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Fraternity Problem
Solved by Summer
ON October 19, the interfraternity council met,
discussed the fallacies of its present setup,
admitted gross inadequacies in its machinery,
and made sporadic if sincere suggestions for
improvement.
That was ten days ago.
At the same meeting one of the members of
the council stated emphatically that it did not
agree with the enforcement intentions of the
group. It threatened withdrawal from the council
pending advice from its national body, and the
ultimate decision of the council as to the collec
tion of fines.
That, too, was ten days ago.
Today the adamant member, upon advice
from the national body, asserts that it will not
pay the fine and should it be forced to do so it
will withdraw. The council still intends to levy
the fines.
The next meeting of the council is scheduled
for November 7. That is ten days from now.
In the meantime what happens? Nothing!
With Oregon’s interfraternity council in an
uproar, with a member of the council threaten
ing withdrawal, with the committee on constitu
tional revision working independently of the
whole assembly isolated from opinion and sug
gestion, the council blissfully contemplates No
vember 7 and remains static.
If the council is of the opinion that this in
action stimulates respect from the campus, and
confidence in the power and prestige of the or
ganization, it is wrong.
If it would hold a series of dynamic meetings
and convince the body politic that there was
“something there” besides the name, that it felt
the responsibility of its position as governors of
500 college students, that alone would serve to
erase something of a black mark from iLs battle
scarred face.
The Political Picture
Is Alluring
i 1 AT would tie the reaction of a crowded
" * Gerlinger hall to a partisan speaker, who,
in preparation for the coming political elections,
seeks to justify his party platforms?
How would college students analyze the pol
itician about whom he is so prone to jest? Would
the college student tie willing to sacrifice some
measure of his personal and business freedom in
order to insure a more level society? Would he
bo willing to kick through with a little additional
tax on food in order to assure old age pensions
and gamble on increased earning power through
heightened trade ?
Or would the college student be willing to
continue on the road of rugged individualism,
bucking the current of unrestrained competition?
Could a political speaker convince him that
the New Deal was a flop? Would the college
student like to know just what in heck the
New Deal intends to do when some of the debts
must be paid ?
What about this new social order? How will
it affect the job for which the college students
have been preparing for four years?
The answer to most of these problems might
at least be suggested if there was some one to
suggest them first hand. Dean Out hunk and his
assembly committee might provide speakers that
would present both sides of our local and national
political scene.
The students would rather like to hear them.
Europe Firsthand
By Howard Kessler
'T'OWERING up from the side of the road, the
huge mass of rock appeared to be a shrine
dedicated to some legendary Spanish colossus,
but just below the grass line, where cattle grazed
on the steep slope, stood a thickly-foliaged tree.
And that was what I had been looking for. A
tree, with branches not more than ten feet from
the ground.
The first part of the night was spent in the
tree, watching peasants stride home from work
on the gravel highway far below; the second part
was spent in a shallow cave at the base of the
tons of boulder, looking out upon a star lit, moon
less sky, and trying to see the angels of Jacob,
birt succeeding only in finding a peacefully
munching cow; the third part was spent hiking
1U1.0 J.Xedma SodonU through l cold, clammy t, g
i
that stimulated fears of bloody bandits in am
bush.
It was the count of Medina Sedonia who was
forced by Phillip II to command the Spanish
Armada, in spite of the fact that the land-loving’
count turned green on ponds. But this hilltop
town has attained fame as recently as last year,
during the nationwide riots against the reaction
ary government, when 20 members of the local
anarchist syndicate were shot down casually by
troops from Algeciras, and caused a scandal that
threatened to overthrow the party in power.
These hot-blooded Andalusian peasants were
going to do something about election promises
that had not been fulfilled. You see, the so-called
revolution of 1931 was supposed to reform all the
agrarian evils of this farming country. Before
1931, land barons < trolled nearly all the good
land in Spain. After 1931 . . . well, the people
hoped, but nothing h ppened. The old men who
held the reins were too timid to inaugurate any
strong legislation.
Today, one baron holds sway over an area as
large as Belgium; 200 families own more than
a million acres of land; ten millions acres of good
soil goes uncultivated because the absentee land
lords would rather raise bulls to carry their col
ors into the ring than farm; over 90 percent of
the landlords earn an income of less than 15 cents
a day because the lords will not lease out their
land; much of the 22,000,000 population, 75 per
cent of v'hich make their living directly from
the soil, cannot land by any means, and wander
about the peninsula depending upon the meager
and spasmodic wages they get by hiring out as
harvesters.
The Second Republic had the priceless op
portunity of reforming the agricultural situation
by peaceful methods, but they muffed it. Very
well,’ next time, the peasants mutter, next time
we will see, which is Authority Jay Allen’s
reason for predicting a bloody revolution in Spain
within the next ten years.
Astonishingly acute too, are these simple
folk, in spite, or perhaps because of the obscuri
tanist policy adhered to by the church and state,
which leaves four out of every ten of their child
ren unable to read or write. “Illiterates speak
like Seneca, sing like Blake, and behave like
Louis XIV,” says Madariaga.
Taking the problem from the bottom up,
Spain has a total area of 120,000,000 acres, four
tenths of which is cultivated, and only one-tenth
of which is said to be actually unsuitable for
cultivation. Moreover, the soil which is tilled is
usually the poorer texture, since the best land
has been given to the aristocracy and, as has been
noted, lies idle. Experimentation has established
the fact that when properly cultivated, yields
on Spanish land may be doubled and trebled, to
bring it up to and surpassing the yields in the
rainier portions of Europe. In the hands of un
skilled peasants much rich land is wasted, and
little has been done to educate anyone to proper
farming methods.
Let’s wander over to a Spanish farm. Just
so you don’t touch the machinery. It’s liable to
fall apart anytime.
Other Editors’ Opinions
'HIS is the Lost Generation, as everyone says.
The battlefields were strung with corpses,
and the years that came, with bitter flappers and
gin and—
"I can't give you anything but love, Baby,
That’s the only thing I’ve plenty of. Baby.”
and drunks and cynicism. Anybody who saw any
thing beautiful in a woman, in a tree or a sent
ence, you laughed at. Anybody who believed m
God and all his trappings, you scoffed at. Purity
and chastity and virtue and virginity were al
ways good for a laugh. Tenderness was mauldin
and you scorned it. You jibed at the simple Ro
tarians and the Main street yokels. You accepted
ffraft, and realism, and international hate, and
laughed at anyone who had idealism in politics,
or was romantic, or who thought that building
k‘Sgel' guns wasn't the only way to keep people
from killing each other. You laughed at the com
fort of home and fireside, or anything's else which
had managed to be revered through the years.
Gee, wouldn t it be a scream if someday you
found you had laughed at everything? The
Washington Daily.
Colleges Line Up on
Olympic Boycott Issue
XJtrHILE anti-Nazi members of the Amateur
Athletic Union are preparing for a battle
that “will shake the Union to its foundations"
regarding an American boycott of the 1930
Olympic Games at its national convention De
cember 0, the nation’s college students are lin
ing themselves on one side or the other of the
question of U. S. participation.
Since the Metropolitan A. A. U. district, big
gest single unit of the Union, voted against the
boycott, anti-Hitler chances of putting the res
olution through apparently have diminished to
a point where they have little hope of success.
In all probability, consequently, the battle
will terminate in a resolution favoring partici
pation. When and if this resolution is passed,
the true spirit of sportsmanship and amateur
athletics, clearly voiced by the Olympics, will
have surmounted its last official barrier.
One danger will remain, however the chance
ot a few scattered individual boycotts, sponsored
by die-hard groups, which would lower the class
of the American Olympic team. Individual action
has already been voted by Columbia University' •
student boaid, which recently resolved to oppose
participation of Columbia men in the 193t> Games.
American participation at Berlin is left in
the hands of the National A. A r There seems
to be little doubt that the Union will approve
the Games, m which it would be foolish, detri
mental stubbornness for a few colleges to con
tinue with their individual boycotts
If the United States enters the Olympics,
as she seems sure to do. anti-Nazi feeling could
be best served by a representative American
team that would administer a beating, in a
sportsmanlike way. to Hitler’s own German
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Again I See In Fancy
By FREDERIC S. DUNN
‘GEE! HAW! HAW THERE!’
There were two Presidents John
son, one, the inexorable taskmas
ter of the classroom, whose lash
ing words were in lieu of the hick
jory; the other, the friendly, prac
tical, human who felt and sensed
the bond of fellowship, and of
whom the kindest memories pre
vail.
A characteristic example of the
former personality may be ad
duced from our sometime class in
Tusculan Disputations. Jack Mc
Clure, classmate of '92, was seated
beside men, all primed' for a cer
j tain passage, which fell instead to
! Jed Bronaugh. Poor Jack was
therefore at the freezing point, but
managed to get considerable
warmer under Johnson’s tirade,
until, forgetting all limitations, he
began to retort. On the instant,
the President’s dyspepsia too lost
all limitations.
‘Not another word, Johnnie. If
you say another word, Johnnie, I
shall send you from the room.’
And there was something so cruel
ly tantalizing in _his tone, that one
could imagine him fairly hoping
that Johnnie would say another
word.
I am not sure, but it seems to me
that I pinched John in warning.
Anyway, and happily, John ‘kept
the door of his teeth,’ and the fra
cus was averted. Cicero’s sublime
words on the immortality of the
soul had well nigh reeked with the
profanity of the mortal.
And now a picture of the other
self of President Johnson. An eld
erly man was driving a yoke of
oxen up Twelfth Avenue toward
the University, when the team be
came frightened and first broke
into a trot and then into a lope.
The old man was powerless to
check them. You can’t stop a brute
of that sort from behind.
President Johnson, a buttoned
umbrella in his hand, happened to
be coming down from Deady hall,
saw the runaways, threw himself
in front, flung up his arms and hat
and' umbrella in the faces of the
animals, and, yelling ‘Gee, Haw,
Buck, haw there’ and other phases
in bovine lingo, finally swung them
fairly around, almost trampling on
the old driver in their right-about
face.
John Wesley Johnson may not
have been born in a log cabin, but
he had been brought up on a farm,
all right.
(Next in the series ‘WAKE
KLATAWA.’)
Air Y’ •>
Listenin’
By James Morrison
Emerald of the Air
Yesterday Ned Gee, prominent
vocalist, charmed you listeners, ac
companied by Tinkling Chuck
French at the piano. Chuck also
played a few late solos.
Today at 3:45 Robert Garretson
will render classical piano solos.
The young pianist has gained con
siderable recognition on the cam
pus and in Portland music centers.
Local Bands
Art Holman’s band sounded
much better in the Igloo Saturday
night than in his regular spot,
probably because of the difference
in size of the two dance floors.
Stars of Radio
Sunday night was Michael Bart
lett’s last performance with Jack
Benny’s Jello program. The screen
singing star withdrew to devote
himself as Grace Moore’s leading
man in her forthcoming production
“Cissey,” and later to accept an of
fer to appear in an operetta in
London.
Ben Bernie and All the Lads be
gin working for a new sponsor to
night, and will be heard in a spe
cial repeat performance for west
ern listeners over NBC tonight at
10:15. The Ol’ Maestro and his or
chestra, aided' by a galaxy of guest
stars who will salute his new se
ries from different parts of the
country. From Dallas, Texas, will
come a salute from Harry Sosnick
and his orchestra, playing at the
Hotel Baker. Mary Small, the girl
National Military Situation
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vocalist of few years but great
popularity, will sing from Wash
ington. The voice of Tamara, ex
otic revue dancer and singer, will
be heard from Boston. Of special
significance will be the appearance
in the program of George Olsen,
j Ben Bernie's old pal and golf rival.
' He and his band will join the
| broadcast from the College Inn,
Chicago.
! Chips from the Hollywood radio
| block: Between rehearsals and
i broadcasts of Shell Chateau Wally
Beery is industriously engaged in
I moving into his new Santa Monica
[ home . . . Universal announced
[ that Shaindel Kalish will come out
from Chicago to join Don Briggs
and other Chicagoites in Laemmle
pictures . . . Ted Lewis will be
heard on the air about the end of
the year when he opens at the Co
coanut Grove of the Ambassador
hotel . . . Most interested artist
ever on a radio program was Jack
ie Cooper, guest of Wallace Beery’s
last week . . . Within 30 minutes
he had most of the fine points of
broadcasting stowed away under
his blonde thatch . . .
The man on the flying trapeze,
bareback riders, and the ringmas
(Please turn to page four)
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Campus *
❖ Exchanges
By Bill Mersi
Greeks Revolt
For years and years now, frater
nity men have been welcoming vis
iting alums with the true spirit of
brotherly comradeship-. And for
the same number of years these
same men have been patiently
cleaning up the wreckage of their
rooms on Monday mornings. But
a revolution is in the offing at the
University of Colorada where
Greek-letter men have had the fol
lowing list of rules printed and
pasted on the walls of their robms.
1. Welcome, brother alums. Watch
out for the door sill and don’t
trip over the shadow from the
desk.
2. Don’t use my mouth wash for a
chaser.
3. Don’t mix drinks in my hat;
Don’t crack Ice with anything
but my text books.
4. Don’t rummage through my
desk drawer for sox. Go to the
room next door.
5. Don't curl up on the rug to
sleep; you will find pajamas in
the closet.
6. If you feel any inward, volcanic
disturbances, the window pushes
out. And fergawdsake, don’t
confuse the mirror with the win
dow.
7. Don’t leave any empty gin bot
tles on top of my dresser. Be
sure they are at least half full.
Here's something: Federal sta
tistics show that there is one fa
tality for every 20,000,000 passen
ger miles on the highway and one
fatality for every 24,000,000 pas
senger miles on the airways. Where
do people get the idea that air
travel is dangerous ? These gov
ernment figures prove that it is
20 per cent safer than automobile
travel, and nobody thinks an au
tomobile trip is dangerous.
Benny Again
At last, the definition of a
stooge. By Harry Conn, who writes
the script for the Jack Benny how
[ lergrams. Here it is: “A stooge is a
person who is supposed to be un
aware of the fact that he is being
funny.” A stooge is supposed to
be dum, but a stooge is really
smart enough to act dumb so that
people will laugh at him out of
! sympathy if nothing else.
Ring Around a Rosy
Nikita Balieff speaks on Ameri
can drinking: “First you put in
whiskey to make it strong; then
you add water to make it weak;
you put in lemon to make it sour;
then sugar it to make it sweet;
you say ‘Here’s to you’—and then
you drink it yourself.”
Something like the armament
race. They invent a steel that
nothing will pierce. Then turn
around and invent a new explosive
that will go through it like butter.
They make nickel steel that the
new explosive can’t scratch. Then
invent a new kind of detonator
that can turn nickle steel into
buckshot. Then chromium steel—
’round and ’round it goes. Dubious
delirium.
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