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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1925)
©regou Sailtj 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 EDITORIAL BOARD Associate Editor .-.-. Margaret Skavlan Managing Editor . Harold A. Kirk Associate Managing Editor . Anna Jerzyk Sports Editor .... George H. Godfrey Daily News Editor Mary Clerin Emily Houston James Case Jalmar Johnson Gertrude Honk Lillian Baker Night Editors Pete Lanrs Ray N*ash Webster Jones Claude Reavis Tom Graham Walter A. Cushman Sports Staff Wilbur Wester — Assistant Sports Editor Richard Syring, Richard Godfrey . ......Sports Writers Upper News Staff Edward Robbins Mildred Carr Elizabeth Cady Geneva Foss Sol Abramsen Eugenia Strickland Mary West Lylah McMurphy Exchange Editor .... Society Editor Josephine Ulrich News Staff: Helen Reynolds, 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, Mary Baker, Alice Kraeft, Geneva Drum, Helen Schuppel, Ruby Lister, Barbara Blythe, Mary Conn, Ronald ^Sellers, Paul Krausse. BUSINESS STAFF JAMES W. LEAKE ... MAN AGEE Associate Manager . Frank Loggan Advertising Managers . Si Slocum, Wayne Leland, Win. Jones Advertising Assistants .Milton George, Bill Prudliomme, Bert Randall Circulation Manager . James Manning Foreign Advertising Manager . Claude Reavis Assistants . Walt O’Brien, Hilton Rose, Neil Chinnock Specialty Advertising. Mildred Dunlap, Geneva Foss Adminstr&tion . Margaret Hyatt, Marion Phy, Fred Wilcox, Bonner Whitson, Bob Warner. Day Editor This Issue Mary Clerin Night Editor This Issue Tom Graham Assistant .Carve. Melson Entered as second class matter at the post office at Eugene, Oregon, under act of Congress of March 8, 1879. Ride a Rocking Horse, Mr. Schlick! jyjR; FREDERICK Schlick declares the work of our campus poets “most pitiable,” in a letter printed in the Communi cation column Saturday. The editor, while not learned in the realm of poetry and poetry criticism, does not entirely agree with some of the sentiments contained in Mr. Schlick’s episto lary condemnation of the column conducted for the Emerald by Walter Evans Kidd. It is one of those cases where one does and at the same time one does not. However, whether one agrees or not, Mr. Schlick should be given no small amount of credit for signing his baptismal ap pellation to his thoughts, rather than shrinking into the ob scure background by attaching some misleading nom-de-plume, as “Blue Eyes,” or “Spring Term Freshman,” either of which might have been used honestly and without prevarication. It is hoped that any enthusiast coming to the defense of the verse which caused him such grief and concern will do likewise. There can be little doubt that a signature properly allowing the reader to identify the correspondent, carries added weight and authority—, not excluding th ename of our caustic critic. Miss Philippa Sherman’s “Rocking Horse Road,” featured in last week’s Lyric Rainbow column bears the brunt of the attack. It probably hurt Mr. Schlick’s religious feeling to speak of God as using soap. At first thought, that is a rather mundane tiling for God to do truly enough. Yet, soap, espe cially soap which finds use, is considered quite essenial and holds a highly respected place in the better classes of human society. “Cleanliness to Godliness,” Mr. Schlick! Schlick has chosen the wrong climate for his rain-mak ing abilities. Just the other day a news item stated that a man in California was handed a cheek for several thousand dol lars for such activities in that state. Anyone passing last week in tin* upper Willamette valley knows there has been no need to “spit up into the air,” as he suggested, to produce rain, certainly lie overlooks the possibility for fame and fortune by! residing here in this wet and rainy land. After all, there i are many critics, but few rainmakers. *' 1 Have you lost your youth, Mr. Schlick? One really should | never allow that. There is too much fun to be had just by : “being a kid” and by enjoying what “kids” enjoy. One tends! to become grown up and sophisticated and dull soon enough j without reaching out for the gray cloak and wrapping it about oneself so early and so eagerly. But our critic will object to such a figure sophistication and dullness are abstractions, not clothing, he will say. Oh, well . . . But poor Peter Pan and Tinker Bell! You could never have been born if all the world were like that, could you? The nine infant faces on display at the Co-op, which are found by the discerning eye to be photographs of Guild hall students taken some twenty years ago, have temporarily usurp ed the interest given to cross-word puzzles. Simultaneously we find a “Mary Had a Little Lamb” contest announced in The Daily Californian! “With tlie view of developing interest in the coming life saving tests to be held early in May, the local Red Cross life saving corps is planning a series of instructions." And the sooner the better! If the weather continues as it has begun there won’t be any of us left to save. A nice commodious Ark, now! The Wright brothers, who made their first flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine in 15)03, used to live in Eugene thiity years ago and_talk over their ideas, according to Dean Straub. Will any of the budding geniuses on the campus now soar like this? \ Campus Bulletin Notices will be printed in this column for two issues only. Copy must be in this office by 6:30 on the day before it is to be published, and must be limited to 20 words. Gra-Kos—Meeting tonight at College Side Inn at 7:30. Pot and Quill—Meeting tonight, 7:30 at Woman’s building. History Club—Meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30 in Men’s room, Woman’s building. Weimar-Bund—Dinner meeting to night, 6:15, College Side Inn, to be followed by illustrated lecture, Oregon building. Theta Sigma Phi—Meeting today at noon at Anchorage. Very im portant. Allied Arts League—Important meet ing at 3:45 in Design room today. Mask and Buskin—College Side Inn today noon. Important. Members only. Collegium Augustale—Meeting to day at 7:30 p. m. in Professor Dunn’s room in Oregon building. Women’s Life Saving Corps—Im portant business meeting, 7:30 p. m. sharp. Room 121, Wo man’s building. <s> ■ --o Communications 1 Letters te the EMERALD from stu dents and faculty members are welcomed, but must be signed and worded concisely. If it is desired, the writer’s name will be kept out of print. It must be understood that the editor reserves the right to reject communications. ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTOR REPLIES TO MR. SCHLICK To the Editor: It does the heart of the Oregon student body good to hear our freshman voice his sentiments on poetry, but we are not surprised to have a freshman display his ignor ance of poetry with a host of flowery words. As usual, we are glad to hear the freshman’s opin ion, but it is not worth anything in this case. It is too bad that the poetry in Friday’s Emerald went beyond the limited imagination of our “frosh.” All poetry contains imagery and symbolism. It is inconceivable that everything this freshman reads must be a concrete fact. He seems much distressed over the fact that the stype of poetry has changed; but let this materialistic young man go back and read the poetical and classical works cf any of the old artists and see how much symbol ism and imagination is used in their masterpieces. Let this would be freshman critic read Dante’s “Inferno,” or Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” and see how much imagina tion and symbolism these poets use. This freshman’s ignorance and lack of imagination is startling to say the least. It is small wonder that Dr. Reinhardt had to warn our “frosh” not to laugh at any thing they did not understand. It is ludicrous that we have to ex plain the obvious meaning of “God takes a round cake of soap from behind the hills” to our ignorant “frosh.” Probably a mother-goose jingle ns “The sun comes a ’peep ing from its nest behind the hills” will explain to this simplo “frosh” layman, who craves for culture, the meaning of the opening lines of Philippa Sherman’s poem “Sun shine.” The “frosh” writes: “The truly modern poet rejects poetic. com monalities in his choice of words.” The trouble with our dear “frosh” is that the very subject, words, and diction is of such simplicity and I “commonality” that he can not be-j lieve his eyes. He wishes the old fashioned flowery language and i Victorian style. He fails to rea- j lize the simplicity of modern poetic j thought. Here is hoping that our “frosh”) shakes the moss and cobwebs from j his mind, wakes from his Victor- i ian rut, and begins living in the j modern twentieth century. Remem ber that the wheels of progress are forever moving forward, so Campus poets “carry on.” ANONYMOUS MR. SCHLICK INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE. TOO My dear Editor: T shall feel flatterly flattered to receive some verse from Frederick Schlick; doubtless, the publication of one of his poems will bring as much notoriety to him as did his open letter. Poetically yours, WALTER EVANS KIDD, FOR PEOASSUS—AND THE ROCKING HORSE ROAD l’o the Editor: “They cannot understand that nudity is really more becoming” . . “a woman of refinement dresses . . How now, Mr. Sehilckf You really admit after all that she does? Well! well! Anti-Victorian ism notwithstanding! I quote the above metaphorical morsels from the epistle of Mr. Frederick Schlick in Saturday’s, Emerald. Also the following: "I I rCOMING EVENTS! o——-<> Tuesday, April 21 7:30 p. m.—First concert, Uni versity orchestra, School of Mu sic auditorium. 8:45 p. m.—Second concert. University orchestra, School of Music auditorium. Wednesday, April 22 6:15 p. m.—Student Union banquet, Woman’s building. Thursday, April 23 11:00 a. m.—Student Union assembly, Woman’s building. merely wish to inform them that God does not juggle with bars of |soap.” They, just to show us that he knows whereof he speaks, the [clever Mr. Schlick puts in an ex planatory “(Sunshine)”! However, he ventures a question, “I wonder, does He clean and press suits?” Really, Mr. Schlick, YOU ought to know. The only point of view I have been able to glean from Mr. Schlick’s communication is one il logical, but general dissatisfaction. He objects to Miss Sherman’s using form in her delightful poetry, but later it develops that “form” is all right if one has the “new spirit”! I fear poor Mr. Schlick has never read “Alice in Wonderland,” and as for Mother Goose, he would un doubtedly say the most heinous things about the dear old lady. MARGARET SHAVIAN. POETRY LOVER CONDEMNS MR. SCHLICK’S LETTER Dear Editor: I consider Schlick’s criticism of Walter Evans Kidd’s policy in con ducting the “Lyrie Rainbow” col umn as very unjust. No other stu dent is better qualified to edit the campus poetry than Mr. Kidd. His taste is broad enough to include a fine variety of voices—from the Victorian type to the modern type. Besides, has not Mr. Kidd won two national poetry prizes and placed poetry with leading magazines? His| high scholarship in all his courses further evidences his predominance over the average intellect and in (: A Sweet Breath at all times i Always carry Wrigley’s to freshen the mouth and sweeten the breath. Soothes nerves, refreshes throat and aids digestion. WRIGLEY5 |[ - after every mealh J sures the wisdom of Woodward’s selection of him to foster the cam pus poetry. The verse written by Kidd, Skavlan, Sherman, Burchaell and McClellan is as distinctive and original and excellent as that pro duced by any other college in the United States. H. S. G.—Poetry Lover. MORE OBJECTIONS MADE TO CRITIC OF POETS To the Editor: I hardly consider Mr. Schlick’s attempt at free publicity worth answering. Though it is much fun to slap the face of a god, an un known personage offers no such bit of fun. Perhaps the poor boy has felt slighted (as those coming from the far off vrilds of Montana are apt to be) and the facetious bit of asininity was only an outlet for his desire to be known. I have to confess I enjoy his “wiggling” but one must remember that it is not nice to wiggle too hard, and that if one really wishes to wiggle it gives a much better effect to not use it as a disguise for something else. E. B. ME. SCHLICK’S EFFOETS DECEASED CHEAP PUBLICITY To the Editor: The art of gaining publicity is one of the most modern, yet one of the best developed of the arts. Men of intellect and imagination have evolved of it a thing of clev erness and of many-sided interest. There are, however, charlatans of the trade who make little the ef forts of the real artists. Mr. Schlick should stuly his trade more thoroughly before entering into competition with experts. m AMUSED. XT' Dress The Place Up Ideal planting time after the rain, for most of the summer and fall flowering annuals. We have a fine selection, either for planting in the yard or to fill window and porch boxes, and hanging baskets. University FLORISTS Phone 654 598 13th Ave. £. LAST SHOWINGS TODAY RICHARD BARTHELMESS IN “NEW TOYS” with Mrs. Dick, nee, Mary Hay PROLOG “DANCE OF A DRESDEN DOLL” —at 7:25, 9:25 COMEDY—“HE WHO GETS SOCKED” Guaranteed Rebuilt Typewriter* Royal Underwt>od Remington Oliver Woodstock L. C. Smith Prices Ranging From $25.00 to $65.00 NEW REMINGTON AND UNDERWOOD PORTABLES Student Rates—$4.00 down, $4.00 per month COMMERCIAL MIMEOGRAPH WORK OFFICE MACHINERY & SUPPLY CO. GUARD BUILDING Phone J4S PELEGATES WITNESS DEMONSTRATION WORK The demonstration sponsored by the Women’s Athletic association which was given yesterday after noon from four until six in the Wo man’s building for the entertain ment of convention delegates, was well attended in all its phases and was declared a general success. The affair opened with a danc ing program given by members of the regular dancing classes. Senior majors presented “To Spring,” a problem in interpretation based on Greig’s famous composition by the Bame name, “Water Sprites” also a problem, and built on Edward Schutt’s “Etude Cycle,” followed. Neva Service and Edith Pierce ap peared in an interpretive problem involving Kreisler’s “Sehoon Rose Marine.” Betty Lewis and Edith. Pierce charmed the audience with a duet dance “Rainbow” to the piano accompaniment of “Bach anale” arranged by Serova. “Gid dap My Pine Horses,” Woldtue fel’s Skaters’ Waltz and “Captain Bing” completed the program. 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