All in all, the goal of the AWS in creating this office, is to add unity to our social life. The advantages are not planned to benefit women alone. Men, too, may profit by uniform ideas created by the social chairman. The system has been widely accepted and endorsed at Washington. Its success on this campus depends on the cooperation of both men and women students in accepting the decisions of the chairman and in conferring on problems of general campus interest. The University And Radio 'T'HROUGH the work of Luke Roberts, mana ger of KOAC ii^ Corvallis, his station engin eer and several persons on the Oregon campus, an effort is being made to give the University a direct and convenient access to the state-owned station, KOAC. There is a distinct need for an outlet on this campus over the state system’s radio station. In the past years the University has gone on the air over KOAC, as she should, and as is necessary if we are to gain any benefit from our valuable station. But the fact that it was deemed proper to place the station at Corvallis has necessitated the almost daily trips of various students and faculty members to that city for the different University programs. Even so the University has not been able to put on her share of the programs over KOAC. Certainly the station has always been open to our programs and has shown fine cooperation, but the expense and impractibility of transport ing the band, orchestra, and other large groups to Corvallis and back was too great. It is only fair that with the excellent Oregon State college band, orchestra, dramatic groups and other larger organizations staging some first-rate programs over KOAC that the Uni versity should also have the chance to show the results of the training given students in these and other fields. If Luke Roberts and his colleagues are suc cessful in establishing a station on this campus from which programs will go over KOAC by remote control, they will have done a fine service to the University and will have made the present set-up much more turn pie. With a regular line from Eugene to KOAC in Corvallis the University can stage the rightful share of her own programs over the station she shares with the other schools of higher educa tion in Oregon. The medium of the radio presents an extreme ly valuable method lor a school to demonstrate its worth to the people of the state. It would be well if the University of Oregon had an un restricted privilege (elimination of the persent necessity to go to Corvallis for our programs i to use this means bf doing something for herself and the people oi me state. Editor’s Note: This is another of the articles appearing in the Emerald written by Howard Kesslar, sophomore in journa lism, who last year spent seven months in Europe. Mr. Kesslar presents his observations in this series of articles which at present deal with Africa. nACK to Spain! My introduction to Seville wasn’t calcu lated to favorably impress me with the city or its people. I was beset by howling beggars, leering prostitutes and discourteous citizenry. The ticket agent at the railway station twice misinformed me of the time the next train left for Cadiz, and I dedicated a / vocabulary to the ancient metropolis of garden , and siestas. It was 9:30 in £he evening before f left Seville for Cadiz, and I managed to get soundly asleep lying on the ! wooden benches of the third class carriage. Rudely awakened by hands shaking my shoulder, I heard someone shouting “Cadiz!” at me; so, befuddled and sleepy-eyed, I grabbed my bags and descended into the night air. Walked for a mile down oppressively silent, broad streets until I found a policeman, who, after two un successful attempts, got me into a small pension, where I signed the bill of lading and fell into bed dead tired. Over the usual breakfast of coffee and a hard roll, I asked the cheerful host what road led to Algeciras. “By Cadiz?” he queried, and something struck me very hard at the base of the skull. From Jerez de la Frontora, in which town some bright Spaniard’s sense of humor had landed me, to Cadiz was 35 miles, my ticket was good but for one day. I swore to teach the Spanish railroads a lesson. I walked out of Jerez, famous as the home of sherry wine, into a con vent, climbed a few fences to get out, wandered down two blind alleys, up a few wrong roads, and was accosted by a wine merchant who spoke English and after setting up a drink, in sisted that I return with him to the railway station, where he made quite certain that I could not get by with yesterday's ticket. So it was noon when I felt the dust of the highway. A bright sun spread a warm, lazy hush over slumbering Spanish farms. There were more dung heaps than automobiles and more wander ing beggars than hitch-hikers. The prime requisite for hiking in Spain is a bundle of well-ventilated rags, and three months' growth of beard. I could tell my predecessors had not left a savory reputation, by the way the children ran screaming in all directions when I ambled down the road. That part of Spain is certainly no fit place for pleasurable walking. I soon got into a hilly, scrub brush district, where the habitations were miles apart and then were only rude straw huts with pigs lounging on the doorstep. Fit only for grazing cattle, the land provided wild scenery but no opportunities for panhandling. As the afternoon began to wane, I looked for some haven that would shelter me from the approaching hours of darkness. Medina Sedonia was yet 10 miles ahead, Jerez 15 miles behind, and no village between. The out-of-doors was more to my liking than accomodations in one of the hovels that infrequently appeared by the roadside, protected by mongrel hounds and in habited by dirty, half-naked children and their weather-beaten elders. And that was taking for granted I should find any sort of welcome with these superstitious, bandit-ridden peasantry, even should I care to occupy an earthen floor with fraternal domestic animals. Then I saw the rock. It looked like a sky scraper without windows, but it wasn't. It was a rock. (To be continued) Other Editors’ Opinions Sports Scribes Sling Senile Slang ONE of the greatest contributions of all time to American literature is now being spurred on, like a wind storm out of the North, by Joseph Louis Barrow, the former Alabama shanty-towner who has driven like a thunder bolt to the top of the American pugilistic ranks in less than 18 months. Driven by the meteoric rise of the Michigan Mauler, sports scribes far and near are cram ming figurative language into their glowing ac counts. Louis has now become Messrs. Dead uan Joe, Dark Angel, Brown Embalmer, King Robot. Alabam' Assassin, Sepia Slasher, Pan Thunderbolt, Detroit Dynamiter and Wildcat Warrior. Critics everywhere agree that the exploits of the Coffee-colored Crusher have pushed for mer record language figures out of the American literary picture. Such one-time high-water marks as Sultan of Swat, Ruppert Rifles, Golden Go phers, Golden Gridiron Horde and tiro more re cent Charley's Grimm Reaper have been rele j gated to the background in favor of the irre j pressible onslaught caused by the Tan Tanner's dramatic career. Even headlines, such as Tempestuous Tigers Curb Chicago Cubs, arc responding to the mode, a trend towards power in the sports page. Who can say that I lie influence will not spread further? Veteran scribes agree that the time is just around the corner when war n [respondents in Swarthy Selassie's kingdom, chronicling th achievements of Ethiopian snipers, will headline Selassie’s Sly Snoopers Scrap Enemy Gains. Or maybe Hirsute Hade s Homes will advance and cause Dour Duce to Deny Recent Retreat Rumors. Dour Duce will retort thut the glower ing Lion of Judah is being caged as Roaring Romans Razz Rases in New Ethiopian tilts. Legion indeed are the ramifications of lid; modern trend, spurred on by the almost un believable deeds of Detroit's Dun Demon. -Lane. M a D i;!v in Review By Stuart Portner Films Today: Heilig — “Westward Ho’’ and “Make a Million,” through to day. Mac “Barbary Coast,” through Wednesday. Mayflower . “King Solomon of Broadway," today only. Rex - - “Gay Deception” and “Pursuit,” today only. Stale “We Live Again” and “When a Man Sees Red,” to day only. At the McDonald Saturday. Assisted by those twin dynamos of creative energy, Hecht and Mc Arthur, Samuel Goldwyn has re constructed' with precision and with a spectacular gusto the spirit and atmosphere of the days when San Francisco was the town of the virility boys. Here is the west as it was. The existence is rough and tough, liquor flows, the wheel spins and the habitues of the Barbary Coast dives gain their pleasures as they seek them. Into one of the more disreputa ble dives comes a woman who falls into degradation as the influence of the environment grows upon her. And yet, though forced into this position she succeeds in up Campus * ❖ Exchanges By Bill Mars'i Biggest and Best Two Harvard professors have recently made a study of 902 ma jor wars which have been fought since 500 B.C. They measured the size of each war by its duration, the number of combatants, the number of casualties and the num ber of countries involved. Here is what they found: The last World war was eight times [bigger than all the other 901 wars combined. Our senses are stag gered by trying to imagine what the war that Europe is drifting into is going to be like. An amusing little story from Chicago. It seems that a horse got killed, and the patrolman on the beat wherein the dead horse was lying went into the station house to report it. The desk ser geant. a man of undoubted Irish ancestry, wanted to know what street the horse was on. "Kosciusko street," the officer replied. The Hibernian behind the blot ter labored for a while, then pushed back his cap in exaspera tion. "Well, thin." he demanded, “how would \a' be spellin’ Koscius ko?" The patrolman thought deeply. He tried, but he too failed. For i moment or so things were at a stanstill. Then the sergeant's face lit up with the birth of a great thought. "What's the nearest cross street?" he asked. "Pine street.” The sergeant slapped the desk “That's foine. Now thin, do ye' go back to the scene of the acci dent and drag the dour home holding the ideals which she for merly maintained. When virtue in the guise of an honorable gold miner is introduced, she suffers a regeneration and breaks complete ly with the spiritually destructive characters about the gambling hell. Miriam Hopkins, the woman who suffers the transition, possesses the power to attract the individ uals who frequent the institution presided over by Edward G. Rob inson. Robinson, as the gold rush period prototype of the more re cent gangster bosses, is excellent as the opponent of law and order. It is in the conflict between Rob inson, typical of the crude west, and' the Vigilantes, representatives of the law, that the film gains its basic power and not through the emotion which Miss Hopkins main tains towards Joel McCrea. As the upright gold miner, McRea is up right—and little more than that. As a result of the powerful mas culine strokes of Hecht and Mc Arthur, and with the support of a dozen excellent minor performers, the film is splendid adult cinema fare. around to Pine street. Thin come back and report him again." Penn Crying Toivels No one loves a loser. Especially strated by the attitude of the “Pennsylvanian” in a vitriolic edi torial directed against the Penn Tteam which has lost two games in success. < To quote briefly from the paper: “Our team is a great thirty-minute ball club. For the first half they look like champs. For the second half they look like chumps.” Hurling such phrases at a foot ball team which has probably played its heart out is one of the finest acts of cowardly editorial back-biting that we’ve ever seen. Frankly, we’d be ashamed to be associated with a paper that could stoop low enough to rub acid in the wounds of a defeated football team. In our opinion, the “Penn sylvanian” is standing up for all the vulgar commercialism that the sportsmen of America are trying to get out of football. Optimistic Politics The Democrats fee! that business is better because of Roosevelt. The Republicans feel that business is better in spite of Roosevelt. At least, the politicians are agreed that business is better, and that’s something. A Rich Rodent From Hollywood: In seven years Walt Disney’s cartoon character, “Mickey Mouse” has earned a to tal salary of $140,000,000. In Eur ope alone “Michael Souris,” the French equivalent of Mickey Mouse, earns an annual wage of $12,000,000. * * * Holy Smoke! “Diamond Jim” Brady thought he was being funny when he said, "What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.” But the United States took him seriously, arml to day there are about ten billion ci gars smoked every year. His Money’s Worth From Big Springs, Texas: A eer j tain group of cowboys were having a Sunday afternoon baseball game. One generously muscled range rider clouted' the first pitched ball, and it is said to have sailed com pletely over two counties—and Texas counties are far from small. Instead of circling the bases, how ever, the chappie stood still and waited for another ball to be pitched. ,rRun, you ass,” the crowd shouted, “why don’t you run?” “Aw,” said the hitter, “shucks. I got two more strikes, ain’t I?” Honor Students Quips from U.C.L.A., Westwood. California: They say that a pedes trian is a man who has two cars, a wife and a daughter . . . Snor ing is simply sleeping out loud ... A jury is twelve men chosen to decide who is the best lawyer. The California students also claim that in the honor system, the professor has the honor and the students have the system. Could that be possible?” Veteran Cast (Continued from Page One) As if this were not enough to worry any one man, the king’s ad visors would have him pay more attention to the affairs of state. The prime minister, General Northrup (played by George Bat terson), is continually demanding a war, while Lord Birten, the foreign minister (George Smith), I is taxed to the utmost of his dip I lomatic abilities to keep things smoothed out. Then, too, there are rumblings of discontent from the people. A revolutionary leader, Laker (Lester Miller), and another radical, Dr. Fellman (Virgil Gar wood), are responsible for the re cent bombings which have terror ized the royal retinue, and which even threaten to relieve the king of his job—as well as his head. But the king’s chief worry, des pite all the royal wranglings, is to fin'd time to sneak off and have a game of checkers with his fav orite footman, Phipps, played by Bud Winstead. Other roles are taken by Mar garet Chase and Patsy Neal as the ladies-in-waiting; Dick Koken as Major Blent, commander of the palace guard; and Leonard Love as Petley, a footman. The sets for the play are being designed by Horace W. Robinson, instructor in dramatics, and will be constructed by the theatre workshop class under his super vision. A flashlight photo of the San Diego exposition grounds taken late in the evening was made re cently by army fliers from an al titude of 1500 feet, and showed clearly such small details as pedes trians and moving automobiles. A Bouquet to Mussolini Radio ❖ ❖ of the Air By Woodrow Truax Local Bands Bucky McGowan’s orchestra played a fine job at the Alpha Chi house last night. The feature tune of the evening was the Alpha Chi waltz “Moonbeams.” The Delta Gammas were favored with music by Dick Mote’s band from Corvallis, insead of Jimmy Dierickx, as previously announced. Tonight Gerry McLean and his Willameteers finish the good start made last night by Earl Gibson at Willamette Park. Art Holman’s "Top Hat” orches tra plays tonight at the Igloo, de serting his usual spot at the Green Parrot Palms. Stars of Radio Betty Lou Gerson, petite star who fell out of Alabama, won con siderable mention for herself, not to speak of a few Thespian laurels, when she was starred in a French Piay at the tender age of six. In the first act, Betty was supposed to fall off a couch and start weep ing loudly. But unfortunately, the play never progressed beyond the first scene, for Betty, imbued with the drama of the situation, took the tearful scene seriously and couldn’t stop crying for two hours. They didn’t use the hook on her, but they did ring down the curtain and refund the money. Lee S. Robert's world famous song “Smiles” has been translated into every language, including Chinese. He wrote it at the start of the world war. Thirteen is Irving Miller’s lucky number from now on. That’s the number of members in the first orchestra Miller has ever conduc ted for a commercial program—A1 Pearce and his gang. For six years Miller has been pianist, with only rare opportunities to lead the band. IMSL-LBS Programs Today 2:00-5:00 — Associated Sport casts—University of Southern Cal ifornia versus University of Cali fornia; Doug Montell, announcer. NBC service from Memorial sta dium, Berkeley. Four important games: Oregon State vs. Washington State; Ore gon vs. UCLA; Stanford vs. Wash ington; and Santa Clara vs. Port land. 5:00—The Hit Parade — Fred Astaire, guest star; Kay Thomp son, contralto; the Three Rhythm Kings; Lennie Hay ton’s orchestra. NBC. 6:00—Chevrolet Program—Rub inoff, Virginia Rea, soprano; Jan Peerce, tenor; orchestra; Graham McNamee. KGW, KFI. 6:30 — Shell Chateau—Wallace Berry, master of ceremonies; guest artists; Jack Stanton and Peggy Gardiner, vocalists; Victor Young’s orchestra. KPO and network. 7:30—Carefree Carnival—vari ety show with Tommy Harris, tenor; Charlie Marshall and his boys; Helen Troy, comedienne; Cliff Nazarro, comedian; Nola Day, contralto; Vera Vague, come dienne; Meredith Willson's orches tra; Ned Tollinger, master of ceremonies. Dance Bands Tonight 9:00—Paul Pendarvis’ Palace hotel orchestra. KPO. Ben Bernie's Arcadia restaurant orchestra. KPO, KDYL. 9:30—A1 Lyon's Ambassador hotel orchestra. 10:00—Eddie Fitzpatrick, Jr., and his Deauville Club orchestra. 10:30 — Grift Williams’ Hotel Mark Hopkins orchestra. 11:00—Dick Jergens’ Olympic hotel orchestra. 11:30—Mann Brothers’ Daven port hotel orchestra. Soph -fop Hat’ (Continued from l'acjc One) Bill Jones and Louis Hillis are acting as co-chairmen for the af fair. Serving under them on the directorate are Frances Johnson. Marge Gearhart. Virginia Welling ton. Bill Pease, Clyde Keller. Sam Fort, Albert Carter, Ralph Cathey, Gladys Battleson, and Harold Ol sen. Gayle Buchanan, Marjorie Brainerd, Peggy Church, Molly White, Betty Puasa, Beverly Bur kitt, Genevieve McNiece, Bill Finch, Melvin Shevach, Larry Crane, Bill Dalton. Vivian Emery. Charles Barclay, Noel Benson, Bob de Armond. Marion Dryer and Bob Wilhelm. 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