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Pollock's FOLLY By BOB POLLOCK We would like to preface today's discussion, friends, by making a public statement. It is this: Spring is just cockeyed near here. With spring comes the old romantic urge to wander hand in hand hither and thither. But wandering hand in hand is damn hard on the legs. So we’re in the market for transportation. Specifications: It must be a model T Ford with four wheels. It must not cost over ten or twelve bucks. It must run. The address and ’phone number are in the Figger’s Guide and if we aren’t there we will be eating lunch or dinner at Newt’s Pub. Ilonest, folks, we’re serious. We do want to buy a Ford. * * * The subject of transportation brings us to the second item in to day's menu. It concerns a horse. This particular horse, although he didn’t know anything about it, had been the subject of a seizure action in a local court of law. His former owner having failed to eomply with the law in some particular, the court awarded the steed to another citizen. Now, turn ing a horse over to another citizen is a very easy thing—on paper. The actual transfer of 1600 pounds of horse thing may he a horse of a different color—which is actually what happened as you will readily see If you stay with us. Executing the court’s order was the constable. This doughty gentleman was city bred and he had only a rough idea of what a horse looked like but they gave him a sketch of one and he said, yes, he thought he would recognize it. So he set out for the horse’s residence trundling behind his ear a trailer in which he fancied he would bring home the docile animal. Well, he arrived at the farm where the horse was living and he descended to the barnyard where the horse was standing morosely staring at the scenery and the neighbor’s small boy. He had never liked the neighbor’s small boy. But that is another story. The representative of the law backed his trailer up to the barn yard gate, descended from his petrol buggy and rolled up his pants. The barnyard, you see, was exceedingly muddy. Not that the horse minded. It was old stuff to him. The constable begun by wading through the mud to a position somewhere in the rear of the horse. He then began to indicate by gestures and words that the horse should proceed in the general direc tion of the trailer. This the horse refused to do. It was his barnyard and he liked it and as far as he was concerned the court the constable represented had no jurisdiction there. Well, this went on for some time. For seven hours, as a matter of fact. Eventually the exhausted, muddy, and cussed-out constable got the horse loaded and proceeded to town, the horse making vague protests In the swaying trailer. In the meantime the neighbor's small boy had gone to school and come again and he was the only one to see the procession off. The shivering and mud-soaked constable arrived in town an hour or so before dark. He sought out the citizen who had won a claim to the horse. We couldn’t report his exact language, but it went some thing like this: “*”? lib (ft)**!!!, there’s your horse |” Then the con stable having done his duty, was on the point of departing for home and some of his wife’s cooking when he was halted by a roar of pro test from the consignee of his living freight. To state it briefly and thus get the agony over with, the consta ble, after seven muddy hours during which he seriously endangered after-life chances of his immortal soul, had brought in the wrong h^rse. It is said that it is dangerous even to refer to an automobile as a “horseless carriage” around that constable any more. Pinks Lemon-Aid By JOHN FINK I. I White sitting in the editor's office of the shack tonight (last night to everyone but the linotypeman, proofreaders, and Steve the makeup man) trying to pin down some nonsensical subject on which to scribble, in came Dr. Rudolph H. Ernst, associate professor of English, to have a little chat with the editor. Being a good listener and not wanting to disturb the flow of conversation with my rattling Royal, 1 stopped and shifted my chair so I could better listen. Dr. Ernst and the editor (I would call him by name hut he doesn’t like publicity) were talking about the University lecture series, one number of which is to be held tonight. The lament from Dr. Ernst was the complete lack of student interest in the series. It seems that the lectures are attended by only faculty members and townspeople, with such a small sprinkling of students that one couldn't, call it a sprinkle but a light fog. Dr. Ernst is an interesting talker. (Before anyone gets the notion I am in one of the doctor’s classes and am desperately trying a lust mintiie polish of the overly-shined apple—quash it. I took a course from Dr. Ernst last term hut, dropped out tills term as 1 only received a C after reading fully hull' of the assigned material.) * * * * Take the subject for tonight's talk, “Adventures in the Isolation of the Mobility Factor in Population Change.” “The title is enough to scare the average student Into the bushes," he said (this quote isn’t verbatim but just the gist). The title does present a formidable, imposing front. But here is what it means: Dr. E. H. Moore will explain the whys and where fores of the shifting population centers in the U. S. and will point out factors that can and do determine, and rather accurately, where the centers of population in the country will be in the future. 1 didn't do too well on that. Dr. Ernst's explanation was much clearer, and tonight in Friendly Dr. Moore will clear up the situation for the satisfaction of all. ■ low to get more students to ntteml those lectures? lfr. Krust wasn’t <|tiit<s sure. Someone offered the suggestion of gixiug away a package of cigarettes (mm-mlx-i the Lucky Strike contest, all 117tl of you contestants'.’). I said majhe a package of lifesavers— I would put that in capitals but there is too much publicity and advertising in this column already. I)r. Lrnst thought hot dogs w ould bring out a good crowd, And now comes the beef. Why should any inducement lie neces sary to draw students front the local dives and studying posts, and there should he a question mark after studying, to attend an in formative, interesting lecture on a subject that w ill probably he of more worth than four fifths of the classes they sleep through? There ought to he a little more intellectual interest on a campus populated by some three thousand students, I think. Of course it is rather late in the term now to do anything about the situation. Everyone is starting to do their term's work in these final tw-o weeks, and can't be bothered with anything that doesn't have an absolute material value. But the series will go on next term. And I suppose the students will go on too—on missing out on these lectures. But you can't say t didn't tell you. And when you’re running your little emporium in Knappa-Svensen and . ud denly the people all start moving from the surrounding countryside, you'll be sorry you didn't pass up ogling at. some skirt in the library and trot up to Friendly hall on March 1, 193$, and listen to Dr. E. H. Moore talk on iko ‘‘Adventures in the Isolation of the Mobility Factor in Population Change:-.” Beeauso If you did, you'd know why—and could do something about it. * * * * To my Anonymous Critic: You're very correct. A chair wouldn't come to he. Thanks a lot. I really appreciate constructive criticism. I can hardly wait for your next offering—but—everything comes to him who waits. 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 dally during the college year excej t 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 Ray, Edwin Robbins, A1 Dickhart, Kenneth Kirtley, Bernardine Bowman. UPPER NEWS STAFF £>m jrengra, i^uy sailor Lew Evans, Assistant Managing Editor Bill Norene, Sports Editor Marina Stewart, women s traitor Don Kennedy, Radio Editor Rita Wright, Society Editor Aiyce Kogers, exchange tulitor, Betty Jane Thompson, church editor Milton Levy, assistant chief night editor Between a Rock and a Hard Place •p)OWN from the frozen plains of Moscow come letters, communiques, and dis patclies. Wires rattled off stories, the northern press made comment, and the mail contained a letter this morning—not communist propa ganda, this deluge, but indignant comment from Moscow, Idaho. To begin with, the Idaho team named an all-opponent five — and voted their impres sions of the various schools they visited. The Oregon crowd got their award for “most un sportsmanlike conduct.” Then comes a clipping from a column writ ten by Oregon’s own Tom McCall, reproduced elsewhere on this page, which opens with the statement that returning Muscovites believe Coach Forrest Twogood would be justified in suspending athletic relations with the Univer sity. And with it was an anonymous letter, listing the all-star selections of the Idaho men (carried by tlw* press services) and asking us to give the razz to Referee Frank Uoniges. Referee Ileniges—Pink swears that’s the way it’s spelled—apparently told Idaho fans that the reception the Ducks got in Moscow recently was the worst he’d ever seen and cited Oregon as an example of a school char acterized by good sportsmanship. * a # J^OW, we are forced to admit that we take the suggestion Coach Twogood suspend relationship as a bit of rare humor. Ami the Oregon players, we believe, might vote Idaho the dirtiest team they have met. But the point is Idaho has got us between a roek and a very difficult situation. Oregon can easily find reason to make the Vandal charges seem a case of the pot and the kettle. Citing incidents would probably permit the University to build up a strong case indeed. But branding Idaho doesn't justify the con duct of fans here. The anonymous letter said Idaho fans had never heard such booing before over the radio. And it cannot be denied that Oregon fans booed and booed plenty; that they did give Coach Twogood and his boys a thorough razz ing; and that one of Oregon’s players went out of his way to rub it in on at least one occasion when he made a basket. # * # A ND Oregon can never clear herself on those charges, t makes no difference if Idaho threw eggs at Moscow or roughed it up here. The point is that Oregon fans have been guilty. No amount of counter-mudslinging will change the fact. We may feel they are more or less guilty but the undeniable fact remains. And it’s a very embarrassing position in which to be. When you think it over there's nothing very heroic about razzing a player who can't retaliate, no matter how he acts on the floor. The Last Home Game for Silver CATDKDAY night between 6,500 and 7.000 fans, gathered in McArthur court to see Oregon meet Oregon State, got up and gave Dave Silver a rousing hand. The crowd clapped for several minutes as Silver left what may have been his last game in the Igloo under Oregon colors and that applause was justified. Unless fortune puts Oregon into a tie for the conference championship, as is altogether possible, and brings one playoff game here, Silver has made his last appearance in uni form before an Oregon crowd. Should Oregon win the championship without a playoff, the coast title games will be held at Stanford, with the Indians as hosts, or at Berkeley, with the Bears in the reception line. Silver is the only man lost to the Oregon squad next year who has played regularly. A big left-hander with a line high school record, the Webfoot forward has played three years, almost, of varsity ball in addition to his year of freshman competition. Big Dave’s loss will mean it real hole in next year’s lineup, however. Last year he was alL-jconferencc and, despite minor in juries which have impaired his effectiveness, he has played a great game this season and has been especially valuable around the back boards. Dave would have rather devoted his time to law school than to basketball this season. ■* # CJATUliDAY-’S game was the last home game for Silver but it seemed to mark the com ing of a new efficiency to several Oregon players. The Ducks as a whole were amazing ly “limber” and without the nervousness which has marred many of their important games of the last two years. Laddy Gale, the pressure of scoring off his broad shoulders, seemed to be having a great time on the floor with some of his antics, meanwhile scoring 18 points. For once Oregon didn’t seem par ticularly upset by State’s tactics. Should it get into a playoff series for either the northern division or conference titles, Oregon will be a tough team to stop. Playing as they have been of late the Ducks are head and shoulders above any team iu the conference. The Webfoots are individually strong and are well coached. On the floor they have often been their own worst enemies ... on this point we are forced to agree with Bren Barrett, Idaho center, and his recent statement printed in a post-game “Follow Through.” At any rate, Oregon is fielding a really strong team these weekends—and the boys may make Silver s last season a championship year. Other Editors Believe ■ ■ ■ ■ Moscow News-1 to vicw Early returners from Eugene where the Uni versity of Idaho-Oregon basketball series was ter minated Wednesday night, said they saw little reason why Coach Forrest Twogood should not snip off athletic relations between the two schools. The tactics of the Oregon rooting section were indeed horrible, according to Idaho travelers who saw the game the first evening. While the Web foots steamed to a GS-ll victory, a cat-calling crowd showered gum and bits of paper down on the Idaho bench. 'J’wogie picked up big gobs of the moist chicle from Ins suit anil Lyle Smith, who sat beside his coach, threatened to cut down one of the spectators who was disporting himself more like a child than even the overgrown juven iles around him. Neck Stuck Out. Adding another chapter to Oregon inhospilal ity, a scrivener as much as called Captain Don Johnson of Idaho, a tihjier on the sport page of the Wchfoots' student publication of The Emer ald. All Oat) said was "They had to win or else it was the curtain 1 stilt maintain we have better coaching than Oregon. Hobson just has wonderful material down here." Replied the student scribe in his column, "Yes, Mr. Robert t ? 1 Johnson is a brave man . . . be only contradicts 7500 fans who saw the game to night tTuesday t and thousands of others who have watched Hobson coached teams. Yes. Cap tain Bob t win or lose, we'll take Hobson . . . and were not nighting Forrest Twogood in the least we ll just take Coach Hobby, that ;■ all." This laddy for one, thinks the Idaho-Oregon series m Moscow proved that Captain Johnson was mostly right. Johnson's "jest" is unjust, however. WiMi the exception of one player, Twogie used the same starters in 193S that ended in the north ern division cellar in 1937. Bren Barrett is a mighty fine boy but a lone individual couldn't make that much difference. You've got to give Idaho’s most popular mentor a gold star for his deportment in the department of basketball this year. Division Is Stronger It would be fallaceous to argue that the north ern division is weaker this season that it was last. The best proof of this is the same Oregon team under discussion. Sophomores Anet, Johansen, Wintermute, and Gale, and Junior Silver were the starters in 1937, until Gale broke a finger. Those same live have been Oregon's current beginners. With a year's experience they should be tough er in the 193S, yet they are having just as difficult a time trying to capture the pennant as they did in 1937 when Oregon finished in a first place tic. An improved team, having just as much trouble getting victories, indicates to me an improved conference. But back to the Tuesday game in McArthur court . What is forthcoming is not intended to belittle, the prowess of Howard Hobson as a team moulder. Twogood “outstrategied’’ him in Mos cow and Hobbie reciprocated in Eugene. Two smart coaches, two top quintets, with about, tbe only differences the floors upon which they play. It came north through reliable channels that Ralph Coleman, who officiated the latest Duck Vandal series, saw in every Idaho block a viola tion of the offensive charging law. Hence the bountiful supply of fouls called against the Two goodmen. Even if that were so and the crowd had shown an even balance between its boos, its gum tossiug and its sense of sportsmanship Oregon still would have won. Those white hot Oregonians could have trampled the flower of the nation's hoopsters that night. Of all the conference teams secu by this buck. Hobby's high-horses are the individual best ed; Twogie's the most perfectly coached. - I M (Editor's note T. M. is Tom McCall, err-time Emerald sports editor and now sports caitor of the Moscow, Idaho, News-Review.' i SIDE SHOW Edited by ... . Bill Cummings, Campus Faul Deutschmann, National • — - - ^ = National Fascism rears it3 ugly head again! And this time it is compara tively close to home. However, there is no need to call out the communists, for the fascistic movement is neither too near nor too powerful. The scene is Canada, during the past few years the experi menting grounds of a number of interesting political experi ments. The commander-in-chief of a reputed legion of 80,000 is Adrien Arcand. The Canadian fascists boast blue shirts, drill regularly, use the swastika, and give the stiff-arm salute made famous by Mussolini. More over, they hate Jews, openly prescribe a dictatorship, and swear that when they have made their march on Ottawa (through legal voting), they will abolish all political parties. Last month this fascist group, which calls itself the National Christian Social party, made news in the collegiate press of Canada as a result of several propaganda speeches at McGill and Queen’s universities. Can adian collcgiates refused to get excited about the Jews and the Communist International. The Queen’s paper cleverly para phrased statements from an in terview with Arcand, showing his beautiful logic. We quote: “. . . when they (the Chris tion fascists) attain power, they will exclude all those who are not of the white race—they will exclude the Jews, but will in elude the Indians who are nat uralized Canadians.” Arcand blithely suggested that the Jews be shipped off to the island of Madagasgar which Canada could buy for the purpose. “Freedom of speech and free dom of the press will be tolerat ed to a limited extent . . . Bl’T people will not be allowed to re port news incorrectly and those who did would be jailed. The truth will be determined by the ‘authorities’ and this will not be difficult as Mr. Arcand claims ‘Truth is self-evident.’ ” * * * Sane consideration of the movement would lead us to be lieve as the Queen's paper ap parently does, that it is more oj less a joke. But other fascistic steps, especially in the province of Quebec might warn the Can adians to be careful. Bone of contention at the present is the "Padlock Law” which gives the Quebec govern ment the right to confiscate or padlock any building used for a communist meeting and also the right to confiscate literature and property belonging to sus pected communists. The law was used to ban a communist speaker at McGill university, who was to address their political discussions club on communism. (Arcand had ■spoken the week before without any official censure.) Other acts undertaken by the govern ment have been the suppression of a newspaper, the padlocking of an Ukrainian Labor Farmer Temple association school, and about 50 other moves against alleged communists. ' I .1 Affected persons have car ried the fight to the federal government for a review of the law, a procedure similar to a supreme court test of constitu tionality. The law has evinced much bitter attack throughout Can ada as being “un-British, and authoritarian.’’ Its author and defender is M. Duplessis, premier of Quebec, head of the Union National! party. Duplessis is also backed by the Federation of Catholic Workers of Canada who huve been active in protesting com munistic activities and demand ing support of the federal Can adian government in outlawing the communist party. Although the two trends, that of the Union Nationale govern ment and that of the Blue Shirts have not been definitely connected, it is significant that both of them are working ac tively for the complete sup pression of communism, even though the suppression of free speech and press be necessary. It is also evident that the Du plessis government does not consider the Blue shirts danger ous to the existing government, judging by the free hand they have given Arcand up to date. The humorous attitude of the Queen’s paper is perhaps com mendabie, but recalling Hitler and Mussolini, we remember that they were also once con sidered as big jokes. It would be sad indeed if another such a big joke should take a place among the “great’’ of the world. REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 Madison Ave. New York. N. Y. Chicago • Boston • Los Angeles • San Francisco 1937 Member 1938 Ptssocided GoUe&ide Press Reporters Leonard Jerraain Eugene Snyder Dick Litfin Phil Bladine Muriel Beckman Parr Aplin Betty Hamilton Patricia Erikson Bill Scott Glenn Hasselrooth Ken Kirtley Dorothy Aleyer Dorothy Burke Betty Jane Thompson Elizabeth Ann Jones Catherine Taylor John Biggs Jack Bryant Monday Night Staff Chief Night Editor this issue : Bill Grant Assistant Night Editors: Betty Fiksdal Janice Johnson Population Change (Continued from page one) might be used in making popula tion mobility information available, and he will discuss plans for the development of these methods. He is the author of a journal publication entitled ‘‘The Mobility of Insurance Policy Holders,” which is now appearing in the February issue of the “American Sociological Review." Oregon's Football (Continued from page one) The much-publicized football “circus” and “clinic,” features of Oliver’s coaching was commented upon by the new mentor, who said a “football circus in the spring might be a good idea, and it is very possible that we will decide on such a plan.” Depends on Interest In the past, Oliver said, his clinic and circus was held early in the fall but “it might be much better to hold one in the spring provided there was sufficient inter est in the community and among the students.” Oliver's circus is an informal practice for players who compete in passing, kicking anti running stunts, and his clinic is a “town cat” meeting of interested alumni and other townspeople to discuss the team and the games. Oliver has moving pictures of last year’s Arizona-Oregon game which be said he would show to the players at some future meeting. Oliver was optimistic about next year's football prospects. Coach Oliver Due (Continued from page one) is to include solos by Hal Young, voice instructor at the University. He will lead the students in group singing of “Mighty Oregon," “As I Sit and Dream at Evening." ami "Marching Oregon. ' The University band will keep the "Oregon spirit" at fever, heat ivith stirring music durmg the af fair. NEWS PICTURES OX SALE A sale of old news pictures, m iluding those all important events m the campus, is now in progress »t the News Bureau. 114 Friendly jail. The price of the photographs,; arge and small, is 10 cents per lojeu. Campus Calendar Mr. Zane will not meet his Art Survey class on Wednesday, March 2. A schedule of lectures in Bend for the extension division will keep Mr. Zane away from the campus all day Wednesday and Thursday. YMCA cabinet meeting, 5 o’ clock. Phi Beta, music and drama hon orary, will meet Tuesday night at 7:30 at AWS room of Gerlinger. Ski club meets tonight at 7:30. Social meeting to be held after business meeting. Members only. Students in the infirmary yester day were: Franklin Anderson, Gor don Bailey, Rose Allen, Catherine Murdock, Cheryl Aherns, Doris Berg, Jeanne Flemington, Phyllis j Corbett, Annabel Payne, Mildred j Will, Rosalyn Kitchen, Francelia Oliver, Harold Fisher, Albert Bron- i ston, John Shankland, Vic Goff, Robert Stone, Lloyd Tripling, Wen dell Bartholomew, Frank Seifert, Van Svarverud, and David Doug las. A great majority of the confined arc suffering from common colds. There arc a few Cases of influenza, and one or two of grippe also be ing treated at present. COMMERCIAL PRINTING . . ALLENBAUGH PRINTING CO. Phone 763 _ Ac.wpuoja istsa 99 CLASSIFIED The Petite Shop, Dressmaking and Altering; 573 E. 13, ph. 3208. Yellow fountain pen. Ph. 290R. ROBERT H. 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