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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 - Erlitor, Local 354; News Room and Managing Editor, 353. BUSINESS OFFICE: McArthur Court. Phone 3300—Local 214. MEMBERS OF MAJOR COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Represented bv A. T. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York City: 121 \V. 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 Assistant Managing Editor, this issue Wayne Harbert Day Editor, this issue Margaret Ray Night Editors, this issue Ben Forbes Edgar Moore Assistant Night Editors, this issue Martha Felshcim Advertising Manager, this issue Don Chapman The Oregon Daily Kmcrald will not he responsible for returning unsoiocitcd manuscripts. Public letters should not be more than 3U0 words in length and should be accompanied by the writer’s signature and address which will be withhold it requested. All 'communications arc subject to the discretion of the editors. Anonymous letters will be disregarded. The Oregon Daily 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 ot March except the first eight days. Entered as second-class matter at the postoitice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. Presidential Aspirant? Then Help the ASUO BECAUSE of a monkey wrench in the machin ery of the pre-election controversy for the junior class election, campus politicians are once again at eacli other’s throats. There are two parties formed. One of them has a candidate. Piior to the break, both parties looked with favor on this candidate. However the junior class elec tion upset the accord and now it’s do or die with both parties. All of this is of little importance. If campus politicians choose to waste their time beefing over who shall be appointed Junior Weekend chairman, and then transfer this beef into the student body election that is their own business. * * * But there is now a real problem facing the school the task of selling student tickets for spring term. In the next two weeks the embattled politicians will pull and haul at the fraternities, sororities and tiie independents in an effort to get their candidate elected; and in the meantime, the ASUO Will go begging. The ASUO needs support NOW. Regardless of what comes from the reorganization, regardless of what peisons think of the spring term program, the future of the ASUO will be impaired by failure to sell more tickets! This is a plain statement of truth; and in spite of this harsh reality, the fellows who run politics on this campus insist on bludgeoning through in their own interests and leaving the organization they seek to control high and dry! There has been lots said about the evils and inefficiency of politics on this campus. Right now there is a practical application of just these ob jections! i Where is the loyalty? Where is the concerted action ? Where is the devotion to the school, its activities, its self-respect? Right now it is sub merged in the debris of political bickering that is occupying the thoughts of politicians who want an ASUO president but don’t give a rap about the ASUO. Does a candidate for ASUO president want a Slogan for his campaign? HE HELPED THE ASUO! To the candidate who really helps should go the gravy. A Different Frosh Glee Coming Up I A DUELS to the class of ’39! The freshmen are sparking! The annual Frosh Glee is Satur day, April 11. The usual plans are of course under way for the affair. But the plans are different. Preparations are decidedly original. Class leaders decided on a scene of Japan motif for the traditional dance. But the directorate didn't stop there. It decided to make it authentic. So before Mr. Jiro Harada, instructor in Japanese art and culture, left for California the class went to obtain his advice. The popular instructor gratiously gave advice. He aided in planning the decorations, and gave Decorations Chairman Sam Fort many ideas. And then he took another much appreciated step. He lent the class many Japanese prints, kimonos, and statues to be used in the decorative scheme. The class is to be commended for its original ity and taking on the extra burden of work, which will be necessary to carry out the scheme. Mr. Harada merits commendation for making possible the carrying out of the plans in a better fashion. Amateurs ...... Fire Away! RATHER ’round, amateurs. The field's wide open. Start firing in your masterpieces. Any thing from a >nnet to a short short is acceptable . . . and the only gong is the editoi ial blue pencil. The Emerald amateur section. '‘Miseellanything." is set to publish your literary creations. The section means what it says . . . pronounce it any way you wish. At any rate, fire away. It's an opportunity to give that hidden l dent no one else appreciated a chance to show itself. Maybe people will say, "1 always thought lie wrote like the great novelist "Conroi," or the poet "Shapes vvorth.” Details: Soil'd your materia*! to the Emerald in care.'of tlfe .‘feature editor. All editorial matter and letter's to*the editor will continue to run in Smiles and Smirks (Safety Valvei. The amateur section wants sketches, poetry, essays, descriptive writ ings, interesting experiences, original anecdotes, sonnets, short shorts, and anything else you can think of that it ought to have. You've always wanted to write. You know you ixuvc. Well—. Miscellanything BpinjU Stuff From Heah and I heah Vocation Impression Of Eighth World Wonder THE San Francisco Bay bridge takes its place as the eighth, and perhaps the greatest wonder of the world. A tribute to concrete and steel, and to the daring mind of man, the bridge, a challenge to credulity, stands almost complete. All roads of the Golden Gate city lead, to the “bridge” as dwellers of the Pacific metropolis are wont to call it. A visitor to the city cannot help but be impressed by the enthusiasm and in terest the San Franciscans show in watching the biggest bridge in the world grow almost out of the waters of the bay. On the street cars, ferries, in busses, theaters, restaurants, and other public places in Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Russian, French, German, and English languages, the “bridge" is the object of conversational sport. But then, the eighth wonder of the world is something to talk about! Progress, symbolized by the colossal concrete piers, skyscraping steel towers and graceful suspension cables of the Bay Bridge, soon will end, for all time, San Francisco’s isolation. Early in 1937, the picturesque ferry boats will lose their prestige, as motorists will whisk across the Bay witers in ten minutes via the great steel highway. • Extending for 23,000 feet (about four and a half miles) over the San Francisco Bay waters, the Bridge will really be two huge structures, each longer than the largest bridge as yet con structed (George Washington Bridge across the Hudson at New York City). East of Yerba Buena Island the “bridge” will be a cantilever structure more than two miles long. Between Yerka Buena Island and San Francisco it will consist of two suspension bridges, built in tanden, each approxi mately one mile in length, each a complete bridge in itself. Such an engineering fete has never been done before. Neither has a bridge ever been reared above piers which were sunk by this caisson method from the surface of the water down through both water and mud to rock bottom. Never before did suspension bridge towers rear themselves until their hollow steel frames rose 505 feet above the water and their concrete bases sank 235 feet below the water level. From rock-bottom base to the tip of its tower, each major Bay Bridge pier and tower is the equivalent of a sixty-story sky scraper. Other "never before" features of the “bridge” include a magnificent sweep of 218 feet above high water, 70,800 miles of cable, enough to girdle the globe three times; 17,464 wires in each cable forming a solid metal mass 28% inches in diam eter, to support the highway, the railway tracks, the thousands of motor cars and motorists and the electric trains whose weight will be on the structure at one time. Under the genius direction of Chief Engineer C. H. Purcell, the Bay Bridge will be ready for the champagne christening in less than four years, with a total of 54,850,000 man hours of labor. ICHAKD Mortimer Fabbitt, people called him ■1' Mort for short, stood in the rear of the Riviera and sniffed the air accusedly. “Stinking place” he lisped, “rotten party enauseating women bah.” A twig snapped. “Ah, the villain,” thought Mort. He whirled, a six gun handy in his hand. Expressions of pain, pleasure, and passion quickly shot across his brow. A young gal, in her tender twenties, was standing there panting. Fabbitt, famous for his fastidiousness, strummed his fingers on the branch of a large oak tree nearby. "You have cute legs,” he imagined almost audibly. The gill giggled and giggled, showing two rows of pearly second-growth teeth. Fabbitt, a dentist by hobby, squinted and edged up. The girl closed her mouth and giggled through her nose for a little while. Then she began to look a trifle panicky and started to vibrate ever so slightly. For an instant Mort lost his temper. He ran his hand slyly through Iris sleek hair. “Grrr” he shouted. “I feel kind of empty inside” said the blond in a hollow voice. Suddenly drops of moisture fell, one by one, from her large dreamy eyes. Mort sniffled a little himself. He could feel the moth ball in his pocket too. tTomorrow Bay Bridge History) Toothsome Tragedy \ Story—By Bob Moore More shook himself. After alt he should appear more maseuline before this proud beauty. "Perhaps," tie said warmly, "you would like to view my etchings." "Why don't you scratch 'em ’" The girl guf fawed al her exceedingly smooth humor but Mort had heard something go "bang" or "pop” behind him. Again lie thought it was Joe Jukes, the villain. He flitted about, bracing himself for flic impact of the bullet. It was another twig. But a brunette, ttie electric type, was standing there this time. Jter teeth were swell too. A gentle breeze ruffled her white hut dress. Perfume wafted its way through Mart's carefully plucked mustache into his slender .sophisticated nose, lie shifted his gaze hack to the bolnd. The moon smiled contentedly. It east shadows on tin' girls glistening, half-pa tied lip There Mott wa. torn between two dandy sets ot teeth tile kind of teeth that would put a gleam in any alnatgiiY. dentist's °eye. Mort didn't know what Hie heck to do, so he just stood there. He didn't even hear a twig snap when Joe Jukes came up presently and plugged him in the guts. Molt was still gazing at those teeth when lie gasped "Ah, the villain" and turned swiftly over on his face and died. Europe Firsthand ❖ By Howard Kessler CJCENE: Petticoat Lane, London. ^ Characters: Bill Cull, retired metropolitan police officer; Harry Brandon, young salesman: and inevitably, the American, who is being guided through the East Sides street of a thousand bar gains by his hosts. Time: A busy Sunday morning, when hundreds of poor London ers besiege Petticoat Lane for three dollar suits and genuine silver-plated utensils. Place: It is a street of stalls, or rather, a network of arteries thrown into a great space of ground in East London. Barkers shout their wares, some good, most of them gyps, and the Lane is a clanging cymbal of coarse salesmanship. Bowler Hat: Gather around me lydies and gents! Let me dem onstrate for your benefit what is ab-so-lute-ly the most stupendous discovery of the. age! Now, tell me, what do you do when you get a cold? What do yudo? Why, lydies and gents, you take a bit of sulphur and molasses, that’s what yudo! Now, by this simple ex periment, I shall proceed to show you what happens down in your insides when you take sulphur. Watch closely now, you see I tyke this sulphur, and I add a little of this, and then I apply a match. So! Wren: Coo! Don’t it alt smoke! Bowler Hat' Exactly! Now, this preparation I have in this bottle is the latest, the very latest, scientific discovery for the cure of colds. You see, whiy I try to set it on fire, it will not burn. Now, lydies and gents, I am prepared to offer, for a short time* only, bottles of this truly marvellous preparation, for the amazingly low price of two and six a bottle . . . Bill: Come along. We've had enough of this. Check Shirt: ... so what do I offer you! I offer you these fine tailored serge and tweed suits for one pound, no more and no less. And why can I do this, dye arsk me ? Why, simply because thri.ugh my contacts with Bond street, I receive these suits tailored for all the lords, when they cawn’t pay fer 'em! (The crowd roars, and we move on.) Tarzan: (stripped to the waist) . . . Now I'm going to show you how I stretch a 1500 pound tension spring, (he does) Se that, all you weak-kneed, chicken-chested, pasty-faced infants! I'm a man, that's why I can do it. I’m a man! Bystander: Lor’ bless me, so he is! Tarzan- Now, 1 11 tell ye what I’ll do. I'll challenge any man in the audience to come forward and pull that spring. Yes, sir, and anyone who can do it gets this five-pound note I’m holding. No. I didn't think anyone would. You know I'm the strongest, I'm the fittest man in London today. And do you know how I developed my strength? Just by taking a teaspoonful of this mixture I have here in the bottle after each meal. That’s what you skinny chumps need. The American: Looks like water to me. Harry: It is. With a dash of sugar. Patches: Wanna buy a dog, mister? Thoroughbred rat bund, ’e is. Bill: Plenty of chaps down here loading dogs. You see, this is a good place to get rid of ’em. Some nice pups you can pick up for two bob. Gold Teeth: You see wht I ’ave in my ’and, don’t you? Six genuine, guaranteed, solid silver forks, as usually sells on lr’Oxford street for four bob apiece! Now. I add to them six forks in my right hand, six mote knives, solid silver knives. And to show you 'ow big-baited 1 am, 'ere goes six silver spoons in that same 'and. Now. lydies and gentlemen, what I'm goin’ to say next is fair gain' to swipe your toppers off your bloomin' 'eads. I offer to you all this beautiful silver ware ft r six bob, half a dozen shillings! Scarf: Blimy! That ain't ’alt a bargain, ain’t it! Bil!: At any rate it helps home industry. The tin mines in Corn wall haven’t been working full shift for years. Play ❖ By ❖ Play Marian Bauer HKILIG today Astaire and Rogers in "Follow the Fleet." u. pOLLOW the Fleet' bring3 tis again that pleasing combination of Rogers-Astaire with all their tcrpsichorean tal ents. There are plenty of novel numbers and good gags in this latest box-office sensation, but the dual love story deal often breaks the continuity and ne cessitates awkward transitions which stand out like A. B and Nevertheless, and who cares we accept it wholeheartedly, not as perfectionism, but as a pleasing piece of singing and dancing comedy, with Fred and c i v 1 .a tue tiv *. f -e. Irving Beilin. Harriet Hilliard makes her screbn debut with Randolph Scott as the other ro mantic part. I)r. Os**ood Speaks At Science Meeting Dr. Edwin Osgood, of the medi cal school, was guest speaker at the meeting of Sigma Xi. science honorary, last night. He spoke on blood grouping and its ’ legal medico aspect. Members of the Lane County Medical association were special guests at the lecture. A short business meeting followed the in formal banquet held before the speech. Music in The Air | By EILL LAMME | Musicelluny J^ORE, Eugene’s leading radio station, is to move into its own building to be constructed soon at, Willamette and 19tn . . . George Olsen and his sing ing half Ethel Shutta are head ing west . . . they open at the Ambassador, Los Angeles, April 13 . A1 Jolson is off Shell Chateau and Smith Ballew, or chestra leader, singer and mas ter of ceremonies takes his place Saturday . . . Fred Allen’s pro gram tonight has an April Fool theme ... on future programs they’ll just drop the April . . . Harriet Hilliard was meta morphosed from a sexy blond into a wistful brunet for Follow the Fleet . . . wonder what hus band Ozzie Nelson thinks about it . . . Clyde McCoy, razzed for his corny music which reached its height in his record of Sugar Blues, has the last chuckle . . . largely because of its popularity he got a new recording contract. Wnllerings Thomas “Avoirdupois” Wal ler is 34 and the son of a min ister. Until he was 15 he played organ and sang in the choir of his father’s church. Later he played theater organ and thumped out mechanical piano rolls. In 1930 he wrote the music for “Hot Chocolates,” which had the hit, “Ain’t Misbehavin.’ ’ Returning from a tour of clubs in London, Paris, Berlin, and Vi enna he, joined the staff of WLW in Cincinnati. He’s Victor’s best seller of records, and as you’ve listened to some of them you’ve probably wondered if he has ever taken lessons. He has. From THE Godowsky of Vienna and THE Carl Bohn of Yew Nork. Dial Exercise While you dine at 6:00, KOIN with Rosa Ponselle . . . while you smoke your cigaret at 6:30 KGW-NBC and 20,00(f Yrs. in Sing Sing (not a musical!) . . . while you ruminate, KOIN-CBS at 7 :30 for March of Time (DON’T confuse with Marsh of Time) . . . while the Sminksy’s drop in for a visit so you can’t hear a darn thing try,Burns and Allen ..KOIN-CBS . 8:30 (turn ’em up loud) . . . pray for the *&lb*!!*@ Sminksy’s to leave by 9:00 so you can concentrate on ..Freddie ..Allen KGW-NBC . . . 10:00—give yourself up and go to bed. Lines to A Vain Lady I bring these flowers to Madame Naught but a small corsage But still I hope that you will deign To take them and them not disdain For they convey for you, Madame, A meaning sage. Wear them and cease your being vain For tho unpleasant, yet 'tis true Just as these flowers will fade. Just so will you. —The Tulane Hullabaloo. Punters Sought By Coach Callison Successor lo S. Kiordan Is Needed for the W ehfoot Buckfield Coach Prink Callison looked over his punting possibilities in the varsity spring football workout last night in an effort to uncover a long-distance booter to fill the shoes of Stan Kiordan, who tor mented Webfoot oponents last season with sixty yard spirals. No exceptional punting is in evidence this early in the season, but a few of the men show possi bilities of future development. Lettermen Bud Goodin and Dale Lu.se lie. and sophomores Tomj Blackman, Dave Gammon, and Bobby Anet were drilling hard on kicking essentials. The second week of spring practice is now in session, with the squad of some 45 hard at work on fundamentals. - Later in the season the squad will be divided into two separate teams, and scrimmage games will be played between the two every night. ! International Ball Date Postponed Dance to Be Held April 21; Model League Assembly Will Be Presented International Ball scheduled for April 4, has been postponed to April. 24, at 9:00 o’clock in Ger linger, according to Chairman John Espy. A standing committee of faculty members in connection with inter national relations will take charge of a dinner to be given before the dance. This dinner will be in honor of a few expected noted guests from Portland. The committee will be made up of V. P. Morris, chairman, J. J. Landsbury, A. L. Lomax, H. J. Noble. G. Rebec, W. Shumacher, S. S. Smith, and W. D. Smith. In the afternoon, a Model League assembly will be held for the cam pus. Several students will repre sent different countries, debating on the following subject, “Oil sanc tions against Italy, with reference to the attitude of the United States.” The speakers will be: England, Maxwell Morris; Ethio pia, Robert Goodwin; Italy. Scott McKeown; Germany, Carl Anthon; Japan, Charles Shimomura; Russia, John Tuvas; First American ob server, Jason Lee; Second Ameri can observer, Donald Serell. The representatives from Austria, and Fraflce Have not as yet been cho sen. Yeomen-Orides Dance Scheduled for April 3 The postponed dance of the Yeomen and Orides is scheduled for Friday, April 3. An amplifying system and a phonograph will offer the music of the nation's leading dance bands for the evening. The price has not been raised and it is possible for students tp dance all evening for a nickle. Those with Yeomen or Orides cards will be admitted free. Partons and patronesses will be Dr. and Mrs. Schwering, Miss Janet Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Lindstrom and Mrs. Siefert. Inivited geusts include Mrs. j Alice B. Macduff and Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Rhinesmith. Co-chairmen for the dance are Ruth Orrick and Phoebus Kolonoff. Andrew Jackson was the oldest president of the United States. He lacked only 11 days of being 70 when he left the White House. ASU to Meet With Peace Committee Plan on ROTC Initiative Campaign to Be Made Thursday Evening With plans for an initiative on military training receiving state wide notice this week the Ameri can Student Union and the Oregon Committee for Peace and Free dom will hold a joint session Thursday evening to determine whether or not the campaign will be undertaken. Reports of the Union’s labor investigations com mittee will also be heard. The military issue assumed state importance yesterday when third party organizers in Salem pon dered whether or not to write the initiative into the platform of a Farmer-Labor party which will put candidates in the field for the first time this fall. Howard Oh mart and Charles Paddock, mem bers of the optional military group, attended the Salem session to aid drafters of the party plat form in determiinng a course on ROTC. Today a broad committtee rep resenting labor, grange, women's clubs, churches, and the National Council for the Prevention of War will meet in Portland to decide whether or not to undertake the initiative. It is expected that fav orable action will be taken. Up state reports are that interested persons in Washington are plan ning an initiative in that state. Idaho may also be the scene of a showdown on compulsory drill. Optional leaders are anxious that the tri-state initiative be undertaken. If it is successful, prominent speakers from the East will tour the states in behalf of optional drill. Meantime Oregon students are wondering just what their part in the campaign will be. Head quarters will probably be in Salem or Portland so that students here favoring optional drill will have as their principal duty petition-pushing in Lane and neighboring counties, and educa tional work both on and off the campus. Library Group to Meet The library committee will meet tomorrow to discuss plans for the new library. Browsing- room fur nishings will be an important topic. The library staff is also ex pected to recommend courses on the library for freshmen. TENNIS SPECIALS J EESTKINGING— ® Split Lamb Gut $4.00 RACKETS— O Bancroft Special $7.50 for $9.00 Frame. Wilson Frames $5.75 for $6.50 Frame. BALLS— © 3 for $1.10—Reduced From 3 for $1.25. W c Handle All Grades of (iu( and Silk Restriiifjiiu;' Materials ERNIE ROBERTSON, RESTRINGER BABB’S HARDWARE CO. 77 Willamette Phone 47 lll!IIIIIIII!lill!lli:!l!imr;i!!lill!lili!llllllllil! IF If I were to live my life again, I would live through the moonlight nights, Holding your hand as I did in the past, Sitting with you in the dimming lights. Holding your hand when sorrow was near, Kissing your cheek when the children cried, Smiling, my dear, when things went wrong Or, shedding a tear when the baby cried. If I were to live my life again for a wife And I'd worship you as I have in the past E'en though I knew of our coming strife. Yes, if I were to live my life again, I'd pledge it. ray deaf to you As I used to do in the long ago, \\ hen you were my sweetheart, good and true. —Franklin Lee Stevenson. • . v“ V. POOLE FUNEftSL'-MylE Office of Lane County Coroner Old age has soen the need of funeral services many times. YVe are proud of the quiet dignity of our labors.
