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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon EDITORIAL OFFICES: Journalisr., 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 %y A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York City; 12.^ VV. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Beattie; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. Robert Lucas Editor Clair Johnson Managing Editor Charles Paddock News Editor Marge Pctsch 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 will be withheld if requested. All communications arc 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 rates, $2.50 a year. The Faculty Should Vote on Military A LETTER, written by Professor Waldo Schu macher, member of the faculty committee on military education, printed elsewhere on this page, indicates that this committee itself is not clear on its delegated powers. For example, from a report of the committee, made last June “it (the committee) should not attempt at this time to commit itself to a definition of conscientious objection, but should decide each case upon its merits looking primarily to the sincerity of the petitioner.’ The committee has reported that in view of the fact that the faculty has voted to retain com pulsory drill it “should not adopt general policies which would make military education in fact optional. However, this is not interpreted as pro hibiting any action in individual cases which the committee thinks is warranted by the particular circumstances.” The Emerald feels that with such indefinite power, and with issues so poorly defined it will be impossible in the future to avoid troublesome objections from those who desire exemption on grounds other than those specifically delegated as legitimate. Also in view of yesterday's action taken by the Oregon senate’s committee on education rec ommending optional drill, the faculty of the Uni versity should restate its position as to the de sirability of the optional or compulsory drill in order to aid the legislative bodies of the state in determining just what is desired or considered prudent by educators at the University of Ore gon. The Emerald asks that the faculty, in its meeting of tomorow, declare its stand again on military education and clearly define the powers of its committee on military education. The Emerald also suggests that prior to the voting on military education, a careful check of the voting eligibility of the present faculty' mem bers be made so that a reccurence of last year's difficulties may be avoided. Is Joe College Still With Us? rxO students contemplate ? In attempt to find out, a survey of University men and women was undertaken this term. “What do you value most highly in life?" was the question asked, and the results were not encouraging. While not scientifically conclusive, the answers given tended to prove that the ma jority of students had not considered the problem at all. They believed happiness to be their goal, but were quite vague as to the means they pro posed using to attain that state. After a few minutes of concentration the largest number of students decided health most important in their lives. Other votes went for security, an adequate philosophy, independence, family, travel, and writing skill. It was found that the coeds questioned were inclined to react more definitely than the males, choosing work on particular newspapers or in fields of endeavour. There were more “career” enthusiasts among women than the men. American higher education has made much progress since 1929 toward eliminating the dead- ! wood Joe College members from our universities, ! but it is still true that our students are not as j serious-minded as those in European countries. We no longer place a premium on sluggish men tality, but neither have we learned the art of ! reflective thinking. "I am entirely convinced that what is more than anything else lacking in the life of the i average well-intentioned man of today is the re- J flective mood,” Arnold Bonnet has said. It would seem the duty of the university student in partic ular to sponsor that reflection, lie it is to whom ; the world will turn for guidance, and it is there fore essential to the welfare of his country anil his own mind, that he know where lie is going ! and why. Radio Opens Up The Mike ‘O be introduced in the next 'emigres.- are two A bills dealing with the use of radio broadcast ing stations for the expression of public opinion. The more important of these bills provides that each station set aside free suitable per iods of the day and evening for uncensored dis cussion of social, polit'eal and economic problems and for educational purposes. Kach station is also required to allow at least two sides of a contro versial issue to express their opinions. Stations, but nut speakers, would be cleared of liability for remarks made. Radio comment has heretofore been censored quite successfully, not by any governmental agency, bfit by profit-producing buyers of ad vertising. Their argument is that if they sponsor a . - * -, j - - • u and pay *or it the* . Imttid ha\, the right to determine what is said. Consequently certain groups have been able to steer radio’s policy. Newspapers have long since opened their columns to contributions from readers with dif fering opinions on controversial subjects. On the whole, results have been beneficial. Radio, a younger medium of reaching the public, is ap parently nearing this stage. The bill represents an attempt to break down this censorship by allowing diversified expression of opinion. But here it lays itself open to abuse by the economic and political fallacies to which America is subject. Every demagogue with some sort of a plan would resort to the radio for a free opportunity to get himself before the public. Sufficient regulation and enforcement used in the right direction however, would tend to elim inate such instances by disproving fallacious ideas and argumen' of such individuals, result ing in more sound - nd crystallized public opinion. Please Hon. Board A Real Thanksgiving TJERHAPS we’re al) wrong about this thing, but for a good many years we’ve cherished the belief that Thanksgiving is the sort of a holiday that one spends at home. The very word ‘Thanksgiving” conjures up visions of mother and dad mother shooing intruders out of the sacred precinct of her kitchen dad beaming proudly as he waves the all mighty carving knife over the savory, golden-brown treasure of turkey. But if the powers-that-be have their way, mother and dad will eat a lonely feast this year, for their sons and daughters at Eugene and Cor vallis will be given cuts for not attending classes on the Friday following Thanksgiving. Educators mourn the drift of youth away from home and fireside. But those who direct higher education in the state of Oregon have seen fit to keep stu dents away from their homes at one of the times when the students want to go home worst. Many students will take two day’s cuts and go home anyway. But many others have classes on Friday and Saturday that they can’t afford to cut. Will the dismissal of classes on the two days following Thanksgiving seriously hinder the com pletion of any term’s work ? We don’t think so. The proper place for young men and women to spend Thanksgiving is at home. We hope the board will consider this carefully. When ex-Mayoi James j. Walker returned from abroad he was met on his arrival at New York by some who insisted that he could again be elected mayor. But Mr. Walker magnanimous ly exclaimed that he had ‘‘had his day now it is someone else’s turn.” What insight! What con descension! Europe Firsthand By Howard Kessler r I ''HR only thing honest about Marseilles is its dishonesty. Chicago decries its tough reputation, Mar seilles glories in hers. Postcards picture a good housewife warning her husband, "But surely you aren’t going down to tlie docks without a pistol?" The citizen of Marseilles replies, “Do you think I’m going to carry my new pistol down there, when I have just paid 100 francs for it?" I’m still wondering why I decided to get a haircut in this chiselling metropolis. While the personable Gascon had me down I received a shampoo, eau dc cologne, electric massage, and a complete course in practical salesmanship, and when I dazedly reached the street again it was less two dollars. The only thing for which you may get value received in Marseilles would be stamps, and I’m not sure some enterprising business men don’t take the mucilage off them before putting them on sale. Having read “The Count of Monte Cristo" in Spain, 1 was ready for the Chateau d’lf, the fortress and prison in the bay of Marseilles made so famous by Dumas’ novel. Depending on the price you want to pay, you will be rowed or motored around the island in half an hour. Then, you guide will trye to sell you some postcards, but not of the Chateau d’lf. France is the robber state of Europe, spoiled by the booming post-war trade, and although The gold no longer pours in, you would never guess it by looking at the menus. Any meal you buy for less than a dollar isn’t to be trusted. Hotels, too, charge outrageously, since you may be the only guest they have had in a week. Attended a dull revue my evening in Mar seilles and left at the end of the first act, to visit a huge fair that hail spread its tents over several acres of ground close to the city center. It most astonishingly resembled a Barnum crea tion, and the only reminder t had that this was not America was the absence of hot dogs. Frit ters took their place. Thus far 1 had seen little of the toughness that draws tourists to this great port, but at I midnight I left the caliopes, side show barkers and brazen hubbub of the fair, to wander down toward the infamous dock district. After the broad, lighted streets, tile maze of foul alleyways now entered came as a sudden plunge into a tunnel. All sound was blotted out, lights were infrequent, and one stumbled over great heaps of stinking garbage littered across the narrow cobble-stoned lanes, sending massive cats scurrying from their noeturol feasts. The silent darkness became oppressive. Footsteps clomped along the uneven stones, a figure loomed ahead, came up. and passed, peering closely at you. % Then a broader street. More life, a few sailors brawling, the place reeking with harlots, lurid but ugly, who grab you roughly by the arm and \ try to pull you into their webs The hardier hags put up a good fight, and there were some in- ! teresting tugs-of-war staged, but no spectators could be attracted. Everyone seemed to have his own troubles, only the sailors had lost their chivalry and led with straight lefts when ap prehended. That saved time. Bari., i. a airi town too i The Marsh of Time By Bill Mars'n Gosh, maybe the Sigma Nus weren’t fooling after all! Tail spin! Lucas has given us a new col umn. If this first issue turns out bad, don’t be alarmed. We stepped on a sheet of ice about five min utes ago, and executed the finest self-administered body slam of the year. The crash would have addled our brains, had we any brains to be addled. Fortunately, however, the brunt of the blow was taken on the back of the head, resulting in nothing more serious than a loosened filling or two. Navigation Note There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that the College Side has installed a fog horn on the starboard side of the entrance channel. Mariners will have to feel their way in and out of the place just as they have been doing for years. * * * The Literary Digest tells of a wealthy father whose daughter wanted to marry a rather impe cunious young man. Said the fa ther, “I'm rather interested in the lad. He claims he can support my daughter on $18 a week. I’ve never been able to do it, so I think I'll let the young devil marry her. I want to study his method of fi nancing. It must be revolutionary to say the least.’’ * * * Can this be Jack Mulhall coming, or is it just the sun setting? It’s Mulhall, you goof. They don't have red sunsets like that in Oregon. * j»: The Credit Side Mussolini has already paid $3.20 for each Italian soldier he has shipped through the Suez canal. And the return fare is just the same. You’d think II Duce would petition for a discount on round trips. But then, maybe he’s satis fied with the discount he’ll get on the soldiers who won't be coming back. No sense in buying round trips for those poor beggars whose bodies will stay in Ethiopia and rot under an African sun. Says a merchant in a college town: “The average college student is too honest to steal. He’s too proud to beg. He's too lazy to work. And he’s too broke to pay cash. That’s why we have to give him credit.’’ Verge Control From the Ohio State Journal: There is a movement under way to get a grant of federal funds for the relief of needy poets. Why don’t they put them under control of the A.A.A. and plow down every fourth stanza? Seriously, though, we feel that the "Journal” has something there. Some of the poetry we’ve been reading lately would make mighty fine fertilizer. No, Elmer, that isn’t the Dean of Women’s lookout. That's the scaffolding for the new library. Again I See In Fancy FREDERICK M. DUNN V JOKE ON JOSH: “How can he eat without any knife ? How can he marry without any wife?” The dignified five that composed our First Faculty, melodiously as they may have "sung for their supper," yet had not the where withal. The Class of '78 was grad uated upon a diet provided by "2 globes. 2 large maps, 1 anatomical chart." Our seal might justly have read "Ruritania Oregonensis." The Faculty maae early and elo quent appeals for necessary appar atus, and the Regents' Minutes are replete with very much itemized estimates of required equipment. And finally, since it is said that "the fervent, effectual prayer of the righteous availeth much," with heroic resolve, the Board in its session in June of '7S appropriated the sum of 81.000 and despatched the Secretary. Judge Joshua J. Walton. Jr., on special embassage to the Atlantic seaboard to select the purchases. 8 1,000! from which $119.75 were subtracted at once by Ladd and Tilton, Bankers of Portland, as the price of discount and ex change on New York. And that left only . but the Judge did not smoke and this was two years i after the Centennial. It day Jo.hua c .t wrote his version of this more modern hexateuchal jaunt, it has suffered some furious deletions. It is not spread upon the Minutes that the good Judge "came, saw, and was conquered.” No connois seur in scientific apparatus, but with a list in his pocket, it would seem that, with unswerving faith in his fellow man, he approached two firms in Philadelphia, gave them his memoranda, and took what they offered, almost as we boys used to swap knives, “sight unseen.” The apparatus arrived, was un packed with breathless eagerness by expert and loving hands,—the sextant, the transit instrument, the astronomical clock, the odo lite. and all "to be put under glass cases in the two south rooms on the second floor." To be sure, ref erence is made to some broken in struments and the need of their being repaired, -but what was this curious contraption? An air pump with bell globe to fit down over the disk, in which to produce a vacuum. But this alarm clock? Joshua looked at his notes: "That, said he, "is the latest invention out. -to demonstrate that sound can not travel through a vacuum." Dr. Mark Bailey coughed, almost strangled, abruptly left the room. The alarm clock was never dis played, not even when we began to think of a museum. i Next in t h e series HAW lUOKNKxi l.'.N't Ll.i' I ALB;..' Professor's Letter Editor, the Emerald: Dear Sir: In reporting the decision on the Connelly case, your news column carried the statement that "the faculty committee on military edu cation refused to exempt, etc. . . . To grant Mr. Connelly’s request .... is not within this commit tee’s authority. This statement should have read, "The committe, with a dissenting vote, refused, etc. ...” It is my belief—and I so argued and so voted—that the committee on military education is at the present time doing the very thing which they claim they have not the power to do, that is, substitute a course in lieu of military train ing which was the basis of the ap plicant’s petition. At the present time, the fresh men and sophomores who play in the band are given military credit. It is my opinion that this is clear ly a substitution of courses. If this can be done for those who play in the band why not for those who play in the orchestra—or for other courses. Very truly yours, Waldo Schumacher. State Senate (Continued front Page One) the ROTC course for his second year, following the faculty exemp tions committee’s second denial of his petition, which presented an intellectual instead of a conscien tious objection to drill. Two years ago the faculty was called upon to consider recom mending voluntary drill to the state board, but defeated the mo tion by a comfortable margin. Last year 500 students petitioned the faculty for another vote, and the count was thrown into a deadlock and lost by the negative vote of President C. Valentine Boyer. Motion Tabled In spite of agreed irregularities in the original vote, the faculty tabled the motion to revote. Today the Emerald urges on the editorial page the third annual vote of the faculty to clear up the is sues of definition of "conscien tious,” discrimination between re ligious and intellectual objections, and substitution of other courses. CONVERTS BEGINNERS— CONVINCES VETERANS! latest SHAPES Ijjflc fHii&J &tS (owpuceof. UNHEARD OF VALUE IDEAL GIFT! FILTER-COOLED JhamJi. HGDICO (PATENTED) , This simple appear ing yet amazing absorbent filter in vention with Cello phane exterior and cooling mesh screefi interior keeps juices \ and flakes in Filter and out of mouth. t revents tongue bite,raw mouth, L wet heel, bail V odor, frequent % expectoration. A No breaking SR in. Improves ISi the taste and KRaiomaofany vkw\ tobacco. RECOMMENDED BY MILLIONS' I OF USEES Air Y’ •> ❖ Listenin’ By James Morrison Emerald of the Air Yesterday afternoon Miss Patsy Neal conducted the Emerald pre sentation over KOBE, in lieu of Radio Editor Woodrow Truax, who is unfortunately in the infirmary. Miss Neal will again hp.ve charge today and will introduce Rose Mary O’Donnell, who will play seme classical piano selections. Radio Deals Rubinoff’s orchestra is the most thoroughly rehearsed concert band in radio, according to Rubinoff. He begins rehearsals early Friday morning, but not with the entire orchestra. He works first with the string group until he is satisfied that these instrumentalists have mastered his own rather intricate : arrangements. Then he works in turn with the woodwinds, brasses, and percussion groups. Finally he assembles the entire band and starts all over again. Fannie Brice, popular comedi enne, will be heard tonight at 10:15. Miss Brice and the Old Maestro are expected to discuss the personal assets and liabilities of a certain New York columnist. Tommy Harris, Little King of Song, has radio's largest collec tion of razors; he owns 25 or so of all types; electric ones, import ed ones, old-fashioned, straight edge, razors that slide, roll, sharp en themselves, and do everything except sing . . . yet he goes to the barber shop to be shaved. Radio Deals “Life of Star in the Night,” a number which Sigmund Romberg composed for radio last year, will be revived on the Swift Studio party program tonight at 7. Two other Romberg compositions, “Grenadier March” and “Bachelor Girl and' Boy” from “The Girl from Brazil” also will be offered. (Continued from Pape Three) YOUR. .. Campus Guide FOR HOMECOMING For the Men— 8 An excellent haircut. ® A clean cut shave. • A good appearance. Oregon Barber Next to College Side For the Women— 9 Individual hair cuts. 9 (lever hair arrange ments. • A place you're proud to be seen. Kramer Beauty Salon 1258 Kincaid Phone 1880 COMPLETE We carry a complete line of all grocery needs for all the students. We cater to the student trade and appreciate their business. EAST nth GROCERY llth and Patterson Phone 389-M Our First HOMECOMING On the Oregon Campus Excellent plate lunch for 10c. Delicious hamburgers 5c. FILLING STATION 825 East 13th |i It’s Our Eleventh Homecoming Anniversary. I We've been serving Oregon students for eleven years ;; now, so bring the grads down to see us. I CHARLIE ELLIOTT’S UNIVERSITY BARBER SHOP Sid ’n Walt Say: " •‘HOMECOMING is here. Bring the grads down to see us. “Whatever the occa sion, tho you should ALWAYS BE COM ING to see us for your needs.” CLAYPOOL, VAN ATTA DRUGS 886 E. Pith Phone 1086 Clean Up HOMECOMING is here to clean up. press up and pep up for the grads. ‘‘Cleanliness is next to godliness,” says Jimmie Blais, so for the love of Jimmie keep clean. University Cleaners On Thirteenth Phone 3141 IT’S HOMECOMING FOR YOUR SHOES • .Men's half-soles 60e-$1.2f> • Ladies' lialf-soles 49e-.tl.00 We Cater to the College Students Howard Shoe Shop S71 East 1:1th Street CLOTHES OUT A regular $4.95 zipper jacket for only $1.00 with the purchase of a CKB suit. This is your homecoming, students, take advantage of it. UNIVERSITY TAILORS 1128 Alder Phone 2611 On the Campus For your convenience our gas station is located on the campus—ready to serve you and the grads that are coming. VARSITY SERVICE STATION 2 block west of College Side. HAIRCUTS thrit lit bi'_r and small: fit like the paper on the wall VARSITY BARBER SHOP