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
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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
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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.
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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?
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SEE THIS WEEK’S POST
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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»».
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Blueprint for Hell
IRA JEWELL WILLIAMS, 1R
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Mrs. Penterby
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outlook of a slightly inebriated undergraduate”
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WHY STALIN SHOT HIS GENERALS.
Why were the leaders of the Red Army
executed? And just when Hitler was sup
posed to be preparing for war? Now, for
the first time, the true story is revealed.
By the former head of Stalin's secret ser
vice abroad. General W. G. Krivitsky.
“I’D GET MARRIED—EXCEPT FOR
MOTHER,” Kenry said. But can young
people in love wait forever? Read this
short story by Curlin Reed, I Don’t
Know, Son. On page 18 of the Post.
STRANGE SOS... from a ship’s radio
operator 19 years old, in love and waiting
to die. Read about it in Song of Larnock,
by Albert Richard VVetjen.
“I LIKE BEING A PLUMBER!" says
Alfred L. Gehri. In Plumbing's No Pipe,
he shows you why it’s a career he’d rec
ommend to young men... PLUS articles,
short stories, editorials, fun and cartoons.
EVEN.