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Our Humble Pie
jy|K. CHARLES PADDOCK’S communica
tion printed on this page couldn’t have
been timed better if lie had actually intended
to embarrass this column, which we arc cer
tain is not bis purpose. We swear on a stack
of Bibles that wo were just getting around to
examining the other side of this pacifism
problem, when up pops the devil in the form
of Mr. Paddock to fake what would have been
a magnificent gesture of editorial .justice look
merely like the eating of humble pie. But
we’ll eat it.
And we won't bother to base a counter
attack on our correspondent’s misconstruction
of our previous editorials on the subject, such
as bis assertion that we cited enlistment of 105
“Oxford pledgees” to Hie Spanish loyalist
cause as an argument that the pledge is
“misty idealism,” which we never did. We
never even mentioned the pacifists in Spain’s
‘‘International Column.” And “peace-at-any
prico” pacifists in their dialectical battle with
Mr. Paddock’s socialists, who advocate inter
vention in foreign wars to support democracy
against the peril of fascism—although, now
< that the matter lias been brought to our at
tention, we do believe the pacifists are right
in their desire to let other nations fight their
own wars. But all this is beside the point. Let
us sink our teeth into our humble pic.
# * #
jN OUR EDITORIALS of the past week or
so, we have, as Mr. Paddock calls it, “heckl
ed” pacifists for their screwy tactics. We
have pointed out that Joe College wauls to
be as much like bis fellow men as possible and
that, as a consequence, he is extremely leery
about attaching hiiusclf to any movement that
will make him appear “radical” or eccentric.
He would just as soon walk through the cam
pus in his B.V.D.’s as boar one of the placards
carried by a few zealots in last Thursday’s
peace demonstration. And, as we said, the
idea of “fasting for Spain” is about as com
prehensible to him as the worship of Vishnu.
An effective pacifist movement; must; enlist a
preponderance of the people to its banners, we
declared, concluding that there could never
be such a movement until pacifists divest their
cause of the eultisli trimmings that repel Joe
College, the composite American. And that
conclusion we still hold to be valid. Hut that
is where the humble pie comes in.
"We have shown a psychological obstacle
that stands in the way of the present, pacifist
movement, but, on the other hand, can we
demonstrate that a constructive peace pro
gram, starkly divested of eccentric clap-trap,
will secure the adherence of Mr. Joe College?
Admitted that he is positively repelled from
the movement as presently conducted, would
lie in a reverse situation be positively attrac
ted? Unfortunately, we cannot prove that he
would. Mr. Average Student is wonderfully
indifferent to such burning issues as peace
and social justice. They call for a large view
of things that is outside his narrow, day-to
day ken.
* * *
^ND WE ARE ALMOST compelled to
admit that the present placard-bearing,
striking, fasting enthusiasts constitute the
bulk of collegians with an active interest in
peace. This is a sort of gloomy admission,
and not at all what Mr. Paddock might expect
in answer to his challenge for us to offer an
effective program. But it is not so dark a
view as at first it seems. Indeed, there is
much meat for pacifistie thought, we believe,
in the tactical criticism we have made. After
all, does it matter whether Joe College actual
ly becomes an active participant in the cause?
11 is actions when war is really imminent are
what count. What matters is that this aver
age man of ours shall not be ignorant of the
forces moving him into battle, that he shall
not, be so naive as he was in 1917.
This is the most constructive program for
pacifists we can offer: avoiding eccentricities
from which the public shies and consecrating
themselves to a campaign of sympathetic in
forrnaiton to prepare the people for crises to
come. That, to our mind, is as good an answer
as Mr. Pollock lias.
Campus Comment
(The views 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 be accepted.)
EMERALD “HECKLING”
To the Editor: I think it is about time to de
mand of the Emerald if it is going to continue
with column-long editorials heckling the only
group which is even trying to promote a peace
program; it should offer some program of its own
which it thinks will be effective.
If you are trying to convey the idea that peace
action so far has not been effective, I say “Amen.”
But I charge that if anybody is “negative” in this
matter, you are. You are joining the pacifists in
condemning the only effective opposition to war.
That opposition is one which seeks to recon
struct the economic system so that wars for profit
will no longer be possible or desirable, and at the
same lime fighting fascism, not through the instru
mentality of the profit-seeking, so-called “demo
cratic" nations, but through support of the work
ing class and the anti-war forces as they are trying
to gain real democracy (and peace) in every
country.
You talk about “negative pacifism,” citing the
fact that 165 of the original Oxford pledgers arc
fighting for loyalist Spain as an argument that
adherence to the Oxford pledge is “misty idealism.’
This very fact, contrary to your rather unique
interpretation, is an eloquent testimony that the
Oxford pledgees arc realistic and practical.
You and 1 agree with Mr. Buell when he says
that the distinction between war and peace is
meaningless. If you had interpreted Mr. Buell on
this point you would realize that he was saying
as I am, that the pacifists and the Emerald are
falling into the same pitfall. Peace at the price
of letting the world go fascist is not peace at all.
The extension of fascism is the prelude to another
world war. Our own government is no less a factor
for war than is fascism. We must oppose them
both.
Only by abolishing the profit system and lend
ing aid to tire people in every country who arc
trying to build a world of real democracy and
peace, will we ever have peace.
The pacifists arc closing their eyes to the
spread of fascism the war-breeder, and crying for
peace at any price. You arc standing on the side
lines and heckling both the pacifists and us who
arc realistically trying to achieve peace by bring
ing in "social and economic justice," which you
agree is the only way to achieve and maintain
peace.
You arc both negative. Yet you accuse us of
“negative pacifism.” Why don't you stop heckling
and get behind a real peace program?
CHARLES PADDOCK.
Bulletin Boards
(Continued from pane one)
now except the cast of that play.
And one well distributed ad that is
up-to-date is, "Don't be afraid to
tedl your mother," about Junior
weekend, of course.
The variety found on various
boards includes: taxi, typing, lcaru
tu fly, rooms for rent ads, lectures
and concerts to be given, lists of
health education references, hon
orary society meeting notices, book
lists, law school honor rolls, class
assignments and postponements,
•summer employment notices, sum
mer schools and travel posters,
which number about thirty-six and
a dozen respectively on one board,
and senior announcements and
sales of news bureau pictures.
One appeal on the co-op board
asks a tide to Portland for two
persons last weekend. How ninny
years the handbills of the recent
"protest against war" will be post
ed remains to be seen.
By way of keeping up with fresh
news, the journalism shack bulletin
board carries a lust-covered poster
on, "How to be a better reporter,"
by the late Arthur Bi i bane, which
has been there longer than the old
est. inhabitant- can remember.
U)4t —4iv lieuc-t p-r
.'■on experts other honest persons
to read the bulletin board in Con
don may lie noticed by a small note
saying, "found a fountain pen"
and containing further details.
Library to Oprn
(Coniin tied from pane one)
Surprise for Douglass
"Moving ;is well in hand and pro
gressing suvoothly." Mr. Douglass
said yesterday. Mr. Douglass, who
has been iway on his vaeatiou,
Knew nothijig about the moving
plans until h*> arrived in New York
on April 7, and found a telegram
waiting infor.Tiing him that moving
would begin .it once. Plans when
Mr. Douglass left were to wait un
til summer to i.jove the books, but
a sudden change in plans was nec
essitated by the offer of federal
funds to renovate the old building
if moving took p’aac immediately.
4 (Kililion s
(Contained from PUg# <m*)
tion candidates, will be confronted
with the potent problem of guuuug
support or election for <;oed candi
ates on their ticket.
Women have become aroused
over the fact that they have been
left out of student government.
!.vuvr4ui0 to Uadurg to-4 p-Uti-o
the women hold the majority of
student body cards and thus should
have the majority of power in gov
erning ASUO politics.
It was sighted last night that
if coeds decided to give all their
first choice votes to a woman can
didate they would be rewarded
with placing a woman in the stu
dent body president's office.
UO Coop Pays
(Continued jrom page one)
at the co-op for the same prices
as in the city iu which they are
published.
The staff of the co-op consists
of four full time workers and two
part time and Manager MacLain.
The total salaries payed last year
amounted to $7,1 dt’. 17. including
$22b a month paid to the manager.
Nominations Made
Kive sophomores were nominated
for the two positions on the board
for two years each. They were
Beruadiuc Bowman, Phyllis Card
ucr. Lcilani Kroll, .lack Loch ridge,
and Karl Wester. Four freshmen
were nominated to fill one position
for one year. They are Charles
Skinner, Irvin Mann, Bob Smith,
and (Jerald Norville.
■Elections will be held at the
YWCA hut the same day as regu
lar .U4uil beJy dutjviu
t
Hop’s
SKIPS &• JUMPS
By ORVAL HOPKINS
'J'HIS humor business has got
me worried. In “It Seems to
Me" Heywood Broun says that this
business about the sense of humor
is a lot of the old erl. He says that
little squib, “the guy worth while
is the guy who can smile" is just
so much hooey. Broun maintains
that the "guy who can smile” is
the guy who hasn't the guts to
came back and fight any more.
He stands there with that silly
grin on when the breaks are
against him while the man with
what it takes is in there working
for every inch.
Broun says that none of our
heavy-duty thinkers, as Pegler
calls them, were smilers. He
points to Coolidge and Hoover
and Franklin and Disraeli and
Baldwin and no end of others
(including Mussolini, Hitler, and
Napoleon) as examples of big
shots who couldn’t take a joke.
All of which worries me no end.
It does seem, at that, as if the
bloke who is alway around with a
grin on and thinks he sees a joke
in everything is never the one who
gets there. We could go into a dis
cussion of what “there” indicates,
but skip it for now. It's the sour
puss always, the body who has to
go and study or has to stay home
and read or who has letters to
write who gets there.
The further this thing goes the
| worse off I get.
* *
I still think there’s such a
thing as having what it takes
and having a sense of humor too.
It doesn’t seem to me that any
man is so busy that he can't take
time out for a laugh. And if he is
too busy, where is he ? I'm willing
to grant that the lad who works
so hard he hasn’t time to smile
(let alone wash his necki is much
preferable to the wiseacre who is
always ready with a laugh, even
if he has to laugh at his own al
leged gags.
But to the grind I’ll take the
lug who can plod along and get
just as much work done, do just
as much good for society (if
that’s your idea of some fun),
make just as much of a mark
tor himself, and still have a
chance to laugh—even if he has
to laugh at (not with) himself.
As a matter of fact, 1 always
say the guy who can’t laugh
at himself is in a pretty state
for fair.
1 don’t know, life's loo short.
Not that we should just lie down
and not do anything but drift be
cause it doesn’t make any differ
ence in the long run anyhow
that’s the answer to every derelict
in the alley. But the person who
pokes along in all the dark corners
I and scares the hell out of every
body and gets so sick of himself
he can't see, is just as much of a
derelict as the old boy with the
week's growth and no teeth and
the grog blowing off his mustache
like a sea breeze.
It's just as easy to have one on
the house, or yourself, now and
then. The mon’s a mon f'r a' that.
OICKHAKT ON staff
A1 Dickhart’s name was omit
ted from yesterday's announce
ment of the 1908 Oregana staff.
He will have charge of the frater
nity section, Wayne Harbert, edi
tor, has announced. He will be as
sisted by Irwin Zeller.
‘Pennies From Heaven’ for Aimee
Followers oi' Ainiee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles evangelist, con
tribute pennies, jewels and watches in answer to a plea that “Aimet
must have, funds to fight evil forces.” Mrs. McPherson is in the midst
of a series of legal complications, including a $150,000 slander suit by
Kheba Crawford Spllvalo, once Aimee’s associate.
—-—
Politicians Brew
Potion; Dance to
Start Pot Boiling
Potential political candidates
will make their official bow to
the music of Gus Meyers' swing
band on Wednesday, May 5, an
nounced Frederica Merrell and
Wayne Harbert, co-chairmen.
The terrace of the new library
will bo the scene from 3:30 to
5:30 p. m. for the initial move in
campus politics. This will be a
free student body dance, with
campus clothes in order. Dates
are optional.
Plans have been completed to
wax the red terrace to a glassy
finish. The dance was originally
scheduled for this Friday after
noon but has been postponed be
cause of a conflict in dates.
YW, YM Seabeck Confab
Rally Planned for 19th
With the arrival of folders an
nouncing the Seabeck conference,
YWCA-YMCA student meeting
which will be held June 12-20 at
Seabeck. Washington, the local
committee swung into action yes
terday getting plans underway for
a rally to be held behind Skinner's
Butte May 19.
Several campus students and
faculty members will take an ac
tive part in this summer’s confer
ence. Elaine Cornish and Harold
Strawn are co-chairmen and will
preside over the conference while
Mrs. Genevieve Turnipseed, di
rector of dormitories, and Mrs.
John Stark Evans, YWCA execu
tive secretary, will lead discussion
groups. Other leaders from the
campus will be named later.
Profs Will Go lo Rood
College for Psych Meet
Psychologists will gather from
all over the state for discussion of
psychological problems at the an
nual meeting of the Oregon psycho
logical association to be held at
Reed college, Saturday, May 1
under the chairmanship of Profes
sor William Griffith.
Participants from the University
of Oregon include Dr. H. R. Tay
lor, Dr. L. F. Beck, Dr. A. R,
Moore, Miss Mary Holmes, Mr.
Harold Sexton, Mr. James Over
turf, Mr. H. C. McMurty, Mr.
James Welcher, and Miss Elizabeth
Dye.
20 Women Will
Attend Play Day
At Reed College
University of Oregon will send
20 women to Reed college, Port
land, for the annual “play day"
sponsored by Reed’s women’s ath
letic association, announced Gret
chen Smith, WAA president, last
night.
Ten schools will be represented
at the meet which is to be Satur
day, May 1, said Miss Smith.
Schools competing will be Univer
sity of Oregon, Oregon State,
Maryhurst, Linfield, Oregon Nor
mal, Albany College, Pacific Col
lege, St. Helen's Hall, Pacific Uni
versity, and Reed college,
Oregon women will leave the
campus at 7 o’clock Saturday
morning and return the same eve
ning, or the next morning. Rides
will be furnished to defer expenses.
A wide variety of sport competi
tion has been planned, including
badminton, archery, tennis, golf,
swimming, baseball, and volley
ball.
Women interested in going are
requested t<* get in touch with
Grctehen Smith immediately.
UO Symphony
(Continued from page one)
Ion and Gamma Phi Beta; "May
time,’’ Zeta hall anil Alpha Delta
Pi; "Desert Song,” Sigma Chi and
Pi Beta Phi.
"Tales of Hoffman” with the
Striker. Shot in Stockton Rioting. Borne From Field
Injuries* were severe to many on both sides of the bloody Stockton, Cal., cannery strike fighting. Thot*;
rJjyus a picket, injure4 by bijU^Jjot, bejnj carriet! away to safety by ciftsr strikers
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♦ THE ♦
4th Estate
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Today, friends, we start off with
rumblings of the SAE picnic at
Benton-Lane park Sunday. . . .
contrary to usual picnic procedure,
it was a sober event. . . . outstand
ing in the proceedings was the
sudden, inexplicable shift of the
love of the ex-blond ADPI with the
earrings from one of the bros to
another bro and: then to yet an
other.
Stun Kostka, rattling home
ward to the Phi Psi wrecking
house the other eve after a Scab
bard and Blade initiation, was
dismayed to discover the door to
his room would not yield to his
rather blunt efforts to open it.
Footballer Kostka is a forth
right individual, so he backed
up, took a deep breath and hit
that door like it was the entire
Washington line. . . . the door,
l>eing a philosopher, yielded up
the ghost and Kostka went to
bed with a warm blow of satis
faction and a badly bruised
shoulder. . . .
The dean of women’s stern edicts
about hours have resulted in a
sudden shift of interest to Eugene
girls by a major portion of the
Kappa Sig canalmen. Prominent
among them are A1 Carter, La
verne Terjeson, Chuck Miller.
Sophomore Miller is taking a
fatherly interest in his and is go
ing with a high schooler. . . .
Shifting from the tossing of
brickbats and similar Irish con-..
..fetti, 4th Estate editors wish to
offer as their suggestion as one
of Oregon’s best-looking couples,
red-topped Kuth Buchanan and
Jack Hazlitt. ... a high school
romance, their affair is still go
i mg strong. . . .
Four hours of agony in the Mc
Donald gazing into cavernous,
Martha Raye’s oral disaster has
led us to the 'unescapable conclu
! sion that Ingrid Liliquist, Kappa
Kappa Gamma, is her close
double. . . . which is no libel, Com
edian Raye being a good-lookin’
gal when she chooses. . . .
Closing this is a kindly tip to
Alpha Phi Isabelle Miller, campus
Emily Post, to please quit chewing
gum in Condon. . . . Emily, Miss
Miller, says it shouldn’t be done
outside your boodwah. . . .
—
Barcarole scene, Sigma Alpha Ep
silon and Alpha Omicron Pi; “Pag
liacci,” Gamma hall and Susan
Campbell hall; “Faust,” Chi Psi
and Zeta Tau Alpha; “Babes in
Toyland,” Phi Gamma Delta and
Kappa Kappa Gamma; “Naughty
Marietta,” Sigma Nil and Alpha
Phi; “Student Prince,” Kappa Sig
ma and Alpha Gamma Delta;
“Vagabond King,” Alpha hall and
Hendricks hall.
Fete to Be on Air
Negotiations have been complet
ed to broadcast the canoe fete over
the NBC hook-up. John Luvaas
will announce each float as it
comes into the view of spectators.
Tickets are on sale in the ASUO
office in McArthur court. Reserv
1 ed scats arc 75 cents and one dol
lar and general admission is 00
cents.
A news-reel may be made by
! some Hollywood photographers, ac
cording to Zollie Volchock, public
ity co-chairman. Definite arrange
ments have been made to take pic
tures for Portland and Eugene
i theater news reviews.
Those organizations who have
not yet turned in specific scenes to
be depicted in floats must do so as
I soon as possible, staled Doug Milne
last night. A general meeting of
1 all house chairmen will be held to
day at d o'clock to which Milne
urges complete attendance, as it
will be the last meeting before ac
tual construction is begun.
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Campus
Calendar
The Asklepiad club will meet at
9 tonight in the College Side.
There will be a general Junior
! weekend directorate meeting to
i day in the back room of the Col
lege Side at 4 o’clock.
There will be a meeting of all
chairmen for Junior weekend floats
upstairs at the College Side today
at 4 o’clock.
Reservations for the Pi Lambda
; Theta dinner to be held May 1 at
the Osburn hotel should be made
with Margaret Rugh, tel. 1787, be
fore Friday noon. Tickets arc 60c.
Alpha Delta Sigma will meet at
4 o’clock in Professor Thacher’s
office.
Joint meeting of men and women
representatives of living organiza
tions will be held tonight in the
main dining room of the men’s
dormitory at 7:30.
Women representatives from
living organizations meet in back
room of College Side today at 4:30.
Very important.
Those in the infirmary today
are John Miller, Lela Hull, LaClede
LeFors, Lilyan Veatch, Phyllis
Mowlin, Jane Lagassee, Lavern
Terjeson, Ed Shumaker, Max Car
ter, Arleigh Bentley, Sidney Lang,
John Haman, Roy Vernstrom, Wal
lace Newhouse, Bob Herzog.
Master Dance meets tonight at
7:30 for its regular meeting. There
will also be a special meeting
from 4:45 to 5:30. It is important
that all members attend both.
Important canoe fete directorate
meeting at the music building to
night at 8:30.
Frosh, Sophs
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president, last night announced the
appointment of a constitutional
committee to make plans for a set
of rules to be adopted by the class
at a meeting in Villard hall at 4
o’clock Thursday afternoon.
Bob Becktel, Jim Wells, and
Jack Lockridge will work with
Weston to draw up the sophomore
class constitution.
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TO
PLEASE’‘
But l have never been dis
appointed with the serviee
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