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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1937)
From Where I SIT By CLARE IGOE A FABI.E Once upon a time on the Univer sity of Oregon campus there was a grasshopper, a charming fellow, who was known among his class mates as Joseph Doakes, or, more familiarly, as Joe. Now all during the early weeks of the term this grasshopper play ed around and had a swell time, and didn't bother getting his les sons, but left such dreary pastimes to his friends on the campus, whom we will call the ants. The ants, busy and industrious fellows, went up to the library nights instead of to the College Side or to a show. They went up there sometimes on Saturday after noons, and on Sundays, while Grasshopper Joe frittered away his time and had fun. Joe never had his assignments, | but he didn’t care. “I’ll worry about lessons the week before exams,’’ he would say with a shrug. And off he'd go, with never a care in the world. He didn’t sing “The World Owes Me a Livin’ ”, but it was plain that that was his general attitude. And his friends the ants would shake their heads over Joe’s happy-go-lucky and heedless air, and go on up to the libe to set i in a store of knowledge that would see them through the dreary days of exams. * t- * Time passed, ancf Joe still paid no attention to study, and was seen at every campus dance, rally, and game, and was a too-frequent visi tor of the Park and campus pubs. And the ants went their way, and by the end <*f the term had acquir ed a pretty good idea of just what their courses were about. Finally exam week drew near, and Joe, feeling the cold blasts of parents’ and instructors’ disapprov al, realized that his time to play was over. “Alas,” he moaned, j “What’ff I do now?” So then lie went to his friends the ants and pleaded, “Please, fel lows, let me use your notes in econ, (or social science, or English.) 1 haven’t cracked a book all term, and now exams are here. Hut I know that you guys are very smart, and that you won't mind letting me see your notes, and I will get by all right.” * * * And his friends the ants said un sympathetically, “Listen, Joe, we have gone to classes and studied all term, and taken these notes, and we are going to use them. You shouldn’t have wasted so much of your time.” Then Joe went to the library and took out a lot of books, and sat up till the dim hours and drank cof fee, and tiled to cram a lot of knowledge into his head in a short time, but it didn’t work. He made a pretty dismal mess of his exams, and went on scholastic probation again. And the ants all got As, and made the honor roll, and eventually became Phi Beta Kappas. Campus Calendar YW Donut sale committee will meet at the YW bungalow today at 4. All committee members please be there. Master Dnnee meeting tonight at 7:45 in the dance studio. Dill Pickle club will hold dis cussion luncheon at the YW bunga low this noon at 12. Bring your own lunch. Coffee and cake will be served. Order of tin' O will meet at the DU house today at noon. All new lettermen should be there. Alpha Delta Sigma, men's adver tising honorary, will meet at the College Side at noon today for a luncheon meeting, Zollie Volchok announced yesterday. l’hi Chi Theta will hold an im portant meeting at the College Side at 4 o’clock. All members are asked to be present. Lost Jewelled Phi Psi pin Sat urday, probably at Willamette park. Reward. Junior-Senior dance committee will meet at the College Side at 4 o’clock this afternoon. All com mittee members must attend. Heads of all sororities were guests of Mrs. J. D. Bryant at their regular meeting held in West minster house yesterday. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, pub lished daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays and final examination periods. Entered as second-class mail matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon._ LEROY MATTINGLY, Editor WALTER R. VERNSTROM, Manager LLOYD TUPLING, Managing Editor Class Politicians Drag a Herring 'T'ONKMIT n more - or - less representative group of freslnnen will defeat probably tl„. only progressive change suggested in an out-ino«ie(l and praetieall.v worthless class organization in recent years. Under the Marquis of Queensbury rules wliieli govern democracy, this is as it should be, for the rule of the majority is 1o hold. There would be no protest had not the issue been confused—the proposed change in j-lass membership suggested for incorporation into the new freshman constitution is not being placed into the ring upon its merits. The struggle tonight in Villard hall has been put on an organi/.ation-vs.-independent basis. # * * TUDflED purely as' a reform, no one can deny the fairness or the worth of the idea. (It would make every class member, as desig nated by the University, a participant in the affairs of the class of ’41. regardless of whether or not In* held a class card, lie would be restricted by his class card only in the money benefits to be derived from the class activities). It has been challenged mainly on the basis “that cards can’t be sold except when they include the right to vote. If that criticism is true, the activities of the classes automatically stand condemned. The program is branded as not worth the fifty cents expended and memberships are thus based entirely on a political pressure basis Under such considerations the activities of the class are obviously worthless. The political party which buys the most cards purchases a hollow “honorary’’ office at the head of a hollow activity. * * * ANOTHER obvious gap in the present sys tern, even were it worthy, would be the fact that the activity misses its purpose and limits the number or potential class members with the imposition of a fifty-rent “poll tax.” Of the :11G members who elected a freshman president this term, only a few will hold cards next term. It is doubtful if the pro gram advanced will be attractive enough to move first year buyers not purchasing mem berships this term to an eager, breathless, “Yes, sure 1 want a class card,” at the regis tration tables winter term. When class activities are sapped to a basis where they are not worth fifty cents, they should be abolished or put on a basis where each event pays for itself in admission re ceipts. In that manner a concrete program would necessarily be advanced, assuring buy Across Reform Trail ers of' ii return commensurate to tlieir expen diture. « * * one will deny tlmt class card sales are at present just about the biggest small time graft on the campus. The merits of the present membership, however, will not be the point in question to night. Fraternities and sororities are moving a step toward cutting their own throats on this campus by organizing meetings to assure the defeat of the measure and keep “the indepen dents out.” When they fear the rise of the indepen dents, organization men are saving boo at themselves and covering up their beads. The non-fraternity students are an inarticulate, disorganized mass, with no unity of purpose, no leadership, and little interest in the activi ties of the University. « # # 'Y^/’llION they attempt to discriminate against these unorganized persons, or ganizations are working towards two uiir healthy ends: a big part of the student body is further prohibited from participation in class affairs; sooner or later the inarticulate masses, if still oppressed, will find leaders and organize to give now-dominant forces a whale of a beating. A campus or a class divided is weakened and defeats its own purpose. If the proposed constitutional change is fairly defeated, an unwholesome and arbitrary—but not on the basis of organization affiliation—split con tinues to exist and is encouraged. If it is defeated on a fraternity and anti-fraternity basis, a deplorable “class-line” lias been drawn and the issue pushed into the back ground. * * * JJNTTL this edition, The Emerald has re frained from comment on the issue, pre ferring to let tin* class settle its own prob lems uninfluenced. The issue is being evaded and confused, however, hidden meanings have been read into a rather innocent reform. It is branded as this or that person’s effort to hit. at fraternities. This is incorrect and unrea sonable. When the debate is finished tonight and the issue is put to a vote, every freshman ought to make his own decision as to whether class activities should exist parasitieally on the sab> of voting privileges—and mark that decision on his ballot The News Steps Into the Afternoon Field VESTERDAY Hu* Eugeni' News climaxed a. y(*nr of change and improvement and startled Eugene with an afternoon edition. The decision of publisher Fred W. ('hitt.v and 11is staff to move into the afternoon field gives Eugene two fine afternoon dailies. The News will continue to publish its morning edition and, with the Register-fiuard's two editions, Eugene and Lane county is to get, even better news coverage. The change means an improvement in the positions which several University of Oregon school of journalism graduates and under graduates hold with the paper, for every person on the news staff has been or is eon needed with this University. ino nos: 01 hick aim congraruianons lor tlio reconstructed, afternoon, “now” Nows. WARNING For days speech department, emissaries liave been haunting the journalism shack, en deavouring to darken The Emerald’s columns with publicity of a debate tryout to be held Thursday in speech department quarters in Friendly hall. This notice must come as a warning. The speech department would be red-faced indeed —and Corvallis would be angry—if the de partment’s motto should be slightly disar ranged. It might very well be interpreted to read, “Oregon State is our campus.” Teh. tch—and just before homecoming, too. Strange Land By WERNER ASENDORF ABOUT 1,000,000 students out of a population of 125 millions live and let live in American col leges and universities. Germany has a population of 08 millions and not more than 100,000 students. These figures show another reason for the differ ence of the two educational systems: it is already difficult to plant 100,000 specialized and trained men and girls so that they can find a living accord ing to their education. How far more difficult, nearly impossible, would it be to give adequate jobs to a million ready boded American scientific experts even though quite a few girls vanish from the picture by jumping into the non-seientific matter of matri mony. In other words: the American educational sys tem is fitting to American standards. And post graduate research work here is as good as any where else. * • • STILL, THE DIFFERENCE in undergraduate work remains. It occurred to me that your type of work with mid-terms and qulzz and assign ment, with definite purposes so as to read a certain book from page 26 to page 37 and so on, develops a certain undergraduate-mentality that is unique and gives maybe one of the keys for your over whelming interest in sports unknown to European universities. (Physical training became compul sory in Germany not until recently. 1 When a German leaves high school and enters university after two years of working out and ventilating his knowledge-stuffed grey matter in military service, he is very free concerning how and what he is going to study. But as soon as he goes into it tHe fever of scientific research takes him into its grip. He will always even in his dreams consider his problems. Having no assign ments, he cannot say after having read page 26 to 37 blissfully neglecting the rest of the book— that he is through now, has his work done and may better without even a tiny whim of a sorrow busily engage himself in a game of golf or love making. Here's the difference in a nutshell: we are free to chose what to learn and you are free after you have learned what the professor taught to you. WHEN I WAS STILL in Europe I thought that American students don't work. I believe now that they actually work more than our boys. The undergraduate here works concentratedly for his assignment and the professor, and he himself knows what he has done. We often sit hour after hour behind a book, fighting for a accurate result and say afterwards: "Wieder nieht's getan." (“Shucks, nothing accom plished again.") To come to an end: this outline of differences is not complete. It cannot talk away the fact that studying here and "over there" depends on the person. You yourself decide the effect. You yourself make the years of studying a success for your life or not. Your attitude to wards studying is important. Some like to get life only out of books, some like books only to get along in life. And some sit over their books, massage their worried skull and whisper to themselves the gloomy wisecrack: Studying is as if somebody bats down on your head continuously it is so nice when it stops. Down the Middle Side Show ■Edited by . . . PAUL DEUTSCHMANN, National. BILL, CUMMINGS, Local. Local Three economists, a professor of law, and a scientist, all nationally known educators, are being- con sidered by the Oregon state board of higher education for the presi dency of the University, to succeed C. Valentine Boyer. Odd, that three of the five candi dates should be professors of eco nomics—odd, and perhaps fortu nate, for an educator schooled in economics would be apt to possess many attributes desirable for the head of a progressive university. * * * Two of the economists under consideration are former members of the University faculty, indicat ing that Oregon’s list of notables is a fruitful field to draw from. They are Donald M. Erb, acting head of the department of econom ics at Stanford university, and Da vid Faville, professor of economics at Stanford. Each of these former Oregon faculty members seems to possess a lion’s share of the attributes listed by Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter as necessary in the educa tor who becomes Oregon’s next, president. While the other three candidates —Dr. Charles F. Ream er, Michigan; Dr. Homer L. Dodge, Oklahoma, and C. M. Updegraff, Iowa -are likewise well qualified, the two former Oregon professors stand gratifyingly high. Their un derstanding of Pacific coast prob lems and of problems of the Uni versity itself seem to be advan tages in their favor. * * * Freshman politicians represent ing each fraternity and sorority met last night at the Alpha Chi Omega house in a vote-gathering rally preparatory to the frosh suf frage balloting tonight at Villard hall. Considerable strength was manifest at the meeting, both in numbers and enthusiasm, and houses in the defeated Hendershott bloc seemed to be falling in line with the rest of the fraternities and sororities favoring class cards as a requisite for voting. A vote-gathering campaign was also being pushed by the other faction of the issue, those who fa vor unrestricted suffrage. Inde pendent students give this faction its strength. Both sides seem to have ah even chance at the polls. National You have all heard of the frog who was trying to crawl out of a well. Every time he crawled up one foot he fell back two. Perhaps it is unkind to suggest that the United States under the present administration is pursuing a similar policy, but after perusing accounts of the budget for the last five years the similarity is decidedly noticeable. Back in the days before pros perity went behind the inf&mcAis corner we had a national debt of approximately ltj billion dollars. It had been cut down from the 1919 high of 26VI- billion after 11 years of pseudo-prosperity. Then the frog began its slide. By the time the tangled reins of gov ernment were handed to FDR the debt had crept back to nearly 21 billion. In a year the Democrats had boosted it to 26. In the next four years approxi mately three billion dollars were found to have been added every time the books were closed. Add ing the 1937 deficit, which was discovered in spite of Roosevelt’s calls for economy and promises of a balanced budget, the nation was embarassed to the tune of 3.5 billion. During the years of sliding the Democrats were not idle, however. Dissatisfied with a mere two bil lion and a quarter income in 1933 they labored long and hard, in creasing it to almost six by 1937. For 1938 they have greater plans —a national income of almost eight billion due to the addition of one billion in income taxes and half a billion social security funds. If these increases come up to full expectations and if the plan ned scrapping of PVV’A and its billion and a half appropriation go through without any new ex penditures, we will have a rela tively small deficit in 1938 — only about 400 million, to be exact. This recital of deficits and debts is very gloomy. It may cheer you up to know that modern govern ments have been going on like this for some time. Right at the pres i ent Great Britain has a debt that nearly equals ours. France is burdened with 192 billion francs—about eight billions in dollars. Germany has seven billions, Italy five, and Japan near ly three. It should be noted in passing that Japan is rapidly ab sorbing western policies. During the last seven years she has almost doubled hers, keeping up in spirit if not in actual cash with the U. S. Furthermore it can be pointed out that a comparison of the debts of these countries, as well as those of many smaller states, is much larger proportionally to wealth of the nation than that of our coun try. And beside that, everyone who has studied his history in high school remembers what a time was had back in pre-Civil war days when the government didn't have a debt. Philomelete Names (Continued from page one) ence Alden of the physical educa tion department is the patroness for recreation, and Mrs. Edith Sei fert for the art and music group. Art and music group will meet in the AWS room next Tuesday at 4 o'clock. All other hobby groups will meet two weeks from Tues day with the place to be an nounced in the Emerald campus calendar. No Collar, But (Continued from page one) She must usher her upperclass men into dinner and seat them at the table, she must answer the tel ephone and doorbell, she must go to the library in the company of an upperclassmen. Letters From Coeds Wanted By Ecuadorean Elvira Estrade, an Ecuadorean girl, wishes to correspond with an American college girl. She has written the following letter to the Portland postoffice: To Postmaster of Portland. My Dear Friend: As I want know the address of I the Universitys of this city. I thank you please give me some. My wishes are to write at some girls student of Universitys and I hope you send me some ad dress. If you can connect me with her I’m very glad: Anyhow I hope you please take the troublesome to answer me. I'm much obligate to you Elvira Estrada. Miss Estrada gave her address as Bahia de Caraquez, Manabi, Ecuador, P.O. box 36. Chancellor Hunter (Continued from page one) coast opportunities in establishing human relations with the orient. 2— Appreciation of research and creative scholarship. 3— Physical health, vigor and re serve energy. 4— Mental poise and balance, in tellectual and moral integrity, pub lic courage. 5— Age qualifications to look for ward to at least 20 years of service. 6— Sense of democratic faculty participation in university affairs and the value of civic and aca demic freedom. 7— Administrative ability. 8— Possess the habit of weighing evidence before reaching a decision. 9— Skill in public relationships. 10— Capable of associating with men outside the academic field. 11— Ability to establish univer sity contacts outside the academic field. 12— Appreciation of the respon sibilities and functions of a state university. 13 — Recognition of the values and powers of Christian civiliza tion. 14— Vision the function of educa tion in a democratic society. 15— Sympathy and confidence in youth. 16— Understanding of the prob I lems affecting the education pro | gram in Oregon. Coeds May Eat (Continued from page one) participating in traditional walk outs, and were asked to take all possible" precautions to prevent the spread of a possible cold epidemic. Late permission for the home coming dance Friday night. Oct. 22 was announced. Dean Schwering told the group that visitors at houses during the homecoming pro | gram must observe University regulations during their stay. Hazel P. Schwering, dean of wo | men, was present at the meeting ! in the Westminster house. Mrs. Schwering returned to her duties yesterday after a short illness. After the business meeting re-. ^ freshments were served. Terse Tales FOR TINY TOTS Or stories for the young col lege students — literary efforts from nowhere about anywhere. ... By MORITZ THOMSEN PECKIN’ Filbert Flop was one of those students, who realizing that he has to work his way through school, really gets down and works. It hardly seems fair, when you con sider the pathetic end he met, after being so darned conscientious about his job at the Side. He was always bustling around,j always busy, never sneaking a glass of beer for himself or his friends when he knew the boss was out. In fact his friends soon stopped dropping in, when they found there was no future in it. He used to whistle in time to the music that they played on the nickel phonograph machine, and he really figured life was pretty soft until they changed the pieces and got in a new batch. One of the pieces called “Peck in' ” was particularly tasty to young Filbert. Never, he thought, had he heard such a snappy song, and once in a while he would put in a nickel of his own and move from booth to booth whistling in time with the music, his tray full of beers for the women and coca colas for the men. But suddenly without warning . the piece took hold and all the other songs were neglected in the exploitation of this one snappy little number. After about a week, Filbert began peckin’ in time with the music. As he waited on people he would have a funny set expres sion on his face, and when the mu sic hit the right place Filbert would wiggle his. head and do a little peckin’ on his own. He found he couldn’t stop finally, and as the piece raged on hour af ter hour, poor Filbert would peck with his head like a chicken. He developed horrible headaches, but that seems almost unimportant when we realize the final damage it did. On Friday night, he was peckin’ his way around the Side trying with all his might to stop, but utterly unable to do a thing about it. The piece drooled on to the climax, the 369th climax of thev day, and Filbert started peckin* with unusual vigor. Suddenly his neck snapped, and before they got him to the hospital he was dead. The doctors never did figure out whether in the last few minutes that he lived he had his mind with him, but it is doubtful, for as he died, the ambulance driver could hear him in the back whistling softly to the peckin’ tune. MISS HART SPEAKER Miss Beulah Hart, field repre sentative of the emergency peace campaign, spoke to a group of 30 at the Westminster luncheon yes terday. Miss Hart represents the volun teer campaign of young people working toward peace. "AGGIE" STUDENT KNOWS HIS BEES IVOR HIVE ... majoring in "Bee Culture” at State U., says: . . . "Don’t get stung . . . insist on getting the genuine Can’t Bust ’Em CAMPUS CORDS. ‘Hive* never worn any others—and 'Bee’lieve you me they’re ‘honeys’ for style—fit—and wear. Easily cleaned with soap and water.” CAKT9*t*M S CORDS’ tms umviRsmr-rrruD tbouma* ★ Look for this Gold Label at your clothiers. X Eloesser-Hevnemann Co. 1161-1165 Mission Street SAN FRANCISCO
