THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Robert W- Lucas, editor Eldon Haborman, manager Clair Johnson, managing editor EDITORIAL BOARD Ilenrietfe Horak, William Marsh, Dan K. Clark IT, Howard Kessler, Tom McCall, Fred Colvig, Bob Moore, Mary Graham, secretary to the board. _ UPPER NEWS STAFF Ed ITanson. cartoonist Virginia Kndicott. news editor Charles Paddock, sports editor Ed Robbins, chief night editor Mildred Blackburnc, exchange editor Woodrow Truax, radio editor Miriam Kichncr, literary editor Marge Pctsch, woman’s editor Louise Anderson, society editor LeRoy Mattingly, Wayne llar bert, special assignment re porters. REPORTERS: Lloyd Tupling, Paul Deutschmann, Ruth Lake, Ellamae Wood worth, Toll Pollock, Signe Rasmussen, Marie Rasmussen, Wilfred Roadman, Roy Knudscti, Fulton Travis, Petty Hrown, Rob Emer son, Gladys Battleson, Lillian Warn, Elizabeth Stetson. 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Walter Vernstrom, circulation manager; assistant Toni Lti cas Betty Wagner, national adver tising manager; assistant, Jane Slatky Caroline Hand, executive fee Advertising Manager, this issue Reinhart Knudsen Assistants Kenneth Wood OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Jean Krfer, June Hust, Georgette Wilhelm, Lucille Iloodland, Louise Johnson, Jane Slatky. Lucy Downing, Bette Needham, Betty Wagner, Marilyn Ebi, Dorothy Mahulsic. 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 postoftice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. A Housecleaning for the University Library THE University of Oregon students arc a patient lot as a rule. They have cheerfully tolerated the juggling of departments, the ad ministrative fracas, and a host of other growing pains of the University. They seldom complain. However, during the last lew months, espec ially since seniors have been writing theses, a storm of discontent has been brewing around the flagrant shortcomings of the library. Students are complaining; they can’t get what they want! Students are getting tired of voicing disgust at the eternal answer to their demands for cer tain periodicals—“they’re at the bindery,” or “that issue is missing,” and "we don't carry that.” Not a single student expects the library to work miracles, but the least tiiat can be expected is a well organized, well supplied, reasonably bal anced, and an up to date periodical department. Students have a right to expect intelligent guid ance and help from a library staff, instead of the giggling twitter “let’s see, an h comes before an i“ common to some of the student assistants now employed in the library. The difficiencies are not limited to the period ical department. Students have a bone to pick with the circulation department also; in fuel Urn whole set-up needs a good old fashioned spring housecleaning. With the exception of one or two efficient staff members, the common slogan around the library staff seems to be “1 don't know” to the demand of student for facts. Unless we are laboring under the strange mal ady of misapprehension, it’s the business of the library staff to know sources of information, and guide a student to them in a reasonable length of time. Two hours seems entirely too long for a staff member to stumble upon information giving light on early Oregon pioneers, or tin: ratification of the women’s suffrage amendment. Yet these are true illustrations. Twenty seniors, selected for their recognized intelligence, were questioned as an authentic basis for this criticism. Not one had a kind word for tlie present library system. Each had found it a discouragement to the pursuit of learning instead of a stimulant. This cannot continue. What will an imposing new building profit the University if the essence of a library is missing? Is Hollywood Afraid of ’It Can’t Happen Here ? I F the story is true and the veracity of Novelist "Red” Lewis has never, to our knowledge, been called in question that Movie Moderator Wid Hays has turned thumbs down on the filming of "It Can't Happen Here,” Lewis' late attack upon American fascism, then finally Czar Hays has gone too far. When Hays, pushed from behind by the em battled puritans of the country, laid zealous scissors to the streamers of prurient celluloid that were reeling out of Hollywood he performed an act for which the country can scarcely condemn him—although there is much truth in the views of those who say that heavy loving left the screen because of public revulsion, and not be cause of the Hays censorship. Be that as it may. From sex scenarios that left little to the adolescent imagination, the screen reacted toward stories of the Victorian •most beautiful love story ever told" type, which turned the public to the other pole of nausea. But lot's leave sex out of this. Hays can censor “sexography” to his dying day, and people will continue to love with slight obeisance to hi. shears. Hays, according to reports, bans the filming of "‘it Can’t Happen Hero” from fear that the production will offend Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler. The American public will draw the lino oil this sort of censorship. Hays may trifle with the sox life of America, but he can be assured that the American tradi tion of free expression will rebel against an at tempt to dictate the nation’s political thought away from the threat fascism, out of deference to two leaders of a type of government which most Americano eschew. The Safety Valve Letters published in this column should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of the Emerald. Anony mous contributions will be disregarded. The names of ocm municants will, however, be regarded as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked to be 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. Phi Sigs Coll For New Rush Plan Editor, the Emerald: The January 21, 1936, issue of the Emerald, which carried the decision on the Sigma Nu case, also stated that Phi Sigma Kappa had “not paid or signified intention to pay1' the $10 fine im posed upon it by the Jnterfraternity council trib unal. The October 11, 1935, issue, which anounced the fines, stated that Phi Sigma Kappa along with some other fraternities was fined $10 for “dirty rushing” and was further penalized with one pledge revoke. It was later announced in the Emerald that the latter penalty was re tracted, and that, because of the simple fact that the man in question had never been pledged. The $10 fine was imposed for breaking the 10:30 rule. ft ft ft However, it is not the object of this state ment to oppose tiie decision; the $10 fine will be paid under protest. The object of this communica tion is to point out the obvious deficiency in the present system of rushing that, in the first place, allows such situations to arise, and in the second place, provides such feeble remedies and penalties when fraternities really violate regulations. It is our opinion that the tribunal made an honest effort to fine the houses for "dirty rush ing” and on that score it is to be commended. But, on the charges that were placed against the several houses, we think that the tribunal lacked the “intestinal fortitude” to say what it was really fining the fraternities for. They were not fining the fraternities for breaking the “T0:30 rule”; they were fining for putting pins in rushees’ pockets before registration, hiding rush ees out for two or three days at a time, malicious slandering of other houses, holding rushing “deals” where a rushee listened to lies about everything from $20 house bills to the “‘Phi Phi Phi’s” enormous mortgage, and a hundred and one other such offenses that arise from the pres ent system of “cut-throat” rushing. If the tribunal had really fined for what it knew was going on, every fraternity on the Ore gon campus would have been forced into bank ruptcy! It dues no good to scrape the surface of (lie sand; if the clam is to be reached, one must dig down to where it it. Neither will fining houses for breaking the “10:30 rule” eliminate dirty rushing from the campus. We appreciate the fact that the Interfratern ity council apparently recognizes that something is wrong and is adopting a new constitution and a new set of by-laws that will possibly remedy some of the trouble, and also that steps have been taken toward definite action in adjusting the present system. But we feel that the system is basically wrong and must be rebuilt from the ground up mere fixing and adjusting may sat isfy the demands temporarily, but wall in tho long run merely aggravate the situation. But anyone can "cry” all “crying” does is arouse a lot of ill feeling that has no place in the scheme of things if a plan is to be evolved that is basically sound and practically expedient. Therefore, we suggest that instead of trying to adjust the old plan, that a new plan be worked out and submitted for publication to the Emerald. W'e will bo more than willing to cooperate on such a plan. Psi Deuteron Chapter Phi Sigma Kappa. A German Student’s Bfil Germany I By Carl-Gu av Anthon I rT''HK; most unbearable feature of the Nazi regime is the supression of the freedom ot speech and press. Justified, as the suspension of these human rights may be from a political point of view, yet people do not live for the sake of a political system, but a system is created to sut isly the needs of the people. And it seems strange that, despite all the common sense shown by Hitler and associates, they fail to realize the antipathy and opposition such mental slavery will arouse in the people. ft is a strange feeling for me to be able to open my eyes to the realities of life and to be allowed to give expression to the things they see. It is a strange happiness, indeed, to be permitted to discuss life's vital problems openly whereas only a few months ago I either cautiously whis pered my thoughts to friends within silent walls, or they were hidden entirely within myself, crav ing expression. But the greatest joy of all is to be permitted to do the things one wishes to do, things of whose merit one is convinced, things which are inseparably associated with one's own life. in the years 1933 to 1935 it was an every day story to read of such and such a newspaper being suspended. Suspended for God knows what triv ialities- suspended for a few days, weeks, or for ever, as a penalty for having reported certain happenings, facts or figures. The most innocent remark of the most innocent editor will earn a suspension penalty. * o $ Books and authors thinking and feeling dif ferently than Adolf Hitler or Joseph Goebbels have been placed on the "Black List." Such auth ors include Heinrich Mann and to some extent his greater brother Thomas Mann, Jakob Wasser mun, Stefan and Arnold Zwoig, Upton Sinclair, and Ernest Toiler. On various occasions 1 wit nessed the burning of heaps of books on public square to the wild cheers and singing of national anthems by the intoxicated crowds. Fanatical party luminaries, thundering speeches, innumer able flag., brilliant lights, uniforms overladen with gaudy decorations, furnish the setting for these solemn mass festivals. German w riters today are either puppets in the hand- of l>r. Gobbels, or they arc not writers anv more. They have either left the country or j they have reduced their work to the wishes of a I political ystuu. iikiiur., full of uck aiuiicnto iF SH6 POCS FOUL THROUGH, it’ll take a lo^g time to RECOVER FRO' * SHOCK ❖ The Marsh of Time By Bill Marsh Let Laughter Ring To Mr. Dan Clark II, a whiff of ammonia for bring the finest liv ing example of the now almost ex tinct flat-joke artist. Congratula tions, Mr .Clark. You caught me fairly and squarely, and I waded into it with both eyes almost open. Ail example of Mr. Clark's hu mor. This is a problem story. Take a train that’s running (or should I say walking) from Portland to Eugene. It leaves Portland with I 50 passengers. At Oregon City it picks up three more. At New Era ten get off and one gets on. At Canby, three get on. At Wood burn, four get off and one gets on. At Chemawa four Indians get off. At Salem ten passengers get off, and three get on. At Albany five get off and a basket of eggs gets on. Finally the darn thing rolls into Junction City and the fireman I steps over to the pool hall for a glass of beer. No passengers get off or on. Now then, have you got the pas sengers all st right? Very well then. How many stations did the train stop at? Ouch! No, wait a minute, not the right eye, if you please. That’s black already. Snowtrain At last, talking about trains, one of the characteristic services on eastern roads has permeated to the far West ... 1 speak of the snow train which will be run to Cascade Summit next Sunday. For some time eastern lines have run winter time excursions for the benefit of snow-sports lovers. Now they’re trying it out here with the help of the students and the Obsidian ski club. It'd be nice if the students supported this one well enough for the Espee to run them more or less regularly. There’s no finer place in the country to ski than the Cas cade mountains. And if you don't ski very well, there's no finer place j to just romp in the drifts. If the thought of getting up to catch a train that leaves at t! , o’clock in the morning gives you .the willies, why not try staying up all night? Personally, 1 think tliat'd be a lot easier than piling out of a warm bed at 3:30. S « <3 Sportsmanship? It's too bad the winter Olympics i have had to be marred by bicker ing and dissension. Oh yes. they've been having their troubles all right. First of all, the American and tier man bobsled teams got into a beef when the American team refused ; to give up their narrow, super-fast | runners. Then England and tier main brawled over whether or not England's hockey team was Eng land's. or whether it was a crack Canadian team that had been quietly removed from behind the • maple leaf and slid into uniforms bearing tlie Union Jack. In times like these, with the ugl> specter of infuriated jialional isin growing a hulls more or less i lear, a in slim thread of interna tional interest and good feeling isUould be adhered to depcraUiv. Those Olympic teams snouia nave bent over backward trying to fos ter good instead of ill feeling. Yes, and America is just as much at fault as anybody else. Don’t forget that. What could be more impor tant to a nation of 120 million peo ple, the winning of a bobsled race, or the friendly admiration of an other nation? By Jimmy Morrison Emerald of the Air Tom McCall will be on hand at the KORE studios at 3:45 today with plenty of news for the Emer ald Sportcast. The Air Angle “Talkative Tom,” the chattering Mynah bird who has an English vocabulary of 78 words, will be heard on Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight broadcast this evening. Tom, a member of the Starling family, will demonstrate his ora torical prowess as one of the Al len amateurs. Stars and music of the “Stan ford Gaieties,” Stanford universi ty’s musical show, will be heard during a special broadcast by Tom Coakley and his Hotel St. Francis dance orchestra over KGO at 10:30 tonight. Participating in the program will be a group of leading members of the cast of the "Gaieties,” includ ing Shirley Jones, “Bud” Bern hardt, Larry Randall, Norman Sears, Art Spaulding, Fred Clark, Fred Nagel, Pete Peck, and Bob Mallett, together with “Doodles” Weaver, “Mad Monk of Modern Music,” and “Cab” Calloway, Stan ford varsity football star. In addition, Coakley will present Dudley Nix, former member of the Coakley orchestra, who returned to Stanford last semester and wrote two songs for the “Gaieties” which he will sing during the pro gram. The entire show was writ ten, produced, and acted by Stan ford students. * * * Fritzi Scheff, renowned the world over as Victor Herbert's “Kiss Me Again” girl, detests the song. “It's always, Fritzi. sing that one.’ Bah!” she exclaims. “I'll show them yet that Fritzi's got rhythm,” Bi -I BS Programs Today 3:00—Woman's Magazine. NBC. | 6:00 Andre Kostelanetz' orches tra, KOIN. KSL. 630 Refreshment time. Ray No ble's orchestra. Connie Boswell. A1 Bowlly. and The Freshman. KSL. KOIN. 7:00—Vince program. NBC. 9:00— Town Hall Tonight. KPO, 10:30—“Stanford Gaieties” stars; Tom Coakley's orchestra. KGO and network, , , PE Association Meets in Portland ‘Service to Community’ Is Theme of Convention February 21 and 22 About 500 members of the north west district of the American Physical Education association are expected to attend the group's first Portland convention to be held at the Heathman hotel February 21 and 22, according to Miss Evelyn Hasenmayer, women’s physical education director at Reed college. The theme of the convention will be “service to the community.” Among those to speak are Charles A. Rice, superintendent of Portland schools; Dr. John F. Bovard, presi dent of the northwest district of APEA, and dean of the school of physical education at uie Univer sity; Dr. Charles A. Howard, superintendent of public education; Marshall N. Dana, assistant editor of the Portland Journal; James Phelan, U. of W. coach; and Earl E. Boushey, assistant professor of physical eduaction at the Univer sity. Demonstrations Planned Demonstrations have been ar ranged at various places in the city in health, physical education, and recreational work by Robert Krohn, supervisor of physical edu cation in Portland. The following have been ap pointed committee heads: Clair Langton, OSC; Miss Florence Al der, U of O; Miss Evelyn Hasen mayer, Reed; Paul R. Washke, U. of O; Robert Krohn, Portland pub lic schools; Mrs. Jean Matheisen, Holladay school; and Miss Natalie Reickert, OSC. Varsity ‘"O’ Ball (Continued from page one) son’s backfield aces in a tricky shift. Stellar performers are said to be Romey DePittard, Vernon Moore, Dale LaSalle, Leif Jacob son, and Tony “Pavlova” Amato. Individual dances and vocal se lections are scheduled by several members of the troupe. Dance music will be provided by Art Holman's band, which was well-known on the campus before leaving to fill an engagement with the National Broadcasting com pany. Lettermen Sell Tickets Lettermen have been busy the past week selling tickets for their big social event, the pasteboards selling for 75 cents. Posters were placed in living organizations Tuesday, and several were distrib uted in Corvallis inviting Oregon State students who come over to see the basketball game to stay for the ball. Calendar (Continued from Page one) No exchange desserts or dinners may be scheduled this week by any campus living organization, ac cording to announcement from the dsau cf women'a oiir.e. The dun: Paddock Defends ASU Against fPink’ Cries of Rilea Forum Hearings Up Tomorrow Each Pair of Contestants Allowed 20 Minutes in Jewett Contest Preliminary hearings for all for um entries in the Jewett radio con test will be held Thursday after noon, February 22, in room 218 Friendly hall. A list of available 20-minute pe riods is posted outside of John L. Casteel’s office and contestants may sign up for preliminary hear ings between 2:30 and 5:30 today. Those having made appoint ments are Walter Eschbeck and Avery Combs, Cliff Speaker and Don Serrell, Betty L. Brown and Mary E. Bailey, Freed Bales and Jason Lee, Howard Kessler and Minoru Yasui. Ten pairs of students have sub mitted manuscripts which have been corrected by Mr. Casteel. In structors in the speech department will be judges and eliminations will be made on the basis of manu scripts submitted and effectiveness of presentation. The final contest which is limit ed to six entries will be held Wed nesday evening, February 26. En tries in form of discussions or in terviews to be read as dialogues between two persons will be pre sented over the public address ap paratus of the speech division. Persons not connected with the University will be judges for the final contest and entries for the $20, $15, and $5 prizes contributed from the Wilson E. Jewett fund will be judged from the standpoint of content and value for future ra dio presentation. The interest and informational value of the subject will be considered along with the effectiveness with which the dis cussion is adapted to radio broad cast. Graduates May Study Government Thirty College Alumni Will Get Federal Internships In Nation’s Capital Oregon graduates will have a chance to spend a year at Wash ington, D. C., studying the national government at close hand accord ing to a plan perfected by the National Institute of Public Af fairs at the capital. Thirty graduates of universities and colleges throughout the country will be selected for intern ships in connection with the de partments of the federal govern ment. These internships provide a chance to combine practical ex crawl, scheduled for tonight “is the reason for the decision. Des serts or dinners may be arranged for Friday night, however. Westminster 38-38 club meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock. John Lu vaas will tell of his recent trip to Indianapolis where he attended the Student Volunteer movement con vention. “The American Student Union seeks, peace, economic security for students, academic freedom and racial equality.” With this simple statement o£ program, Charles Paddock, tem porary chairman of the recently formed ASU chapter, defended his organization against the attack of Brigadier-General T. E. Rilea, who branded the student group as ‘'ping” in a statement to the Unit ed Press in Salem Monday. “If our aims are ‘communism’ or a ‘pink’ program then we ad mit the charge,” continued Pad dock. “The ASU knows that any organization which is willing to face social issues squarely is in danger of being labeled radical. This risk we accept, because we feel that the American campus needs our program.” Rilea made his statement Mon day upon learning that an ASU chapter had been formed on the U. of O. campus. He had just re turned from a five weeks’ trip east. Paddock also condemns this state ment on the basis that it is unfair. “Rilea,” says Paddock, “brands us as ‘communistic’ when he has not even taken the trouble to investi gate our organization.” The local group in the ASU will probably fully affiliate with the national at their next meeting, to be held Thursday. Election of of ficers will also take place at this meeting. The ASU chapter was formed when the group which met for pur pose of forming such a chapter voted not to have any tie with the national. It formed a separate en tity known as the Oregon Student Federation. The two groups are not to be confused. Donald Moe Joins Steamship Staff Donald K. Moe, well-known golf er and member of the Walker team, and graduate of 1933, has joined the staff of the McCormick Steamship company in Portland, as a district freight agent in charge of northbound coastwise freight. Mr. Moe passed his Oregon state bar examinations in the summer of 1933, is a member of Phi Delta Phi, law honorary, and was a member of the Order of the O and Friars. perience and theoretical study. “The new program,’’ said Dr. James H. Gilbert, dean of the school of social science, “is in keep ing with the modern movement for better trained public officials in which theoretical instruction is combined with an actual appren ticeship in some department of the government, either national, state, or local.’’ The internships will begin Sep tember 14, 1936 and the students will remain in residence until June 2, 1937. The interns will be ex pected to meet their own living ex penses, but the rest of the training costs will be met by the institute. The interns will be full-time as sistants to government officials, and they will be allowed to attend conferences and seminars con ducted by legislators, press corre spondents, lobbyists, and educators. Applications must reach the national institute not later than Monday, March 16. 1936. Informa tion and application blanks may be obtained from the scholarship committee, National Institute of Public Affairs, Washington, D. C. Results of Test Offer Hope for Frequent Misspellers Do you often have term papers handed back well decorated with red marks through misspelled words? Well, if oyu do, don't feel too bad. You're not alone in your predicament. The regular examination of would-be substitute teachers in New Yrotk disclosed that many of the candidates, all of whom were colelge graduates and some of whom held master's degrees, fre quently misspelled such words as “balance,” “stomach,” and “changeable,” and other fairly common words. When asked for “able” or “ible” forms of certain words, the candi dates also didn't know that ‘'dirig ible” is derived from “direct,” that “irascible” comes from "irate,'’ or that “incorrigible" comes from “incorrect." But that wasn't so bad. some of the pro fessors at teacher's college, Colum bia university didn't know either. Of IS professors interviewed by a New York Sun reporter, 12 erred on “dirigible,'* four on “incorig ible,” and 11 on "irascible.” 1 Uls information v. as gleaned from a clipping from the New York Sun which had been sent to Professor S. Stephenson Smith. May We Suggest Don’t Count on Fisherman’s Luck to find your lost articles. to get that ride to Port laud for the game. to sec the rest of the students know that you ran type out their term papers. Use Emerald Classified Ads For Results