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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1938)
From where I SIT By CLARE ICOE “I loathe the Big Apple.” Thus mutiny New York’s debs against the current "truckin’ ” craze. The girls complain its ruining their dresses, the men say they feel foolish. So Ruby Newman, of New York's popular Rainbow Room, has installed a Waltz Night on Mondays’ to oblige the young things who would forego shag gin’ and Susy-Qin’ to float, gracefully to the music of that, most sentimental and old-fash ioned of the dance tempos—1 he waltz. Somphow the Big Apple does seem particularly incongruous to floating chiffons, fragile slippers, and flowers in the hair, nor docs its llarlem swing seem suited to the swish of yards around skirts. Its strenuous rhymatics are far removed from the fragility that is com ing again into fashion. If Milady continues her pres ent trend some of these days wo may be taking up the min uet, or swinging to the intri cate steps of a schott.ische. * « * Speaking of things feminine, we w’enl a-looking at the new spring hats the other day, and are now thinking of letting our hair grow into long curls, and getting out grandmother's- bus tle. Quaint is the word for the poke bonnets that herald the spring. Straw they are, with veils and posies, and they tie under the chin with flowing rib bons. They're darn cute, but we fear they’d take some living up to. Wp can’t imagine bursting about the campus in these lav ender and old lace creations. ■Somehow they reek of an at mosphere of coaehes-and-fours, of Oodey prints and gentlemen in tall beaver hats and stocks. • » * Incidentally, it has been sug gested to us that we say some thing about the unreasonable attitude men have about hats. To a man we fear, a hat is a hat—something to keep the head warm and the ears dry. But. to a woman a hat is much, much more. It is a mood, a personality. For in stance, if she would look young, fresh, demure, she wears a cpiaint bonnet; for pertness she dons an off-the-face hat; for sophistication a high-peaked turban. Probably the hat. looks like something out of a hashish eater’s nightmare^ hut to her it symbolizes a dramatization of her every-day appearance into something very new and spec ial. But. somehow men never un derstand that to make herself inlo something exciting, and dif ferent is the breath of a wo man's life, so when she sweeps downstairs with a new hat on her head, pride in her face, do they make an effort to see what she meant to be when she bought the hat? They do not. Instead they probably blurt out, “For Godsakos, where’d you get that hat?” And what woman can nurse an illusion about herself after tlint? Pollock's FOLLY By BOB POLLOCK THIS DEPARTMENT iH, un fortunately, unable to vouch for the truth of the following in cident but since its author was none other than Oregon's George Varoff, a gentleman of high character if there ever was one, there seems to be some grounds for belief. It all came about because the board—we’ve forgotten its long and involved title, hut anyway there were a lot of big shots on it—chose Arizona’s Tex Oli ver to inherit the moans of the University’s head coaching posi tion. BEING A MEMBER of Phi Beta Kappa, it is only natural to presume that Victim Oliver —who may be the next to lay his bones in this coaches’ grave yard -went to college at one time. From there one might logically conclude that the gen tleman belonged to a fraternity. Now it seems — according, you understand, to Varoff—that Phi Kappa I’si, Pole-vault er Vuroff’s tong, sent the cadaver to-be Mr. Oliver — a telegram congratulating him on Ids elec tion. This is all right as far as it goes and it shows the eager ness with which we await our next victim. HOWEVER THE Phi Psis made a technical error. They addressed the telegram to "Bro ther” Tex Oliver under the en tirely erroneous conception that the lamb who is being led to the slaughter was a member of their fraternity. This embarrassed another of the Greek hoarding-houses ser iously, since they had labored under the impression — since confirmed—that Coach Oliver was a member of their tong. As a matter of fact, the boys had even sent him a Western t'nion, referring to him as “Brother” and extending the grip—figura tively speaking—for Ids recent ‘'promotion.’' THEN THE VAROFF - Phi Psl rumor burst upon thorn. Chaos reigned. Record books were consulted. Pledges were sent scurrying for more record books. In the midst of it, the door bell rang. It was a tele gram. Opened, it read — “Vou’re right. Brother Oliver is an SAE, member of California Epsilon. Congratulations.” It must have been authentic because it came (Brecion^fmcral^ UPPER NEWS STAFF Reporteis Elizabeth Ann Jones Dorothy Mocr Leonard Jermam Eugene Snvdci Muriel Heckman Dorothy Hurke Hill Scott Patricia Erikson Catherine Taylor Betty Jane Thompson Merrill Moran Hill Grant Thursday Night Desk Staff Marge Finnegan Jimmy Goodwin Phil Hladine Thursday Night Staff Chief Night Editor this issue; Bill Rentz Assistant Chief Night Editor: Bill Thompson Elizabeth Nock Barbara Stallcup Beulah Johnson from the Arizona SAE chapter. APPARENTLY, friends, that settles that. IJnt what it does not settle is why, for Hie Love of St. Peter and his staff of angels, an intel ligent man like Phi Befe Oliver wants to leave healthy Arizona where he can win better than half of his hall games to come to the University of Oregon. "’JUST LOOK at Tuscon where his present post is. The town has a population of approxi mately 40,000, half of which are Mexicans and Indians who can't and don't want to speak or read the English language. Maybe they parley some kind or other of United States, hut we can’t conceive of them as being literal enough to form a movement to get the scalp of a football coach. Of the remain ing twenty thousand in the vil lage, seven or eight thousand are confined to their beds, nine or ten thousand alternate be tween bed and wheel-chair and mnlcr no condition are they al lowed out on rainy afternoons. And it always rains down there when they play football. THE REST OE the popula tion? Tex doesn't have to wor ry about them they're mostly doctors curing for the sick. However when Couch Oliver arrives in the venomous Coast league he will not only be ex posed to the wiles and Machia vellian wiles of such wolves in football jerseys as Jimmy Phe lan, Howard Jones, Tiny Thorn bill, et al, but his material does not and cannot compare to that of huge California institutions. DOESN'T MUSTER Oliver know that here he has to win three-fourths of his games, at tend church of a Sunday, and smile courteously at the alums when they boot him in the breeches? Doesn't he realize that, unless he pulls all-Ameri cans out of his hat, the boys will be forming "Oust Oliver" movements within a year? This department removes its battered chapeau to Mr. Oliver —a gentleman with intestinal fortitude if not good judgment. Oh,yes We wish him well. We really do. Public Discussion Group Will Speak The University public discussion group will travel to Portland Mon day where they will present "The Labor Problem" to the chamber of commerce. Students making the trip will be Louis Kotenberg, Kessler Cannon, Howard Kessler, and Zane Ketnler. W. A. Dahl berg is the professor in charge of the symposium. The same program was present ed last week at Silverton. Dorothy Louise Johnson, violin ist, and Dorothy Davis, pianist, will accompany the speakers to present entertainment. Tex Oliver’s Appointment Heralds New Deal in University Gridiron Technique Oregon Football Turns a Corner 'I'TTr, answer to the aluminum's prayer—< that’s Gerald A. (Tex) Oliver. For alumni support and alumni banking brings Oregon’s now eoae.li to the University enmpus to tutor the gridiron lads in tho fine points of football. Alumni, along with most others involved, want a new and interesting type of football at Ikigene—“We don't earn so mueli if Ihey lose now and then if the}’1 look good losing,” seems to stun up tlie gen eral attitude. And Coaeli Oliver’s eontraet, when he puts Ids signature on it and it is aeeepted by the state board, ought to be about as near to a guarantee for interesting football as any sehool eould want. rjpiTE tall, lean Texas man wilh tlio infer linns grin who made so many friends and and supporters in his short two days in Tin gene doesn’t give a whoop for 1 lie first downs. As ln> told the hoard at his reeent interview, lie’s willing to let the other team push the hall around in mid-field, three and four yards at a eraek. Every play or every series of plays he runs is designed to seore a touch down and lie’s had a- great deal of sneess, not strangely, with his “seore the most poinls” system. Coach Oliver ought to he the shot in the arm Oregon foot hall has needed for years, lie has indicated he will plan a few changes in the style of Hie team but will largely use formations long seen in the coast conference and at Oregon. But otherwise his whole out look is different. Supporters of Tex Oliver in his campaign for the position of head coach who agitated for him both personally and because he is an “outside,” non-alumni man have stressed the fact, that Oregon has had little success in re cent years with a conservative type of game which has become almost exclusively “Oregon football.” Not since the days of another army man. Captain MeKwan, have crowds been snapped out of their seats in Hayward stad ium with sensational passes, end runs, quick kicks, and long runs. Oregon has played for three yards to the down for years, sometimes successfully hut usually not colorfully. The first game Oregon played here under MeKwan has become almost, a legend among football fans. Oregon got the ball quick and the first, play was a long, beautifully-executed pass. Oregon fans haven’t seen much of that kind of ball for years and they arc hungry for a taste of the spectator - pleasing game once more. # • # rJ''IIK contract, as extended to Oliver, con tains a three-year provision. Whether the state board will grant more than a one-year commitment, is still in question but the cen tral system’s directors have never failed to extend or renew a coach’s contract sent to it by the president. The athletic activities board lias indicated, thus, its willingness to extend contracts to the new head coach for at least two subsequent years. Coach Oliver lias studied football in its every phase and lias been, closely connected witli llie coast conference for years. It should not take him long to get. bis bearings but it seems only fair that he be given a three-year 1 ry. This year’s and next year’s team is, of course, .just about picked already so far as Oliver is concerned. It will be at least one and possibly two years before bis work around the state and outside the state in interesting high school players in coming to Oregon begins to show up on the field. # e rp'IIET?E seems every reason to believe that Oliver will be sueeessful in bis “eonlnet” work among .students and alumni. 11 is ap pointment bad 1 be approval of a great, many influential men and Coach Oliver exhibited bis powerful personality, centered around a slow, broad-mouthed smile while here. He seems the kind of a fellow who could talk an extra piece of pie out of a training lable waitress. In at least one other way, the coming of Tex Oliver to Oregon heralds a pleasant change. Oliver firmly believes that football is a game—that it should be a game which the players want to play and which the spec tators and students are eager to watch and support. One reason for Oliver’s popularity and success at Arizona was the detailed program he- followed to encourage spectator interest and encourage enthusiasm in his student body. Football backing at the southern school increased 200 to 1100 per cent during Oliver’s five years as head coach. *= * *= Jj'ROM the standpoint of the University and the school of physical education, Oregon is fortunate in its choice of a coach, for the new head man is an educator as we 11 as a coach. His abilities in the intellectual line do not stop at the coaching of “smart” football. Although his favorite topic is the gridiron sport—that ought to be meat for the sports writers—he can hold his own in any faculty group no matter what the topic. There can be no doubt about Oliver's cap abilities, even in this ultra-tough league, the “closed” coast conference. If he receives the proper support, Oregon football is going to be on the upgrade. Oliver is the sort of fellow who can win and hold that support. Oranting Oliver comes to Oregon, he gives up his chance to play Notre Dame in 1940. But three years is a long time away. It’s not impossible that 1939 will see Oregon’s “vow ing sophomores,” then seniors, making a Now Year's day trip to Pasadena. Which ought to be fair exchange. SIDE SHOW Edited by ... . Bill Cummings, Campus Paul Deutschmann, National Campus Oregon’s athletic hoard picked a powerhouse in the coaching field when they decid ed upon Tex. Oliver Thursday night, and despite rumors that Tex may not accept the bid, the preliminaries lie is taking Ik* I'ore signing on the dotted line arc plainly red-tape procedure which should not develop into a serious “hitch.” Oliver is being cautions, that’s all. He has in dicated a strong desire to be come Oregon's head couch, and his latest communication from the Horn Toad university car ried with it every intention of accepting the offer. Nows that Gene Shields has indicated that he may resign from Oregon's coaching staff if Oliver accepts arouses deep' in terest among the students, be cause Shields is considered not only a great asset to Oregon football, but also a genial, lik able person whom the students would greatly miss. If Oliver does refuse to sign the three year contract, Shields may be boosted into the head coach berth, according to the athletic board. This is a consolation to the many Shields supporters who were disappointed at the selection of Tex Oliver. These supporters will be even more deeply disappointed if Gene re signs from the staff. All of which brings up the question of whom Oliver would select to round out his staff of assistants. * * « \ WORD TO THE BOARD OF HIGHER EDI'CATION: Don't raise the tuition, unless it is absolutely impossible to raise the funds by other means. The fact that students should be asked to carry “their share” of the burden is not argument enough to warrant the increase. If the funds are unavailable, and if the system would suffer materially in case the money was not forthcoming', then the board should go ahead and tax the students the $2 extra, but not unless. The number of stu dents on NY A, the number who are working their way through, and the number who are bor rowing from the school or oth er sources to make their col lege careers possible is far too great to justify any added fi nancial load. The state of Ore gon is noted for its leadership in the campaign to make high er education available to every deserving person, and it is a fact to be regretted that so many of those deserving per sons have a tough financial struggle for their education. National When imperialism was the keynote of the western world, “manifest destiny” was a rec ognized national philosophy. Ev ery great country felt that im perialistic expansion was logi cal, right, and unavoidable. Now that these nations have grown out of this stage of de velopment, they look with hor ror at the “aggression” of Ja pan in China. People have giv en up “manifest destiny,” the “white man's burden,” and oth er thing's that would have made the Nipponese more “right" in the eyes of the world fifty years ago. Consideration of the past of the Island empire of the East, however, reveals that she is now in a stage of development simi lar to that of the other coun tries when they were younger. And a survey of present Japan ese convictions reveal that this policy- is exactly what is mov J ing the efficient, yellow men across China’s plains. * * * Evidence of this Japanese at titude is found in cultural, po litical, and personal trends. In the first bracket, a study of the Nipponese emperor deification reaches back to the time when the world was being formed. Significantly, especially for the Japanese, their island was the first bit of land to emerge from the chaos, and its first inhabi tants, ancestors of mild, be spectacled Hirohito, were gods. The cultural aspects are far reaching and cannot t>e treated at great length here. Another well-known custom, however, may be briefly mentioned. This is hara-kiri, suicide rite of the Samurai, the hereditary fight ing men of more than a thou sand years. Hara-kiri is an in trinsic part of the warrior's code of these Samurai, known as Bu shido. This cult is almost complete ly incompatible with western ideas in that it calls for blind service to the celestial emperor, complete obedience at all times, and willingness to step out of tne picture with a gory but me thodical hara-kiri ceremony in case of any violation of the code. Kesults of such a code are far-reaching. It makes for a superlative military, giving an inperialistie state the where withal to go on its path of ex pansion. Politically Japan is perfectly set up to work out her "mani fest destiny.” Power is divided between the army, the navy, and the business class. The common people may murmur (to themselves) but every de cree of those who speak for the emperor is law. Tempering views of elder statesmen, who On Confidence and the Use of Words /"n'RSES! Foiled again. A thorough-going reader of F.merahl editorials has nailed us to the eross for a grammatical error. It is always encouraging to find a thorough reader of edits, hut, under lined in pencil, our most recent grammatical travesty now stares forth for all to see in un deniable print on the shack bulletin board. Oh, the ignomy of it all! But. in our ignorance and haste, we must maintain our confidence and press on. 1 on know, confidence is a great thing. It's supris ing what it will sometimes do for people. It keeps Ihem backing themselves in the darkest hour of their need. COMEONE, and wo don t remember who ^ except that it wasn’t our Uncle Ezra, once expressed in really convincing form his confidence in his ability to use words cor j’pptlv. Whilp wp can’t 1>p finite so extreme in followin'; liis doctrine, the thought’s Ihpro. Proud of his grammatical knowledge, this intellectual modestly remarked: “I never made but one error in grammar and the moment 1 done it T seen it. "With this glowing example of the power of confidence before 11s, we stand corrected. We’ll never say “different than” again—not until next time. In This Corner—' /V FTER many years (luring which there has been little boxing and wrestling compe tition between Oregon and Oregon State col lege, boxers from the two schools will rub gloves and wrestlers will go to the mat once more in McArthur court tonight. Organizing as the Oregon Mitt and Mat club, ring enthusiasts have tins year made a concerted drive 1o reinstate the two sports and have apparently conquered the first ob stacles successfully. Tonight the Oregon men will be represent ing the University. The match is an ASUO sponsored event but there Avill be a charge of 2b cents to associated student mmebers, 40 cents 1o others. The athletic board decided to permit the nominal charge to student body members, not usually permitted, because there was no provision in this year's budget for* 1)0X111" and wrestling and it posts around $40 Jo stage a match. 4* *■ «■ CTRANGELY enough, Robin Rood, well ^ known a few years back, was indirectly the cause of the downfall of wrestling, at least, at Oregon. For years Oregon had strong teams. Then ORC brought, in Reed, an Olympic champion. Reed gathered and trained a group of wrest lers who whipped Oregon’s men most un mercifully. That was the death of wrestling as an interscholastic sport. Oregon's men will, of course, he inexper ienced tonight. But they will he fighting to establish the right of two sports to recogni tion and aid. The Ducks should provide 0>SC with a lusty and leathery evening. LEROY MATTINGLY, Editor WALTER R. VERNSTROM, Manager LLOYD TUPLING, Managing Editor Associate Editors: Paul Deutschmann, Clare Igoe. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays and final examination periods. Entered as second-class mail matter at the postflice, Eugene, Oregon. Editorial Board: Darrel Ellis, Bill Peace, Margaret Ray, Edwin Robbins, A1 Dickhart, Kenneth Kirtley, Bernardine Bowman. have from time to time tried to tone down the ultra-militaristic attitude, have been counteract ed by occasional terroristic mur ders and assassinations—to re move those who stand in the way of the destiny of ancient “Yamato.” * « * I or lack of a better designa tion we have called the third evidence—personal trends. By this we refer to the expressions of opinion of the statesmen who serve the Rising Sun banner which have been leaking into print during the past ten years. In some ways they recall the boastful attitude of Prussians before the World war. One of the most famed of all is the Tanaka memorial, handed to the emperor in 1927 by that great prime minister of modern Japan. This paper is purported to have outlined the plans for the subjugation of China, stat ing that the job should be done in approximately ten years. The yellow men seem to be a year behind schedule. More recent declarations of opinion are those by navy and army officials that continually hint at struggle with England, the United States, or more of ten, Soviet Russia. One of the recent utterances of this type is attributed to Gen. Honjo, con queror of Manchuria, who sug gests that conquest of China will leave Japan so enriched that American be pushed be hind the Hawaiian islands with ease. Then the general visual izes the British being eased out of Hong Kong and Singapore, the Russians being pushed back wherever they are too close, Vacuum your cars at Pomeroy’s i Associated. Your Eyes Consume Enormous Energy Laboratory tests hcve 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 14. \V. Eighth and Nippon emerging as the great oriental state, with the Taikoon perhaps the greatest emperor since Kublah Kahn. * * a: Just what all these conflict ing statements mean is hard to ascertain. At present it seems that the program of expelling the politely disliked foreigners out of the Far East is not due to start with America. Witness a recent headline: “American Friendship Dear to Japan." Anti-Communist pacts indi cate that perhaps the USSR is being groomed for plucking as soon as Ihe Chinese goose is cooked, foolish attitude toward England might mean that she was second. Something the Japanese might think of, however, is that China is not yet conquered, nor do all of her 500,000 troops mean victory. 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