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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 Associate editors: Clair Johnson, Virginia Endicott. UPPER NEWS STAFF rat I*rizzcii. sports editor. Paul Deutschmann, news Bernadine Bowman, exchange Gladlys Battlcson, society editor. Paul Plank, radio editor. i^ioya i upiing, assistant man aging editor. Edwin Robbins, art editor. Clare Igoe, women's page Leonard Greenup, chief night Jean Weber, morgue director Reporters: Parr Aplfn, Louise Aiken, .Tcan Cramer, Beulah Chap man. Morrison Pales, Laura Bryant, Dave Cox, Marolyn Dudley, Stan Hobson. Myra JIulser, Dick Litfin, Mary Hen derson. Bill Pengra, Kay Morrow. Ted Proud foot, Catherine Taylor, Alice Nelson, Rachael Platt, Doris Lindgren, Rita Wright. Lillian Warn, Margaret Ray, Donald Seaman, Wilfred Roadman. Sports staff: Wendell Wyatt, Elbert Hawkins, John Pink, Morrie Henderson. Russ Iscli, Cere Walden, Chuck Van Scoyoc, Bill Norene, Tom Cox. Copyeditors: Roy Vcrnstrom, Mary Hopkins, Bill Garrett, Kclta Lea Powell, Jane Mirick. Tom Brady. Warren Waldorf, Then Prescott, Lorene Marguth, Rita Wright, Jack Townsend, Wen Brooks. Marge Finnegan, Mignon Phipps, LaVcrn Littleton, June Dick, Frances McCoy, Lawrence Quinlan, A1 Branson, Helen Ferguson, Judith Wodcage, Betty Van Delicti, Stan Hobson, George Haley, Geannc EschJc, Irvin Mann. Assistant managing editor: Day editor: Virginia Endicott Bill Cummings Assistant day editor: Beulah Chapman Night Editors: Mary Kay Booth Margaret Rankin Parr Aplin Assistants Phyllis Mttnro Mary Med ill Christianity in Practice JN THE lives of all but a slender minority of American Christians there is a mile-high wall between the theory and practice of their religion. Irving Kile and his fellow workers in the (Student (Social project, however, are showing themselves member of that minority. They are putting the generous principles of Christianity into practice. Their project, as explained in yesterday’s Emerald, is for the betterment of Eugene's transient population who occupy the jungle shacks out near Judkins point. What they propose and are rapidly effecting is a two fold program: immediate relief of the down and-outers, as well as their rehabilitation in society. Their plan for immediate relief rtf the out casts has been in operation since January 8, when they began the collection and ration ing-out of left-over food from campus living organizations. A furtheration of their relief plan is contemplated for next spring in the operation by transient labor of vegetable gardens on donated land. * » J>LANS for I lie rehabilitation of the out - casts are more visionary and less care fully outlined. They will include, however, the adiminstration of an employment service and the promotion of such education as will aid in equipping these human derelicts for restoration to society. The principal objection to the program might be that it is undertaken on too small a scale; for transiency is much more than a local problem. Nor can it be said that the ac ceptance of this plan by other communities— thus extending its effect—would be a certain solution. What is really called for is a na tional program on the order of the one which was so unwisely abandoned last year. Jlut, in the absence of such a national pro gram, the Student Social project is an affir mation that sympathy for the lowliest of our downtrodden is not extinct and it offers en couragement to the hope that the nation will reawaken to this problem. And that at least makes it worthwhile. The Back Yard Beautiful I'iisiiiil acquaintances ]>ay you a formal call al your home or place of business, you don’t lake them in through I ho bark yard, and especially not if you aru a real estate dealer. Not unless you have a very nieo baek yard. Thai s just what the 1'niversity of Oregon lias to do, weleome visitors by the baek way visitors who are slightly interested in tile state's 1'niversity as they flit along the high way in automobiles. Of eourse, Oregon isn't selling real estate, but just as surely as any business lias a pro duet to put aeross, it is trying to sell edueu tion—edueation at this 1'niversity. • * » rjpilK highway leads hundreds of easuai visitors daily past the Anehorage, giving a view, over a riekety fenee and aeross a weedy puteii of ground, of the baek end of the heating plant, a corner of the art school, and a flash of Villard hall. This isn't the kind of a front you see in store windows. Oroeery men stack their best oranges on top, a tendency typical of any business. Now the back of the heating plant may never be what one might call beauti ful. As one drives along the highway and it hoves into view, the impression isn't com parable to the “oh” of ecstasy but to the “ugh” of disgust. Oregon isn’t quite as unfortunate as Ore gon .State college in this respect, for the Corvallis campus is located several blocks from the highway. However, this hasn't, handicapped OSC very much, as signs have been placed along the highway directing travelers to the campus through Corvallis streets. * * n J^"0 SIGNS warn the traveler moving down tile highway into Ktigene that he is approaching hallowed ground. Coming from the south, it is almost impossible, if you follow the highway to the Anchorage, to drive through the campus without cutting back several blocks. Oregon is perhaps the only large University on the coast which isn't “labeled,” and it is less accessible than most schools. A crossing over the Southern Pacific tracks at the end of University street, with a “ramp” broad enough to permit easy ap proach from either direction, would tempt many travelers into the grounds, lead them to circle the colorful north campus. A few vines over the heating plant, a hedge or two, a little WPA labor and the University would be open for business. r 71 Men and Nations By HOWARD KESSLER You arc alone In an insulated hut, 9 by 7 feet in size, buried in a waste of Antarctic snow. Out side it is 80 degrees below zero. You are 123 miles from the nearest neighbors. You have a tiny make-shift oil-burning stove that leaks naus eating fumes. No one can reach you for six months. If your shack burns, you die. If you become ill, you have no doctor save yourself. If the snow drifts over your home you will be en tombed, buried alive. What would you do ? Admiral Richard E. Byrd erected a sign: “There will be no gossiping." He played solitaire with three decks of cards, betting against himself. He left the door open to his store room to clear the shuck of deadly fumes, and lived in a temperature bordering on zero for months. Time on My Hands From 8 in the morning until 12 midnight, he guaged wind velocity and direction, took accurate technical observations four times a day. His radio engine failing, he cranked a hand generator each day while contacting Little Am erica. tie uiougnc. “I had to create my pleasure from little- things. In civilization tlu-y are all manufactured for us. Most of us have lost, J think, the art of living within ourselves, and few know what the real values of life are.” He wrote. “from here the great folly of all follies is the amazing attitude of civilized nations toward each other. If this attitude is not changed I don't see how our civilization, as we know it, will survive. I feel this so keenly that if I survive this ordeal I shall devote what is left of my life largely to trying to help further the friendship of my country with other nations of the world.” Admiral Byrd has survived. Today he will lec ture in McArthur court on the second Byrd Ant arctic expedition, and seeing him stand before us as a creature of "common clay” is may be difficult to remember that two years ago this gallant gentleman was the southernmost human being on this sphere, that he lived in solitary confinement for six months with the spectre of Death lurking outside his tiny hut every day. Not for Thrills Ami lost wo emphasize adventure loo uuioh, it would )io well to consider the universal benefits that follow the greying Admiral's expeditions. "In the future,” opines Byrd, "1 believe medical science will use the Antarctic for experimentation because of the extraordinary purity of the air, and the few germs in that extreme cold. Experts o( the Rockefeller Institute and other medical men have shown keen interest in this possibility. "The Antarctic is the most fertile field for scientific research left in the world. Our expe dition served 20 branches of science. "Maps will have to be remade as a results of our discoveries. “The day is coming when a chain of permanent weather stations will he established in Antarctica. They will be indispensable for long-range weather forecasting, as masses of cold air breaking away from the polar cap have a direct bearing on th climate of the southern hemisphere.” As Dick Byrd, approaching the half-century mark, says of his star-studded career of explora tion: "I like adventure and far places, it is true. Bui had I merely gone to the Antarctic for ad venture 1 should have taken only half a dozen men with me." PWA Fund Lack (Continued from page one) instruction is already impaired by a great number of over-sized clas ses,” he said. “At the University there arc 11 classes of 100 or more students and 34 of 75 or more. At the state college there are two of 200 or more, 38 of 100 or more and 29 of 75 or more.” Hunter admitted that the new allocations depleted the balance below the safety point and said “measures of economy that have been thrust upon us have been so devastating: that in many instan ces the necessary supplies, equip ment, and means of operation are no longer at hand unless the pres ent funds are immediately supple mented.'’ Lawyers* Lyric* (Continued jrom page one) to invite a fortunate Kappa to the dance. Among the many women as yet uninvited to this famous dance is a blond Alpha Chi Omega fresh man, who although anxious to at tend. is too bashful to give her name to the date committee. The committee also announced, by proxy, that Bob Miller, law school proxy, remains dateless at present President Miller will officiate as master of ceremonies. The cere monies are yet to be arranged, ac cording to Thompson. Inside information on the notor ious faculty prize dance will be given out tomorrow. Thompson, also head of the prize dance, con tinued. In the absence of Dean Morse who perennially battles it out for first honors, it will be a real marathon. Thompson said. QUACKS By IOI KSSO II P O It M E E sports staff prognosticat o r, now part-time conductor of the Old Oregon magazine letters page, Iguesso to day rejcins the Emerald staff. Terse quacks of comment about interesting .. in cidents, campus personalities, ard occasional gossip shall be the (heme song of the colyum. Contri butions may be left with Chief Man Colvig, or on the shack bulle tin hoard. Tripe not wanted. * ■* * TOPIC one is Marder. Recent ad dition to the history faculty, he startled his stooges recently by predicting a “most hated prof on the campus" characterization for himself. Arthur, not Oscar, pre cedes the Marder, and follows the professor. He detests being called Oscar. His first exam, coming up thi3 week or next, will aid in selec tion of Arthur, Oscar, or *&tb?!** as the name he shall be known by. He’s rather an awakening per son. A Chi O sorority row In one of his classes buzzes continually since he favored one of the sis ters with considerable interest recently. “Who’s next?” is the question of the moment. [ Regarding lecture interest, some of the discussers say he at least comes nearer to replacement of well-liked Harold Noble than some others. Ace Prof. Noble, by the way, is now a collitch lad himself. Wedded, and a potential TCLACA er since last Augiwt, he is studying Japanese and writing a book on Korean history at Cal U, Berkeley. J^ECENT rain and snow has dampened more tharr earth. The spectacular career of Jean Stevenson, Tri-Delt log-roller, both politically and actually on logs, as the most photographed woman on the campus has been stopped mid way until better picture taking weather comes again. Efforts of Publicity Chief George Godfrey to get a picture of three campus beauties throwing snow balls in bathing suits during the recent white spell might have met with success, if only he had thought to call Jean. She made every pic ture taken of the rally squad dur ing football season a success. This year and any other year. jjUt'K TRACKS . . . Two good looking couple* at the park last Saturday night were AWS’s proxy Martha McCall with the law school’* silvery - tongued George Bernie, and Kappa’s Gayle Buchanan with sparkling research economist Bill Hall . . . Speaking of Bill Hall, wouldn’t, kid brother Barney make a good man to run against Noel Benson, Bill Tease, Bill Dalton, or any one you might suggest for ASUO chief next spring (it’s only about two months away) . . . Hasn’t Marie Rasmussen the most sparkling eyes . . . Longest titled woman on the campus, Iris Da vis, Secretary to Ralph Schomp and the educational Activities Department Office, is smiling again. Swim Coach Mike Hoy man, up, around, and over the flu is a good reason why . . . Modern nursery rhyme teachers now sing “Toni had a little lamb” instead of Mary. Gamma 1’hi’s pride, Miss Lucas created more than a stir Monday in the Side by appearing with one (a lamb) in arms. It was beautiful, and fleecy white?? . . . What’s the “IT” recipe that Ken Turdy and Wally Johansen have? Ever since the hoopers trecked north campus males who have WSC feminine friends have been be seiged by requests tor Turdy and Johansen photos. Might be Wal ly’s hat. Truly Joe College per sonified . . . Quack, Quack. Symphony (Continued from foge one) will play Sarasate's “Zigeunerweis jsen,” and Hal Young, professor of 1 voice, will sing an aria from Mas ' sanet's “Manon." Miss Johnson, who has been! studying violin for 10 years, is \ concert master of the orchestra and a member of Phi Beta, wo-! men's national music and drama honorary Mr. Young has sung in the Bast with the America Opera ' company, played in grand and light opera, aud is a nationally known tenor. Everyone planning to attend the broadcast is urged by Mr. Young to come early and get a good seat. The program will be relayed from Eugene to Portland by private i 'wire and broadcast from there. To bring home the need for universal attention to traffic safety, the American Legion held a “Death Parade” in Los Angeles, with floats like the above one to impress the walking, thinking, and driving public. I Tune ’er Out... By JACK TOWNSEND TUNE ER OUT— 2sm TONIGHT’S REST BET£> 5:00 p.m. — KGW — One Man’s Family. 6:00 p.m.—KGW—U. of O. Sym phony. 6:30 p.m.—KGW-Thrills (pre mier). 7:00 p.m.—KGW—Hit Parade. 8:30 p.m.—KORE — Emerald of the Air. 8:30 p.m. — KOIN — Burns and Allen. Tonight's Emerald of the Air program will center around the coming performance of the Ballet Russe on the campus. Bill Luber sky, not of the troupe, will be in charge. Other ASUO features will fill up the half hour program.— KORE—8:00. Another feature of the Univer sity of Oregon’s tonight on the air will be the nationwide broad cast of the University Symphony orchestra in a half hour concert. It's the music aditorium at 6 o’ clock, otherwise tunc in on KGW. Nino Martini and Andre Koste lanetz' orchestra will combine to night to give the air waves some thing to rave about. Martini is a fine tenor and Andre has one of the best orchestras in America so you can see what a hit this pro gram should make.—KOIN—9:00. Merideth Willson, NBC musical director, will present a cartoon of Greta Garbo in the form of music on his broadcast tonight. This will be a new departure in the field of music, and if it goes over it will become a feature of the Will son programs.—KGW—7:30. Thrills, a new program being Soup Heiress Curries On Accustomed to being waited on lij solicitous servants, Margaret Dorrance of Philadalphia, heiress to the huge Dorrance soup for tune, finds it a larU to lunch cafe t-ria stjle at the Br\u Mawr, Pa., horse show. featured by the Union Oil com pany will have its premier tonight. Bramatic episodes of people’s lives will be portrayed (sounds sort of like some of Philip Lord's pro grams). David Broeckman’s or chestra will provide the musical background for the half hour.— KGW—6:30. Short Circuits: Something you’ll never read in Winchell’s column: Fred Astaire and Ben Bernie, who like each other’s radio programs, exchanged compliments after their Tuesday night broadcasts last week at the Hollywood NBC studios. Fred at tended as much of the Ole Mae stro’s show as his schedule would permit, and when Bernie signed off he immediately slipped into Astaire's broadcast. “Tell Winchell,” said Ben, “that it wasn’t professional courtesy!" Campus Calendar Hospital patients today are: Marget Johnson, Betty Dye, Jean Beard, Amy Johnson, Anne Her ronkohl, Patsy Taylor, Louise Plummer, Eva Klenk, Jean Silli man, Barbara Burnham, Mary Hin ish, Ellen Adams, California Scott, Virginia Ireland, Muriel Nicholas, Dorothy Blair, Jeanne Sherrad, Brock Miller, Joe McPhec, and Walter Wood. Emergency hospita l patients to day are: Cecil Curl, William Fornas, William Dougherty, Rol lin Boles, Melvin Shcvack* Gordon Williams, Walter Forbes, Clifford Thomas, Donald Anderson, De mosthenes Chornes, G. Lantbrop, Bill Vermillion, Pat Frizzell, Vernon Bugler, Douglas Pelton. Wayne Harbert, James Dimit, Ver lin Wolfe, Homer Graham, and Edgar Moore. Master Dance will not meet to night. All honoraries must sign up for Oregana pictures today in the Ore gana office. Frances Schaump has asked that all Kwamas collect rummage from their living organizations and lave it ready for pickup by Wed lesday evening, January 27. It is to be used for the faculty rum mage sale to be held February 12 and 13. Mortar Board active members please meet with Virginia Endi :ott at the journalism shack at 1 I'clock today for a short meeting. Gamma Alpha Chi will meet at loon today at the Anchorage. Alpha Delta Sigma, mens ad vertising honorary, has postponed :he meeting scheduled for tonight intil toniorrow night at 6:00 p.m. it the Cafe Del Rey. All members of the men’s pub ic discussion gToup, both dealing ■vith the supreme court and pres ?nt-day government, will meet at 11:30 a.m. Thursday on rear steps if Jolipson hall for a group pic :ure. ‘'Socialism" will be discussed to light at 7:30 at the current prob ejns forum at Westminster bouse. Eddie Vail requests that all par acipants in Ballet Moose report to um tonight at 7 o'clock at Ger inger hall. jet a shake at TAVLOlt'S.—adv Hop’s SKIPS 6- JUMPS By ORVAL HOPKINS | HAVE another swell idea. This * one is really a dilly and for a small sum I'll let some of the big shots in on it. Hah—it’s so obvious it makes me laff. Dispatches, let alone evidence, tell that today begins the eighty ninth day of the Pacific coast mari time strike. It throws some 40,000 men out of work and costs some $7,000,000 per day in clogged com merce. Detroit and FJint struggle with the auto strike. It seems the boys go into the place, and ‘jest set.” This paralyzes another great industry, throwing thou sands out of work while John L. Lewis flays someone here and predicts there and threatens in still another locale. Throughout the middlewest men and women are packing up and moving out, the stamp of defeating, discouraging, relent less hardship on their faces. There are thousands of them. Some move on, some stay there and sweat. Add to these the millions (be tween nine and twelve, according to whose figures you use) of un employed who hang on and hang on in spite all anyone does. It makes a pretty fair body of men. It makes a pretty good chunk of paralysis. It makes a hell of a good load of worry and discomfort and hunger and what’s known as “fruitless starving.” IgUT this idea could fix it. Just imagine all those men going back to work, every last one of them. Imagine the greatest up turn in industry the country has ever seen. The strikes in Detroit and on the coast settled in two hours. Commerce and shipping ex perience the most driving, steam ing, powerful surge it had known in centuries. Every industry you could men tion — every one — makes a new start and goes ahead faster, faster, more goods, more money, more credit, more men, men, MEN. The country seething with activity. Everybody making money and spending it so fast they barely have a chance to see it. Prosperity, wealth, happiness, hey-hey! Hey-hey yourself. The answer is of course obvious. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, published daily during the college year exvcpt 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 80. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscrip tion rate, $3.00 a year. BUSINESS STAFF Circulation Manager.Caroline Ilaml Frances Olson.Executive Secretary Copy Service Department Manager . .Venita Brous National Advertising Manager .Patsy Neal ....Assistant: Eleanor Anderson. Collection Manager.Reed Swenson Friday Last Day To Enter Jewett Speech Contest Friday, January 29, has been set by John Casteel, professor of speech, as the last day that stu dents may sign up for the annual W, F. Jewett discussion contest, to be held February 3. Each participant will prepare a three - minute extemporaneous speech on some specific phase of the general subject, "Problems of Peace and War.’’ He will then be questioned by the judges on his phase of the subject and his an swers will be limited to one minute each. Prizes of $25, $15, and $5 will be awarded. At present only three students are signed up: Howard Kessler, Ken Shipley, and Dean Ellis. A contest on reading of poetry will be held on February 11. Law School Hears Judge Talk on Court Practices Judge Louis P. Hewitt, of de partment five, Multnomah county circuit court, spoke Saturday morning at ^ law school student body assembly on the topic, "Prac tices in the Courtroom.” Judge Hewitt’s address was the first of the series of law students talks to be given this term. His talk concerned the procedure and conduct of various trials, and was liberally filled with incidents and anecdotes of his experiences before the court. Judge Hewitt was a classmate of Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter. All we need is a good, honest-to God headline. Just one real rock ’em and sock ’em head line. WAR DECLARED!! Send the Emerald to your friends. Subscriptions only $3.00 per year. It’s a Swell Idea Share the joys of your col lege days with the folks at home. They will enjoy reading your paper and they will feel closer to you by being able to do so. They are interested in the activities and the life sur rounding your school just as every loyal Oregon stu dent. Subscribe now to the Em erald for them