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.
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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.
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