Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1935)
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, 353. BUSINESS OFFICE: McArthur Court. Phone 3300—Local 214. MEMBER OF MAJOR COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York City; 123 W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Aye., Beattie; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. 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 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 rates, $2.50 a year. AH advertising matter is to be sent to the Emerald Business - office, McArthur Court. Robert \V. Lucas, editor Eldon Haberman, manager Clair Johnson, managing editor EDITORIAL BOARD Henrictte Horak, William Marsh, Stanley Rohe, Peggy Chess man, Marion Allen, Dan E. Clark II, Ann-Reed Burns, Howard Kessler, Mildred Blackburnc, secretary to the board. UPPER NEWS STAFF Hilaries Paddock, news editor Tom McCall, sports editor [Jordon Connelly, makeup editor Woodrow Truax, radio editor Miriam Eichner, literary editor Ed Hanson, cartoonist Marge I’etsch, women s editor | Louise Anderson, society editor LeRoy Mattingly, Wayne Har- ! bert, special assignment re porters REPORTERS: Marvin Lupton, Lloyd Tupling, Warren Waldorf, Paul Doulseh nann, Ruth hake, Ellamae Woodworth, Bill Kline, Boh Pollock, signe Rasmussen, Virginia Endicott, Marie Rasmussen, Wilfred Roadman, Roy Knudsen, Betty Shoemaker, Laura Margaret smith, Fulton Travis, Jim Cushing, Betty Brown, Boh Emerson. 20PYREADERS: Mary Ormandy, Norman Scott, Gerald Crisman, Beulah Jhapman, Gertrude Carder, Dewey Paine, Marguerite Kelly, Loree Windsor, Jean Gulovson, Lucille Davis, Dave Conkey, War* en Waldorf, Frances True, Kenneth Kirtley, Gladys Battlcson, leorge Knight, Helen Gorrell, Bernadine Bowman, Ned Chapman, Ins Meyers. Librarians and Secretaries: Faye Buchanan, Pearl lean Wilson. BUSINESS STAFF Advertising Manager, this issue.Dick Keuhm Assistants, this issue.Jacqueline McCord, Philip Lynch lid Morrow, promotion man- Bill Jones, national advertising ager . Donald Chapman, circulation manager Melina McIntyre, classified man ager manager Caroline Hand, executive sec retary OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Jean Erfer, June Ilust, Georgette Wilhelm, Lucille Hoodlan*!, Louise Johnson, Jane Slatky, Lucy Downing, Ectte Needham, dotty Wagner, Marilyn Ebi, Dorothy Mihalcik. Day Editor, this issue.. .Stanley Robe \Tight Editors, this issue.Paul Frederick, Howard Kessler OSC Forestry Students Not Threatened By 'Chaos’ IN an editorial appearing recently in the Oregon State Barometer, grave concern was expressed for the college’s 410 forestry students should the Canadian trade treaty continue in "full force.” The Barometer claims that Oregon's lumber industry is destined for a "chaotic future,” and that the forestry students as well as hundreds of others who depend on this section’s lumber for a livelihood will feel the “devastating effect on the backbone of Oregon trade.” Oregon produces about 15 per cent of the United States' lumber. Since the section in the treaty dealing with lumber limits Canadian im ports to 250,000,000 board feet of lumber under the alleged "down the river” rate, it must be conceded that but 15 per cent of that number, or 37,500,000 board feet, will directly effect Ore gon. This number is about 4 per cent of Oregon’s production. Now assume the following results t if possible). Oregon’s lumber industry will not make any adjustments whatsoever to meet the trickle of Canadian lumber into this country. Oregon is now producing lumber as cheaply as possible and could not lower costs sufficiently to cope with this "devastating” 4 per cent. No one in this section will benefit at all by Canada's concessions stimulating such eastern industries as the manufacture of tractors, agri cultural machinery, refrigerators, w a s h i n g machines, radios, and a great host of other eastern produced goods. (Prospective engineers might enjoy such increased production.) All of Oregon State's forestry students will go directly into the lumber business and inciden tally do nothing about the 7,000,000,000 board feet of lumber that is destroyed each year in this country by fire, insects, etc. If all of the foregoing may be assumed, then 16 of Oregon State’s 410 forestry students, or 1 per cent, will not find jobs in the lumber in dustry and will be victims of the chaotic condition brought on by the tariff. No one asks that all tariff walls be broken down, indiscriminately. However, any such steps as this very mild one is directed toward freeing the flow of world commerce and cannot ultimate ly wreck Oregon's prosperity. Ode to a Student 'Yearn' CHOULD you meet a student on the campus, ^ grip his hand, look him squarely m the eye and say, "Better luck next time." Should you chance upon two melancholy comrades, toss back your head, say "Hello" in an unwavering voice, and march into the gloom beyond. But should you see three slouched figures quietly simpering in the soft, gray silence con tain yourself, remember the Maine, set your course and streak for home and hot lemonade. THERE AREN'T THREE PEOPLE ON THE CAMPUS! Jazz mad, that's what they are! The lure of the open road, the thrilling hum of eight cylinder tanks, the wild, reeling madness of college foot ball takes its toll! Plato, Aristophanes, contem plation. dignity all left roaming the Oregon cam pus alone, forgotten, crushed. Oh God, must favor, inequality, disappoint • mcnt run rampant in the world? Woo is me? Me? I'm gone to Seattle? To hell with the Huskies! Without universality, the league can tie only a snare. If the convenant is not observed as a whole, for and by all, then there is no covenant. —President de Valera. 1 My critics say I repress freedom. No! I mere ly give you real freedom by taking from a few the freedom of utter nonsense.—Adolf Hitler. If Mussolini is really sincere in his motto about living dangerously, we have some thoroughfares over here on which he could round out his career.—Fred Sullens. The best way to keep America out of war is to do what we can to prevent there being a war anywhere into which she can be drawn.—Newton D. Baker. Corporations are frequently regarded as un human legalistic creations. In ail their affairs, however, they constantly deal with human beings and respond to the sum total of human needs.- - Donaldson Brown. Other Editors’ Opinions VICTORIOUS sophomore:) in the frosh-soph tug-of-war at Reed College (Portland, Ore.) a year ago were somewhat surprised to find that one of the “freshmen” they had been drag ging through the mud was none other than their new college president, Dexter Keezer. Keezer was no academic dullard, America's weekly newsmagazine reports, having had five year of metropolitan newspapers and a year in the service of NRA between his Amherst gradua tion in 1920 and his acceptance of the Reed College post in 1934. “Prex Dex” bested even his own previous vagaries by appearing on campus in bright red duck trousers. In his first spring term he termised and fished with his students, even inaugurated a carnival and several skiing parties. Justifying his actions to bookworms, he recalled that “you don't live on intellect alone.” A little chagrined by Reed’s smallness, this livewire proxy lashed out against unethical col leges which make invidious comparisons with their competitors, which use scholarships to en tice students away from other institutions, and which employ solicitors to seek admission ap plicants on a commercial basis. He found grim humor in that NRA held it inappropriate to have a code of fair competition for institutions of higher learning, and yet his experience showed that methods used by in dustries for which such codes were regarded as highly necessary “have about them a positive aura of sanctity" when compared with cutthroat tactics that some colleges use in recruiting students. With no particular lesson to be legrned from “Prex Dex” here on the Farm, it is still pleasant to be able to see a livewire in action, to find someone somewhere not afraid to kick over the traces of social convention if benefits may accrue thereby.—Stanford Daily. Europe Firsthand By Howard Kessler C'CENE: A road-side inn somewhere near Strat ^ ford-ori-Avon, at one o’clock of a foggy morning. The bare little room is cold, dimly-lit, and practically lifeless. It is England. Characters: A half-dozen bus passengers hav ing a spot of tea. The American: Chilly, isn’t it? One: Rather. Quite. Other: Oh, I say, not really, do you think? One: No, not really. Rather more than I'm used to. Spent some time in the tropics, you know. Singapore and all that. Dreadful hole. Glad to be in England again. No place like Eng land, really. Other: No, no place like England. One: Good old England. Only place in the world. Other: Rather. One: Wish I'd never left it. Only place in the world, really. Other: Rather. The American: Isn't that principally because you were born and reared in this country? One: American, aren’t you? The American: Yes. One: Been in New York. Don't like Americans. Don't like your country. Visited over there with a millionaire a few weeks. Terrible time. Every body trying to get everybody else’s money. Nothing at all like England. The American: Thank God! That little incident was one of my first and most unfavorable impressions of the "mother country," gained just after 1 had landed in Liver pool one grey November morning a year ago. My notes taken on the first port of England follow. The first duty of a great city is to look great. Liverpool, one of the finest seaports in the world, with a population greater than San Francisco, is nothing more than a series of small town streets run together. A rather uniform layer of soot seems to have been deposited over the city a few centuries back, and no trouble has been taken to remove it. The ragged urchins playing in the street have also acquired a grimy coating for their shallow faces. The women tend to big feet and the men to cock-eyes. I looked in vain for the flapper element. Impossible to become accustomed to un wrapped bread lying in open windows, with flies crawling leisurely over it. Saw but one newspaper boy all day and he shouted his wares desolutorlly. M.V hotel room, with no running water and no heat, with clammy and depressing. I visited a cinema to gain a bit of comfort and sat between two mugs smoking cigarettes. Pool hall blues. Walked down town, and when I had gone some time without finding anything that looked like a city, stopped chap and asked him where the center of Liverpool was, lie stared at me. decided I was an American, and couldn’t be expected to know better, and exclaimed, "Blimey, me lad! This is it!" All around me towered two-story buildings. But do not judge England by the provinces. Go to London. SPIRJT The Marsh of Time By Bill Msrs'n When a guy rushes off to Seattle and leaves a substitute to write his column his return is heralded by screams of joy. What does that make me? Oh well lack-a-day, lackadaisical —here goes. Not knowing many people anil not UnoM^ng the names of the people whom we do know, well who gives a damn! ![• «t: •!' Picking up a pigger’s guide of last year (this year’s is promised by New Year's Day, if not later, we hope) we open the pages and write down the names that we see to wit, i. e., and viz: Harry McCall Tom McCall Dorothy McCall * sis :|: Good lawks, perhaps we should get out of (lie M’s. But why? They’re good copy. Take the three McCalls, multiply by lift e e n , smoke a five cent cigar, and what do you have a beautiful, slow, Boston accent. And why? Because they came from Boston! Ilah! But wait, that is only part of the story. All three of the glamorous Mc Calls have lived in eastern Oregon for I I years. Vet the repeated as saults of high country vernacular have been rebuked by Boston— sturdy old Boston. Should one go to Redmond, Ore gon and ask Joe Brown, editor of the Redmond Spokesman, the way to the McCall ranch, Mr. Brown will immediately ask you out to his home for the night. Lots of rest, lots of milk, great fortitude, he advises. Having been in that exact situa tion one time, I persisted in eon quering the rigors of eastern Ore gcn sage brush on the moment, and demanded a map for guidance in my night conquest of the Mc Call home. To restrain my wild venture, Mr. Brown offered to let me play with his linotype, he re cited (iunga Din to hill time, he talked with me man to man. But it was useless, I was still but a lad. Mr. Brown sighed, looked at me as one about to be sent to a con centration camp, and proceeded to draw a map. Have you ever seen a drawing of a person's anatomy? Well Mr. Brown’s map makes said drawing resemble a border map of Ne braska. In reaching the McCall ranch I drove across prairie, dowm creek-beds, skirted rim-rock, climbed roadless mountains, opened and closed 242 gates. (Please turn to page four) Again i See In Fancy By FREDERIC S. DUNN A Just-So Story” That KIPLING MISSED He had his back to the class, looking sort of dreamily out of a window on the second floor of Deady, off toward Villard Hall. Occasionally he would jerk a thumb over his right shoulder, as if in emphasis, though it was sometimes on the wrong word, like the italicisms in the King James Bible. ‘‘Mr. Wintcrmeier, did you ever hear how the bear lost his tail?” No, Charlie averred, he didn’t believe he ever had. “Well, you see, it was this way,” and Dr. Hawthorne turned a three quarters’ view, apparently scru tinizing one of the abies Douglasii on the crest of Skinner’s Butte. “There was a hard-scrabble farm er back in Vermont, who was tap ping his trees for maple syrup. All of a sudden, as he turned from one of his buckets, ‘woof’ went a bear almost in his very face. You see, bears also are inclined to like ma ple syrup.” (This last was deliv ered in an undertone, like a par enthesis, but, if the Professor’s in tent had been sotto voce, the re ception it evoked from the class was not.) “Anyway,” finally resumed the Doctor, “the farmer was not of a mind to forfeit his syrup, let alone his life. So he grabbed thte first weapon in defense which he could find,— an empty barrel, and be fore the bear could apologize, the farmer clapped the barrel down over his head, - the bear’s head, of course.” (Can you imagine the drollery of this anecdote and the mirth of the class?) “When the bear had sufficiently recovered from his astonishment, •—I guess ‘his’ is right,—anyway the gender doesn't matter very much,—he began a series of gy rations inside the barrel, until nis tail happened to pop out through the bung hole.” (The students were almost rolling off the settees in laughter.) “So the farmer seized the oppor tunity and the tail too, and lopped it off with his ax. And the bear forgot all about the syrup.” “And now, Mr. Wintermeier, be gin all over again and—forget all about the syrup.” Next in the series, “SO JOHN L. REMAINED CHAMP.” Boom Comes to Matanuska Valley Trading Town j V boom b.\s conn' to Palmer, Alaska, trading town for the New Deal settlement in the Matanuska valley. Onee merely a postottice and railway station, Painter is going ahead at a rapid clip. In this air view are shown the administrative offices and quarters of the Alaska Kural liehabilitation Corporation. In the een*er are tents which soon will have to be abandoned as winter sets in. In the background are seen the warehouse powerhouse, trading post, and garage recently completed in the community center lit ths *::sn. The Russian Youth Movement Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of exclusive articles on youth movements in Europe writ ten for the Emerald and the As sociated Collegiate Press by Jona than B. Bingham, chairman of the Vale Daily News, who has just re turned from an extensive tour of the continent on an assignment from the New York Herald Tribune. It is extremely difficult to con vey in words an idea of the spirit of the Russian youth movement. Although as in Germany and Italy the movement is organized from I above, the enthusiasm and friend liness of it all is even more strik ing than the prodigious number of privileges afforded the young peo ple. To fake but one instance, the joie de vivre, the interest in every thing from fishing in America to a Pioneer camp in Russia could not be in more striking contrast to the harsh discipline and militarism of a German or Italian camp. The Pioneer organiza tion in Sov iet Russia is administered by the Young Communist league, with headquarters in Moscow, but the grouping is not along military lines as m the Fascist countries. Instead each factory or productive unit in a town has its Pioneer group for the children of its managers, en gineers, and workers, and the fac tory operates its own Pioneer camp. At the same time the Pioneers are elected in the schools, for the ages are parallel. When a class first enters a school at the age of eight or nine, it elects from among its own number those who are considered fit to be Pioneers, the chief qualification being “good citizenship.’’ Thereafter the Pio neers elect others to their member ship, and in some cases classes may be 90 or 100 per cent Pioneers Air Y’ Listenin’ By James Morrison Emerald of the Air The Three Swing Boys you may have heard last Saturday will be I back on the air this afternoon at I 3:45 with their musical interprc j tations of songs both old and new. I a: * * Big Time on the Air Lawrence (Oscar) Wagner, for mer University ace cornetist, has written me that he is now basking in eastern limelight as arranger for the famous Casa Loma orches tra. Gene Gifford, who is respon sible for the popularity of the band with his special orchestrations, suffered a nervous breakdown three weeks ago and had to leave New York for his home in Mem phis. Oscar had been working with Gifford up to that time, and has been doing ail of Gene’s work for the last two months. “We have been planning for quite some time to go into busi ness together,” says Oscar, “and in fact we had our office on Broad way all picked out, but of course we’ll have to put it off now until Gene recovers his health. We were taking another fellow into the firm, incorporating, and would be equipped to handle every type of arranging from stocks and specials to theatre work. We even have a i department for dispenssing advice to the lovelorn.” Rubinoff will present his own “Slavonic Fantasie,” a composi tion which he wrote at the age of sixteen as a memorial to a young friend he saw killed by pillaging troopers in a Cossack raid on a tiny Russian town, over a coast to-coast broadcast of the Chervro let program this evening at 6:00. If you want to learn the dif ference between a seventeenth and a twentieth century Thanksgiving celebration, listen to Jack Benny at 8:30 Sunday night. Johnny Green and his orchestra will as sist musically with “Not Bad”; Kenny Baker will sing “Here's to Romance.” Mary will read a poem. \ HC-CBS Programs Today 1:45 — Stanford vs. California. KOIN. 2:15 — Oregon - Washington game. KPO. KHQ. KGW. 4:00 — Sport page. KOA. 5:00 — The Hit Parade. KGW, KPO. KFI. 6:00 — Rubinoff and his violin. NBC-KPO. Andre Kostelanetz' orchestra. KOIN. KSL. 6:30 — Shell Chateau. Wallace Beery; guests. NBC-KPO. S:0o — Carefree Carnival. KPO. I before they finish school. At pres ent there are roughly 9,000,000 Pioneers, or about one third of all the boys and girls of such ages. Although none of the various opportunities offered the young people are restricted to Pioneers, in the camps, where ths facilities are of necessity limited, the best boys and girls only are sent, and these are usually nearly all Pio neers. Besides the camps, clubs are pro vided for the young people, organ ized for the purpose of allowing them to follow out their interests and for training artists a n d technicians. „ Then, too, there are sanatoria for the weak, theaters for children in every city, and Pioneer stadiums, where all sorts of sports equipment is provided. Groups of Pioneers are sent on excursions here and there and thus have the privilege of travel. Perhaps the most charming of their activities is the group dancing, which one sees taking place at all hours in the parks, (Please turn to paeje four) Innocent •> Bystander By BARNEY CLARK TITLE: Ode to Me With a W Mood One night * * * silently digest the sun andl . . . crawl through the sooted ruins the dusk-dimmed ruins of Higher Education . . . bearing my fangs at Rosseau and Shelly and Pavlov and Plato and the rest of the boys. * * $ Mood Two * * * pick peck pick-peck pick-peck here is the home of one hundred systems for making typewriters talk oh the interminable silence of them crouching in the long night hours all passion spent and yet they gleam with life for now gleam and glitter and gleam under the tinny glare the icy glare of seven lamps save but my black beast recalci trant . . . numb dead as the heart that rules him. Mood Three a: * 3: this sea of faces has the blank indifference of a wall and like the litchen interest crawls but fraction-deep under the sun of any mind and too . . . the clown with only gesture, moue, and wink and mask (of pathos bare) dies with the dying of a laugh in sotto voice dispair. Fourth Performance — Last Nite of “THE QUEEN’S HUSBAND’’ Tonight at 8:00 UNIVERSITY THEATRE ALEX YOU'D BETTER. GO HOME AND GET SOME SLEEP IF YOU'RE GOING TO HI-TOWN OVER THE WEEKEND S'ALRIGHT MARGE* lM GOING BY GREYHOUND* THEY RUN PLENTY i SCHEDULES, A ^ ^ y Not only do Greyhound buses run on frequent schedules, but they have nice deep cushioned seats that tilt back to a most com fortable position for sleeping. Low fares save money, too. See Local Greyhound Agent fot fares and departures. GREYHOUND