From Where
I SIT
By CLARE IGOE
One of many journalists who last
year went out into the cruel, cold
world (along with other college
Students) to carve themselves a
Career in the best tradition of the
Cinema was Clair Johnson.
Clair went to the Salt Lake Tri
bune. He hasn’t lost touch with
the campus, however, and he still
has that gift of observation
(though its through The Emerald's
columns, now) and pert chatter
that made his "Quacks” column a
highlight of last year’s paper.
Below is a "guest edition” of
“Quacks” written in far off Salt
Lake. Although a long way from
home, Johnson still hits close to
It with some of his comments and
pretty well covers the gossip field.
By CLAIR JOHNSON
Wind swept over the lake of
great salt yesterday and buckets
full of misty dampness —strangely
reminiscent of good old Oregon—
were dumped on the hallowed heads
of myself and my Mormon com
patriots.
Which, with a recent visit of
Paul Whiteman here, brought to
mind memories of crackpot colle
giate days.
But believe me lads you don't
want to miss Paul when he hits
Eugene for Homecoming ... he
and the boys are not only top
swingers, but they’re danceable,
too.
You might not recognize the
chief, if you’ve seen him before.
He’s dropped from a former 327 to
a mere 197. In an interview for
the Trib he told me it was "by not
living for three months.”
But back to college . . . tell me,
is Barney Hall the same alleged
woman-hater of old, despite his
magnetic attraction for the fair
sex 7 . . . and was it Gayle Buchan
an’s Impersonation of a happy
school child at an assembly last
spring which won her the lead in
the first fall play?
/\nu ren inr, an mane itusmus
sen, June Brown, In!iIii*IIi* Miller,
Betty Crawford, Caroline Hand,
Both Weber, et al still have sparkl
ing eyes?
How come the SAEs haven't
started libel proceedings against
Bob Folly’s Pollock column ? , . .
Or is what he says true ?
Memories, again, make me ask
If Stevey Smith still enthralls mul
titudes with the most prolific
vocabulary on the campus ... If
George Godfrey still tells the big
gest fish stories ... If Gyp still
begs hunks of ice cream from Mr.
and Mrs. Newt's customers and
hashers in the Side ... If Taylor’s
is still the place where “no man
works’’ . . . and if Jeff beach is still
the gathering place for unattached
collegians trying to satisfy their
urges- to dance . . .
Too, I’ve wondered if Ralph
Cathey ever picked up enough Ger
man stubbornness to let that pale
blond mustache he brought back
with him grow . . . that is, if it
would grow. Which brings to mind
Bob Knapp's green Bavarian hat of
last year . . . Has anyone this sea
son sprung such an unholy ward
robe accessory on campus crown
wearers ?
How about Major Connelly? Is
he still firing dally reams of paper
at all and sundry regarding the
cause of non-conipulsory military?
. . . And who takes the place of bis
okl opponent, Don Thomas, in both
militaristic, discussions and night
life escapades.
Tell me, are the Delta Gams still
racy ? . . . Do the Betas, Sigma
Chis and Phi Delts still have all the
athletes? . . . Are the Kappa Sigs
still the majordomo politicians ? . . .
Are the Chi O's still journalism
leaders ? . . . Do the Fijis still have
the best dressed men on the cam
pus? . . . Do the Alpha Phis still
have the best assortment of femi
ninity ? . . . Do the Alpha Gams
still monopolize the Theta Chis?
. . . Does Alpha hall still rule the
dorm with an iron hand? ... Do
the Pi Phis still hold all the offi
ces?
I read with interest of the recent
football successes. Apparently
dazzling! to the women) Dale Las
selle has dropped his dilletante
ways of past years and instead of
doing an imitation ballet dance on
the field is really stepping . . .
Which reminds me, ex-Oregonian
and many-colleged Orval Hopkins
brings peals of laghter weekly on
the Trib copydesk with screams of
“my alma mater won" no matter
w*ho does the winning . . . And of
course he’s right, unless every team
on the coast loses.
But enough, and with the part
ing thought that homecoming
doesn’t mean your stomach wants
every assorted thing it has seen in
the last few years come home all at
once, farewell, with a salty, salty,
quack, thirty, quack.
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
Oregon Quietly Entertains an Important Visitor
'T'flH visit, of l)r. diaries F. Romor, profes-j
sor of economies at. tin* University oi
Michigan, is another well-planned and .judi
cious steji in the search of the state hoard,
the chancellor, and the University for a presi
dent.
Dr. Remer’s visit was as cpiiet as it was
unexpected. lie dropped down from Portland
Monday with the University’s vice president,
Burt Brown Barker, looked over the campus,
talked to Chancellor Hunter, the faculty ad
visory hoard, and President Boyer, and last,
night was gone. News of his visit, was not
released to newspapers until this afternoon,
although if “leaked” about, the campus from
many sources
Unaccompanied by demonstration or pub
lic appearance as it was, l)r. Reiner’s visit
was not as little noticed as that of Clarence
M. Updegraf, executive secretary to the presi
dent at Iowa university, sometime ago.
# # *
r|~'IIBXU visits by men from the list of five
presidential candidates released not long
ago by the state board of higher education
have a defenite purpose.
They typify the intelligent and exhaustive
search the state board and the faculty ad
visory council, which Cancellor Hunter asked
to advise in the selection, have been making.
By Ibis means, the applicants can he shown
the campus, make faculty acquaintances and
get the lay of the land. The board, through
its executive and advisory council, has a con
tact with the candidate.
Dr. Reiner’s visit brought him here from
Ann Arbor, Michigan, Mr. Updegraf’« from
Iowa. Of the other throe candidates, Proi’es
soi* Donald hnb and I rotessor David r a vino
I (both Oregon men) fire at Stanford. Ilomer
1 Ij. Dodge, is dean of the graduate school of
the University of Oklalioma.
Both Professor Erb and Paville are well
known here and are acquainted with many
faculty members. It would not he surprising
if some or all of the three men didn t turn
up here for a short “inspection tour and
interview in the near future.
Because of its exhaustive nature, the
search for a president has been a lenthy one.
Some campus observers have predicted that
the final decision would be made before
homecoming but this seems hardly possible
now. Others have predicted an announcement
would be forthcoming before the end of
October.
T 48, Dr. Berner falls within the age limit
set up by Chancellor Hunter and the
board as best for a new University president.
It would be difficult for any one man to
approach the “16-point” ideal set forth not
long ago- Dr. Berner apparently, however,
favorably impressed those lie met in his brief
stay on the campus. Faculty members were
pleased with his personality and apparent
capability, approved of his qualifications.
Judging from the impression he made, Dr.
Berner is a strong contender for the presi
dency. There are still other fine men to be
considered, however, and 1 before the man
chosen can accept the job, lie will have to
make arrangements for reelase from duty
with the school lie now serves.
ft looks as if Dr. Boyer, who resigned
six months ago, will preside from the execu
tive chair at one more homecoming.
Announcements or Not, There Won't Be Any Luncheon
I I'dsDA'i house managers <le;ill a blow j
to tin" proposed homecoming eampiis
luncheon.
There’h no doubt that the house managers
have a fairly strong ease. For each man in
the house, the managers, proverbially a “con
servative” lot, would have to dig down into
1||)“ fraternity sock for 25 cents.
House managers and tH,e organizations
they represent are “hit” for every activity
which comes along. Beautiful girls attack
the members during the luncheon hour with
vigorous campaigns to sell mums, flags, dolls,
dance tickets. The house coffers suffer every
time anything come up which provides an
excuse to ask organizations for donations.
There is much to be said in favor of a
campus luncheon, even if it has to be financed
by the living organizations. The dorms always
pay their own way, with a contribution match
ing that, per man, of the houses. Because the
Oregon campus is unfortunately split into
two groups, one living in organizations aii^
active in campus affairs and one outside of
began,izat ions and not active' in affairs, a
heavy percentage ot those who attend the
luncheons would have their meal paid for by
an organization. The ASUO helps with a
contribution.
Houses, in fact, would be out little if
anything for the affair. It costs the average
house 35 cents for each lunch served—at
least that is what most of them charge their
men. As no lunch would be served on Friday
in the house, organizations would be in theory
at least 10 cents ahead per man when house
bills are collected.
Still, the houses have a strong case- The
fact remains the luncheon program would
have added something to homecoming. It
would have been wiser to attempt to finance
it through the interfraternity council, which
would undoubtedly have seen the value in
the measure and have backed it up.
Anyhow, you can’t believe all the pub
licity you read in the mail these days. The
AKIJO financed 15,000 announcements of the
campus luncheon, went to the trouble of ad
dressing and mailing them. Jyst the same,
there isn’t going to be any luncheon.
In the Mail
CCOSM ULTIMATES
(Committee for the Consideration of
Stem Measures)
There is a part of the University which has
too long been neglected by critics and agitators,
so, let's get down to business. With so many
students using Commerce hall, it is surprising
that some of them haven’t begun to notice aloud
that the place is about as conducive to study as
a football rally, or the Igloo on registration day.
A few statistics may batter home the point.
In the upper hall there are several chairs with
arm rests. Well, that’s nice ay far as it goes, but
beyond that point there are grounds for a loud
howl. The rest of the chairs don’t have arm rests.
Leaving an arm rest off a study chair is worse
than leaving the tray off a high chair. You can't
write on one of the things without an arm rest.
And that is Indeed unfortunate, for if you are
going to accomplish anything it must be in writ
ing; it s too noisy there to read.
Of course, the lecture rooms are available for
study when you don’t want them, but they are also
available for lectures, and you can’t study when a
lecture is taking place, because of the impossibility
of staying awake.
Chairs and tables are crowded into the hall
way where there is not enough room and too much
distraction; lack of arm rests on chairs, inacces
sibility of class rooms: these things are very
troublesome. Something -nay, a great deal—ought
to be done about it. A meeting of the committee
for the consideration of “stern measures” may be
expected in the event of a refusal by the authori
ties (don’t ask us, “What authorities?” This is
one of the ways to keep out of trouble! to give
proper recognition to complaints such as this one.
In short, gentlemen, you have an ultimatum on
your hands. What are you going to do about it ?
ROBERT KNOX,
HAROLD DRAPER.
Strange Land
By WERNER ASENDORF
IT WAS a surprise. One of the questions in
a recent test about national and international
affairs was: which country spent most on re
armament in 1936? After a while of figuring I
decided to put down Germany. I wouldn’t have
done it if I had used the knowledge acquired by
reading German newspapers and their interpreta
tion of international rearmament. According to
German figures Russia would have been the power
that spent most on rearmament. I for once be
lieved in American propaganda and—was wrong.
It is indeed Russia and not Germany that spent
most of all powers on rearmament.
This little incident is one of the many proofs
for the fact that a "controlled press" prints the
truth as any newspaper under a political free,
capital-controlled press. There is no faking of
news in our papers and I am certain—there is
no faking of news in your papers. Discrimination
may be found in eliminating- and interpreting news.
But there is truth in both of them.
* * *
ON THE OTHER HAND: I wouldn’t feel
ashamed if Germany spends more than any coun
try for armament in the future. She can not do
it because England does. But if she could, the
German people would defend such spending.
This column is dedicated to give the viewpoint
of a Strange Land to you and my impression about
a land strange to me. What I have to write now
may sound strange to you but it is the argument
of the German people.
Germany lost the war. Germany destroyed all
her war material. Germany had an army of 100,
000 men. Germany had no tanks, no airplanes.
But the French stayed in the Rhineland. The ;
French are armed up to the teeth. Germany had
no protected border. The French border is one 1
fortress beside the other. Germany is surrounded
Side Show
Edited by . . .
PAUL DEUTSCITMANN,
National.
BILL CUMMINGS,
Local.
The chance to do something con
structive for the University has
been laid in the laps of the four
classes — freshmen, sophomores,
juniors, and seniors. Will they
make the most of it?
A plan to decorate McArthur
court permanently with decorations
that will be both artistic and prac
tical has been worked out by the
educational activities board. Fi
nancing the undertaking is the
problem, but so economical are the
board’s plans that the classes may
actually be able to save money in
the long run by donating funds to
the cause.
* * *
A complete set of drapes, panels,
and indirect lighting units has been
designed by Horace W. Robinson
of the drama department, a master
at stage decoration and lighting.
The cost of the undertaking has
been 'estimated at $700—a modest
sum when it is taken into consid
eration that the results will be the
complete transformation of the
hare, unattractive interior of the
Igloo. No longer would classes and
other‘'campus organizations face
the problem of covering up the un
sightly walls and rafters of the
campus’ favorite dancing rendez
vous.
Robinson’s plans call for a “con
cert unit” of props, forming a
background for the stage, and ex
tending in each direction halfway
around the building. Thus the en
tire east side of the Igloo and the
two ends would be permanently
decorated. This unit has been de
signed especially for concerts, but
would be so constructed that the
panels and drapes could be extend
ed over the remaining wall-space
of the Igloo, alternating with
whatever additional panels the dec
orators desire for any particular
occasion. Indirect lighting would
be a part of the concert unit, pro
viding unique color schemes that
would make possible almost endless
variety. Hanging canopies from
the roof of the Igloo have been
ruled out by the University be
cause of the strain on the building,
but Robinson has cleverly account
ed for this. By means of more in
direct lights, the ugly upper
structure would be blanked out by
a ceiling of complete darkness.
The educational activities board
has indicated that it will probably
he able to provide $100 to $200 of
the cost, and the University com
mencement committee has offered
$50 or $100 more. This would
leave a balance of about $500
which must be raised by the class
es. Again the educational activi
ties board—intent upon carrying
out the undertaking with the least
possible expense—has worked out
a plan to minimize the financial
strain on the class organizations.
Here it is: Each class is asked to
donate as much as possible, and
may benefit from their own dona
tions by renting the decorations at
a minimum charge throughout the
year for class functions. The rent
al charge would be taken out of
the donation fund. Charles Irwin,
president of the senior class, in
tends to bring the matter of an
outright gift before his classmates,
by four, five powers which are
armed to the limit. No German
border was protected effectively.
Germany resembled a filled cash
box unprotected by any safe. Such
a method is only effective in heav
en or Utopia. Not even in America.
The new German army is noth
ing else but a safetylock on the
German cash register. And we
mak sure that no one can break
the lock. It is an old Roman say
ing, yet it is still true: If you
want peace prepare for war.
Maybe you do not believe Adolf
Hitler if he says that he doesn’t
want war. We—who know that he
went through the terrors of war—
believe in him. He has seen what
war is like. He didn't need to see
"March of Time” to get a shudder
about the cruelty of bombing.
» * *
AND WE, the young German
generation, don't have grandfath
ers who tell us glamorous stories
about the war they fought in their
youth. But we have fathers who
still get sometimes that look in
their eyes, that look which fright
ened us twenty years ago, telling
an untold tale of blood and horror.
It may be that our children get
wiggled into the true fighting
spirit on the knees of their grand
fathers. The present generation
ioesn't go to war unless the merci
less cruelty of a have-all world
starves us so much that the eternal
urge of hunger drives us into a
fight even if we have to bite our
way through to food and freedom.
We do not want to follow the
path of the Mohicans.
directing the traditional senior
gesture toward this worthy under
taking.
National
Back in 1933 when the unre
stricted stock exchange was still
throbbing from the effects of the
October days of 1929, President
Roosevelt got the boys together
and passed the exchange relation
act which was to end market man
ipulation, crashes, selling short,
and the rest of the evils of the
United States’ greatest “gambling
establishment.”
Yesterday we saw a return to
the style of that gloomy winter,
when frantic traders threw 7,500,
000 shares of stocks back and
forth all day, finally recovering al
most all of their losses after
slumps of as much as 13 points.
Under the exchange regulation
act the president is empowered to
close the stock market trading
whenever the boys get rough. Yes
terday he not only said he would
leave Wall Street alone, but also
refused to comment on the terrific
slump which seemed so serious in
the middle of the afternoon.
Incidentally, credit for the re
covery, (after most of the margin
dealers had been wiped out) goes
to some of the big investment
trusts who started buying when
stocks got low enough to be bar
gains. Far from us to suggest
that there was any dirty work, but
it looks decidedly as if the little
man of the stock exchange was
shown the alley in many cases as
the result of today’s trading.
Blame for the skittish market,
which has been acting downward
for several months, was placed on
a dozen different causes by finan
ciers, economists, and other ex
perts. Almost everyone agrees
(under his breath) that business
recovery has been stopped or at
least temporarily delayed.
With this in mind it is possible
that FDR’s call for a special ses
sion with possible serious effects
on agriculture and industry could
have been the cause of the drop.
Some economists agree to this.
Others, foes of the hampering
regulations of the stock exchange
act, say the hill is responsible be
cause it calls for high margins,
forcing margin players out at the
first sign of a slump; prevents
bankers and corporation officers
from making bolstering buying or
selling moves; stock brokers have
been wary of action that might
prevent a slip because of fear of
breaking some provision of the act.
Still others suggest that “bear"
actions in London and Amsterdam,
as well as other foreign influences,
have added to the downfall of the
market.
Probably all, possibly none of
the causes cited above figured in
today’s financial drama. One in
dication that can be derived is that
the act apparently has no power
to prevent a stock market crash if
the market is inclined toward one.
A nice subject for speculation is
“What would have happened if the
president had closed down Wall
Street?” ~
Leaves Campus
(Continued from page one)
ing tutor work in the division of
history, government, and econom
ics. From 1924 until he took his
present post. Dr. Remer held an
Orin Sage professorship in econom
ics at Williams college.
From 1928 to 1931 he directed a
study of international economic re
lations of China for the Social Sci
ence Research Council of New
York.
The able economist is a member
of the advisory council of the Ling
man university in Canton, China,
a member of the American Eco
nomic association, the Association
of University Professors, and of
Phi Beta Kappa, the all-college
honorary society.
He has written many books
among them: "Foreign Trade of
China,” in 1926, and "American In
vestment in China,” in 1929.
He made a study of the Chinese
boycott, in 1933, and other far east
ern and economic problems.
Get Your bummer
Shoes Ready for
Expert Dyeing
Why not dye your summer
shoes and get the additional
wear besides saving on your
shoe bill.
HOWARD
SHOE SHOP
Next to the Co-op bldg.
BOB
pollock's
folly
IT’S BEEN on my mind for a
long time. And every day it get3
worse. I mean about this business
of short skirts to which the fe
males have turned in ever-increas
ing numbers.
I object to it on two grounds:
first, that it destroys boyish illu
sions, long held, concerning the
shapliness and character of the
limbs of some of the campus beau
ties. This I hold to be a criminal
offense. Long have I regarded,
discreetly and at a distance, the
legs of a few of the local lassies.
And the artistic soul of me has
raptured at the beauty and grace
which I thought a lowly—and
lengthy skirt did conceal. Now
the spare shanks, the knobby
knees, the over-stuffed ankles of
the femininity of Oregon are ex
posed for the world’s guffaw.
DEFINITE PROOF that this
is already having its effect may
be seen in the establishment of
a date bureau on the campus.
Such an institution has never
been known before, and there
would be no necessity for it. now
if the gals would ring down the
curtain on the faults of their ex
tremities. I sound a cry for few
er exposed gams and more glam
or!
MY SECOND objection is based
on the idea that the babes don’t
; know how to dress. They drape a
half or three-quarter length jacket
over themselves and leave approxi
mately six inches of skirt and two
feet and a half of hqse showing.
’S’elp meh, they look as overbal
anced as Mae West with Minnie
Mouse’s under-carriage. It’s get
ting so I pray for night and sleep
that I may be rid of these carica
tures which haunt my waking
hours.
IF IT IS true, as rumored,
that Eugene hotels refused ad
mittance to members of the Hall
Johnson choir on the old, old
grounds of race prejudice, then
Eugene may not be the ideal
Oregon town I thought it ... In
fact, it may be way out of posi
tion geographically . . . the place
for rumors like that is below the
ancient Mason and Dixon line. A
long ways below it.
BELL TELEPHONE as an aid to
romance certainly got in there and
pitched for Blond Avery Cloniger
of the tan Oldsmobile eight . . .
Lonely, Cloniger put in a call for
the g.f. in Evanstan, Illinois, the
other p.m. ... it cost him about a
fin, but the morning’s light brought
a telegram from the gal that has
hefty Avery a bit bleary-eyed and
gasping for breath . . . and the af
ternoon’s mail a day or so later
brought a photograph of the one
and only as big as a Monkey Ward
catalog.
That’s almost as good as tele
j vision.
I —. .
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Cement Walk Soon s
Work will begin on two new con
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brary building to Thirteenth street
as soon as labor is available, ac
cording to F\ A. Cuthbert, Univer
sity landscape architect.
With the money already on hand,
all that is needed is the labor,
which is being used on other pro
jects about the campus.
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