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Obak’s Kollege Krier OBAK Wallace, Publisher W. B. L., Editor * •*" 1 * - Volume 4 _SATURDAY, A. M. NUMBER 13 i Library Browsings in Edited by Glen F. Burch OSSENDOWSKI ’S LATEST WORK, PAEAN OF HATE Ferdinand A. Ossendowski is a Pole. Since 1772 the greater part of Poland has been at the mercy of the Russians and has received her share of the bad treatment handed out by the old regime to its subject peoples. In his youth Os sendowski was in an atmosphere of hatred of Russia and of all things Russian. When the revolution and the Peace of Paris gave Poland her freedom, it also gave Ossendowski his chance. His first book, "Beasts, Men and Gods,” was very critical but seemed to be the writing of a fair, serious critie. Now comes “The Shadow of the Gloomy East.” Ossendowski throws aside all re straint, all good feeling. He pours out the pent up hatred of the Pole for the Russian in 200 pages of the most destructive criticism. 'He spares no part of the Russian so ciety. He curses equally the old regime^ and the new. The upper classes are as bitterly assailed as the most' ignorant, he would say the most savage, peasant. The book treats at great length the freak religious sects such as those who worship the devil and those who flog themselves as a means of worship and gives the im pression that all Russia is a strict adherent to all the different types. He exposes witches, wizards, der vishes, corrupt clergy and religious imposters like Rasputin. No men tion is made of the beauty*of the Russian Orthodox worship de scribed by the more thorough ob servers. Ossendowski sees, creeping out of what he considers the* foul mess known as Russia, a monster born in the East which will be “the first harbinger of the approaching doom of mankind.” Words almost fail him when he tries to describe what he sees for Russia in the future. He predicts that Russia will continue until all that is wreckable is wreck ed until she' is exhausted by her orgy of horror, until the whole land is incapable of supporting life an other instant, then she will throw herself on the mercy of the rest of the world and cry for mercy and you can almost hear Ossendowski’s foot strike her face as he kicks her back into chaos. The apparent purpose of the book is to blacken Russia from her earl iest times to the present, to paint her people as a race of demons and one feels when reading it that he has succeeded only in writing a rather good horror tale and that the black from his pen has splat tered him as badly as it has his subject. T. G. THE TATOOED COUNTESS A PICTURE OF THE “DAME GALLANTE” She was fat. Not much has ever been said in favor of the fat wo ' [CLASSIFIED ads" LOST—Alpha Delta Pi jeweled pin and guard. Call 1309. 2 : man. Perhaps it is better so. But the disadvantage of being a fat woman is somewhat ameliorated by : being a fat Countess. Being a fat Countess is a whole lot different from being a fat woman. The dis tinction in this matter is very broad, even wide. 1 (Ah, unhappy pun.) And yet it might have been only her double chin that brought upon her the appearance of being fat. Well, the Count dies. And the fat Countess goes back to live in the middle west, in the old home town, (Orchestra plays “Swanee Biver” here), in the village where she had lived in the years ago be fore she had gone to Italy, as little Ella Poore, and married the Count. She bids a colorful farewell to Tony etc. etc. In the old home town a little girl, speaking in relative terms only, loves a little boy. But the Countess—she is so continental. She knows lots and lots of Italian words. And smokes a distinguished cigarette. The home town tea par ties actually give her a head ache. For diversion, she turns to the lit tle boy. And the little boy sings love’s sweet lullaby (Ta-ta, Little Girl!) And the little girl, who is really a sincere old maid, regrets the loss of the little boy who has reached the mature a&e of seven teen. But that isn’t the big point in the story. The big point is the fat Countess. “The Tattooed Countess” by Carl *&iough to mahp a cat Jot ’tfih* Syd Chaplin STARTING M0NDA7 FOR FOUR DAYS The McDonald DRS. DELE & SETHER Surgery—X-ray . Radium Miner Bldg. Phone 43 F. M. DAY, M. D. Surgeon 119 East 9th Ave. DR. WRIGHT B. LEE Dentistry 404 M. & C. Building Phone 42 Eugene, Ore. Dr. Leslie Schwering Dentistry 709 Miner Bldg. Phone 872 Class ’10 DR. LORAN BOGAN j | Practice Limited to Extraction Dental Radiography Diagnosis Oral Surgery 938 Willamette Phone 302 DR. R. M. GRAVES Moved to 609 Miner Bldg. Phone 65 DR. GEORGE Dentist 1st National Bank Bldg. Room 7 Phone 1186 Eugene DR. WILL MOXLEY Moved to Miner Building Residence 1048-J Office 1872 ] Van Vechten, has already reached a , sixth printing. So far it has taken a new printing every two weeks. ; It is a critical book in the career of Van Vechten as a novelist. Af ' ter Alfred A. Knopf had read the manuscript of the novel he wrote: “This book is as amusing as any thing that has come from his pen, it shows him as much more than the amused and perhaps cynical on jlooker of, say, ‘The Blind Bow jBoy’” (Indulging in a slatternly I thrust Kenelm Bigby has just |called the latter book “The Blind | Booby”) But Knopf didn’t know what the j critics would say. Van Vechten is supreme as the “amused and per ! hajis cynical on-looker” (a pretty dodo, by the way), but as the inter preter of the American provincial life of a generation ago he is not a grand master. And again: beside a paragraph of clever thinking, careful writing, his exuberance gives away to a flatulent cloud’ of gaseous words. Van Vechten has a particular genius. fie has "made SUMMER POSITIONS Students desiring summer work see Mrs. Donnelly at Y. M. C. A. Hut. The Very Best KALSOMINE IS MURESCO It must be used with boiling water but cannot be com pared with ordinary brands. OXNER’S Paint Store Phbne 348 8th & Olive Sts. a tremendous picture of the “dame gallante.” But he has somewhere cheated himself and his audience with “The Tattooed Countess." In her estimate of the book Ger trude Atherton, looking through a horizon of her own which is cloud ed with harmones, Brown-Sequard, endocrines and Steinach, places too much importance upon Gareth, the little boy. Van Vechten has cor rectly majored the right person in his title. P. M. Rex Shine Parlor The Only Plaoe to Oet Your Shoes Shined t nmm CELEBRATE THE ELECTION WITH DIXIE FLYER . SPECIAL Isn't it about time to celebrate the election? The winners hre joyous. The “also rans” are sort of downhearted. Dixie Flyer ice cream special is just the thing for them all at Sunday dinner. Its tropical combinations of Dixie Flyer special, pineapple and Hawaiian delight ice creams will add just the summer tinge appropriate to the season. Order now at regular ice cream prices. Eugene Fruit Growers’ ASSOCIATION 8TH AND FERRY PHONE 1480 INVESTIGATORS OUT What Is in the Student's Mind? At last the investigators are on the trail of the poor hard working student. The chief topic of their research now is the occupation of finding out just what the average student thinks about. To aid in this great work a machine has been invented to give the exact content of the mind. Startling results have already been obtained. A report of the work done thus far has been given out and a few of the tabulated results are given herewith. The report includes the name and the thoughts which have been found to occupy the thinking regions of the person named. Fred Wilcox: Fords, girls, Fords, girls, girls, Fords, Girls. Bill Dills: (Censored). Katherine Greaf: Supper, dinner, lunch, tea, breakfast. Harold Brumfield: kkkkKkkkkk. George Godfrey: $$$$$cccccccccc ♦$$$$ccccc. More results are expocted to be reported in the near future. Watch for them in Obak’s Column. OBAK extends a hearty welcome to the new candidates. Already has Obak entertained some of the newly elected candidates. As a special concession to the newly elected president, Walter Malcolm, Obak stayed open one hour longer than was customary Wednesday ^ight. As a result of that extra sixty min utes Malcolm won his game of jack straws. We’re not hinting, but just being suggestive. Isn’t it customary to reward the defeated candidates? Obak has a new brass rail, that fits the uncertain foot right smartly. And incomparable malt milks and. the same mellow smokes. There's one thing in this bleary eyed old world. Just look at Frank Loggan. You can’t keep a good man down. And it seems to us, though our data is uncertain, that the new manager got his start by hanging around Obak talking us out of smokes. * • • One of the co-eds, the one with the bob cut, was heard to remark that now that women were enter ing the ambassadorial profession we could expect an end of secret di plomacy. * * * Say, you sworn voters of Jalmar Johnson, look into this matter of free stogies. Maybe they’re from Obak’s. (See page 2, Friday’s Emerald.) • • v Well, it’s hot. And nothing clever stirs the brain of the mighty editor. We’d better quit. Anyway we don’t get paid for this. We wish we were addicted to poetry, and we could rave on about the birds, and trees, and everything, and no body would know the difference. * * » Didja notice the incense at “Has san” last night? And Ed Bohlman leaning in ecstacy over the bronze bowl You can’t fool, Ed. He knew the aroma of Obak’s specials. INSIST ON A PURE MILK SUPPLY Try our perfectly pasteurized milk and cream. 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