Student from India Sees
Less Racial Prejudice Here
By V. V. Oak
As a foreigner, I am likely to be less
partial than a native in depicting a
picture of my feelings about the two
states, California and Oregon and their
universities. The University of Cali
fornia has over 200 students from for
eign countries now studying on the
campus at Berkeley. The fact that
California is full of foreigners may
have a deal to do with what little
difference I have found in the two
states. Nevertheless, I am recording
here what I think to be a true picture
as seen through a foreigner’s eye.
The people of Eugene are less
aristocratic, more simple, less ostentati
ous, and have the “hello” spirit
to a greater extent; above all, they
certainly have less racial prejudice
against foreigners. I cannot forget the
impression that the average Californian
is against the Oriental in general, and
the Japanese in particular. In spite
of this, however, it should be noted that
California was the first to respond to
the recent tragic catastrophe at Japan
and make relief arrangments.
It is a sad fact that an Oriental stu
dent, even if he be a Christian by re
ligion, finds it very difficult to get
room near the Berkeley campus, thanks
to the systematic agitation of the
Berkeley Gazette against the Orientals.
Of course, there are many people here
also who are afraid to rent rooms to
Orientals, no matter how well-dressed,
gentlemanly, and up-to-date they might
be in their social customs and manners.
White color is taken as an emblem
of purity. Does it not follow then,
that everything non-white is an emblem
of non-purity f No wonder the Oriental
foreigner finds it difficult to get rooms
in the land of the “whites.” And still
there are many faddists who fondly
hope that the world‘is going to be
“one” pretty soon.
The world may become one economic
unit and there certainly has been an
increasing inter-national communica
tion day by day, but if the signs of
the times are to be interpreted from
the daily events we see, and not from
what we think events ought to be, I am
inclined to believe, at the risk of be
ing dubbed a pessimist, that we are
farther from that goal of “one world”
than ever before.
The University of California with its
10,000 and odd students, possesses a
very wide area of land with beautiful,
up-to-date, buildings. When I first
came to this University I was greatly
disappointed at the small buildings, and
the poor location of the University Y.
M. C. A.
I am, however, compelled to admit
that I am more than ever pleased with
this University and its healthy atmost
phere. The small class-rooms engender
more friendship between the students
than is possible in a class of 200 to
4H0 "boys, as at Berkeley..
During my week’s stay here I have
been able to come in closer contact
with my professors than I ever did
during my one year’s stay at Berkeley.
A professor here need not be business
like; his doors are open to you at all
times.
A small University, therefore, has a
decided advantage over a large one,
and more than recompenses for all the
other advantages of greater facilities
for study, that one may enjoy in a big
university like the University of Cal
ifornia.
The University of Oregon Y. M. C. A.
certainly has one of the best and ablest
women social workers to work as an
employment secretary. She acts a sort
of “mother” to all boys and the for
eign students find her of immense help
to them in every way.
An elderly lady, with a pencil round
her neck, and a smiling face greeted me
the first day I entered the Y. Mrs.
C. R. Donnelly’s unostentatious man
ners, her simplicity, heT ever-willing
to-help attitude, her ready smile, here
devotion to do her work to the best
of her ability, and above all, her ma
ternal treatment of the students ir
respective of their color or creed, are
things that are worth being copied by
every aspiring social worker. The big
gest thing about her is that she means
what she says. Her “how-do-do” is
more sincere and quite unlike the mod
ern girl, who, while being introduced to
someone not quite handsome or ap
preciable to her eyes or who is a Ori
ental, says mechanically “Glad to meet
you,” and often adds (perhaps to con
vince her own conscience) “I am sure,”
while by her action, her manner of
standing, and her method of shaking
hands with you, if ever she condescends
to do so, clearly shows to any one who
has sufficient sense to understand it
that she is anything but pleased to
meet you.
“Which is your church” was a ques
tion asked of me by many American
ladies. (The women folk seem to be
much interested about religion—as wo
men are in every country of the world)
and they were not a little taken aback
when I told them that “The University
is my church.” It is really a striking
fact that while the editor of the U. C.
organ in Berkeley is glad over the fact
that hundreds of students are seen in
the library even on Sunday (and in
spite of the open movies, one may add)
the editor of this paper is striking a
dismal note on what he thinks to be
a danger to the campus because some
people want the movies open on Sun
days. Of course, the plea that boys
and girls would study because there are
no movies seems to be funny, especially
when the library is not kept open for
any decently longer period than it is
now. You cannot make the people re
ligious by telling (forcing) them not
to go to the movies. Particularly this
is true in the case of grown up boys
and girls which surround the campus.
OVERSEAS WOMEN
DISCUSS WAR WORK
(Continued from page one)
them never returned,” sighed Mrs.
Crump, but many of them came back
again and again and I learned to know
them well. I receive letters from many
of them yet.”
Though Miss Gibson has been on the
University campus for some time, haying
come here last year from New York
ity to attend school, few people know
that besides her two years’ experience as
a war nurse, she is an accomplished
writer, having had several poems pub
lished. She is a major in the school of
journalism.
Mrs. Crump is a new-comer on the
campus, having just taken the position
of house-mother to the Gamma Phi Beta
sorority. She was over-seas for the last
two years of the war after which she
conducted a hostess house at the en
trance to the Argonne cemetery.
--Say Hello First
ALL CLASSES FROLIC
AFTER PAYING FEES
(Continued from page 1)
their quite conduct was a sin or a
virtue we cannot stop to judge.
It had been previously announced
that the sophomore party -would be
rough neck, and obviously the class of
’26 took their publicity manager at his
word. The soph’s literally oozed out
of the sides of the Campa Shoppe dance
hall. So crowded was the floor that
they took possession of the side walk
and the street. There was a blast
furnace temperature on the inside, but
weirdly dressed men and queer looking
co-eds danced on and on, in serpentines
and “Paul Joneses”; on cement, maple,
asphalt and toes. Yes, the sophomore
dance was roughneck.
Proudly bearing the conventional,
time honored shipping tags that con
fessed their names, the freshmen held
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sway at the Woman’s building. The
yearling dance would have been quite
dignified had it not been for temporary
invasions from the sophomore and
junior dances. It was the traditional
first freshman dance; men with well
oiled, neatly parted hair, blush
ing girls in brand new gowns. The
customary collection of bashful swains
gathered at one end of the hall and
protected it 'from the alien forces of
the other classes, while the women thus
abandoned lined the side walls and
tried to talk casually on the ever enter
taining weather.
A historic night of class dances, and
isn’t it a shame that “blue Monday”
is juBt a few hours away?
-Say Hello First
UNIVERSITY SENDS OUT
CATALOGUE ON SLIDES
(Continued from page one)
sical geography, biology and botany.
There are slides on history taking up
the different periods, as ancient, med
ieval and modern, and slides on art,
civics and schools.
“Swat the Fly” and “Taming the
Fire God” are examples of sets listed
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under general heads of Health, First
Aid, Public Safety. Among the great
variety of sets are slides dealing with
literature, the Bible, rock collections
and microscopic work made up in the
laboratories of the departments of
biology and botany of the University.
All lantern slides are loaned free.
The only cost is that of transportation
both ways by parcel post or express.
Written lectures usually accompany the
slides.
FRENCH GIRL LIKES
ATHLETICS AT OREGON
(Continued from page one)
to come to your school, as I am anxious
to become better acquainted with your
customs and people. I think it is so
fine that there is no class distinction
in the university. In France the
French girls never have the opportunity
to work and go to college, it just isn’t
done, but here many are able to work
in the University and go to college
too.”
When asked about the differences in
colleges in France and in America,
Mile. PelKon replied, “The buildings
there are all very close together, not
stretched out so much as they are
here, and there are not so many fine
buildings for classes. The students
spend a great deal more time studying
also, as they all have classes about six
hours a day.”
This is Mile. Pellion’s second year
spent in America. Last year she was
at St. Elizabeth school, Morristown,
New Jersey. Her home is in Bouperrou
le-Coquet. During the war she was in
Mamers, a normal school at Le Mans,
a coast city between Paris and Nantes.
This was a great center for American
troops juBt arriving from the U. S. and
served as a training school. It was
there that Mile. Pellion first became
interested in going to America to study.
-Say HeUc First
THE PIXIE
Hi! Plump pixie on a stone,
Open up your pop eyes
And look at me.
I have followed a little muddy path
Clear out from the town
That you might teach me to play mar
bles
With the knobby tops of toadstools—
And here you sit
Pulling the green threads out of leaves
With your eyes screwed tight
As if you were afraid that you might
see me.
'“Tomorrow” you sayt
Nonsense!
I ran all the way up the last hillock
from the pine tree
I was so eager to get here.
What matter if autumn is one day late!
There won’t be much more playtime
Before the rain begins.
You’re busyt—So I’d noticed,
But what right has a pixie to be busy?
You’re worse than the people
Who live back in the town,
They don’t know any other word but
busy.
—So it is still “ tomorrow 1”
Very will.
But you don’t know the risk you run.
Tomorrow I may not want to play
'At marbles,
And if it rains—
—Kathrine Kressmann.
-Say Hello First
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MARRIAGE DECLARED AN
UNEQUAL ARRANGEMENT
Unhappy Man Lives in Danger
and Misery When Wed
By Junior Seton
Theoretically—marriage is a partner
ship. It is a partnership in which both
partners contribute their share toward
the establishment of the family. It is
a partnership in which the man does
his part as the provider of the home,
and the woman does her part as the
keeper of the home. That is marriage—
theoretically.
Actually what is marriage 1 It is
an arrangment. An arrangement
whereby the man works from dawn to
dark, providing, and the woman works
from dark to dawn consuming. It is
an arrangement whereby the woman
gains economic independence without
the usual pursuit of labor, and the
man gains a right to eat sardines out
of the can for breakfast, and the cer
tainty of an early grave.
In the happier days when marriage
came nearer to living up to its ex
pectations, the young couple were wont
to start housekeeping with an ax, a
sack of flour, and a determination to
get somewhere. Today, they start out
with a Ford (if they are modest),
twenty-seven pieces of installment
furniture, and a determination to get
a divorce if marriage is’nt quite the
bed of roses they believe it to be.
Cupid is rapidly being supplanted by
cupidity. The woman looks more to
the man’s bank account than she does
to the man. A married man, who car
ries life insurance in excess of his
earning capacity, is apt to find ground
glass in his delicatessen store dinners
at any time. If he hasn’t been done
away with, it is only because mourning
isn’t becoming to his help-mate.
All this is common knowledge, and
yet the papers are full of matrimonial
news. Nearly every day, even in such
a small group as this college, we hear
of some guileless youth voluntarily
putting his head in the noose. Why
do they do it? They can’t help them
selves. The man comes to college to
get an education. The woman comes
to get a man. They both get what
they come after, but the man gets
it in the neck.
-Say Hello Firet
EXTENSION DIVISION TO
RECEIVE SIX NEW FILMS
Photoplays on Industrial and Scenic
Subjects to Be Shown Both in
Eugene and Portland
Six new films from the United
States bureau of mines are expected
soon by the extension division. These
films have been too expensive for the
various departments to get, but will
now be shown on the campus during
the year.
“The Story of Petroleum,” in four
reels; “Saving Coal at Home,” in one
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reel; “The Story of Heavy Excavating
Machinery,” in two reels; “The Story
of the Electric Meter,” in one reel;
“Transportation,” in two reels, and
“Mexico and Its Oil” are the titles of
the new films.
Films sent out by the division last
year, up to June first, had a total of
489 showings and an attendance of
68,684. Subjects of the films are sce
nic and industrial, including foods,
clothing, water power, electricity, and
so on.
Portland and Eugene had the largest
number of showings last year, having
86 each. Hood River with 48, Astoria
and Burns with 34 and Mosier with 20
showings rank next. Most popular of
the films are “Lake Louise,” “Alaska”
“British Columbia,” “Santa Clara
County,” “Santa Cruz”. Most of these
Beenics had 10 showings. Popular in
dustrial films are “Woolen Yarn,”
“King of the Rails,” and “Queen of the
Waves”.
Pictures of animal life have been
shown before this year by the depart
ment. Several excellent films are
on hand now. “Alligator Hunt,”
“Starting Life,” “Having a Circus,”
“Animal Antics,” and “Birds and Ani
mals,” are titles of these pictures.
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