ESSAY CONTEST ON
PIONEERS TO OPEN
Cup Donated by John Almack
to Promote Interest in Ore
gon’s Early History
The Oregon Council of English, a
professional organization of English
teachers of the state, has announced the
opening of the “Know Oregon First
Essay Contest,” which is conducted by
them annually in all high schools of
the state.
The conditions of the contest are
that the subject be a pioneer story, lo
cal history, of not more than 4000 words
and it is preferred that it be under
3000. The information given will not
be considered, if taken from books or
published records, except to establish
dates or essential facts; but must come
from personal accounts of pioneers,
family traditions, letters, unpublished
records and newspapers. It is also re
quired that neither the name nor high
school of each contestant be
written on the manuscript, for the es
says are to be numbered, with a corres
ponding number and name in an accom
panying envelope.
These contests were started by John
C. Almack, formerly of the extension
division of the University, three years
ago, because of his interest in the pio
neer history of the state, and to stim
ulate interest in it among high school
students.
The cup which Mr. Almack gave was
won for three successive years by the
Salem high school, which entitled it to
permanent ownership and so a new cup
has been purchased by the Oregon
Council of English in order to continue
the contests. This cup is silver, of
Greek design and is about fourteen in
ches tall. The cup is banded at the top
by a simple design, and below this
the name of the council has been en
graved. The names of the high schools
will be placed below this, as it is
won each year.
The closing date of the feontest has
not been announced, but it will be
sometime during the spring term, and
it is expected that the majority of
high schools in the state will enter the
contest.
Judges for the contest will be Miss
Edna Mingus, of the State Normal
school at Monmouth, and Miss Julia
Burgess, instructor in rhetoric in the
University.
CONDON CLUB PLANS HIKE
Prof. Read Bain to Lead All-University
Jaunt Sunday Morning '
An all-University hike, led by ftektf'
Bain of the school of sociology faculty,
is scheduled for Sunday, February 18.
The hikers will leave Villard hall at
10:00 o’clock and start out in the di
rection of Springfield.
According to the leader of the hike,
the trip will be a rambling, exploring
sort with no definite destination in
view. Mr. Bain stated that the party
would probably cross the two hills near
Springfield, then skirt along the river
until they reach the Springfield mill
race. The two mountains will be climb
ed in order to get a view of the Spring
field quadrangle.
Condon club hikes have been well at
tended, say the promoters, and this one
will appeal to a large number of stu
dents. The hikers are requested to
bring a commissary tax of five cents,
a tin cup and lunch.
WELCOME IS WANTED
! FOR MERCHANT VISITORS
Business Ad School Urges All
Students to Say Hello
“Say hello and mean it,” is the re
quest being made by the school of bus
iness administration to all students of
the University who will come in contact
with members of the State Retail Mer
chants’ association which meets in Eu
gene next week. The school of com
merce believes that this is one way
in which every student can show his
interest in the convention, and make
the merchants who are attending feel
that a cordial spirit of hospitality pre
vails at Oregon.
The fact that for three days the mer
chants are going to attend classes con
ducted especially for them by Univer
sity faculty members, entitles them to
every consideration of an Oregon stu
dent, so all regularly enrolled students
are asked to treat them as such, and
better.
Regular class work will continue in
the school of business administration
during the convention week, but seniors
in the various classes will be the in
structors in those cases where the reg
ular instructors will be engaged in the
work of the convention. The decision
to care for classes in this manner was
the result of a meeting of all honor
societies of the school of business ad
ministration, held at the Anchorage on
Monday. The seniors who are to have
charge of classes have been appointed
by the instructors with the approval of
the classes.
All plans are rapidly nearing eom
pletion, and every effort, is being made
by those in charge to make the part of
the school of business ^ministration in
the convention a success. The program
as it has been outlined will appear in
a later issue of the Emerald. Mean
time students are asked to bear in mind
that they are expected to take an ac
tive part in the plans of the convention
by being sure that th%'*iini8s no oppor
tunities of saying hello.
Get the Classified Ad habit.
Sandburg Declared to Express
Spirit of America, in Unique
Form; Noted Writer Portrayed
By Norman T. Byrne
With the announcement of Carl Sand
burg’s visit to the Oregon campus we
are greeted with—“Who is he? What
does he write? More of this modern
stuff?” Well—Carl Sandburg does not
begin with “I shot an arrow into the
air,” or “The stag at eve had drunk
his fill.” Nor does he say with Ger
trude Stein, “We address the readdress
they readdress in between.”
With reference to modern poetry I
should like to call your attention to
what is a critical platitude—Poetry has
no integral connection with rhyme nor
rhythm. Nor can you lazily label a
poem with reference to capitalization
or other printers ’ ear marks.
For those who are more timid, how
ever, it is easily pointed out that Sand
burg uses both rhyme and rythm, es
pecially in his later and better works.
That it is of a form and type unique
is of course very much to his credit.
Take for instance this stanza from
“Fins."
“Ride over, ride over bars of sea riding,
the sun and the blue riding of the sea
sit in the saddles and say it, sea rid
ers.”
It is replete with rhyme—internal
rhyme of consonants, which, with Sand
burg, takes some three forms. The first
is shown by the alliteration of“s” in
the last line, the second by the repiti
tion of the syllable “ride” throughout
the stanza, and the third form in a
combination of the two and a mixing in
of vowel repetitions. Here is another
pronounced example:
“Beat, old heart, these are the old bars
All strugglers have beat against.
Beat on the bars like the old sea
Beats on the rocks and beaches.”
And this will also serve as an exam
ple of Sandburg's rhythm. It is not
the old rhythm of regular long and
short feet, but a rhythm of quantity
which has small reference to the short
feet. It marks stress or weight and
is not a joy to the lazy reader, but
when read aloud by an experienced
reader shows an amazing poetic force.
It has often, and truly, been said that
Sandburg writes in “American.” He
does not do this as Weaver does, but
controls his media as a means of force
and vitalized expression. Sandburg is
not one to come to us reeking with
platitudes but he has expressed the
spirit of America in a form unique as
the subject matter he presents. He
points to,new associations between ob
jects; he brings us thoughts in a new
garb—one which appeals. Witness:
“Civilizations are set up and knocked
down
the same as pins in a bowling alley.
“ Civilizations get into the garbage wa
gons
and are hauled away the same as pota
toe
peelings or any pot scrapings.”
“Of any fool, gabber, gabby mouth,
stand up and say:
Let us have a civilization where the
sacred and
beautiful things of toil and genius shall
last—
If any such noisy gazook stands up and
makes himself
heard—put him out—tie a can on him—
lock him up
in Leavenworth—shackle him in Atlan
ta lioosegow
—let him eat from the tin dishes at
Sing Sing—
Slew him in as a lifer in San Quentin.”
I said that he expressed America. He
has done this as a poet who sees the
vital relations of things. You will not
find him expressive of the spirit of
“ ’76” nor that of “ ’17”—but he writes
of the unique America of energy, work,
dirt, grime, the rush of commerce—of
“Smoke and Steel.” In the “Sins of
Kalamazoo” we have Main Street in a
hundred vivid lines. In the “Windy
City” we have Chicago—dirt, romance,
sin, glamour, jazz—burnt with a sear on
the mind. “Slabs of the Sunburnt
West”—what could more adequately in
troduce this portion of the West where,
as the overland hurls itself into the
night:
“Six men with cigars in the buffet
car mention ‘civilization,’ ‘history,’
‘God’.” Or read “Threes” with its
tragic contrast—or “And so today,
with its lurid picture of the aftermath
of a world disaster.
Taking the small volume using “Slabs
of the Sunburnt West” as a title page
and “Smoke and Steel” as Sandburg’s
best we have here a critical picture of
America, complete and poetic, which
ranks the author as one of the three
or four men whom America has to offer
to the world’s panthenon of genius.
BEST PSYCHIG TEST
Psychologist Believes Mental
Examinations Show Stock
Intelligence
'While physiological tests of intelli
gence are not perfect, °they are far
superior to any other scientific means
that are available. A set of these tests
should be devised to fit the need of
the immigration bureau, is the belief
: of Professor Kimball Young, psychol- j
ogist' with this service, states in his
article on “Intelligence Tests in Certain
Immigrant Groups,” appearing in the
Scientific Monthly.
These intelligence tests, says Profes
i sor Young, reveal significant facts. The
army tests proved that the Nordic
stocks were much superior to the Gat
ins and Asiatics in intelligence. Early
immigrants that come to this country
were of Northern and Western Euro
pean stock. They came to colonize the
free land and enjoy permanent citizen
ship. Within the last thirty years the
demand for cheap semi-skilled and un
skilled labor has resulted in a deluge
of immigration from southern and
southeastern Europe and Asia.
Tests on school children reveal the
same facts. Americans and Hebrews
have a high average intelligence. Ne
groes and Italians have a low average j
intelligence. Of the two the Italian is 1
the lowest. Below the Italians are the
Portuguese and Spanisli-Mexicans. Stu
dies of these same groups of children
from year to year show that their aver
age does not improve with longer edu
cation. Preliminary testing of Japan
ese and Chinese shows that they com
pare very favorably with American
population of Nordic ancestry.
The probate bearing of these findings j
on the problem of immigration and mix
ture of immigrant stocks is that if the j
deluge of these weaker stocks contin
ues it will ultimately and disastrously
affect the average intelligence of our'
population, states Professor Young.
“What we want is sueli a selection
of European peoples that they add var
iety to our population, but not lower its
intelligence. Cheap unintelligent labor
from abroad has fastened a serious ra- j
cial social-economic problem upon us.
At the expense of the general well
being the few are profiting. Immigra
tion should be controlled. A reading
and writing test is not adequate. Sub
normal people can often read and
verite.”
The writer believes that a well work
ed out physical and psychological test
should be applied for. entrance into this
country. Only in this way can we look
forward to a true national greatness I
and a high minded race. By realizing -
the problem soon enough and solving i
it soon enough we can assure our coun
try’s place of leadership in Ihe world.
LECTURE SERIES BEGINS
Mazama Club in Portland Takes Course
in Geology Given by University
A special course in general geology
is being given the Mazama club in Port
land, by members of the geology de
partment of the University. A lecture
will be given each Friday night, for
twelve weeks during the year, at the
Portland Public library. This week,
Dr. E. L. Packard will lecture on “The
Dawn of Life.”
Each lecture is arranged in such a
way that it is a complete unit, one
not depending on another. This course
does not correspond with any Univer
sity course, and is given merely at the
request of the Mazamas.
' RECITAL TO BE GIVEN
(Continued from page one)
and resonance, and very pleasing qual
ity of voice. He was very cordially
received.”—Portland Oregonian.
“He is an artist whom the kind peo
ple here seldom have the opportunity
of hearing. His rich, clear tenor voice
carries very easily, and he reaches his
high tones without ffort. He has that
delightful ease and simplicity that
comes with perfect mastery,”—iCoos
Bay Times (Marshfield).
The recital is to be given at 8:15,
and the student body of the University
and any one interested in music is in
vited to attend.
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I At the End of the Hunger Trail
The Hunger Trail leads to the Rainbow as surely
as the prospector follows the trail which leads to
gold or the student to knowledge. Do you fol
low the hunger trail that leads to distinctive food
and happy crowds? After the play, after the
movie, or after a shopping tour, your steps will
naturally trend the trail to
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