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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— Editor. I/oral 354; News Room and Managing Editor, 353. BUSINESS OFFICE: McArthur Court. Fhone 3300—Local 214. MEMBERS OF MAJOR COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York City; 123 W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. Robert W. Lucas, editor Eldon Habetman, manager Clair Johnson, managing editor The Oregon Daily Emerald will not hr responsible for returning unsolocitcd manuscripts. Public letters should not be more than 300 woids in length and should hr accompanied by the writer’s signature and address which will be withheld it requested. All communications are subject to the discretion of the editors. Anonymous letters will be disregarded. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication ot the University of Oregon, Eugene, published daily during the college year, except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, examination periods, all of December except the first seven days, all of March except the first eight days. Entered ns second-class matter At the posfoiiice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. New Constitution Offers Solution to Problems TODAY the student body Will be presented a new constitution, formulated to meet the re organization plans now being constructed by the committee from the executive council. This constitution takes into consideration the major changes in the student body government as contemplated by the committee and the office of the president of the University. The document is not complete in that full details of the reorgani zation are not known. But the structure is sound and offers ample opportunity for the readjustment that will be necessary in the new setup when it arrives. sH # # Time make it imperative that the students adopt this new constitution one week from today at the regular election of the student body. It is a good constitution, carefully conceived, and making possible a greatly improved student government for this school in the future. Can Sophomores Establish Class Politics Precident? AN incident in sophomore politics this year serves as an excellent example of misplaced emphasis in the entire campus political atmos phere. It appears that the sophomores have a man in the class who is ttie true popular choice. About two weeks ago, sophomore representatives from nearly all living groups expressed accord in the selection of this man as the choice of the class. Now there is opposition to the ohce-beileVed popular choice. # * » Strangely enough the opposition comes not from those who object to this candidate but from those who object to his backers a few boys “who arc trying to run the show.” Now, what do the sophomores want? Do they want autonomy in running their own affairs, and the privilege of electing the man whom the class endorses, or do they want to quibble amohgst themselves just to mnke political tommyrot ? The Emerald is not interested in the candidate himself, but rather in the principle of selecting openly and fairly the man who best represents the choice of the class. ^hey now have this opportuntiy and should alone by the varsity tickets in working out. this problem. The Bag, The Brush And Campus Morale JN the spring a young man’s fancy turns to - white shoe cleaner! And the problem is one of gargantuan proportions. . Like the technique for making coffee, like the job of stopping a cough, every breathing soul lias a preference in white shoe treatment. In days of old, were knights so bold as to wear white footwear, duels would have been bloody and long over whether it be the “milk,'" the “bag," the “brush,” or the ‘“paste.” * * * Now, some enterprising persons turn cold be fore the ineffectiveness, yes, even the vulgarity of the'popularized methods, To them the "bag” is a gross insult to the art of amateur chemistry. To them, anything btit their own remedy shrivels tire summer shoes into a disgusting mass, and leaves all hope gone. "1 ue problem is a psychological canker sore on this campus Can the politicians cure it? Cheaters Never Prosper’ Can it Be Proved? "tl/TlAT was once a speck on the campus horizon, now appears as a cloud. Someone is interested in stopping cheating! the problem, boiled down, offers several solu tions. Shall the roots be attacked shall the present grading system go by the books in favor of the “pass-fail” grace, shall the big stick be used in the examination room, or shall students be placed on their own honor? At present the student academic adjustment committee and the faculty scholarship committee are scratching their collective heads. There are merits and faults to all of the systems. The prob lem Is to select the best for this campus. This paper offers its services in finding a solu tion and believes that cheating as it now exists is most objectionable. Miscellanything Being Stuff From Heah anti Theah THE ROLE OF THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD AFFAIRS By LYLE BAKER DEFFEAT of the Spanish Armada marked the beginning of Grea't Britain's position as “mis tress of the seas.” Her geographical isolation from the continent of Europe gave her the opportunity to maintain a policy of independence in European political affairs. In the years to follow, with the rapid development in transportation and commun ication and the consequent weakness of the Eng lish channel as a military barrier it became increasingly evident that the English “splendid isolation” was placing her in the embarrassing position of facing a hostile, allied world without friends or the support of other nations. She abandoned her policy as dangerous to British wel fare in 1902. * C * In his farewell address George Washington expressed the hope that the United States would forever refrain from mixing in European politics. That was the foundation of subsequent American foreign policy. Since the time of George Washing ton conditions have changed. The relative distance between Washington and London or Berlin has decreased. Our industrial expansion and challenge for dominance in world commerce has brought us into conflict with every European nation in every corner of the world. It becomes increasingly diffi cult for the United States to maintain a policy of non-intervention and still keep her place as a world power. As England decided in 1902 to emerge from her shell so should the United States today. America’s conceited refusal to recognize the world as existing outside the shoreline of North America has wrecked the British-conceived, American-fostered League of Nations. We sit on our side of the Atlantic ocean in our egotistical self-complacency and view the rest of the world as a horde of war hungry thieves. Who are we to question the moral right of Japanese expansion into Manchuria—we the nation who wrested the western part of our boundaries from defenseless Mexico ? Who are we to question the right of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia we the nation who have repeatedly stained our history by interference in Latin American affairs? Who are we to sneer at professed motives we the people who robbed Spain of her colonies only because “we wanted to free the poor, oppressed Cubans from the cruel Spanish yoke”? It cannot be maintained that the United States is any worse than other nations. Others are as bad, some worse, perhaps a few better. The ques tion is “Why do we assume the role of a nation of international hypocrites and refuse to admit that we are as interested as any country in decid ing- “who" is to receive “what”? Why don’t we do one of two things? Continue our present isola tion and abandon all pretense, all interest, all interference in international affairs. Or, frankly and honestly, throw away our present hypocritical, detrimental isolation and tell the greedy world that we want our rightful say in questions of international importance and our share in all the spoils. Why not admit it? We want our share and say in what is happening. Let's get it honestly or keep our mouths shut and forget about it. A VOUNU MAN’S AXSWUU TO THE TmVNSKNII PLAN ALTER A. SWANSON, an economic stu T ’ dent at the University of Oregon, has founded a plan to relieve the unemployment and old age pension problem. Swanson’s plan as he and his colleagues, Ed Hanson and Bob Becker, propose it is to be called the “Insured Marriage Plan." They call it the IMP. thus being extremely fashionable In this alphabetical age. This is it: At birth every baby In the United States is to receive form the federal government a $5,000 promissory note, payable in 20 years, interest 3 per cent. The parents of the child would get the interest, $12.50 a month, until it reached the age of 20. Annually for 20 years the govern ment would pay $250 into a sinking fund to retire the promissory note, so when the child reached the age of 20 the government would pay to him or her the $5,000 paid into the sinking fund. A boy and a girl at the age of 20 "ho elected to wed would have a capital of $10,000 with which to start. They could collect, if they had four children, $12.50 a month in interest on each of four promissory notes for $5,000. The parents could live on that, and when their children grew up they still would have the $10,000 with which they started, and that ought to take care of them the rest of their lives. People of all ages would be for it, it would cost i nly $100 a year per person instead of $2,100 annually the per capita cost of the Townsend plan, and :t automatically would end tlie agitation for birth control. i’he Townsepdit.es might as well fold their tents and steal away in the night. The University wizards have outdone and undone them. ('allio|)<‘ (Continued from (an ' one) ler will talk for Marojire Kissliny, unci Ifiil Moore will mime .Iran Stevenson. Jcis( as Jim Hurd's and ( tail Barker's names were briny introduced (he wind died down, s » >s into action Inst nipht to form op position to Noel Benson as inde pendent candidate for junior cla president. Dalton placed everyone within the sound of ids voice up lor office. I.uds who desired junior class offices to lie Kept out of politics hinted that Dalton's aeliou was dimension ui the ranks. And moreover they suggested that tlie effort to run opposition to the independents originated not in the soph classes of the houses on the Dalton ticket, but from upperclassmen who believed one of Finley's most vulnerable points was tlie fact that he had allowed Benson, a member of his own house to run tor class office.. Music in The Air Milan.at iiiiiiiiiii!.irzmsazmmMnmm By BILL LAMME Cheese on the Air Bashful television still lurks around the corner, but until it finally ventures forth here’s an idea of what you WON’T see. Bing Crosby's Kraft music hall goes on in five minutes . . . Bing looks for his hat . . . he broadcasts in it for luck . . . Joan Crawford nervously paces up and down in a sweeping (Janitor; “Goody, goody!") black gown . . . Joan brightens as Franchot Tone returns from parking his car ... he tells her rehearsal was swell . . . They’re on the air . . C'rtnv ft.ril goes on first and Bing in terviews her . . . goodbye and out she dashes . . . next, Itu dolph tian/. plays on his own piano moved in for the broad cast . . . afterward he stays to listen, especially to Jimmy' Dor sey . . . he leans on the piano and keeps time with his foot . . Bob Burns is decked out in a smart grey tailored suit , . . and carrot colored shoes . . . . Florence Gill, the voice of Walt Disney ducks and chickens, cackles the sextet from “I.ucia” . . . the stage is convulsed with laughter . . . Bmg laughs so hard he has to sit down next to Jimmy Dorsey and Bob Burns hangs on tiie Steinway . . . Bing croons, has a hard time whistling because everyone is still laughing . . . tin1 program winds up . . . cameramen are on the stage . . . Bob Burns ami Florence Gill get acquainted . . . Bing finds his hat . . Ganz, who directed the New York symphony, tells Jiinmj Dorsey what a wonderful band he has ... Goxzij) Bob Ripley, taking the cu« from the success of Majot Bowes’ amateur units touring the country so successfully, is forming his own stage group; . . . he’ll send out everything from a parrot that talks severa languages to a group of five ballet dances averaging 300 lbs who ATTEMPT the most intri cate routines . . . Leah Ray vocalist with Phil Harris, ha. signed a picture contract witt 20th Century-Fox .... Polej McClintock, Glen Gray’s frog voiced singer, justifies his voicf . . . he’s papa of a boy . . Pinky Tomlin, now in New York, comes wrest in May foi pictures . . . Answer to ques tion: Sliep Fields is headed east via one night stands . . . lonighi s Tunings Ed Wynn is evidently driving a couple of program directors buggy. One lias him listed ul (i:30 via CBS, the other says lie’ll be on at the same time or KGW-NBC .... we lay even money on NBC . . . Zimballsl fiddles and Zasu Pitts oh-my’s with Bing Crosby KGW-NBC 7:00 . . . valiant Vallee at 5:0C KGW-NBC .... Glen Gray whose real name is Knoblaugh at 8:30 KOIN-NBC . . . at 9:15 the sometime good and some time worse Hollywood Talent Parade on KGW-NBC . . . And that's about all except the nocturnal jazz of Jimmy Grier KPO at 10:30 . . . and oi Jimmy Dorsey KOIN-CBS at 11:00 . . . They're Bringing Water To L.A. A studx iii ligli's am! shadows on one of America's largest con si>netiru projects—the Metropolitan Water District aqueduct from Boulder Dam to Los Vugeles. This is being bui'.t at a cost of 320 mil'll a doilai and the huge job includes construction of a St8.500.000 (lain: 80 miles of tunnels; 55 miles of covered pressure line and 73 null a ot lined canal t»\tr the desert. Campbell Names Repp Assistant Harry Campbell, chairman of campus day, fob Junior Weekend, yesterday named Earl Repp as his assistant chairman. Delbert Bjork will be in charge of freshman ac tivities for the day, and Bill Mc Inturff, in charge of the tennis court dance. A prize dance will be one of the features of the tennis court dance which will be held as last year on the faculty courts after the all campus luncheon. A novelty act will be given at the intermission of the dance. Freshmen activvities for the day will include painting the Oregon “O” on Skinner's butte, and the annual sophomore-freshman tug of war across the mill race. The painting will be finished by 8:30 ;n the morning so that the freshmen will be ready for the tug of war at 9:30, Chairman Campbell ex plained. At the campus luncheon, mem bers of the Order of the O will enforce campus traditions. Men are forbidden to talk to girls, to wear ties, and to wear white shoes. Offenders will be ducked in the fountain between Deady and the old library. Orides Announce Committee Heads Heads of six standing commit tees were appointed reecntly by Erma Huston, Orides president. Ruth Orrick is chairman of the social committee, and Eileen Don aldson, of the athletics committee. Other appointments include Viola Barker, chairman of the music committee, Margaret Spicer, scholarship, and Phyllis Baldwin, publicity. The chairman of the ac tivities committee is to be an nounced before the next meeting. During the meeting, members of the Orides decided to have a big picnic with the Yeomen instead of their usual spring formal. Plans for their fall membership drive were also discussed, but no defi nite action was taken. Psych Tests Used In Anti-Noise Drive Victor Jorgenson, Oregonian feature writer, has written to Dr. Howard Taylor, head of the psy chology department, for results of noise experiments performed on students, planning to use the ma terial for a feature article upon the anti-noise campaign which is being conducted in that city. Dr. Taylor declared that he has no fear of the results of the ex periments being played up too start lingly, for the conclusions reached in the experiments were startling in themselves, proving that stu dents do practically as well with outside distractions as they do in absolute quiet. Correct Awards as Follows Correcting corrections, the ac curate awarding of honors to jun iors and seniors last year was as follows: Albert cup.Josephine Waffle Gerlinger cup.Ann-Reed Burns Koyl cup.William Hall ASUO and Class (Continued fram page one) the following: Bill Jones, A1 Car ter, Charles Barclay, Paul Plank, Larry Crane, Don Johnson, Gene vieve McNeice. Offices for >yhich they will run were not made known, as the petitions were filed to determine eligibility. Unless petitions bearing the names of 50 qualified student body members are submitted to Blais by midnight Friday, the ASUO ballot-box battle wil assume the same line-up as annuonced by petitions handed to Blais Tues day night. Speeches Planned Nomination speeches will be made for the following persons today unless unforeseen changes have occurred since eligibility petitions were filed Tuesday night: President: Fred Hammond—Craig Finley. Vice President: Gilbert Schultz—James Hurd. Secretary: < Grace Peck—Jean Stevnson. Senior Woman: Pearl Johunson—Margery liiss ling. Senior Man: Walter Kschebeck—Cecil Barker. Junior Finance Man: Bill Pease—Charles Frwln. Plans for handling the election are being made by Kollie Rourke, ASUO vice-president. The ballot and election board will be named early next week. Send the Kmeraid to \ our fri-ndi Blackface Minstrel Show Will Be Given Next Week The minstrel show is back—but this time it's all dressed up in a brand new style. Phi Mu Alpha, men's national music honorary, will present a modern minstrel show Thursday evening, April 23, in the music school auditorium. “We’re working up some really high class entertainment," Jimmy Morrison, director of the show, said last night. “It’s been several years since a black-face program has taken place, and never before have there been so many talented persons on the campus in one group for this type of show." There will be plenty of “swing" and semi-classical music mixed with gags and skits, according to Morrison. Twelve of Oregon's fin est dance musicians—the pick of campus bands—will compose the stage band. Scores for the show are being especially arranged by Earl Scott. Vocal numbers will range from negro spirituals to the most modern “swing” tunes. “The boys are very enthusiastic over the show,” Morrison said, “and if they act half as crazy dur ing the show as they do at rehear sals, this modern minstrel deal will not soon be forgotten.” Admission will be 25 cents. The proceeds will be used to help send the group to its province conven -tion in Pullman, Washington, May 1 and 2. Junior Girls to Honor Seniors At Breakfast May 3 As a farewell gesture of esteem, junior women of the University will honor their senior sisters Sun day morning, May 3, in G^rlinger hall at the traditional campus junior-senior breakfast sponsored by the YWCA. Virginia McCorkle, a sophomore in arts and letters, has been appointed chairman of this year’s affair. The annual event began in the days of Mrs. P. L. Campbell, wife of the University president, who invited both juniors and seniors to j her home on May day for straw berries. That was in the days when the University was young and the junior and senior classes small enough to be entertained in one's home. About 1919 as the Univer sity expanded, this was no longer possible, so the custom was taken to Gerlinger hall. Later it was given over to the YWCA as one of its projects to aid junior girls honor the seniors. “It was quite a dress-up affair j in those days,” recalled Mrs. John Stark Evans, relating the history. “We all came in frills and laces, ate our strawberries about 9:30, and then were sent off to church.” Now Sunday-afternoon dresses are in order when juniors, seniors, and faculty members gather for the morning repast. “The best breakfast that has ever been held” is the aim of the directorate for this year's event, which fully began its plans irt a meeting at the YW bungalow yes terday afternoon. Houses will be contacted immed iately to allow juniors to make their plans in advance. Committee heads appointed by General Chairman Virginia Mc Corkle are: Frances Schaup, tic kets; Constance Kletzer, posters; Ann Nelson, properties; Hallie Dudrey, programs and decorations; Helen Anderson, food; Jane Peeb ler, service; Vieno Osterland, sec retary; Lillian Warn, publicity; Jane Bogue, clean-up; Erma Hus ton, finance; Betty Hughes and Clara Nasholm, advisors. Varsity Meets Frosli Saturday Contrary to the statement printed in yesterday’s Emerald the Oregon golf team will not meet the Oregon State club on Saturday. Oregon plays the Beavers at Corvallis on May 9 at Corvallis and the return match will be held here on May 23. The varsity will, however, meet the freshman team on Saturday, and the freshmen, led by Doug Ramsey, should prove stiff com | petition. Former Professor Flays Judicial Set-up The “case load” of American courts should be reduced to man ageable proportions, and the whole system of administering criminal justice in this country is badly in need of overhauling, it is declared by Sam Bass Warner, Boston, Massachusetts, former professor of law at the University of Oregon and now a noted autority on criminal law, in an article appear ing recently in the magazine sec tion of the Christian Science Monitor. Mr. Warner is the son of Mrs. Gertrude Bass Warner, donor and director of the Warner collection I °f Oriental art at the University of Oregon. University High To Present Operetta All the splendor of an imperial court will be displayed in the set tings and costumes of the cast for ‘■Princess Ida,” Gilbert and Sulli van operetta to be presented by University high starting Friday. April 17, in the school of music auditorium. Costumes have been secured from the Hollywood Costumers in Portland. Velvets, satins, ermines, and richly embroidered garments of all kinds will be donned for the opening curtain. Mrs. Anne Landsbury Beck is directing the cast and the orches tra accompanying the show. Tickets can be purchased at the McMorran and Washburne store tomorrow, or at the school of mu sic. Performances Will be on Fri day. Monday, and Tuesday eve nings. with a special show Satur day morning for the children. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cramer be came the parents of twin daugters, Kathleen and Connaire. on March 19. Mr. Cramer. ’27. is a lawyer in Portland and treasurer of the Multnomah Republican club. Mrs. Cramer tile former Carol Coib^. Lab Experiments On Frogs> Fish Prove Interesting Putting a brainless .frog through its paces, and shocking salamanders with electricity is all in the day's work for the physiological founda tions of human behavior class con ducted by Dr. A. R. Moore, profes sor of general physiology. The salamanders which were ex tracted from local ponds, are being tested for reaction tendencies. It has been found that upon being sub ject to an electric current with the cathode touching its head, the am phibian will become restless and raise its head. If the cathode is placed at the tail, however, the ani mal will become quiet as if enjoying the sensation. The frog specimen had its cere brum removed nearly a month ago. It recovered from the operation with no other effects except that it now appears to be a trifle dull even for a frog. For the experiment of which it is an integral part, the frog is placed in a maze in which it can make one of two turns. If it hops around the corner to the right it receives an electric shock. If it hops around the corner to the left it is rewarded by being placed back in the water of its tank. Although experiments are not complete, it does seem to be learning which way to hop. UG Fencers Take Oregon State, 5-4 University of Oregon’s three man fencing team beat the Ore gon State three-man team five matches to 4 last night on the col lege campus. Members of the University team were Norris Porter, Henry Spivek, and Lenore Lavanture. Ten fenc ers made the trip from this cam pus. and returned late last night. Smith \\ ill Discuss Mineral Economics Profesor Warren D. Smith, head of the geography department of the University, will speak before the International Relations club tonight at 8 o'clock, in the men's lounge of Gerlinger#hall. His topic will be “The Part" of Minerals in International Relations.” Professor Smith will discuss some of the more fundamental and basic aspects of international re lationships with regard to natural resources of countries. Ail students are invited. WANTED: 1935 Oregaras. Pur chase price will be paid. Ralph Sthcmp, ASLO ciiitfc*.