BOB
pollock's
folly
MIGHTILY PERPLEXED
Was black-browed Barney Hall,
ASUO prexy, a couple of weeks
ago . . . along with his perplex
ity was a generous sprinkling
of fear, for Barney, like every
one, is human and has the same
fear of flunking that haunts us
all.
Tlie occasion was a skiing
trip to Mt. Hood during the
Christmas holidays and the in
nocent cause of it all was the
Oregonian’s Mr. I.. H. Gregory,
sports editor par excellence.
Mr. Gregory—who gets his dope
from Mr. Bruce Hamby of Ore
gon's publicity department —
had blandly announced In his
widely-read sport gossip that
the huge Mr. David Silver, one
of the University's towering
basketeers, hud stubbed his big
toe—<|uite by accident.
THIS, THE NOTED sports
editor said, might keep the
aforementioned Mr. Silver from
the easaba courts but, he
added with a pleasant grin, this
would not incapacitate David
from pursuing his duties as
president of the Associated Stu
dents of the University of Ore
gon.
You can well imagine the
grief and dismay this caused
Mr. Hall. After striding prac
tically unscathed through the
bloody political warfare of last
spring and then to be Urns cava
lierly thrust out of office—it
was preposterous!
THEN TIIE disquieting
thought struck him: Had he
flunked out? They did that to
pre-med students sometimes. A
little further cogitation reassur
ed him, however. For Silver to
succeed him it would be neces
sary that not one, but three
people Hall, Vice-prexy Ben
son, and Second Ditto Schaupp
—get the axe. It couldn’t be, he
felt sure. Mr. Greogry had
made a mistake, unbelievable
as that might seem. Or Mr.
Hamby had made a mistake.
Somebody had.
Anyway, Bernard Hall is still
ASIIO prexy and the Oregon
ian has not canned Mr. Gregory
and the University still employs
Mr. Hamhy.
And Mr. Silver’s toe is en
tirely well.
RICHARD UTKIN, ace poli
tician from the windy town of
The Dalles, is known through
out the rialto not only for his
political maneuvering-s, his nice
looking grin, and his Esquire
clothes, but also for his almost
phenomenal successes with
wimmen.
In 193(1 the estimable Ur. L,lt
fin, young, yes, but still n
smoothie, went to North Caro
lina with the elder I.itfin to at
tend a Republican eon vent ion.
While there—and in the short
course of one month—he met,
wooed and won a belle of the
deep south. Her beauty was
breath-taking, her old gent had
gelt, and Richard was really
pitching in there.
THEN HE returned to The
Dalles, the scent of magnolia
still in his nostrils and the Sou
thern belle still tinkling in his
brain. And he did not forget
her. In the course of a year or
more he received 88 air mail
letters from south of the Mason
and Dixon line and it kept the
Litfin budget in a permanently
strained condition answering
them also by air mail.
Kut distance blurs charm,
and No’tli Car'lina is a long way
away. So Richard fetched out
his charming grin, and entered
once more upon the hunt. It is
hardly necessary to relate bis
successes here. The world
knows that.
THE SOUTHERN belle? lie
still has her picture and various
other tokens, but the romance
has went. If one were a pun
ster, one could almost say it
had Gone With the Wind. And
all Richard has is the above
mentioned tokens.
And the 88 ait-mail letters.
Thus the saga of an almost
true love. After all, you can't
expect magnolias to grow in
The Dalles.
Future Lawyers
To Hear Morse
At Today's Forum
Pre-law students will have a
chance to hear Dean Wayne I..
Morse of the law school speak this
morning at 11 at an assembly in
the Oregon building. Dean Morse
will use as a subject, "Is the Bat
Overcrowded?” His talk will be
followed by an open forum dis
cussion of problems relevant to
students preparing for law.
Dean Morse emphasises the im
portance of students who plan to
take law having the necessary
background courses preparatory
to their work in the law school.
He hopes to introduce special
courses for pre-law students in
the near future, to be taught by
members of the law faculty, point
ing out that the mortality among
law students is great, only about
30 per cent of those entering first
year law completing the three
ear course and graduating.
leroy Mattingly, Editor Walter r. vernstrom, Manager
LLOYD TUPLING, Managing Editor
Associate Editors: Eaul Deutschmann, Clare Jgoe.
The Oregon Daily Emerald, officii 1 student publication of the University of Oregon, published daily during the college year
exref t. Sundays, Mondays, holidays and final examination periods. Entered as second-class mail matter at the postffice, Eocene,
Or* yon.
Editorial Board - Idarrel Ellis, Bill Peace, Margaret Bay, Edwin Robbins, A1 Dickbart, Kenneth Kirtlpy, Berr.ardine Bowman.
To Straw Vote, or Not to Straw Vote
great many University faculty members
have, in the course of lectures or con
versations, expressed doubts as to the success
of the competitive system in the field of
higher edlirat ion.
There lias, however, been little serious
consideration given, in the past, to the faults
of the system, faculty dissatisfaction lias not
led to action, and few suggestions as to how
the system might be improved have been
produced.
Yesterday Dr. Warren I). Smith, bead of
the department of geology and geography,
rose up in faculty meeting and suggested that
the practice of making grades public be
abolished and suggested a substitute pro
cedure. Although Dr. Smith’s motion was
referred to a committee, the faculty will this
term be given an opportunity to vote on the
findings of the committee.
rJ''lll! competitive grading is one of the
major blemishes on the scroll of univer
sity education. In a series of articles written
for The I'lmerald last year on the topic of an
ideal university, several faculty men indicated
that the present system was, in their opinion,
at the root of the problems of cheating, the
failure of the honor systcm, poor studv habits,
the general decay of intellectual curiosity—
and even the lowering of standards in busi
ness Melds which students enter upon gradu
ation. The competitive system is probably
also one of the leading causes, directly and
indirectly, for maladjusted students.
The tendency in education has been, in
theory, distinctly away from competition as
a motive or a spur to study, but nearly all
the arguments in favor of the grading system
are based on the fact that, through competi
tion. individuals or groups are urged to
greater efforts. Aside from the evils arising
from this competition, leading educators have
come to question whether it does, all things
considered, add anything to the student's
education in the long run and whether the
desire to top someone else is conducive to that
spirit in which the opportunities for intellec
tual betterment should he approached.
'I'llK motion which Dr. Smith placed in the
faculty’s hands yesterday went even
further limn de-emphasizing find slopping the
publication of grades by 1 li<* climination of
lcttyr grades.
I )r. Smith proposed I Imt “honors, “pass
ing,” find ‘‘incomplete” lie the only grades
given. This would eliminate all marks of
failing and might he eoneeived as fin even
more, radical departure than the basic move
for de-emphasis which Dr. Smith asked.
The elimination of the ‘‘failure” classi
fication was deliberate on the part of Dr.
Smith and met with both opposition and
approval from the faculty. Since the 1'niver
sitv requires no entrance examinations and
since it is somewhat difficult to flunk out or
be kept out of the institution, the abolition
of failure grades isn’t an important point.
And if Dr. Smith intended that any student
not doing satisfactory work should be given
an incomplete and a chance to meet the course
requirements, his argument seems fairly
logical.
^^l/riIOIT(JII still giving marks of failure,
Mills college has operated for sonic
lime on a grades basis much like that which
Dr. Smith suggests. The student at Mills
is given one of four marks, “I’D. which
means ‘‘passed with distinction, ‘•1’.” or
passing, ‘‘K,” or failure, and incomplete.
At Mills the numerical or letter grades
are kept on record, just its Dr. Smith sug
gests, to be used when the student wishes
to Iransfer to another school but they fire
not released to students or parents.
# « *
TN the primary and secondary schools of
today there may he found justification for
the use of letter grades and the competitive
system. In the university, however, where
individual research and the attempt to arouse
intellect mil curiosity are supposedly stressed,
there seems no place for the archaic system
and the impetus to “cut corners” which it
represents.
tirades, because of current abuses, have
come to indicate fit least to some degree, the
capabilities a ‘‘student” has at apple-polish
ing, cheating, picking easy courses, or getting
to know graders. None of these things have
ever added much, either to the world’s fund
of knowledge or the intellectual capacity of
the individual practicing them.
Now Marks for the Children's Report Cards
rJ'MITC history of .straw votes is not too
savory. We all remember the notorious
Literary Digest poll during tlie last presi
dential election. However, another system
of polling, conducted by the American Insti
tute of Public Opinion under the direction of
a Professor (lallup, has been doing much of
late to reinstate the ‘‘testing” method of
hallotting as a reliable means in discovering
how the public pulse1 is pulsing. They say
even the president harkens to the results of
t his orgnnizni ion.
While The Kmeratd does not claim to he
as elfieient in its “feeling” of the campus
pulse as the (lallup surveys, it strenuously
denies that its poll on tin* coaching candi
dates is as inefficient as the first-mentioned
vote. It will admit that certain corrections
of the totals must be made to counteract
stuffing, lack of widespread vote, jokesters,
etc. But even after these have been made
there remains a reasonably strong sentiment.
and that sentiment is overwhelmingly for
Gene Shields.
* # «■
rJ"'IIE Emerald vote represented a total of
about. ,r>00 student, opinions. Due to the
duplieation G100 were straw votes, and 200
were taken at living organizations during the
dinner hour) at least 100 of these votes ean he
tossed out. On tIn* same percentage Shields
still retains over 200 votes. His nearest com
petitor. Waldorf of Jefferson high in Port
land. lias only about f?f> votes in a similarly
corrected total.
'fhe above correction also includes possible
“stutfing” of the ballot box itself. However,
as McGurk (adviser on important decisions
says) “If a man’s got energy enough to vote
20 times for one coach, it must indicate some,
pretty strong sentiment.”
The Emerald editors also wish to thank
the kind contributor who dropped the penny
into the ballot box. We shall use it for a fund
to conduct, bigger and better straw votes in
the future. l’.l).
SIDE SHOW
Edited by ....
Bill Cummings, Campus
Paul Deutschmnnn, National
Campus
Organization is generally a
good tiling, lint too much of a
good thing is sometimes had.
And it would ho too much of a
good thing if each department
of the University were to or
ganize its own student body, as
the various departments are
thinking of doing. Specialized
activities for each group of stu
dents would be promoted, it is
granted, but the tiling would
inevitably be carried too far and
would tend to undermine the
strength of the student body as
a whole.
♦ * *
Everyone admits that setting
the law school aside from the
rest of the University wit!) a
student body of its own is a
desirable setup, but carrying the
practice into other departments
with the possible exception of
the school of business adminis
tration would bring about an
undesirable state of affairs.
(1. a W y e r s need seclusion,
wherein to ponder over musty
books in their inimitable style.
They also need student- body
meetings of tliolr own to pro
mote a highly specialized type
if studying. Furthermore, they
need special soeiul activities so
(lint thej enn relax in their own
quaint ways.)
But the other departments
would, by organizing into stu
dent bodies of their own, con
tribute to the already too com
plex system of organization
which bewilders the average
student, it would be especial
ly undesirable if these depart
mentalized student bodies were
to hold assemblies of their own
at 11 o’clock on Thursdays, as
has been suggested. There are
too few ASUO assemblies as it
is.
* * »
Once each department had a
student body of its own—the
journalists, the physical educa
tion students, etc.—it is quite
probable that these sub-organi
zations would grow stronger
with time until they eclipsed
the ASl'O itself, like the law
school has done in its own field.
Let the lawyers band them
selves together and ignore out
side activities—that’s for their
own {rood—but keep other de
partments subsidiary to the
l Diversity as a whole. Let’s
don't desert the ship and let the
ASl'O sink in a sea of intra-or
K'uni/.ation^.
KKK and Squeeze
(Continued from page three)
Greek Letters
Have Desserts
Starting the termly toll of des
serts this week. Tuesday night
found Sigma Chi playing host to
Chi Omega. Wednesday night, Pi
Beta Phi went to Delta Tau Delta;
Kappa Alpha Theta to Phi Sigma
Kappa; Sigma Alpha Epsilon to
Sigma Kappa; and Sigma Chi to
Alpha Omicron Pi.
Thursday Theta Chi will enter
tain some guests from Hendricks
hall at a dessert; Kappa Sigma.
Tri Delta: Pi Kappa Alpha, Gam
ma Phi Beta; and Alpha Chi Ome
ga. Delta Upsilon.
Friday night Alpha Gamma Del
ta will go to Alpha Tau Omega.
Campus
Calendar
All house mothers and heads c.f
halls are invited to attend the
Book club meeting Friday after
noon at 3 o’clock at the Theta
house.
The C hristian Science organiza
tion will meet in the AWS room at
Gerlinger tonight at 8 p.m. Fol
lowing the testimonial meeting
there will be a short important
business meeting.
Any Orhles members who wish
to help on publicity, posters, etc.,
please meet at Westminster house
between 1 and 4 today.
There will he a meeting of Alpha
Kappa Psi, business honorary, in
106 Commerce tomorrow at 5
o'clock.
A 40-minutP sound picture, "Heat
end Its Control,’’ will be shown in
103 Deady today at 11 a.m. under
the auspices of the physics depart
ment. The showing will be open
to the public.
Business ad majors will meet to
day for an assembly at the Guild
theater in Johnson hall at 11. Miss
Janet Smith, employment secre
tary, will lead the discussion.
Infirmary patients at the health
service yesterday were: Bruce
Giese, Kenneth Eichmow, Jean
Weber, Margaret Can Matre, Louis
Larson, Alice Mueller, Bill Feas
ley, Elizabeth Emison, "Smokey”
Whitfield, and Robert Fulton.
I’lii Theta Upsilon will meet
Thursday, January 13, at 4 o’clock
in the AWS rooms of Gerlinger
hall. All members are requested to
be present.
A meeting of Pi Delta Phi,
French honorary, will be held at
the home of Mrs. Hazel Howe, 1791 j
Aider, Tuesday, January 18.
The Sigma Delta Chi anniver
sary luncheon January 22 will be
held in John Straub memorial hall,
not at the Del Rey cafe as the Em
eral mistakenly p'rinted yesterday.
YW publicity committee will
meet at the YW bungalow at 4
o’clock. A staff for the “Y’s” Co
Edition” will be chosen. All Y
members interested please attend.
Interfraternity council meeting
at SAM house tonight at 6.
Waterfront Open
(Continued from page one)
ground at the time. Another man,
missing for some time, was found
unharmed later by the rescue crew
of 30.
Who's Wrong?
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Re
versing the recent charges of sev
eral big-time business men, A. F.
Whitney, of the Railroad Brother
hood, told the senate unemploy
ment committee today that confi
dence among the working people
rather than in business is the clue
to end the so-called “recession.”
He testified that this confidence is
necessary to restore buying pow
er.
Still Missing
PAGO PAGO, Samoa, Jan. 12.—
Scattered remains floating over
the water testified to the fate of
the giant Samoan clipper, missing
since yesterday. Airway officials
were forced to concede that all
seven fliers of the crew are dead.
Investigators believe that the
plane exploded while dumping
gasoline in the process of making
an emergency landing.
Stanford Coeds
(Continued front page one)
number of sororities be increased
proportionately increasing the
situation, suggested that either the
"pledges,” or that the sororities
be abolished entirely and univer
sity operated dormitories substi
tuted.
Well She Was .. .
She was only an electrician's
daughter,
but she had good connections.
She was only a blacksmith's
daughter,
but she knew how to forge ahead.
She was only a milkman's daugh
ter,
but she was the cream of the
crop.
She was only a convict's daughter,
but she knew all the bars.
She was only a parson's daughter,
but she sure had her following.
—Polytechnic.
Charming Ohewers
Chew and be charming is the :
important thing at Marquette uni- :
versity these days. The dean of i
women has given her girls rules 1
on the niceties of chewing gum. i
Chew with the mouth closed, she :
advocated. Chew without gusto,
except when alone or on occa- t
dons deemed fitting. Coeds agree 1
that gum chewing would be in 1
good taste while studying; while t
dressing; and before a hard quiz t
to relieve nervous tension. • > t
Hawaii Fails to Fret
Over Oriental Crisis
Although Hawaii'3 population is largely oriental with Japanese
predominating, the preesnt situation in China has caused ho concern
nor even worry in the territory, it was declared here by David L.
Crawford, president of the University of Hawaii, who visited the
University of Oregon campus this week.
President Crawford is making a tour of colleges and universities.
Cressman Receives
Research Allotment
Carnegie Institute
Makes Grant for
Continued Work
The search for evidences of early
rnan will continue in southeastern
Oregon next summer, under the
direction of Di'. Luther S. Cress
man, head of the University of
Oregon department of anthropol
ogy, it was announced here today.
A grant of $500 from the Car
negie Institute of Washington,
D. C., made largely on the basis
of important discoveries already
made by Oregon scientists, will
enable Dr. Cressman and his party
to invade the little inhabited re
gion for the third summer.
Artifacts and specimens found
in the now famous Catlow Caves
region of southeastern Oregon are
evidence of a very old culture and
civilization.
The grant is also regarded as a
recognition of the high quality of
scientific work under way at the
University, it is pointed out. Car
negie grants are made only to
reputable institutions and to scho
lars of proved qualifications.
Novel Themes Mag
Cop Prize Awards
An additional prize of two tic
kets to the canoe fete and two for
the Jepson concert, will be award
ed in the Junior Weekend theme
contest, Zane Kemler, junior class
president, announced last night.
First prize, as announced yes
terday, will be $20. The second
award will be two tickets to each
of the above affairs as well as
one to the junior prom. Entries
must be submitted by February 14,
Kemler said. He also requested
students interested in the contest
to confer with him immediately.
The junior prexy added that
drawings of 15 floats for the canoe
fete, in keeping with the general
theme, must be submitted with the i
entries. Ideas about any novel
events to be included in the junior
tveekend program may also be in
eluded in the contest series and
will be considered by the judges,
he said.
Judges for the contest, also an
nounced last night by Kemler, are:
Horace W. Robinson, Maude E.
Kerns, and Rex Underwood.
Appointees Assume
New Responsibility
Three new appointees will take
over their duties this week on the
Emerald business staff, Walt i
Vernstrom, business manager, said
yesterday.
Bruce Curry will handle circula
tion, Bill Thompson will hold day
advertising duties, and Ruth Ket
:hum will act as promotion mana
ger.
Other posts will remain the
same as fall term, said Vernstrom.
Dr. Smith Speaks
At Geology Meet
Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of
the departments of geology and
geography, attended a meeting of
the Northwest Science association
in Spokane on December 29. Dr.
Smith spoke about Crater lake at
the Sigma Xi breakfast, the first
event of the conference: discussed
provisions for geologic and mining
work under the program of the
neawiy created Oregon state de
partment of geology and mineral
industries, at the meeting of the
geology group.
Five Mile Limit
(Continued from paye one)
hese. (Also humor ?).
“Handshaking shall not be con
sidered a breach of etiquette.
“The walls of the hall being
weak, a number of the students
ire requested to act as props, es
jecially near the entrance. (May
De that’s what poor old Villard
leeds now—a few props.)
“For the benefit of science, as
nany as possible shall make ob
servations on the weather.” tPos
tively daring! Shocking, too.)
What does grandpa’s ghost up
n the top floor of Deady hall or
n any of the other of his old-time
etreats think when he reads no
ices sprawled over the campus of
i “Krazy Kopy Krawl,” with the
tartling, daring, amazing feature
to put it in the words of its ad
vertisers) of 50 fan dancers? Babe
5inford will turn on the heat with
us swinging modern band (say
he notices). Poor grandpa! But,
hen, what in heaven's name will |
ur grandchildren,think of us? |
and while here conferred with
Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter,
President C. Valentine Boyer, and
others.
Some of the older Japanese and
Chinese feel rather keenly about
the trouble in the orient, President
Crawford said, but those of
oriental parentage born in the
islands have even continued to
manitain friendship and friendly
relations with members of the
other race. “Island born orientals
are thoroughly American, with
only an American's interest in
trouble in other parts of the
world,’’ he declared.
Actually, Dr. Crawford stated,
more evidences of prejudice for or
against the Japanese are evident
on the mainland than in Hawaii.
"Perhaps our mild, constantly:
pleasant climate, which seems to
influence our people, tends to
make our residents less inclined
to view any sort of trouble with
great concern,” he said, smiling.
The University of Hawaii, sup
ported by the territory, has been
making rapid strides, especially in
the past 10 years, President Craw
ford reported. Many island resi
dents now send their children
there, rather than sending them to
mainland institutions, and last
year students came from some 35
states. People of the territory are
also becoming more generous in
gifts to the institution, and enroll
ment is growing as interest in the
university grows.
Situated at the “crossroads of
the Pacific” the university offers
many advantages in cultural and
social studies, President Crawford
said. Scholars interested in inter
racial and international relations
also find it a particularly interest
ing field.
Coeds Plan Capers
(Continued from par/e three)
On the committee are Dorothy
Magnusson and Carolyn Dudley,
general chairmen; Virginia Regan,
construction; Marcia Steinhauser,
decorations; Maude Edmunds, re
freshments; Kay Coleman, skits;
Margaret Goldsmith, band; Max
ine Glad, publicity; Cathleen Mc
Alear, clean-up; Marionbeth Wol-]
fendon, house costumes; Patsy
Taylor, display; Harriet Sarazin,
judges and patronesses.
Wayne Frell, a 1935 BA gradu
ate, informed the school of busi
ress in a letter that he had just
been called to Washington, D. C.,
for a two month training course
on income tax procedure with the
federal revenue bureau.
Students to Appear
In Musical Recital
Dorothy Johnson and
Dorothy Davis Will
Offer Selections
Two of the University’s most
talented musicians, Dorothy Louise
Johnson, violin student of Rex Un
derwood, and Dorothy Davis, pian
ist, under Mrs. Aurora Potter Un
derwood, will give a recital of ex
ceptional interest in the school of
music tonight at 8 p. m.
The most popular of the classi
cal composers will be represented
in the selections played by the re
citalists. Numbers by Chopin, Men
delssohn, Levitzky, and Schubert ^
will be given by Miss Davis. Miss
Johnson has listed among her se
lections compositions by Tschai
kowsky, Kreisler, Ries, and Sar
asate. She will also play the Saint
Saens “Concerto in B-minor.”
Both Miss Johnson and Miss Da
vis have received favorable recog
nition for their unusual musical
achievements. Miss Johnson is this
year’s holder of the Phi Beta schol
arship, and last year was the win
ner of the state contest sponsored
by the National Federated Wo
men’s Music clubs. She has had
many concert and radio appear
Oregon Law Review
Sells 3000 Copies
Three thousand copies of the
Oregon Law Review have come
from the press prior to their distri
bution to members of the Oregon
State Bar association and law
libraries throughout the world.
The issue having a 33 per cent
increase in student contributions
and presenting a greater number
of recent cases than any issue in
the Review’s history is the first
under Editor Harbert Galton and
his new staff.
Highlighting the edition are ar
ticles by Professor Paul Weiden
baum of Munich university on Eu
ropean law and William Mclntiirff,
law student, whose compilation of
Oregon law, on interest as dam
ages, is already gaining recogni
tion.
The Review, rapidly gaining a
national reputation now has sub
scribers in every part of the world,
China, Argentina, Brazil, England,
Germany, and Italy.
LEGAL LUNCHEON SLATED
Honoring their new pledges Phi
Alpha Delta legal fraternity is
holding a luncheon at noon todays
in the Side. "
The luncheon is the first in a
series, expected to continue
through the year, designed to bet
ter acquaint members of the law
school faculty and the students.
Oauti S&oxjl f
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Washburne’s on the
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Prices Slashed!
Profits Cut to the Bone!
Krazy Kopy Kra wl
Was .... $1.00
Now .
99c
Free Gifts
and Prizes
* 50 Fan Dancers
* 120 Puff Dancers (60 Puffs)
* Free Cokes
Friday, Jan. 14 — Gerlinger