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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1939)
ifffaB; The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, Holidays and final examination periods. Subscription rates: $1.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second-class mater at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Editorial offices, Journalism building 2, 6, 10. Phone Loral 354, 353. Easiness Offices, Journalism building 5. Phone Local 354. Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERT I SI N( 1 SER VICE, INC., college publishers representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. - Chicago—Bdston—Los Angeles—San Francisco. PAUL DEUTSCHMANN, Editor HAL JIAENER, Manager BILL PENGRA, Managing Editor KEITH OSBORNE, Ast. Eus.Mgr. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF . ’ Jean Farrens, national advertising manager M ilton Weiner, classified mgr. l'.ert Strong, circulation rngr. REPORTERS Max Frye Helen Anpell Gerry Walker Nisma Banta Glenn Hasselrooth 3 ris Lindberg Doris Lindgren Sadie Mitchell Harold Olney Maurice Goldberg Wilbur Bishop Wilbur Bishop F.leanor Teeter* Gordon Ridgeway Lois Nordling Betty Hamilton Margaret Girvin Buck Buchwach SPORTS STAFF (leorge Pacero Ehle Reber Jim Leonard Ken Christianson Jack Lee Cnrl Robertson Buck Buckwat'h Arnie Milstein Margaret Young John Higgs Milton Levy Haul McCarty Wilbur .Bishop TIPPER NEWS STAFF Lloyd Tuplitig:, associate editol Bud Jermain, news editor Lyle Nelson, assistant managing editor Charles Green, chief night editor Ruthellen Merchant, executive secretary TClbert TTawkins, sports editor Clenn Hasselrooth, literary editor Bernadine Bowman, women’s editor Bill Scott, staff photographer DAY ADVERTISING MANAGER Milton Weiner ASSISTANTS Martin Luther Opportunity for Public Service HPIIAT people ill Oregon should he more friendly lies long been one of onr contentions, burlier this year we pointed out that possibly the establishment of no-date dances would increase' friendliness, would get students acquainted inform ally, and would make the campus a better place in which to live and st udy. To date there has been little action. Dance are hold regu larly but they are of the old type, formal in practice, if not in dross. Students are offered very few opportunities to got acquainted during the year. Nothing is provided in the nature of an informal, no-date “mixer.” iff iff iff JUT ANY schools have this type of dance and find it remark ably successful. At the University of California in formal, no-date dances are held every Saturday evening in the gymnasium. Admission is fifteen cents and a registration card. The hall is usually packed. Closer to home, we find that Oregon State has had matinee rally dances for several years. Held in the Memorial Union building, these dances art* open to one and all. Campus orchestras play and the affairs have proven an excellent means of uniting the student body in a friendly spirit. • * • « J^ANCINO is the most popular collegiate social pastime. Affairs of the kind .just described have a great many virtues. They provide low cost entertainment. They acquaint and unite the student body. They keep students from other forms of amusement that may be less beneficial, or even harmful. The difficulties in establishing regular “mixer” dances at Oregon should not be insurmountable. Other schools have found means to put them across. An opportunity for a public spirited group to take action seems evident. Practicality—A Vignette By RIDGEEY CUMMINGS Sally Jonea didn’t come back to school this term. The girls in the dorm all wondered why. She was such good fun, they said, so lively, and they missed her. The other week-end one of Sally’s girl friends happened to visit Sally’s home town, and when she came back she was in a position to tell all. “I saw Sally on the street,” she exclaimed, “And what do you think? She was wearing smoked glasses!” It seemed Sally had a black eye, and Sally was married. Sally had entered the Univer sity last fall as a freshman. She had come direct from a little mining town in eastern Oregon. She had graduated from high school with honors, and was con sidered a promising girl. But Sally was frankly not at tending the University to study. She was looking for a husband. Unlike many of her housemates, who were actuated by the same motives but simulated an in tense passion for learning, she admitted it. So Sully went to classes, and majored in men. There was nev er a campus dance but that her vivacious face was much in evi dence. She had many and vari ous dates, with everyone from freshmen to graduate students. But although Sally was attrac tive, mature, and healthy, none of her boy friends manifested any serious matrimonial inten tions. At the end of the fall term Sally counted up her successes and accomplishments, which in cluded attendance at all the campus social functions, and a grade point of 1.75. Sally wenf home for Christ mas vacation fully intending to return for the winter term. Rome was not built, she main tained, in a day, and she would give herself at least a year to look for an eligible bread-winner of the college or garden variety. At this point a slight hiatus enters into our tale. There is some conflicting evidence as to just what happened to Sally during her Christmas vacation —and much speculation. The results, however, are in disputable. It appears that Sally renewed an acquaintance with an old flame who had carried her books for her when they were both sophomores in high school. His name was, and is, let us say, Mike. Mike had dropped out of high school to go to work in the mines. He was a husky lad, not much given to investigating ihc theoretical end of things, but long on common sense and muscle. Three years he had been working in the mines now, do ing a man’s work and getting a man's pay. His spare time was spent on the street corner and in the town's only pool room, and he got drunk religiously every Saturday night. Living the simple life and working steadily, Mike had saved money in spite of himself. When Sally came back to town, with all the glpw and polish that is attainable on the Oregon campus in three months’ time, Mike took one look at her and decided it was high time he set up housekeeping. So there was a whirlwind courtship. He swept suscepitble Sally off her high-heeled feet. Perhaps it was because his in tentions were so manifestly hon orable. Hendricks park had been productive of many propositions but no proposals. Mike gave her a diamond ring for Christmas, and they were married the day Sally had in tended to return to school. So now Sally has a house of her own. Mike is a good pro vider, but it is kind of hard to stop drinking all of a sudden. He always brings his wages home and turns it all over to Sally- that is, all that is left after a Saturday night in the beer joints. Sally remonstrated with him the other night when he was in his cups, and now Sally is wear ing smoked glasses. Hut Sally loves Mike, as she told her girl friend. "He's such a hard worker," she said. "And he wouldn't hurt a fly, except when he's drinking. "Are you sorry you left the University?" asked the girl friend. "Not at all," said Sally. "Col- sp lege is so impractical." Two Col lege Men Out of Ten Would Aid Nation in War Other Than Defensive, Student Opinion Survey Reveals By JOE REDDEN, Edilor Siudent Opinion Surveys of America AUSTIN, Texas, February 10—If the nation went to war today for other reasons than the defense of the country, the United States govern ment would find less than two ready volunteers cut of every ten college men. A poll just conducted by the Student Opinion surveys of America among the male collegians ol the nation reveals that although they are willing to defend their country, it will take several good reasons to make them volunteer for some other form of warfare. The survey does not attempt, of course, to predict how many would actually enlist under future circumstances, for it is possible that many would act like a student interviewed in one of the west central states who declared, "I might say now that I won’t volunteer, but when the time comes perhaps I’ll go anyway. It will depend on the propaganda.” No Meddling Desired However, the poll indicated clearly that stu dents are not at present in any mood to have the United States dipping into the European or Far Eastern war pots. Representative portions of the nation’s student bodies, excluding women, were interviewed with this question: "If the United States went to war for other reasons than the defense of the country, would you volunteer?” Those who said they would amounted to 19.7 per cent; no, 80.3 per cent. Most of those who were willing to fight had reasons for their answers. Mentioned the greatest number of times was “to perpetuate democracy,” and “to make the Monroe Doctrine respected.” A good number also mentioned that they were in the UOTC or the national guard and would have to enlist. “To stop fascism,” “to help England or France,” “to protect American property abroad,” “to keep the balance of power,”—-those are other reasons. And there were those who would join any conflict, like the Dartmouth sophomore who de clared, "I’d follow the U. S. anywhere—my country right or wrong.” Opinions from students on the opposite side ran from mild comments on the fool ishness of war to emphatic statements such as a Texas student’s “I’d lather sit in jail than fight in any war.” West Vote Greatest By sections, the affirmative vote was like this: Far western .31.7 per cent Southern .21.5 per cent West central .17.8 per cent Middle Atlantic .17.4 per cent New England .15.4 per cent East Central .14 7 per cent The effect of the proximity of Europe to the eastern states is shown not only by this survey represented in the aboev tabulation, but also by another recent poll in which the different sections favored rearmament in almost identical order. In the Mail POLICE THE WORLD? . To the Editor: The report that the president, so far as he is concerned, has moved our frontier to France again, in case another European war breaks out, removed the last shred of doubt as to his intentions on foreign policy. With France as our eastern frontier and Guam as our west ern outpost, he wants to police the world. The president's proposal in his annual message to Congress on January 4 that we ought to defend “sister nations’’ and fight another holy war for “religion and democracy,” followed by his request for an expenditure this year of $1,500,000,000 for arma ment to carry out his foreign policy, goes 1916-1917 one bet ter. This is what happens when our neutrality legislation, strengthened at popular demand by each succeeding congress since 1935, is treated with con tempt. It is quite clear that the president wants us to scrap it in order to take sides in the wars of Europe and Asia at the same time. The fact that the president prefers “methods short of war’’ for carrying out this grandiose program does not hide the fact that he is taking us on the same road down which President Wil son led us into the World war. We begin by being an arsenal for our future allies. We build a false prosperity on armaments paid for with cash at first, per haps the lives of American boys i later on. The pseudo-secrecy of I the president’s strategy, ob viously designed to give the | American people a feeling of fear, is being used to justify 1 this one-man foreign policy, j Senatorial criticism is being hushed up in the sacred interest of national defense, and of a free hand in carrying on war trade. We oppose this whole fan tastic scheme anil the deliberate incitement to fear on which it is built. The danger to demo cracy is from within and not from without. We are convinced that the American people are determined to stay out of the wars of Europe and Asia, and they know enough to see that the president’s program is the direct opposite of what they want. ( Keep America Out of War , Congress Labor Anti-War Council Youth Committee Against c War 1 National Council for Preven tion of War c Fellowship of Reconciliation t World Peaceways v Women's International League for Peace and Freedom v I More than 45,000 students have tered the “cultural Olympics” insured by the University of 1 unsylvauia. <2 Sophs (Continued, from page one) Snuffy Smith comic strip men will adorn the walls of the ballroom, while the ceiling will be draped. Panels will form the bases for the wall cartoons. Woodyard’s music is predicted to be of the type which satisfies both the "arrangement” fan and the sweet swing enthusiast. His Artie Shaw arrangements are reported hgihly effective. The floor crew is doing its part, having been giving the hardwood a two-day manicure. .a italta Judging Set Most successful ®tindergraduate class on the campus in the putting on of dances, the sophomores have again run the bell in their inter mission whisker-judging arrange ment. Would-be winners of prizes for “chin alfalfa” will not only ap pear on the platform as usual, but the grand prize winner will be shaved then and there. The alleged whiskers will be judged by a trio of local barbers, including Fred Schlick and Charley Elliott from the campus, and a representative from the downtown Eugene hotel shop. But the winner will not be the only one shaved at the intermis sion. Several of the stubble-wear ers have flatly stated it would be worth while to them to take elec tric razors to Gerlinger. They will go into action as soon as the con test is over. Prizes go to the thickest, red dest, blackest, fanciest, longest, and most peach-bloom-like beards. The peach-bloom class was en teied as a consolation for sophs whc> completely failed to bring out anything even remotely resembling a beard. Sophomore couples get in free. Every sophomore with a class card gets in free. One class card means the admission is 50 cents to that couple. To non-sophs the door price is $1. The sophs emphasize the dance is all-campus. bigma Alpha Epsilon (Continued from Pa,t/e Turn) easy 24 to 9 victory over the Phi Psis. With Earl Wasser, Bill Van Dusen, and Harry Kenan scoring: six points each, the Sigma Nu five had little trouble in smothering their millrace brothers. Half-time score favored the win ners, 10 to 3. Woody Slater, Phi t si guard, led his team in scoring ivith four points. Lineups: Sigma Nus (24) )Vasser(6) .... fan Dusen (6) Senan (6) . 3attleson (2) (9) Phi Psis Williams Nestor . _ 3ray (2) .S h’ters.S Jexsmith .S -arney (2) .S X'tlefsen . S Referees: Don Tower Taft. F .... F Kettering C . (2) Rohwer G . (41 Slater Carlson Steirwalt (2) Hankins (1) Sargent and Phil falling 'E mQuick (Continued From Pane Two) ould only reach 93. and Ford Mul ;n reached 92. And. oh yes. Coach Hobby's was nly 76, but then as the Duck nren or explained it, “Mine has al-f ;ays been slow.” (Editor’s note: Writer Pasero as nearer "dead” than Coach lobby. He registered only 74.) Calling 'Em Quick . . . Coach 'wogood gets right into the pre ame _' pep ' huddle with iris boys Noel Coward Plays Added to Shelves In Co-op Library Two new collections of Noel Coward plays arc in the Univer sity Co-op library. "Tonight at 8:30’’ includes three sets of three short plays. The book was organized, the introduction says, in the manner that plays are being presented in London, three short plays for one evening’s en tertainment The first group includes "We Were Dancing,” “Astonished Heard,” and “Red Peppers;” the second, “Hands Across the Sea,” “Fumed Oak,” and the third group contains "Ways and Means,” “Still j Life,” and “Family Album.” . . . fair average crowd, 3800 . . . hats off to the yell leaders, they urged fans to give Idaho players a hand when they left the ball game . . . Belko drew a laugh when he shook his finger at the referee. Church Group (Continued from page one) Quaker program and will give a demonstration of a Quaker wor ship service. Scouts Are Guests Boy Scouts are to be special guests at the Baptist church Sun day morning. Dr. H. A. Harms, continuing his sermons on great j chapters of the Bible, has chosen the twentieth chapter of Exodus and will speak on scout interests and “Character Building Codes.” Annual high school night with representatives from the two Eu gene high schools will be observed at the evening service. Students will participate in the program; Dr. Harms will deliver a sermon ette on “Why We “ray?” Lighting that is kind to the eyes A COMPLETE LINE OF INDIRECT LIGHTING FIXTURES AND LAMPS Efficient and beautiful light ing fixtures and lamps are not costly . . . especially when they are such a saving to your eyes. 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Beautiful, in French grey and eggshell cream, with chrome borders and lum inous exterior. only $2.25 c&s ELECTRIC Phone 234 1070 Willamette St. * Chi Omega. 5 p.m., in, Delta Della Delta vs. Hendricks hall. 5 p.m., out, Alpha Delta Pi vs, Kappa Kappa Gamma. Friday: 4 p.m., out, Delta Gam ma vs. Alpha Delta Pi. .r> p.m., in, Co-op vs. Chi Omega. 5 p.m., out, Pi Beta Phi vs. Lucky Aces. Saturday: 2 p.m., in, Alpha Chi Omega vs. Alpha Gamma Delta. 2 p.m., out, Gamma Phi Beta vs. Susan Campbell hall. 3 p.m., in, Pi Beta Phi vs. Ori. des. 3 p.m., out, Kappa Kappa Gam ma vs. Lucky Aces. Marketing Students (Continued from page one) stock control methods used by his firm, and G. Vandeneynde, super intendent, will talk on selecting and promoting retail employees. At 2:30 the group will go to Lipman, Wolfe and Company, where Harold Wendel, manager, will talk on buy ing merchandise for stores. UO Professors Get Work in January Science Magazine The January issue of the Com monwealth Review, periodical ed ited by the faculty of the college of social science will soon be off the press, it was announced yesterday by George N. Belknap, University editor. Material for articles in the Re view are drawn from all divisions of the state system of higher edu cation. This issue contains work of four University faculty members. Dr. C. L. Huffaker, professor of edu cation, wrote an article entitled “Some Problems in Financing the Public Schools in Oregon.” “Ar chaeological Research in Oregon,” was written by Dr. L. S. Cressman, head of the anthropology depart ment. Dr. Waldo Schumacher, pro fessor of political science, wrote “Oregon's Legislators.” The editor ials were written by Dr. P. A. Par sons of the sociology department. Better Lighting for Every Room with IMPROVED I.E.S. LAMPS Indirect li^ldin^ can do lmioli toward im provin'? the entire ef fect of any r o o m. 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