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Blot on the Escutcheon
JT WAS .just a year ago this week when a
rampaging, championship - bent pack of
Huskies ripped the feathers of I a forlorn
I)uek by 20-point margins two nights in a
row. But the most outstanding feature of
those two games was not the skill of the
Washington squad, nor the weakness of Ore
gon before their attack. It was a mass demon
stration of rudeness by Oregon rooters that
could scarcely be paralleled in the history of
the University.
Saturday night was the worst. Friday the
Ducks had been drubbed 42-22, and Saturday
the Oregon squad was wobbling just as badly
before the certainty of the Washington drive.
Three thousand Webfoot rooters were in de
spair. Then there came what looked to all
like a couple of raw decisions by the referee,
and “boos” surged up in a mounting volume
that wasn’t stilled until the officials had
awarded the Huskies two technical fouls.
Those two foul shots were by no means
necessary to the Washington margin of vic
tory; for they won 51-23. It wasn't the mere
loss of points resulting from this mob dis
order that made it so bad. It was tht* reputa
tion for poor sportsmanship that it gave Ore
gon supporters.
* • *
SPOUTS commentator in tin* Seattle
Post -Intelligencer tin- other day served,
notice that Washington has not forgotten
that exhibit ion of discourtesy.
“All s fair in love, war, or basketball in
the L. of Oregon seat of learning,-’ lie de
clared, “and the crowds use their vocal facili
ties in a manner which would shock those of
us who prefer gentlemanly and lady-like
audiences.
“They hoot. howl, and make uncouth
noises through tightly compressed lips, and
the poor referee, lie .just stuffs a liberal sup
ply of cotton in his ears, and hopes for the
Wst.V visiting team has to possess steel
nerves to win down there the hostility of
the crowd is so strong that you ran almost
cut it with a knife.”
l>ut we didu t take this criticism lying
down, by any means. What we resented par
tie utility was the winters characterization of
Oregon roofirs as uncouth and hostile in the
present tense. We thought it was a rather
broad conclusion to use those two evenings as
evidence that Webloot rooters are character
istically boorish.
SO last night wo kept an accurate
tabulation of Oregon untow avdness. So»
i\ to say, tlio results wore not definitely
vindicative of out' manners.
Tlioi'o wore seventeen “boos,” eight eai
ealls, no hisses, no broil\ cheers, six jeered
decisions, three jeers at undetected fouls,one
laugh at a decision, and one baiting of a
W ashington player.
■An extenuating feature of these vocal out
bursts was that none of them were prolonged.
l>ut we don t really know how to interpret
these statistics, for we have no basis for com
parison. it might well be that the number,
amplitude, and technique of last night's
vocalizations were elmraeteristu* of a normal
crowd of excited basketball fans, lint, on the
other haud, it might be that W'ebfooters dem
onstrated themselves to be incomparably more
discourteous than the student bodies of, say
Washington or Oregon State.
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A matter of laet, the tabulation of gross
animal noises among ball fans has never
been undertaken on an exactly scientific
basis, and until such a scientific treatment of
these phenomena is made we are not prepared
to accept the dictum of the 1’ 1 scribe. JYoh
ahly the obstacles to such an endeavor at
exactness put it forever beyond accomplish
ment ; but there is hope that the honor of the
old alma mammy may be restored, if Oregon
fans on their own impulse will exercise re
straint over their more barbaric vocal urges.
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'I'HOSE dramatic: Oregon Ducks passed the
half-way mark in the conference schedule
last night—passed it ip first place, one half
gamc ahead of Washington State college and
with an won and lost average of .750.
The team which sports experts a month
ago were picking to place no better than
third roared up and down McArthur court
and battered the touted Washington Huskies
for their sixth victory of the season.
We can’t say 1 told you so. The Ducks
aren’t “in” yet' in the conference race, not
by several cinch shots. But last night they
gave Oregon rooters a new thrill—the chance
to yell for a team on top. Those rooters were
grateful, too. They were of two minds last
night as they whooped their exhausted way
out of McArthur court. The more pessimistic
and stolid fans were predicting an Oregon
victory tonight. More imaginative and drunk
with the heady wine of victory, others were
wondering whom Coach Hobson would dele
gate to guard Stanford’s machine gun man of
the maple—Ilank Buisetti—in the conference
play-offs.
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JT\S FAR too early for that kind of ‘iffiug.’
However, those surprising Oregon men
played top-notch basketball last night. Aside
from annexing high-score honors, John Lewis
made himself the third man in Oregon's fast
breaking offense. Paired with sophomores
Anet and Johansen, Lewis completed what a
hockey fan would call a flashing front lipe.
Anyone who think Oregon’s showing was
a flash in the pan should think it over. There
were five men out there last night, their
motives conflicting directly with the Lemon
and Green five as they chased the ball up and
down the floor. Chuck Wagner and Bob Egge
are a pair of guards who. cau play basketball
on anybody’s team,—up fan could help but
notice their hawk-like checking last night.
It’s far too early to, predict that the coast
conference title will; leave the Washington
Wigwam for the first time hr years. This Is
a year to shatter precedents—Oregon beat
Washington for the first time in McArthur
copi't last night, smashing one. It's too early,
all right, to be that optimistic—but pliooey
on Duke Ellington if Ralph Sc ho nip can offer
a conference playoff as that long awaited
bonus attraction.
c
Miscellany
By ERNEST L. MEYER
Most serious of the charges again Dr. Glenn
Frank, president of the University of Wisconsin,
who this week faces trial before his board of
regents on charges of incompetency, is that he
fails to square pledges with performance. Anil in
so doing has iost the loyalty of the more honest
members of his faculty and the more discerning
citizens of his state.
The charge is absolutely true. Dr. Frank is an
elocutionary liberal, a speaker of such persuasive
poise and polish that in debate the weapons of his
opponents remain ingloriously stuck in the syrup
of his eloquence.
An example will make the point clear. The
depression was late in hitting Wisconsin. And
when it did strike with full violence in lt>32 Dr.
Frank was roaming up and down the country
speaking, for a fee, from many rostrums and
ladling out his patent medicine for economic sal
vation. His recipe was "redistribution of income.”
For the “Little Men”
On April to, 1932. in un address to the Ameri
can Academy of Political and Social Science at
Philadelphia, he said: "A too exclusive concern
with t.be interests of big men has stalled the eco
nomic machine. The key to a renewed economic
life is the realization that the income of the little
men will ultimately decide the poverty or pros
perity of the economic order. Economic states
manship must not rest until it increases generally
the lower incomes of the little men.”
These are fine, fat and rolling phrases. Came
the time to put them into practice. Governor Phil
La Follettc, taking the lead, voluntarily slashed
his own $7,500 salary 20 per cent. People of the
state looked to Dr. Frank to follow suit, but Dr.
Frank clung to his $18,000 honorarium, his $13,000
expense account, his free residence, his free de
luxe Lincoln, his chauffeur, his $20,000 revenue for
writing and syndicating a column on university
time rnd his paid-for speeches on behalf of the
“little men.”
In writing tins l am aware that 1 sound like a
demagogue and rabble rouser, or at least like one
who begrudes the rendering unto Caesar. This 1
do begrudge when Caesar is only a Caesar on a
soapbox.
What happened was that to balance the uni
versity budget Dr. Frank and a committee of re
gents he dominated put into effect a system of
“salary waivers” w hereby the faculty accepted pay
cuts running from 12 per cent on a salary of $300
or less to 10 per cent on a salary of $3 000 and 20
per cent on a salary of $20,000. The greatest bur
den thereby falling on the "little men."
Case of a Poor Scholar
1 was living in Madison at the time, 1933, mid
I did not fully realize what this "salary-waiver '
business meant until my w ife and l had for supper
one night a brilliant young scholar who was i\
ceiving from the university the staggering pay of
$30 a month. For his $30 a month he corrected
blue books for two large sections in philosop!¥\.
Couldn’t Catch a Cold
VG**3
V/HY HE HASN'T
HAD THE FLUtET,
«
helped his professor in secretarial and conference
duties an,d used what spare time he could find to
work on his doctor’s dissertation,
This scholar had been cut 12 per cent on his
$30 salary, or $3,60 a month.
“It means,” he said simply, “that I have to give
up cigarettes and one meal a day.”
He was only a “little man,” and to heck with
! him and his cigarettes. Meanwhile, besides his
salary, I?r. Frank, who spouts about redistribution
of income, was receiving as expenses from the
state during the depression years: In 1931, $13,06S;
in 1932, $M,3-t3; in 1933, $16,513; in 1934, $13,310,
and in 1935, $11,571
And-only last year Hr. Frank had the effron
tery to recommend that the university income be
increased, by raising student fees, a proposition so
shocking in the face of his own extravagance that
it was promptly rejected by the regents.
Sullying a Tradition
Now all this may sound somewhat picayunish,
but it is important^in analyzing the background of
the revolt of all real Wisconsin liberals against the
fake liberalism of Dr. Frank.
The predecessors of Dr. Frank w’ere Charles
R. Van Hise and Dean A. E. Birge, both of whom
I knew quite well. Both were liberals in spirit and
so hopest that they were under no compulsion to
prove it in pompous orations. Both were respected
for their scholarship, Van Hise in geology ar.d
Birge in biology. Both lived simply and when
they entertained, entertained simply.
Dr. Frank is no scholar and what respect he
receives from the men on his faculty is based on
called, in all justice, a Great Gliberal.—New York
expediency rather than honesty. His opus, “Thun
der and Dawn,’’ is such a windy portfolio of pre
tentiousness that I have yet to find a member of
his own staff who has managed to wade through
its pages, a feat to which I lay claim with great
modesty but with a still greater weariness.
And when the Franks entertain they entertain
mostly , and lavishly the bluebloods and bigwigs in
politics.; and business and society and the high
salaried-satellites of the prexy, with occasional
paternalistic gestures toward the “little men.”
The result in Wisconsin is not animated by
“politics.” It is a wholesome and needed uprising
against an academic stuffed shirt who has be
trayed the progressive and democratic ideals for
which the university has been famous.
Neither is it a “surprise attack,” which friends
of Dr. Frank claim, because Dr. Frank has known
for months and even years that he was slated for
the skids.
It is revelatory to find the defense of Dr. Frank
led chiefly by such well-known "liberal” organs
and writers as the Herald Tribune, the pro-Landon
St. Douis Post-Dispatch, Mark Sullivan, and espe
cially Walter Lippmann, who in the field of jour
nalism is another Glenn Frank. Ea,ch might be
Post.
QUACKS
By 1UIKSSO
II
CA M PUS
amateur or
nithologists
were in a stew
last w c c k as
\ aricd robins
flocked to the
V u i v e t s i t y
greens. Words
l'levv as argu
nt e n t a t i o u of
what is and
w ii.li isu •. a. room piexaaieu. vu
agreed on regular robin red breast,
with whom everyone is familiar.
He runs in little steps. 14ut discord
eaiue with discussion ot the smal
ler red-breasted specie, classified
as an Alaska robin. Ue hoys. (Ques
tion was whether the latter was
truly a robin. This week argument
can cease, as worry and sympathy
increases tor robin or uou-robui.
hopping or running through w aist -
high snow and slush.
* * *
So it's Ellington for the ball,
huh ? Good stuff. The more name
bands the better. Which brings to
mind the tale ol a trick Maestro |
Ben Benue played on a Dakota
tank town this summer.
The good maestro, after much j
persuasion, had condescended to
take a week-end flyer from metro
politan Chicago and play in
Brown's Valley, South Dakota.
And all for only $1500 (fifteen
hundred bucks) too.
Mow the citizens of said tank
town were only about 200 in num
ber. But they scored the country
side, advertised with skill, and on
the BIG night managed to draw
some TOO (seven hundred' couples
at !j>o (three bucks) a. throw. A
slight profit.
The attempt was a success,
tank town's citizens three weeks
later again wired Mr. tteruie m
Ins Windy City bide ant, again
ottered $1.'>01I (fifteen hundred
bucks). Mired back Economic
Koyulist Bernik : “tittecu hun
dred bucks question mark stop
will send you my trumpet player
stop answer soon stop love stop
Ben stop kidding me.” It’s a
fact
* *?*
\ one - word characterization
of College Side's Newt
Smith is “stolid,” according to
Iguesso. With typical sarcasm,
Brother Iguesso II comes back
. that he thinks the description
perfect with the “t” left out
. . . “solid.”
* * ffc
Speaking of Smiths, one of our
top faculty men has the name and
precedes it with a S. Stephenson. A
vocabulary plus plus is one of his
many recommendations. Many
many words he knows, an^l special
izes in correct use of all.
Students who enjoy brilliant
conversationalists and have simi
lar aspirations would do well to
cultivate Oregon's Oxford-trained
Prof. Smith. A brilliant mind for
recollection ip his. Only slips are
noticed by third-termers in his
courses, when jokes repeated be
come too familial-. They're usually
good, though.
«!■ S' *
"T^l CK TRACKS . . . From all
reports Sunday's ski train
might have been more appropri
ately named with a "whi” pre
ceding the 'ski," . . . Flu Sig's
perfection in chastity, Cece Bar
ker, had the usual monotony ( .')
of a special-delivery letter every
Sunday at the dinner table brok
en (his weekend by a long-dis
tance call Saturday uight from
bis beloved and betrothed W'SC
coed. . . . Which reminds us that
friends of Althea Peterson con
tend she still receives two a day
and three on Sunday from hand
some Bill Si'hloth, now at Har
vard.Letters, not phone
calls. . . . Sunday's society told
of the marriage of evalum sec
retary Bob Alien and former
campus leader Velina Farnhatn.
. . . Last week we ealled Irwin
(Oi-one) Cory's erooning at the
park melodic with a question
mark. Parkites Saturday dis
agreed, eaiue 01U ot usual silent
stoogy shell, and applauded with
some vigor. Mere than surprised
were leading Sig Chi ctuquers.
[rooT
1* Lights
By EDGAR C. MOORE
TODAY’S ATTRACTIONS
MCDONALD: "Plainsman” and
“Dangerous Number.”
HEILIG: “Theodora.. Goes Wild.”
REX: “Texas Rangers” and
"Three Married Men.”
MA V FLOWER: “Dimples.”
STATE: “Follow the Fleet” and
“Nine Days a Queen.”
“Theodora Goes Wild” at the
Heilig and she brings to us a new
and different Irene Dunn, a dyed
in-the-wool comedienne. This is
probably as light and easy as any
comedy that will come this year.
It definitely had something to it
that held interest and at the same
time drew a multitude of laughs.
Miss Dunn as Theodora is a
small town girl, taken to writing
stories of the "true romance” type.
While at her publishers, she meets
an artist, Melvyn Douglass, who
follows her home and creates a
scandal by his attentions to her.
| She finally falls for him and then
j finds out that he has a wife.
She goes “wild” in trying to in
duce Douglas’ wife to get a di
I vorce and it makes perfect enter
tainment.
Bringing to life “Wild BUT'
■ Hickok, is "The Plainsman,'' at the
McDonald, a fast moving tale of
! the frontier days after the civil
j war. Jean Arthur comes closer to
• stardom for her excellent perform
ances in this picture. She plays as
I “Calamity Jane," frontier beauty
i and woman of action and Hickok.
played by Gary Cooper, falls in
| love with her.
This picture could easily be tak
: eu as a memorial to those who
! helped open the West for the im
I migrants. ,
The photography is exceptional
! ly good.
| . . . For sparking eyes. todu.\,
ZT.Y Kosalynne Kitchen. . . .
A \ er> damp, snow\, si us In .
sopping Qu.uuai.ck, thirty.
Tune ’er
Out...
By JACK TOWNSEND
TONIGHT’S BEST BETS
6:00 p. m.—Ben Bernie.
6:30 p. m. — KGW — Packard
hour.
7:30 p. m. — KGW’ — Jimmy
Fidler.
I 7:55 p. m. — KOBE—Basketball.
8:30 p. m. — KOIN — Pick and
Pat.
9:00 p. m.—KGW—Death Valley
Days.
Comes the revolution! Our
friend Pollock didn't like the way
we ribbed him the other day about
his grand column that he didn't
turn in, so he goes and writes
something that he calls a radio col
umn, but if it's a radio column
then we’re a boiled owl. Here it is:
By BOB POLLOCK
Today the Townsend act is re
pealed and the original Tuner Out
goes on the air, saying nothing—
about as usual.
Recently—because of a pair of
sevens and a five from home—we
accumulated a radio. One of these
Monkey Ward mantel models.
Downtown they put the old bite on
you for $12.95—so it cost us $8.50.
Nice little outfit—brings in
KOA, XER, KOBE—and the
landlady, howling like hell about
the noise. Also brought in a law
student weaving (homeward from
the shingle-hanger’s brawl at the
Del Bey . ; . smart lad—his
mother having been badly fright-..
..ened by an unabridged edition
of Webster some time before his
premier—and he stood incoher
ently in the middle of the floor
and muttered about women and a
babe in Seattle—but this is a
family paper.
About wrestling. Went to a
match the other night in the local
well-padded wring. Well-named.
The boys do their earnest best to
do just that to each other’s necks
and the heart of the grunt and
groan public. Sat in a ring-side
seat—because of an Annie Oakley.
Comes the semi-windup. Sailor
Trout and a guy with whiskers
called Otto Luger. Bout goes on
for a few minutes, suddenly Trout
hoists his carcass into the air
and lets go a flying drop-kick
that fans the Dutchman’s whis
kers but misses him entirely.
But the lads in the two-bit
seats cannot see this. So—with
IT
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an expression of awful agony on
that part of his face visible
above the hirsute decoration—
Luger sits cn the back of his lap,
holding his puss. Would suggest
Ottilie recruit a few actors at
the Armory for her next produc
tion. Those boys can really put
it out.
Prize. The head-writer who
scribbled when men of the desert
had taken Jerusalem: ‘ARABS
CAPTURE CHRIST’S HOME
TOWN.” Thirty.
Passing Show
(Continued from pane one)
for the nation’s motion picture
audiences.
Misses New Deal Issues
Only minor new deal, issues were
ruled upon by the supreme court
decisions were handed down. Im
portant issues concerning proposed
yesterday as the last of its formal
national legislation are expected
to be brought up at the next ses
sion Monday.
Eugene Propeller Club
Installed by Portlander
Because G. K. Conyer, president
of the Port of Portland Propeller
club, was absent Philip Thurmond,
secretary of the Portland Propel
ler club, presented the Port of Eu
gene Propeller club with its char
ter at an installation banquet last
Saturday.
Mr. Thurmond discussed the gen
eral objectives of the club. Calvin
Crumbaker, professor of economics,
, also spoke.
Glenn Kantock, student presi
dent, was general chairman of the
program. A. L. Lomax, professor
of business administration, is hon
orary president.
No man works at TAYLOR’S, adv.
I
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wasting your energy . . . injur
ing your eyes . . . and spoiling
your own chances for better
grades.
Don’t guess about your light
. . . have it checked. Electricity
is so reasonable in Eugene that
the price cannot be considered
in comparison with your sight.
New type I.E.S. study lamps
make adequate lighting pos
sible in any room. Let us check
your lights.