Oregon W Emerald
The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daiiy during the college year except Sundays,
Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University
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Lets Get Behind the Union
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^^GAIN, as often in the past, students are discussing ttie possi
bilities of obtaining a student union in the near future.
Once again, students are beginning to feel that thoy ‘want to do
something about it.” Once again, campus leaders are becoming
convinced that the students are really behind the student union
movement.
The need for a student union on the Oregon campus lias been
pointed out time and again. The need for a central point which
would serve as a center of student activity has often been em
phasized. It is not necessary to remind the students of some
thing of which they arc already well aware.
The students do want a union hall. They have expressed
themselves quite emphatically on that, point more than once.
But the time has come for the students to do more than express
themselves. The time has come for the students to decide just
what they want in the first unit of their memorial hall. Yes, t lie
student unoiu building is that close to realization.
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^^BVIOUSLY the first unit of the proposed building cannot
contain everything that such a building should have.
Eventually, the building can be enlarged to include all the
things we want in a memorial union hall. But now it is neces
sary to make a selection.
The students should make this selection. It should not be left
to the various committees responsible for carrying on the battle
for a student union. It is a job for the students themselves.
The students should find out what they could have in this
first unit and express their preference in the matter. This point
must he settled now.
The student union hall is rolling. Every student should take
an interest in it and, occasionally, give a little push.—II.0.
Clean Up The Streams
(Contributed)
'JpiIE problem of stream polution may he divided into four
classes: te problem of health, the problem of industry,
the problem of fisheries, and the problem of recreation.
First and perhaps the most serious is the problem of health.
With a polluted ater supply comes a measurable increase
in such communicable diseases as typhoid fever, diphtheria,
scarlet fever, influenza, smallpox, tuberculosis, pneumonia,
and infantile paralysis. Figures released by the Oregon state
board of health show that the number of these diseases reported
for the week ending January 25 is substantially less in areas
wher a conscious effort is made to reduce stream pollut ion.
The problem of fisheries is perhaps second in importance,
since about two-thirds of the 10-million-dollar revenue from
Columbia river basin salmon fishing enters Oregon. Some
wastes are toxic to fish; others are toxic to the minute
aquatic life from which the fish derive food. Commercial
fisheries are dependent on clean water if fish are to survive.
Game fishing too suffers from sewage and industrial
wastes. It is difficult to measure the recreational value of
clean streams in dollars and cents. Needless to say, much
of Oregon's tourist business is attracted by the beautiful
out-of-doors, the clean streams and fishing, and the camping.
This tourist business is estimated to return $45,000,001) to
the state annually.
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I7VKN industrial water supplies must be kept free from
pollution. The quality of such products as wood pulp
and paper is to some extent dependent upon the quality of
the water supply.
One major reason for stream pollution is the extreme vari
ation of flow during: the year. Thus, while the spring and
winter flow can safely carry off the normal supply of waste,
the low water of summer and fall greatly reduces the rapacity
of the stream to receive and dilute sewage and industrial
wastes. Lowered stream flow and high temperatures both
route at the peak of industrial and sewage overloading.
Oregon voters established a state sanitary authority in
November, 193S. This group was organized in 1!»;{}», and des
pite limited funds and personnel has engaged in a thoroughly
intelligent attack on the problem. Already many cities have
been persuaded lo install waste disposal plants, and at least
three in the Willamette valley watershed. Eugene, Dallas, and
Salem, are planning to complete sewage disposal plauts m
1911.
It ts still urgent tk.it other cities, especially in the Willam
ette watershed, adopt sewage disposal methods. The sani
tary authority has urged such a step it is now up to the
cities. Otherwise pollution <>i streams, especially during low
water, will rout time to make inroads on the health, the en
joyment. and the resource, of the western portion of the
state. —K. S.
The only title left for the winner of some contest is "queen
of the May' and it probably won't be loug until someone
proposes eii'.h iiiiiT.
This Collegiate World
By THE ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS
War’s influences arc everywhere, and not the least of
them are noted in America's colleges.
Here are four typical reports:
At Florida State college, Dr. Anna Forbes Liddell, head of
the department of philosophy and religion, declares that an
increase in registrations for Bible courses reflects upset world
conditions.
Looking for “basic, values to which they can hold,” college
students over the entire country have evidenced increased
interest in Bible courses for the last year or more, she says.
At the College of Our Lady of Good Counsel in White
Plains, N. Y., a girls’ school, increased interest in science
courses has necessitated a 20 per cent enlargement in labora
tory facilities.
The college attributes the mounting interest in biology,
chemistry and physics to new opportunities in medical and
scientific work opened up for women by America’s prepared
ness program.
Smith college, Northampton, Mass., because of events
abroad which prohibit foreign study and threaten to eclipse
European arts, has started a new course, “The Arts in
America.”
It will deal with painting, architecture, sculpture and the
minor arts as an expression of American thought and taste
from the colonial period to the present.
At Central Missouri (Warrensburg) State Teachers col
lege, it is noted that interest in German courses is remaining
at a high level, a situation unlike that of 1916-17, when Ger
man courses were shunned by many students and dropped by
many schools.
Recent events in Europe, it is said at Warrensburg, increase
instead of lessen the need for familiarity with the language.
International Side Show
By R1DGELY CUMMINGS
'T he merry - go - round goes
round and round in congress
over the lend'-lease bill, but the
only one likely to get a brass
ring is President Roosevelt, who
Cummings
acquires dicta
torial powers if
it passes anti at
the worst, if a
substitute
should be
pushed through,
two billion dol
lars to give to
Britain.
It is admit
tedly smart tac
tics to ask tor a lot more man
you expect to get, thereby get
ting your opponents all excited
over the trimmings, and then
effect a compromise that gives
you a good bit more than you
are entitled to.
Roosevelt has done this be
fore ... he wanted to pack the
supreme court you remember,
but in the long run the Ameri
can people seem to prefer integ
rity to mere cleverness.
The President has been tak
ing himself awfully seriously
lately, however. He is resorting
to unsavory innuendos in his
feud with Senator Burton K.
Wheeler, leading opponent of
his foreign policy.
Wheeler, he implied, is giving
comfort to Adolf Hitler by say
ing that, as of Jan. 1, this coun
try did not possess a single mil
itary plane equipped with self
sealing gasoline tanks which
close up after being pierced by
a bullet, with armor protection,
and with sufficient fire power
to hold its own in the European
war. Wheeler said in some in
stances American planes have
one or more of these improve
ments, but none has all three.
wneeier also sum mat. lour
fifths of this country's airplane
output has been going to Great
Britain. Roosevelt commented
that anyone could work out all
sorts of things by figures, offi
cial and unofficial, and this par
ticular conclusion must be very
satisfactory to the Reichschan
cellor.
That is an evasive rebuttal.
Roosevelt certainly is in a posi
tion to know whether or not
Wheeler is correct in his asser
tions. Instead of trying to
smear Wheeler's patriotism it
seems to me the President, if he
thinks it unwise to release fig
ures proving his point, should
at least answer with a point
blank yes or no.
The differences b e t w e e n
Roosevelt and Wheeler seem to
bo getting sharpr and sharper,
as well as more and more bit
ter. They are leaders of two
schools of thought which, if you
will excuse my over-simplifica
tion. might be called the "war
patty" and the "peace party
Nearly a. month ago when
Wheeler characterized Roose
velt's foreign policy as “triple
\ plow under every fourth
American boy," ttie President
responded with "untruthful . . .
dastardly . unpatriotic . . .
vottenest . .
Then last week Roosevelt told
his press conference that a dead
man, former ambassador to
Germany, V. illiara £. Dodd cal
lmormeci mm mat, wnceier in
1934 had said Nazi domination
of Europe was inevitable.
Wheeler denied that charge
as "slanderous,” but even if he
had actually said it I can’t see
where that makes him a pro
Nazi.
If I say that Oregon State
will beat Oregon in the basket
ball game here Saturday night
does that make me pro-Corval
lis? I hope not. But just to keep
the recor d straight I think that
if Hank "Frank Merriwell” An
derson plays, Oregon will win.
And that doesn’t necessarily
prove I’m pro-Anderson, al
although I am.
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• Lost
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arette case and lighter. Kinder
eall 3940.
ROUND gold locket on lapel pin
decorated colored flowers —
Reward. Phone TJ5-J, Margery
Thoreen.
UHI Omega pin on campus. Re
ward. Nancy Lewis, Phone 7"9.
CRESTED Identification Bracelet
with "Johnny" on the back ot it,
between Library, Taylors, and
Condon Hall Phone 3711 Re
ward.
• For Sale
CHEAP Model T Ford Coupe,
Good Rubber. $5.00. tee C4S1.
Fc*r. Ft.
wright
or
wrong
With TOMMY WRIGHT
Take a talkative roommate, a
good ear in the next booth, se
cret operators in all the houses,
and a feeble mind to toss the
facts together and you have a
colm. We’re contemplating get
ting a line on the way this writ
er of “My Day,” what's her
name—Roosevelt does her colu
menting. Of course we don't do
much traveling, but we have
our ear-flaps up.
PAN LIST I
Mentioned in Tuesday's triv
ial trite tripe was our plan to
drag a half-dozen through the
proverbial mud, so this is it.
(1) BOB NEWLAND, Theta
Chi’s hot shot froshling net
burner, slips and lets some one
know of his intentions to plant
his pin immediately upon ar
rival, the girl—BETH REED,
who is still matriculating in
prep school . . (3) RUTH HALL,
slight, smiling blonde, draws ire
for going too steady with one
person—and we wonder who’s
kissing her now? ... (4) JOHN
COURSEY, Gamma's Joe Col
lege is still looking for a Betty
Coed ... (5) JEAN HORTON,
one of the Pifi kids, takes a
glance through the back Emer
alds to ketchup on the gossip 'n'
stuff ... (6) HAROLD "FOO”
HARTZELL, tall, dark, and ter
rifying SAE, takes a verbal
beating on the Chinese aid
drive.
CAMPUS WHISPERS . . .
Another Physy pin goes the
way of all good pins—-As
DWIGHT CASWELL sews one
on Pifi HELEN RAYBURN—
and who is going to reap, we
shall wait and see . . . FRED
MAY and ANITA BACKBERG
threaten to break up so as to
make some news for this colm
. . . JOHN CAVANAGH would
like to be guest columnasty for a
day so he can get back at all
the friends he made enemies of
. . . correction on the last colm
—it was CLARENCE ROSE
who got the leap year call —
apologies to PROFESSOR
FRENCH . . . PATTY WRIGHT
and GENE "LUVVERBOY”
McGEE were so wrapped up in
their conversation among other
things that they almost got
clipped by an auto . . . Satur
day’s pan list: ROBERTA LE
MEN, BOB FLAVELLE, MILO
DANIELS, DOC HENRY, ANN
HAWKINS.
CONCLUSION . . .
Remember — the longest way
r ound is the shortest way home,
except when the long way is via
Hendricks park.
So long for awhile.
PRETTY
UP
FOR
VALEN
TINE!
Now is the time for
new Spring Perm
anents! Our experi
enced staff is ready
to serve you with
new and delightful
styles.
Look your best for Pads’
Weekend and Valentine’s
Day.
Kramer s Beauty Shop
On the Campus
No matter \vhat line of
business you <:o into after
graduation, vou*ll find the telephone a powerful aid.
If vou‘re in the selling end, the telephone will help
you to save time, coyer more prospects more frequently,
increase sales and decrease selling costs.
If your work has to do with purchasing, distribution,
production, administration or collections, the telephone
w ill help you to get things done faster at low* cost.
Bell S'tem service is so valuable to business because
it meets so many varying needs.
WHY NOT GIVE THE FAMIIY A RIN3 TONIGHT?
IPNG DISTANCE RATES TO MOST POINTS ARE
IOSVEST AFTER PPM ANY NIGHT—All PAY SUNDAY.
Beginning enrollment in Span
ish is up 40 per cent at the Uni
versity of Vermont.
Temple university has 559 NYA
students.
A new species of oak, first dis
tinctly new tree found east of the
Mississippi in 75 years, has been
discovered by Dr. Wilbur H. Dun
can, University of Georgia botan
ist.
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Be at your INFORMAL BEST
for the KICK*
* Krazy Kopy Krawl
From Holman’s first note,
be t lie center of attraction ^
as you float along in a Ilad- i
) ley model. You will notice 1
the free swing and trimmer
appearance of their new
styles. Shop now at Had
ley’s.
Hadley’s
1004 Will. St. Phone 633
: t
Win a Heart^
at the
K.K.K*
* Krazy Kopy Krawl
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'V^’HEN 1 he lights are
turned low oil the
dance Friday night and
men’s hearts are given
away—lo the best dressed
women—be on hand for
your share.
Wear a new Style Shop
date dress and flow across
the floor like a magnetic
light. Everyone will en
vy your careful taste and
immaculate appearance.
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New Styles and Fabrics
at only—
$4.88 and $6.88
The Sty le Shop
61 East Broadway
The Deb Decides
By MARY KAY RIORDAN
The Old Fashioned
Touch
Be lovely while studying in
the library during the last
stretch of winter term and
wear a lovely tucked batiste
blouse with your winter suit or
heavy sweaters. There are sev
eral styles—collar and collar
less, some banded and some
tucked in—all have lots of dain
ty lace, tiny buttons, and tucks.
Gordon’s have them from 1.9S
to 298.
“Sweethearts”
“Hello sweetheart.” certain
ly such a phrase would not go
unappreciated by any girl, and
for Valentine's Day you can
please her with a talking card
from the Eugene Flower Home.
Really do February 14th l:> in
fashion and give her a card that
is different and personal. If
you want to please a woman,
send flowers and be sure! A
selection of roses, camelias, ; ir
denias, violets, lilies of the val
ley, and orchids.
School
News
me nignesi ot mgn style in
your price range are the. new
Jungle cloth skirts, stitched ov
er the hips and with loads of
pleats in front and back . It.
sells at Millers for 2.03 and
conies in beige, rose, blue, aqua,
brown, and navy. A Joan Kcn
ley blouse, from 1.9S to 2.95, in
different popular styles, is just
the thing for the new' outfit.
Expensive Looking
Honolulu Twist—on a broom
stick—is quite the latest and
you will set your heart on one
when you’ve seen one. Pleas
antly peasant are these undul
ating skirts of crinkle-pleated
cotton prant, inspired by the col
orful dress of the Hawaiian
native. They've been stream
lined for modern wear and a
waistband added. Just wash,
starch, and twist (to set the
pleats), and it comes out per
fect. A blouse in your favorite
color may be bought to maten.
At Russell's for 1.95.
“Young
! Timers”
For a sport
dress that is
fashion - right
try a Jerkin
ml Montgomery Ward and
Cn. It is all wool flannel and
comes in blue, red, rose, beige,
and plaid. The skirt is made
on straight simple lines and the
jacket is sleeveless with a V
neck. Two large pockets be
low the waist and a zipper side
add to the detail . . . 2.98. &
Bright
Idea
For those
"days around
the house" you
want to look
nice yet be comfortable, and
nothing fits all requirements
as the washable rayon and cot
ton frocks at the Broadway do.
Each is different in style and
the materials for each arc love
ly in quality and very nmv pat
terns. Gay colors, and simple
plain dresses are among the
stock, so drop in and sec. some
before the end of the week.
Melody in Fragrance
An after-dusk fragrance . . . romance ... an important evening
—it's al! combmend m tlie candle-light ean de cologne at Tiffany
Da\is. It comes m a large bottle shaped like a candle with a small f
holder. The fragrance ia hr-gerrag and vi cjwjerfully different ... 51 '