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Assistant managing editor: Day editor:
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What, Still Alive?
JN AN editorial l>aek towards the first of
fall term we declared that, llell Week was
a thing of the past on the Oregon campus.
We made that statement in a very positive
tone and went on to declare the passing of
the antique practice to he a good riddance.
'Well, it was a bit of wishful thinking.
Since that time circumstance has given
the lie to our assertion. Hell Week, as evi
denced in the prc-initialory goings-on of sev
eral fraternities during the past few weeks,
is only a ghost of its former self—but defi
nitely it is alive and kicking.
We could excuse our faulty observation
in any number of ways. We could say, for
instance, we knew all the lime that Hell Week
wasn’t done for and that we slyly hoped, by
conveying' the impression that it, was, to put
its still-existing devotees in the embarrass
ingly quixotic position of appearing to revive
an out-of-date practice. Or we could aver
that Hell Week actually was dead at the time
we wrote, and that its recent appearance is
only a patehed-up resurrection.
Or we could tell the truth and say that
what we mistook for the demise of llell Week
was only its natural comatose period between
initiations.
At any rate, it isn’t dead.
rjpilAT Hell Week should still linger on this
campus is a matter productive of thought.
The national interfraternity council has
gone on record against it.
The national organizations of individual
fraternities have repeatedly announced their
disapproval of it.
The more enlightened fraternal chapters
on this campus and on others throughout the
nation have done away with it.
Presidents and deans of many universities
have reiterated their opposition to it, even
going so far as to forbid it in many eases.
The president ami the dean of men ol‘
this university are opposed to it.
A great body of students of this university
and elsewhere are against it.
And still it lives.
Talk about a cat's nine lives!
MAT can be said in favor of Hell Week .’
Its supporters claim for it four prin
cipal merits: It is important as a preparation
for the formal initiation; it is valuable in a
disciplinary way “to show frosh their pro
per place"* it forms a sort of “common ad
venture'-' which knits the pledge class to
gether. and it affords an enjoyable subject
for revery in the days after graduation when
1he cares of life begin to grow heavy upon
the alumni brow.
This, of course, is a lot of nonsense.
The real reason why Hell Week remains
is that it gratifies certain mildly sadistic
urges which appear to be present in many,
if not all people, but which moral enlighten
ment might be expected to suppress. A col
lege education, incidentally, is supposed to
contribute considerably to that enlighten
ment.
But let’s scan those claims made for Hell
*
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JS THIS strenuous fire-initialion of any
value as a preparation for formal initia
tion? We say. no! Tliat is, if all the eero
luouy through which a noviee is conducted
into formal membership is intended to im
press him with the dignity of the undertak
ing.
Is Hell Week a valuable discipline for
freshmen? We'll answer that with another
question: can there he any value in a discip
line that has no connection with dut> t
Does the “common adventure” through
which pledge go during Hell Week bind them
togetehr as a group? Our experience is that
it does unite them: it unites them in a com
1
mon hatred against the lustier paddle-swing
ers among the initiators. There are better
ways of securing class unity—common par
ticipation in constructive activities, for in
stance.
Is Hell Week worth preserving because
it furnishes a delightful subject of revery for
alumni? We doubt whether there are many
grads whose most treasured memory of the
University is the hazing Ihey Went through.
There probably are a l'ew, for there are all
sorts of people. But we have our opinion of
a graduate who has no more worthwhile recol
lections of his college career.
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L0 US, as wd have said before, Hell Week
is a relic of those by-gone days of the
hip flask and the racoon coat. It's one of
those antiquated tilings that schools the
country over are leaving behind in this new
age of academic seriousness.
When will the backward fraternities of
Oregon wake up to the fact that we’re living
in a new era—to the fact that the American
campus lias gone off and left Iiell Week with
its childish barbarities?
Men and Nations
By HOWARD KESSLER
You rend: “Water, Famine, and Hunger Plague
Flood-Hidden Cities . . , 800,000 Homeless, 132
Dead, Damage, $300,000,000.”
You say: “Something oughta be done about it.
This thing happens every year. Why don’t they
do something?”
You do: “Well, I’ve given $20 to the Red Cross.
Guess I done my duty.”
Do you know the WHY of floods, the HOW of
preventing them?
Last March in the Northeastern United States
425,000 were driven from their homes, the loss
was $500,000,000, and 175 lives.
The Connecticut valley lost farm soil at the
rate of five-and-a-half tons a second.
Floods carried away enough soli to fill the
ears of a freight train that would stretch around
the earth at the. equator one-and-a-huif times.
Cause and Effect
Why? Are floods unpreventable natural phe
nomena ? Or are they due to man's stupidity ?
The answer is: Both.
“It was a beautiful thing to look upon, a sea
where there had been open fields, for on each
side of the river the water extended over 20
leagues of land and all of this area was navigated
by canoes and nothing was seen but the tops of
the trees.”
Thus wrote Vega, historian of the DeSoto ex
pedition, in contemplating a Mississippi flood in
1543. So floods did occur before the occupancy of
the region by whites.
Two years ago I hitch-hiked from New York
to Alberta during the May floods of that year,
when the Missouri and its tributaries were rav
aging Kansas, Missouri, and several other states.
I stood on the safe bank of the river in Topeka
with thousands of spectators and watched houses
come floating down, occasionally corpses of ani
mals. What struck me about the Kansas was its
muckiness. Houses were comparatively minor de
tails. But these swollen waters were carrying the
life-sustaining soil of Kansas away to the sea.
“I dipped up a glass of water from the flood
ed I’otoinac,” says Kura I Klectrifleution Adminis
trator Morris Cooke in Survey Graphic, “and the
tumbler was filled wi*h a brown liquid. A day
later the water was qui'e clear, but three-eights
of an inch of soil lay on the bottom of the glass."
IIV Need Top Stdl
Dr. Paul Sears of Oklahoma university writes:
"This week, travelling through the oldest agricul -
tural states of the Union the writer has scarcely
seen a place where the old top layer of soil is
left. Careless methods of farming have allowed
it to wash away.
“It is this dark, spongy top layer of soil, what
tlu* specialists call the A-hori/.on, which is our
only effective protection against flood.”
Back to Mr. Cooke: "Our policy has been to
drain the water off the land as fast as we can.
and get it out to sea. We must hold that water
where it falls, and build up the fertile topsoil. Not
an easy task, for it requires four centuries to
make one inch of topsoil.
"It can lie done, however, b\ terracing, contour
plowing, strip cropping, crop rotation, reforesta
tion, storage reservoirs at headwaters to impound
the surplus water of spring thaws and rains. Tin
volume of run-off water can lie reduced -*> percent
by these means.
"This country will lose its virile national exist
ence within the next 100 years unless its citizens
stop squandering the soil."
Mississiftfti M ml
There have been other grave errors. Mississ- J
ippi valley laud is extraordinarily fertile. Farmer,
wanted all of it they could get. so they drained \
swamps, which had always been safety outlets for
flood waters, and constructed ever higher levees j
and dikes to get the rich land close to the river j
Sediment dropped to the river bed, slowly adding
inehes of soil and forcing the water higher, higher, ;
higher. Now the dikes loom dozens ol feet over
the farms Comes a tune when the mighty Misi
Issippi bursts its confining walls and roars down
upon the cotters. Destruction.
Today, water pour - off the upstream land "like
wafer off a tin root." It must be held back.
The -Soil Kroxion Service lias built almost a
million dams to cheek tile small stream. Senator
Norris wan's a T\ V tor the Ohio. Communities
build walls. The government is taking the prob
lem to Its bosom. But this is not enough.
Kadi and every land owner in America owes
it to himself and to his fellow-countrymen to edu
cate himself in the proper care of the soil he
farms.
1
Hero Rescue Foort Ttakes Mari's Life
Neveda snow engulfed Fred Miller, standing be side the stranded car, when he attempted to bring aid
1 to the stranded Prettyman party, stranded 22 days in the snow-swept Gold Range near Las Vegas, Nev.
j The picture of Miller was snapped just before he left the party in an attempt to reach help. The upper
photo shows members of the party and rescuers who finally reached them.
QUACKS
By ICJUESSO
UITE unin
was (Ilf assiuri
ed offense done
jolly Prof. Mar
der in yester
day’s drivel. Un
just, we believe,
was the helifire
and hotbricks
he figuratively
heaved at the
Emerald as a
tentional
! result. I no coiyum s intimations
of intimacy were neither serious
nor of questionable nature. Sorry.
Iguesso did not aim to make Mur
der a martyr. Students who do
badly in coming hard tests may
console themselves by blaming
misdirected, misunderstood
Quacks.
Comes a tale from Campbell
Co-op of a sleep-walker extraor
dinary. Romance, and not a bogey
man, was the cause of a recent,
escapade the boys say. The lad,
it seems, is dreaming of girl friend
the other night. He arises, dons
shoes and trench-coat, and wan
ders out into the rain. A few min
utes later the sleep-walker wakes
up and finds himself in front of
Johnson hall. Rain dampened not
only John Miller but his ardor, so
he scurried for home. A wide
awake brother of the Co-op ob
served, received a confession, and
Iguesso flew by the window to pick
up the story.
Perpetual butts of sissified
jokes, the baby blue nrfllraeers
took it in the neck again the
other day at the Mae.. One of
the “After the Thin Man” char
acters pawed through a drawer,
came out with hands full of
sea nl irs. Piped up some wise
guy in a 25-row carrying voice,,
"What is this? . . . the Chi Psi
house." They tuiM raced Jimmy
Morrison for less than that two
years ago.
Tuesday's paper (the Emerald
you dopes) tells the sweet tale of
charming Dale Lasselle acting as
general chairman of the inter-in
firmary social activities being
planned by the mumpers and flu
ites over there.
Questions an oldster on the
sports staff . . . “Back to his true !
element at last, huh?" Mincing;
words, as Dale sometimes does
steps. Iguesso adds, “Football V
Bah! . . . Dance floors? Yah!"
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I"* ACT'LTV man under discussion
today is Ernst. A grand gen
tleman. this pipe-smoking literary 1
man Don't miss one of his some
what novel courses.
Slightly over-loud in his lee- |j
tines, he sometimes scare* his i
seholars. The\ await with anti- i
eipatjon 'he day he shall have
glasses en forehead (as usual) t
and sit tn mistake on some eo- i
eds lap, instead of onlv the arm :
of 'he chair as he sometimes )
does now when attempting to
put over a point.
Overheard ... a back row pupil
expressing the suppressed desire to
some day sit in the front row,
await the proper opportune mo
ment of highest intensity, and then
shout “Boo!" at good Professor
Ernst. It would be fun.
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DUCK TRACKS . . . Title of
Oregon’s “Iron Man” in football
paid dividends. Bob Braddock
now fills the roll of bouncer or
some such position at the park,
and looks right husky and busi
nesslike, too . . . His Sig Chi
brother Irwin (pronounced Oi
one) Cory is the big lad who has
been doing the melodic? croon
ing of swing songs there lately.
. . . What’s happened to Dob
Thomas? There hasn’t been a
good cleanup campaign of resur
rection for three weeks. . . . The
Delts had visitors at their for
mal at the Eugene hotel Friday
night. Mortar Boarder Milly
Biackburne and a San Francisco
Chronicle reporter crashed the
hop for one dance, after tiring
of press conference wanderings.
. . . Add to the pretty gals with
sparkling eyes list I*i Phi’s Caro
line Hand, and Alpha Chi's Shir
ley Steinbaugh. . . . Latest news
on the turf field is that the
original backer of the movement
was some graveyard lover tired
of gravestones and gravelstones.
. . . Quackery, pure and simple,
quackery.
Passing Show
(Continued from page one)
Michigan Fisher body plants, fol
lowing the undisturbed return of
40.000 employees in ten Chevrolet
plants yesterday. Sit-down strik
ers made no move yesterday to in.
terfere.
Secretary of Labor Frances Per
kins announced from Washington
yesterday that the conference with
strikers' representatives “devel
oped a suituation which will make
a settlement quite possible if the
third party consents.”
Albred D. Sloan, Jr., GM presi-*
dent, stood firm yesterday in his
refusal to negotiate until the
plants “seized” by “trespassers”
ire evacuated, and denied charges
that his company was responsible
for negotiation failures.
Coeds Postpone
(Continued from page rue)
future to contact alumni of the
University. Members of the drive
;ommittee feel that since two have
espon elect without personal con- ,
act, there will be others who will
>ive their donations.
Cheater Sets
{Continued from page enci
>lav and direct rehearsals. j'
A production schedule of five
najor stage successes during a i
even month period is without pre-11
edent in the history of the Uni- j
ersity theater, according to Mrs. j
teybolt. who has been director of
he local group for nine years, j 1
Tune ’er
Out...
By JACK TOWNSEND
TONIGHT’S BEST BETS
5:00 p. m. — KGW — Rudy Val-j
lee.
6:00 p. m. — KOIN — Major
Bowes.
7:00 p. m.—KGW—Bing Crosby.
8:15 p. m. — KGW — Standard
Symphony.
Victor McLaglen, the burly mov
ie star, will spar with Bing Crosby
tonight on the Music Hall pro
gram. McLaglen is scheduled to
spin some yarns of his long and
colorful career. He has been ev
erything from a boxer in Canada,
to a soldier in Australia. It should
be good.—KGW—7:00.
Brian Aherne, who divides his
time between the New York
stage and Hollywood, will go a
few rounds with Rudy Vallee to
night. He is scheduled to appear
In a dramatic skit from one of
his many hits on the stage. Ed
Bergen, the ■ ventriloquist, and
his dummy, will not foe on the
program because the dummy (?)
has a bad cold in his chest.
(Humph) —KGW—5:00.
That happens to he that, in the
way on programs as 111 Sutter
street is getting rather lax again.
To the National Broadcasting
company . . . Saluta! . . . NBC has
been doing fine work in the way
of broadcasting the flood situation.
Not only are they doing their part
in helping get messages through
in the stricken area, but they have
given us some good eye-witness
accounts of the horrors and suf
fering that goes hand in hand with
such a flood.
Roving announcers with small
portable transmitters are roam
ing around getting bits here
and bits there, that are handed
out to the listening public
through a rebroadeast on the
standard wave-lengths.
Until every person is safe and ;
until there is no longer a need for j
these broadcasts, NBC will keep
its contact points and its networks
open, according to S. N. Strotz, j
jentral division program manager.
Freddy Martin, Penthouse Sere
nade conductor, says he suffered
:;is first keen disappointment when
le was kicked out of a boys' band
at school for crying because he
,vas kept in late and so missed a
rehearsal.
We will have guest writer Bob
Pollock on hand for tomorrow's
rolumn.
Such a program is made possible
ay dividing the actors into two
units, rehearsing simultaneously.
Opening with the sensational ‘ Bury
die Dead." a scant month after be.;
jinning of fall term, the group
presented two popular return en-•
jagcments of the same play, closed
he fall season with “Goodbye
\gain" and opened two weeks af
er the holidays with “The Shining .
tour."
Send the Emerald to your friends.
so man works at TAMOR’S. adv.
Campus
Calendar
Infirmary patients today are:
Betty Dye, Jean Beard, Amy
Johnson, Anne Herronkohl, Patsy
Taylor, Louise Plummer, Jean Sil
liman, Barbara Burnham, Ellen
Adams, California Scott, Virginia
Ireland, Muriel Nicholas, Dorothy
Blair, Jeanne Sherrad, Brock Mil
ler, Walter Wood, Veneta Brous
Dorothy Hagge, Jerry Chessman,
and Betty Onthank.
Emergency hospital patients
are: Cecil Curl, William Fornas,
William Dougherty, Hollin Boles,
Gordon Williams, Walter Forbers,
Clifford Thomas, G. Lanthrop,
Bill Vermillion, Pat Frizzell, Ver
non Bugler, Douglas Felton,
Wayne Harbert, Homer Graham,
Edgar Moore, Walt Bratney, Bill
Zimmerman, Norman Rankin,
Herbert Ehrsam, and Fayette
Thompson.
Heads of houses will meet at 5
o’clock Thursday in the AWS room
at Gerlinger hall. Pearl Johansen,
president, will preside.
Hui-O-Kaaliana will meet at
Taylor's tonight at 9:30.
YWCA Sophomore commission
will meet tonight at 5 o’clock at
the YWCA hut.
The regular Thursday meeting
of the American Student Union
has been postponed.
Westminster players meet today
at 4. All those participating in
plays last term please be present.
All committee heads for the Bal
let Russe will meet in the College
Side at 4 o’clock today.
All members of Pi Delta Phi,
French honorary, are urged to be
present at a meeting for the elec
tion of new members today, Thurs
day at 5 o’clock in room 4 of Ore
gon.
Christian Science organization
meets tonight in Gerlinger at 8
o’clock. All members be present
for the special business meeting.
The Oregon Daily Emerald, official
student publication of the University or
Oregon, Eugene, published daily during
the cdSege 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.
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Work at Pole
(Continued from page one)
shown on maps. The advance base
is pictured where Admiral Byrd
spent five months of winter night
to secure scientific weather data.
This expedition nearly killed him
when gas fumes from a faulty flue
overcame him. He was left weak
ened at this distant post for three
months, beyond all help from his
comrades.
The admiral is greatly admired
through the nation for his daring
feats and admirable qualities. A
record that he is justly proud of is
that of never having lost a man on
his expeditions.
Much scientific information was
gathered by his skillful staff.
Twenty-two branches of science
were aided by this expedition, and
many theories advanced by this
data. Admiral Byrd believes that
the Antarctic region will some day
warm up when the present ice-age
is ended there. When the weather
becomes as it once was, according
to Admiral Byrd, the vast mineral
deposits will become available.
Concert Heard
(Continued from page one)
Hoogstraten, director of the Port
land symphony orchestra. The
maestro was unable to attend the
program as perviously announced.
A second number, “Ah, Moon of
My Delight” from Lehmann’s "In
A Persion Garden,” was sung by
Hal Young.
As a final number, the sym
phony orchestra played the stirring
Perlude to Act Three from the
Wagner opera "Lohengrin.”
Applause, which had been with
held by request during the pro
gram sounded again and again.
UP TO SNUFF
Venita Brous and Ellen Hill
Maybe the weather has something to do with it,
but this week's new clothes show everything from
fur coats to print dresses.
A beige camel’s hair suit, purchased at GOR
DON'S, is the choice of RUTH FORD, Delta Gam
ma, to start a spring wardrobe. The suit is topped
by a tight-fitted bolero jacket with a short beaver
collar. Just another sign of the prominence that
boleros are going to have these next few months.
MARY PIKE, Gamma Phi Beta, has chosen a
white satin sport blouse to wear with her three
piece wool tile suit. The blouse has pockets, short
sleeves, and is trimmed with pearl buttons. A pleat
in the back and tucks (just like a man's shirt)
make it high style for the season. From WASH
BURNE'S.
Alpha Chi Omega s LILA HELBERG is wearing
one of the smartest sweaters on the campus. It is
a Tyrolian vest with red, green, and black trim
ming on white. A candy striped tie completes the
effect. She bought it at DUDLEY FIELD’S.
HELEN HURST, Gamma Phi Beta, has a two
piece challis dress from HADLEY'S with an orange
and green design against a brown background.
The dress has a peter pan collar of the same ma?
terial, puffed three-quarter length sleeves and a
plain skirt.,
I
Th fur coat of the week belongs to HELEN
WOLFE, Hendricks Hall. It is brown caracul with
very large sleeves and a small collar. The length •
is the proverbial three-fourths. She purchased it
from WASHBURNE'S.
SIDE SHOTS: Latest nominations for the two
best lines on the campus — GAIL FERRIS and
JACK WAGSTAFF. What senior in law school
received this telegram from Boise? “Have wonder
ful evening am lonesome and feel foolish want pan
ties". And we understand that WAYNE “HAPPY"
VALLEY is having population troubles with a cer
tain Alpha Phi and a well-known brunette on the
campus. Public enemy number one—JIM HAGUE,
freshman, who wears ties and does not wear tin
pants. Also the students who walk along “hello"
lane and don’t say hello. Rumor has it that RALPH
TURGESON, Kappa Sigma, is offering free lesssons
on how to do the Norwegian Hop. Come one, come
all. And then there are those collegians who are
wondering how long DAVE GAMMON practiced
that speech, “I owe it all to my father." Last, and
maybe the funniest, EN SHIPLEY. Phi Delt, who
made the prize crack of the week after seeing ’
all the adding machines at Commerce that Mr. Bur
rell was certainly a popular man or else he had a
lot of money, because his name was engraved on all
the machines.
It is rumored that a campus social side-shot
is coming to the Beaux Arts Ball in a novel disguise.
In keeping with the maritime motif he plans to
come in as mean a mood as possible and under the
influence of boughten spirits. The Disguise? A
pickled crab—you dopes. . . .