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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
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ps expressing the editorial opinion of tlie Kiuerald. Anony
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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
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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.
These men will be formally
pledged at one of the Wednesday
afternoon parades, Aughinbaugh
said. Initiation will be sometime
within the next two weeks.
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