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PUBLISHED BY 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 BOARD Mildred Blackbu'rnc. Darrell Ellis. Howard Kessler, Wayne JTnrliert, Dan E. Clark Jr., Victor Dallaire, Charles Paddock Associirf* editors: Virginia Endicott, Clair Johnson The'Oregon Daily Emerald will not he responsible for return ing unsolicited manuscripts. Public letters should not he more than 100 words in length and should he accompanied by the writer s signature and address which will he withheld it requested. All communications are subject to the discretion ol the editors. Anonymous letters will he disregarded. All advertising matter, regular or classified, is to he sent to the ASUO offices on University street between 11 111 and 13Jli avenues. _ , „ ,, .Secretarial and Exchanges: Mary Graham. Henryetta Mummry Executive reporters: Margaret Kay, Gordon Connelly, Robert Pollock, Hubard Kuokka__ 'I'},,. Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of 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 i, to March 22, March 22 to March 30. Entered as second class matte, at the p-.stofficc, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rate, $2.50 a year. UPPER NEWS STAFF Lloyd Tripling, assistant man- Robert Pollock, chief night Cli nging editor ltor Pat Frizzell, sports editor Paul Plank, radio editor Paul Deutschmann. news editor Howard Kessler, literary editor Ed Robbins, art editor Clare Igoe, women's editor * Gladys llattleson, society editor Nifcht Staff This Issue Night Editors: Orville Williams Bol> Knox Assistant Night Editors: Peggy Jane Peebler Mary Kay Booth Marge Finnegan Copyrcadcrs Rotf Vornstrum. Bella Lea Powell, Mary Hopkins, Hazel Dean, Jane Miriek, Bill Garrett. Bill Pengra, Geanne Kschle, George Haley, Prances Borden, Rita Wright. Jack iownsend, Patricia Duggan. Pat Gar on. Jean Rawson. Catherine Callaway, Sylvia Sarlet. Harry Prondfoot. Mignon Phipps, Blanche Brown, Ruth Ketchum, Anna Mae Halverson, Irman /eller, Russell Espy, Orville Will aifts. Kathryn Morrow. Matt Kramer. Beverly Brown. Patricia Allisi n, Margaret Rankin. A1 Branson. Stan Hohson, Peggy Rob bins, J,1*1 et Calavan, Frances McCoy, Theo Prescott. Reporters Paur Aplin. Louise Aiken, Laura Bryant, Morrison Bales, David Cox. jean Cramer. Marilyn Dudley. Myra Hulser, Stan Hob son. Dove floss. Ora May Holdman, Anna May Halverson. Ken neth Kntley. Roy Knudsen, lltihard Ktiokka, Doris Lindrgren. Dick I at tin. Fclker Morris. Alice A’elson. Bill Pengra. 'Jed Proud foot, Boggy Robbins. Wilfred Roadman. Ruth Mary Scovel, Kathe rine Taylor, Roy Vernstrom, Rita Wright. BUSINESS STAFF Caroline Hand, executive sccre- Patsy Neal, national advertising tary Gerald Crisman, circulation manager Francis Olson, assistant circu lation manager manager Elinor Anderson, assistant na tional advertising manager Lcs Miller, merchandising man ager Bill Sanford, Portland advertising Advertising Manager This Issue Steve Cook Business Office Assistants Jean Farrens, Bcttylou Swart. Sally McGrew, Velma Smith. Anne Kaffirs t, Betty ( rides. Margaret Carlton, Doris DeYoung, Jean Cleveland, Helen Hurst, Janet Kawes, Anne Fredrickson, Mignon Phipps, Barbara Epsy, Caroline Howard, Jane Busket4 Rally, Friends! Save Higher Education! T TJ.GUER education is out on the limb again a group Portland realtors hacking awny as lustily as in 1934 when they tried to prune st;iii, income with their crude 20-mill limitation amendment. Etafeat of the 1034 measure by a majority of OO.JJJO votes was partly due to the opposition rallied by friends of education who realized that, hovEftver burdensome might be the share of tax atirwr borne by the owners of real estate, the edu catSiml services of the state must not be jeop ardffifed. And now these same friends are rallying to 4ight a new threat, the “Amendment Limiting aniQteducing Permissible Taxes on Tangible Pro perty,” a measure sugar-coated but every bit as vicieeis as the 20-mill limitation of two years ago. \ clever bit of work these Rose City realtors did in framing their current brain child. Con sidGVable opposition had been met in 1934 among pesaons who, while agreeing that a share of the tajjJJburden should be lifted from the shoulders of property owners, rejected the 20-mill limitation because it would have slashed governmental in comes too drastically without providing any moneys in replacement. these ingenious "experts” whipped together a new and subtle measure which would accom plish their design in a “milder and more gradual” fusion. This November they present to the Ore gon* electorate a tax-limiting amendment to the constitution which, as it affects the state at large, establishes an arbitrary levy of six mills as a basis upon which reductions of four per cent a year will bejoiade until 1942, when a level 80 per cent of the decreed base levy will be reached. Why and how th»> basic six-mill figure was reached, perhaps the people of the state will never know. Apparently the- boys got together and said “Eenie, mcenie, mcinie, moe let's call it six!” # Ht ■\fJERY clever, this time the pruning will be V- be only "gradual"; the state is given five yeJQ’s in which to find nov#sources of income, bike fun! finr there’s a nigger in the woodpile. Unobtru sively the amendment provides that its gradually declining rates should be applied to an assessed Valuation of 50 per cent actual cash value. Njw if one knew that assessments in the state have generally bee made on a percentage of cash value much higher than 50 per cent, tie might need to Consider the amendment no further to appre ciate how “gradual” it would bo. He might know tjjat the amendment proposes to lop' off $106,000, 000 of assessed valuations, not "gradually” but the instant it should go into effect. Tax experts have demonstrated how disastrous would be the effect of this "50 per cent” cluuse on counties, cities, school districts and other local tax levying units. Our concern here is to show how it would cripple higher education. OINCE 1920, 2.04 mills of the state's tax levy has ^ been guaranteed to higher education. This has been the principal source of income for Ore gon’s university, medical school, college and nor mal schools. Even in the prosperous days before property values slumped educators had to watch j their pennies to make ends meet with their millage [ income. Imagine, then, to what despair they were ; driven when property values went into their dive I in 1931, dragging higher education’s millage in come along down into the depths. A decline in enrollment simultaneous with the ! violent drop in millage income eased the strain ! upon educational budgets somewhat, as did the : lower costs of materials and supplies during the depression. But, at that, educators had to pare expenses to the bone. Faculty members took pay j slashes ranging from 10 to 30 per cent. Almost : no funds could be allowed for the upkeep of build ings, a forced neglect that might have resulted in great damage to the system’s physical plant had not the institutions obtained a share of federal relief funds for this work. * # # 'HE depression has eased its hold on industry, and the country at large seems to he picking ] its way out of the depths but higher education’s j crisis has just arrived. Enrollment has climbed up from its 1934 low and this year seems likely to go at least five per cent beyond its all-time high mark of 1928. Costs of instruction do not necessarily increase propor tionately with increased enrollment, but naturally they do rise. Add to this the fact that costs of materials and suuplies are rising rapidly. Add also that professors and instructors in the state system of higher education, who even before their depres sion pay slashes were among the worst paid mem bers of the profession in the entire nation, are now faced with rising costs of living and are little likely to maintain that admirable patience that has kept them in the service of Oregon youth through these past lean years, especially when they can observe the improved condition of their colleagues in other institutions and in other fields of employ ment. Indeed, one example after another can be given of Oregon professors' having turned down offers of more lucrative positions elsewhre. We cannot presume much longer upon their affec tions for Oregon and its schools. npHESE facts give one a clear picture of the crisis that confronts Oregon’s institutions of higher learning. On budgets already one million dollars less biennually than that of 1928, Oregon’s university, medical school, college and normal schools are faced with the problem of educating five per cent more students than they had in that year when their income was at its peak. It is reasonable to suppose that higher educa tion, sailing dangerously close to the rocks now, can weather a further limitation upon its finances ? What is going to happen if the tax limitation amendment succeeds, if .?10G,000,000 in assessed valuation is slashed at once from state tax re sources, if higher education must suffer the annual loss of $175,000 in addition to the present critical shrinkage in its milluge income? Higher education cannot stand this staggering blow. Vote "311 X No" and defeat this vicious measure! Newspapers that have devoted so much space lately to their discovery of King Edward's pen chant for charming American brunettes will no doubt be surprised to learn that nis majesty also eats and sleeps. OrcKon State System of Higher Eucation STATE APPROPRIATIONS FOR ALL PURPOSES Bienniums 1925-1926 to 1937-1938, Inclusive i Supplement to Milla^e ( Requested) priatioQS ^ CO O CN Tf- o <M OJ CO C) CO CO Os C* 0\ On On On » « § S S « s « \ i:\ri.ANAT10NS | rcprcst'iits mtllage iuconie. represents oilier state appropriations, j— npUM.nL JivtiM 11 to State's General Fund. Various (Opposition *tContinued from one) 5n regard to tlxe military question, DonTVhpmas and Howard Ohmart ugruu in their opposition to the tax limitation measure. Thomas, a leading campus con servative and a member of the Friars, has taken the initiative amcSg campus leaders in organiz ing Students against the measure. He reported last night that Kappa Sigiffii, Sigma Nu, Phi Kappa 1’si, Gamma Phi Beta, and Sigma Phi Epsilion had turned in majority vottfi against the measure. Be cause of lack of time other organ izations have not as yet reported, but ■Thomas is confident they will also^pppose the proposed measure. Ohmart, leader of the co-op movement on the campus and a leading liberal, said, "If one more voice raised in opposition to the i proposed measure will help 1 will certainly add mine, even if it is on the same side of the fence as Don Thomas.” Dorms, Fraternities Alike Leading students of independent and fraternity groups are opposed to the measure also. Both Charles Paddock, campus liberal, and Wal ter Kschebeek, inter-dorm presi dent, have declared themselves against it, while Ed Reams, presi dent of the interfraternity council represents the fraternity element opposing the measure. “Passage of this measure would definitely mean retrenchment in education,” Paddock says, “and any steps toward this end are not of a progressive, forward nature benefiting the people. One of the four principles of the American Student Union is against retrcench nent in education." Speaking in a similar vein, iteajns cited how an exteensive an rlysis hy Henry F. Heed, reeog lized authority on tax administra tion, lias shown how small home iwners would be hit. how passage )f the measure would necessitate it any special elections, and how 'duration would face another $1, >00.000 cut by 1942. M omen Oppose Measure Representing the feminine angle >f opposition, Theda Spicer, presi lent of Orides last year and a leani ng independent woman, related i graphic incident of how a high school in this county would be hit so hard should the measure pass j hat "they could still be able to J A Beard in t he Hand Is Worth Two Underfoot Wtammr m a^PlF A <. j Sj. ^ J Duck Soop By HARRY CLIFFORD The gala weekend is approaching . . . . Homecoming. The great week end when all the alums from Lord knows when, come back and tell us how the University has gone to the dogs since their time .... 't'he weekend when we spend our time showing the grads the beautiful new buildings that have arisen on the campus since their last visit, and then have them ask us why the old Patterson school is being torn down, because it was one of their favorite landmarks. The weekend when everybody gives up his bed to the boys from way back and then we go down stairs and crawl under the front room rug .... We have spent this term inviting alums down for this weekend, and we’ll spend the rest of the term re cuperating from those who accept the invitations .... WELL COME (on), CARDS, we are prepared. It is reported that this will be the first alumni gathering of the year for all fraternities except the SAE’s. We hear that all their alums came back for rush week. George Cropp and his orchestra are coming all the way from Ta coma just to play for the Soph In formal. George Humphreys, chair man of S. I. orchestra committee, is overflowing with praise for the band. We are going to the dance satisfied. We will have the satisfac tion of hearing good music or of making a liar out of Humphreys . . . . We much prefer the latter, we can hear good music any time. The other day we saw Jack Lochridge, spring term’s prize pigging in forty-five minutes, was acting very strangely; first he would talk to one girl, then go over to another booth and start talking to some other girl, then to a third, and a fourth, then a fifth. This kept up for some time. Finally our curiosity grew be yond control. We walked over and asked him the name of the game he was playing. We were inform ed that he was studying this term, and was doing a week’s pigging in forty-ficc minutes. We have heard that some of John Engstrom's friends called' up sev eral girls on tire telephone the other night and fixed Engstrom up with six dates for Friday night. There was a bit of an oversight on the part of the voluntary date-bureau; they neglected to tell John about the dates .... 1 wonder if football makes these boys so absent minded. Darrell Miller seems to be a bit perturbed about the remarks con cerning \TO in our last column. Vs we recall, we relieved the VTO's of the title of "hotelmen.” Perhaps Miller has become fond of this facetious nickname for his tong and hates to part with it. have one principal and one teacher, if they would go without wood.” Virginia Endicott, president of Mortar Board and a member of Chi Omega sorority, says, ”It is very evident to most University students that various educational departments are operating at an absolute minimum. It is logical that should this measure pass, with its resulting cut in revenue, that higher educati&i would be grea t ly damaged.’ ’ No men cooks at I’ VYl.OK's. adv Boyer Fears (Continued from page one) age education almost irreparably. The bureau of municipal research on the campus has recently issued a booklet telling how passage of the measure would result in the com plicated tax situation of 1937 be coming markedly entangled by 1942. R. S. Bryson, legal representa tive of the league of Oregon cities, has declared suggestions that the same group of Portland realtors who backed the defeated measure of 1934 are logical backers this year because of the similarity of the two measures. Clair Johnson, editor of Old Ore gon, hits the measure in an article published in the October issue of the magazine. He cites figures showing how it is an uncontestable fact that Oregon higher education is operating at an absolute mini mum, and needs increased' allott ments rather than cuts if various departments of the University are going to be administered efficient ly and capably. Mention is made of how leading educators in Oregon have left because the state system I warn xiul pa,y ixiexxx aucquaie salaries. Communists Seethe (Continued front page one) brows, six girls, members of Mas ter dance will present an authentic Russian folk dance. Madame Helen Jones, head of lyrics for the drag, announces they are trying to get Don Cossack and his chorus, the only real Russians who will be present, to do some numbers in the lighter vein. A men’s trio, local talent, will vocalizze “hi’s” and “ho's” as they do well-known and still loved na tive numbers. But dangling from the sides in artistic fashion will hang stenciled pictures, Russian costumes, native scenery and many of the famous buildings. Dave Lowry has blockaded the way against Communistic intru sion, being general chairman. Vic Rosenfeld worked with him doing the assistant’s work. Don Chapman handled features; Stew art Mocksond, decorations; Helen Jones, music; Jane Bowerman, sec retarial work; Molly White, pro grams; Jack McCarty, floor. After the Theatre and Dance You always meet for a bite to eat at the White Palace Sandwich Shop Sandwiches 3c Soft Drinks Twenty-four-hour service "But would your wife like it, Mr. Bear.thorpe, if you raised my salary?” H "Miss Ogilvie, / save enough on Twenty Grands to do it, anyway!" m ALSO OBTAINABLE IN FLAT FIFTIES Copr. 193d The Axtua-Fishcr Tobati o Co., Iuc. WE CERTIFY that we have inspect ed the Turkish and Domestic Tobaccos blended in TWENTY GRAND cigarettes and find them as fine in smoking qual ity as those used in cigarettes costing as much as 50 % more. tstf.if.fj Scil, Putt & Rush- Inc. (in tu.'.l ioiucvj expert) Tune ’er ♦ " Out... By BOB POLLOCK Today, we’re a fifteen cent store —we got plenty of nuttin’ . . . first plug is for Uncle Henry Ford's show this night at 9 over KOIN . . . Waring will always have our vote as a capable M.C. . . . even if he does help sell a republi can’s cars. If you are one of those citizens who can stand music if it doesn’t boom around a mountain with a bit of yodel in it, try turning to KGW at 9:30 this eve . . , NBC presents the screwy-titled Good Morning Tonight, with a former prima don na, Myrtle Claire Donnelly, and a singing coal miner, Gwynfi Jones, doing some high-priced warbling. Even the ork busts in with some thing that hasn't a single hot trombone in it—Hungarian Dance No. 5. To the lads who sat practical ly in the conductor’s lap, Ore gon’s press-agented Swing Band was not so good, they claim . . . well, try driving at suicide miles an hour through the loose-grav eled Coast range and see how good any music not a requiem sounds . . . yeah, we think the outfit is very much o.k. . , . Cracks Fred Allen: “I used to be a vaudeville comic—until my pock etbook got burnt in too many short circuits . . . and then I went on the radio . . . for a while my rating was so low they typed it in radium so it would show up in the cel lar.” Jack Dempsey’s ex-spouse, Es telle Taylor, conies to KGW at G tonight with Ben Bernie . . . she’s his guest and is expected to do a trifle of singing with mebbe a dramatic sketch . . • never heard much of Estelle without seeing the magic Demp sey monicker somewhere around ... as for hamburger-munching, Winchell-baiter Bernie, the less heard from him the better . . . so maybe we should have more guest stars on his program . . . Nominee for the world’s unhap piest man: Rush Hughes, on the air by courtesy of people selling beer and bread, has gotta drop anyway five pounds so be can get close enough to the mike to be heard ... Tomorrow we got quality. The schedule for Wednesday’s Emer ald of the Air! Pallett Releases (Continued from page one) fett, advertising; Phyllis Gardner, banquet; Josephine McGilchrist, registration; Gladys Battleson, sec retary. Other members of the faculty committee of which Pallett is the head are George H. Godfrey, pub licity; George Belknap, advertis ing; Virgil D. Earl, registration; Mrs. Genevieve Turnipseed, ban quet; Clifford Constance, awards. BETTY HARCOMBE MARRIED Betty Harcombe, secretary in the sociology department, was married to John Saul, of St. Hel ens, September 1. Miss Harcombe graduated from the school of arts and letter in '33. MUMS 50c 75c $1.00 I You..* can receive first hand news from the University of Oregon Sports Student Opinion Campus Life Faculty Research Subscribe to the Oregony Dail Emerald to be delivered by mail. Gerald Crisman, Circulation Promotion Manager, Oregon Daily Emerald Dear Sir: Please „end a copy of the Emerald for (1 year— $3.00) (Fall term—$1.25) to the following add'ress: Name. Address.