THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
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Mildred Blackburnc, exchange
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Miriam Kichncr, literary editor
Marge Pctsch, woman’s editor
Louise Anderson, society editor
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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.
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