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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon _ Robert W. I„ucas, editor Eldon Habcrman, manager Clair Johnson, managing editor EDITORIAL OFFICES: Journalism building. Phone 3300— Editor, Loral .154; 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 H. 42nd St., Sew York City; 123 \V. Madison St„ Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. _ The Oregon Daily Emerald will not lie responsible for returning unsolocited manuscripts. Public letters should not be more than 300 words in length and should be accompanied by the writer’s signature and address winch will be withheld it requested. All communications are subject to the discretion ot the editors. Anonymous letters will be disregarded.__ The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student pub ication ot the University of Oregon, Eugene, published daily during the college year, except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, examination Ocriinls, 'all of December except the first seven days, all of March except the first eight days. Entered.as second-class matter tt the postoltice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $-.51) a year. Dirty Rushing Cleaned, Maybe. . . . ADOPTION of the new ".sealed bid” plan by the Interfraternity Council Tuesday night has probably dispelled the odor of "dirty rushing” that has clung to the campus since last fall at least until next September, when the heat of rush week will undoubtedly generate the same sort of interfraternity recriminations as have been hurled in the past. But the boys have tried, and for that they deserve a hand. No Olympian resident could draw up a set of rules that would settle forever the rushing problem that exists on this and other American campuses, nor is there a heavenly agency that could enforce it. There will be the same abuses and the same complaints from now until creditors close out the last fraternity house: “Joe Doaks was kept up the McKenzie in a cabin!” “They had Walter Wer.thcrwax in a hotel room!" "They were rushing Charlie Chan after hours!” Etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum et absurdum. Rushing is just one of those things that cannot be held to the rule books, the chief reason being that there is positively no way of policing five hundred young heathens on the loose. With idealistics vaporings the Interfraternity Council can smother rushing abuses and all its members will agree, but once outside and confronted by Rules don't mean a thing unless every individ ual of every single fraternity puts himself upon his honor to abide by them. Is that asking too much? actual situations there is not a man anjong them who won’t break every one of those sacred rules. Because each fears that other fellows are breaking them too, and he’ll just be a sucker if he doesn’t. It is the same psychology that prevents our doing anything to disarm nations. Each nation agrees with disarmament in the abstract, but when it comes to actual practice each is afraid to part with its weapons for fear of the others. The disarmament battle could be won if all nations were brought to where they trust each other. But the realist snorts at that. The realist might very well snort at the idea that competing fraternities should trust each other, but the fact remains that this mutual trust is the only solution for the rushing problem. Born This Week To Mr. and Mrs. Elephant THE newes®cnild of political chauvinism was given birth recently by the Republican party. The infant lias been named "The Trumpeteer,” and its immediate parents have been announced as the Young' Republican Division of the Republican National Committee and the Young Republican National Federation. Botii parents and child are reported to be doing as well as may be expected. On looking through the infant magazine, we are inclined to think that the child was burn with an anti-Roosevelt campaign in its mouth. In fact, some of the first words the child babbled arc these: The youth of the nation will not be fooled! They know that the Roosevelt administration has de ceived them. They demand the restoration of the lost opportunity which is theirs by right. They are not afraid of the future. They know their rights cannot be restored until Franklin D. Roosevelt is removed from office. They know that the only orderly method of accomplishing this is on elec tion day next fall. They know that their only hope is the Republican party, which is traditionally the party of opportunity. They are confident that the Republican party will not disappoint them, and that it will not violate its pledges as Franklin D. Roosevelt has so notoriously done." Not satisfied with babbling, the baby hopped up on a soap-box and burst into oratory. "Once freed from the chilling hand of political job juggling and the heavy hand of federal waste and extravagance, the'United States will bloom again as the promised land.” Almost in the same breath it shouted, "Have you joined the Republican party yet? We cannot win unless you do your part. In saving the government from further reckless ex travagance and experiments in socialism, you will be saving yourself. Act at once!” The child was dumped into the laps of thous ands of college students this week. But college students, for the most part, are discriminating youngsters these days. To a large number of them the child bears the odor of prejudiced, blind, and chauvinistic propaganda. It has been part of the college students’ education to learn to reason to weed prejudices, emotionalism, misrepresentations, and juggled figures out of facts, and to form con clusions by using a due amount of intelligence. Is not the Republican, or any party, which uses such blundering tactics digging its own grave with the youth of the land? _ A Pan-American Union F°r Peace and Prosperity? 'TMIE sixth of this month has for many years -*■ been set aside as “Pan-America Day” in this and the 20 other self-governing countries to the north and south a day for the consideration and contemplation of the common interests of North and South America. But Pan-America Day might well be extended to include 365 days of the year. Too little realiza tion do must of us have of the terrific power for good that lies in a united America stretching from pole to pole. In a few years there will be a Pan-American highway from Alaska to Bahia Blanca. Govern ment surveyors from several countries have al ready planned the route, which will pass through the western United States. Bequests have been made to the government of Alberta, Canada, for permission to have a highway built through the plains of that province, on to Alaska. Strategically, the highway would be of im mense value to this nation, economically it would also be a boon to American trade, but, what should be more important than either of those considerations, it would help to build up an inter continental union based on cooperation, rather than coercion. A Pan-American union might well set an ex ample that would ultimately be followed by the bickering nations of Europe and Asia, and lead to a closer realization of the inevitable world state. The Safety Valve Letters published in this column should not he construed ss expressing the editorial opinion of the Emerald. Anony mous contributions will be disregarded. The names of ocin muuicants will, however, he regarded as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked to be brief, the editors reserv ing the right to condense ail letters of over 3U0 words and to accept or reject letters upon the criteria of general editorial importance and interest to the campus. Editor, the Emerald: To brilliant Professor Harold J. Noble the Emerald owes apologies. To humor-attempter Bar ney Clark the editor might suggest use of witi instead of weak literary meanderings. Yesterday's Inocent Bystander told the tale of how B. Clark and some fellow-cramming stooges stayed up all night to be in shape for a Noble exam. It went on to tell how the boys wobbled into class the next a. m. ready for the ex, but that Professor Noble failed to show up. And there it ended. It might have added that Prof. Noble, along with about 50 other members of the class, was at the time listening to a lecture extraordinary by Devildog Smedley Butler. Sleepy Clark and his crammers might well have been there too. Sincerely, I Went to the Lecture. Editor, the Emerald: We voted “no” on the so-called “sealed-bid” rushing plan submitted to the Interfraternity Council Tuesday. This will present the Pi Kaps’ stand. The new plan corrects neither of the two evils that were discovered in our former rushing plan, namely, the inadequate housing for the success of a closed plan (according to Dean Earl), and the many violations of the rushing rules by the in dividual fraternities (according to the Interfra ternity Council itself.) How does the new plan overcome the housing difficulties of new students? What assurance is there that there will be fewer violations? The "sealed-bid" plan has added nothing to the solving of housing difficulties but has ignored the whole matter, and has only added more rules which will be the playthings of the fraternities. Was this “sealed-bid" plan merely adopted to save the “face” of the Interfraternity Council, or was it a mistake due to lack of consideration by the members? \\ e would also like to state that the new plan is not the true result of the nation-wide survey as implied in Wednesday’s Emerald. Pi Kappa Alpha could not vote for a plan which achieves nothing constructive but instead adds additional difficulties to the present ones. Pi Kapa Alpha William E. Pearson, President. (Talk .(.Cmlikued from page our) l'ceIs that Japan is somewhat justi fied because of the example set by other important nations. The Japanese resoluteness, how ever, was commended by Professor Chaney, who said that Chinese in dividualism was one of the great est dangers to China at the pres ent. Discusses .Mongols The nomadic Mongols, who are required by law to move their place of dwelling at least once a month due to the arid conditions of their country, were the subject of a great deal of amusement to the pa leontologists on their trips of e x ploration. Professor Chaney felt like a “'Connecticut Yankee,” he said, among these simple people, v.ho were ..e\eiul centuries behind the western world in scientific knowledge. American .Magic American scientific “magic" wa ; used to bewilder and confound the Mongolian tribal magic men. Cast off spark plugs, bromo-seltzer bot tles, and other things discarded by the caravan are probably now placed with reverence on the fam ily shrine in some Mongolian yurt, the paleontologist surmised. Professor Chaney, who is an cx-J pert in his field, told of the dtscov-| ery of dinosaur eggs, redwood tree fossils, and skulls of the earliest mammals, which were found on the Manchurian plains, buried in red lava, or mud rock. Although he could not boast of anv of the ster eotyped adventures, he said, the! adventure of scientific discovery was even greater than being shot at from ambush or finding a grisly body la UU teut. Junior-Senior (Continued from page one) pha Theta; Esther Clausen, Alpha Chi Omega; Wilhelmina el e rot, Zeta Tan Alpha; Virginia Regan, Chi Omega; Dorothy Griswold, Sigma Kappa; Jessie Atwater, Pi Ret a Phi: Ruth Hillman, Gamma’ Phi Rota: Bette Meedham. Delta Delta Delta; Beth Pratt, Alpha Xi Delta; Evelyn King, Alpha Gamma Delta, Virginia MoCorkle, Alpha Ominvn Pi: Lola I-lnll, Hendricks hall; June Tower, Alpha Delta Pi; Muriel Horner, Orides: Katherine Markovich, Susan Campbell hall: l ueille Donaldson, Delta Gamnia. Tickets may be purchased in the houses or u^erved by Calling tHe YWCA between 10 and 11 in the morning, or 2 and 4 in the after noon. They are Oo cents a pair or uo ceuts each. Innocent Bystander By BARNEY CLARK ❖ Quick, Sparowfinch, my hip boots! It’s pretty damn hard, is all I’ve got to say. Here I come up to the Shack to churn out a column, and what do I find? Water, oceans of it, right down the middle of the hall. Not just a trickle of the old aqua in thfe center of the floor but a beast ly big lake washing against the walls, with a veritable waterfall pouring down the steps at the far end. And is it cold? My sweet soul, the place is as dank as a tomb! It looks like the Lord has decide to play a revival of the incident of the Ark, and I’ve been cast as Noah. Kessler, the big Trip and Travel man, is happy though. He has spent the evening in splashing up and down the corridor on a chain of planks laid down by the janitor, chuckling to himself. HE says it reminds him of Venice, but I think the man has duck blood in his veins. The Marshmallow has gone home in a huff, declaring that he’d be damned if he was going to sit up to his arm-pits in water and produce a column no matter WHAT Colvig thought about it. Clare Igoe sneered at him, however, saying that he ought to have been in the Shack during the afternoon when the dam broke. ‘‘Why,” says Igoe, "we had a current through here that would knock your eyes out. Do you think we could keep those planks in place? Fat chance! They w&it downstream like straws. And those steps; say, we had white water over them that made Niagara Falls look like a^cat sjjltthlg. We had regular WAVES in here, you big sissy.” I remarked that it must have been an inspiring sight and she eyed1 me col'dly. .fust ttie same, I’ll take my Nature in a milder mood, i don’t niind' looking at flood disasters on the sliver screen, but for home consump tion I’ll take something a little less reminiscent of 500 DEAD LEFT IN WAKE OF CLOUD BURST. Besides, there is ah odor in the air. Not assertive, you understand, but hinting of what is to come once the waters subside. Itight now it has a miasma suggestive of the Marshfield flats, with a whiff of the pilchard industry thrown in for good measure. What it will be like at this time tomor row I would prefer not to dis cuss. Personally, I think I have squatted in this backwater long enough. My chair is planted firmly in a large puddle and by the feel of it is becoming water logged. Furthermore, if the wind changes we're going to have a fog in here so thick I won't be able to find the door. I think I will go and investigate the heating plant. All evening the radiators have been giving off nothing but mournful blasts of cold air, and I have a suspicion that the boys down at the boilers are using ROW BOATS! Vacationists SuccUnib to Lure Of Foreign Shores The lure of foreign lands has entangled the dreams of many University persons this year, and ensnared them so thoroughly that dreams have become realities, judging from results of investiga tion of vacation plans of students, faculty, and graduates. If Washington, D. C., passport issuers accept the fact that Dean Hazel Prutsman Schwering was born, and other details included in a passport, she expects to leave as soon as school is out on her first vacation tour of Europe. In New York she will meet Marthiel Mathews, her secretary last year, hnd Jack Mathews, w'ho taught in the English department of Oregon until accepting the position of French department head at Elms burg Normal in Washington last fall. On the tour Dean Schwering hopes to visit Mr. and Mrs. Eric W. Allen in Munich, Germany. The Burt Brown Barkers, too, are leaving the states the middle of May for a six months sojourn in England. E. C. Clark, history department head is there now at tending1 a history conference. Professor Waldo Schumacher, of the political science school, is rumored to be going to Russia. And from the appearance of pres ent plans, K. J. O’Connell, and Orlando Hollis will both be pas sengers on the Queen Mary when she steams out of New York, on June 24. Already Bette and Peggy Church are exploring the queer wonders of the Orient, and soon Florence Jones, instructor in Eng lish expects to breathe the balmy air of England and its neighbors. Eloise Buck, graduate of Ore gon, is joining her sister, Florence and her husband, a professor at Duke university, at New York. They are taking their car, and will motor through Europe. To prepare herself to speak the rhythmical tongue of French soil, Alice May Sieling AAA sophomore has been taking private French lessons all winter, and Dorothy Bachman, arts and Tetters fresh man, will get her summer tan in the South Seas and’New Zealand. Gets First Pension Check at 109 \1 tot). mos* of the thrills of life long- have passed, but one wet-e t'ome one remained lor Mrs. Sarah Isaac, when, as shown here, she r ei iw :t her tirst pension cheek from the state of Michigan. l)r. Philip \. Callahan, chief of the Michigan Old Age Assistance Bureau, is making 'lie presentation. Mrs. Isaac was born in Chatham, Ontario, oat hat ll.tj in ouc JlUtUguu count:, Allegan, for 101 Near,,. Pefsonfief, Pay Changes Fof (JO Made (Continued from page one) Changes in Time Basis LOis Baker*, library cataloguer, from 12 months basis to 10 months basis, base salary reduced from $1,500 to $l,25t>, actual salary from $1,351.50 to $1,126.25. George H. Godfrey, associate in news bureau, from part time to full time, effective July 1. Base rate increased from $2,668.27, full time, to $3,000, full time. Actual pay increased from $2,308.05 to $2,755.68. Effective on return from duty with Oregon state planning board. Karl W. Onthank, dean of per sonnel administration, restoration of full salary upon return July 1, from part time duty with NYA. Base salary $4,725, reduced rate, $3,661,88. H. D. Sheldon, history and ed ucation, from half time service to five-sixth time. Base pay, $4,379. 20, actual pay $3,433.29. Francis Frazier, instructor U. H. S., reduced from full to three fourths time, actual pay reduced from $1,125 to $1,013.62. Louise Smart Belloni, secretary, from half to full time, actual pay, $581.28 to actual pay, $1,162.56. Edna Landros, Latin and Greek, from full time to two-thirds time, reduction in pay, base rate, $1,600 to $1,066.67, actual pay from $1,412.80 to $961.07. (Economy program.) Lloyd L. Ruff, part time assis tant, increased to full time, actual pay from $357.88 to $540. A. R. Moore, biologist, increased half time to full time, base pay, $4,500, actual pay, $3,528. Title to be research professor of general physiology. E. H. Moore, sociology, from 12 to 10 months basis, base salary reduced from $4,500 to $3,700, actual salary from $3,649.50 to $3,000.70. Elizabeth Harcombe, secretary, actual pay reduced from $1,187.50 to $1,069.94, duties reduced from 10 to nine and one half months. Mary W. Kearney, stenographer, League of Oregon Cities to pay half of salary, $1,200 base, actual total $1,102.80. Nellie Jenkins, dean of men's of fice, base pay, $1440, actual pay, $1,297.44. There are numerous other allow ances for assistants, instructors, and clerical workers for which al lowances have been set up but ap pointments are yet to be made. The following resignations and releases are reported: Business A.—Kenneth S. Wood and Huish F. Yates, grad, assist ants. Education — June Emery, Oscar White and E. H. Porter, grad, as sistants. Home Economics — Professor Lillian E. Tingle. Music Week Will Be Observed; Requiem Feature National Music week, May 3 to 9, will be observed to the fullest extent by the University of Oregon school of music. On the program for the week is a recital by Miss Esther Wicks, violinist, Sunday; a concert for the browsing room by George Hopkins, pianist, Mon day; and a series of radio pro grams starting May 5 and contin uing throughout the month. In ad dition to the week’s features, the annual spring concert, “Requiem” will be presented Friday night. Oc casional piano concertos at the University school of music audito rium will conclude music activities for the month. In the vocalist line, will be the spring recital of Miss Lovisa Youngs, originally dated April 27 but postponed due to Miss Youngs’ illness until May 25. The slogan for National Music week is “Strengthen Our Musical Resources.” It is hoped that all students, mu sic lovers or otherwise, will par ticipate and receive as much en joyment and benefit as possible from the month's selection of pro grams. English—Helen S. Grubbe, Val borg Anderson, Joan Cox, Robert C. Tugman, John C. Coleman, Ed ward Kretzer, all grad, assistants, and Edward D. Kittoe, teaching fellow. Romance Languages — Helen Cornforth, graduate assistant. Physical Education - Helen Fa bricius, Augusta S. Heiberg, grad, uate assistants. Physics — Robert E. Holmquist, part time instructor. Biological Survey—Charles Barr, instructor, to enter medical school. Economics — Lloyd M. Faust, Ruby F. Ellis, grad, assistants. Psychology—Robert H. Seashore, associate professor; Herbert C. Mc Murtry, Elbert B. Blankenship, grad, assistants. Sociology — Mary H. Annin, as sistant professor, and Mercy Jane Whaley, grad, assistants. Social Science Survey — Helen McCarter and Wilbert E. Moore, grad, assistants. Social Science Service Bureau — Eugene V. Slattery, legal research assistant, to be employed per diem henceforth. Campus Surveying—ProfessorG. V. Skelton, returns to State col lege. Changes in Title Listed Marjorie Reynolds, to museum librarian and periodical assistant. Elizabeth Finley, to senior as sistant, reference department. O. K. Burrell, to full professor of business administration, no in crease in pay. Eiler Brown, art department, to associate professor, no pay change. Alice H. Ernst, English to asso ciate profeessor, no pay change. Horace Robinson, drama depart ment, instructor to assistant pro fessor, no pay change. Villard Approves ROTC Initiative Son of Oregon Benefactor Telegraphs Committee On Peace and Freedom Oswald Garrison Villard, son of the famous Henry Villard who saved the University of Oregon from bankruptcy while it was still in its infancy, wired the Oregon Committee for Peace and Freedom yesterday to congratulate it on its initiative to make ROTC optional throughout the state. The telegram from the editor of The Nation reads: “Charles Paddock: Gladly serve on yo^ir Committee for Peace and Freedom. Earnestly hope initiative petition will be successful. Move ment of greatest importance to whole country. It is a wise and patriotic move to help presereve historic American institutions from the grave menace of militarism and fascism. Count me as enthu siastically for you. Oswald Vil lard.” After a visit to the campus two years ago Villard, rated as one of the most liberal editors in the United States, wrote a special let ter for publication in the Emerald in which he declared his father would have been shocked to see boys wearing uniforms on this campus. The Citizens’ Advisory commit tee includes Villard, J. J. Hand saker, northwest director of the National Council for Prevention of War; Rev. Arthur Stanley, presi dent of the state Christian Endeav or; Senator Peter Zimmerman, who polled over 9(1,000 votes in the last gubernatorial race; Rev. Cecil Eistow, minister of the Methodist church here; Levi T. Pennington, president of Pacific college; Sena tor Byron G. Cagney; Representa tive Ellis Barnes; Ben T. Osborne of the State Federation of Labor; Judge Otto J. Kraemer; and Rich ard L. Neuberger. Saturday has been designateed Petition day by the peace commit tee, and members have been sched uled to appear downtown at cer tain hours. A house-to-house can vass will be conducted Sunday. A total of 16,371 names are needed to get the initiative on the November ballot. Carl L. Johnson, romance lan guages, to assistant professor, re placing Dr. Timothy Cloran, de ceased. William T. Starr, romance lan guages, to teaching fellow. A. H. Kuntz, chemistry, to asso ciate professor, with indefinite ten ure. L. H. Cressman, to be professor of anthropology, head of depart ment, curator of museum. New Appointments Miriam Yoder, library catalogcr, base pay, $1500, actual pay, $1,351.50. Marge Olson, news bureau sten ographer, actual pay. Extra ! When the Newsboy Shouts: You Are Curious to Inspect His Paper to See What bias Happened When Eugene Merchants Shout About Good Bargain Through the Emerald You Should Be Just as Curious to Inspect Their Merchandise — ft Will Pay You — The Eugene merchants who support your Emerald have goods to sell you that you need, or they would not spend money to get their message to you. 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