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Oregon® Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Subscription rates: $1.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. ___ Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., College publishers’ representative, 420 Madison Avc., New York—Chicago—Boston — Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. __ LYLE M. NELSON, Editor JAMES W. FROST, Business Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Hal Olney, Helen Angcll Editorial Board: Roy Vernstrom, Pat Erickson. Helen Angcll, Harold Olney, Kent Stitzer, Jimmie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, advisor. ___ Jimmie Leonard, Managing Editor Kent Stitzer, News Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Bob Rogers, National Advertising Manager UPPER NEWS STAFF Fat Erickson, Women s Editor Ted Kenyon, Photo Editor Bob Flavelle, Co-Sports Editor Ken Christianson, Co-Sports Editor Wes Sullivan, Ass t INcws Editor Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t News Editor Ray Schrick, Ass’t Managing Editor jioni wrignr, ass i managing Editor Corrinc Wigncs, Executive Secretary Johnnie Kahananni, feature Editor “And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injur iously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?’’—Milton, Areo pagitica. This is National Newspaper Week. Do They Mean It? nPlIK worthwhile nature of the ideal which the executive council is striving for in its latest “Every man a potential Homecoming chairman” program is indisputable. The pos sibilities of the success of a plan of this nature, in which any student may enter his application for the previously political job, is speculative. According to action taken by 1 lie student governors early * this week, the usual policy of naming a weekend chairman ' only from the nominees named by the exec committee mem • hers themselves will be put aside. Instead, anyone may apply • to any member of the executive committee for the Home coming job. From this list of applicants, the committee will * choose a chairman. ; The basic nature of the plan is excellent ... it broadens , extensively the scope of the committee's choice and lets down political burs. But With the adoption of this method, one not - new in theory to this campus, will come the first test of the • power of the new student officers to act without partisanship. * # * # rJAHEBE is always the probability—based on past experi ences—that the same man will be selected who would . have been had no applications been forthcoming. On the other hand, there is an equally good possibility that the executive committee means what it says . . . that merit alone will deter mine the choice of tint new mail for the next-to-biggest political appointment of the year. It is hoped that applications will be freely turned in; that the campus in general will respond with enthusiasm to this ’ plan for enlarging the field fro mwliich top appointments are made. For in so doing, students will be contributing to an experiment . . . and experiment dealing with the capability of these new officers to work for their professed ideals already set forth. The whole campus will be watching . . . with not a little interest.—11. A. Oregon’s Bewitching Hour «B«i« are eight o’docks. There is a briskness to the eight, o’clock in the morning air, there is a crispness to the low rolling log. Across the campus scurrying figures appear from some where, hurrying, hurrying, hurrying. Each has a destination, a mission that must be quickly fulfilled. Time is so short. Today is not yet over, and already tomorrow is upon us. AVe must work, wc must hurry, we must eternally prepare lor tomorrow. Today and tomorrow, today and tomorrow, the thought lingers in the mind, and mingles with other thoughts until today and tomorrow are as one. There is so little time for today, tomorrow is crowding on our heels. The appearance of the quickly moving figures on the early morning horizon is briel, as brief as yesterday, lit ten minutes or so they are all vanished, and by midday the campus is settled to complacency. There is an excitement to the business id' the eight o'clock hour, the brickness of the atmosphere. At the eight o'clock hour the day is yet whole.—1\E. Seventy Coeds Left Homeless Jj^YKRY full along \v i111 1 lu* beginning «>1‘ the school year comes rush week, a new flock of freshmen, ami an up ward surge in registration figures. And every year this in crease in registration causes the I’niversity bousing officials more and more worry. Ths year the problem has been more acute than ever, at least as far as the women studeuts are concerned. Not that any coeds have been forced to pitch tents on the campus lawn but it all boils down to a lack of sufficient room in tlie women’s dormitories to house all the girls who wish to live there. Crowded renditions in the women’s dormitories have been rather common for the last couple of years but this year it was simply impossible to crowd in all the girls who wished to live in the University balls. At present there is a waiting list of 70 girls who will move into the dorms at . the earlest opportunity. How many others preferred to lne in the dorms, but not to wait there is no way of knowing. * * « TJNiYjtSRi5lTY housing heads have done all they could to obtain suitable living quarters for the coeds. They have tried to got as many girls as possible into the dorms but when the dorms are full—well, the donas are full. And housing officials are not magicians these days. Assuming that University registration will continue ou the increase (which should he a safe assumption if M-dav doesn’t thin the ranks of Oregon men) it is difficult to foresee any permanent relief for the homing official’.. A new women’s dormitory would help.—H.O. Pride Alone is Poppycock NCE upon a time little Mary and brother Johnny were skipping to school with little heed of time. Nearing their hub of learning, they were caught by the tardy bell clang. Emotionally, little Mary muttered, “Let’s stop and pray, Johnny.” Heck no,” retorted the energetic brother, “let’s run and pray.” Trite as totalitarianism may this story be, but it pictures in allegory what Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter emphasizes in his recent monograph to President Donald M. Erb and tlie Oregon faculty. Witli “hatred and scorn” manifested against the ideals of democracy, with human brotherhood becoming less a possibility, with racial bigotry and physical war ele vated to “man’s noblest pursuit,” with all of this hellish stench recking from the gutters of fanatical nationalism, the Chancellor suggests a reaffirmation of our faith in democracy so it may continue to endure. J^UT, as the Good Book says, “Faith without works is dead.’* A belief in the intangiles of democracy only as long as we gain privileges is insufficient. We must give something more than criticism and banter less on peace-time patriotism. With that faith must be the reinforcement of social respon sibility. We must expect to sacrifice now to maintain this poltical structure we so love. Complacency, luxury, depend ency, and the accompanying unemployment evils are malig nants which must be torn like tumors from the mental body to promise relief from a parasitic “gimme” complex that is almost pathological. Prescribed by the Chancellor: “If our defense is to be truly total ... it must be done through a unified faith in democracy, a confidence that it is worth keeping for our selves and for the world.” We add: Pride in our existing institution is poppycock unless we unleash with this pride a desire not to prattle but to do.—K.N.V. * This Collegiate World (By Associated Collegiate Press) Sam A. Coggins of Nettleton, Mass., wanted to go to college, so he peddled peanuts. Sam paid his $120 fees at Mississippi State with 2,100 nickels— the cashier counted them—earned by selling goobers. * * * A certain professor at Ohio State walked into the classroom 15 minutes late to find the class gone. The next day the students were reprimanded. The professor said his hat had been on the desk, and that had been a sign of his presence. Next day the professor again found an empty classroom. On each desk was a hat. * * * Eastern New Mexico college’s public information bureau sent out a story saying there was g large increase in number of freshman girls. A New Mexico newspaper carried the story under this headline: COEDS THICKER ON ENMC CAMPUS Freshman girls weighing under 110 pounds are considering form ing a Society for the Encouragement of Thinner Coeds. In the Mall (Editor’s Note: This column of letters to the editor will hence forth be a regular feature. Anyone is invited to contribute. All letters must be signed for filing purposes, but signatures will be omitted from the letter when it appears in the Emerald if the writer so desires.) Dear Editor: Away from home, knowing few friends and feeling out of place in ne wsurroundings, the Freshctte and Freshman has a bad time of it. For a small per centage, the fraternity men and sorority women, this doesn't ap ply so much since they arc helped get acquainted socially. The majority, however, are left eager to make friends but just a little too self conscious and shy to get started. At the reception dance “fresh ettes” who could dance sat on the sidelines hoping some one would ask them. Some of them feeling so alone and unwanted they left before the dance was half over. Yet freshmen who could dance and wanted to dance with them, stood waiting all evening because they were a bit shy to ask a girl they didn't know to dance. Sophomores Fall Down The service honorarics, Kwa ma and Skull and Dagger, who were there, stood in line after tire president and faculty shook hands, smiled, and then proceed ed to dance mainly with them selves. They deserve plenty of credit for the work they do; blit they “missed the boat" Satur day night when they didn't min gle more with the frosh class and help them get acaquainted with one another. This could have been done so easily and would have caused so much happiness and started many fine friend ships. To freshmen and "freshettes'’ who feel alone and perhaps a bit homesick there is the YWCA, YMCA, Wesley House, West minster House and others who are anxious to help you get ac quainted, make friends amonj yourselves and with other stu dents and even some of the fac ulty. There are no race or relig ion boundaries, no obligations, they merely want to help you get acquainted and jto make you feel at home. Their friend liness, the friends you will make, the pleasant atmosphere, the good times, will help you feel at home here and lessen that bit of homesickness. It will make you feel like digging into your studies to be a credit to your self and our University. A Student. International Side Show H.v K1DULEY tTMMINOS Monroe Sweetland Was in town yesterday in connection with Vice-Presidential Candi date Henry A. Wallace's visit and we had a long talk with him. Monroe is executive secretary of the Oregon Commonwealth federation and he gets around a lot. Consequently he knows a lot. Some of the most interesting things tie told us were off the record, but he did make a. few remarks that were not pledged to secrecy. Hire? thing' m particular in terested us. The first two had to do with Steve Smith, former ly professor of English on the campus, who Swcetland said is still going great guns with ASCAP; and l5ick Ncuberger, another UO product, who, pre diets t h e commonwealther, stands a good chance of leading the Multnomah county demo cratic ticket in vote-getting. Ncuberger is running for the state legislature. The third item, however, is more in line with this column's purpose, for we are supposed to discuss international events. Sweetland said that on a re cent swing through southern California the has just come back from L. A.l he noticed numerous billboards plastered with signs reading "Remember France." The implication, as Monroe saw it, was that the labor un ions in France, the -10-hour week, and other progressive measures inaugurated by the Blum government are held re The BAND BOX By BILL MOXLEY Who is this guy Kyser? The other day the leader of a small campus band came up to me and asked, “What’s Kay Kyser got that I haven’t got?” Of course I though this fel low was only joshing so I came back with, "He’s got Ginny Simms.” “Uh, huh,” he replied. “But I’m serious. What has Kay or any of the other big name bands got in a musical way that hun dreds of unknown outfits all over the country haven’t got or couldn’t produce?” "Probably a little showman ship and a lot of luck,” I said. “It must be lpore than that.” "Maybe so,” I replied, "but in Kay Kyser’s case that’s about what it amounted to. The fam ous Mr. Kyser pounded up and down this very Pacific coast for six or seven years without mak ing and more than a ripple in the pool of public approval. He Had a Fundamental Style Kay had a slogan which, when translated, went something like this: "Kay Kyser, The Man From the South With the Big Cigar in His Mouth!” That would be real corn coming from the smooth Mr. Kyser of today. But here is the point: Kay had the same fundamental style then that he has now. He was play ing more or less the same way ten years ago that he is today. And yet nobody ever heard of him. Then on one engagement he clicked. The crowds thought he was great. Maybe it was the time of the year, the moon, or the way he held his eyebrows. Of such little things are suc cesses made in the entertain ment world. Convicts rurn composers PRISONER SONG: A new song called, “I’m On the Verge of a Merge,” which is expected to become very popular, Was written by two convicts at San Quentin prison, Dwight Claar and John D. Hawkins. The'two convicts heard about a maga zine song writing contest and decided to try their skill. Their entry won a $200 cash prize, and the number has already been recorded by Mitchell Ayres. Songwriter Claar will be re leased from the penitentiary next month, while Hawkins comes up for parole in Septem ber. . . . Maybe they'll write a new tune called “I’m on the Verge of Society Again.” A Neighborly Glance By CORINE LAMON Exchange Editor Since professors have long di vided students into classes, the Emory Wheel, newspaper of Emory university, Atlanta, Ga., assumes that professors also have their classifications. These arc samples: • X. The killer type. He wants to kill off the lower third and thinks the best way is by over work. 2. The card type. He is a card, but not an ace. He's a 3x5 card, outstanding in index ap peal. 3. The fatherly type. He is the unexpcctant father, always giving pop quizzes. 4. The nomad type. Like the nomad of the desert, he loves to wander—and what he wanders over is as dry as the. desert. 5. The candy-between-meais type. He whets your intellec tual appetite. He knows a great deal but doesn't try to make ev erybody too conscious of the fact. * * * And then there was the girl who DIDN'T get her southern accent by eating Dixie cups. sponsible for France's defeat. We don't know just what wa3 France's crucial weakness, but we don't think it was the very qualities which made France, one of the greatest democracies. At least we don't want to think so. for the implication is that if France fell because it was democratic, then to save democ racy we must turn fascist. An unsavory answer when the me die me is as bad as the cur<- . Peace. It's wonderful: ONCEOVER LISHTLY By PAT TAYLOR AND SALLY MITCHELL CAB 1'UNES: Steve Bodner, Phi Delt, calls his new 1931 Model A “Trulove” cause it never runs smooth . . . and lldve England, Sigma Nu, calls his Packard convertible “Pas sion” cause it’s uncontrollable. Bill Moxley tails his car “Duch ess” because, as Bill explained, “like another duchess, i(Ps a smooth worker.” . . . We can’t say the bad words that Bill Cas sidy calls his car when it won’t Start. Rex Applegate calls his cdr “Mayflower” but he won’t tell us why .... Bill Gissbcrg, basketballer and Beta pledge, aims to Carry on a romance with Nancy Ames. . . . Betty Jane Biggs, who, by the way, is as effervescent as bromo seltzer, has been dating with Leonard Clark, of racket (tennis) fame. Sigma Nu News: Grant Alexander now has his pin which Ann Howard used to wear but Ellsworth Moss evened the score by plating his pin on Bonnie Uhl, Alpha Phi. Latest Sigma Nu-lywed is Don McCormick, house proxy, who married Kay Jesse this' week. Tige Payne is now house president, to say nothing of ASUO prexy and campus labor leader. bill fendall, clever colmist, and an ato from osc, said he wasn’t very well acquainted yet, but It didn’t take him long to meet the dean concerning a crack in his colm. how was it .... so be it .. . ? Here and Hearsay: We could say that Jack Wag staff is back in school but Jack doesn’t like publicity so we won’t even mention it . . . Lulu Pali (and we do mean LULU) is from Hawaii and lives in Hendricks hall. . . . The Kappa Kappa Gammas didn’t know about Laura Jean Maurice’s marriage until they read about it in th eRegister-Guard. Did Les Ready? ... It looks like a Boom year for Johnny Gleason, Chi Psi, who dates - a - Theta pledgling, Carol. . . . Betty Lee, and Alpha Xi Delta transfer from Kain-tuck cain tuk a bow for her genuine southern accent. . . . Margaret Watts, Theta, just took Bob Reider’s SAE pin. . . . Elbe Kent is marrying Brad Smith in the marry month of December. * * * The new cellophane rain jackets make all the boys look like prize packages at first glance . . . but we can see through ’em. POME NO. 1 Breathes there a tall girl with soul so dead Who never to herself has said When seeing her blind date is short instead, Oh, Lord, I could eat peanuts off his head! 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