LEROY MATTINGLY, Editor “ ! WALTER R. VERNSTROM, Manager
LLOYD TUPLING, Managing Editor
Associate Editors: Paul Deutschmann. Clare Igoe._
Editorial Board: Darrel E'dis, BiU Peace, ^Margaret Ray, Edwin Robbins, A1 Dickhart, Kenneth Kirtley, Bernardme Bowman.
Edwrt Hawkins, Sports Editor
Bill Pengra, City Editor .
trtw Evans, Assistant Managing Editor
UPPER NEWS STAFF.
Martha Stewart, Women’s, Editor
Don Kennedy, Radio Editor
Rita Wright, Society Editor
Alyce Rogers, Exchange Editor
Betty Jane Thompson, chorch editor
John Biggs, Chief Night Editor
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The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon published daily duriiy^ie eoUw
:»;t Sundays, Mondays, holidays ar.d-final examination periods. Entered as second-class mail matter at the postffice, Ei
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The Daddy Racket oi All the Little Rockets
■j^fOT long ago the formulation of a social
science 1 onorary was announced, dhe
statement of the purposes of the club and the
selection of members occasioned some com
ment, some favorable, some not so.
Tucked away in the expression of aims and
objectives of fligma Omega Chi was the impli
cation that its founder would like to see it a
member of a national organization. The duly
appointed members should, however, investi
gate very thoroughly before, they vote to
affiliate their society with a national group.
ftOC's leaders might find, in investigating
the affiliation of other campus societies with
nationals, that the arrangement is usually a
one-sided one—working mainly, in most eases,
for the benefit of the national.
Many students—The Emerald, too, has
been guilty—have criticized campus organiza
tions for backing the many rackets and gyp
redes which are carried on, on the campus,
lr i l-any eases organizations have been forced
to conduct such sales as to buy space in the
Oregana or to send money to national organ
- 4'cdion—money extorted through the threat
of revoking the locals national charter.
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r 11 'HE cause lies deeper, in such eases, than
the officers and members of the campus
group. True, buying a “spot" in the year
■ look involves the chapter’s decision and prob
ably justifies some of these annual drives in
th,if the members get an observable return
---from, nickels and dimes wheedled from fel
*•4 ivv > rodents. But in the ease of those organi
sations struggling along in the uphill fight
t i It old a national charter, there is often
- JitHc justification for the effort. The money
goes to pay a “secretary” or traveling ad
visor who offers the group his or her valuable
advice perhaps once every other year, or is
diverted into a convention fund. At any rate,
goes off the campus and does not benefit
ai y campus institution—such as the annual—
or the society itself.
Every one of the methods of raising money
quickly are, by the very basis on which the
©rganizatipns backing them must operate,
get-rich-quick schemes. The profit must be
tremendous, else it mould not pay the group
to operate them for a single day or evening.
One outstanding example mas the .recent
book drawing of Theta Sigma Phi'-women's
journalism society. In addition to paying for
the prize, 'cost of printing tli^ tickets, etc.,
the organization cleared $fiO. The prize mas
.$10 mortli of books.
* * *
VV/'HERE mill Theta Sigma Phi’s profits
go? To make up, with another $40, the
biennial remuneration of the national. What
a price to pay for that feeling of nation-wide
sisterhood, for those three Greek words in
the title, and for a delegate’s prepaid atten
dance at a convention. The national also col
lects a $15 per member initiation fee.
It should be said in fairness to Theta Sigma
Phi that, its members have little choice in
the matter. Their voice in the formulation of
the national budget and of the national assess
ment is small. Every chapter, regardless of
size, pays the same amount and in return the
expenses of a delegate to the annual conven
tion are pro-rated. Next year the Oregon
chapter is entitled to send a delegate to the
convention with all expenses paid. But it had
no choice in the matter of whether to send
a delegate—the fee had to be paid, even if
the representation could not be afforded or
mas not desired.
This is not ail exceptional case. Even some
living organizations are forced to pay a heavy
monthly “head tax” to the national group
for the privilege of being “Omega Zeta Iota
of Blank Blank.”
The organizations are really in a pitiable
position. They can do nothing except
scramble to meet the national’s taxes by rais
ing money in some manner. They do this to
hold charters and maintain prestige of doubt
ful value. But the money is being sent off
the campus. This should give the offices of
the deans jurisdiction to restrain them in their
folly.
The
BANDWAGON
By BILL CUMMINGS
Speaking' almost as fast as
one of the rapid-fire machine
guns he described, W. H. Drane
Lester poured reams and reams
of information into the ears of
an intent University audience
yesterday, impressing everyone
with the fact that he was one
of the most interesting speak
ers of the year. Second to Head
G-man J. Egar Hoover himself,
Lester was crammed full of
first-hand information about
America’s great crime purge—
and, blessed with a double-joint
ed tongue as well as a nimble
mind, he is just the man to tell
America about it.
" ;
One couldn’t help wondering
if famed Scotland Yard is really
what it’s cracked up to be, after
listening to Lester’s description
of the accuracy, speed, and
amazing ingenuity of the FBI.
His description of the finger
print technique of the bureau
was especially interesting. Fig
ures, facts, and cases poured out
of the speaker’s memory with a
remarkable facility, making it
necessary for his listeners to do
their best to keep up with him.
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Students who have convic
tions against war are being
asked by the campus “strike'’
committee to walk out of their
11 o’clock classes next Wednes
day morning to participate in
the annual demonstration
against war, which will be held
on the terrace in the women’s
dormitory quadrangle. Official
permission to have the demon
stration was granted by the fac
ulty assembly committee, al
though this year no classes will
be excused. The strike will
again be held on a nation-wide
scale.
It would be a good idea, in
view of the fact that cutting
classes will not be sanctioned, to
limit the meeting to conscien
tious objectors, instead of hav
ing another gala get-together
just for the sake of rallying to
the cause of something or other.
Some students are thoroughly
convinced in the value of the
strike and should be allowed to
express their feelings without
the interference of those who
are apt to attend such meetings
purely through curiosity or with
intentions of ridiculing the
demonstrators.
1
In the Mail
RETRIBUTION FOR SOC
To the Editor:
Shame on R.R. for his “sour
puss” like attitude in attempt
ing to deride the truly noble
objectives of Sigma Omega Chi.
’Tis too bad R.R. has not de
veloped a more scientific atti
tude in his social science philo
sophy, which should be becom
ing of one so far advanced in
this field as R.R. seems to be.
I should think R.R. would
really investigate the scholas
tic achievements of the indi
viduals whom he so maliciously
pictures as not being rated in
even the upper-half of the
school’s enrollment. This seem3
to be a very inclusive and “over
all” statement which really
takes in a lot of territory—and
hence, which should be issued
only after a careful investiga
tion of the facts.
I happen to know many of
the charter members personally
and in my estimation most of
them seem to have unquestion
ably excellent scholastic records.
Why, R.R., do you not investi
gate their respective GPAs and
then draw your conclusions ?
John S. Mykut,
Commerce Instructor,
Springfield High School
AWS Carnival to Be j
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(L ontmuca from f'ajpe furor) i
guerhs are Mrs. Frederick M. Hun
ter, Mrs. Alice Macduff, and Mrs.
» < Valentine Boyer.
The visitors will attend the
IftW'S carnival on Saturday eve
nts
IlonuitoTV Has
R*ut)io Dance
1 fiesan Campbell will hold an in
formal radio dance at which the
Jhall will be turned into a “wee bit
*>.' ijocn Lomond.’’ Scotch sketches
' tmd pi aid drapes will be hung on
the wills,
Id'aty Sackett is in charge of the
#«l;un ‘ assisted by Marjorie Me
CuHo :U.
1'it.c-ns and patronesses are
t ;L5>.sr. Hazel MacNair, Mrs. Alice
Macduff, Mrs. Genevieve Turnip
j ticrd, Miss Lorraine Wood.
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1 (1 Beta Phi will have a joint
* founders' day banquet with the
| Oregon State chapter at Corvallis,
iSmud-iy. The chapters alternate
j find next year’s banquet will be
Jbcld La Eugene.
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f Alpha Xi Delta held its found
ici,.’ lay banquet on Monday with
I the IT -.g ene alumni as guests.
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*'* T’te University Co-op will hold
«t r.jie Ut dinner on Friday night1
to celebrate its sport victory. An
informal radio dance Will be held
afterwards.
* * *
An all co-op house tea will be
held Sunday in Gerlinger at 2:30.
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Houses Have
Preference Feasts
Beta Theta Pi held a lower class
preference dinner on Wednesday
night. Chi Psi will hold an upper
classmen’s (preference dinner on
Saturday night. Alpha Gamma
Delta will also hold a preference
dinner on Saturday night.
* * »
Entertaining on Wednesday at!
exchange desserts was Gamma Phi
Beta to Phi Delta TTheta; Delta
Tau Delta. Delta Gamma; Pi Kap
pa Alpha, Alpha Xi Delta; Phi
Kappa Psi. Alpha Gamma Delta;
and Alpha Chi Omega, Sigma Al
pha Mu. o
Tonight Kappa Sigma will play
host to Alpha Phi; Pi Beta Phi,"
Sigma Nu; Theta Chi. Alpha Omi
cron Pi; Kappa Kappa Gamma,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Tri Delta,
Beta Theta Pi; Alpha Delta Pi,
Phi Gamma Delta.
Friday night. Gamma Phi Beta
will entertain Delta Epsilon.
Send the Emerald to the folks.
They want the campus news.
Coed Writer Airs
(Continued front page tzvo)
.library sending us into a fit of
acute self-consciousness as we
cringe under the glares directed at
>us from all sides, and all the time
we are afraid to end the tete-a
itete lest we offend our visitor.
women say to each other
“What a charming dress you’re
wearing, my dear,” when what
they really mean is, “Has the wo
man no taste? I wouldn’t be
caught dead in that rag she's
wearing.”*
men remark in one breath,
“Thank goodness we aren’t catty
like the women are,” and then in
the next. “Boy, you wouldn’t call
him the athletic type. Bet lie
wears lace on his shorts.”
people say. “I read your story
in this morning’s EMERALD,”
and then proceed to tell us, para
graph by paragraph how lousy it
i was.
Backseat Driver
(Continued from page tzvo)
A host of grey-thatched gentle
men.”
He was terribly upset. I could
tell it by the way he clutched at
the bit of paper in his hands and
murmured over and over again,
“Ye gods!”
And so to appease him I dashed
off the following news dispatch in
the manner of those who write in
the manner of “Time.”
Forgive it, please. It’s all in fun.
>;: U:
“Brown-haired, sparse-bearded,
dirty-corded Tri Mu’s triple-threat
vote-seeker, Joseph (Joe)
Doakes, today announced his in
tention of becoming third succes
sive term president of the anti
studying popular front group, the
“Society for the Prevention of
Book-Cracking During the Week
and Especially on Saturdays and
Sundays.”
“When approached on the sub
ject of his possible land-slide vic
tory, sleepy-eyed, holey-socked,
Mpn-necktie-w earing “Joe” shook
his too-long, uncombed, brown
haired head, cleared his over-de
veloped, bull-necked throat and in
distinctly muttered in his third
grade, incoherent English,
“Gawsh! I dunno wot to say!”
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)
May I repeat . . . Forgive me.
It was all in fun.
* * * ~
Wandering past the chemistry
shack this morning I happened to
spy two very ('harming looking
young ladies conversing earnestly
a short distance ahead.
“Ah,” I thought with an under
standing sigh, “They are talking
of love, or spring, or romance.* Not
cloth'es,” I thought. “Oh no, they
couldn’t be talking of anything so
prosaic as clothes on such a mel
low morn.” I was feeling positive
ly lyrical about it as I drew closer.
And then their words seeped into
my consciousness.
I “But,” one of them was insist
ing, ‘T don’t see why I should use
NH40H when you can use NOH.
After all the sodium salts are still
soluble. You ean’t get away from
that!”
How bitter . . . disillusionment!
, * * *
If I could have what I want I’d
have :
Marcia Steinhauser’s eyes
Lorraine Barker’s legs
Gayle Buchanan’s friendly ways,
Clare Igoe’s cleverness
Rosemary O’Donnell’s “figger”
Esther Horstkotte’s clothes
EThe Nasser twins’ car
Katy Taylor’s disposition.
Then I’d have Blanche McLlel
lan’s hair and I’d go without a
hat. I‘d make one public appear
ance so the whole campus could
see me, and then I’d park myself
by the telephone and await devel
opments.
(with apologies to YOU).
Send the Emerald to the folks.
They want the campus news.