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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1924)
OREGON DAILY EMERALD Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, issued dally except Monday, during the college year. ARTHUR S. RUDD . EDITOR Editorial Boafd Managing Editor .:. Don Woodward Aasociate Editor .... John W. Piper Daily News Editors Margaret Morrison Rosalia Keber Marian Lowry Velma Farnham Leon Byrne Norma Wilson Frances Simpson Night Editors Bnpert Bull ivan! Walter Coover Ted Baker Douglas Wilson Jack Burleson George Belknap P. I. N. S. Editor - Pauline Bondurant Assistant . Louis Dammasch Sports Staff Sports Editor . Kenneth Cooper Sports Writers: Monte Byers, Bill Akers, Ward Cook Wilbur Wester Upper News Staff Catherine Spall Mary Clerin Leonard Lerwill Margaret Skavlan Georgians Gerlinger Kathrine Kressmann Exchange Editor Norborne Berkeley News Staff: Lyle Janz, Ed Miller, Helen Reynolds, Lester Turnbaugh, Thelma Hamrick, Webster Jones, Margaret Vincent, Phyllis Coplan, Frances Sanford, Xugenia Strickland, Velma Meredith, Lilian Wilson, Margaret Kressmann, Ned French, Ed Robbins, Josephine Rice, Clifford Zehrung, Pete Laurs, Lillian. Baker, Mary West, Emily Houston, Beth Fariss, Alan Efutton, Ed Valitchka, Ben Maxwell. LEO P. J. MUNLY ..... MANAGER Business Staff Aasociato Manager. Lot Beatie * Foreign Advertising Manager .-.. James Leake Aw't Manager . Walter Pearson Alva Vernon Irving Brown gl—- ---- Specialty Advertising Gladys Noren e——• --—— Circulation Manager . Kenneth Stephenson Aaa’t Manager . James Manning Upper Business Staff Advertising Manager .... Maurice Warnock Ass’t Adv. Mgr. Karl Herdenbergh Advertising Salesmen Sales Manager . Frank Loggan Assistants Lester Wade Chester Coon Edgar Wrightman Frank De Spain Entered in the postollice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription ', $2.25 per year. By term, 75c. Advertising rates upon application. Phones Editor . 655 | Manager . 951 ; Daily News Editor This Issue Velma Parnham Assistant Night Editor This Issue Jack Burleson 1 -ester T. Talbot The Householders’ Agreement Again The householders’ agreement pertaining to students holding rooms in private homes ol! Eugene requires that the tenant of a room contract to take his room for not less than one term. Sucli an arrangement makes it possible for the University to secure higher-class rooms for independent students. Landlords are induced to offer their first-rate rooms with the assurance that the student-tenant will not vacate without notice. Thus is the student-living committee enabled to protect house holders and students alike. This arrangement worked a hard ship on some of the men’s fraternities which pledged men hold ing rooms under such agreements. Some houses remonstrated against the action taken over their heads. But in the long run they were put to no serious inconvenience. Perhaps one or two freshmen escaped some of the usual discipline. But scores and perhaps hundreds of independent students were, by the insti tuting of this agreement, provided with more sanitary living quarters. It has been found that the most serious objection to the householders’ agreement from the fraternity point of view was that it was formulated without the consideration 6f the organi zations themselves, it was made before the fall term opened. This was found necessary in order to insure better quarters for the majority. The only evil was a little interruption of the organization’s plans. Certainly any organization should be willing to abide by the terms of an agreement which is working for the best in terests of many students. One thing which the fraternities may insist upon is that any incoming freshman applying to the University for rooms, should be made definitely to understand that if he takes sueli a room from one of the householders on the preferred list, he cannot vacate if pledged, unless, of course, he provides a substitute. Also those organizations knowing of any ineoming student who will be pledged to one of these groups, should forewarn sueli a prospective student against accepting rooms from the preferred householders. Valentine Day—An Accident Could the marly red St. \'alentiuo have suspected the manner of frivolous celebration his day occasioned, perhaps lie never would have made the utterances which resulted in his perse cution and death. Cor he was a figure of sanctimonious mien and pious character, and could not have suffered himself to countenance the hillings and cooings of lovers, and the ex change of amorous greetings. Singularly enough, the day which was so established in our popular antiquities, February 14, has nothing to do with the saint who was a presbyter of the church under the Emperor Claudius about L’TO A. 0. The history of the day of St. Valen tine has been a matter of comment by various authorities. Ety mologists and philologists have sought to attach the name Valentine to a corruption of a Saxon word meaning love. But this lias never been plausible from the standpoint of fact. A more reasonable explanation is that of an old pagan custom, which the early Christians tried to suppress, but which popular favor worked to preserve. “It was the practice in Rome during the middle part of February to celebrate the Luperoalia,” relates one authority. “These were feasts in honor of Pan and Juno, whence the latter deity was named Februata, Februalis, Februlla. On this oc casion, amidst a variety of ceremonies, the names of young ' women were put into a box from which they were drawn by the men as chance directed.” With the decline of paganism the pastors of the early Chris tian church sought to eradicate this vestige of paganism. But they could not destroy the customs of the common people who revived it. They knew that it came in the middle of February, and they hit upon the day of St. Valentine as the date. Today it stands as the preservation of an ancient custom. It has long been the time for mating and for matrimonial advances on the part of both sexes. The present day custom of exchanging farcical love tokens may be considered a degeneration of a more serious observation practised previous to and during the Vic torian days. * > | o-—^ | I Campus Bulletin ! t - I Notices will be printed in this colnmn i I for two issues only. Copy must be I in this office by 6:30 on the day I before it is to be published, and must l be limited to 20 words. I O Mortar Board—Luncheon meeting today. Anchorage. Crossroads—Meeting Thursday, 7:30. Woman’s building. Phi Mu Alpha—Luncheon at the Anchorage, Thursday noon. Ad Club—Important luncheon af the Anchorage today noon. Education Seminar — Meeting Thursday evening, 7:30, room 2, Education building. Senior Women Swimmers—Report for tryout at 5 o ’clock today at the Woman’s building. Gymnasium Classes—Lecture on posture drill, Lordosis or “Sway back” in lecture room of Gymna sium at all Friday 'classes. Senior Men and Women—Living in town please drop a list of their college activities in the Tjox at the library door. For Oregana. Pan Hellenic—Meeting today at | 4:30, Professor Howe’s room, Vil- 1 lard hall. Every member be there promptly to have picture taken. All University Women—Mrs" Vir ginia Judy Esterly extends an in vitation to tea this afternoon from four until six o ’clock at (367 East 12th street. ❖ <s> OWE YEAR AGO TODAY** Some High Points in Oregon Emerald of February 14, 1923 j -——♦ “The Blessed Damozel” will be sung at the annual home concert (of the Women’s glee club, to be held Friday evening. A scarcity of men turning out for field events is worrying coaches at the University. Claire Keeney is directing “Como Out of the Kitchen,” a production to be staged by the University com pany of players in the Heilig the ater tomorrow night. A sudden cold spell has settled over Eugene and filled the infir mary with pationts. Professor Walter Barnes will de liver a lecture on “The Present Near-East Situation” over the air route next Friday evening. lie will speak from the Oregonian, station K. G. W. Twenty-four students have not ! yet paid their laboratory fees and j will be obliged to petition before! they can be reinstated in the Uni-j \ ersitv. Mask ami Buskin announces the pledging of Elizabeth Robinson. Weuonu Dyer, Yeola Johnson, Gor don Wilson, and David Swanson. The Sculpture club is conducting i a doughnut sale today. The geology department is now in possession of evidence support ing the belief that members of the ancient Indian tribes were cobblers. CASTLE THEATER Some of the most dramatically i thrilling action ever contained in a movie takes place in a little East Side saloon in the opening sequence of “Grit,” the Hodkinson release which comes to the Castle theater for a 3 day run starting today. “Grit,” a most fascinating story of the I’nderworld and the Hast Side of New York, was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the most popular authors of the present day. The; principal part is "Kid Hart.” an East Side boy who wages a bitter fight to break away from the gang which brought him up. YASSAR WILL RESTRICT ENTERING CLASS IN 1929 Yassar College. Yassar college will restrict its entering class to 300, according to a ruling recently made by the faculty and the trustees. This number must be chosen from approx imately 7000 applications. The new system will not go into effect how ever until 1929. Get the Classified Ad habit. ■<> ■ --*J> ! I Communications i-i I Letters to the EMERALD from stu dents and faculty members are welcomed, but must be signed and . worded concisely. Tf it is desired, the writer’s name will be kept out of print. It must be understood that the editor reserves the right to reject communications. <3>-<t> TO VIC, VIXER VIXEN To the Editor: “The truth is greater than the fact and contains the fact.” The present-day realist—and I am think ing particularly of those men whose books Vic, Vixer and Vixen would • tastefully term “garbage can litera-: ture”—must and does realize that the plain observed fact is only the outer | shell, the dead, void form of vital truth. He appreciates that he can not wholly explain man by a physio logical and psychological scrutiny of his skeleton, organs and nervous sys tem ; or by an accurate representa tion of his muscular responses during an erotic state. But the realist j (there are no exact synonyms for this; word and I must continue to bore!' you with repetitions,) but the realist; feels that he must begin here on the 1 solid ground of science, working in tuitively with and ahead of the ex periments in the laboratory, hoping that he may ultimately come, as Ar ’ nold Bennett has it, to know life and ; to know it whole. He must bring i to his work the open mind of the unborn child, without congenital cr acquired preconceptions. There nev er was and it is inconceivable that' there ever will be such a writer, but he is, nevertheless, a great dream. Yic and his compatriots of the occult—and humourous—names would wish to build up a mistaken ideali zation of life by eliminating or fal sifying in literature one of its domi nant factors. For a dominant factor it is; the thing that all men and most women talk and think about from the time before they were aetual'v aware j of its meaning, through the years of continent down to the day of their deaths. And talking and writing— finally they are the sane - expression througn words. And even, if the things of the body are accursed, if the col.fried knowledge of them must continue to remain locked in the vaults of (ur libraries to be sno.ten of in awed whispers by the ian'tors turning off the lights, even then the realistic treatment of sex is .iustified, for the realist does not guild and pant and gla-'fv. Tn Law.'mee, f ir instance, I, ore sees what a do/I'-taling, hidrrus thing it may heenne, this obsess,rn 1 ■Recall Anatolc Franceallegory «f I th' unclothed penguins ti tie con-i ( vince ! that, the o^ltcorated fact is , repellent; only the mysterious is at tractive. No, it is the romantic treatment of criticism that harms—what Hart mas terms “polite pornographic lit erature.” The silver crescent moon —the sensuous, sinuous, vibrant swish of moonlight. “Her voice was new and strange and the tone of it hurt me in the dark”—the Elinor Glvn thing. Man imagines that these things occur because lie rationalizes all of his reactions; the thing ought to be that way; it is the way his favorite f'etionist serves it to him. Sociologically, of course, this vicar ious experience has a profund sig nificance. As long as we follow the Galilean, T suppose, we can never, j never rid ourselves of this Teutonic I disgust for the actualities of our 1 bodies, for the intimacies of the contact of flesh and flesh. Tt would be perilously easy to say unkind things about 0. TOT. and the others who have signed themselves Vic, Vixer and Vixen: their ludi crous association of Aescylus, Field ing and ‘Richardson for instance. Tn holding urv the worst of these men as admirable tvnes of “clean” books, r has C. X. TT. followed the picaresque adventurer, that astonishing young reprobate “Tom .Tones” through his “affairs?” This latter is in the vault in some libraries; perhaps here. 1 As for Richardson—as diametrically RAINIER COAL CO. for High Grade Coal and Briquets 15 East 7th Avenue Phone 412 Coming Events TODAY 11:00 a. m.—Assembly. Woman’s building. 4-6 p. m.—Dean Esterly’s tea. 667 E. 12th Street. 8:00 p. m.—Triangular debate, women’s teams. Oregon vs. 0. A. C. and Willamette. Villard. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 State Conference of Newspaper Men. Oregon vs. Idaho, basketball. Moscow, Idaho. 6:30 p. m.—Banquet for editors and publishers. Osbum hotel. 8:00 p. m.—Willamette Men’s Glee club concert. Methodist Episcopal church. 8:15 p. m.—Arthur H. Johnson, concert. Guild hall. 9:00 p. m.—Dr. James Gilbert, “The Tax Situation.” Radio. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 Oregon vs. Idaho, wrestling. Mos cow, Idaho. Continued conference. 12:00 m.—Hendricks hall lunch eon for conference. Hendricks hall. 1:30 p. m.—Student rehearsal. Lounge room, Music building. 8:15 p. m.—Arthur H. Johnson, concert. Guild hall. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17 7:00 p. m.—Open forum meet ings. Congregational church. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18 Convention of Oregon retail mer chants. 12:00 m.—Luncheon for women delegates for convention. Hendricks hall. >pposed to Fielding as Harold Bell .Vright is to Ben Hecht—I cannot be ieve that any one of the trio lias ■end one of his interminable, drivel ng novels. I doubt that a dozen peo ile on the campus have. But I do lot care for personalities. —SID THORNBURY. O. A. C. ALIBIS AGAIN To the Editor: A swimming story in the Wed nesday O. A. C. Barometer says: ‘The University of Oregon is showing intense interest in the meet. The Lemon-Yellow coach fisserts that they intend to ‘cop’ the meet. Coach Ferrell answers that if they intend to take the ban ner home, they will have to outpoint the Beaver swimmers.” Queer, that Oregon -will have to take the most points to win. The O. A. C. correspondent in the Oregon Journal made the usual basketball defeat alibi by saying: ‘If the Aggies had been able to connect with the basket on these free throws, the results could easily rave been different.” The sports sditor's record of the game shows :hat even if O. A. C. had converted rODAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Thrilling Story of Two Castaways who were Schooled in Crime! witn CLARA BOW ’he little girl in “Black Oxen" Glamorous romance, inter woven with pathos and humor. Execellent Comedy THE CASTLE Continuous Performances every day nil their free throws they would not have won either game. Oregon students have been read ing alibis from the O. A. C. writers for years. When O. A. C. won the football game last fall, the Emerald called it “A well-earned victory.” The final paragraph of the Jour nal story, mentioned above, said: ‘■Physically, the varsity came through both contests unscathed, with the exception of minor bruises. Steele is little the worse for his encounter with the big Hunk Latham.” Get the idea—Big Hunk, Poor Steele. The reader of this news story probably has visions of a big brute pasting a mild little man. These points mentioned were brought to the attention of the writer by an alumnus of the Uni versity of Washington. Even the alumni from other institutions no tice such petty journalism. • —STUDENT. “OLD OREGON” TO BE OFF PRESS BY FEBRUARY 25 One Feature of Issue Is Story on Campus Life at Time When Buggies Were Used ‘‘Old Oregon,” alumni magazine,' edited by Grace Edgington, will be out about February 25. All the material to be used has not been collected, but several entertaining articles are expected, one of which is an article "by George Davis, ’14, who has described campus life as it was in his day—the days when bug gies were common. Davis, who is in business in California, -wrote re cently to “Old Oregon,” asking if all the curious reports that had reached him were true, reports of the careless expenditure of money, the decline of school democracy, the1 overdoing of social life, the de parture of the simple life of his day. Davis was asked to write recol lections of his campus days and his article is to appear in the next issue of “Old Oregon.” Taxis were just being introduced and he tells of the honor and thrill of being whirled to a “formal” in one of the new inventions. Webster Jones will edit the sports section and Margaret Shav ian the peotrv. Several poems were sent in recently by an anonymous Portland alumnus, who said that he had heard that men were averse to being called poets and were ashamed to send in their creations. DR. CLARK RECOVERING FROM RECENT ILLNESS Dr. Dan E. Clark, of the Univer sity extension division, has been confined to his home because of ill ness since Saturday, February 9. Dr. Clark has shown enough im provement. the last two days, how ever, so tiiat he is expected to re turn to his office the first of next week. Unruly Hair Neatly combed, well-kept hair is a business and social asset. STACOMB makes the hair stay combed in any style you like even after it has just been washed. STACOMB—the original—has been used for years by stars of stage and screen—leaders cf style. Write today for free trial tube. Tubes—35c Jars—75c Insist on STACOMB—in the black,, yellow and gold package. 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