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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, Loral 354; News Room and Managing Editor, 353. BUSINESS OFFICE: McArthur Court. Phone 3300 Local 214. MEMBERS OF MAJOR COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Represented by A. T. 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. Robort W. Lucas, editor Eldon Haberman, manager Clair Johnson, managing editor The Oi gon Daily Emerald will not be responsible for returning unsolocited manuscripts. Public letters should not he more than 300 words in length and should he 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 year, 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 it the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. War Is Hell, baid bherman; War Is a Racket, Says Butler TWICE decorated with the Congressional Medal of Horlor for heroism the only man ever to have been so honored-bearer of many a foreign decoration for his heroic performance of duty, called the ideal soldier by Theodore Roosevelt, veteran of American campaigns in the Philippines, in Mexico, in France, and in Central America— and, on top of all this record of military service, Smedley D. Butler, who left his Quaker home to become a soldier, says "War Is a Racket.” War is a racket, General Butler has said, be cause it is a social phenomenon whose mechanics are understood only by a select inner group, ami because through war these select insiders profit at the expense of the great mass of the people. Such a criticism of war, coming from a vet eran soldier of "Old Gimlet-Eye's" fame and ex perience must not be borne too lightly in the minds of us who may some day die to make the world safe for future wars. * * Sf! And surely there isn't a student in this school who can afford to miss General Butler’s address, delivered in that salty language which so capture* the affection of h,.: me-, in the service, and which has been a constant cuurce of apprehension in civilian circles. Death Lurks in the Race; Sailor Beware! QPRING is the time of the year to caution care ^ less canoeists about the dangers of the mill race. Seldom has a spring term expired without a tragedy occurring on Oregon's beautiful race. The untimely death this year of Clifford Flowers, Ore gon freshman, serves as a bitter reminder to those who enjoy canoeing. The mill race appears t.o be a harmless little stream. In most places the current Is not such as to be dangerous to a canolst of reasonable ability. But near the head waters of the race, sharp curves and deep w’ater make it precarious to navigate; and this applies not only to novices with a canoe but also to experts. The shock of the icy water, the swiftness of the current in these places, and the weight of clothes, contribute to likeliness of drowning. It has hap pened before and it can happen again, if caution is not exercised. As to those persons who venture beyond the race and into the rapids of the Willamette, there to play Tarznn of the Apes or some like silly performance, can be said one thing: don't be a darned fool! Rank Betrayal Of the Mush-Eaters rrailE nation's young mush-eaters and their cigarette-smoking elders threw down yester day's newspapers with a feeling of having been betrayed. There in the bluntness of black and white was proof offered by a senate appropriations com mittee that head G-Man J. Edgar Hoover follow ing whose example small boys eat their gruel and grown-ups aid digestion by smoking a well-known brand of cigarettes has never in his life made an arrest. Not only that, but sleuth Hoover's federal bureau of investigation, which has figured in so many thrilling miles of movie film lately, was bereft of credit tor solving any of the late, stirring criminal cases. Solution nf the Hauptmann case was credited by the committee to the service station attendant who first detected a ransom bill and tipped police off to the license number of the taxi in which the child-murderer was riding. Dilllnger's murderous career, it was recalled, was ended by the local police of East Chicago, Indiana. The Weyerhaeuser kidnaping case owed Its solution to the sharp eyes of a sales-girl who spotted one of the ransom bills. The Ursehel kidnaping was cleared up by the Memphis policeman who captured "Machine Gun" Kelly. o e IP All in all, the senators had a jolly time strip ping leaf by leaf the laurel from tire hero's head, and, when everything was said and done, the G-Man myth seemed pretty well exploded. But was this attack upon the buerau of investigation fair? True it is, perhaps that G-Man Hoover has been a little too alert to the possibilities for pub licity his office affords. Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that the bureau of investigation has been of great value in providing a central agency for the direction of an otherwise anarchical sys tem of local police forces. * # Thus, if, as the senate committee appears to have demonstrated, local police have been making most of the actual “pinches,” on the cither hand, much of the success of the local gendarmerie may be credited to the federal agency, which by gath ering and broadcasting evidence, has contributed its share to the apprehension of public enemies. Miscellanything Being Stuff From Heali ami Theali THAT EDDIE CANTOR PRIZE f'T'HERE has been a great deal of sentimental -* nonsense written about that Missouri farm hoy who won Eddie Cantor's $5000 peace prize by handing in a professor’s essay on the subject as his own. The Oregonian, for example, cries into its beer over his “pitiable plight’’ and the “unintentional cruelty” that would place callow adolescence in such a position. Not a word of warning or censure for the young man. The Oregonian places all the blame upon those who instituted such a competition, and suggest a law "to regulate and supervise the rash benevolence of such impulsive friends of humanity as Eddie Canor’’ while “someone owes that mis taken and wandering Missouri boy an apology.” It would be difficult to conceive of a more glaring example of twisted thinking and senti mental hooey. No one owes that Missouri farm boy ANYTHING, but a thorough dressing down and a stiff lecture on the difference between right and worng! He is no babe in arms. He is a high school boy, IS years of age, presumably mentally, morally, and physically equipped for college. It is shocking, we admit,—and in a certain sense pathetic, that any American boy of that age and education should have done what Lloyd Lewis did. It is even more shocking that neither before nor after the event did he, himself, have any sense of wrong doing or consciousness of guilt. There arc far too many young men of high school age in this country who, like young Lewis, are morally subnormal; who have never learned the difference between right and wrong, who like him could not only steal the idea, but steal the work of someone else, receive th reward for what they had never done, and not suffer the slightest pangs of conscience, Criminologists will tell you the underworld is full of them, a large proportion of our big city gangsters are lads in their teens. They are classified not as immoral but UN-moral. And many of them started, as this Missouri farm boy started, by cheating in school. Such a little thing! Yes, such a little thing. But big things grow from little ones. And if it is not wrong to steal another person’s work and use it as your own, why is stealing his watch, his pocketbook, or any other private property wrong. And from there— WHERE do you go! * 8= * No social problem is too acute, the proper moral development of the young WHEN they are young is too important, to treat this denouement of the Cantor peace pfize contest, as just a good joke on him and other misguided humanitarians, and an' occasion for making an appealing martyr of the young man, who turned their efforts into such a humiliating fiasco. Eddie Cantor is of course an enthusiastic ideal ist. Like many ot his race lie is extremely senti mental. It may be true his heart is bigger than his head. But those who listened to him over the radio on iris peace prize proposal know how sincere he was, how anxious not only to serve the cause of peace but to give some boy who could not have it otherwise, the benefit of a college education. And to think that his efforts were rewarded in THIS fashion! *5 a> # Wo believe we have at least n normal under standing and affection for youth, we certainly appreciate boys will be boys, but boys being boys is one thing, boys being crooked, is something else again. And in this instance our sympathies are certainly NOT tor the boy who won this prize by passing off the work of another as his own, but entirely for Eddie Cantor. Instead of Eddie doing’ the apologizing, hat farm boy from Missouri should crawl on his knees and beg the forgiveness of a fine citizen and a gallant old trouper, who was anxious to befriend him, and whom he double crossed and betrayed. 1'he mistake Eddie made, we believe, was not in treating the lad with kindness, publicly con demning or humiliating him would do no good, - bid refusing to talk to him as he would to his own son who had done such a thing (Eddie has only a flock of daughters i and yielding to a mistaken impulse and offering him a college education. A high school boy of IS, who could enter such a contest as this one, copy word for word a pro fessor's essay and not only submit it for his own tint receive the $5000 prize for it. without the slightest qualm, or consciousness of having done anything wrong does not need a college education. Flo needs to go back to the Boy Scouts and get a little of tire primary education, in honor and square-shooting, that that excellent organization gives. And as a supplement to that his parents might be wise to give him an extra curricular course in the woodshed, down on that old Missouri farm: Robert \V. Kidd in the Medford Mail Tribune. I 1 higgl'd rr (Continued from fajr our) 1 fie canine became ever popular, riding on Hunter s reputation. Counsel for the defense, Donald Heislcr and Virgil Scheiber refut ed the motive offered by the plain tiff’s counsel that Mize refused to remove the jacket when asked twice to do so by Hunter, because of malicious intent for losing the presidency to Hunter in the last law student body elecfion. James t; Smith, personnel head of the bureau of investigation in Washington, D. 0„ had given Hun ter an examination so that he could enter training school for ul timate position as G-Man. Hunter was to enter this spring after graduation. He had received an acceptance from Washington, but unfortunately Mr Smith overhear i some of the "I’lcxy Hunter" re | murks and Mr. Hunter's accept* ante was withdrawn. George Hibbard, witness for ife j formant stated that Hunter and Mize wore oven on good terms, since they had been seen at tempt - ing harmony while singing one day. Complications were added when surprise witness C. C. Spears claimed that as northwest agent j for the bureau of investigation. I Hunter was not qualified for the Music in The Air By BILL LAMME Publicity Twaddle Press agents are put on their mettle to constantly keep their clients in print where adoring fans can gaze on their physiog nomies and rave over the latest succulent morsel of personal do ings. The lengths to which said press agents go to achieve their ends are sometimes so sillily vacuous that it seeni3 a shame to waste the paper they are printed on. Every clay NBC and CBS press releases are -filled with such twaddle. Just to show you, here are some of the items re leased to editors as being worthy of a place in the daily gist of news. Wendell Hall (NBC singer composrr) has received a letter from the supervisor of penman ship of Hartford schools asking for his autograph to lie added to the penmanship exhibit in the Hartford school celebration of the Connecticut tercentenary . . , (who cares?) . . . Ring Crosby is going in for a variety in iiis smoking these days. He carries pipe tobacco in one pocket, eigarets in another, ci gars in stiil another, and fine cut tobacco and cigarette papers in the.fourth. He's just learn ing (o roll and smoke the latter . . . (Note to 1\.\.: (jet Crosby a suit with more' pockets and then what an item you could produce.) Item: l'liil Begun is unmar ried, bill . . . says he would like to lie . . . (Phoney; gunning for the gals.) . . . Because Hr. Sher man (Carefree carnival) prom ised his Itsy-bitsy dotter a rec ord of “Tu-Ka-Ra-Booni-De-Ay” for Master, and !localise no rec ord company had it, he wrote a continuity including the song, recorded the broadcast of the program, and ilotter got the record. “Nothing is impossi ble for n doting father!!” . . . (No, nor for a press agent) . . . Scotch Time Program release for the next week are going to be as reliable as a sorority gal’s amorous position with that department any way. In nearly one-half hour the jury decided that the libel and slander done to Mr. Hunter was to be val ued at the sum of $1. Other officers of the court were Ralph Hailey, notary-bailiff; Rob ert Anderson, clerk; Edward Schles ser, reporter-sheriff: wit nesses for plaintiff Bob Hunter, Robert Marks and James G. Smith. Witnesses for the defendant were: George Hibbard and C. C. Spears. I uek (ids Mine Job Ralph Tuck, B.S. ‘-7 and M A JS has secured n position as min ;ist with the Alaska rail road. according to information re ceived by the alumni office. His u-esent address is Anchorage, ■Maska. Mr. Tuck received a Ph.D. iegree from Cornell after attend ng the University of Oregon. riptiou lutes trJ.oO a year* l pledges. . . . All because some sections of the East and Mid dle West see fit to go on day light saving April 26 (a week from Sunday). Although the West is not in volved in the annual switching of the clock, broadcasts are necessarily set ahead because time contracts for air space are written in “current” New York time. For Instance, the Benny show for the Pacific coast is set for 11:30 p. ni.. New York time. At present this is 8:30 p. rn., Pacific time. (Really.) When the clock is shoved forward in Manhattan Benny and his crew will still have to report to work at 11:30, now 7:30 on the coast. And this situation remains the same whether Benny is working from radio city, the NBC studios in Hollywood, or any intermediate points. Radio Roiv The California - Washington crew race on Lake Washington will be broadcast at 4:15 . . . get it over KGO or KJR . . . KGW has cancelled it . . . Bill Robinson, sepia tap - dancing star, will be the guest of George Olsen and Ethel Shutta at 7:30 KGVV-NBC . . . Billie Burke and Basil Kathbone in u play, George Jessel in a comedy sketch, and Babe Didriokson in an interview all will be on the Sht'll Chateau tonight hs guests of Smith Ballew at 6:30 KGW NBC . . . And Frank Fay pre miers on his new program at 0:00 KGW-NBC. Also Ziegfeld follies at 9:00 KOIN-CBS . . . Griff Williams .at 9:30 KEX-NBC . . . George Olsen again at 11:00 KGW NBC . . . and Bobby Meeker at 11:30, same station. . . Psych Research To Be Published A research paper written by Dr. Howard R. Taylor, head of the psychology department, and Al bert Blankenship, psychology as sistant, for the Jantzen Knitting Mills to determine the way stu dents and the general public re acted to trade marks has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Applied Psychology, nationally known psychology mag azine. Dr. Taylor and Blankenship dis covered that change in types of print have no effect on product association, and that changes in the word form have very little ef fect upon value of the advertising. An interesting sidelight was found in the fact that when a human figure is used in the advertisement, it is the center of attraction. Roy Bryson to Sing Over KORE Sunday Roy Bryson, instructor of voice in the University school of music, will sing again over KORE Sunday at 1:15 on the Songland program. This hour is sponsored by the Poole Funeral Home. Oregon Couple Marries Ethel Maw Bauer, ex-'32, and Reuben J. Radabaugh, ex-'31, were married April 6 in Vancouver, Washington. They will live in Eu gene where Mr. Radabaugh is on the circulation staff of the Eugene Register-Guard. He is a member of Sigma Delta Chi, men's national journalism fraternity. Can This Be Helen? You'd never, never guess the name of this ravishing- blond, with the crisp coiffure and the entranc ing eyelashes, as she appeared at the Junior League Mardi Gras ball in San Francisco. Give up? Well, it’s Helen Wills Moody, trans formed. But the tennis queen didn’t stay that way, changing back to her natural brunet self af ter the p arty. ■Outward Bound9 Plays to Full House on Final Night Playing to a capacity audience, the University players gave their last presentation of Sutton Vane's mystical drama “Outward Bound" last night. In the smoking room cf a steam liner they solved the problem of man’s here after. Stars of the performance were Mary Bennett and Horace Robin son, guest actors. Miss Bennett as the cockney Mrs. Midget gave a true and lovable presentation of this self-sacrificing mother. Robinson portrayed accurately the drunkard who at last redeemed himself. Charles Barclay showred himself an able actor as the priest who was devoted to his work even in death. Scrubby, acted by Bud Winstead, was the philosophic boatman or steward who helped the passengers discover that they ■were really dead. Helen Campbell haughtily in formed everyone that her name was Mrs. Cliveden Banks, not just Banks, and gave a good picture of a social climber. Ann Booth and Bill Cottrell were the two lovers who flitted in and out of the scene. As half-ways or suicides they al most met a tragic end but are al lowed to back to life and try again. Dick Koken as Lingley of Lingley Ltd. was the stuffy business man who tried to argue the final exam iner out of his penalty by prepar ing a budget sheet. The play deals with the immor tality of man's soul and is founded on the old Greek fable that a ferry boat manned by Charon carries the souls of the dead across the river Styx to Hades. Modern treatment of this theme has re sulted in an unusual and interest ing play. The last scene of the play was a striking tableau of Scrubby, the steward, silhouetted against the sea watching the two lovers going back to life. US to Make Survey of Family Living Conditions Here Eugene has been chosen by the United States department of agri culture, bureau of home economics, as one of the many smaller cities in the United States to be included in a nation-wide study of family living conditions of American born families living in towns, villages, farming areas, and small cities. Mrs. Harriett van der Vate, in charge of the Eugene office with headquarters at 1335 Onyx street, was assistant and secretary to Dr. Howard R. Taylor in the personnel research bureau of the University of Oregon from 1929 to 1932. On leaving the University, Mrs. van der Vate took two years graduate training at the University of New York. She then became head of the department of research and statis tics of the Washington, D. C., council of social agencies. ' William E. Buell, Oregon '31, is director of the training school for the field workers of this WPA project. Mr. Buell is working also for his masters degree in education from the University. Mary Snider, Oregon ’35, is an administrative assistant to Mrs. van der Vate. Miss Snider, chair man of last year’s AWS carnival, is studying for her masters degree in business administration and has taught office administration in the business ad school. She is affiliated with Kappa Delta sorority. Next week about 20 workers will canvass Eugene, calling on fami lies to request them to give in formation in regard to their ex penditures of the past year, the ownership of certain durable goods, housing facilities and other aspects of family living. Ths sur vey will make such data available for the first time in American statistical history. Picture of Falls Brings Back Memories To Edwin Sheely The gold-toned picture of Mult nomah falls on the cover of the 1936 Oregon summer session cat alog brought memories to Edwin H. Sheely, University pressman, of the boat trip he made to the falls in 1892. Mr. Sheely, who did the press work on the catalog covers, and George Veiw, deceased, left Port land about the middle of August, 1892, and sailed up the Columbia river in a row boat with a sail at tached to it. At that time there was only a bad wagon road where the highway is now, said Mr. Sheely. The two voyagers made 507 plates (camera films were not in use then) of the now famous Co lumbia gorge scenery. The men wrapped each of the exposed plates in newspaper to protect them from the light. When they returned from the trip and unwrapped the plates to develop them in a dark corner of the Sheely barn, they discovered that ^instead pictures of the falls and the other scenic spots they had photographed, they had plates covered with ads and news matter from the papers. Only 12 of the 507 pictures were good. “We climhed to the top of the falls,” said Mr. Sheely “and took pictures of the Columbia river. We had to fight our way to the top through the brush for there was no trail to follow. The country around the falls was absolutely wild and even more beautiful than it is now.” ASUO’s Proposed New Constitution CONSTITUTION OF THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Preamble We the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, in order to promote and maintain those ac tivities and interests which will contribute to the educational, physical and social well-being- of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, do ordain and establish the following Consti tution. ARTICLE I • Name SECTION t. The name of the association of students under this constitution shall be the Associat ed Students of the University Of Oregon. ARTICLE II Membership SECTION 1. Alt registered un dergraduate students of the Uni versity of Oregon shall be mem bers, if they wish to pay such fees as are determined by the by-laws. ARTICLE 111 Officers SECTION 1. The elective offi cers of this association shall be a president, first vice-president, sec ond vice-president, and a secre tary-treasurer. SECTION 2. The officers of the association shall be nominate-1, elected and installed as provided for in the by-laws of this eonsti t ution. SECTION 3. Vacancies. Clause l. The order of succes bon to the office of president shall 'e first vice-president, second vice president, secretary-treasurer. Clause 2. All other vacancies d'.all bo filled by a majority vote >i the executive committee. ARTICLE V Executive Committee SECTION 1. Membership. The executive committee shall consist of the following members: (1) The president of the Asso ciated Students, who shall be chairman. (2» The dean of men of the Uni versity, or his personal represen tative, shall act as adviser to this committee, and to be an ex-officio member. (3) The first vice-president of the Associated Students. (4) The second vice-president of the Associated Students. (5) The secretary-treasurer of the Associated Students. (61 The president of the Asso ciated Women Students. t7 i The editor of the Emerald. SECTION 2. The legislative powers of the Associated Students shall be vested in the executive committee. Clause 1. The executive commit tee may on three-fourths vote of its members adopt or amend the by-laws of this constitution. Clause 2. It shall be the duty of the executive committee to require all officers of the association to comply with the provision of the constitution and by-laws. Clause 3. The executive commit tee shall exercise all other powers in connection with the association's affairs not delegated by this con stitution and by-laws to other sources, or reserved to the asso ciation itself. SECTION S. Meetings. Clause 1. Regular meeting's of the executive committee shall be held once in each month of the ocliool year, at a tune and place to be determined by the said com mittee. Clause 2. Four members of the executive committee shall consti tute a quorum. ARTICLE V Judiciary Committee SECTION 1. The judiciary com mittee, to which any member or administrative body of the Asso ciated Students may refer any question on which it desires an opinion as to the correct judicial construction or interpretation of any part of this constitution and by-laws, shall consist of five mem bers: dean of the law' school, or his personal representative, as per manent chairman, and four mem bers appointed by the president elect of the Associated Students j and the president of the University, not later than May 15th of each year. Two of these shall be mem bers of the faculty or administra- j tive staff of the University, and two shall be upperclassmen or graduate students. SECTION 2. The judiciary shall have supreme and final authority on all questions of interpretation I of this constitution, by-laws, and student legislation and on all dis putes arising from student-body of class elections, and shall upon re quest of the executive committee render advisory opinions on the in terpretation of the constitution and by-laws. ARTICLE VI SECTION 1. The president of the University shall be responsi- j ble for and shall administer extra- j curricular duties. ARTICLE VII Amendments SECTION 1. Amendments to tins constitution and by-laws may be proposed at any regular or spe cial meeting of the Associated Stu dents, provided said amendment is submitted on petition signed by at least one hundred members. SECTION’ 2. The proposed amendments shall be presented in the Oregon Daily Emerald on two following publication days, and be voted on by ballot one week from the date of proposal. SECTION 3. A two-thirds ma jority of the ballots cast on the amendment shall be necessary for the adoption of said amendment. Resolution Be it resolved by the members of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon that the fol lowing officers elected April 23, 1936, shall serve under the new constitution during the school year 1936-37 as follows: (1) The president shall become the president for the school year 1936-37. (21 The vice-president shall be come the first vice-president for the school year 1936-37. (3) The executive man shall be come the second vice-president for the school year 1936-37. (it The secretary shall become the secretary-treasurer for the school year 1936-37. (5) All other officers elected on April 23. 1936. or are to serve dur ing the school year 1936-37 under the old constitution shall be ex officio members of the executive committee as provided for under this Constitution, and shall per form all other duties that may be designated by the president of the Associated Students. To be effective upon the adop tion ot tue propc.-ed constitution.