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(ftr e q PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon EDITORIAL OFFICES: Journalisr.i 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 Citv; 123 W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Budding, San Francisco. Robert Lucas Edi tor 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 manustripts. 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 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, all of March except the first eight days. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rales, $2.50 a year. EWS is beginning to trickle out of Italy lately about a slight ruffle of resentment as to the acts of 11 Duce. The “shadow before” still takes no more form than that occasioned with the football team’s forgetting to buy the coach a fountain pen at the end of the season. But it is Some Italians observe that internally all is not as it should be. Unemployment had increased in 1933 to five times the figure in 1929 and has been relieved only slightly by the current war machine construction. Wage cuts have mounted from between 16 and 38 percent since 1926. The prices on 125 commondities have increased 17 percent over last year. 11 Duce, in an effort to check contemplated flight of capital and to call in all available Italian resources, demands that all holdings such as foreign stocks, bonds and other credits be deposited with the Bank of Italy. He ordered that banks and corporations must dispose of their foreign investments by ceding them, at the exchange rate of the day, to the same central institution. Because of an over-populated condition and relative derth of resources the balance of trade is of great importance to Italy. There are many critics who say that 11 Duce's maintenance of the gold standard and his insistence upon the high value of the lira greatly “aggravates” that balance. Like Americans, the average Italian is in terested in improving his country, and wants to see it a better place for his children. But some of them are now seeing their leader make en emies of every country in the world—openly defy all other people, ignore the economic and physical hardship placed upon both ffalians at home and those in the army, and pour lira and life into a disease festered and stubborn country, wild Ethiopia. Is it all necessary ? Must 11 Duce bring forth the wrath of the nations on the mass of the Italian people? Isn’t there a better technique for adjusting internal difficulties and foreign policy? Do all imperialistic policies carry with them world wars? Italians are now asking such mild and skittish little questions. Some of the answers might do Benito some good if it weren’t too late. But it is. Mussolini is through! Benito Mussolini is Walking on his Ankles there. Shall It Be Light At Homecoming FEW days ago, a Portland female alumna, i in a letter to the editor requested that the 'Homecoming committee so decorate the Home coming dance as to have ample lighting facilities for seeing plainly other people. "For after all,” opined the lady, "what is Homecoming for?” Now here is a problem that calls for con sideration of all people (especially those with new ■ dresses). Of course it is quite necessary to see other people while dancing although some people blandly ignore this traffic problem. And then agairr if the lights are to,) low one might dance all evening with the wrong person, or fall in the punch bowl. To be fair and square in this problem we will analyze it from two sides: t. low lights; 2. high lights. 1. Low lights: One can’s see her nose in front o! h;s face. The possibility of checking up on your girl and the campus romeo is weakened. Sack cloth hobnobs far to freely with silk. One might offer Dean Sehworing a cigar (or then again the dean might offer you a cigar). 2. High lights: The campus beauty might have a difficult time maintaining her status quo. Visiting alumni would undoubtedly recognize dodged creditors. The vice versa of this is much worse. The band would have to wash its tuxedo shirts. This little analysis acomplishes very little if 1 anything at all. Nevertheless it throws some light on the Homecoming dance, which is more than past committees have done. Interfraternity Council Gets Under Way ~'ODAY at a meeting of the interfraternity council progress made in the revisement of the constitution will be discussed along with sug gestions for altering tlie membership of the council to assure continuity. President Tom Mc C’al! has also indicated that some action for the improvement of fraternity libraries will be dis cussed. Even the program scheduled for this special meeting indicates the birth of a progressive attitude on the part of the group. It appears as though from .ate um ^ 1 and baclu-bittbei ot tin last few weeks, some desire for unity and co- | operation has sprung up within the council. Unfortunately there is still some muttering about dirty work, and some threats of exposing ! the whole works. As to the effect on the council's j future work, it would be well if these people would forget their troubles and buiy what they “know” or give it air. As it is, such an attitude is dead weight to a progressive council. Europe Firsthand By Howard Kessler <<X’»7'ILL the young man wearing a double • » breasted blue .suit, who attended the Cer vantes cinema Tur ,.iy afternoon and sat next to a very ugly woman, please call this number.” You can read it a id weep, but it isn’t a slip that has passed in the night. Rather, it is a legitimate newspaper insertion in Spain, and you find several like it in any Spanish daily. George translated a few for me. “Young Hebrew scholar will teach typewrit ing, stenography, and the arts of love.” “Young lady of very Catholic sentiments would sentiments would like a love affair with a young man of the same type.’ At this time the newspapers in Spain were under strict censorship, four months after the October revolution of 1934, and most of them displayed on the front page, in bold-face, the information: “This issue has been checked by the censor.” The Spaniards prefer their publicity after death. Large black-bordered announcements her ald the decease of a loved one, and the wealthier the victim, the larger the announcement, so it is not uncommon to see one entire page of a journal given to the advertising of a death in the family. A stranger in a strange land finds many strange things. For instance, the shocking hours they keep in Spain will get you down at first. You think you have landed in an exceptional pension when the meals are scheduled for 10 in the morning, 2 in the afternoon and 9 at night. You haven't. The theaters raise their curtains at 10:30, the cabarets never move until after midnight, and I have awakened at four in the morning to find the gaiety at its height. In my brash Americanism, I visited two or three cabarets at 12 o’clock, and came away thoroughly disgusted at the utter inactivity of these drink and and dance establishments. On two accasions my companion and I were actually alone in the large auditorium, except for a dozen or more hostesses, which doesn’t seem such a tough break at that. Then we learned. Next time we took in a show first and landed at the cabaret at two o’clock, to find the merry-making just starting. Somewhere close to six, I imagine, the party breaks up. I have to depend on my imagination, because I couldn't keep my eyes open after four. Each afternoon from one to three all shops are closed, and the Spaniards have a siesta, but remain open until eight “in the afternoon.” A confession of Spanish temperament are the iron shutters lowered over every shop window for the night. Returning to the pension after ten o’clock in the evening you will find the huge oaken door bolted and barred. The correct procedure in this case is to clap loudly. Presently, from out the shadows, a sereno, or night watchman, appears, jangling a huge ring of keys. The serenos are hired by the Householders in the vicinity to open the doors for the guests, but custom dictates a little palm-crossing. However, I had vowed to spend not one coin in tips, except for the ten percent that is usually added to your hotel bill and often to your cafe bill, for service. I held my vow, but at considerable cost. Find ing that I had no intention of slipping him a peseta now and then, the cheerful young Span iard who was my sereno in Malaga, developed acute deafness. Each night I stood in the cold air for a few minutes longer, usually sidling in with a more generous guest for whom the night watchman immediately appeared. My last evening ip the gem city of Andalucia, before taking a tramp freighter for Barcelona, I wanted some sleep. So 1 invited a member of the family with whom I had been staying, to he my guest. It cost me a couple of dollars. But I Jiii not tip the sereno. Other Editors’ Opinions HK Poisonous Virus of Modern Youth." 1 Harsh words, those; Yet that’s the title or an article by Kathleen Norris, well-known jour nalist, which appears in the September “Column ist's Review." But no one need be too greatly alarmed over youth's poisonous virus (social mindedness) because Miss Norris has a solution for it all curb youth. Unfortunately or fortunately, there are those who disagree with Miss Norris. They don’t de plore the fact, as she does, that youth has be come “social-minded.” Some people, on the contrary, are rather happy about it. They seem to feel that what this country needs is a little social progress. They even go so far as to think that youth should be given an opportunity to develop its own princi ples. “Their absurdities have been permitted to develop until their most ridiculous opinion is re ceived with respect." says Miss Norris of youth. Perhaps it is not so much that absurdities ire received with respect as that intolerance has given away to tolerance. No longer do parents wash the mouths of their offsprings for saying "Communism." People are beginning to listen to both sides of a question and to keep an open mind. It may be hard for Miss Norris to conceive of the present generation growing up with and ac cepting the theory that free trade of ideas results in the ultimate good. But it is just as hard for us to conceive of a class brought up to shudder at any innovation in the social system being a progressive force in human affairs. Syracuse Dally Orange. Again I See In Fancy By FREDERIC S. DUNN “WAKE KLATAWA” The Eutaxians were in session one afternoon in January of 1883. The Secretary had just read the minutes of the last regular ses sion. The President, tall, mystic Dr. Etta Coggswell, ’83, had poised her gavel, making the usual in quiry as to “corrections or addi tions,” when an apparition stood in the midst. There had been no alarm at the door, no perceptible turning of the knob, not a sound in premonition. But there she stood, a buxom, full blooded Indian sqaw. Moccasined, kerchiefed, her hair in braids, she beamed good - naturedly, even laughed merrily, at the consterna tion she had created at this “povf wow” of the pale-face women. Now, there was no section in Robert's Rules of Order, not even a footnote, advising how to deal with a parliamentary crisis like this, an Indian in uninvited visita tion upon a literary society. Even if there had been been, there is not a doubt that not One of those as tounded Eutaxians would have known how to apply it. And, despite the fact that this portly squaw was grinning and chuckling and jabbering in Chin ook, there were timid girls in the Hall of the Eutaxians who remem bered Indian atrocities of the last four years, the Nez Perce War, the dreaded name of Chief Joseph, the uprising of the Bannacks in Idaho territory, the pacificating visit of General Sherman not so very long ago, the 125 foot square stockade built by the people of Palouse country which at one time housed two hundred refugees from antic ipated massacre. Could this squaw have a tomohawk concealed about her person? When the President, after a gasp or two, began to recover some little equipoise, the Marshal was request ed to escort Sackahontas to the I door. Mary Dorris-Condon, ’83, looked very diminutive as she at tempted to make overtures of con ciliation to the Amazon. But, no, Pocajaweea was not so inclined. She chattered something like ‘Wake klatawa,’ which the horrified Cen sor interpreted as meaning ‘No, not go.’ The Eutaxians were helpless, —one squaw holding at bay a dozeu and a half white women,—and she knew it. After about ten minutes of in terregnum during which neither or der nor decorum could be main tained, the apparition vanished of its own volition, ‘as suddenly and mysteriously as she had appeared.’ And Emma Cornelius-Howell, ’83, Editor for the Laurean-Eutaxian Column, writes that the society fi nally settled down to routine busi ness and election of officers. (Cf. Eugene City Guard, Jan. 20, 1883). Next in the series, A JOKE ON JOSH. Air Y’ Listenin’ By James Morrison Emerald of the Air Today Kenneth Clair, well known :o KORE listeners, will entertain with some accordion solos. Woodrow Truax, Emerald radio iditor, tells me there is going to be i big shake-up next week in Em ;rald of the Air programs, the ex ict character of which he did not disclose. # * Local Hands Back McGowan's orchestras do the honors tonight at the Theta, Al oha Phi, and ZTA pledge dances. Tomorrow evening the ATO's and their girl friends will dance to the music of Dan Hall, a 10-piece band from Portland. McGowan will fur nish music for the Delts, Betas. Theta Chis, and Chi Psis. Jack Mills and his orchestra will be at the Park tonight. Some of the band’s recent engagements in clude Chermot' ballroom. Omaha; El Torreon ballroom, Kansas City; Covey's Cocoanut Grove, Salt Lake; and the Club Victor in Seattle. Stars of R(t«lio Popular song writers aren't the only burglars in tlie music business! Maybe they do snitch a bar from Tschaikowsky now and then, or a note from Bach, but the classic ists themselves had a habit of shop lifting the other lad's music, ac cording to Dr. Sigmun Spaeth, famed "tune detective." “Handel was one of the most fla grant examples of the gentle art of music pilfering." said Spaeth. "He constantly borrowed other people's music. So did Beethoven, who used some of Brahm's themes. Then Brahms evened up scores for Mo cart by borrowing from Beethoven." Fraternity brothers are noted for borrowing each other's money, ties, suits, etc., but according to Spaeth, Richard Wagner went still further. He used to swipe whole themes from his father-in-law. Ltszt. His fam ous Prize Song was snitched from a vt-lia ,-i.uta of Ltszt and v.’heu somebody mentioned the fact, his reply was, “Any fool can tell that!” Chips from the Hollywood radio block: Now that Christmas is ap proaching Jack Benny is trying to decide on a present for Johnny Green, his new orchestra leader. Benny will welcome suggestions from his fans; just address him care of the NBC studios, Hollywood . . . Bing Crosby is practicing for his new song series to start December 5 in the film capital . . . Johnny Green is up bright and early every morning for a canter over the Bev erly Hills bridle paths . . . Harriet Hilliard, known to her husband as Mrs. Ozzie Nelson, is no less the new sensation of the RKO lot . . . so much so that she has been taken out of a comparatively minor part in one picture to do an important tole in the new Fred Astaire film “Follow the Fleet” . . . Kenny Baker, 23-year-old tenor recently heard with the Eddie Du chin, Ozzie Nelson, and A1 Lyons orchestras from the Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador hotel, will sue ceed Michael Bartlett as vocalist on Jack Benny's program shows. The outcome of the more impor tant football games to be played in all parts of the United States this weekend will be predicted by Nor man Sper at 10:15 this evening. Countess Olga Albani and James Melton will be featured in the lead ing roles in the Palmolive Beauty Box theatre presentation of “Sari" tonight at 8:30. 1SBC-CBS Programs Today 2:30 p. m.—Sperry Special Ha zel Warner, the Song Bird of the West. 5:30 — Kellogg College Prom— Ruth Etting, blues singer; girls’ trio; Red Nichols' orchestra. KPO, KOMO. KGW. 7:00—Campanas First Nighter drama, “The Melody Lingers On." KGW, KFI. 7:30 — Elgin Campus Revue. Mills Brothers and Art Kassel and his Kassels in the Air orchestra; Campus •> ❖ Exchanges By Bill Marsh The Road to Ruin We were interested in an article in a recent copy of the “New York er” which disclosed a side to the life of a pigeon that we never real ized existed. It seems that pigeons, instead of being the staid, dignified birds they appear to be, like noth ing better than to cluster around distilleries where they eat the mash and get stiff. We've always marvelled at a pig eon's ability to get right out from under the wheels of an automobile. But the .other day we saw a pig eon that wasn’t quick enough on the draw, and he got run over. We'll bet a dime to a doughnut that the little devil was too cockeyed to walk. Note to the W.C.T.U.: The curse of drink has even invaded the animal kingdom. A Democrat? Mentioning the “New Yorker” brought to our memory a rather amusing tale of a New Yorker that wasn’t the name of a magazine. It seems that ex-President Hoo ver was lunching at a well-known grille in New York City one noon, and a chap whose impeccable eve ning attire was somewhat rumpled by having obviously slept in it hap pened to wander past Herbert’s ta ble. Once past he stopped, went through a painful period of concen tration, then ambled alcoholically back to Hoover's table. There he proceeded to stare at Mr. Hoover's cherubic countenance until the ex president looked up from his food and said, “Good afternoon.” “Good afternoon, hell,” the stew replied. “Did anyone ever tell you how much you look like that s— of a b— Hoover ?” * 3: * Words of Wisdom Not so very long ago a college student in Los Angeles asked the late Will Rogers for some advice. Will's reply was not only typical Hal Totten, sports commentator. NBC. 8:00 — Music Appreciation hour. Dr. Walter Damrosch. KPO, KFT, KGW. 8:30 — Palm Olive Beauty Box theatre, presenting “Sari.” KPO, KGW. 10:15 — Sport forecasts. Norman Sper. NBC. but illuminating. He said, “I won't give you any adivce—that's the trouble with the older generation today—they’re all so busy giving the younger generation advice that they haven't any time to figure out what to do with themselves—if I were you. I'd quit looking for advice from old fools like myself and go see Mae West’s new picture." 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