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An Unfortunate Precedent
"1717'ft wish wo could go duck-hunting with
AH' London. The cold marsh mist drift
ing across our l'aco, the soft, intimate slosh
ing of water against the skiff and the sock
of the old 12 gauge against our shoulder
might take away the depression iu which de
feat of the optional UOTC hill has left us.
Dag-nub it ! The originators of the bill must
realize now that they should have kept their
shirts on. Last year even while the initiative
petitions were being circulated the Kmerahl
decried the removal of the issue from the
hands of qualified directors of educational
policy. Even before1 that, authoritative infor
mation declared that military training, left
up to tin1 decision of the University faculty
and the state hoard of higher education,
might possibly have been made optional with
in a year. Now look where we are.
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'y^niLRL, before the bill was proposed, we
had a very outspoken element of the
public voice encouraging the faculty to re
move KOTC as a compulsory feature of the
curriculum, there has now been awakened a
great previously latent support for the pres
ent setup. Hope for any immediate action to
optionalize military training must be rather
slim, for Tuesday's vide has tied the faculty's
hands.
A very had precedent has been established.
Determination of a matter of educational
policy has been taken from the hands of men
whose training qualifies them as higher edu
cation's logical directors.
The ideal position of education in a democ
racy is that it should he government's guid
ing light. Let us hesitate before we again
dmise that light into the sea of politics.
Man-Maker or Menace?
"WTlliNON Sprague lay unconscious at the
Sacred Heart hospital last night, another
victim of touch football. The blow on the
head vvhii"h Sprague received in an informal
contest climaxed a long list of injuries which
have occurred since the intramural hoard
added the game to its fall program.
As a sport, touch football seems to have
lost character because of the casualty list
mounting from intramural and informal
games.
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/T'HK purpose of the intramural program is
to create a wider interest in athletics and
through that to build up as much as possible
health and vigor among the students. Touch
football has been enthusiastically received
and lias brought a large number of students
to the playing fields. It is doubtful, however,
whether the benefits derived will in any ua%
balance the damage which is being done.
The time lias almost come to pass judge
ment on this game. Certainly it does not dc
serve a place on the program it it is to en
danger life and limb.
# # #
JT seems apparent that students lack the
condition, the experience and the proper
protective gear for the game, rough as it is
played. Placing the game on the program has
stimulated interest in sandlot contests, played
without benefit of officials, which have con
tributed a large share of the injuries.
Perhaps the causes of excessive injuries
could be removed by a more strict interpre
tation of the rules or by reducing the play
ing period. If something of this sort is not
done, touch-tackle should be discouraged on
this campus, for it is defeating the purpose
of the entire program and has become a men
ace rather than an aid to health.
Where the Wise Money Lay
Y(,,J cun t fool a newspaper guy 1
Of course, the Literary Digest had been
picking London for weeks, exhibiting a
naivete never before known to a leading Am
erican magazine. Many an intelligent news
paperman knew two weeks ago Dial London
was not going to be elected. lie also knew
that the Digest poll was thoroughly unre
liable and was not representing voting opin
ion.
While the Digest was holding its silk-stock
ing poll, George Gallup's survey, known to
the reading public as the American Institute
of Public Opinion, was forecasting accurate
trends and picking the winner with a reason
able percentage lead since the first week it
entered the field. George Gallup didn 1 run
his poll after the Digest style. He has been
in the business for years, and today boasts
the most scientific method of determining
public opinion known. His poll reaches every
section, every stratum, every class of Ameri
can society. * *
J^EWSl’APER guys are supposed to write
news and what they think doesn t count.
Ilul two weeks ago they would have told us.
The reporters aboard the Landon train picked
Roosevelt 31 to 7. On the Roosevelt train all
30 picked the president. Even then they were
talking in terms of “400 or 500“ electoral
votes for FI).
Hack m the capital city the scrihos wore |
forecasting liovv many electoral votes the
president would garner. Most of them con^
ceded Landon about 7(i. The highest was IS-!*
and the lowest was 11—just, three more than
the Republican candidate finally did get!
The Emerald is pretty proud of the craft
that dishes up America's daily news portion.
While the “big” editors were giving Landon
all the breaks, the wise guys who do politics
and who gab-fest around the city desk alter
press time were all laying their kale on the
winner.
Campus Comment
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kept within a limit of 250 words. Courteous restraint should
he employed in reference to personalities. No unsigned
letters will be accepted. ___
BANDSMAN BLASTS BACK
An open letter to those who have written in to
the Emerald concerning the Oregon band:
I wonder how many of you, if called upon to
do so, could offer some practical and constructive
plan for bringing the band up out of the dumps ?
I wonder how many of you, with tiie insight you
pretend to have, could discuss adequately the rea
sons for the band being in the condition it is?
1 would welcome, and I believe Bix Huffman and
Doug Orme would welcome, a plan that would
work. A plan that would have the wholehearted
and unqualified support of the student body, con
cerning tlie Oregon band. How many of you are
capable of doing it ?
Not one of you, I dare say!
The one who has come the closest to saying
anything at nil logical is Dallaire (the gentleman,
yen will remember, who is r.o capable of wading
into the controversy). He echoed the letters writ
ten previously by Mr. Trout and myself when he
made a plea for support. “The band,” he says, “is
deserving of the whole-hearted support of the stu
dents."
Now ihat you have waded in, Mr. Dallaire, can
you swim Can you toll us you idea of a “ . . smart
looking, well-led group , . . ? Can you tell us how
to get it under our present set-up^
I want to tell you all something. Oregon has the
finest bunch of musicians on the coast. Oregon
lirs the most willing bunch of workers on the
coast! Oregon bandsmen have the best record and
reputation on the coast! AND they have the
poorest, yes the poorest COOPERATION OK
ANY GROUP ON THE COAST!
The band you see in Portland is there on it's
own time. There is no credit for the fellows you
see up there. They are there without glory, with
out recognition. All they ever get is the unquali
fied boo of twenty-six hundred of their fellow stu
dents!
Give us authority to buy new uniforms. Give
us authority to do as the University id' Washing
ton does drill three hours a night, two nights a
: week. Give us permission to buy, as do other
bands, the finest instruments obtainable AND i
we'll give you a RAND!
If you students think that you are going to
reach up in the air and pull out a band, you might
as well give up. There are no bands floating !
around up there. There is only one way to get it
That way is to put in with us, help us. by giving
us your whole hearted backing. A day won't do
it, and a dollar won't do it. Many days, though,
and seveial dollars, will and CAN do it!
.Tosepu W. Smith. Orummajov UO Paint
Tune ’er
Out...
By BOB POLLOCK
By the looks of the bedraggled
calendar before us, we would say
that tonight was Thursday . . .
and because it is Thursday, we of
fer you entertainment in one hour
lets. Beginning, is Rudy Vallee’s
variety hour over KGW at 5 . . .
Rudy is beginning to strain a bit
.vhen he has to hit the high notes,
but otherwise he’s better than he
■vas way back in the days when
ais wife called up strange men
vhile she was taking a bath . . .
Next is Bing Crosby at 7 on
the same dial spot . . . with Bing
—who got a fan letter the other
day with 317 pages in it, and so
bulky it had to he mailed in two
installments—will he Bazooka
Burns, and .Jimmy Dorsey’s
band.
And after Amos ’r.’ Andy—
Andy of the team has the biggest
swimming pool in Palm Springs,
they say ... by the look on his
face, you'd never know he used it
as we were saying, after A 'n' A
comes the symphony . . . piece de
resistance is “The Pines of Rome,”
a modern orchestral work by Res
pighi which goes on the air for the
first time.
tTio stink which various and
sundry citizens attending the
University of Oregon have raised
over our “band"—we use the
term with some hesitation—must
have reached heaven and gone
beyond . . . NBC has heard of it
and are sponsoring band instru
ment lessons on KEX Tuesdays
at 11 a. m. . . . they’re especial
ly designed for beginners . . .
they also offer free instruction
books which may bo obtained by
merely writing for ’em ... if
you can’t think of NBC's address
try the University of Washing
ton.
And we close with this so-old
clipping from a mag in the dean
of men’s office: “It’s an old man
who can remember when the word
'neck' was a noun and not a verb.”
I)r. Moore Warns
(Continued from page one)
of the small property class to the
fascist group. This would result
in a condition similar to that exist
ing in Italy and Germany during
the ascendancy of Mussolini and
Hitler, respectively, and similar
also to the condition .existing in
Spain today.
Doctor Moore said that this de
plorable state of affairs could be
avoided by the wise management
cf the affairs of the nation by the
reelected representatives of a ma
jor party whose constituency might
ultimately demand more radical
measures.
Legislation Must Be Mild
“To insure peace and order, it is
preeminently imperative that the
legislation of the strengthened
Democratic senate and house be
not too antagonistic to the inter
ests of the propertied class," Doc
tor Moore warned.
Connecting his remarks with
“Elements of Social Control," now
under discussion, Doctor Moore
pointed out the amazing lack of
order which characterized the cam
paign efforts of the Republican
party.
Farley Efficient Organizer
“On the other hand,” he contin
ued,, “Mr. Farley, regardless of
what our personal opinion of the
man may be, is by far the most
efficient organizer any political
party has had since the manage
ment of the Republican party in
1896 by Mark Hanna.”
Gate Receipts
(Continued from I'cit/e one)
floating', levelling, and seeding.
Two plans will be considered be
fore improvement of the field is
begun. One is to grow turf else
where and then transfer it to the
stadium. The other, favored by
Cornell, is to grow the drass di
rectly on the playing field.
Turfing Too Expensive
Cornell believes the grass can
bo grown on the field itself, for the
VVebfoots practice each afternoon
on turf, and, after months of rough
treatment, the practice fields are
in fair condition. Moving the turf
from another surface would in
crease costs.
It is probable that the present
drainage system is adequate for ,
turf field. Type of grass to be
used has not been determined. In
California, with its much warmer
climate, many schools have used
blue grass with considerable suc
cess. Whether this can be used in
this climate is not known. The
services of an expert will be en
gaged before any work is done.
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SKIPS & JUMPS
QEVKRAL years ago, when you
ana' I were young, Maggie,
there appeared in the SEP a story
entitled “The Wrong Side of the
Tracks.” The thing was written
anonymously and was continued
next week every time it got good.
In it, some woman told how she
had been reared and raised the
wrong side of somebody’s railroad
tracks, but that didn't stop her and
she became some shucks in society.
It occurs to me at this point
that there's good argument to be
had about which side is the wrong
aide and who says so. And I'd be
on the side of the “who says so”
boys, but that's another and hap
pier story.
Toward the beginning of the
piece of which I rant the hero
ine makes no bones about telling
her personal philosophy about
men and what they’re here for.
In fact, she leaves little to the
imagination as 'to the uses she
put men to, and don’t get me
wrong either. This authoress
said, to get on with this, that
she always had and always
would use her men for her own
personal gains, that she had
never never really loved one of
them, and that her own social
position had been attained chief
ly through her “exploitation”
of men.
In short, she used them for
what she could get out of them
and didn’t care who knew it- ex
cept that she wrote anonymously.
She bragged that this policy had,
among other things, fixed her up
lor a couple of presentations at
tho court of St. James, which is
Mecca and Valhalla for socialites,
I’m told.
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I^'OW the point in this raving is
' that the career of one Wallis
Warfield Simpson is singularly lilt
ing to this series of articles which
I started but never finished in the
dim distant past. And supposing
some wiser on a New York tab
loid got hold of the work and de
cided. for the great god circula
tion's sake, to print it and label it
"Did Mrs. Simpson Write This?”
or something equally cute?
And supposing David-Edward
VIII chanced to see said tabloid
and chanced to read some of said
literature? True he is a wise man.
Also true, love does funny things
to some people. Further, suppose
somebody found out that Mrs.
Simpson did write the piece ? Af
ter all. somebody knows who wrote
it and there are ways of finding
things out. aren't there?
Maybe I've been reading too
much stutt like "Five Slur Fin
al”. Anyhow, if I go on suppos
ing long enough I can see Ed
ward getting all hot, first at the
New York tabloid, then at the
American people, then at the
l . s. government. \t the same
time the people of England be
gin to get wind of it and they
too get all hot. What a swell
spot this old gltfbe would be if
some trivial'incident should align
the two English speaking coun
tries on opposite sides. That's
about all d needs.
A
S far as that goes. I've always ‘
said there's nothing like stick
one's nose in somebody olse's (
business. I don't mean this idle
stuff of standing around and want
ing to know “what was that?”
either. I mean really getting in
there and seeing how many people
you can drive to drink and how
many homes you can bust up. Just
take a good peaceful scene and
drop in an old-fashioned back-fence
gossip —- like the American press
can be when it’s so inclined—and
watch things go to pot.
Ah well — “such stuff as
dreams are made of”—and all
that. 'Tis thankful I am that
all this is but an idle dream, far
fetched tho I confess it to be.
Faculty Elects
Advisory Board
For Next Year
Advisory council members for
the coming year were elected at a
faculty meeting yesterday.
Those elected are as follows:
James H. Gilbert, dean of the col
lege of social science; Wayne L.
Morse, dean of the law school; and
John F. Bovard, dean of the school
of physical education. Professors
are: S. Stephenson Smith, profes
sor of English; R. W. Leighton,
professor of education; and O. K.
Burrell, professor of business ad
ministration. C. Valentine Boyer,
president of the University, is
chairman of the council.
Miss Cornelia Coleman and Rob
ert E. Wiltshire, ex-’37, were mar
apartments in Eugene.
Meet me at TAYLOR'S.—adv.
DON’T t’Ol NT ON
FISHERMAN’S LUCK
to find your lost ar
ticles.
to get that ride to
Portland for the game.
to see the rest of the
students know that you
can type out their term
papers. . . .
X SE EMEIiALD
CLASSIFIED ADS
FOR RESULTS
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Mrs, Underwood
To Be in Concert
H ith Abas Quartet
Mr?. Aurora Fotter Underwood
of the University music faculty
will play with the Abas string'
quartet in the second concert Sun
day afternoon. November 8, at 4
o'clock in Gerlinger hall. The con
cert is held under the auspices of
the Eugene Chamber Music so
ciety.
Mrs. Underwood, a graduate of
the University school of music,
studied with such professors as
Edwin Hughes, Ethel Newcombs
and Stowjowski, here and abroad.
She attended the Chicago Music
college and Mills college in Cali
fornia.
Single admission to the^ concert
will be available at the door.
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Calendar
In the University hospital todai
ire: Laverne Littleton. Jessie Hei
der. Irene Heath, Betty Lee Paske,
Mary Notos, Warren Gill, Bob
Piper, Emili Ocampo, Douglas Mil
ne, Pat Cassidy, Robert Garretson,
Clifford Morris, David McGuire,
George Cornwall, Harry Hodes,
and Winston Allard.
Sigma Delta Chi will meet today
at 4:30 in room 104, journalism
building.
Fencing class will meet in Ger
linger hall tonight at 8 o’clock.
Itally committee will meet to
day at 5 o’clock at the College
Side,
Study group tonight at West
minster at 7:30. Professor R. H.
Dann wil speak on the Quaker's
approa h to God. Everyone in
vited.
Sophomore girls interested in
forming a Y commission will meet
at 4 o’clock in the Y bungalow.
Informal sing will be held Thurs
day at 8 o'clock in the bungalow.
“Bury the Dead,” dress rehearsal
Sunday evening at 7 o'clock in the
Guild hall theater.
Alpha Delta Sigma meets at
noon today at the College Side.
Christian Science organization
will meet tonight at 8 o’clock in
the north room on the 3rd floor of
Gerlinger hall.
Nash Music Collection
Bookplate at Library
The bookplate for the W. Gif
ford Nash music collection arrived
this week from W. Gifford Nash,
son of the donor. The plate was
designed by Martha Eaten and con
tains the Nash family crest and
motto, “Truth conquers all,” in Lat
in. It will be ready for use in about
two weeks.
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