Public Property
Ey THE BOYS
Public Property has pulled in
Its horns since the last time it
rode because people have, accus
ed its authors of being econom
ical with the truth.
But it was all true—unfortu
nately and disgustingly true.
Just this evening someone
called up with a tall yarn about
the SPE underclassmen going
over to the Sigma Nu house for
dinner, th*n joining the basket
ball players — often known as
the Sigma Nus—for a dance at.
the Gamma Phi house.
Now, this seems logical
enough, as the three "hovels"
—newest synonym for fraterni
ties—are all close together.
But someone also called in
. and said the combined forces
had stormed the Phis for their
dancing, practically kidnapping
the helpless girls. This, good
story though it would make,
didn’t quite ring true. Investi
gation proved they called up
first and gave the girls a fair
chance.
• # #
Incidentally, the Sigma Nil
elders went up to the SPE house
for victuals. Peaceable, too.
Last time the Sigma Nus cal
led on the Sig Eps they took the
rest of the mill race men with
them. It was about midnight
and instead of breaking bread
they broke heads.
It is a funny world.
$ '4t
All this is true but very un
interesting. Public Property can
he fed only just so much of the
dry stuff of truth. In order to
prevent undue accusations, we'll
admit right now that the follow
ing story is purely fictitous. It’s
as probable as possible, how
ever.
Senior, man of the world,
globe trotter from away back,
a young man rolled up to the
library before mid-terms, truck
ed his way into the card cata
logue, Ruzy-Qed out of it, bump
ed into the information desk,
and limped up to the "bar.”
He plunked down his neatly
compiled book request slip. The
librarian spirited it over the air
chute and after not too long the
book came clunking down the
elevator.
The librarian whisked out two
cards and asked the young man
to sign full name and address,
on both. He did.
Up until last fall, that's about
all you had to do to get a book
out of the libe.
Then the librarian demanded
his card.
What card ?
The library card.
The student, who wasn't par
ticularly keen about studying
anyway, dug deep into his bill
fold.
He brought out a union card
—a good, conservative A F of L
union, too.
No soap.
He dug out a press card—
good for admittance to any bas
ketball game in McArt h u r
court.
No soap. The librarian seem
ed a bit impatient.
He unstrapped the portfolio
which we've just decided he
ought to be carrying and pro
duced a passport which last
year got him into Russia,
France, Germany, and Es
thonia — finding Esthonia is
harder than getting into it.
Still no soap. With all this
"no soap” the student did the
obvious thing.
Did he find his libe card?
No.
He threw in the towel—and
Charlestoned out of there.
SIDE SHOW
By Bill Cummings anil
l*iiul Deutcliinanii
Campus
IS THE FRATERNITY SYS
TEM ON THE WAY OUT?
Thai, with uil the specific
problems it involves, is u ques
tion that must lit! dealt with,
und dealt with soon, by frater
nity men on the Oregon campus.
It is a challenge involving weak
and strong houses alike, anil a
challenge which directly con
cerns the interfraternity coun
cil.
* * *
That body (which is having
its o&n difficulties in ironing
out the problems of continually
changing membership) carries
the responsibility of seventeen
men’s living organizations at
Oregon which are looking to it
for an answer. Just how much
can the interfraternity council
do? At the present time, its
hands are tied by the fact that
new members are continuously
replacing the old, so that it is
impossible for the council to get
anything done. First, the coun
cil should change its system of
organization to bring about an
effective legislative body.
Two Issues are coming to the
front which may mean the abol
ishment of the fraternity sys
tem in the state of Oregon. One
is deferred pledging, w li i e li
wliiild be a jarring blow in it
self, and the other is the junior
college system, which would
probably knock fraternities for
the fatal loop. Fraternities could
probably recover from the ef
fects of one of these changes
alone, but it is doubtful if they
could ever keep going under the
combined handicap of deferred
pledging and junior colleges.
The solution lies in the hands
of the fraternities themselves.
If they ran improve their schol
arship, living conditions, and
reputations among the dads of
the state and other outsiders,
such changes as deferred pledg
ing will not be brought up in
the future. The fraternities
must prove their worth as char
acter - building organizations,
necessary to college life.
New Books Added
To Browsing Room
The story of a woman who made
history, “Jesse Benton Fremont,’’
written by Catherine Coffin Phil
lips, is a new book added to the
browsing room collection of the
library, says Miss Ethel R. Sawyer,
browsing room librarian.
Inscribed by its author, the book
was presented to the library by
Clare Ryan Talbot, ’22. Another
book which was recently added is
“California,” a history of upper
and lower California by Alexander
Forbes, written in 1839, and re
cently reprinted.
The other new books are “En
chanter’s Nightshade,” by Ann
Bridges, which is to be put on the
love and marriage shelf; and
“Castles of Italy,” by C. T. G.
Formelli, which is dedicated to 11
Duce and shows pictures of old
Italian castles.
Young Bourbons to
Honor State Chief
Allan D. Greenwood, president
of the Young Democrats’ club of
Oregon, will be the guest of honor
at a banquet sponsored by the Lane
county Young Democrats, Febru
ary 7.
The banquet will be held in Mc
Crady's cafe at (5:30.
Send the Emeiald home to I'ad
every morning. He will like to read
the University happenings.
Shutter Snappers
Organize New Club
The embryo camera club met
Inst night to make plans for its or
ganization. A five point program
was drawn up to submit to Dean
Karl Onthank in order to obtain
official recognition for the club.
The fifteen students turning out
for the meeting chose as their ob
jective “the banding together of
those interested in photography to
exchange ideas and secure a dark
room and certain economic bene
fits.”
Monday night the second meet
ing of the club will be held, accord
ing to James Goodwin, instrumen
tal in organizing the group.
Radio Manuscripts
Judged for Awards
Judging of the radio forum
manuscripts submitted last term
in the annual VV. F. Jewett forum
contest has narrowed the contest
ants down to five. These five
scripts will be presented over
KOAC anil the writers of the two
best will be given the $15 and $10
prizes.
Students who wrote material
making the “finals" are Clifford
Speaker, George Luoma, Vincent
Gates, Blair Hamer, and Muriel
Beckman.
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UPPER NEWS STAFF
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Homer Graham, Chief Night Editor
Marthn .Stewart. Women s r.uitor
Don Kennedy, Radio Editor
Rita Wright, Society Editor
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Get Your Gravy Early—or—That Smell Again
"^JHT'ALLY that campus activity nebulously
named “polities” is dormant winter
term except for tlio work of a few lordly
“bosses” who ponnivp the ypar around pre
paring tho spring's big ponp.
Hindi is not tlip rasp this winter term. Al
rpndy tin* randidalrs for tin* higher others
are preening tliemselves and going into tho
firing line.
Cleaning up the last elass eleetions mess
started the ball rolling. No one has ever ad
vanced a means of campaigning quite as effec
tive as that used last, year by the active mem
bers of the then sophomore elass. Compared
to them, New York’s Tammany bosses are a
bunch of semi-pros when it chines to bringing
in the votes—with or without the voters, inci
dentally.
* * #
"yiCM President Noel Benson and President.
Barney Hall apparently are not entirely
satisfied with the methods of the elass of ’39
politicos. As far as finances were concerned,
Ihe sophs methods were distinctly a success.
But some points of ethics and honesty were
sadly involved.
The AHITO, in offering its services through
Vice President Benson doesn’t intend to inter
fere. It merely wants to help the classes see
that the voting and the counting is honestly
done. AKIIO supervision would not interfere
with direct, primary plans advanced by Class
Heads Dick Lit fin and Tiger Payne and die
ASCO could run the class eleetions spring
lerm if its assistance is desired.
Three of Ihe elass presidents are against
AST’O intervention. They believe they should
be allowed to handle their own affairs, making
a point which is altogether sound. Benson’s
intention is not to deprive them of privileges
but to extend to them aid which in the past
occasionally lias been sorely needed.
# * «
■yyiTETTIER 1 lie vice president can accom
plish anything depends on the attitude
of the classes. They seem pretty well lined
up against such reform, however, preferring
to handle their problems in 1heir own ways.
The ASITO no longer has any jurisdiction over
them and can intervene only if the classes so
desire.
Nevertheless, this and other reforms have
put early life in polities. Self-styled candi
dates are apparently eager to take advantage
of tin1 winter revival in interest. They have
been quick to second and forward reforms,
usually with an air of great sincerity. The
political drums are beginning 1o sound—to
roar only as Ihey can on a college campus.
# # *
KTER the big ideas come the promises—
any day now Ihe rumor will be about
the campus that the Sigma Nu-SAE-Kappa
Sig bloc has promised the Phi Belts the presi
dency of the browsing room to change their
politics—or that the other bloc has guaran
teed the BEs an intramural plaque and three
sweetheart pins for their allegiance.
Pick your candidates early, folks. With
the boys already breaking out of the starting
gate, it ought to be a great race. Maybe
some ingenious soul will figure out a means
to out-count proportional representation.
Cooperation in Artistic Fields
pTCTCR flynt Sniff', musioal-dramatie-daneing
product ion which Horace \V. Robinson
and the educational activities board will pre
sent. spring term, involves the personnel of
at least three large University groups.
The cast for the Suite will total around
lilt) persons. This makes it of value as an
event in which students can participate, for
the participation type of activity is the most
appealing of all, to students.
# * #
rJ''lIE artistry and capable direction of Mr.
Robinson will result in a production, both
interesting and finished, from the spectator’s
point of view. But, beyond the points of par
ticipation and spectator interest, the selec
tion of Peer Gynt for an AXl'O affair has still
another value in that it will combine the
efforts of the I'niversity symphony, master
dance, and the drama department.
For 1 lie spectator, this should mean an
artist i(*. three-ring circus under one roof.
Bringing I lie three together for the first time
is significant because it opens up for 1liis
campus new fields in the arts frtr cooperative
exploitation.
partment have long been recognized fori
the caliber of the work which each has done !
as a unit. But they have never been united.
Combining the talents of this “big three” of
campus recital and production should produce
a truly masterful show—wlmt, in the ver
nacular of Hollywood, might be called an
extravaganza.
Each of these groups will, of course, prob
ably be forced to give up some phase of its
own program. The resulting production
should bo worth the sacrifice.
Easy Money?—The NY A Worker Doesn't Need It
TJKSPITR 11h> much-publicized recession,
economic pressure on students apparently
isn’t as great as it used to bo.
NY A workers are r hose ft on the basis of
scholarship and nood. Although the two don’t
always go band in band, there’s usually been
a scramble for National Youth Administra
tion jobs since the government put them on
the market a few years ago. Usually, too,
there’s been a scramble to get hours in and
rollert pay cheeks.
l>ut apparently student NYA workers this
year are, to a considerable extent, well-heeled
capitalists who can let those precious dollars
rest in (lie University's vaults, forgotten for
weeks ami weeks. Three clays ago, 50 checks
in payment for work done in December were
still on tin1 business office's hands. Yesterday
there remained 17 checks which became col
lectable early in January.
# « *
'T'lIE business office isn't very enthusiastic
over this indication of a sudden upturn
in student finances.
In fact, tin' business office is getting a bit
griped about the oversight of Oregon's NYA
employed “capitalists.” If the checks aren’t
collected soon, they will he sent back to Port
land.
Propeller Club
To Collect Books
A collection of oooXa anil maga
zines, of interest to men at sea,
will be started by the local Pro
peller club, Prof. A. L. Lomax,
faculty adviser announced yester
day.
Gifts of books that might be of
interest to the seamen will be ap
preciated, Mr. Lomax said. Books
mav be left at Dr. Lomax's office.
vS re a o n § me nil ^
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Gordon Ridgeway
Betty Hamilton
Rita Wright
Elizabeth Ann Jones
Merrill Moran
W’en Brooks
Parr Aplin
Barbara Stallcup
Glenn Hasselrooth
George Luoma
Wednesday Night Desk Staff
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Dick l.itfin Pat Erickson
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l hio! \ight Kdiloi tills I'MU‘ .
Carl Newcomb
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r Bet tie lane l-velyn Kirchhofer
Tim 1 »m Katherine Connor
Helping Studes Find
Selves, Speech Topic
By DOROTHY MEYER
Dr. Howard R. Taylor, head of the psychology department, in his
recent talk to the members of the Home Science club of Eugene, on
the topic “Helping Students Find Themselves in College,” pointed out
that it is more important today to train students to be followers than
leaders.
The dream of America is to get ahead in life rather than the dream
or equamy, anu iney can i au ger
ahead, he said.
"Homes and the University have
in common the welfare of young
people, but often times students
have difficulties in college because
they and their parents have fal
lacious notions as to what college
can do for young people.
"College is looked upon as ar
avenue to get into professions, and
there are now more students in
training than it is possible to place
This situation is particularly acute
in Europe., and there are fewer
students there than here," he ex
plained.
Dr. Taylor believes that the an
swer may be found by following
the example of the medical schools
in selecting for training only those
most capable.
STl'DENT FOR DEGREE
Blind children in Holland rate
higher in achievement test than
those of America, Mrs. Pearl
Heath, Monmouth normal faculty,
reported recently. Working for her
doctor's degree. Mrs. Heath is
studying blind school methods in
Europe through the benefits of a
traveling scholarship.
VI KAPS VISIT
Alpha Chi Omegas were hostess
es to Pi Kappa Alpha at a dessert,
exchange Wednesday evening.
Campus
Calendar
Thi Thetas will meet on Thurs
day at four o'clock in the AW3
i rooms.
___
Amphibians meet, in Gerlinger
pool at 7:30 tonight. Pledges must
be present.
The Christian Science organiza
tion will hold their regular testi
monial meeting tonight at Gerling
er hall at 8 o’clock. All students,
faculty members, and friends inter
ested in Christian Science are in
vited to attend.
Y\V Comparative Religions
group will meet at Mrs. Turnip
seed's, 1374 Onyx, at 9 p.m. Every
one is invited.
Skull and Dagger will meet to
night at 10 o’clock in the College
Side.
The 21 patients in the infirmary
yesterday were: Bob Campbell,
Manning Moore, Ken Shipley,
Lewis Larson, Cecil Saunders, Lar
ry Mimnaugh, Dick Roland, Floyd
Elliot, Bill Finch, Bill Jackson,
Ralph Griffith, Leota Bradley,
Janet Hutchenson, Marolyn Dud
ley, Verna Goiski, Marian Bjugstad,
Jean Larson, Pearl King, Frances
Burrows, Robert Black, Wilbur
Larsan.
Junior Class Meet
Set for 7:30 Tonight
1938 'Weekend' Plans
And Campus Movie
On Docket
Tonight at 7:30 in 106 Viilard
the junior class will assemble to
discuss plans for Junior weekend
and see moving pictures of cam
pus events.
All students enrolled in the Uni
versity as juniors are invited to
come regardless of class cards or
“J.C.'s.” Elizabeth Stetson, Bob
Bailey, and John Luvaas are on
the assembly committee.
If the first meeting is success
ful more are promised, Zane Kem
ler, president said.
Dr. Lester Beck of the psychol
ogy department has given the class
the use of his machine for the eve
ning and students and professors
on the campus have loaned their
films.
Backseat Driver
(Continued front pat/e three)
that women enjoy suffering. The
writer stated that there are com
paratively few feminine dope
fiends and that the percentage of
masculine drunkards is much
greater than that of the weaker
sex.
Which, he went on to point out,
was not because women are es
sentially stronger willed than men
who seek alcoholic methods of
escape from what bothers them,
but simply that us ladies don’t
want to escape. We lie to have
thingks make us feel terrible be
cause it’s so much fun.
Maybe he's right. There are
them as would love nothing better
than a good quarrel with their
love-lifes to set them up for the
evening. And those who run
around trying to catch a good case
of double pneumonia because it’s
so much fun to be sick.
Maybe lie’s right . . . but it
sounds awfully silly to me.
* * *
Haunted by the prospect of hav
ing to grind out a column I button
holed my best reader, law-school’s
Frank Nash (Honest-Iinjun! He
swears he reads it every week!),
and grilled him for a bit of snappy
news.
. know plenty I could tell you,”
he admitted, “but I also know
enough law to realize I'd better
not.”
Which goes to show what edu
cation will do for you.
Edgar Perry, ’35, is assistant
ei edit manager for the Carstens
Packing company of Portland.
Office Asks for
Last Installment
Of Campus Fees
Final installments on all fees
—registration, student body and
non-resident—must be paid by
February 10. Suspension from
the University is the penalty for
non-payment of fees, C. K.
Stalsberg. University cashier,
said yesterday.
Students are reminded that it
is not necessary to wait till the
final day for paying fees. By
paying earlier, confusion or mis
takes may be avoided, he said.
Demands Made
To Forbid Arms
To China, Japan
German Scandalized
As Minister Weds
'Below Station'
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Con
fession from the Japanese foreign
ministry today that a “state of
war” exists between that nation
and China drew many demands
from congressmen for invoking
the U. S. neutrality act.
Administration leaders indicated
that in the absence of any formal
declaration there is little likeli
hood that President Roosevelt
would forbid shipment of arms to
either of the countries.
New Wife—No Job
BERLIN, Feb. 2- Hermann Wil
helm Goering, number two Nazi
leader, appeared as the probable
man to succeed Werner Von Bom
berg as minister of war.
Bomberg is supposed to have re
signed as the result of his mar
riage Friday to a carpenter’s
daughter. The affair was likened
in Germany to the ‘Wallis Simp
son affair.”
* *
Still Yet Again
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Fight
i over the anti-lynching bill is ex
i pected to be renewed tomorrow in
the senate with Senator Wagner,
! co-author of the bill, taking the
1 floor in its defense.
Guy Taylor, '36, is a civil en
I gineer for the Truscon Steel com
pany of Portland. He recently mar
ried' Martha Williams, an Oregon
grad of ’35.
i _—
Smarty Party
(Continued from page three)
hand shaking for students to em
I ploy.
The invitations to the party
were in the form of small mor
tar board hats with the printing
in gold.
Annual Military Balf
(Continued from page three)
Donald Hargis, Dr. and Mrs. I.
R. Fox, Mr. and Mrs. Warren D.
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Ham
by, and Mr. and Mrs. Battle.
Hawaiian Motif
Proved 'Effective
At the Tri Delt dance which was
held last Saturday night, unusual
decorations were carried out to go
with the Hawaiian motif. Leis
were procured from Hawaii by
June Pell who comes from Hono
lulu.
At intermission the Hawaiian
group on the campus serenaded
and Leilani Kroll did a Hawaiian
dance.
Patrons and patronesses for the
affair were Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Horne, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Mikulak,
and Dr. and Mrs. Ernst.
Alpha Xi Delta entertained Sun
day night holding a preference
fireside from 7:30 until 10:30.
* * *
Alpha Omicron Pi is having pre
initiation this week and will hold
their formal initiation this week
end.
Members of the YWCA cabinet
will entertain the YMCA cabinet
at a waffle supper Sunday evening
at 6:30 p.m., at the home of Mrs.
John Stark Evans, Y executive
secretary.
* * *
Alpha Delta Pi has been enter
taining for the past week Mrs.
Gwendolyn Pinn, province presi
dent.
* * *
Mrs. Lucy Perkins, housemother,
entertained at a tea for Miss Sue
Badollette, a former chaperon on
the campus and invited intimate
friends and other chaperons on the
campus. *
* * «
Chi Omega will entertain the
faculty at dinner this evening.
* * *
Kappa Kappa Gamma enter
tained Mr. and Mrs. George Hop
kins and their daughter Tuesday
night at dinner.
* * *
Phi Sigma Kappa will hold an
unprecedented basket social to
night which will be a preference
affair.
* * *
Chi Omega and Sigma Phi Ep
silon will go the First Presbyte
rian church this Sunday.
* * *
Sigma Nu and Sigma Phi Epsi
lon held an exchange dinner on
Wednesday with the upper class
men coming over to the Sigma Nu
house and the underclassmen going
to the Sig Ep house.
Dessert Schedule
For the Week
Desserts held Wednesday night
were Alpha Chi Omega playing
Fun Round-Up
Mayflower—"There r>0',3 the
Groom.”
McDonald—"The Last Gang
ster" and “Love on Toast.”
Heilig — "Adventure’s End”
and “The Gunloids of Stirrup
Basin.”
Hex—Same as McDonald.
« * *
Wrestling
Armory—8:30 p.m.
* * *
Thursday’s Radio
NBC_e—Good News of 1938
with Robert Taylor, Fanny
Biice, Frank Morgan; 7—Kraft
Music Hall with Crosby and
Burns.
CBS—8:30—Kate Smith.
By DOUG PARKER
“The Last Gangster,” opening at
the Mac is Edward G. Robinson's
latest trigger quickie. “Love on
Toast" with John Paine and Stella
Ardler completes the double billing.
Robinson portrays a character
who, in real life, could be definitely
tagged as A1 Capone, but isn't.
During the early part of the pic
ture, he is sentenced to Alcatraz;
and there his only ambition is to
get out and give his young son the
proper training to follow his foot
steps as Public Enemy No. 1. Get
ting out of Alcatraz, though,
proves to be tougher than the No.
A-l gangster imagines.
Meanwhile his wife, Rose Strad
ner (a Viennese importation who
was in the same company as Luise
Rainer), gets a divorce and mar
ries James Stewart. Years later,
Robinson finishes his sentence and
immediately sets out to get his son.
Instead, Robinson’s old gang
unites both father and son, and
proceeds to torture them. Reason:
a tidy little cache which Robinson
secreted previous to his arrest.
Result: a stirring climax, giving
Edward G. Robinson another
chance to demonstrate his ability
in dramatizing the part of a pug
(but a good, Hollywood pug, of
course.)
Brother Gains
Pin, Gets Blue,
Enter the Girl
Fraternity pins have been
“planted” before, but never have
such circumstances been record
ed.
In one of the infirmary’s quiet
rooms lay Elmer Hanson, sopho
more in science and recently ini- m
tiated into one of the local tong
chapters. Perhaps the atmos
phere provoked some serious re
flection—for when his particular
Alpha Chi came to visit, he “up
and done it.”
A brother was heard to re
mark, “I didn’t think he had it
in him.”
host to Pi Kappa Alpha; Pi Beta
Phi to Beta Theta Pi; Alpha Tan
Omega to Kappa Alpha Theta; and
Phi Delta Theta to Tri Delta.
Tonight Delta Tau Delta will en
tertain Alpha Delta Pi; Beta The
ta Pi, Alpha Phi; and Sigma Alpha
Mu, Gamma Phi.
Friday, Pi Kappa Alpha will
have Kappa Kappa Gamma over
and Theta Chi will have Pi Beta
Phi.
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