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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1937)
LEROY MATTINGLY, Editor WALTER R. VERNSTROM, Manager LLOYD TUPLING, Managing Editor Associate Editors: Paul Deutschmann, Clare Igoc.___ Editorial Board: Darrel Ellis, Hill Peace, Margaret Ray, Edwin Robbins, A1 Dickhart, Kenneth Kirtley. Bcrnardine Bowman. TIPPER NEWS STAFF Elbert Hawkins, Sports Editor Bill Pcngra, City Editor Homer Graham, Chief Night Editor Lew Evans, Assistant Managing Editor Jean Weber, Art Director Warren Waldorf, Staff Photographer Martha Stewart. Women s i^ditor Don Kennedy, Radio Editor Rita Wright, Society Editor Alyce Rogers, Exchange Editor Ttetty Jane Thompson, church editor Milton Levy, assistant chief night editor REPORTERS Dick Lit fin Gordon Ridgeway Leonard Jermain Patricia Lnkson Bill Ralston Catherine Taylor Elizabeth Ann Jones Betty Hamilton lilcnn nasseirooin Betty Jane Thompson Doris Lindgrcn Kita Wright rv Parr Aplin Barbara Stallcup Merrill Moran George Luoma John Williamson John Powell Ken Kirtley SPORTS STAFF Eva Erlandson Bill Norcnc George Pasero Bob Jordan Bill Porter Pete Igoc Lhuck Van bcoyoc Frank Meek vves jonnson Lloyd Bcggs i/aviu .Miiuusuu Assistant Managing Editor Assistant Day Editor Alice Copy readers : Hob Rogers Hob Emerson Nelson Lyle Nelson DESK STAFF THIS ISSUr. Day Editor Marjorie Worthen Beulah Chapman Night editors: Assistants: NIGHT STAFF THIS ISSUE Carl Newcomb Woody Pack Janice Johnson Dorothy Meyer Martha Wodaege_ Hill Grant ADVERTISING STAKE Circulation Manager: Gerald Norville Assistants: Ruth Kctchum Nancy Hunt National Advt. Mgr. Joe Frizzell AsBiHtnnta: Hetty Blaine Mignon Phipps Anne Frederickaon j'ortiann Acivt. jvi gi William Sanford Office Manager: Caroline Hand Wednesday mmvi. mgi. Charles Skinner Assistants: Wilbur Colwell Larry Wales Wayne Mackin The Un-Necessity of De-Emphasizing Football N October 2, a Duquesne professor be came overly-enthusiastic at a rally—it does happen—and made a statement, quoting roughly, to this effect: “Our boys will be out there fighting next Saturday, fighting for old Duquesne. Pitt’s men will be fighting, too —fighting for their pay checks. The professor did not meet his classes the next week. At the end of the period his resignation from the faculty was announced. Over-emphasized football had claimed another victim. Newsmagazine Time explained at length that Duquesne’s boys were actually out there fighting for more money per month than Pitt’s, despite the professor’s enthusiasm. This sad but interesting case is not re peated to illustrate the perils and pit falls of proselyting. Everybody in the west but coast conference officials and their czar is familiar with its methods, its technique, and its results. It is told to show the over-emphasis on foot ball—and to illustrate the happy situation at Oregon whereby the battle against over emphasis is nearly won. HE University need take no steps in this direction. The course which football is steering is rapidly attaining its de-emphasis without outside assistance. Except for the post-season games which count not a whoop, football is ove),-. A final tally finds Oregon in fifth spot in the confer ence standings with five losses and two wins. Strangely enough, and partly because the “tight” conference produces so many tics, use and UCLA are the two teams below Oregon in football’s social scale. USC wal loped us, 30 to 14,. and UCLA sent home a bloody Duck from the southland, always a bad spot for Oregon teams, to the tune of L'ti to 13. Directly above Oregon in the standings is WSC which Oregon two Saturday’s ago whip ped, 10 to (i. Our other victory was gained at the expense of Stanford, 7 to !i. Stanford ended the season in second place. Oregon’s other conquerors were Oregon State, Washington, and California. rJ\UOSE are the figures on the wins and losses, complete except for the fact that, only Washington State scored less points than Oregon and that Oregon was by far the most scored on team in the conference. Except for those two victories, de-empha sis this season has been going on just about as it ilid last, steadily and with public interest failing, not so much because Oregon doesn’t * wiii but because its teams have been able to make such a, unique game out of football. Early this year it looked like de-emphasis was going'to receive a severe setback. The material in the spring and fall turnouts was apparently the best in years. In the early practices, it looked as the collection of so many players was almost too noticeable to be coincidental. Reserves looked stronger. Ihrt results were soon reassuring as our boys be gan to supply Oregon’s version of the second best, attended national sport. OLLOWING the course of de-emphasis to its logical conclusion, in 10 years the ideal situation should result. Oregon’s boys are, let us say, playing Stanford. A handful of graduate psychology majors turn out for the game. At the whistle they whip out notebooks, scribble frantically while Oregon has tin* ball, wait impatiently in the long periods during which Stanford is scoring and kicking off again. At the quarter one be-spectaeled indi vidual turns to another and declares, “My professor at Harvard insisted that 1 take my master’s at Oregon. This team supplies such a wonderful opportunity to study psychology and mentally uncoordinated effort, you know.” His companion, starry-eyed at the spec tacle he has just witnessed, exclaims, “Yes, 1 know. I’m certainly glad Oregon has de einphasized. I came here from Stanford. As you can see Stanford's team plays such a common-place, logical game—almost deliber ately planned, I’d say.” TyyRlNG till- ha 1 l‘-tinn- period. Oregon's reserves are crushed by Woodrow Wilson junior high school, 47 to (>, Oregon scoring on a double - lateral - rumble - forward - lateral - fumble that has six spectators holding onto the chairs. (Hayward field stands burned down in 1!)4‘J and were never replaced, the team now playing in a circular, grassy mea dow about 400 yards from the Springfield flax plant.) “Who ever thought of using that play,” ejaetulates a bald Tcnessee graduate who is studying the mental reactions of Cro- , Alagnon man. Hut this is all rather far-fetched. 1!)47 and the ideal of de-emphasis is still in the future. Coaches still receive more than physi cal education instructors. Whether they ac complish their aim. men still come here to play football. The important point is that de-emphasis at Oregon marches on. SIDE SHOW Edited by .... Kill Ctumiiings, Campus l'aul Deutschmunn, National Campus More reform occupies the at tention of earn pus leaders this week. This time it’s in the or ganisation and operation of the intertraternity eouneil—a po tentially strong l»od> whose ehief weakness is, at last, about to be overcome. Although theoretically one of the most important governing bodies on the campus, the inter fraternity council has been for years weakened by the fact that its membership is continually changing. Fraternities e lect their presidents at various times throughout the year; some elect in the fall, others not until spring. Consequently, u e w members are continually taking their seats in the council, re placing the retiring house pres idents. Tills results in a hodge-podge as far as the business functions of the council are, concerned. Just when an important busi ness step is about to he taken, new members come into the council and the processes lead ing up to the measure ha\e to be .reviewed ..over, and oxer again. Important action is tn variably postponed, and it is im possible for the eoum'il to got anything done. * * # A remedy lias already been proposed, and will be brought up at the next council meeting. It is an ideal solution to a per plexing problem, and should be adopted. Here it is: Instead of allow ing council members to drop out of the council from time to time during the year, the member ship of the council will remain intact through the entire three terms. Whenever a house elects a new president, tie will be rep resented in the council by the former house president of his organization for the remainder of ttie year. All new presidents will assume their duties as coun cil members ai the beginning of each fall term, and will serve together as an unchanging body until the end of spring term. In other words, a newly elected house president will not become a member of the council until the fall following his election, and then will have membership for a full year. National Kings, we are told, are out of fashion. But children of de mocracy were midly startled day before yesterday with the announcement that a pretender to the French throne had issued a 5,000-word manifesto in which he stated his determination to "reconquer the throne of my fathers.” the pretender is Kindly-fared Our lie Guise, head of the Or leanist King Louis Philippe, who ruled spasmodically from 1 100 to ISIS. The Due is plentifully supplied with royal blood, lie inherited the headship of the famous French “mansoin" in ltrjti when his brother, a direct descendant of the King of 1830, died. Furthermore he has kingly whiskers, a sou and a grandson Outside of these things the Du • is rather an uneventful charac ter Born in 1871 in Baris, he eventually acquired the position of an officer in the Danish Guard, where he served from 1805-98. This service prompted him to literary efforts and in 1902 he wrote a book “Undet the Danish Flag.” HU other Reform—Will It Again Be the Tombstone of Good Intentions? rJpiIE golden age of reform. That phrase, often used in the writings of historians, seems to fit fairly well the pres ent state of affairs in Oregon's little world, with heads of houses surveying rules with an eye towards simplification and the student affairs committee considering a plan to in crease membership and to become an actively functioning body. History’s story, too often, has been of reaction following reform, of intellectual darkness following enlightenment. In many cases, reform has been a big talking point, a smoke-screen to hide the lack of real action in a situation that demands effective change. The student affairs committee’s desire to extend its domain is justifiable. There is a place for it in the present campus scheme of things. Its desire to extend its membership to include more students is also praiseworthy. It should become a student committee advised by faculty members, not a faculty committee advised by students. The present committee would have a hard time getting anywhere near a student concensus because only two students meet with it. # # # rJ'IIERE have been indications, however, that members of the committee would like to see it elevated to a position of virtual dictatorship over student affairs. That, very definitely, would be an extreme-step—a step that wouJ extend its jurisdiction fqr beyond the limits within which it should keep if it is to perform its duties as an affairs committee without causing a great deal of friction. Such a step would mean automatic curtailment of the powers relegated to other bodies which also serve a definite purpose and would make the position of the educational activities board and executive council Just about untenable. Heads of houses’ decision to condense and clarify rules is a well-intentioned step which can be expected to produce nothing jvhicli is democratic, little that is liberal, and a few changes, mainly in decentralization of power, which are practical. # * # very nature of a board composed of house heads is such that democratic action, or action representative of opinion, is impossible. Sorority and fraternity presidents are on t he whole cautious and conservative, jealous of the position of their houses and extremely cagy when any suggestion is broached which might mean a weakening of their own personal dictatorships. Sorority presidents have so long been under the para lyzing effect of the official thumb (and this new action will not enable them to escape it) that they are almost incapable of independent action or even uncensored thought. Placing more control in the hands of indi vidual houses with fewer general rules should be a sound practical measure. It should bring better observance and enforcement of the rules retained and less emphasis on the idea of a great mass of petty all-campus regula tions which are difficult to enforce. Bringing government and discipline closer to the long-sufferin'g coed should help. For one thing, decisions can be more humane, more merciful, and far more just because of the closer personal contact with the culprit. Discipline should be more effective, with less of this indefinite “you’ll get kicked out of school if you do or don't” control. Pollock's FOLLY By BOB POLLOCK LAST EVENING as I strolled into Oregon’s famed shack to pound out my daily tripe, I ran into a yarn about Phi Beta Kap pa’s Senior Six ... I read it avidly, not because I expected to find thereon the Pollock name for I am indeed a fortu nate character if I can graduate out of probation, but to observe the citizens who would be re quired to pungle up 25 seeds for a wee bit of gold key . . . And as I gazed I meditated, which is a custom of mine. And I meditated thusly: “Pollock, young feller me lad, it is nice that you are only an average student without many brains . . . for if you were rot, look how many times per year you would be writing to your aged father and saying, “Pop, I’ve made another honorary. Please send t h e ..customary ..thirty bucks.” AND AS I MEDITATED some more it occurred to me that maybe I was missing some thing by not having my carcass weighted down with gold keys, fancy Greek dewdads and trin kets which big shot honorary men have attached to their per sons at all times . . . But what could it be, I asked myself, for I have great confidence in my self when it comes to answer ing non-academic questions. After much cogitation and scratching of my dandruff I was forced to say sadly, for it is a sorrowful thing to destroy a reputation such as 1 had for question answering—I repeat, l answered sadly and simply: “I don’t know." I was eating reg ularly of the very filling food provided by my tong; I had all the dates I might wish with the female of the species—and what was more, I was solvent finan cially. True, admiring throngs, fas cinated by the clink of my brass, were not dogging my heels hop ing I would drop some pearl be yond price, nor could my rela tives point with pride while my two young nephews pulled pins by the peck off my gravy-be spattered vest. But I am ever a man of peace so this was nothing to me. And then I came to a con clusion: Honoraries — almost without exception (thus do I protect myself from frenzied key-wearers)—are raokets . . . While Phi Bete is old, honored, revered and justly so, this cam pus is lousy — literally — with honoraries for everything but ditch-diggers ... all that is re quired for entrance is fifteen to forty dollars and grades that are above the University’s very low probation level. The new member is presented with a hunk of gold for his bosom, is told that this is great stuff . . . But, he discovers sad ly, his honorary never does any thing worth mentioning ... it has meetings that cost him 25c if he does not attend at which there is much shadow boxing but no blows struck ... it sets standards but never keeps them . . . the only time it emerges from its deep meditation—or sleep — is when it picks new suckers . . . Friends, I believe it is time we went as one man and chucked our honorary Greek jewelry in the race—even if it does flood Eugene. To my brethern in my honor ary: I was only foolin', kids . . . writing's have been a few insig nificant studies on military his tory. During the war he served France as representative to Bul garia (19151. In 1926. however, when he became heir to the throne that Louis Philippe had left so quickly in 1848, he de cided that something should bo done. Accordingly he was pro claimed "King Jean 111" by a small group of monarchists. For this action he was exiled from France and took up his abode in Belgium. Kvideutly not sure if tiis mil itary prowess acquired under the Danish, he indicated in his slight significance being issued would reconquer his throne by peaceful methods. French po lice, relieved that there would probably be no further compli cating developments in the Rightist revolutionary organisa tion investigation, spent most ot their time looking for his son. Ilenri, f ount ot Paris and edi tor of a royalist newspaper published in Versoi.x, Switzer land. The f ount spent the day iK'tween Switzerland and Bel gium, upon the requests of Swiss poliee that lie leave the country. Interesting coincidence was that another Bourbon made a similar feeble attempt to regain a lost royal seat. This one was Alfonso XIII, remote relation of “King Jean III,” and descend ant of the Spanish Bourbons. Reports were probably of slight significance, being issued from Spanish government prop aganda offices. They indicated that Alfonso was negotiating with Franco to get back his throne with a constitutional monarchy, when and if the in surgent general wins. So the stories run. Over in Austria, the Archduke Otto keeps the royalist myth going. Here and there unimportant kings, but royalty nevertheless, rule small domains. And after all we are not so far from kings even today what with our ab solute rulers of Russia. Italy. Turkey. Germany and most re cently. Brazil. The royalist myths will live oil, as long as the lines are per |»etuated, and perhaps ever, af ter they die out. Not until wo find some new and greater “roy alty” will the ex-kings, and their sons and grandsons, for get the grandeur that was their “throne.”. In the Mail A DEEPER STUDY To the Editor: Mr. R. L. Collins has ably de fended himself and his depart ment in reply to your statistics used in an editorial under date of Nov. 13, entitled “By What Right, etc.” State higher edu cation has been staunchly cham pioned by one of its budget of ficials. . Has the pot called the kettle black? We have yet to get at the true solution to the prob lem, which is not a statistical economical one, but rather so cial-academic. Merely suggestive to a more comprehensive survey, would it not be enlightening to reveal in greater detail, what part of that mysterious item "instruction (including libraries)” has refer ence to libraries pure and sim ple, what part to instruction free of libraries? Also, what is the turnover in those items re ferred to as instruction includ ing libraries and museums, in comparison with that of instruc tion including only instruction? What is the compartive rela tionship in the needs in the needs and demands of the stu dents ? In conclusion, I hazard the opinion that no name-calling, no budget, no set of figures will reveal the inadequacies of what we please to call education in these United States. F. L. Anderson. Editor's note: the library dis pensation Mr. Anderson refers to amounts to about $70,000. In the state board’s audit and in the reports of other schools it is not usually included as in structional but is listed separ ately. Subtracting it would re duce Mr. Collins' percentage for instruction to about 63 per cent or 7 per cent off, again by rough calculation. INTERNATIONAL INSULT To the Editor: I am deeply impressed with the channels in which the alleg ed great minds of the Emerald move. As a casual visitor to the iniquitous den so romantically called the "shack," I was struck by the comments on the tip sheet mothered by one Bill Pen gra, city editor. One of the supreme examples of asininity glaring forth was the phrase "Why don't they have some thing besides Jap art in the mu seum?" Aside from a derogatory term cast at another nation being one of the crudest forms of unedu cated criticism, the fact remains that anyone who has taken the trouble to enter the museum realizes that the terms of the presentation of the gift to the University embodied the fact that no other collection was to be housed in the same building with the oriental collection. In cidentally the museum houses both the Chinese and Japanese collections. So I wish to go on record as being in favor of having those given the privilege of expressing TERSE TALES for TinyTots Or stories for the young college students—literary efforts from nowhere about any where. mm.... * .."""""...... By MORITZ THOMSEN Why Sammy Slobber went in the Warner museum that day was more than anyone could ever figure out. He was just a normal student and naturally he didn't want to appear eccentric by ever being seen in the place and he realized as well as the other students the stain that would blot his standing as one ''swell egg” if he pretended to take any interest in anything that wasn't forced on him by professors. But one day having nothing to do, he went in to have a look at the prints and waste a few minutes before his next class. He was lucky that day because the museum was really open and he was quite content until he saw one of his English pro fessors bending over a Chinese coat examining the embroidery. Slobber saw red for a few min utes and he lost every bit of control over himself. * * * I can’t say that I blame him because the professor was fam the public mind make some at tempt at self-education. —B. R. Editor's note: An Emerald news editor produces 130 tip sheets in the course of a school year. The standards by which his prolific production is mea sured are not those which are used to judge art. On grounds of efficiency, Pengra’s tipsheets have been at least fairly suc cessful. B. R. lacks understand ing of the psychology of a news editor. A person in that, capa city casts about continually for news and features. Usually he believes if he doesn’t know a thing there’s a story in it. Con sidering these things and the fact that his tip sheets are pro duced for understanding staff members, not for the public at large, one should not be too harsh in judging a news editor. Especially not for such a com mon abbreviation—B. R. should see some of the other things Pen era writes. ous for grading his courses on the neatness of the papers in stead of what the student said. Anyway, Slohber went nuts for a minute, and taking up a big Japanese hari-kari sword he proceeded to do a little carving on the old professor. He was sorry afterwards and a little scared, but he kept his head and was quite calm about everything. He took the Chi nese coat, wrapped it around the corpse, and set the body on the big gold throne. Then he walked out very quickly, washed the blood off his pants, and went to class. Not a word did he ever hear about the affair.' He used to sit up in his room every afternoon in the Phi Delt house and watch the museum to sec if anyone ever went in. Once or twice a student did hesitate a moment or two be fore the massive portals, but he never actually went in, and in three or four months there was nothing in Slobber's mind but a faint curiosity as to what was happening to his teacher friend. Slobber, of course, was devel oping complexes. You would, too, if you were to go around sticking hari-kari swords in ev ery professor you didn’t like, but he concealed his emotions fairly well. In June he couldn't stand it any longer though, and an over whelming desire to visit the scene of his crime overtook him. He sneaked in the museum one afternoon and tiptoed up the stairs. The place was deserted —all but the old professor. He was still sitting on the throne, and he hadn’t changed very much. His skin was a little yel lower and a little more shriv eled, but he looked quite fresh considering. This all goes to prove that if you go up to the museum you might get a chance to bump off a few pests, and, too, you might see a few things that they don’t have in that one-horse town of vours. 3* • Costs are Surprisingly - Low! INTERCOLLEGIATE SKI MEET Dartmouth College Univ. of Washington SUN VALLEY DEC. 29 to JAN. I Total Round Trip Cost to Sun Valley, Idaho including Tourist Pullman fare from Eugene and Upper Berth between Port land and Sun Valley, only. 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