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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 Ave., 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. All advertising matter is to be sent to the Emerald Business office, McArthur Court. Robert W. Lucas, editor Eldon Haberman, manager Clair Johnson, managing editor EDITORIAL BOARD Henriette Horak. William Marsh, Stanley Robe, Peggy Chess man, Marion Allen, Dan E. Clark II, Ann-Reed Burns, Howard Kessler, Mildred Blackburne, secretary to the board. UPPER NEWS STAFF Charles Paddock, news editor Tom McCall, sports editor Gordon Connelly, makeup editor Woodrow Trtiax, radio editor Miriam Eichner, literary editor Ed Hanson, cartoonist Marge Petsch, women’s editor Louise Anderson, society editor LeRoy Mattingly, Wayne Har bert, special assignment re porters REPORTERS: Marvin Lupton, Lloyd Tupling, Warren Waldorf, Paul Dcutsch mann, Ruth Lake, Ellamae Woodworth, Bill Kline, Bob Pollock, Sign#* Rasmussen, Virginia Endicott, Marie Rasmussen, Wilfred Roadman, Roy Knudscn, Betty Shoemaker, Laura Margaret Smith, Fulton Travis, Jim Cushing, Betty Brown, Bob Emerson. COPYREADERS: Mary Ormandy, Norman Scott, Gerald Crisman, Beulah Chapman, Gertrude Carder, Dewey Paine, Marguerite Kelly. Loree Windsor. Jean Gulovson, Lucille Davis, Dave Conkey, War ren Waldorf, Frances True, Kenneth Kirtley, Gladys Battleson. George Knight, Helen Gorrell, Bernadine Bowman, Ned Chapman, Gus Meyers. Librarians and Secretaries: F'aye Buchanan, J carl Jean Wilson. __ OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Jean Erfcr, June Hust, Georgette Wilhelm, Lucille Hoodland, Louise Johnson. Jane Slatky, Luoy Downing, Bette Needham, Betty Wagner, Marilyn Ebi, Dorothy Mihalcik. _ BUSINESS STAFF E<1 Morrow, promotion man- Bill Jones, national advertising ager manager Donald Chapman, circulation Caroline Hand, executive sec manager , # retary Velma McIntyre, classified man ager _ „ Day Editor, this issue. Assistant Day Editor, this isuc. Night Editors, this issue. .Stanley Robe .LeRoy Mattingly Paul Frederick, Howard Kessler Compulsory or Optional? A Problem for the Board ON January 31 people of the state will go to the polls in a special election to vote on, among other things, whether or not the payment of a $5 fee should be placed in the hands of the state board of higher education. The bill, placed on the ballot by a referendum of students the latter part of last spring term, if passed, will give the board authority to make the fees op tional or compulsory but not to exceed $5. It should be understood that this bill provides a different setup than the old type of "compul sory” fee regulation as in effect prior to the attorney general’s opinion which ruled out the former system. The difference in thd liproposed setup from the former traditional one lies in the control of the money IF and when collected. Previously the money was merely collected by the board, at the voted request of the students, for their activity program. The bill appearing on the ballot January 31 would place the activity program under direct supervision of the state board of higher education where, under the bill’s implied theory, activities are in the main educa tional, the supervision rightfully belongs. If the people of the state are willing to en trust the state board of higher education with responsibility of administering an educational program of millions of dollars, they should be willing to give the board authority to supervise and regulate an educational activity program. The Emerald feels that those students who have objected to the administration of student fees by an organization not under the direct supervision of a duly constituted state authority, have perhaps had some justification for their complaints on that principle. However, should they object to the proposed law, they are unduly condemning the state board of higher education as being unqualified as to its functions of ad ministering educational affairs. The implications of the bill as regards the ASUO setup are complicated. Next term the Em erald will attempt an analysis of the situation in ASUO administration that will probably be en lightening and encouraging to those students who object to the payment of a compulsory fee. The Emerald is certain that should the state board decide on a compulsory collection of the fee that it will take into consideration students to whom the burden of paying $15 yearly is unbearable. Cooperation extended by the ASUO staff to the Emerald and the supporters of the bill is necessary and will be an indication of a willing ness to iron out a situation that has caused needless strife on the Oregon campus. Students going to their homes over the holi days should make every effort to explain the j necessity for the passage of the bill. IMff l-i-M-p.M-l-P-P I The Safety Valve | «i> & Letters published in thi.s column should not he construed as expressing the editorial opinion of the Emerald. Anony mous contributions will be disregarded. The names of ocm municants will, however, he regarded as confidential upon request. Contributors arc asked to he brief, the editors reserv ing the right to condense all letters of over 300 words and to accept or reject letters upon the criteria of general editorial importance and interest to the campus. To the Editor: For some few years I have been wondering just how a highly trained, competent, news exec utive of the “big” type might attack the Russian situation. Mr. Smith's discourse on present Russian con ditions seems to fill the bill. It was beautifully done, the inferences were so adroitly patterned and shaded that a group of economically conscious individuals might not have appreciated the unholy subtleness of the speech much less a spoiled, luxury-loving mess of potage, such as Dr. de Villiers claims we are. Even the unthinking man might inquire, cocoanuts or brass rings ? Why does it matter how much the relative income of the worker is IF he is obtaining life’s essentials ? Money doen't seem to count with these Russian people, as the person who does the work actually reaps the resultant cultural benefits as typified by the opera and the theatre, or food and housing—a pitiful state of affairs! On the other hand we have one large building, seemingly congested by sheltering 13 families where formerly one one family resided. Would it be boorish if one were to ask where the other 12 families had been living in the past— no chance of the gutter or some rural hovel, I hope? Then we have these poor workmen who had been of some previous economic consequence. One wonders what the exact living conditions of their hirelings had been previous to the revolution—all cake and truffles, I suppose. As for the single mode of individual life, I wonder how any man can justify poverty, sordid crime and mental torture of a number of people in order to develop one rugged, highly individ ualized play boy. George Slaetzer. To the Editor: We’ve heard a lot lately about the glamor of war and how false it is. Some of us even enter tained the fond idea that University of Oregon students were ready to call a spade a spade, and chuck this “rah, rah, we want a fight’’ stuff out the window. In fact the whole state has begun to take it for granted that Oregon really is a liberal school, and that the student body no longer al lows itself to be fooled by such shallow stuff as the super-patriots are wont to peddle. Evidently it is beginning to be true. Maybe that’s why somebody got scared and decided that students were sizing up KOTO for what it really is? So scared, in fact, that he pulled the army's old, old ace in the hole to rally the boys around — sex appeal. The Little Colonel, I believe, is the catch phrase around whiqh we are asked to throw our war dance fetish. Of course we are opposed to war, we question the KOTC as part of the war machine, but oh boy, you can't see around a curve, and most figures have curves, and who wants to think about the horror and uselessness of war when he can be feasting his various emotions on the dear little co-ed officer? We had to swallow our pride as an enlightened school when we resorted to using our women to make hell itself inviting. We can thank Scabbard and Blade and its brain trust for the fine leader ship in the move. There is but one consolation. Somebody IS scared! It's been a long time since our campus war lords have felt constrained to resort to SA as their means of insulting our native intelligence. Irvin Buchwach Charles Paddock Glenn Ridley Sam Bikman. Smith Unfolds (Continued from Page One) there isn’t any reason to expect that the Soviet government will not last a long while,” he main tained. Soviets Fear Foreign War A foreign war is the constant dread of Russia, its leaders fear ing a coalition of capitalistic pow ers to destroy the whole commu nistic order. Such a peril, the speaker averred, would probably prove disastrous to the country. “It is a curse in all Russia to have much money ... a person is apt to be very unhappy ... he is very apt to land in jail,” he said in telling of the self-submergence of the old aristocratic class of czar ist days. In Moscow, families have destroyed all signs of pre-revolu tionary days so as not to appear as people of means. Living condi tions there are bad, quarters be ing cramped, families reduced to circumstances with which they can barely get along. Former Aristocrats Satisfied These adverse social conditions do not seem to bother the younger generation, probably, he ventured, because they never knew better. Smith told of a tailor and a furni ture man who each owned, during the days of the Kotuanoff;, lead ing stores in Moscow. Today both are reduced to the laboring class, but content because they have a job and enough to eat. Unemployment in Russia is un known, the lecturer admitted, but the average monthly wage of a Moscow worker is 05 paper rubles about $1.50. The necessities of life are correspondingly low, how ever. Americans on relief would be unhappy with the meager wag es of the Russian laborer, Smith guessed. Tourists tiet Wrong \ iew A summer tfiur of Russia of ten gives visitors the impression life there would be ideal, but the former newspaper man said such is not tin1 case, the winters, with long, cold, miserable nights being a bitter contrast to warm summer days. Wittily, Smith told of the larger Russian alphabet, making it pos sible for government officials there to name more organizations with letters, sly poking fun at the New Deal. Films in the Soviet are too heav ily loaded with propaganda to be much amusement. Smith charged, the Russians themselves express ing little interest in them. Opera and plays are much more popular with the people, although Lenin allows few of the working class to attend. Sta*j;t‘ of lilt* World (Continued from Page One) tlunal commerce is being; closed up. Oil, metals, minerals, coal, and munitions are in tliat torrent. Could Italy conduct further war without these things, which she can’t, there is always the step of naval blockade, by the greatest navies in the world, left to be tak en. Blockades shut off food, too, and nii'n don’t see their women and children go hungry very long be cause a visionary dictator would like for them to. They quit. The war stops. Merry Xmas Yes, 11 Duce is doomed, and his people will suffer mightily. Even without the British, the French, and the League in the fracas, it is questionable that Ethiopia can be defeated. If she is. she must be before the rainy season starts. That is due in about six months. Tanks, airplanes and Italians aren’t ducks. I have great confidence in this augury. But a better conclusion about the whole affair would be tlie words Shakespeare put into the mouth of Puck. “Lord, what fools these mortals be.’’ Send the Emerald to your friends. Subscription rates ou a year. '■jj'v'*4 The Marsh of Time By Bill Marsh Business Trip Comes it now from Portland, the only graveyard in the world with electric lights, an amusing little squib. It seems that it's pos sible to buy liquor in Portland and get it delivered, merely by calling up the state warehouse at the east end of the Burnside bridge, speci fying the poison required *nd giv ing the permit number. So-o-o-o, rings the telephone, anil the attendant takes a man’s order for expensive grogs to be delivered to a room in a smallish hotel in a none-too-genteel district. The permit number was duly re corded and the beverages sent on their way. Seconds later, rings the tele phone again. This time it's a lady, a lady with a cultured accent. She ordered liquors to be sent to a highly respectable home in a high ly respectable residential district. And then she gave the SAME per mit number as had the gentleman a few seconds previously. The attendant stalled, some what bewildered. The lady, sens ing the hesitation, proceeded to explain. “It’s my husband’s per mit,” she said, "hut I’m using it. He was called to San Francisco on business yesterday.” WOW! Nice Kitty Bubonic plague, scourge of Ori ental countries, is carried by rats. So the far-seeing British colonial government has taken simple steps to keep the plague at a minimum. In Hongkong it is absolutely com pulsory for a cat to be kept in every single Englishman’s house hold. In the larger homes, the law requires that three cats be maintained. Hail, then, to the modest kitty, guardian of health in the white homes of Britain's Asiatic empire. :Js $ •«! From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle: The size of the American woman's hand has increased more than a full glove size in the last 20 years. Shucks, digging for gold makes anybody’s hands get bigger. Air Y’ •> •> Listenin’ By James Morrison Emerald of the Air The Three Swing Boys— Buck McGowan, Chuck Sandifur, and this writer, will entertain on the final Emerald broadcast of this term over KOBE this afternoon at 3:45. The Air Slant J. Isadore McGillicuddy, whose grand entrances into the “O'Keefe Sketches” on the Camel Caravan are pronounced with a comic Jew ish accent, is known away from the studio as Louis Sorin. He re cently turned down a handsome offer to teach his accent over long distance telephone. The Second Symphony of Bee thoven will be presented by the 78-piece University of California symphony orchestra in a program Sunday night at 9 o'clock. Next Tuesday evening the Casa Loma band will play “At the Jazz Band Ball” and “Hallelujah.” Deane Jams will sing “Every Now and Then,” Pee Wee Hunt featur ing “If I Had Rhythm in My Nur sery Rhymes,” and' Kenny Sargent will sing “Why Shouldn't I?” Rubinoff will play “Stringin’ Along,” an original composition, as his principal' solo during the Chevrolet program this evening at 6:00. He will also solo on “I Wished on the Moon.” Other se lections include "Indian Love Call;” “I've Got a Feelin’ You’re Foolin’,” “Truckin’,” “Top Hat, White Tie and Tails,” and “Treas ure Island.” * * * Gala ceremonies at the opening of NEC's new studios in Holly wood will be on the air for 90 min Warner Prize Contest Again Open to Students For the tenth consecutive year the Warner prize contest is open to students interested in the Far East. Two hundred dollars in priz es will be awarded by the commit tee. Dr. Harold J. Noble, chairman, for the best essays on Eastern Asia and its problems. First prize will be $100.00, second prize $50.00, third prize $25.00, and fourth prize $25.00. The essays will be about 5000 words long- and must be sub mitted on or before March 6. 1936. To be eligible a student must have taken a course in Far Eastern his tory, Asiatic geography or one dealing with the economic and po litical problems of the Orient whether on this campus or at some other university. History 491-2-3. Geography 428. or Economics 446. 147 fills the requirements’ lo cally. Ihe e-mys may deal with Uw> history, economic or political or social problems of the countries of Eastern Asia, their mutual rela tions, or their relations with the Occident. Those interested in art may participate in a similar con test directed by Mr. Jiro Harada. Interested students should con sult with Dr. Morris. Dr. Jameson, or Dr. Noble, who comprise the contest committee. The contest is sponsored by Mrs. Gertrude Bass Warner with the expectation that through the studies and thought involved will come a greater understanding of I the peoples of Asia, and in the : hope that a greater interest in the Orient may be stimulated on th's j campus. Princeton students can now cut as much as they like, so long as their standing remains unimpaired. utes tonight, starting at 7:30 and featuring many of the outstanding stars of films and radio. The lengthy list of stars tenta tively scheduled to appear include Jack Benny and company, with Mary Livingstone and Kenny Ba ker; A1 Jolson, Gladys Swartout, Marion Talley, Wallace Beery, Anne Jamison, Ginger Rogers, Nelson Eddy, Edgar A. Guest, Phil Regan, Irvin S. Cobb, Bing Crosby, Joe Penner, San Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and George Jessel. Benny Goodman’s trio—Benny Goodman, clarinet; Teddy Wilson, piano; and Gene Krupa, drums— has just run off another “swing classic’’ of “Who” and “Someday Sweetheart” for Victor. These are tunes the local boys will sit around and listen to over and over, be cause each man is tops on his in strument. NBC-CBS Programs Today 1:45 — Football; Santa Clara Texas. KFRC. 2:15 — U. S. C.-Washington. KGW. 5:00 — Your Hit Parade. KGW. 6:00 — Rubinoff and His Violin. KPO, KGW. Andre Kostelanetz’ orchestra. KSL, KOIN. 6:30 — Shell Chateau. Wallace Beery. KPO, KFI, KGW. 9:00 — Carefree Carnival. KGO, KGA. Innocent ❖ Bystander By BARNEY CLARK With a hiss of burned-out bear ings another term jolts to a close, and the Bystander rises to his feet with three rousing goodies and a tiger. Not that we're a sorehead or anything like that; but enough is enough if not too much. It’s our nerve that has carried us through. Only a will of iron has kept the campus from rising some morning to be horrified by head lines shrieking: MASS MURDER OF 70 LAID TO COLUMNIST and all because these goops keep whinnying about why don't we write some “good dirt." some “real juicy stuff." We’re tired. Life is too much with us, late and soon, and we don't CARE what Jack Mwlhall did with his pin in Seattle, or what teeth-gnashing it induced in the Dimpled Darling. Mulhall’s sex life is perfectly safe with us. Arul if all the women who come to us with torrid tales of what the other houses’ females are doing were laid end to end, we wouldn't DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DURHAM, X. C. Four terms of eleven weeks are given each year. These may be taken consecutively (graduation in three years! or three terms may be taken each year (graduation in four years). The entrance require ments are intelligence, character and at least two years of college work, including the subjects speci fied for tirade A Medical Schools. Catalogues and application forms may la- obtained from the Dean. be surprised. We'd feel gloomily satisfied. But the people who really burn :a»r soul like a blow-torch are the :ranks and Christers up in Port land who foam at the mouth all •>ver V. Earl whenever we happen to mention that a college man has taken a drink. What do they think we run up here—a corral for camels ? Prohibition has been re pealed, Gabriel, and incidently, one swallow does NOT equal the Johnstown flood. \ Where anybody ever got the idea that this is a “country club school" we don't know, unless it was from Corvallis’ cagey propaganda push ers. Our population is made up of the sons and daughters of middle class families in the majority, and any attempt to lead them into riotous living (much less put an original idea in their heads) is foredoomed to failure. And yet Oregon is supposed to be a hot-bed of radicalism! Ye Gods! Celeste Straclc is allowed to talk on the campus, and immediately this tepid matrimonial bureau be comes a sea of red banners in the steam-heated skulls of reactionary editors. Nuts! It fair makes us sick to our tummy. We're glad we can quit for a breathing spell! Clark, Marsh (Continued from Page One) Thomason's national column also ran around 30 per cent. An interesting reaction was the good reception accorded the week ly Emerald Magazine section with Henriette Horak's Chit Chat rat ing 50 per cent drawing power, and Bill Barker’s short short story about 40 per cent. Clark’s Hell on Wheels drew about 50 per cent. On the sport page the football story ran about 60 per cent, the basketball and intramural stories about 50 per cent, and the others a little over 30. McCall’s Sport Quacks batted about a 50 per cent average. Jimmy Morrison’s Air Y’ Listen in’ cracked a 35 per cent reaction, while another editorial page fea ture, the Safety Valve, counted only 20 per cent. Short stories and columns brok en up drew better averages than long solid mass-of-type stories. The directive principle of educa tion should be directed toward a more efficient parenthood, says Dr. William A. Shimer, secretary of the United chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Press Group To Hold Meet Annual Conference To Open January 23 Plans for the eighteenth annual conference of the Oregon Press as sociation were furthered at a meet ing of the faculty of the school of journalism yesterday and the date for the occasion changed from January 23, 24, and 25 to January 16, 17, and 18. This change wid enable delegates to be present on the campus at the time of the Oregon-Oregon State basketball game. This conference, which will be made up of newspaper men from all parts of the state, will be spon sored by the school of journalism in cooperation with Sigma Delta Chi, and Theta Sigma Phi, men's and v/omen's journalism honorar ies. Dean Eric W. Allen, journal ism head, is in charge of arrange ments. Meetings of the Oregon Editor ial association, and the Oregon Ad vertising Manager’s association will be held in conjunction with the conference and special sessions will be given over to these organi zations. Robert W. Ruhl, editor of the Medford Mail-Tribune will preside at the conference. Ruhl gained na tional recognition last year by winning the William Pulitzer prize given for conspicuous newspaper service. According to tentative arrange ments, Sigma Delta Chi and The ta Sigma Phi will sponsor one of the luncheons and will assist with the program at the banquet which climaxes the conference. The Eu gene Gleemen, local musical or ganization, under the direction of John Stark Evans, will contribute to the entertainment of the eve ning. This group has proved pop ular at former banquets of the press conference delegation. Official program plans will be formulated at a meeting of the executive committee of the state editorial association in Portland Saturday. Dean .Allen and Profes sor Arne Rae, state field man xor the organization, plan to be pres ent at the meeting. Attendance at Williams College chapel has fallen to 100 daily. The service is no longer compulsory. mwiiii min i ———— HOME FOR CHRISTMAS ON SALE DEC. 12 TO JAN. 1 For ;i quick, comfortable, safe trip home, take the train. Low roumltrip fares in effect—l)otli coach tourist and first-class between all stations in the West. Equally low fares to other points. These fares good in coaches on our fastest trains; also tourist sleeping * cai's, ulus small berth charge. FARES GOOD IN STANDARD PULLMANS, plus berth, ALSO REDUCED New Train “Santa Special” to California Daily from Dec. 16 to 24, inclusive, we will operate a new train from Portland to San Francisco, leaving Eugene at 7:15 P. M., arriving San Francisco 1:32 P. M. next day. Coaches, tourist and Standard Pull mans, dining and observation cars. Phone 2200 for all travel information. Sosithem Pacific Return limit, Jan. 14 EXAMPLE ROUNDTRIPS PORTLAND SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES .... MEDFORD KLAMATH FALLS KOSEBCUG GRANTS TASS .... SALEM $.3.00 15.05 24.30 4.95 5.50 1.30 4.20 1.75