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For Their Snobbery
HL. MENCKEN, he of the dyspeptic pen, is a
* thinker praised and damned praised when
he attacks a popular gripe, damned when he pours
ridicule over things held dear. His article in the
spring Yale Review should gain him a full measure
of praise, for there in he impales one of the most
cherished American gripes the British scorn for
the American “langwidge."
The lexical snobbery of our island cousins is
so vulnerable that it needs not even the redoubt
able Mencken’s ridicule; however, the ex-Mercury
editor marshalls up a choice array of examples.
For instance, there was the Rt. Rev. Cyril Henry
Gelding-Bird, Assistant Bishop of Guildford and
Archdeacon of Dorking, who was hailed before a
magistrate and fined 00 pounds for maligning a
member of the English mobile police with the
horrid Americanisrfr, “speed-cop.” Fancy!
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How vastly better, exclaims Mencken, is such
an American expression as “bouncer,” rather than
its English equivalent, “chucker-out”; or “movie,”
rather than "cinema”; or "shock absorber,” rather
than "anti-bounce clip.” Just contemplate the
beauty of such Americanisms as “mug,” “rubber
neck,” "goof,” “bunk,” or “hoosegow.” In the face
of that sublime expression, “lounge lizard," says
the writer, Horace Annesley Vachell “fell silent
like Sir Isaac Newton on the seashore, over
whelmed by the solmen grandeur of the linguistic
universe.”
To Mencken's mind, the American aptitude for
coining expressions of this sort is not a sign of
lingual degeneration, as our overseas kin fear.
Far from it. "In current American,” says Mencken,
“one finds all the characters and tendencies that
marked the rich English of Shakespeare's time -
an eager borrowing from other languages, a hold
and often ingenious use of metaphor, and a fine
disdain of barricades separating the parts of
speech.”
Indeed, while the British repose in their mellow
moss-and-ivy tradition, the lingual leadership of
the Anglo-Saxon race is passing into vigorous
American hands, and although no American writer
has appeared to challenge the Avonian bard, we
are akin to the spirit of his grand times. Who
knows, maybe one of these years . . . ?
Politics,
Opera Bouffe
POLITICALLY speaking, our sister state of
Washington has shown a fine flair for comedy.
The commonwealth’s Jute official history reads
like the script of a Mack Sennet chuckler, minus
none of the trimmings.
First, after a slap-stick campaign, they elect
Orchestra Leader Vic Meyers to the lieutenant
governorship, making him ex-officio president of
the state senate, which is an office of no mean
importance.
Then in Seattle they elect Mayor Smith, who
gives the city a grand show and secures nation
wide publicity with his contest to find the com
munity’s best diaper-pinning male.
But now they have pulled the prize comedian
of all out of the bag and sent him off to the big
time show at Washington, L>. C. Representative
Marion Anthony Zioncheck, whose frequent, gay
breaking of the peace assures him the front page
of any newspaper in the country.
Beside Zioncheck’s antics, how stolid and
stuffy seems our own delegation in congress! Only
the sporadic tiffs of Representative Pierce and
Ekwal enliven Oregon's space in the Congressional
Record. How blind are the people of this state to
all the possibilities of real publicity!
Well, the stolid burghers of Oregon will just
muddle along, electing men merely on their record
of social achievement and oblivious to all really
vital concerns.
. And Washington Washington will re-elect
Zioncheck.
Miscellanything
Being Stuff From Hcali and I heali
THE annual convention of the American News
paper Publishers’ association, now in session
in New York, got wrought up on Wednesday over
the issue of ‘‘freedom of the press.” The discussion
v/as led by Colonel Robert R. McCormick of the
Chicago Tribune, that well-known packing-town
palladium of liberty, which, during the late war,
vigorously upheld the right of freedom of the
press by calling for the.muzzling of all dissenting
journals.
From careful study of the records of publishers
leading the uproar for a free press I find that with
a few notable exxceptions their private definition
of freedom of the press is as follows:
The treedom to distort or suppress news which
runs counter to the publisher’s own political or
monetary interests.
The freedom to lampoon, degrade and “smear”
in news columns, editorials and cartoons the polit
ical record and private life on an opposing party
official and the freedom to bellow like a self
righteous bull when that smearing is criticized in
the right places.
A Difference in Definition
The freedom to denounce interception by. a
senate committee of private messages from a pub
lisher to his editors, and the fredom of the pub
lisher to steal, extract or buy by outright bribes
private messages and documents that corroborate
the publisher's prejudices or increase his profits.
It must be added in all fairness to the publishers
that this is not “invasion of privacy’ but it is
“getting the news.” This department will offer to
any one who can explain the distinction a prize
consisting of a photo of the surviving Lindbergh
baby being scared witless by the muszzle of a
camera in the hands of a photographer employed
by a publisher now yowling loudest against the
invasion of privacy.
The freedom to demand in ringing editorials a
fair deal for the masses, shorter hours and higher
wages for the underpaid, and the freedom of the
publisher to fire from his staff members of the
Newspaper Guild who are espousing particularly
and passionately these identical reforms.
The freedom to sprinkle the editorial page with
copious extracts from the Bible and dedicating the
newspaper to God, country and the home, and the
freedom of the publisher to live lavishly and some
times lewdly, confident that he as publisher is
exempt from the spotlight of front-page sensa
tionalism reserved for hapless citizens no more
wicked but less powerful.
The Ulterior Motive
There is no one, let me add, who believes more
earnestly than I do in freedom of the press. Ham
string that and you are on the high road to dic
tatorship. Germs of intolerance and biogtry do not
thrive in the sunlight of free expression.
What I do resent is the monumental hypocrisy
of some publishers who have violated every honest
implication of freedom of the press in private deal
ings with their fellow men and who now, when
their own profits or prestige are at stake, raise
a howl to high heaven in defense of that freedom.
There is a finer ideal than freedom of the press,
and that is freedom of the oppressed. And in time,
perhaps, the oppressed will recognize that most
publishers with million-doliar investments at stake,
like exploiters of all times and al kinds, are paying
lip service to a. concept which has become a mere
slogan and which they have sullied with the muck
of the counting house. Ernest L. Meyer in New
York Post.
Innocent Bystander ❖
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By BARNEY CLARK
When.' was Clark when tire
lights went out?
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Tin1 other day 1. It tries to
relate a gag on himself by mak
ing la!se-faees at Harold Noble,
and the gug backfired. Some
dope in his Modern fill rope class
thinks that 1. Ik is throwing
rocks at Harold for neglecting
his pupils and proceeds to rip
oil a letter to the editor excori
ating the Bystander. It this un
fortunate child (who forgot to
sign his name to the letter, in
cidentally) had ever studied the
gentle art of column-writing, he
would have reali/.ed that the
gun was pointed the other way.
Far be it from the Bystander
to ever cust a brick at one of
the very, very few platform
performers on this campus who
really has something to sav and
knows how to say it. All kid
ding aside, this boy Noble is as
potent as they come, and if you
kiddies want to become big
brainy men and women best you
crawl into his Mod. Europe be
fore they bounce you out of this
dive some June.
ilaxid "JJave the Biplomut"
l.imrj (ells us that he lias the
finger on I5ill Marsh, aiu! is
I>re|tarrtl to evert the olil [ins
sure an) time now. The Marsh
nialolw, says Dave, het him
that Finley would \> in the elec
tion, the penalty clause in the
contract requiring the loser to
push a peanut with his nose
from tin' l.ihe down to College
Side. As you probably know,
Marsh came out on the short
end ol the deal. Thus, Mr.
l.owry is prepared to collect,
and has offered to inform the
Bystander of the hour of the
debacle in advance, in order
that yOir kiddies can be in
formed in turn, insuring a large
turnout for the festival. It
should lie an inspiring sight,
since the Marsh nose is almost
negligible and a peanut is a
very small target.
And now for a pot'm. There
is nothing like poetry to elevate
the soul, as Dean Schwering has
often said, and this particular
epic has Ijeen especially tailored
for the carriage trade.
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“l d rather be reckless aud
happy tonight
Viul pay for my weakness in
sorrow,
Than wait for a future (and
legal) delight,
For tomorrow is always to
morrow”’
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“Well, the light hurts my
eyes.”
Kact1 Shiiikiiio
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(Continued front (’tliie one)
tiff, and Kendall Lottridge and
Robert Marks for the defendants.
Witnesses for the plaintiff were
Reva Herns. Mrs. Winifred Simp
son, the plaintiff, Harry McCall,
and Hay Bailey. Witnesses for the
defense were Dean Wayne L.
Morse. Robert Hunter, Robert Mil
ler. one of the defendants. Bill Sex
snr.it h.
Orlando J. Hollis, instructor of
this trial practice class presided
aver the court. Other officials
a'ere Virgil Scheiber, bailiff-no
tary: Alton Hukanson, clerk: G.
Barnhard Kodde, reporter-sheriff:
ind l'hylic Gardner, forewoman of
the jury.
This case is tire fourth of the se
ries of moot trails conducted by
he trial practice classes and the
:‘irst to be based upon actual
'vents. The fifth and last moot
rial will be held May 7.
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The Marsh
Of Time
By Bill Marsh
Jack Benny’s broadcast to
morrow evening over the air
lanes of the entire nation will
mark his fourth anniversary as
a radio headliner.
May 3, 1932, saw Benny
starting his own series of pro
grams. His surprisingly rapid
climb to the top ranks of net
work stardom will always be re
garded as little short of mirac
ulous. Even more phenomenal
than his rapid rise is the con
sistency with which he has
clung to the. top rung of the
ladder. Radio scribes in the
United State and Canada have,
for three seasons in a row, se
lected him as the foremost
comedian on the air. No other
radio comic has ever had such
an honor bestowed more than
once
Benny’s success has done lit
tle to swell the Benny ego. He
if. still the modest, quiet chap
who came on the air for the
first time four years ago. A
great deal of his success is
probably due to this modesty,
and to the fact that Benny has
never tried to make his pro
gram a one-man show.
• When scripts arc handed out
at his rehearsals on Sunday
mornings, Sehleppcrmun’s lines
arc not written in dialect, but
in ordinary language. Schlepp
never murders the same sen
tence the same way twice, so
Benny lias sense enough to
leave his stooge’s dialect alone.
But Benny won’t even admit
that his program is tops be
cause of his own good sense and
modesty. Hd feels that most of
his success is due to "good writ
ing, good direction, skillful as
sociates and the - Cod-given
sense of humor of the American
people.”
Benny’s first effort at broad
casting occurred when Ed Sulli
van, one of Broadway’s most
famous columnists, invited him
to make a guest appearance.
Jack still has the script of his
first broadcast, a yellow, dog
cared document which lie re
gards as his most prized posses
sion, because, in his own words,
"it was the turning point in
what some people are humorous
enough to call mj career.”
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From Boston: Comes a yarn
about a business-woman who,
glancing out of her office win
down, was horrified to see, ly
ing oh the ledge, hundreds of
feet above the swirling traffic
in the streets below, nothing
more or less than a very fine
speeinient cl’ a dead man.
Quivering and jittery she
caied the police to come and lug
tin corpse away be:, re it rolled
oil and killed somebody.
The police arrived, steamed
through the office in full array,
and arrived at the window just
iu time to see the corpse rise
up. dangle its feet over the
dizzy height, and stretch:
On- vf th - bolder gendarmes
ventured to open the window.
The corpse smiled. "Hello.”
Ia\ i stigatii n developed the
i.»v, vliui the v ^.rpsv was uoi
ii corpse, but a window washer.
It seems that he had gotten
tired, so he stretched himself
oat on the ledge for a little nap.
My gosh, there's one lad who
doesn't want to go walking in
his sleep!
LFenatmg 1 earns
To Start Forum
A parliamentary forum based on
the lines of speaking unions com
mon in Great Britain and Canada
wilt be organized by members of
the men’s and women's debating
teams Monday evening at 8 o’clock
in room 1.3, Friendly hall. Interest
of Oregon debate members was
aroused on their trip to Vancouver,
B. C.
The purpose of forming the
forum now is to insure smooth
functioning of the organization
next fall. Officers will be elected
from students present at the init
ial meeting Monday night. It is
expected to have regular meetings
at which members will discuss cur
rent problems.
Th# form of the discussions will
be modeled more after the Ameri
can congress and legislatures rath
er than after the stricter British
parliament.
Frosh Answer
(Continued from payc one)
iding in the depths of the Theta
Chi house.
Harbert, unscrupulous author of
yesterday’s libel on the freshman '
class, was apprehended in true i
gangster style by a group of husky
frosh led by Harry CHfford. He :
was taken for a ride over the cam
pus which resulted in the dunking i
spree.
Freshmen, aroused by the slur
made at their high ideals, organ
ized the little party early in the
morning but waited until noon to
carry it out. Leaders of the frosh
class “flying squad” will use the
event as a warning to smart-aleck, :
weak-kneed sophs who make un
warranted slams against the
’stucheon of the class of '39.
Freshmen participating in the
abduction were Harry Clifford,
organizer, Jack Lochridge, George
Campbell, Dick Olcott, Bob Hin
man, Mike Cooley, Bob Recken, ;
Wilis Fry, Fritz Watkins, Lloyd
Tupling, and Edgar Moore. They j
adopted for their slogan “Action—
Not Words.”
Rumor had it that Herbert's
story, published on May 1, was a
Communist attempt to undermine
America’s system of higher educa
tion. It was also alleged that Har
bert was being paid directly by the
Soviet government, and that he
received his orders by code directly
from Stalin in Moscow.
Llye Baker, Ralph Cathey, and
Elizabeth Turner met in the Col
leeg Side yesterday afternoon to
make plans for hiring thugs from
New York and Chicago to aid them
in the tug-of-war battle. They de
cided that because of the weak
ness of their class they had best
enlist outside forces to aid them in
whatever attempt they could pos
sibly make to quell the powerful
freshmen.
Astrid’s Son --- Next King of Belgians
The sorrowing nation of Belgium, -.tunned by the death of Queen
\strid. find.-, some measure ot comfort in the knowledge that one of
ior two si.Us will some day oe its monareh. Here's the fastest pieture
■ t the future ruler—Crown 1’riuee Baudguin, Dube of Brabant, second
u three children horn to tying Leopold and Queen Astrid. He will be
i\ o \old *s»epteruhcr 7. ?
nines Emmett Gels
advertising Job
James Emmett, ex-Oregon stu
ent, was the only student from
rew York university accepted by
Viliam Randolph Hearst for 10
ositions offered by him to eastern
ollege students.
Emmett received a scholarship
rom NYU and left Oregon in 1935.
te was a business administration
tudent at the University, major
lg economics. He was affiliated
nth Sigma Nu.
Emmett said in his letter to
V. F. G. Thacher, professor of
Inglish and advertising, that the
>b was general advertising work
r either the radio, magazine, or
ewspaper field.
nurinary List Hits
[Vo-Term Low Mark
Only two new patients, Althea
iurghardt and Mary Graham, were
dmitted to the infirmary yester
lay to keep the total confined
here to six, the lowest number of
iatients to be in the infirmary at
ny one time during the last two
erms.
The other four patients are:
■forma Strom, Esther Clausen,
Clifford Troland, and Ed Shuey.
Failing-Beekman
(Continued from page one)
eel, speech director, said last
light.
Persons wishing to compete for
he first prize of $150, awarded by
denry Failing of Portland, and for
second prize of $100, given by C. C.
3eekman of Jacksonville, must
•egister for the contest at the of
:iees of the speech division before
Vlay 16.
All members of the graduating
ilass are eligible for competition,
rhe series of past contests, over
i long period of years, and the high
juality of orations delivered have
?reated for this contest a tradi
:ion of the highest character, said
Mr. Casteel in commenting on
Mans for this year's contest.
Orations are limited to 1500
vords and may be on any subject,
jut must be organized in composi
:ion, including not more than ten
ser cent of quoted material.
In case more than six contest
ints enter, a preliminary contest
vill be held. Speakers in the final
lontest wil^ appear in academic
costume at the music auditorium
May 29. p
Herbert Skalet won first prize
ast year with his oration,' “What
Price Justice.’’ Orval Thompson
Phi Theta Upsilon
Names 22 Women
Service Honorary Holds
Banquet and Initiation
At McCrady’s
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JL WCil Lj LW KJ
ated by Phi Theta Upsilon, junior
women's service honorary, at a
banquet held last night at Mc
Crady's cafe. Marjory Kissling was
in charge of arrangements for the
initiation.
Those initiated were: Isabelle
Miller, Jane Bogue, Molly White,
Gayle Buchanan, Lucia Davis,
Clare Igoe, Jean Gulovson, Mar
garet Carman, Frances Schaupp,
Martha Stewart, Gladys Battleson,
Hallie Dudrey, Laurene Brock
schink, Jean Larson, Gretchen
Smith, Betty Brown, Elizabeth
Turner, Olive Lewis, Jean Acker
son, Kathleen Duffy, Constance
Klelzer, Genevieve McNiece.
Mrs. Hazel Prutsman Schwering
and Mrs. Alice B. Macduff were
guests of honor. Frances Watzek
is acting president of Phi Theta
Upsilon in the absence of Dorothe
Hagge who isn't in school this
term.
Members who were present were
Martha McCall, Liiyan Krantz,
Marjory Will, Helen Nickachiou,
Helen Bartrum, Phyllis Adams,
Patsy Neal, Virginia Endicott,
Shirley Bennett, Clara Nasholm,
Frances Watzek, and Marjory
Kissling.
took second prize of $100 speaking
on “A Conservative Liberal," a dis
cussion of the career of Oliver
Wendell Holmes.
Seniors who wish to take part
in the contest should signify their
intentions at once to the speech
department, said Casteel, l^elp and
information will be impartially
given by members of the depart
ment.
Schomp Accepts
(Continued from page one)
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Appointed to the position of as
sistant graduate manager in 1934,
Schomp has shouldered much of
the burden of directing the
finances of class and publication
activities. Schomp will probably
remain with the University until
the end of the school year.
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