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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1936)
PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Robert \Y- Lucas, editor Eldon naberman, manager Clair Johnson, managing editor All’s Fair in Love And the Fraternity TT'OR a long, long time, college men have ser iously debated the pros and cons of hell week and violence in manipulating the affairs of fra ternity house personnel. And slowly, ever so slowly, a conception of pure rationalism has re placed the oak paddle as a means of developing young punks who, upon entering college, bring with them the uncontrollable ego of the high school “hot shot” and demand equality amongst a group of men who have been seasoned by the fire of fraternity baptism. But progress is slow! And men on the Oregon campus raise up in their be-jewclled glory and swear that the tub is mightier than the tongue. And they oentinue to hover over a dusty piano, or an unlayed fire, or an unanswered telephone, like a son of God, who chosen by the system, must guard the physical habits of the youngster else he degenerate into a lost soul who is in col lege for the purpose of acquiring an education, as a gentleman and not a page-boy. Time and again freshmen, who after exper iencing humiliations and nonsensical demands up on his time, have built up intense dislikes for the practices of coercing the underdog into situations that arc stupid misdirections of energy and at tention. He has sworn that he would never make a freshman walk himself bowlegged in quest of a burnt orange ostrich egg, keep him up all hours of the night, aiid dunk him in the cold waters of the tub or the mill race. No. What the devil is the use ? What does it teach me ? As a business man, or professional man, am I going to be hacked upon caboose for taking up bankruptcy, or will 1 be made to walk in a burlap shirt to Detroit, Michigan before I am taken into the firm as a partner ? The average kid who is in quest of a real, substantial, beneficial education wants to know something of the world. He wants to know what other people THINK, what his brothers THINK, how they react to communism, prostitution, liter ature, or politics. And in a living group where all the time is spent in displaying physical prow ess, there is little opportunity to find out what the brothers THINK if indeed they think at all. But the system gets the best of them. Even the senior who move out of the house because of “distractions” rally around and appraise at the end of a paddle the nether regions of the young ster who must be taught to take it. And so when seniors, lacking in patience and expert in buck-passing toss the big job down to the juniors and sophomores, most of whom retain the lingering nostalgia of the tub or the paddle, the cycle rolls on and boys continue to trickle out of fraternity houses, perfectly at ease in society but timorous about the conquest of life, from which they have been isolated for four years behind the walls of a secret organization or textbooks, that when undiscussed, are trans ferred to examination papers and forgotten. But some day, perhaps just perhaps! Guild Hall Players Shift Into High Gear j^T has been mentioned that the Guild hall play ers have changed their minds about producing “Richard of Bordeaux” and are considering play ing Sutton Vane's “Outward Bound.” Whoever had the idea of producing “Outward Bound” knows what this campus wants. When it was first learned that the Guild play ers were considering “Richard of Bordeaux” the Emerald cried out against another recruit from llie graveyard shift. The campus is getting tired of costume plays. Now, it is understood, Mrs. Seybolt, in looking for a suitable play to follow in the footsteps of “Dangerous Corner" the most successful comedy drama she directed last year, has cast her eye on “Outward Bound.” This former Broadway hit is paced with good drama. It has the inherent possibilities of being one of the best shows ever produced on this campus were Mrs. Seybolt to choose and direct it for her next Guild hall production. “Outward Bound" would be a worthy sequel ttf the forthcoming “Street Scene.” Why Shouldn’t Oregon Guard Its Political Welfare HERE comes a time in every political system ■*- when written theory, the law, must he brought up to date with political reality, fact. To such a time has the state of Oregon come with regard to its participation in the national con ventions which nominate candidates for the pres idency of the United States. From the standpoint of political theory, as embodied in the present primary law, any mad cap megalomaniac from any part of the country, who can find 1000 supporters, or who can secure from the state party chairman a statement that his candidacy is widely recommended, may have hi., name placed on the primary ballot with a chance to become Oregon's candidate for nom ination to the presidency. If, like Maryland's Dr. France, our madcap win ;, in theory he has bound the Oregon delega tion to support him through thick and thin in the national convention. Win, he often will, for Ids candidacy m the Oregon race is unlikely to find opposition, inasmuch as no nationally out standing candidate is likely to risk standing for nomination in a state from which at the most he can expect only five electoral votes in the final contest, but in which defeat would spell him damaging national publicity. Now, in reality, what happens in the national convention? ... Take the ca^o of Oregon's derogation to the # «fc * Republican convention of 1932, theoretically en gaged to Dr. France. In lobbies and in hotel room post sessions, managers of really outstand ing candidates are jockeying for support. A bid Is tendered for Oregon’s few Votes. The* promise of rich patronage is dangled under the Oregon nose. But, honoring their pledge to Dr. France, Ore gon’s noble delegation thrusts temptation into the backdrops, and the offer is withdrawn, for Oregon’s votes are not impressive enough to worry about. Then the roll call comes around, and a delegate from Oregon rises self-consciously to his feet to name Dr. France. The name is hardly heard in the convention hall. Everyone is leaning forward to hear from the Pennsylvania delega tion, whose mass of votes really counts. In 1932 it didn’t matter. As almost everyone should know by this time, President Hoover got the nominaton and went down in the P-oosevelt landslide. But it would have mattered if the Re publicans had won. Oregon, because it had gone into the convention with its hands tied and had not been able to participate in the vote trading, would have been completely out of the patronage picture. This is what, among other things, the pro posed change in the Oregon primary law would correct. If this law is passed, if the farce of the presidential primary is abolished, if the Oregon delegation to the national convention is left? with its hands untied to work for the political welfare t>f the -state, then, and only then, will it be pos sible for Oregon to have a really effective hand in the administration. Vote 300 Yes! New TechniqueNeeded In Student Union A LL, over this country are springing up little *• groups of zealous students intent upon im pressing upon their comrades the necessity for becoming immediately war-danger-conscious. Not tomorrow, Not next year. But becoming aware of the dangers hovering over world peace right now. Today! That oragnization goes under the name of the American Student Union. That the fundamental precepts of the ASU, chief among which is the pledge not to engage in war, are desirable is undeniable. The espousal of peace is essentially a worthy undertaking. About that there is no argument. There is a branch of the ASU on the campus of the University of Oregon. It is in a position to do much good. It is sleeping at the switch. How many people have ever heard of the ASU? What is being done to take the word to their ears ? Very few, and very little, will answer those questions in order. To intermingle the doctrines and personalities attached to communism and socialism with those of peace is fatal to the latter cause. Insurmount able prejudice clings to the forms of the Marxists. Were the doctrines and personalities distinctly separated; were able, generally accepted students selected to spread the truth, then would the cause of peace take a forward step at the University of Oregon. And that to the advantage of both giver and receiver. | The Safety Valve t Letters published in this column should not be construed ns expressing tile editorinl opinion of tile Emerald. Anony mous contributions will be disregarded. The names of oem muniennts will, however, bo regarded as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked to be brief, the editors reserv ing tiie right to condense nil letters of over 300 words and to accept, or reject letters upon the criteria of general editorial importance and interest tu the campus. Editor, the Emerald: There is common ground among those who favor and those who oppose the compulsory stu dent fee bill. All believe that the student life at our institutions of higher learing should be demo cratic; all oppose the creation or maintenance of specially privileged classes among the students. Payment of the student fee entitles a student to the college new paper and to a season ticket which admits to campus activities such as ath letic contests, concerts, debates and lectures. I1 rom the student fees comes money which per mits the carrying on of many of the less popular athletic sports and cultural activities. It has been suggested that season tickets en abling all students to participate in student ac tivities to the extent they find it helpful and enjoyable should be given free to each student. This is a fine idea to contemplate. But the sug gestion is impracticable at this time when taxes are already so high that 34 per cent are delin quent. Optional students fees which necessarily must be higher, because of the fewer number that will pay them, work no hardship upon students from wel-to-do homes, but deny equal opportunity to participate in student life to hundreds of deserv ing young men and women and thus stimulate and perpetuate class distinction based on money. If the student fee bill is passed, the presidents of the associated student bodies at the Univer sity and state college predicted in a recent public meeting that in cooperation with the board of highei education a plan can be put into effect whereby the most needy students can secure their student activity tickets in exchange for services instead of in exchange for money. In all events, the board of higher education should be asked and expected to eliminate any extravagance that may be found in the expendi tures of the student bodies of the different schools and to reduce student fees to the minimum. The commotion that has arisen should focus the at tention of the board upon the importance of this. The citizens of the state should insist that the board of higher education keep the gate open at our institutions of higher learning for all qualified students to enter and participate upon an equal footing in the educational opportunities ottered, and at the lowest expense reasonably possible. Furthermore, it must be remembered that educational opportunities are found not only in the class room and laboratory, but outside, in the mingling of students and faculty in a demo cratic college life. It would seem decidedly unwise to hamstring the board bv failing to pass the student fee bill. Arthur -\1. Geary, Vice President, U. of O. Alumni association. The Marsh of Time By Bill Marsh Tribute There are a few men left in the World . . . not mhny . . . but a few who still think it’s fine to do fav ors for people, without expecting to get something in return. So, if all I hear is true, it’s a laurel wreath for you, Bill Kiernan . . . and don't think the news of your kindnesses hasn’t spread this far south ... it has . . . several men here in Eugene have asked me to pen this tribute to you . . . and here it is ... it must be a fine feeling to have all the friends you have. * * * Sitting in a booth with the one and only Jack (let’s have a party) Mulhall scanning hungrily a din ner menu. Comes it up a new and very attractive addition to tin ranks ol' the campus waitresses, and says, “Dinner?” “Dinner,” we respond. “What kind of soup would you like ... (A brief pause — then) I we only have one kind.” Mulhall’s steam siren laughter could be heard in Junction City. Ho Hum And what an afternoon this is. Sunshine, birds twittering, blue sky, gasoline fumes ... it feels like spring, blit it can’t be . . . not in January. AH sorts of things buzzing and droning, airplanes overhead, bees and insects outside the window . . . and the prof, too . . . not outside the window . . . buzzing and droning. 'It # !!: Film Cycles Isn't it funny how Hollywood cycles start. Forty-Second Street started the big parade of the mu sical extravaganzas. It was a hit, so dozens of other pictures just like it have been turned out. Remem ber the first “G Man” picture ? It was only a year ago. Now look at ’em all. And now watch for a chain of films dealing with famous sea stories, pirates, buccaneers and the like. "Mutiny on the Bounty” started it. Now we have Captain Blood coming right on the heels of the leader. Incidentally, for some wonder ful miniature action shots, see Cap tain Blood and notice the bombard ments of Port Itoyal. Hollywood technicians did some of the hard est work on those scenes that they’ve done since, in King Kong, they had to get a hundred foot ape on top of the Chrysler tower with army pursuit planes shooting him off. This was a classified ad in the Syracuse, N. Y., Post Standard: Lost: Lady's purse containing Psi Upsilon, Phi Psi, and Beta Theta Pi fraternity pins. Valuable to owner for sentimental reasons. Sentimental, indeed. Some peo ple collect stamps, some collect parking fines and othe^ . . . I am reliably informed that Beta Chuck Reed is going to sell the im mortal Yellow Peril. The campus is hereby warned, then, that the canary colored menace to pedes trian sanity may soon be in circu lation again. Chuck will take a good dollar fountain pen or a set of Kcat’s poems in trade. For in format ion, call 10‘14. Air Y’ Listenin’? By Jimmy Morrison Emerald oj the Hr Archie Parrot, campus hand leader, will play popular musical selections this afternoon at 3:15 p.m. Scott Held's band sounded pret ty well the other night. The only thing- that one might take excep tion to is his exact reproduction of the corniest record ever made Clyde McCoy playing- “Sugar Blues." You should have seen Ells worth (Bixi Huffman, leader of the University pep band, .burn when some campus music-lover lurched over to him and said. "Don't you wish you could trum pet like that?" Local Bands Scott's guitar player said he had | been playing with Johnny Robinson in the South recently, when Robin son's band broke up once and for all in Louisiana. According to the six-string expert, Johnny is now engaged in some sort of motion picture selling scheme. Mot too long ago B. Mike proclaimed Rob inson the Pacific Northwest's lead ing band-leader; but didn't in say Art Holman is a contemporary of Ray Noble ? And there is another person who will be interested in hearing of Robinson's crack-up. He is Law rence (Oscar) Wagner, who played first trumpet and arranged for Johnny for three or four years. He left the band a little over a year ago to write stock arrangements in New York. Oscar is now ar ranging for Glen Gray's famous | Casa Loma band, which you hear i on the Camel Caravan Tuesdays and Thursdays at S:30. i The Air Angle Results of the competition in the [ winter Olympic games at Garrn i iseh-Partenkirclien in the Bavar ian Alps, with play-by-play de I seriptions of the more important I events, will be broadcast to the I United States in a series of pro I grams from Germany February 13 15 each afternoon except Sunday. Since fires started breaking out j in Pine Ridge, much to the dismay of Lum and Abner and Fire Chief I Weehunt. listeners have been | showering the Ozark characters i with fire helmets, miniature en I gines, and ladders. ^Company 15 of | the Dayton, O.. fire department 1 has named all three honorary mem bers. « e Deane Janis will sing "After Dark" on the Caravan tonight, and those two popular vocalists, Pee Wee Hunt and Kenny Sargent, will feature respectively "Klij. :inn ui My Nursery Rhymes” and ‘‘Moon Over Miami.” Glen and the lads will play “Sweet Sue” and “Digga Digga Do.” ISBC-CBS Programs Today 3:00— Woman’s Magazine of the Air. KPO, KGW. 5:30 — Lawrence Tibbett. KOIN, KSL. 6:00 — Ben Bernie and All the Lads. KPO, KGW. 6:30 — Jumbo Fire Chief Show* NBC. 7:00 — Sigmund Romberg’s Stu dio Party. NBC. 7:30 — Meredith Willson and his orchestra. KGO and East. 8:30 — Camel Caravan. KOIN, KSL. 9:00 — Fred Waring’s orchestra. KFRC, KOIN. Calendar (Continued from Page One) Oregana group pictures today will be taken as follows: 11:50— Mortar Board; 11:55 — executive committee; 12:00—Friars. All pic tures will be taken on the back steps of Johnson hall. Sigma Delta Chi, men’s journal ism honorary, will hold a dinner at the College Side Wednesday at 6 p. m. John Anderson of the Eugene Morning News will speak. Mem bers are urged to attend and bring 50 cents. Committeemen for the sopho more Whiskerino meet tonight at 8 o’clock upstair in the College Side. University Will (Continued from Page One) waters of the south Pacific, Uni versity scientists point out. Speci mens from both waters are found in this zone. Low marshy land on the new University property offers the development of an important botanical station. The buildings now on the land were built for headquarters of the government agency that construct ed the jetties at the head of Coos bay. They were used for a time as a life saving station, and lately have been completely renovated for use of CCC units doing work in that area. Scientists also said that the sta tion will be of commercial impor tance to this section of the coun try, as habits of fish and fowl can be studied and means determined for their increased propagation and protection. The marine station is ten miles from North Bend and Marshfield with a state highway running near by. The laboratory will be placed at the side of a reinforced concrete jetty extending into Coos Bay, which will protect the area from storms and will serve as a wharf for boats. A tramway that can be used for transportation of supplies comes right to the site of the building. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING LOST—Beta pin at Laurehvood January 20 th. Reward. Phone 729. S1:00 reward for return of gold glasses, black case. Lost near women's building week before Christmas. Phene 1060-W. Innocent ❖ ❖ ❖ Bystander By BARNEY CLARK To caste-hardened campus reac tionaries the suggestion that rank ing members of Kappa Kappa Gamma had attended a down-town rat-race would seem rank heresy. At 12 o’clock last Saturday night, however, they would have been forced to blink astonished eyes, i gape at the spectacle of Margaret' Jean Cooper, Kappa president, Marjorie Donaca, and escorts trip ping lightly down the stairway leading from the Moose hall, local cut-rate dance pavilion. So far, from Cooper & party, no explana tion. * * * College Side patrons Sunday morning leaped from their booths, swiveled startled heads under the impact of a full-throat ed scream from the lips of Blonde Madonna Doris McConnel, Gamma Phi Beta freshman. Cause of the scream was not physical pain, but boredom with college life, according to the semi-hysterical explanation of the blonde freshman. Friends re port no other psychopathic manifestations previously exhibit ed. * A ••• ’ * Latest champion in Kappa Al pha Tb.eta list of luminaries is Marjorie “Jerry the Hiker” Chess man, cousin of Peggy Chessman, famed publicity agent for Asto ria’s fishing industry. Proud is Theta of Cousin Jerry, and proud is Cousin Jerry of her newly-won title of Campus Hitch-Hiker. Widely noted of late has been the rounded form of the new cham pion, thumbing furiously on down town street corners. Distinguished by vigor rather than technique, “Jerry the Hiker’s” approach pro duces results, as attested by tre mendous savings in shoe bills. Of her Sorority Sister Marjorie Gear hart says: “I would rather walk with Jerry, ‘The Hiker’ than any one I know, it’s easier on the feet.” * * * To man - about - the - campus Craig Finley: a whiff of old lav ender. Widely known for his 1890 sentimentality, Finley, a self starting candidate for S. B. proxy, carries next to his heart a carefully guarded token. Treas ured is a glossy, black lock of hair, clipped and mailed to him last week by Spokane Sweet heart Thelma Webster. To Sen timental Finley, the tonsorial momento is expected to bring good luck. Fee Bill Problem In Old Oregon The December-January issue of Old Oregon, published by the Uni versity Alumni association, was mailed recently. The new issue contains a discussion of the student fee problem at the Oregon institu tions of higher education. A description of the construc tion on the campus is printed also, as is a survey of the inauguration of Dr. C. Valentine Boyer as sixth president of the University and news of student activity, faculty, and alumni. Merlin Blais, graduate in jour nalism in 1932, is the new manag ing editor. Fulton Travis and Wil liam E. Phipps were formerly in this position. UNIVERSITY GUIDE We carry the best materials tor your shoes Suede shoes our speciality Campus Shoe Shine All permanents specially priced at $2.50. Shampoo and fiugerwave 50c. DUAliT BEAUTY SHOPPE 76G East lltli Street We specialize in home cooked meals. ■Just around the corner on Alder. CAMPUS GROCERY AND RESTAURANT Located Conveniently On the Campus Varsity Service Station 13th and Hilyard 598 East 13th Street ~ Phone 654 UNIVERSITY FLORISTS Member Florists Telegraph Delivery Association FOLLOW THE CROWD TO THE COZY CAFE Across From Kappa Sig House 1 he newest and best place on the campus to eat. >3 .Ileal Ticket for £4.50—10 f3 Discount for Cask. — Open ’til Midnight —
