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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon EDITORIAL OFFICES: Journalism building. I'bone 3300 - Editor, Loral 354; News Room and Managing Editor, 353. BUSINESS OFFICE: McArthur Court. Phone 3300-Local 214. MEMBERS OF MAJOR COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Represented bv A. I. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York City; 123 \V. .Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Aye., Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. Robert W. Lucas, editor Eldon Haberman, manager Ciair .Johnson, managing editor Assistant Managing Editor, this issue LcRoy Mattingly Day Editor, this issue Stanley Robe Assistant Day Editor, this issue Paul Dcutschmann Night Editors, this issue Belt lot lies Assistant Night Editors, this issue I’at Frizzell Lloyd Tripling Dorothy Hutchens Advertising Manager, this issue Howard Oyer hack 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 if requested. All communications are 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 of March except the first eight days. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. Oregon Students Resent Optional Military Petition ANOTHER petition! Another exercise of the initiative! This time it is for optional mili tary! Another fight! Again the University of Oregon is the hub of a state-wide movement. If exception is taken to the side of the optional students, the cries of “regimentation,” “militarism,” and "fascism” will arise. The Grange Bulletin, the Townsend papers, and the labor union organs will be indignant toward the “Oregon Emerald the rubber stamp in the hands of the state board.” Should the move ment receive support, up goes the howl of “com munism,” “subversion” from the American Legion and those whom we believe to be the large portion of the Oregon citizenry—the conservative element. No matter the point of view, the University of Oregon is on the spot once more. # * * Now the Oregon Emerald would like this state ment printed in every newspaper in Oregon at the outset of this campaign. It is a statement that the Emerald believes to be indicative of stu dent opinion at the University. The students at the University of Oregon resent the action taken by a group of less than two percent of the student body, in starting a state-wide initiative for optional military drill. They resent this action because it was taken with out consideration for the investigation now being carried on by the State Board of Higher Educa tion. Regardless of the right or wrong of compul sory drill the students resent the action because the tactics used by this group are injurious to the school. I'laeing Ibis matter on (he ballot will call down the wrath of a large part of the elec torate in the state on the students of this school, when the students themselves do not ascribe to the methods or much of the ideology of this small group of workers for optional drill. And the stu dents resent this action because it is ill-advised, needlessly inconsiderate of the established pro cedure for bringing change in higher education, and not indicative of general student opiniou, against which reaction will he falsely directed. The Committee for Peace and Freedom, in assuming that this initiative will further educate the citizenry of Oregon against war, is doing so at, the expense of higher education; and student opinion at the University of Oregon does not war rant any attacks that will inevitably arise from this action. A Chance for More Higher Education N unusual chance awaits enterprising Oregon students who are earnestly seeking more higher education. In the office of Dean of Men Virgil D. Earl is a catalog of the various American institutions of higher learning and the scholar ships each one offers annually. To a surprisingly large degree these scholar ships go unclaimed. No petitions, inquiries, or questions meet most of the awards given for extra work in a special field. Oregon students do not seem to be interested in entering competition, Although chances of success appear definitely possible. Often in the face of much competition students from schools this size go unheard, but with the interest here indicative that a similar apathy exists on other campuses, there is good reason to believe that a number of Oregon stfiednts might be successful in their applications. Oregon students capture their share of Rhodes scholarships. They certainly have the capability to rate selection lor some of the many scholarships offered try American institutions of higher learn ing. Here is a virtually untapped source for more funds to continue higher education. Dean Karl has all tiie material and is anxious to help stu dents in investigating possible scholarships. The time is ripe for applications. A penitentiary inmate challenges Die very foundations of the penal system when he com plains. “I've been miserable ever since 1 came here.’’ it makes us all feel a little guilty, doesn't it? Montana Kaimen. Rain delayed the opening of the season yes ’ terday. We mean the start of the annual peanut With warmer weather due to show up soon, and the annual bicycling popularity likely to spring up, the Emerald is considering advocating the installation of melodic horns which would toot "On a Bicycle Built for Two” on all of the two wheeled machines. A gooo subject for debate might be whether its just spring fever or perhaps politics that sud denly gets all the boys off their dime who have been sitting by the fire toasting their toes all year. If coeds only knew the scramble fraternity men make to get the front study rooms so they can watch the feminine parades spring term, maybe they would feel more important. Judging from the investigation of the Town send movement, it almost begins to look like the California doctor is to the aged what Aimee Semple McPherson was to religion. This vicious circle which most people nowadays talk about may be the reason that there is so little regard for things on the square. — Montana Kaimen. One is glad to note that the music has gone down and around so often that it no longer bothers to come out the radio any more.-—Los Angeles Junior Collegian. It is all right for a young man to start at the bottom of the ladder if he doesn't keep moving from one ladder to another. Los Angeles Times. It isn't what you know. It's who you know^ and how well they don’t know ypu.—Oklahoma Daily. Miscellanything BHng Stuff From Hcah ami Theali Boy Bridge Engineering 'T'HE most difficult, and in a way the most thrilling half of the bay bridge job is the work below the water level. Muffled divers played a large part in selecting the proper location for piers, and risked the waters of the bay not for pearls in this case but for ledges of rock. When the bridge was designed, a two-mile suspension from San Francisco to Yerba Buena was deemed an impossibility. The engineers de cided, for that reason, upon two suspension spans in tanden, anchored in the middle of the bay to a huge pier. Kach span pulls against the other. The most serious challenge to engineers was the building of five of the major piers between Yerbe Buena and San Francisco. “Sand hogs," as under-water laborers are called, could not be used to clear away the mud and debris to rock bottom because of the tremendous deep water pressure and the mires of oozing mud. A compressed-air-flotation caisson method de sign enabled the daring bridge builders, for the first time in engineering history, to construct ttVClr piers from the surface of the water down, using the mud-hungry jaws of huge clamshell buckets instead of men and picks and shovels for excavating the bay bottom beneath the pier. From the description of one of the engineers, “each caisson consists of a cluster of huge steel tubes 15 feet in diameter, held together by an outer casing. Compressed air maintained the buoy ancy of the caisson as it was towed into place and anchored. In the space between the tubes, concrete was poured forming an enormous box resembling an egg carton except that the openings were round. Each tube was sealed with an air tight cap. The concrete poured around the steel tubes caused the caisson to sink slowly. As it sank, additional lengths were added to the tubes and more concrete poured around them." The bottom of the caisson gradually sank to the mud in the bottom of the bay. A steel cutting edge pushed down through the mud; the caps were then cut off the tubes and dredge buckets were dropped through them to scoop out the tons of mud below the caisson, in one instance a caisson was worked down 235 feet below the surface of the water. 'i he concrete center anchorage measures 107 feet and rises 508 ieet from the rock bottom of tiie bay. Its cubic size is twice as great as San Francisco s largest skyscraper the 31-story Russ building. Some idea of the vastness of the bridge can be given by quoting some of the structural ma terial requirements: structural steel, 152,000 tons; reinforcing steel, 30,000 tons; cable wire, 18.500 tons; cement, 1,300,000 barrels; concrete, 1,000,000 cubic yards; paint, 200,000 gallons; lumber, 30, 000,000 board feet. The dredging relieved the bay of 1,078.000 cubic yards of mud and rock. Next article Building Progress of the Bridge. You can always tell a senior By his strut about the town, mi can always tell a junior By his foolish-looking frown. You can always tell a sophomore By his color, hair, and such. ^ ou can always tell a freshman. But you cannot tell him much. Daily Trojan. "\Yhat have you done?" St. Peter asked, “That 1 should admit you here " “At college for one long year." “I ran a paper," the editor said. St Peter pityingly shook his head, And gravely touched a bell. “Come in. poor thing, select your harp. You've had enough of !" Creighton inn. "A-ly love has flew. Him did me dirt. Me did not knew Him was a flirt. To they in love Let I forbid. Lest they he doed Like l been did." * Chiu slate Lantern. k • HANJON STAR DUST The public is sentimental about its favorite stories of the silent screen, which accounts for the box office success of the talking version of any silent classic. It is unfortunate that producers have taken advantage of this sentimentalism in refilming some of these stories in a haphazard way. Notable examples of such treat ment are “The Three Musketeers,” “The Keeper of the Bees,” and “Seven Keys to Baldpate” which did not come near the standard set by their predecessors. On the other hand, justice has been done to “The White Sister,” “Captain Blood,” and “The Count of Mone Cristo,” proving that these poorer taking versions could have been done on a magnificent scale if the producers so desired. «■ Si Si Memorable scenes in motion picture history: the Viking funeral in “Beau Geste," Fairbanks’ capturing a pirate ship single handed in “The Black Pirate,” Mary Philbin unmasking L>on Chaney in “The Phantom of the Opera,” Wm. Farnum’s fight wiht Tom Santchi in “The Spoilers,” and the crossing of the Red Sea in “The Ten Commandments.” Neither Karlof or Lugosi will appear in the latest Universal horror picture, “Dracula’s Daughter.” . . . William Powell was the heavy in “Beau Geste.” . . . “The Ghost Goes West” will be the most unusual film of the year. . . . The lighting effects of “Modern Times” seemed to be made purposely poor to give the impression of an old silent film, and the leading roles were enacted just as they would have been in a Chaplin picture of years ago. The Marsh Of Time By BILL MARSH There may be ankle deep pud dled all over this semi-convert ed swamp land, but it's spring' just the same. The birds are twittering in the trees, and the flowers are flowering and it’s all very lovely tripe. But the thing that convinced me that spring was really here was watching Jane Myers and the tall, dark handsome number hilling and cooing along the es calator op to Yiliard hall. Love is grand . . . for them as likes it! & » a= This kills me. It seems that \iuly (l*hi Bote) New house is sitting one evening in the law school library, grinding away through massive tonics on oj-e sort of litigation or another, w hen in comes it some goon and says, "Newhouse, there’s some one outside to see you.” “Ahah,” mutter the other embryo attorneys, "a gal!” “Nix," comes hack Amlj. "No women in my life. I’ll lie back j in three jiffs, .just as soon as t see tills guy.” So departed New housc, leaving his books in lieu of hail. Well, the three jiffys merged into fifteen minutes, and the fifteen minutes stretched out into an hour. At the end of the hour, more or less, the one-man brain trust returns. And. judg ing from circumstantial evi dence. the GUY whom New house had gone out to see was very, very affectionate, for Andy had gotten very careless and failed to remove from his kisser generous splurges of lip stick. Vml that, tin gvntie reader-, is w In ttie said New house is now known in and about the law school t>> ttie simple, loving term of “KTHA' l.ll'S." Ah me. collitch is so roman tic! V ou movie goers may not lie aware of it. but the cinema in dustry is tlio most half ling tiling in the world. Lo uue tier knows where it is going to turn next. Fred Astaire came in with the famous Astaire dancing feet . . . and brought down upon Hol lywood a tidal wave of musi films featuring tap dancers. Ev erything goes in cycles down there. One good film of a cer tain type is almost certain to be followed by a swarm of films of that type, good, mediocre and smelly. And il' you think that doesn't keep the stars worried, you're crazy. Most stars aren’t actors or actresses you know . . . Nine t> per cent of your film flavor ites are types. And once their particular type goes out, they go out, too. It keeps them bit ing their nails. During their palmy days, they live high, wide and handsome. And then, when the inevitable change comes, their income goes, and, usually, they're ceaught without a sou in their jeans. In Hollywood, the man who blacks your shoes today, may be Music in The Air ..moor By BILL LAMME Stuff Ben Bernie was one of the first radio performers to kid a sponsor . . . Jack Benny the first we've ever heard to have a commercial plug applauded by the studio audience . . . the plug: in a Cinderella skit . . . having the six youknow flavors changed into plugs for Cinder ella's coach . . . The Boswell sisters, though it is not publi cized, are all married . . . but cheer up . . . two of the Pic kens sisters are still fancy free . . . Orville Knapp is broadcasting and broad thrilling in Chicago . . . his sister, Evalyn Knapp, is ecmebacking in Hollywood . . . in the picture, “Smilin’ Irish Eyes,” with Phil Regan . . . Ray Robinson, famous for his mutes, got the idea for them while playing at the Davenport Hotel, Spokane . . . A1 Plin,er and Earl Smith, piano duo, claim to have found the long lost chord . . . it's a suspended 11th with an added 6th . . . whatever that is . . . The one-armed paper-hanger will have to move over to make room for Wingy Mannone . . . leader of one of New York's jammiest bands at the Famous Door club, he is the only one armed band leader on record . . More Stuff Writer’s Digest: “The trend (of radio programs) is definite ly toward script programs” . . Downbeat: “The trend is def initely toward musical pro grams” . . . anyhoo, there’s a trend . . . Japanese manufac turers concoct a piano valued at $29.33, which they want to sell in the U. S. for $50.00 . . . next step will be free saxo phones with each box of in cense . . . Saturday’s Specials Toothpaste: George Olsen's Celebrity Night, 7:30, KGW NBC. Soap: Ziegfeld Follies, 9:00, KOIN-CBS. Gasoline: Smith Ballew replacing A1 Jol son, 6:30, KGW-NBC. Chevro lets: Rosin Rubinoff, 6:00, KGW-NBC. Not so special: Hit Parade, KGW-NBC, 5:00; Glen Gray, KEX, 8:30; Jimmy Dorsey, KOIN, 11:00. And: Herbie Hoover, 7:30, 7:30, KEX-NBC, asking “Has the New Deal Solved Our Na tional Problems?” For former OSC (a college, not a radio station) students now attending the University, and who are not completely oriented, we suggest KGW-NBC at 8:00, the Nation al Barn Dance. making a thousand dollars a week tomorrow. And the man who is the do! of the screen to day, may lie cleaning cuspidors tomorrow. It's the greatest lit tle up and down town in the world. Highway mileage of the world is in the neighborhood of 9,000, 000 miles, of which one-third is in the United States. New' York City is in a state of siege.- Gen. Gorge Martinez. Republic of Columbia, who cut short recent visit because of ele vator strike. •n Spring Term!! • Boost your "nulis by havin'; restful sleep. * Have your house manager let us rebuild your mattress. BETTER SLEEP, BETTER GRADES EUGENE MATTRESS AND UPHOLSTERING CO. Phone S12 1122 Olive iM £\JJ QJJ Qijgj2£i [UjQJjQJj[\ I r» Time for Easter j Be Sure \ our \\ ardrobe Is Spick and Span in Time b or Easter Domestic Laundry i i i i t i t i i i t t t i t i Superior Service — Wo l*ro\e it t i I ( ---—-1 Europe Firsthand •> By Howard Kessler A letter to the folks, from Spain. Dear people: Yesterday Jay Allen (Ed: ex-University student, and noted foreign correspondent) gave me the address of a boat line, the Sota, that plies cargo trade between Bilbao, on the northwest corner of Spain, to Barcelona, across the bay. Their freighters load and unload during the daytime and travel at night, stopping at six or seven ports between here and Barcelona, a distance of 800 miles. For $18 you can get a berth for the, trip, but no meals; for $5 you get transportation, and the whole deck to sleep on. Well, I’m no panty-waist: I paid $5. “You'll love it,’’ assured Jay. “It'll be economical and you'll get to see all the interesting spots.’’ Still, a place on deck . . . you know, the breezes get to frisk ing about quite playfully in February, even in the Mediterranean. Unfortaunately, the Ayala-Mendi, a motor craft of 4,000 tons, did not carry mattresses, but gasolnie, lumber, wine, and steel rails. The purser was sympathetic. He looked with compassion upon this lad so far from home, supposedly broke and homesick, and beckoned for me to follow. Down a few steps from the deck we came to a long, narrow corridor lit by two bulbs. Disappearing for a few seconds the purser returned with a wicker chair and two deck chairs. Then he left, and I deposited my little case, with its burden of $150 in good American checks, on the floor. My home for a week is 40 by 3 by 7 feet. Doors open into it on one side from store-rooms and on the other, from the engine rooms, where the throbbing monsters beat their hymns of power into one’s ears. Being steel-walled, my home is sanitary, except for one walled-up end which separates me from the hold, and allows a generous draft through a crack some two inches wide, as well as many strange bugs wnd beetles, notable only for their curiosity concerning foreigners. When the boat is in dock the motors stop, and I have no light. But on the seas, as we sway on our way, the corridor is quite snug, and I may read "Sorrell and Son," through once again. Last night I had for company a wizened and toothless old peasant. They locked us in, and somewhere around 5 in the morni«g Nature called the ancient Spaniard. He tried all the doors, but with no success, pounded on them frantically, muttering imprecations, and looked beseechingly at me for some suggestion. Well, what could I do? He disembarked at Almeria, quite indignant with the service offered. At Almeria an entire Spanish family moved into berths on the other side of the ship, but they dumped some of their luggage in my compartment, and among that luggage was a basket holding a playful pair of newlywed chickens. Nothing happened until about 3 o’clock this morning, when a sudden frightful blast awakened me from a sound slumber. At intervals of 32 seconds that triumphant war cry was repeated, and in my steel-plated cabin it sounded like the second cornet in the Hickviile band. I resented the breach of my privacy, and tried to concilliate the old roue, but when a rooster feels in a crowing mood, there isn’t much you can do about it without noodles and a roaring fire. At 6:30 a sailor came from the engine room. I drew my finger across my throat, said “Ssslk!" quite nastily, and pointed at the basket. He grinned. The offender was removed, kicking and scream ing. 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