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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Fred W. Colvig. editor LcRoy Mattingly, managing editor Walter R. Vernstrom, manager EDITORIAL BOARD Mildred Blackburne. Darrell Ellis, Howard Kessler, Wayne Harbert, Dan E. Clark Jr., Victor Dallaire, Charles Paddock Associate editors: Virginia Endicott, Clair Johnson MEMBER OF MAJOR COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Represented bv A. j. Norri- I Jill I o., 1 ”5 E. 42nd St., .'OW York fitv ; 12.? W. Madison St., Chicago; 1004 2nd Ave., Seattle; 3031 s. Broadway, Los Angeles; Call Building, San Francisco. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student Publication of the University of Oregon. Eugene, published daily during the college vear except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, examination periods, the fifth dav of December to January 4, except January 4 to 12, and March 5 to March 22, March 22 to March 30. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rate, $2.50 a year. UPPER NEWS STAFF . , Lloyd Tupling, assistant man- Robert Pollock, chief night ed aging editor Pat Frizzell, sports editor Paul Dcutschmann, news editor Ed Robbins, art editor iter Paul Plank, radio editor Howard Kessler, literary editor Clare Igoe, women’s editor Gladys Battlcson, society editor Desk tftafl This Issue Assistant managing editor: \ ic Dallaire Day editor Bill ( ummings Assistant .lay editor: Bob Emerson Night Staff This Issue Night editors: Homer Graham Assistant night editor Margaret Rankin Ben Forbes Betty Brady » Copyrcaders Roy Yernstrom. Relta Lea Powell, Mary Hopkins, Hazel Dean, Jane Mirick, Bill Garrett. Bill Pengra, Geanne Eschle, George Ifalev, Frances Borden. Rita Wright. Jack Townsend, Patricia Duggan. Pat Carson, Jean Rawson. Catherine Callaway, Sylvia Sarlet. Harry Pmudfoot. Mignon I’hipps. Blanche Brown, Ruth Ketchum. Anna Mae Halverson. Jr man Zeller, Russell Espy, Orville Williams. Kathrvn Morrow. Matt Kramer, Beverly Brown, Patricia Allist n, Margaret Rankin, Al Branson. Stan Hobson, Peggy Rob bins, Janet Calavan, Frances McCoy, Theo Prescott. Reporters Parr Aplin. Louise Aiken, Laura Bryant. Morrison Bales David ( ox, Jean Cramer, Marilyn Dudley, Myra Htllser, Stan Hob son, Dave J loss. Ora May Hoj.lman, Anna May Halverson, Ken netli Kirtley, Roy Knudsen, liubarrl Kimkka. Doris Lindrgrcn Dick Lttfin, Eelker Morris, Alice Nelson, Bill Pengra, Ted Proud foot, Peggy Robbins, Wilfred Roadman, Ruth Mary Scovel, Kathc rim* Taylor, Roy Vernstrom. Rita Wright. BUSINESS STAFF Caroline Iland, executive secre tary Gerald Crisman, circulation manager Francis Olson, assistant circu lation manager Patsy Neal, national advertising manager Elinor Anderson, assistant na tional advertising manager Les Miller, merchandising man ager Bill Sanford, Portland advertising Advertising Manager This Issue d Bill Liiher-ky. advertising manager Don Palmblad, Bruce Currie, Jim Jarvis, assistants . _t_ Business Office Assistants Jean Barrens, Bcttylou Swart, Sally McGrcw, Velma Smith. Anne Earnest. Betty ( rides. Margaret Carlton, Doris DeYoung, Jean Cleveland, Helen Hurst, Janet Kawes, Anne Fredrickson, Mignon Phipps, Barbara Epsy, Caroline Howard, Jane Basket4 Satan, Get Thee Behind Us HETHER 'Lis nobler in mind to suffer the * ' viperous slings and arrows that Mr. Prescott & Co. are loosing from the second floor window of the College Side or to take arms against their spree of balderdash and by opposing end them . . . Satan, get thee behind us! May we remember that journalism is obedient to a higher ethics than that governing public address systems! Exasperating in a small way were the blatant charges that poured from the Liberty association’s wind machine Monday and Tuesday, but the Emer ald is above answering such billingsgate in the kind it so fully deserves. Their most provocative taunt, so constantly played that it seemed to be the theme of their broadcast, was that the Emerald is "misappro priating student body funds to circulate radical ideas and dogma subversive of social order," or some such nonsense giving a libelous hint that “Oregon’s Independent College Daily" lias sold out to Moscow. HAT they were driving at we can only pre " ” sume, inasmuch as they did not elaborate their charge but left their hearers to put any con struction on it they would a despicable trick, by the way. We don't imagine, however, that they accuse us of rifling Ralph Schomp's safe and subsidizing the “Daily Worker” with the proceeds. Apparently they mean that the Emerald, an organ of the student body and partly dependent upon student subscriptions for its operation, is violating a sacred trust in its editorial opposition to compulsory military training, tTheir reasoning here recalls the recent utterance of a Spanish fas cist, Fransico Franco: “The Madrid government might have spared the land a great deal of un necessary bloodshed if it had nut armed the people against the national will.” The Emerald might have spared itself and unnecessary amount of abuse, if it had not opposed the campus will of which the Liberty association presumes itself the spokesman. If that is the construction they wish placed on their charge, they apparently are strug gling under a misconception of the Emerald's posi tion on the campus. |T is certainly true that the Emerald is an organ M of the ASUO. That is where the confusion over the paper's proper function arises: its readers are its owners. Now on a privately owned newspaper it is commonly conceded that the owner may have some little "say” over matters of policy, but how can this apply to a paper Unit belongs to 2000 per sons each with his separate opinion? The thought is absurd. Members of the ASUO have been content to re gard themselves as merely readers, delegating their rights as owners to an editor and staff of capable student journalists. Toward ASUO mem bers in their role of readers the editor and staff of the Emerald bind themselves to two tilings: in the news columns of Liu1 paper to provide complete and unbia ed coverage of campus affairs and in the editorial column to put the interpretative con struction on these affairs which is best calculated to serve the welfare of the University. The present opposition of the Emerald to com pulsory military training may or may not be in accord with majority campus opinion, but it does represent the Emerald’s conviction as to the direc tion in which this University's welfare lies Thu advice may be uiken or rejected, the Emerald is in no position of dictatorship. The dean of women in an eastern university defines a “date" as a pre-arranged or casual meet ing of persons of opposite sex lasting more than 15 minutes. Allowing *12 hours lor eating and sleeping Joe College can still work in more than 40 dote , a clay. Campus Comment To the Editor: In high dudgeon I write you re garding what I consider an unwarranted depriva ;ion of my rights and the rights of my fellow fac ulty members on this campus. Our forefathers 'ought, bled and died, history tells us, that no one should be denied the privilege of casting his ballot jn election day. Yet yesterday no professor in his institution was granted that privilege. Lincoln died that the right of franchise might oe granted to the slaves. Who now must give his ife that our campus pojling places shall be open ,o all ? When the fate of our nation hangs in bal ance, certainly no voice should remain unheard, :ertainly no nose should remain uncounted. Though we be but straw men, let us not at east be adjudged unworthy of a straw vote. P. E. Kiepe I Comments on Poll By Student Leaders r CHARLES PADDOCK’S STATEMENT TO THE STUDENTS (Editor's note: The fallowing statement was given to the Emerald last night by Charles Paddock,, chairman of the Oregon Committee for Peace and Freedom.) I have nothing but admiration for the Oregon students who faced what practically amounted to terrorism to express their honest opinion on the militarv training issue. The campus has spoken. 1 No longer will the Liberty Leaguers be able to ; prate of the “10 or 12 radicals who are bent on j destruction.” The Emerald has produced a fair vote, but the malicious tactics, of the Liberty League make it impossible to ever know just how arsed optional drill in a rational, unprejudiced dorsed optional dril in a rational, unprejudiced vote. Charles Paddock ROBERT PRESCOTT’S STATEMENT TO THE STUDENTS (Editor’s note: Thu following is Hebert Prescott’s statement to students in regard to thi' Emerald political poll, in which student opinion was shown (o favor optional military training.) The Oregon Liberty association is proud to lose the Emerald straw ballot by the small margin an nounced. Though we are convinced that we are in the right we still have only been organized a week and a half. The association wishes to thank its supoprters yet we also remind them emphatically that the fight is still in its early stage's and that we have two more weeks to canvass the state. The association willingly ran the risk of being made ridiculous and was fully aware that our task of arousing conservative student sentiment to cam paign with 11s was a bit hard. We are, perhaps, a temporary minority yet we are hot ashamed. Someone has to lose. And we will not admit actual defeat until after the Ncrvem ber election. , Tomorrow night there will be another meeting , of the association in Alumni hall, Gerlinger, at seven-thii Ly. We have taken a temporary shellack ing and need the support of every member of t \ • student body who is opposed to optional milita. j , training. Robert Prescott Jr. ROBERT PRESCOTT’S STATEMENT TO THE PRESS AT LARGE (Editor’s note: This is a statement released by Robert Prescott, publicity chairman of the Oregon Liberty association, to Eugene papers. Press association wires will carry it to almost every paper in the state.) The Oregon Liberty association was formed a week ago in a last, desperate effort to arouse stu- ; dent body opinion against the optional military initiative. We represent the group of conservative ; students on the campus who resent radical domi- ■ nance. We believe optional military in Oregon schools is a definite move of radical and left wing groups throughout the state to disarm tire United States | and principally the middle class of Americans from which military strength necessary for international and internal political strife must come. Monday and Tuesday the Emerald held a straw ballot on the issue. The Oregon Emerald, the stu- ! dent daily, has thrown its powerful support to three prominent University radicals and has car ried an effective campaign to the student body. We, tlie members and sympathizers of the asso ciation, tried every possible scheme to attract at tention in these last few days to the necessity of defeating, in the interests of the University, this bill which we consider the most significant and important issue on the ballot this November. It is possible that the United States is heading towards a bitter social and political upheaval. If ! our national economy ceases to be effective there is the tragic inevitability of a crisis. The prole tarian, left wing movement throughout the country i is very powerful. It ha-, the support of a majority of the intelligentsia. The proletarian movement aims at reducing the j middle class and Hie property owner to a form , of military emasculation. We are fighting il with every conceivable yet legitimate weapon. We hope to preserve democracy in the United i. States, yet we are quite aware that if proletarian j sympathy becomes powerful enough it will provoke „ reaction, and possibly a reaction of a bitter, dicta- ;< tonal sort that will take the most brutal of govern- v mental forms, fascism. Therefore, we believe tIrat in order to prevent , social and political crisis it is the duty of the middle class American to keep himself adequately s rimed yet fully sympathetic with the proletariat. t labor, etc., in order that the latter class will not s jc forced to inaugurate a class movement of uis- ... irm&ment. 1 a Though we lost the campus straw vote wo arc b rot discouraged. We believe we have \u n can- si •civatuc inter.- d in our work and will continue L o state our principles whether we lose the state 'allot or not. Robert Prescott, Jr. IS c Hop’s SKIPS & JUMPS So I said, I think I’ll write about narried life. And two stooges jipcd up what do you know about narried life and' what makes you ;hink we want to be known as stooges. And I said well you know i rose by any other name— But I have a couple of friends vho are married. Have been for .wo-three years. And they always .ell me I should go thou and do ikewise to which I come back but he girl I’d marry me won’t play ill I get a job or something. Well vhy don't you get a job, they say. ; can’t I gotta finish my educa .ion, I say. You still ought to jounce off a couple stories like rou’re always bragging about they lay. I will I will, I say. They have it pretty soft though, rhey own their own home and’ an chor house to boot and which they ■ent to suckers who come to our own to go to school or teach. And' hen there’s an income of some sort >r another. You can see that this s not the usual hard struggle of /oung married couples but they’re iifferent. They run on a budget md have two chows. I’ve never jeen able to figure out their phil jsophy except that it must be deal. The two chows are one red and jne black and the husband is al vays beating the hell out of the jlack one on account of it’s the boy md can take it. I said why don’t ,’ou have some kids, you dope. He ;aid I should have squawling brats iround these premises- I said vhat do you mean premises—to >tow up and wonder why I stay lore and why don’t I give up I ion’t know anything anyway. Well naybe you’re right I said but they lo say that nothing serves to hold ;he ball and chain together like the jitter of little patters or what is tie expression. He is a very reticent guy this Tiend of mine. I once asked him vhy lie got married and he said narriage is something every young nan should experience it’s a won lerful institution. Cynical is no lame for him honest. Maybe so I laid but why did you have to go looting off to the islands and come jack married and what’s more not ell anyone about it for months and nonths. I wouldn’t know it yet if . hadn't been told sub rosa. What s this sub rosa he said. He sleeps raw. Now after all here are certain things at which I ■ay a bloke should draw the line mt what's the difference he says. should be uncomfortable with a lamned old pair of pajamas when can sleep much more healthier nit more conifortabler by myself, s that part of your philosophy I aid and he said philosophy? His reatest regret in life is that he •ent to Stanford. His wife is a girl who lived in le islands for many years and lion you say a Hawaiian name :ie corrects you and is always liking about the volcano. Honest ro ll go into that volcano at the ightest drop of the kelly. She is ways advising me to read stuff cause l never read anything fuy ilf, she says. Well then you're King me to read things and. you ui’t read anything yourself 1 said ;e says ye-; Now one of tl stooges wants to know if she is native. Hell no I said what a way to talk. I am a guy what has seen much married life on the outside of me of course and their's is the bestest so far. With their ideals and their philosophies and their thoughts and their chows. They are sure a couple of dopes. Faculty Bull Session By HOWARD KESSLER (Note: This is the third of a series of articles recording a dis cussion of Europe between six fac ility members of the University who visited there last summer, and met in alumnae hall last Wednes day for an informal comparison of impressions.) Becoming lyrical, the reporter now asked of his travelled profes sors, “Is it true what they say about Russia? Did you feel that the Soviets were not telling all?” Schumacher: Well, I had the feeling that I was being shown around. Hollis: You may wander ^about in the cities as much as you like, but so many do not understand the difficulties in Russia. The Rus sians simply do not comprehend English, so you can’t get very far on your own anyway. And another thing 1 found: the guides’ know ledge of anything outside Russia is almost completely absent. O'Connell: About the most strik ing characteristic of the Soviet to my mind were the long lines be fore food stores, soda fountains, buses, and. every conceivable mar ket, The Russians are becoming "queue-minded,” so that they stand for an hour waiting for an ice cream soda with the utmost com ('oni rads With Cash Hollis: On several occasions I .saw Russians with wads of paper money ordering elaborate meals. They seemed to enjoy rich foods as much as any capitalist. O’Connell: l$ui oh, the service! Wo spent a daily average of five hours in restaurants, trying to get some meals. You sit down and pray. Then, maybe an hour later a waiter drills by and condescends fo wait on you. Reporter: Did you pay tips? O'Connell: For such service? We did not! Washke: Are the workers paid according to their abilities? Hollis: Yes. they are. Washke: Do theyr work Sun days ? O'Connell: There are no Sun days, as such. They number each day in the month, and rest every sixth day. I don't know how they spend their days of rest, but the most common movie in Russia when we ware there, was Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times.” And that was about the only Hollywood picture. Schumacher: You don't find many American films in either Russia or Germany. Robeson in Russia Hollis: Paul Robeson was very popular in Moscow. We saw him in the lobby of the Metropole hotel one day. Reporter: What did you think of ; the food abroad? Schumacher: 1 almost starved in France. ‘ Washke: We had the same ex- i perience: couldn't get a meal for 1 less than a dollar. Hollis: I didn’t think much of < it either. Washke: Denmark, Sweden and 1 Germany: those were the places , for delicious food. I; Hollis: Sweden has the- best of the lot. Finland was a close second. , The Russian food was terrible. j ! Washke: The method of serving , I particularly liked in Sweden. They bring in the meals by cours es, and if you don’t know the sys tem, you’re likely to mistake the first course for the entire meal, and find yourself unable to eat any of the remaining five. Liquid Refreshment Hollis: The coffee was uniformly bad. Washke: We didn't have a good cupful on the whole trip. Hollis: And not one glass of milk did I see in Europe. O’Connell: I hope none of you tried the milk shakes over there, i They make it without cream. In Warwick, F.ngland, we asked for a malted milk, but, to play safe, we requested a list of the ingredi ents to be used. They included everything but milk and ice cream: water and malt were the principal components. Hollis: They drink enormous quantities of warm ale in England. Having covered the food condi tions, the group next turned to the Olympic games in Berlin. Most of the faculty men had witnessed this spectacularly successful event, and united in the verdict that "it was a grand show’." But more anon. Registration Tops — (Continued front page one) » than 100 students have attended j the University previously but still rate as first-year students. The senior class numbers 359 with 255 students in the junior I. class. Graduate, professional and other special students total 288. CLASSIFIED Tutoring- German by experienced teacher educated in Germany. 50c per hr. Mrs. Irma Grupp, 1793 Columbia St. Phone 2630W. wtf -LOST A brown leather - bouiul autographed copy of Jer ome Kern’s "Swing Time’’ song hits was lost on the p a r k i n g lot adjoining Johnron Hall. Will finder please return to Emerald business office. REWARD. EDWIN D. ltATHBOXE Osteopath Phones: Res. 3112: Office 3130 Office hours: 8-12 and 1:30-5 207 Tiffany Bldg. Wilson Ml'slc HOUSE East Tenth St. Everything in Musie! Latest records always in stock THE Strollers By BILL MARSH and DICK REOI Amusing sidelight which threw brief stall into the mechanized ' ictionings of a local cinema lack. Came and went the news ;el, came and went the cartoon, nd then came the feature picture, ut somewhere backstage a cog lipped, and the curtain refused to jnction. Thirty seconds passed, len a whole minute. The audience egan to voice the preliminary umblings of whole-hearted disap roval. And still the curtain re rnined serenely shut. Presently a perspiring and un appy technician appeared, clashed own the aisle amid assorted mut erings and scrambled behind the tubborn curtain. The audience howed interest in the activities, lere was entertainment for which he management had not charged hem a cent. Suspense accumu ated, while the operator in the >rojection room gnawed his finger ails and opened a new tin of anned music. Then, the curtains, evidently shamed and eager to repent, gave . spasmodic jerk and whisked open /ith a truly amazing burst of peed. The technician appeared nee again, beaming with success, le might have been dedicating limself anew to his career and aying, “So long as I have my nonkey wrench, THE SHOW VILL GO ON!” SCRAM From Cleveland: Two automo jiles mingled fenders in the city itreets with enough force to jolt i dozing policeman away from his ;ustomary lamp post. The two Irivers crawled out of the accu nulated debris and glared at each rther. “It was his fault,” one driver in 'ormcd the officer. The other driver, strangely :nough, indicated no desire to con ;est the charge, so the cop pinned m a careful scowl and growled, •What’s your name?” The erring driver smiled sweet y. “Scram,” he replied. The minion of the law started. Perhaps he hadn’t heard correctly. ‘What did you say?” he snapped. The driver continued to smile. ‘Scram,” he repeated. John Law’s face flushed to the :olor of ripe old Edam cheese. "An rther one cf these smart guys, luh ? Maybe you’d like to tell that 0 the judge, huh?” “I’d be delighted,” the imper :urbable victim responded. And he did. To the patrolman's complete humiliation he identified limself as Mr. Scram •— James 3c ram! FISHY Here is the fish story to end all ’ish stories. A Maryland chap swears on a stack of econ texts :hat, while strolling along the ranks of a nearby stream, he saw 1 flying wild duck swoop down to :atch a trout. Just in the nick of time the trout struck at a fly, sailed clear out of the water onto the bank. The duck, swooping townward at a good m.p.h., did a snappy left-rudder to compensate for the trout's unexpected man Tune ’er Out... By BOB POLLOCK Crooners, a football husky, a pi ino pounder, and a Homecoming aallyhooer, all this for you tonight m KORE at 8 . . . it’s the Emer ald’s own show . . . and its emceed, as always, by Plank, the boy with the verse like mounting honey . . . Lead-off gent is Maestro Jack McCarthy, whose Californians, habitues of the now-extinct Green Parrot will remember . . . does a bit of piano playing . . . and, says Plank’s note, “He’s OK” . . . next Connie Grab, sport commentator, drags the 1916 iron men out of their obliv ion and tells all . . . then the dor mitory’s own Walter Eschebeck comes on and says for all of you to eome to Homecoming on ac count of it’s going to be just simply swell . . . and ending the spot, is Don Palmblad, campus crooner heard two weeks ago, who will sing, accompanied by Chuek French . . . nothing to be afraid of . . . it's all popular and easily digested. About the best thing CBS can offer this evening is Nino Martini, and Andre Kostelanetz’ orchestra and chorus on KOIN at 6 . . . the rest of the time is taken up with Gang Busters, dramatized by Phil lips Lord who almost drowned himself in the South Seas some months ago . . . for publicity rea sons, it is strongly suspected . . . and by Moon Over the Mountain Smith, who is getting along in years, but still retains her shape and her volume. . . A1 Smith, who calls it raddio and gets away with it, will be caricatured this evening over KGW at 7:30 . . . Slight also be HEX, 111 Sutter Street having obligingly forgotten to tell whe ther it’s red or blue network stuff . . . anyway, it’s Meredith Willson’s band that does the mu sical cartooning ... it promises to be almost worth staying away from Anthony Adverse . . . Pcrter Taylor Frizzell, Jr., the Emerald’s temperamental sports ed., thinks the Swing Band out of place . . . well, Pat sat in the press box and we sat with a drunk . . • possibly John Barleycorn influ enced our decision, but we still say it’s a swell idea. euver, but space wouldn't permit him to pull out of the power dive, and he smacked the face of good old mother earth inches away from the still-flapping fish. And then, still swearing to the truth of the yarn, the man who says he saw the incident with his own eyes piles insult onto injury by saying that he picked up both dead duck and dead fish and took them home for his dinner! I.ccm for the gang, TAYLOR’S, ad ipiliHlUIBIIIIlBilllHiillHliillfliniBlilHililBlIBIUIIfti i i ” OREGON ® | BARBER SHOP 1 1 I " Next to College Side B Experienced 1 BJ ■ in College liaircutters " -;BriH.jBI!i:!Bl>i!IB:l:!E!l!'Bil!Bi!i:BE!;!BI.!!!Bi:;:!ho Student Veters Are you in the habit of shrugging away your responsibilities in selecting LOCAL officials? ® Even if your home is far away, you are under local officials 10 months out of the year—pick them well! Cbas. P. PooSe |i a man with experience and i good reputation behind him I; asks your support for re V. election to a vital county office—the motivating place >n the law-enforcement ma il chine. Lane County
