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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1939)
The Oregon .„iily Emerald, official student pub lication of the University of Oregon, published daily during the college year except Snudays, Mon days, holidays, and final examination periods. Sub scription rates: $1.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. PAUL DEUTSCHMANN, Editor BTLL PENGRA, Managing Editor HAL HAENER, Manager DICK LITFIN, Assistant Business Manager Upper business staff: Jean Farrens, national ad vertising manager; Bert Strong, circulation manager; J. Bob Penland, classified manager. Represented for national advertising by NA TIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., college publishers’ representatives, 4 20 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y.—Chicago—Boston Los Angeles—San Francisco. An Open Letter to Hitler 'pirn world openly acknowledges your ac complishments and aefpiisit ions of terri tory as a fait accompli. It recognizes that you have brought Germany to the fore again. It has repudiated the Versailles treaty with you. Von succeeded in Anschluss; you wanted that, didn't you? You regained the “lost provinces” of Bohemia and Slovakia (pi us). didn’t you? You have quashed all internal opposition 1o the Nazi regime; you wanted 1 hat, didn't you ? You have seared the daylights out of nearly every nation in the world; you have formed an alliance with Rome that England and France failed to break; you recouped Monel: you have brought attention to the fact that the Reich is desperately in need of economic betterment, and that is what you wanted. isn't it ? You have satisfied the most of your in satiable appetite, haven't you? You have managed to command the proud respect of your people and the envy of your fellow dictators. That was what you wanted, wasn't, if? Now that you have given yourself almost everything you sought achieve, could German greatness rise in you to give the world one t hing in exchange peace '! “There are circumstances in which it is better to be defeated than victorious; better to be Prometheus than .Jupiter." (signed) Two Billion People. Let's Keep Our Aprils {jJJEKENI’JLY (lie him' millrjwo I'lows past tin* Anchorage. Hy Villai'd I lie grass is tin* greenest of spring's greens. The ... of the campus are budding and the bees hum and the birds twitter in the sunlight. ( a re I roe youth meanders campus lanes be tween classes and lounges in the cool grass or plays at tennis or softball or goes canoeing. At very worst, youth studies or works. At night the stars look down on the calm (>f April evening. Shirt-sleeved hoys and coat loss girls breathe the warm air of April. And almost thi' knottiest possible problem is a tough economies assignment or a broken date # >» JN another April it wasn't quite so. Twenty two years ago this campus was trying its inexperienced best to become a war ramp. Twenty-one years ago this April an earlier generation of hoys wasn't quite as carefree. It was exciting, all right, but these boys were bound for a land of shrapnel and mud and hell. And the girls of this earlier era were eating brown sugar and keeping the home fires burning, helping to "save democracy.'' There will be other Aprils, and we wonder which is preferable, this April or the one of l!*ls? And some April to come, if President Roosevelt isn't "back in the fall," may he a great deal blacker than the one of 'IS. * # «» ALMOST forever, we assume, there will be Aprils and the millracc will he calm and there will he cool green grass under Ore gon’s trees. What right has anyone to encroach upon our Aprils? Or our .Mays or .Junes or Decem bers? We still are several thousands of miles away from Hitler and his ilk. After all. air planes haven’t yet made the world small enough to put us in Europe. Let's keep our Aprils like this one.—1\ H. In Thirty More Years AT Harvard the freshman class recently committed political suicide hy wiling to abolish freshman class elections. What ap peared to he suicide, however, was merelv a coup do grace, since tin* class members had little opportunity to know each other and as a result votes were dictated by "false and illogical standards." At Oregon all four classes elect officers. On many occasions the votes have been dic tated by false and illogical standards. In one election they were purchased Tay the inter ested candidates. Last year several sets of officers were chosen by a group of twontv five or thirty politicians, meeting late in some Iraternity house. In all classes only a privi leged few who purchase the right to vote at Students Distrust Neutrality Act as Peace Guarantee By Student Opinion Surveys of America AUSTIN, Texas, April 17 Ask one hundred typical American college students whether they believe the present, neutrality law can keep the United States out of war, and less than seven will answer "yes.” An overwhelming majority of 9.3 per cent of the students of the nation shake their heads at the possible effectiveness of the law in case of war, interviewers on campuses from coast to coast have discovered in a poll conducted by the Student Opinion Surveys of America. The Oregon Daily Emerald cooperates in the polls. Students Agree With Populace With congress wrangling over neutrality and the president reportedly ready to back any move to repeal the act, student opinion is in tune with general public opinion, which has given various indications that the United States should take a firm stand on the side of the democracies. The question in the survey: “Do you believe our present neutrality law can keep us out of war?” The answers: YES .6.7 per cent NO .93.3 per cent And with remarkable uniformity, students of almost every part of the country think the same way, in almost identical numbers. No Law Effectual Most common reason given for the ineffective ness of the neutrality act was that no law of any kind can keep the country out of a general war under the present system of international politics, mainly because of our economic interests. Said a Michigan student enrolled at Wayne university, “The act is little mote than useless. We could keep out of war probably if we aided countries in defeating nations which arc endangering our peace.” That opinion seems to reflect the sentiment of the majority of college men and women who in previous polls have voted this way: Sell planes to democracies and not to dictatorships, 52\8 per cent; approve of rearmament, 71.8 per cent; build an army and navy strong enough to protect the entire western hemisphere, 62 per cent. ->() poiiIs per head officially participate in act i vit ics. Il might not lx* a had idea for Oregon to following the example set by Harvard, 'flu* class system ol student government took 100 years to fall completely at the latter school. Il is last nearing the end of its usefulness on this campus, lint then perhaps it will take Oregon students .it) more years to come to a similar decision. Onceover Lightly The Alpha (Jams must have thought they hit the jackpot when they woke up yesterday morning to find their front porch strewn with pictures, lamps, guestbooks, and draperies. iltif the payoff came when the hoys from seven differ* nt fraternities dropped around to collect their belongings which had been mysteriously dis appearing since the beginning of spring term. Evidently some prankster had been pulling a raid on Hie Beta, Chi I’si, Sigma Nu, SAE, Sig lip, Fiji, and Sigma Chi houses. Today's Bad Time Story: Nisma Banta got turned over Cores! Van Dyn’s knee yesterday af ternoon, for a good old-fashioned spanking. We don't know exactly what for, but at least he didn’t hurt her feelings in public. He took her out of sight behind Dr. Erb’s holly hedge for the little ordeal. Attractive Barbara Benham, who created quite a furor on (his campus last year, will he up from California tor Junior weekend. Barbara was chosen tin' ideal coed at San Mateo junior college which she now attends. Well wager that the It. ,1. Caldwell stock sure goes up after the masculine population gets a look at the white satin strapless bathing suit she wears in the musical, "With Fear and Shaking All Over.” And another act that is good show stopping material is Janet Fames, in her ballet number. It pays to be good. Phyllis Saunders, Theta, and Fay Dixon, Phi Dolt, were so good at just out and out dancing, that they've been pressed into serv ice, and now they, too, are in the musical. Next year's Oregana editor, George Knight, lost no time in turning over his Phi Sig pin to Beva Horsley, Hendricks halier. And Steve Fowler, Sig Ep left his pin with Marian Paine Sunday night. Xnne Frederikson, AWS president, now has Huh Stephi ns,in's SAE pin, which came had; from Trudi Harhuul just a few short weeks ago. Norm Coster, Delt. planted his pin on Barbara Neti, Kappa. And you can't say it isn’t Neu's. The poor kid who was on the receiving end of the DC and DG flour-bagging concession, at the AWS carnival, was heard to remark: "I wish people wouldn't say it with flours." Mr. Gump, Jean Farrens’ little black puppy, even goes out on weekend dates with her. Jean takes hint along whenever it is convenient, and when the gentleman of the party doesn't object. While on this subject of dogs, you really gotta hand it to campus pooches when it comes to carry ing on a good, clean, wholesome popularity cam paign. which leaves even the winners still leading nothing but a dog's life. And something else: The Chi Psis' “quin-pup let" entry in the dog contest are the beer drinUUig est little mess of pups—. In the Mail • • • REVIVE TRADITIONS? To the Editor: What is Oregon tradition? I never heard of it, says the majority of the freshman class. Hello walk? Where is it? Senior bench? Never heard of it. And this, my friends, is the sad .state of af fairs as far as Oregon’s traditions are concerned. Yesterday two freshman girls were told to walk down hello walk and urged to say hello to everyone they met. Out of the 20 people they met, seven they knew, and those seven spoke. The other 13 walked by with their noses in the air, without even answering the girls’ feeble attempts at re viving the old tradition about speaking to every one they pass on hello walk. Are we snobbish ? Is Oregon going to forget all of her old traditions? Just yesterday three sophomores sat on the senior bench for 35 minutes, and what happened ? Nothing. Ten people who were interviewed yesterday, said that it was their opinion that tradition makes the school, to a certain extent. One lad advanced the opinion that tradition would be a great selling angle for this University. A girl in a speech class Monday gave a speech upon this subject. She spoke from a freshman's viewpoint, in saying that Oregon's traditions were not revealed to her until she had been here a term or so. Is this neg'lect. on the part of the living organ izations in not. telling the traditions to their fresh man classes. Or does anyone know all of the old traditions? After considerable interviewing it was concluded that almost all of the students are in favor of reviving our traditions. As someone calm ly put it, “Let's shake the dust off of them and taring them hack." Betty Hamilton. WHO’S TO BLAME? To the Editor: I wish to make an answer to that half of the students who, reported in the first page editorial of Tuesday’s Emerald, said that the cause of cheating was "a laxness of exam supervision.” When such a belief as this one persists and half of the student body do not see the obvious fallacy of such a belief, a question arises as to what is the real cause of the fallacy. The fundamental cause of the fallacy is that students who cheat, as well as those who do not, simply want to pass the buck on the cheating issue. Students showing a certain weakness of character will blame anyone else, do anything else, but they won’t do the proper thing: Blame their own members whom they know are cheating and begin to make it hell and hot for the student who does cheat. This ought to be a student problem, handled by students in a student way; but what apparently is lacked is plain courage. By all means, let us solve the cheating prob lem, but put the blame where 99 per cent of it belongs: on the students, not on the professors. Wyburd Furrell. By BILE CUMMINGS Finding a suitable man to oppose John Dick in the race for ASUO president seems to be a difficult task, judging from the _ number of meetings which have been held by tiie Delta Upsilon faction, which is openly work ing for the defeat of the Sigma iN'u candidate. Last night the six small houses again got together with the dorm representatives to talk over campaign plans, following a meeting Monday night at which it was tentatively decided to run a dark horse candidate. Name of the dark horse is be ing withheld until the faction makes a definite deaision, but that decisoin was very likely reached in the DU pow-wow room late last night after tlia Emerald was put to bed. So far, the aspirants far stu dent body president run liku this: John Dick, Scott Corbett, Verdi Sederstrom, and the dark I»K. HUESTIS TO TALK AT WESTMINSTER HOUSE Dr. R. R. Huestis of the zoology department will speak on war problems at the social problems discussion group at Westminster bouse, Mrs. J. D. Bryant an nounced yesterday. The meeting will be held from 9 to 10 o’clock Wednesday evening. horse candidate. Just which of these men arc picked by the. final blocs remains to be seen, but shakeups in house align ments will settle the race down to two main candidates before the campaign is over. Sophomores are confronted with much the same situation, as the campaign for junior class president will be controlled largely by ASUO politicians seeking to line up straight tick ets. Bob Carlon has appeared on the scene as a possible oppo nent for Jim Pickett for prexy of the junior class. Looking Back_ WITH JIMMIE LEONARD One year ago—Oregon's ten nis squad won from Willametle, 7 to 0. The frosh baseball team won their first game from Lin coln high, 7-6, and tied the sec ond, 0-0, after rain stopped the game. Led by Bob Beard, Jack Cole man, Bob Hardy, and Ford “Flivver” Mullen, the varsity diamond boys tripped ONS, 7 to 4. Barbara Ward, contralto, and Marian Hagg, pianist, pleased a large crowd who heard their re cital in the music auditorium. LaVon Oddy was Bernadine Bowman’s “Coed of the Week.” Miss Oddy was a senior in phy sical education, and came to U. of O. from Butler university in Indianapolis, Indiana. She was a member of the University Co operative house. At Butler she was affiliated with Kappa Kap pa Gamma. Alyce Rogers informed: “We learn of vice and virtues From very different points; The good we learn At mother's knee— The bad at other joints.” Two years ago—Ten candi dates were chosen for queen of Junior weekend. They were Frances Johnston, Florence Smith, June Martin, Frances Schaupp, Helen Mitchell, Rhoda Armstrong, Betty Pownall, Che rie Brown, Peggy Vermillion, and Betty Jane Casey. After winter term nouse CPAs were released, it was learned that Pi Kappa Alpha led with a 2.8506. The Univer sity Co-op was second with a 2.8225. Three years ago—The Chris tensen ballet company ended the ASUO spring concert se ries at the Igloo. John Lewis, basketball star, and Del Bjork, all-coast foot ball guard, were running for the Order of the "O” presidency. Four years ago—The Ducks dumped Portland university, 5 to 0. Don McFadden tossed three-hit ball; Andy Hurney hit a homer; and Harvey McCall batted 1.000. Five years ago—With the Ig loo decorated as a Japanese garden, the campus shook loose at the Frosh Glee. The Oregon nine took Wil lamette, G to 3. Ten years ago—The freshmen published that worthy campus organ, the Emerald. Epitaph; “Here lies the body Of Sam McKee; He offered' a drink To an Alnha Phi.” EXAMINER OF DRIVERS TO BE IN EUGENE Glenn Bown, examiner of opera tors and chauffeurs for the Ore gon state automobile license de partment, will be at the Knights of Pythias hall downtown Thurs day, Friday, and Saturday to ex amine applicants for licenses. He will be on duty between 8 ill the morning and 5 o'clock. Zeiss Cameras, Agfa Film DOTSON’S I is THERE A STRAIN 5* ON YOUR FAMILY TIES? ARROW TIES ARE BETTER BUYS, y SEE THIS WEEK’S POST / - K After months of studying t e original Mein Kampf, the Nazi Bible, in the light of current news, the author interprets its tru meaning for the world in general and S Amok»sinpar.ic»lar.H=,»o,es Hitler in support of his conclusions. ”or « simple key » Hitler’s personal ' aim, and p»nK»». „ ’ to cage 23 andread Blueprint for Hell IRA JEWELL WILLIAMS, 1R It was a nice trap Mrs. Penterby Cheadle arranged tor the debs. "I thought Americans could do anything, ’ she purred. “Why don t ’ you join US in a fox hunt ?”... if v°“re member what hap pened when Swing an-d Audrey ••crashed” the Coro nation, don't mis3 this! 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