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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 Desk Staff This Issue Pav editor: Margaret Ray Assistant day editors: Irmajean Randolph Lucille Davis Night editor^: John Valleau Night Staff This Issue Assistants: Ruth Ketchum Hetty Van Delicti Mary Popejoy High School Stuff, But. . . CVIX years ago — brief bit of eternity — we ^ used to write editorials for a high school paper. What stinging expressions of opinion those were! Every other week we’d write one on school spirit, 1 hut elusive quality which to 11s meant lusty rooting at the games and something else — wc didn’t know exactly what. In between times we wrote about a variety of other matters of the most profound im portance: an appeal to one of the service organizations to polish the dingy trophies, a Thanksgiving editorial about the Pilgrims, a note of praise for the third string (where we held down a tackle post and were aroused because we 1 bought the beating we took ill scrimmage wasn’t properly appreciated), and, the prize of all, a piece admonishing stu dents to keep off the grass. ll is this last epic that gives point to the foregoing reminiscence. And the fact that keeping students off the grass is svieh a prob lem as might offer itself for a high school editorial theme makes comprehensible our embarrassment at having to bring the same problem to the attention of grown-up college students. * # # yy h Iili not the only one who Inis blushed to ask collegians to respect the beauty of their campus by keeping off the grass. Someone long before us must have felt the same way about it and, rather than address the tramplers of campus beauty as juveniles by pedantieallly pointing out the error in their ways, this predecessor made a more sophisticated appeal. “Men,” he said, “walking on the grass is a violation of an old ivy-hung tradition and no one who respects the bones of Matthew Heady and Henry Villard will do it. We'll enforce this tradition if we have to whale offenders within an inch of their lives.” One wasn’t to he spanked like a small hoy for a childish indiscretion. Not at all. lie was 1o he paddled by a very impressive group of executioners for violating a really and truly collegiate tradition. If may have been a good way to keep face, but the truth remained — the real offense was walking on the grass, and, when you got to 1he root of it, there was no disputing its childishness. # # # climate when- grass grows green and a setting of pines and firs makes the Uni versity of Oregon a natural claimant for the title of most beautiful campus in the west. But a thoughtless herd of students trampl ing across green lawns, cutting the turf up like a rodeo grounds, can knock those claims to beauty into a cocked hat. One for the Book “pOlt the price of one ticket to an ephe meral entertainment, vmt ean secure a book that will give strength aiul leisure to your mind all your life.” Thus spoke William Lyon Phelps, Yale’s illustrious professor. This is Book Week in the I’nited States of America. Its objective is to show millions of Ameri cans who have yet to taste the infinite de lights of good reading, how they ean find an impregnable armor against boredom. Its founder was Franklin K. Matthiews, chief librarian of the Boy Scouts of America, who,, in 1919 evolved the plan for a national Boys’ Book Week. The movement spread quickly to a Children’s Book Week then to a Book Week for everyone. # » at the University of Oregon arc for tunate in having readily available hun dreds of thousands of volumes of printed matter. Within a few weeks we will be reading in a fine new library. Much will be done to at tract the busy student to its comfortable rooms. It will be so easy to read good books. Maybe it will be too easy. Maybe good books were appreciated more when they were difficult to get, and treas ured accordingly. Sadly, there are students still who enter the library only in search, of a friend. House libraries, display eases, other innovations have been partially successful in luring new readers, but there remain hundreds in this school who have not explored the great new world to be opened by books. Well, there's nothing much we can <io about it if they arc stubborn. But they don’t know what, they’re missing. 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 l)e observed in reference to personalities. No unsigned letters will be accepted.) TWO PERTINENT QUESTIONS Mr. Editor: We Dads last Saturday seem to have touched on a matter which concerns the wel fare of the student body deeply. Many dads are worried over it, and with the receipts of the Nov ember lti Emerald, (which I understand was sent to all Dads) those who were not here as well as the few hundred of us who came will be anxious to know what, is being done about it. Permit me to reflect some if this concern in two inquiries: (I.) Is it fair to say that, in the case that rushing were deferred until the sophomore year, houses would be wrecked for lack of candidates for membership, in view of the large number of "non-Greeks” in the other three classes now? (2.) II' rushing were deferred a year, would there result merely a one year rush period, where we i*ow concentrate it in one week (if we disregard any proselyting which some claim is carried on among high school students, especially during the summer after their graduation), or might the financial limita tions imposed by so prolonged a rushing per iod tend to reduce the effectiveness of the latter, and free the student to see and judge for himslf? An Oregon Dad The Coed Mold By ROBERT POWELL Suppose someone told you that a college girl was coming to your home to spend the weekend. Wouldn't you make preparations for a rather special guest? You would probably be thinking about places that are fun to go to and intelligent subjects to talk about, for everybody believes that a uni versity woman is not an ordinary one. May 1 suggest that you do not take your coed's arrival quite so seriously. If you are one of those many persons who have always pictured a college girl as an in triguing creature whose superior advantages have made her more individual, more subtle, and more interesting in every way than the ordinary' woman, your ideas need changing. You have greatly over estimated her. % ^iiiur i.m i > win (lirls in college art* perfectly t'rooninl and stylishly hut con servatively dressed. They are la dies in their every aetion, walking gracefully and seldom running. Excluding the freshmen, they all smoke. Although very reserved, their manner is never one of utter sophistication, and they wear a friendly smile for everyone. Every one, I say, la- lie rich or i>oor, the student liody president or the li brary- janitor, gets that identical smile—and every coed wears it. , But aren't these qualities worthy ones, you say? I am sure they are, but the trouble is that all coeds f.eem to have them all in the same ! degree. They luive no individuality 'no particular personality pattern' behind their smooth manners. Col lege women are regimented. Cheers for High School High school girls have outstand ing characteristics. Oftentimes they may be affected but thei personalities are definite. In higi school I knew a beautiful blonc who affected to be the “sophis Heated lady" type. People either loved her or hated her. Now thal she is in college she is pleasani and unaffected and nothing else For a high school girl to have im agined that she had experiencec enough of living to be sophisticat ed may have been silly, but at least it was something' definite It offer. Wtu'ii a college man takes a rill'd to a dance lie usually doc.' so because lie Is in the mood tin a little “romuiii'ing.” But miles.' the cord is unite in love with him she is going to the dance for tin thrill of whirling to the music anil to he seen ami admired by every one jiresent. At the large universities the wo men who are not "going steady with anyone take it as a matter oi course that a date must include a trip in a private car to a country club or city hotel supper dance Consequently, a large per cent oi the men in those colleges situated in large cities can afford relatively few dates with coeds and spend much of their time with the inex pensive, less-demanding, and very accommodating "townies" wo men not connected with the uni versity. This desire to go and be seen seems to be a universal trait among university women. We Have No Choice Are these women realty popu I ti ? It is doubtful. They liavi plenty of dates, but perhaps that is because the college man has little choice in the matter. When he makes an engagement for the evening with a girl, lie can forecast quite accurately how she will look, where she wilt want to go, and what she will talk about. However, 1 know one coed who is not regimented into the usual college personality pattern. Her hair and nose turn up on end, and she is little and blunt and cocky. She is one of the most prominent girls on her campus. She is her self individual and different, with a definite personality to offer not just pretty, nice, and poised and nothing else. No one doubts her popularity. But this one’s dif- ; ferent. Wlu> is responsible for the dirty work? Who has regimented all the Vnieriean eoeds into this one . tipe? Perhaps (heir sororities' have dictated it to them. It could lie the movie influence. Maybe it! is because all young people love1 to lie alike. I often wonder. Immrcliatc lJs<: (( oiiliinit'd from pjje one) modern as those found in dormi tories. It must bring its program of its life and activities in line with the present objectives of thei modern university." I'raiso Voiced The move of several fraternitiesJ | at Oregon to engage a capable al-1 i ununis advisor to supervise condii i tious was highly praised by Dean I Onthank as was tins extension of i the duties of sorority house moth ers to positions of business ad visors and counselors to the wo- j ; men. Get a shake at T.W 1.Oil's, ad Tune ’er Out... By BOB POLLOCK An earnest disciple of old dime donor John D., we always give the Standard Oil’s symphony a plug every Wednesday night just as certain as the dean of women say ing no to 2 o'clock permission . . . here it is music lovers—and fake music lovers as well . . . present ing, the symphony! They’ll hop from Spain, where they present Don Juan by R. Strauss, to Hun gary, or some place, with Brahms Hungarian Dance in A Major . . . all KGW at 8:15. The music we don’t understand so good . . . but a boost for the advertising policy of the program ... if they’d all do the same, the radio would be a more enjoyable decoration. Did any of you hear Paul Deutschman, Emerald news edi tor, on KORE last night? They wanted a news commentator or something, so Deutschman was dragged in ... as a news editor, the boy lias our vote . . . Mountain music on KEX this af ternoon at 2:45 .. . the Pine Mountain singers . . . they’ll give you most of the old tear-jerkers. Personally, we get sort of all tired of whiny, nose-singing, pseudo mountaineers . . . but if you want to listen, why there ain’t no ac counting for tastes. WJZ, NBC station back east got itself a new ultra-modern 640-foot antenna . . . power for the station will remain at 50,000 watts, with a proposal up to increase it to 500, 000, but the new antenna will in crease the efficiency of the station so much, that it will be equivalent to 110,000 watts. The start of one of the numer ous all-American selections will be launched this afternoon over CBS, with Eddie Dooley, who is supposed to know his stuff about fcotball, as launcher . . . prob ably won’t be released locally, but try some other coast CBS station around 3:30 . * . and if they forget Bjork, there is no justice. My friends, we were not fooling about that ride to Corvallis ... if something doesn't show up soon, we’ll be riding the rods. . . The Passing Show (Continued from page one) Where Did Eddie Go? King Edward’s trips to poverty stricken territories in England were viewed by left-wing members of the house of parliaments as means of gathering the support of the common people for his friend ship with Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, ‘‘designed to overcome vehement objections to a possible marriage.” The King visited yesterday with Welsh miners and was greatly per turbed by their poverty. He sought to make his seven hour tour infor mal and to meet on equal terms with those he talked with. Careless Students (Continued from page one) year more than ever students are walking all over with no regard for established paths. Mr. Lindstrom concluded by say ing that, after all, this is the stu dent’s own campus, and that when it presents a scrubby appearance it is just like not having their own lawn clean. He believes that if they will just stop to think before they continue to trample down the grass, students with any Ore gon spirit at all will start using the paths established for them. Pledge Trainers (Continued from page one) lost book, she stated also, and that is why, with over 2500 students wandering about book-looking, the University maintains the closed shelf method of distribution. Attention (Continued from page one) came and Mrs. Young screamed excitedly and sat down in the bot tom of the boat too.' It “looked like a shark to me when it flopped into the boat.” she told the re porter. Mr. Young tried to hit the flop ping monster with an unwieldy ear but only succeeded in wallop ing Washburn’s foot and adding to the confusion. While the males of the party were having it out. Mrs. Young found a firm seat on the tail of the nearly exhausted mon ster and stayed there until it had ceased struggling and could be taken ashore. Old-timers on the :iank watching the battle claimed that it was the biggest salmon ever taken from that river in many rears. The fish weighed thirty five pounds, according to Mrs. Go Home and Pack Your Scanties Hi: ^****w»^s«^w!»*wi** - <7wmmm Arvilla Bates and Shirley Giltner are evidently jamming' down the lid on the University of Oregon equipment trunk, above. Both the girls and the trunk will make the trip to Oregon State Saturday. Looks like the team packed up early in anticipation oS a pleasant trip. Let’s load in that other shirt and join the Beaver-bound party. TODAY’S ATTRACTIONS MCDONALD: “jSwon(|Enemy” and “Wedding Present.” HEILIG: “Ride Ranger Ride” and “Bulldog Edition.” REX: “Sworn Enemy” and “Wedding Present.” MAYFLOWER: “Hearts Di vided.” STATE: “Dracula’s Daughter” and “Custer’s Last Stand.” Robert Young, Florence Rice, and Lewis Stone starring in "Sworn Enemy," and “Wedding Present" with Cary Grant and Joan Bennett, play at the McDon ald today. Gene Autry, singing cowboy, plays the part of an ex-Texas rang er in the United States cavalry. He leads an unsuccessful attack against the Indians, for which he is discharged from the army, and so goes back to the rangers. “Bull dog Edition,” a fast moving news paper story in which two of the I executives vie for the love of their I pretty cartoonist, is the other fea ture on at the Heilig. Major Edward Bowes, originator of amateur hours, has many busy traveling units, one of which will come to the Heilig theater on Sat urday. One of the units of Major Bowes’ "amachers” will be at the theater j Saturday for five complete shows. Quite an array of talent is in this unit, which includes Rhoda Chase, a comely orphan maid with a bass voice; the Minunicking Melodiers, four budding musieans imperson Young's story, and that is a lot of fish. Not knowing what to do with so much fish all at once, the Youngs gave it to Salvation Army repre sentatives after it had reposed in the window of Roach's sporting goods store for a day. Roach's offer a prize to the person bring ing in the largest fish each week, and presented the lucky lady with a handsome six-dollar reel. ••Now. " said Mrs. Young, 'I sup pose 1 11 be a fisherman for the rest of my life. All I need is a ! rod!" | ating such famous bands as Wayne iKing, Fred Waring, Casa Loma, Rubinoff, and Ted Lewis; James Erikson, 18-year old accordionist; and Paris Lee, a bass-baritone, who usually acts as master of ceremon ies for the unit. * * ❖ The program at the Rex is the same as the one at the McDonald for tonight only. * * * “Hearts Divided,” a rather amus ing semi-musical with Dick Pow ell and Marion Davies, is at the Mayflower. Edward Everett Hor ton, Charles Ruggles, and Arthur Treacher furnish the comedy in this film which is set in the days of Napoleon. * * .“Dracula's Daughter,” another of the series of the “weird” Drac ula pictures, comes to the State today. Otto Kruger, Gloria Golden, and Marguerite Church in the lead ing roles. “Custer’s Last Stand,” with Jack Mulhall and Lona Andre, is the supporting bill. I, ■"-- --A Campus Calendar In the infirmary today are: Gayle Meyer, Edna Smith, Carlene Scott, Muriel Nicholas, Jean Raw son, Peggy Hayward, Helen Jones, Robert Marquis, Dennis Donovan, and John Strickler. Reserve campus libraries will be closed Thursday, Friday and Sat urday. Inter-fraternity council meets at 4:00 o'clock this afternoon in 110 Johnson. Polo players on the campus will meet at Gerlinger Hall, Wednes day, November 25, at 4 p. m. All girls interested in playing or learn ing how to play, are asked to at tend. Installation of the sophomore commission cabinet will be held at 9 o’clock tonight at the YWCA bungalow. Alpha Delta Sigma meeting Thursday noon at the College Side inn. Christian Science organization will meet tonight at eight o'clock 1 in the north room on the third floor of Gerlinger hall. Tabard inn meeting tonight, S j p.m.. Kappa Sig house. All girls interested in lacrosse are urged to be at Gerlinger today at 11 o'clock. Amphibians will meet tonight at 7 o’clock at Gerlinger pool. All members must be present. Survey of Dams Given by Robins Northwest Engineer Tells Of Work on Columbia In Illustrated Talk Citing the main purposes of the Bonneville day to be navigation improvement and power produc tion, Col. Thomas M. Robins, army division engineer of the Pacific Northwest, spoke before a crowd of over one hundred Wednesday evening in McClure hall in the sec ond of this term's popular science series. Colonel Robins, introduced by The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, published daily during the college year exvept Sundays, Mon days, holidays, examination periods, the fifth day of December to January 4, except January 4 to 12, annd March 6 to March 22, March 22 to March 30. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscrip tion rate, $3.00 a year. MEMBER OF MAJOR COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS Represented by A. J. 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This plan includes the Umatilla dam already con structed, the Grand Coulee and Bonneville projects under con struction and the proposed build ing of seven other dams on the Columbia river. He described in detail the ex tensive system of fish ladders and elevators which are being installed in the Bonneville dam at a cost of $7,000,000. The entire project will cost $50,000,000 with two of the ten power house units installed. Each of the units has a 60,000 horse power turbine. The geological formations which led to the choosing of the dam site were explained and illustrated. Gene Autry in “BIDE, RANGER, RIDE” pins “BULLDOG EDITION” with Ray Walker SATURDAY ONLY V »|5 On the Stage MAJOR BOWES’ Transcontinental Revue and Band 20 People 20 TODAY ONLY “HEARTS DIVIDED” HtsDmMM Jean HARLOW' Wm. POWELL Myrna LOY SpencerTRACY A Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Picture It’s a Swell Idea Share the joys of your col lege days with the folks at home. 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