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From Where I SIT iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiniirininniiiiiiiiiiiinniiiniiuiiTniin By CLARE IGOE Reports come that ATO Jim Wilkinson, whose name was more or less romantically linked in this column the other day with that of Chi O Betty Hamil ton, was more than a little irked about it. Downright ungrateful, we’d say, since we didn’t forget to mention that he was a very handsome lad indeed. It may be that Jim, who caus ed, we’ll bet, many feminine hearts to flutter and throb on the Washington State campus is bent on a similar mission here and mayhap may have more than one iron in the fire to use a homely phrase. It is even told that on a recent trip to Ger many for the Olympics, he caught the fancy of a beautiful ballet dancer—with very roman tic results. We have probably said enough now to make Jim wish he’d car ried out the nasty mean threat he made at us, indirectly, as a result of the last column. And shucks, we was only funnin’. This story is told about Ore gon’s lanky basketeer Laddie Gale. It seems Laddie was only registered in school for twelve hours. His explanation: he want ed to take more, but the Uni versity wouldn’t let him, be cause it cost so much for tutors. * * * Near catastrophe came into the life of Barbara Espy re cently—and it all started so simply, too. It seems that Barbara was on the train saying goodbye to her grandmother, most dutifully. But in the throes of parting she forgot to look about, and when she got ready to get off the train, she found that undertak ing nigh impossible, for the train was moving away from the station at no mean rate of speed. Frantic, Barbara, who was in a hurry to reach a one o’clock class, shrieked for the conduc tor, explained her predicament. But that gentleman was ada mant. No, he couldn’t stop the train. The situation was very unhappy by this time, but Bar bara, determined, was not to be carried off by any old train, no, sir. She reached up, yanked the cord, and the train ground to a stop, with bewildered conductors dashing about to see what the matter was. Calndy Barbara stepped off the train, hiked back three miles along the tracks, arrived in town much too late for her one o’clock. * * * Shame on Woodrow Truax, for he came into the Shack last night in search of a copy of the University of Washington year book, the Tyee. It seems Woodie will make a trip north soon, and he wanted to get a line upon a few good-looking gals to play with. And he with his pin planted, too! Classes and (Continued from payc one) mendation on the class and senior societies exemptions, indicating that a statement of board policy was in order. Acting upon the suggestion of Board Chairman Earl M. Pallett, Hollis was named “Oregana” representative" to act as perma nent adviser to Overbade and Har bert through Activities Manager George Hoot. J. O. Lindstrom, chairman of a similar subcommittee to consider problems of the Oregon Daily Em erald, requested an extension of time with which to study the pa per's problems of revenue and ex penses. Lindstrom also announced the ap pointment of a committee com posed of faculty members of the school of journalism recently named by Dean Eric W. Allen to work with the board’s group. U of O Students Get (Continued from pane one) tially finance themselves while working toward advanced degrees. Recipients of the scholarships at the University are James Overtuff. Mary Kessi, John Gross, Stanley Robe, James Welch, Grace Morris, and F. W. Voget. In most cases the appointees will assist profes sors in studying various Subjects. On the campus workers will as sist in a study of the history of the Hudson Bay company, research on the psychological and Mexican novel, visual phenomena entering into problems of defective reading, physiological aspects of the ner vous system, and in cataloging, describing the anthropological col lections recently obtained from Catlow cave in southeastern Ore LEROY MATTINGLY, Editor WALTER R. VERNSTROM, Manager LLOYD TUPLING, Managing Editor Associate Editors: Paul Dcutschmann, Clare Tgoe. Elbert Hawkins, Sports Editor Bernadine Bowman, City Editor Homer Graham, Chief Night Editor Lew Evans, Assistant Managing Editor Jean Weber, Art Director Warren Waldorf, Staff Photographer UPPER NEWS STAFF Martha Stewart. Women’s Editor Don Kennedy, Radio Editor Rita Wright, Society Editor Betty Jane Thompson, Assistant Chief Night Editor Elizabeth Stetson, Feature Editor Bill Pcngrn Louise Shepherd Dick Lit fin Rita Wright Wen Brooks John Pink Moritz Thomsen Ken Kirtley Hetty Jane Thompson Catherine Taylor Doris Lindgrcn Barbara Stallcup Parr Aplin Leonard Jermain REPORTERS Bill Ralston Hetty Fiksdal Rill flrant Glenn Hasselrooth. John Powell Elizabeth Ann Jones Catherine Crane Cordon Ridgeway Dorothy Preyer Merrill Moran Patricia Krikson George Pegg Aida Macchi Bettv Hamilton Bat Walsh Katherine Cannon Marjorie Tslcr Vera Stokes Patsy Warren Pat McCarthy M") KTS ST A r r Eva Erlandson George Pascro Hill Porter Chuck Van Scoyoc Lloyd Bcggs Bill Norene Bob Jordan Pete Igoe Wes Johnson David Sanderson DESK STAFF THIS ISSUE Assistant Managing Editor Wen Brooks Day Editor Lucille Davis Copyreaders: Pat McCarthy Ross Hargis Amy Wilson NIGHT STAFF THIS ISSUE Lee Babcock John Biggs Night editors: John Powell Doris Murphy Circulation Manager: (Jerald Norville Assistants : Ruth Ketchum Nancy Hunt National Advt. Mgr. Joe Frizzell Assistants : Betty Blaine Mignon Phipps ADVERTISING STAFF Anno Frederickson I Portland Advt. Mgr. I< William Sanford ft Office Manager: Ji Caroline Hand E 'ucsflay Aflvt. Mgr. «*ith Osburne H.sistantH: ill Thompson ill Knight Roland Rodman Line Decew The Income Column Suffers But Student Service Is Upheld pKKSSKI) from oil sides to balance a budget, the educational activities board last night deliberated long and advanced a pair o - visions which may cost it money. Since the inauguration of the optional fee, the board, even under the new split, setup, has occupied a position verging on the finan cially untenable. It has been faced with the necessity of putting on an adequate program with scarcely adequate funds and its search for revenue has been exhaustive. Last night it passed up a chance to in crease its income;—passed it up because board members didn’t think that a charge on classes for Oregana space was fair—either to the classes or to the Oregana. yearbook ought to have space allotted to campus activities on a basis of “read er interest’’ in those activities and not on a basis of ability to pay. That was the policy upon which the board decided—and it con sistently extended that policy into the field of senior honoraries, organizations which, un like tin* classes, have been asked to pay for space in the book in •the past. Tin; board considered tlie case of other honorary and service societies, found them too numerous and lacking sufficient campus appeal to warrant their inclusion in tin1 book on any other than the present commercial basis. The step taken, financially a costly one, was a stride towards a better yearbook. Edi tor Wayne Herbert will not lost1 the right to allot space in the book according to his best judgment, as he would have had classes been * required to pay for space. The class leaders would probably have demanded space in re turn far in excess of the value of their groups’ activities. Acting with equal fairness and wisdom, the board approved a recommendation made by Chairman Orlando Hollis and his Oregana sub-committee that the yearbook’s executives be paid upon a fairer basis. The flat salary paid in the past has been too low in proportion to tlw amount of work done. Until last year income seldom exceeded expenses and the editor and business manager diil not receive anything frotn the 10 per cent bonus agreement in their salary stipulations. Other factors have tended to make the bonus system unfair. * * # 'J'OO many factors beyond their control lowered or increased the net income. Un der the new system, the editor is paid on a basis of deadlines met and the manager on a percentage of sales, advertising revenue, and money collected from organizations. This scale will be readjusted every year by the board. The results of last night's board meeting should be pleasing to ASUO members. The decisions show careful consideration and a determination to uphold the standard of the products and the universality of the services extended to the students by the board-eon trolled activities even if possible revenue must be sacrificed. You won't have to pay twice for your 1938 Oregana. Which is something new in business these days. Strange Land By WERNER ASENDORK German Exchange Student “IN SO FAR AS your column deals with Ger many I discover sometimes a loyalty without rea son,'' said somebody to mo the other nicht. Well, I don’t think I have not an open mind for that reason. There is at least plenty of reasoning be hind my statements. I don't like that least line of resistance very much which constitutes itself in loyalty without reason. I am proud of Germany and I am sure to have reasons. Maybe it happens sometimes that what is reason to me seems to be jut loyalty to you of the righteousness of my report. I can't blame you for doubting my stories some times. But 1 don't write them with the self-assured attitude of a seasoned propagandist who knows what people think if they see the by-line: “with the Japanese army” and who consequently magni fies everything in order to make his readers be lieve something. * MY POSITION is that of a very sincere and honest German who comes to another country, hears different viewpoints, and tries to give correct reasons about happenings and ideas which he him self never looked at with a critical eye before. He does not only convince t He reader but wants to assure himself too. He knows that one learns to appreciate certain peculiarities of one's own nation or criticizes them much more if one looks at the facts from the outside. Of course if it comes to a “show-down" anti if fact anti figures should sometimes speak defi nitely against my argument, my love for Germany will prevail and I will not spit at the mother that gave me all and everything. Would you say Am erica is a "hell of a place” just because strikes happen ever so often and gangsters kill non militant passers-by? Would you? I SPKNT my weekend in figuring how to give you my viewpoints and reasons in a most fitting form and a picture of the postwar Germany as well. 1 came to the conclusion that I have to give birth to a son, to a brain-child. His name will be Fritz and he is going to grow up in this here column to an age where he is apt to have his first adventures in life. Fritz starts his career as a representative of the German young generation at the time of his first intellectual awakening. That means he enters tomorrow’s column as a child who has just discovered that not: “Fritz wants to have a candy," but “1 want a candy.” I hope the editor doesn’t want to kill the kid. I would cry like a mother. I hope that the reader doesn’t mind that I am not a poet. I ban make snapshots but 1 can’t give a picture of life. 1 would be glad it' you like my snapshots. In the Mail NOTE (All communications should be signed with the writer’s name or initials, name preferred. They should not exceed 250 words. The editor reserves the right to reject any letters which are libelous, inaccurate, or not in good taste. Letters with ob viously fictitious signatures (such as Hamilton Kennedy U seems to be) will not be accept ed 1 A POOR PLAY To the Editor: “Roadside" by Lynn Riggs was presented by the Univer sity Guild as its first production of the year, and the critics bless their hearts! they mean well arose to the occasion in stock style. I believe, however, that all critics should be born with backbones, and that they should be critics instead of pub licity writers or advertising managers. Concerning "Hoad side," I thought the criticism too flattering. The story. I'll admit, was en tertaining (I laughed once in a while or of toner l but it was not a play worthy of its players. It was in parts too crude: in others it seemed to stall with out reason. These are never characteristics of a good play. 1 believe very firmly that the players could have spent their time to better advantage work ing on something more worthy of the University's dramatic de partment The Pasadena Playhouse turn ed thumbs down on this dra matic impossibility and the Uni versity Guild should have fol lowed a good example. As a person really interested in University dramatics, I hope the guild will steer toward a more brilliant and worthwhile repertoire. CLAIR SHIREY. NO REPRESENTATION? To the Editor: Following a hard day spent detouring about the various trading posts where the coeds proffer their adhesive delicacy, id est: Caramel Apples, assailed with constant doubt, fearing every moment lest I be appre hended and forced to pay the tax. 1 came at last to my peace ful home and paused to reflect. Once again the sales banners are out and we disinterested col lege men find ourselves wheedl ed into paying another tax to some women's honorary. Ordin arily I am not given to vain pro tests. but the unvarying sales Side Show Edited by . . . PAUL DEUTSCHMANN, National. BILL CUMMINGS, Local. Campus Through some kind quirk of providence not one of the hun dreds of spectators at the Eu gene Fruit Growers' fire Sunday night was injured, despite the fact that many University stu dents out-dared even the daring firemen and risked their necks for a few sacks of walnuts. One blast from the chlorine tanks in the heart of the in ferno couid have resulted in un told tragedy to the excited spec tators who crowded as close to the flames as the heat would allow. But, happily, only the feelings of the owner were scorched, and scorched plenty, when he saw his walnuts being pilfered under the protection of the blaze. Odd, that so many college students and townspeople alike would stoop to petty thievery at such a time instead of rallying to the help of a man in distress. But the chance to pick up a delicacy like walnuts was too good to miss. * * # University students were ben efitted financially to the extent of $200,000 last year in the form of student aid. Of this total, $68,000 was loaned outright. This is an impressive sum, in dicating that, every possible step is being taken by the state sys tem of higher education to open college doors to the deserving needy. Once inside the doors to a col lege education, self-supporting students find the incentive that is necessary to climb the grade to graduation, and such things as NY A, and University loans are helpful boosts along the way. As such, they are invaria bly appreciated. National Last night in Villard hall a rather slight wiry man got up and spoke for an hour about what curs Franco’s rebels are. His wife, an attractive brunette with a convincing voice, added a half hour more about condi tions in Spain. The man, Major Frank Lord, aviator, admitted that he has been a soldier of fortune with no political scruples. Earlier in the day he told a Eugene News reporter that killing had been bis business for a long time. (He has participated in six wars.) * $ * Perhaps it is unfair to call him a soldier of fortune with a yen for telling stories, but we would like to know how he escaped five speedy German planes in an ancient 90-mile an hour ship with no bullets for his observer machine gunner. Also we wonder just a little when he tells how 400 Italians were cap tured because they lacked the equivalent of American red flan nels when fighting on the cold, mountainous Spanish front. We must admit, however, that botli the major and his pretty wife appeared convinced of the truth of their statements — so convinced, in fact, of the right eousness of file loyalist cause, that they gave speeches which made many students hark back to their lessons in social science on propoganda. $ * # A more interesting and less controversial aspect of the ma jor's talk was his declaration that aviation is not playing the large part in modern wars ex pected of it. He repeated what has been said of late by many military authorities the basic determining factor in a war is the men with rifles and machine guns. Airplanes can bomb and ar tillery lay waste, hut the in fantry must occupy before terri tory is won. In his speech and also in his article in the feature section of Sunday's Oregonian. Major Lord told how the loyalists in Spain had successfully combated mo dern air equipment by bringing the sky battles closer to the earth. In this manner it is pos sible with slow planes to stave technique of these fair peddlers coupled with the quality of the merchandise offered has finally caused my gorge to rise. Must we continue to endure these levies ? Our forefathers rebelled at a lighter tax Or shall we continue in shameful, servile submission? Gentlemen of the campus, the final decision rests with you. Yours for more quality and less ballyhoo. HAMILTON KENNEDY II. Terse Tales FOR TINY TOTS or stories for the young col lege students — literary ef forts from nowhere about anywhere. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiimnnnnniiiiiiiiiininmimiiuniniiiiiiiimniiiiiiiimiiiiiiiinnuiiii By MORITZ THOMSEN Bud Blister really had quite a reputation as a medium sized riot. The boys in his organiza tion really thought he was all there. He said some of the fun niest things they had ever heard. In class he was a demon, and in time, it got so all Bud's friends would find out what courses he had signed up for before they registered. In class they would all gather around him, while Blister in a low voice would reel off his little jokes. Of course he couldn’t talk out loud, and after about a year he began to feel restricted. He felt that he should enlarge, should really develop a following. That was when he started going to the shows. His friends trouped after him, for they knew that Blister wouldn't let them down. Blister always sat in the bal cony; he found that his voice carried better there. He always liked the double features, for it gave him a marvelous opportun ity to exploit his talents. He would sit there with his friends gazing at him expectantly, and suddenly he would scream out something funny. The audience would go into hysterics, and his friends would pat him on the back while the tears rolled down their silly little faces. Blister would smile a little as though it were nothing, and set tle down to watching a bit more of the picture. Then suddenly he would say something else and in a second the audience would be off again—rolling in the aisle, screaming in wild enjoyment. Blister preferred tragedies really, but he wasn't too dis criminating. In “Winterset,” he almost stopped the show, and if the manager hadn’t been laughing so hard he probably would have thrown him out. That’s the way it was—triumph after triumph. Blister was on top of the waves. And then it happened, that horrible afternoon. It was par ticularly bad because the whole student body was there. He sat there in the darkness, quite aware of the gaze of his doting little friends, and he began to rake his brain for the little something that would panic the crowd. Then it happened. He suddenly realized that he could think of nothing. He sat there tense, with the sweat running off his face and he tried and tried and tried. Nothing hap pened—no little gems of humor dripped from his lips. , Blister became a little panicky. He gripped the chair arms until the blood spurted from his finger tips, and then his brain snapped, and he jump ed into the aisle and screamed, “Yeah man.” The crowd went wild, it was really Blister’s triumph, but he didn’t know, for his mind was gone, and they had to ship him home to New York. off the attacks of faster, high altitude ships that cannot shoot for as long a time at any given target. Both he and his wife stressed how life in Madrid went on in spite of continued air raids. How the people went right on living, sweeping up the debris, becom ing instead of demoralized more determined to fight the enemy. It is interesting that in China somewhat the same picture is being painted by correspondents. We hear continual tales of solid Chinese cleaning and saving af ter attacks, and life going on as usual. Who knows, perhaps the people of the world will become as accustomed to bombs drop ping occasionally in their front yards as they are now in the United States to having 35.000 killed every year by automo biles. Even attack by gas against civilian population was dis credited by the aviator as most probably being of little value. Erom what he says, one would gather that the Madrillenos are a people capable of taking the nearest thing to hell on earth with a steadiness that amazes one. * * * In spite of all this, we have a feeling that opinion of the ma jority here will go on much the same as it has been. We will not rush to Spain to enlist in the International Brigade, nor will we get up and campaign for throwing out the neutrality act and non-intervention committee. The major told us little that we have not already heard, hut we thank him anyway, and tell him that even though we don't be lieve some of his tall tales, we do believe in democracy. (But no more wars to save the world for Demrocracy.) German Student _ (Continued from page one) dents and faculty members. Here ! is a chance to hear him speak his opinions on questions of interest. The regular news broadcast willi be given by Lehrbach, and Don Kennedy, program head, has pro mised a saxophone solo as the stu dent talent number. Member of Spanish (Continued from f'agc one) warfare, within 60 days in Madrid. The efficiency of gas warfare as carried on by aerial attack was minimized in his address. “Though I had gone to Spain in different to issues involved, I soon saw that here was something fun damentally different than any war I had ever been in,” Major Lord told last night’s audience. “Here ! I saw an entire people fighting to protect their government; fighting to protect their very lives.” “Hitler and Mussolini are pour ing troops into Spain, and we in America are deliberately aiding them with our ridiculous neutral ity,” he continued. The ruthless slaughter on women and children was described, as he told of the dropping of bombs on cities which contained only those unable to go to the front. Wednesday . "Pigger’s Guide” 25c Educational Activities Office or Co-op Washburnes Show New 'Iron Lung' Eugene’s "iron lung,” towards which the Oregon campus con tributed $63.00, is now on display it Washburne’s store in downtown Eugene. . The "lung," to be used for infan tile paralysis victims, is a light jreen, many-windowed affair in the latest streamlined design. It is fully equipped with operating di rections, and frequent demonstra tions are given to spectators of its “breathing” processes. Plans have already started to obtain another iron lung machine for Eugene, to be installed at the Sacred Heart hospital. University of Oregon's contribu tions toward the “lung" were rais ed through the community service -« group of the campus YWCA under the direction of Anne Fredericksen, chairman. 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