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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Robert W. Lueas, editor Eldon Haberman, manager Clair Johnson, managing editor EDITORIAL OFFICES: Journalism building. Phone 3300— Editor, laical 3 54; News Room and Managing Editor. 353. BUSINESS OFFICE: McArthur Court. Phone 3300—Local 214. MEMBERS OF MAJOR COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Represented by A. I. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York City; 123 \V. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle; 1031 3. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, ban Francisco. The Oregon Daily Emerald will not be responsible lor returning nnsolocited manuscripts. Public letters should not he more than 300 words itt 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 publiration of the University of Oregon, Eugene. pubiisheti^dady ^unngjhe days, all of college year, except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, examination periods, all of December except the first seven — Starch except the first eight days. Entered as second-class matter >t the postofficc, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. One Step In the Right Direction OREGON professors certainly can take it. Al ready ranked among the lowest paid of college educators in the country, during the lean years following 1929 they took one pay-slash after another with nary a whimper. That was loyalty, arid the people of the state should appreciate it. But Oregon educators could not be expected to put up with such treatment for long, and the an nouncement yesterday of a partial restoration of professorial salaries certainly had a welcome ring to it. Pounding an education into us numbskulls Is not the snap that it is commonly cracked up to be. Laymen, generally, have the idea that the profes sor’s berth is an easy one just three or four hours of classes, and then the rest of the day to lie around nibbling at a novel, listening to the radio, or just lying. Such, sadly, is not the case. There is not a day-laborer who works harder. Like bank employees, their few hours of public appear ance are the easiest part of their day. Like bank ers, conning their accounts hours after the doors have closed, professors spend their private hours in grinding research. No class of people bore its share of the depres sion's brunt less complainingly; no class of people worked more unselfishly making lighter the lot of fellow-sufferers. But now, with the rest of the country’s people crawling out of the dumps, lean years should be over for the educators as well. Education should no longer remain the goat for the state’s budget deficiencies. In the last report of the state board of higher education, Dr. C. Valentine Boyer, president of the University, expressed his fear that these budgetary slights may raise havoc with professorial morale. Dr. Boyer presents a very clear brief: “The weakening of the spiritual fiber of the faculty wilt inevitably result in lower standards of instruction. The feeling that they are at the bottom of the list among universities is not con sonant with self-respect. The belief that the com monwealth which they are trying to serve is in different to their efforts, that it regards higher education as of small importance, and the profes sors as luxuries to be indulged in only in good times, the conviction on the part of teachers that their efforts to impress upon youth the importance of spiritual values have been wasted: a sense of their own futility, in short, is bound to produce hopelessness. Hopelessness spells indifference. What is the use of insisting on high standards when the people are indifferent to them ? What does the world know about or care about scholar ship? The inevitable result will be lower standards in the University. “'The significance of low standards is, I am convinced, not realized by the general public. One meets with apparent understanding, to be sure, but the regrets expressed are conventional and stereotyped, not deeply felt. Yet whatever value a course of study may be said to have depends entirely upon its effect on the minds subjected to it. Illumination of the mind is the end to be attained and this goal eafinot be gained except through mastery of subject matter. Lowering of standards means flabby minds, minds filled with undigested and ill-assorted facts, minds incapable of analysis, will undisciplined. The human pro ducts of such neglect are too uncritical to be aware of their own shortcomings lmt pretentious enough to impose for a short time upon ttie simi larly uneducated. Their judgment is poor, yet often relied on. They are incapable of wise leadership or of recognizing a good man when they see him. In a democracy, which depends for its success upon the wisdom and sincerity of the selected few and the ability of the many to select the few with dis crimination, men who have never been held to the standard of a good job are a failure. A black smith knows a good piece of iron when he sees ii, and an engineer can pass sound judgment on con struction, and both are able to recognize merit or demerit in the professions of men similarly gained. But college graduates who have been supposedly trained in the humanities, who are supposedly familiar with the masterpieces of the humat'.i spirit, and who might consequently be expected to have an insight into human motives and an appreciation of logical thought, are all too frequently the dupes of hoary fallacies and the unsuspecting gulls of bombastic charlatans. “This is what happens when a man goes through the motions of studying history econom ics, politics, science, and literature without having even been held up to a respectable standard of accomplishment. Such men are the victims of sham of every sort. Such men are unable to sustain a democracy or to perform the duties of citizen ship in a civilization as complex as ours. High standards of scholarship mean not only the culti vation of tin individual to his own advantage, but the development of a citizenry able to function in telligently in a world where order is of primary importance. Low standards mean in the end the prevalence of jobbery in politics, of unethical practices in business, of frivolous but exhausting amusemcat, aad the periodic triumph of eeoaonuu fallacies followed by financial panics and social upheaval. 11 “The support of higher education is consequent- || ly of paramount importance. The worse our social and economic conditions, the more we should sup- ~ port education. We cannot cure our ills without the use of brains. The very life of democracy depends upon the soundness of the higher educa tion which it offers its youth. ...” WHEN Paul Pendarvis sounds his violin to night in McArthur court he will be initiating what promises to be one of the outstanding dances of the year. Despite the whirls of publicity which have surrounded this affair through the thorough efforts of its journalistic sponsors, Sigma Delta Chi, the event should be really worth while. Sigma Delta Chi is charging the highest price set for a campus dance this year, but in return has brought the outstanding orchestra on the coast to play for the affair. They have kept their admission costs down as low as they could and still make a go of the dance. The sponsors of the dance have also set another precedent which it is hoped they will hold to and which others will follow. In limiting the dance to 600 couples they are assuring those who attend of room to move about and enjoy the event. This will be a fine precedent if it is established tonight. With Grayson and Pendarvis playing on the campus this year the students have been treated to some of the best dance music put out here in many years. With reviving times perhaps students will be. able to dance to the nation’s leading orchestras several times during the year. It is hoped that Pendarvis is only the first of “big name bands” on the campus. The Violin An Honorary That Really Sparks N act of merit, deserving the plaudits of the campus, is the competition among Oregon newspaperwomen for a “best woman’s page. The contest is being sponsored and directed by members of Theta Sigma Phi, women’s national journalism honorary. Two loving cups, one for a daily and one for a weekly newspaper in Oregon, which shall be judged to contain the best women’s' features, will be awarded at the summer convention of the Oregon State Editorial association in June. Oregon papers, for the most part, have been bleak as far as features for women are concerned, and it is sincerely hoped that the competition will put a new spark in women’s pages. An up-and coming woman's page is a splendid circulation and good-will builder, to say nothing of its gaining advertising by having a fine food page, or special feature columns. The contest, the only one of its kind in the United States, has been given the enthusiastic sup port of the Oregon State Editorial association, * and is receiving the congratulations of noted na tional journalistic bodies. The University of Oregon Theta Sigs are in line for a bow from the campus, and from the Oregon press. Theirs is an honorary whicli can boast of a first rate and a worthwhile achievement. The Safety Valve Letters published in this column .should not he construed ps expressing the editorial opinion of tlie Kiuerald. Anony mous contributions will ho disregarded. Tlie names of ocm municants will, however, lie regarded as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked to he brief, the editors reserv ing the right to condense all letters of over 300 words and to accept or reject letters upon the criteria of general editorial importance and interest to the campus. A DECLINE IN OREGON EDUCATION Editor, the Emerald: Oregon’s new retrenchment program concern ing the cutting of allowances toward education has really set. in witli a vengeance. The national claim that wc have one of tlie poorest paid stands for educators is surely being given a concrete basis. A dean of one of the University’s largest schools is leaving for an indefinite period to accept a decent offer in an eastern state. A man who has spent 10 years of his educational life with the Oregon educational system is likewise packing liis hags to trek his way to a position which will net him an almost double increase in salary. Surely these two competent men are not anxious to leave campus, home, town, and friends for just the increase in salary. The prime factor responsible was that they could forsee the neces sary cut in pay, which by the way, will or would not have been the first for these or any other instructors in this state. Oregon, priding herself up on the educational facilities previously offered and due to this process of degeneration in salary cutting, is soon going to have the feeling similar to the father who turned little Nell out into the snow. Students from almost every state in tlie union arc attracted to Oregon schools. Now surelj’ there is going to bo a stop to this flux. Are we to tolerate second grade professors and to watch our buildings decay from lack of use? There is money in education towns are built on that which is spent by the student. The time lias come when a definite reversal of policy is vital if our educational system is to be kept from the wolves of educational economists! Gene F. Tomlinson. Editor, the Emerald: We are sure that you are a liberal minded per son. Mr Editor, and that the freedom of the press is somethin;.; . .let . 1 to you. Therefore, we think that -. ce. e of CENSORSHIP, insiduously working its way into your paper, would be distasteful to you. ThU is our ci r: The class of 1938 ill an effort to falsely portrary the spirit, morale, and organiza tion of the class of 1939. has caused to be published in this issue of the Emerald an utterly false, untrue and slanderous statement. The right of the slandered is to answer in like manner, but we freshmen wane not permitted to answer. We beg of you that you look into this situation immediately anit that you jjive us per mission to answer in a manner befitting the original statements, as scon as it may be possible. Class of 09. Duce 'Civilizes^ Ethiopia mm For A Brave Nude World (Editor’s note: With this speech Howard Kessler, junior in journalism, won second prize in the Jewett after-dinner speaking contest. Bill Marsh, also a Journalism junior, took first honors. If Marsh can he persuaded to write out his speech, it too will be printed.) Wo have about us in the United States of America men with plans: tire Townsends, the Scotts, the Bernarr Macfaddens, and the man in the corner drug store. We have about us in the civilized world, men with plans: the Stalins, the Hitlers, and the de# la Rocques. All of these men vouch for the infallibility of their schemes. But the sad thing is that they show so little originality in making them up. They offer the same old salads with slightly different dressing. Ladies and gentlemen, I offer you a new, a distinctive kind of salad, a salad without dressing. To those of you who demand more mental and spiritual sustenance than the promise of mere money can supply, I offer Kessler’s Nude Deal. Before proceeding to a brief outline of my plan, I wish to reassure any fears you may have. I am not an extremist. I am not one of your totally-sun-baked Reds. No, no, not at all. I am half baked only. My plan involves nudity in moderation, of the kind we can see any day on our bathing beaches. As Shakespeaer has said: “Why seek’st thou then to cover with excuse that which appears proper in nakedness?” That thought may Help you to understand why registered nudists increased from 2000 in this country in February, 1933, to 300,000 in July of 1934. The causal observer may find some false significance in the dates of those countings. He thinks a moment, and says: “Two thousand in February, 300,00 in July. Ahaaa! But February has only 28 days and July has 31! However, I am sure you intelligent people can see the illogicality of such reasoning. True, we have our dei ogators, those cynics who say “No nudes is good nudes,” and scoff at our “raw deal.” They accuse us of immorality, despite the fact that the leading colony in this country is situated only 20 miles from President Roosevelt's home at Krum Elbow. They deplore the ruination of the textile industry, yet research has convinced me that in no other industry are conditions so bad as in the textile mills and factories. To do away with the evil of sweat shop labor at five cents an hour, we must do away with the .root of that evil. and of course that is clothes. Our opponents assert that we will have no means of indentifi cation in a nudist U. S. A. Moderation will avert that difficulty. We shall have a system of designs for trunks, regulated by statute. For instance, a farmer will wear a plow-share design, professors will sport nicely-stitched books, and financiers will wear likenesses of chain lightning. As a furter distinction, we shall use the star system. Thus, a five star man would be known to be a person of importance even though lie has a dejected chest. Think for a moment of the new opportunities for industry and science, of the new life that would surge through the “Flit” factories. Scientists would have to be set to work breeding bushes without brambles, poisonless ivy, and bees without stingers. But the most important of all, think of the social, moral and ph\ ical benefits to the nation of Kessler's Nude Deal! A united ; nil patriotic state is built up on the love that comes with a complete knowledge of that state and of one’s neighbors. Yet little do most of us know about Tennessee or Maine! Now, with the adoption of my plan, it would be necessary, for, a few years, until the citizen become hardened to the elements, to migrate from north to south' and from south to north with the seasons. Such a migration would be government conducted, with just enough people left behind to act as caretakers, while the remainder of the population are off somewhere, having instilled in them the love of country, through a greater appreciation, say, of Kentucky moonshine or Kansas cyclones. By a process of supervised selection of localities for each person, it wouldn't be long until every American would be familiar with ail America. What a glorious day that would be! In a few'generations a physically perfect race would be evolved, a race of supermen, who would spread the gospel of nudism through out the world, and incidentally, establish American spheres of intlucnee. Meanwhile, the fight goes on, and we continue to marshall aid. even that of men now deceased, who left writings partial to our movement. As. for instance, Swinburne, who wrote: "We shrift and bedeck and bent-ape us: thou art norblc and nude and antique.” Which showed that Swinburne was at heart a true nudist. today the rich rob the pockets of the poor. But we shall do away with that. Wo shall have no pockets. Today, the iron heel of the capitalist class grinds the masses into the dirt. But we shall have no boots. We will triumph, we must triumph, to the stirring strains of out hymnr ‘ Yes, We Have No Bandanas!” In these few minutes I have had time to present my plan only a bare outline: the plan, stripped of all elaboration. Nevertheless, l hope that you too will spread the glad nudes, and lead the fight for a brave nude world. So 1 close with the salute and the battle cry of the nudists of . lisiil'. trat, Kua i:ht bia^c?. The Marsh Of Time By Bill Marsh We wonder whether the little incident of setting the junior queen ballot box on fire was simply the rather funny practi cal joke it seemed to be, or whether somebody was a poor loser and didn’t like the idea of seeing the junior queen nomina tions go the route of popular choice. * * * Comes it from the bay region a tale about a gent who was proud of his reputation as one of the toughest guys on the main stem. A waiter in one of S.F.’s cafes, knowing something of the reputation, was always very careful when serving said toughie. But one night something went wrong. Tuffie objected severely, and accompanied his objections with wildly waving arms . . . arms which, ultimately swing ing madly about, smashed the crystal of the waiter’s $12 wrist watch. “Great Scott,” the waiter wailed. “Now will you look at my watch?” “Nuts,” the rul'fie replied. “Quit squawking about that bum ticker. Here, take this one.” And so saying, he drew from his pocket a jeweled crea tion of platinum and gold and presented it to the waiter. “Gee, thanks,” the waiter re sponded. “Gosh. And it’s my birthday, too.” Pay-off: The tuff knew all about the birthday. The beef was a fake. It was the only way he could think of to present a gift without being accused ol “going soft.” Flash: Romance is blooming in the spring. Current rumors, substantiated by a telegram, have it that Miss Barbara Cool idge, of Kappa Alpha Theta and Mr. William Prentice of Phi Kappa Psi, eloped from the campus Wednesday and got married. No one seems to know noth ing, except that the boys at Bedlam Gables club received a telegram Wednesday evening which read, “Sure fooled you boys stop married this after noon.” The message was sup posedly signed by the happy bridegroom. Ah me! The tenderness of young love makes this old heart do nip-ups like a dancing flea. Things and stuff: A well known brand of cigarettes ad vertises a "light smoke" . . . cigarettes are a light smoke in more ways than one. for a single cigarette weighs less than l-2o of an ounce . . . Did you know that there are more pyramids in Mexico than there are in Egypt? The Egyptian monu ments are better advertised, that's all ... In Ethiopia, but ter is the national cold-cream . . . the dusky damsels use but ter to keep the shine on their ha;r, tar shiny aair is tat en Slugsy Wows_ (Continued from page one) “You’re just a heel to me,” de murely said Slugsy. Outside, beside and inside the College Side reside many voters, but that’s an aside. Here the cam paigning Miss Gunn and her pub licity agent stopped. Slugsy sang simple songs in a sincere and soothing bellow, and soon had a crowd gathered about her. When she had them nicely beaten down, the belle of Gulping Gulch launched her attack with a bottle of beer and the reporter’s head. "L,adies ana genuemen ... Applause. “When you go to the polls to morrow ...” Voice in the crowd: “Why can’t the Poles come to use?” “Do you know who to vote for?” All: “Yes!” “Who ?” All: “Bernarr Macfadden!” “Don’t you know who I am?” Voice in the crowd: “Shirley Temple!” “Will you vote for me?” All: “Sure! What are you run ning for?” "I’m tired standing still.” Cheers. “I’m Slugsy Gunn!” Cheers. “You’ll get a bang outa me!” Loud and prolonged cheers. At this point, somebody yelled out. the Side door, “The drinks are on the house!” And both men left. Shortly afterwards, a stray cat ran across the street, and Slugsy was without an audience. So the torchlight procession was resumed. Two hours later, Slugsy turned to the reporter, just as she was about to close the door, and smiled wanly. “I been thinking, kid,” she said. “And I'd ruther be a princess.” “Why?” “Well, the queen has a throne, hasn’t she?” “Yes.” “And she has to sit on that throne, doesn’t she?” “Yes.” “Well.” “Well?” “Well, I’d ruther be a princess.” Modern Jazz (Continued from page one) “I am interested in presenting a wide variety of good music in such a manner as to lead people to real ize how interesting all kinds of music may be," he declared. His program, he added, would not only include Beethoven’s “Sonata, op. terion of beauty in that land . . . and a husband's failure to keep his wife well supplied with butter is sufficient grounds for immediate divorce ... A mo tion picture theater in t he Los Angeles slums grinds out reel after reel of old films, 24 hours a day for a five cent admission charge . . . pay your nickel, and stay a week if you want . . . culinary tip . . . when making chocolate fudge, a pinch of salt improves the flavor . . . try it, and if it kills you, I’ll be de lighted to send flowers. 27, No. 1,” “Evening Song” and “Spinning Song” by Mendelssohn, and a nocturne and a scherzo by Chopin, as well as compositions of Liszt and MacDowell, but “Three Preludes” by Gershwin, a modem American composer of jazz rhyhms, and “The Harmonica Play er” by Guion, "Very rarely,” he concluded, “do I give a concert program without some .jazz num bers.” Mr. Hopkins, who has played in concert programs in nearly all the big cities on the coast, has been guest artist with the Portland Symphony orchestra under Von Hoogstraten and assisting artist with Martinelli, world famous tenor. Frightened Frosli (Continued from page one) to help squelch those cocky fresh men myself,” she boasted. “All the rest of the Pi Phi soph3 are planning to help the sopho mores, and I think the Thetas and Kappas are going to make their sophomore women help. Won’t it be lovely to soak those frosh?” she asked. “I am disappointed to hear that the freshmen are going to back out,” she declared. “It would be such a nice party. If we can’t find any competition we will have to challenge the juniors and seniors. I think they could put up a good struggle before we pulled them through the race. I so hope the freshmen will be there to save their faces,” she continued. “In the past the frosh have al ways won, but because of the weak-souled children of ’39 who are greatly outnumbered this year, I don’t blame them, in a way, for being afraid. Mothers will be here Sunday, and I feel awful sorry for them because their youngsters will be in such a bruised mess. Maybe their moms never told them how to scrap,” Turner advanced. “I'm only a woman,” she ad mitted, “but I've been up against a lot lately. You heard about our trouble with the speed cop, ‘Squir rely,’ in Corvallis last week didn’t you? I sure learned how to hold my ground in getting out of that scrape! That qualified me to meet with the two or three husky fresh men which I hear are trying to rally their classmates for the cause of the tradition. June Brown really has a job on her hands, away from home for the first time with all these gentle freshmen to boss,” she sympathetically concluded. Scabbard, Blade Pledge Eight Eight cadet officers were pledged Wednesday by Scabbard and Blade, national military honorary, Tom Aughinbaugh, president, an nounced yesterday. Men pledged were Frank Nash, Norman Reynolds, Del Bjork, Wil liam Moore, Fred Smith, Fred Hammond, Dale Hardisty, and Ed ward Elf ring. 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