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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1937)
From where I SIT By CLARK TCOE Onp of the most inspired pranks of this and many season.•> comes to our ears, concerning no less formidable person than the many-monickered Edward Christian Lesch. Dr. Lesch (to whom, incidentally, journalism students are an athema) has, it would seem, a deep and abiding dislike for the works of one Don Blanding, poet. In fact, to put it more vividly, Lesch’s soul, steeped in the glories of English literature and fed upon the gems of Shakespeare, writhes in horror at the mere mention of Standing's name. All of which might he merely one of Dr. Leseli's own peculiar dislikes( like the way lie feels about .journalists) anil remain for ever unknown, hut lor the fact that not so long ago Don Blanding himself came to Eugene, to appear at Washburnc’s store, and auto graph the Blanding works for his admirers. The plot thickened considerably when one of Dr. Lesch’s fem inine students and a willing accomplice, jolly girls both, who love a good laugh and know how to get it, came to know of the dislike of Lesch’s. The pounced upon it with glee, and immediately The Plan began to formulate in their inventive minds. And what a Plan it was! Laying the groundwork, one of the girls called Dr. Lesch up, announced that she was Miss Griffith, of Washburne’s store, sweetly told him she had heard he was a great admirer of Blanding’s works, and would ho like to come to a cocktail party that was being given for the poet, and bring his poetry book for Blanding to auto graph. Lesch, who is not a man to use soft words at such a time, stated in no uncertain terms that he abominated Blanding, that he wouldn’t walk across the street to see him, and besides, the babies were crying and he wanted to hang up. “Do you like him?” he roared. “Yes,” replied the caller primly, “we think he’s pretty good down here.” Not so long after, the two girls by the merest chance happened to lie walking by Dr. Lesch’s office, and, quite opportunely, the door was open and no one was in. They wandered into the room and lo and behold, there upon Dr. Leseh’s desk was his appointment hook, lying temptingly open. Inspiration again seized them anil with girlish giggles echoing throughout the room they sat down, filled out the hook for several days in advance in this fashion, 1:30 —lunch with Blanding; 4:30—cocktails wilh Blanding; (i:80—dinner With Blanding, etc. Then they fled. That wasn’t all, however, for not so long after that Emerald readers noticed a little item in the paper announcing that Dr. Lesch was giving a dinner for Don Blanding. Dr. Lesch noticed it, too, and as you’ve probably already guessed, Dr. Lesch was definitely not giving a dinner for Don Blanding, and the thing was beginning to get him. It wasn’t too difficult to trace the story to the two happy girls, who laughed and laughed because they knew Dr. Lesch never would give a dinner for Don Blanding, under ANY circumstances. So the story ends, with the two girls still chuckling, and Dr. Lesch developing a Blanding complex (that tie may never recover from. And what we say is, we wish more people would do funny things like this. SIDE SHOW By Bill Cummings anil raid Dcutclimunn National Now that congress has more or less settled down to regular debate on the things it was called together about, the anti lynching bill, cause of a fiery filibuster in the first few days of the session, is receding politely out of the congression al mind and the public eye. Itut the story behind this 1)111 and the three score or more like it that have been intro duced during the past 2(1 years is not by any means ended. The book was begun many decades ago and more than likely will Continue for many more to come. * * * Legislative fight on lyneli ings, the social canker of our southlands, began in 1022. Then as now the filibuster was the effective means of blocking it. A Senator Alderwood of Ala bama was the “filiblusterer.” Harking back not quite so far we find that Huey Long, also from Alabama, talked Wagner’s bill of 1935 out of the senate. The next to last anti-lynch bill was introduced by Arther Mitchell, only negro in con gress. Congressman Mitchell drew the support of Chicago ne groes who elected him, but the bill was scuttled because of le gal weakness. Then Joseph Gavagan (N.Y., Dem.) came along with the present bill in April, 1937. After torrid debate in the house where southern represen tatives changed their old story about protecting southern wo manhood to charges that north ern legislators were attempting to pay political debts to negro constituents, the bill passed 277 to 119. North and West voted solidly for the bill, southern representatives stood in a blue against it. Three Republicans also voted nay. * * » When the bill came to the senate the inevitable filibuster started rolling. Last session it was side-tracked by FDR’s court plan, but a few hot words were raised. November 15 when con gress reconvened and found nothing to do. the anti-lyneh bill was brought up and after a few skirmishes the word battle got going in the second day of session. * * * Fate of the hill is probably not a happy one. As long as senators can filibuster, the southerners will block it to a man. Passage of it would amount to “losing face” with the white voters back home, to whom race superiority and lynching are necessary evils of l >ng standing. Legal opinions are also dour. Borah of Idaho deems it a state problem. Hat ton, Texas, who heads the house judiciary committee, is sure the bill is unconstitutional. (iavagan’s hill provides for prosecution of public officers aiding or abetting in lynchings, gives federal district courts jurisdiction in cases where state courts do not prosecute or jur ors are biased, and provides that the county in which the lynch ing or attempt took place may he sued by (lie person attacked or liis ids estate up to $10,(100. # Sf* * Consideration of the bill re veals that it is doubtful wheth er it would be enforcable. Fur thermore, if it were, it would undoubtedly create a rumbling undercurrent of ill feeling. We can realize this if we put our selves in the southerner’s place. Here he is being ruled by a law in which he had no part in pass ing, which ids representatives attempted solidly to defeat, and which has relatively no effect on those who passed it. If this logical reasoning were applied by the senators from be low the line perhaps the en lightened north would under stand. Instead, however, they have put forth falacious and bigoted arguments. They cry, “Save southern womanhood.” “The Yankees arc winning the favor of their negroes at our expense," etc. The method of attacking the problem is bad on liotli sides. * * * Solution of the lynching prob lem is not a law, in our estima tion. It goes far deeper, into the dregs of the race problem which is so difficult for us of the North and West to under stand. Ben Colleran, writer for Forum, points out that “for the past 100 years the majority of these whites (poor whites) lias been bred up to savage treat ment and hatred of the negro. No law in congress is going to stop this overnight.” lie sees hope only in educa tion and improvement of horri ble economic conditions to cure "the great southern disease of social hookworm of which lynch ing is only one of the symp toms.” But horrified congress men will continue their attempts every time the nation’s attention is called to some particularly brutal mob murder. And the cause will go marchingonto per haps worse eventualities than the lynching of "0 every year. LEROY MATTINGLY, Editor WALTER R. VERNSTROM, Manager LLOYD TTTPLTNO, Managing Editor A"oriatr Editors ■ P.-.ul Drnfsrhmann, Clar. Igor. Thr Oregon Onily F.mrrald, official atudrrit pilblieation of the University of Oregon. published daily during the roliege year eTeert Sundays, Mondays, holidays and final esamination periods. Entered as second-class mad matter at the postffice, Eugene, Oregon. _ Elbert Hawkins, Sports Editor Bill Pengra, City Editor Homer Graham, Chief Night Editor Few Evans, Assistant Managing Editor Jean Weber, Art Director Warren Waldorf, Staff Photographer UPPER NEWS STAFF Martha Stew.vt. Women’s Editor Don Kennedy, Radio Editor Rita Wright, Society Editor A lyre Rogers, Exchange Editor petty Jane Thompson, church editor Milton Levy, assistant chief night editor Dick Litfin _ Cordon Ridgeway .Leonard Jcrmain Patricia Erikson Pill Ralston Catherine Taylor Elizabeth Ann Jones Betty Hamilton REPORTERS Glenn JIasselrooth Wen Brooks Bill Grant Petty Jane Thompson Parr Aplin George Luoma Doris Lindgren Barbara Stallcnp Ken Kirtley Rita Wright Merrill Moran Dorothy Meyer Eva Erlandson Rill Norene George Pasero Bob Jordan SPORTS STAFF Bill Porter ('buck Van Scoyoc Wes Johnson Pete Igoe Frank Meek Lloyd Peggs David Sanderson Assistant Managing Editor Copyreaders: Bill Ralston Corriene Antrin DESK STAFF TUTS ISSUE Day Editor Bob Emerson Night editors: NKIIIT STAFF THIS ISSUE Petty Jane Thompson Bill Rent/ Jean Cntes Eugene Snyder Circulation Manager: Herald Norville Assistants: Ruth Ketehnm Nancy Hunt ADVERTISING STAFF National Advt. Mgr. Portland Advt. Mgr. Joe Frizzell Assistants : Betty Blaine Mignon Phipps Anne Krederickson William Sanford Office Manager: Caroline Hand Saturday Advt. Mgr. Friday Advt. Mgr. Assistants: Bruce Curry Assistants: Majeanne Glover John Powell Roma Theobald The Coaching Situation 1? VTCItY year a goodly part of Ilia Dad's day weekend is taken up with general and eoniinittae meetings.. Because Dad’s day is the only time during the year that the group can be assembled as a whole, Ibis is neces sarily so. for the matters which the general meeting considers are of greatest importance to the University. Despite the fact that the order of the day is so largely business and that no game is scheduled here because of the lateness of the* season. Student Chairman Bill Cummings and his committee have prepared a weekend pro gram which should very nicely fill in the gaps with lighter subjects. Basketball, with games Friday and Saturday, provides the sports in ters) and Oregon dads will see the big Green team in action in its first appearances. Because the time the dads are on the cam pus is so brief, coming only once a year, the “welcome;” idea of the day is heavily stressed. Dads are welcome not only during this week end, however, but throughout the entire year; today the campus is theirs and every effort will be made to make their visit a pleasant one ms a group and individually. >» * -« nrilK action taken by the group -which gathers lliis morning in general session is important and highly influential. The dads of University students are largely the men who run the state of Oregon today. A resolu tion from them carries great weight and when they decide the University needs something, action is assured. Worthy of the support of the dads is Oregon’s case for the extension of the facili ties of radio station KOAO to Eugene. The right of the University is undeniable—it must • he put into service before extension division funds budgeted to support the station can be said to be justly distributed over the state system. Recently the Eugene group of the Oregon mothers voted to support the extension. A resolution from the fathers would make sup port of the proposal by two very important groups and should insure immediate con sideration by the state board. At any rate, it’s an important weekend and we want to add our welcome to the dads. Oregon's 'Alps' Calling—of—Not Even Morons Barred | I'jisrs I ii(i 11 iuu limes iroin iMigcnc is to oe found one of the finest winter sports areas in the United States. For skiing, th« McKenzie region is on a par with more highly publicized California resorts, the Mt. Hood area, Sun Valley, and Lake Placid. For the past few years, beginning before the Olympic winter games were held at hake Placid, the nation lias been becoming winter sport-eonscious. Skiing especially has claimed increasing hordes of enthusiasts and the fame of the McKenzie has been slowly spreading. Unlike the other areas where dry snow is available during five to seven months of the year, the McKenzie is almost unexploited. Tin* Obsidians’ winter sports group has been working to increase interest in Eugene, and more and more University students have been turning to (In' McKenzie for outdoor winter recrention. This year, working in conjunction with the Obsidians, a ski club is being formed. It will hold its first run Sunday, has already held its organizational meeting and selected its officers. The advantages which it can offer the independent skiier are considerable. • • • QltANTKl) membership in a club will prob ably not help a fellow’s skiing greatly or keep him from falling down, the organization does give the skiier a much greater degree of influence for improving the conditions of thc.sport. The area on the south Sister which the club leaders intend evetually to use cannot yet be reached by road. If sufficient interest is evidenced, the highway department will soon i ( iiKMiy i ms. i no or^im/,iim)ii is oi vcimr mainly, however, in that it can stimulate interest among other students. There is no reason why the University should not take advantage of the natural snow playground in its backyard to become a center of this healthy and invigorating sport. Shelters, too, with a cabin planned for the future, are convenient adjuncts to the sport which can be obtained by the club but which are far too costly for independent skiiers. To the personal gain of the member the club contributes by enabling him to purchase his equipment at a discount. * # # Jj'ORTUNATELY, the University ski club has been formed on a democratic basis. No dues will be charged, aside from a small fee which will not exceed ^1 and which will he diverted to the purchase of arm bands and for promotion of the club. “Anyone is physically capable of skiing and we're not even barring mental cripples,” is the statement of one officer. Although no ('Diversity club should'he swamped with ap plications for membership from morons, he conveys the impression that everyone is wel come. Each skiier is expected to pay his or her own expenses—it's coeducational—- and the group will “pool” rides in order to provide transportat ion. The movement seems designed beautifully to take the not-too-rich but pale and under exercised University bookworms out of the library and back to “them thar hills.” r Pollock's FOLLY By BOE POLLOCK SO THE WOLVES do howl, eh? The boys who were muz zled last year, talked into giv ing Calfison a “last chance,” have broken the leash and seem to be hot on the trail of Prince Gary’s hide. Whether or not they’ll get it is a hit uncertain. Probably a lot of students share with this department a feeling of increas ing weariness at the repeated skunkings Oregon has taken in the past few years. All of them, certainly, have heard that there is little team spirit, little cooperation between C'allison and the hoys who get their scholarships paid for pushing the pigskin around. How true tliis is, apparently no one knows. SOMETIME ALONG about the first of January, the hiring and firing—if any—will be done. It is fairly common knowledge that a good many of the citizens who have the final say in such matters think our present coaching system is as sacred as the Nine Old Men. A few of them may have been alienated by Southern Cal., OSC, et al, but most of them change their minds slowly once an opin ion has set in. If Prince Gary does go down the road—probably toward San Francisco and its publicity-hun gry “U”—who is the gent to Campus Calendar Extra nurses have been added to the infirmary staff temporarily to take care of the large numbers of patients that have been admitted to the hospital. The eighteen pa tients registered yesterday were: Dr. Fred Miller, Jim Griffin, Char lotte Pair, Thelma Bouchet, Ilia Putnam, Gladys Battleson, Rich ard Reum, Adelaide Zweifel, Flor ence Daniels, Russel Guinn, How ard Allen, David Douglas, Martin Bogdonovich, Henry Searing, De win Stanton, Everett McNeely, and Wendell Bartholomew. House managers will hold their regular meeting Tuesday night at 6 o’clock in the Phi Gamma Delta house. Helen Withrow, freshman in the University, was transferred to the Sacred Heart hospital yesterday noon when it was feared that she would have to be operated on for appendicitis. The housing department requests that all students who intend to keep their same housing arrange ments next term call at the dean of women’s office for their housing approval cards before leaving school. This will facilitate regis tration for next term. Dr. Fred Miller, infirmary staff doctor, who has been ill in the Uni versity hospital for the past few days was reported as improving. He is under the care of Dr. Ronald Romig, also a member of the phy sician staff. Woodrow Truax, secretary of the University ski club announced yes terday, that any students interest TREAT YOUR DADS to dinner Mayflower Cafe Next to Mayflower Theater —— - In the Mail To the Editor: Pope was right, “All fools have an itching to deride, and fain would be upon the laughing It is my contention that the “Luckey Lads” would be con tent with any kind of a move ment, that is just as long as their names would be uttered with a kind of awe upon the tongues of other students. If my premise is right then why in the name of heaven don't they leave off heckling our coach and fight a real wrong. This real wrong of which I speak is the encroachment of organized labor upon the free dom of any person who dares defy their least whim or caprice. Why don't these rabid hecklers turn their efforts to saving de mocracy in America by driving the banner clad gents off the streets of Eugene. How? Re member when nearly 2,000 OSC students descended upon our campus. The mill-race was the solution then and I hear that it is much colder in December. Af ter a few of the banner-boys hit the icy water the rest would probably find a better occupa tion than wearing out shoe leather in front of Eugene stores, and I am sure that "Life” magazine would carry a full page picture of Mr. Luckey shaking hands with the great Mr. Himself. Yours truly: Jim Rodman Jr. [ohn Mykut to Try For Degree Today John S. Mykut, a 1936 graduate it Oregon will take his oral pre iminary exam for his master's de tree in business administration his afternoon at the BA building. Mr. Mykut was enrolled last year is a graduate student and has ,ieen teaching in Springfield this tear. Welcome Dads See our assortment of Xmas packages of Fruit and Box Candies Large Angel, white or custard, each . . . 49c Salt Rising Bread, loaf . 1 5c Toasted and Buttered Nuts, 1 lb.59c Sunkist Oranges, new Navels, 2 doz. . . .39c Mild Sugar Cured Bacon, Sliced, 1 lb.32c The finest, tender, juicy Steaks and Roasts from our Market. Also Turkeys and Chickens Elliott’s Grocery Cor. 1 3th & Patterson Phone 95 I step into his beleagefed bro gans? Johnny “The Hor^e” Warren has been mentioned, blit they tell me the thumb is down on him because of sad experi ence with mentors who had hustling l'rosh teams and didn’t ring the well-known hell when they were upped. I ALSO HEAR whispers of the Iron Mike, Mikulak himself, as a successor. I personally would be inclined to exercise my vocal chords considerably in this direction, except for the fact that the "Mick'’ is still a bit of a freshman to shove in against Howard Jones, Jimmy Phelan and the rest of the toughened warriors. The Iron one should not be left on the shelf so long that oxidation— rust to you—sets in, but the time just ain't ripe, folks. Besides that—why not a new face? Not a ten thousand-buck sour puss like the unlamented Doc Spears, but a lad with something on the ball. If the wolves get Phelan at Seattle, Oregon would be a very fine place for him to set the Missus up in housekeeping. Oh, well, the wolves have not fed as yet—but they may. This coaching racket is not one for a gent with a weak heart, it would seem. in the Sunday Ski trip and wh( have no transportation should con tact him at the Phi Sig house. Householders’ meeting Monday Dec. 6, at 4 o’clock, Villard hall. I Announcement ► t Robert H. Lemon ► I formerly with the [ Eugene Water Board > i > is now engaged in ► Public Accounting [ and Income Tax Work L 229 Miner Building [ Telephone 1689 \ Harp tnsemDie Appears Sunday At Local Theater Brandon Young, senior at the "Y University of Oregon, will be first harpist in ensemble to be present ed at the McDonald theater Sunday evening, December 5. Miss Young, a member of several musical organizations and various honoraries, is a major in the school of music, and a student of Mrs. Doris Helen Calkins, who will di rect the ensemble. Other members of the ensemble will be Mildred Thompson. Alene King, Lorena Hornshuh, Esther Palmer Day, Catherine Carson Barsch, and Maxine Canning. The harp ensemble will also be presented at the University music auditorium Tuesday evening, Dec ember 7. IS made possible by the following advertisers Consequently they deserve your support! 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