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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1926)
Oregon iatlg Emerald University of Oregon, Eugene SDWABD M MILLER. Editor FRANK H. LOGGAN, Manatgr editorial board Sol Abramson Harold Kirk Managing Editor Associate Editor Mildred Jean Carr _ Associate Mng. Ed. Webster Jones ... Philippa Sherman _ oporu* Kuiwi Feature Editor News and Editor Phoaea, 665 DAY EDITORS: Geneva Drum, Frances Bourhill, Claudia Fletcher, Mary Conn, ut MIGHT EDITORS: Allan Canfield, supervisor, Ronald Sellers, Lynn Wykoff. ’sports STAFF: Harold Mangum, Dick Syring. „ . T FEATURE WRITERS: J. Bernard Shaw, James DePauli, Gregg Millett, Pau uy, Don Johnson, Sam Kinley, A1 Clark. —gw UPPER NEWS STAFF: Mary Benton, Edward Smith, Eva Nealon, ane Margaret Vincent, Jack O’Meara. _ _ . . HTWS STAFF- Mary K. Baker, Jack Hempstead, Barbara Blythe, Arthur Fnautt, "llinnleFiiher Uriah McMurphey, William Schulze, Pauline Stewart, Grace Fisher. Beatrice Harden, FrancesCherry, Margaret Hensley. Ruby Lister, Genevieve Monran Marion Sten Dick Jones, Miriam Shepard, Flossie Radabaugh, Margaret Edith Dodge Wilma liter. Robert Maxwell. Lela Forrest, Bob Galloway. Fanny Marsh, Ruth Hansen, Dorothy Franklin, Grace Taylor, Ruth Newman. Mary McLean, Faith Kimball, Ruth Corey.____ RITSTNF.SS STAFF Waorne Leland 81 Slocair Calvin Horn Tamta Manning _ Associate Manager Advertising Manager Advertieing Manager Circulation Manager Frances McKenna - Asst. Circulation mgr. Robert Dutton _ Circulation Assistant Milton Georae .. Assistant Advertising Mgr. Marian Ph> . Foreign Advertising Mgr. Adwrtising Assistant*: Sam Kinley, Emerson Haggerty, Bob Nelson, Ed Ross, Ruth McDowell, Dick Hoyt. Ray Hibbard, Joe Neil, Herbert Lewis, Ruth Street. Boacialty Advertising: Alice McGrath. Mabel Fransen. Administration: Frances Hare, Harold Whitlock, Geneva Drum, Bob Sroat. mi i Day Editor This Issue— Frances Bourhill Assistants— Beatrice Harden Night Editor This Issue— Vernon McGee Assistant —Clarence Curtis The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of UrilveVX of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during coHege year Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association. Entered in poetoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2. year. Advertising rates upon application. Residence pbone, editor, 1320, na?«r. 721. Business office phone, 1895. Of Interest to All Seniors The University of Washington Daily comments approvingly on the disposal of senior class funds in a manner that will be of genuine as sistance to the University. Per haps Oregon seniors will be inspired to a similar action. Rally to the Support Nothing concrete and tangible, on the campus, is to bo left to tho University this year by the men and women who aro to bo graduated in Juno. This year thero will be no sun dial; no plate glass window; no stone bench graven with numerals; no row of trees; no pillar of Mem orial arch. I By none of these, tho usual and j accustomed type of things, is the class of 1926 to bo remembered. In stead, the Washingtonians who are to leave via 'Commencement plat form aspire to pay tribute to Alma Mater by one hundred per cent membership in tho Washington Alumni association. In this departure the soniors plan something more than a gesture; something more than a changeless pillar or bench to take a passive part in the decoration of tho cam pus. That it indeed may be a pillar is their aim; but it is to be a pillar of that staunch support beyond the academic walls of which the Uni versity is now in such dire need. To tho undergraduate tho work and importance of the Alumni asso ciation not always is fully apparent. Yet it is correct to say that, lack ing its support, tho Univorsity could not continue on its prosont basis. This association affords tho bind ing links and the working medium for that scattered University of Washington—greater in numbers than tho University upon the cam pus—which has gone on into outside life. This groator University of Wash ington is no longer in position to tnko part in campus pleasures; to onthuso over this or tho other cam pus ovent. It cannot join, baro headeil, in tho tribute of “Alma Matre. ” It cannot mouth the mag ic words, “working for Washing ton,” as they are popular hero. Yet it is this greater Washington which is making possible the pres ence of 5,555 students hero this Bpring. It is this group of dovotod men and women who themselves and through their representatives drove on to win tho bitter strug gle in tho Legislature fast fall. It is this group, keeping a ceaseless watch, which is mobilizing and man ning the defense now. It is this group, constantly gaining in posi tion and influence, which will bo in future ns now the mightiest cham pion of the University . By setting as its goat one hundred per cent membership in tho Alumni association, the class of ’26 is sow ing the seed for a memorial that cau grow and flower increasingly with the years. In this pledge of loyalty is the realest tribute to Washington. The Science of Art Criticism A recent issue of the Spectator, weekly journal of comment pub lished in Portland edited by Hugh Hume contributes an interesting article on the “Science of Art Crit icism.” The Emerald is taking the liberty of reprinting the article. The Science of Art Criticism In a recent issue, the ably con ducted Emerald, published for and by the students at the University of Oregon, said that hereafter it would “carry no criticisms of mu sical and dramatic productions that appear in any connection with tlio University.” That is an interest ing announcement, because by youth the science of criticizing is pursued much more in ' ■ -!v than is the art of furnishing matter for criticism. To many who assidu ously practice it, criticism is con sidered an art, but it is really a science. Music, paintings, the dra ma, and literature are placed among the arts, because they are subject to no definitive rules or regulations. But as criticism is a science, with rules and methods clearly defined, it can not bo literature; and as it is not literature, it can not be an art. To be an artist in, for instance, literature, all one needs are pencil and paper, and imagination and ability to express it. It is quite easy; indeed, so easy that many persons who, with careful training as apprentices might achieve some thing useful in tho ditcli-digging or track-laying line, start writing, and after years devoted to the art, never become more than mere literatours. On the other hand, criticism of the arts is not easy at all, although wo find everybody setting up as a critic. As criticism is one of the most exacting of sciences, one must devote a life-time to its study be fore exhausting its meroly elemen tary principles; and so fascinating and enthralling is the work of re search and investigation, that hardly a single person who has ser iously taken it up has ever aban doned his labors as a student to assume the obligations of a critic. It will be readily admitted by all but tho critics, that those who write criticisms must know all about the thing criticized, for the critic is not only a scientist but a teacher. Take music, for instance: The critic who would practice his profession on music, must know all about music—its history, its liter ature, its instruments, tho methods and manner of its production, its expressions, suppressions, and im pressions. And in writing his crit icism—which is comparison, elucida tion, interpretation, and instruction —ho must scientifically follow cer tain clear and well-defined rules and laws that are ns unalterable as the enactments of the Modes and Persians. Those things the editor of the Emerald knows when ho tells us he will print no more criticisms of dramatic and musical performances at the University, but there is one thing lie did not know when ho add ed the following to his announce ment: ‘‘For a number of years the Em erald has endeavored to provido honest criticism of dramatic and musical productions of professional and amateur talent, and has suc ceeded only in ono sense—that no one has been pleased.” The critics were pleased, and if that is not the solo object of tho criticism of the arts, I should liko to know what it is. ,CAMPUS Bulletin Temenids meeting Thursday 7:15 at Craftsmen flub. Unusually im portant. All student body officers, new and retiring, to meet on stage in tho auditorium of the Woman ’s build ing before assembly, today. Wal ter Malcolm. Samara meeting, today at 5:00 Room 303 Deady. Daly Club meet Thursday at 7:30 in Woman's building. W. A. A. council meeting tonight (Thursday) at 7:00 in the physi cal education library. Play Day general committee, meet at 7:15 tonight (Thursday) in the physical education library. Crossroads meot tonight at usual time and place. O. N. S. Club business meeting at V. M. 7:15 Thursday. Urgent that all members come. Meeting of Educational Club at Education building Thursday at 7:30 p. m. TkSEVEN SEERS is—£ “IF YOU WANT A THING DONE WELL, DO IT YOURSELF.” —TOM MURRAY. * # * Dr. Frank Pain’s Health Hints Corn Remedy Toast small pieces of cheese until nicely crisp and brown. Rub cheese over corns and retire immediately. Let feet hang out of bed during night, so mice can nibble corns off. * • * A Sure Cold Cure Mix and drink one full glass of lemon soda water. Then sit on stove until it boils. • * * ************** * Drink our Block and Tackle * * Whisky * * One swallow and you’ll walk * * a block and tackle anything. * * * ************** Use the words “Pall Mall” in a sentence. “If I don’t got in early, Pall Mall me.” * * * The present day social uplift er’s idea of a clean movie would be one of Moses in the Bullrushes. Our idea, on the other hand, is one full of bathing girls. For Those Seeking Matrimony Don’t ever marry your dream girl. You may find out after two weeks of married life that you have been walking in your sleep. Olaf Darnu says that the above item is unnecessary, as the majority of the campus are past helping where matrimony is concerned, and that those who aren’t suseptible don’t read the column. What’s Wrong With this Sentence? Although he was ragged and pen niless the Eugene Police Force treated him with courtesy. First Undertaker: “How’s busi ness?” Second Planter: “It sure is the burries! ” * * * A kitchenette is a place where a homo economics major opens cans— and cans—and cans. No, dearies, that hungry look doesn’t prove her to be a sor ority girl; she may get that way from hard study. * • * TABLE TALK Rice: “If a goat ate a rabbit, what would happen?” Curry: “There’d bo a hare in the butter.” » • » “Just hanging a rounder gets me down,” said the disheartened exe cutioner as he pulled the trap. * • * BE CIDER? “We should have been more care ful when we were out in that apple orchard last night, Cora.” “Why, nobody seed us, did they?” “I dunno, but maybe the apple sauce." • • • HEN FRUIT IN JEWISH IN ONE LETTER .... X. • • • EGrGDIT! SEVEN SEERS Commun ications COMMUNICATION To tho Emerald: The following statement may cor rect a rather widespread misunder standing on tho campus. At the present timo there is in the Uni versity rather more than the usual amount of sickness for this time of year. The type of grippe that is prevalent now seems to have a spec ial predilection for the gastro-intes tinal tract. That this is highly in fectious, although not ’extremely severe* is shown by the way in which rather large numbers in different living groups have been affected. A few students have wrongly at tributed their trouble to the food eaten at the campus luncheon. There is absolutely no reason to believe that this food was spoiled, and inas much as this trouble was started be fore the luncheon and in many cases began two or more days after the luncheon, it is evident that some thing else is the cause. In fact two students were so severely at tacked that they went home before junior week-end and one of these girls was told by her local physici an that he had many other cases of the same sort. Undoubtedly the cold weather of Friday and Saturday when many were inactive for hours and became quite chilly, aggravated this condition. On tho other hand, so 'far as I know there were no serious effects of the freshman mix though we rather expected some trouble. That this condition though ex tremely annoying is not serious, is shown by the fact that this has been one of the lightest weeks for the University infirmary, and for a while there was only one patient. FRED N. MILLER, M. D. University Physician. The Lay of the Sardine Box By MARY KESSI Go button your boots with a tiger’s tail; Comb down your golden hair; And live for a week upon bubble and squeak On the steps of a winding stair. And if you ever feel like a Conger eel, Or as hard as an old split pea, Just lift the lid, like the hedgehog did, And come and listen to me: It happened one day when the sun was high And the wind blew fresh and free, And a bottle-nosed whale was lunching on shale And washing it down with the sea. It was close by the edge of a lonely stream That foamed on a desolate strand, And a lady fair was sitting there, And a box was in her hand. She lifted the box and gave it a shake, And smiled when she found it was full; She played on a fife with the ed&e of a knife, J Keeping time with a three-foot rule. And this was the song that the lady sang: “Come open this box for me! For I love sardines, when they’re boiled with beans, And mixed with the sands of the sea.!’’ Now the sound of her voice, it was sweet to hear, And was wafted o’er many a wave, Till at last it fell, like a siren’s spell, On the heart of a merman brave. He listened awhile, and then smiled a smile As he looked at himself in the glass. And dressed with all speed in an ulster of weed And trousers of tangle and grass. He came to where the lady sat. And heard what she’d got to say; But when he learned the dish was sar dine-fish, He bolted straight away. For his brother-in-law was of kin to the skate. And the skate is of high degree, And as everyone knows ’tis perfectly true Sardines are the cousins of he. He frowned as he dived straight down To the depths of the ocean green, And his trousers he tore, and his ulster, and swore That they'd never again be seen. But the lady sang on as she'd sung before: “Come open this box for me 1 ~ For I love sardines when they’re boiled with beans, And mixed with the sands of the sea!’’ She sang the same, but as nobody came, She thought it was well to try; So down on the rocks she hammered the box, And then she began to cry: “Oh, I love sardines when they’re boiled with beans And mixed with the sands of the sea! I’m dying for some! Won’t somebody come And open this box for me?’’ Now, all alone close under a stone, A lobster was lying asleep. At the sound of her cries, he opened his Ana picked himself up for a peep. He could open that box without any knocks. So he came and offered his claw. At the sight of the beast, her misery ceased, And she asked for a shake of his paw. He gave her his claw, on that desolate strand, t But he never would let her go. “My lady,” said he, "you'll come with me To the regions down below 1” He took that lady straight away To the depths of the ocean blue; And whatever became of that beautiful dame Nobody ever knew. But some folks say, on the first of May She is seen with a glass in her hand; And that she was sold to the merman bold Who came to that desolate strand. And every night, when the moon shines bright, The ghost of that lady is seen, All dressed at her need in an ulster of weed. And her hair is a bright sea-green. And the ghost of a great big sardine box Goes stalking along the shore. And the ghosts of little sardine-fish Go rollicking on before. And fishermen hear the sound of knocks, And, "Come open this box for me! For I love sardines when they're boiled with beans And mixed with the sands of the sea!’’ MORAL: Now ladies all, both short and tall. Who love to eat sardines, If you ever eat any, don't let it be many, And never with sand and beans. “3 LAST * DAY! —A Fervid Drama of Oil And Bomance. “Flaming Waters" —with— Malcolm McGregor Pauline Garon WITWER COMEDY !iM!l{ IMh[B!"IH! 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If he’s a man whose posi tion or disposition demands thoughtful care of his cos tume, then one a day’s not too many—seven serviceable cravats, not counting those that have passed into honor able retirement. There’s economy in num bers, when it comes to ties. Fabrics “revive” and freshen up through rest The "Vital V” of your cos tume deserves especial care. It’s the spot that gets attan * ‘Jaskion Graft Mfd. by Sehxnfcld Bromine. SMBfe-tWYoak SOLD BY Wade Bros. tion. For style—and ril rr wth a EUGENE When You’ve Almost Forgotten that Date and You Want t SNAPPY CAB SERVICE Call 99 RED CAB CO. 48 Park Avenue Saturday Night Will be one of the Last Three Dances played by the Oregon Aggravators Before Going to California Don’t Miss It! There Will be Special Intermission Features By Members of the Band and a Talented Girl Entertainer from 0. A. C. ♦ Come! Come! Come! $1.00 Couple Cover Charge Ye Campa Shoppe Phone 229-R for Reservations Luscious Oranges Provide the Flavor When you quench your thirst in Orange-Crush, you drink a true fruit beverage. Look on the Krinkly Bottle that it comes in. it is stamped Orange-Crush. Look on the crown. Again that same clear title—Orange-Crush. Orange-Crush does not have to be marked “Imitation.” be cause it is a true fruit beverage. All the flavor comes from the orange. ncSEBinHi Here is what Orange-Crush is made of: (I) Orange juice— !2) Flavor from the peel to give fragrance and aroma— 3) The’ refreshing fruit acid which cotpes from oranges, lemons and limes—(4) U. S. Certified food color (the same as you use in your cakes and candies)—(3) Healthful, spark ling carbonated water — (6) Pure cane sugar This is Orange-Crush—a wonderfully delicious drinkl Keep Orange-Crush always on ice. Give the children al) they like—it’s good for them. Serve it at meals—also as a refreshment for your family and guests. Order by the case from your uearest dealer. If he can't supply you, telephone There U only one Orange- Crush, gond yoa can always identify it by the Krinkly Bottle. INSIST!