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
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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IA Book of Great Horizons
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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
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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
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