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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon EDITORIAL OFFICES: Journalism building. Phone 3300 Editor. Local 354; News Room and Managing Editor. 353. BUSINESS OFFICE: ASUO ofnces, Phone 3300 Local 237. Fred W. Colvig. editor Walter R. Vernstrom, manager LeRoy Mattingly, managing editor Associate editors : Virginia Endicott, Clair Johnson EDITORIAL HOARD Mildred Blackburne, Darrell Ellis. Howard Kessler. Wayne Harbcrt, Dan E. 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Anna Mae Halverson, Jrman Zeller, Russell Espy, Orville Williams. Kathryn Morrow, Matt Kramer. Beverly Brown, Patricia Alliscn, Margaret Rankin, A1 Branson, Stan Hobson, Peggy Rob bins, Janet Calavan, Frances McCoy, Theo Prescott. Reporters Parr Anlin. Louise Aiken, Laura Bryant. Morrison Bales, David Cox. Jean Cramer, Marilyn Dudley, Myra Hulscr, Stan Hob son. Dave I loss. Ora May lloldman, Anna May Halverson, Ken neth Kirtley, Roy Knudsen. ilubard Kuokka, Doris Lindrgren, Did; Litfin, Kelker Morris, Alice Nelson. Bill Pengra, Ted Proud foot, Peggy Robbins, Wilfred Roadman. Ruth Mary Scovel, Kathe rine Taylor, Roy Vernstrom, Rita Wright. BUSINESS STAFF National Advertising Manager . Assistant : Eleanor Anderson Circulation Promotion Manager. Circulation Manager Assistant: Jean Rawson Merchandising Manager Portland Advertising Manager. Executive Secretary . Collection Manager .Patsy Neal .Gerald Crisman Frances Olson .Les Miller Bill Sanford Caroline Hand Reed Swenson m i i in ii Desk Staff This Issue Mildred Blackburne, clay executive Elizabeth Stetson, day editor Night editors: 1 Ben Forbes Crawford Lyle Assistant night editors: Betty Bohnenkamp, Margaret Dick . Advertising Manager This Issue Frances Price C harles Skinner, Alva Bell, Maxine Glad, Jim Jarvis, assistants Dad’s No Mind-Reader ^^REGON Dads corning to the campus ;i week lienee for the tenth annual Dad’s Day celebration are promised a real weekend by Harney Hall, chairman of the committee working in preparation for the event. Chief attraction, of course, will lie the op portunity for Dads to see their sons and daughters in the University environment, to see how their young-hopefuls are. taking ad vantage of the learning of which the parental purse avails them. Dads could hardly choose a better time to make this visit, .for, with mid terms out ol the way, .lolin and .lane will have plenty ol time to steer them around. * # # rJTIIR “little big game” between tin1 Univer sity irosh and the Oregon State rooks, oil the program lor Friday night, promises to be a real thriller. Oregon’s football hopes ior the next lew years are tied up in the Irosh, and those hopes have certainly soared tile last few weeks in the performance the yearlings have turned in. The I'rosh alwavs play a bang up, wide-open game, free from the cautiousness that marks varsity ball. And tlieu there is the banquet. Usually a banquet is nothing to rave about a dry mouthful of stringy roast beef, a dry speech, a mold 111 ul ol potatoes cooled in the mean time. another long, dry speech, etc., etc. Hut Dad’s day banquets are traditionally of an other sort. There’ll he 300 or so chickens cooked to a turn. Uni, tun, um. And the .speeches will be short and .snappy. Fine food and conviviality. Hut you and you and you WIUU YOUR DAI) His I 11 hKIs Not unless you invite him. lie’s no mind-reader, for gosh salves! Well, limit, .just stand there. Uit down and write him! Help Beat the Bruins imagine, although il imi\ not lie .t strongly-founded conceit. that to tlu> spectator much of tin- pleasure and excite ment ot a football game originates in the ►spirit with which a lusty corps of student rooters imbues the contest. Of course we must give the players some small degree of credit, but they don't fur nish any more than U!) per cent of the enter tainment value. Think how valuable, on the other hand, must be tin* presenee ol a gas, cheering throng of collegians. Think how thrillingly ju vena ting they must be to the met)opolitau worker who seeks recreation tn attending the game. * * * 'yty'OKD this thought another was and say lhat students have a duty to the poor tired workingmen of Portland and it sounds silly as all lieek, but we think it’s a meaty idea nonetheless. Let’s give it to old Gyp. Maybe we should fall hack on the old tried and-true argument about the value of student support to the team when they are in there fighting their hearts out for the ol’ alma mater. What we’re driving at is this. Every stu dent who can possibly tear himself away from Shakespeare, Schopenhauer and .James Thur ber should go to Portland for the UCLA game tomorrow, whether to hearten the Rose City’s flagging workers or to give the team the sup port it deserves. Little White Lies J^OW that the line and cry has died down, proponents of optional military 1 rainiii{JC can consoles themselves, for they arc in no worse position than they were before their unsuccessful initiative bill. Reassurance lias come from Colonel E. V. i). Murphy, commandant, that “as in the past, this department will accept withdrawal from cadets on the basis of conscientious objec tion, religions belief or conflict with employ ment and class schedules.” * • * 'JMlEltE is a large group of students who oppose compulsory military training “just because they don’t want 1o take it,” others “because it has no academic value,” and oth ers “because it involves an unfair discrim ination against university students to be singled out for such training.” Objectors on these grounds will have to continue a hypo critical counterfeit of conscientious objection —but that, why (hat’s a mere nothing. A little hypocrisy isn’t so much out of place in a liberal institution. Ami such little white lies won’t be recorded in heaven. ji"j_a,....; Campus Comment (The views aired in this column are not necessarily expre.isive of Emerald policy. Communications should be kept within a limit of 250 words. Courteous restraint should he employed in reference to personalities. No unsigned I lotters will be accepted. BRING BACK FOOTBALL To the editor: Each year when red roses are in bloom we become conscious that the old faithful bugaboo of the campus has once more started to taint the delicate membranes of our nostrils with a odor not unlike that of a skunk. I speak of the age-old battle between students of the University of Oregon and citizens of Portland for the major football games of the season. This year the traditional squabble takes on a slight difference in that it has aroused the ire of one of the school’s most noted and active bene factors. This gentleman, one of Eugene's foremost business men and donor of many scholarships and awards, has been so thoroughly irked with the present setup that he has threatened to withdraw his support of the University. As you know the only games played in Eugene this season were the breather with Portland U. and the homecoming tussle. Although holder of a season ticket, this ardent supporter of our esteemed institution is tired of making weekly trips to Multnomah sta dium to see the “home” team play. It is true beyond any doubt that the Idaho game played in Portland was a financial flop. Why couldn't that game have been played in Eugene to an enthusiastic crowd of students and towns folk '! If what the bluenoses of Portland want is football as played by our boys they'll come to Eugene and see it. If all they’re after is greater wealth for Portland, then let them go hang. Let's bring the big games to Eugene next fall. Give tlie students their money's worth and keep the profit in Eugene. Of ours for a greater 1937 season. David Compton. | TSK! TSK! TSK! To Mr. Joseph Smith: Shame on you, Mr. Smith! The only person who attempts to defend your band in its present sorry plight gets a kick in the pants for his trouble. And in addition you voice grave doubts as to my intelligence! That makes me mad, because it is a privilege heretofore accorded only to myself. I still insist, in my water-choked and gasping j "ay, that the band is terrible. I tried to absolve the band of most of the blame, but when the drum-major calls my endorsement but an echo, I think some criticism of the band itself is in order. You insist that band equipment is poor, that \ support is lacking, and in all, that everyone is picking on the poor band. I sii.n. you could make the most of a poor situa tion. You might, at least, wear your complete I uniforms, ratty as they are. 1 noticed at Portland that some of you were without caps. You might f polish the battered instruments you own. You might wear uniform footgear. You might march off the field instead of slouching off as you did at the Washington game. You ihum you are the best band musicians on the coast. I say. why not capitalize on your abili- j ties. Give dances, concerts, anything to raise funds, and I'm sure you'll find us backing you. i Get the authority to buy new uniforms and drill ' to your heart's content. Your martyr attitude makes me sick. The band should be the first to make a progressive move and the last to say "die.” You want to place the responsibility on other shoulders and have already admitted defeat. Y mi can t be the bunch of ninnies you seem to be. because you have passed the University en tiaiice exams, and that takes a certain amount of intelligence. You're not helpless. Do something yourself. ; Vic Dallaii Tune ’er Out... By BOB POLLOCK Tonight a show we, in our aus tere dignity, have ignored up to j the present, but which is too good ; to leave out . . . it’s, the House of Melody with Meredith Willson’s orchestra and will be found on KGW at 9:30 barring unexpected schedule changes. Our precocious children: a lit tle girl, age approximately five years, studying with rapt inter est the pictures in one of our filthier illustrated weeklies in a local drug store . . . kids like that should he kept home . . . we had to wait five minutes to get at the magazine. Yesterday we told you a few things that were wrong with Ore gon’s blowhards, the band. Today a few suggestions: 1. Put the boys under the supervision of the mili tary department. At present, they’re tossed hither and yon v/ith ASUO, the music department, and the ROTC taking them at different terms. 2. Arrange to give band members credit in either the mu sic or the military departments. And don't OK this credit unless they learn how to drill so they can present at least a few formations. 13. Save up a little cash and get ’em uniforms that look a little less like the outfit that an organ grind er’s monkey wears. Good outfits cost about $60 so this may take a little time, but should be worth it in the end. 4. For somebody’s sweet sake, buy ’em some music other than “Mighty Oregon” and the two marches they hammer out on the slightest provocation. And then, “you’ll have a band, my son.” Example of the hooey press agents deluge radio columnists with: “A tribute to the eloquence of Ken Carpenter, NBC an nouncer on Kraft Music hail is contained in a letter received this week. According to the letter, Carpen ter’s commercial on behalf of Kraft cheese was so appealing that a mouse in the writer’s home was so carried away he deliberately caught himself in a cheese-less trap.” Ugh, cheese is right! And the slogan now stands “As Maine goes—so goes Vermont” . . . Campus Calendar The Eugene Hockey club meets this afternoon at 4 o'clock. In the infirmary today are: La verne Littleton, Edgar YVulzen, Betty Brady, Arlene Heath, Betty Paske, Jean Rawson, Helen Jones, Irwin Breekwach, Bob Piper, Emi lio Ocampo, Douglas Milne, Harry Hodes, Pat Cassidy, Winston Al lard, and Warren Gill. Scabbard and Blade will hold their formal pledging banquet at the Del Rey cafe Sunday evening at t> o'clock. Executive committee will hold a short but important meeting this afternoon at 4:00 in the educa tional activities department. Anything Goes! wmmm —Horace tJ. Slugg. Frosh Girls Frigid as Film Stars, Dater Finds By JOHN PINK After many futile attempts, I have come to the very definite conclu- ' 3ion that for a freshmen fellow to try and date one of these freshmen : gals is like the American drivers trying to beat Tuzio Nuvolari (call him Tony) in the Vanderbilt road race. You get what I mean. It’s no i dice. Might as well try to date Garbo, Dietrich, or Edna Mae Oliver. 1 I haven’t always held this cynical attitude. No Suh. During the first couple weeks of school 1 look ed upon their creamy complexions (six bits a jar) and their well groomed hair (one buck per time) with a great deal of interest, think ing that this college was going to be peachy. So with high spirits and happy mien, one day, I approached one of these Kampus Kweens (K as in dumbeli English) and asked for a date. Just like that. I didn’t want to marry the gal but to hear her go on you’d think that I'd pro posed to the whole family—includ ing her Aunt Hattie, the one that hasn’t seen a man for forty years. She arched a hairline eyebrow, bared her perfect bicuspids and shot at me, “How many years have you played football, are you a class prexy, are you a Friar, etc.’’ She was certainly afflicted with that very prevalent disease among freshmen gals—Biggus Shotittus. So I staggered away from that skirmish reeling like an old grad ft Homecoming. I thought, “Buck up, my lad. You just drew a tough one that time. They’re not all like that.” As usual I was wrong. I ap proached fifty other gals and here is a tabulated record of the re sults: 45 cut me shorter than a :ol!ege man's hair in the summer time; 2 asked me why I didn’t find seme nice high school girl; 1 said, ‘You’re too young yet, son"; 1 ?ave me a radiant smile (but I found out later that there was a oig football player, with shoulders >n him like a truck, standing be uind me.) That’s even a worse average ORTHOGON LENSES and Ful-Vue frames gives you clear vision to the very edge Ask for ORTHOGON LENSES ELLA C. MEADE OPTOMETRIST , 14 W. 8th NEWT SMITH, Owner ! The wise old bird says: "The tasty,bite that hits you right, can be found at the COLLEGE SIDE ' INN than the Ducks have in their pass ing attack. I still wasn't defeat- ( ed—me and the optionalists—so I sent out ten special operatives or , G-men (as in gal, get it) and all j my previous finding were verified , with one exception. One dope got a , date—but in looking up his family , record I found that he had two , brothers on the varsity team, was j a cousin of Davy Davis, and Clark - Gable was his uncle. So I think I will buzz over and < see my senior gal friend. 1 i The size of your brain, scientists say, is just about two-thirds that ' of your head. 1 Travel Adds (Continued from pcujc one) he eighteenth centuries was con rasted to that of the hurried build ngs of the nineteenth century, in Vfrs. Allen’s talk. The old, dur ible construction won the esteem >f the Americans, whereas the new suildings of recent style and origin vere too much the replicas of American nineteenth century ar :hitecture. As an example of a real Euro )ean house, Mrs. Allen told of the lome of Honore Willson Morrow, i college friends of hers who is a veil-known writer of novels and irticles. Mrs. Morrow’s home is in he southern part of England near levon, and was built about 1290. expert workmen were hired to latch the stone walls, repair the hips’ timbers which were the learns, and lay a new thatched oof of wheat sheaves. Great, praise was expressed by drs. Allen for the super-modern lighways and forests found in Ger I Freshman Faux Pas (Note: Today begins Freshman ‘ Faux Pas, a regular feature on amusing mistakes in word usage made by freshmen. f Numerous books and articles have been writ ten on such misunderstanding of words by grade school students, but, as instructors find, college students make similar ridiculous errors.) Five industrious freshmen gave a great variety of meanings to the word "inculcate" as follows: The wheat was inculcate. He will inculcate bad weather for Christmas. It was an inculcate of his man ner. He is inculcate for the job. His manner were inculcate. “Inculcate" means to instill or implant upon the wind by frequent repetitions or admonitions. It ranks in the first 14,000 of Thorndike’s 20,000 words used most frequently in the English language. many. The roadways are con structed for speed and safety prin ciples. Crossings are avoided by having them run overhead or un derneath the main road. The for ests are planned so that they pre sent the greatest beauty and con veniece to the public, she said. Mrs. Allen’s talk was followed by a question and and answer for um, after which refreshments were served. A banquet was held at the An chorage earlier in the evening for members, pledges, and alumni of Theta Sigma Phi, national journal ism honorary for women. ‘Bury the Dead’ (Continued from page one) next week's observance of peace week. Tickets are now on sale by the council at the YMCA and YWCA, the Westminster house, and at Mc Morran and Washburne’s, for the two final performances next week. The play is directed by Ottilie Turnbull Seybolt, head of the drama department, with sets and lighting by Horace W. Robinson. Here's to the seven temptations of man—six drinks and a woman. No man works at TAYLOR’S, adv. in Judedial Cous \ Company coming from Boston . . . Aunt Sophia, Jebediah! Eva runs to Aunt Betty’s to tell her the news. Josh hitches the colt to the double-seated chaise. Jerusha puts the kettle on; Obed tallows up his shoes. The family’s slick and ready now for Cousin Jebediah . . . “coming sixty miles—think of it!—in only eight hours.’’ Slick and ready for the latest Boston news ... “A glass thing with a chimney that lights a whole room—called a lamp!” Gone now forever—those Jebediah days. Fast trains do away with the excitement of an approach. Aunt Betty owns a telephone; Josh drives a car; Jerusha pours dinner, cooked, out of cans; Obed thipks nothing of jumping into brand-new shoes. Advertisements make the differ ence. They’ve urged convenience upon you till you’re old-fashioned not to en joy. Radios, refrigerators, breakfast foods—they’ve talked about them all. So spread the news that they are easy for you to get. Every day the adver tisements tell of new improvements; tell of a number of things you might not like to miss if you know about them. Read E merald Adverti sements They’re News