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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.