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(WmwWmetm PUBLISHED BV THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Fred W. Colvig. editor Walter R. Vernstrom, manager LeRoy Mattingly, managing editor EDITORIAL OFFICES: Journalism building. Phone 3300— Editor. Local 354 ; News Room and Managing Editor, 353. BUSINESS OFFICE: ASUO of-iccs, Phone 3300 Local 237. MEMBER OF MAJOR COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Represented by A. J. Norris Hill Co., 155 E. 42nd St., New York City: 123 W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 2nd Ave., Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. The Oregon Daily Emerald will not be responsible for return ing unsolicited manuscripts. Public letters should not be more than 300 words in length and should be accompanied by the writer’s signature and address which will be withheld if requested. All communications arc subject to the discretion of the editors. Anonymous letters will be disregarded. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University ot Oregon. Eugene, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, examination periods, the fifth day of December to January 4. except January 4 to 12, and March 5 to March 22, M uch 22 to March 30. Entered as second class matter at the p- stoftice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rate, $2.50 a year. All advertising matter, regular or classified, is to be sent to the ASUO offices cm University street between 11th and 13th avenues. Associate editors: Virginia Kndicott, Clair Johnson EDITORIAL BOARD Mildred Blackbiirne. Darrell Ellis, Howard Kessler. Wayne Harbcrt, Dan E. Clark Jr., Victor Dallaire, Charles Paddock UPPER NEWS STAFF Lloyd T upling, assistant man aging editor Pat Frizzell, sports editor Paul Deutschmann. news editor Ed Robbins, art editor Robert Pollock, chief night ed itor Paul Plank, radio editor Howard Kessler, literary editor Clare Igoc, women’s editor Gladys Battleson, society editor Desk Staff This Issue Mildred Blackbiirne. Clare Igoc, day executives Jean Gulvosen. Beulah Chapman, assistant day editors Copyreadcrs: Stan Hobson, Peggy Robbins, Janet Calavan, Bill Garret, Frances McCoy Night Staff This Issue Jack Townsend, John Vatican, night editors Mari Medill, Betty Ann Miller, Anne Fredriksen, assistant night editors BUSIN F.SS STAFF Patsy Neal, national advertising manager Caroline Hand, executive secre tary Eleanor Anderson, assistant ad vertising manager Gerald Crisman, circulation manager Francis Olson, assistant circu lation manager Advertising Manager This Issue Howard Overback Assistants; Ees Fnrdham, Roy Knudscn Secretarial and Exchanges: Mary Graham. Henryctta Mummey Executive reporters: Margaret Kay, Gordon Connelly, Robert Pollock, 11 tibard Kuokka Let Us Be Thankful For Small Majorities THERE in a lesson to be learned from Canada. Wednesday morning’s Oregonian carried the story of the flight of some $0,000,000 from the banks of Alberta, Canada, because of fear in the hearts of anti-Social Creditors that Premier Abet hart, “The Christ From Calgary,” will attach bank holdings in order that he might carry out his cam paign promises to pay "social dividends” to every citizen of the province. The story emanated from the Calgary Herald, Aberhart's most blatant opposition newspaper, and could not be substantiated, but it was made the subject for an editorial in the Portland paper yesterday. It is because of stories such as this that Premier Aberhart, head of the first social credit government in the world, which, in its promise to pay sums to every citizen regardless of the work he engages in, resembles the Townsend O. A. It. P. plan, has forewarned the opposition papers that he will “crack down” on them in the near future. And the opposition journals, in this province with a population of 700,000, include practically all but the official Social Credit newspaper, the Calgary Albertan. »K * iff IN such a reasonable fashion are dictatorships crystallized. Premier Aberhart, the radio orating preacher, magnetic, burly, has control of 55 seats in the legislature’s 64. A small but vociferous minority, Including the wealthy property-owners, are daily growing bolder in their attacks on the government, most of them launched through the newspapers. And in direct ratio, William Aberhart has grown angrier and angrier at the misleading stories tlrat have appeared about his speeches and past life, in the daily press. He terms it, and with some justice, a program of derogation planned by the “capitalists and money lenders” for the wealth he has taken from them by recent legislation. Rather logical then, that he should endeavor to shackle the press. At present that is his aim. Whether he can do it remains to be seen. He says he can. The opposition declares he cannot. 'T'HE lesson we in the United States may learn from what is happening to the north of us is to fear an overwhelming vote for any one party. It is almost a truism that a government in which the parties are well-balanced has far less oppor tunity to enact radical legislation than one in which the opposition is of negligible size. Thus, it should be with something of a feeling of thanksgiving that we look forward to an elec tion this year, which, from all signs, will result in an extremely well-balanced lineup of the Demo cratic and Republican parties. Annie’s at It Again IT' VIDENTLY recovered from the blast of edi torial rebukes that greeted his last saljy into the field of social thought, Harold Gray, author of "Orphan Annie,” is at it again. Last year, largely because he depicted labor leaders as shaggy-maned bomb-throwers and otherwise demonstrated his social backwardness, Gray became fair game for liberal editors. Chastened, he set Annie ministering to a kindiy old cobbler. But now again, after a year’3 service as a paragon for small children, he has put Annie to pondering the fate of people and nations. Last week the precocious child soliloquized over the political tangle abroad; this week she turned her tousled head to the domestic situation, cluck ing over the boon-doggling of a crew of street workers. It looks as tHough Harold is building himself up for an awful knock-down. Wanted: An Alma Mater Song <<m4riGHTY Oregon,” however excellent a song ■*■*-*■ it is and however thrilling it is to hear it rise from hundreds of student voices, is certainly not an alma mater song, whatever idea one may get from its words. And the recent ruckus over its copyright should remind us of that oversight in our kit-bag of traditions— we don’t have an alma mater song. "Mighty Oregon” is a fine swinging battle song to hearten Oregon teams, but it is lacking in the beauty and dignity that some situations demand. For instance it would be almost comic to break out into its lusty chords at some of the ceremonial functions connected wiLh college life, such as at commencement exercises. HAT we want is a tender song properly ’ ” festooned with the ivy of old Oregon, some thing of a hymn, something with a pull to it. But it’s easier to say than do. "I could sit down and write a fugue, a sonata or a symphony with a measure of self-assurance, but I could never sit purposefully clown to the composition of an alma mater song,” declared John J. Landsbury, dean of the school of music. “A song of that sort comes in a rare flash of inspiration.” Some day, let us hope, someone will have that flash of inspiration. According to a letter in the Oregon State Beaver editorial column, there's trouble in Para dise. Among the letters to the editor was a heart rending account of the efforts of the hard-hearted dormitory janitors to separate the dorm boys from their constant companions. The boys felt that the Injustice about to be visited upon their friends who share the dorms yea, even their beds— would bo too great to bear. After a valiant plea the boys ended, "And Oh G-d. How we love those BEDBUGS. Yours truly, “Werra Seratchen." Jn a recent edition of Current History maga zine, VV. Walter Crotch wondered if Austria might go democratic. It seems that Hitler and Mussolini arc eliminating that probability, although neither have openly decided what the former Hapsburg nation will become. Russia Bruominj*; (Continued from page one) The University of Oregon law professor, after discovering the point of issue in the case, asked what punishment was to bo meted out to the old man when and if he was found guilty. The only satis faction received from his inquiry was from his own conclusions, which he prefers to keep to him self, for the Russian reply was that nothing was to be done to the de fendant in any case. No satisfac tory explanation of tire purpose of the trial was given. The Czar’s palace, just outside Leningrad, which the Russians de clare to be preserved in every de tail just as it was immediately after the royal family had been seized and taken from it, was an object of wonder to tiro critical tourist f r o m America. Placed about in the spacious rooms, with no attempt at symmetry or beau tification, were trinkets of every imaginable description, Mr. Hollis relates. Russian guides point to the disordered array as proof of the Romanoff mental state. In the Czarina’s boudoir espec ially, the walls were fairly plas tered with pictures clipped from magazines, photographs, and the like and above her bed, more than a hundred icons fastened to the wall. Contrary to public belief:’, con corning- the Russian system, there tire definite wage scales for work ers in USSR, factories, and result ant class lines are necessarily drawn up. At the Metropole hotel in Moscow, Hollis noticed some of the higher-paid workers drinking champagne and otherwise dining in first-class fashion. A perfect example of the at mosphere of regimentation one breathes in Russia might be taken from another incident which the American visitor saw. Stopping to investigate a long line of Soviet men and women waiting along the sidewalk on a Moscow street cor ner, Air. Hollis was amazed to find that they "were waiting for a street car” and when the car ar rived, to see them file onto the i loading platform in their respec- j tive waiting order. Women arc everywhere working street-sweepers being no less coin side by side with the men, female moil than male. Professor Hollis recalled. At the stations, female porters may carry your bags for you, and in the factories the same arrangement will be found. A visitor from Nippon says the Japanese are becoming intensely interested in American affairs. So arc we. It may be a fad.—Senator ' Soaper. if he were alive, Jesse James would be 90 years old this year and totally unable to explain his ion-1 govit \. English K’ (Continued from pane one) of the year we will have reprints of these tests and be able to furn ish the teachers with keys and norms already established,” Pro fessor Shumaker said Tuesday. "Our purpose in doing this work is to eventually build workbooks so teachers in any small school can give tests that will put their stu dents on the same grade levels as those of schools in big cities,” he added. The tests that were returned have not been cheeked yet. accord ing to Shumaker. When this is completed, style rules, edited and copyrighted by Professor Smith, Mill be sent the students to help them determine their faults and the easiest rules to correct them, Shumaker pointed out. l)c*an Laiulsluirv (Continued from fiaiie one) reminds the visitor of slum dis triots in America's industrial cen ters, he continued. Picturesque na tive houses have been replaced by smelly shacks. Occupying them are shiftless beggars, vagabonds. Plumbing is unknown. Social dis eases run unchecked. The shipping of copra is the only industry aside from the feeble attempts to ac commodate tourists. Send the Kmeruld to yum friends. r Janet Smith Recording Angel of Job Seekers Indicative of the value of the service granted students by the University of Oregon employment office under the skilled hand of Miss Janet Smith is the fact that in the past ten days over 1100 students have been personally interviewed by Miss Smith in regard to, their special abilities and individual problems of employment, and Over 300 students have been given actual employment in the past week alone. The employment secretary, who regards 150 student applications per day as “just part of my job" and subsequently takes a personal ; interest in each student entering her office, has for three years, un covered, discovered, and generally produced jobs where they never before existed. With the majority of U. of O. students either wholly or partly self-supporting the task of procur ing the many types of work neces sary is truly herculean. Among the latest work applications filed in I the employment office is that of | a po wder man experienced in dyna mite work, an especially trained nursery man and tree surgeon, and numerous musicians of all cate gories from piccolo players to pipe organists. Besides the many applications ! from trained nurses, professional | bakers, experienced meat cutters, j hotel workers of all types, tele phone operators, loggers, and j chauffeurs which pour into this mecca of job seekers and given at ! tention in the inner sanctum, there | are NYA applicants by the score. ■ All of these latter students are furnished proper blanks and in structed in their use by Mrs. Dorris McMurtry, secretary to Miss Smith, who acts as a flood-gate controlling the insistent tide of em ! ployment seekers. j Houses Paired (Continued from (’age one) “Although there are many angles j that can be worked out from the j theme, homecoming, we must not forget that the Ducks are playing the Cougars on that weekend,” Terry asserted. House representatives are asked to meet at the College Side Tues day afternoon at 4 o'clock to make further plans for the event. Sorority and fraternity houses as they pair off are: Phi Delta Theta, Pi Beta Phi; Alpha Tau Omega, Sigma Kappa; Sigma Phi Epsilon, Hendricks hall; Theta Chi, Alpha Delta Pi; Pi Kap j pa Alpha, Zeta Tau Alpha, Phi j Gamma Delta, Delta Delta Delta; Chi Psi, Chi Omega: Phi Sigma Kappa, Alpha Phi: Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Gamma Phi Beta; Delta i Tau Delta. Alpha Chi Omega; Beta Theta Pi, Susan Campbell; Zeta hall, Carnard house; Alpha hall, Sigma hall; Men's Co-op. Wom en's Co-op; Sigma Nu, Kappa Kap pa Gamma; Sigma Chi, Kappa Al pha Theta; Delta Upsilon, Alpha Omieron Pi: Phi Sigma Kappa, Al pha Gamma Delta, Kappa Sigma, Delta Gamma. \\ oiut'ii Prepare (Coulinufd from Page our) students might become acquainted. We try to have it early in the fall term of each year, and we are glad that the social calendar will allow us to schedule it at this time." Dancing from 7 to.12 will be the form of diversion during the eve ning. according to Dean Schwer ing. Women are asked to wear din ner dresses and men to went in formal dress suits. Relic Stimulates (Continued from patjc one) ternoon where it will go on dis play. Race Close Kappa Alpha Theta held first place in card sales yesterday. It was discovered' that Chi Omega had not turned in all its money, but had just signed purchasers. Alpha Phi and Gamma Phi Beta have not yet verified reports of 100 per cent membership. Kappa Sigma was riven a $4.70 cash prize yesterday for being the first and only frater lity to report sales at the maxi mum figure. Josephine McGllchrist won a $2 pair of silk hose yesterday for sell ng the most tickets. Guy Simp son won a merchandise prize to be lonated by DeNeffe’s clothing store. Geraldine May won a cash prize. Card salesmen are turning in more and more sales. “Ask the man who owns one,” President Fred Hammond suggested yester day. Additional awards will be made it a 4 o’clock meeting next Mon day. The most positive men are the most credulous.—Pope. Fraternities (Continued from page one) the matter under consideration only since Thursday’s meeting, were reserved in supporting the idea. Apparently waiting to dis cover the general trend of opinion, six houses tentatively .voiced ap proval. Two did not comment, while presidents of other organi zations could not be reached last night to confirm rumors of support or dissent. A preliminary vote taken at the meeting Thursday evening indi cated eight favorable, -three against, and six not voting until their members had been consulted. It is believed that at least one of the three who were against the plan, and three of the doubtful ones, have decided in favor of it. Definite decisions will be made early next week, when the subject has been broached at house meet ings of the 17 fraternities. Contributions from the campus living organizations would total approximately $1000, according to the plan suggested Thursday. With this, added financial backing, the secretary could be amply taken care of, according to Dean Virgil Earl, who said that the alumni association would take care of the balance. As soon as the financial back ing of the position is assured, ap plicants for the secretaryship will be gone over by the alumni com mittee consisting of Dean J. H. Gilbert, chairman, Dean Earl, Lynn McCready, and Arthur Geary. Twelve or thirteen candi dates have already applied for the job, according to Dean Earl, who said that no definite candidate has been designated. Appointment of the secretary does not necessarily depend upon the support of the fraternities, ac ENROLL MONDAY — Shorthand and Typing Day or Is’ight Classes EUGENE BUSINESS COLLEGE "A Good School" Phone GtiG Miner Bldg. B’lieve You Me... Por the snack after the theater or dance—or when I want a real dinner— 1 always insist on the ANCHORAGE. "T*! I i nere 1 can enjoy myself in realty quiet and comfortable sur roundings. “Dine by the \X aterside” ANCHORAGE !)!*i Franklin Opposite Villard Hall Sociology Head Says Field Holds Vocation Future Dr. Philip A. Parsons, head of :he sociology department, opened :he first meeting of Alpha Kappa Delta, national sociology honor iry, Thursday with a discussion of :he vocational opportunities now >pen to sociology students. More and more, the need will be for thoroughly trained persons •vith administrative ability, since :he establishment of government igencies under the social security ict, and with other governmental mends, he said at the meeting. Following the discussion of the points brought out by Dr. Parsons, i short business meeting was held n which officers for the coming ^ear were nominated; a tentative program was outlined by the pres dent, Helen Harriman; and com mittee appointments were made, rhe initiation date for new mem oers was set for October 14 and election of officers will be held Dctober 22. Those nominated are: Helen Harriman and Wilbur E. Moore, president; Alma Lou Herman and Drpha Dasch, vice-persident; and Polly Lou Todd, secretary treasurer. Graduates Accompany Guggenheim Expedition Mr. and Mrs. Robert Van Nice, both graduates of the University of Oregon, sailed the latter part of September for Persia. The former residents of Eugene will spend the next nine to twelve months accom panying the Guggenheim Archaeo logical survey group which will at tempt a complete archaeological investigation of Persia. Robert Van Nice, who received his degree from the school of archi tecture in 1935, has spent the past year in Boston. Mrs. Van Nice is the former Betty Rebec, daughter of Dean Rebec of the graduate di vision and head of the department of philosophy. And when will Will Hays get »r<*md to declaring pictures of ladies in newspaper ads obscene? cording to Earl, who said that the position would be filled, if possible, by Homecoming time, even though the houses failed to approve the $1000 contribution. Two thousand dollars of 'the amount necessary will be supplied by the alumni. The secretary, when appointed, will act as a con tact man for the University, aid ing in interesting high school stu dents in Oregon. ClllllllllllllIlIlIlllllllIIIIUIIUlllUllllllllllIllllIlliilUlllilHIIIIIlllllllWlltlllllillllllllllllllllllll'V 3 EXPERT RADIO REPAIRS | at Reasonable Prices R. C. A. 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