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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1924)
State Is High inNewsRank Ahead of Others Pacific Coast Leads Percent of Magazine The Pacifie states are far in ad vance of the national average in percentage of inhabitants who read daily newspapers and magazines, ac cording to findings made by Prof. George S. Turnbull, of the, school of journalism, in the University. Mr. Turnbull based his investiga tion on the latest statistics given in the International Year Book of Editor and Publisher. Forty-three, states rank below Oregon in percentage, of newspaper reading and only four above. These four, in order, are Massachusetts, California, New York (51.5 per cent), Missouri (47 per ce,nt). Ore gon’s percentage is 42. The New England states and New York-New Jersey are the only groups to surpass the. Pacific coast in percentage of newspaper readers, and in magazine-reading the Pacific coast group stands first in the Unietd States. Far Readers Gauged Oregon distances its nortnern uuu eastern neighbors in newspaper cir culation. Washington has a daily newspaper circulation to 36 per cent of the population. Oregon’s show ing is 42 per cent, 6 per cent better than that of Washington. Idaho makes approximately one-third as favorable a showing'as does Oregon. Only one state, California, of the 10 included in the western group— California, Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Montana, Utah, Idaho, Ari zona, Wyoming and Nevada—sur passes Oregon’s record in daily newspaper-reading. And California is second in the nation, headed only by Massachusetts, which steps far in advance of every other New Eng land state. California’s showing is approximately 53 per cent. Massa chusetts, home of - Harvard univer sity, surpasses this record by one per cent. The statistics indicate that Ore gon’s magazine-reading is far in ad vance of the average of the United States as a whole. This state, with its 783,389 population (1920 census) includes within its borders 74-hun dredths of one per cent of thei popu lation. These Oregonians, however, read an average of close to 1.4 per cent of the number of copies of magazines circulated in the country —or nearly twice the total for the nation at large. Life of American in Orient Told (Continued from page one) <"ri ially in Shanghai, she continued. The English concession of land, and that of the French, are very beautiful, with their large residences, public buildings, country clubs and theaters. “It is really quite thrilling,” was the manner in which she expressed it. An English atmosphere prevails. After one has been there a month he feels that he can’t live without his tea. “ I really like China much better than Japan,” Miss McMurphey con tinued. “There are many foreigners residing in the concessions, or touring the country, and lots of danees and social affairs. One is not behind the time in Shanghai, indeed really ahead of America there, whereas in Japan one always has the feeling that he is ] behind.” Many college men, who have grad uated and are on three or four year■ contracts with foreign importing or | exporting companies, may be seen in the Orient, and occassoinally she men tioned familiar names of former Ore- i gon students she had met on her trip, among whom are Carl Newber ry, holding a responsible position with the Admiral Oriental Steamship com pany in Shanghai; Mr. and Mrs. Stan i Anderson on a trip to Shanghai, and j Harold Newton, who is the Ameri can vice-consul in Kobe, Japan. Miss i McMurphey was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Y. G. Madden, her sister and brother-in-law, also former Oregon students, at Toi^io, where she re mained for four months. The return trip by way of Hono lulu took fourteen days. The sunset on the beach at Waikiki is as perfect as it is pictured to be in her opin ion. “We saw hula dances (modified, ( Dr. Charles Forster Smith * * * ‘ * * * Professor, Reader, Scholar By Marion PJayter “Learn to choose and to read the best books.” This is the advice of Dr. Charles Forster Smith, profes sor emeritus of Greek in the Uni versity of Wisconsin, who arrived here Thursday to visit his son, War ren D. Smith, head of the geology department in the University. Dr. Smith, who has taught Greek in the University of Wisconsin for 30 years, believes the reading of the “great books” to .be the best training for all, no matter what their line of work may be. Dr. Smith himself has read “twenty volumes” during the last two months. Reading novels he finds tremendously “tempting.” Just now, for the joy of it, for he finds reading his greatest recrea tion, he is lost in Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre,” which, he says, he read when he was a boy. No definite list of books can be' set forth for students, Dr. Smith believes, for. those that will help some will be of little value to others. But he prescribes general reading, which will lead toward cul ture, in this order: biography, his tory, poetry and essays by great men. Quoting Carlyle, the professor says, “History is an infinite series of biographies.” So, he> explains, from biographies of really “great men,” such as “Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, who is one of my heroes,” lie adds with a. sincere smile, “one leads naturally into history.” And the value in biography, he feels, is that the story of a great life in spires one—perhaps unconsciously— to fashion his own life in that \way. Perhaps it is the white beard flecked with black or the steady look out of his brown eyes that seem to add a final authority to his words. Concerning poetry, Dr. Smith quotes Matthew Arnold, “Poetry is thought touched with emotion.” The professor thinks that it should be read aloud because of the music in it, and, he adds, “music is a great means of culture.” The populace of Greece, in the fifth century before Christ, had a higher state of culture, is Dr. Smith’s belief, than any “state of society” since then. The small number of population was one reason for this higher development. “Mr. Gladstone of England,” said the teacher, “has talked in the open air to as many as twenty thousand people.” Then, he ex plained' the “mass of the people” could be reached through the voice of one speaker in the Greek open air theaters. The general trend of development, he feels, is a sort of leveling pro cess. “General education” is more widespread in this country than any where else in the world in the pres ent time. But, he adds, “certainly, there has been no progress in cul ture.” The trend toward specialization has decreased the teaching of Greek and Latin, but Dr. Smith is confi dent that there will be a reaction, perhaps not in state universities where there is so much specializing, but in the smaller colleges. Har vard, “as it used to be,” when it was much smaller, is his ideal of a college. He was pleased with Stan ford university, too, where he has spent the last two months visiting his brother who has been a profes sor there for 32 years. By limiting the number of students allowed to enter, the studeftts may be “picked,” and the best and the most capable minds trained to lead. “I believo in training leaders,” he asserted. The more able leaders in the state, the better that state, is his opinion. Dr. Smith received his A.B. de gree from Watford, a college in South Carolina, his home state. From there he went to Harvard and then to Leipzig, Germany, where he received his Ph.D. degree. 0 It is his hope that after the ef fects of the war have worn away students will begin to go back to German colleges. A foreign lan guage, Dr. Smith thinks, is essen tial to broaden one’s horizon. “Matthew Arnold expresses . it,” he said, “it is this, ‘to see your own language and people through other eyes. ’ ” To know thoroughly another language means to “make your horizon twice as broad.” It also opens up another nation’s field of literature. In his eyes, the literature of Germany is next only to English literature. “If you are like me,” the pro fessor says, “you like to climb a hill wdiere you can see a wider view.” Dr. Smith not only means this figuratively. While he is visit ing here—he expects to be here for about three months before go ing back to Wisconsin—he walks, 'both morning and afternoon, in the woods and the country. Lilies and Dead Minds By M. B. The poppies bloom on Flanders field. They keep silent watch over the many dead souls who bled and died there. In the south sea islands the lotus blossom blooms over the graces of dead warriors. In Greece the laurel droops over the crypts of dead heroes. Out on the great wastes of cattle-land, the weeping willow drowses mournfully over the resting place of some poor cow boy. The lily, symbolic of death, a beautiful flower, wastes its beauty and fragrance in the torpid atmos phere of the correspondence room in the journalism shack. The lily nods knowingly. Death stalks abroad in the correspondence room. Someone is .dead in the correspon dence room, mentally, not physically. The great minds of some prolific journalists have ceased to function. They are still. They have deterior ated. Never again will they do good upon this earth. The journalists in question wag ged on and on in their little rendez vous. They waxed fluently and' foolishly. Some one heard them, doubted them, and without further adieu called the florist and ordered lilies. The journalists are dead and the beautiful lily looks over them. The poppies bloom on Flanders field. The lotus flower blooms in the south. The weeping willow droops. The laurel watches. Dead souls. Dead journalists. Their pens are idle. In death the journalists in ques tion wish to thank the kind donors of the lily. It is beautiful. We love lilies. We are gone, and the lily watches while the typewriters go click-clack and other journalists wag merrily on. however), the real hula as originally (lanced is no longer allowed, and list ned to the music boys’ serenades which were very enjoyable.” A delightful custom of the island s perpetuated. Huge wreaths of lowers are put around one’s neck by a remaining friend, as the boat leaves he wharf, which if thrown in the ocean when the steamer is about ten minutes out of port is said to bring good luck to the tourist and insure his return to Hawaii, declared Miss McMurphey, who followed the cus tom by casting her beautiful wreath of carnations on the waves. “The boat arrived in San Francisco and the trip was over.” Miss Mo Murphey brought a number of lovely articles from the Orient. “You know the natives there always ask twice what the article is worth, and the tourists are always supposed'to ‘jew’ them down to half the price asked,” said the little lady in-a confidential and humorous tone. “And so used to doing that were we that when I EXPERT SHOE SHINING For a number of years we have been the students’ headquarters for shoe shining. We clean, dye and shine any color shoes. Or ders for repairing taken. REX SHOE SHINING PARLOR (Next Rex Theatre) _ shop here I almost begin the old Or iental bargaining system.” Miss MeMurphey has registered for the new term as a junior in the Uni versity. Night of April Frolic Approaches (Continued from page one) curious men strolled in to the sun parlor of the Woman’s building to give the seething mass of women the onceover. They crowded the parlor and were prepared to burst through the doors of the gymnasium, when lo, there walked forth from the scene of activity one of the older and well-known head residents, decked in a breathless style. The men gave one hasty look and forth they leaped from all the windows of the place. They say she had donned the brightest of canary yel low stockings, and wore a dress, oh, so short for one of her years. Sometimes there come letters from old alums who think the pass ing years have made it safe to tell of their night>at April Frolic. Cau tiously they had to dress, and snoop onto the scene. For their guilty conscience told them the dean of women and all their feminine class mates had their eyes on the guilty ones. Yet we have not heard of a man taking the prize, that’s an ac complishment for the future. The masculine folks who plan on | seeing the 1924 April Frolic will see a sight long to be remembered, judg ing from the stunts listed. Let’s make our guess as to the stunts to be shown next Saturday night. “Peppy Patters” is the name for one. Some more dancing and soft shoe shuffle, we reckon. “Library Dates”—in other words, ladies and gentlemen of the campus, see yourselves as others see you. “So This Is College”—a revelation on campus life, graveyard scenes, class life, and library scenes, prob ably. “Characters in Bamboo Land.” | It will be a change from collego land, anyway. “Mother Goose at April Frolic”—a new onlooker. Maybe Jack Horner, Simple Simon, Humpty Dumpty, or the Old Lady who lived in a shoe. “When the Clock Strikes Twelve.” It may be on Cinderella, but it ought to be by campus time, “When the Clock Finds Twelve twenty.” “Tantalizing Terpsi chore,” a take-off, we guess, on Ziegfeld Follies. “The Carnival,” with all its hand organs, and side shows. “Insidei Out,” another bur lesque on college (we guess). “King’s Holiday,” another brain twister. “Cheese Dream,” some havet such subtle names. Clowns, Old Dutch Cleanser, Ru dolph Valentino, nymphs, fairies, the Dutch twins, coy southern belles, bathing beauties, Maggie and Jiggs, Gold Dust twins, Campbell twins, all variety of dancers, and so many Bell Theater SPRINGFIELD SUNDAY HOOT GIBSON in “BLINKY” others in individual costumes will be there. Yes, it will be worth seeing. Varsity Swimmers Best O. A. C. Men (Continued from page one) Dives—Burroughs, O. A. C.; Hors-1 fall, O. ; McCabe, O. 100 yard breaststroke—Cramer, O. A. C.; Sinclair, O.; Van Dyke, O. A. C.; time 1.24. 220 yard free style—Horsfall, O.; Hodeker, O. A. C.; Herron, O.; time 6.53. Plunge—Turner, O. A. C.; Wis vall, O.; Smith, O. A. C.; 60 feet. 100 yard dash—Palmer, O.; Car penter, O. A. C.; Hodeker, O. A. C.; time 1.04. Relay won hy Oregon—Herron, Stoddard, McCabe, and Horsfall; time 1.28. A return meet will be held at O. A. C. on April 19. The officials were—Referee,Fahl; timers, Foster, Lombard and Boggs; judges at turns, Widmer and Rein hart; scorer, Laura. jYearbook Is Sent to the Publishers (Continued from page one) ook is being printed, has declared hat in his opinion the Oregana of his year will be the most harmon ous and beautiful from an artistic Hand point of any book published by I he University. Those who have failed to subscribe or the Oregana and are desirous of 'doing so are requested to get in ouch with Myron Shannon, business lanager, or Gibson Wright, circula tion manager, as orders in advance are necessary. Examinations Are Discussed by Writer (Continued from page one) sons, he could not help but make the honor roll. In summing up, it seems impos Relax— and enjoy your Sunday evening to the fullest by taking your Sunday Supper at the Anchorage * # # The atmosphere is right— so is the food. # # # CALL 30 for Reservations Cinnamon Toast and Tea— for the oozy tete-a-tete after the Sunday after noon stroll. A softly lighted booth—the only girl—and you. What matter if it is raining when the patter beats an enchanting accom paniment to the sweet nothings you softly tell her. The Rainbow is an ideal setting for the ending of the perfect day. The Rainbow sible that the student could look on examinations with other than the utmost approbation. In fact, their merits are so many and their faults are so few that they should be classed as blessings and remembered in our daily prayers. Rose La Vogue Beauty Shop Manicuring, Scalp and Face Treatments. Marcelling 13th and Kincaid What Was This Beautiful Girl s Story? Hbw quickly the world stands ready to accuse—yet how many who condemn are really above reproach? A MAN—YES! BUT CAN A WOMAN COME BACK? See this girl’s heroic battle against the greatest odds of mankind—and wins! I COMING MONDAY ^fah i '\ Showing at the Rex sim ultaneously with its N. W. Premier in Portland at The Peoples. Phone 87 -ll THIS IS NOT yV RUBBISH I IEAP Just a few ofthe shoes we receive daily for re , pairs by the » GOODYEAR SYSTEM. Jim the Shoe Doctor 986 Willamette Street Phone 867 E. L. Zimmerman, M. D., Surgeon C. W. Bobbins, M. D., Direetor Western Clinical Laboratories L. S. Kent, M. D., Women and Children 304 M. & W. Bldg. Phone 619 DR. WRIGHT B. LEE Dentistry 404 M. & C. Building Phone 42 Eugene, Ore. DR. B. F. SCAIEFE Physician and Surgeon 203 I. 0. 0. F. Bldg. Eugene, Ore. Office 70-J; Residence 70 F. M. DAY, M. D. Surgeon 119 East 9th Ave. DR. M. L. IIANDSHUn Foot Specialist Chiropodist Corns, callouses removed with out pain. No needles or acids used. Just scientifically re moved without pain. Bunions, fallen arches, all other foot ailments positively cured. Ground floor. 013 Willamette St. Phone 303 OLIVE C. WALLER Osteopathic Physician ORVILLE WALLER Physician and Surgeon M. & W. Bldg. Phone 176 DR. L. E. GEORGE ; Dentist 1 First National Bank Bldg., Boom T Phone 1186 Eugene, Ore. DR. L. L. BAKER Eugene, Ore. Demonstrators diploma Northw>ter» University Dental School, Chicago. Gold inlay and bridge work a specialty. W. E. BUCHANAN Dentist Office Phone 390, Res. 1403-L Suite 211, I. 0. 0. P. Temple Eugene, Ore. DR. LORAN BOGAN Practice limited to extraction Dental Radiography Diagnosis Oral Surgery 938 Willamette Phono 80S DR. W. E. MOXLEY Dentist Castle Theater Bldg. Phone 73 Eugene, Oregon DR. M. M. BULL Reasonable Prices for Good Dentistry M. k W. Bldg. Phoaa 6*7 DR. WILIAM H. DALE Surgery Radium X-Ray 217 I. 0. 0. F. Bldg. 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