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PUBLISHED BY THK ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Fred W. Colvig. editor Waiter R. Vernstrom, manager LeRoy Mattingly, managing editor Editorial Board: Clair Johnson. Howard Kessler. George Bikmatl, Edwin Robbins. Darrel Ellis. Orval Hopkins, Virginia Endicott UPPER NEWS STAFF Pat Frizzell, sports editor. Paul iJeuUchmann, news editor. Bernadine Bowman, exchange editor. Gladlys Battleson, society editor. Paul Plank, radio editor. Lloyd Tupling, assistant man aging editor. Ldwin Robbins, art editor. Clare Igoe, women’s page Leonard Greenup, chief night Reporters: Farr Aplin. Louise Aik n. Jean Cramer, Reulah Chap man. Morrison Kales, Laura Bryant, Dave Cox, Marolyn Dudley, Stan Hobson. Myra JIulser, Dick Litfin, Mary Hen derson, Kill Pengra, Kay Morrow, Ted Proudfoot, Catherine Taylor, Alice Nelson, Rachael Piatt. Doris Lindgrcn, Rita Wright. Lillian Warn. Margaret Ray, Donald Seaman, Wilfred Roadman. Sports staff: Wendell Wyatt. Elbert Hawkins. John Pink, Morrie Henderson. Kus> Jseli, Cece Walden, Chuck Van Scoyoc, Kill Norene, Tom Cox. Assistant managing editor: Day editor Mildred Klackburnc Elizabeth Stetson Assistant day editor: Corriene Antrim Night editor: Margaret Rankin The Ghost Goes West* nPJIE ghosts of the “fill,” that fast-moving epidemic disease, is hitch-hiking its way westward from victim to victim. Embodied in travelers on steamers, trains, busses and auto mobiles, tlie “flu” lias spanned an ocean and a continent. Two months ago it was striking its toll among the English. Then it reached New York. Then Detroit, Chicago, and Den ver. And now, according to a bulletin of the state hoard of health, it lias arrived in Ore gon. In fact, as at touted by the infirmary roll, it is at work right here on the campus. Last year, in the fact of a spreading “flu” wave at the University, the administration placed a ban on social activities that remained in force several weeks. Now again the infirm ary is packed with feverish, aching, sniffling victims; and dozens of others, according to reports, are held to their beds at home. But members of the health service personnel say that there is no cause for alarm and are hope ful that the disease can he kept within bounds. It can be, they advise, if students will exercise a little precautionary self-disci pline. “JNFLTJENZA is an extremely infectious disease,” says the hoard of health bulle tin. “The present epidemic gives promise of becoming very much more widespread. Mild cases of the disease have been reported, and this is rharactristic of the first wave of an epidemic. The disease increases in virulency in the second and third waves of the epidemic. “The onset is sudden, often entirely with out any preliminary symptoms, and the attack is characterized by liealache, dizziness, body pain and great muscular weakness. There is fever and catarrhal discharges from the nose and throat. If the patient immediately goes to bed, the temperature usually drops, and there is a gradual recovery within three or four days. The typical ease1 occurs only early in the outbreak; the later eases are much more severe, and serious infections of bronchitis and pneumonia increase the dis ability and deaths from this disease. The real menace of influenza is the susceptibility it seems to create 1o bronchial and lung infec tions. Transmission takes place from person to person, and since almost everyone is sus ceptible to the disease at the beginning, the disease spreads with extreme speed. ft ft * “|N time of influenza epidemics the greatest care should be taken to prevent droplet infection; the nose and mouth should be cov ered with a handkerchief when coughing and sneezing. The hands should be washed with soap and water before eating. Fating utensils ■should be sterilized. Crowds and overcrowded -living quarters should be avoided. “ Persons having symptoms of influenza should go to bed and isolate themselves during ing the early stages of the infection. Every precaution should be taken to prevent chill ing of the body, exposure, or exhaustion. Serious complications, particularly pneu monia may occur in the ease of influenza if the individual does not have proper care. It is possible to prevent severe complications of influenza through precautions taken by the patient during the early stages of the disease. Tt is important that persons ill with influenza should recognize that they have it and not pretend it is only a cold. They should go to bed at once and stay there until their physic ian allows them to gel up.’’ “It’s harder to push them over the line than to pass the Dardanelles’’ — but Pitts burgh made the trip three times, making Leander and Halliburton look like small fry. Men and Nations By HOWARD KESSLER Plank three of the National Socialist 26-point platform reads: “We demand land and colonies for the feeding of our people and for settlement by our surplus population.’’ That sentence may be the battleground of the next great war, Heaven and Hitler alone know why. For a war to gain colonics is slightly more in sane than a war "to save democracy.” Making allowances for French hysteria at the slightest suggestion of German acquisitions of territory in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Cayenne, it is still possible, considering Hitler’s recent acts, to give credence to a French woman political com mentator. s Mademoiselle writes that the infiltration of Spanish Morrocco by Germany is for the purpose of inciting an Arab revolt against General Franco, so as to facilitate her acquisition of the territory. For this purpose, she states, German agents are exploiting the dissatisfaction of many Arabs with General Franco. German Morocco? She predicts that the Germans will land strong forces in Morocco on the pretext of defending Franco’s authority against the Moorish rebels, occupying all strategic points not only on the Moroccan coast but in the intertior, and that after it will be France’s job to dislodge them. Propaganda during the World War was so well diffused by the Allies that everybody outside Ger many got an impression of the “heathenish Hun" as a nasty brute who wiped his nose on his sleeve, didn’t say his prayers at night, tracked into the house with muddy shoes, and raped women for amusement. Therefore it was generally agreed that this bad boy of the powers should not have, colonies. Colonies were defined as "a sacred trust of civil ization,” much to the surprise of the nations who had been squeezing them for what they were worth in raw materials and tinted troops. They took them indignantly, and then shipped in troops and ammunition to educate the savages in their own modest fashion. No European hands were clean in this matter of cruelty to natives of their colonies. General Lawrence expressed the British atti tude in India when he said “Clubs, not spades, are trumps.” The Hunter Commission of 1919 to India un earthed tales of floggings, humiliating outrages, I massacres such as that at Amritzer, when 200 peo- j pie were killed, and a veritable Official’s Terror. ! The Belgian Congo hail a running start on Ger many for ill-treatment of natives. If He Only Knew! Germany was no more at fault than any other nation for the poor administrative record of im perialistic nations. Now, Adolf has a yen, a desire, a yearning. He wants colonies, and judging by the precision with which he had fulfilled the rest of his dreams, he is going to have them, if he has to destroy Germany in the campaign. Wo snicker. Wo laugh. We burst into loud and uproarious guffaws. Because we know all about colonies. Vos in deedy. We have read a book. Grover Clark wrote it this year. It is "A Place In the Sun." We think it proves something. “Do colonies pay?” writes .Mr. Clark, and then, not waiting for us to answer, he says, “.Most em phatically, the answer is: No.” But that is only the first paragraph of the preface. For the other 221 pages he pours it to us in a staggering denunciation of the poor dupes who give all to gain colonies. Before the war Germany had colonies four times her own size. In them wore the total of 2182 Germans, two-thirds of them officials and soldiers. "For settlement of our surplus popu lation?" Algeria, most important of French overseas possessions, lias registered a total running deficit of over a billion dollars, and its expenses regularly amount to twice the receipts. France gets 10 per cent of her food and 5 per cent of her raw materials from colonies. The solution, says Clark, is equality of access to raw materials and trade opportunities. .So the iron Chancellor gets our decision. “Colonies are an empty luxury like the silken sables of those noble families in Poland who have no shirts to their backs." Bismarck said that, and while we don't know about changed shirt condi tions in Poland, colonies remain empty luxuries. Proxy's Dismissal (Continued from pane one) been Governor GaKollette’s politi cal enemy, came out against Frank. Thi* paper has maintained in its editorial columns that the president was not strong enough as an executive to hold lus position. Also, Paul W. Ward, Washington correspondent for the Nation mag azine, after investigating the situ ation thoroughly, came to the con clusion that the cause was not purely political, ‘The argument (hat GaFollettu has no right to be interested in university affairs is not too strong,” Mr. Hulten remarked. ‘‘After all, the university takes a large part of the budget of the state.” and the university is foreseen by Professor Hulten as a result of the affair. President James Conant of Harvard university, who was asked by Governor DaFollctte- to bead a eommissiou to investigate the charges of "polities' in the] Frank dismissal, has agreed to formulate a plan to minimise political control of the university. He declined, however, to enter the controversy before the regents had taken definite action. Dr. Consul's statement to Gov ernor LnFollette at the tune was that he would be glad to aid “in making an inquiry into the reia tionship of the board of regents to the state and the whole problem of the independence of the univer sity from any suspicion of political control.’’ Subscriptions only $3.00 per year. llavwartl Kickl«l (Continued from page one) ball teams have been playing on more or less a dirt field in the last few years. In the early days of the Univer sity the athletic contests were held on what was .'.mown as Kincaid field, which was on the area be tween the present Johnson hall and Condon hall. At the time the entire block on which the athletic fields, Me- j Arthur court, and the physical education now stand, was a cow pasture where the University kept its cattle for supplying milk to the dormitory students, said Dr. Bo Yard. A creek ran through the lot and through the area where the tennis courts now stand Hop’s SKIPS 6-JUMPS By ORVAL HOPKINS JUST a.s everything is going along nicely, and I am even eat ing now and then, what jumps up in my face but this school spirit business. Here I am getting in there and fighting for our basket bailers and am even taking chanc es of getting tossed in the loca! clink for trying to crash the Sat urday night game, when people start pouring the old erl again. Now I don’t know whose idea it was and maybe the speakers aren't responsible at all. In the first place I am sure they real ize that spirit is something which can Ire got for a small sum and much easier than the “shout till the rafters ring” method too. In the second, if we can’t get the kind of spirit whieh is the real thing and a yard wide without resort to eith er of these stimulants, then what’s the talk about? In the third, if we must listen to such, and if we realize that it all must be taken with grains of salt, can’t it be so put that we won't have to pour the whole sack in ? In other words, I'll settle for a couple of conference victories, not being one to reach for Rose Bowl moons. * * H: 'T'ODAY'S second gripe is -* against faculty members who take advantage of their pseudo dcspotic position at the head of classes by taking falls out of stu dents they don't appreciate. Grant ing that nine tmies out of ten the faculty is right, in some cases the fault should be pointed out instead of flung down under a barrage of sarcasm. After all, there’s no comeback to it on the part of the student. Ail he ean do is sit there and take it while the other members of the class smirk. Everybody has had bawlings out at some time or another and it is grant ed that they do a lot of good. But it doesn’t add particularly to one’s attempt at finding something in college if he is eternally inhibited from express ing an opinion through fear of a “scolding” from the prof. XTUMBER three follows : My little friend tells me the cold snap is officially over. Therefore, he argues, why don't we break down and turn low heat in the classrooms of a morning? One of the boys, he continues, came out of a room the other day with such a red face someone tried to pick it for an apple. As if I don't have trouble enough keeping these wo men in line regarding their coats and pretty scarfs without all this excess heat. Not only that but the danger of flu and colds is much greater—but see the space to your left about that. So that’s that. Kcmind me to be pleasant sometime. ASUO Card Sales (Continued from page one) Added impetus to the drive was given by the issuance of an ulti matum to the effect that “all stu dents who are participating in ASUO activities, or who are em ployed for remuneration by the ASUO, arc reminded that they must have student cards." At the assembly yesterday Pres ident Schultz announced that the bonus attraction to replace the cancelled Robert L. Ripley lecture will be selected soon. American Youth (Continued from page one) state decided to initiate a bill be fore the state legislature provid ing for additional funds as a sub sidy to the present NYA. Wilma Belt, secretary of the state coordinating convention at Reed, lead a discussion of the prob lems faced by that representative group including the plans for the annual student strike against war, the Oregon Youth act, organiza tion of high school chapters in Portland, Salem, and Eugene, and for better student labor conditions. Decision was reached that there would be no meeting' next Thurs day night, the group stepping aside in favor of the courthouse meeting of the provisional committee for the organization of a local club of the Oregon Commonwealth fed eration. At chat time three repre sentatives of the maritime strike will present the case for labor. 1076 Willamette Street Your Did Shoes Will be More Comfortable of they are re paired by an expert at Aeith ? Two Die in Mass of Twisted Steel K-— ■ ■ ^—— Two men were killed and two were injured in this wreck when the engine and the cars at the head end of a Louisiona and Arkansas Railway train ov er turned after running through an open switch near Winnfield, La. Tho railway, beset by a trainmen’s strike, was operating trains with outside crews. A student engineer on the locomotive said he saw a man throw the switch when the train was about 400 yards away. Officials of the line said the switch lock had been broken. rooT ■ Lights By EDGAR C. MOORE TODAY’S ATTRACTIONS HEILIG: "Mysterious Cross ing" and “Undercover Man." McDONALD: “Come and Get It” and “Can This Be Dixie?” STATE: “Oh, Susanna" and “Special Investigator." REX: “Dimples” and “Char lie Chan at the Racetrack." MAYFLOWER: “Poppy” and Forgotten Faces.” Rather an unusual picture is "Come and Get It" at the McDon ald. In it is featured Edward Ar nold as a self-made millionaire in the lumber game who falls in love with Frances Farmer, who plays two parts superbly, that of a daughter and her mother. Frances falls in love with Joel McCrea, Arnold's son, to add to the com plications. The picture from Edna Ferber’s novel of the same name. Jane Withers stars in the other feature, "Can This Be Dixie?” a musical with several laughs. “Mysterious Crossing,” at the Heilig until Sunday is a fast mov ing action thriller; of newspaper reporters, frauds, mysterious dis appearances and such things, with Janies Dunn, Jean Rogers, and Andy Divine in the strong roles. “Undercover Man,” the accom panying attraction finds John Mack Brown in the starring role. Action, fast and furious, is tho by-word at another picture house, the State, today, as Richard Dix appears in “Special Investigator” with Margaret Callahan. Gene Au try, singing western star, con cludes the action program in “Oh, Susanna." * * s> Shirley Temple, probably one of the greatest of the juvenile stars, comes again in “Dimples” at the Rex. Warner Gland, famous Sean dinovion actor of Oriantal roles, really stars in his twelfth Charlie Chan picture, “Charlie Chan at the Racetrack.” Keye Luke, who has appeared in the last four pictures with Gland, again plays as the Honolulu detective’s son. Chan solves the mystery of the death of a champion race horse in his own inimitable way. * * * W. C. Fields, one of the ablest of the screen comedians, teams with Rochelle Hudson, in an amus ing story of Field's as a quack doctor in one of the country's trav eling “honky tonks.” Really worth seeing. "Forgotten Faces” with Herbert Marshal and Gertrude Michael in the featured roles at the Mayflower. Passing Show (t oittimu'J from /'u<ic one) edness were demonstrated by Britain yesterday, when it an nounced perfection of a new gas mask so efficient it can be used by babies. The demonstration is in dicative of the thoroughness with which England is delving into her problem of defense. More than 30.000.000 of the new masks will be distributed free of charge throughout the country in 1037, it was announced yesterday by Geoffry Lloyd, home office un dersecretary. BOWLING TO TAKE EXAM Cecil J. Bowling will take his final examination for the doctor of education degree on Tuesday. Jan uary 26. The title of his thesis is | "The Objectives of Social Intelli gence Evaluated by Contemporary Educational Philosophy.'' Dr. Larsell to Meet (Continued from page one) “These interviews are really very important to the students,” said Dr. H. B. Yocom, head of zoology department, “since per sonality as well as grades are con sidered by the committee in grant ing admission to the Medical school.” The interviews will last about 20 minutes and the students will be taken two at a time. Those being interviewed should bring their red books along with them. Students are asked to make their appointments as soon as possible with Mrs. Alice Monjay, secretary of lower division science school. Students look forward to these interviews throughout the year stated Dr. Yocom. This year be tween 30 and 40 students will be interviewed. Wednesday evening Dr. Larsell will speak to the Askelpiads. campus medical honorary. BARKERS LEAVE FOR HOME Mr. and Mrs. Burt Brown Bar ker, vice-president of the Univer sity, left Eugene Thursday for their home in Portland after a day’s stay here. Mrs. Barker was guest at a luncheon Wednesday given by members of the Asso ciated University women and later spoke to them on Chinese tomb figures in the new art museum. SMITH TO SPEAK Dr. Warren D. Smith, of the geology department, University of Oregon, will be the speaker at the adult forum which meets at ten o'clock Sunday morning at the Community Liberal church. His Campus Calendar Twenty-three students are in the Infirmary today. They are: Helen Ingle, Betty Reisch, Beth Pratt, Alice Caldren, Edna Smith, Bruce Higby, Ted Fisher, Don Thomas, Dale Hardisty, Julia Abraham, John Beckett, John Smith, Betty Pownall, Mortimer Heinrich, Louis Larson, Kenneth Walker, Brock Miller, Hubert Totman, Russell Iseli, Earlene Groblebe, Regina Brover, Betty Dye, and Arvin Robb. Lettcrman’s Limp will be held February 6, immediately after the Oregon-OSC game instead of February 2 as formerly announced. Westminster house will be open to all students on the campus from 8 to 11:30 o’clock tonight for games and dancing. Five cents ad mission will be charged. Women officials committee will meet at 4:30 p. m. in the women's gym. All interested in basketball officiating are requested to bring rule books and whistle. Senior Cops will meet at 4 p. m. Friday at the College side. Anyone interested in an in formal poetry group, please call Anne Dean, 1309, or Ora May Holdman at either 2900 or 891. topic will be “The Relation of Min erals to International Security.” 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 5 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. BUSINESS STAFF National Advertising Mgr.Patsy NeaJ Assistant: Eleanor Anderson Circulation Manager.Frances Olson Slerchandising Manager.Les Miller Executive Secretary.Caroline Hand Collection Manager.Reed Swenson Research Bureau Staff Publishes Two Memoranda Two memoranda were published during Chfistmas vacation for the bureau of municipal research and league of Oregon cities. One, prepared by William O. Hall, research assistant for the bureau, is a memorandum on fi nancing local improvements in Oregon. Warren C. Hyde, member of the staff of the league, prepared a memorandum on factors in the dis tribution of the gasoline tax and motor vehicle license revenue to the cities of Oregon for street maintenance. These reports were prepared under the supervision of Herman Kehrli, director of the bureau, with the cooperation of the WPA. Alpha Kappa Psi Hear Tliunemaii Talk on Selling Pointing out that there is a place in the modern business world for men with new ideas and selling ability, Carl Thuneman, general advertising manager at Wash burne’s store, spoke at the regular meeting of Alpha Kappi Psi, busi ness professional fraternity last night. In the business meeting follow ing, shingles and recognition pins were awarded to new members. It was also decided to have their pic tures in the Oregana. Within the next two weeks the new pledge list will be released. John Economus, undergraduate, and Lloyd Green, graduate, are in charge of forming an alumni chap ter in Portland. [ MISS SIPE TO TAKE TRIP Vivian Sipe, daughter of Prof. F. S. Sipe of the botany depart ment, will leave Saturday for an extended visit of California and Arizona. Miss Sipe was a junior in science on the campus last term. 1076 Willamette Street Shoddy Shoes Betray Care lessness. Take them to Keith’s When in Need of Repairs. likes to hear JL/tlW about you But It’s Hard to Explain Things in a Letter Your paper— THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD sees all, and prints all about campus life at the University. The Emerald covers fully the things you want to write home about! Your parents are interested m first hand information about the problems and developments in higher education as discussed and reported by the students themselves. 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