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BOOKS TUBAL CAIN—By Joseph Her gcsheimcr. Wih swift, h:ird strokes, Joseph Hergeshcimer has drawn a man hard, unyielding, invincible as iron itself, in “Tubal Cain.” With his consummate mastery of words, he sketches his story so vividly ns to place us in the little Pennsyl vania valley with its uproar of white-hot furnaces, its strident jangle of sledges and heavily loaded wagons, its shrieking whis tles, its sooty smoke, its groups of grimy laborers. The merits of the story as such are negligible from the point of view of plot. The story is hat of a certain Alexander Hulings, a miserable failure as a lawyer at 34. slight, narrow shouldered, weak, but with a rigid stubborn ness that held him as erect as an iron bar. A chance vdsit^ takes him to Tubal Cain, the site of a ruined forge of a religious fanatic. Sick and exhausted the sight of the great furnaces, the clang of the very word “irpn” grips mind. He takes the forges in his own hands, and after making superhuman struggles, refusing to admit failure because of pure pig headedness and hate for the other "Ironmaster,” he becomes himself Ironmaster. A complication in the form ot the daughter of the first Ironmaster enters the story. There is a sur prising turn at the end; the result of his f iron man’s Herculean, labors is made certain only at the very end. It is in the personality of Alex ander Hulings, the quiet calm firm- j ness of Gisela, daughter of the J Ironmaster, the vapors and grime that rises from the very pages, the iron, raw iron, puddled iron, blis ter steel, boiling iron, lurid hearths, all the small parts of a seething picture that the genius of the author is made manifest. —JOSEPHINE RICE. THE COMMON SENSE OF MUSIC—By Ur. Sigmund Spaeth. Can highbrow and'lowbrow meet, or are they as far apart as the proverbial East and West! In sev eral ways, recently, the answer seems lo be that they can, and that they both enjoy the meeting. On Lincoln’s Birthday, Paul Whit man gave his first jazz concert at Aeolin hall in New York city. The hall was crowded, and the audience was an amusing mixture of musi cians and Broadway restaurant owners. The experiment was such a success that it had to bo re peated early in March. Then it was radioed, and now it is to be given at no less a place than Car negie hall on. April 21, as well as outside New York. What Paul Whitmiln has accomplished on the concert stage in bringing the highbrow and the lowbrow to gether, Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, of the educational department of the American Piano company , has brought about in a book “The Com mon Sense of Music” just pub lished by Boni ” Liveright. By the. use of a vigorous English, the dis- , carding of dull technical details, | und the citation of the most fam- \ iliar and popular examples, Dr. Spaeth makes the understanding and enjoyment of music available for everyone. Dogs of Main Street —Treatise on Types (Continued from page one) ing. a big collie wanders reflect-1 ively through the Masonic grave yard lie is an old dog, so, per haps ho is pondering the mysteries of those quiet graves. Observe the sulky animosity of a little cocker spaniel a block or so down the avenue. He snaps at every flut tering skirt, at every friendly glance. He has been crossed in youth disappointed in love, per haps. There are so many kinds of dogs, it would take a hook to describe them all. I think I could better describe the types of campus characters in a paragraph than I could the dogs of Eugene in a chapter. Some dogs are -o much more interesting than a great many people. Beavers Winners in Fourth Contest (Continued from page one) Bittner to Ross to Cook. Struck out, l>y Coleman 7, bv I’il 1, by Williams t; bases on bails, off Coleman 1, off Ringle 1, off Pil 2, off Williams 1. Hit by pitcher, Sorsby by Coleman, Baker by Wil liams. Wild pitch, Pil. Four runs, three hits off llingle in two and one-third innings; four runs, two hits off I’il in one and one-third innings; four runs, five hits off Williams in six and two thirds innings. Umpire, Edwards. Lost — A silver fountain pen, initial M engraved on it. Finder call 729. M 17-18 Permanent Body to Handle Problems of Living Groups A plan providing for a perman jent body, composed of representa tives from each living organization on the campus, to handle all problems referred to them, has been formulated by a committee ap pointed by Claude Robinson, presi dent of the student body. These ] roblems are to be the ones that do not come under the direction of student council. This committee was appointed last fall term at a meeting in which the need of such an organi zation was felt, because of the fact that up to this time, there has been no definite body or organiza tion to which such problems as the employment of help arranging for entertainment of delegates at con ventions and other similar problems might be referred. As it has been heretofore, questions might be brought up, but there were no persons invested with any powers to act. It was for this reason, therefore, that Claude Robinson ex pressed the idea that a need for such a body has been greatly felt. The members of the committee are: Dean Walker, faculty ad visor; Arthur Rosebraugh, Ted Baker, and Henryetta Lawrence. “The plan will be presented to Pan-Hellenic and interfraternity council at a meeting in the near future,” said Miss Lawrence. If the problems brought up are such that they will affect the people liv ing in halls or dormitories, then it will be arranged for them to I send representatives to these meetings. A junior and senior woman are elected from each women's house each year to compose Pan-Hellenic and an upperclassman and an underclassman are sent from each men’s house. Under the new plan, the vice-president of interfrater nitv council will preside pt the meetings, the president being a member of the faculty. The presi dent of Pan-Hellenic will act as a secretary, if necessary. Meetings will be held only when something of real importance comes up. The interfraternity council has already been interested in matters other than rushing, while Pan Hellenic has not. This will broad en its field, as in other schools. “This question has been pre sented in all the different houses, and it is expected that when it is brought to a vote, it will not meet with any opposition,” continued Miss Lawrence. “It will not only be a good thing for the campus, but for the organizations them selves. It will give them move prominence on the campus and they will have more duties. They will not be just organizations by name, but they will form into one body that will act when necessary. It will not mean the bringing of another organization on the cam pus, but merely the revision of the old.” ' Eruditi Rudes Tty Fritz Marti Sophisticus: Will you tell me something? Simplicus: I should be glad to if I could! So: You certainly are in your tell ing mood, offering ' me an exhorta tion in your very friendly as Isuranee that— i Si: I shouldfbe glad to if 1 could. So: Is that so? Si: Not yet, unfortunately. What have T to tell you? So: Why should I ask you, if I knew it? Si: You indeed, speak incautious Jly and you may be sorry about it. So: T am rather sure that I know what I said. Si: Is that true? So: There you are again with I vour eternal truth! What do you 'mean by truth? That’s my ques tion. Si: I know. But let me plead I not guilty for the word eternal. I So: I don’t care for your words— Si: I do in this case. So: I don’t care for your words, I care for the case. Si: If such is your honest inten tion, there is hope for my words being understood. So: Go ahead then. What is your absolute truth? Si: I cm 11 *t tell you that. I do not know what you moan by ab solute truth auii bv my truth. If you want mo to go ahead, you must not hinder me by pasteing your ad ijeetives on my words. Putting limo <in a bird’s wings does not dis prove the truth that birds can fly, !though your patient bird may pay |your pleasure with it's life. So: It would be my pleasure to hear your arguments instead of your bird’s language. 'What is !“ true” t Si: It is a good many things. I Will you bo satisfied with an ex I nmole'? So: Maybe I am not satisfied so easily. Your going to choose ! an example to which T have no objection. Si: 1 certainly shall, because it will be an example of truth, and there is no objection to truth. But please remind yourself, if you can, of the fact that you are going to violate the rules of our game again bv fixing the adjective "my" to the example you expect. Indeed, \ou may call*it “my example,” in asmuch as my mouth, and not yours, will produce the sound of words. But the sound is not the meaning which alone is the truth. So: 1 do not understand what vou mean: this is too abstract for me. Si: Of course it is. You do not vet know the example which for vou is nothing but the expectation of words coming from my lips. Therefore ,vou call it “your ex ample,” these two words being all that vou possibly know about it. \ud this, indeed, is abstraction from the content or meaning of the example which you do not vet know, or more accurately- which vou already know abstractedly, as the example of “Simplieus.” Si: Oh, stop this talking and bring your example! So: Well then, it is true that 7”1> plus ltd is Stitk Or have you any thing to object to this truth! Si: Of course, I presuppose ithat you have used your arithmetic the way we both were taught and, i therefore, I would not find any objection. But— So: But 1 did not give you the oxiiraplo for tlie purpose of your presupposing something about it; you are indeed and solemnly sum moned not to think about the ex ample, but to think of it and to think of it carefully in order to find really and hon estly whether there is an objection to it or not. If, then, you realize that there is not and cannot be any objection to the re sult, you will have what you asked for: an example of truth. Si: But my brain has been trained to arrive at an arithmetical result the s;yne way as everybody else does. Thus my brain can’t find any objection. ’ So: I hope it has been trained that way. Else you would have to go back to grade school! Ani mals and babies have not been trained that way, therefore, we don’t go to ask them whether something is true or not. However, your starting this discussion proves that you perfectly know that we arc competent to decide our ques tion. You said yourself that you knew our discussion would not be mere sound. And you said that you would not care for my words, but that you care for the case. The case is: whether it be true that 723 plus 146 be 869. 8i: I don’t understand what you mean by “true.” So: Of course you don’t, because you don't want to. The little children of grade school know that they must figure it out, if they want to know how much is 723 plus 146. And they are honest enough to lie to the teachers if they have been too lazy for doing their task, they will lie and say that they could not find the time because they had to rake the lawn. Please do me the favor to find a little lie! Then, too, oitr ,chase for a little truth will find its aim; the little truth will be the opposite of the little lie. Morals, Orderliness —Memories of Past (Continued from page one) half champion of truth, half diplo mats of cant; a Fiimer of the most oerfect blindness of mind, until the fatal letters at once make him susceptible to reality! All in consistent characters! But isn’t this unjust? Are not real men in consistent—frail halves? Yes, in consistent, and frail, but not halves. Beal men may be essenti ally inconsistent as the Bidgeleys are, decidedly half-and-haljf, half Sunday and half working day, half moral and half mentally callous. But those figures of the play are contringently inconsistent; their halves are interrelated only by the plot. And the plot does not even question the initial entanglements; anything like a divorce either of Annabel or of Nina is entirely out of the question; Derek would be an outlaw child of sin if Jesson would not endow him with his name— Fiat justitia, pereat mundus! The Bidgeleys are gone, their morals re remain. However, wasn’t it Pinero’s in tention to show the invincible bar renness of that code of morals? 1 The question, then, is only ' whether his criticism of morals should be taken to be a moralist’s performance rather than an artist’s, whether it should be judged for its moral rather than for its aesthetic qualities. And how could we judge it otherwise since, indeed, the author ; himself challenges our moral judg ment, leaving his play unsolved, leaving the criticized standards in undoubted power. Thus the author presents us with a social question instead of a piece of art. We don’t wish to impeach him, it is quite necessary to ge lively presentations of social questions. If, however, a verdict should be pronounced against the play, it is time which pronounces it, whilst a piece of art never grows old, social questions have their time and pass by with it, depriving a didactical play of its activity. Pinero’s seems to be long to the past. Hence some difficulties in performing it. There may be found lots of Ridgeleys in 1924, but the Nina’s and even the French governesses don’t any long er honor them with the rebellious, submissiveness which Pinero pre scribes to them. A really delightful place to have your SUNDAY DINNER Cool, from the gentle breezes off the race. 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