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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon EDITORIAL OFFICES: Journalism building. Phone 3300 — Editor, I .oral 354 ; News Room and Managing Editor. 353. BUSINESS OFFICE: McArthur Court. Phone 3300—Local 214. MEMBERS OF MAJOR COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Represented by A. T. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York Citv; 123 W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. Robert W- Lucas, editor Eldon Haberman, manager Clair Johnson, managing editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Ed Hanson, cartoonist Virginia Endicott, news editor Charles Paddock, sports editor Ed Robbins, chief night editor Mildred Blackburnc, exchange editor Woodrow Truax, radio editor Miriam Eichner, literary editor Marge Petsch, woman’s editor Louise Anderson, society editor LeRoy Mattingly, Wayne llar bert, special assignment re porters. EDITORIAL BOARD Hcnricftc Ilorak, William Marsh, Dan K. Clark II, TToward Kessler, Trim McCall, Fred Colvig, Bob Moore, Mary Graham, secretary to the board. __5 REPORTERS: Lloyd Tupling, Paul Dcutschmann, Ruth Lake, Ellamac Wood worth, Rob Pollock, Signe Rasmussen, Marie Rasmussen, Wilfred Roadman, Roy Knudsen, Fulton Travis, Betty Brown, Bob Emer 6on, Gladys Battleson, Lillian Warn, Elizabeth Stetson. Bill Pease, Gerald Crisman, Iienryetta Mtimmey, George Knight, Norman Scott, Mildted Blackburne, Irmajcan Randolph, Edgar Moore, Helen Dodds. COPYREADERS: Beulah Chapman, Gertrude Carter, Marguerite Kelley, Jean Cul Dvsoit, Lucille Davis, Dave Conkey, Jerry Stunner, Phyllis Baldwin. Charles Eaton. Cdfriene Antrim. Alice Nelson, Tom Allen, Hubard Knokka, Virginia Regan, Juanita Potter. Librarian and secretary, Pearl Jean Wilson. Assistant Managing Editor, this issue LeRoy Mattingly_ Day Editor, this issue Pat Frizzell Night Editors, this issue Jack Bryan Gale Putnam lien Forbes Assistant Night Editors, this issue Marjorie O'Bannon Peggy Jane Feebler BUSINESS STAFF Dick Sleight, promotion man ager , . Walter Vcrnslrom, circulation manager; assistant Toni Lu cas Betty Wagner, national adver tising manager; assistant, Jane Slatky Caroline Hand, executive sec retary Advertising Manager, this issue Assistants Don Chapman Tom Allen. Bill Rice OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Jean Krfer, June Hint, Georgette Wilhelm, Lucille Hon. unci, Louise Johnson, Jane Slatky, Lucy Downing, Uctte Nccdliam, Betty Wagner, Marilyn Kbi, Dorothy M&hulaic._ The Oregon Daily Emerald will not be responsible for returning unsolocitcd manuscripts. Public letters should not be more than 300 words in length and should be accompanied by the writer’s signature and address which will be withheld it requested. All communications are subject to the discretion ot the editors. Anonymous letters will be disregarded.______ ~ The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication ot the University of Oregon, Eugene, published only during the college year, except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, exun.'uation periods, all of December except the first seven days, a 1 of Starch except the first eight days. Entered as second-class m .Iter Kt the postcfifice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $w.5Q a >ca.. Change Is Not Wrong But There Is a Way |N a letter printed elsewhere on this page, ■*- Gordon Connelly says in effect that the "active minority" on the campus is not composed of liberals. Mr. Connelly believes that the conserva tive minority on the campus is the group mis representing the University. Now what iH meant by "liberal minority" and “conservative minority" and all that stuff? • * » There are a few students that think a great deal on matters of social Importance. They not only think on these matters but act on them as well. They have little respect for the state board of higher education—believing it to be too con servative and timorous to assure any speed, and this group believes that the people and only the people should have the say in a democracy. Con sequently when a matter of educational impor tance arises, this group of students takes it before the Granges, Townsend clubs, and labor unions, who in turn place it on the ballot and thow their collective weight behind its passage. The group at the University may well be called the liberal minority. # a> * Now, as Mr. Connelly indicates In his letter, the large part of the Oregon student body may and has agreed in principle with the liberal stu dent. But the majority of Oregon students find distasteful the methods of the minority and see in those methods lurking dangers to higher edu cation. The direct control by the electorate, re gardless of constituted authority, has never been conducive to efficiency in this country. Those who argue that higher education is primarily a matter for the direct consideration of the electorate are apt to be the same group that would deprecate the principle of the American constitution as be ing a needless check on a progressive society. The republican form of democracy provides for representatives through which the people gov ern themselves. If the chosen representatives are ignored, republican demoearey falls and the chaos of mass-dictatorship takes its place. In the ab sence of chosen representatives the power of the electorate, uncontrolled, and unadvised my roll through any measure it deems expedient whether the measure be economically sound or not. * SI * Hight now, any group that will organize the minority can slam through the government any plan that it wishes. And the labor groups, the Townsend clubs and the Granges now hold the ace. * * » It is about time for someone to organize the majority group with its eyes not primarily on suppression of the opposition op disagreement with its principles, but with the firm conviction that republican democracy must be re-estab lished. In other words, if an individual believes that specialized tasks call for specialists, and a technical process is best administered by a tech nician, let him say so. And if there is disagree ment with the essential wisdom of the manner in which functions are discharged by the chosen official—change the official but keep his office. No, he isnt' dreaming. Nor is he walking in his sleep. It doesn't really look like love either, hut you never can tell. You don’t know what’s wrong? You should have guessed by now Spring ja in the air: Junior Weekend Goes A'Begging ONE of the University of Oregon's most color ful and well-established traditions, Junior Weekend, is but two months away. Tt is a big: affair involving the expenditure of a goodly sum of money and includes the manipulation of many details and persons. The personnel for administration of Junior Weekend is appointed by the president of the junior class. At present there is no president and there is no vice-president since both have been declared ineligible. There is little reason to wait for a meeting and decision of the scholarship committee as to the possible eligibility of onetime Vice-president Carmen Curry. Since she did not hold office this fall term it would seem to be a reasonable inter pretation of the constitution that she be ineligible by virtue of the provision demanding that persons elected to office must must assume their official duties the fall term after they have been elected. sit * # A Junior Weekend chairman and committee must be .appointed soon if the affair is to equal past performances. It is rumored that there are approximately 50 members of the junior class who are in good enough standing to vote in class elections. "Good standing” of course refers to ASUO membership and class membership. It might be a very good idea if these 50 stu dents rallied around for a short meeting, picked the best they could find for chairmanship ot Junior Weekend, and started this thing clicking. A Tragic Reminder To Canoeists A NNTJALLY the Emerald sounds a warning to millrace canoeists to he careful. This year the warning comes too late. Saturday Clifford Flowers met his death when a canoe he was paddling got caught in a current and overturned. The University sorrows with young Flowers’ parents and relatives over his untimely passing. His many friends mourn. It was a pathetic ex ample; it is an unfortunately strong warning to canoeists to watch their step. Ordinarily the millrace is not very dangerous. Early in the year, however, its currents are very strong. Attention and care are necessary. Non swimmers should carry life preservers. Even competent swimmers should be aiert. A drowning to sound a warning is a very sorrowful occurrence. It is one of those “too had” accidents which we cannot help now. But in pass ing Flowers serves to save other lives. His death will stand as an unhappily vivid reminder to all to be more careful. The Safety Valve Letters published in this column should not be construed ns expressing the editorial opinion of the Emerald. Anony mous contributions will be disregarded. The names of ocm niunicants will, however, be regnrded ns 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. Editor, the Emerald: Students at the University should appreciate the efforts of the Emerald editors in trying ;it all times to work out a feasible program for fee collection, financing of athletics, purging of politics, and for all campus activities. The edi tors have continually had the best interests of the University in mind, and have done much to destroy the animosity so prevalent here between the slightly different groups known as radicals and conservatives. The leadership in the formula tion of the “Opinion Steering Committee” to determine the true campus attitude regarding im portant educational issues is of such calibre. In naming this committee, however, the edi tors defined the purpose as determining and representing the whole Oregon sentiment on issues in order that an active minority could not fool the people of the state as to the real public opinion here. The Emerald's big mistake was its statement that this active minority was composed of liberals. The opposite is the case. It is the conservative minority that misrepresents the Uni versity. My friend, Jim Blais, signed an argument with four other higher education student proxies in favor of compulsory fees, and just because Jim was the ASUO head, the Oregon Journal and other active proponents of compulsion in fees stated that the majority of students here were in favor of compulsory fees. Such was entirely with out proof. All possible indications were that the optionalists had the preference, as noted in the following cases: Dan Clark II conducted a survey on the campus between classes asking how stu dents stood on the issue 75 out of 100 were for voluntary fee collection. In an Emerald staff vote there was an overwhelming vote for optional fees. ' Unconsciously, too, I believe, the editors have helped to increase that unfair distinction between our campus groups known as radical and con servative. There is but one difference between the two. Those who are asked to wear the name “radicals,” which connotes bomb-thrower, free lover, destnictionist, and Communist, merely have thought about serious problems and upon reach ing a conclusion have prefered to act their con victions demand action as a duty. The other group which applies these handy shibboleths are the conservatives. In turn they arc branded “re actionary,” who would he the opponents of im provement. I'm certain that misunderstanding is the basis of the verbal warfare, and as one who has been falsely termed “Red," “atheist," and “parlor pink," 1 know that those most active in the at tempt to gain optional ROTC are not Communists in any sense, but sincere patriots who love this country as they love the rest of the world. They believe that over-preparedness is the facilitation of all war. and that governments exist only to insure absolute personal liberty to the individual. When individuals are forced to learn the methods of murder, whether for aggression or defense, that governmental purpose is destroyed with the destruction of liberty and peace. Gordon M. Connelly. By the way whether it be gladsome tidings or just a warning this is the last week of the Emerald this term. As an after thought it might be well to mention that exams start Thursday, Ilarch 1-'. The Marsh of Time By Bill Marsh A iittle birdie fold us that Alex ander Franklin Eagle, Jr., has a magic carpet secreted along with a couple of skeletons in the closet of his apartment. According to the rumor which is making the rounds, papa Eag will take anybody on a round trip magic-carpet cruise for the trifling expenditure of a few moments of time. It seems that the only think you have to do is whisper, “Toyko,” or “Nippin Yusen Kaisha” or "Gei sha” (Geisha is usually the most effective password) . . . and whis per it into Al's ear. Then, with a great whistling and rustling of wind, the carpet takes off, and away you go to strange, exotic lands that lie far across the infin ite expanse of the western sea. Seems like that might he a mighty fine way to travel. No passports . . . no annoying prob lems of getting money exchanged ... no rickshaw coolies to holler for “cunisliaws” ... no Japanese taxi drivers to scare a year1’* growth out of you every time they round a corner. * * * Up in northern Idaho they've been having such heavy rainstorms that normally dry sinks and creek bottoms are overflowing and do ing their best to turn the range land into an inland sea. The would-be floods are not dan gerous. But they are so deep that the jackruhldts have all had to take to the sagebrush to keep from drow ning. I didn’t think there was enough sagebrush in the world to take care of all the jackrabbtts there are in Idaho. There must be liter ally millions of them. It's a strange feeling to be driving through the state and notice tire dead rabbits that are strewn all along the high ways. I don't suppose anyone ever tried to estimate the number of jacks that are killed by autos each year. But. although it's usually im possible to drive for more than 30 seconds without seeing at least on? dead rabbit, the high fatality rate doesn’t seem to decrease their teeming numbers a bit. At least, Idaho lias the distinc tion of being one state out of the IS wherein the highways kill more animals than they do men and wo men. $ ifc * Eighteen students at the Uni versity of North Carolina were given tlie well known boot a while ago. Seventeen of them were giv en their dismissal papers on the basis of cheating, and one, the ringleader, was told to scram on an alleged charge of misconduct. It seems that the group had or ganised a nice, soft racket, right within the college itself. They were securing advance copies of exam ination questions and preparing advance copies of examination i questions and preparing themes and qulzy.es. These bits of infor mation were then sold to needy students at a standard scale of priees, They worked it by the remark ably simple expedient of getting ; one of the university printers and ‘ mimeograph artists on the inside. They cut him in on the profits . . . he gave them the necessary pa pers. The members of the mob ware scattvXd throughout the va rious colleges of the university, and they reported to headquarters whenever a quizz or exam in their department was coming up. So, while they were functioning, (here was hardly an examination given that they didn’t have the questions to ... in advance , . , for a price. Probably the only way the fac ulty got win of the whole thing was by their suspicion when grades in general began to skyrocket like a 1928 stock quotation. Air Y’ ❖ Listenin’? By Jimmy Morrison Emerald of the Air Archie Parrott, campus band leader who at an early age played intermission numbers for George Olsen's band in Portland, will be heard over KOHJE at 3:45 today playing popular piano selections. Local Bands Archie Parrott's band, augment ed to nine pieces, a stick waver, and a girl singer, played a com mendable job for the paper makers in Camas, Washington, Saturday night. In spite of the fact that the boys had to blow hard to be heard by the large crowd, the music was good, and Archie stands a fine chance of getting the Bungalow summer job at Seaside when he plays a tryout job there next week end. Of course nearly every band in Oregon is after the B ungalow job, but why not? You rehearse a lit tle in the afternoon, play at night, and lie around on the beach be fore and after. Archie Loveland's band is probably Archie Parrott's nearest competition for the job, al though Dan Flood, Buck McGow an, Kenny Allen., and Johnny Busch are also in the race. The Air Angle Meredith Willson’s orchestra will be heard in another of America’s “folk songs of tomorrow” pro grams at 7:30 tonight. The half hour of continuous tempo includes hits from “The Jazz Singer” and “The Big Broadcast of 1936,” and Tin Pan Alley past and present hits. Ben Bernie and all the lads will be heckled on their American Can broadcast in Miami tonight by Ed die Cantor, Parkyakarkas, and Jimmy Wellington. ‘‘From Can to Cantor,” the Ol’ Maestro observes. The program will be a combination of the typical broadcasts of the two comedians, aided by incidental stooges. Lawrence Tibbett, noted dramat-1 ic baritone, will pay tribute to his I fellow headliner, Ray Noble, when he sings the popular composer conductor’s new song, “If You Love Me,’’ as a highlight of hi3 Packard program with Don Voor hees’ orchestra at 5:30 this after noon. While this charming melody has been heard over the air sev eral times since the author intro duced it on his own program, this will mark the first time it has been featured as a vocal solo. On the Casa Loma program to night: Deane Janis will sing one of the season's hits, “Lights Out,” while Kenny Sargent will offer “Ev'ry Time I Look at You,” and Pee Wee Hunt will feature “Swing, Mr. Charlie.” The Casa Loma boys will play “The Royal Garden Blues” and “Do You Ever Think of Me.” ISBC-CBS Programs Today 3:00 Woman's Magazine. NBC. 5:30—Lawrence Tibbett. KSL, KOIN. 6:00 Bon Bernie and All the Lads. KPO, KGW. 6:30—Fire Chief Srow. KPO. 7:30—Music America Sings. KGO. 8:30 — Camel Caravan. KSL, KOIN. 9:00 — Waring's Pennsylvan ians. KOIN. ZTA House-mother Arrive s To Take Over Duties Mrs. A. J. Gillis, new house mother of the Zeta Tail Alphas, who arrived here from Seattle Sun day, March 1, spent many years of her life in the Yukon region of Alaska, going there during the stampede to the Klondike in the gold rush days, and returning to the United States in 191S. There she and her doctor hus band, who acted as surgeon, dent ist, and veterinary, for the town of Dawson and the surrounding district and treated everything from humans to chickens, lived an active, outdoor life, making fre qquent canoe trips and camping in the wilderness for weeks at a time. Much of her traveling was done by dog sled, she stated, saying that tale after tale could be told of the wonderful intelligence shown by the dog teams, some of which were composed of St. Bernards, some of which were decorated with bright colored blankets and silver bells. While there Mrs. Gillis was worthy organizing matron for the Yukon uupt-r number one of tue Order of the Eastern Star. Conditions during the gold rush were picturesque, she declared, 'out they have been exaggerated in re cent movies where gamblers are shown to run rampant over river steamers and heroes are shown to endure hardships "possible but not probable.” Mrs. Gillis believes that living in the North where people are taken at their face value and not for what their parents were “broadens people and gives them experiences which could not be duplicated in any other part of the world." Her cure for the trivialities and pettiness of life is several years in the Yukon, which teaches tolerance of the other person's mode of life. Mrs. Gills has°also traveled to the opposite extreme, in Hawaii, but prefers the North, stating th,rt if things were still in a pioneering stage as they were when she first went to live there, she would 'go back tomorrow," a feeling which she believes all other people who ha\e lived in the North share. Poetry Reading i Contest Week Set Casteel Gives Conditions of Event; $40 Offered in Prize Money The annual VV. F. Jewett poetry reading contest will be held during the week of April 20-24, John L. Casteel, director of the speech di vision, announced last night. Contestants will read a selection from each of three types of poetry, lyrics, sonnets, and blank verse. The selections are chosen by the contestant from a list compiled by the drama and speech division. These departments are jointly sponsoring the contest. The aim of the contest is to stimulate the appreciation of poetry through effective oral read ing from memory and the contest ants may introduce selections with such comment as they wish to make. Prizes of $20, $15, and $5 will be offered. The general procedure will correspond to the plan used last year. , Required ROTC (Continued from page one) faculty will vote on a petition first presented last month asking- the body to refer the ROTC question to the state board of higher educa tion. The petition carried about 700 names asking for discontinuance of all military courses on a compul sory basis. It was originated by an Oregon Committee for Peace and Freedom and in the petition it is contended that: 1. Compulsory military training amounts to discrimination against University men. 2. The course is primarily mili tary, not educational. Compulsory ROTC Advocated The committee for the general welfare upheld compulsory train ing on the grounds that: 1. The University of Oregon, for financial reasons, can not under take the support of optional ROTC because of the danger of losing federal support, in view of the fact that such support is derived from the present system of having the ROTC training required. 2. Under optional military there would be a falling off of enroll ment . . . and adds an uncertainty of continuance of this course. 3. We have not heard of anyone taking this course, who would ob ject to leaving it under its present status, that did not have selfish motives for this change. 4. All citizens are responsible. State Board May Decide In the event that the faculty ac cepts the petition of optional mili tarists, the future of the question will be left in the hands of the state board. “If the faculty or the state board refuses to heed our collective voice, an initiative appears inevitable. Liberal sentiment in Oregon is too strong to allow such groups to per vert i t s democratic function,” Charles Paddock, leader in the op tional ROTC movement, declared yesterday. Infirmary Progresses With the cement pouring fin ished last Saturday on the second floor and the columns of the new infirmary, workmen are now busy putting up the forms for the third floor walls and the columns. Stripping of the forms from the basement is now going on, and the carpenters are working with a full crew on form work and inside re enforcement. Commonwealth Meet Here March mi Martin and Hunter Will Speak; Parsons Plans 3-Day Session Governor Martin and Chancellor F\ M. Hunter will be guest speak ers at the annual Commonwealth conference to be held on the cam pus March 19 to 21, according to announcement of Dr. P. A. Par sons, head of the department of sociology and general chairman of the conference. The kick-off luncheon will be a joint affair for all conferences in session the first day. Governor Martin will speak. Bight Sessions Listed The eight sessions arc mining and geology, League of Oregon Cities, chamber of commerce executives, community recreation, social security, rural land zoning, governmental structure, and stream purification. Experts in each of these fields will preside and lead discussions. Dr. Hunter will speak on “The Relation of Education to Good Municipal Government” at the an nual dinner of the League of Ore gon Cities March 19. Carson Will Speak Other speakers will be Clifford W. Ham, director of the National Municipal association, Chicago; Mayor Joseph Carson, Portland: and Emery Asbury, principal of Galt junior high school, Tacoma. Community leaders, mining ex perts, city and other government officials, and chamber of commerce secretaries interested in commun ity recreation, social security, rural land zoning, stream purification and other projects will attend the conference. Committee to Decide Dr. Parsons will meet with the conference committee to decide on further plans fror the convention today. Members of the directorate are James H. Gilbert, dean of social science, in charge of the program for chamber of commerce groups; Miss Florence D. Alden, professor of physical education, in charge of recreation; Eric W. Allen, dean of the journalism school; Miss Moz elle Hair, head of correspondence study, in charge of exhibits; Mrs. Genevieve Turnipseed in charge of dinners; Karl W. Onthank, dean of personnel administration, in charge of rooms; Herman Kehrli, director of the bureau of municipal re search, in charge of the League of Oregon Cities; and George H. Godfrey, associate in the news bur eau, in charge of publicity. The conference is being held this year during spring vacation so that the dormitory will be available for meals. SWEET AS HONEY i THE ONE AND ONLY r Starts Sweet Smokes Sweet Stays Sweet NOTHING ELSE HAS ITS FLAVOR Also Imperial Ytllo Boh $1.50 Were I But a Boy Were I but a boy again Without a single care, Playing in a mountain- glen Or in some hidden lair; Running barefoot all day long As happy as can be. Flying kites or catching birds, Oh, boy, I envy thee. Oh, boy, I envy thee, Thou hast thy life to live. Knowledge, power and wealth are things To gain and then to give; Thou hast the key to riches, To everything worth while— Use it. e're it rusts, my boy. • And use it with a smile. —Franklin Lee Stevenson. POOLE FUNERAL HOME Office of Lane County Coroner If you need us, we will endeavor to give a service of quiet, dignified and refined excellence.