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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Australia and his relatives there,
whom he has not seen since 1927.
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