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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OE OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon MEMBERS OF MAJOR COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 I'-. 42nd St., New York City; 123 W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 End Ave., Seattle: 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. ___ Editor, Lloyd Tupling Managing Editor, Pat Frizzell Business Manager, Eldon Haberman UPPER NEWS STAFF News Editor, Paul Deutschman Sports Editors, Wendell Wyatt, Bruce Currie Cartoonist, Bob Colvig Chief Night Editor, Edgar C. Moore Day Editor, Elizabeth Stetson Society Editor, Bernadine Bowman GENERAL STAFF Bob Emerson, Roy Knudsen, Ben Winer, George Knight, Corriene Antrim, Wilfred Roadman, Eleanor Tingle, Beulah Chapman, George Skip worth, Lew Evans. This is the special freshman edition of the Oregon Daily Emerald. The Oregon Daily Emerald will not he responsible for returning unsolocited manuscripts. Public letters should not he more than 300 words in length and should he accompanied by the writer’s signature and address which will he withheld if requested. All communications are subject to the discretion of the editors. Anonymous letters will he disregarded. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, published daily during the college year, except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, examination periods, all of December except the first seven days, all of March except the first eight days. Entered as second-class matter ftt the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. Freedom Unimpaired EXPLANATION of ASUO reorganization plans by President C. Valentine Boyer, yesterday, should calm campus liberals who fear that the hand of strict dictatorship is snatching control of student body activities. Looking at the surface, it appears as though the faculty has seized the power, that student freedom and initiative is being impaired. However, those that shout the loudest for freedom shoidd delve into the how and wherefore of the new plan. Those who have had an opportunity of attend ing an executive council meeting under the old ASUO set up know from whence comes most student legislation. Faculty members, old hands aL the game of promoting student functions and deciding student policies, are almost always the authors of new plans. Any student body officer recognizes the fact. Is this any different than a set of faculty membered athletic and educational boards? Only in one sense. The large numbers increases effici ency and ideas. It also checks the possibility of railroading a plan into acceptance. It is virtually impossible to find any group, the members of which think exactly alike. Always, the president of the University has had the final veto on student body action. But instead of having the pot boil from the bottom up toward the top as it has in the past, President Boyer can check, while they are still in their infancy, indiscriminate plans destined to failure. But freedom of student thought should not be the bone of contention. Student activities should, first, train the individual to think; and second, develop his abilities so that he can execute his ideas. It appears that on these points the reorgan ization plans are not adequate. The faculty might in putting the new plan into action give students a larger share of respon sibility. Fundamentally, ASUO projects should have a two-fold purpose: for benefit of the Uni versity, and for educational benefit of the student. Seemingly, the plan does not give students a great deal of opportunity to express themselves, al though it does provide executive titles for eight more students than the old ASUO. Doubtless other discrepancies are apparent in the plan. Critics would be wise to point out their beliefs and contentions now while the reorganiza tion exists in an embryo state. Advocates of student freedom need have no fears of dictatorship under the new ASUO they will be as free to act as they ever have been. They might better look to see if they are receiving a training that will adequately equip them to exert the freedom they already have. ‘Something New’ <<0<JMKTH1NG old, something new" that's j ^ what freshmen have tried to incorporate into the production of tins, the frosh edition of the Emerald. An attractive new headline style, an effort at typographical perfection, and news of interest and potency all the qualities of a good newspaper are the ideals at which they have aimed. In the news columns they have tried to show that they are justly able* to produce an Emerald, which in future years will be theirs. Editorially, they have tried to show latent possibilities of an occasional intelligent, constructive thought. Per haps, nothing dynamic, but even Aristotle might have found it difficult to move the world in a single eight-hour day. In short, they have attempted to produce an issue of the Emerald which mirrors their training, ideals, and abilities. On to Oregon! *TMIE originator of the new Greater Oregon committee, creating an office of permanent executive secretary to contact high school gradu ates and prospective University students, should be ‘ honored as the creator of the most concrete plan to increase University of Oregon registration. In the past the committee lias employed n wdy duw, Joe College tactics to inuld up a consumer appeal in Oregon high schools. The new plan puts into operation a permanent, year-around executive office to accomplish the objective in a business like way. More satisfactory results can be expected when the lure of campus social life is combined with an appeal to the intellect of prospective customer, the high school graduate. The idea contains a spark of true publicity genius, and if coordinated with other plans to brings favorable comment to the University, un- i told bcnefiUi cut- be won. Miscellanything ANGIJCWOKMS MADE GOOD, BUT ROBIN BANG DOWN THE CURTAIN <(■ HAVE just received intelligence of a dreadful tragedy,” said our anonymous scientific ob server in the county engineer’s office this week. It was also a great blow to science,” he added. “Did someone die?” the reporter asked, in nocently. "No,” replied the learned savant. Forthwith he unfolded the details of the sad story of the angle worms that made good and their infinitely sad demise. This story, he said, was a great blow to him, and had the angleworms remained in the land of the living, it would have made a great hit with the learned societies, at home and abroad. The engineer had rather looked forward to convulsing the learned gentleman again and it saddened him to think that the personnel which would have been the basis for another scientific disclosure were now digesting in the crop of a miscreant robin. Trained the Worms This learned scientific observer, as may have been gathered from consideration of these pages, is fond of causing seismic disturbances in the skulls of the scientists of al! lands by means of his contributions to the fund of human knowl edge. His achievements, by now too many to chronicle in any synopsis less than three columns, have caused repercussions and reverberations, as well as cerebrations, of untold magnitude. It happened, our observer continued, that a local architect had discovered that angleworms have a latent intelligence, though of a limited order, tractable to training and even have a capacity for affection. This architect devoted many hours and even days to training his angleworms to assist him in his labors, and his success was nothing short of miraculous. He obtained several healthy specimens of the giant angleworms that have their habitation a couple of feet underground in this region, as well as several of the smaller and slimmer variety who have their abode nearer the surface. Liked the Job The worms soon became so accustomed to the architect’s presence that they squirmed happily whenever he approached their box, and seemed to enjoy their training. In fact, the architect told our informant that they took a real pride in doing a good piece of work. One of the larger worms he trained to form a right angle, and at an undisclosed signal, the worm would stretch out on a given line and then do a column-right with half of his body. The worm was said never to have varied a fraction of a degree in laying out the designated angle. Another would lay out a perfect arc and a third would form avrious curves', all useful in the architectural profession. The architect had a* fourth worm in training to lay out acute and obtuse angles of varying degrees, but it had not completely mastered the technique at the time of the catastrophe. Two of the smaller worms had been taught to follow a pencil line with the utmost exactitude. They were provided with a plate of glass upon which printer's ink had been spread thinly. When called to duty, the worms would trail across the inked plate and then start out following any particular pencil line they happened to find. When the line ended, they would halt until the architect laid down a sheet of paper for them to crawl upon, in order to avoid smearing the drawing. Where a double line was required, the two worms would march shoulder to shoulder along the pencil mark. The smaller worms were used for this work because their lesser diameters made them capable of drawing fine ink lines, which could be varied in thickness by the worms them selves as they extended or contracted in length. With these capable servants at work, the aichitect could devote his spare time and energies to drawing up other plans or making blueprints. Encouraged by his success with the angle worms, the architect secured a measuring worm exactly one inch in length. He taught the measur ing worm to inch his way across a plate of graph ite and measure any line along which he laid a straight edge. The architect then sei tired several healthy specimens of the large black beetle which inhabits desert regions of this county and which is known colloquially by the inelegant name of “stink bug.” He had noticed that these bugs, when walking over smooth sand, leave footprints like double rows of right angles, something on the order of a sergeant's chevrons. He would stretch a couple of large angleworms around an area to be shaded in a drawing, or designated as forest, brush land or pasture. Then he would escort the beetles across the inked plate until their feet were well loaded with ink. The hugs were then turned loose in the area to be shaded, and they would carefully hatch-mark the entire area with their footprints. Things were going splendidly with the archi tect's menagery, and the architect himself was highly elated with his success. But one day he leit his helpers at work while he stepped out of the room for a minute. When he returned he noticed a flutter of wings at the window and each and every one of the angleworms, beetles and the inch-worm had vanished. In their place on the drawing were the black footprints of a robin. "It was a great blow to science, the architect and me,” said the scientific observer, shedding large tears onto a blueprint. Courtesy of the Walla W alla l nion-Bulletin and Stanley Tucker. An Ode to AAA V Lover's Lament I see her now a vivid ghost, Those eyes, that hair I loved the most. Kaeh fond caress for widen 1 yearned Mliall never to me be returned My heart cries out I've lost her now. Betsy sure as heck was a good old cow. Anonymous. What ran an ordinary egg do? How many people in the world realize that from its white and yolk, the egg can produce, in a very short time, feathers, something that no human has been aWt u* accomplish in the last CdOO years. f Cousin Hoogle By EDGAR C. MOORE Hero we were bowling down the main drag the other morning and who do you think we ran into? None other than one of our pro fessors, peeping out from behind an armful of books. “How do you do, sir,” we said, tipping our hat respectfully and fumbling in our pocket for a very big and shiny red apple. "How do I do what?” he said. Too bad. And he’s supposed to i be a geniu3 in his field, too. * * * We have definite proof that Mh hamud, although he was born some fifteen hundred years before his time, never inhabited the fair city of Eugene (plug). History, or was [ it soma professor who attributed 'the following statement to him: “Sit ye not upon graves!” The last trip to Corvallis, a very nice residential city, which recent ly added an industry, a dairy, sc we hear, to its accomplishments, and which is located some forty five miles to the north and slight ly to the west of us, when, upon sniffing the wonderful atmosphere of the town one of our companions was heard to remark: “What a wonderful climate. It is a wondei that they don’t have a college here.” * * * One night a star student called up one of the faculty and imper sonating a telephone company test er requested the stately old gen j tIonian to whistle into the mouth piece. And when the professoi whistled, the college man (he musl have been a freshman) said: “We’ll send the bird seed tomorrow.” At a late hour last night, the profes sor’s mental assailant could not be found. Fraternity brothers inti mated that he had packed., his few belongings and half of those belonging to his room-mate anc departed for parts unknown. * * * To the editor of Scruples: Oui friend wrote a letter to us anc when we came to work this fine morning, it was found peacefully reposing in the mail box. And foi such a gentle-looking epistle, deal editor, it was loaded with dyna mite. It proved conclusively that you had done a fine job on youi ’umor magazine. The proof of any literary work, is its reader. Anc we have found that reader for you in fact he surrendered to us. II must have been a guilty con science. He suggested that the jokes in your magazine be reviset so that the funny side be por trayed. We sent the letter back and wrote on the envelope: “openec by mistake!” Cousin Hoogle, for one© in his life, wants to reread the oolumn Gee, lie must he hard up for a laugh! Several things prompt hin to reconsider carefully what has I heen written. First: to be sure ev erything said can lie hacked uj : without having to fight; second, ti i protect himself from “comma seek ers" and also in order not to leaf any Knglish “K” students on tin I downward path; third: trying t< imagine himself as a frosh and see ing if there is anything funny ii it; fourth,—Hey, who flung tluv ungood tomato unto here?—to set if it is too adolescent for seniors fifth: to see that ins one is offend i ed, especially after the barrage o tomatoes. By the looks of tha last one, tomatoes must he out o season: sivth: to wonder how thi professors (particularly his) wil I take it: seventh: to search for pos slide third meanings that nia\ in } flame radicals and reactionaries and eighth: if it is not too had, foi J his ow n pleasure. Palmist to Visit V Hut Students on the campus will noi have to worry about their exarx grades after next Thursday. Sen iors will know whether they art 1 going to get a job or not. All oi this will be solved by Loy Reedei | when she takes over her duties a: I fortune teller at the YWCA hu I Thursday. She will tell the futun ; by leading the palm for only l,: cents. Money raised will be usee by the YWCA to send a delegatt to the Y conference at Seabeck. Faculty Dinner Tuesday Alpha Gamma Delta is giving ; faculty dinner Tuesday at th< chapter house. Juanita Nell is u charge of the arrangements Guests will be Mr. and Mrs. Leav | itt O. Wright, Mr. and Mrs. A. B I Stillman. Mr. and Mrs. Moll. Pv and Mrs. 1„. S. Cress man. Miss Ma bel Wood. Mr. and Mrs. Georg Turnbull. Mr and Mrs. And rev Kish, Mr. and Mrs. Victor P. Mor 1 ns. i Election Slated For Education Fraternity — Phi Delta Kappa Will Pick Officers; Initiate New Men; Keezer Will Speak Election of officers, initiation of' | new members, and a banquet for j j tije installation of new officers will be held today by Phi Delta Kappa, national education honor j ary for men. Officers for the coming year will be elected at a business meeting, ] six outstanding men in education J will be initiated into the society, j They include Ted Russell, Lary ! Hendrickson, Stuart Portner, Dal J las Norton, Lloyd Beerman, and William Wilmot. Officers elected in the afternoon j meeting will be installed at a ban i quet at the Eugene hotel. Earl Boushey, retiring president will act as toastmaster. Dexter M. Keezer, president of Reed college, will be the main speaker at the banquet. Mr. Kee zer is well known throughout the country as an educator and jour 1 nalist. Before becoming president of Reed, }ie was assistant editor of the Baltimore Sun in Maryland. He will speak on some phase of progressive education. Short talks will also be given by F. L. Stetson, district represen tative of Phi Delta Kappa, and by each of the retiring and incoming I officers. Plaque for Journalism School Nearly Finished Figures Show Relation of Press to Producer, Consumer Work on the plaque for the jour nalism shack will be completed by June 15, according to Louise Utter who is making the plaque under the direction of Oliver Barrett and Eyler Brown of the allied arts de partment. The clay model has been completed and the sandstone panel is ready for the chisel. Representing the relation of the press to the producer and the con sumer, it will have three figures in j Egyptian flat relief: a farmer on the right holding a pail of pota ! toes, a laborer on the left holding a mallet and a chisel, and a typi | cally Egyptian figure in the cen | tor representing the press. On the ; background and partly obscured by the figure will be the motto, ! "A free and enlightened press, the | surest guarantor of liberty.” The plaque will be placed over | the south entrance to the journal j ism building. It is 7 feet by three and a quarter. High School Displays Art Work Art work of University high students for the year 1935-36 went on display in the little art gallery in the art building Friday, and will be kept on display until May 27. The purpose of the exhibit is to i give the public some idea of what is being done in high school art anti also to give the students the pleasure of seeing their work on display, explained Miss Margaret ' E. Litscher, graduate assistant in allied arts. Mrs. Lydick to Speak Mrs. Bell Lydick will speak to the Westminster house morning group Sunday on “The Individual Responsibility Toward a Changing Social Order.” A covered dish picnic will be held on Skinner's Butte at 6:30 in the evening. Transportation will be furnished for all who wish to go. Grants Pass Principal Visits J. F. Swigart, principal of Grants Pass high school, visited on the campus yesterday. Mr. Swigart received his master’s degree in ed ucation on the campus last sum mer. i UO Guild Play (Continued from page one) Actors of acting class who ap peared recently' in “Street Scene" will be seen in "Dinner at Eight." 1 Those filling prominent roles are: Marian Bauer. Robert Henderson. Virginia Scoville, Eleanor Pitts, George Smith. Patricia Neal. Helen Roberts and Dan E. Clark II. Horace VV. Robinson, who is well i known for his abilities as a direc ■ tor. has designed some beautiful and interesting scenery for the six different scenes necessary for the - presentation of “Dinner at Eight." The theatre workshop class has constructed the setting under his • supervision. • Seat sale for “Dinner at Eight" ■ will open Monday at the University theatre box-office in the adnnnis I tration buildm*. Frosh Edition Cornell Will Be (Continued from page one) and H. C. Howe, representing the faculty; Fred Hammond and Gil bert Schultz, student body officers; Lynn S. McCready, Basil T. Wil liams, Eugene, and Paul D. Hunt, Portland, alumni members. ASUO Fees (Continued from page one) Problems in educational activi ties which cannot be settled by specific sub-committees will be viewed and weighed by the faculty members of the educational board and a decision will be made, he said. “Faculty members who are greatly interested in the develop ment of their own projects will try to build them up as much as pos sible. Students will be consulted and their views will be considered, in making all decisions, he said. Responsibility Centered “The chief advantage of the whole set-up is that authority and responsibility is centered. The coaches will not have to guess who they are responsible to, because it is apparent they are directly re sponsible to the president. The chief distinction between the new and' the old system is that the president has the first veto action. In the old system things worked from the bottom up; now it is from the top down. The presi dent is taking all the responsibil ity and is organizing from his of fice,” Dr. Boyer said in conclusion. College Students (Continued from page one) for them. Surprisingly, 92 per cent of the people liked spinach and oatmeal. This should encourage all young mothers. Statistics at last prove that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, for men do not dis like as many foods as do girls. For every eight foods that men don't like women have ten pet food hates. Anchovies, cornbeef, beef tongue, beer, caviar, duck, figs, leek, and sweetbreads are disliked by women much more than they are by men. There are no foods, strange to say, which men have more of an aversion for than do women. Coeds take note and get your man, he’ll be easy to feed if the boys have been telling the truth. Are you well fed? Do you know all of the common foods and have you tried to eat them all? On a separate list these same students were asked to check the foods which they had never eaten or which they didn’t know. Leek, an onion-like vegetable, had been sam pled by only one-third of the stu dents. Only half the group had eaten endive and okra. Abalone and caviar, luxury foods were known to only one-third of the group. Chard, anchovies, and brains were unfamiliar words to three-fourths of the students. Len tils and rutabegas had been forced down only one-third of the people. Brandy, gin, and whiskey top the women’s list of unfamiliar foods. (Well!) The surveyors evidently forgot to include whale blubber, rat’s nests, frog legs, and a few other world famous delicacies. As a final observation Dr. Hall said that Oregon students were not more particular than California students or lacking in knowledge of the culinary arts. Extra ! When the Newsboy Shouts: You Are Curious to Inspect His Paper to See What Has Elappened When Eugene Merchants Shout About Good Bargain Through the Emerald You Should Be Just as Curious to Inspect Their Merchandise — It Will Pay You — The Eugene merchants whq support your Emerald have goods to sell you that you need, or they would not spend money to get their message to you. If these merchants did not feel that their merchandise was the best in quality at the price offered, the would not spend money to get this message to you. And, if they felt that you would not make subse quent purchases at their stores, they would not continu ously spend money in the Emerald to help keep your trade. It is to our mutual benefit that you choose Emerald advertisers as a directory for your Eugene buying—bene ficial to you, because you are dealing with merchants who are after your continued patronage—beneficial to us, be cause with “advertising results” we are able to put out a better Emerald. “Mention Emerald Advertising When You Buy”