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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1936)
®rc PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Robert W- Lucas, editor Eldon Haberman, manager Clair Johnson, managing editor TIPPER NEWS STAFF1 Erl Hanson, cartoonist Virginia Kndicott, news editor Charles Paddock, sports editor Erl Robbins, chief night editor Mildred Blackburne, exchange editor Woodrow Truax, radio editor Miriam Eichncr, literary editor Marge Petsch, woman’s editor Louise Anderson, society editor LcRoy Mattingly, Wayne Har* bert, special assignment re porters. Assistant Managing Editor, this issue Fred Colvig Day Editor, this issue Assistant Day Editor, this issue Peggy Chessman Margaret Ray Night Editors, this issue Assistant Night Editors, this issue Gerald Oilman William Sanford Lillian Warn Helen Ferguson BUSINESS STAFF Dick Sleight, promotion man ager . , . Walter Vernstrom, circulation manager; assistant Toni Lu Hetty wanner, national anver tising manager; assistant, Jane Slatky Caroline Hand, executive »ec* retary Advertising Manager, this issue Assistants Patricia Neal Kathleen Duffy, Jane Lagassce, Dorothy Magnuson The Oregon 1 hilly Emerald, official student publication of the University of’Oregon, Eugene, published daily during the college vear, 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 postol’tice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.5U a year. Life of Mr. Finnegan, Or Fun at Fifty OLD Enoch Finnegan, the Flippervillc flash, rolled his eyes appreciatively at the assem bled audience, and prepared to relate once more the events that made him king of his kind. “See that scar?” he asked the little fellows in the front row, pointing to his throat. “See it, hey? Well, I got that in the winter of 1930.’’ Finnegan smoothed ids patriarchial white whis kers and savored of his adventure of long ago. “I was a big bull, bigger even than I am now,” lie began, surveying the group with ill concealed disdain. “They don't get ’em that big any more. I must have scaled 1500, and you know,” he added with dignity, “that's a lot of bull.” Finnegan's eyes grew dim with reminiscences. “One Jny. 1 told the old lady I was tired of sitting around in the cave being gawked at by a lot of plit-finnors, and X reckoned as how I'd do a little traveling on my own. Well, you know what a stir that caused,” he grinned, “but I was a stubborn cuss, .and the next day, sure enough I started up-river. , * t * “I didn’t see much for several days, bat one morning I spotted a big scow at the side of the river, so I though I’d just pop in to size up the situation.” Mr. Finnegan’s eyes began smolder. “Now you’ll hardly believe this, you young sters who have been taught never to point at anyone, but a split-finner came out of that shack and stuck a big rod in my face, and ‘BAM!’ (his hearers flipped their tails involuntarily, and gazed at their hero with eyes bulging) some thing tore through my neck and scared hell outa me! Then I made tracks! ‘‘Well, that’s an illustration of the way these split-finners receive guests. And I wasn't favor ably impressed by the way they stared at me, but,” and Mr. Finnegan lowered his eyes mod estly, "well, I put up a good show, and they seemed to like it. "I overheard a lot of conversation too, while I was playing around. There were a couple of slack-looking lads who talked about capturing me and putting me in a ‘mill-race,’ and feeding me with freshmen. Then one fellow said he guessed I had come up to put my name in the presidential primaries in Oregon, along with junk collectors and anyone else who felt like becoming a candidate. “But all I can say is, I figure we’re very fortunate here. It must be mighty dangerous in Split-Finland with those rods; and from what I heard, there are a lot of those chaps who would have liked to be out there with me, swatting fish and just swimming around.” Mr. Finnegan puffed thoughtfully at this con clusion, then turned to his wife, who sat admir ing her adventurous mate. "Throw me a ling, will you ma,” he said, "no, not one of the little ones.” Can’t Oregon D ama Be Given a Break? THE place for a drama department is in a building by itself where the members can concentrate on their work without bothering others. The drama department on this campus doesn’t like to be in Johnson hall and Johnson doesn’t want them there, cither. Why? Because the in adequate construction of the cramped, old fashioned stage makes it necessary to drag every bit of scenery, freshly painted or not, that comes into the building through the main entrance to Johnson hall. The scenery must be brought in in small impractical sections, because there is only one small door to the stage. No regular stage door. The necessity of using Guild hall as a class room for other work cuts out all rehearsals, there, in the mornings. The irregular hours of the drama department is the reason for keeping Johnson hall, the business center of the Univer sity, open to anyone at all hours of the night. The sounds of rehearsals bother others in the building during the afternoons. The whole set-up is inadequate and impractical. The University of Oregon drama department is trying to go somewhere, now, but the odds are against it. If they could have a building, auditor ium and stage, to themselves where nobody would bother them and where they couldn't bother any one, it wouldn’t bn long until the University of Oregon drama department would be enjoying the reputation its directors would like to, and could, give it. A German Student's Germany ml By Carl-Gustav Anthon /^NK would think that the .suppression of free ^ speech and free press would arouse a great opposition both among the newspaper world as well as the public. Germany was one of the most advanced and enlightened democratic states in the world, and yet the facts show that it was possible to reduce her back to the Prussian form .of government in less than three years. Ameri cans think that it must require the most despotic and tyrannical police methods to force such a narrow regimentation of thought on the German people. They imagine "present-day Germany to be in a state of barbaric terror where wholesale persecution.;, bloodshed and torturing are every day affairs. Actually, however, Germany presents no such dramatic scenes at all. In fact, foreign travelers again and again have expressed their amazement and admiration for the unequalled cleanliness, quiet and order of things in German communities as well as in the great cities. The policemen, im maculately uniformed and extremely well-man nered, are courteous to the point of exaggeration. Government and military officials arc very friend ly and accomodating, more sc oddly enough, to foreigners than to their own countrymen. it is surprising how willing the once indepen dent, democratic press yielded to the oncoming political wave. The case of the Ullstein Publishing company, publisher of the Berliner Morgenpost, the Berliner ZeiLung, the Vossische Zeitung, and various periodicals, vividly illustrates the un believably rapid metamorphosis from the most powerful publishing concern to a humble depen dent instrument of Dr. Goebbels. The wealthy Jewish Ullstein brothers found it wiser to adapt their business to the inevitable future, millions of property being involved, rather than running the risks that accompany determined opposition. In fact, the officials of the concern denounced the independent democratic ideas of some of its younger editors, leading finally to their resigna tion. In the end, however, despite such shrewd, unscrupulous business maneuvering the Ullstein brothers did not succeed in retaining their power. They were amply compensated by the govern ment for the loss of their property. Similar was the fate of the other newspapers. They merely interpreted the trend of the times and did what other people did. Today they are all co-ordinated. They hardly deserve the name "newspaper” any more. isFV i_Ol. saa m M u.i • © The Marsh of Time By Bill Marsh Congratulations, Toni. Your flair for doing the unexpected is an ad mirable trait, much to be envied. It’s great to be a really fine nut, isn’t it? And what would the world be without unpredictable people like you? I don’t know. But I’ve got a hunch it would be a pretty boring spot to live on. * * * Lullaby Hold your hats, folks, while I ask you what encephalitis is. Give up? Well that’s what you get when you go to sleep and don’t wake up . . . no, encephalitis isn’t a four-bit name for kicking the bucket . . . your heart keeps on beating, you keep breathing just as you cTo when sleeping. Encephalitis is a rare ailment, and so little is known about it that when cases of it do occur, doctors are usually at a loss to do anything about it. Take the girl in Chicago, Patricia Maguire, Oak Park’s “sleeping beauty,” who has been sleeping soundly for the last five years. She’s perfectly normal in all ways, except that she absolute ly won’t wake lip. Her health is perfect . . . and still she sleeps peacefully oil. Encephalitis, eh? By gum, I’ll bet a penny that's what Bob Hack ney has. a * * There's a tank-town collitch somewhere in Mississippi which charges tuition according to grades. Students earning all “A’s” pay only $75.00. As the grades go down, the tuition charges go up. The shortest way to a good grade is through the pocketbook, eh? But just think. Down there, if you flunked out of school you’d have to pay a couple of hundred bucks for tiie privilege of doing it. Qw! I si: tj: Latest dispatches from Europe and Great Britain indicate that over 200 people have perished, due to the extremely cold weather and freezing gales prevailing. And I’ll bet 190 of those victims met their untimely ends by slip ping on ice and smacking the backs of their heads forcibly against the pavement. Note how funny the campus looks these days. Everyone minc ing along, waving their arms around. Looks like a huge rehear sal class for interpretive dancing or something. Buenos Aires, South America, has a college which was graduat ing students one hundred years before Harvard . . * I expect a check from Yale most any day now. * Si * Optimism I suppose that writers who turn out crook and detective fiction for so long as Charles Francis Coe has, become suspicious by proxy, as it were. At any rate, the aforemen tioned Mr. Coe, determined to prove to his wife that roulette wheels in casinos were crooked, took Mrs. Coe to the Casino in Ha vana. Mrs. Coe placed a $5 bet . . . the wheel was spun, and it heeled nicely to her number . . . she col lected $500.00. Mr. Coe spent the rest of the day sulking in the shade of a palm tree. * * * There’s a silver lining to every cloud, even the darkly ominous one of politics, national, state, and local. Out. of the stinking welter of mud-slinging, oratorical nails driven into ridiculous political planks, and election promises con sisting of equal parts of guff, ba loney, and hot air, arises the cheer ful thought that in most cases, thank God, only one of the aspir ing candidates can be elected! Air Y' ❖ Listenin’? By Jimmy Morrison linn-raid of the Air That popular entertaining team Neil Gee anil Chuck French—will be heard again today at 11:40 with popular and vocal and piano num bers. The Air Angle Deane Janis, the Caravan’s feat-, ured songstress who won high ranking among radio’s favorite' singers in a recent nationwide poll of radio editors, will sing “Star dust" as a highlight of the Camel Caravan program with Glen Gray’s Casa Loma orchestra to night. Other vocal features will include (Please turn to page four) Student Library (Continued from fatjc one) said. Two other doctors were called in for immediate consultation on the suspected case and are keeping the patient under isolated observa tion now. The length of the ban on social events was not set by Dr. Miller but definitely carried through the coming weekend and until further notice. The inter-dorm, Delta Tail Delta, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Kappa, and Sigma Nu dances were affected by the ruling. Those students in the University infirmary are Margaret Harbaugh, Jean Larson, Walter Kngele, Dewey Paine, George Wililams, Roger Pendell, Robert Barnes, Robert Teepe, Rape Park, Cyrus Cook, and Edel Bryant. The 11 patients in the Pacific hospital from the University are Frank Beers, Ralph Cathey, Wes ley Gudcrian, Jack Hazlitt, Daniel Jordan, Jay Langston. Bernard Nelson, Alfredo Fajardo, Richard Roberts, Harirson Winston, and Keneth Wood. Or. iMillrr lians (Continued from f'oie one) Portland yesterday and today at tending an alumni meeting regard ing the plans for rai.--.ing funds for furnishing the browsing room of the new library, and could not be reached for comment. Mrs Marian Watts, reference librarian, said that students, often .'ail to ask for information when unable to find the material for themselves. Very few people know how to use the Reader's guides and 'International guides which contain a classified list of articles pub lished in all national and interna tional magazines. Miss Rise learn;.! her . a.- a: -• work at Columbia university, and then returned to the University of Oregon, where she has since been applying her knowledge of library book-distribution. The system used in the University, she said, is sim ilar to the systems used all over the United States, and is one of the simplest types available. Lack of Funds Hinders Because of the inability to get more funds some of the library’s periodicals have been stopped, the librarians said. If the magizines are in the bindery students will be allowed to get them. In the specialized departments of the English reserve and Condon library, less difficulty in helping students is encountered. The only confusion in these departments re sults when students are seeking books without knowing either the title or the author, said the librar ian. Health Week (Continued from page one) ferent groups are: Fredrica Mer rill, Delta Delta Delta; Marion Beth Wolfenden, Alpha Phi; Mar tha McCall. Pi Beta Phi; Gaylle Meyer. Hendricks hall; Jewell Bow man, Alpha Omicron Pi; Jean Paulsen, Chi Omega; Ruth Lake, Zcta Tau Alpha; Nann Brownlie Kappa Alpha Theta; Elaine Good ell, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Faye Buchanan, Alpha Chi Omega; Alice Rogers, Alpha Gamma Delta; Jane Brewster, Gamma Phi Beta; Jean Beard, Alpha Delta Pi: Hazel Mc Brian. Delta Gamma; Helen Row, Alpha Xi Delta; Dorothy Elson sohn, Phi Mu; Lorraine Hunt, Sigma Kappa. Senior Cops Officiate Girls assisting Helen Bartrum, chairman of the week, include J a n e Bogue, Frances Watzek, Regan McCoy, Irene Schaupp, Phyllis Adams, and Marge Petseh. Members of the Senior Cops are Reva Herns, Ebba Wicks, Dorothy Bergstrom, Roberta Moody, Peggy Chessman. Henriette Horak, Adele Sheehy, Nancy Lou Cullers, Mary McCracken. Marvel Tvviss, Elaine Sorenson, Margaret Ann Smith, Virginia Younie and Marge Petseh. E. r. < Coni imu'd front f>oiie one) notices of both London and New York. The Daily Telegraph, re porting a recital in London, spoke of his "most finished playing” and said that "he used his resources with the ease and certainty of one to whom the organ loft has yielded all its secrets.” Wen Scholarships Winning the Thomas Threfall open organ scholarship at the Royal Academy. Mr. Biggs studied organ under the famous G. D. Cunningham: piano with Claude Pollard; and composition with J. A. Sov. ubutt; He also' v. on' the' Hu* bert Kiver open organ prize at the Royal Academy. He broadcast from British Broadcasting corporation studios and worked with His Master's Voice Gramaphone company. He was chosen by Sir Henry Wood to play several times with the or chestra at Queen’s hall, and in ad dition was chosen to play at the annual prize giving ceremonies be fore the Duke of Connaught at Queen’s hall. Mr. Biggs was elected a sub professorship on the staff of the Royal Academy and also is an as sociate of the institution. Wins High Praise in States Coming to America the follow ing year, his debut recital at the Wannemaker auditorium in New York received high praise; the New York World saying that “an exact ing program demonstarted beyond question that he is one of the fore most organists of the day," and at Fort Worth, Texas, critics said that “he could play better with his feet than many organists can with their hands.” His program tonight represents a summary of different periods of composition for the organ, com mencing with the works of the 18th century masters, Bach and Handel, and including the romantic school of composers of 19th cen tury as represented by Liszt, and ending with the modern French compositions of the 20th century. The recital is presented under the auspices of Mu Phi Epsilon, upperclass national music honor ary. The funds will be used for its scholarship fund. COpynght 1839, The American Toiiiwj Company OF RICH, RIPE-BODIED TOBACCO Luckies are less acid. 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