LEROY MATTINGLY, Editor WALTER ft. VERNSTROM, Manager
LLOYD TUPLTNG, Managing Editor
Associate Editor* : Paul Deutschmann. Clare Igoe.
Editorial Board: Darrel Fllis, Bill Peace. Margaret Bay. Edwin Robbins. A1 Dickhart, Kenneth Kirtley.
t’PPF.R XFAVS STAFF
E Inert Hawkins. Sports Editor
Bernadine Bowman. City Editor
Homer Graham. Chief Night Editor
Hew Evans, Assistant Managing Editor
Jean Weber, Art Director
Warren Waldorf, Staff Photographer
.\iartna >TcwarT. >v f.mfn s r/mor
Don Kennedy. Radio Editor
Rita Wright. Society Editor
Tlettv Jane Thompson. Assistant Thief Night Editor
Elizabeth Stetson. Feature Editor
N KI'ORTKRS
Kill Pensrra
Louise Shepherd
Dick Lit fin
Rita Wright
Wen Brooks
John Pink
Moritz Thomsen
Ken Kirtley
Betty Jane Thompson
Catherine Taylor
Doris Limlgren
Barbara Stallcup
Parr Anlin
Leonard Jermain
If ill Kalston
Betty Fiksdal
Hill Grant
Glenn Ha^selrnoth
John Powell
Kli/ahetli Ann Jones
Catherine Crane
< lordon Kmgeway
I >r»rr»t)»y Preyer
Merrill Moran
Patricia Krikson
r.eortfe Pejrt?
Mortimer Heinrich
Ai<la Macchi
iseitv Hamilton
I 'a t Walsh
Katherine* Cannon
Marjorie Isler
Vera Stokes
Patsv Warren
Pat McCarthy
DESK STAIK I HIS ISSUE
Assistant Managing Editor
Bob Emerson
Day Kflitor
Heulah Chapman
Copyreaderft:
Marjorie Worthcn
Jean Crites
Kvelyn Jones
Alice Toney
Kvalvn Kirchofer
Miriam Can well
Lvle Nelson
f)onna Row
Night editors:
P.ill Grant
X I (I Iff STAFF THIS ISM'K
Mob Jolly
uoociy rack
Carl Newcomb
KOAC—A Silent Station Saturday
was happy enough over ils football
victory Saturday to make a pilgrimage
to Eugene, This indicates the game, center of
Oregon’s wonderful homocoming program,
was of considerable importance.
Oregon’s state radio station, KOAC, di I
no' broadcast it, however.
Keason for KOAO’s failure was reported
to he Associated Oil's refusal to permit the
broadcast unless the station carried the com
pany’s fidl commercials (advertising an
nouncements.)
KOAO’s news release, which appeared as
an editorial in the Barometer, follows:
_ JtOAC WILL NOT BROADCAST (1AMK
Announcement was made today that
KOAC, the state-owned radio station, would
not broadcast the annual football game Sat
urday of this week, October 23, between Ore
gon State college and the University of Oregon
that will be played on Hayward field in Eu
gene. Permission to broadcast the direct play
by-play account of the game on any other
than a commercial basis was refused by the
Associated Oil company through its represen
tative, H. R. Deal of San Francisco.
KOAC asked for permission to broadcast
the game direct from Hayward field on the
same basis as that followed in handling games
direct from Bell field in Corvallis, inasmuch
as the state-owned radio station is the official
radio outlet for ill institutions in the Oregon
system of higher education. This request was
refused by the oil company. In handling games
direct from the Corvallis station KOAC gives
a courtesy announcement to the oil company
but does not carry the full commercials.
The Associated Oil company has been given
exclusive broadcast privileges by the Pacific
coast football conference.
Arrangements made by KOAC to obtain
the wire from Eugene to Corvallis for the
game were cancelled.
# # #
'Y'ET KOAC broadcast the Oregon Stale
UCFjA game the week before. Broadcast
ing by remote control should not make any
difference in the right id' the station to carry
the reports of the game,
Tt. is possible of course, that Associated
Oil only Iasi week began to crack down and
to take advantage of its privilege. The ques
tion seems to be. Will future Oregon games
at Eugeni1 be broadcast by KOAC and will
Oregon State games be released through the
station’s facilities?
If flu* station broadcasts DSC frames after
refusing to handle the homecoming contest,
(which, incidentally was an Oregon State
game, too), it has been guilty of a rather
petty discrimination between the two schools.
The paragraph, “in handling games direct
from the Corvallis station KOAC gives a cour
tesy announcement but does not carry full
commercials” seems to indicate the Heaver
grid broadcasts will continue just as before.
* * #
' |s 11H refusal or inability of the station to
broadcast, the civil war brings to light again
the whole problem of the state-owned station.
Financed by state money to serve both
schools, many people have felt it should be
called the Oregon State college station rather
than the Oregon state station.
Following the usually “K” which dis
tinguishes coast stations, its call letters arc
OAC.
The major part of its time is devoted to
state college programs and announcements.
Oregon faculty members and University
employees, traveling to Corvallis to broad
cast, are reimbursed for their trip by a low
mileage fee. They must necessarily devote
several hours more time to a broadcast than
do Oregon State* professors when the round
trip is taken into account. They are not paid
for this and make the trip on University of
Oregon time. It seems fair not that the men
themselves be reimbursed but that the Univer
sity receive some compensation for the time
its employees devote to travelling to and
from Corvallis.
Another sore spot, with advocates of equal
ity of treatment has been the fact that the
station is announced as “Corvallis.” If it is
the mouthpiece for both schools, it should
be announced as “Eugene and Corvallis.”
Hast year a committee was appointed for
the investigation of the situation and to weigh
tin! possibility of extending broadcasting
facilities to Eugene. Apparently no action
has resulted from its search. The University
seems to have a clean-cut ease of discrimina
tion, however, and the state board should
lake action at once to sec* that the appropria
tion for the state-owned station is adminis
tered so that its benefits are extended fairly
to the members of the system.
Strange Land
By WERNER ASENDORF
(German Exchange Student)
TWO YEARS AGO I happened to have a date
with an American girl in Vancouver, B.C, At that
time I was financially on the rocks and did not
expect to get a new supply of money before my
arrival in Japan. Such a state of affairs made
me invite the girl to go with me to a show in
Chinatown. My purpose was to call it a day after
a meal of delicious Chinese noodles. I met the
gill in the finest hotel in town and told her about
my plans. She was delighted and we left the hotel
to go slumming in Chinatown, “because anybody
can bring you to the best movies and make you
enjoy a first rate picture.
We had been walking along the street for
about 200 yards when she suddenly said: “Wait
a minute. 1 forgot to tell you that I brought
my car along. If you don't mind we may as well
use it."
* * *
THESE WORDS spoken casually and in a mat
ter of course, opened to me a new world of Ameri
can self-assurance. They gave me an entirely new
Idea of America and the Americans. A German
girl in a similar situation would have been im
mensely proud of having a car. She would have
said: “No, no, not the streetcar. 1 have my own
auto.” She would have acted differently because
it is not the natural thing to have a car of her
own.
To have and to be used to a very high standard
of living is an outstanding sign of the Americans.
That is tin1 reason, for so many European jokes
about boasting Americans. But it is not boasting.
That American girl in Vancouver did not boast.
She acted natural. She had that charming care
free attitude, which makes me like the Anglo
Saxon society to a very high degree.
I do not envy such a standard. I like it, but
I would neither steal nor waggle a war for get
ting the same attitude.
The German way to get over the fact that
we are a poor nation is not the way of war or
robbery. We know about our poverty and we try
to make the best of it. We try to transform what
is need into a virtue. All right then: if we are
poor let us create the slogan that it is a virtue
to be poor.
* * *
ONE SKIN FOR YOUR richness is your con
ception of the job. You do not work, you do not
toil, you have a job. And you usually don't get
sore if the boss comes and says: I'm sorry Jim,
you are tir'd. Your reaction is: OK. I quit.
We do not have such a conception. We created
tlie nobility of work. We say that everybody is a
noble man who does his work thoroughly. We
makt our workers proud of their skillfulness. We
cannot give them a car and we do not want to
give them a car by making a victorius war.
We know our limitations and try to make our
people happy without testing to smash our boun
daries.
In the Mail
VOICE OF FREEDOM
To the Editor:
I think that I speak for the rest
of the Oregon boys as well as for
myself when I say—
"We’re awfully disappointed in
the girls of the school. Haven't
they nerve enough to stand up on
their hind legs and demand that
they be treated as adults and not
as a bunch of nincompoops?
"Can it be that Oregon coeds are
gumptionless enough to want
[ someone to say, “Tsk, tslc, it's
11 o'clock, mustn't touch another
bite of food.’
"Or submit to having their house
dance privileges taken away with
out a little demand for a real hand
in their freedom."
In despair for the coeds.
HAMILTON KENNEDY II
SIDE SHOW
Edited by ... .
Bill Cummings, Campus
Paul Deutsobmann, National
Campus
An increase of approximately
7Vi per cent this year in the en
rollment of the University has re
sulted in two things: First, the
necessity of adding several new
faculty members, readjusting a few
salaries, and installing new equip
ment; and second, a very, very
crowded condition in classrooms.
The first problem was solved by
the state board of higher educa
tion Monday at a meeting in Port
land, when $11,000 was provided to
meet the salary and equipment
exigencies. When is something go
ing to be done about the deplorable
classroom problem ?
Many of the classrooms on the
campus are not only overcrowded,
but entirely undeserving of the
name, "classroom.” They arc small,
poorly lighted, poorly ventilated,
and poorly equipped. This is espe
cially true in the older buildings, in
which some of the rooms are veri
table dungeons, seemingly never
having been designed to admit the
light of day. Such conditions are 1
undesirable for normal classes, but
when these poorly appointed rooms
are filled to overflowing, the evil
is doubled.
The University not only needs to
have its old classrooms renovated,
it needs more classrooms. True,
there is at present a place for
every class to meet, without con
flict, but many of the meeting
places could very well be aban
doned, as classrooms.
Figures from the registrar’s of
fice bear out this contention.
Limitnig the analysis to the morn
ing hours, which are by far the
most crowded, and further cutting
it down to Monday, Wednesday and
Friday, which are the busiest days,
we get a cross-section of the class
room condition at its worst.
Friendly hall, the journalism shack,
and Oregon have no vacant class
rooms whatsoever, during the
hours under consideration. Com
merce, Deady, Education, and
Johnson have only one each; Con
don and Villard have two. These fig
ures pertain only to classrooms
with a capacity of at least 50 stu
dents.
It is granted that to function
with the greatest possible effi
ciency, the University needs only
enough classrooms to get by; that
is, every room should theoretically
be filled every hour. Eut this is
impossible under the present state
of affairs.
There is a great deal of signifi
cance in the fact that not one iota
of official criticism has been level
led at the Oregon students for their
conduct during the Oregon-Oregon
State student riot. There was a
complete lack of malice during the
whole affair, and a spirit of fun
seemed to prevail, fortunately. The
Beavers put on a good show, got a
warm reception, and went horn
satisfied—we hope.
But let’s hope that the hatchet
is buried, at least for the present.
Further skirmishing could only
lead to serious trouble. I^et’s not
give the state troopers an oppor
tunity to use their tear gas, the
college authorities a chance to
“crack down’’ with undesirable
rules, or the taxpayers a cause to
bemoan the fact that their money
goes to support clashes instead of
classes.
National
Jimmy Roosevelt, FDR's ambi
tious son, stepped into the lime
light the other day with the an
nouncement that he was to take
over the important position of sec
retarial “buffer” between his busy
dad and all the inhabitants of the
District of Columbia who want to
see the president personally.
Although this is no climax to
Jimmy’s political life, it represents
a decided step forward, one which
will make it necessary for half of
the politicians and statesmen in
the capitol to talk to him person
ally before they may tackle the
president.
Think of the possibilities of the
position. Soon everybody will be
calling the eldest boy by his first
name and hoping that he will flash
the famous Roosevelt smile, push
the fatal buzzer and beckon them
towards the presidential portal.
James has been dabbling in and
out (mostly in) politics for some
time. Some Washington gossips
say that his official residence in
Massachusetts is maintained so
that he may step into the guber
natorial race of that state should
an opportune moment reveal itself.
Recently this summer Jimmy
took a flyer into the Elks club in
Philadelphia. He became very ac
tive and his picture appeared in a
number of advertising programs to
recruit new members of the order.
Now the Elks are of course not
a political organization, but they
do help, as do the Shriners, Eagles.
Rotary, and hundreds of oTher fra
ternal organizations, anybody with
a political career in mind. Politic
ians have utilized them for years.
(EDR is a member of over a doz
en.)
The only trouble with the Phila
delphia deal was that the big Elk.
as far as politics went, was the
senior senator of ..Pennsylvania,
who is not only a loyal Democrat,
but also an ardent new dealer. You
can see that Jimmy did not make
friends of everybody in Pennsyl
vania by his move.
Things like this, and perhaps the
natural suspicion of people for
sons of men already at the top,
have been the basis of continual
Pollock's FOLL Y
By BOB POLLOCK
IT IS SIGNIFICANT that the
first thing the Staters ran into on
Oregon’s campus was a dairy truck
... it must have seemed like home
to them.
Somebody at Galli Curci’s con
cert supplied this gem of a de
scription of many - adjectived S.
Stevey Smith: “The guy with hair
all over his head who looks like a
French revolutionist” . . . and
while we’re talking about Galli
Curci, the fellow said that she was
all right but that she made the
mistake of singing champagne
songs to a beer audience, was a
very correct individual . . . About
all the average squirmer on the
hard board seats understood was
“La Paloma”- and “My Old Ken
tucky Home” ... if the artist had
stood there and gargled with Lis
terine they wouldn't have known
the difference during the rest of
the program.
MUCH WORRIED is the OSC
lad who organized the March on
Oregon . . . his expression during
the riot was much like that of a
man who had started an avalanche
that he could not stop and that
was carrying him along with it.
The dean of men as well as Presi
dent Peavy were looking for him,
he understood. He didn't think
they’d do much to him, but how
was the B.A. course over here,
anyway?
FRESHMAN PAUL HARRI
SON, gravel - voiced apprentice
smoothie, had eyes the size of
rumors about the eldest son. But,
of course, being just that, every
body has had to smile back at him
when he smiled at them.
Jimmy’s future may well grow
out of this present job. Let’s hope
that he has and deserves a better
fate than that of “Big-Stick” Ted
dy’s namesake, who fizzled out of
the Republican party with little
notice and less glory.
large saufcers when some one ran
into him on the street the other
day . . . why not? He had just
been introduced to Simon Simone
—and in the flesh. Investigation
disclosed it was only Mary Jane
Sturgeon, diminutive Chi Omega
. . . Gravel-voiced Harrison ap
pears to have struck a rock, will
say nothing to interviewers. . . .
With a bow to ace reporter Clair
Johnson, I reestablish bis “Spark
ling Eyes” department . . . there
will also be a “Black Eyes” depart
ment, if trade merits it. Nominees
to start the parade of sparkling
peepers are Freshmen Pat McCar
thy and Betty Hamilton, who have
that certain something necessary
to make this department . . . any
time.
PEOPLE I ADMIRE: First in
this series is Jean Gulovson, a gal
from out in the very flat part of
central Oregon, where mail pene
trates only once a week in summer,
frequently not all in the winter.
She has been part of the brains,
and a guiding genius back of wo
men’s cooperative houses on the
Oregon campus, has worked most
of her way through school, has
maintained consistently high GPA,
and is hereby nominated for the
Pollock Haul of Fame.
And she still has the ability to
blush—which is much more than
can be said for many a senior wo
man.
A GLORIOUS WEEKEND
As early as last summer,
plans for homecoming were un
derway. Long - time considera
tion of the problem bore fruit.
Palms for Elmer Fansett who
conceived a large part of the
entertainment and put across a
fine program in his first at
tempt. And the gold receptacle
to hold the leafy fern goes to
Bill Dalton, capable organizer.
*?£*
i
lot of smokers
have found that Chester
fields have a taste they
like. They’ve found out for
themselves that Chester
fields are MILDER.
You can prove for yourself
that Chesterfields SATISFY.
Copyright 1937, Licgstt & My ns Tobacco Co.
.. they’llgive you
MORE PLEASURE