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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon EDITORIAL OFFICES: Journalism lmililing. Phone 3300 Editor, Loral .154; News Room and Managing Editor, 353. BUSINESS OFFICE: McArthur Court. Phone 3300—Local 214. MEMBERS OF MAJOR COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Represented by A. I. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York Citv: 123 W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Avc., Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. ____ Robert W. Lucas, editor Kldon Haberman, manager Clair Johnson, managing editor Advertising Manager, this issue Patricia Neal Kathleen Duffy. Jane I.agassee, Dorothy Magnuson The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon. Eugene, published daily during the college year, except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, examination Deriods, all of December except tbc first seven days, all of Starch except the first eight days. Entered as second-class matter Bt the postolhce, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a >ea.. Still Searching for A Real Campus Leader YESTERDAY the Emerald suggested that var sity political candidates—one or both or all three pick up the student body card drive and justify their worth by pulling the ASUO out of the promised red of next fall term. The idea is under consideration by one of the candidates. Although one of the parties has not yet definitely chosen a man, any one of the suggested men is capable of leading the campus in a tremendous student body drive and, in the eyes of the Emerald, of clinching the election. * * * Perhaps the job may be supplemented by can didates for class election. What about these energetic freshmen who are looking for some way || to be of benefit,to the school? How about the* sophomores who usually take the lead in building'! up school spirit? What about the juniors who, as | next year’s seniors, will be running a limping ASUO instead of a high-powered organization effected by their own energy? As regards the seniors, there appears to be little hope since they seem to care very little what happens next year when they will be “out from under.’’ M* # *!» Would there be a chance for an interclass competition, with the class selling the most tickets in proportion to the membership the honored guests at a big dance given by the other three combined ? Some one must come to the aid of the student body drive committee and President Jim Blais, who at present are confronted with non-coopera tion by over two-thirds of the student body. Where are the leaders? There must be some on this campus. Required Military? Yes! (Continued from pa<je one) citizen soldiery, who do not want a war— but who Know how to defend us if it is thrust \ipon us. Our policy is a NON-M1LITARISTIC national defense one controlled by sane patriotism, by insightful considerations of our responsibility and the wealth and natural resources that require our protection. Our policy of defense has been developed in this threefold manner: 1. By having a small stand ing army just enough to hold the system entact. 2. By the citizen soldiery consisting of the Na tional Guard and the Organized Reserves. The National Guard is composed of the real citizens of this country, who are desirous of keep ing us out of a war and war out of these states, and who at the same time are busily engaged in their economic pursuits. The Organized Reserves consists of the real leaders of this country who have been given knowledge of military science and tactics, to en able them to successfully compete with leaders of other nations in case of conflict, and who at the same time are strongly opposed to any war, and are too busy to think about starting one. In as much as this nation will never permit a policy of complete lack of defense, the only altern ative to carry out a policy of defense is that of a strong standing army a creation of a military class as is the tendency in Japan today. WHEN PACIFICISTS SEEK THE CURTAILMENT OF OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE T H E Y ARE ADVOCATING THE ONLY OTHER ALTERN ATIVE, THAT OF MILITARISM, UNKNOW INGLY. Now as to why we have ROTC in our system of higher education (keeping in mind our defense policy and considering all in the light of practical and logical reasoning) we find: 1. University and college leaders are the group most practical to instruct in methods of defense for the reason that they are a heterogenous group, that their present business is one of attending classes as opposed to that of attempting to g< * business men to attend classes scattered about as they are and occupied with various interests. It is les.-, of a hardship for these reasons for students to take this instruction than it is for the Ijpsiness men. 2. The students are being informed in tHe social and economic fields of the futility and Silliness of war and are opposed to it because of what they learn in school of its evils. Let's keep the military balance in sane and enlightened hands, the educated and level-minded majority who are training in keeping us out of war and war out of this country. d. In state owned and state maintained institu tions of higher education the greater part of the cost of education is borne by the tax payers who hope that those who are attending these -heels wdl become C^>D CITIZENS, citizens who will arid their bit to the progress of the nation, soi iallv and economically and who will, defend those pol icies and ideals upon which this nation was founded. In this light, Uio state lias the perfect right to require training in subjects deemed best suited for the interests of all or of the whole people. The methods of defense f the Hwitiou ur \i taught as one of these requirements in the course called ROTC. Other required subjects are instruc tion in the proper use of the mother tongue (Eng lish composition;, learning of our fellow men (social scienecs), physical well-being (gym;, and other worthy courses. * # * Some questions have been raised as to the educational value of this military training. May I quote from the department of interior investiga tion into these questions as undertaken by the commission of education Pamphlet 28, United States Government Printing Office, 1932. 1. In your opinion, has the ROTC military course of study a definite educational value of its own? 97,1'/ yes from 10,136 replies. 2. Did the ROTC contribute anything important or unique to your education? 94.9'/ yes 10,064 replies. 3. From your own experience, was the time spent on the training justified by the results ob tined? 94.9'/ yes 10,051 replies. 4. In your opinion does the ROTC course of instruction tend to produce a militaristic attitude inimical to world peace? 92.0'/ no 9,636 replies. 5. Judging by your own experience, do you favor ROTC as a required subject for the first two years of college? 81.0'/ yes 9,565 replies. Furthermore the substance and uniform allot ments granted to advanced students in this subject are equal to scholarships of 8100.00 per year. There are some 68 of these scholarships now being granted to that many students, who might otherwise be in competition with other students seeking financial assistance through the school. But as it is now they are not forced by necessity to so compete. EVERY NOW AND THEN WE HAVE TO DESCEND FROM THE CLOUDS OF FANCY AND THEORY AND RETURN TO THE HARD BRUTAL FACTS FO REALITY AND PRACTI CAL SITUATIONS. Dr. Chester S. Maxey, Whitman college politi cal science professor, recently asked his class why four particular books were good for reference on their respective subjects. The entire class with the exception of one girl gave good answers. The girl receive'1 the best grade. There were no such books. Elephantine “Tusko” had his day. Then it was the playful sea-lion “Ole Mr. Finnegan.” Last week the swans “Little Woman” and “Major” occupied the Portland spotlight. Aren’t they ever going to give the politicians a chance. The wrath of the nickel and dime Townsend contributors will be found to be a great deal stronger than their financial contributions if they discover the movement leaders used it for “velvet.” “Even six-year-olds should have a garden,” Henry Fold says. We agree. That’s why we’ve had the kids hoe the garden for years. Nazi Germany’s dictatorial Hitler is believed to be sorry he has no more treaties to scrap for his country. New Jersey’s Governor Hoffman, in the opinion of Hauptman prosecutors, is about “ha’f man” and half politician. Miscellanything Bciiu? SiiiIT From H<‘uh anil Tiicah History of Frisco’s Bridge By HENRIETTE HORAK T ESS than 70 years ago, Leland Stanford, one *-J of the biuldfcrs of the Central Pacific railroad, was laughed down as a visionary. Could any man that suggested a bridge to span that waters of the San Francisco bay be entirely sane? For more than half a century first-class engin eers, practical engineers, who dared not to dream and tinker with the idea, called such a scheme impossible. The lack of adequate foundations in the bay for piers and the impossibility of stretch ing a span from Verba Buena to San Francisco were held as sufficient reasons for dismissing the idea of a bridge. But Stanford’s vision kept cropping up from time to time. As new blood and youthful imagina tion was added to the city's engineering corps, “why not" a bridge across the bay became a popular conjecture. In 1929, the cities of San Francisco and Oak land raised a fund for a geological survey of the bottom of the bay, to be directed by state engin eers under the Hoover-Young commission. For a number of years men pried in the waters of the bay borings were made all over the large body ot water to locate a feasible route for building the bridge. Then came a discovery! A high ridge of bed rock extending between San Francisco and Yerba Bum a island, providing foundation at higher levels than surrounding bedrock. The water along this path was found to be from fifty to one hundred live feet deep; the bedrock to lie from one hundred to two hundred leet below the oozing mud which forms the bottom of the bay. The bridge was now a possibility. The next problem had to do with dollars. The estimated cost ol the bridge, $77,200,000, or more than $10 each tor every man, woman, and > hild in California, had the best ol financiers scratching their heads. However, the availability of Federal Reconstruc tion Corporation funds to purchase the bonds of the California Toll Bridge Authority made it pos sible to finance the job. The entire sum will be paid back by 1954 out of revenues derived from toll, collected from motorists and fares from inter urban railway passengers. The Yerba Buena route had to have the ap proval ol the t’nited States army and navy, since the island was a military base. Not only was this permission granted, but the federal authorities allowed the bridge builders to bore the huge vehicular tunnel. 7b l'cct wide and 5s feet high, through the highest part of the island to Connect the two sections" of the bridge. Hie earth and rock removed from the anchor age sites m tile t>4U-loot tunnel is dumped to the nmtn of Yerba Buena eland, to build up an area which will serve as San Francisco's new airport. » v • 4 4 . xo .. —— 1 , ' * . V’ * . . i I » Music in The Air MMBwnmmns • ,MMManaMHMr By BILL LAMME Today’s (Juiz 1. What orchestra conductor never attended college, yet has three honorary docotor of music degrees ? 2. What songstress chooses all the clothes for her band leader husband ? 3. In what roles did Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll (Amos 'n' Andy) make their radio debuts? 4. What popular song is credited with more recordings than any other? 5. What popular NBC tenor was 440 - yard champion at Yale ? Musical Musings Harry iiichman, sheiky Broadway entertainer, once played (piano) for Mae West in vaudeville. . . . Invitations: Kubinoff to conduct the Seattle symphony at a special concert to he held during a convention in Seattle in July; Jack Benny to be guest of honor at the Dallas, Texas, centennial open ing June 6. . . . Frank Fay, first given the frigid shoulder by Hollywood and then by his wife, Barbara Stanwyck, makes good on radio with his masterly eeremonying and starts his own program this summer. . . . About 125 newspapers own their own radio stations. . . . Trenton, N. J., has named a street after Major Bowes. . . . Suggestions; the Jack Benny Bullevard, Kate Smith Avenue (six lanes) and Fred Alien Alley . . . » 31 * Radio Fare The battle of singers is on tonight. Vallee starts it at 5:00, KCW-NBC then Lanny Ross enters the fray at 6:00, KGW NBC, and has Floyd Gibbons to help him out Bing Crosby is Star Dust FTER seeing the shadow of his former self in “Don Juan,” -f Doug Fairbanks thought it best to retire from the screen. Evidently he ha3 changed his mind as he is now looking for a director for his long contemplated picture, “Marco Polo.’’ He made the mistake of trying Shakespeare and light comedy in “The Taming of the Shrew” and “Reaching for the Moon” and lost prestige which he has never regained. “Marco Polo” offers him an excellent chance to return to the screen in the real Fairbanks' sle # * Paul Muni lives every role he plays, which accounts for his really great character! 7. at ions. First it was the “Valient,” then “I Am a Fugitive” and now “Louis Pasteur.” The latter picture cannot lie praised too highly, it will stand as a milestone in screen history, its educational value being surpassed only by the dramatic presentation of the story. The screen has gone far in the last few years, but what has become of the good comedies once *0 essential to every program ? Those that theatres do present today are insults to the audiences’ sense of humor and are being replaced by the creations from the cartoon studios. Stars like Laurel and Hardy should never be given the leading parts in full length pictures; they are too good in the two reelers and invariably flop in the longer productions. It used to be an old trick at the preview of a film to drag in the worst comedy available to put the feature in a better light in the eyes of the critics because of the contrast. Perhaps this is the idea behind some of the so-called comedies of today. style. * * * warmed up by this time, so at 7:00, KOIN-CBS, he enters with two guys for help—Jimmy Dor sey waving a club and dead-pan Ned Sparks to scare people. If you don't like fights try Hor ace Heidt, CBS-KOIN, opposite Crosby, or cigaretteer Glen Gray also CBS-KOIN, 8:30, and Eddie Fitzpatrick, KGO 9:30. For the intelligentsia AND the faculty members there is the Standard Symphony KGW NBC 8:in—with Cesar Franck's “The Mad Huntsman” featured. Sj! The An suers 1. Walter Damrosch. 2. Ethel Shutta (Mrs. George Olsen). 3. As singers. 4. St. Louis Blues. 5. Lanny Ross. One scientist states that the “natural” sleeping hours of hu man beings are from 8:00 p. m. to midnight, and adds that those who suffer from sleeplessness would do better to retire early in the evening and get as much sleep as possible before mid night. Japanese textile mills have greatly increased their output by introduction of modem meth ods and machinery. In 1922, a weaver working 11 hours daily produced 1800 yards of cloth, now he produces 5000 yards in an 8 1-2-hour day. In tearing up the Versailles and Locarno treaties, Reichs fuehrer Hitler suggests a new pact. For convenience, this one might be perforated. A tornado can take a tight fitting cork out of a bottle. It reduces the air pressure to the extent that the normal pressure inside the bottle blows out the cork. A new low-wing cabin mono plane, built especially for high altitude flying, can attain a speed of 300 miles an hour at a height of 26,000 feet. There were about 5,000,000 negro slaves in the United States before outbreak of the Civil war. Whitehouse Wins Insurance Prize John L. Whitehouse, business ad ministration major, won first place in the life insurance sales contest conducted in Portland during spring vacation by the Life Man agers association! Maurice Rosenfeld, representing the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance company won second prize and Robert Thomas, representing the Equitable Life Insurance company of Iowa placed third. Rcsenfeld and Thomas are both business ad ministration students. Thirty dol lars in, prize money was distribut ed between them. Dr. Smith Speaks At Chamber Meet Dr. Warren D. Smith, geologist, was a speaker last night at the Eugene Chamber of Commerce. His talk was one of a series being planned to educate hotel clerks, service station men, and all other people who serve the motoring public. Dr. Smith spoke on interesting geologic and scenic features with in easy reach of Eugene. Dr. Smith recently spoke to a similar meeting at Bend upon geologic features near it. Phil Bogan, ex journalism student of the Univer sity was originator of this idea. Asklepiads Plan Movie April 16 At a meeting of the Asklepiads, an undergraduate pre-medic hon orary. last night, plans were dis cussed for the presentation of a motion picture to be given in Vil lard hall, April 16. The picture, to which the public is invited, is an annual event, and is to be of scientific interest. The meeting was attended by L. F. Beck, assistant professor of psychology, R. R. Huestis, pro fessor of zoology, and Charles Barr, former University of Oregon medical school student who is now acting as laboratory assistant to Dr. Huestis. Barr has been re centaly given an honorary mem bership in the organization. Adult Education Gets $621 Grant Funds amounting to $621 for 30 days, beginning April 15, have been allotted to the WPA work in adult education through correspondence, H. E. Tobie, who is in charge of the project, announced today. The first allotment of $2445, which was made in January, is al most exhausted. The allowance was $1995 for relief purposes and $450 for supplies. Although the period for the new allotment ends May 15, it is hoped that an addi tional grant will be made for May and June. Join The Navy In A New NAUTICAL DRESS Of Uncrushable Linen For Campus Wear Anchor Your Wardrobe On Crisp Linen Togs And Be Smart For Spring BARNHART'S ?VlllllllllllllllllllllltllllllHIII Copyright, 1936, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem, N. C. FOB DIGESTION'S SAKE—SMOKE CAMELS CROWDED HOURS — Studies, sports, in tramural activities — no wonder digestion often rebels at the strain of college life. Remember: Smoking Came lspromotes diges tion and well-being. Smoking Camels Assists Digestion to Proceed Normally and Picmotes Well-Being and Good Feeling We Jive in high gear. So much to do and so little time to do it in! All too of ten the rush and tension play havoc with nerves and the digestive system. How can one offset the effects of mod ern living—that’s the problem! Here is an interesting established fact: Smok ing Camels has been found a definite bene fit in promoting natural digestive action. Camels are supremely mild — never get on the nerves or tire your taste. En joy Camels as much as you like...for their good cheer and "lift”... fortbeir rare flavor! Smoke Camel’s costlier to baccos for digestion's sake. They set you right! THE TERRACED MARINE DINING ROOM of the Edgewater Beach Hotel, ( hic.igo. Those who dine at leisure also appreciate Camels for their aid to digestion. "Good times and good tobacco go together," says 1'red, nuilrc a hotel of the Marine Dining Room. "So many of our guests smoke Camels. They are immensely popular.’’ tKaSSKasSSaSNSSiSSS "I HAVE TO EAT ia 30 minutes—and a riveter can't be walking around with nervous indigestion, on narrow beams hun dreds of feet in the air,” says Harry Fisher, steel workcr."SmokingCamcls makes my food set better and helps ray digestion.” SHE FEEDS THOU SANDS DAILY. Miss Lenora Flinn, dietitian, says: "With me, it’s al ways Camels! Smoking Camels during meals and after promotes digestion, causing increased flow of digestive fluids. Camels never jangle my nerves.” TUNC IN ! Camel Caravan >'iih Walter O’Keefe, Deane Janis, Ted Itusioe, Glen Gray and the Cus>a I onia Orchestra Tuesday and Thursday— 9 p.m.E.S.T.. 8p.ra.CST., 9:30 p. m. M. S. T . 8.30 p. m. P.S.T.—over W ABC - Columbia Met work.