Oregon daily emerald., March 01, 1922, Page 4, Image 4

DEJIN F. G. YOUNG WRITES
“OREGON” IN CYCLOPEDIA
Sociology Head Gets Check
From Britannica
Dean F. O. Young, of the University
school of sociology, received a letter
of appreciation and a check for $51
from F. H. Hooper, American editor of
the Encyclopedia Britannica, for his
article on “Oregon” which is to appear
in the next issue of the encyclopedia.
In the letter the editor expressed the
thanks of the encyclopedia’s editor-in
chief, and said that the success of the
Britannica during the century and a
half of its existence is “due in great
measure to the unselfish work of its
many distinguished contributors.”
Mr. Hooper added in his letter that
it is through the cooperation of such
contributors as Professor Young that
the publication of the series has ad
vanced to the point where the first of
the new volumes are being bound and
will be delivered to subscribers within
a week or two. The other two volumes,
the letter states, may be ready for de
livery .10 and 60 days later, respec
tively.
The new volumes of the Encyclopedia
Britannica will cover the period from
the publication of the eleventh edition
of the encyclopedia in 1910 to the pros
ent time.
Because the articles on the different
states of the Union in the eleventh edi
tion dealt fully with the physical fea
turns, geology, flora and fauna, and cli
mate as well as the agriculture, inanu
facture, population, government and
history down to 1910, Professor Young
received instructions from the editors
to limit his report. These instructions,
were somewhat modulated in the event
that there was something new to tell,
resulting from late statistics and sur
veys.
Under the subhead of “History”
Professor Young’s report says “The Ore
gon people distinguished tlieinselvos
with their prompt and whole-hearted
response to the nation's needs in the
prosecution of the war. Their per
centage of actual contributions of men
to the national cause without waiting
the operation of the selective service
law was the highest among the states.
The ratio of Oregon’s actual enlist
incuts of the first gross quota was
157.84, while the next highest was
112.47. ... In the list of heroes
decorated the state has an enviable rep
resentation. With its quotas of funds
to lie subscribed it was regularly among
the first, if not the first to go ‘over
the top’.”
The state’s most important new do
parture in commonwealth policy, ae
cording to Professor Young’s article,
has been the liberal authorization of
the use of the public credit of the state
and of the several counties for road
building, of port districts for harbor
improvements, and of irrigation and
drainage districts, and of logged off
land districts for reclamation.
The distinctive urban development
in Oregon during the past decade has
centered mainly at Portland and As
toria, according to the report.
"While tlio large forest area ol tHe
Htati> gives Oregon one-fifth of the
standing timber in the country it also
ensures it 11 per cent of the total
hydro electric power possible of de
velopnient in the United States. Tho
estimate of the state is a potential maxi
mum of 6,500,000 horsepower and a mini
mum of 3,000,000 horsepower,” states
the report.
Of the 50,108 farmers in the state,
573 are of colored races, and 0149 of
the total number are foreign born. The
573 colored farmers include 15 tiegryes,
300 Indians, 2114 Japanese, and 34 Chi
nese. Of the colored farmers as a whole
358 were owners.
“Farming,” continued the parapraph
on agriculture, "has become a woman’s
vocation in Oregon to the extent that
of the 1649 women farmers, 1518 are
owners. Fight v one per cent of Oregon
farms are operated by the owners.
Paring the year 1919 only five states
constructed more miles of paved high
wavs than did Oregon, according to the
report. Paring the same year only
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four states expended more state money
for road purposes.
J’rofessor Young’s article also cov
ered the state's growth in population,
mining, government, finance, education,
minerals, manufactures and transporta
tion during the past decade.
“I hope,” said Professor Young,
“that this contribution will prove to be
more representative of Oregon from a
standpoint of accuracy than did the one
in the last publication of the Brit
tanica. There, were many mistakes
made in the last article of which the
most flagrant is that Mount Adams (in
southern Washington) is located in
Oregon.”
OPTOPHONE TAKES PLACE
OF BRAILLE IN READING
Boynton Discusses Device to
Turn Light Into Music
The recently perfected device ) y
which the blind will be enabled to read
papers, magazines, and other printed
matter will prove of benefit to those,
who besides being blind, are partly
deaf, according to Dr. W. P. Boynton,
head of the physics department. This
instrument known as the “optophone,”
converts light rays into musical sounds.
Dr. Boynton believes that with a lit
tle practice, to accustom the ear to the
sound combinations of the various let
ters, one can acquire sufficient speed
to read ordinary material at a speed
equivalent to that developed in tele
graphy, which is from 40 to 60 words
a minute. The price of such a contri
vance ought not to be prohibitive, and
it is probable that some company will
soon start quantity production of the
optophones. If this device is put into
general use, it will take the place of the
expensive and clumsy Braille method of
'ending for the blind.
Bone Transmission Used
It is a well known fact, according to
Dr. Boynton, that persons whose hear
ing is defective may receive sound im
prossions through bone transmission.
This has been proved in the case of the
telephone. When the receiver is placed
on the bone back of the ear, the sounds
go to the inner ear by way of the bone
structure, instead of through the vari
ous parts of the ear. Furtjier, the use
of telephone receivers in connection
with the optophone permits of sound
amplification to a considerable degree.
Principle of Radio Phone
The principle involved is the same
one used in the earliest forms of the
wireless telephone -the action of light
on selinium cells. In the case of the
wireless telephone, a fluctuating beam
of light was made to strike a piece of
selinium which was connected to the
battery and the telephone. t he rluc
tuations of tlio light changed the re
sistunce of the aelinium and made a
fluctuating current, which reproduced
the sound.
In the optophone, light projected by
a tiny photograph lens streams through ’
five rows of oblong perforations in a
revolving disc, and is reflected back
and transformed into sound by means'
of selinium cells. To the observer,
these rays of light appear to correspond]
to the five parallel bars of a musical
staff, producing, as they pass over each
letter, five notes of the musical scale.
How it Works
Ity way of illustration, the electric
e. triage bears the tiny shaft of light, j
with its P o parallel bars, slowly along
under ttu >iw of printed letters on the
down turned page. In a curved letter,
*•(’" for example, the outer curve comes
in contact with ttie light at the line or !
space which corresponds to the vocal,
syllable "mi.” Then, as the light pro-;
ceeds over the letter, the vibrant tone
first produced slurs to “do” and "fa”
simultaneously.
In the letter “t” the high syllable
sounds first as the upper part of the
letter copies in contact with the light; )
then the full five note chord as the
light rays cross the upright part of the
letter, only to revert again to the high
tone. The combined effect of harmony
is charming to the ear of the reader,
though, as the reader’s ears are covered
with sound recorders similar to tele
phone receivers, it is unheard by any
one else.
The resilient character of the soli
nium produces the sounds as the shadow
of the letter passes between it and the
light. In capital letters, the notes are
of greater intensity than when the type
is small.
The inventor is Professor E. E. Four
nier, ll’Albe, It. S.. M. K. 1.. A., for
merly lecturer on physics at the Pniver
gitv of Birmingham, England. His
original experiments, brought before
the London optical convention in 1912,
aroused wide scientific interest. The
10 vears since then have brought about
the development of the idea to its pres
eat amazing proportions.
Y. W. OFFICIAL TO SPEAK
Foreign Immigration Is Topic Billed
For Talk at Bungalow Tomorrow
Mi^s Olivo Johnson, a member ot' the
V. W 0. A. board of the northwest,
will deliver an address at the V \V.
bungalow tomorrow afternoon on the
topic “Immigration and Foreign Com
munity W rk "
Miss Johnson, who is now on her
w»\ to Seattle, is said to be an author
itv on this subject a> she has had much
work with and among the foreign born
population. Her talk is billed for five
o’clock and all women who are inter
rated in the problem of foreign itnmi
gration are invited to attend.
FETE BLEACHERS ASSURED
(Continued from page one)
vious canoe fetes at the University
realize the necessity of providing a
means whereby all can see the beauti
ful event. Last year, especially, the
crowd could by no means be accomo
dated. The proposed bleachers will be
a permanent and a valuable addition
to the fete.
Members of the class of ’23 are lining
up for the usual season of hard work,
which starts now and continues until
Junior Week-end is over. The first
general meeting of all committees was
called last week by Charles Lamb,
general chairman, and beginning Wed
nesday evening, March 8, the entire
committee will meet once a week, with
many meetings of the separate com
mittees.
WOMEN’S OPPORTUNITIES
IN WRITING POINTED OUT
Mrs. Ellis Meredith, Author-Journalist
Says Girls Could Tell of Feminine
Achievements in Business
Mrs. Ellis Meredith spoke to the
members of Theta Sigma Phi, woman’s
journalism fraternity, and their guests
at an open meeting held yesterday
afternoon at the Alpha Chi Omega
house. Mrs. Meredith, who has done
newspaper work in Denver, Colorado,
and who is the author of three novels,
told of her experiences and gave sug
gestions as to .some of the special op
portunities open to women writers. Mrs.
Meredith believes there is a special
field for women recording women’s ex
periences in the professions and busi
ness. TPRs, she remarked, is one of the
few new subjects about which little
has as yet been written.
Jane O’Reilly played a violin solo
which was enjoyed very much. Tea
and sandwiches were served and in
formal talk occupied the rest of the
afternoon.
Theta Sigma Phi gives an open meet
ing each terra to which the underclass
women in journalism are invited. Some
speaker of special interest to women
writers is obtained for the occasion.
DEAN ROBBINS RETURNS
' Dean E. C. Robbins of the school of
business administration, has returned
?from a week’s trip to Eastern Oregon
where he visited a number of high
, schools and commercial organizations in
j'the interest of the University of Ore
gon. The number of high school stu
dents planning to come to Oregon next
I fall, says the dean, will probably in
crease the enrollment to a considerable
extent.
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SCHEDULE CHANGES
(Continued from page one)
to which requests for teachers come.
Also there will come up the proposal
which Dean Dyment and Dr. Bates have
drawn up to abolish the requirement of
freshman composition and transfer it
as a requirement for degrees. Neither
of these two motions is expected to be
opposed for the reason that they are ]
matters concerning principally the de
partments involved.
DR. ROBINSON WILL SPEAK
Professor of History at Stanford to1
Give Address at Assembly
Dr. Edward E. Robinson, professor |
of American history at Leland Stan
ford university, will give the assembly |
address Thursday morning. Although ,
Dr. Robinson has not announced the
subject upon which he will speak, it
is expected that it will deal with his
impressions of the Armament Con
ference at Washington, which he at- .
tended in a semi-official capacity.
During his northern trip Dr. Robin
son is addressing the student bodies of ■
the University of Washington, Wash- I
ington State College, and Reed College.
MISS VOGEL IS BACK
Miss Anna F. Vogel, instructor in
arithmetic and geogrophy at the Uni
versity high school, returned to school
Monday after a week’s absence on ac
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