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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Rouert W- Lucas, editor Eldon Haberman, manager Clair Johnson, managing editor EDITORIAL BOARD Heftriette Horak, William Marsh, Dan E. Clark IT, Howard Kessler, Tom McCall, Fred Culvig, Bob Moore, Mary Graham, secretary to the board. UPPER NEWS STAFF Ed Hanson, cartoonist Dan E. (’lark Tf, news editor Charles Paddock, sports editor Ed Robbins, chief night editor Mildred Blackburne, exchange wooorow i max. radio editor Miriam Kichner, literary editor Marge Pctsch, woman’s editor Louise Anderson, society editor LeRoy Mattingly. Wayne Har bert, special assignment re porters. Assistant Managing Editor, this issue Wayne Jlurbcrt Day Editor, this issue Darrel Ellis Assistant Day Editor, this issue Paul DeitUclimann Night Editors, this issue Edgar Moore Pat Frizzell Assistant Night Editors, this issue Dorothy Hutchens BUSINESS STAFF Dick Sleight, promotion man ager . Walter Vcrnstrom. circulation manager; assistant Toni Lu cas Hetty Wagner, national adver tising manager; assistant, Jane Slatky Caroline Hand, executive sec* retary Advertising Manager, tms issue Assistants Reinhart Knud sen Kenneth Wood The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication ot 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 Bt the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. Academic Adjustment Committee Has Some Job MUCH valuable work can be accomplished in renovating the University advisory system, and it is with this object in mind that a student committee on academic adjustment has been formed on the campus to study the problem as it has been treated elsewhere, and make sug gestions for changes here. Today, many students waste a year or two of the precious few they have in University, try ing to decide what to take and why, with hut a foggy notion of the value a university education can be to them. They may leave at the end of four years or less, without ever having found out. The advisory system as it is now at Oregon has several serious faults. Many of the advisors are ill-prepared to counsel students on the courses they should take in University, and for those who are capable, there is too little time in the rush of registration day to adequately advise each student. Advisors are prone to em phasize the good qualities of their own depart ments, or to pass over subjects form mere ignorance of their existence. And witii little help available from his faculty advisor, the freshman often accepts suggestions of upperclassmen that may he detrimental to his University career. Some schools have solved this by making it necessary for students to register a week or two before the beginning of the fall term, en abling each student to have two or tijree hours with a competent advisor. There have Keen many other successful and unsuccessful solutions, and it is the dtuy of the committee on academic <ul justment to discover them and to suggest new ones. With such an objective, the committee will have its work cut out for it for months to come. 'Rebellion of the American Spirits’ One Act Play CHARACTERS: Three spirits and a grounds keeper. Scene: The Capitol grounds at Washington, D. C., shortly after midnight this morning and an evil morning it is, with the lights of the Dome glowing wetly through a moving mist that swirls, smothering the shrubbery. The hoary ghosts of Washington, Jefferson, and Jackson are gazing at the great marble pile that houses Congress. M> * Washington: I wouldn't have known the place, Tom. ’Twas naught but a mud-flat when f last saw it. Jefferson: It's changed a bit since my day, loo, George. Jackson: Well, tempos foojit, boys, tempos foojit! Jefferson: The1 “g" is hard, Andrew. Tempus fugit! Jackson: You're such a pedant, Tom. Really, it doesn’t become your democratic reputation. You and George both always struck me as a bit snooty. i Grounds-keeper comes onto the scene. Ad vances on the trio, menacing a club.) Ground.'-keeper: You stiffs will have to move on. PV\ A has a transient relief station out at the edge of town. Now git on with yuli! Washington: P.W . . . . What .... Hey? G. K.: PWA, and don't act like you never heard of it. I’ll bet you're all on relief. Jefferson: Relief? 1 don't believe we know what you mean, my good friend. We re here to protest against .... G. K.: Oh, you want your bonus. Well, that's already been fixed. Jackson: Bonus? All three spirits; Bonus? G. K.: Then you're Townsendites. Hah. Well, I should have known it to look at you. Loaf all your lives and then expect to live off the fat of the land in your old age. Washington: Loaf, my good fellow? Loaf! t must say, that is exactly what we have come to protest . . . Jackson and Jefferson: Aye, that’s it! Washington: We have come to protest against these political sorcerers who keep raising- us up from the eternal sleep which our lives' labors have justly earned. Jackson: Aye, we're tired of doing table rapping for these resurrection men. All: We're heroes of the Republic. We've done our duty and earned our rest. Washington: Oar genius lay la s, 1. a t the situation in our days demanded and in acting accordingly. Speaking for myself, I led the fight against English mercantilism. I saw what the country needed and acted. That’s why I’m. a national hero. Jefferson: I had the genius to see the rise of the common man. I understood his demand for political rights and I acted to secure them for him. That is why I am a national hero. Jackson: I was a politician shrewd enough to fight the political battle for the men behind the mountains. I acted from a sense of what the changing balance of population in this country required. That’s why I’m a national hero. Washington: But wc don’t know a thing about the causes or the cures for all these woes that beset the country now, and we protest against the use of our spirits to sanctify the actions of today’s political leaders. This isn’t our day and age. Let today’s leaders fight their own battles and leave us to our eternal rest. Grounds-keeper: Washington, Jefferson, and Jackson, are yuh? Well, I’m Carrie A. Nation. Now git on with yuh, before I call the wagon! (Spirits vanish). ‘A Curious Blend’ T'HE best efforts of congress to frame a bill to keep the United States from being drawn into war have been derided by John Bassett Moore, former justice of the world court, as “a curious biend of homicidal with suicidal mania.” Declared Moore: “The homicidal mania glares in the proposal to try to starve other peoples who engage in war; the suicidal mania gleams in the proposal to demoralize and destroy our commerce in order that peoples at war may not be nourished by what we produce." Moore is quite an internationalist with all his concern for hunger-pinched belligerents. With “homicide” he indicts us if we refuse to feed and equip belligerent peoples. For "suicide” he scorns us if we turn down the profits of this lucrative trade in death. Well, all we can say to His Honor John Bassett Moore is that there is such a thing as justifiable homicide, but we fail to see any justi fication for aiding and abetting a belligerent in the commission of that most inhuman form of homicide, modern warfare. And, as for "suicide,” if we are to appreciate Moore’s use of the figure we must acknowledge that there are types and degrees of self-inflicted death, for there is on the one hand the economic suicide, which he derides, of refusing to profit from foreign war; and there is on the other hand the suicide of millions of our finest youth, laying down their lives worse still, laying down their human feelings - for war profits. Moore’s critique of the neutrality bill is a “curious blend” in itself a curious blend of blind greed and archaic morality. Is it any wonder that the world court is not an effective instrument of peace, when such a man as Moore could have graced its bench? A German Student’s Germany |f| Carl-Gustav Anthon PHE Germans are skillful and restless organ izers. Not only have they a great desire to lead and command, but they also have an innate desire to obey. Everyone wishes to "belong” to something clubs, associations, armies. Hitler knows his psychology and he knows his Germans, and straightway he proceeded to give them what they desired. “Panem et circenses!” ttie cry o' the Roman populace, the happiness of the mob and tiro foundation for a Caesar's throne bread and circuses were given to the people and they like him for it. Hitler enjoys the support oT iH) per cent of tire people; he is satisfying their wants, he has given them a new purpose of life. Uniforms and "playing soldier” appeal to Germans, and that a practical end can be achieved through play comes in handy indeed. The earning of a medal of superior merit, a golden star or two on tire cellar, a decoration on the epoulettes Uiese are indeed rich compensa tion for years of tense marching, of endless and senseless harassing. Hundreds of times 1 watched some troops assembling in the city center or in the market square, or under the viliage oak tiee. Like a horde of men without will, they respond to the ear-bursting shouts of tin: commander, dreadful to watch, for they jresemble madmen. They are acting under a spell, the spell of uni forms, of parades, of officers . . . But l lie working population, too, is organized to the last man. Anyone who is still "outside" is a second-rate citizen. There are organizations of guilds for the various professions and crafts, for business employees and storekeepers, it involves the payment of a monthly fee, the optional wear ing ot a uniform and Hie compulsory attendance at various political speeches and activities. The "Deutsche Arbeitsfront” (German Workmen's Front) is a giant organization uniting all em ployed and employing persons in Germany. No musician is allowed to teach or to produce i concert, no actor permitted to perform, unless a member of his respective guild. A proposed mus ical program must be submitted to the Federal Music Chamber, under the effective supervision ol the totally insipid Dr. Goebbels sometimes referred to as "Wotan's Mickey Mouse.” Mr. Goebbels can only samtion those works which he can limiti stand, being naturally very few us ually those suggesting Germanic heorism or bar barism, to wit: Wagner and Horst Wessel. Ex cepting those incomprehensible ancients Bach. Handel, Haydn -who are too great to suppress, music unknown to Mr. Goebbels, especially con temporary music, is bluntly branded "bolshevized culture." Hindemith and Stravinsky fall into this category. Tiie arts fare very unhappily in the crude soldier ■; hands ot Hitler and Goebbels. One can only hope that the innate creative individuality of Hie German people will survive the temporary „tampcue cl Hie ^ tot m ia-.c ic; The Marsh of Time By Bill Marsh Comedians So now it approaches that time when the air waves are constantly cluttered up with Senators, Con gressmen and other orating politi cians. They say that Ed Wynn is going back on the air again in a week or so. But he had to lie to the big wigs, telling the networks bosses that he was a Senator before they would let him broadcast. Not such a bad idea at that. Sen ator Wynn. If he intends to go on with this clowning business, he might just as well be good and funny and have a name to go with jit. * a # Condon: Barbara M. M. (much |married) Hutton is determined that j her baby shall not be bom an I American citizen . . . the Countess has taken a lease on a London ! home . . . she recently told friends that it was her constant harass ment by American newspaper men and publicity agents that forced her decision . . . “I’m afraid,’’ the comely Barbara quips, “that if I went to a hospital in America the publicity men would have the place wired for sound.” One more black eye lor Ameri can publicity . . . the sort of pub | licity that respects no privacy at I all . . . the sort of publicity that J delves into the intimate details of people's lives and spreads them lavishly out for the entertainment I of the great unwashed masses . . . | the type of publicity which has lit : tie or no actual news value, but which has, nevertheless, succeeded | in giving American journalism a bad smell which is not entirely de served. Shirley Temple is beginning to exhibit signs of artistic tempera ment. She absolutely refuses to wear any clothes or costumes that are not made with one, five, nine, or thirteen buttons. Explanation: Remember your I - ' " childhood game of “rich man, poor man, beggar man, king”? Well, Shirley doesn’t want to be a poor man, a beggar man or a king. She prefers to become a rich man. Cute? |* * * Pass the Soap To conserve time in her verj crowded and congested life, the late Sarah Bernhardt used to re ceive callers while in her bath tub Well. Excepting Cleopatra, ii i any woman in history had enough charm and enough poise to be ar attractive hostess in a bath tub Sarah Bernhardt was it. ■i* # -it Slightly daffy. The latest cam pus pastime is riding on freighi trains. The other day two nitwit; drove out to a joint called Donna parked their car and then cami back to Eugene riding the rods ol a local freight. They love it. And the least yoi ran say for the idea is that riding freight trains for fun is original i Emerald of the Air Don Casciato will be your com mentator on the Emerald Sport cast today at 3:45. He is again pinch-hitting for Tom McCall, the regular sportcaster. The Air Angle The fourth anniversary of George and Gracie Allen on the air—four mad years coinciding strangely enough with the ripen ing of tomatoes, the invention of the cotton gin, the collapse of the fifth Inca dynasty (2857 B. C.) and the reported disappearance of Betelgeuse, largest star—will be observed with fitting sacrificial rites on CBS tonight at 8:30. * * * Ray Noble's novel settings of modern dance music mingled with i the songs of Connie Boswell will be ■ heard at “Refreshment Time’’ to , night. Noble will play several new Air Y’ •> Listenin’? By Jimmy Morrison Innocent Bystander *.. By BARNEY CLARK We’ve been saving this one about George Cailas for a long time. It concerns the Black Beauty’s try-out for the Poly phonic choir. Petri tried him all o\cr the key-board. He wasn’t a soprano. He wasn’t a tenor. He wasn’t a baritone. What was he? Finally the maestro deeided. |I’ointing his finger at the per spiring tyro he ejaculated terse ly, “First bass.” “Shucks!” sighs Cailas, “I wanted to play short-stop!” * * * Don't let that magnolia-blossom accent fool you. Kay Coney, fair est flower of the Old South, is just so much dynamite! She throws things! During the course of a short din ner the Bystander was on the re ceiving end of a continuous bar rage of missiles. He didn’t mind the crackers, but the glass of wa ter upset him, and to this day be bears on his brow a scar left by a viciously flung sugar cube! She’s charming, all right, but you’d better duck! Whenever B. Clark and 13. Chandler get together at the Theta cave, something drastic always happens. The other day they seized upon Jane “Frosh (Please turn to page four) lumbers which have won favor on aoth sides of the Atlantic. Vocals will be done by A1 Bowlly and the Freshmen. e a * Ted Royal and his orchestra, a new radio dance band, made its debut over CBS from the Meadow brook at Cedar Grove,, N. J., last rhursday, replacing Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook band, which has gone on an extensive road tour. Royal will be heard Saturdays over KOIN at 2:00 p. m. JSBC-CBS Programs Today 3:00—Woman's Magazine. NBC. 6:00—Andre Kostelanetz’ orches tra. KOIN, KSL. 6:30—Refreshment Time; Ray Noble's orchestra, Connie Boswell, A1 Bowlly, and The Freshmen. KSL, KOIN. 7:00—Vince Program. NBC. 8:30—Burns and Allen. KSL, KOIN. 9:00—Town Hall tonight. Fred Allen. KPO, KGW. I Suggestion FOK THE Busy College | Student It Let the Emerald be a daily reminder of you Ito those who expect too much correspond ence from the busy student. 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