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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. Local 354 ; News Room and Managing Editor. 353. BUSINESS OFFICE: McArthur Court. Phone 3300—Local 214. MEMBERS OF MAJOR COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York City; 123 \V. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. Robert W. Lucas, editor Eldon Habemian, manager Clair Johnson, managing editor The Oregon Daily Emerald will not he responsible for returning unsolocited manuscripts. Fublic letters should not be 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 arc 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 at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. Mark Up One For "Old Gimlet-Eye’* OLD “Gimlet Eye" Smedley Butler, one of the toughest marines who ever defended an Ameriean dollar in Nicaragua, wisecracked his way to the top with 2500 enthusiastic listeners at Gerlinger hall yesterday. It’s been many a long day since an assembly speaker has taken the Ore gon campus so completely by storm as the ex marine firebrand did yesterday. Gruff but kindly, the general took a crack at most everybody, but he was right there with his solution too. How they roared when Smedley slapped the war-time ministers. "They told my boys to go out with a bayonet in one band and a cross in the other,” he shouted, “and if they couldn’t stick ’em with the bayonet, to club hell out of ’em with the cross.” His eyes glittered and gleamed as he curled his lashing tongue around some “delicious” stinks that mean war to the general. The close observer who looked on and through Butler's plebian wit and entertaining mannerisms was not disappointed. “I’ll never vote for another presidential candidate until he promises unqualifiedly to keep us out of war,” said Smedley, who thinks watchdogs are all right if kept in their own yard. Beneath it all the firebrand is a real humani tarian for all his seeming casehardness. As he poohpoohed the idea of an invasion of America and scorned the very thought of foreign aggression, he proved himself a real peace lover at heart, even if the best economists think “splendid isolation” is a splendid myth. Oregon won’t forget General Butler’s visit for many a moon. A Fresh Breath Of Idealism rr^o the Portland boy’s soultion of the war menace, which won for him Plddie Cantor .) much buffeted .$5000 prize, the first reaction of collegiate cynicism was to say: “Phooey. A Boy Scout’s dream!’ In his prize-winning essay, Owen Matthews describes the fraternal spirit that reigned at the fourth international jamboree of the Boy Scouts, which gathered in Hungary in 1933. He tells of friendships formed at the congress, friendships which leveled national barriers and dissolved con flicts of national interest. All those things considered, Matthews asks “how we'could ever want to go to war with each other?’’ • » The cynical reaction to this pica for peace was forged primarily by resentment that a callow lad with the wet-cared ideas of the conduct of nations found in high school textbooks, should sneak Cantor's coveted bounty out from under the noses of students who have at least a mouthing knowl edge of treaties, alliances, nationalism, militarism, imperialism, and all those deep and devious matters. »■ *■ % Idealism of Matthew’s sort was once embarras sing to promoters of the World War. The story is told of the first Christmas on the front of how, given a holiday, French, Germans, Britons, and Austrians fraternized in the midst of a No-Man's Land which a day before had been scurged with creaming shrapnel. Playing cards, drinking to gether, and sharing their holiday meal, they found that they were all sons of the same old Adam, with the same fellow-feeling and love and the war might have ended right there, so it is said, had not the brass-hats back of the lines got wind of the matter and "sicced” the war-dogs to it again. Undoubtedly much might be done to further the ideal of peace by international congresses of youth, such as Matthews suggests. And perhaps our elders are not so altogether past redemption but that they too could profit from a feeling of international fellowship. In the recent law school-business ad school baseball game it seems that the BA boys snorted a pitcher extraordinary, whom the lawyers could not hit. Furthermore, it was alleged by the dis couraged book,-, worms that the said pitcher was not registered in the BA school and hence in eligible. However, it Look the law school four Innings to construct a proper complaint. By then all hope was gone which further illustrates the inadequacies of twentieth century legal procedure. Music in The Air «!l!l!lilllllllli;i!|{ll!llllll!i:i!llllllllllllllllll[lllllll!llhi!llllllllllllllllllltllir By BILL LAMME Com m and Par form ancc So many A m ericans, sup posedly so democratic and polly wally, develop a fever of excite ment when royalty appears on the scene. Radio and' other per formers are no exception. Let such a performer once give a command performance and the public is constantly reminded of it. So and so appeared before the kink and queenie of Vulgaria. So and so has appeared before most of the crowned heads of your up. The*latter is no longer any boast, with so many crowned heads bared' to the dlstatorial breezes. The fuel tlml (In1 crowned heads might have been nodding from boredom and that tin* queen kicked Hit- Kill); to keep his mind from wandering to a good poker session or a burlesque strip art, is never acknowledged. Uut cornea now in the mails the story of a command per formance that is really differ ent. This guy was an orchestra lender, and the command was hacked up by a rifle. The leader was 17 at the time, and his or chestra had been engaged for a fiesta at a amall Mexican town near the border. The fiesta was in full swing when Poncho Villa and his bunch of baby scarers rode on the scene. The hoys were command ed to play and did until they were ready to drop but they came out of it with their money and their lives. And zo he eg hero was Smith Ballcw, now performing on Shell Chateau, with only a few shekels commanding him to play. I litzzifl 15in>; Crosby's scheduled per* forinonce avee symphony is no jircmlpiit estahllsher; Ivali c Smith, ft'innh* crooner, lias al ready appeared with the same organization . . • Vdd puhlicit \ twaddle; Peggy l»*-ll, Irish soug ht ress heard over NIII w it li dark Hj Itor.’s l ontinentul lln ue, win* not sleep unless attired in Kiir meats of blue , . . bet if she were fired instead of attired the color wouldn't make win difference . . .Dick Stabile, Benue's star suvapbonist, is out on his own with a baud . . . Hwlioings it llUJ JLij aUOsit j J*iiI Peered of the perfect diction ami Viola I’liilo, singer and discov ery of the late Hoxy; KGW-NBC at 0:00 . . . .Meredith Willson will feature hits of a few years ago on the Music America Sings at 0:08 KOO; Willson received an ovation when he eondiu'ted the San Francisco Symphony Sun day in tin* premier of his own San Francisco symphony in F minor . . . Snoony of Waring’s is had enough hut now comes SnooUy-Puss who will he feat ured on Kddic Dowling's revue with Kenny Goodman and Helen Ward, at 7:00 KGW-NBC . . . Also Novis-Picken-Duchin at 6:30 KGW-NBC ... at 7:00 you have your choice of two first la dies; Roosevelt KGO or Mary Pickford KOIN-CBS . . . Camel Caravan at 8:30 KOIN-CBS . . . and Fred Waring at 0:00 KOIN CBS. . . Hammond \__ (Cm!/iniit'il from ptujc our) well deckle on matters of gen eral purposes. This group should, it seems, be the agency to suggest the information to be disseminated over the state either through the Emerald or given to the newspapers. In other words, we want the people of Oregon to know exactly what the great majority of the students think and desire. This group would be the good will agency between the students and the state. It wotdd handle speakers committees, greeting committees, arrange for speak ers of note, for assemblies, pro mote tag sales to send athletes to national meets, etc. In other words it would be an efficient agency to handle so many of the functions which arc now left up to tin1 voluntary efforts of small groups. 3. The most important func tion that this council could per form would be to put the ASt'o on a firm financial basis. This body could be responsible for the creation of a system of graduated student body fees, by which each student could buy in advance at a reduced rate tickets for all functions of the coming term in which he happened to be interested. Rec ommendations could be made to the executive council as to plans to he pursued. Every student would become more interested in tudent government a n d would have a voice through the representative of his group., as exists tor the citizen in any legislative government. All campus dances, and any form of money making activities could thus be worked out. This council would be responsible for the summer student con tacting program, select speak ers to advertise University af fairs, have scholarship drives, alumni meetings, class reunions, and other methods oi making the student organization pay for itself. I At last comes it to light a man with enough courage to get up on his hind legs and de nounce war as an international chess game in the hands of big business ... a chess game in which you and I and all the rest of us are the pawns . . . pawns to be bullet-shredded anti re moved from the board as the game progessea. To (irnerul Smrilley Itutler, a salute of IS guns for telling us in pietiiresipie and profane language that there cun lie no reason for the I'liiteil States polling her beagle into a war, separated as she is from Kurope by 8,00 miles of water, and from Asia by a,000 miles of file same substance. And to the same gallant gen eral, another similar salute for showing us that ridicule is the strongest and most effective weapon in the hands of those who don't give a damn what Euri pe does with her chess game of nationalistic hatred and international profiteering. Take it from the tleueral, kiddies, the harder we laugh at the forces which would like lo swap our lixes for dollars, the more remote becomes the possi bility of our squatting in the bottom of a stinking trench, only to charge over the top in to an inferno xxhich presently dismembers us, and tosses the pieces back into the trench, one bloody chunk a< a time. Political speeches aren't what they used to be. It use:’, to be that a candidate for the pres ident of these United States could compose one speech, and then stick xvith it until elections. Not so any more. With tHe radio and everything, there has to be a different speech eve y time. They even have to get stronger every time. If Mr. Hoover calls Mr Kooscvelt a liar in one speech, he can't re peat the charge in his next. He has to call Him a thief then. hdirowd old All Laudou of Political Pooey „ «, By hanson Play By ❖ Play Marian Bauer I MCDONALD — “Captain Janu ary," and “Brides Are Like That." UELIG “Roaming Lady,” and “Murder on the Bridlepath.” Shirley Temple comes through with her best performance yet in the current “Captain Janu ary," showing at the Mac for the last time today. With a plausible story, (out side the tyrannical truant offi cer who haunts our little orphan constantly), and some clever dance routines, this latest offer ing is truly a Temple triumph. The child star doesn’t discover any jewel robberies, or perform any miraculous feats typical of Kansas is the white haired hoy this year. He isn’t making any speeches at all. Hi' hasn’t even opened his mouth to spit for a couple of months now. Whether they know it or not, present clay politicians owe the comfort which accumulates in the seat of their pants to Thomas Jefferson . . Jefferson, wjio not only wrote the Declar ation of Independence, founded the University of Virginia, and served as president of the United States, taut invented the swivel chair, ('an you imagine him horribly uncomfortable modern office holders would get if their poste rior regions weren’t protected by fatigue - eliminating s« ivel chairs? * :|: :J; A man who claimed to be the only British subject who lived during the reign of five English monarclis died in Canada a few days ago. I-Ie was born during the reign of William IV, and lived to honor as sovereign Queen Victoria, Edward Vli. George V. and Edward VIII. He was 10! years old. Conlc'st Sri For April 22.2,‘J Dorman Kehrli, director of mu nicipal research. E. G. Bryson, field consultant of the League of Oregon Cities, and Dr. I’. A, Parsons, pro fessor of sociology, will attend to day at The Dalle the 19th regional conference of a series of municipal meetings conducted by the League of Oregon Cities. Cities throughout Oregon have yearly regional meetings; municipal problems and future plans are dis cussed Tomorrow city officials in LaGr.'.n.de will meet: Thursday Pen dleton executives will meet, Mr. Kahrli and Mr. Bryson are official ly delegated to go to all regional meetings Dr. Parsons will see ccnntv officials and welfare work ers in conjunction with his work with t|,ie Oregon State Planning board. Send the Emerald to your friends. Suosciipdon lutes !^a..oO u year. only Tarzan, Orphan Annie, and herself. And what a relief it is! The show also proves that Shirley’s training has not been in vain. She sings better, dances better, and if you liked her be fore, you’ll get a great big bang out of this. The cast includes such favorites as Guy Kibbee and Slim Summerville. “Brides Are Like That”—This is a honey, and funny. Get hap py with Boss Alexander, the flippant flatterer. You'll be car ried along by the freshness, the zip, the fun of this one. The cast seems to have such a good time, too. It’ll lift you out of the dol drums. Applesauce and mar riage with love and kisses. A spring tonic for the anemic. Oregon Grad Lane Gels $1,500 Fellowship Word has been received by M. H. Douglass, librarian, that Robert Lane, who was graduated from the University in 1926, has received a J51.500 fellowship from the Ameri can Library association. Mr. Lane said in his letter that le would investigate “The Contribu tion of American University Press es to Scholarly Publishing." Mr. Lane received his bachelor of science degree in journalism in !926 and his master of arts degree n 1932 from the University. General Butler (Continued from page one) American soldiers to go to Europe, Cuba. China to “protect their homes." “Protected Mother” in Cuba “I ran away from home in 1898 to protect my mother in Cuba," the general announced dryly. “And I fought against Spaniards from Madrid, who were protecting their mothers in Cuba too.” The dollar diplomacy adopted in 1898 has been responsible for in ternational difficulties experienced by the Unitec^ States. “Our dollars run abroad, the flag runs after the dollars, and the suckers run after the flag,” he said. General Butler scoffed at the idea of an invasion of the United States. Citing the fact that it took two years in 1917 to transport two million men to France with all the ships of the world at the disposal of the United States, he said'“the San Francisco police could beat up all that could be landed before nightfall." Advocates Amendment As a means of crystallizing the necessary public opinion, Butler advocated a national amendment which would prevent American soldiers from leaving United States territory and battleships and airplanes from going more than 500 miles from the shores. Although this amendment could not be passed because of the power of big business it would create sufficient opinion so that no war could be fought. As soon as the international bankers found out that the United States interna tional sheriff was not going out to collect their foreign bills, there would be no more war. “I am absolutely opposed to compulsory military training,” the general stated without hesitation when questioned by Fred Colvig, Emerald editor-elect, at the short seminar. “It’s unAmerican.” The idea of military discipline was ap proved by Butler, however, who said that he sent his sons to mili tary school. The only fault he found was in the compulsory angle. Absolue pacifism was called “ab surd” by Butler, who said anyone would fight if his mother or sister were insulted. Church Criticized The part of the church in propa gandizing war was bluntly criti cized by “Old Gimlet Eyes,” who caustically asked "what the hell the church had being miltant,” when he told of a parade of mili tant preachers during the war. He also humorously explained how soldiers were sent forth to battle with a bayonet in one hand and a cross in the other with instructions that “if they couldn’t get them with the bayonet to club them with the cross.’ Humor is an important ally in combating bankers and diplomats, according to the general. As long as the American people can see the peculiarities in these peoples and laugh at them they are safe. Policties Draw Remarks Politics also drew some clever remarks from the famous soldier. He derided the recent senate in vestigation of the rich, calling the action an old political trick. Of re New Library Browsing Room Looms as Milepost i nei ne saiu, wen an oe nemu crats by November if the general treasury holds out.” ‘‘There isn't anything you can’t get around with $10,000 to start with," he remarked in showing the power of money against the law. “If you haven't got anything you might as well go to jail in the first place.” General “Duckboard” came through in his usual forceful style, denouncing anything and every thing in plain language. He left the campus at noon, immediately following the short seminar in alumni hall. Calendar (Continued from page one) Master Dance will hold a special meeting tonight at 7:30 in the dance room of Gerlinger hall. It is impor tant that all members be present and on time. Heads of houses will meet at 5 o'clock this afternoon in the AWS room in Gerlinger. * * * Independent students will meet this afternoon in the YMCA hut at 4:00 for a political meeting. All in dependent students are urged to be there. Phi Beta meeting tonight at 7:00 in Gerlinger hall for actives and pledges. Phi Chi Theta dessert party scheduled for tonight has been post poned for one week due to election rallies. Alpha Delta Sigma business meeting in Mr. Thacher’s office at 4 p. m. Wednesday. Phi Theta Upsilon will meet in the women’s lounge at Gerlinger to 1 day at 4:00. * « Oregon Committee for Peace and Freedom meets tonight at 7:30 in the Y hut. Meeting open to students and townspeople interested in £he noncompulsory military training initiative. Refreshments will be served. Faculty Doffs (Continued from page one) women will assist professors and deans in their doughnut salesman ship. , The student committee assisting Dr. Ernst is made up of Helen Bar trum, chairman of the student group; Genevieve McNiece, booths; Irene Schaupp, finances; and Hen riette Horak and Margaret Petsch publicity. The Skull and Daggei members will taka charge of deliv ering the goods. “Eat your way into your pro fessor’s hearts,” is one of the lead ing mottos for the “Hole-in-One' donut sale. Dr. Ernst, chairman of the fac ulty committee, declared yesterday with a twinkle in his eye that the observing student will take this op portunity to “do his apple polishing early.” Bigger and better donuts are be Nails, boards, steel pipes, and heavy screen now lays cluttered around a room in the new library which will next year be the brows ing room that is so much discussed and looked forward to. In spite of rough brick walls and an unfinished appearance anyone with half an imaginative eye can foresee a long, pleasant room covered with deep rugs to quiet the tread of students who have come to repose in an easy chair by the fireside. Seven large windows, which are now just those gaps in the front of the black structure seen from 13th street, look out upon a long and wide view of the campus, encom passing the museum, Condon, the women's dorms, a slice of Johnson hall the College Side corner. 1 All in all it seems likeley that Li brarian M. H. Douglass' remark, “We are particularly anxious to have the right atmosphere in the new recreational reading room'1 will soon be realized, what with eleva tors, ventilating shafts, walls and windows ever increasing at a rap id pace. It is all very well to learn what is going to exist in the way of con crete things such as buildings and rooms and furniture, but what is of more importance is the way in which it will be used. Will it be just another part of the library o.r will it be a milepost for a few students to become initiated into hitherto unknown fields of culture ? When discussed with Dr. George Rebec, head of the philosophy de partment, this question became clear in many ways. According to Dr. Rebec it will not matter so much if vast hordes of students do net become intrigued into the browsing room if, instead, those who do while away time there, ac tually get started on a road of "self-education.” So many of the college variety have gone through the mill, forget ting even what little they were able to “give back" to the professor, that any means which will enable them to explore for themselves and start on their way into the "republic of ideas" is worthwhile, according to Dr. Rebec’s statements. He further believes that t£e hos ess librarian which will be the guar dian of the new browsing room will not be just a policeman, but rath er one intensely interested not only in books, but what is in them. She should be a ‘‘counselor,” not just a teacher—one who will be able to talk with the students and create an air of enthusiasm for further ex ploration into books. Others of the faculty have shown intense interest in this new project of the University, proving that per haps all are not just teachers, but also counselors intent on building more than ‘‘just another room.” ing promised for the sale by Miss Bartrum, chairman of the student committee. ‘‘We have had donut sales and donut sales on the cam pus,” she asserted, "but never have there been donuts like those which will be sold Wednesday.” Great quantities of the “sinkers” have been ordered to take care of the de mand which is expected. ASUO’s Proposed New Constitution CONSTITUTION OK THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Preamble Wo 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 1. 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. All 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 III 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 nominated, elected and installed as provided for in the by-laws of this consti tution. SECTION 3. Vacancies. Clause 1. The order of succes sion to the office of president shall be first vice-president, second vice president. secretary-treasurer. Clause 2. All other vacancies shall be filled by a majority vote of 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. (G) The president of the Asso ciated Women Students. (7» 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 3. Meetings. Clause 1. Regular meetings of the executive committee shall be held once in each month of the school 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 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 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 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 ble for and shall administer extra-! curricular duties. ARTICLE VII Amendments SECTION 1. Amendments to | this 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. (ii The secretary shall become the secretary-treasurer for the school year 1936-37. (51 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 bv the president of the Associated Students. To be effective upon the adop tion of toe proposed constitution.