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From Where I SIT By CLARE IGOE 11 E 1 In editing class yesterday morn- I ing Dean Allen read a letter he - had received from a friend in Tok yo, Japan. The letter, an extremely clever satire, painted Japan's picture of the Japanese-Chinese “incident” he says it is never referred to as a war in Japan—in a way calcu lated to get by the Japanese cen sors, and yet leave his American readers with a clear-cut picture of the type of propaganda being stuffed into Japanese minds today The Japanese, the letter de clared, are fighting only a war of defense, and have only the greatest friendliness for the Chi nese, but their reluctant discip linary measures are complicated in no small measure by the un reasonable attitude of the Chi nese army and political leaders, who resent, it seems, the gentle yet firm paternal hand the Jap anese “must” use in settling cer tain “incidents” in North China, Shanghai, etc. Apparently the letter passed the Japanese censors with flying col ors—in fact it was pointed out that they were probably delighted to see an American taking such a reasonable and intelligent atti tude towards the situation. For the Japanese, it seems, are so un alterably convinced that they arc in the right in this conflict that they can see no trace of humor in their “God is on my side” attitude. To an American reader, the sat ire in the letter was immediately apparent. Intermittent laughter greeted the exposition of Japan’s righteous indignation, as the writ er gathered it from propaganda in the press and the addresses of Japanese military leaders. It was pointed out that the Japanese are so serious about their country that they are gullible for a type of ab surd propaganda that Americans would never be taken in by. * * * The • other night a "March of Time” newsreel was shown at one of the local theaters that por-1 trayed, in pictures studiedly ghast- j ly, the sufferings of the poor in nocent Chinese, harried and at tacked by the ruthless, cruel Jap anese. A posed shot of a woman crushed beneath a huge stone led the series off, and each following picture was as effective a bit of j pro-Chinese propaganda as could be imagined. And the American audiences, sophisticated as they are represented to be, sat there and took it in, and it is safe to say that at least 75 per cent of those who came out of that theater were convinced that they had seen j a true picture of the situation, and that the blame for the whole con flict lay at the door of Japan. In reality, the letter which all the editing class greeted as a mas terpiece of humorous satire was i no more a satire than the March of Time newsreel—only no one laughed at the newsreel. It is only the attitude we are conditioned to that convinces us of the right or wrong of a situation. The very fact that the editing class laughed so loudly and long at this one sided portrayal of Japan's "raison d’etre” is a rather dismaying proof of how steeped we are becoming in pro-Chinese sentiment. We boast that we, the students, the educated, are not to lie fooled again by ridic ulous war propaganda, that we can see the two sides of the interna tional situation. But can we? Anti-War Film Will Be Shown Nov. II An anti-war film to bo shown at one of the local theaters and an assembly speaker for an Arm istice day program were planned at a meeting of the Student Chris tian council held in Westminster house on Sunday, October 10. Plans were also discussed for an international banquet to be held on November 20. This council is composed of two representatives from each relig ious organization on the campus and has as its purpose a better so cial anti religious program for the student body. Johnson's Choir (Continued from page one) ing made to retain the primitive style of the old-time camp meeting of the negro workers. The songs so arranged breathe the spirit of negro life and senti ment. Hall Johnson recently said: “We attempt to present these tra ditional melodies in a manner that will reproduce the spirit and fervor of the camp meetings which gave them birth.” The singers will appear at 8:1." p.m. Tickets will sell for $1.25 and $1.00 reserved, with general ad mission at 50 cents. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, pub shed daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays and final examination periods, ntered as second-class mail matter at the postoffSce, Eugene, Oregon. EROY MATTINGLY, Editor WALTER R. VERNSTROM, Manager LLOYD TUPLIN-G, Managing Editor Prudential Search-Party Blows Up New Problems AS far as University men are concerned, t|H. race for the University presidency is over. Fortunately, sentiment on the campus proper indicates that it lias never really be come a race and that there has never been any line of demarcation drawn between cam pus and off-campus candidates The attitude of faculty members, and of the faculty advisory council, representative of the "roup, has been that the best available man for the job be chosen, regardless of pre vious connection with Oregon. Unfortunately, this has not been the situation, at least in editorial articles, of the state at large. Some thing of a controversy has been built up, a controversy which apparently doesn t exist. Two of the men mentioned for the job in the chancellor’s recommendation to the state board yesterday served on Ibis campus. Three have not. No doubt all will come here to make or renew faculty acquaintanceships and look over the institution. Before a. final choice is announced, both parties to the decision ought to be satisfied. # # * |T can be assumed that the University men actively considered for the position — Wayne U Morse, dean of the law school, and Orlando J. Hollis, professor of law—received fair consideration (both are members of the faculty advisory council),,and the five men chosen are in the opinions of the chancellor and council the pick of the group. The board's decision, therefore, throws new light on an old problem the* I Diversity and the state board, too, since the avail ability of funds seems the crux of the matter is going to have to face and vanquish. The problem is to gain and retain educators who are at the height of their productive careers. # * * rjMIIO University’s faculty includes a num ber of men who have made their marks in the various fields of education. All of them, it seems, are past, middle age and the period at which they can expect rapid advancement and salary increase. Oregon is extremely fortunate in this. Al though not small in campus space, our Uni versity is definitely and, in some things, ad vantageously, a small school. It has, however, far more than its share of recognized authori ties Dean Rebec, Dean Allen, Dean Morse, Dean Gilbert, Dr. Moore, Dr. Wood, Dr. Clark, Professor Smith. Dr. Townseml. to mention a few of many- The group of young educators, recently graduated, is also a brilliant one. I he problem is keeping them on Ihe campus in their years of growth and maximum pro ductivity. # * # rrsjj j; average University educator get his doctor of philosophy degree at 2f». For a few years his salary is almost negligible. At 22 or 22 he has been advanced, theoretically, to a reasonable income. During the next 10 years his rise in salary and in position in lus profession is rapid. That salary advances must accompany his professional gain is evi dent. If one school won’t pay him. another will. It is out of the group of men around and under 4.r> that the ideal university president is selected. Candidates of that age diave. demonstrated their ability. They have enough of their productive period before them to make it worth their while to undergo the period of training necessary. They can hold the job for 20 years. It is significant that Oregon had only two men of that group—or at least only two who were willing to take the job—when candi dates for the position of president were con sidered. Kor that class produces not only presiden tial timber but also the type id' research and educational study that “makes the reputa tion of the institution to which they “be long.’’ * * * 'TMIK “authorities,’’ older men who have A established themselves in their field, us ually become satisfied with carrying on tlicit work in classes. They expect, and rightly, lightened class loads. The “young fellows” are the innovators. They are the men who build the institution's reputation, maintain it at the point to which their predecessors have lifted it. This University and any other cannot be divorced from the personnel of the faculty. Oregon is fortunate in almost every way. ft is properly equipped- ft has the hardest of all things to achieve, academic standing. Just as surely as an institution is no stronger than its faculty, its faculty is not more productive than the active group. Holding that active group is one of Ore gon's most serious problems. From Other Papers In these parts there should be just as much joy over Oregon State’s magnificent de feat of Washington as there will be in Corvallis Oregon has a team! Oregon State has a team! All Ole' Man Oregon's chillun got teams this year and it all points to an historic encounter when they come together in this city on October 23. It is only when one school or the other has a very poor team that there can be any real envy of t He other's triumph. When both schools are taking the bumps there can be a certain satisfac tion for the very human reason that misery loves company. It would be the realization of a great dream if the Coast championship could be decided here in Oregon among Oregonians, if for no other rea son than the fun it would provide in snooting the snooty Californians. So that’s that! Oregon most decidedly has a chance to even up the old scores with Southern Cal next Saturday. It's a tough break in scheduling which places the long hard trip to Los Angeles just a week before the Oregon State encounter here. But that 40 to 6 outburst at Spokane is an indicator of enthus iasm. After the victory over Stanford we remarked that “Oregon Believes in Oregon.” It seems to be a sort of slogan. It is possible to be too cocky, but it is more important not to have an inferiority complex. Don't expect too much, but keep tabs on your blood pressure!—Eugene Register-Guard. Piggin' that date my crate the park no spark no kiss no bliss but arms! what charms! LET'S PIGGIN' ALL OVER AGIN! ! Strange Land By WERNER ASENDORF Some people like peaches and some like apples. You may prefer a peach to an apple or the other way round. But you can't very well say that an apple is better than a peach. Of course, you may get into trouble if you are not clever enough to use apples or peaches at the right time. But don’t let us talk about that now. This is a very simple statement. Far from being complete, it does as it seems to me cover the situation concerning European and American education in universities. To come to a discrimina tion: Yours are the peach and cream. After having lived here for a couple of weeks now, I cannot help myself being impressed by your campus-life. T got into the swing. And I would like to term the campus an educational country club. You have plenty of possibilities to enlarge your education and to get broadminded. If you leave the campus you will be good American citizens. While you are here you have green mea dows, space, fine buildings, beautiful houses—and “open houses”. In comparison with such a set-up our universities would look to you like architec turally well-designed facilities turning out experts in all lines of science. You go to college to get a good general educa tion. Besides that you acquire quite a handful of manners in do and don't. When we start to go to university we consider our general, humanistic education as completed, leaving open, of course, many doors for self-education and development. If you consider our graduate from high school as similar to a junior in college you will not blame us if we start to specialize. We go to uni versity to become experts in history, medicine, law or wherever else it may be. But being young and eager to use all sources of wisdom we often spend, say the first two years of our university life, in listening to whatever course appeals to us. No classes being compulsory, we don't show up again if we don’t like the sub ject or the voice of the professor. After this time of educational "play" and learning using all facilities of a university with its universal chances for intelligent people we really go to work and do a lot of research. There is usually only one examination. This exam is final. If you flop you are through and you have a hard time to get to the top again. And, no doubt, these exams are a great load. You have to know your stuff. If you win the praise of your instructors you sure are an expert. All you have to do then is to get a job adequate to your knowledge. # System and methods are different “over here.” It would take plenty of time to give a compre hensive outline of the different systems. One thing to say in favor of your system of general education is that colleges draw so many excellent examples of the fair sex to the campus. What puzzles me is, why you have chosen for the repre sentative of romance such an ugly-sounding, un fitting name as co-eds? (Co-education. 1 Anyhow, whenever somebody should start * to attack your system and campus-life and wants to have me support him in his argument, I'll say with eagerness: include me out! Side Show ' Edited by . . . PAUL DEUTSCHMANN, National. BILL CUMMINGS, Local. Ey leaps and bounds the frosh voting issue is assuming record i proportions. Every freshman on the campus interested in student government and every freshman should be- will find himself in volved this week in a question which promises to overshadow by far the old, closed campaign of Tiger Payne vs. Bob Hendershott. The question of whether or not a class card is necessary for the privilege of voting will be brought before the entire class of ’41 at a mass meeting Wednesday night. This was the declaration of Tiger Payne’s constitutional committee last night, which argued itself into as pretty a deadlock as you could ask for. The result—nothing de cided upon, and everything left up to a vote of the class. Mary Mohr, representing protes tors of the class card voting sys tem, and Harry Halloway, those wishing to retain the present sys tem, took the lead in last night’s committee meeting, but got no where fast. The argument, more over, will be continue as a debate, with everything from the custom ary pitcher of ice-water to the re buttal, on the stage of the mass meeting Wednesday night. Prob ably the side which puts the best debators on the platform will win. Immediately after the meeting, politicians of both factions began a drive for votes, realizing the side which succeeds in rounding up the most support between now and Wednesday night will rule the elec tion. Providing, of course, that the debators don’t steal the show and control the vote by their ora tory. Whereas the Payne election was a fight between two distinct blocs of fraternities and sororities, with help from the dorms, the new ques tion will find independents lined up on one side and fraternities on the other. The power of the froternity as a political influence will hang in the balance. Maybe campus poli tics is about to be reformed along entirely new lines, unprecedented and dlhstic. * * # The voters Wednesday night will cast ballots on the issue directly following the debate. Universal suffrage for freshmen may be the outcome, for there are many stu dents who would like to have a voiee in class government whether or not they are able to buy class cards. On the other hand, the stu dents who take must interest in politics are the fraternity and sor ority members, in whose ranks most class cards are distributed. Seven days ago President Roose velt called for "positive endeavors to preserve peace.” Yesterday he reiterated this statement in his Pulaski day address when he said the United States was determined to preserve "the ideal which would substitute freedom for force in the governments of the world.” Reaction at home and abroad has been varied. By some observ ers. FDR's newest foreign policj has been cheered. By others it has been branded an attempt to divert public attention from situations at home that need further scrutiny England, with the words o1 Prime Minister Chamberlain agreed heartily to Roosevelt's “clarion call from the other side 01 the Atlantic,” adding that the Brit ish lion would be “whole-heartedlj behind a conceited effort in th< cause of peace.” Japan, suggested by Roose velt as an uggressor, a violator of the nine-power and Kellogg Hrinml pacts, and candidate for a world “quarantine,” has de fended herself in an injured tone. The land of the Rising Sun has broken no treaties, her states men say. Force in Japan has been a las' resort to stop China’s “mistakei policy" of unwillingness to accep the tutelage of Nippon, they ex plained. Prince Honoye, prime min ister, announced blandly “tha problems causing hostilities con cern only Japan and China," ant intimated that participation in i congress of the nine powers woulc be limited to "principle.” Hitler and Mussolini, busy witl their recent “love-feast,” havi confined themselves to diplomat ic mumblings. Saturday, however Mussolini sent a note of sympath; to Nippon in regard to her wa against Chinese aggression, whic! sent the Chinese ambassador t< Rome scampering about the Eter nal city in an effort to determini the policy of II Duce. News reports indicate that i nine-power conference will b< Frosh Football Game Success, Says Fansett E. C. Fansett, general secre tary of the Alumni association t and 5,334 spectators agreed that t the Frosh-Rook game last Fri- I day was a tremendous success, l and will be an incentive to draw larger crowds at the coming game between the Washington Babes and the Oregon Frosh. i “The turnout was beyond ex- t pectation, and the interest shown J has given grounds that freshman 1 football in the future will draw , bigger and better crowds, pro viding that the type of football that was displayed last week continues,” stated Mr. Fansett. j To build up the reputation of ; the power of Oregon in football, I Fansett and G. Scott, general secretary of Oregon State's al umni, presented coaches of the Portland interscholastic football teams with complimentary pass- , es for themselves and their play ers. called in approximately two weeks at Brussels. The line-up is inter esting. The United States, suggesting an unknown form of diplomacy —quarantine; unwilling by pop ular sentiment and precedent to participate in a policy of actual force or official boycott. France, preoccupied with at tempts to elucidate the Spanish situation, at the same time hold off diplomatic advances of Ger man and Italian fascism. Italy, moral backer of aggres sion due to her past activity and ready to pick up any diplomatic crumb that will increase her prestige and power. Japan, who has already signi fied that the wrar is a private scrap. . Great Britain, with the most to lose, and the most to be gained. Portugal, Netherlands, and Belgium, who might as well stay home. And last, China, pouring out population, resources, and her very existence as a nation in a “supreme sacrifice” against an attempt to change her “mistaken policy” of national freedom. Meanwhile, Japan calls for an emergency war-time directorate (because some cabinet officials are unfit to handle war-time responsi bilities), China shoots army offi cers for cowardice, and bombers of both nations rain steel and pow der death on each other. Mrs. Beck to Lead Discussion Panel Mrs. Anne Lansbury Beck, pro fessor of public school music at the University, will lead a discussion panel at the high school principals’ conference, to be held in Salem Friday and Saturday. The purpose of the discussion group, entitled “Public School Mu sic, Extra or Regular Curricular?” is to measure the scope of public school music. The two-day session will be con ducted under the auspices of the Oregon State Teachers’ association. Ducks Whip (Continued from pane one) again packing the mail, this time from the 2-foot line. The last quarter was more or less monopolized by Steve Anderson, the Raymond, Washington speed burner. 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Presently there comes a bellow if command from the bowels of .he basement and the Joe in front if me stumbles down the stairs frying to remember prayers which le has never learned. Well, I try lot to listen but this does me no rood and I hear the sound of pad lies vigorously wielded, the howl if the prayerful gent who has pre leded me, and then a sudden si ence broken only by a voice which sound like my own. I do not believe it—for I am an individual with much courage —but the voice is saying, “Come on, Pollock. Let’s get the hell out of here. Let us go back to the farm and hide in the wood shed like we used to do when Paw was on the prod.” And I am about to agree with this when there comes another bel low from the depths and some body gives me a kick and I find myself in the basement. There before me are all the bros and they all have paddles and one of them tells me to lie down on my stomach in a poo! of water at one end of the basement. This I do all the time wishing that I had died that time I got the measles. As soon as I am uncomfortably settled in the water which is very cold and as wet as most water is, one of the bros turns a hose on me and I think maybe I am being re incarnated into the spirit of Ad miral Byrd or the guy who invent ed the refrigerator or something. This gets over with finally and then the bros line up on either side of me and beat me until I am entirely certain I am dead and I do not care much, anyway. (Later somebody tells me this only lasts 8 seconds, but he is a such and such liar be cause nobody could get as sore as I do in 8 seconds.) The last sledgehammer falls and I am thinking maybe I will just stay where I am until after the autopsy when somebody yells in Campus Calendar Infirmary patients today include: tzetta Heisler, Frances McCoy, Charles Wilson, Samuel Knight, Tom Potter, Grant Alexander, George Robinson, Robert Boyd, John Devereaux. A short meeting of the newly organized flying club on the cam pus will be held at 7:30 tonight at the Beta house. All interested in learning to fly under the club’s special rates are asked to attend. The Oregon Melody Men will meet at 7 o’clock tonight in the j music building. Everyone is urged to attend this important meeting. Westminster house: Tuesday—12 noon, luncheon, 25c. Wednesday 9 p.m., Social Prob lems discussion. Leaders, Ted Pursley and Rae Sprague. Thursday—4 p.m., organizational meeting of Westminster players. Friday—8 to 11:30 p.m., open house; 8 p.m. at Central Presby terian chapel “The Man on the Curb” and two other plays will be presented. An offering for charit able purposes will be taken. Reports of the Frosh Councillors must be handed in at the dean’s office this week. These reports consist of the assigned freshmen’s names, the work accomplished, and the questions asked. The names of those girls not turning in the report this week will be removed from the list of Frosh Councillors. Marqilee Morse, Paul Kaseberg to Marry October 24 Miss Margilee Morse and Paul Kaseberg, two graduates of the. University of Oregon, will be mar ried October 24 at the Westmin ster house on the campus by Dr. R. K. Tully of the Central Presby terian church. Miss Morse, who graduated in June, was very active on the cam pus. She was president of her sen ior class, and worked as YWCA membership chairman and treas urer. She was a member of Mor tar Board, as well as a Kwama and Thespian. Miss Morse is affiliated with Al pha Chi Omega, and Mr. Kaseberg ^ with Theta Chi. my ear to go upstairs and take a cold shower. This I do and I have to stand there until I have counted one hundred and I do this very fast although I have not done it for years. Then I get dressed and it is all over with. Except for my back. 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