BOB
pollock's
folly
THERE IS a saying some
where or another that the fe
male of the species is more
deadly than the male. Briefly,
and in the language of the pro
letariat, they ain't lyin’.
J,ast night, purely in the in
terest of science, this depart
ment. procured from its femi
nine operatives the costume us
ually worn on the campus.
Then the services of a makeup
expert from the drama depart
ment were obtained—excessive
modesty or. his part forbids our
mentioning his name.
TOPPING THE ensemble we
had one very heavy, very silk,
very expensive bathrobe, made
in China and excessively dear to
the heart of its owner, one Av
ery Cloniger. There is where
we made our mistake. One can
not do battle effectively when
one is afraid of ruining about
thirty bucks worth of bathrobe.
After hours of being made up,
we shuffled to the fray—that
Is, the Coed Capers. Clutching
our trembling right, arm was
Feminine Operative No. 1 —
Caroline Hand; to the left of us
was Feminine Operative No.
—Betty Pownall.
WE ENTERED, climbed th
steps, and went into the mad
house. Wimmen? My friends,
there were wimmen by the
score all of them beautiful, all
of them dressed as one dresses
for the Florida beaches in then
more palmy days.
Everything was going fine.
We thought we saw Happy But
tleson in a very cute li’l sun
suit, and maybe Alice Stewart
in another; we saw the entire
AOPi house strolling about in
,1. C. Penney’s best grade of
long winter underwear. (Rater
we learned that they had pur
chased practically all of t In*
stock in town of that particular
article.)
AS WE SAID everything was
going fine. Then with a whoop
like un Indian brave who had
just qualified for his barber’s
license, a form garbed in long
underwear and practically noth
ing else descended upon us
screaming, "A man! Oh, lcol:
'girls a man!"
It was Signe Rasmussen. We
shoved an elbow in licr ribs,
hoping to discourage her. It
only added to the uproar. Wim
men rose from the floor, stood
around us an)l stared. We’ll
never stare at the monkeys in
the zoo next time we go. We
know who* they feel like.
SUDDENLY THERE arose a
cry that sent terror to our
heart, hidden as it was under
thirty dollars worth of Chinese
bathrobe. "Souvenir! We want
a souvenir!” One might as well
argue with a steam roller.
While the dean of women, the
assistant dean of women, and
all of the officials who are sup
posed to add to tlie womanly
dignity of the University stood
liy, we were attacked. Someone
kicked us in the ankle, some
one ripped a skein of living
flesh from the back of our neck.
We heard the Imthrohe come
apart, cocoon by cocoon.
FINALLY BY THE simple
expedient of pulling and push
ing we made the door. We left
behind us our slippers, the most
essential parts of our costume
and a considerable portion of
that priceless silk bathrobe.
We went home. We were feel
ing pretty low, thinking how
many and how much that thirty
bucks we would have to pay
('lonigcr would buy. But Ulonl
ger is a gentleman and after the
first five minutes — during
which it was difficult to re
strain him—he concluded it was
all for the l»est.
"I was getting tire of it any
way,” said Honest Ave.
•'But I was not that tired of
it. Look here, either you get a
signed apology from each of the
gals that mobbed you or else,”
he concluded.
WE LOOKED VT him. !>lr.
< loniger—when lie will stand—
is a good six foot ore. He
weighs on the Kate Smith side
of 200. Anyway you look at
him, he is no panty-waist.
So you see how it is, gals.
We have our board and room
paid where Mr. Clontger lives.
We can’t go back there without
a bunch of signed apologies.
Maybe you could help us out.
We promise not to do it again.
Three Eugene students of mu
sic, Lorene Mitchell, violinist, ac
companied by Dorothy Davis on
the piano, and Evelyn Erickson,
pianist, presented a program of
music in the music hall last night.
Iteineiuber l“umeroy’s Ser\ ice.—ad
Let’s Bring Oregon’s Tenement1 Living Conditions Into the Open-—Why Evade the Facts .
Facing the Housing Problem
RTTTCTZTNG tlio fraternity system.
through the suggestion that the council
representing tin* Greek-let ter groups has been
too long dormant, in tin- fare of evil eondi
tions, gets one about the same result as being
eaught plantin'.1' a bomb under the administra
tion building. It oeeasions lots of eomment.
But the nature of that eomment indicates
the lack of thought, really, which the matter
has received.
Objections take several eouVses. Indig
nant Greeks impure, “Do von think the dor
mitories are any better?" Those who feel
the challenge more directly come up with
“Our house will hold more than 25 men and
the rooms are big, too." And the third group,
Die “economic necessity group,” asks,
“Where would you house lliose 1200 freshmen
if you had deferred pledging?”, and “What
remedy would you suggest?”
Having been eaught red-handed in the
tossing of this figurative bomb into the struc
ture of the status quo, some effort seems nec
essary, not as defense but as explanation, to
set the angry Greeks aright.
rJ'A('KljNG the most often advanced ques
tions and arguments in the order of
their importance, it should be remembered
that BOO, not 1200, freshmen pledge houses.
A good many of that 200 soon leave school.
In proportion, some of the 900 also drop out
— and one reason that students from both
groups drop out is that the University and its
fraternities have failed in their efforts or have
made no efforts to adjust these students,
either academically or to their environment.
But putting aside this phase of the prob
lem, which is perhaps the most important of
all but is rarely considered, it can be seen
that deferred pledging would mean the hous
ing of not more than an additional 300 stu
dents.
The tenor of the discussion at the recent
meeting of the Oregon dads indicates that
the dads at least (and they represent an im
portant influence in state allairs) are willing
to go to some lengths to improve the poor
living conditions which at present exist.
T^ONE on a three year basis, the prepara
tion of the University to lake over the
300 men orphaned by deferred pledging
would be one of the primary steps in the insti
tution’s recognition of its obligation to stu
dents in the problem of housing a long ig
notVd obligation.
How should it be done? Probably not with
dorms there has 1.. too much dissatisfac
tion and there are too many shortcomings ill
the present dormitories- they house 270—to
warrant the construction of another such
building without first investigating the possi
bilit ies.
Tlii‘ most successful system for providing
housing has l)(M‘ii tried in 1he east with tin*
so-eii l led “university houses,’’ M'lu's** are
buildings eonstrueted on university-owned
land by the university which house about 25
men. In some eases they are used by inlormal
living groups in other by social fraternities.
Under such conditions, the fraternity system,
where used, lias been successful and applaud
ed. The standard of the houses lias a ten
dency to remain fairly even and university
supervision of the maintenance of the houses
and grounds have kept that standard high.
The success of this plan elsewhere makes
it worthy of Oregon's investigation not for
the University alone hut also for the state
college and other schools in the system.
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for the second argument, several fra
ternity men have forwarded the state
ment that their tong's lodge was built to hold
more than 25 men.
The objectives of the fraternity which
make the system worth fighting for
although some would see it move on, un
changing. to atrophy and ultimately be com
pletely discarded are the oft mentioned
brotherhood, fellowship, and scholarship. The
effort. to attain these ideals places a physical
limit on the size of the fraternity. There can
b>- little brotherhood in a group which in
cludes 40 to 100 affiliates—and little scholar
ship. at least within living quarters, when
there are more than two men in a room.
Qt-'UOLARKHIP in American institutions of
k higher education has taken a heating. One
hig reason that it has is the fact that student
environment has heen ignored. It scents only
proper that every student should have, espec
ially if he's paying $40 it month for it. a room
of his own. Failing litis, and if the room is
large, light, and airy, he should not have
more than one roommate forced upon him.
Even those who protest most vigorously
that their fraternity isn't over-crowded can
not say that their members sleep in healthful
surroundings.
Not, long ago, at the request of the Univer
sity, it survey was conducted of campus sleep
ing quarters. Health regulations require that
every person have 1100 square feet of air
space. If those regulations were enforced,
every fraternity on the campus would have
to double its air space, at least, or halve its
membership.
In most houses Ihc member pay $10 per
month for sharing a room and a 1 wo-or-three
deek hunk on the sleeping porch. Hut the
indications of tenement conditions do not,
stop here. One fraternity figures it pays $9
for food for each member. That makes $19.
The rest of the more than $45 house bill goes
1o plug up various rat-holes; over-taxation,
poor buying, inexperienced management, old
debts, excessive interest to the two men who
have a great many of our houses by Ihc nose,
financially.
HE question, “ Do you think the dorms are
A any better?”, lias already heen partially
answered in the consideration of ‘‘university
houses.”
As far as room goes, they are an improve
ment. For $T! per month, however, Ihe stu
dent isn't getting his money’s worth, espe
cially from the standpoint of food served, in
t lie dorms.
But the male dorm dweller does have a
semblance of privacy in his room, which he
shares with one other student. The beds are
slightly belter than those found in most fra
ternities, for house beds are usually double or
triple deck hunks of the sort usually obtain
able in a two-bit flop house.
Women’s dorms are crowded to the
physical limit and beyond the limit, of de
cency. They are on a par with the sororities,
which if anything are worse than the frater
nities when it comes to massed humanity in
small rooms, sleeping on damp, ill-ventilated
and never warm sleeping porches.
"'HR University and the state of Oregon
vhieli owns it are big enough and finan
cially powerful enough to step in and remove
tenement conditions to the benefit of bo1h
students and fraternities if they can be con
vinced of the necessity for a large expendi
ture. It is the position of the interfraternity
council to see that every consideration of Ibis
sort is obtained for the fraternities and to
recognize thus conditions that do exist; that
organization should cast off its lethargy and
obliviousness to its own faults and investigate
and evaluate any snggetion which might elim
inate some of those faults. Finally, it should
make the system's needs and shortcomings
known to University authorities.
Simply stated, the problem is this. The
University is equipped in every way except
housing to handle and is handling 0000 stu
dents. It can house only about f>00 to GOO of
those students and some of those not too well.
The fraternity system has served a worthy
purpose in handling the great excess and is
worth retaining for other reasons. Why not
give it the help it needs to do the job pro
perly, as long as it is assuming one of the
1 niversity \ obligations?
Exhibition Explained
By Professor De Co u
From the dim past of the civilization which existed in Egypt
r.,000 years ago lias grown the whole of modern mathematics, says Ed
gar E. DeCou, head of the University mathematics department, as he
explains the browsing room exhibition of valuable mathematics books.
The University library, together with that of the University of
Washington, have the finest mathematics collection in the Northwest,
4-' I . L 'IV nil, I III l IlIVnMl)
has built its collection up over a
period of years, until it now num
bers among its works an especial
ly valuable first printed edition of
Boethius, which was made in 1942.
A recently printed volume shows
facsimile pages of the Rhind pa
pyrus which was unearthed in
Egypt but a hundred years ago, i
and even more recently deciphered.
Written approximately 3 5 0 0 j
years ago, this manuscript, says
>r. DeCou. embodies all the known {
nathematical knowledge of the [
Egyptians at that time. Asked
about the accuracy of Egyptian
calculations. Dr. DeCou said their
methds brought them good results
in measuring distances and con
structing the pyramids, although
the science has undergone innum
erable changes since their time.
The books range from this an
cient papyrus through medieval
and early English and American
works. The works of Boethius,
used from the time he wrote them,
500 A.D., in manuscript form were
first printed in 1492.
Early printed books show marks
of actual book worms, Dr. DeCou
pointed out, as he showed holes
eaten clear through the pages of
old books.
Since Latin was the language of
I learned men, Dr. DeCou said, most
: of the books are written in Latin,
with an occasional German and
French one.
The earliest one in English is a
1094 edition of general arithemetic
by Wingate. The oldest American
volume is Nicolas Pike's “Arith
metic," printed in 17SS. It gives
systems of federal money in use
in the various states of the country
at that time, said Dr. DeCou. For
many years it was used in Harvard
and Yale as a textbook.
After winning the Rocky Moun
tain conference title in 1937, Mon
tana State college defeated the
state university's Grizzlies three
games out of four for the state col
lege basketball title.
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LEROY MA'l'TINGLY, Editor ^ * WALTER R. VERNSTROM, Manager
LLOYD TUPLING, Managing Editor
Associate Editors : Paul Deutschmann, Clare Igoe. ___
'Ihe Oregon Daily Emerald, official student, publication of the University of Oregon, published daily during the college year
excej t Sundays, Mondays, holidays and final examination periods. Entered as second-class mail matter at the postmee, Eugene,
Oregon.
Editorial Board : Darrel Ellis, Bill Peace, Margaret Ray, Edwin Robbins, A1 Dickhart, Kenneth Kirtley, Bernardine Bowman.
The Press Is Here Again
I lib Oregon Press eonferoneo of the Ore
J4'Oii Press association opens its twentieth
annual session here today.
Willi one of the biggest newspaper strikes
in reeent years now going on in Portland, a
good news vdar behind them, and elections
once again around the corner, the editors and
publishers should find several lively topics
101* discussion. Rut the annual conclave has
always found much to talk about, for that
matter—for the Oregon conference is one of
•he oldest, and most successful in existence.
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rJ''IlE twentieth meeting finds the annual
press affair one of the oldest gatherings
of this type. Tt was preceded in its field h.v
the Washington state press meet, inaugurated
by the University of Washington school of
journalism, by but three or four years.
Recognized all over the country as one of
tlm best state conventions of newspaper men,
1 lie* annual Oregon anair is snocosslul largely
because it remains undivided, despite the fact
the interests of the big and little papers grow
further and further apart.
But, while the big papers grow bigger and
the small sheets more numerous, respect, in
terest, and deference have bridged the grow
ing circulation gap—and most of the papers
in Oregon will be represented here today.
rjpiIE twentieth anniversary of the confer
ence marks the silver anniversary of the
regime of grey-haired, canny Dean Erie \V.
Allen as the head of the University school
of journalism.
One of the things which the school of
journalism has fathered, fostered, and fondled
during its 2f> years under the dean's tutelage
is the press conference—and the best possible
tribute to the journalism school's chief execu
tive is the interesting meet which the twen
tieth conference promises to be.
SIDE SHOW
By Bill Cummings and
Paul Deutchmann
On the Eastern corner of the
Mediterranean are 3 5 0,000
square miles of land, most of
which is arid. Sixteen million
people inhabit this antique land
which comes into the interna
tional lime-light chiefly because
it is at the head of England’s
Suez canal. We speak of Egypt.
Seven conquerors have set up
their banners in Pyramid land,
since the Persians swept across
with their bearded hordes in the
dim centuries B.C. Current con
queror is Great Britain, who
nominally added Egypt to her
sprawling empire in 1914 when
she declared a protectorate over
the semi-autonomius part of the
Turkish empire.
Egypt has burst into the
news recently with the corona
tion and cutting up of the boy
king, Farouk, who took over
the royal job at 17 a few
months ago. He has since fired
his prime minister and married
a beautiful commoner—16-year
old Farida Zulficar.
Although England relinquish
ed her protectorate over Egypt
in 1930, she still has hold of the
most important strings. Egypt
as well as being an important
link on the route to India, is
the only eoastland on the sou- -
them shores of the Mediterran- (
ean under British direction.
Furthermore the Capetown to
London route is another colonial J
lifeline, dear to the Britishers
as the Indian route. c
In view of the Italian threat r
to English control of Africa, it C
is unlikely that the status quo s
will change. Egypt may keep f
her autonomy, even paper inde
pendence, but the Lion will
stand behind the Sphinx, be
cause Mussolini’s shadow in
nearby Ethiopia looms large.
* * *
Interesting comment on the
colonial situation was made
yesterday by Lieut. Col. Ginks
of the English Salvation Army.
The veteran mercy worker, who
has traveled through many of
the Army’s posts, says that his
country may cede Western Af
rica to Germany in the future,
if Germany will agree not to
break the paece of Europe.
The colonel points out that
the land (originally a German
colony) is of little value to Eng
land, consisting of grazing
fields inhabited for the most
part by Germans and Boers.
His statement is further evi
dence of the curious policy the
English are taking in foreign
affairs at present—that of buy
ing off the dissatisfied “have
nots” with concessions, bits of
territory, recognition of rights,
etc. It should lie gratifying to
the peace-seeking public; dis
maying to the radical national
ists.
If the English continue on
Crafty Cribber
(Continual from finne one)
ust a GIGOLO
‘‘Just a Gigolo, but we make the
ough,” is the theme song of five
len students at the University of
iklahoma who have originated a
ociety, and escort dateless coeds
or 25 cents an hour and expenses.
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this policy (in spite of their
mammoth re-armament pro
gram) we may see the strange
picture of Europe sitting about
a council- table, peacefully carv
ing up the vast African "es
tates” with rewards going to
all the “little boys” who pro
mise to be good.
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pill Beta play tryouts will be
held Saturday at 1 p.m. in Theresa
Kelly's apartment on 7.ril R 14th
street. All Phi Beta members
whether music or drama majors
may try out.
Orides-Yeomen will sponsor a
rlance tonight following the game
in the AWS rooms. Members free,
others a dime.
intramural managers meet today
at 4 o'clock in the College Side.
Your Eyes Consume
Enormous Energy
Laboratory tests have shewn that 80
percent of the average person's con
sumption of energy is used by the eyes.
When your eyes aren't right—when you
have to strain to see well—the drain
on your nervous energy is much greater
than you realize. Don't lower your effi
ciency and use up vitality through neg
lect of your eyes. Keep them right by
having them examined regularly.
Greater Comfort—Better Appearance
ELLA C. MEADE
Optometrist
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