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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 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. A*THUR S. RUDD ..... EDITOR Editorial Board Managing Editor . Don Woodward Associate Editor ...-. John W. Piper Associate Managing Editor ____Taylor Huston Daily News Editors Margaret Morrison Rosalia Keber Junior Seton Velma Farnham Night Editors Bopart Bullivant Walter Coover Douglas Wilson Jack Burleson George Belknap T. I. N. S. Editor _ Pauline Bondurant Assistant . Louis Dammasch Sports Staff Sports Editor __— Kenneth Cooper Sports Writers: Monte Byers, Bill Akers, Ward Cook. Upper News Staff Catherine Spall Norma Wilson Frances Simpson Mary Clerin Marian Lowry Kathrine Kressmann Katherine Watson Margaret Skavlan Exchange Editor . Nor borne Berkeley News Staff: Henryetta Lawrence, Helen Reynolds, Lester Turnbaugh, Georgiana Gerlinger, Webster Jones, Margaret Vincent, Phyllis Coplan, Frances Sanford, Eugenia Strickland, Velma Meredith, Lilian Wilson, Margaret Kressmann, Ned French, Ed Robbins, Josephine Rice, Clifford Zehrung, Pete Laurs, Leonard Lerwill. Mary West, Emily Houston, Beth Farias, Lyle Janz, Ben Maxwell, LEO P. J. MUNLY .-... MANAGER Associate Manager Business Staff .Lot Beatie Foreign Advertising Manager ... James Leake | Aaa't Manager . Walter Pearson ! Alva Vernon Irving Brown Specialty Advertising Gladys Noren Circulation Manager . Kenneth Stephenson Aas’t Manager . Alan Wooley Upper Business Staff Advertising Manager .... Maurice Warnock Ass’t Adv. Mgr. Karl Hardenbergh Advertising Salesmen Sales Manager . Frank Loggan Assistants Lester Wade Chester Coon Edgar Wrightman Frank De Spain Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as Beeond-class matter. i»t«, $2.26 per year. By term, 76c. Advertising rates upon application. Subscription Phones Editor 655 Manager 951 Contributors to this issue lire Clinton Howard, Arthur Kudd, Pat Morris sette, Monte Byers, Mary .lane Dustin, .Josephine Kice, Mary West, Junior Seton, K. E. C. and Co., Marian Lowry, Xvatharino Watson, Joo Brill, Edward Bobbins, Bill Akers, Wilbur Wester, Mary Clcrin, Webster Jones, Jack Burleson and Theodore Janes. Daily News Editor This Issue Night Editor This Issue Margaret Morrison Gteorgo Belknap Helping Hands We went into the library the other afternoon at four o’clock and as we went up the steep stairs wc noticed a freshman sit ting on one of the banisters at the side. We had seen him be fore in one of our classes and there was something now in his gaze which made us wonder of what he was thinking. So after we had deposited our book at the desk we came back down the steps and sat beside him. “Nice weather,” we said. “Hope it lasts until Saturday. What do you think of our basketball chances?” Our attempts to start a conversation did not seem to be very successful. We looked at him. He was sitting, with his arms clasped about one raised knee, and we were surprised to see the faint glimmer of tears in his eyes. The kid was lonely. From then on he did the talking, and about ten minutes later we rose and left with a goodbye thrown backward over our shoulder. As we wandered along we wondered at what he had told us about his impressions of college life in the first three months, lie was a “goof.” Long and lanky, awkward and shy, even though keenly intelligent, he was the sort of a frosh who simply didn’t fit in. 11c lived alone in the “town” and ate “out.” His only bit of human contact was a “hello” on the campus and an occasional snatch of conversation at the gym. So this was “college life”! lie was disillusioned of all the ideas he had ever imbibed from high school romances of the hero of the college team. We felt for the boy; this “goof,” and when we met a friend on the way home we told him snatches of the conversa tion with the freshman. “Yes,” said our friend, “it’s too bad, but he will just have to snap out of it!” True; the frosh and all of his kind will simply have to “snap.” And yet while wc pitied the first year man, we won dered ii among the older “hands” there were not some who by a deft touch could help such freshmen to swim into the main current of college life. I o Make the Soul Safe—” In the course of our lifetime wo have always tried to cul tivate assiduously the faculty of perceiving ami admiring valor and intellect in others, especially those to whom we are so unfortunate as to be opposed in matters of real principle. Heading desultorily the other day in various essays of merit we came across a selection, a peroration to one essay which made us throw down the book and bang the table in sheer ad miration. Uriel”ly, powerfully, beautifully, the writer-thinker had placed himself upon his own platform in the face of all the universe, to bid it defiance. We did not agree with Mr. Bertrand Bussell altogether, yet we could not help but yield him homage for uncompromising and fearless assertion. “Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, condemned today to lose his dear est, tomorrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish ere the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day: disdaining the coward terrors of the slave of Fate, to worship at the shrine that his own hands have built; undismayed by the empire of chance, to preserve a mind free from the wanton tyranny that rules his outward life; proudly defiant of the irresistible forces that tolerate, for a - moment, his knowledge and his condemnation, to sustain alone, a weary but unyielding Atlas, the world that his own ideals | have fashioned despite the trampling march of unconscious power.” i | Editorially Clipped -<$, IS MEDIOCRITY A CRIME? Mediocrity, bugaboo of progressive Americanism, is found in all walks of life. Excusable in some cases, it is entirely inexcusable in others. For, while it is evident that not all i people are endowed with the same capacities in the particular line in which they are engaged, it is equally i true, nevertheless, that too many in-; dividuals are content with work of j an inferior quality when, by extend- j ing themselves without undue effort, a greatly superior grade of work might be produced. But mediocrity, as it exists in the outside world, is not of particular in terest to college students. It is in connection with this evil, with its at | tending and resulting influences, as | it applies to undergraduate life at j j American institutions of higher learn ! ing that student interest is aroused, j There is a tendency toward medio crity, it would seem, in all lines of collegiate endeavor. But it is not without cause. There is not enough competition in undergraduate activities. And where competition is in evidence ,it is usually not spirited enough for the production of excep- i tional results. Individuals working j for student positions of honor, trust i or influence on a competitive basis, seem content with mediocre work, some because they themselves are mediocre, others because they are not required to extend themselves. To those undergraduate competitors in whose ordinary work are seen their best efforts, much credit must be giv en. But upon those individuals, cap able of greater things, who are sim ply content to drift with the tide, much discredit must be reflected. “To give a little better than his best should bo the motto of every man,” says Coach Hugo Bezdek. And what an immense amount of good would result if collego men were out to re gard such an expression seriously. Debating, dramatics, music, jour nalism, in fact all lines of collegiate activity are suffering because of me diocre work turned out by partici pants. Debating, to cite a specific example, is one of the oldest forms of intercollegiate competition and is generally recognized as an activity productive of exceptional returns. Yet each year witnesses instructors in the forensic art combating a proposi tion arising from a mediocre expendi ture of efforts. But there is another phase to be con sidered in the discussion of mediocrity. Year after year men go through col lege, men of superior intelligence and J ability, without even trying out for1 any undergraduate activity, for some] of which they are oft-times peculiar- j ly fitted. It is a safe estimate that! there are men in college today who are better qualified to fill the positions of: honor and influence on the campus ' than the individuals who are, at, pre sent, in such positions. Tt, is unfor- i lunate that such is the case, but it is none the less true. It represents a distinctive loss to the college and to • the individual. I Lack of confidence may occasion I non-participation,—that and laziness. 1 But confidence can be acquired, and work is the most effective remedy fori , that “tired feeling.” Tt is essential f that every undergraduate interest him- * self in some activity independent of ]1 his scholastic routine. And then, when I interested, it is only fair to his col-j lege and to himself “to give a little! better than his best.” —Penn State Collegian. CLASS TO A DOG Have you ever seriously studied that most interesting of subjects -that which tells you more of life than any other subject—character study? If not, you are not ac quainted wit'u some of the follow ing characters whom you should' know. There is the fresh little dog that you so often see standing down town with the rest of the fellows i who spend their evenings on the ! street corner. The provoking thing; about him is that he is irresistible • when ho perks his little head on one side, smirks up at you and winks impudently. \ ou always fall' for his wiles and bend over to talk j wit ii him no matter how conspicu ous a place you may be in. He knows he is cute and so he waits RAINIER COAL CO. for High Grade Coal and Briquets 15 East 7th Avenue Phone 412 for the next person to come along for him to vamp. There is another kind of fresh dog who chases after automobiles and barks hilariously while he glances at an onlooker to see if he is making the impression upon him that he should. Or there is the aristocratic dog who passes haughtily in a motor car with his head held high and his nose as straight up as any hu man snob’s. If he designs to go out on a leash with his master you may be sure he “highbrows” any cur that may have the nerve to sniff at his majesty. If he is not sure of the dog’s possibilities as a friend he gives one careful sniff and usually turns quickly away with an annoyed look on his aristocratic face. Wherever he is he keeps his distance as nobility should. Should we neglect that part of our education—that of meeting, studying and really knowing all types of characters?—Daily Illini. r THOSE “WORN OUT” BLUES Shall we call it “piperitis?” Nearly the entire student body has it; perhaps the faculty has caught it too. It has affected our sight. Our roommate looks like Old Man Grouch himself; he’s a nuisance, we’ve decided by now. We fuss with him. At the meal table, there is com plaint of the food. How we’d like to get back to home-cooking and away from “this grub.” Books, themes, notebooks—what bothers are some of the weary courses, we decide. In fact, for the student body, the melancholy days are here. But it is an annual complaint—this lethargy, weariness of the routine facts and tasks, and desire to escape. This “piperitis” is short-lived, but, unfortunately, often fatal. It causes some to drop by the way side; to resort to a false remedy nf quitting. Every organization lias its members who already have given up the “fight” or are about to desert the ranks for the weak willed course that leads back to the liome hearthside. But wTe are not going to admonish. The strong will light the prevalent spirit of unrest and will win. The weak will re turn home, there to be met by re latives and friends who look dis dainfully at the university student who couldn’t stand the pace. We change the common expression to declare: The university pace is a strenuous one, and to weaken is disastrous failure. — The Indiana Daily Student. ANOTHER RELIGIOUS WAR Those fortunate students who are preparing for divisionals on “the 3iblo and Shakespeare” doubtless 'ind themselves especially well iquipped to enter into the eontrn :ersy now raging on various reli gious matters. The debate in New fork between the Rev. Dr. Charles j Nancis Potter and the Rev. Dr. , rohn Roach Straton, upon the infalli- \ dlity of fhe Bible developed a quan- j ity of material deserving scrutiny. )r. Straton, who was upholding the j fundamentalist side, lost track of ust what he was trying to prove and ubsequently lost the debate; but as he judges very propertly observed n their announcement, the two clergy I men had failed prior to the encount ; or to agree upon a definition ol ; “infallibility.” Dr. Straton inter | pretated infallibility very liberally and relied chiefly on fulfilled pro phecies and the vitality of the Bible under adverse circumstances to prove his case. Dr. Potter, on the othei hand, went after specific phrases ami historical facts, and showed fairly convincingly that word for word, the Bible is not always as exact and re liable as the word of God might rea sonably be expected to be. More than that, he pointed out contradic tions of the generally' expressed spirit of the RiblS in those blood curdling admonitions whieh have always wor ried the more logical minded. It is this last demonstration that really hurts. Most people are willing to admit that the Bible is not to be taken too literally, when facts and miracles and history are concerned. But the homogeneity of spirit and unity of purpose have rarely been questioned, and thes things are im portant. One can be a perfectly good Christian without believing that iron actually did swim, although that is more possible than some other state ments, but it is difficult to recon cile the New Testament with “Happy shall be he that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.” —Harvard Crimson. COE COLLEGE WOMEN NOT BASHFUL Coe College—In a recent straw ballot among the men at Coe col lege it was unanimously agreed that the women were not too bashful to take advantage of leap year and propose. MISSOURI HAS NEW STUDENT COURT University of Missouri—The Uni versity of Missouri student council has appointed six members to try Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 1 WILLIAM FOX THE WITH MARY PHILBIN YOUTH AND ROMANCE sooo AMERICAN BEAUTIES AND STAR CAST A HENRY OTTO FOX NEWS COMEDY OF FUN rheCASTLF Continuous performance every day. YeCollegiate Grille Announces Its First Sunday Dinner Program PRESENTING Ray Graham and His Orchestra in Concert Vocal and Instrumental Selections Rendered for the First Time in Eugene. SERVICE A LA CARTE Phone Don Woodworth or Campa Shoppe for Reservations all violators of the honor system now in vogue at that school. Meu and women will be tried in the same court. UNIVERSITY ENTERTAINS FOOTBAiL MEN University of Nevada.—(By P. I. N. S.)—A banquet was held in the University of Nevada gymnasium recently in honor of the 79 foot ball men who stuck the grid throughout the season The feed was an entirely non-partisan get together for the football teams with all University men and downtown business men who were interested. About 500 were present. G*t the Classified Ad habit. HEILIG THEATRE MONDAY, JAN. 28 V AUNT MART MUSIC—COMEDY—SONG Prices 75c to $2.00 SEAT SALE NOW We Offer a Large Variety of Delicacies from Which to Choose. -AFTERNOONS Complete fountain menu—drinks, sundaes, sand wiches, etc. -EVENINGS Real China Noodles, sandwiches, chili con carne, pastries, etc. Course Plate Dinner 50c -SUNDAY DINNERS Table cTHote.75c College Side Inn “Where You Meet Your Friends” EXPERT SHOE SHINING For a number of years we have been the students’ headquarters for shoe shining. We clean, dye and shine any color shoes. Or ders for repairing taken. REX SHOE SHINING PARLOR (Next Rex Theatre) Somewhere —There is a happy medium between ne- T eessity and luxury. A common ground on which intrinsic value and reasonable cost meet and shake hands. —None deny that increased keenness of vision means in creased personal efficiency. —In making any good article there is a point where added quality means a lower cost, when durability, com fort and satisfactory results are desired. —Into every pair of complete glasses turned out of our office there enters a degree of skill, experience and better workmanship than other can offer you. •—The little details others overlook receive our most con siderate attention—a reason why our glasses are above the average in quality at the same prices others ask for inferior glasses. ^Dt. SfcmmnW OPTOMETRIST, ^-'EVEStGH' 881 WILLAMETTE ST. EUGENE P EC IA OREGON EYESIGHT SPECIALIST THIS IS NOT A RUBBISH HEAP Just a few ofthe shoes we receive >; daily for re-,: ^ pairs by the Jim the Shoe Doctor 986 Willamette Street Phone 867