Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1925)
©tcgan Sailg Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association Official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. DONALD L. WOODWARD .-. EDITOR __ c EDITORIAL BOARD Managing Editor .a.^.... Harold A. Kirk Associate Editor _-..Margaret Skavlan Associate Managing Editor ----- Anna Jerzyk Desk Editor __Norma J. Wilson Sports Editor .... George H. Godfrey Daily News Editors Mary Clarln Emily Houston lames Case Jatmar Johnson Frances Sanford LUKan Baker Night Editors Cliff Wilson Pete Laurs Webster Jones Alfred Boice lack O’Meara Walter A. Cushman Josephine Ulrich .. Exchange Editor Sports Staff Wilbur Water .... Assistant Sport* Editor Ward Cook, Don Osborne _ Sport* Writers Upper News Staff Gertrude Houk Eugenia Strickland Edward Robbins Genevp Foss Elizabeth Cady Sol Abramson Carvel Nelson . P. I. N. S. Editor Lylah McMurphey . Society Editor News Staff: Clifford Zehrung, Mildred Carr, Helen Reynolds. Bertram Jessap. Margaret Vincent, Esther Davis, Jack Hempstead, Georgia Stone, Glen Burch, Lawrence Armand, Ruth De Lap, Dorothy Blyberg, Clayton Meredith, Margaret Kressman, Philippa Sherman, Ruth Gregg, Geneva Drum, Jane Dudley. BUSINESS STAFF JAMES W. TVF.ATCE .*.. MANAGER Associate Manager . Frank Loggan Advertising Managers . Si Slocum, Wayne Leland, Wm. James - _ . . “ . ° n TVl. T»_JIT___ Dn.i Bondnll Advertising Assistants .... Milton George, Bill Prudhomme, Bert Bandall Circulation Manager . Jerry Crary Assistant Circulation Manager . Jaimes Manning Circulation Assistant . John Black Foreign Advertising Manager .Claude Reavis Assistants .-. Walt 0 ’Brien, Hilton Rose, Neil Chinnock Specialty Advertising . Mildred Dunlap, Geneva Foss Administration .... Margaret Hyatt, Marion Phy, Fred Wilcox, Bonner Whitson, Bob Warner. Day Editor This Issue Mary Clerin Night Editor This Issue Cliff Wilson Assistant .Tom Graham Entered as second class matter at the poet office at Eugene, Oregon, under act af Congress of March 3, 1879. “Spring Has Came” ESTERDAY the “ground hog” saw his shadow. It may be that there will be a late spring, but thoughts are already upon the return of the sun, superstition to the contrary. There is a scent in the wind redolent of new birds’ nests and new brooms. And, along with the rest of the straw, will come the hats. New nests—new brooms—new hats—all suggest spring housecleaning. Housecleaning suggests, in its turn, certain un pleasant things, like heating rugs, and cleaning windows. Spring will be spring! And housecleaning follows in its wake. Certain persons are likewise taking their old thoughts out, brushing the cobwebs off them, and giving them a good airing on a windy line. (Pun not intended.) Not a bad idea. Certain of the old furniture of the brain may need re-furnishing. Certain of it may have to be relegated to the attis. And, badly as we hate to part with old relics, some of it should—ah, perish the thought !—be chopped up for kindling wood. Dust has a way of settling. One may trample on a perfectly good idea for so long that its colors somehoAV fade into a neu tral gray. A good beating, may be recommend? There’s noth ing like showing it up for what it is. And one really shouldn’t do all the housecleaning by oneself. That is losing half the fun. Prairie housewives in northwestern Nebraska help each other with spring housecleaning just as they do when they feed threshers at harvest time. Students, too, have a way of form ing groups to do mental housecleaning. It adds a certain zest. It is perhaps one of the best functions of the group, this mental communications, this intellectual partnership. There are, however, two advantages over spring houseclean ing in the mental variety. One is, that by assisting each other in the latter we may add what we choose to our own mental furniture. The other is, that, “groundhog or no groundhog,” we can do the cleaning up. We do not have to wait for spring. Editorially Clipped —o PERSONAL FINANCE AT ANTIOCH Unless one sees his resources and plans his life as a whole and relates his expenditures to his needs in an orderly manner, he will fall far short of getting what his money might buy. Budgeting is not just a handy economic expedient; it is one of the first principles of orderly and ef- j feetive living. For that reason, a course in “Pergonal Finance” is re-j ^julr**-’ 'of every Antioch student. ] JWjth an elementary treatment of, banking and commercial methods such as the average citizen needs, the principles and practice of bud geting are treated, with the stu dents’ personal accounts as work ing examples. Kaeh freshman is asked to make a budget of his or her estimated resources and expenditures for the year; and after conference with the accounting department, to adopt a budget in accordance with his or her individual resources and needs. Each five weeks thereafter the freshman student goes over his ex pense account and budget with the teacher. Training in handling one’s economic resources is required as a universal and necessary element of education.—Antioch Notes. TOBACCO VERSUS HOT AIR The result of a series of tests to determine the influence of tobacco smoking on mental and motor effi ciency, which were carried out by Professor Hull of the Psychology Department of the University of Wisconsin, lias just been published. Nineteen young men were used, of whom nine were smokers and the rest non-smokers. All but two were pipe smokers. They were blind folded and each of them smoked for a specific time each day for 18 consecutive days in a small room. Half the time they were given pipes filled with tobacco,' and the other half they smoked ( pure hot air created by an electric , wire in the bowl. Only one of the nineteen subjects detected the difference between the hot air pipe and the tobacco. “One youth was always sure that he was smoking from the combina tion of a sharp, stinging sensation and a ticklish sensation. He could always feel the smoke in his mouth. There was never nnv time, even for a single puff, when he doubted that he was smoking. It would not be possible for anyone to persuade him that he was not smoking any of the time.” The subjects were tested for pulse, adding, memory span, steadi ness, reading reaction time, memor izing, and tapping. The heart action increased, and much of the increase was still present an hour and forty minutes after smoking. Along with this came n trembling of the hand. The two most significant tests, from an intellectual standpoint, were complex mental addition and I COMING EVENTS I <S»-<s> Tuesday, February 3 7:30 p. m.—Alexander Wil liams, “Chemistry in Science, Economics and Politics,” Alumni hall. Thursday, February 5 11:00 a. m.—Assembly, Wom an’s building. 4:15 p. m.—Fred B. Smith, “Is America a Great Nation,” Vil lard hall. Friday, February 6 7:15 p. m.—Fred B. Smith, “World Outlook—Peace or War, Brotherhood or Revolution,” Vil lard hall. 8:30 p. m.—Oregon Nnight’s costume dance, Woman’s build ing. rote learning. The evidence of the effects of smoking on ordinary routine thinking is favorable to tobacco. Results in the case of rote learning are unfavorable to tobacco. —University of Wisconsin Press Bulletin. UNDERGRADUATE SOPHISTICATION In answer to the question, “What does the average Harvard Under graduate read?” Mr. MacIntyre, of the Community Book Shop in Cam bridge, first enumerates the “Cross Word Puzzle Book,” then various outlines of history, science, and literature, plays of various sorts, etc. “There is a very great interest these days in the works of the sophisticates, Mencken, Nathan, Van Vechten, Machen, Dreiser, and others.” The Harvard Alumni Bul letin continues, editorially: “These are the writers to whom his cus tomers turn .most quickly in the ex pression of their natural preferences. When indeed have not the ‘modern sophisticates’ been the favorites of youth? A century ago it was through the disillusioned Byron that the young found the most congenial utterance of their own feelings of revolt. In the eighties of the last century it was with Omar Khay yam that youth was ready to smash the ‘sorry scheme of things entire.’ A decade or two later Stevenson and Kipling, birds of quite another [feather, embodied a more vigorous spirit, which Conrad has kept alive. The forces of discouragement have never held the stage undisputed, and the Kipling period—roughly identi cal with the Roosevelt period—was one in which hard hitting for gen eral righteousness was wholesomely in evidence .... “Youth, in the very nature of things, is bound to respond to the most characteristic expressions of the spirit of its time. But youth grows up, and times change. The .young men who fed themselves on Byron and Omar suffered no per manent injuries. They were alive al the age when it best fitted them to bo so. And the fact that the young men of the present moment are also alive, with an intellectual : Sigma Delta Chi—Meeting Tuesday noon at the Anchorage. Women’s Life Saving Corp—No meeting of group tonight. £1 Clrcnlo Castellano—Social meet ing to be held Wednesday even ing at 7:15 in the Y. W. bunga low. Beta Gamma Sigma—Meeting at College Side Inn, Wednesday noon. Collegium Angustale—Special meet ing at 7:30 this evening, Wo man’s building. To-Ko-Lo—Meeting Tuesday even ing, 7:15, College Side Inn. Regular Faculty Meeting—To be held Wednesday at 4:15 in Guild hall. Temenid Meeting—Woman’s build ing, 5:00 p. m. today. Important. Freshman Commission — Meeting Tuesday, 5:00 p. m. in Y. W. Bungalow. All members urged to attend. World Fellowship Discussion Group studying India will meet at five o’clock instead of six at the Bungalow Wednesday. Sport Writer’s Association—Lunch eon Wednesday, Anchorage. At tendance compulsory. * TEXAN STUDENTS ENJOY TRAFFIC LIGHT SYSTEM University of Texas.—Students at the University of Texas are en joying the new traffic light sys tem. They line up in a row and wait until the red light appears, and then drive gleefully across the street until stopped by the police response to the characteristic writ ing of their time—whether all their elders like it or not—is a fact of promise. When they read nothing else, when the college fails to pro vide them with the standards of measurement which are found in some familiarity with the enduring things in literature, it will be time to take alarm.” We are a man of principle. When coffee jumps to ten cents, and we can get coffee elsewhere for five cents, our principles direct us else where for our coffee. But we have another principle, an aesthetic one, I that man should neglect no oppor tunity for the contemplation of beauty. So, though coffee be ten cents in one place and five cents in another, and if more pretty girls (inhabit the ten-cent salon than the five-cent salon, our aesthetic—or is it erotic—principle urges us to the former. But' we still pay the dime under protest.—Ohio State Lantern. LEARN TYPING AND SHORTHAND Special rates for part-time students will be given upon request. EUGENE BUSINESS COLLEGE A. E. ROBERTS, President Phone 666 992 Willamette | W H A T I S A— Bacon Bunn? Let us tell you all about this great Delicacy ASK US College Side Inn CARPET AND RUG CLEANING Gtecmcuavnei# Phone 300 BETWEEN 8TH & 9TH ON OLIVE | man. He orders them to return and then they beg him to explain the sys tem to them. The unsuspecting cop , does so, and they resume their places and wait till the red light shows again and thdb they repeat as be fore. PLEDGING ANNOUNCED Delta Delta Delta announces the pledging of Mary Catherine Baker of Seattle, Washington. PLEDGING ANNOUNCED Psi Kappa announces the pledg ing of Finnis Fitzmaurice of Wheel er, Oregon. At the Theatres THE HEX—Second day: Hath* leen Norris’ most popular nov el, “Christine of the Hungry Heart,” a drama of a woman’s three-fold love, and of as many men, featuring Florence Vidor, Warner Baxter, Ian Keith, Clive Brook and Walter Hiers; special feature, Alex Bankevitz, Russian tenor, in selected songs with special setting; Robert V. Hainsworth, Eugene’s favorite organist, in atmospheric prelude, playing “Dear Little Boy of Mine,” and in accompaniment to the picture; Mermaid comedy, “Step Lightly,” with Lige Con ley; International News events. Coming: “Wine,” the pic ture of the hour, with Clara Bow, Forrest Stanley. Huntley Gordon, Myrtle Stedman, Rob ert Agnew, Walter Long and Leo White. largest selling quality pencil in the world copying Superlative in quality, the world-famous \/ENUS V PENCILS give best service and longest wear. 3 Plain ends, per doz. $1.00 Rubber ends, per doz. 1.20 c4t all dealers American Lead Pencil Co. 220 Fifth Ave., N. Y. THETA SIGMA PHI AT TEXAS INITIATES TEN MEMBERS University of Texas.—The ten initiates of Theta Sigma Phi, honor ary and professional journalism sorority, at the University of Texas, svore evening dresses on the cam pus all day before they were initi ated in the evening. This custom is one of the traditions of the Uni versity of Texas. The night they were initiated, still wearing eve ning dresses the ten women issued the next morning’s edition of “The Daily Texan." EXAMINATION ANNOUNCED Announcement of a competitive examination for appointment to cadets and cadet engineers in the U. S. Coast Guard service, has been received at the president’s office. The examination will be held on March 16. Appointment to the service carries with it training for officership at the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connec ticut. Further information may be had from the commandant of the U. 6. Coast Guard, Washington, D. C. DR. WILL MOXLEY Castle Theatre Bldg. Phones Res. 1048-J Office 73 F. M. DAY, M. D. Surgeon 119 East 9th Ave. DR. WRIGHT B. LEE Dentistry 404 M. & C. Building Phone 42 Eugene, Ore. DR. LORAN BOGAN Practice Limited to Extraction Dental Radiography Diagnosis Oral Surgery 938 Willamette Phone 302 DR. L. L. BAKER Eugene, Oregon Demonstrator’s Diploma Northwestern University Dental School, Chicago Gold inlay and bridge work a specialty There’s a candy for every woman— Every woman has her own sweet little wish about candy. It is up to you to find it out and it is up to us to fur nish the goods. George has been the piggers’ aid for many years. Stop and con sult him, he’s an expert. 3ft?e ©regatta Don’t Judge From Appearances! THE earth LOOKS flat enough! That’s why so many thousand years came and went before our ancestors even suspected the terrestial globe of being round. Their eyes deceived them! Don’t depend upon appearances to guide you right. Don’t buy goods on the strength of looks alone. Mer chandise with a well-known name has the call. Only the maker of a good product can afford to advertise his name. Attempts to popularize unworthy goods can not succeed. Wise merchants and manufacturers seek the good papers to tell the stories, of their wares. The publishers seek the reputable advertising for their readers’^guidance. Well-informed buyers seek news of good merchandise through the columns of the best papers. This proves the value of advertising. Neither adver tiser nor publisher can prosper without your patronage. Therefore, it is to their advantage to cater to you. They do it, too. • It is distinctly to your advantage to be guided by the messages they lay before you—the advertisements. READ THEM REGULARLY!