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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.
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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!
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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.
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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. Later in the day the faint sound of crowing came to me from
some distant part of the ship.
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remember this. To read a newspaper with the same
ease with which you’d read a well printed book,
requires three times as much light. The new
Science of Seeing has revealed startling facts about
the partnership of sight and light. Often the use
of higher wattage bulbs or the changing of the
position of poitable lamps will help. The I. E. S.
Student lamps are recommended for really effective
study lighting.
Ask to have them demonstrated at your
dealers.