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As Barney's Presidency Comes to an End Epitaph of a Great President , TN the bu*tle and excitement and “polities" of the spring1 pre-election activities, the retiring student body president and his, work are often forgotten. Finishing an eventful term is President Harney Hall, whose announcement of an attempt to straighten out the awards system is also, probably, the announcement of his last major service in office. Barney turns over the gavel in about three weeks. But, for an executive like Hall, writing bis offi cial obituary three* weeks before the final event is risky business. The restatement of the require ments for winning letters and numerals is much needed, especially since several new minor sports have'been recently recognized. # # # J AFK of definite rules has. in the last two years, created much difficulty in determining win ners of awards. Special decisions have been re quired in all border-line eases and. naturally, the decisions have not a!way been consistent, 'flu* rules which have existed have been loosely interpreted a nd poorly on forced. Since the right to wear a letterman’s sweater should • also, in most oases, carry the concurrent privilege of membership iiptlie Order of the 0, that body should, it seems, have some part in selecting award winners. True, the society selects those members of which it approves but it is not altogeth er good that some award winners are permitted by the University to wear sweaters which the official letterman's group does not approve of their having. ‘Since the minor sports awards have been ex tended, some revision of tire requirements for win ning them and some statement of the form they shall take is also needed. Minor award winners are not granted Order of the 0 membership and the society has little claim to the right to recom mend minor letter winners. The suggestion has been made that each minor letter bear some emblem 1o denote the sport in which it was won. This will also probably be con sidered by the executive committee in the special session which President Hall has called. # Jfje # ^ JJARNEY Ilall is. in this writer's opinion, the best president the ASUO has had in the past four years. He will be remembered as one of the wisest, most tolerant, and intelligent men ever to wield the official gavel. Hall \s ability to recognize the rights of his con stituents has been matched by Jiis conscientious service to the University and the associated stu dents. Democratic in the extreme and more than willing to listen to all the sides of any situation. President Hall lias nevertheless been firm in liis decisions. He has worked always with the eventual good of Oregon and its students in mind—and in follow ing a truly long-sighted policy, has not hesitated to act to remove certain “sore spots'’ previously tolerated only because they had been long accepted. * 4|s ER a politician, Barney came to the presi dency quietly, served firmly but quietly, and is retiring with the same unassuming modesty. liis work has been typified by action, intelligent action, lather than fanfare. Recently he was accepted for the T niversity of Oregon Medical school in Port land and is t*o enter next fall. Reviewing Barney Hall's regime restores a somewhat shattered faith in the process of student democracy. It will be a long time before student government finds another executive so capable —L.M. From where I SIT By CLARE IGOE Guest artist for today’s col or,rn. my six silly readers, is none other than a horrid pub licity man for the Paramount .studios—and he certainly would be surprised to know it. Why I should use his stuff in stead of writing my own I don’t know. Dut U 's came hi the edi tor’s mail —which I always read when his back is turned—and I decided it might be of some slight interest. ■ I thought of rewriting it, but then I thought well, shucks, why should I — the man gets paid good money for turning out this sort of thing, and who am I to try to improve on it? Anyway, I deleted the most blatant publicity, and left only the choicest items. Now w'asn’t that good of me? * * n The t e m p o of the dance changes with the hands on the dial of your watch as you cross the country, LeRoy Prinz. Para mount dance, director, declared today. In Hollywood, despite the whoop-Ja of screen musicals made there, is in reality the most sedate place in the country when it comes to the dance. The tempo picks up from the outskirts of Hollywood to North llTdte, Neb. It picks up decidedly from North Platte to Huntington. VV Ya., but east of Huntington, is where the boys and girls real ly “go to town ’’ “The popular idea is that the college boys and girls are the only ones who go in for con tort ionis tic and evlubitionistlc db.noing," Prinz said. “But they can’t hold a candle to the dowa ger^ and bald-headed playboys of New York. If you go to a Hwank\ Gotham night club, the only way \ ou can in* safe is to wear a suit of armor. “Imposing dowagers hike up their skirts and set their sequins shimmying and the coat tails of bouncing bankers flap you in the eyes. Boy, do they have fun! “But if a gang of my dancing girls went to a bail room in Hol lywood or any beach resort and stuted m dancing like that, they would be heaved out the back door.” The Paramount dance direct tir admits that Hollywood started the craw tor ceoeatru' ballroom dancing; in its effort to secure “showmanship” in mu sical films. “But the eastern night clubs and not the fraternities and sororities are the ones where eccentric dancing is carried to the extreme," Prinz said. “In ‘College Swing,’ I originated a dance called the ‘College Swing,’ from a group of gag steps which I picked up at various colleges and universities in the west. “But those steps were occa sional variations on some rather sedate ballroom dancing rou tines. Put together, the steps make a colorful dancing exhibi tion. “It is hitting the east now and by the time the east gets through with it, that dance will really be something to watch. “Oh well, dancing is supposed to be a form of recreation where one can have a lot of fun. And the east is where they are at least using the most energy at having that fun. The middle west is not far behind, the west is a little further behind, but Hollywood can’t even hear the music of the dance bands.” >;•' * sj: Did you think that was a funny story? Education Prof Has Law Book Started Dr. C. L. Huffaker, professor of education, is writing- a book on the Oregon school system to be used in the required University course, Oregon .School Law and Oregon .System of Education. Farrar and Rhinehart will pub lish the book which will probably be out next fell. (p r ^® m c raift Represented for National Advertising by National Advertising Service. Inc. (. ollege Publishers Representative 4d0 Mad.son Ave., Xeiv York, N.Y. C hicago, ltoston, L.os Angeles, San l'rancisco WT Member lorg Associated Collegiate Press bill Thompson. Sat. Adv. Mgr. Assistant.': Majeanne Glover, George 1 .noma. KM 1 iRAI D R lPORTF.RS i\ou i »range l.vle Nelson Klirabeth Jones Hud Jet main Kettv Hamilton 1 KYtotln Burke Sadie .Mitchell Tj'dmi’sou util Scott (•one >uyder Clenn Has^elrooth Tat Inch-sou IViscilla ^larsh < ‘Oi'Jon Rtiijjewav Bml l>i.kc Cathy Taylor Kea: Kh tity ■ | i LEROY MATTINGLY, Editor WALTER R. VERNSTROM, Manager LLOYD TUPLING, Managing Editor Associate Editors: Paul Deutschmann, Clare Igoe. Editorial Board: Darrel Ellis, Bill Peace, Margaret Ray, Edwin Robbins, A1 Dickhart, Kenneth Kirtley, Bernardine Bowman. TTPPFP TVTPWC: CTIPr r-ioerc wawKins, sports Editor Bill Pengra, City Editor Lew Evans, Assistant Managing Editor Martha Stewart, Women’s Editor Don Kennedy, Radio Editor Rita Wright, Society Editor Alyce Rogers, Exchange Editor Betty Jane Thompson, church editor John Biggs, Chief Night Editor” „ The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the Oregon ®un“ay3' Mondays, holidays and final examination periods. University of Oregon, published daily during the college yea? Entered aa second-class mail matter at the postffice, Eugene, Congratulations, Dutch; Too Bad, Tun £)U recent years there’s been something of a tendency the world over to rail against the hardness, the brutalness, of reality. . Var ious ‘‘escape mechanisms” have been glori lied ; our movies are means of “escape,” our books, our art, even our philosophies, have ted upon the trend toward fantasy and fancy tor relief from poverty, government oppres sion—or even the supper's dirty dishes. Dictators thrive upon and cater to the revolt against things as they are. But no one. dictator, artist, or novelist, has successfully eluded the reality that there is only one victor in every contest. Unfortunately tlfere has to be a winner— and a loser. To Victor ^aul Deutschmami who is to edit 'the 1939 Emerald go my heartiest congratulations. To Lloyd Tupling, defeated candidate, go my heartfelt felicita tions. - J?E\Y on the campus will realize that the battle for the editorship of The Emerald in their senior year has been, although an exceptionally friendly one, for three years a big motivating factor in the careers of these two men. From the beginning both were marked with the stamp of distinction. From the beginning it was obvious that their talents were along slightly different lines. Both are completely competent newspapermen. This race, perhaps unfortunately, doesn't go to the speedy. There are many other fac tors involved and the trial period is so long that no judge who hasn’t spent the major part of three years with the “horses" can advance a real opinion—and any judge can pick upon isolated incidents to support his opinion. Hav ing worked with you for three years, Tup and Dutch, 1 have an opinion—you’re both so far across the finish line that the task of editing the “prize" would be a breeze for either of you. Fortunately. I’m not the judge. If I were, the case would still be “hung" after three years of deliberation. The educational activi ties'board and ’the executive committee have selected you, Dutch—and because your com petition was so keen I think it must have been one of the most difficult choices made in regard to The Emerald in the past few years. # # # ^J.OOD or bad, both of you fellows have had. a hell of a lot to do with this year’s Emerald. One of you has the job of carrying on, of improvement, of maintaining at least the illusion of progress. You'll expect to do a lot of things with the campus and with the paper which you can’t do. Unfortunately, you'll also be expected to do a lot of things no one could do. You will know why you didn’t accomplish all you expected to, Dutch, but a ou can never make those who expected you to do more understand why it just couldn’t be accomplished—now. Dutch lias the problems. Tup; you have the memories and I wish you'd add to them a slight h pleasant one—that you have been, in my opinion, in many ways—and especially in the makeup of the paper—one of the great est managing editors this little sheet has ever had. You know what that means: the records show there’s been some great ones. X sign tins editorial of congratulation and felicitation with, naturally, a few regrets. 1 m happy to know that this battered desk and this one-lunged typewriter are going into such capable hands. Experience has taught me that editing a paper in a closely-knit com munitv such as this campus is always tough. 1 knon that sometimes it's been too tough for me and I believe that potentially Paul Deutschmann can do a better job of filling the position than I did. Enough time with the crying towel. When they stick their necks out around here and are wrong, swat ’em, Dutch ; when they stick them out and are right, stroke them till they purr. There’s a one-sentence editorial policy, successor, which no one can denv is both firm and constructive. Good luck if vou trv to follow it.—L.M. l ! 1 :