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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1940)
The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the University of Oregon, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods. Subscription rates: $1,26 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Ore. Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., college publishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago—Boston—Los Angeles—San Erancisco—Portland and Seattle. BUD JERMAIN, Editor Lyle Nelson, Managing Editor GEORGE LUOMA, Manager Jim Frost, Advertising Manager Helen Angell, News Editor George Pasero, Co-sports Editor Elbert Hawkins, Co-sports Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Betty Jane Thompson, Chief Night Editor Jimmie Leonard, Assistant Managing Editor Hal Olney, Assistant Managing Editor Marge Finnegan, Women’s Editor •lark Bryant,. Staff Photographer ls.cn Christianson, Assistant Sports Editor Mary Ellen Smith, National Advertising Frederick Ehlers, Classified Manager BUSINESS STAFF’ Bay Cook, Merchandising Manager Herb Anderson, Circulation Manager Charles Kenyon, Staff Photographer Executive Secretaries: Janet Farnham Emily Tyree Guillotine for a Golden Goose . AJP llu> University of Washington last week there was evidence that athletic idealists had been at work, the evidence being in the shape of a story in the Washington Daily, ■ Husky equivalent of the Emerald. Burden of the argument was concerned with the business of making athletics amateur in fact instead of only in name. Impetus for the news item in the Daily came directly from the Pacific Coast confer ence, indirectly from Ex-G-Man Edwin Ather ton, who spent the last two years finding out what makes athletics the big business it is. Atherton, in his comprehensive report man aged to throw a scare into representatives of , conference schools the like of which they probably have neve r collectively known before. TyjOVEMIONTS like this are not a new tiling. They spring lip periodically. The only tiling different, about 1 his outburst is ils origin, which is with the conference itself. Usually football and its kindred sports take their lambasting at the hands of some inspired, scholarly professor who is about 1o throw up bis hands at tile futility of trying to compete with tin1 color and nervousness of athletics as a field of interest. Here the conference deliberately went out to learn the score for itself. “There is a definite movement on fool to eliminate proselyting and subsidization from intercollegiate sport, and the conference has taken the lead in actually setting up the ma chinery." the Daily quotes Athletic Director Kay Eekmann, fresh from his participation in the Los Angeles meeting of conference repre sentatives. /j£'MIE proselyting of athletes is so universal as to need no explaining as to methods. It is generally known that athletes no longer give their all for the old alma mater on senti mental grounds a lone. They get paid for what they do. And they have to produce or they don I get paid. It is also no secret that high school athletes who look like good prospects are approached long before their graduation, ami if they are good enough they get their pick ol several schools. Now, the Daily re ports, the prep star will go to the universities, rather than the universities going to the prep stars. The “evils,” real or fancied, of college athletics have long been an unsolved problem. At first glance it might seem simple to go ahead and clean house, and it might even seem desirable to give sports bark to those who would play for the joy of it. It is true that there can be little glamor in it for the athlete who is in practice continually remind ed that he has a job to (to or be lopped from the payroll. As an argument for the giving of educations to many who would not other wise be able to partake', proselytized athletics lose their force in the face of the scholastic, showing in general turned in by such “he roes.” And their condition is not their fault, for by the time they have put in a full work ing day on the gridiron, court, or track, six months out of the year they have little left for studies, even with a three-quarter study program. Then, as seniors, their usefulness ended, they get cut off anyway. # * * the other hand, there can be no doubt that intercollegiate athletics have out grown their original function. Where before was sport there now is business, big business. The athletic goose lays golden eggs, and everyone knows the story of what happened when the legendary goose was killed. This is perhaps the biggest difficulty in the way of non-proselyting of athletics. It takes winning teams to make money, it takes good men to make good teams, and you can't get good men without competing for them in the field of open bidding. It was a long time before anyone would even admit that college athletes were getting paid, even it il did happen to be only “board, room, and tuition.” Pay for play? Perish the thought. Now it is admitted that there is pay, but there is no way of knowing just how much, or why it is that a prospect will choose the way he does. Once accepted, proselyting will be harder to stamp out than an oil-weli fire. J^\ LN I I ALIA (lie si ii I us of intercollegiate athletics ■will he ■worked out lo flic sat is - laelion ol everyone. 'I'liere is a general feeling 1 Lai soiuclIiin«r out lo he done, although just w hat that something might he is much eon lused. It may he that the coast conference is 011 Li*' I'ight road, that if, really wants to tumitcumc its sports. But as long as Bose Bowl games draw crowds of 102,000, as long as college cash boxes replenish themselves through athletics, as long as the pressure remains on to produce winners, it is doubtful that conference schools or any other will he in any great haste to cut themselves off at the purse strings, it is about the same principle as disarmament. The BAND BOX H.v BILI, MOXLKV Kay Kyser's picture “That’s Right, You’re Wrong,” current ly playing at a downtown thea ter, has brought forth such good box office results that the Ol' Professor and his gang are soon to he starred in another vehicle. Some Kyser fans may be a little disappointed in “That's Right, You're Wrong'' because of the overabundance of intricate theme and minor characters. The picture would have a great deal more punch and appeal if there was les talking and more of that fam ous “Makes you want to dance music." However, if you like Kvscr you will probably like “That's Right You're Wiong lame Rides a Ripple It all sounds liks a beautiful dream to those who haven't heard the story of Kate ami Shep Field >. Shop \va t just an other run-cf-thc-mill band le I er until that memorable night in Chicago when an u.e cream soda lifted him to the road of popularity on which h- ha.; stayed evci since, Shop v.v playing at the Palmer house vhen Mrs Kidd- blew through a straw' into a chocolate -oda and accidentally cau od the birth of “Rippling Rhythm" With Uie adoption of this new feature, Khcp knew lie had found tiiat certain .ometluns which jmhvidualiz i band and i-iif'h;. tb. i £UCCCf.C. Shop experimented for weeks with different kinds of glasses and bowls to find just the type of ripple he wanted. He finally located a set of six finger bowls, while playing at an eastern ho tel, each of which produced just the effect he was looking for. Five of these bowls have since been lost or broken and Shop carries the sixth one around with extreme cure and tenderness. Bob MacGimscy, the com poser of "Shadrach,” is the only person in the world who can whistle three notes at the same time. . . . Abe Lyman is this month celebrating his twenty filth year as a maestro. . . . Wee Bonnie says that every thing she is today she owes to Coach Orrin Tucker who taught her the style and phrasing of each line in each song she has ever cooed. So Long. Lane Reserves Will Honor Senior ROTC Members An evening of fellowship and en tertainment. honoring the senior class of the University of Oregon reserve officers’ training corps, will bo sponsored by the Lane county chapter of the Organized Reserves association Friday. Jan uary 19. it was announced today by Captain Henry F. Bcistel n rebuy of the association. The affair, which will be inform al will be held at S pan. in Hi' i ampict room of the Del Key calc All tficcrs and cadets arc expect 'd to appear in uniform. Special gue. t for the event will be Colo nel R M Lyon, head of the Um veraty 1IOTC unit, and hi.- ; (ait The- get-together is an annual At nr A number e! cnb.iUiumcat i*..!lure. o bicu f. t. turn* nu'ralj>' BUSINESS PROMOTION STAFF: Kathleen Brady, Chairman Joan Stinnette Dorothy Horn Ken nett Lawrence Evelyn Nelson Mary Jean McMorris BUSINESS DKI’T. ASSISTANTS: Al.uy Ellen Smith, National Advertising Janet Kieg, Circulation STKCIAL ACCOUNTS: Khcu Anderson, Cliuirman Lynn Johnson Don Brinton EMERALD REPORTERS: Bob ModilJ Kav Srlinek Betty Jane Thompson Nisnm Banla Mildred Wilson Jeff Kitchen Betty Jane Biggg Marion While I'orothv Kreis Wes Sullivan I'rtt Kriekson Adrienne Hurry Corine Lanmn Elsie Brownell Jim Banks Edith Oglesby Helen Sawyer Connie Averill I im Bronson Jean Dunn Kelley Holbart M ei Holfcrt Jonathan Kahananui mi SI N ESS O !• TICE S ECR ETA R1ES : Hillie NN mle Iioyd Copcnhuver Sue Ehrhurt SPORT STAI-T: 1\1 gai ct Young Nancy Lewis Bernard Kn&cl Bob Max die Bob Pi'txvm 1 'on (iibbon Bill Pholp.. Austin Chancy Milt UxV Jim Schiller l.eii Halin' T»on <'ow ley I’aul t*i art \ Jim Browne 'Iucs(!ii> YiKerlisins Staff: Joan Crites, Hay Manager Adrienne Flurry Mary Kay Kiordan Don Gilbert Jim Gleeson Harriet Minturn < op> Desk Staff l'at Frizzell, Copy Kdttor Torn Wright. Assistant Wes Sullivan Jim Hank■ Joan ChryM ill Connie Averill M uy Ann Campbell Kioronce Anderson Jonathan Katiananui Night Staff: Kent Stitzrr. Night t sst'-r Lcrothy Kriea L'ditor Behind the BAlL With JACK BRYANT Bust Saturday’s column was ut least read, and those that did read it reacted strangely . . . pick up a copy of it and look for a varsity football player's name associated with a venture that he planted his pin just for pub licity . . . that’s a venture not soon to be tried again, at least until the millrace gets warmer . . he says he planted it for love, but then, ne waited until the millracing was over before committing himself. It didn't take long to get d, ied out and get up to the Siberrian and or der a bowl of soup . . . never saw that liquid though, ’cause in burst the Sigma Nus, riled over this column’s version of their Kappa Sig battle, it was the easiest exit possible, just flowing out the door with the boys careful not to drop their burden ... in their haste for the racing, they forgot to use the paddles, (sometimes not under standable) but, as ungraciously as before, into the race I sprawled, and came out about as fast as it was possible to go in. A warm shower soon melted off the ice, and the gracious hosts even tried to get the egg off the clothing, after they put it on of course. After dressing, lunch was served and everyone was happy. They’re as swell a bunch at millracing as they are at making you like ’em afterwards. The only trouble is that some of their small boys don’t know when to quit. . . . OTHER RE ACTIONS came from the IN SIGNIFICANT fellow who warned that such things should be watched . . . and from the GIBE WHO NEVER DOES ANYTHING, the most effective of all reactions, the ICEBERG style. $ * * Was sure there was some thing about Bob Smith and Kate Miller that could be printed, but memories are fickle things. . . . AnabeJ Hibbitt startles Sigma Chis as Verdi dates her twice. . . . Jim Murray gets a late call from a coed that wears a Sigma Chi pin. . . . Tedd Gebhart dates Roberta Bemen. . . . Bob Fla velle had so many chances for a date Saturday night that he de cided to make everyone happy by working. . . . Then there is tlie other type that didn't get any bids, so he’s changing com pany. . . . Ray Foster didn't get to dance with his date . . . she exchanged ’em all, he must dance very well, or else it was all planned before to punish him. . . . The frosh should be compli mented on the condition of the floor . . . other groups giving dances should follow their ex ample. . . . Why all the ATOs aijd Betas on the Military ball committee ? Jim Banks is now a candidate for the S-ball club because he squirmed out of initiation to take tickets at the dance Satur day, so reported, and then ap peared with Mary Belcher for an evening’s dancing. This could have been prophesied, but it’s no fun to spoil fun. I lantlilt; liy Proxy Norm Poster gets liis pin planted again! ttiis time on Jane Ivaarhoe, Phi O. . . . Jay Ain 11rose, just initiated hy the Belts, Mas given Poster's pin to near, hut Jay had other plans, he planted it on Jane. . . . The ques tion non is, does Poster have any grounds for ownership? Started to run a list of the people that stayed home Satur day nitc, but it would be much easier to print the names that went to the limp.Instead of tlie affair being an exposition of the coeds affection, it turned out that mostly those “steadies” were present. . . . Peggy Paris went with Louie Butkovich, Marilyn Wilbur took Diek Ash tom, Annette Turn took Fowler Wood. Daryl Evans was escort ed by Jean Campbell. There are l’t.j more, but. the race runs high! UNIVERSITY BUSINESS COLLEGE fcUOKIH.VMl — IVPEWKlTlNti l OMFLETE Bl SINESS POl R>ES Edward L. Kyatt, BE,. LL.B "\lgr. 1 C. o. F Euildg Phcrii -3io 1 Oriental Dinner Honors Faculty Japanese Theme Gives Company Idea of Customs An Oriental dinner was given 1 Sunday evening in Susan Camp bell hall for several faculty mem , bers by Michi Yasui , Darlene War ren, and Doris Hanson, who are i planning to visit Japan and other Far Eastern countries this sum ! mcr. The menu included rice, chow mein, noodle soup, fish cakes, sev i eral types of spiced meats, tea, and rice cakes. Favors made up of a cookie topped by a miniature flag of Japan were given to each guest. The evening was spent in recounting travel experiences and looking at travel literature. Japanese tapestries on the walls, lanterns, and Japanese dolls on the mantle carried out the Orien tal theme of the dinner. Associate professor N. B. Zane wore a Jap anese coat, and he and Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering sat on the floor in correct Japanese style. Both Dr. Zane and Mrs. Schwering have been in Japan recently. Most of the guests had done a lot of trav eling and had been to the Orient many times. Faculty guests included the fol lowing: K. W. Onthank, dean of personnel; Mrs. Alice B. Macduff, assistant dean of women; Miss Mabel A. Wood, head of the home economics department; N. B. Zane, associate professor of space arts; Doris E. Winters, instructor in home economics; W. D. Smith, head of the geography and geology departments; J. L. Casteel, direc tor of the speech division; Mrs. Mary B. Farr, instructor in home economics; Mrs. Astrid M. Wil liams associate professor of Ger man; Miss Janet Smith head of the employment office; Miss Kate Buchanan, head resident of Susan Campbell. Margaret Holford, Mary Moore, and Arline Lewis assisted with the preparations for the dinner. Fellowships Posted Include Guggenheim Posted on the bulletin board in the basement of the University library are announcements of fel lowships and scholarships to be granted by various universities. •They include offers from New York university of university fel lowships and Penficld and Blumen thal scholarships, each of which is worth from $500 to $1000. They are available for a wide field of subjects. Applicants must put in petitions before March 1, 1940. Others include the John Simon Guggenheim memorial foundation fellowships and the social science research council. Psychology Profs Talk at Institute Participating in the forestry in stitute, a three-week institute for U. S. Forest officers in service, are two members of the University psychology department, Dr. H. R. Taylor, head of the department of psychology, and Dr. Wilbur S. Hu line, psychology instructor. ! Dr. Taylor will be in Portland January 18 and his talk will con | corn efficiency measurement. Dr. Hulin is scheduled to speak on so ' cial psychology, January 23. -_ ■lliWItllllatlluBllil j ■ 1 1 f„,® 71> Willamette FUN! for all Shoot a Bullseyc Prizes and Competitive Shooting' ROACH’S m Shooting Gallery p CLASSIFIED e Dressmaking PETITE PRESS MAKING SHOP. uSIi K. loth St. Ph. 1038. • Wanted to Rent WANTED TO RENT Boehm system clarinets for use in class. Please leave word with John II. Stelin. School of Music. * Lost___ LOST: BULOVA wrist watch with gre< .' Call >1. sir Fripj. - .9ii Uafpi. lole. WAA Initiates New Members Tonight WAA'S membership will swell" tonight at 7 o'clock as this year's eligibles are taken in at the annual winter term initiation. Many girls have been awarded their necessary check since last year’s rite due to the increasing interest in the many WAA activ ities and the excellent support and I cooperation of the individual house managers. ADPi leads the list with nearly fifteen girls becoming members to night. According to Joanne Riesch, who is in charge of invitations, this year's crop of girls is out standing and worthy of its place of honor at Saturday’s formal dance. Margo Van Matre, president, will conduct this candlelight ceremony held in Alumni hall at Gerlinger. Letter Writing (ContmueJ from page one) In keeping with this year's slo gan, “Dads’ Day—the Modern Way,” it has been suggested that letters might be written explain ing why last term’s grades weren't what they should be and inviting pop down to see the reason why. Other Ideas Acceptable “However,” Miss Sappington said, “students are perfectly wel come to choose another idea for their writings.” J. D. Barnett, head of the polit ical science department; J. H. Gil bert, dean of college of social sci ence, and E. D. Kittoe, instructor in English, have been asked to judge the letters. New Crew Site (Continued from page one) 1 gravel, will be approximately 11 miles from Eugene to the dam. A third route will branch off the i Eleventh street route and run to the eastern bank of the lake, al most exactly half way between the others. It will have a gravel surface. Improved roads will be built along the western border of the lake, according to the engineers, and a paved road will run across the dam and impounding dykes. The entire project, including the rebuilt roads, is to be finished by December 31 this year. Honorary to Plan Tea, Matrix Table At Iniiial Meeting With one of the biggest activity calendars ahead of them, Theta Sigma Phi, women's journalism honorary, will hold its initial win ter term meeting tonight at 7 o’ clock in the journalism building, Catherine Taylor, president, an nounced Monday. Major business will be organiza tion for the honorary’s part in the January meeting of the newspaper editors and publishers of tl\e state. Traditionally the girls hold a tea honoring the women attending the conference. Registration duties will also be assigned. Plans for the annual Matrix table, one of the largest social events on the campus, will be dis cussed. Play to Be Read Fireside reading in the brows ing room Tuesday evening will feature “The Gentle People” by Irwin Shaw. Miss Ethel Sawyer, browsing room librarian, will read the play. , Cameras k Supplies * A'cces ^ sories The only plaut in town that does exclusively first quality finishing. 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