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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Fred W. Colvig. editor Walter R. Vernstrom, manager LeRoy Mattingly, managing editor EDITORIAL BOARD Mildred Blackburne. Darrell Ellis, Howard Kessler. Wayne Harbert, Dan E. Clark Jr., Victor Dallaire, Charles Paddock EDITORIAL OFFICES: Journalism building. Phone 3300 - Editor, Local 334 ; News Room and Managing Editor, 353. BUSINESS OFFICE: ASUO of.ices. 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 Avc., Seattle; 1031 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 year except Sundays, Monday-, holidays, examination periods, the fifth day 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. Associate editors: \ lrgima Endicott, Clair Johnson UPPER NEWS STAFF Lloyd Tupling, assistant man aging editor Pat Frizzell, sports editor Paul Deutschniann. news editor Ed Robbins, art editor Robert Pollock, chief night‘cd itor Paul Plank, radio editor Howard Kessler, literary editor Clare Igoe, women’s editor Gladys Battleson, society editor Business Office Assistants Jean Farrchs, Bettjlnu Swart, Sally McGrow, Velma Smith. Anne Earnest, Betty t rid' . Margaret Carlton, Doris DeYoung, Jean Cleveland, Helen Hurst. Janet Kawes, Anne Frcdrickscn, Mignon Phipps. Barbara Epsy, Caroline Howard, Jane Busket* Copyreadcrs Roy Vern«*rom. Rclta Lea Powell, Mary Hopkins, Hazel Dean, Jane Mirick, Bill Garrett. Bill Pengra, Geanne Eschle, George Haley, Frances Borden, Rita Wright, Jack Townsend, Patricia Duggan. Pat Carson, Jean Kawson. Catherine Callaway, Sylvia Sarlet. Harry Proud loot. Mignon Phipps, Blanche Brown, Ruth Kctchum. Anna Mae Halverson, Irman Zeller, Russell Espy, Orville Williams. Kathryn Morrow. Matt Kramer. Beverly Brown, Patricia Allisc n, Margaret Rankin, Al Branson. Stan Hobson, Peggy Rob bins, Janet Calavan, Frances McCoy, Theo Prescott. Reporters Parr Aplin. 1. uBe Aiken, Laura Bryant. Morrison Bales, David Cox, Jean Cramer, Marilyn Dudley, Myra Huber. Stan Hob son, Da\< IB'-'. Oia May iloldman, Anna May Halverson, Ken neth Kirtley, Roy Kntidsen. Hubard Kuokka, Doris Lindrgrcn, Dick Litfm, I'eiker 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 .Patsy Neal Assistant : Eleanor Anderson Circulation Promotion Manager.Gerald Crisman Circulation Manager .Frances Olson Assistant : Jean Raw son Merchandising Manager . .Les Miller Portland Advertising Manager. Bill Sanford Executive Secretary .Caroline Hand Collection Manager. . Reed Swenson Desk tStaff This Issue Clare Igoe. day editor Assistant day editor: Beulah Chapman Dew Evans Night editors : Frank Nickerson Bernadine Bowman College Is Peachy, but. 'YY'UliN John W. Anderson, editor of the Eugene Morning News, enlled ns up the other morning to ask how conic all tlit* racket Wednesday night in the vicinity of the Sacred Heart hospital, we sensed that he was estab lishing a prior right. .Just as surely ns an old-timer miglil have located a claim, Mr. Anderson was staking out the right of his editorial column to he first to reprimand the heedless collegians who shouted and sang at a late hour almost beneath the windows of the Eleventh street hospital. We don’t know exactly what is cricket in such circumstances, but, inasmuch as Mr. Anderson failed to deliver bis rebuke in yes terday’s paper, wo will maintain our for bearance no longer. # * # QO far as we are aware, the Sisters of St. Joseph, who operate the hospital, have made no complaint. Jlut certainly their Christian tolerance must have been strained that night when the bibulous brothers of some fraternity Iramped along hearing a hapless, sheet-enswallied wretch to one of the mill-race sororities. Jl was real college stuff all light, the kind you tell your kids about when you’re fat and fifty, hut up in the hospital were almost a hundred patients who didn’t feel the least hi1 collegiate. Many of them were so desper ately beset with the ills to which flesh is heir that they didn't give a damn if the cup were ever tilled for dear old blaukety blank. ^JULhl'J i h is pea e I iv ami undoubtedly ilia camaraderie ot jest and song is a valuulil ' part of higher l«*{ii-uinj>-, hut Ibis extra-cur ricular frolicking certainly Jias a limit, ami most sandy t bat t bought loss band of collog ians Woduosday night was out of bounds. Wo ’ll bn vo slight regret if tho sisters at Sacred Heart call the riot squud tho next tinto. We Just Tried to be Helpful JL week or so ago tho Kmorald very timidly ottered lhat tho baud might |day a little swing music once ami a while at tho games ‘‘.syncopated hors d'oeuvre,’’ w e called it - and we couldn t liave been more thoroughlv sat on it we fad suggested banging a red beard on the Pioneer Mother. .Apparently neither tin students of the 1'ni versity. the grid fans of Portland, the mem bers of tlie team, nor the members of the music school 1 acuity give a hoot for syncopal ion oiidM tile tallowed t ield. Well, sn be it. Yuli cail'lljjlfl kill a guy for just trying to be helpful, though * # # never realized we’d get such a rise on of people. It looks as though someoiu could have told us what a tender subject tin band is. We just dropped a match and tin first thing we knew things started popping lining a musical moron, according to oui esteemed psych department, we had the goof sense to stay under the table. But now thal the battle has died down a bit we feel we cai safetly mediate. JT lias been quire a tussle. Rarely before be any student, nativity been singled out for siicli eritieisin as the band has undergone tin last week or two. Much qf the criticism especially since the snappy exhibition of tin Washington band last weekend, has had it? origin in the nettled pride of Oregon student: that their band could not In' as nattily dress ed, as well equipped, and as well drilled ar bands of certain other schools. # # # O one has ever erilici/.ed Ilia musical abil ity of the bandsmen. No one has said that they don't play as well as any other group on the coast. Criticism has generally been directed at their poor appearance. OJ course new uniforms would help in this re gard—but clothes don’t make a band. If the present uniforms were cleaned and pressed and worn properly there would be a great improvement. New instruments would help, but a little polish and elbow grease on the horns and ti little paint on the drums would add much te their appearance. Nothing, however, can take the place ol drill if the band is to cut any sort of figure at all marching. Bandsmen complain that other schools give more credit for band prac tice and drill. Well, possibly it can be ar ranged so that more credit may be given for I heir sacrifice of time and effort. Be that a> it may—it shouldn’t be a drawback even it additional credit cannot be obtained. Other activities on the campus call for sacrifices from loyal student workers. Even this paper could not be published if its staff were not willing to give freely of i1s time for no college credit at all. t’liinf on, bandsmen, let’s get going and show them a thing or two. Campus Comment (The views aired in this column are not necessarily expressive of Emerald policy. Communications should be kept within a limit of 250 words. Courteous restraint should be observed in reference to personalities. \o unsigned letters | will be accepted.) GOSH, SOMEONE SAW IT! To the Editor: YOU SHOULD TALK: To who ever is making such a sorry mess of that column "Freshman Faux Pas” ... I must say, you certainly do the upperclassmen no honor by your representation. It indeed appears that you upper-classmen have more presence of “wind” than of "mind” when you try to say something. Quoting yesterday’s paper: “Inculcate” means to instill or implant upon the WIND by frequent repetitions or admonitions. No more need be said. Sincerely, Wendell S. Brooks, Jr. (Editor’s note: There are two sorts of typo graphical errors: those like “rgh5@& etc." that don’t make sense, and those that unfortunately ap pear to make sense. The errant appearance of “wind” when it should have been "mind" leaves us at Mr. Brooks’ mercy.) WELL, NOW Five more words in his vocabulary than ho had as h.college freshman is the gain of the average college senior, according t the findings of a six year study of students in Pennsylvania-made under the direction of the Carnegie Foundation. The survey, made as a "study of the relation ot secondary and higher education," was expected to show the progress made by groups of young people. The college senior who knew as much as he knew as a freshman was almost a rarity, accord ing to the scores made on objective tests given these groups every other year. As freshmen they scored higher in mathematics, English literature and vocabulary, history and social studies than they did as seniors. in intelligence, general science, general culture, foreign literature ;uut fine arts the senior students made slight progress. I lie average senior in six colleges recognized only til out of 100 words "in familiar usage by educated people, 00 of which lie hail known four years before. "It shows the poverty of undergraduate speech •uni Indicates a dearth of general reading among the indent bcd\, John K. Tunis said in a recent magazine article commenting upon the survey. Students seemed to gain more knowledge in small college where athletics played a relatively small pail, the survey showed. Evidence that ath letics was responsible, however, was not entirely conclusive. Fraternity. Erratic* Bruins (Continued from paye one) Jean Lacan, fullback, ami either Don Kennedy or Arleigh Bentley, quarterback. Captain Del Bji rk will lead the Webfoot line in its attempt to stop the smashes of the two prize Bruin backs, young Bill Spalding and Billy Bob William; Coach Old Bill Spalding has numerous other elu sive hacks, and the Ducks may have a tough time. The rest of Oregon's starting forward wall, according to Couch Callison, will he the same as a week ago. A probable change is substitution of Yerby, the sopho more pass snatcher, for John Eng strom at left end. Verby is tin; re ceiving half of the now-fatuous Gammon-to■ Yet by combination Joe Huston, guard, and Tom Blackman, fullback, two Webfoots who have been out of action for several weeks with injuries, will be ready to go this afternoon, but are likely to see little service. UCLA has, in additon to u for midable iu toy of backs, a strong line Sherman Cliavoor, veteran center, and Captain George Dick- i eison. behemoth tackle, are out standing Tune ’er Out... By BOB POLLOCK Dopes who listen to symphonys ! instead of football games on Sat urday afternoon are all excited and happy over NEC's new program from 3:35 to 4:00 p. in. on Saddy's ... says one mother, “My young j daughter after listening to only one of your programs was able to play ‘March Militaire’ and the 'Minuet' I—please next week will you give | us ‘Minnie the Moocher'? My hus band’s just crazy to hear kick the gong around.” And a 77-year-old bachelor reports, “I have thrown away my cane and am taking fid dle lessons and I must say it takes a lot of guts to learn. Please New that Hon y is hack, the boys are all gathering to figgor what Yii’h gonna do . . . one of the high-brow discussions will be 1 Sunday at 9:S0 ever HOW . . . you’ll get professors of philoso phy to soothe the Kcpubs and profs of political science to itoem tlie Denies. Down South, nothing is too gooc for ’em. They have miilion-dollai stadiums witli cold cement seats million-dollar football teams that always get to the Rose Bowl bul never any farther, and now Stan ford has a radio program all ol its own which is almost million ! dollar. No weak, one-lunged loea: i outlet for it, no sir. The resources ! of the mighty NBC-Blue network are at its command once a week You’ll find it Monday at 9 in the evening. Guy with a doctor’s de gree will do the spieling. Ed Wynn, who’ll you’ll hear at 9 over KEX tonight, has a new technique in the presentation of guest stars . . . instead of letting ’em alone to hold the spot for a few brief moments, he insists they play his stooges . . . for ex ample, when some famous ac tress plays, say, Ophelia, Eddie will play Hamlet. Which will make the high-priced guest tal ent look like six cents. Nice ffuy. Could it be possible that the country haa Literary Indigestion ? Full Peace Week Program Slated By YW and YM A mass meeting at the Christian church on Armistice day, open house for dads, and election and installation of officers are planned for the YWCA program for the week ending November 14. The YWCA and YMCA Student Christian council and the Minis terial association are planning the program for Peace week. “Bury the Dead’’ is to be re shown Monday and Tuesday even ings as the opening feature. On Wednesday, Dr. Anderson will speak at the Christian church, Eu gene gleemen will sing. Magazine Prints Article By Former Professor An article entitled "Zero and' the Calendar,” written by Dr. R. M. Winger, former professor of math ematics at the University of Ore gon and now at the University of Washington, printed in the Scien tific Monthly magazine for Octo ber, 11)36, has been reprinted and copies have been received by the mathematics department here. The article concerns the faults of tlm western calendar and par ticularly the omission of the year zero between E C. and A.D., citing interesting instances which arise because of this omission. Semi the Emerald to your friends. Subscriptions only $3.00 per year. DON'T COUNT ON CIS HERMAN'S LICK 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. . . . I Sp EMERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR RESILTS Straw Vote Blew Wrong Way • ■zzpzz’z^.’iuasusm■»&< mtm. PERCENTAGE OF ERF?OP OtSTRISUTiON BETWEEN 0(<S£ST POLL AND ACTUAL VOTE''" i 03 6 PRESIDENT!AL ELECT (ON LAN CON AND ROOSEVELT (00% CSwi'ii.u 0 8Y DD OAC.S ANiD 8 * PLATTS I That the Literary Digest’s presidential straw vote which “elected” Alf M. Landon was almost entirely inaccurate, is shown by the chart above, prepared by D. D. Gage, associate professor of business admin istration, R. A. Platt, graduate assistant, and Gage’s statistics class. The Digest’s boll had less than j percent error in only three states. ; I Literary Digest Vote Is Close In Only 3 States. Gaqe Savs ' Resuits of the Literary Digest’s i straw vote reveal the fact that only in the cases of Tennessee, Ken tucky, and North Carolina did the pell show an error of less than five j per cent, which is allowable, ac- j cording to the chart prepared by D. D. Gage, associate professor of business administration on the campus, with the aid of Raymond A. Platts, graduate student in sta tistics. The chart reveals that in most of | the southern states the margin of s error ran between 7.5 per cent to t 12.50 per cent. At the other ex- * treme, New Hampshire, New Jer- 1 sey, Montana, Wisconsin showed £ errors amounting to more than 27 £ per cent. Massachusetts broke the record of all in showing a discrep- t mcy between the straw vote and he actual vote of 32 per cent. The ctal percentage of error is 19.3. Chart Shows Results The chart, accompanying this :tcry represents, state by state, of he results of the Literary Digest 'ote poll with the actual results >f the election Tuesday. In making this chart no atten ion was paid to votes cast for oth r candidates. Both straw and ac ual votes, the figures for Landon ,nd Roosevelt were totaled and the otal divided into the sub-figures o secure a percentage ratio. The atio of the straw vote was then ubtracted from the ratio of the ctual vote. A frequency distribution was hen made by class intervals of I five per cent. States where the er ror was small are indicated by | heavy shading, graduating down to the light shading where the error was greatest. Vote Criticized The criticism of the. Digest vote in not revealing the true trend of public opinion was laid more to its failure to obtain a random sam ple of the voting public than to the possibility of its being too small. Dr. George Gallop’s “American Institute of Public Opinion,” with only 250,000 straw votes returned, as compared to 2,000,000 out of 10, 000,000 returned to the Digest was much more accurate. Inaccuracy in the Digest poll may be laid to the method of select (Please turn to page four) Campus Calendar I___ — Women's debate will be held Monday at 4 o’clock, in room 13. S. H. Friendly hall. All members are urged to come. All young: people of the different churches will meet at the First Christian church, Sunday night at 8:30 to practice music for the Ar mistice day memorial services to be held at the same church, Wed nesday night. Phi Lambda Theta, education honorary for women, will meet at the home of Miss Gertrude Sears, 2092 Agate street, Monday at 8:00 p.m. A forum sponsored by Alpha Kappa Delta, the sociology honor ary, will be held Monday evening at 7:30 in Friendly hall, room 13. Everyone is invited. Winston Allard, George Corn ■ wall, Harry Hodes, Irwin Buch I wach, Patrick Cassidy, Edgar Wul I zen, Emili Ocampo, Robert Piper, j Catherine Cummings, Jean Raw j son, Betty Brady, Helen Jones, Beverly Brown, Gayle Meyer, and LaVern Littleton are in the in-* firmary today. Bettylou Swart has been taken to her home in Portland for treatment. Sigma Delta Chi pledges will meet in the journalism building, Saturday at 11:50 a.m. to be photo graphed. Yeomen to Fete Champ Team at Meet Monday The championship Yeomen touch football team will be guests at a brief meeting of the Yeomen Mon day at 7 p.m. m alumni hall in Ger linger, according to Howard Lee, vice-president. 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