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The Greek Council
Swings into Action
THE interfraternity council yesterday held a
meeting that was actually replete with life.
A completely revised constitution and by-laws
was presented by Tex Thomason and the sug
gested changes were discussed, and will be
printed and distributed for more minute examin
ation by the members before they pass on the
changes.
Most important considerations in this new
constitution were those with reference to an un
broken membership and those dealing with rights
and powers of the groups as to its own law
enforcement. The proposed constitiution as
changed gives evidence of fine work and ability
on the part of the constitutional revision com
mittee and is a credit to Tex Thomason, chair
man.
The council itself was sparked by a few in
terested and sincere members who offered sug
gestions. There is, however, yet a tendency on
the part of some members to sit on the back of
the neck as it was aptly expressed by President
Tom McCall, "stare out of the window.” Un
fortunately this is the case in most organizations
during the routine of dull business. But the pres
ent problems confronting the council justify
sharp attention and an acute interest in solving
difficulties that have mounted in number and im
portance since the first of this year. There is
little excuse for apathy and dullness and restless
ness. The tendency to put things off, without
some effort and understanding, must be abolished
and will be if some of the members will do a
little constructive thinking.
The council, now pushed by a conscientious
president and sustained by five or six interested
member,s can have little truck with those who
won’t live up to the purpose of the organization—
“to regulate and promote the activities of the
fraternities for the best interests of the Univer
sity of Oregon."
The formal resignation of Sigma Nu was
laid on the table in preparation for presenting
the case to the student advisory council. This
body of people will consider objectively all of the
facts in the case and render its decision with
provision for punishment if it is found that
punishment is owing.
The Emerald will refrain from further com
ment on the case until it is out of the hands of
this council in accordance with the custom of
aiding in securing justice before a jury.
Freshmen Vigilantes
And Horse Sense
l^OR Home reason, probably the unrestrained
* prompting of upperclassmen, the freshmen
this year at the University of Oregon are unduly
enthusiastic and childish in many of their mani
festations of school spirit. Loyalty to a school
and support of athletic teams is a lusterous and
invigorating thing when it is tempered with some
sense of propriety and regard for ultimate effect
on the school. If there is no consideration but
instead a wild-eyed desire to raise ‘'hell,” then
all University of Oregon students are mildly dis
gusted and somewhat alarmed at the presence
of such high schoolish actions.
There is a group of freshmen on the campus
now that calls itself very cleverly “vigilantes."
It will undoubtedly have a great deal of fun play
ing Indian for a week watching the Oregon “O."
It is also likely that there will be some very
sleepy Indians in class for the next week. All of
this is very well and good. If we must have tin
adequate defense from a tawny invader then let
no man be spared. “God save the ‘O'!”
But should any of the bricks in our Spartan
wall of defense decide to carry on a little im
perialistic warfare then is the time for them to
take off the war paint and visualize themselves
as gentlemen of the University who really know |
better. If there is to be any vandalism and petty j
destruction of property let those who are prouu
of their part in the fools play look upon them
selves as people on whom there are automatically
called "three strikes" tis college men of the better
type.
A proposal for "open subsidization" of college
athletes is now being considered by the members
of the Pennsylvania Association of College Stu- j
dents. Daily Illini.
Europe Firsthand
By Howard Kessler
'T'HKKIO are two cities in Spain and between
•*- them rages a feud that makes a Carolina
inter-family strife look like a children’s game ot
cops and robbers.
Madrid governs; Barcelona controls. Madrid
autocratic, icactionai^ t>arcclona a, iiomcjco.
progressive. Madrid is Castilian, dry, harsh, diffi
cult of comprehension; Barcelona is Catalan,
graceful, suave, twentieth century. Madrilenos
scorn the bargaining money-grabbing, American
“big shot” type of Catalans; Barcelonans accuse
the Castilians of being haughty, tyrannical and
slow.
The first thing that reached up and smacked
me as the “Ayala-Mendi” tramp steamer coasted
into the great seaport of Barcelona through a
cold winter fog, was the complete absence of
the beggars that had been following me all over
the country. I had saved for the last this city
at the base of the purple Pyrenees, and it came
as something of a shock that no urchins fought
over possession of me as I descended the gang
plank.
Here there are no grifters, fewer priests, and
no burros. All the people dress very much alike,
and you can aim' . imagine the Plaza de la
Catalunya is Picadilly Circus. This is likely to
be disgusting to t.curi its from America who are
trying to rake up local color, but by the time
you have spent two months hunting for hot
water, restaurants and heated rooms, your dis
pleasure at finding all of these placed conven
iently before you has diminished almost to the
vanishing point. I almost welcomed the automats,
where the push of a button will bring you a cup
of coffee or a ham sandwich.
The no-decision battle between Madrid and
Barcelona dates from the reign of Queen Isabella,
whom you will remember in connection with one
Christopher Columbus, well known explorer. In
her will, Isabella vindictively decreed that Bar
celona should never trade with the New World.
Castile had discovered America, Castile should
reap the rewards. Thus for generations, Bar
celona declined until a scant hundren years ago
she numbered 100,000, a minor port of the Medi
terranean, waiting for a chance to have a word
with Madrid.
Today, Barcelona does 50 percent of the na
tion’s business, controls 70 percent of its in
dustry; she hustles, bustles and gets things done,
in spite of the contempt with which she is held
by the Madrilenos, who remain the autocrats of
Spain, governing from their lofty Castilian
plains. But the population figures now show that
Barcelona has 1,200,000, and Madrid just a mil
lion, and an expert predicts that within a
hundred years Barcelona will boast of a popula
tion of ten million.
In Madrid, I could not find a cinema that
cost less than 75 cents for a single feature, which
was shown only twice a day; in Barcelona, I at
tended a theater for ten cents and saw three
feature pictures. In Madrid, I paid one dollar for
a steak dinner; in Barcelona I received a seven
course meal for 50 cents. In Madrid, the Gran
Via is crowded with beggars and burros; in Bar
celona, the Ramblas is a great modern artery
of traffic. The language too, is different. The
Madrilenos speak pure Castilian, while the Bar
celonans insist on using Catalan, a distinct
tongue.
The only capital in Europe not situated on
navigable waters, Madrid was designated by
Phillip II as his capital, when it was yet a cluster
of adobe huts swept by the frigid winds of the
plateau. It is a manufactured city, while Bar
celona, like Eugene, was destined from the first
to become a metropolis, by reason of its natural
setting.
Pleasant as it was, I didn’t remain in Bar
celona for long. It wasn’t far to the "Azur coast,”
and Marseilles. Someone told me that Marseilles
is the toughest town in Europe.
I wanted to cast my vote too.
Other Editors’ Opinions
'TVHE psychology department of the University
of Michigan recently completed an unusual
task that of surveying “fat boys.” The purpose
of the inquiry was to discover why corpulent boys
drop out of college faster than thin students do.
Popular belief that fat persons are lacking in in
telligence was not borne out in the classrooms of
Michigan. However, the fact was established that
overweight persons lack ambition or, as the sur
veying psychologists prefer to state, "they can
not be stimulated by hope of scholastic honors.”
"And why should they?" ask the experts. Fat
boys feel that they know only too well that even
though they may win top honors on the campus,
as soon as they go out into the world, the stupid,
ill-mannered world will continue to make sport
of them. "So what’s the use?” argues the fat boy.
In feeling this way, the overweight person
argues wrongly. He is merely the victim of an
obsolete tradition. Our world is kinder to obesity
than past generations were. People nowadays
walk, run, jump, climb stairs a good deal less
than did our ancestors. Fat practically has
ceased to be a handicap in the ago of the auto
mobile, the airplane, the escalator, the elevator,
the telephone and the telegraph. Fat boys should
not allow the fire of ambition to be extinguished
because of an excess of flesh. Indiana Daily
Student.
'T'HE announcement that the Senate Committee
on Student Affairs will take up the question
of honorary societies and attempt to eliminate
those that are not worthy is one that comes
ns pleasant news to students.
As far as it is possible, government of student
affairs should be done by students, but here is
one place where a body such as the Senate com
mittee can aet with a freedom that a student
group could not approach.
Last year there was an attempt to survey
tiic campus honoraries by members of the Stu
dent Senate. The recommendations were on the
whole rather wise but there were one or two
rather stupid suggestions that gave the whole
report a bad name. The good part of the report
can be used and the bad part discarded.
There are several weaknesses in the present
system that should come under the notice of the
group. There is the question of ridiculously high
fees. There is the problem of those honoraries
that have degenerated into social groups having
no other purpose except to drink beer. Then there
are the overlapping groups that defeat each
other's purposes.
The campus is waiting eagerly for the find
ings of the investigators and with a sincere hope
that they will take a firm stand as well as a just
ouo.—Daily llliul.
Who Are the Slackers?
PURTNG THE WWR THE PEOPLE OF THIS
COOMTRY WGRt CALLEP UPOkJ TO MAKE
COUNTLESS SACRIFICES IN THE NAME OF
Patriotism, the test of patriotism
TOPAY IS THE WILLINGNESS TO MAKE
SACRIFICES TO KEEP THIS COUNTRY
FROM BEING ENTANGLEP IN ANOTHER
war!
Italian Youth—Mussolini Trained
Editor’s note: An article on
the Youth Movements in Italy
written particularly for the Em
erald and the Associated Colleg
iate Press by Jonathan B. Bing
ham, chairman of the Yale Daily
News, who has just returned
from an extensive tour of the
Continent on an assignment
from the New York Herald
Tribune.
The Italian youth has but two
ideas in mind, to become a soldier
and to follow Mussolini. At least
that is the case with five million
boys and girls whp belong to the
great Fascist youth movement, the
National Balilla Institution, for
their motto is “Today Balillas, to
morrow soldiers, always Fascists.’’
And there is ample evidence that
they believe heart and soul in that
motto.
There is nothing spontaneous
about the Italian youth movement,
entirely imposed from above as it
is, and with every other organiza
tion suppressed. The control is in
Rome, ostensibly in an executive
committee, but actually in the
hands of one Renato Ricci, a young
man himself, who is responsible
only to Mussolini. Regional and
local committees carry the orders
down to the individual groups of
boys and girls, these being organ
ized into boys of from ten to four
teen and from fourteen to eighteen,
and girls of the same ages.
Although membership is not
compulsory, the privileges which
accrue to members and the social
pressure brought to bear on non
members and their parents has
made the growth of the organiza
tion prodigious, a million and a
half in the last two years to a to
tal of over half the youth of the
country. The Fascists claim a unit
in everv village, no matter how
small, throughout Italy.
While the girls in the movement
are proud to consider themselves
as mothers of future soldiers, a
militarism is already a reality to
the boys. As the visitor is shown
through a “Balilla House," or
1 movement club-house, his youthful
! guides will display the greatest
' pride in the arsenal, a formidible
array of rifles and machine-guns
that are far from toys. The effort
! to make war seem glorious to these
children is further seen in the pro
vision of motorcycles and other
equipment that are naturally ex
citing and attractive.
Perhaps the most appalling as
i pect of it all is that, although un
doubtedly every young boy is en
vious of his older brothers on the
way to Abyssinia, militarism is to
him not so much a matter of hys
teria and wild excitement, as an
essential, accepted part of his ex
' istenee without which life would
hardly be conceivable. The teach
ing of discipline and unquestioning
obedience are an expressed purpose
of the Balilla organization and con
tribute largely to this result.
However, it cannot be denied
that the young Fascists are offered
numerous advantages. Besides the
libraries and radios and occasional
movies in their clubhouses, every
effort is made to provide equip
ment for sports, even in the small
est towns, where there is likely to
oe a combination club-room and
gymnasium, and some sort of ath
letic field.
The acme of this type of devel
opment is found in the Foro Mus
solini, on the banks of the Tiber
near Home, where three or four
marble-lined stadia, a similar num
ber of huge swimming pools, and
gymnasiums and tennis courts ga
lore attract hundreds of boys and
girls every afternoon. One re
ceives the impression, however,
here as in the camp presently to
be described, that too much ef
fort was expended on the spectacu
lar and too little on the practical,
there being space for but mass for
mation athletics.
Adjacent to the Foro Mussolini
is th Aeccademia Fascista, the
training school for leaders of the
movement, organizers of sport, and
camp officers. They learn not only
physical training and drill, but the
best ways to instill the spirit of
Fascism into their charges, the
latter being admittedly considered
the most important of all.
Organization Hears
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tion of Sigma Nu did not clarify
the situation as the dispute cen
tered about whether or not the
fraternity violated a legitimate
regulation of the council.
Describing the advisory council
as "an impartial body created for
the purpose of settling such dis
putes,” Dean Earl assured' the
council that the advisory body
would reach and enforce a just de
cision if it accepted the case.
Climaxing an active meeting,
Sigma Nu's resignation over-shad
owed important suggestions pre
sented to the council as to the
modernization of its constitution.
Improvements Suggested
The constitutional suggestions
included the election of house
presidents before spring term in
orcier that the president as house
representative to the council
might attend several meetings
with his successor.
Representation at meetings
would be limited to presidents and
vice-presidents with the exception
of meetings designated by the
council head as emergency.
Small cash deposits on which
lines could be levied for small vio
lations of the council's rulings and
the suspension of rushing privi
leges were suggested as punitive
measures.
Tribunal May Stay
I To enforce the council's rulings,
! the present tribunal system would
be retained in the revised constitu
tion and an impartial tribunal of
final appeal, probably headed by a
law school professor, would be
added.
Council officers would be elected
and installed before the third
week in May unde? the proposed
set-up. to enable the incoming
group to investigate the workings
! of the body.
For the present monthly meet
ing. which has been supplemented
irequently this year with special
I meetings called by President
j Thomas McCall, meetings at the
hour-' ot t> and 4 on the first and
Nearly all Balillas have the op
portunity to attend a camp for a
month or so during the summer.
Many of these are not dissimilar to
our simple boys’ camps, but the
ideal towards which the state is
striving is totally different. One of
the best examples of this type is
to be found at Ostia, where a mag
nificent, modernistic building, with
a stream-lined tower and much
chromium plate, is the “camp.”
With the exception of the re
markably big beds in the dormi
tories, there is no place in the shin
ing angular-furnished rooms for
relaxation or comfort, and the
playing field or drill ground is a
walled-in enclosure without a
shade-tree. Here, as everywhere,
discipline is the key-note, and, as
the children march to their various
exercises, not many smiles are to
be seen on their faces. Mussolini,
whose pictures and sayings are ev
erywhere on the pastel-tinted
walls, is their god, their ideal, and
they must be true to him.
third Thursdays of each month
would be substituted.
House members rather than del
egates would be required to pledge
the support of their organization to
the council and to sign the consti
tution.
Books, 20 to 30 in number, can
now be obtained by the houses
from living organization loaning
library, Dean Karl Onthank of the
personnel division told the assem
bled fraternity presidents.
In an effort to ascertain the
form rushing regulations take on
other campuses. Secretary A1
Whittle stated that he had recent
ly sent out 200 inquiries to other
colleges and universities and that
he has received several replies.
Campus •>
❖ Exchanges
By Bill Marsh
Wooden Nickels
From Raleigh, North Carolina:
The ancient and honorable quip,
“Don't talke any wooden nickels,"
is supposed to be funny, but it was
far from funny for owners of pin
ball machines operating in Raleigh.
Small boys made the momentous
discovery that they could play the
machines with wooden disks the
size of nickels which they whit
tled out of sanitary ice cream
spoons. The pin ball owners took it
on the nose for several days, be
cause the wooden nickels were so
light that they wouldn’t drop into
the machine, yet the ingenious lads
were enabled to drain the real
nickels with a minimum of effort.
Many people seem to feel that
the United States is not joining
hands with the rest of the world
in enforcing sanctions against
Italy. That’s because the United j
States isn’t making so much noise
about it. As a matter of fact,
we’re way ahead of the rest of the
world. F. D. R. has placed a strict
embargo, not only on arms, but on
all war materials. Moreover, he
has placed it not only against
Italy, but against both warring na
tions. Furthermore, he has advised
all people who insist on traveling
on Italian ships that the protection
of the United States ceases the
minute they go aboard that vessel.
Shades of Lusitania!
Suppose we don't join hand's with
Europe in trying to make Italy be
have. The president is seeing to it
that we stay strictly neutral—he
intends to keep us a long, long
way out of this war.
George Jean Nathan: “A life
spent in constant labor is a life
wasted. Show me a man who, as
the saying goes, works himself to
death, and I’ll show you an utter
ly unimaginative dolt.”
Mr. Nathan proves himself a
philosopher. Any ass can work,
but how few people know how to
really enjoy their leisure.
Oh, Daughter!
The only rule for women stu
dents at Duke college in 1898 was:
“You are a lady; remember it.”
For the modern coed, that should
be revised to read, “Remember
what you are, and then try to act
as much like a lady as possible.”
Emerald of the Air
Radio Editor Woodrow Truax
and Virginia Wellington had their
head's together last night, and the
decision was that they will both
broadcast today at 3:45 over
KORE. Whatever other decisions
they may have made are not with
in the limits of this column to dis
close.
* *
Stars of Radio
An old friendship was renewed
when Dr. Sigmund 'Spaeth, fam
ous “tune detective'’ arrived in
San Francisco recently to appear
on the air. Lee S. Roberts, famous
San Francisco composer heard
with his “Old Memory Box” start
ed Spaeth on his tune-detecting
career 12 years ago.
American broadcasting was hon
ored by a foreign correspondent
when Dr. Frank Black, general
music director of NBC, was re
cently made an Officer With Palms
of the French Academy, in recog
nition of his services to French
artists and for promoting a wider
knowledge of French music in the
United States by way of radio.
Joe “Wanna Buy a Duck" Pen
ner and Sophie Tucker will head
the group of guest artists whom
Wallace Beery will introduce to his
Shell Chateau audience during the
broadcast today. Penner will be
heard in a new comedy routine and
songs, while Miss Tucker, “The
last of the Red-Hot Mammas,”
will do some of the tunes that have
made her famous.
Celebrated friends and admirers
of Will Rogers from all parts of
the country will be heard on CBS
and NBC networks tonight at 7:30.
The program opens in New York
with Gene Buck, George M .Cohan,
Fred Waring and' his Pennsylvan
ians, Arthur Brisbane, and Ray No
ble's orchestra; switched to Chi
cago for Amos and Andy; back to
New York; then to the west coast
for Fred Stone, former President
Hoover, Charles Chaplin, Billie
Burke, Captain Frank Hawks, and
Irvin S. Cobb; and returned to
New York for Kirsten Flagstad,
Eddie Rickenbaeker, and Rudy Val
lee ancl his orchestra.
A play-by-play description of the
Princeton-Navy game in the Pal
mer stadium at Princeton will be
broadcast over CBS by Ted Hus
ing today, starting at 10:45 a. m.
A brother of Cab Calloway
worked in an Oregon CCC camp
two summers ago. But life for
him must have been passable, for
on his finest stationery proclaim
ing something about the “Hot Spoi.
of Harlem,” Cab sent the kid bro
ther a fat check every month.
ISBC-CBS Programs Today
11:45 a. m.—Purdue - Minneso
ta game. KGO.
2:45 — Stanford-Santa Clara
game. KGW.
3:00 — Dick Fidler’s Lotus Gar
dens orchestra, Cleveland. KGO.
5:00 — The Hit Parade. KFI,
KGW.
6:00 — Rubinoff and his violin.
6:30 — The Shell Chateau. Wal
lace Beery, Joe Penner, and Sophie
Tucker. KPO, KHQ, KFI.
7:30 — Will Rogers Memorial.
CBS and' NBC networks.
Sunday Programs
1:30 — Design for Listening —
Senator Frankenstein Fishface and
Don Johnson, comedians. NBC
from New York to KPO.
4:30 — The Bakers Broadcast—
Robert L. Ripley; Ozzie Nelson’s
orchestra.
5:00 — Major Bowc’s Amateur
Hour. KGW, KFI.
7:00 — General Motors concert.
—Erno Rapee, director.
S:15 — Jergen’s Journal — Wal
ter Winchell.
8:30 — The Jello program, star
ring Jack Benny, with Mary Liv
ingstone; Kenny Baker, vocalist;
Johnny Green's orchestra. KPO,
KGW.
9:30 — One Man’s Family —
“More About Teddy’s Boy Friend,’’
serial drama by Carlton E. Morse.
KPO and network.
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