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©regon Sailg University of Oregon, Eugene ■DWAKD M. MILLER, Editor FRANK H. LOGGAN, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD gol Abramson_Managing Editor i »¥«>nld Kirk_Associate Editor j Mildred Jean Carr — Associate Mng. Ed. | Webster Jones - oporu* Philippa Sherman .. Feature Editor News and Editor Phones, 665 PAY EDITORS: Eether Davis, Geneva Drum, Frances Bourhill, Clauoia Fletcher, Mary Conn, Ruth Gregg. NIGHT EDITORS: Allan Canfield, supervisor, Ronald Sellers, Lynn Wykoff. SPORTS STAFF: Harold Mangum, Dick Syring. FEATURE WRITERS: J. Bernard Shaw, James DePauli, Gregg Millett, Paul Luy, Don Johnson, Sam Kinley, A1 Clark. UPPER NEWS STAFF: Mary Benton, Edward Smith, Eva Nealon, Jane Dudley, Margaret Vincent, Jack O’Meara. NEWS STAFF: Mary K. Baker, Jack Hempstead, Barbara Blythe, Arthur Pnaulx, Minnie Fisher, Lylah McMurphey, William Schulze, Pauline Stewart, Grace Fisher, Beatrice Harden, Frances Cherry, Margaret Hensley, Ruby Lister, Genevieve Morgan, Marion Sten, Dick Jones, Miriam Shepard flossie Radabaugh. Margaret Long Edith Dodge, Wilma lister, Robert Maxwell, Lela forrest. Bob Galloway, Fanny Marsh, Ruth Hansen, Dorothy Franklin, Grace Taylor, Ruth Newman, Mary McLean. __ BUSINESS STAFF Wayne Leland_Associate Manager g| Blocum_Advertising Manager Calvin Horn _ Advertising Manager lames Manning_Circulation Manager Frances McKenna .. Asst, circulation .>inr. Robert Dutton . Circulation Assistant Milton George .. Assistant Advertising Mgr. Marian Phy . Foreign Advertising Mgr. mi Advertising Assistants: Sam Kinley, Emerson Haggerty, Bob Nelson, Ed Boss, KUtn McDowell, Dick Hoyt, Kay Hibbard, Joe Neil, Herbert Lewis, Ruth Street. Specialty Advertising: Alice McGrath, Mabel Fransen. Office Administration : Frances Hare, Harold Whitlock, Geneva Drum, Bob Sroat. Day Editor this Issue—CLAUDIA FLETCHER Wight Editor this Issue—RONALD SELLERS Assistant CLARENCE CURTIS The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during college year. Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association. Entered in poatoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, * • Tear. Advertising rates upon application. Residence phone, editor, , mantgar, 721. Business office phone, 1896. ____ The Emerald Secures A New Editor for Today - YOUR editor herewith hands over the reigns of the Emerald for one day to Mr. L. It. Wheeler, edi tor of the Portland Telegram, who has written a most excellent edi torial, “Ramblings of a Former Col lege Student,” especially for Emer ald readers. Mr. Wheeler, a genial young man only a few years out of college, positively refused to divulge any information about himself, so the editorial must speak for itself and it* writer. The following is the first contri bution of several “guest editors” who are to make known their opin ions on subjects of interest to uni-; versity students through the col umns of the Emerald. Ramblings of a Former College Student By E. R. WHEELER Editor, Portland Telegram rpilE Proxy of the college which the writer used to graeo with his attendance said that students were divided into three classes those interested in facts, those inter ested in ideas, and those interested in doing things. A professor of tho same institution said that tlio longer lie taught the moro ho was impressed with the amazing capac ity of the human brain to resist knowledge, and ho perhaps would have added a fourth class to include those students who were interested in nothing at all. Tho person who is primarily in terested in ideas is probably ono whose intellectual side outweighs his practical side, and the ono pri marily interested in accomplishment is one whoso energy and capacity for doing things always set* tho pace for a lagging intellect. Apparently "they need all kinds of people in a world,” but if educa tion is worth anything, it must bo in the way of teaching men how to supplement intellectual power with the capacity for putting their brains to work, and how to supplement the power to work with the leaven of Intelligent guidance. As a sophomore in the “school of life,” and not so far out of college, the writer would like to mention one or two impressions that have come as a kind of afterglow from campus training. It is easy to see now that college does not give you an education but simply gives you a start—takes you up iut» a high mountain, as it were, and shows you nil the kingdoms of knowledge ono or two pf which you might possibly conquer later on if you had the energy and determination. One post-collegiate impression is that we overestimate the value of booklearnin ’ in relief. Booklearnin is of little value except as it is hooked up with the accomplishment, (the energy and determination), side of the brain. The real struc ture of life is not intellectual but moral. “What will you do” is more important than “what do you know.” “Certain it is,” said William James, “that the acutest theories, the most elaborate education, the greatest intellectual power, aro a sheer mockery when, as too often happens, they feed mean motives and a nerveless will.” Tho danger of tho thireter after ideas is that he will think there is something intrinsically good in knowledge and will not early enough bend' his energies toward converting knowledge into action. Education is primarily valuable, it seems, in strengthening the props to a.useful philosophy of life. One of tho many useful lessons which collego teaches is1 that concentra tion of energy is tho key to ac complishment. This is taught in the laboratory and on the football field. The writer recalls the fragment of an address by George Wharton Pep per, now Senator Pepper, before a group of collego alumni. Senator Pepper referred to a certain group of citizens with tho remark, “they had not learned from history the unconquerable power of a single mo tive.” This phrase illustrates what Senator Pepper conceived of as the application of booklearnin’ to life and incidentally what he considered the importance of concentration in winning life’s battles. Tho same idea was never more forcibly put than in the Biblical quotation, “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowl edge, nor wisdom in tho grave, wliithqr thou goest.” Without the will to apply tho knowledge of these rules of life, education is a “sheer mockery.” If, on tho other hand, tho study of his tory and science will supply the man or woman with tho final push of mental energy to burst through the inhibitions of the old legthargic self, and find expression in concen trated, useful effort of somo kind, education will havo been justified. Incidentally, being useful must mean being contented, for it appears to be a rule of nature that what func tions properly gives no pain. The writer enjoyed a recent ar ticle by Chauneey M. Depenq_ en titled “Booking Down the Vista of Ninety-Two Years.” In these days of stop-signals and automobiles, most of us would consider ourselves lucky to look down a vista of half ns long. “The pressure of latter day life,” says Mr. Depew, “tends to rob us of the capacity for happiness. We for get to smile and of all human bles sings a smile is tho greatest. . . . Our material welfare exceeds that of any other generation before us, but the soul starves.” This brings us to the question whether or not education of recent years has been successfully applied to life, whether converting knowl edge into action and concentrating along lines laid down by the experts hold the cue to a happy existence. If people are usefully functioning they should be able to smile at their work. " 1 hope,” says Mr. Depew again, that the world will depart in some measure from its present slavish tendencies to make mechanical things the rule of life.” As a fellow student who would not undervalue the so-called prac tical things of life, the writer would emphasize the importance of a more careful analysis of just what are “the practical things.” Does America need a few pinches of the Oriental philosophy which has al ways placed spiritual things above material things? Tf wo are frank, we will admit that America has not made a very enviable record out side the field of commerce and me chanics. We have not yet “arrived” either in literature or art. and we seem to be going backward rather than forward in statesmanship, spending our money for that which is not bread and our labor for that which satisfieth not. A great many people are now look ing to the colleges for sitgus of the dawn of a new day. Tt might be left to the modern student to direct his inquiring spirit and well known candor toward discovering the er rors of the existing order and try ing to bring the next generation back to the true course. Tk SEVEN * SEERS f \ — NO COLUMN SATURDAY. IT I LOOKED BAD, BUT PLEASE; DON’T RUB IT IN. Word spread around With really swift pace That Follies Girl swimmers Were up the Race. The Piper himself With hig whistling toot Could never attract Like a bathing suit. Crushed in the jam But why should one care? A sight such as this Was indeed very rare. Our line was busy (A trick of some fate) So of course we arrived A little bit late. But even at that, But even at that, Such eye-sight have we; We think there was nothing That we didn’t see. SOCIETY ITEM Friends of the members of the Class in Abnormal psychology will; bo pleased to learn they returned safely from their trip to Salem, Ore gon, where they made a tour of the insane asylum. * * * EPILAFF Here lies the body of Peter Flint. He saw a key hole, and took a squint. ************** * The Noble Prize this year * *' was awarded to the scientist * * who succeeded in discovering a * * means to feed listerine to North * * Pole cats. *' ************* -X COE: Do you mean to say that Betty is going to marry that dumb real silker? Whats her idea? ED: Darned if I know. Sox ap peal I guess. The Co-ed flittered down the street. Her face was all flecked with powder. She met her shiek, his mug was streaked, With traces of clam chowder. She passed him, nor a word did speak, Her actions were the louder. A Regal hoot gave her the root And this completely cow-ed her— TOOTII — “Wanna chew my gum?” PASTE: “Which one, upper or lower!” PEOPLE WE CAN HO WITHOUT The bozo who sits next to the “fair one” in class and makes a date while you aro taking notes for her. “We ought to make quite a haul,” said the contractor as he laid the foundation for the pavillion. “What makes Aurora borealis?” “You got me, John, she's just plain dum I guess.” * *' * **##*##****#** * Motto of the Follies: * * “ASK THE MAN WHO * * STEPPED ONE.” ************** •JUST FOR THAT, WE’LL QUIT!” SEVEN SEERS Dr. Rainey to Address W omen's Club Meeting Hr. Homer P. Rainey, of the school of education, has left for T.a Grande, where he will talk be fore the tIGth annual convention of the Oregon Federation of Women’s C)|ibs. His topic will be on the county unit plan of school admin i istration. The working of the plan and its many advantages will be j explained. ! I Standards (Continued from page one) er learning. There wag actual com petition for students. Today the at-: titude of(K:ollege administration of ficials is changing, and the change is well exemplified in the advice given this morning to the Bend high school student body by Carlton j Spencer, registrar at the University' of Oregon. “The university is there for all who are prepared to take advau-1 tage of what it offers. Those who are not so prepared would be much bet ter off to stay at home, is the in ference. The modern educator has not the slightest desire to cram education into the mind of the boy or girl who does not earnestly de- j sire to be educated." The University may well afford to congratulate itself upon the atti tude of its officials in placing Uni i vrrsity advantages before high school students. This policy means less expenditure to the state through needless waste on incompetent stu dents, means a saving of time for students whose time could be spent: better elsewhere, and insures a more efficient University by keeping cut those who can only hinder its proper functioning. The present policy of the Uni versity students does not necessarily j exclude all typos of “advertising,"! using “advertising" for want of a better term. The University has an obligation to inform prospec tive students and the state at large of the advantages offered at the in stitution, and for a successful ful filling of this duty a certain num ber of pamphlets, folders and cata logues are .necessary. All this is legitimate and sane, unless carried to the point of creating an unnat ural demand. When that point is reached the time has come to stop; I but the University of Oregon, we j feel certain, is not guilty on that! score. Tlio University of Oregon hn3 no desire for a larger enrollment than at present; in fact, if such were pos sible. most persons associated with the University would ho most de lighted if the student body should | grow no larger. But this is an idle : wish, and as certain as Oregon as a state becomes more populated, so will the University of Oregon grow in size. The University accepts this fact and will do the most in its power to meet the situation. Faculty (Continued from page one) all his teams were victorious. The second year they won nine out of ten debates, in addition to a trip to the Paccific coast. The third year his teams won nine out of eleven contests and tied for j first place in the Missouri Valley j Conference, also making a trip to ■ the North Central states. This year I his teams made a trip to the New England states at the invitation of Boston University, which had gone undefeated for two years and chose Oklahoma as the best representa tive school in debate in the Mis souri Valley. Twice in three years Professor Horner has coached the speakers who won first place in the Missouri Valley oratorical contest held annually in St. Louis. Important Posts Held The new coach ig at present state chairman of the National Peace Oratorical association, national vice president of Delta Sigma Bho, na tional honorary forensic fraternity, and president of the Missouri Val ley Conference. He will teach in the summer ses sion of the University of Texas be fore coming to Oregon. Dvmeiit (Continued from pope one) spent visiting the famous French battlefields, Verdun, Argonne, Rel-. lenu Wood. Chateau Thierry. Most of these fields are now covered with rank weeds, cultivation being practically impossible. Dean Dy ment described the scenes graphi cally. TTo remembered them from his visit during war time, and he was able to draw esmparisons. All is not peaceful in Europe. Hatreds are stronger than ever. The French hate both Rritish and Ger mans, and the Germans hate the French. French enmity for Rritain is due to the prevailing belief that English assistance ended and com petition began immediately upon I the signing of the armistice. The Dyments were frequently mistaken for English, but when it became known they were Americans they were more cordially received. French hatred for Germany is due to a general feeling that an other Teutonic invasion will take place; there is no feeling of secur ity. Almost uniformly the time for the expected invasion is set at with in 25 or 30 years, Dean Dyment said. German enmity towards France is centered largely in those sections occupied after the war by French colonial troops. The Locarno pact gave rise to hope, though short-lived, for peace, for there is a sincere desire to put an end ?o conflict. Italy under Mussolini is making genuine progress, we learned. Dis regarding the theoretical advisab ility of dictatorships, results have shown the present regime to have put the country on a firm, produc tive basis. It is Dean Dyment’s belief that Mussolini will not be displaced soon. Little is heard against the dictator, partly, Dyment admitted, because of the danger in curred by the one who makeg such statements. Irom Europe’s worries we turned t-o her beauties. Descriptions of ancient French cities aroused our wanderlust to such an extent that we were soon engaged in question ing our host regarding the advisa bility of touring Europe on the av erage college student’s finances. We are not wholly convinced that we shall see Europe soon, but we learn ed that in France the cost of living has not increased in proportion to the decline of the franc. Then we talked about the stu dents. Dean Dyment is interested in the student movement to raise the intellectual standard of the Uni versity and he questioned us at length on some of the matters being considered. But we had spent more than an hour in conversation, and the Dean was supposed to be resting. So the first newspapermen to interview the Dean departed and hastened to the campus to tell of their rich find “somewhere in Lane county.” Dr. Millikan to Give Lecture, ‘Evolution of Religion,’ at Assembly j Robert A. Millikan, well known I physicist, of the California Insti-1 tute of Technology will be on the j campus Thursday and will deliver1 the assembly address. His subject will be the “Evolution of, Religion.” j Dr. Millikan comeg to the campus under the joint auspices of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. Dr. Millikan’s first contribution to science was the isolating of the electron, for which he was granted j the Kobel Prize in 1923. He is the discoverer of the Millikan or cos-1 mie rays, which are the most power ful and penetrating rays that have been discovered so far. They travel toward the earth from some un known space with the same speed that light possesses, and are known to be shorter than the ultra-violet waves and the X-Ray or gamma rays. CAMPUS Students expecting to graduate next year must apply for degrees at once at the registrar’s office. All having tickets for the Y.W.C.A. Benefit show, “Irish Luck,” please return unsold tickets and money at once to Katharine Kneeland at Hendricks hall. Graduate luncheon at the Anchor age Tuesday noon, May 4. Sigma Delta Chi—Important meet ing today noon. Anchorage. Theta Sigma Phis and guests no tice— Meeting changed from Thursday night to Wednesday night. Everyone meet at shack at 7:15. Meeting to be held at Mrs. Allen’s. 2239 Birch Lane. Amphibian meeting tonight at 7:30 very important. Psychology club meeting tonight, Room 302 Condon hall. Very in teresting discussion on “medium ism.” All interested are invited. Men and women’s glee club will practice today at 5 o’clock. Theaters ' __L"'‘ HEX—last day: the screen’s won der girl, Mary Pliilbin, in her lat est triumph ’’Stella Maris,” a pul sating romance of two women who both loved, and were loved by the same man; Century, comedy, “Hon eymooning with Ma,” is a scream; Clifton Emmel in musical accom paniment on the organ. COMING—“The Lady from Hell,”: with Blanche Sweet, Roy Stewart and Ralph Lewis; “Bluebeard’s Seven Wives,” with Ben Lyon, Blanche Sweet and star cast. Gale Seaman to Speak Thursday At Y.M. Meeting Committee Canvasses For Seabeck Delegates to Conference Canvassing among the men stu dents of the University for dele gates to attend the student Chris tian conference at Seabeck, Wash ington, which has been going on for the past several weeks under i the direction of Bryon Serfling, chairman of the Seabeck commit tee, and H. W. Davis, director of the United Christian Work on the campus, will culminate in a mass' meeting of all those interested at j 7:30, next Thursday evening in the* Y. W. C. A. bungalow. Gale Seaman, pacific coast inter collegiate secretary for the Y. M. C. A., will be the principal speaker at the meeting. Mr. Seamen has been in direct charge of the con ference for the past several years, and is accordingly well qualified to explain the purpose and scope of the convention. He will arrive here Thursday morning, and remain over the most of Friday to consult with Y. M. C. A. workers. At its regular meeting last Wed nesday the Y. M. C. A. cabinet def initely gave its approval to the plan to have a Seabeck day on the cam pus, with the mass meeting in the evening to feature the event. Fri day a committee consisting of Vir ginia Keeney, Nancy Peterson and Pauline Stewart for the Y. W. C. A., and Bryon Serfling and Wil liam Schulze for the Seabeck com mittee of the Y. M. C. A., met and formulated plans for the day. It is hoped to have a group i!rom O. A. C., who have been to Seabeck, to attend, the meeting Thursday night. Contestants Named In Handball Singles Championship Race The play for the handball singles championship crown of the Univer sity begins this afternoon with 24 students and faculty entered in the* race for the title now held by Harry Scott. He won the torrid singles tournament in 1923 and since then has been the undisputed champion. However he wrill not defend his title in this tournament. This is the first tournament in two years and with the addition of several new courts the game has become unusually popular. Complete rules for the tournament have been posted in the courts and all records of games must be turned in to G. W. Howard in the men’s gymnasium. Games will be arranged at the discretion of the players but the first round should be played off by the end of the week, it is an nounced. The pairings for the first round BROWNIE BEAUTY PARLOR Licensed Operators—Expert Barber IN Carrolls Pharmacy 730 Willamette Phone 25 Look for it on the dealer’s counter v WRIGLEYS More for your money I and thtf best Peppermint Chewing Sweet for an^money^!3^ t STUDY at HOME for EXTRA CREDITS More than 450 courses in History, English, Mathematics, Chemistry, Zoology, Modern Languages, Economics, Philosophy, SocioWy, etc., are given by correspondence. Learn how the credit they yield may be applied on your college program. Catalog describing courses fully j will be furnished on request. Write today. Cfje ©nibersrttp of Cfcttago 95 ELLIS HAUL. CHICAGO. ILLINOIS of the straight elimination tourna ment were given out last night as follows: G. W. Howard vs. R. A. Gurnea, G. Mendle vs. E. D. Taylor, R. Mautz vs. E. R. Huestis, A. E. Hutchinson vs. Del. Oberteuffer, O. Schneider vs. F. McKalson, F. Knut son vs. C. G. Bluett, E, T. Perkins vs. Arlie Reed, Ben Jower vs. A. Gabriel, V. H. Brooks vs. N. Parker, F. DeWelt vs. W. Mathison, Mel Cohn vs. R. BuHivant, “Dutch” Widmer vs. F. Clavson. Extension Newspaper Contains Conference Report and Features The April issue of the Portland Center Star, the Portland extension division paper, came off the press the latter part of last week. Most of the material consists of reports of the conference of Adult Educa tion held in Portland recently. One of the features of the paper is an interview with Ed Robbins, blind student, who completed his University work in January. Mr. Robbins is now correspondent for the Portland Telegram at Hillsboro. An interview on correspondence study with Dr. Dan E. Clark, as sistant dean of the extension divi sion here, deals with the value of such training. According to the speaker, correspondence schools are charging high prices for courses which are no better than those of fered by state universities for a tenth of the cost. 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