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The Oregon ^ai>y 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.
ELISABETH ANN JONES, editor-in-chief
BERNADINE BOWMAN, associate editor
BEULAH CHAPMAN, managing editor
BETTY JANE THOMPSON, assistant manag
ing editor
SALLY MITCHELL, sports
CORR1ENE ANTRIM, copy editor
JESSIE HEIDER, night editor
REPORTERS Jean Adams, Marie Boje, Alice
Joy Frizzell, Margaret Girvin, Corine Lamon,
Mary K. Riordan, Ger ry Walker.
DESK STAFF—Miriam Hale.
PROOFREADER- Claire Lyon.
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Saturday day manager: Milton Weiner
The Man Who Stayed on Top
rjpjIE surprise poll taken at dinner on Tues
day nielli by members of the women’s
edition staff of the Emerald was designed
1o surprise the truth from Oregon students
on just whom they really do consider the out
standing citizen of Oregon.
Every attempt was made to eliminate
elaborate campaign Incites and promotion for
any one individual. No announcement of the
project was made in advance. No publicity
preceded the selection. It was simply a process
of collecting student opinion from every liv
ing organization on the campus at a given
time to see just who is the “first citizen" of
Oregon.
And the first citizen is ASIK) President
Harry Weston.
Congratulations to Weston ... it is a good
man who can keep his public behind him after
a full term in office. A year ago at the .Junior
weekend campus luncheon he shouldered the
job that is at once the greatest honor and the
heaviest responsibility conferred upon a stu
dent during his I'niversity career. Now, at
the end of his term ni office, lie is still the
first choice of his fellow students.
Joe Soap Said to Me
doe threw open the office door mid
stomped in.
'*Where's Deulsrh?" he asked, grinning
happily.
“Not here, . . . tomorrow is women's edi
tion,” 1 was surprised to see doe looking so
happy. Hut the grin, faded from his face aC
I told him. A look of desolation and disgust
spread over his face.
‘‘Yeah? ... An' just when everything was
beginning to look pretty good, too.”
That made me mad.
‘‘.Fasten, doe, the gals can put out just
as good a sheet as you fellows. We did it
last year and we’ll do it again this year."
‘‘All right, all right, but why the devil
do you have to put out the women’s edition
right in the middle of the best fight we’ve
ever staged against bloc polities. Women
don’t ...”
‘‘If you're going to say that women don't
understand polities, I’ll scream! The women
on the campus know what's going on as much
as anyone, and they are even more ready
than the fellows to do something about it," 1
snapped.
"That s the trouble. ' .Foe began gritting
his teeth. "They'll do something all right . . .
they'll gum up the whole works! That's what
they’ll do!”
"Stop sizzling, doe. Our slogan is ‘vote for
the most qualified candidates' . . . Hut we
are only following Kmcrald policy in our
issue, so don't get excited.”
"Well, ' doe growled, somewhat pacified
but still suspicious, "What's all this straw
vote talk I ve been hearing about . . . picking
the ‘first citizen of the University?’ "
That hnsn 1 anything to do with polities
... it is the first contest put over strictly “on
the level, without electioneering and gra\v
ladling that has been sponsored on the cam
pus in a long time. We thought it up as a
means of protest against the score or so of
contests that have been overrunning the cam
pus the last couple of years. Wo decided that
it campus polities arc to he cleaned up, the
women will have to start the ball rolling .
so we did ! ”
I guess that was what doe wanted to know,
because he stopped ranting then, and started
out the door, looking happier than lie had
in a long time. 1 didn’t blame him . . . things
ARK looking better with nine capable candi
dates in the field for the ASl'O executive
committee.
"I m not worth the 35-cent admission price"
said Herb Caen, San Francisco columnist, sitting
down on the speakers' platform at the University
of California the other day. “You can read me
any day in the paper for a nickel."
PURE P
U uRUiSING
With Carol
I'm afraid if this column were an advocate of
the “Purity” movement it would probably plop —
so I’ll see what’s to be done about not purifying
Oregon but then this is a women's edition. It’s a
poor deal to write at the beginning of a weekend
and by Tuesday the best has slipped the mind!
Anyhow, we hear the Betas are having the BIG
dance of the year tonight. Considering that they’ve
been working on decorations for three weeks, it
should be. Understand they never get hi-school
rushees dates with these fellows—wonder why?
Oregon had its turn at the goldfish craze re
cently when a few ATOs bet .lay Graybeal and
Paul Cushing $2.25 to eat a beautiful three-tailed
fan affair—and as the two went after the little
fellow the owner of the fish objected because his
girl friend gave it to him. Too bad.
As for pins, well, after this weekend there
probably won’t be any around in the fraternities.
As for some yet unprinted information, Ann Boss
inger, Kappa, is wearing Fred Davis’ Fiji pin and
Barbara Fulton, Theta, has Bob Biehards’ Fiji
pin. Then we see Phil Barrett’s Theta Chi pin
being worn by Robin Nelson, Chi O, and Marge
Finnegan, another Chi O, has John Slatte’s
Lambda Chi emblem (OSC). Bobby Anet will be
escorting Betty Funkhauser, Gamma Phi, to the
Sigma Nu dance tomorrow night. She’s down for
the weekend. And then there’s that gossip about
a Phi Delt pin on Betty Jean Caldwell (the Body
Beautiful Ballyhoo gal of "Fear and Trembling")
belonging to Ray Houghton.
* * *
Lost A lead pencil by Nick Dallas, blonde, blue
eyes, six feet two, smooth line, good dancer. Finder
please call 1024 between the hours of 7 and 9.
OFF THE CURB: Karl Wester, DU, is now
soloing it again. . . . Have you heard Jack Gavin’s
“college version” of “Hickory dickory dock?"
Don’t miss it! . . . Was very interesting to listen
to a well-known Chi Psi and a Phi Delt, members
of Skull and Dagger, become cleverly commentary
about their new members at the Frosh Glee as
they paraded under the blades. Such as: “Where’d
they import that one from?” . . . “He’s my room
mate that’s why he’s in” . . . “notice the char
acter in that profile?” . . . “Oh, how’d I get in?
Oh, my roommate was one” . . . (Oecassionally, in
their opinion, a good man went up) ... She was
only a surgeon’s daughter, but, oh, what a cutup!
. . . Queenie Glad will be spending today at the
beach with Lloyd Hoffman . . . Have you noticed
DO I’at Walsh’s resemblance to Simone Simone?
Then there’s the basketball player fhose wife had
driplets . . . Incidentally Storky is about as smooth
as they come. . . . La Clede La Forrest will be back
on the campus for Junior weekend ... as will
Carol Perkins, Leonard Iseberg’s ATO girl . . . .
Trouble between the Gamma Phis and Kappa Sigs,
meaning Jean Kueass and Hob Morris and also
Jt'nn Miller and Darrell Evans . . . Hill Fugit, ATO,
apparently has his eyes on Angie Adelsich, so
watch for developments, and that goes for Connie
Carman, Fiji, and Theta’s Margaret Spliid, also
. . . Kicliard Barger and an unidentified as yet
ADPi have a wistling bee every evening just after
10:30 bidding goodnight, which can be heard for
blocks around and they never miss an evening.
What Other Editors Believe
Till'- COLLEGE STUDENT—
.\ NEW SOCIAL ORDER
College students are called all sorts of names
by all sorts of people, and every kind of adjective
is applied to them. “Conceited" and "paradoxical"
are the most popular because somewhere along the
line of development students get the idea that they
are something set apart from the “great un
washed." How they get the idea is difficult to
ascertain. None of them has hail an opportunity
to do anything that might have set them apart
as some kind of special humanity. The fact that
they are in college is indicative of nothing except
that their parents are able to foot the bills. And
yet the creatures who scurry around college cam
puses are able to instill in the rest of the popula
tion air honest contempt for their attitude of
superior ity.
The very existence of this colossal vanity gives
point to the application of the label, paradoxical.
In every campus bull session where political and
economic systems are discussed, concepts of democ
racy and social equality are enthusiastically re
iterated, but when the time for action arises, the
college students forget the philosophical rantings
of bis bull session and assumes the pose of an
intellectual aristocrat.
Even in the campus the student’s democratic
ideals exist only in the shadows of the undemo
cratic institutions he builds. Pins and keys replace
money as the standard of social acceptability.
Perhaps the college student's reputation for con
ceit arises from ignorance of the fact that the
r est of the wor ld does not accept his pins and keys
as symbols of ability or accomplishment. Perhaps
he may not know that the rest of the world does
not give a hang about what he thinks, but only
how he acts. Daily Trojan.
According to the University of Utah Chronicle,
"Cheating in examinations must be stopped. Where
only occasional fudging takes place on the part
of some befogged individual, we may well afford
to be tolerant, but when the practice becomes
an organized method whereby •leading students’
maintain their scholastic averages, something
ought to be done."
John Cobbs, who writes "The Bull Session,"
column for the Stanford Daily said of the Indian
political system, ", . . as I watch the current
scramble around the grab-bag. I am inclined to
believe that we make politics a game simply be
cause we don’t dare take it seriously.”
The CALLIOPE....
By BERNADINE BOWMAN
Editor’s note: The women’s staff of the Em
erald advocates the same policy that has been
pursued recently! That the students and not the
politicians elect the members of the ASUO execu
tive committee, voting- for candidates on the basis
of their qualifications. The women’s staff takes
responsibilities for the article below.
Leading bloc politicians halted their, maneuvers
last night for various social affairs just long
enough to give observers an opportunity to view
the situation.
Suggestions for ways to cover the political
muddle have been submitted to the Emerald by
numerous outside interests. Some would have the
Emerald run an impartial survey of the candi
dates’ qualifications. This plan is not feasible be
cause it takes something more to explain the
qualifications of such a man as Verdi Sederstrom
whose campus activities have been limited to two
head of ASUO drives, Skull and Dagger, and other
minor appointments.
An impartial survey would also be stymied
by the failure of John Dick and his supporters to
give informatoin. He not only failed to write a
statement stating his platform but he does not
satisfactorily explain the fact that he will be off
the campus for an extended basketball trip through
the East and South, not to mention the regular
winter term schedule. Or perhaps he is going to
give up basketball for the career of a president.
John could have said plenty in a 100-word
statement, in spile of his protest to that effect.
At least he could have partially smoothed over
that dozen words of his at the assembly to the
effect that he had “all the qualifications for presi
dent’’ and wanted everyone to vote for him.
If John would come out from behind that im
penetrable front of his perhaps these assumptions
could be cleared up.
The latest bloc developments find offers going
to the non-bloc nominees to run second on their
tickets. All offers have been turned down.
a: * a:
One of the men behind the political scenes is
Dick Williams, business manager of the Oregana.
Because of his job he has tried to keep his name
out of the paper. He should not be in politics since
he has already got his due on the campus, and it
wasn’t through the bloc system. He was selected
for the job on his own merits as judged by a board.
The same principle could and should be applied to
campus politics. The principle of —
Voting for the most qualified candidates.
- Zane Kemler, political manager of the Seder
strom bloc, has for some time stood for a number
of things that are greatly admired cn the campus.
His work on the student union plans has been
carried out exceptionally well, to mention only
one of the constructive things he has accomplished
this year. His present political movements make
one wonder, however, if he isn't a man seeking
revenge for last year's undoings. It's such people
as Zane that could set the political secent straight
if he so desired. He, a leader of the bloc system,
admits that it has its evils. But rather than take
a step in the light direction he set up a tarnished
example of the bloc system.
Every persons should be permitted to express
the strength of his convictions and if Zane thinks
Verdi is the man with the qualifeiations for the
job, let him back Verdi on those qualifications
rather thin by means of a bloc. But let people •
Vote for the most qualified candidates.
The solid dorm vote has been virtually with
drawn from the Sederstrom bloc on the grounds
that they'll vote for the best man. One of its
leaders has withdrawn from the political front, and
the other, lacking the strength of his own convic
tions, continues to hold out empty promises. The
dorms still remember Barney Hall - and the spirit
he created still persists in those quarters. They'll
vote no bloc but -
Vole for the most qualified candidate.
As for the sororities they rarely vote solid.
Blame it on the girls’ political naiveness if you
will but it could be a sincere desire on their part
to—
Vote for the best qualified.
The exceptions to this generality are a few
sororities that have something to gain in the
coming election or have received favors in the
past. The rest of the sororities are aware of the
fact that there is very little gravy to be dished
out by the president, since all appointments have
to be voted on by the ASUO executive committee.
So rather than play sucker to a few politically am
bitious men, they choose to—
Vote for the most qualified candidates.
In the
Mail
To the Editorcss:
On this occasion when the wo
men journalists have their day
in court, the feminine future
lawyers wish to take judicial
notcie of the gross and inaccu
rate underestimation of their
numbers duly recorded in the
editorial columns of the Daily
Emerald on May 4, 1939. That
official organ of corrupt politi
cians which usually records its
libels with such high and un
impeachable inaccuracy under
estimated the size of the femi
nine contribution to the law
school student body by, towit,
the sum of fully three-fourths.
”*Had any of these disciples of
journalistic inaccuracy taken
the trouble to investigate other
places than the local beer par
lors, Hendricks park, or the
graveyard frequented by our
masculine peers they could have
discovered us without the aid of
bifocals. During' all of our wak
ing hours we can be found
buried deep in dusty tomes in
tent on learning how to secure
easy divorces, how to leave un
paid hotel bills but not all of
our worldly possessions with the
innkeepr, and other useful bits
of knowledge.
We admit that these arduous
labors have made 11s verbose of
language, nearsighted fro m
overwork, and solemn of mien
so that we are no longer num
bered among the sprightly cam
pus queens. We have willingly
made all of these sacrifices in
view of the greater damages to
come, but now that the last full
measure of ignominy has been
heaped upon us without prior
adjudication of our rights, we
wish to appeal to the Supreme
Court fo Public Opinion on the
ground that we have been sen
tenced to become nonentities
without notice or hearing and
in violation of due process of
law.
Signed and sealed this fifth
day of May, A.D. 1939.
The Four Bar Maids,
Helen Gorrell,
Grace Kingsley,
Doris Colvin
Betty Brown
Archery Classes
See Coburg Man's
Bow Laboratory
A field trip to the archery-mak
ing shop of Wilbur Cochran at Co
burg was made Thursday by the
archery class of Earl E. Boushey,
assistant professor in physical edu
cation. Here the class witnessed
thousands of arrows and bows in
the process of construction.
The shop is housed in a log cab
in near to Mr. Cochran'S house. He
has a collection of interesting rel
ics pertaining to types of bows
formerly used, and a few fire
arms.
An outstanding feature to the
29 students who went was the re
freshments served by Mr. and Mrs.
Cochran. This year's trip was the
first one to include girls.
Looking
Back....
WITH MIRIAM HALE
One year ago today—Junior
Weekend began with Virginia
Regan reigning as queen of the
festivities. The first Oreganas
were also distributed through
out this day. Harry Weston be
came president of the ASUO.
Mrs. Donald M.' Erb arrived
on the campus for a four-day
visit. She was honor guest at
all Junior weekend functions.
Two years ago today—For
the first time in the history of
the University the preferential
voting system wras used in the
election of ASUO officers. The
candidate receiving the highest
number of votes became presi
dent, the second highest, vice
president. the third highest, sec
ond vice-president, and the
fourth highest, secretary-treas
urer. Candidates were: Gladys
Battleson, Noel Benuon, Bill
Dalton, Sam Fort, Barney Hall,
Clare Igoe, Bill Pease, Frances
Schaupp, Dave Silver, and Eliz
abeth Turner.
Three years ago today—Mary
McCracken and Jean Stevenson,
Oregon coeds, challenged any
one on the campus to a log
rolling contest during the water
carnival of Junior weekend.
Six years ago today—A meet
ing was held to decide upon the
senior class’ suggestion that the
boys’ dorm be named after John
Straub, Oregon's “Grand Old
Man.”
Sleeping Type Mainliner
I art ot l nited Air One’s fleet of -’ll Douglas-built uiainliners are sleeping plant's accommodating
It passengers in berths as large as tuin Itt'ds. These planes, on a three-stop overnight coast-to-coast
schedule, attain a cruising speed of 190 miles per hour using only OS per cent of the available power.
Onceover Lightly
By SALLY MlfCltfeLL and PAT T VVl.OR
Wimmin—
From the wimmin’s standpoint:
We’ve wanted to defend us poor defenseless for some time
And we think it’s high time we did it—
Making sure it would get in the paper—
By waiting for the wimmin’s edition.
You know how men are.
Men say we can never make up our minds—
Of course we can. Well, maybe sometimes we can’t
But we usually can.
Sometimes.
As far as gold-digging goes—
Well, you men were right in there in the rush of '40
Or '98
Or whenever in heck it was.
And this business of being catty
Is all perfectly ridiculous
Why, anyone with good sense can sec
That the way that girl dresses is simply teurible!
And when it comes to playing H.T.G.
We simply let you cha.se us until we catch you.
Anyhow we'd rather play H.T.G. and have dates
Than not—and have dates Hard to Get.
Who can’t take it—
Listen smarties: did you ever sleep on 15 curlers every night?
And eyebrow plucking is no picnic.
How many eyebrows have you ever plucked ?
As for us wimmin being “silly”
Why, how you talk.
We dus sinks oo is a pitty mans . . . tant oo see ?
Tee hee.
And here’s where our spring hat comes in.
(That's because it’s spring). We—ell, it may be a bit batty,
But if you’ll grin and bear it,
We’ll grin and wear it.
And this idea of keeping you waiting,
And being vain . . .
That is the most mistaken notion yet,
Anyhow, what can you expect if you’re on time ?
You want us to be purty, dontcha?
Vain . . . mmph!
Oh. oh! Is our lipstick on straight?
Feminine Sharpshooters
Rival Men's National
Championship Record
The Oregon girls’ rifle team may
not have a silver trophy in a case
at the ROTC barracks but it has
accumulated a good share of hon
or during the past year.
Sergeant Harvey Blythe, coach
of the team, and also the instruc
tor who led the men’s team to na
tional championship, stated yes
terday that although the girls'
team was just formed three years
ago it is fast becoming the best
women's team in the United- States.
During the 1939 season it fired
a total of 13 postal matches, win
ning 9, losing 2 ,and tying 21 Two
shoulder to shoulder matches were
fired, the girls winning one from
the Oregon freshman boys’ team
and losing one to the University of
Washington team at Seattle, who
this season won the National In
tercollegiate Championship for
girls. Various interteam and buddy
matches were also shot during the
year.
Master Dance Group
Will Honor Mothers
“Sophisticated Lady” is the title
of a solo dance to be given by
Charlene Jackson for the Master
Dance recital on May 12. It is
performed to the tune “Sophisti
cated Lady,” which was popular
several years ago.
The number is slow, smooth, and
sustained, following the pattern of
the familiar tune. Its rhythmic
quality, almost a sweet swing, is
not lost in the somewhat restricted
possibilities of solo movement.
Instructor, Students
Explore Indian Caves
Dr. L. S. Cressman, head of the
department of anthropology, and
three anthropology students, left
this morning for a hike up the
Umqua river to explore some caves
containing Indian relics.
The trip will require a hike of
about eight or nine miles and Dr.
Cressman says they will "stumble
out Saturday evening.”
Making the trip are Carl Hufi
aker, Wilbur Greenup, and Allen i
Murphy. They will be guided by
J. R. Wharton of Roseburg.
After nine successive years on
the University of Oregon faculty ;
as assistant professor in physical
education, Earl E. Boushey is plan- !
ning to take sabbatical leave dur
ing the 1939-40 school year. Mr.
Boushey will go to Stanford to
work for his doctor's degree in
education. He has already two 1
summer’s start on his work, and |
will add this coming summer’s
work to the hours needed for fill
ing his requirement. Mr. Boushey
took his MA degree at Oregon and
his BA at UCLA.
MRS. DE COU TO SPEAK
Guest of the YWCA cabinet at '
its meeting Monday evening at 9 |
o’clock. Mrs. E. E. DeCou. ad-'
visory board member, will tell the <
cabinet something of the work and c
scope of the YWCA, Bettylou ■
Swart, president, said yesterday, j <
Emotional Scene Portrayed
The mixed intermediate and ad
vanced class are planning- a num
ber, “Plaintive Episode,” which ex
presses mass movement. The
group of 15 or 20 girls move as a
unit in the beginning, then break
off into two distinct actions. One
group sways in a submissive or
defeated motion, while the other
reaches beseechingly as if to bring
the former group back to the or
iginal unit.
Women's Edition
(Continued from page one)
men's and the women’s special edi
tions started.
Beginning then, each group put
cut an edition entirely without
the aid of any member of the other
group, and the losers in the battle
of the sexes threw a party for the
other group.
The girls show they are just as
capable a.s the men—sometimes
they win, sometimes the men get
the honors. ^
Dean Allen Worked Hard
At least, the women are appar
ently more capable than they were
back in 1910. Dean Allen of the
school of journalism declared in
1921:
“About nine years ago, when I
came here, I had to write about
half of the Women’s Emerald. Jun
ior weekend was a strenuous time
for me. I worked all day and all
night helping the girls get out the
paper.”
Is it a different story now? Ask
the girls!
GILBERT OFF CAMPUS
Dean James H. Gilbert is at
tending a meeting of the executive
board of the Oregon State confer
ence of sociology work Saturday
Horning.
Ted Shawn, director of the fam
>us troup of men dancers, is the T
>nly dancer ever to* receive an hon
>rary degree from a United States
:ollege.