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PUBLISHED BY TIIE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Fred W. Colvig, editor Walter R. Vernstrom, manager LeRoy Mattingly, managing editor Wm. F. Lubersky, Assistant Business Manager Associate editors: Clair Johnson, Virginia Endicott. UPPER NEWS STAFF Pat Frizzell, sports editor. Bernadine Bowman, exchange . ditoi. Paul Deutschmann, assistant managing editor Gladys Battleson, society editor. Paul Plank, radio editor. Lloyd Tupling, news editor. Edwin Robbins, art editor. Clare Jgoe, women’s page editor. Jean Weber, morgue director Chief Night Editors: Bill Davenport. Warren Waldorf Martha Stewart, feature editor. Reporters: Myra Htilser, Rita Wright, Irvin Mann, Bill Pongra, Wen Brooks, Dick Litfin, Bob Ritter. Kathryn Morrow, Louise Aiken, Louise Sheppard, Mary Failing, Margaret Rankin, Alycc Rogers, Laura Bryant, Marolyn Dudley, Parr Aplin, Maxine Glad. Catherine Taylor, Kenneth Kirtley, Betty Jane Thompson, Warren Waldorf. Lew Evans, JIubard Kuokka, Peggy Robbins, Gertrude Carter, Margaret Ray, Stan Hobson, Sports staff: John Pink, Elbert Hawkins, Chuck Van Scoyoc, Bill Norene, Larry Quinlin, Morris Henderson, Russ Iscli, Dick Hutchison, Lucille Stevens. City editors: Jean Kendall, Rita Lee Powell, Katherine Morrow, Jack Townsend, Warren Waldorf, William Robinson, Gladys Battlcson, Mary Kay Booth, Dave Cox, Alice Nelson, Larry Quinlin. Assistant managing editor Day editor: Clare Igoe Irvin Mann Night editors Elbert Hawkins Dear Mom: College Is Fun ~P)i:AK MOM: College is fun. I am having a swell time, oil boy. 1 am kind of low on funds now and junior weekend is eomirig up. Could you send me five dollars? 1 am fine. Love—rJoe. This is a horrible example. It is a horrible example of (he kind of letters that, too, too many college lads and lassies write to the folks at home—or rather the kind of drivel they dignify by calling a letter. \\ c wonder if it ever occurs to these lads and lassies that mother might possibly be in terested in knowing’ just what they are doing — little details of college life would be trem endously interesting- to her. Mothers are funny people. They worry about such things as the kind of food their offspring is getting, and if he lias enough covers to keep him warm at night—a lot of seemingly unimportant things are terribly important to her. # # # JJI'T the average college student has a horror of seeming sentimental, it seems so—well, shucks, its embarrassing to put into writing .just how much we miss mother and the folks at home. And it would probably make the average mother, unused as she is to it, embarrassed and even suspicions. So why not just write and invite mother down for junior weekend, and show her how you feel? What better dinner could there be to really honor her on her day, mother's day, than to invite her to the campus, and enjoy with her the biggest event of the school year ;—junior weekend. The junior weekend directorate is making an effort to get every Oregon mother to visit the campus JMay#7, 8, and ft, and show her student life at its finest. It's a good chance to show mother all those little things that in terest her, too, But don't just take *it for granted that she'll plan on coming down—write to her and urge her to come as your guest. She'll feel twice as happy about coming if she knows you really want her, so why not tell her so? Start out that next letter home by saying: Dear Mom—lie sure to come down for junior weekend.And write it soon. Batteries for Today r r'limtli probably won't, bo os many people out as there won* wlion tin* major leagues opened Monday or as I boro wore when the Beavers brought baseball back to Vanglui street tor the summer, but everything that. J'higcne mereliants ran do and that the Vui versity, through the Order of the O, win do lias been done to make Saturday's “opening day’’ on Howe field a sueeoss. Hiilosoplii/.ing about that first home game is unnecessary. Weather permitting, and espe cially if the sun is beating down, it means soundliing to baseball fans in every eit \. town, and village in the nation, for baseball is the national sport and the spring sports by-word of the American is ‘•play ball.’' f irst on the program this afternoon will be a parade through the city. Then, at the game, through the courtesy of downtown Jm geue there will be prizes for the first hit, the first error, the first home run, and so on. All of those Ihings accompanied last year's opeiu r. The program next year will be. in all probability, little changed. But granted it is more than satisfactory and that it is almost a baseball tradition, the opening game Ibis ■season is going to June a deeper significance for the fans who follow the diamond destinies of Oregon’s baseball team, ^^Klh'ON' I is just completed a basketball ■season in which she finished near the top of the leap in a race so hot as to indicate the, northern division could put three teams in the field better than all except one in the southern division. Ye! the basketball team had been picked to finish at best only third, largely because Qufiku Ip*4 ig-pje a ur.diwue u. •showing the year previous. Baseball occupies precisely the same spot as basketball did at the beginning of conference play. When Coach Bill Reinhart left Oregon two years ago, lie left her with a diamond whose infield is second to none, with the shattered remnant of a championship nine which in cluded one, at least, “big leaguer,” and Howard Hobson to take over the reins in basketball and baseball. The material which Coach Hobson inherit ed proved to be only average. His first bas ketball and baseball teams rose little above their early season prpmise. This season, on familiar ground and a veteran of one year in the conference, Hobson took better material and produced a far better basketball team. Today Hobson opens his second baseball season as coach here—and as coach of a team boasting far stronger material, especially on the mound. Yesterday John Lewis, last year's shortstop, his arm in good shape and his mo lion much smoother than in early season games, held Oregon State to four well-scat tered hits, whiffing eight batsmen. Hobson has not yet used his “best bet” for mound fame, however, for Bill ttayles, star of the Olympic team, makes his northwest confer ence debut this this afternoon. The opener should therefore have an added significance. Oregon's backers are going to see their team perform against a conference opponent and they ought to see a team which will be up there in the running when the season is over. WNC, champions last year, has lost only its catcher but Oregon lias added a mound staff and an infield, both stronger than those of 1936. Campus Comment (The viewB aired in this column are not necessarily expressive of Emerald policy. Communications should be kept within a limit of 250 words. Courteous restraint should be observed in reference to personalities. No unsigned letters will he accepted.) To the Editor: “Pacifism Plus Realism” is an editorial that must not pass without comment. One portion of Raymond Leslie Buell's address has been distorted and the rest obscured. Dr. Buell forthrightly stated that personal pacifism is “morally and intellectually defensible" and complimented those who knowingly take a complete stand against war. No one would guess this from reading Thursday's Emerald. He did not call personal pacifism- nor war resistance of the type represented by the Oxford pledge “nega tive pacifism." On the contrary, he said what prac tically all determined war resisters admit, namely, that personal pacifism is not enough. It can he safely asserted that practically every person sup porting Thursday’s "protest” and “strike” is aware that his position as an individual or as one in a minority group is not consequential enough in itself to stop war. An acquaintance with the peace movement the lack of which other editorials have demon stiated would have shown conclusively that even such completely pacifist groups as the Fellowship of Reconciliation (with over 10,000 members) make the following three-fold approach to the problem of peace: (1) World organization and cooperation (including conferences on disarma ment, world economic re-adjustment, etc.); <21 American neutrality and separation from wars abroad; and (3) Building a strong international fellowship of pacifists. It should be observed that the people who are sufficiently interested in peace to take a personal stand are the ones most active in the wider and more general aspects of the peace movement about which Dr. Buell spoke. Certainly no peace group is above criticism, but your editorial is grossly unfair to the peace groups on this campus. Dr. Buell, often too vague, and at variance with the student peace committee on the matter of armed preparedness, nevertheless ex pressed in point after point the very position which the members of the local student peace committee hold. It is unfortunate that you have borrowed some of their own thunder to use in storming against them. HAROLD BARTON. (Editor's note: Yesterday's editorial made no effort to cover Mr. Buell's excellent address com pletely; we merely extracted from the address a note which we regarded as sharply critical of what we term the "negative approach to war" and what Mr. Barton calls "personal pacifism." We both are agreed, however, that such an attack on the problem of war in fruitless. On the other hand, Mr. Barton seems to have missed the point to which the editorial was principally devoted that the "screwy" tactics of some pacifists, such as those who were prominent in Thursday's demon stration, repel persons who otherwise might be sympathetic. Mr. Barton chooses to illustrate his communication with the actions of a fellowship with 10.000 members. Gosh almighty, man. if paci fism is ever to amount to a hill of beans it must recruit millions.) To toe Editor: Twenty years ago enlistment was made for a great war on the assumption of "Making the World Safe for Democracy." This week on this campus an appeal was made to "Fight Against Fascism," an appeal to "Fast to Feed Spanish Loyalists." while they, and so they con tinue to tight killing HUMAN BEINGS whom we call fascists. This was done, most unfortunately, tinder the auspice- of an intended Strike Against War peace program. Where is the Christian spirit of Peace in so positively unassociatod an appeal to action as this An- we to invite trouble by interfering in this affair of other countries'.' Can wc deny that such an alarm to action is not similar to the "Make the World Safe for Demo cracy'' attitude that through false propaganda drove our people into the last great war ? What do you think? . BERTRAND C. \DAilS, fKViA'U V. i-LLL. * EMERALD’S * Quiz of the Week By ELISABETH STETSON And this, ladies and gentleman, is a quiz specially de signed for those of you who don’t read the Emerald. No knowledge of campus current events is necessary to pass this test but a knowledge of what to do and when to do it. This is an examination of your worldlinesa and sophistica tion. Scribner’s in a recent issue had great success with a sophistication test based on what to do in different situa tions. So we made up a shorter one for college students, based on situations every college student meets at least once in his collegiate career. It is an inquisitive and in formative test, we hope, but if our answers make you angry or prove you to be, after all, a simple country soul, all we can say is we’re sorry. Answers will be found on another page. 1. When you go to the ball game with a date and the entire grand stand rises up and chants “Pigger, pigger—would you? a. Wave gaily at your friends and enjoy the limelight while you have it ? b. Grit your teeth and bear it, silently vowing to your self you’ll never date again to a ball game. c. Quickly sidle up to the nearest boy or girl so that it doesn't seem like you are pigging after all. d. Set up a counter-chant of "We’ve Got Our Love to Keep Us Warm.” 2. When you know your political candidate who is going to clean up politics is pretty sure to lose the coming election, should you: a. Vote for the second best man so your vote will count? d. Vote for your candidate anyhow. c. Refuse to vote. d. Announce that you'll leave school if the other man wins. 3. When you are invited out to dinner and your hostess serves a dish which does things to your stomach, should you: a. Lean over and confidentially tell her what sort of dreams it gives you. b. Bo a martyr and eat a little bit anyhow. c. Laughingly spill it on your worst enemy who by chance is sitting beside you. d. Silently leave it untouched. Upon entering late to a class of a professor noted for his ideas on promptness would you V a. Get down on your hands and knees and crawl up the aisle to your seat? b. Whistle the ‘‘Star Spangled Banner” so everyone will stand up and you can sneak in unnoticed ? c. Slip into the nearest empty seat ? d. Nonchalantly walk up to your assigned seat? 5. (For gills only). When your date, after spending the afternoon being ‘‘one of tne boys,” pases out at a dance, should you: a. Explain the situation to a sympathetic paton or pat.ronness—after all the older generation is more exper ienced and how are you supposed to know what to do ? b. Check him with your coat? c. Turn him over to a fraternity brother? d. Get someone to help you take him home? 0. (For men only). If you are on a crowded bus, tired anil weary, should you: a. Grimly hang onto your place, mutter to yourself “equal rights for all,” and let the women getting on shift for themselves ? b. Offer your seat to a woman only if she is young and pretty? c. Offer your seat to any woman who happens to be standing ? d. Offer your seat to a woman only if she is old and feeble-looking ? 7. If the person who has been cutting your throat one way and another all year asks to “look over” your term paper (before he or she writes hers) would you? a. Be magnanimous and give it to the person ? b. Write a flunk paper and give that to the person ? c. Make up some excuse about not having finished it? d. Absolutely refuse coldly saying "you may have got ten everything else I wanted, but my brain child is my own” ? S. II a friend comes in wearing an article of clothing that is un becoming and asks you what you think of it, would you? a. Say “I've seen more becoming things on you”? b. Say "Yes, I think it's lovely" ? c. Be tactful and say "It's nice but not quite your type”? 9. When called upon in class' for that assignment you didn't read, would you ? a. Blush furiously and make an attempt at it anyway? b. Announce you haven't read it? c. Get your friend sitting next to you to prompt you? d. Look kind of sick so the professor will take pity on you? 10. If some friend has got you a blind date for a big' campus dance and at the eleventh hour you see the date and realize that your friend is either a liar or has a powerful imagination, would you? a. Call up and break the date? b. Go to the dance but leave early because you have a headache? e. Go to the dance and make the best of it? d. Swear that you'll look in the Oregana next tipe aud get your own date ? Passing Show (Continued from page cue) Infantry, Fort Bougies, was killed in a motorcycle accident near Pendleton yesterday. No 'I unity lii’cs-nvss' Frank Barnett, Portlander who instituted something new in meth ods of escape from police three months ago when he kicked over a hive of bees and disappeared din ing the ensuing scramble, is back in custody again. He had asked to see "how his bees were" when caught the first time on charges of receiving stolen p r o p e t t y. There'll be uo honey in his cell! Iltt\\ pile it higher at Xu Hoi's j Visiting Fraulein (Continued from page one) When asked if the students of German universities chewed gum. she smiled and said no. Thinking of the vivaciousness of the students here. Fraulein Sumpf said "I feel very happy here among such young people.” Fraulein Sumpf, who is a teach er in Germany, will leave for her native land soon, after a short visit with friends in Portland. DAM KUS MFCT Master Dance will meet Monday afternoon at t:15 until 3:30 in Ger linger hall. All members are urged to come to this very important meeting. L. A. Jury Faces Divine Jig-Saw The Federal grand jury in Los Angeles is hearing a dramatic story to provide the stage lor Delight Jewitt, 17-year-old Denver school girl and Father Divine follower, in the star role. Miss Jewitt was to reiter ate charges that John VVuest Hunt. ‘John the Baptist, met her, named her the “Virgin Mary” and then seduced her. Pictured from left, Miss Jewitt, her father, N. Jewitt, and F. Palmer, assistant U. S. attorney. Sigma Delta Psi Stages Contest Wide-Scale Telegraphic Competition to Be Held Early Next Month Next month, from May 1 to 15, a nation-wide telegraphic athletic contest will be held with all the schools that have chapters of Sig ma Delta Psi, men’s physical edu cation honorary. The contestants arc members of the local chapter and athletes from the campus will be chosen to represent the open competition. Russ Cutler, the originator and organizer, stated that Oregon did not have enough men to fully par ticipate. and wants all those in terested in the open contest to see him immediately so that a team ' can be organized and workouts started. Champions in each of the following events will be chosen | through the competition: open championships in individual events, [open to any undergraduate; closed championships in individual events, open only to full members of Sig ma Delta Psi; individual all-around championships; best records for an individual in each of the twelve events; and team or school champ ionships in which the total points of the fifteen best men will deter mine the score. The event* that will be used for competition are the fifteen that are required to become a member of Sigma Delta Psi. Those are the 100-yard dash in 11 3 5 seconds; high' jump at 5 feet; 16-polind shot-put 30 feet; baseball throw 250 feet; 20-foot rope climb -12 seconds; 120-yard high.,w BR eta ends; broad jump. 17 feet; one mile run in 0 minutes; front hand spring: hand-stand 10 seconds; fence vault, chin-high; 100-yard swim, posture, and scholarship. Ducks Win (Continued from page one) Forced to save Bill Sayles, ace sophomore hurler, for today's bat tle before home fans, Coach Hob son gave Johnny Lewis, veteran infielder, who is pitching his first season, a chance to subdue the Or angemen in the all-important open er. Captain Lewis did just that, and in his conference mound debut pitched beautiful ball the whole route. Oregon State got just one run, that in the second inning, but Johnny blanked them from then on.t At bat he led the Duck hit ters with three binglcs in four trips up. Oregon pounded Slats Gill s two chuekers, Bill Kalibak and Ralph Takami. freely, collecting 13 hits off the pair. Kalibak. regular from last year's fourth-place Orange njen. pitched seven innings and was relieved by Takami. a recruit from Portland. Oregon failed to score until the third when two singles netted a pair of runs. They added one in the fifth, two more in the sixth, and finished the job with another two-run flurry in the first of the seventh canto. Nicholson Hits Johnny Lewis, leading off in the third, touched Pitcher Kalibak for a single, and raced to third ba;-e on another bingle by Jimmie Nich olson, Duck centerficldcr. Lewis tallied Oregon's first run when Jack Coleman sacrificed. Nicholson scampered home with run number two on Ford Mullen's infield out to give Hobby's gang a lead they never lost. The Orange batting attack show ed its one big flurry in the second inning, when a triple was com bined with a single to push over Oregon State's lone run. Hurler Lewis then struck out the next three men in order. Mason Hits Triple Rudy Kappel, Stater third sack er, opened the second inning with a single, and he scored when Ger ald Mason's line drive bounced ’over Amato’s shoulder for a triple. Lewis bore down following that to whiff Meyer, Dooley, and Kalibak in succession. A beautiful double play with the bases full in the fifth inning stop ped one dangerous Oregon batting rally, but not befpre one run had crossed the plate. Ralph Amato, left fielder, led off with a single, and he advanced to second on a sacrifice by Lewis. Jimmie Nicholson and Jack Cole man then laid out singles to drive Amato home with run number three. Twin Killing Timely Ford Mullen walked to set the ■stage for OSC’s twin killing. Cliff McLean bounced an easy one out to Kalibak who forced Nich olson out at home. Catcher Orell whipped McLean out at first base on the play to end the inning. In the sixth inning, Oregon’s ball team continued the assault on Kalibak. Jack Gordon was given a free ticket to first, and he cross ed the plate on Gale Smith’s bingle after Hurney was tossed out at first. Smith advanced on Amato’s infield out, and tallied on Lewis’ hit. That made it 5 to 1 for Ore gon. Tally Twice in 7th Two more tallies in the seventh frame ended the Lemon-Yellow scoring. Ford Mullen rapped out a single, and moved up a base when McLean drew a walk. Jack Gordon then came through with a hard-hit double, i(lriving Mullen and McLean across the rubber to practically clinch the game. The score was 7 to 1, and it ended that way after two more innings when Takami took t he mound and quelled any further Oregon uprising. Patricia Allison Sells Poem ‘Life’ to Magazine Another Oregon student crashed the big-time literary markets this week when Patricia Allison, of Portland, freshman in journalism, received word of {acceptance of one of her poems by Saturday Evening Post for its Poets’ Cor ner. Miss Allison, who has been do ing bits of verse for publication since she got her first poem about ’’Jack Frost" in Child Life at 10 years old, has sold poetry to Good Housekeeping in addition .to sev eral poetry magazines and Fron tier and Midland. She has just been elected to membership in Pot and Quill, women writers’ organi zation on the campus. A check ac companied the acceptance of Miss Allison’s 15-line offering, which is entitled ‘‘Life." <§? re Th<? Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, published daily during the college year except 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. Entered as second-class matter at th« postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscrip tion rate, $3.00 a year. Circulation Manager.Caroline Hand Asst. Jean Farrens Frances Olson.Executive Secretary Copy Service Department Manager .Venita Brous National Advertising Assistant: Eleanor Anderson. Collection Manager.Reed Swenson Saturday advertising manager: Les For The college Sunday morning class meets at 9:45 in the pastor’s study. Mary Field and Brit Ash will lead a discussion Sunday eve ning on the subject, “The Method of Non-Violence.” Eleanor Stevens will lead the worship service, and refreshments and a social hour will follow the discussion. Calendar Methodist Westminster Madame Rose McGrew of the music department will speak at the I Sunday morning group which i meets at 9:45. Helen Bryant will lead the worship service. The entire Westminster group will meet behind the butte Sunday ’ evening at 6 o’clock for a covered ’ dish dinner at conference planning ' meeting. Baptist Rev. Mr. McAnnich will lead the Sunday morning college Bible class. The Sunday evening meet ing starts at 6:30 a. m. in the church. Lutheran There will be a joint meeting of all Lutheran students Sunday eve ning at the Emmaus Lutheran church at 8 o'clock. GRADUATE DIES Dr. Everett Mingus, 69, a gradu ate of the University of Oregon and the University of Pennsylvania medical school, died at his home in Marshfield last night. He taught at one time in the Willamette uni versity medical college, which later became the University of Oregon medical school. Celebration to (Continued from page one) initialed tie chain from Byron and Knelland. First man hit by pitched ball—A box of stationery from the Univer sity Pharmacy. First sacrifice hit—A box of candy from Seymour's. First run batted in—Six passes to the Heilig theater. Winning pitcher — A picture from Kcnnell-Ellis. Winning coach—Two dinners at McCrady’s. There’s the list. Watch Hobby’s ball players go after them. Sayles on IVlGund Slated to pitch for Oregon is Bill (Chic) Sayles, sophomore speedball artist, with Cliff McLean catching. Oregon State’s starting battery is not selected, although Fred Cramer is a possible pitching nominee with Fred Soller handling his slants. Unsatisfied with his infield, Coach Slats Gill completely shook up his starting combination follow ing the Willamette series. Earl Conkling, slugging first baseman, was switched to the outfield, and Fred Lewis and Art Merryman, shortstop and second baseman, were benched in favor of Bill Meyer and Mason. Revamped Beavers In the Beaver outfield, Gill has Ike Wintermute, Jay Pleasant, and Conkling. If Oegon State's start ing hurler is batted out, Ralph Takami and Arnold Fenger, sopho more fast bailer, will be ready for relief duty. Coach Hobson will start a ten- ^ tative outfield of Bill Courtney, Ralph Amato, and Andy Hurney. with Jimmy Nicholson in reserve. His probable infield includes Gale Smith, first base; Jack Coleman, second; Jack Gordon, short, and Ford Mullen, third. Spec Burke, veteran umpire from Portland, will handle today's big game. Pitch your tent at Taylor’s Across tlie river at the High St bridge. Kicli green fairways and true-putting greens. In splendid diupe for playing. Student 'rates. OAKWAY GOLF COURSE