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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 Day executive: Mildred Elackburne Day editor: Bernadine Bowman Assistant clay editor: Lillian Warn Night Staff This Issue Night editors: Assistants: Crawford Lyle Betty Bobnenkamp George Haley Margaret Dick Challenge to hratermties rJ"'IIK “deferred pledging” issue, brought fo life bv resolution of the Oregon Dads, lias been illuminated this week both by bull sessions, in which it has been one of the reigning topics, and by comments from Dean Onthank, whose long service to the students of Oregon puts him in a special position of competence to advise on such matters. It is very significant that criticism of de ferred pledging lias been aimed entirely at the mechanical difficulties of putting it into effect, not at the plan itself. First blow to the scheme was the point that its initial lean year might “break every house on the cam pus,” because fraternities depend upon a large pledge class each year to balance their budgets. A partial answer to this criticism was given in a letter from an Oregon dad, published yesterday, wondering if frater nities could not fill their rosters from the non-Greeks of the other three classes. But no answer lias yet been offered for the critical point scored yesterday by Dean On thank, who pointed out that there would not v>( sufficient suitable living aeeomadat ions for freshmen if they were not permitted to live in fraternities during their first year. Estab lishment. of deferred rushing, Dean Onthank declared, would necessitate the construction of additional dormitories, funds for which could not be dug up at a moment's notice. SIGNIFICANT from another point of view, however, is the fact that no one has sprung to the defense of the present system. Benefits to be gained from the postpone ment of pledging have been advanced in an imposing array. Placing all freshmen on the same plane of equality, so far as fraternal affiliation is concerned, woidil make for a more democratic spirit on the campus. It would give freshmen a chance to get their feet on the ground scholastically. And it would give fraternities and freshmen a better opportunity to look each other over. That deferred pledging would effect these justices no one lias denied. But no supporter of the present set-up has come forward to declare that these same benefits can be secured by improvements within the fraternal status quo, without mak ing the more or less radical change. # * * JF a searching investigation of deferred pledging shows that the plan would be fatal to fraternities and that other obstacles are such as to make it unfeasible that conclusion alone will not be a satisfactory answer to tk.* resolution of the Oregon Dads. The Dad’s resolution did not mean that they were interested in deferred pledging merely as an abstract proposition. It meant 1 hat they were deeply concerned about con ditions that have developed in the Greek organizations. It meant that they were alarm ed at Greek snobbery, about the failure of fraternal drganiations to inspire ideals of scholarship, about the misfunctioning of a system that allows students to become affil iated with the “wrong” houses. Oregon Dads won’t care how these faults are corrected, whether by the introduction of deferred pledging or not— just so definite remedial steps are taken. That resolution was a challenge to the fra ternities of Oregon to clean house, to “bring their program of life and activities in line with the objectives of the modern university,” as Dean Onthank said yesterday. • Will Oregon fraternities take up that chal lenge ? Miscellany C. E. “Tiny” Thornhill, a shining light in the academic firmament at Palo Alto, has been show ing off his book lamin’ by writing humorous ar ticles on psychology for a magazine called “Col liers.” Tiny, who also coaches football, is quite modest about the whole nasty business. “A football coach,’ he said in the second of the series, “has to know more about psychology than a professor of psy chology.” Collier’s is probably parting with a lot of good round iron men in return for the privilege of printing Tiny's homely philosophy in ns pages. The poor editor who signed the contract must be living a dog’s life, what with the other boys around the office reading paragraphs of the articles to him and then doubling up in convulsions of fiend ish, derisive laughter. Tiny is a good enough psychologist to figure out the particular mental quirk that beat his team in each game they lost in the last three years. “When Stanford lost to Columbia in the Rose Bowl," says Tiny, "we were licked by Old Man Psychology, and no one else. . . . Five times the Satnford team had chances to score and failed. . . . The Columbia team didn’t have much to do with it except that when their opportunity came they romped over the Stanford goal line for one touchdown and won the game.” Who would ever have dreamed that a football game could be won that way ? “The Alabama game," according to Tiny, “was lost pretty much on the mental attitude also.” In this game, Tiny says, the . nasty Alabama boys first broke up the Stanford teamwork with long passes. Every time Stanford scored “Howell flip ped another pass to Hutson.” In the bat of an eyelash they took the lead again. Our kids figured ‘The luck’s against us. What’s the use?’” Clear-: ly, as Tiny says, a matter of psychology. Tiny spends quite a bit of time telling of the j gay, carefree attitude taken toward football down on the Farm. Tiny's greatest psychological tri umph was when lie hypnotized last year’s Stan ford team into walloping U. S. C., .the weakest team in the conference, by the score of 3-0. After the game Tiny told the boys, "You can take the night off. Have some fun, but don’t hit the drinks, and get in at some decent hour. You are on your own, but conduct yourselves as Stan ford men.” Tiny should have known they couldn't follow his direction and still conduct themselves like Stanford men. The manly little fellows had given up and were all in bed at 11:30. In one of the articles, Tiny tells how he got his start on the coast by peddling fertilizer. It is evi dent from Collier’s that he is still in the same business. Daily Californian. Men & Nations By HOWARD KESSLER 1'ranee \wll he in the hands til the fascists within ten months. The Itliim cabinet will lie out ol' office within three months. Civil war will begin in France within six months. Is this a foolhardy schedule of prophecies? Well, maybe. Still, I'll place a small wager at even money that tit least one of the above predictions will be veri fied by events. Two stories in yesterday's pa pers illustrate the trend. Germany and Italy recognized the fascist government in Spain. Roger Salengro, minister of the interior for France, was found dead in a gas-filled room a sui cide. The former story was of more historical importance perhaps, but because it was expected we shall consider it no further. The. latter was a news hrcuU. It came suddenly at a crucial time, and because of the Parisian temper it may lead to immediate riots in which tin- right aid the left will engage. A few hours after Salcugro's suicide was announced, Commun ists were marching, fascists were boiling under the lid. Important consequences may follow this cab inet member's demise. Who M as Sul a n a n»? And who was Monsieur Salen gro? A noted politician, a writer an executive? Not at all. Although Salengro Held I tie most powerful cabinet post In the Popu lar Front government of Leon Blum, his public record is not bril liant. Before his appointment as min ister of the interior he was mayor of Lille, a great industrial center of north France. He maintained this position after taking the fed eral job. His short career as min ister reads as follows: June ti: Took office with rest of Blum cabinet at a time when 1,000,000 workers were on strike, 300 factories closed. Potatoes cost 30 per cent more than on June 5 in Paris. June ,X: An agreement was reached with workers and employ ers after l'i hours of parleying. Pay was raised from 7 to 15 per cent, and Salengro was jubilant as he announced the results at mid night. During the strike not one shot had been fired, no damage done. June 15: Drafted decrees aimed at seditious organizations. Croix de Feu, Communists, etc. June 19: Ordered Rightist paper seized for article declaring "France is in danger." Defended dissolu tion of patriotic leagues, July 0: “The government is re solved to fight and win against extremists,” July 21: "If the Blum govern ment is overthrown there will be blood running in the streets " July 31: Carried out promise to use force in quelling strikes at Lille. September Id: Second textile strike begin ■ at Lille, with 100.000 workers striking. September 22: "We have done well. There are now but 17,472 active strikers in France." Not a bad record. (Jturgrs, (,ountt>r-( itargi's But the men of the right weren't through. Somebody lomuMioit s.i-i lcngro could be charged with de sertion to the German army on October (5, 1JMi». The accusation appeared in the Rightist Gringoire. And hrmight action. Charge denied, charge repeated, letter from Colonel Anauld printed wherein Salengro's wartime com mander confirmed the desertion story, Salengro acquitted in public trial, charges still hounding him, denials useless. It must have worried Monsieur Salengro. Anyway ho blamed it for his death. I nfortunatcly, suicide lias never been satisfactory as a way to clear one's name of disrepute. So. while Salengro may never have been guilty of the charge, it did him no good to Kill himself, and he’s prob ably sorry lie did. if now. Weakness lias been a too-evident characteristic of the Popular Front government, and although the par ticular lack lias been in foreign policy, France hasn't any fine ex ample to offer in internal tranquil- j ity. Salengro's suicide will probably be nothing more than a straw, but when all the straws are gathered together and released, Monsieur Leon will be deluged, as will French ilemoc raey. The fascists promise it strong central government. France needs a strong centra! government. Voiln! --- GRADS WORK ON INDEX Virginia Wentz. '33, former Ore gana editor, is a.- isting Fd Rob bins, ’.'hi, in editing and publishing the Southeast Portland Index Ruth McClain, '3,\ who was for merly with the Southeast Portland Index, has been writing radio con tinuity and drama foi the Mary Pent land advertising agency, for the past few weeks. Gel a shake at I \t i UK's, Gals Go Afuedin9 i_____ Tune ’er Out... By BOB POLLOCK A week frcrr. yesterday, Thanks giving will show up and various and sundry citizens will hie them selves to the various and sundry churches of the land and profess various and sundry gratitudes. Next Thursday we sleep in, so we list our gratitudes ancl blessings in ad vance: A. We thank thee, oh most high and mighty guider of the destinies of hoi polloi, that we are not re quired to listen to the True Story Court of Human Relations tonight at 8:30 on KGW. In our opinion, anyone who would live vicariously by reading or listening to that kind of tripe should be made to work on a newspaper the remainder of his natural life ... a fate worse than death. is. Wo open our mouths, dis playing our tonsils which are newly-painted by the infirmary, and speak softly and reverently of such programs as House of Melody on Iil’O and Kl'l at !):3i) tonight . . . music that would make the gods trade ill their harps for a dance floor and a nice blond. C. Down on our housemaid knees we plead for a whopper of a bolt of lightning to smack Joan Bennett who will be interviewed tonight at 7:45 on KEX, maybe. The gal, whose acting we can beat very well in the flickers, was sup posed to be talked to last Friday the 13th but folded on account of she's superstitious. So we'll go in to a black trance and put the curse of Midhall and the Seven Blind Bats upon her. And will she be sorry for herself. Yah. Yah. The tare free Carnival tonight comes buck on KtlW at 7:30 . . . ycu'il hear: Charlie Marshall, a western singer we'll whoop it up for any time, and his boys: Irving Kennedy, tenor, and Mer edith Willson’s orchestra. Also the Williams sisters whom we never heard of in our ignorance. Hon Stuart, somewhat of a com edian, Mill tie clown on the show, should be good, we recommend you stay home from the bloomin’ rally and take it in. We reduce our prices. Qriginal y, we wanted a car, and a woman ur women i for transportation to Jorvallis. Now we’ll take Model r's and Austins. Tomorrow, it goes down to roller skates and baby buggies. Campus Calendar Patient*- in the Infirmary an: Gayle Meyer. Helen Jones. Edna Smith. Carleue Scott. Muriel Nich olas, Jean Raw.son. Peggy Hay ward. Robert Marquis. Francis Reck. Dennis Donovan, and John Stru kler. st*ial swim in Gerlinger tonight at 7:30. Everyone welcome. Westminster ofiett house will be held tonight and all .students are invited to attend. Edwin Christie is m charge ot arrangements. Library Hours Are Shortened During Holidays Library hours have been changed from the regular schedule for the Thanksgiving holidays, M. H, Douglass, librarian,’said yesterday. The hours from November 25 to 28 are: Wednesday, from 7:45 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursday, Thanksgiving day, closed; Friday, frorp 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. On Sunday regular hours will be held in all departments. Books may be taken out for the holidays with special permission from the librarians if there are enough books in the course to do so. Phi Delia Kappa Plans Open Meeting Monday Phi Delta Kappa, men's educa tion honorary, will hold an open meeting in the men's lounge in Ger-1 linger hall Monday evening, Nov ember 23, at 7:30. Dr. R. W. Leighton, executive director of re search, will lecture on "General Criteria to be used in Revising the Curriculum.” The Passing Show (Continued from page one) defense of northern Suiyuan prov ince against Japanese invasion. Re ports said that defenders of the border had bested the invading troops. Pleas for financial support of the Suiyuan province were neport edly met with a flood of generous donations. Cheering crowds, with typical soap-box speakers goading them on. demonstrated in the streets of the city. Strike Spreading With little real progress as yet toward settlement of the maritime strike, the situation became more acute yesterday with the spread of strike psychology into Oakland and Berkeley, where dairy plants and union milk trucks have tied up the milk business. Other industries were suffering I from the effects of the maritime j strike, meanwhile, and speculation was abroad as to whether either side or both were planning a long! siege. Limit Size1 (Continued from page one) "There are on. ugh good football players in our state to keep Ore gon and Oregon State in the upper division of the Pacific coast con ference each year," he said. Dick Reed, varsity end coach, said. "In business you can't ex pect the big fellow to come down to meet you. We've got to meet the other Pacific coast teams on J their own level, and judging from the good material in our frosh ! squad, we will get up there. "1 think the larger squad is bet ter. It gives more of the fellow.- ; a chance to play." John Warren, freshman coach. ' said: "The crowd would be more i satisfied with only 22 men or so ' on each football squad, because it would mean fewer substitutions. But the big schools still could choose their men out of a greater uumbei of roseives than we haw." ( Hop’s SKIPS & JUMPS By ORVAL HOPKINS ^ITTING in the library just a-dreamin’ and a-thinkin' the other day -one guy thought I was a-studyin'—I chanced to glance up and there was my love. Not twen ty 30-inch paces away was, so I thought, my love of loves, my life, my all. Well my head started bob bin’ and my heart started throb bin’ with a was willst du haben, ein beer! Then at once becoming frantic, I pursued the twist romantic, in a manner roundabout and even queer. For I felt a tingling dor sal, as I gazed upon this morsel, and a tinge, I’m sure, of red suffused my ear. Being sadly sorely smitten, there were vers es to be written, still I won dered if’t could really happen here. thus said l, "Within the hour I shall know this lovely flower," yet I faltered, sent another in my stead. ‘‘Seek her out but pray be wary,” pleaded I; he countered “Very,” and departed leaving' me with nought but dread. There I sat with heart strings yearning “Is my comrade ne’er returning?” Then he came at length and this is what he said: "She’s indeed a choice confec tion, is this plum of your affec tion, still a tale about the frail one often hears. In the dark she’s right indulgent and her love is e’er effulgent, but alas, there’s some thing lacking 'twist the ears.” Beautiful but dumb—and there I was. * * * ^y/HILK on the subject of wo men l find myself behoven to mention with distaste a prac tice which, to say the least, was net prevalent when I was a girl. I am well aware that some will say, “keep your eyes to home, depraved one,” yet undaunted I forge ahead, ever the champion cf man's right to malign woman. Waxing righteously wroth I therefore protest as follows: Too many of our fair and (it’s said) warmer sex are possessed of a mistaken idea regarding the charm and, shall we say?, drawing pow er of bare knees. Now I've made a sort of hay poll on this matter and no fewer than three campus . leaders—big shots, no less—an swered me tliusly: “It's the bunk.' ; "Looks like hell.” And, “Make ’em | stop.” Getting back to the ridiculousy again, if our sweet friends, whom we can’t do with and can’t do with out, think it's pretty to sit around lookin like a bunch of unmention ables. with several inches of bare cuticle showing, they’ve been sad ly misled. Legs, to be blunt, such as Dietrich's are few. and besides, such an array of dimpleless knees these old eyes have never seen. More about that anon. CTILI. another little incident which shakes ol’ Trucsdale's rockribbed faifti in femininity is this: In cne of our more respect ed magazines 1 recently ran across an editorial caption read ing “What makes bad boys?" And immediately following it in a neat feminine hand were these terse words: “Bad girls." Let these practices cease. rooT ** Lights By EDGAR C. MOORE TODAY’S ATTRACTIONS MCDONALD: “Libeled Lady” and “Down the Stretch.” HEILIG: “Ride Ranger Ride” and “Bulldog Edition.” REX: “Poor Little Rich Girl” and “It’s Love Again.” MAYFLOWER : “The Big Game” and “Yellowstone.” STATE: “Dracula’s Daughter” and “Custer’s Last Stand.” * * * “Ride Ranger Ride” starring Gene Autry, the singing cowboy, and “Bulldog Edition" are the at tractions at the Heiiig today. Sat urday brings the Major Bowes’ troupe of amateurs. A few of the acts on the program which will be repeated five times during the day between the hours of 10 a.m. and 11 p.m., are: Adolphus Robinson, the “Bill Robinson” of song; Ruth O’Neill, lyric soprano who has leaped from the silk mills to foot lights; Mae McPhee, singing tap dancer; and Windy Jack, a lad who can make music come from a tire, balloons, spoons, and several other objects. JEAN HARLOW Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Jean Harlow, and William Powell, four of the most popular screen stars, are featured in “Libeled Lady” at the McDonald. This picture has been rated highly by critics and in most places is being held over .for extra week showings. It is the story of a young heiress, slandered by a newspaper, sueing this paper for libel and for five Aiillion dol lars. A story of the sport of kings, horse racing, entitled “Down the Stretch” in which Patricia Ellis, Mickey Rooney, and Dennis Moore appear, is the other featured film on the program. Shirley Temple is featured in another one of her singing roles in “Poor Little Rich Girl” at the Rex. Jessie Matthews, claimed by the British to be their star actress, plays the lead in “It’s Love Again.” A singing and dancing film, it is 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, tne 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 tne postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscrip tion rate, $3.00 a year. ,_ 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 Ave, Seattle; 1031 S. Broadway, Ia» Angeles; Call Building. San Francisco. Business Office Assistants J Jean Farrens. Bettylou Swart, Sally McGrew, Velma Smith, Anne Earnest, Betty Crider, Margaret Carlton, Doris DeYoung, Jean Cleveland. Helen Humt, Janet Eames, Anne Fredricksen. 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