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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1924)
BOOKS AUNT POLLY’S STOBY OF MANKIND, by Donald Ogdon Stewart. George H. Doran and Co. $2.00 'net. * “The proper study of man-kind is man,” thinks this author, and a very imperfect sort of a crea ture he is, if we may judge by this delightful satire—“Aunt Polly’s Story of Mankind,” by Donald Og den Stewart. “Aunt Polly,” is the sort of crea ture who has a nice, refined ex planation for everything and deals out in over-large doses to her youth ful listeners, who are no more will ing to accept her explanations than is the average 8 to 10-year-old offspring. Uncle Frederick, husband to Aunt Polly, the “progressive” business man, who manages to sup port three motors, a raft of servants, and show his “loyalty” to the church by a substantial contribu tion each year, is the ultimate end and aim of progress of mankind, as outlined by Aunt Polly, the nar rator. As in a mirror, we see our faults reflected and, oh how we hate to admit some of the accusations directed at us! “In view of what finally happened to Borne and Car thage,” says Aunt Polly, “it does seem too bad that everybody was so shortsighted as to let their hat reds and their jealousies and their bitterness sweep them into another war, but you must remember that this was before the birth of Christ, and besides the leaders in those Tclassified ads' I Minimum charge, 1 time, 25c; 2 times, | 45c; 8 times, 60c ; 1 week, SI.20. Must | be limited to 5 lines; over this limit | 6c per line. Phene 961, or leave copy j with Business office of Emerald, in | University Press. Office hours, 1 to I 4 p. m. PAYABLE LN ADVANCE ONLY For Rent — Unfurnished apart ment. Inquire Ye Campa Shoppe. M 9 tf. For Rent—Board and room for men students. 907 Hilyard. Phone 797-L. M 8-9 Typing Wanted—Term papers, manuscripts, etc. Experienced ste nographer. Phone 396. 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Hence all the hammering of heads against the walls of convention and moral ideals. “Modern literature,” says Hecht, “is as much as it is any-1 thing, an unconstructive attack! upon the morality and ethics of the race. It says morality is the haven for cowards and half-minds.” It is barely possible that there are things wrong in our social sys- j tern; there is no open-minded per son cognizant of the processes of history but would admit that the chances are large that there are whole vistas of life-truth still un revealed to man lying ready for the explorative vision of seer-like souls. Yet it “would be strangei, would it not, if all the patient eon long search of the human spirit for i a way of life, if all the ages of earnest groping for truth had been entirely vain; strange if .it had been given to just on© “younger genera tion” to see and undertand, and all the rest were fools? “Modern literature is—an uneon structive attack upon the morality and ethics of the race,” says Heclit. ; What an anomaly! Modern litera ture that deserves the name of literature at all is not an attack upon anything. It is not the busi- ; ness of literature to attack; it is , the business of literature to inter pret life. And whenever any writer permits himself to subordinate human values to propaganda, what ho produces is not literature. It may be an interesting sociological document, it may be of historical, scientific, or psychological interest, but it can never deserve a place on the same shelves with the mas TAKE YOUK CHOICE You can be sure of the highest quality in all our products. 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Smith & Son 13th and Patterson Streets JOE FRANZWA Auto Body and Fender Work Acetylene Welding and Brazing We repair anything and everything Phone 346 742 Charleton Street Dean Eric Allen will give the address in the LaynUm’s Service at the Unitarian Church, Sunday morning on the theme “The Changing World Today” • • • The soloist at this service will be Dale Cooley. • • • “The Growth of American Unitarianism” will be the subject of an illustrated lecture at 7:30 o ’clock in the evening by the pastor of the church, Frank Fay Eddy. • * * It is the “Little Church of the Human Spirit.” • • • Morning Services begin at 10:45 o’clock. terpieces. Who will read Ben Hecht one "hundred year from now? When one can feed upon the mountain Conrad, why batten on the moor Cabell? Olympic Try-outs Get (Continued from page one) best of them. Tuck made the trip ; across in 1920 and Spearow has several times represented Oregon in Eastern meets. Both are going good this year and perhaps may get an opportunity of carrying Oregon’s colors to Paris next July. There is also talk of such men as Glen i Walkley, Hank Foster and Ken Bart- j lett competing again, this time j under the colors of some athletic J club. Bartlett has already been across once as a member of the Olympic team. With the completion of the 220 straightaway, and the full quarter mile cinder path, Oregon is credited with having one of the best fields on the coast. This, combined with the fact that the conference dates of May 30 and 31 are tne only really available dates that would give the men an opportunity to get back to Boston in time to condition MRS. MYRTLE OWEN announces the opening of the MARCELLE SHOPPE Specializing in Marcelling Manicuring , Hair Bobbing Open evenings 7 to 9 708 Willamette (In .conjunction with the M artin Studio) SUNDAY NIGHT SUPPER You will take great pleasure in having your Sunday night supper at the Anchorage. Dinner in a dreamy, softly lighted room, with the rash of the mill race below the windows, gives you a quiet hour much needed before the final examinations. For reservations Telephone 30 The Anchorage I themselves before June 13 and 14, i makes the selection of Oregon for I this affair almost certain. RAINIER COAL CO. for High Grade Coal and Briquets 15 East 7th Avenue Phone 412 “Charles Chaplin has star tled the world. Sans all rai ment and makeup that has endeared him to that world, i the king of comedy has at- I tired himself as a dramatic master. ‘A Woman of Paris’ is the astounding result. Chaplin reveals himself as a , bold, resourceful, imagina tive, ingenious, careful, stu dious and daring artist. ‘A Woman of Paris’ lives.”— II ill in the N. Y. Times. CHAPLIN f SMASHES I TRADITION | No one else would have dared t<> depict such a startling revelation. No one but Chaplin, the genius, could have handled the situation with such del icacy. A WOMAN OF PARIS The drama of a woman’s soul laid bare 1 Written and Directed by CrtARLES CHAPLIN with EDNA PURVIANCE ADOLPHE MENTOU aiid a superb cast HODGE PUN KINO PODGE FROM GRAM COMIC PRESS NEWS 1 ADMISSION j Matinee 30cNight 50c PLAYING MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY . THURSDAY Note: Chaplin does NOT appear in the picture Wm. S. Hart Supported by Sylvia Breamer Alma Rubens and Mildred Harris in a great Thomas H. 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