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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1924)
OREGON SUNDAY EMERALD Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, issued daily except Monday, during the college year. _ ARTHUR S. RUDD ... EDITOR Editorial Board Managing Editor . Don Woodward Aaoociace Editor . John W. Piper LEO P. J. MUNLY ... MANAGER Business Staff Associate Manager ... Lot Beatie Foreign Advertising Manager ....... James Leake Advertising Manager ........ Maurice Warnock Circulation Manager .... Assistant Circulation Manager Bpecialty Advertising Kenneth Stephenson .. Alan Woolley Gladys Noren Advertising Assistants: Frank Loggan, Chester Coon, Edgar Wrightman, Lester Wade Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates. 82.26 per year. By term, 76c. Advertising rates upon application. Phones manor boo .Manager yoi Contributors to this issue are: Monte Byers, Pat Morrissette, Margaret Skavlan, Leonard Lerwill, Betli Pariss, Catherine Spall, Ed ward Bobbins, Norma Wilson, Bon Woodward, Mary Clerin, Ward Cook, Lyle Janz, Clifford Zehrung, Marion Playter, Jose Gorrieeta and Taylor Huston. Daily News Editor This Issue Night Editor This Issue Margaret Morrison George Belknap Small Town Boys lu a recent editorial a Portland daily sounded the praises of the “small town man.” Following a rather lengthy dis sertation upon the merits of living in the country it said: “Ample time for reflection is theirs (those who live in the coun try). So from time to time they send us their young men and women, grown to a mental stature that dwarfs us, nurtured, if you please on small town stuff, sustained by village morality— and we are amazed at the marvel.” It is an interesting commentary on campus life to note how well this principle works out here. Older students on the cam pus have seen it happen time and time again that the well known, much rushed “prepper” fails to live up to expectations and is finally excelled by some small town youth of little or no reputation. It has worked out in so many cases that the high school “stars” have absolutely failed as University students that to have it turn out in any other way has almost come to be a surprise. There are advantages in going to the larger high schools. Facilities for scholarship are better, and higher class instruc tion is often available; but on the other hand there are 'the multitudinous distractions of the life in the larger places. Perhaps the freshman from the village knows fewer dance steps and has not learned to plaster his hair quite as smoothly as the urbanite, but our observation teaches us that his chances to succeed are likely to be better than those of the boy with the metropolitan veneer. Sport Chatter by MONTE BYERS If that noise about tho crazy antics of tho Japanese current is correct, Oregon may be able to add a few more sports to tho calendar. Say the Willamette froze over— chance for a hockey team. Snow on the hills -skiing tournaments. Speed skaters might find the race a good speedway, providing they watched the bridges. * * * Despite the fact that over half a hundred coaches have put their monickers down as desirous of the Oregon mentorship and others have been mentioned, one man seems to have been overlooked. Johnny Beckett seems to have had a lot of success with marine teams in tfie east. Sport followers will re member Johnny as one of the best tackles ever turned out at the local institution. With football a fireside topic now', we turn our attention to basketball. Oregon, with six vet erans and a number of other good men out for the team, ought to be up among the top Hoteliers when the curtain is rung down in March. Latham, Rockhey, Alstock, Shafer, Chapman and Cowans form a very promising nucleus for Reinhart to build a scoring machine around Besides these hi' has King, Hobson, Stoddard, Cillenwaters, Tuck, Far ley and Morlock, all promising can didates. « « • Looking over the prospects we find that the other schools in the conference have some nice hoop teams and Oregon will hav<> to hump to get a solid grip on the top rung. The Aggies, Cougars. \ and als, Huskies and Missionaries have quintets to be proud of. Some veterans will be minus when the season starts, but they all have a host of material to fall back on. It should be a great year for basket ball, with a number of torrid games before the championship is tucked away and the mythical five is sc lccted. • • • Track prospects are none too bright at present. Bill has five lettormeu and some untried Irish man and holdover material to mold his track aggregation from. Spearow, Risley, Rosebraugh, Kane na and Hunt are monogram' men available. Rosenberg, Anderson, Mautz, Keating, Kelsey, E'by and Wells will bo on hand to fight for places on the team, all men of ability in their events. Sprinters and distance men are needed to round the team out, es pecially second and third place men. iiill may have some dark horse stuff out, but he would wel come more aspirants for jobs on bis cinder team, lie has suits and track shoes aching for someone to come and get them for a scamper around the cinder oval. The 1924 track season will mark the close of a brilliant career for Ralph Spearow, vaulter, high and broad jumper. I’ast track seasons have found Oregon's premier vaulter doing wonderful work in this big event. The 11*21 season should be a great one for him. Spearow's vaulting career ex tends over a long period of years. We can remember him vaulting over homemade paraphernalia in grammar school days over a decade ago. In high school wo remember him as a good two-thirds of his school’s team one year. He has vaulted for the Mult nomah club in sectional meets. He has attended national meets. Spearow vaults consistently around the HI foot mark and has been around the world often. In many meets he has tried to break the existing record and came within a gnat's eyelash of it. In his last year of college com petition he should have a wonderful season. The Olympic games in Paris are enticing bait. What would rottnd out a great harper better than crossing the Atlantic to vie with the greatest bamboo artists in the world? Spearow has an excellent chance to be Oregon's representative on the 1924 Olympic team. He is truck captain this year and will be a good one. The old guard of Andy Smith's wonder team packed their mole skins for the last time this year, leaving Andy to fill their places, with new men. Andy may not have such powerful teams again, but wo know that he’s going to have a team which will have to be con sidered when the 1924 season gets under way. (let the Classified Ad habit. ROOTABAGA PIGEONS Can Sandburg After reading the “Rootabaga Stories,” falling in love with the White Horse Girl and the Blue Wind Boy, travelling with Gimme-The Ax and his children to the Roota baga country where all the pigs wear bibs and their mothers and fathers fix them, there is scarcely a reader who can resist the impulse to read immediately upon Us ap pearance Carl Sandburg’s newest book, ‘‘The Rootamga Pigeon i.” The same whimsical magic is in the new volume, a host of new additions to the vocabulary of the ! fancy from the first tale which be gins, “Pdixic Blimber’s mother was .•hopping hash. And the hash hatchet broke. So Blixia Blimber started downtown with fif cen cents | to buy a new hash hatchet for chopping Sandburg tells a story with the undercurrent of fun and archness that some grown-ups tell stoiies to the children when there are other grown-ups present. The stories are therefore as much fun to the older folks who read them as to the children to whom they are rare en joyment. There is fancy more than imagination and even the in tellectual can sit and chuckle at “Shush Shush, The Big Buff Banty Hen Who Laid an Egg in the Post master’s Hat,” and “Rag Bag Mammy who lived in the Village of Hatpins.” Monkeywrenches and crooked ladders have a flavorsomeness and Hatrack the Horse who reaches | round and hangs his hat on a shoulderblade becomes a perfectly plausible creature in a perfectly plausible Village of Cream Puffs. It is a whole new fairy lore with a much more whimsieal appeal and with a humor and fun that the av erage fairy lore lacks. American children must surely love the queer ly illustrated fascinating volume whoso covers open upon a fascinat ing new world. A word must be said for the il lustrators, Maud and Miska Peter sham, whose work is as valuable as the stories themselves. The pic tures are the sort that children would remember in great detail and love. They have just the same touch of oddity and whimsicality that the tales have and without them it would bo difficult to state whether the tales would bo all that they are. A book for grown-ups and chil dren, an achievement in fancy, rhythm and entertainment, “The Rootabaga Pigeons.” And by the same man who writes so well of steel, smoke, city noise and grime. -—Katherine Watson. THE BLIND BOW BOY Carl Van Vechten Carl Van Vechten begins his last book, “The Blind Bow Boy,” with a conventional dullness quite unlike him, and bores the reader with trite scene between a sou just out of college and an erratic father; in which the only hint of the glint ing humor to follow lies in tffe father’s advertisement for a com panion for his son, a companion whose chief requisite must, be a complete absence of moral sense and participation in a public scandal at some time in his life. Harold, the son—wlijose strong j est aversion in life is the coat and i suit business as a means of liveli | hood—sets out to lead a life of luxurious leisure in his own apart j ment with a valent whose subtle j attempts to make moral laxness i easy for thd boy, lerve only to disgust him. Through the compan ion whom his father has secured, Harold meets interesting, clever and unconventional people, who do the sort of careless extravagant and ' unconventional things that only i Van Vechten’s characters do. They are all impossibly clever and with them as a medium Van Vechten expresses his own pet ! philosophies and treats the reader to those wordy landslides with which Peter Whiffle was so re plete; dizzying hodge-podges of music and art and literature and psychology and philosphy and mor ality; lists of paintings, composi tions, French modistes, books of the year, Italian poets, Scandinavian playwrights, Hindu philosophy, Van Vechten is enamoured of names. There are one or two good in teriors in the book. Van Vechten likes interiors, much as Herge sheimer does, but he is interested in the details, the bric-a-brac in the room, while Hergesheimer notes the effect of light and shade, of tones and harmonies. Van Vechten’s in teriors are like the advertisements of very good furniture companies in the Home Beautiful. Not that they are conventional, but they are detailed. He is elusively and alludingly, and withal, daringly, bold in spots. His characters are often surpris ingly frank; sometimes a bit nasty. There is about Van Vechten, how ever, the same debonair, laughing indifference that characterizes Ald ous Huxley. He is never disgust ing, always amusing. His book settles nothing, arrives nowhere. Campaspe Lorillard, the most interesting character in the book, justifies this in a soliloquy in which she deprecates the at tempt to present characters as pro gressing and changing and growing with experience. To Campaspe, and to Van Vechten, characters remain the same. Though Harold’s views of life may change, Harold himself is singularly the same. Nothing he does is startlingly unexpected. Van Vechten looks about him at life, and laughs and shrugs lifis shoulders and writes what he has seen, glossed over with an easy and careless cleverness. —Nancy Wilson. o---—o MOST FOPULAR BOOKS IN LIBRARY: DECEMBER Fiction 1. Town and Gown, by Lyn and Lois Seyster Mont ross. 2. Black Oxen, by Gertrude Atherton. 3. End of House of Alard, by Sheila Kaye-Smith. 4. Janet March, by Floyd Dell. 5. Don Juan, by Ludwig Lewisohn. Non-Fiction 1. Sarah of the Sahara, j by Walter E. Traprock. | 2. Studies in Classic Ameri can Literature, by D. H. Lawrence. I 3. College Days, by Stephen Leacock. 4. Story of the Bible, by j Hendrik Van Loon. 5. Outlines of Literature, by John Dr ink water. o-—--4> STETSON Hats Style and Quality arc the two essentials of a good hat, but it does not pay to buy one without the other. All Stetsons have both. STYLED FOR YOUNG MEN Buildings Go Up in Few Hours The wave of building activity that has been sweeping the coun try for the last few years has fin ally struck the campus and not only has the University construction de partment been affected by it, but 1 the architectural department itself has for a while laid away its pen cils and paint brushes and has launched itself into a program of construction work. Fire halls, libraries, cathedrals and other such magnificent struc tures which formerly have taken months if not years to build are here constructed in a few hours. The work is simple; first the stu 1 dent takes out his plans, gorgeous ly inked and colored, and then with a few thin boards or shingles he builds the framework for his build ing. After this the finishing in ; stucco is begun by the wrapping of a package of clay and its work ing up into a pliable mass. The wooden frame work is now covered with the clay and, after a few hours of molding and smearing, lo [and behold, an architectural master : piece stands before you. The architectural students are re quired to make models of their finished plans and are given the choice of building them of clay or cardboard. Some very good work is being turned out by the artists, the buildings being to scale and following the plans closely. RADIO PLAYERS ORGANIZE AT PULLMAN Wahington State College—(By P. I. N. S.)—The first venture of its kind in the west and one of the few in the United States is being launched on the Washington State campus with the organization of the radio players, by Professor M. L„ Daggy, head of the dramatics department. A group of about 20 students in dramatics will be chos en as charter members of the new club, which will give plays over j the college broadcaster, K F A E. U. OF W. REGISTRATION ON INCREASE # Registration figures at the Uni versity of Washington for the winter quarter show a considerable gain over the enrollment for the preced ing quarter as well as the corres ponding quarter last year. Early [ figures in registration give 4337 ! students enrolled and it is estim ated that the final total will be well over 5,000. About 500 students ! dropped out at the end of the last term, but their places are more than filled by the return of old students, those 'transferring from other col: !eges ami entering freshman. Speedy i registration was in order on the I Washington campus at the begin ning of this term, one student estab : iishing a record of 15 minutes. It- i.| tlie A(l column. For January Birthdays Flowers are the most ap preciated of birthday gifts. They are so ex pressive of your regard and so inexpensive. She would rather have a few liowers than many more dollars worm ol something else. 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