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Oregon’s Job Aspirants
Ignore Uncle Samuel
THIS June about 300 students will be graduated
from the University of Oregon. Every gradu
ate will not have a job. Few of them will have
the job that "satisfies.” What are the new jobless
to do ?
Back in March 1932, after this country had
experienced three awful years of crashing prices,
unsalable commodity surpluses, restricted credits,
failing banks, closed factories, increasing unem
ployment, and the breakdown of distress relief, the
New Deal made its bow. Charles A. Beard made
the statement that "Franklin D. Roosevelt . . .
accepted the inexorable collectivism of American
economy . . . and sought to work out a policy
based on recognition of the main course of our
economic history.”
sis * sli
At any rate, Mr. Roosevelt brought with him
a tremendous expansion of the personnel and
function of government. In the 33 months between
March 4, and December 1, 1935, Mr. Roosevelt
and congress added 234,196 jobs to the payroll of
the federal government, and increased the
inauguration day payroll of $800,000,000 to
$1,220,000,000.
The effects of this collectivism have been inter
preted in a variety of ways. But to a young man
who is fresh out of college, willing, ambitious,
seeking a minimum of security and imbued with a
genuine desire to make an honest living in a clean,
forthright way, the New Deal MIGHT MEAN A
JOB. But does it?
In December, 1933, the Social Science Research
Council appointed the Commission of Inquiry on
Public Service Personnel to make a survey of the
broad problems of public personnel within the
United States, to outline a program for future
action, and to present its findings and recommen
dations to the American people early in 1935.
In the commission’s published report, the pros
pects for a career in government for any young
man are kicked squarely in the solar plexus and
left rolling in the much of partisan politics.
The great majority of “top spots” in govern
ment service are still political plums. Ordinances
such as the federal "Four Year Lnw” adopted in
1820, setting a definite term of office for ap
pointive administrative offices, are still in effect.
By far the largest number of newly created
bureau jobs are not included in the civil service
lists and arc still the polling places of rotund Mr.
Parley's popularity contest.
General provisions prescribing residence re
quirements or geographic apportionment as the
bases for appointments still stand on the federal
books.
Veterans’ preference regulations still ignore
the merit system in the efficiency of the public
service.
This is not all. But it is some indication of the
prospects that will face patriotic Oregon graduates.
Will they work for the government?
Better to say how could they?
DUNPAY is Easter!
Oregon students who are not regular church
attendants might well arrange to roll out early
that morning and attend services. Particularly
on Easter morning do regular and faithful church
members open their doors wider than ever to
occasional attendants.
A special sunrise service at (1:30 is being
planned by the Student Christian council. The
gi°up will gladly welcome all who join them in
servii es scheduled to be held at the open-air
theater behind the music building. Eugene’s
churches are also planuig special programs at
regular church hours, as they join Christians the
world over in commemorating the resurrection of
their Lord and Savior. They, too, ask all Eugene
to join with them.
Oregon’s R.O.T.C. Heads
Doing Creditable Work
BEFORE any more be said on the military drill
issue on this campus, the positions and atti
tudes of Colonel E. V. D. Murphy and Major
Roscius H. Back, heads of Oregon’s ROTC unit,
should be commended. These men, in the discharge
of their duty as supervisors of this rather touchy
course, have won the respect of both opponents
and proponents of required military training.
They have consistently maintained a tolerant,
reasonable attitude toward this problem and have
recognized fairly and with good grace objectors
whose objections have fallen within the broad
limits imposed by the faculty committee on mili
tary training.
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A recent investigation into Oregon's military
unit made by several of the faculty’s proponents
of optional drill found little evidence of any harm
ful effects on the minds of students with regards
to their attitudes toward war. And any statement
to the effect that this school’s ROTC attempts a
regimentation of the students against anti-war
propaganda is no warranted by the facts.
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It is one thing to favor military drill as a
healthy arid expedient attribute to a young man’s
development, and quite another to favor military
training as a required subject in a college curricu
lum. The Manner in which this course is handled
by Colonel Murphy and Major Back makes the
subject not undesirable in a college education.
The course at Oreogn could justify its worth as
an elective.
Things Are Looking Up
Goodie-0oodie...Wahoo
OODIE-GOODIE” tops the nation musically
'■J this week. A month or so ago it was “Music
Goes ’Round.” On the coast “Wahoo” rates all the
honors.
They are silly tunes. Not much meaning. Lots
of zip, though! Maybe this new “swing” music
did it. It does stir the feet.
"Songs reflect the feeling of a nation.”
Maybe that fellow was right. Seems like there
was a depression a few years ago. “St. Louis
Blues” in fifty different arrangements was the
rage then. Everybody was blue. “You’re Going to
Lose Your Gal.” ‘Somebody Stole My Gal.” People
were losing things. Plaintive “Shantytown” satis
fied the melancholy of the nation. Things didn't
look so good.
But these newer tunes. They’re happy tunes.
People aren't so worried ;^ny more. They laugh
now instead of sigh. The music is goin’ round and
round. Things are looking up. Goodie-Goodie
. . . Wahoo!
For Student Drivers
Who Enjoy Breathing
VSTEDNESDAY afte'rnoon Eugene resident;: and
* * students were thrilled and impressed by the
Ward Safety Show, a graphic portrayal of the
causes and consequences of automobile accidents.
Though two race drivers demonstrated many
common driving faults, it was the attitude of the
crowd that unwittingly revealed the real reason
why 36,000 Americans died in motor cars last year.
They gasped at the spectacular performance.
To them it was something beyond the capabilities
of the ordinary man, a feat of daring and unusual
ski 11. Actually, any driver with average physique
and mentality could, AND SHOULD, have been
able to duplicate any of the stunts without danger.
Anyone who cannot handle a ear that well is a
potential highway menace, und should not be
allowed to drive.
Yet 99 per cent of the drivers were so poorly
trained in the daily (and dangerous) task of pilot
ing a car that they were awed by what should
have been rudimentary to them. To the majority
of motorists, the ability to shift gears, give correct
signals, and stay within the limits of the law is
the sum of perfection. Actually it is but the bare
beginning of the game of driving: a game that
requires fully as much judgement as does football.
Not much can be done for those who are
already driving. Their habits are set and it would
take too much off' i t for them to start learning
all over again. Hut here is a suggestion for student
motorists that will pay big dividends: take pride
in your delving. Really learn how to handle a ear,
how to analyze split-second traffic situations, and
how to establish reaction patterns that will think
for you in an emergency. Learn your own limita
tions and stay within them, if you do you'll stay
out of trouble yourself, and you'll be able to keep
rubber-tired fools from getting you into trouble.
And, incidentally, you w ill be following the only
method that really promises to cut down America’s
automobile death rate.
Recently a European composer composed a
song' entitled the "Gloomy Sunday." As a result
ot this little tune. IN people sought the happy
hunting' ground at their own hands. A boon to
wash day! Monday could never be so blue.
Salvador AL Ranch wonders what happened to
his last year's white shoes, lie wanted to con
tiibute the crepe soles to the old Oregon spirit.
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By BILL LAMME
Sontest Blues
Are you a dreamer? Do you
lie in bed nights longing for
things? Does seeing your room
mate wearing a $55 Pavanne
and driving gaily, albeit dumb
ly, around in a gas buggy, make
you peacock green with envy?
Cheer up, fellas. That noise
you hear is opportunity knock
ing at your door. All you have
to do is enter a contest. And
radio is spawning contests like
a female salmon that really
gives, so there's plenty of chanc
es for everyone. S’really very
simple. One sponsor sloganizes
“a child can win our contetst,”
so that’s why we mention it.
You can win, too. Maybe.
Is it a wrist watch you want ?
Then listen Sunday, NBC at 8,
Sunset Dreams, write a jingle
and await results. More jing
ling might result in a watch of
fered by Wendell Hall, NBC,
at 5:15 Fridays. Also five
watches weekly are offered by
Vox Pop (a program, not some
body's old man l of NBC, at 6,
on Tuesdays. Here you must
wright a question or submit a
problem.
Like these: (1) I’m a sweet
college girl. Should 1 let a boy
kiss me after he takes me to
the show? I’m a sweet college
hoy. Hon do 1 go about meet
ing nice' girls"
Our own answers would lie:
(I) Yeah, unless you want to
let him kiss you before (he
show. (?) Ky going about. But
just between us, why do you
waul to meet :■ NICK girl?
If automobubbling is your
& to S' m
Easter Dance
At
Swimmer’s
Delight
Sunday, Aprif 12—8:30-12
With Johnny Bush and 11
Musicians and Entertainers
Mon 40e I .allies ICn*
Make arrangements early
for your picnic. Phone S. P.
33-E-21.
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heart's or feet’s desire, answer
a question given on CBS Thurs
day at 6:30, and if you’re lucky
you can ditch the kiddykar. If
you need broadening just one
answer -to a question will bring
you a trip to Europe (CBS Sat
urday at 9:00;. And if you need
cash!!!
File these gold mines for fu
ture reference. Tuesday, NBC
Crime Clues, 9:30 . . . Wednes
day, CBS Gang Busters, 7:00
. . . Monday to Tuesday, CBS
Goldbergs, 2:45 .. . All you do
is answer questions, praise
products . . .
If you ain’t got no radio and
can’t find one to squat atten
tively in front of, you can win
a radio by listening to NBC 12
noon, except Saturday and Sun
day . . . then you’ll have a ra
dio so you listen to contests and
win a radio. . .
Radiography
Don't let listening to the ra
dio keep you from going to a
show tonight. About all there
is: Dickie Powell KOIN-CBS at
6:00, trying to make up for the
flop of “Colleen” . . . Marion
Talley making up for the time
lost raising chickens, ICGW
NBC at 7:30 .. . Fred Waring
making music, KGW-NBC at 9
. . . And if you have no Satur
day morning classes, you lucky
stiffs, you can stay up to hear
Jimmy Dorsey at 11:00 KSL
CBS . . . and to sample Paul
Per.darvis at 11:30 GKW-N3C.
The Marsh
Of Time
Ey BILL MARSH
Alcoholic movie comic W. C.
Fields employs a Chinese house
boy in his Hollywood domicile.
A while ago the houseboy tip
toed into Fields' presence, and
bashfully brought forth the In
formation that he had been dis
cussing the little matter of
money with some Japanese
house boys employed in the
neighborhood. "They tellee me
they get fi’ dollahs a week
more than me,” he observed.
“So I wanee raise ...”
For a while Fields eyed the
young Chinese, then blurted
through the side of a mangled
cigar, “Well, don’t you think
it’s worth five dollars a week
not to be a Japanese?”
Do you gals want to know
how to scent up a room to smell
like a Parisian lounge, and do
it inexpensively? Try this. Take
two drops of perfume, and spill
them over an electric light bulb
that’s been heated. And if it
doesn’t work, don't blame me.
It was somebody else's idea.
What causes a hum? When
in the air, a fly’s wings will beat
about 21,120 times a minute. Ii
you don’t believe me, the next
time you see a fly take a good
look at the little beggar and
count his wing beats for your
self.
* *
Comes it a story from the
populous East concerning a gen
ial old gent who had a sense of
humor which he took right to
the grave with him.
Prior to the aforementioned
chappie’s departure for the
great beyond, he made it clear
to all his friends that he wanted
absolutely no weeping, and no
display of sorrow at his funeral.
Further than that, he expressed
a wish that his friends would
enjoy themselves, and have a
good time at his last touching
rites.
And so, on the day of his
funeral, his friends, respecting
their departed comrade’s wish
es, proceeded to start a crap
game within spitting distance
of their ghostly host’s casket.
What a scene that must have
been.
Minister: (Prayingl “And so
the departed one's spirit . . . ”
Guest: (Perspiring) “Come
seven, dammit ...”
Minister: (Prayingl “. . . for
sakes its earthly and mortal
shell ...”
Another guest: “Hah. Crap.
My bones.”
Minister (Praying) “. . . ash
es to ashes, and dust to dust
Guest: “And back to back.
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* * *
Apropos of our little highway
death here last Sunday, comes
the information that out of 100
train-car crashes, over 35 are
caused by automobile drivers
smashing into the side of mov
ing trains. My gosh, how do
they do it?
Send the Emerald to your friends.
Mrs. Jewell Called
To Sick Daughter
Mrs. J. R. Jewell, w’ife of Dean
Jewell of the education depart
ment. was called to San Jose last
night, where her daughter Mar
garet is ill with pneumonia. Doc
tors are using Oxygen tanks, and
her condition is reported as being
quite serious.
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Pictures Retain
Pleasant Memories
Spring Is a Swell
Time to Get ^ our
Scrap Book Started
Snap Your Friends in Informal Shots
Baker Film Shop
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New ideas for systematic coverage of markets, for more
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their experience tsith the application of Long Distance in
the business world.
Ihrough developing new ideas to meet changing needs,
Bell System service grows
more and more valuable.
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