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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1924)
OREGON SUNDAY EMERALD Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association Official publication of tha Associated Students of the University of Oregon, issued fctif except Monday, during the college year._ AJtTHUB S. BUDD ___ EDITOE Editorial Board Managing Editor -.— Associate Editor - -- Associate Managing Editor. Don Woodward . John W. Piper . Ted Janes Daily News Editors Margaret Morrison Rosalia Keber Marian Lowry Frances Simpson Leon Byrne Nonna Wilson Night Editors Bopert Bullivant' Walter Coover Jalmar Johnson Douglas Wilson Jack Burleson George Belknap P. L N. S. Editor_ Pauline Bondurant Assistants _____ _Josephine Ulrich, Louis Dammasch Sports Staff Sports Editor -- Monte Byers Sports Writers: Bill Akers. Ward Cook, Wilbur Wester Upper News Staff Catherine Spall Mary Clerin Leonard LerwiH Margaret Skavlan Georgians Gerlinger Kathrine Kressmann Ed Miller News Staff: Lyle Jans, Helen Reynolds, Lester Tumbautrh, Thelma Hamrick, Webster Jones, Margaret Vincent, Phyllis Coplan, Frances Sanford, Eugenia Strick* land, Velma Meredith, Lillian Wilson, Margaret Kressmann, Ned French, Ed Robbins, Josephine Rice, Clifford Zehrung, Pete Laurs. Lillian Baker, Mary West, Emily Houston, Beth Farias, Alan Button. Clate Meredith, James Case, Elizabeth Cady. UP g. J, MPNLY_____ MANAGER Business Staff Aisoeiate Manager....-.—.Lot Beatie | Foreign Advertising Ibnager___James Leake Aas’t Manager_Walter Peareon Alva Vernon Specialty Advertising •Vefana Farnham William Jamea Circulation Manager_Kenneth Stephenson Aas’t Manager ___ James Manning Upper Business Staff Advertising Manager _ Maurice Warnoclc Aaa’t Adv. Manager_Karl Hardenbergh Advertising Salesmen Sales Manager _ Frank Loggan Assistants Lee ter Wade Chester Coon Edgar Wrightman Frank De Spain Entered in the poetoffice at Eugene, Oregon, ax second-class matter. Subscription sates, 11.25 per year. By term, 76c. Advertising rates upon application. Phones Mitor 655 Manager 951 DmiV Nrw« Editor This Issue Night Editor This Issue Ed Miller George Belknap Assistant . Floyd Greeley The Passing of Golden Days Break, break, break At the foot of thy erags, O Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come hack to me. —Alfred Tennyson. The class of '24 is on the last lap of a long race. The final term of their University life has come, and with it all the doubts and fears, all the thrills and expectations, all the sentiment and sadness that have ever been prone to well up in ylouthful bosoms, when the time draws near for the world outside the campus to claim graduates for its own. It has been a happy four years fc* most ^f them; such a period of pleasant association with fellow-beings of a congenial age must needs be happy. It has been vitally and intensely interesting for the group who were freshmen in the fall of 3920, Avho saw the last of the old “rah-rah” time-wasting Ore gon, who mingled with the returned-student veterans of the World War, and who watched this University change, discon certingly fast, under the pressure of “higher standards.” Now they are ready to leave it all behind, this group of men I and women who have labored through the years in the shadows of the venerable Deady and Villard—ready to face a world I that is calling for new blood, a world which has sounded the tocsin for young men and women. In these closing weeks there will be much restlessness and pondering over what is ahead and much dreaming of the love liness of the days that are gone. A certain sense of accomplish ment will be mixed with the realization that soon these associ ations, built up through four enjoyable years, this whole scheme of life, now so all-important, will be broken up, never to bej experienced again. Never in all time to come will this same' group be together, once the circle is broken; never again will the same faces be seen around the tables of living organizations, the tables where golden song in praise of Oregon has been raised so many times. Present ties and friendships, born of campus associations, will be severed, and the trails of many of those who are now strolling, hand in hand, over the last rise in the University road, will never cross again. Net it is always so. In every walk of life the sadness of parting with friends and loved ones, of leav ing pleasant fields of endeavor, is always present. Without the sadness the joys of existence would be less keen. The empty place in the heart, which will be felt most keenly when the train carries the graduate out of Eugene, next June, will soon be filled with something else. Love of the campus existence will be replaced by the zest of conquering new obsta cles. New associations and varied activity will soon take the sting from the hurt occasioned by leaving college life. Yet the memories of Oregon will always be dear ones. One could never forget the fullness of four such years, for the things gained here make the foundation upon which life outside will be budded. The successes the graduates attain will be measured largely by the standards acquired here. The money-gauge does not mean so much as it did before. Oregon men and women who have gained the biggest lesson of University days know that a fullness of life, attained through a love of service, is the true goal of human endeavor. FORMER STUDENT EMPLOYED IN PORTLAND Everett Dolgraves, '-7, formerly enrolled in the school of journalism uf tlu' University, has left school and is now employed on the Uort land Oregonian. His home is at Pasadena, California. Hardships of Cold Alaska y ^ 9 ¥ Gold, Crooks, Ice and Snow — I By Elisabeth Cady “I think Alaska is the best coun try today for a young fellow to go to get ahead. It has hardly even been scratched over in the gold mining bus iness, and the coal there has been tested and found to be almost aB good as that mined in Pennsylvania.” This was the opinion rendered by W. F. Wostell, who takes care of the household arts building, and who spent 11 years in Alaska, mining and prospecting. Mr. Wostell and his wife started for the north in January, 1898 in the vessel “Oregon.” Seven days after leaving Portland they picked up the 352 passengers of the “Corone, ” which had been wrecked off Lewis Island. The- trip from Portland ’to Skag way took pine days and after reach ing port they had to hunt a place to camp. In those days there were no houses and camps were- made any place in the snow. Mr. and Mrs. Wostell pitched their camp on the bank of the Skagway river where it empties into the Lyn canal. Drinking water at that time was taken from the river in which the de-ad bodies of horses and reindeer had been thrown and had frozen solid. Their next door neighbors wore “Soapy” Jeff Smith one of the most notorious crooks the world had ever known at that time, and his gang of “boosters.” “They controlled the whole town of Skagway,” said Mr. Wostell. “There was no law and order and more crookedness than respect ability. A vigilance committee of 101 men was organized to get rid of Soapy and his crowd, and notices to this effect were put up all over town, but as fast as they were put up, a “booster” tore them down. We saw wo couldn’t work that way, so we held a me-eting on the South ern Pacific company’s docks. One of the boosters came down to break up the meeting, but lie- was run off by Frank Reed, one of the members, stationed at the end of the dock. “Soapy was notified of this and came running down. When Reed told him to halt, Soapy pulled his gun and shot him. Reed, although mortally wounded, pulled his gun ' and shot Soapy, and shortly after the combat they both died. The rest of the gang didn’t give any more trouble.” In March, Mr. Wostell and his wife started for the interior, over the White Pass trail. They pulled a hand sled lpaded with 360 pounds of ‘grub’ for 480 miles, finally ar riving in the Dawson country. Sixty cents a pound was paid for packing supplies into the interior, because of the difficulty of getting over the trail. From White Pass to Bennett, a distance of 20 miles, one walked over the bodies of pack animals that had died from starvation and hard ships of the trail. In the Aatlin country, at the headwaters of the Yukon close to the Northwest territory, Mr. Wos tell ’s son and daughter were born— the first white children born in that country. In 1902, Mrs. Wos tell and the children returned to the States. Mr. Wostell had two partners at this time. Two of the men pros pected while the other stayed in camp. “In the winters,” he said, “the ground was frozen solid from one to 10 feet in depth, and in the summer it thawed for only about 18 inches. The mining was done by building a fire and covering it with rocks, which h*ld thej heat, and thawed the ground for a short dis I tance. This material was then dug out and the process was repeated until bed rock was struck. “In some places,” Mr. Wostell continued,” the ground yielded $600 worth of gold to a pan, which is about two shovelsful. This is in particularly rich veins, but in picked spots the ground went $15 a pan continually. In one place jny part ner and I had ground that gave 27 ounces a day. “There wasn’t very much of anything humorous or funny then in Alaska,” he concluded. “Prac-. tically everything was hardships and was sad. Once in a while things would seem funny at the time, but afterwards they seemed tragic or silly. One went there then to work, not to be amused or entertained.” D. A. R. vs. Liberalism A Criticism by Oscar 0. Winther Tlu» reformers and revivalists we have with us always, but every now and then there appears on the scene one of those gloomy sensationalists who fill us with horrors of encroach ing Bolshevism, and who pretend to unveil monstrous plots of sinister forces that are undermining our Con stitution and hindering our oapital stic enterprises. (Enterprises that rob the layman and acquire govern ment oil reserves). The recent D. A. R. convention im presses one from the columns of the dailies as being* an excellent example of the 100 per cent booster organi zation type which lias a strange, and eeniingly, a factitious habit of using vague words which sound patriotic but mean nothing. It impresses one ns an organization which means well, but an organization which is taking the wrong attitude in aiding its ountry to recover from its wartime crisis. We are becoming tired of hearing about the world coming to an end and of a Bolshevik revolu tion. Neither will bother us, and if they do, let us hope for something better than what we have. If radicalism does become un pleasant, one does not believe that fanaticism will suppress it. The in tolerance expressed by way of resolu tions passed by the D. A. R. warns us against a greater danger than “liberal publications will ever be in this country. It seems that the “Daughters” have inherited too much conservatism and not enough of the thing that their name implies. If we are to remove from our library shelves the books of II. G. Wells, G. Bernard Shaw, and others of their kind, we arc taking away (he very things that stand for prog ess, materially and spiritually. Truly, the people who do not appreciate the wit of Shaw or the imagination of Wells without thinking of them as revolutionary and unconstitutional! can be excused for “they know not what they do.” Miss Ilermine Sehwed might have sighed with relief on the passing of our FreenuuTs publication. “Tf we can only suppress the New Republic and the Nation, we will be on the RAINIER COAL CO. for High Grade Coal and Briquets 15 East 7th Avenue Phone 412 road to progress,” was undoubtedly her benighted thoughts. But from the shoulders of serpents grow other heads, and the recent publication of the American Mercury must have shocked passionate Americanism of the honorable Miss Schwed. Of course, it is one consolation that she may nourish that this publication is ocked in the reference librarian’s esk at our state University; presum bly, in order that few may discover ts presence in the library. All Will come out fine, Miss Schwed, f we can substitute such wholesome lagazines as the Western Stories, nd the True Stories for the “liberal ublications,” which now fill our helves. These stories are distinct .merican literature and do not inter fere with the foreign policy of our onorable secretary of state, nor oes it interfere with the corruption f our attorney general and the other ily members of our national cabinet. Oregon People The engagement of Katherine Wat son, ’25, to John Anderson, ’23, was announced early this morning at the I Pi Beta Phi and Phi Sigma Pi fra ternities. The news was given out at the Pi Beta Phi house, of which Miss i Watson is a member, shortly after I midnight. Anderson passed the cigars I at about the same time to his brothers ] at the Phi Sigma Pi house. i Miss Watson, a junior majoring in English, has been active in student body activities while on the campus. She is a member at Pot and Quill, women writers’ organization. Anderson, since his graduation last June, has been on the staff of the Coos Bay Times at Marshfield. He was prominent in journalism work and while on the campus he was a member of Sigma Delta Chi, and as sociate managing editor of the Emer ald. He is also a member of Phi Mu Alpha, musical fraternity (Continued from page one) as the center of information on : many subjects for the entire state, j “The men’s gymnasium is also j badly needed. Adequate gymnasium facilities for women are provided on the campus, but the men are : using a small wooden structure built in 1911 and already outgrown. As for the Memorial Court, it has long been the hope of everyone con nected with the University that the Oregon men who served in the world war should be honored in som& beautiful and dignified memorial.” Alumni Active in Support of Drive CHANGE IN RULES ABOLISHES KICK-OFF “TEE” University of Kansas—The most radical change made in football rules by the national committee, which met in New York City Sat urday to discuss the regulations and desirable changes, was tlhe abolish ment of the mud “tee,” which is used in the kick-off. According to the new rules, the ball on the kick off must be held by one of the. players, while tine kick is being made. In order to offset the loss in distance and heighth which this ! will bring about, the kick-off in the ! future will be made from mid-field. BUILDING PAYMENTS ANNOUNCED AT WHITMAN Whitman College—(By P. I. N. 8-)—The Whitman Building associa tion announces that the final pay ments oh the $144,000 bond issue for Lyman hall, the men’s dormi tory, and for the central heating plant, have been made. The im provements were financed by the issue of 20-year bonds to the. extent of $144,000. --- ADELAIDE LAKE, ’19, VISITOR j FROM PORTLAND yesterday. Miss Lake was a jour ! Halisip major at the University. She J is now on the staff of the Portland ; Oregonian. | STUDENTS HURL EGGS FROM GALLERY University of Missouri—Three university students are under $300 bonds for hurling an egg from the gallery during the performance of “Just Married” at a local play house. The students left the thea ter between acts and purchased the eggs at a confectionery store, re marking at the time, “The show is rotten.” Old-timers closed their eyes for a moment and lived again the days when the Cherry sisters were being “told with vegetables." Get the Classified Ad habit. Is Christianity Decadent? Is Christianity waning as a social force? If so what are we going to do about it? These are the questions I propose to discuss,, I will not say answer, in my sermon next Sunday morning. Figures seem to show that Chris ianity as expressed in church organ zation and resources is growing lightly faster than the population. ut somehow one senses a disorep ncy between Christianity as ex pressed in its institutions and the tide of living force, which for a re ligion, is alone important. To know what Christianity is spiritually worth requires more than the testimony of statistics, for in such a matter figures may lie very exhaustively and decep tively. How far does Christianity actu ally direct modern life because it is alive in heart and conscience of mod ern men and women? That is a difficult thing to say but it is worth seeking, for its is the one great fact of more value than counting the noses of believers of the dollars of invested funds. Looking forward, will Christianity give spiritual illumination and guid ance during the next hundred years to a certain world toward new and nighty experiments? Certain it is, we are moving on to a testing time of Christianity such as it has never nown. In my sermon Sunday morning on. ‘CHRISTIANITY IN THE NEW CENTURY” I shall discuss as best I can the great problem suggested by the above questions. In our Unitarian church we aim to be open-minded and tolerant yet to think freely and speak plainly. We invite all who seek truth in the spirit of ffeedom'to worship with us. ‘‘The Little Church of the Human Spirit” extends a welcome to Uni versity men and women. We believe we have a real gospel to offer. Our services are simple but we always have a little good music. Next Sun day ROBERT McKNIGHT is the soloist. The church is looted on East Elev enth avenue at Ferry street. - Ser vices begin at 10:45. FRANK FAY EDDY, Pastor. —Paid advertisement. 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