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The Sunday Emerald VOLUME XXV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1924 NUMBER 93 The Bystander Masquerade. Erratum. A. Jonah Presents: “The Campus Litany.’’ By C. N. H. Sh-h, sh-h-h,—‘we have found out something. In the inside circles of student administration on this cam pus, it is being whispered by “those who know” that this campus is dead—or doped! “What is the matter with ’em?” ask the interested parties as they sniff and snoop about beneath the Douglas firs. “We can’t get a rise out of them. Anyone can hurl mortal in sults at ’em and they don’t rise from this death! ” * * • • When we hear anyone talking like that we yawn and say, “ Shucks j the campus i^ all right. Let it alone, I tell you.” And when the crabbers of campus life have gone, we tip-toe around to take another look at the campus, our selves. If we find it a bit stolid and serious in places, we whisper to it that it should not forget “The Im portance of Being Jovial.” “Yes. belt life is Teal, life is earnest,” is sometimes its reply. “Put’er there, kid,” we reply, “you’re right, but never let life sus pect that you have that inside dope on it. ‘Sit on the fence and laugh at life’—we quote for about the fiftieth time, a characterization of type by one of the deans. Shake, dean! ” We are feeling low this week. We apologize to the campus in the name of ACCURACY. Two weeks ago we essayed the Latin phrase “Papa non potest errare” casually, and didn’t look it up. We felt like the prover bial fool when we found the mis take we had made. This explanation is for the campus as a whole. Those who noticed the mistake may, we hope forgive, and with those who did n’t life will still flow undisturbed by this paragraph. There are two ways of getting across ideas, speaking roughly; the needle of humor and the bludgeon of direct denunciation. Generally in “getting things across” to the pub lic it has been the policy of this col umn to mask criticism with humor or would-be satire. Sometimes, the converse method of satire has not carried with some people, wherefore we feel that a direct repetition of certain major points scored in the past few weeks will be beneficial. We have tried at times to criticize hon estly certain minor and everyday points of conduct on the campus. As Colonel Leader would say, “D-mn it, I didn’t do it to increase my pop ularity,—” and it didn’t increase ours! Below is the list partially made up. and you don’t have to ac cept our statements, if you can prove them false to your own HONEST sat isfaction. Those interested enough to frame letters of protest had better start now. * * * 1. lack of earnestness.— There’s a distinct group of “young ster” students on the campus who do little more than attend necessary classes and waste time. Unreformed and not expelled, they are a detri ment. 2. OVER EMPHASIS OP CREDIT —One hundred and eighty-six hours of credit for a diploma instead of mental condition still holds too strong a place in our University life. 3. GROWING USE OP NON-ES ,SENTIALS, CARS, PURS, etc.— When non-essentials enter at tfie door, laiowledge goes out at the window. It is poor democracy for a minority to use things exclusively. It is gen erally only adolescents who care for the frou-frous of life, and a little more willing conformity to popular custom is the best thing for them in their university days. This growing use of non-essentials to university life on the Oregon campus is at pre sent an incipient and a potential evil only, but it does not take long for evils to attain adulthood. Let us es tablish a tradition against non-essen tials to university life now! We quote: “One of President Brook’s first acts at the University of Missouri was to urge parents not to furnish automobiles to undergrad uates, and to advise that the spend ing money of students need not ex ceed twenty-five dollars per month. ‘Experience shows that an unusually (Continued on page three) Fairbanks Does Official Marker forOregonTrail Western Spirit Exalted In Medallion Finished by Campus Professor Cast Is Sent Away By Margaret STcavlan The official marker of the Olil Oregon Trail, that historic path of the pioneers from the Missouri river to the Pacific coast, has been completed by Avard Fairbanks, University professor of sculpture. The marker is a sculpture relief, three feet in diameter, and masterly in its design. It was cast in plas ter, after the sculptor completed it after a year’s work, and was sent Friday to La Grande, Oregon, to the meeting of the Old Oregon Trail association there. Mr. Fairbanks will attend the association meeting. When the association authorized Mr. Fairbanks to make the design, he began the work, which is fully in keeping with his enthusiasm for western subjects. His “Dough boy,” a commission completed two years ago for the state of Idaho, represented one phase of his Ameri canism. In the Trail medallion he has given the more spiritual aspects of the westward movement—the mood of courage and heroism that, ended in the establishment of homes in a new and wild country. Design Is Western The marker is to ' be cast in bronze, and will have different sorts of bases in different places. The locations of the markers are not yet determined, but there will be dozens, perhaps hundreds, of them stretching along the trail back to the middlewest. The design includes the prairie schooner, in the front of which may be seen the heads of a woman and infant. The ox team pulls the wagon over the road, with a strong, bearded man guiding them near their heads, and looking onward into the new land. The action of the oxen is a thing that makes them so real that one can almost see their toiling feet raising a cloud of dust. With lowered heads, they bend under the yoke. The com position is built so that the front of the schooner with the woman and child comes in the center, and forms the highest part of it. The jvoman, then, is the inspiration, while the man guides and directs. Small Study Begun The schooner, with its cloth top, its water barrel on the side, and its huge spoked wheels, is sound in every historical detail. The oxen (Continued on page three) Freshmen Win Second Contest The Oregon freshman basketball five defeated the O. A. C. rooks for the second consecutive time yester day afternoon 31 to 22. The victory was even more decisive than the first game, and the freshmen took the lead early in the game and were never headed off. The contest was fast and for the most part cleanly played. Both teams played a better brand of ball than they did Friday afternoon. The tennwork was faster and the shoot ing much better. The Babes clearly had the iump upon their opponents and held a de cisive lead at all times. The fresh men worked the ball down faster and handled their shots better than their opponents. Both fives had a tenden cy to dribble too much, and the Books Especially were slow in breaking down the floor on their offensive and consequently allowed the Oregon de fense to get in. Only once did the Books even thieaten the lead of the frosh, when in the second period they looped three baskets in quick succession and it looked as if they might forge into the lead. The Babes settled down however and from that time on held a safe ten point lead. Westerman was the high point man fcr the frosh with ten points, and he vas closely followed by Westergren uith 9. and Flynn with 8. Kiminki and Beinhart at guards played consis tent ball and saved many points by (Continued on page three) Saturnians, a New Species of Intellectuals By Pat Morrissette William Osier, in dissecting student life, selects a rather con spicuous group of campus char acters, and calls them Saturnians. We call them night owls. They are the students who find little trouble and great comfort in sleeping through lectures; they are the som nambulists who shamble about, the campus paths more than two-thirds engrossed by the lethargy of dol drumic slumber. If they are sub ject to class recitations, they freely talk in their sleep, opening and closing their mouths in a most amusing fashion. Sometimes a pro fessor, unduly interested in peda gogy, has what he calls a “heart to heart” talk with one of these shiftless Saturnians. His inter views always flunk. The Saturnian is a very kind person, and promises to sit up straight like the girl in the front seat, and to prick up his ears in the manner of a most ap proved donkey. But, you know, the Saturnian “laughs to himself.” If the professor could hear this in ternal glee he would be tempted to knock the young man’s bicuspids entirely through his adenoids; or, again he might, like the older pro fessors, be tempted to smile. The Saturnian does not have his day. He has his night. At ten in the evening he is already awake. At midnight he is fairly fluent, and talking over a cup of coffee and a cheese sandwich (made of pre mature toast and artfully degen erated cheese) in some unsavory; eating depot in a remote corner of j town. This, to him, is romantic ally “Bohemian.” When some of his friends argue (O how the Satur nian loves to argue!) that the re peated coffee orgies will “knock ten years off his life,” he will answer with a most delightful non- j chalance. “O what’s ten years, ten little years in a life time? (He's devilish cosmic). Will posterity or eternity be altered if I live to be 90 instead of 45? It’s merely a matter of a word in an obituary. A bum spleen at 70 is not a bit better than a good one—if one looks back on the two of them one hundred years! (Continued on page three) Editors Here N ext W eek-end Interesting Program to be Presented One hundred or more editors from all parts of the state of Oregon will gather on the campus next week-end for the sixth annual news paper conference, held at the Uni versity of Oregon. The program for the sessions is practically com plete, Dean Eric W. Allen of the school of journalism and chairman of the program committee, reports. The session of trade journalists who“are holding meetings as a part of the two-day conference, will be the largest yet given here in the two years that the group has been having meetings. The meetings given over to the advertising men will be the most complete and largest yet held here. The Oregon State Editorial asso ciation will also hold its winter session during the conference next week-end. The Willamette Valley Ben Franklin club, with a delegation of 20 or 30 printers, including some of the newspapermen, will hold a joint session with the other groups, Sat day afternoon. One of the new phases of the conference will be the short course in journalism English, to be given by a group of editors headed by Dean Colin V. Dyment of the col lege of literature, science and arts at the University. Perhaps one of the more inter esting parts of the program will be the report by Dr. H. R. Crosland, of the University psychology de partment, on “The Results of a (Continued on page three) Wrestling Tilt O.A.C. Victory Oregon Outclassed by Aggie Visitors 0. A. C. took every match from the inexperienced Oregon wrestlers in the meet staged Saturday afternoon in the men’s gymnasium. The Cor vallis lads had the varsity completely outclassed in every phase of wrest ling. In no bout did an Oregon man have a chance for either a decision ■ or a fall. The visitors resorted to i the scissors usually called the “ fig ure four.” The varsity also took a good deal of punishment from their opponents’ working on the head. Tn the first bout of the afternoon Ford of Oregon lost to Russell of O. A. C. by a decision and a fall. Both wrestlers tipped the scales at 125 pounds. Tn the first bout the boys started out at a fast clip but in a short time Russell succeeded in se curing the figure four scissors and kept on his opponent the entire seven minutes and won by a decision. Sev- j eral times Ford rolled out of several punishing holds but was always on the defensive. Tn the second bout Ford lost by a fall in two minutes and twenty-eight seconds, with an arm lock. Tn the 135-pound class Nixon of O. A. 0. took two straight falls from Ohatburn of Oregon. Nixon started out at a fast clip and was aggressive. He had Ohatburn in several bad holes, but the local grappler managed to crawl out. Finally Nixon clamped a split leg hold on Ohatburn and won the fall in six minutes and five se conds. There was some question as (Continued cn page four.) IA Book of Great Horizons * * * * * * A Sacred Volume of Life By Bruce J. Gif fen University Pastor “Thv word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” Ps. 119:105. “This little volume contains more that is of vital interest to human ity than all the other writings of antiquity put together,” was said of the New Testament by a vener able and voracious scholar who knew his Plato as well as his Bible. The Bible is a book of right per spectives. It gives pleasure and duty each its proper place in the scheme of life. The Bible teaches us to look at life at arm’s length, with a certain detachment. There j are people who would give up life for their country, who cannot bear to be taxed. Property has no such I sacred values in the Bible. It is j put down where it belongs and human, life up where it belongs. The Bible is a book of great ! horizons. If we are to be helpful in this new day, we “must study 1 bigger maps,” take “the world for our parish.” The Bible bids us share the whole universe with God. The Bible deals with the deepest experiences of life. You cannot read this book with mental sin cerity and not be affected by it morally. Wrote a young man to his father: “I must give up either my vices or my Bible.” It has many a faithful word to say about sin. And it is a book of sentiment. David would not drink of the water from the Bethlehem well. It was too sacred for common uses. Charles Lamb once wrote from India: “1 am all alone here. There are plenty of clerks in the office, but nobody cares for poetry, nobody reads the New Testament.” The Bible has ever been the world’s most used book, but it is not being read among us as it once was. We live in a world in which there is an ever-increasing strain upon character, and a diminished care of its cultivation. The Bible read with insight and discrimina tion will be a lamp to the feet and a light to the path. RADIO DEB A TE MEETPLANNED Oregon Takes Second Game by 27-20 Score Lemon - Yellow Squad Maintains Safe Leadj Through O.A.C. Tilt! By Taylor Huston Maintaining a substantial lead throughout a rough game, Oregon won from the. Aggies again last night on the Armory floor by a score of 27 to 20. While a dupli cate of Friday night’s 25 to 20, the final score is not indicative of the same sort of game, for at no time was the Oregon team in serious dan ger. O. A. C. continued to play the peculiar standing formation when on the offensive, but Oregon had the system completely solved last night and time after time broke up Aggie attempts to work the ball down under the basket. The Orange and Black hoopers gleaned most of their points from well out on the floor, while a few came from side angles. Oregon Offense Aggressive The Oregon quintet played their same short-passing, fast-breaking style of offense with big Latham pivoting the drive down the floor. It was a style that worked well again, for the Lemon-Yellow player* had possession of the ball much more than did their opponents, not withstanding the Aggies’ waiting game.< Incidentally, this waiting game does not seem to work well for a team that, is trying to come from behind, it is rather a stylo which might be well adapted to a team with a safe lead. Both teams broke to the defen sive quickly and checked so closely that it made the game exception ally rough, and the officials permit ted the roughness to such a degree that both Steele and Latham, Aggie and Oregon center, respectively, were taken from the game in the last few minutes of play. Shafer Stars in Game Oregon scored first on a field goal by Hobson and the count went to five before O. A. C. could find the hoop. Hidings dropped in a couple from the floor for the J Beavers, but Oregon ran to 11, and then to 17 while the Ags were (Continued on page three) Dime Crawls to BeginThisWeek “A dime a crawl Admits you to the brawl.” Doors are thrown open. A thin dime clenched tightly in the fists of syncopated snakes and jazz infants, secret sorrows and all other mascu linities, will entitle the bearer to bra zenly enter the portals of the resi dence of any woman’s organization Wednesday evening, stay from 6:45 to 7:30 dance to piano or fiddle, lyre or mouth organ, and depart sharply at the time limit set, having partaken of the keenest little frolic Emerald readers could ever fancy. School clothes are “quite the thing.”. Every house can be as orig inal as possible in arranging for the affair, but no expense will be tol erated. And the little thin dimes'? Their function is to find their way into the coffers of the Foreign Scholar ship fund, maintained by the Wo men ’s league. A very worthy cause. Noblesse oblige. A pep committee of men who are working up interest in the event in clude Hal Chapman, Claude Robinson, Doug Farrell, .lack Day, Ted fiillen water, Don Peek, Dave Swanson, .Tack High, Ed Tapfer, Rodney Keat ing, Bruce Curry, Dick Reed, and Otto Mauthe. Sophisticates, and Tnnocentacles, slickers and not-such-slickers, everv one is welcome, say the .lames, so “On with the dance!” The committee for the dance in cludes Jeanne Gay, Mary Bartholomew and Virginia Pearson. New Coach Who | Comes this Week i ■ ■ ■ ■ ---— J. H. Maddock Track Proteges Perform Well Hurdlers Developing; Races Good Spring -weather and prospects of keen competition brought about 50 of Hayward’s track aspirants out for the meet yesterday afternoon and a number of pretty races were run. The javalin and discus heavers were working out with a spirit that will oventually develop a team mate who will manage to bring in a few points after Tuck has captured the two firsts in these events. Time was kept for all the running events, but was not made public, as Bill believes in using the clock only when he wants to givo a man a judge of pace. The records he secures in those weekly carnivals are only used in plotting the graph he is keeping of the work of the two teams. In the running events, tliero was no discrimination of the frosh or varsity candidates; men from each team running in every event. The only freshman winning a race was Extra, who captured the 220. The varsity team appears stronger at this time of year than evor before; for, while there are two men of 'unusual ability, Tuck and Spoarow, there are also a number of men who will develop a well rounded team. The results of the 880: Keating, Houston and McCune; mile: Tetz, Stevenson and Crary; 220 was run in two heats, first, Extra, Lucas and Risley; second, Cleaver, Kin ney and 1’allay; two-mile: McColl, Robson and Walker; high hurdles: Rosenburg, Collins and Clark. The field events were divided into two sections with a frosh and a varsity team in each. The results of the javalin: Tuck, Rosenburg and Anderson, for the varsity, and Kjelland, Johnston and Simontou, for the frosh. In the discus throw, the three varsity men heaving it best were: Tuck, Stockwell and Anderson, while Johnston, Ijcni mings and Moore did the best of the freshmen. Tuck, owing to ill ness this past week, was not in the best of condition, so was unable to throw the big spear for his usual distance. Rosenburg is one of Hayward’s new proteges in the hurdles and ho performed in a manner that shows it is possible to develop good raw material into a hurdler. He stepped out and won the first hurdle race he ever entered in his life. The meet was hurried through so that the track men wore able to get up to watch the last of the wrestling matches. In fact, in less that: half an hour all six events were disposed of. Bill has promised some interesting races for the meet next Saturday, afternoon. .Those listed are: Hurdles, again; 440; broad jump; high jump; a 660-yard race and 100-yard dash. California and Oregon Pioneer in Novel Plan Member of University Faculty is Given Part of Credit for System February 29 Is Set > Tty Frances Simpson An inter-collegiate debate in which the contestants are hundreds of miles apart and yet are able to present and meet arguments in the usual fashion; a debate in which the debaters ’ voices are carried the length of the Pacific coast, over valley, hill and plain; a de bate in which the audience will bo incomparably larger than any in history—these are some of the striking features of the forensic con test which will take place between the Universities of Oregon and California on February 29. The radio makes possible the mechanical foatures of this un usual event, and the farsightedness and cooperation of members of the Oregon faculty and the Oregonian broadcasting station are responsible for the completed plan, which is the realization of the dream of Earl Kilpatrick, head of the extension division, and It. V. Haller, of the Oregonian radio station, K G W. Idea Is New The realization of this dream will moan, in the opinion of all who have heard of it, the biggest inno vation in forensics that has been made for many years. Nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before, for though in the short space of its existence the radio has taken over various forms of entertain ment, such as vocal and instjru mental music, sermons and public lectures, it has never beep used for discussion, for the presentation of different points of view and differ ent sides of a question by different factions. When Mri Kilpatrick anh Mr. Haller first conceived the idoa, they presented it to H. E. Rosson, Ore gon coach, and the Oregon manager and debaters. The matter was taken up with Arnold Perstein, debate coach at California. Mr. Perstein and others prominent in forensics at California lent their immediate support to the idea, and arrange ments were begun at once. Bok Plan Subject The plan, as it lias recently been completed, is to have Oregon de baters, Joe Frazer and Walter Mal colm, go to Portland and broad cast from the Oregonian tower on the negative of the subject, “Re solved, that the Bok peace plan should be adopted.” At California, the remote control system will be used; that is, the California debaters will remain in Berkeley and talk into telephones which will be con nected with station K L X at the Oakland Tribune office. Such a plan is not possible here beeauso ! of the lack of apparatus, and the distance between Eugene and Port land. At first the promotors were go ing to make arrangements with the Westinghouse company to have the judges, three in number as usual, j listen in at Salt Lake City and re turn their verdict at the close of the debate. Audience to judge But later plans are to have the public be the judges. Both stations on closing will request that all those listening in throughout the debate send a post card or letter to the committee in charge, in care of the radio department of either the Tribune at Oakland or the Oregon ian at Portland. Only one card can be sent by each judge. At the close of the contest, the announce ment will be made that the verdict will be reported ten days later. Frazer and Malcolm have both been active in forensics this year. Frazer was a member of the team which defeated O. A. C. in the state contest held in December. He also (Continued on page four)