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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1926)
©reemt Sailg gmetalfc £i>iturial ^age Edward M. Miller Editor THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1926 Frank H. Loggan Manager Sol Abramson .. Managing Editor Mildred Jean Carr .... Associate Man. Editor News and Editor Phones, 655 Harold Kirk ..-. Associate Editor Webster Jones .— Sports Editor Philippa Sherman —. Feature Editor Wayne Leland .. Associate Manager Bnsinss Office Phone 1895 Day Editors Esther Davis Frances Bourhill Geneva Drum Claudia Fletcher Mary Conn Night Editors Ray Nash, Chief Night Editor John Black Ronald Sellars Earl Raess Haggerty Sports Staff Harold Mangum Ricoard Syring Feature Writers Bernard Shaw James De Pauli Walter Cushman Paul Buy _ • Upper News Staff Mary Benton Ruth Gresr* Edward Smith Jane Dudley Margaret Vincent News Staff Mary K. Baker Jack Hempstead Barbara Blythe Arthur Priaulx Minnie Fisher Lylah McMurphy William Schulze Pauline Stewart Grace Fisher Beatrice Harden Franpes Cherry Margaret Hensley James Leake Ruby Lister Genevieve Morgan Marion Sten Dick Jones Miriam Shepard Flossie Radabaugh Margaret Long Allen Canfield Edith Dodge Wilbur Lester Eva Nealon_ Business Staff Si Slocum .... Advertising Manager Calvin Horn ... Advertising Manager Milton George . Assistant Advertising Manager Advertising Assistants: Sam Kinley, Paul Sletton, Emerson Haggerty, Bob Nelson, Vernon McGee, Ed Ross, Ruth McDowell, Dick Hoyt, Webster Jones. Marian Phy .. Foreign Advertising Manager James Manning ... Circulation Manager Alex Scott . Assistant Circulation Manager Frances McKenna . Circulation Assistant Mabel Fransen, Margaret Long..Specialty Advertising Office Administration : Herbert Lewis, Frances Hare, Harold Whitlock, Geneva Drum. ../"ffyp.fggs-—- ■ 7—-—— -—~—* ganaiatiui University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during the coOege^year^0 Member “rific'^ter^LuTpr^ ^s^oiation. Entered in the poatoffiee at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates. *2.25 per year. Advertising rates upon application. Phones—Editor, 1320 ; Manager, 721. Day Editor—Trances Bourhill Night Editor—Bonald Sellers Assistant—Boone Hendricks Concerning Mr. Anthony Euwer, Who Lectures at Assembly Anthony Euwer, assembly speaker for today, is the author of the late ex-President Woodrow Wilson’s favorite limerick, quoted by the ex-president with great delight on many occa sions. The limerick, a genuine classic, runs as follows: “For beauty I know I’m no star, There are others more handsome by far; My face I don’t mind it, For I am behind it, It’s the man out in front gets the jar.” This limerick, which ranks with the nobility in the realm of jingles, has been repeated no doubt, thousands of times by per sons in every walk of life; and repeated, we suspect, with a malignant satisfaction at the discomfiture of the unfortunate onlookers. Not so Anthony Euwer, however. His beaming countenance can only charm and please; and his philosophy is made of the stuff that lacks all manner of gall. If any sentiment directed the composing of the above limerick it was one of keen sym pathy for the woes of his fellow creatures. Euwer, who captured the fancy of the campus two years ago, is the sort of assembly speaker who won’t begin, “Young college men and women, you are the rising leaders of the repub lic, and the last hope of the nation.” Neither will he conclude, . . And we must take care that the mighty tides of ignor ance do not wash bare the fertile plains of this, our glorious civilization!” He is worth hearing. Congratulations Due The Victorious Basketeers Now that the northwest basketball pennant is firmly nailed to the corner of Villard, or the men’s gym, or the Administra tion building, or wherever pennants fly (better appoint a com mittee to investigate that, Walter), hearty congratulations are in* order to the varsity players and their skillful coach, Billie Beinhart. All needed now is another gentle reminder to our neighbors next Friday, and then a decision over California. While in the winning mood we might as well tack up the coast conference pennant. After all, two can fly as cheaply as one, and even the taxpayers probably won’t object. Uniform Colors For Oregon Athletes A worthy proposition now being considered by the executive council is a plan to establish uniform colors for all Oregon ath letes. At the present time the Oregon teams are clad in a variety of green, blue, yellow, white and what not, with the result that Oregon teams, on the gridiron, baseball diamond and track, are distinguished oftentimes from their opponents with difficulty. A uniform and distinctive color scheme would elim inate this condition, and as one of the members of the council has pointed out, in the case of coast conference track meets, would greatly enhance the interest of the meet to the spectators if the participants were designated with distinctive colors. The courteous and considerate services of the University in firmary and dispensary attendants has long been a source of wonderment to university students. No matter what time of day, or the ailment, or the humor of the patient, the nurses, doctors and clerical attendants maintain a cordial attitude of undiminished consideration for those with whom they come in contact; all of which makes getting sick just a little bit easier. Would that we could wish them more patients! Editorially Clipped WHY PICK ON THE COLLEGIANS? Tht' Oregon Emerald, student pub lication at tlio University of Ore gon, wants to know why tho public is always picking on the colleges and tho young people who attend them. The morals of tho students are picked to pieces every so often just on the chance tiiat something might be wrong with them, the Wmorald complains. The Emerald admits that the It)—G model student may wear funny clothes and spend too much money, but it denies that he is going to the devil or even seri ously considering such a step. It adds “The taxpayers will permit municipal or ptate hVrrupfjon 'to pass with a minimum of murmurs; all manners of graft will go in the state institutions without much of a hallobaloo; but let the tiniest aqneek come from one of the state institutions of higher learning and all the taxpayers are right on hand to look out for their investmient.” It does seem unfair that the poli ticians got away with anything short of murder while the under graduate is kept closely tethered to tho apron strings of the grand motherly body politic, llut this is not as bad as it seems. Yes, there is indeed balm in Gilead. Whom the Lord loveth he chast enth. The people of Oregon keep close watch on their boys and girls at the college and universities be cause they love them. From long experience the public has learned not to expect too much of its poli ticians, but hope springs eternal in the human breast and we are for ever expecting the rising generation to be better than those which pre ceded it. It should not be a source of complaint to the students of our state educational institution if the I public exacts from them a higher standard of conduct than it expects of its politicians. It should be a' source of pride and they should try to measure up to it.—Baker City Oregon Herald. COMPULSORY DRILL? Considerable agitation for making military training in the R. O. T. C. an optional rather than a required course is being disclosed in many of the American colleges. Some have already made the course optional. It is only proper that the Anieri- [ can student should be required to spend some time in learning the fundamentals of natioual defense. For the student's good and for the! health of the nation, the R. O. T. C. training should bo a compulsory re-, quirement for graduation. The advantages gained through military discipline, drill and exer- j cise more than compensate for the ! time required. In colleges with! compulsory military training, the j student that graduates is sure of culture in mental, disciplinary, phy sical and social lines. Yet, American colleges contem plate doing away with military edu cation, the only compulsory military training in Oregon. The two mili tary colleges are too small to supply the need for trained military offi cers and the only certainty for this supply is the American college. For the health of the nation and for the good of the college compulsory military training in the colleges de serves support.—O. A. C. Barometer. SEVEN SEERS THANKS FOE THE BUGGY RIDE! So full of fleas and flying gnats Was Sy McCorn’s old plug he Said his horse was not a horse— It was a little buggy. * * * CHOO! CHOO! OHOO! OHOOl See the big, noisy train of cars, bringing home the little co-eds. And the fact that it is a freight train doesn’t make matters any different. As long as it get them there, why care ■Whether they ride in a parlor car comfortably or a box car cheap? Two little girls from Hen dricks hall went for a walk to Springfield the other afternoon, and when they got there what should they see but a big old sleepy engine. And so just to show you they weren’t high brow or afraid of any old choo choo train they jumped aboard one of the flat cars, just for a little chat. And what do you suppose that naughty old train did? Why, it woke up with a snort, and before the two little girls could jump off it started up lickety-split. And it went so fast, before they knew it they were all the way back in Eu gene again. But that naughty old train felt father guilty about the dirty trick he played on the two little girls, so he slowed down, and let them jump off. And the little girls very tactfully thanked the train for giving them a free ride all the way home, when otherwise they would have had to walk so that the train didn’t have a guilty conscience any more, and went puffing happily away. The End. * »• » HENDRICKS MAKES VARSITY Joey McKeown and a guy named Boone On the subject of booze had a dickker, McKeown met his fate When he tried to debate For Boone was well posted on lik ker. PIOGER’S NAVY SOON TO GO ON CRUISE , Now that the balmy days aro here I ;»nd the old Mill Bace is erecting loafv screens along its banks, the j fleet of canoes will soon go paddling j ■up and drifting down the rippling water, manned by stalwart col legians and pretty co-eds. Ilere is a snap-shot of one popular young lady you all know, leaning grace fully back in the lazy-back of her slender, light vessel, the '‘I Wanna Float,” unconsciously mafking a pretty picture of “those dear old days at Oregon.” • * * There are many things troubling me, For instance I never could see Why, if people from Poland are poles, The people from Holland aren’t holes. Why a square meal can make you look round, Why church canons can’t make a sound, Are black berries green when they’re red? Why we eat chickens after they’re dead, Where a match flame goes after it’s out, And also, what it’s all about. GKA/RBO. Communications To the Editor: There has been no comment in the Emerald on the language situa tion for some time, and what com ment there was, was given by in structors only. Perhaps students were afraid of getting poor grades in their language courses, or even flunking them, if they made com ment on the subject. However, I would like to offer a few sugges tions from a science student’s point of view. I believe there are at least two very good reasons why students as a rule prepare a language lesson last of all lessons that are to be pre pared. The first and perhaps fore most reason is that a language course is required for an A. B. de gree, and the nature of the average American student rebels at some thing he is required to do. The second reason is that the language is not taught as that student would like to learn it. I qm a senior in chemistry and I have had two years of German, and am now taking first year French. What I desire is a reading knowl edge of both German and French. I have a fair reading knowledge of German, after two years of much labor, but how can I acquire a reading knowledge of French, when the chief aim of our French in structors (who are all French young women, except one, I believe) to try their best to teach us to speak French? What do I care how to order a meal in French in a French restaurant, or how to talk French on the streets of Paris? How is “pommefe des terre au gratin’’ go ing to help me read scientific French articles? What I want to know is the meaning of “acids dex troracemique et levoracemique.” Is French pronunciation going to help me in scientific French transla tion? It certainly is not, and I believe I know when I say no, for I can read scientific abstracts and articles in German with fair ease and I never read them over aloud before attempting to translate them. It is the eye that does my translating and not the ear. Why do our French teachers stress the translation from English into French so strongly in quizzes? I know full well that one can learn a foreign language much better by translating from his native langu age into the foreign languago than from the foreign language into the native language. But what I would like to do is translate from French LAST TIMES TODAY “IF MARRIAGE FAILS” Jacqueline Logan Clive Brook Roy Kahler’s COUNTRY STORE into English, and not from English ! into French. French as given at this Univer jsity is a poor training for scientific i French reading, I believe. It is a cultural and artistic training rather than a practical training. There is no course in scientific French. Why isn’t there? In 1921 and 1922, Dr. Thorstenberg, a German and Scan dinavian instructor, had a three hour class in scientific French. Why !wab this class discontinued? To me, ' it seems a much more practical 'course to give for a certain class of students, those majoring in sci ence courses, than a class in liter lary French, such as Victor Hugo’s “Les Hiserables,” etc. I believe that two years ago a one hour sci jentifie French class was given. This really would not be much of a class ; because of the short amount of time spent in the class. The Ger i man department cooperates much ;more with the science student and j offers a three hour course in sci lentifie Germany also given by Dr. j Thorstenberg. I would like to know | why the French department does Jnot offer such a course for science students. I was once told by one of the chemistry instructors that he start ed to take a course in beginning French at Cornell university, and the third or fourth day the instruc tor started conducting the class in French and stressing pronunciation, and he and a fellow chemijBtry ma jor immediately ..got out. Apparent ly, French instructors are alike all over our country. Why can’t we have a course in French where the pronunciation and English to French translations are forgotten and the most important thing of all, the translation of French into Eng lish, stressed? If we could only impress upon our French instruc tors that we want to translate French and not speak French, a great many of us would be consid erably happier, I am sure. DON QUIXOTE O---o Theaters McDONALD—First day, the silk hat king of fun, Raymond Griffith, in his latest mirth maker, “Hands Up,” with Marion Nixon. Added attraction of special interest, “Wild Beasts of Borneo,” close ups of fero cious jungle beasts taken in their native haunts. Regular prices. # # * REX—Last day, a double bill of fun and thrill, “If Marriage Fails,” a drama of those who scoff at vows, luxuriously set in a silken whirl of life among the pleasure seekers, and featuring Jacqueline Logan, Clive Brook, Jean Hersholt, Belle Bennett and a brilliant cast; and, Boy Kah ler’s “Country Store,” a barrel of fun and hundreds of dollars worth of presents for all, nightly at 9 p. m.; clever comedy, “A Peaceful Riot,” of laughs; Kinogram news events; Bex musical settings to the pictures. Coming—Douglas Fair banks in “Don Q, Son of Zorro,” with Mary Astor and a great cast. COLONIAL — Wednesday and Thursday, Matt Moore and Dorothy ; Devore in “His Majesty, Bunker Bean.” Also comedy and Fable. ! Godfrey at Honolulu Ready to go to Work George H. Godfrey, ex-university istudent, who sailed for Hilo, Haw- f aii recently, arrived at Honolulu, February 5, according to word re ceived here. Godfrey is to be city editor of the Hilo Tribune-Herald. He will have three reporters under his direction. The trip was eventful, he said in a letter, and added that he is en joying the country immensely, after going through a heavy Pacific storm. In action Williams shows its stuff! JUST a small squeeze of rich, white Williams Shaving Cream whips up into dense, wet lather. Lather that quickly saturates your beard, that softens the razor’s touch, that leaves your face cool and soothed! Try this master shaving cream. Large-size tube 35c; double-size 50c, containing twice as much. At all dealers’. 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