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LeRoy Mattingly, managing editor
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rat trizzell. sports editor.
Paul Deutschmann, news
editor.
Bernadine Bowman, exchange
Gladlys Battleson, society
Paul Plank, radio editor.
Lloyd Tupling, assistant man
aging editor. ,
Edwin Robbins, art editor.
CJare Jgoe, women’s page
editor.
Leonard Greenup, chief night
editor.
Reporters: Parr Aphn, Louise Aiken, Jean Cramer, Beulah Chap
man Morrison Bairs, Laura Bryant, Dave Cox, Marolyn
Dudley, Stan Hobson. Myra Ilulscr, Dick Litfin, Mary Hen
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Roadman.
Sports staff: Wendell Wyatt, Elbert Hawkins, John Pink, Morris
Henderson Russ Iscli, Cecc Walden, Chuck Van Scoyoc, Bill
Norene, lorn Cox.
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Juiie Dick, 1* ranee a McCoy, Lawrence Quinlan, A1 Branson,
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H -b.son, George Haley, Geannc Esclile, Irvin Mann.
Assisiani manatmi* editor: Day editor:
Mildred Blackburnc Elizabeth Stetson
\sGstant day editor:
Corricne Antrim
Night Editors: Assistants:
George Haley Phyllis Mtinro
Bill Davenport Betty Jane Thompson
Welcome, Editors
JT IS with pleasure that the Emerald joins
the campus in welcoming editors and pub
lishers from every part of the state to the
19th annual press conference being held here
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
The University in many respects presents
a much brighter and more interesting pano
rama for visitors than it has for several years
past. Increased enrollment has inspired a
new spirit, and the number of new buildings
on tlx; campus gives a picture of a progressive
instil ution.
JT WILL be seen that the University is pre
senting a hotter front; hill still il i* doing
its best to maintain a high standard only
under the hardest of difficulties. Increased
enrollment has not been met with increased
Junds for higher education, as one would sup
pose; hut on the contrary, income is declin
ing. The state system today is receiving $2,
000,(100 less than it did six years ago, when
enrollment was approximately 8,!300. Total
students now number well over 9,000. To
meet 1 his deficiency of funds the state board
has asked the legislature for an appropriation
oJ $1.317,000. Visiting editors might well look
beneath the surface of conditions here and
see that this need is justified.
But despite Ihe needs for more funds, the
I Diversity is carrying on. It enjoys plyyjng
host to a group of statewide leaders and
moulders of public opinion like the Oregon
editors and publishers. It sincerely hopes that
these guests will enjoy every minute of (heir
stay from the lormal business sessions to the
informal hull sessions.
Punctured Self-Esteem
npi 1RO UGI101! T llic almost four years
we've spent hounding after 1 lac elusive
sprile of higher learning at this institution
one tiling luisj been a eonstaut source of irri
tation—seven-day books.
Back in the childhood of ourjuind—when
Hearst to us was only a man who gave us
If) pages of colored comics and Hornurr Mae
Fadden in his publications delighted us with
blood-thirsty tales of soldiers of fortune -
we used to read Liberty magazine. And it
was our eonstaut intellectual consolation that,
we could read each article in better than the
specified reading time. Why, wo recall ar
ticles where the editor rated 111 minutes as
the average time required, and we would
skim through it in from eight to ten minutes.
Alas, but it gave us an inflated idea of our
selves.
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JDl 1' that inflated self-esteem was thorough
ly punctured when we tried to read a lew
of those ponderous tomes that the library
insists we should be able to read in a week's
spare time.
We read a fractional lew-hundred pages
of Will Durant's “Our Oriental Heritage,"
before the livc-cent daily lines began to j>i 1»>
tip- Samuel Flagg Demis’ “A Diplomatic
History ot the United States" would have
kept our light burning far into many a night,
il we d tried to read it. Kalph Darton Perry's
1 he Thought and Character of W illiam
James,” a two-volume work running four
figures in number of pages, was too colossal
a task lor us even to attempt within the
seven-day limit.
Here is a question in library philosophy:
it is better that one student should lead a
hook thoroughly, or that many students
should read a book seantiugh ?
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pivOBABLY the present system is best, even
with its drawback of ‘‘extensive'’ rather
than "intenfive" mental cultivation. But
couldn't there lie a compromise made in favor
ol: students that they cannot complete a hook
in the seven days allotted?
For instance, might not the present fine
ol live cents a day for over due seven-dav
books be reduced to three cents a day?
This would look like a reasonable penalty;
for it would enable students to keep books
out a little over-time without incurring too
great expense, and yet it would serve suffi
ciently /o deter thoughtless persons from
keeping out books for which there is great
demand any unnecessary length of time.
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Men and Nations
By HOWARD KESSLER
If you see a big, smiling Irishman with a side
of-the-mouth smile and sparkling eyes on the
campus Saturday, you may be looking at Jay
Cooke Alien, one of the nix best foreign corres
pondents today who cover Europe,
Maybe the past few months of covering the
national suicide in Spain for the Chicago Tribune,
of seeing the horrors he depicts so vividly in a
recent issue of Scholastic, have erased the gay
grin from Jay’s face, but I doubt it. He came
through ten years of crack reporting without a
mental scratch, and travelling with Franco’s
troops should be no more nerve-wracking than
covering the disarmament conference at Lausanne
and Geneva by himself, a job that the New York
Times assigned four men to perform.
The last time I saw Jay Allen was in Malaga,
Spain. He was temporarily on the loose, having
resigned from foreign corresponding.
No More Newspaper
“A man should know when to sign ‘30’ on the
chapters of his life,” he told me. “I'm finished
with newspaper work, ft’s back-breaking, unre
mitting labor, and it leads nowhere but to an
early grave. I’m going to write biographies.”
The next thing I heard about Jay vrue in my
home town paper last July 20, three day's after
the Spanish civil war had broken. The dispatch
from Gibraltar read:
“.Jay Allen, a correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune living in Spain, arrived here today and
told of being attacked by a mob in La Linen,
Spain. lie said that while motoring with a chauf
feur through La IJriea yesterday bis ear was
struck by 23 bullets.”
End of chapter ?
No.
Jay Allen is a newspaperman, soaked for 15
years in scoops and scrambles for news, in wild
night rides, in sweaty plugging: over a typewriter
that, begins to look like a Frankensteininn mon
ster about three o’clock in the morning, in wait
ing, waiting, waiting, outside oaken doors for a
story Lo break, in cussing stupid customs inspec
tors, in pleading with marble-smooth diplomats
for just a few words of quotable material. All
that Jgy Allen hates, because lie evidently can't
escape it.
The Itchy Foot
Jay Allen is an adventurer.
At 13 he ioined up in (he. American navy, hop
ing to get into the World war.
Sent to attend the University of California, he |
skipped off to Honolulu.
For a few months he attended Washington
State college.
Answering a help wanted advertisement of
City Editor Burnett of the Eugene Register in
1920, he worked for a year at reporting. Says
he learned to write a news story in three hours.
Met Unth Austin, a journalism major whom
he later married. Decided lo attend the Univer
sity of Oregon.
Reported on the Oregonian from July, 1922,
until August of 1923.
Attended Harvard for one year.
Left to attend the Sorbonne in Paris.
Got a job, at $48 a month, with the Paris edi
tion of the Chicago Tribune. Barely enough to
support two people.
Then came bigger pay, better assignments, and
10 years of covering all western Europe. Proud
is Juy Allen of bis record of never having been
scooped.
In Spain Today
And now lie comes inrni the Spanish checker
board witli tales of blood lying palm-deep in the
Badojoz bull-ring, drained from 1800 loyalist
corpses; of priests soaked in gasoline and sot
afire; of men and women shot down mercilessly
as they ran out of their homes with arms over
head. The Spaniards are still Inquuitioa-mmd:\l
in war.
Perhaps Juy Allen will suj once again lie is
through with newspaper work, and you can believe
him if you will. There will lie a lot of journalists
at the Press Conference who may feel just as
resentful towards the maw of the linotypes that
keep demanding food when heads are weary and
eyes are aching, and I'll wager tie,it day Alien
will lie no more successful than the other 90 per
cent of newspapereinen who swear to quit the
game “pretty soon.”
Campus Comment
(The views nired in this column are not necessarily
! expressive of Emerald policy. Communications should be
i kept within a limit of 250 words. Courteous restraint should
l*V ohsiixcd m utctoucc to personalities. .No uusigned letters
I will be accepted.^
PERSISTENT SHEPPARD
To tin' Editor: Mr. Hopkins is right . . .
Although 1 have talked with two people who
have seen bath the stage performance and the
movie version of "Winterset" and they both say
that the play lost practically none of its power
as presented by ttie movie, 1 still think Mr. Hop
kins is right. They should have kept the tragic
ending. 1 will go farther and say that they should
have enlarged ou it. Why not have Margo shoot
bet father the was the one bad carryover front
the play) and have Truck shoot Mio and as he
dies he could strangle GarthV
While all this is going an th n rivet
could be overflowing its bank and drowning
everybody in New York. Think of wliat Cecil
1!. DcMille could do will', a scene like that. The
fade-out could show the water up to the ¥0th
floor of the Empire State building md -till rising.
And A1 Smith with his head out of a window
reciting poetry. "Uiv.* me a house by the side of.
the toad. . . . ’’
ROGER 1' SHEPPARD. I
CHORT short: Once upon a time
there was a young man who
went to a university which gave a
course in journalism. At this great
university he worked away and
tried with ail his might to become
a newspaper man. He learned how
to be a reporter and he learned
I how to read copy and he even got
' so he would rather die than hand
in anything with a wrong name in
He was very ambitious.
Then one day he got to be a
senicr. And every other day
something or somebody would
remind him that in a few short
months he he out in the great,
cold, cruel world. Sometimes
people would say you’ll soon be
out there hitting the old trail,
son. Then they would chuckle
gleefully.
But then there was announced
that at this great university
would be held a swell conference
of newspaper persons. From all
over the state would gather there
all the editors and publishers and
such like. And the college boy
said to himself what a chance for
me! Anw many of bis profes
sors and instructors advised him
to get in there and get around
while t be newspaper persons
were there.
So he did.
Religiously he went from one
man to the next and to the next.
And soon he had gone to every sin
gle newspaper person at the con
ference and said my name is John
Jones and how are you. I am a
senior now. Goodbye.
^fELL, finally the days passed,
as days will, and John Jones
graduate. Nov/, he said, I shall
go around and see all my friends !
who I met at the big conference
that was held at the great univer
sity. J shall beard them in their
dens and they will undoubtedly give
me a position.
So hr packed his little bag
and he cranked up his ear and
he went round and round all over
the state. And wherever he went
he stopped in (o see an editor or
publisher. And lie would say I
am John Jones. And they would
all say who? And he would say
John Jones. 1 am the guy you
met at the big conference at the
great university last winter.
And they would look vague for
a long time and then would say oh
yes, I remember now. And then
John would go into the sales talk
he had thought up to spring on
them and he would get ail excited
and worked up with fervor and
stuff. He was sure one of them '•
would give# him a job. !
But they didn't. <
They just said sorry, Bud, come <
back again some time. So John :
Jones went back home and worked i
in his father's grocery store. He
became a great success in that 1
line. i
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But I merely jest, gentlemen. ]
Welcome! j
Tune ’er
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By JACK TOWNSEND
TODAY’S BEST BETS
12:45 P. .M. — HEX—Common
wealth Club.
5:00 P. M.—KGW—Irene Rich.
6:30 P. M— KGW-Twin Stars
7:00 P.M.—KGW—First Nighter
7:30 P. M. — KGW — Varsitj
Show.
And still we go on strugglinj
trying to get by without any CBJ
dope. Oh Well!
According to Helen Broderick
feminine star of the Twin Star
program, she will change Victo:
Moore, male star, into "What i
Man” Me ore instead of his presen
“What a Dope” Moore.
Tune tonight to KGW—6:30. .
All of the best skiing news ant
where to ski, will be aired on th<
Woman's Magazine program ovei
KGW at 3 p.m.
The University of Michigai
band will be the main feature o:
the Pontiac Varsity show tonight
In fact the U. of M. will providt
the whole setting for the work
premier of this new program. Thi
glee club will be an other one oi
the big features.—KGW—7:30.
NBC’s feminine commentator
Elza Sehallert, interviews Hugt
Herbert in her broadcast tonight
Mrs. Sehallert ccmments on the af
fairs of the day.—KEX—7:45.
Short Circuits:
The sliding scale voice of Andj
Devine, screen star and a favorite
of ours, is the result of a childhood
accident—and now it’s making him
a fortune. Andy may be signed as
a regular on the Benny Sunday
night funfe3t ... Ira Blue, one of
NBC’s crack producers, is limping
around as a result of a freak fall,
in which he skidded on the wet
street during a rain storm, and fell
full length—the result, one broken
tee . . . The cast of Helen Hayes’
Bambi series all look the part they
are playing. In fact in Miss Hayes’
words "We could put on the show
in a theatre, at a moment’s notice,
and not a single character would
have to be replaced”—little bit dif
ferent from some shows we know
Df.
"One Man’s Family,” the serial
-hat portrays real home life, has
■von first place honors again. In a
ecent poll by the Los Angeles
rimes, it garnered 58 per cent of
he total votes cast . . . and that’s
:hat.
Viiss McGirr, Russell
To Read Math Papers
Betty McGirr and Ted Russell,
itudent members of Pi Mu Epsi
on, will read papers on subjects
>f general mathematical interest
it the next meeting of the organi
sation on Wednesday, February 3,
it 7:30 in Deady hall.
Subjects for the papers have not
>een chosen, Katherine Stevens,
resident, said yesterday, but they
vill probably deal with popular
>hases of mathematics not treated
n textbooks.
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Warren D. Smith Lauds
State Geology Measure
Oregon 13 the only state in the union at present which does not
appropriate funds to the mining Industry as far as I ca find out,” said
1 Warren D. Smith, head of the geology department, in answer to ques
I tions concerning the ‘‘state department of geology and mineral indus
tries” measure to be introduced in the state legislature within a few
days.
The bill is, at present, being prepared for formal introduction and
, though it has not received any definite commitment from legislators,
Governor Martin's sunnnrf of the i
measure is certain to bring it some
: sponsoring names.
“Governor Martin is the only
I governor of Oregon, in my time,
who has had any real visions in
this phase of the state's develop
' ment,1” continued Dr. Smith. “While
’ Oregon will probably never be a;
premier mining state, its mineral
resources should not be neglected.
I “We haven’t had a geological
survey since 1923,” continued Dr
Smith, “and if Oregon is going to
1 take its place along with other
i states and commonwealths, it will
' need to pass a bill which asks for
a department to conduct mineral
i studies and surveys of the state
’ and their commercial utility.”
A $50,000 appropriation for both
! 1937 and 1938 is provided in the
1 bill.
“During the past dozen years,"
saiti Dr. Smith, "the state has been
doing practically nothing along
this line. It has relied on the State
University and College depart
: ments of geology and mining to do
the necessary work, which we, of
course, have been glad to do but
! which has taken a great deal of
our time and some of our funds
which have been needed for other
things. We’re hoping for the best
when this bill reaches the legisla
ture,” said Dr. Smith in closing.
j Cuthbert Sets Cost
(Continued from page one)
Dusen, the two girls will name a
committee of two women in each
living organization. The tag drive
will be placed in the hands of this
committee.
An all-school dance has been set
for February 26 in Gerlinger hall,
following the Oregon-Oregon State
game of that evening.
Spring Dance Planned
Spring dances are planned for
Portland, Salem, Seaside and Med
ford with all profits to go into the
turfing fund. The alumni of the
school as a whole and those of the
Sigma Nu fraternity will be asked
to contribute.
Appointments made in the men's
houses Thursday were Howard
Backlund, Alpha hall; Jack Hay,
ATO; Vern Moore, Beta; John Me- ]
Leod, Chi Psi; Jay Scruggs, Delt; i
Tony Amato, Delta Upsilon; Bill
Norene, Gamma hall; Leif Jacob
son, Kappa Sigma; Arvin Robb,
Omega hall; Jim Nicholson, Phi
Delt; Ken Skinner, Phi Gamma Del
ta; A1 Bogue, Phi Psi; Morris
Henderson, Phi Sig; Harold Faunt,
Pi Kappa Alpha; Arleigh Bentley,
SAE; Willie Frager, Sigma Alpha
Mu; Bob Braddock, Sigma Chi;
Bill Hutchison, Sigma hall; Del
Bjork, Sigma Phi Epsilon; Bon
Reckon, Theta Chi; Pat Frizelll,
Zeta hall. These representatives
will also act as publicity men in
their respective houses.
Passing Show
(Continued from page one)
Blood Money
Marked currency amounting to
$390, which its possessor, Carl
Westphall, described as “blood
money,” was on its way to the de
partment of justice at Washington
last night.
Westphal, who was taken into
custody in Eugene yesterday, and
later removed to the state insane
asylum for keeping, produced the
bills in a card game and told in
mates they might as well have it
because “they’re going to hang
me.”
One Million-Check
A million dollar error in Oregon's
budget, brought to light by Wal
lace Wharton, budget director, was
just a headache yesterday as the
house ways and means committee
was forced to forget its former un
derstanding that a surplus of
$430,000 existed. *
Instead, a $480,000 deficit is the
starting point from which will fi
nally come a budget plan. An an
nuity tax on insurance premiums
will be considered by lawmakers
today as a possible solution to the
problem.
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The pairings for the all campus
tournaments in ping pong, hand
ball, squash, and badminton were
posted yesterday in the new men's
gym, and time limits were set by
which the first rounds have to be
played.
Badminton doubles and squash
singles are to be finished by Jan
uary 27. Ping pong doubles and
badminton singles will have to be
finished by the second cf Febru
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handball singles and doubles are to
be finished by February 8.
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