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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1938)
The Oregon Daily Emerald, offieial student publication of the University of Oregon, published daily during the college year except Sunday, Mondays, holidays and final examination periods. Subscrip tion rates: $1.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. PAUL DEUTSCHMANN, Editor HAL IIAENER, Manager BILL PENGRA, Managing Editor Associate Editor: Lloyd'Tupling Upper News Staff Bud Jermain, News Editor Lyle Nelson, Asst. Managing Ed. Charles Green, chief night editor Elbert Hawkins, Sports Editor Bernadine Bowman, Women’s Ed. Assistant Business Manager, Keith Osborne National Advertising Manager: Jean Farrens Circulation Manager, Clayton Ellis Day Manager: Assistants: Betty Keller Rita Wright Eleanor Sedenst.rom A Little Closer to Citizenship rJ'MIE LASSITUDE of American college students toward tilings political is not complete, but it is widespread enough to be considered as a problem. The University of Oregon is not an outstanding example of this condition, but a sufficiently average apathy exists to warrant discussion. True, the campus dot's have its “Hess and Sprague for Governor’’ clubs- There are a few students interested in the Young Democrats and the Young Republicans. Hut the fact remains that out of the 45 per cent of the student body eligible to vote a negligible portion do participate in this right and duty. The situation is not entirely the fault of students. Because of tin1 nature of the institution, political activity on the campus must of necessity be “played down.’’ It is not healthy for a state university to be overly active in politics. Too many difficult results may occur. # # * # TG'URTHERMORE 1 lie* Iraining in political'activity extended to students through their self-governing system is more a deterrent than a spur to interest in state or’national poli ties. Student polities, slumbering in 1 tic* chains of block organization, are devoid of issues, non-democratie, uninter esting, and outside of possible training for future party bosses, all but valueless. Participation in them is reserved for a few individuals ■who work almost entirely behind the scenes. Voters are large ly regimented according to affiliations. The result is that elected officials find little to do other than carrying out Ihe routine duties of their positions, the status quo remains bad or indifferent, and general student interest in self-gov ernment is nib # ft # # gJMALL WONDER then that collegians do not become enthusiastic about opportunities to participate in their larger democracy -that registration deadlines pass without response, and that ballotting day rolls by without much expression from the University precinct. The possibilities of correcting the lack of registration are now past. However, there remains the opportunity to inform those who are qualified of what measures are on the ballot, which men are running for this or that office, and something of what they stand for, their hackings and back grounds. Starting with today's issue and continuing through the period up to election day, November N, the Emerald editorial page will feature articles dealing with this type of informa tion in the “Sideshow’' column. While these articles will naturally contain opinions to a lesser or greater degree, tliev will he conscientious efforts to present the facts involved and arrive at a fair conclusion. * # * # 'j/IIE EMERALD is not going to come out with mandatory suggestions that students vote “yes” or “no” on this measure or that man, but it will endeavor to prod student thought into action. If this thought does materialize into action, the purpose of publishing these articles will he ful filled, and Oregon students will have stepped a little closer to citizenship. The CALLIOPE By BILL CUMMINGS The boys who developed the ideu of l’liototone, new nuturul color campus newHreel, have big ideas concerning their brain child. Today, for the first time, the reel will be shown on the screens of a Eugene theater, in augurating a regular featimi of campus activities and per sonalities. Going back to the beginning, full credit for originating- the idea of Phototone belongs to Bruce Nidever of Eugene, who realized the necessity of organ izing a staff early last spring and soon incorporated ttie ser vices of Laura Bryant as fash ion editor. Then Freeman Patton, who is president of Gamma hall, was added as commentator, and soon afterward two additional staff members were included Harry King and Fayette Thompson. These five comprise the full Phototone staff and are re sponsible for financing and or ganizing the newsreel. This fall, when the camera men started work in earnest, Don Hunter was acquired to furnish an independent sound system, and the newsreel was soon ready for customers. But official sanction was necessary, if the interests of the University were to be protected, so Dr. Erb appointed a board of cen sors consisting of Dr. Lester Beck, Professor Charles Holton, and George Godfrey of the News Bureau. In passing on the reel which goes on the sens'll today, these three ran up against an ob stacle too touchy to risk their newly acquired reputations as newsreel censors, so they called in a fourth party to give the show official sanction. This fourth party was Dean Schwer ing, who okayed the “touchy” shot. (The “touchy" shot which caused the sudden shift in re sponsibility on the censor com mittee was a scene taken dur ing Open House, innocently re vealing a silhouetted kiss against a dark background in one of the sororities.) About 700 feet of film is shot to make every 13-minute reel, the news photographers re vealed, but only about 350 feet of film is actually used in pre senting the show. This film, which costs the Phototone staff about $70 pet reel, is sent to Los Angeles to be processed. If the Oregon edition of Phototone proves satisfactory, the sponsors plan to expand their enterprise to all colleges and universities in the North west. SIDE SHOW. Edited by . . . JIM BRTNTON AII of us voters will be legislators for a day on November 8. Twelve measures will be on the ballot for the general election for Oregon voters to “yea" or “nay” on. It is a great responsibility that is placed on voters—this business of direct legislation with out the intermediate body of a legislature. The more or less untrained minds of voters are left wide open to interests who often fear sending their legislation through the ordinary channel of the state legislature. It is, nevertheless, a powerful check and control over the legislature. Quite often voters have reversed the opinions of the state body, and at other times they have brought up and passed measures that would not have been considered on the floor of the legis lature. * as a-. Heading the list as the most important is prob ably the “Bill Regulating Picketing and Boycotting by Labor Groups and Organizations.” The bill begins by defining a “labor dispute” as an actual controversy between employer and employes directly concerning wages, hours, or working conditions, and not including jurisdic tional controversy between labor organizations, nor employer’s refusal to deal with either such organizations. Using this definition as a basis, the bill goes on to prohibit picketing or boycotting unless such a labor dispute exists. This initiative measure is under the joint sponsorship of several groups of upstate farmers. .1 The bill has its defects. To define a thing as broad as a labor dispute in fifteen or twenty words is a difficult thing indeed. It will require decision as well as definition to determine what constitutes a labor dispute. That decision is a dangerous weapon in the hands of ordinary law enforcing officers and is too slow and unwieldy in the hands of a circuit court. The bill will make picketing under certain conditions legal and other conditions illegal with a rather indefinite line between the two. A large number of the labor disputes in the past few years would have fallen on this indefinite line. Another consideration is the fact that labor trouble is a problem of national scope. Great developments are bound to occur in the next con gress along this line. It may be well to see how the federal government revises its labor laws , and makes them more inclusive before a state measure is resorted to. The state has seen the worst of its labor trou bles. Had this bill come a few years sooner some of the more intense labor troubles would have been stopped. Yet the activities attached to “goon ism” were in violation of existing laws, and prob ably would not have been prevented by another law. In all probabily the bill is not the cure to labor trouble: it strikes at the effect and not the cause. It is a hasty measure, coming as a quick retort in a heated argument. Round n' About WITH WEN BROOKS You’ve got to have law and order even in a supposedly civ ilized community such as a Uni versity center but enough is enough and some regulations are ridiculous! When a faculty parking lot is not filled with cars but the street curbs are for over a block and a student is in a hurry and it’s raining . . . and you’re told you can’t park because it’s for “faculty cars only" I object! And I’m not the only one. Students working on publications or oth er activities for the good of the U should be given some lee way. | * * * Men or mice? That seems to he the question now that Betty “tlie by-line kid” Hamilton has raised the issue. Just between you and me Betty does not like publicity . . . She's started something, however, and more power to her. Bay Foster an swers the question of dress with, “If we spent as much time primping as the girls do, we’d have no time left to l>e men!” And that about answers it. Do you girls prefer these parading style shows seen about the cam pus occassionally or fellows who are fellows . . . and doing things? Cords, dirty or not, arc cords . . . and have their place on this campus! But we’re all beating around the bush. It’s not a question of sloppy-looking clothes so much as keeping clean to my way of thinking. Dirty cords are O.lv. . . . with a clean shirt and washed face. As for you girls: how would you like to see us fellows masquerading with inch-thick paint on our lips, bushels of hair blowing all over our faces, finger-nails tak ing on tlie proportions of small spear-heads, and publicly dis playing bare and bony legs? Now 1 ask you ? The team pulled in just in tlit‘ nick of time yesterday. Less Hum an hour after the big rally dupe Plllvius let go with both barrels. Thought the pipe organ gun blasted every few minutes by the Eugene Quar terbaeks O.K. . . . the rally spirit fine . . . the traffic con gestion following awful! Why not work out a plan of parking cars after this when there's a rally at the station? Have fel lows oil hand ahead of time to direct drivers how to park and have student cars all lined up so they can pull right out in procession for the return to the campus. One long line back would make a lot better show! * * * Did you see the camera-man grinding away there at the ral ly'.’ Showing of the first cam pus photo-news reel will be this afternoon at the Heilig. Admis sion twenty-five cents. Thurs day through Saturday of next week the reel will be on the screen at the Mayflower. * * * Mattress parties may be black-balled by University of ficials but you’ll still have cele brations of some sort when Cu pid scores. Alpha Phis re turned from the rally yester day noon to find a strange con glomeration of men's clothing . . . shoes, stockings, pajamas ... a typewriter and various bags and books . . . decorating the walk in front of their house. Reason ? Bud Aronson reunited with Pat Carson after a minor disagreement. Have you heard of the “High life Club”? Ask the Phi Delts and girls of one sorority. Ru mored purpose is to “enjoy the higher life along with the high er education to be had in col lege.” First essential: beer. * * * What to do between halves of the game Saturday? That question has evidently stumped the campus. To date the rally committee has received fewer suggestions than the Emerald has ballots cast when the paper conducts a straw vote. It’s sur prising. Especially so when you consider the $5.00 offered the student who should turn in the winning stunt idea. Night before last a few of us budding, or . . . have it your way, blooming journalists got together and really pulled some ideas out of the ether. One was to drink pop between the halves. Another, to set up some card board walls in the middle of the field and then push them over . . . i.e., the fall of Troy. An other, which of course won't need to be used, was to get a horse to parade around the field at the half ... if we’re losing . . . carrying the sign THIS GAME IS A HORSE ON US. You see what the journal istic mind will conjure up! Most talked-of suggestion was to play “postoffice” during half time . . . provided enough male men would consent. Shorts: what came between Fred Ehlers, SN, and Gamma Phi’s Jean Miller? How did Dick Lit fin and Mary StorUeson hit it off at the dance last week end? Why won’t a certain Sig ma Nu reveal he’s planted his pin? Afraid it won't stick? And is it serious ... the Seth “Red” Smith-Aliee Swift af fair? Finally, why do the Kap pas tenderly title John Dick “Frankenstein” ? Personal opinion: that Vincent Gates “Wie Geht’s” has very clever quips most of the time and is consistently better than material syndicated in many pa pers . . . that no thing is as im portant as it seems at the time, though it must be reckoned with as "all-important” at the time . . . and that’s a hard one. History Faculty Teaches 111 Years A hundred and eleven years of teaching' makes history - the 111 years is the service total represented by the six members of the Uni versity history department faculty. Drs. H. D. Sheldon and' R. C. Clark hold tile lead with 38 and 20 years respectively. Dr. Andrew Fish follows at third with 18 vears. Medical Aptitude Tests Scheduled The eighth annual medical apti tude test, administered by the As sociation of American Medical Col leges, is scheduled for December 2 of this year. The test, which begins at 2 p.m., and lasts about two hours, is one of the normal requirements for ad mission to medical school. Stu dents planning to enter medical school next year must take the test this December. Information regarding the ex amination was received by Profes sor H. B. Yocom. who was in charge of the test taken last year on this campus by 35 students. More than 10,000 students partici pated in the test throughout the country. A $1 fee is required of each ap plicant. Tests are returned to Chicago. All premedical requirements need not be completed at the time the test is taken if these require ments will be completed in time for entrance to medical school in the fall of 1939. Ml SIP DEAN KKTl'KNS Dr. John J. Landsbury, dean of the University school of music, re turned Sunday from an extended visit of inspection of the curricula and plans of the Ellison-White conservatory in Portland. While there he heard Bernard Abramo vitch. who recently arrived in this country from Berlin, in piano recital. with Dr. Dan E. Clark a close fourth at 17 years. Dr. John T. Ganoe has served for nine years and Dr. Harold J. Noble, seven, with an absence of two years Serving his first year here is Dr. Quirinus Breen, who comes from Albany college. Dr. Sheldon, a former dean of the school of education, is now research professor of history and education. He is a graduate of Stanford and attended Clark uni versity before coming to the Uni versity of Oregon in 19001 Dr. R. C. Clark was appointed head of the history department in 1920. He is the author of “A His tory of the Willamette Valley,” ‘Beginning of Texas" and co-aa thor of "The History of Oregon.” He is also editor of the "Oregon Historical Quarterly.” Before com ing to Oregon he taught at Ep worth university and Pennsylvania Normal. Dr. Fish, associate professor of history, is a graduate of the Uni versity of Oregon. Dr. Dan E. Clark follows Dr. Fish with 17 years here. He came to the University of Oregon in, 1922. He is now pro fessor history and assistant direc tor of general extension and sum mer sessions. Dr. John T. Ganoe, associate professor in the department also graduated from this University in 1923. Dr. Ganoe taught at Phillips' university and Marshall college be-! fore becoming a member of the faculty here. Dr. Harold J. Noble, also asso ciate professor of history, has just returned after an absence of two I years in the Orient, w here he studied on one of the Rockefeller j language fellowships. The new member of the faculty, j Dr. Breen, came here from Albany | college. He is assistant professor \ of history. He also has charge of the background of social science lecture classes. Wie geht’s immiiri’iimiimiMinmmnmiinnninmiiiminimmiuiimimMiniiiimuiu By V. GATES Despite the lack of frontiers England still is a promising country, a writer says. With her promises to pay, for so many years, we believe it. Now with relief such a big item in the country it is time for one-half the people to see how the other half give. Our copy boy says the trou ble with dictators is that they’re more concerned with quantity than with quality of words. The British tell Americans to keep calm, cool and collected about our war debts and may be it will work out all right. The way we see it the Ameri cans have been calm, the Eng lish are plenty cool, but little has been said about the col lected part of the matter. The “Chest Campaign” the Oregonian speaks about is not, we take it, a T.B. drive. * * * “Hankow Turned Over by Japs.” -— headline. What did they expect to find —a spy? Los Angeles is now looking for a park for their “soap box orators.” Maybe the. Chamber of Commerce is getting crowd ed. Social Life (Continued from page three) entertain upperclassmen at a Hal lowe’en party Monday evening. * * * A dinner for the Eugene mother; was held by Zeta Tau Alpha sor ority Tuesday evening at the chap ter house. HESS IS GUEST Henry L. Hess, Democratic can didate for governor, was dinnei guest of the Faculty club Wed nesday evening preceding his ad dress at the Eugene armory. Mr Hess took part in the after-dinnei discussion at the club. CAMPUS CALEN DAR Beta Gamma Sigma will have its initiation and banquet tonight at Ten Eyck Tea room. All members of the business staff of the Oregana are requested to report at their office between 2 and 5 this afternoon. A special meeting of Homecom-; ing committee chairmen will be held in the educational activities; office today at 4 o'clock. Alpha Delta Sigma will hold a luncheon meeting at noon today at the College Side. Sigma Delta Chi will hold a ban quet in the College Side this even ing. Members are expecetd to ar rive by 5:30. The Christian Science organiza tion will meet Thursday evening at 8 o’clock at the YMCA bungalow. Music group of the YWCA meets at 4 p.m. in the bungalow. gllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllUlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllll^ | Watch Stop? | Chain Break? g ^iiiiiiniiHuiiiisiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiisiiiiiiiuiiiiiiniiiiiiuiiiiiniiuiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiu'iimiiuiiiuiiiiiiiuui For... • Efficient • Economical • Satisfactory Brin" your watch to GUOENC. 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Berkshire Ringless Chiffon Hose . 79c ASUO Cards Only $6.00 On Salo at Johnson Hall This "Week FOOTBALL GAMES Seats on the fifty-yard line use, Oct. 29 . ..$2.20 Idaho, Nov. 5 ..$1.65 Frosh-Rook, Nov. 11 . . . $ .75 Washington, Nov. 19 . . $2.50 OSC, Nov. 26.. $2.50 CONCERTS Fritz Kreisler, Nov. 7 . . $1.50 Don Cossack, Nov. 1 7 .. . $1.25 SAVE $6.35 $12.35 Australian Cancels Teaching Exchange With Professor Moll Plans made by Professor E. G. Moll of the English department, to devote this year to teaching at the University of Sydney, in Austra lia, were abruptly changed by the illness of an Australian professor who was to make the exchange with Professor Moll. The Australian professor was compelled to cancel his reserva tions when he suffered a nervous breakdown shortly before his con templated trip, Moll said. Professor Moll has had to post pone his journey indefinitely, al though he is anxious to re-visit Australia and his relatives there, whom he has not seen since 1927. MONTH END SALES Higher in front—gayer in tone — smarter! Whether you need a “globe-trot ter” in sturdy leather or something feminine in a luxury fabric, you can find it at Burchs — in a perfect fit. BALANCE YOUR BUDGET ISIRCH5 (FINE ;f ootwear " 1 1032 WILLAMETTE 77 Classified Ads Phone 3300 Local 354 • For Sale 1930 MODEL A Ford coupe. Frank Middleburg, 1166 Alder Street. Phone 2613-M. ♦ Lost FOSTER and Steadman, text book. Return to Dr. Black, Friendly Hall. * * * WILL THE PERSON who picked up a notebook in 101 P.E. Friday morning please return to Mort Heinrich at Delta Upsilon. Thanks. * * * REWARD—Young Ladies Buren Wrist Watch. Two diamonds on case. Call 666. • Packard Roto SEE THE PACKARD Roto Shaver at Keith Fennel’s University Drug Store. Reduced from $18.75 to $12.50. • Picture Framing PICTURE^FRAMING for all kinds pictures and certificates. Orien tal Art Shop, 122 E. Broadway. • Brushes NEW FULLER Brushes. Phone 3245-M. • Laundry Mrs. Seals, 1600 Moss. Shirts 10c. AGENT, Red Anderson, Omega hall. Ph. 3300, ext. 275. • Barber Shops IT PAYS to look well. For your next hair cut try Eugene Hotel Barber Shop. • Dressmaking DRESSMAKING, ladies’ tailoring and alterations. Mrs. Skade, 1422 Ferry. Phone 3423-R. • Radio Repairs MOVING!! Economy Radio Lab is moving to 678 E. 11th by the Mayflower theater on Novem ber 1. • Student Service FELLOWS . . . Bring your car to Jim Smith’s Richfield Station at 13th and Willamette for A-l service. • Expert Plumbing JHASE COMPANY PLUMBERS. Repairs and installations of all kinds. Servicemen always ready. Phone 243. Inquire 936 Oak.