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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1936)
PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon EDITORIAL OFFICES: Journalism building. Phone 3300 - Editor, Loral 354 ; News Room and Managing Editor, 353. BUSINESS OFFICE: McArthur Court. Phone 3300 -Local 214. MEMBERS OF MAJOR COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 1',. 42nd St., New York City; 123 W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Avc., Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. Robert W- Lucas, editor Eldon Haberman, manager Clair Johnson, managing editor EDITORIAL BOARD Ilcnrieltc Ilorak, William Marsh, Dan E. Clark IT, Howard Kessler, Tom McCall, Fred Colvig, Boh Moore, Mary Graham, secretary to the board. UPPER NEWS STAFF Ed llanson. cartoonist Virginia Endicott, news editor Charles Paddock, sports editor Ed Robbins, chief night editor Mildred Blackburnc, exchange editor vvoonrow i ruax, Tauiu Miriam Eichncr, literary editor Marge Pet sell, woman’s editor Louise Anderson, society editor LcRoy Mattingly, Wayne liar bert, special assignment re porters. REPORTERS: , f Lloyd Tupling, Paul Ddutschmann, Ruth Lake, Kllamac \\ ood worth, Pob Pollock, Signe Rasmussen, Marie Rasmussen, vVilhea Roadman, Roy Knudscn, Fulton Travis. Hetty Brown, Rob Kmcr^ son, Gladys Battleson, Lillian Warn, Elizabeth Stetson, Rill 1 ease, Gerald Crisman, Ilenryctta Mummey, George Knight, ISorman Scott, Mildicd Blackburnc, Irmajcan Randolph, Ldgar Moore, Helen Dodds. _ COPYREADERS: Beulah Chapman, Gertrude Carter. Marguerite Kelley. Jean f.ul nvson, Lucille Davis, Dave Conkey. Jerry Sumner, Phyllis Baldwin. Charles Katon, Corricnc Antrim, Alice Nelson, Tom Allen, Huhard Knokka, Virginia Regan, Juanita Potter. Librarian and secretary, Pearl Jean Wilson. Assistant Managing Editor, this issue LcRoy Mattingly Day Editor, this issue Stanley Robe Night Editors, this issue Roll Pollock Assistant Night Editors, this issue Paul Deutschmann Florence Hayden 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 »ec retary Advertising Manager, this issue Assistants Howard Overbade Heed Swenson OFFICE ASSISTANTS: ,r „ , Jean Erler, June Hunt, Georgette Wilhelm, Lucille Hood him!, lyniise Johnson, Jane Shitlcv, Lucy Downing, Bette JWilliam, licity Wagner, Marilyn Kbi, Dorothy Mahulsic. The Oregon Daily Emerald will . not hr- rrspniisihlr lor returning unsolocital mamiscripts. I’ulilic h-tteis should not n<; more than .100 winds in length and should he acioininiimd hv the writer’s signature and address winch will lie with lulu n requested. All communications arc subject to tell discretion 01 the editors. Anonymous letters will be disregarded. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon. Eugene, published daily during Hie college vear, except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, cxanun.itio » periods,'all of December except tile first seven days, all ot March except the first eight days. Enteredi as s.cniul-elass nutter at the pus to I nee, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription lates, $^.50 a ><■> • All advertising matter is to be sent to the Emerald 1'iisiness University Suffering From 'Vice Purge’ Method ON an inside page of yesterday's Morning Oregonian a nice little banner line streaked across the top: “JUDGE SKIPWORTH LAYS EUGENE VICE ACCUSATIONS BEFORE GRAND JURY." This Is all right. The fiasco in Eugene is news and as such is published by the Oregonian. So what! !S» ‘if It apparently isn't enough tliat the University he termed ‘'reel." Nor is it sufficient that laymen level their trembling fingers toward Eugene and croak "subversion!” Such criticism may be ex pected by a university of liberal education where all ideas are examined objectively as interesting phenomena of the social order. But now a Eugene morning newspaper "busts the town wide open” in a big VICE purge. The news grows in local importance, finds its way to the wire service, and is at once the material for state reader consumption. «i # • A university town is a unique community center. The parents of over 2500 students send their offspring to Eugene to learn several things, not least important of which is how to live. And those parents demand an orderly society as en vironment for that education. The town of Eu gene figures prominently in this environment, and in this capacity should lie a municipality of clean government and clean people. Now, students of the University have always thought, of Eugene as a swell little town. It has a pleasant, progressive society, top-notch new - papers, a sober and cooperative group of mer chants, and a tolerant but firm police depart ment. At the same time students have had no illusions about the presence of shoddy characters. They are here and they will remain hen- until an enlightened people cither replaces immorality with free diversions of understandable, construc tive value, or prostitutes become beneficiaries of sound healthy, childhood education. tii «:« This paper docs not question the motives of the Morning News. Certainly the "vice” crusade will have a tendency to minimize prositution. But the methodology of bawling continued charges and "illustrations in point” is serving principally to manufacture generalized news of Eugene "vice," that, in the ^discriminating eyes of state readers, is immediately associated with the University. Such a campaign is poor psychology, it is a dogmatic and fumbling attempt to solve a delicate problem, and it is rotten publicity for the University of Oregon—the life-blood of Eugene. OESN'T it seem just like the other day that the “flickers" presented a little lad, wih his cap over one eye, his trousers many sizes too large, and a mournful, innocent droop to his round, chubby face? Why it seems just like last week that Jackie Coogan toddled across the silver screen, following the shuffling figures of piquant litle Charlie Chaplin. But now national picture syndicates spread shots of a tall, slick-haired youth gamboling in the play grounds of the country, looking frankly and owlishly into the lens of the news camera. And on his graciously provided arm clings a little blond lady his wife, Betty Grablc! My, my, how these youngsters do grow. February, 1936 has five Saturdays. This is the seventh time this incident has occured since the adoption of the Roman calendar in 1752. Now if someone would link this up with sun spots, he could probably determine the political nominee for the Republican party. Dear Me, We Must Be Getting Old! Other Editors’ Opinions Greek Squirrels |NTERFRATKftNJTY council carried out its ' name of Greek squirrels once again in its regular Monday meeting. Instead of deposing of another president and substituting yet another victim of political in trigue, the council halted another internal up heavel by the casual suggestion that the group disband. That the leaders of the group for the break-up of the organization finally saw the true light c annot be doubted. That they previously recog nized the hopelessness of the situation can' neither be doubted. But political combines, desire for prestige in the council, and attempts to over throw and regain administrative offices kept a hapless majority, first on one side of the tree, then on the other, bound together to further selfish plots. The council, existing as it presently does, can never succeed. In itself it existed as a figurative organization, not as a body with the power to further the democratic purposes upon which it was supposedly founded. University administra tive check coupled with the lack of desire on the part of the various Greek chapters to cooperate with the council helped to doom its cause. Failure was partly due to the fact that the fraternity chapters on the campus did not care fully choose the representatives to the group but shoved into the council members who had to be sidetracked from other political aspirations. Break-up of the council is the easiest path the Greeks can take, hen the present factional dissension blows over, when life and spirit can be renewed, when fraternities learn the value that the council could serve and impress it upon their groups and the entire campus, the time will once again be ripe to attempt a confederation of fra ternities. Denver Clarion. Booing: An MU Pastime N outsider was invited to witness the tradi tional Kausaas-Missom'i basketball game hero last week, and at the conclusion of the contest he exclaimed that he wouldn't want to offoeiate an athletic contest here for all the tea in China. The answer to his observation might have been that because this was a Kansas game, tlu' spirit rather overflowed its normal intensity. Kut in all truth such a statement would be lalse. Missouri sportsman hip luis been upbraided many times in the pre .. and by opponent:; who Play here. Officials lake a worm boating at Mis uni l 'an at any other -pot in the eonTorei’ii e. enthusiasm and spirit can lie displaced in mole way ■ than mo fin . I he ui't'iemis’ i • ■: ■ rrii.s eiahle. True, they make ihi-d ke , .• when the .eoing j... eleae a mist lie i. "i ve>-y important la the hillin' m awHid wi p:ide m;i ..elves on '"‘big eollee- men and women, and the inter collegiate viewpoint should be broad enough to side.- lop any errors. On the other hand the continuous booing and jeering by Missouri spectators lias earned for the I nivorsity a bad reputation among visiting teams. I he basketball season is reaching' its end. Only live or six home games remain on the schedule. A bit of consideration and respect be coming a college crowd would go a long way in redeeming the iniquities of the past and erase booing as an M. I', pastime. Missouri Student. A German Student’s Germany [j§| Carl-Gustav Anthon If hiking is the most popular German sport in the summer time, in the winter it's skiing. The many little mountain ranges in Central and South Germany and the prox imity of the Alps afford limitless opportunities for enjoying this king of all sports. The great love for nature, and a wholesome at mosphere of comradeship which skiing encourages attract great masses of Germans to the snowy mountains. If you could persuade yourself to rise at ti o'clock in a Germati town, on a cold Sunday morning in Janu ary, you would sea urn and hun* dreds of others walking in skiing costume through the dark streets, skis on the shoulders headed for the station. There are many spe cial trains leaving at various inter vals to all directions with fares re duced PO per cent. This i possible because the German railroad sys tem is owned by the federal gov ernment. There will be plenty of yawns and many people sleeping while the long train with small, old-fash ioned, square-shaped cars rattles through the dark morning. But when daylight reveals a mountain oa- landscape v. iUi a iujh cover j ing of snow they all mb their eyes, | button their jackets and strap their ■ knapsacks. Someone might burst | out in a song: others merely yodel, | It is an odd sight to watch an; endless line of people climb up the j . zig-zag trails of a mountainside. | With their skis on the shoulders they resemble a huge army. Upon the arrival on the top, everybody eagerly straps his feet to the be-j loved boards and pushes merrily off into the vast, white spaces. Happy is he who is ahead of the crowds and can trace his own tracks! It is a day filled with the joy of living. There are no roads, no signs, no laws - peacefully and smoothly the skier shoves along through a quiet landscape, led by! his curiosity to a solitary group of hidden house s or to the border of a pine forest or to a nearby horizon which might reveal an abyss or an inviting slope. There will be grace \ 1 ,, .. . ..., . . s ’ eye thi. e) Air Y Listenin’? By Jimmy Morrison Emerald of the Air Frank Michek, chairman for th ■ senior ball, will be in charge < f this afternoon’s broadcast. He will bo assisted by Mary McCrack en, senior class president, and Ar.n Rced Burns, chairman of the dec orations committee. The Air Angle Lawrence Tibbctt believes that the future of American music lies in the hands of instructors in high schools and colleges. The great baritone is backing a movement to send a leading singer to give in struction at such institutions— free of charge—to imbue young sters with the “spark.” Gladys Swarthout, brilliant young mezzo-soprano of radio, opera, and screen, will be guest soloist with the Ford Symphony orchestra and chorus Sunday at i 6:00 p. m. A feature of Miss S'AHtihunt’s program will be the familiar aria, “My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice,” from Saint-Saens’ opera, "Sampson and Delilah.” Lat er .-He will sing “Clouds,” by Charles, and the “Kerry Dance,” by Malloy. Gogo DeLys will be heard over CBS a! 3:45 today in a program of popular songs which will Include “Cling to Me," “I Surrender, Dear,” and “Don’t Say a Word, Just Dance.” Leith Stevens’ orchestra will play “Suzannah” and “I’m Building Up to an Awful Let down.” Here’s the way 239 radio editors in the United States voted for the most popular stars in the New York World-Telegram’s fifth an nual radio poll recently: The following artists led their divisions: Kate Smith, most popu lar girl singer; Guy Lombardo’s orchestra, favorite dance band; Lawrence Tibbett, favorite male singer; Fred Waring’s Pennsyl vanians, favorite musical pro gram; Radio Theater, favorite drama program; and Ted Husing, favorite sports announcer. Three newcomers include Ray Noble's orchestra, placing third in (Please turn to payc four) Innocent Bystander mnHniiiiimniimnmiimimmniiiimnilimninnnnHiniiiimimnmnmiiiiifminnnniiiHmmnnuiiinirmrninmniimtiitmnnnHiminimimniirtimnmiiminnniiHHniimnmmi By BARNEY CLARK I wish I was a happy man like the Marshmallow and could get all my column material out of the magazines. * *4* As it is, I’m forced to wrestle with knotty problems such as why does Jean “True-Blue” Fav ier go to the Side every morning at 9:00 o’clock? She says it’s for relaxation, but her sisters maintain that a more sinister motive underlies her fondness for booth-sitting. Also, she is ner vous about phone calls. Surely her sisters must be wrong, since we understand that Fav’s heart is up IVcrth somewhere, probably around Portland. Here’s another lad the Student Union got into trouble. Jim “The Giant-Killer’’ Blais was on his way to one of their meetings when he got lost in the wilds of Gerlinger. After wandering around for what seemed hours, he fell in with a crowd of women, who seemed to be going someplace. Jim tagged along hopefully, peering anxiously over their shoulders and hoping that they were going to the same place he was. Imagine his horror when the mob got thicker and thicker, without another male in sight. In desperation he finally asked a female next to him what the gathing was all about and re ceived the answer that this, my good man, was one of the Hove and Marriage lecture series on the biological aspects of the holy state, and what was HE doing over here with the women’s divi sion ? The report that Blais fainted is erroneous. The Fijis have a problem on their hands, too. They can’t get Tom Aughinbaugh to quiet down at night. It’s not that Tom is boisterous or anything like that, but he keeps up a steady muttering in his sleep that is quite as annoying to the lads on the sleeping porch as a leaky water-faucet would be. Their unavoidable evesdropping presents them with a touchy moral dilemma as well. They can’t avoid tuning in on Tom’s broadcast of his big heart affair in Portland. The girl, whose name appears to be “Bar bara,” looms large in his dream conversation, which is primarily of a sentimental nature. The af fair is completely engrossing to Tom, who receives special deliv ery letters from the North at frequent intervals, but by now it has begun to bore his sleeping Companions. These sufferers feel (hat if they MUST be compelled to a nightly monologue, one with a wider variety of subjects would be greatly preferred. To date, no feasible methods of sound-proof ing Aughinbaugh has been dis covered. If the Fijis want a sample of real quiet they ought to trot over in the vicinity of any Chi Omega these days. Compared to the death like silence that has surrounded EVERY member of the brick barn since the events of last Tuesday night, the gentle murmuring of Aughinbaugh would resemble the car-shattering blast of a boiler fac tory in full operation. The Chi Os won't talk. They haven't heard anything, they haven't seen any thing, and furthermore, they’ll thank you to mind your own bus iness! Duck, brother, that’s a brick she’s holding! Patrie Sells Japan Article to Geographic John Patric, former .special journalism student on this campus, has recently sold an article on Japan to the National Geographic magazine, according to a letter re ceived from him by Dean Eric W. Allen, head of the journalism de partment. Enclosed in the letter was a photostat of the $300 check re ceived from the magazine for Mr. Patric's article. The article will be printed in the April issue of the periodical. to Go and T 1 HINGS to Do i Inspiring Melody! fl Jemiffe N J UiiO ^ , mmm my HOSE MARIE ADDED Silly Symphony NOT A x MOT! ON , PICTURE ** , ->•** * K & 1 1 "* In person C5i SCREEN ♦ “WOMAN ONE TEW” DAY with koseoe; ONLY KAIINS AN t'dm'sclaj IVlmiur.v t!) V- .i^R& v and N i-lit So much as been said about the Senior Ball the past few days that I will not try to in clude any further information except that rumors have been going around the campus that when the senior directorate asked for a list of leading dance bands, the names of Tom Coak ley, Jimmie Grier, and Ted Lewis were brought up. The bids these bands wanted were ex ceedingly moderate with Coak ley asking SS50, Grier and Lewis SSOO. At such reasonable figures here's hoping. This is a personal message to the Junior Prom directorate whomever they may be. I ) Kampus Krier Howard Overback What is the “magnificent ob session” ? It refers to a magical pattern of living which local theater goers will have an op portunity to learn when they see “Magnificient Obsession,” Universal’s production playing at the Heilig Sunday for four days. The picture which stars Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor is a powerful emotional drama which promises to become one of the leading pictures for 193G. Primarily the story deals with the romance of Miss Dunne, por traying a beautiful young bride, and Taylor, wastrel scion of a wealthy family. Once more will theater fans here on the campus anil around town have a chance to hear the beautiful voice of Jeanette MacDonald. Miss MacDonald, who was currently starred in “Naughty Marietta” has anoth er chance to show her talents when she opens in “Rose Marie” which is coming to the McDon ald Saturday. Co-starred with Miss MacDonald is Nelson Eddy, whose singing talents are well known to theater audiences. The question list for today is: “What freshman bigwig from Hendricks hall is playing the campus big shots now?” “Who stole Chuck Barclay's picture from the wall at the Soph Whiskeririo last Friday night?” (Poor Chuck was look ing all over.) "How are the Phi Delt twins doing with their two decks of cards which they won last week end?” “What’s a good name for this column ? ” (A11 suggestions gratefully received.) Ami Enjoy Kecrealional Exercise SOUTH ALDER RIDING ACADEMY South A Kiev Street G Aliuutes From Campus A powerful drama... f i 1f e d_ w 14 h emotion..! —^ He turned her hate intoiove= . with IRENE DUNNE Robert Taylor Chas. Butterworth Betty Furness Universal Picture Senior Bali Bound Under Overcast Skies Buy—You'll Think It Over if You’re Keally Wise Let Terminal Taxi Take You m Heated Cabs 600