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Oregon It Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daily during the college year except Sundays. Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University or Oregon. Subscription rates: $1.26 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the postofftce, Eugene, Oregon. _ Represented for mffional advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., College publishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago—Boston -Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. ____ LYLE M. NELSON. Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS : JAMES W. FROST, Business Manager Hal Olney, Helen Angell Jimmie Leonard, Managing Editor Kent Stitzer, News Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Fob Rogers, National Advertising Manager Editorial and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journalism building, in n 3300 Extension : 382 Erlitor; 353 News Office; 359 Sports Office; ami 354 Hasmess Offices. UPPER NEWS STAFF Pat Erickson, Wonven • Editor Ted Kenyon, Photo Editor Boh Flavelle, Co-Sports Editor Ken Christianson, Co-Sports Editor Wes Sulhvan, Ass t ISews Ed i,tor Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t News Editor Ray Schrick, Ass’t Managing Editor 10m wrignt, v\ss i Editor Corrine Wignes, Executive Secretary Johnnie Kahananni, feature Editor UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Alvera Maeder, Classified Advertising Man Ron Alpaugh, Layout Production Manager Bill Wallan, Circulation Manager Emerson Page, Promotion Director Janet Farnham, Office Manager Take Off the Blinders ; ■OESULTS of a survey of Pacific coast college and univer sities conducted by the Emerald show very conclusively ; that the practice of requiring class cards to vote in class elections is restricted to the two Oregon schools. In the com plete list of all major schools, Washington, Idaho, Washing • ton State, Oregon State, Oregon, California, Stanford, and UCLA all turned in a no answer to the question of requiring class cards except Oregon and Oregon State. CSC did not reply, but a worker on the Daily Trojan has informed the Emerald that class cards do not exist on that campus. Since class cards are entirely a local product it might be well to investigate the reason they are in use here and not elsewhere. The natural argument is that it is more difficult for classes to raise funds in small towns like Eugene. True, it is harder than it would be at Washington, Stanford, UCLA, or California, but certainly not harder than at Washington State or Idaho. And they do not have class cards. • All these schools have class organizations—most of them ‘ have active ones. Classes in the majority raise money by • sponsoring various activities, from dances and fund drives at Stanford to parties and carnivals at Washington. Oregon classes could do the same if politicians would let them. TyrOST of the leaders of the campus have recognized the desirability of abolishing the anti-democratic class-card to-vote system. A fair poll would probably show that a great majority of the student body is also in favor. AVliat then is holding back this needed reform? The answer is politics. A few politicians who have the power now cannot see be yond their personal gains. They are unwilling to give up the power they possess. They are not farsighted enough to realize that the movement is much bigger than a mere battle be tween independents and Greeks—they are not far-sighted enough to see that a change would bo in the best interests of the class and the University. When the thing comes to a head—as if is bound lo do—the explosion and effects will be much greater than if the change is introduced now. At present the independents are willing to cooperate. Perhaps later when they get a representation and power, or when they organize in classes of their own, they will be unwilling. We hope not. The class card voting system is a vestige of an outmoded order. The sooner it goes the better for the class, for the University, and in the broad general sense for the individual student. No Champs? Ye Gods! 'll I1] approach of (lie annual “civil war game between Oregon and Oregon State invariably Ians the age-old rivalry between the two institutions to a white heat. I suall.v it requires a match to set off the conflagration—an ill-advised remark or act that arouses indignation and retaliation, either verbal or otherwise. A few days ago this match came—in the torm ol an article by Bud Forrester, OSO athletic news director and, yes, we’re indignant. Mr. Forrester, allegedly quoting Irom another publicity director of a Pacific coast school, said: “This guy Stiner lias put you on the football map. 11 is foot ball teams have been so good that you are beginning to take them for granted. He has put his teams up there where they are rated even with every California team they meet. And they get that rating on ability. Not on ballyhoo. “1 want you to understand that you fellows aren t thinking Rose Bowl in the same sense as Oregon. Over at Kugeue they talk about winning a championship in every sport no matter what their material is. They get a great deal of satisfaction from that although they seldom realize their boasts. “But at Oregon State . . we have no quarrel at all with Mr. Stiner. He's ob viously a top-notch coach. Furthermore, wo don’t be grudge Oregon State their successes on the gridiron. We hope they win them all—with the exception of the annual "civil war.” It cannot be denied that Oregon State has had the edge over Oregon as far as football goes for the past few years. The reasons are obvious. Three years ago we had a new coach. It takes years to build a championship team and when a new coach is installed the work of building is. at least partially, disrupted. T’util a coach has been at a school for a few years he has little chance of producing a championship squad. Oh sure, it can lie done Look at Stanford. But Shaughnessy, gooii coach that lie 1^. stepped in with a hunch of experienced veterans dumped in bis l ap and. of eour.se lie went to town. We, here at Oregon, are not so dumb as our unknown clitic teems to imply when he said, "they talk about winning a championship in every sport no matter what their' material is.” No, Oregon students and fans are far from that ignorant They didn't expect to go to the Rose Bowl with a team com posed largely of sophomores. They expected that team to be a scrappy bunch and be tough opponents for most any of the conference teams. Iu that they were not disappointed. Fur thermore, Vt feel confident that the highly lauded Boa\er is certainly going to lose a lot of fur in trying to pick some Duck feathers next Saturday. * * * £^UR unknown critic left himself wide open, however, when he failed to limit his attack to football and said, “they talk about winning a championship in every sport.’’ Well! Might we ask where Oregon State’s national championship basketball team is? Has an Oregon State team ever gone to the Rose Bowl as Oregon has twice done? And has Oregon State any Pacific coast swimming cham pions such as Oregon’s Jack Dallas and Shertn Wetmore? And speaking of champions, what about George Varoff and Boyd Brown? We always figured 1hat these boys were some shakes from the amount of national and state-wide publicity they received. Yes, we’re indignant—plenty! We feel that this unknown critic certainly went out on a limb and had best remain under an all-protecting cloak of anonymity. Perhaps it is best, to ignore such outrageous attacks but it is a wonderful relief to get it off your chest.—II.0. In the Editor's Mail To the Editor: Students at the pep assembly yesterday witnessed one of the rottenest pieces of sarcasm that I know of when Tiger Payne, A S U O prexy, "sounded-off” some personal opinions on the duties of the editor of the Em erald. No one begrudges Mr. Payne’s right to talk about school af fairs if he feels that way, but many begrudge his right to voice them while presiding over a meeting. If he wants to talk so much, why doesn’t he get down on the floor and say what he wants to, letting the vice-presi dent run the meeting until he is through ? But no, he can’t do that. He has to take advantage of the position that he holds by shout ing sly remarks when he gets the chance. The president of the student body is supposed to rep resent the students. Mr. Paine did a poor job of this yesterday. He may have represented a certain few (who also applauded his efforts); some others actu ally booed him; but most stu dents were beyond doing any thing because they were struck aghast by the fact that their own student body president would stoop so low. Uly Dorais International Side Show »> RIDGELY CUMMINGS The golden age of American capitalism is passing. A strong statement, you say, and how do we know? Cumininga Well, u r. Beck proved we weren’t psychic last year when he gave us one of those extra sensory per ception tests—• that’s the one where you fool a r o u n d with cards that have wavy lines and stars and so forth on them, re member?—so wc don't know. But we have our intuitions and when we read on the UP wire last night that Jesse L. Livermore, one-time boy plung er of Wall street, had picked yesterday afternoon to put a bullet into his brains that's the idea that occurred to us. Found in Cloakroom The body of the. 63-year-old speculator was found in the cloakroom of the fashionable Sherry-Netherlands hotel just about the time dusk was de scending on nearby Central park. Of course we never knew Mr. Livermore in our New York days, not traveling in such ex alted company, but we did spend several very chilly nights in Central park and remember the battlements of the Sherry Netherlands looming up on the southern horizon. We were pret ty sore at capitalism in those days and the Sherry-Nether lands was to many of the park bench dozers a symbol of eco nomic injustice. Well, the bartender told re porters that Mr. Livermore drank one cocktail about 1:30 p.m. yesterday and was very busy writing in a little black notebook. When they found his body an hour later police with held some of the notes but. they let newshawks read one to his wife that went "I love you, but I'm not worthy of your love. I'm a failure." Once Livermore took a bor rowed $10 bill and ran it up into a million, so the story goes. Made Biff Protit During the rich man's panic of 1007 he played the market short and made a reputed profit of $3,000,000. During the war, the other one, he rode the bull market to its peak and pulled out with a vast profit before the break. He put his winnings into the grain market, and in a federal trade commission investigation, it was revealed that he often bought as much as five million bushels of wheat at a time but was unable to tell the differ enee between wheat and oat when they were placed befoi e him. He left the grain market worth reputedly $10,000,000. Livermore started as an of0 fice boy and was fired from hm first job for speculating during working hours. During the great stock mar 1 f W i 1 flirt s lapsed in 19-3 Livermore vis hailed as a minor prophet. Ru mors of his market position spread across the whole nation and influenced thousands of small investors. Is a Symptom Now there’s a Latin quota tion, the exact words of which we forget but whose import k; that nothing but good should be spoken of the dead. We don’t want to be unkind, but we think Mr. Livermore’s passing from the scene as a self-confessed failure is a symptom that the wealth gained from speculation doesn’t amount to much. Wall street men howl about being persecuted by the secur ity exchange commission, but the great American public wants some sort of regulation down there in the marble hall where men gamble frenzicdly with commodities which are only names to them but bread and butter to the workers who make the wheels go round. As Professor G. W. Roches ter of the law school told a group of Eugene business men yesterday, the trend is toward socialism. As long as civil and political rights can be safe guarded it won’t hurt some of the denizens of Maiden Lane to have their economic rights cur tailed in the interests of the general public. From All Sides By CORINE LAMON College Sans Weekends "Long and popular weekends are not helpful educational ad juncts," the administration of the University of Kansas de cided last week. As a result of this, students will have Satur day and late afternoon classes next term. Executives declared that "Saturday classes will keep students on the campus and in the school atmosphere over the weekends." Opposing action is being taken by working stu dents who spend all day Satur day at their jobs. —University Daily Kansan. Form Feud In reply to a San Francisco sports writer’s derogatory re marks about the Stanford root ing section, where the Indians sing “God Bless Clark Shaugh nessy” for the benefit of any Cal men present, a Daily edi torial writer quips: “Sports writer, ’tie of thee, Protector of liberty, I pen these words. Next time you need some guff To end your column's stuff Just figure that you have enough Without such blurbs." Said columnist reported the cant to Shaughnessy, to the tune of “God Bless America,” as being an unpatriotic parody on one of the country’s airs. The Daily says: “He’s afraid that we might begin using the “Star Spangled Banner” for a football song. —Stanford Daily. Big Game Prelude In reference to the painting of Cal’s Big “C" red by Stan ford saboteurs, a Daily Califor nian columnist has: ... A transbay reporter phoned today to inquire about “your big ‘C’ painted red—eh? —hehe-heh” . . . “Is this Pres McPherson pulling a Chamber lain, signing up a non-aggres sion pact with Stanford? If he doesn’t watch out it’ll end up in another Munich—heh-heh.’’ -—Daily Californian. Campus Calendar All committee heads for the sophomore informal will meet at the Side at 4 o’clock today. Hockey players! Charter mem bers of the Oregon association of the Pacific Northwest section of the U. S. Field Hockey association will meet in room 121 Gerlinger at 4 p.m. Monday. It is important that all be there. The French table will meet at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the An chorage. All interested arc invited. Neatness... is tlio most valuable asset any person can possess, so take an inventory of your clothes today. Phone 75 for an iuerease in assets. Eugene Cleaners Phone 75 245 E. Broadway OREGON vs. O.S.C. Special Train TO CORVALLIS AND BACK Saturday, Nov. 30 SPECIAL TRAIN LEAVES EUGENE 10:45 A M. Returns after the game, leaving Corvallis approximately 5:15 P.M Tickets and information at booth on 13th street between Oregon and Commerce Buildings. Sponsored by lSbOCLL''TD s IT DENTS UNIVERSITY OF ORE'FON VLIBERTY POPLAR,® FAMOUS IN AMERICAN HlSTOfZY | SINCE 1652., IS LOCATED ON " THE CAMPUS OF ST JOHNS COU.E6E, ANNAPOLIS. /AARYLAND. ANy OL.' JOB IN A PINCH/ BING CROSBY HAD A JOB SCRUBBING PICKLES DURING HIS COLLEGE DAVS AT GONZAGA U/ \ ODD NAME CORNER. Hale Wellmet is a STUDENT AT THE UNWERStTV OF IWCHWiAN. > L Good Luck, Ducks! Just a word to say that we are backing the team and are hoping for a big victory over OSC this weekend. If you are having your house dance this Friday, see us for building materials. SNELLSTROM LUMBER CO. Building Materials 199 W. 6th St. Phone 208 BEAT THE BEAVERS_ We wish the Oregon team all the luck in the world in the game at Corvallis on Saturday. COME ON, OREGON! 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