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Edited by Glen F. Burcb
MAUIiSBY ON
GETTING THE NEWS
Another book on methods in re
porting. It’s crammed full of di
rections on how to get news; and
most of the directions are useful.
The cub reporter, however, would
need to have an experienced journal
ist like Mr. Maulsby near him to
set him right on frequent occasions
if he should take the book too liter
ally. For instance, here is what a
young reporter would have to do to
get a news story about “the pro
posed paving of Main street:”
“See everyone connected with a
story, not just one or two of them.
. . Suppose you want to get the
story, mentioned above, about
whether the city council will vote
to pave Main street. Talk to every
member of the council; talk to the
mayor; talk to the city engineer;
talk to the city treasurer; talk to
everyone who lives on Main street
or who owns property there; talk
to prominent persons who live on
other streets that haven’t been
paved; talk to everyone else men
tioned by any of the persons you
have talked to.” With commend
able restraint the author has re
frained from suggesting that the re
porter talk to Sinclair Lewis or the
grand exalted ruler of the Elks,
whose building is situated on Main
street, or to the wives of all the
members of the city council.
A fellow would have to be a
pretty good reporter to know what
advice given in this book he could
safely follow. And such a reporter
might not need the book. It would
be a more helpful work if its 300
pages were reduced by the elimin
ation of such extravagances as the
example cited—of which several
were noted. Too technical for the
general reader; of doubtful value
to the actual reporter. As a text
book it could be used, with a com
petent teacher to edit it for the
class.—G. T.
THE WEEK’S
BRIEF REVIEWS
MUSICAL CRITICISM, By M. D.
Calooeoressi. “This book is aim
ed primarily at the student, but
does not aim at solving his prob
lems for him.” Thus the writer
flatly states in the preface that
the book is not of the popular
genus. Music is treated from an
exceedingly broad point of view,
and in a manner that will find
welcome among those sincerely in
terested in it.
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THE LITERATURE OF THE
REVOLUTION, By Leon Trotzky.
The author is pronounced “an
■ original literary critic who logic
ally and fearlessly applies ma
terialistic dialectics in an analy
sis of literature and art.” Trot
zky raises such questions as:
“Is our culture doomed to fall?
With what will it be replaced?
Can there be a proletariate cul
ture? What will the culture of
the future be?” and offers tenta
tive answers which are well worth
reading.
MR. AND MRS. HADDOCK
ABROAD, By Donald Ogden
Stewart. This book is generally
declared to be one of the znoBt
humorous books of the year. Comt
ing out at a time when American
travel in Europe is on the in
crease, it has struck a popular
chord, and the response has been
widespread.
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THREE TIBETAN MYSTERIES,
Translated by H. I. Woolf. Some
how something of the religious
spirit of the Tibetans, those al
most unknown peoples dwelling
in the north of Asia, has been
breathed into the book. To the
writer’s knowledge, nothing like
it has ever been done before. The
book itself was printed in Eng
land.
IN THE LAND OF YOUTH, By
James Stevens. All the fancy,
whimsy, and philosophy of the
famous “Crock of Gold” are here;
brave deeds of dauntless men, the
wit of desirable women, and the
dread spells of druids and mas
ters of magic. Stevens, noted not
only as a novelist, but as a poet,
is at present touring this country.
A PASSAGE TO INDIA, By E. M.
Forster. The author of “How-!
ard’s End” and “A Room With;
a View,” chooses India as a set- i
ting for this novel, and weaves ]
into it much of the native atmos-*
phere, blended carefully with the
typical English point of view.
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ROOSEVELT AND THE RUSSO- j
JAPANESE WAR, By Tyler'
Dennett. This book is probably
a companion piece of the article1
which lately ran in a current
magazine, entitled “Could T. R. '
Have Stopped the War?” Accord- 1
ing to Mr. Dennett, Roosevelt’s
efforts in diplomatic circles was
the only thing which staved off I
the beginning of a world war in
1904, just ten years before it j
really did break out. The book •
contains more than one hundred
pages of the private letters of
Roosevelt.
FORTY YEARS IN NEWSPAPER
DOM, By Milton A. McRae. The
author, who is “the” McRae of
the Scripps-McRae Newspaper
League, has written a most in
teresting addition to the series of
newspaper autobiographies such
' as Melville E. Stone’s “Fifty
Y’ears a Journalist.” The book
is episodic, journalistic, chrono
‘ logical. The forty years repre
sented by the author’s active
newspaper career was that dy
namic last quarter of the nine
teenth and the changeful opening
decade or so of the twentieth cen
tury. Contacts with the big
people — Henry Ward Beecher,
Cleveland, Harrison, Roosevelt,
Hearst, Taft, Wilson, among
many others, come in for tit-bits
of description. Interesting for its
glimpses of the time, and every
bit as appealing to the non-jour
nalistie reader as to the news
paper man, though not adding
heavily to the sum of human
knowledge.—G. T.
GEORGE MOORE’S
‘THE COMING OF GABRIEL’
“The Coming of Gabrielle” one of
the latest of George Moore’s plays,
is a typical English comedy. Mr.
Moore has given considerable
thought to the three act comedy
and in this play the fact is evident
that he weighed carefully every de
tail from the number of entrances
and exits in each act to the value
and effect of every word.
Unlike other plays by Mr. Moore,
“The Coming of Gabrielle” was not
effected in the total absence of a
(sequel. Gabrielle made her entrance
into modern literature after that of
her “mother,” “Elizabeth Cooper,”
a play which Mr. Moore viewed as
“a part of the litter that every
author leaves behind.” In other
words, “The Coming of Gabrielle”
is a sort of revision of “Elizabeth
Cooper.”
Though it is a modern play inas
much as the time of its production
is concerned, it is not so in setting.
The author speaks of it as a tale of
the “crinoline or bustle period.”
In technique and appeal it may
be termed a well-balanced light plot
which carries a mild appeal and in
terest and which succeeds in being
both whimscal and subtle, dull and
sometimes almost slow, without
seeming to mar the style of the
story.—A. K.
Mu Phi Epsilon Will Give
Fifth Annual Sacred
Concert Easter Sunday
(Continued from pace one)
Violin Solo, “ Adoration”....Borowski
Alberta Potter
Offertory, “Adagio,” from the
Pifth Sonata, Guilmant
Soprano Solo, “The Cross”.Ware
Ruth Akers
Cello Solo, “Andante” from E
Minor Concerto .Popper
Lora Teshner
Vocal Duet, “I Waited for the
Lord,” Hymn of Praise
. Mendelssohn
Madame Rose MeGrew and
Mrs. T. A. Pearson
Trio, “Angel’s Serenade”.Braga
Nina Warnock, Katie Potter
and Lois Parker
Benediction
Organ Postlude, “Postlude”
.Scheve
Organ Soloist—Prances Pierce
Organ Accompanist—Jean Harper
Piano Accompanist
Aurora Potter Underwood
, The active members of Nu chap
ter are: Lora Teshner, Mrs. Anne
Landsbury Beck, Mrs. Jane Thacher,
Alberta Potter, Frances Pierce, Jean
Harper, Katie Potter, Grace Potter,
Gwendolyn Hayden, Bernice Yeo,
Mrs. T. A. Pearson,'Virginia Owens,
Ruth Akers,- Elizabeth Nelson,
Leona Marsters, Lois Parker, Mrs.
Gifford Nash, Mrs. John Stark
Evans and Wanda Eastwood, Nina
Warnock, Genevieve Phelps, Esther
Church, Laverne Rich, Harriet Bald
win, Mary Burton and Olga Wick
berg.
Following are the alumni of the
chapter: Madame Rose MeGrew,
Mrs. C. A. Whitton, Mrs. Rose Pow
ell, Mrs. Del Oberteuffer, Mrs. Nish
Chapman, Miss Brownell Frazer,
Miss Janet Frazer, Mrs. Ruth Davis
Cleaver, Aurora Potter Underwood,
Joanna James Ellis, Miss Maude
Densmore, Miss Ina Watkins, Mrs.
M. H. Douglas, Mrs. Henry Davis
and Mrs. Leta Leslie.
The following were pledged last
Saturday evening: Mrs. A. E. Rob
erts, Margaret Hyatt, Alma Law
rence, Daisy Parker and Myrtle
Jannson.
ASSEMBLY SPEAKER
HAS MILITARY CAREER
Col. W. S. Gilbert is Man
Of Great Energy
Beginning with the Second Ore
gon as chaplain during the Spanish
American war, Col. William S. Gil
bert, member of the board of re
gents for the University, and as
sembly speaker for this week, has
bad a wide range of experience in
the military field.
Colonel Gilbert, according to
those who know him, is a man of
great energy and dynamic personal
ity. His story-telling propensity, it
is said, is both polished and enter
taining.
Dewitt Gilbert, ’20, son of Colonel
Gilbert, received his B. A. degree
from the school of journalism on
the campus. He was the first edi
tor of “Winnagan,” the Homecom
ing publication.
Colonel Gilbert, residing for many
years at Astoria, took a special in
terest in securing the adoption of
the managerial form of city govern
ment, and has acted as chairman of
the managing committee.
During his residence at Astoria,
Colonel Gilbert has seen the town
threatened many times by fire, the
worst instance, of course, was the
big fire two years ago which de
stroyed the business section of the
,town. At the time of this fire he
was made chairman of the commit
tee for relief and reconstruction of
the city.
Moot Court Acquits Short
Of Murder in Formal
Trial Last Evening
(Continued from page one)
a motive for the alleged crime
brought out the fact that in the
College Side Inn at ten o’clock that
morning Dills had addressed the
following words to Short: “Hello
you little fool. I surely made you
look sick yesterday didn’t I?” To
which Short replied, “Yes you did
but I’ll get you.”
The defense attempted to show
that the deceased had died by his
own hand by introducing the high
ly dramatic testimony of leather
ing Pinneo to the fact that just two
hours and a half before the death
of Dills she had broken the engage
ment that existed between them.
Miss Pinneo stated that Dills had as
on previous occasions vowed he
would commit suicide.
A piece of lead found in the
corpse was state’s labeled Exhibit
B. Jean F. DuPaul, sheriff of Lane
county, who was at the library in
vestigating a rumor alleging liquor
being in evidence at the Library,
testified that upon sleuthing
around for clues after removing the
body, he had discovered a window
open in the lowest floor through
which any one might have easily
made an exit from the building.
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A number of humorous sallies
were made, a few of which may be
mentioned. At one time the attor
ney for the defense made the state
ment that young men generally
present a ring to young ladies
toward whom they have serious
intentions. Judge Kendall ruled
that this was a “very violent pre
sumption.” During the defense’s
rather detailed cross-examination
of Sheriff DuPaul concerning his
occasion for being in the library at
the time, the state’s attorney sud
denly rose and in senatorial tones
declared that the questioning was
“incompetent, irrelevant, and im
material.” The assembled multi
tude laughed heartily.
Varsity Track Squad
Leaves Today for Meet
With Stanford April 11
(Continued from page one)
together before and what they will
do is doubtful.
The half mile is taken care of by
Mauney and Gerke. Both have in
creased their times from last year.
Mauney won out in the tryouts
with fairly good time on the slow
track.
The high jumpers are competing
against some of the strongest point
winners which Stanford has. The
highest jump yet registered is 6
feet 3 1-2 inches. Oregon high
jumpers, Eby, Flannagan, and Kel
sey have been handicapped severely
by weather conditions.
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TO BE GIVEN AWAY
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Holder and Swank. Holder is a
new man on the squad, but has
shown a lot of strength. Swank
will be a good finisher up. He has
lots of experience.
In the two mile Keating and
Tetz, from the dijjance crew of last
season, are promising. It is en
couraging that in the tryouts these
men made far better time than they
made last season at this stage of
the season.
Kelsey, and Carruthers, are both
veteran hurdlers. They will un
doubtedly rake in some points in
the sticks in spite of the fact that
Stanford has some good men in the
event.
Flannagan in the broad jump has
been going well over 22 feet 8 inch
es in cold weather. He made some
wonderful jumps last year and if
the weather is favorable he should
win the event against the erratic
Stanford broad jumper.
The shot and discus events will
have “Tiny” Johnson, who has
not reached his real form by a long
ways. He is gradually getting
more distance in his throws how
ever.
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men. It is probable that they will
place in this event. Although there
has been no concentrated work on
the event so far this year dne to
the cold.
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