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Pollock's FOLLY By BOB POLLOCK TRAGEDY WHERE .!OY once reigned supreme, sorrow where happiness was king, gloom where—but why go on ? She has went, she has gone, she will never bee seen again, not none no more. Mrs. Dionne is dead. Preceding her in death were pups I and 2: following her to the happy hunting ground whose soil is thickly bestrewn with meat-laden hones were pups 3 and 4. Only one remains. IT WAS OBVIOUS almost from the first that Mrs. Dionne had the Indian sign on her. The more realistic of the brothers thought it was lack of sufficient nourishment before she staggered into the SAE house that dark and stormy night more than a week ago. But the lads who had ever read poetry, who had ever dropped a tear at the fate of Lord Douglas’ daughter, knew it was not malnutrition that hung the final strike on Minnie—we all called her Minnie, she seemed to kind of like that—it was grief. Not grief for the deaths of pups 1 and 2—she still had 3, 4, and f> to live for—but grief over the defection of their father. She had hoped that he’d behave like a thoroughbred—he’d always boasted he was—and not like a w’uthless mongrel. She had hoped that he would recognize their marital status; that he would make a lady of her. ALAS and ALACK, the bum didn’t come across. She was forced to go into the world, to throw herself and her family on the mercy of strangers, to beg for food. I tell you it was grief that killed her. Of the quintuplets born last week only one, as I said, remains. But by the looks of the husky little codger he’ll grow into quite a dog. Matter of fact he may even look up his old man some day and hand the skunk the pasting he deserves. I hope he does. # * # * RIGHT NOW, THOUGH, he’s something of a problem. First of all, he’s always hungry. Second, he hasn’t any teeth to he can t eat what the rest of the lads stow away. Third, his eyes are still shut and he can’t even see the tough situation he’s up against. Fortunately, however, there is a dog fancier among the brothers. Hugh Styles, Scotch and with a Scotchman’s love of animals, has adopted the waif. Pup No. 5 sleeps in Foster-mother Styles’ room, ensconced comfortably in a pasteboard box. His bedroom even has central heating with a hot water bottle placed in the bottom of the box and blankets over that. , EVERY THREE HOURS Styles must be on hand to feed No. 5 his bottle of warm milk. This is ,rather arduous and occasionally No. 5 misses a feeding when the hour occurs in the middle of the night or when Mr. Styles’ social season interferes. Generally, how ever, all hands are on deck with the milk when the clock says it's time for dinner or lunch as the case may be. t): t|j * * All this fuss and publicity over a homeless fox terrier and her pups has rather upset one member of the household—Buck, the mammoth St. Bernard. Before the arrival of Minnie and the little Minnies, Buck was cock of the roost, the undisputed monarch of all he surveyed. Now nobody pays mueli attention to him and lie has taken to taking long walks with his head bowed and sorrow written large on his gargantuan features. It’s beginning to look as if it will take considerable diplomacy to affect a rapprochment between Buck, 130-pound St. Bernard, and No. 5, six-ounce mixture. . C*TT"\T* C*TJTr\TRT By Bm c''n,mlnKs r. y V 1>aul Deutchmann Campus Election time will soon bo here for the choice of both new student officers and state and national officers, for next term brings the direct primary in which a large percentage of Oregon students will be eligible to vote. Roughly, the average number of eligible voters in the state of Oregon who take advantage of their right of suffrage is 50 per cent not a very high figure. Many of those who fail to go to the polls are eligible students in the institutions of higher learn ing, and the main reason they do not vote is that they neglect to register. With spring vacation distant only three weeks, it would lie a good idea for students to plan to register while they are home. Then, with little inconvenience, they can cast their votes here at school by absentee ballot. In this way they not only can take part in state and national (‘lec tions, but participate in the af fairs of their own home pre cincts. On the campus, speculation along political lines has been slow in cropping out this spring, will there be rifts in the align will there be rifts in the annul ments this year, causing the formation of new parties ? Var ious events throughout the year point to several minor, if not major, changes. Candidates have been hiding out, but political talk involves three juniors who may or may not seek the ASUO presidency. Brought to light, whether they choose to run or not, they are: Harry Weston of Alpha Tail Omega, Zanc Kemlor of Delta t'psilon, and .lack l.oehridge of the Fiji house. Complications aplenty arise out of the prospects of these three running for the office of president. They are three big politicos, and would probably drag the votes of three fairly equal blocs. Tt is too early, how ever, to guess at party align ments or even at the strength of prospective candidates, who will probably blossom out as abundantly during the spring months as dandelions in the new WPA-transplanted grass. In the Mail ‘YELLOW' NEWS? To the Editor: May I point out to you what is most obviously a glaring ex ample of “sensational journal ism?" Yesterday a story was run quoting Sophomore Class Treasurer Dick Hutchison’s per sonal beliefs on the handling of class funds by the activities de partment. I have every reason to believe “Hutch ' wasn't ex pecting an Emerald story on his beliefs. However, this is beside the point—what captures my atten tion is that the sensational as pect given to his story was en tirely out of proportion to the news value of the story and quite unnecessary even though the Emerald’s policy must be considered. Furthermore there did not seem to be even a routine check to verify the facts of the story. What I mean is this there is not a $70 deficit in the class as stated by the Emerald headline and story but there is a $32 47 deficit. Hutchison obtained his facts from the ASUO office, but not from one authorized to give such information for publics tion without a close check. However, the source of inform ation probably did not know a story would follow in The Em erald'. As our fiscal year is not con cluded and all the income has not been collected (such as spring term card sale receipts) the "debt" will be cleared up. Now, you are free to add no end of "editor's notes" to "clar ify" the facts as you see fit, but what about "indiscreet" handling of news? Dick Lit fin. (Editor's note: Treasurer Dick Hutchison made his charg es to an Emerald reporter. What did he expect a funeral notice ? The error in yesterday's news story favored, rather than in jured, Hutchison. It told only his side We have every reason to believe Hutchison expected his remarks to be published.) Mrs. Gertrude Phillips, secretary it the physical education building, s no longer connected with the tepartment. Mrs. Phillips resigned 'o that she may visit her parents n Montana. ecicm m ) LEROY MATTINGLY, Editor WALTER R. VERNSTROM, Manager LLOYD TUPLINO, Managing Editor Associate Editors: Paul Deutschmann, Clare Igoe. The Ore-gon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, published dally during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays and final examination periods. Entered as second-class mail matter at the postffice, Eugene, Oregon. Editorial Board: Darrel Ellis, Bill Peace, Margaret Bay, Edwin Robbins, A1 Dickhart, Kenneth Kirtley, Bernardine Bowman. Alyce Rogers, Exchange Editor Betty Jane Thompson, church editor Milton Levy, assistant chief night editor Bill Pengra, City Editor Lew Evans, Assistant Managing Editor Bill Norene, Sports Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Martha Stewart. Women’s Editor Don Kennedy, Radio Editor Rita Wright, Society Editor The Soph Funds—Fully Accounted for '^/I/TIEN you spend $680, have a capital on linml of $55 and an income of $593, there’s hound to bo a deficit. In national government, defiicits may sometimes lie ex plained. away—Imt <n class matters, with class officials supposedly responsible for every cent of the class’ funds, a deficit is of neces sity attributed to poor management and bad budgeting. That’s exactly what happened in Ihe ease of the sophomore class. Despite charges of “indiscreet” handling of class funds by (Sophomore Treasurer Dick Hutchison, every penny of the money received from the sopho more elas and every penny paid out in the name of that class is entered on the books of the associated students. And Treasurer Hutchison should be glad that those entries are there. # * *■ CTARTING the year with about $55, the sophomore class attempted to give its members full value for Ihe investment they made in purchasing class cards. The soph calendar has been a full one, marked with lliree major events. But, no matter how justi fiable, tin' extended sophomore program has not made money. It lost on each of the events involved. The figures, as tentatively reT,based in round numbers from Ihe offices of ASUO Bookkkeper Kd Walker, tell the following story. The class started the year with $55.04. The income for fall and. winter terms (to date) has been $593, gathered from the following sources: class card sales, $221.00; sophomore informal, $243.50; sophomore whiskorino, $128.50; sophomore mix, no income—but $7 worth of class cards were sold at the door. * *■ * sophomore event made money, although only tin1 sophomore mix exceeded Ihe figure budgeted for it. The mix, held Novem ber 19, was budgeted at $92, cost $96; the in formal, held December 4, budgeted at $29.>, cost, $291.07; the whiskorino, .January 2!), budgeted at 214.40, cost $155.40. So the three dances cost $170 more than they made. In addition, the class gave $50 to the ASUO as a donation for tin* decoration of McArthur court : $25 dollars was deducted by the ASUO as a charge for handling sophomore funds, a charge made to all classes; $41.06 was spent for advertising: card sales, printing and pro motion cost more than $12; sound car, $7; and miscellaneous expenses in small sums bring the total so far expended to over $680. With an income of $593 and a starting capital of $55, the sophomore class spent $680. Which leaves the class treasury a little more 1 hail $32 in the hole. nnil'ESH figures are a matter of record. The requisitions for each of these sums—the $25 charge for administering the funds is deducted automatically as was the $12 item covering expense to the ASUO in handling the sale of cards—are also held by the ASUO and have all been signed by supposedly reliable class officers. In fact, all except two of the requisitions on the dances were signed by Treasurer D'ujc Hutchison himself. One of these was for a cleanup bill, a legitimate expense which had to he paid; and the other was for the last minute hiring of a piano—which, incidentally, was list'd at a dance where the chairman was about $4 under the sum budgeted to him. The .$50 decoration donation, which Ifutehisou yesterday protested, was collected by the A St JO after both Hutchison and Presi dent Litfin bad signed a warrant, for it. As a whole, the facts and figures in the ease indicate Ihat Hutchison's charges are unfounded and that his suggestion that a separate banking system be set up for classes is unwise. # » # ^TNCE Ihe sophomore treasurer has indi cated that lie will not be a candidate for junior office this year, his statements can be accepted without the usual suspicion attend ing such pre-election denouncements. When investigated they indicate, however, a need— not for a change in the present system of banking—but for more efficient class adminis tration. A deficit of $32 isn't as serious a matter as the soph treasurer seems to thinlc it is. (Hutchison stated in his original interview with Emerald Reporter Phil Bladino that the amount the class was behind was around $70.) The class will have an opportunity to put its treasury back on a sound basis with spring term card sales and next year it should profit heavily, as is the custom, on junior weekend. Hut, the fact that a class treasurer and other class officers have managed the affairs of the group in such a manner as to incur a deficit without realizing it is important. * ' iif ^^ITARENTLY Treasurer Hutchison and President Litfin have not worked to gether— and apparently little or no effort lias been made by either to keep the class’ books up to date or to run the class’ business on a working budget. Hutchison should be thankful rather than sorry that the funds are in v\SPO hands. Had they been administered through a private account, Hutchison and other class officers might have had great difficulty in proving that the deficit was incurred through legiti mate expenditures. I here is no reason why an adequate check system cannot be worked out through the ASUO. While the money is in the student body’s treasury, an attempt is made by Edu cational Activities Manager George Root, to get tin1 classes to budget their affairs and watch their finances. This has been done this year with each individual sophomore event. Ihe class officers erred in attempting to pre sent a too-ambitious program with tin' funds available. class requisitions are honored or bills paid by the ASI O bookkeeper unless they are signed by Manager Root and the ehixs treasurer. In a few cases, requisitions have been accepted when signed by some other responsible class officer, usually the president and some expenditures have been authorized directly by the president. If the president does not see fit to advise the trea surer ol such expenses and ask his signature, Hint is scarcely the funds administratdr's fault. Hutchison s charges are almost entirely unjustified. If lie wants reform, he should (lean his own nest first—and certainly it would be unwise to put his successor in office on the spot by making him, with other class officers, administrator of a private fund. The opportunity for embezzling the money would be so plainly afforded as to create constant suspicion, no matter how trustworthy the men. A Silent Sports Staff Tuesday •priSSDAY tlu' “follow up” on one of flic most publicized non-varsity sanies of this year, the News vs. Sports annual easaba melee, was conspicuously missing from the sports page—by conspiracy. Tin1 sports staff, it seems, having given the affair a ferritic build up at the expense of various news staff reputations, was reluctant to report that the yearly sound drubbing had been administered to its forces. For, although the news staff played the last half with its fifth string—the reserve reserve-reserve reserves— on the door, final score uas 45 to 111 for the Newsies. * # * poll the benefit of our 10,000 uneager fans who did not jam the Igloo Saturday and did not yell themselves hoarse. Rabbi Stani slaus llobsonopolis, Greek news correspondent from Palestine, led the bucketing with 10 points. .1. (Swee'pea) Pink played his usual lousy game for the sports stall', making two baskets before he was ejected from the game, forcibly, with six personal fouls. No comment could be obtained from bat tered Sports Hditor Hill Norene last night. Poach Pasero (.Blackjack George, San Quen tin. \'!4) remarked that his boys “did too imii‘li ot their practicing sitting down.’’ Rumors the sports men were importing’ live junior college lioopsters from Nevada who would be eligible for next year’s fraeas were prevalent but eould not be verified. News staff players attributed their victory to the fact they were able to score the most baskets—i.e., putting the ball through the hoop the most times—a common cause of victory in such contests. ■DAT SUITS ME’ (Washington Daily) The editor had planned to ponder on peace again in today's edition. He has been reading weighty tomes on the possibilities of reconciling and conciliating with cannon-belching cations. But he went to the Hall Johnson concert in Meany auditorium instead. Sure, he got a free pass. Daily editors never pay— if they can help it. Three years' background on the campus paper teaches them to chisel. While he sat in the fourth row in Meany and heard the Negro choir offering "Dat Suits Me." "Standin' in the Need of Prayer"—and “St. Louis Blues” he forgot his theme on peace and went out of the auditorium humming spirituals. Forgave him. He's gone aesthetic. Laying the Ground for Athletic Legislation rJ"'TTT’ Pacific coast conference is pioneering tlie* way to better understanding and more competent handlin''' of proselyting and sub sidizing problem;: with its one-year survey. That’s the opinion of Edwin N. Atherton now on this campus in his role as head of 1he survey, who thinks that other major confer ences will soon follow suit. Mr. Atherton, once in the consular service abroad, for 12 years with the federal bureau if investigation, and director of' a private agency in California, declares his work isn’t in the nature of an investigation—in 1 ho usual sense of the word. No action against any school or player will be taken on the facts his survey reveals. The information is being volunteered, not obtained by “gum-shoe” methods. The coast conference will take his report, study it. and attempt 1o agree upon some constructive action which will be en forceable and agreeable to all members. Placed on such a basis, the survey has con siderable value. No one knows just what di rection conference actoin might take. It will probably improve the present situation. If it. can arrive at a definition of just what consti tutes amateur standing, it will have done a great service. And the survey, expensive as it is, will have certainly been worthwhile if it can bring ah adjustment between the schools of the conference in regarl to money expended for athletes—an adjustment sorely needed by the less-wealthy and smaller schools since Ihe new “tight” football conference with its eight tough Saturdays is in use. «* *= =» ^LTIIOUUGIT it’s been several years since he was actively connected with the FBI —back in B.G. (before G-Men)—Mr. Ather ton has been closely connected with law en forcement. Tie conducted the recent San Francisco vice investigation and has handled occasional criminal and civil cases as a private operative since resigning from the FBI. The extension of jurisdiction of national Inw enforcement agencies is making for better crime control, lie believes. In this cloy of fast automobiles and airplanes, he remarked Mon- > day. state and county lines are a distinct handicap to the officer with limited juris diction. T’. Atherton definitely stated he did not approve of “beat up” methods. In his 12 years with the FBT ho declared that gov ernment officers occasionally violated techni calities in enforcing the law—but emphatical ly declared that he had never seen a govern ment agent use force to “persuade” a pri soner or resort to other such extra-legal tact ies. Recent revision of federal laws extending the jurisdiction of federal agencies and have resulted in more efficient policing, he believes. A straight-talking, firm, and mentally alert man who doesn’t avoid questions — if lie doesn't want, to answer he says so and tells you why—Mr. Atherton declares he likes his present job. lie's always been interested in athletics, he says, and played high school foot ball. The war lured him into the consular service in 191G—lie says lie thought America would never get into the excitement. TTTLETEft, lie believes, deserve consider able compensation for participating in sports when they must be self-supporting yet give much of their time to practice. lie thinks some adjustment should be made to insure 1 lie self-supporting athlete the same chance as the man added by the school. Alums, he says, can scarcely be controlled. But their enthusiasm might be kept within bounds if excessive activity (in subsidizing) on their part would endanger the athlete’s position and hence hurt their school. He believes that the survey he heads may definitely help the situation. And it should. 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Chicago • Boston • Los Angeles • San Francisco 1937 Member 1938 Associated Golte6iate Press Reporters Leonard Jermain Eugene Snyder Muriel Beckman Parr Aplin Betty Hamilton Patricia Erikson Bill Scott Glenn Hassclrooth Ken Kirtley Dorothy Meyer Dorothy Burke Betty Jane Thompson Elizabeth Ann Jones Catherine Taylor John Biggs Jack Bryant Tuesday Night Desk Staff Betty Mae Lind Beulah Chapman Tuesday Night Staff Chief Night Editor this issue: Bill Phelps Assistant Chief Night Editors: Priscilla Marsh Assistant Night Editors: Martha Wodeage William Rentz Fun Round-Up Mayflower: “Souls at Sea.” McDonald: “That Certain Wo man” and “Back in Civiliza tion.” Heilig: “She’s Got Every thing.”^ Rex: "Bordertown" and “Lives of a Bengal Lancer.” Wednesday’s Radio KORE: 8:30, Emerald Rhythm Review with Babe Binford’s ork; 10:30, Emerald News Broadcast. Dorsey: 6, Cleveland Orehes\ra NBC: 5:30, NBC, Tommy conducted by Rodzinski; 7, NBC, Hollywood Parade with Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Constance Bennett; 7, NBC, Louis-Mann bout; Town Hall with Fred Allen. CBS: Chesterfield Program with Lawrence Tibbett, Andre Kostenlanetz' orchestra; 6:30, Ben Bernie; 8:30, Texaco with Eddie Cantor, Deanna Durbin. Dance orchestras: 9:30, CBS, Henry King; 10, CBS, Joe San ders; 10:30, NBC, Jimmy Grier; 11, NBC, Eddy Duchin. Tonight's Emerald broadcaster will lie Freeman Patton, second year speech student. The Louis-Mann fight will be broadcast over the Blue network of the National Broadcasting system. The two main NBC stations broad casting it in the northwest will be KGO (790 k.c.) and KJR (970 k.c.) HONORARY PLEDGES Phi Chi Theta, national business honorary for women, held pledge services last Thursday in the AWS room of Gerlinger hall. Those pledged were: Doris Hanson, Jean Bonness, Ruth Tawnev, Florence Sanders, Dorothy Clark, Barbara Keep, Irma ftelikson. Doris Imus. Peal-1 King, Jean Hewitt, and Phoebe Breyman. HEFFAKER GIVES TALK School organization and school management will be the topic of the address to be delivered by Dr. C. L. Huffaker of the school of education before the Lane County Principals’ association Wednesday at the Lane county court house. 1 Campus Calendar Master fiance will not. meet to night. All of the men’s social chair men in living organizations will have an important meeting in the men’s lounge in Gerlinger today at 4:00. The WAA nominating commit tee will meet at 5:00 today in the AWS room in Gerlinger. * * * i Order of the O will meet this noon at the Sigma Chi house. KOO TO TALK FOR YMCA Dr. T. Z. 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