Crockatt Sees
Development in
Railway Mileage
Decision of Commission
Commented upon
By Advisor
Program Solves Defense,
Unity Problems
"Oregon will now come into its
own,” declares Peter C. Crockatt,
of the economics department, in giv
ing his opinion of the recent deci
sion of the Interstate Commerce
Commision. "Oregon has been far
ontdistaneed by Washington on the
north and California on the south,
principally by their overwhelming
advantages in railroad mileage and
transportation.”
Dr. Crockatt in the past four
years has acted as advisor to the
Public Service Commission of Ore
gon and traffic expert to some of
the transcontinental railways.
Ball Histofry Significant
“It is my opinion after a con
siderable study of the history of
the struggles between the Hill Lines
(the Great Northern, Northern Pa
cific, Oregon Trunk, Oregon Elec
tric), the Harriman Lines (Union
Pacific, O. W. R. N., Oregon Short
Line), and the Southern Pacific
(formerly the Harriman) that after
these 430 miles are built there will
be other moves made to protect, by
railroad extensions, the various ri
val plans and interests in western
Oregon and northern California,”
he prophesied.
Timber Factor in Building
“Of course there are other fac
tors in this great railroad develop
ment which are mainly solved in
this recent program. Such are the
need for military defense, state uni
ty, agricultural development, inter
state connections and so on, but so
long as railroads are privately own
ed they havo to be built only where
it can be shown they can make
money, that is among Oregon tim
ber. Nowadays, by various changes
in public policy and the removal of
legal difficulties, it seems the way
is open for the railways to com
plete their original plans and build
nroth, south, east and west, across
the state.”
Track
(Continued from page one)
dash man who is reputed to he burn
ing tracks up this year will got a
test, this Saturday. lie runs a pow
erful 220 and will probably lead the
field in one sprint event if not in
both of them.
Victories Go Back to 90's
This week the cinder athletes
have taken off the pretty clothes
they wear in the meets and have
i been working more in earnest than
over. The O. A. C. meet is the peg
upon which Oregon’s track season
will revolve. And the season will
have been successful, in spite of
the set backs of crippled athletes
which have lost the other meets,
if the team vanquishes the old rival.
There is a long string of victories
going back into the 90’s which has
been broken but a few times.
jBill Ilayward is working quarter
■men hard this week, bearing down
on the sprinters, and putting the
finishing touches on the timing of
the distance men. The temper
mental legged jumpers are laying
•off and drinking “spring water”
to get all possible spring into their
irjfs. Hayward’s interest flaroa
when you mention the meet. The
men are talking it now and the
whole team is pointing for that
final effort of the year.
Bailey
(Continued front page one)
oratory contest lie is in tomorrow,
lie was on the losing debate team
to O. A. 0. in his sophomore year
and lost to Stanford 3 to 0.' In
his junior year, Bailey was in three
debates for the University, on the
winning side from O. A. t . 2 to 1;
from Idaho 3 to 0; and from Brit
ish Columbia 3 to 0.
In Hamel High school, Bailey
was on the district high school de
bate champion team and entered the
state finals in 1919-20. His team
won the state high school champ
ionship in 1920 21.
Burley is a senior in economes,
receiving a B.A. degree this June.
He is a member of the Hebate or
der or the ‘O’ and a winner of a
, shield for three years of intercolle
giate forensic service.
UNIVERSITY OE NEYAl'A,
Reno, Nev.—(PIP)—The fourteenth
annual summer school of the Univer
sity of Nevada will open June 14
to continue for sir weeks. No en
trance examinations are required.
Bast year there were 160 enrolled
and an equal number is expected
this season.
Reviewers for Emerald
Browse Among Books
THE MODERN IBSEN
By Hermann J. Weigand. Henry
Holt, 1925. Reviewed by Stephen
son Smith.
Professor Weigand has reconsid
ered “The Modern Ibsen” as a
dramatic artist. He has not, like
Shaw, used Ibsen as a mine of so
cial ideas. Nor does he speculate,
like so many German critics, on the
symbolism of Ibsen’s plays. Instead,
he goes to the heart of the matter:
the dramatic interplay of characters,
the motives for action, the intimate
revelations of the inner life of man.
There are occasional references to
Ibsen’s own life, and to his writ
ings other than the plays. But these
are incidental to Weigand’s aim:
to give a creative interpretation of
the plays themselves. To him the
plays are aesthetic creations, not
quarries for ^ethical discussion.
Where ethical values are discussed,
it is in their bearing on the lives
of the characters. Ibsen operated
on decayed social morals, but it
was the individual human being
who interested 'him most vitally.
The keynote of Weigand’s treat
ment of Ibsen is given by a remark
of the dramatist himself, made in
tho course of an address at Christi
ania: “I have been more of a poet
and less of a social philosopher than
people are generally inclined to be
lieve.” Ibsen continued, “My task
was the portrayal of man,” and I
think that Professor Weigand would
have strengthened his case by ex
tending the quotation to include this
significant remark.
Of Ibsen as a poet in the stricter
sense of the word, we have no
glimpse in this work. For the au
thor has ruled out Ibsen’s poetic
plays, “Brand” and “Peer Gynt.”
The historical dramas of the earlier
period, such as " “The Pretenders”
and “Emperor or Galilean,” are not
taken into account. By thus limit
ing the field, Weigand focuses tho
interest on the social dramas of lb
Sophomores Assured
Singles Champions
In Women’s Tennis
All the first team singles have
been played off in the girls’ class
tennis matches, Virginia Lounsbury
and Genera Zimmer stand at the
head of this division with three
games each to their credit. They
represent the second and first soph
omore singles, respectively, which
assures the singles championship to
that class. Regina Devault, senior
first singles, and Anna DeWitt,
senior second singles, won two
games apiece.
There are two matcchos yet to be
played off in the second team sin
gles. Only ono of the second team
doubles have been reported as
played off, and that, between the
juniors and freshman, resulted in a
victory for the frosh.
There are three games yet to be
played in the first team doubles
and ns the “dope” inclines so far,
the battle royal will occur when
the sophomores and seniors meet
across the net. The juniors humbled
the senior pair 6-3; 3-6; 6-2, while
the sophomore combination made an
easy prey of the juniors on a 6-3,
6-4, score. Christina Holt and Nellie
Johns compose the crack sophomore
doubles and May Helliwell and
Velma School are harnessed togeth
er for the seniors.
All tennis matches were to have
been finished by the first of this
week, but due to the varying weath
er conditions, have been slow in
coming to a close.
sen’s maturity. In these plays Ib
sen was, he thinks, a great poet
in the broader sense of the word:
he was a great maker, or creator, of
character and action, with a pro
found sense of tragic values.
The account of Ibsen’s brooding
over his plays, while they were in
process of incubation, is masterly
while the discussion of the
masterly. The discussion of the
characters is most sensitive. I sus
pect that Weigand has a power of
sympathy with Ibsen’s creations
which the playwright himself
lacked. Certainly the critic does
more than explain in most cases; he
gives an imaginative re-creation,
without, however, coloring the por
trait too much with his own view.
There is real power in his sketches
of Hedda Gabler and of Hilda Wan
gel. Why, one might ask, is this
man spending his time on other
men’s books? He might be writing
good novels of his own.
Weigand sees clearly Ibsen’s
power over emotional mood, his re
lentless treatment of the abnormal
and unusual in human life; he points
out how Ibsen achieves compression
of phrase and economy of plot. Ho
illustrates often his contention that
Ibsen deals in the “drama of ripe
condition”, beginning the play at
the point of the falling action, when
events are rapidly telescoping to
ward the catastrophe.
Surely Ibsen has found a critie
who is more nearly up to his own
stature than Gosse, or Archer or (Is
it heresy to say it?) Shaw. Wei
gan’s “The Modern Ibsen” at least
deserves a place on the shelf with
Archer’s translations, with Gosse’s
“Life of Ibsen”, and with Shaw’s
“The Quintessence of Ibsenism.'”
For Weigand has this signal merit
as a critic: he can look at a play
and see what is there. An his style
is competent without hardness, and
singularly free from academic pre
tense. I believe even Henrik Ibsen
himself would have liked this book
for its true an genunine ring. And
he was not exactly partial to crit
ics.
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“Stay in West”
Is Counsel of
Railroad Man
E. F. Flynn Tells Students
Of Columbia Expedition
Next Summer
“Stay in the Northwest,” was the
advice to students by E. F. Flynn,
director of public relations for the
Great Northern Railway in his as
sembly address yesterday on “The
Columbia River Historical Expedi
tion.” Here, he believes, lies the
greatest opportunity for the future,
and college students should remain
rather than go to the large cities
of the East as soon as they _ are
graduated.
Mr. Flynn briefly reviewed the
upper Missouri historical expedition
of last summer. Dean F. G. Young
of the sociology department was a
member of that party and plans to
take part in the Columbia expedi
tion as well. Members of the party
will be selected from the historical
associations of the United States
and Canada, with the exception of
12 or 15 students from France and
about 75 high school students from
the eastern states. These students
were winners in an oratoriacl con
test between France and the Uni
ted States on the subject of good
will, and this trip is given them as
a means of acquainting them with
the richness of the Northwest, and
its historical background.
The large railways are doing a
great deal in reviving interest in
history, and Mr. Flynn spoke espe
cially of the attempts of the Great
Northern in placing memorial mon
uments at points of interest along
the route which follows that of the
pioneer explorers. The ulrveiling
of these memorials is one of the
features of the organized expedi
tion, in addition to the lectures
which are given at points of interest
along the route. It was on such an
occasion, in last summers expedition,
that the memorial statue of John
F. Stevens was unveiled, on the
summit of the Continental Divide,
the great engineer standing beside
his own memorial at the ceremony.
The Columbia river expedition
which will start from Chicago on
July 15, for the west will take the
party first to the University of
North Dakota where entertainment
will be provided. From there other
stops will be made: Fort Union
where a large Indian Congress will
be assembled; Great Falls, Missouri,
Bonners Ferry; and Spokane Moun
tain. Then the Columbia river will
be traversed, dedications to Lewis
and Clark and their followers be
ing made at certain points. Other
points to be visited are Portland,
Vancouver, Astoria, Seaside, and
Spokane. The last stop will be at
Glacier National Park, which, Mr.
Flynn feels, will alone repay all
efforts made to take the trip.
Historians, authors, journalists,
and students will make up the
party, and will be greeted all along
the way by those interested in the
movement. The students of the
party will be given an opportunity
to meet people of their own ages
and interests, in order that a
greater enthusiasm may be created.
The whole movement, aside from
the historical value, is an attempt
to create a better feeling between
the great companies and their pat
rons. “Favorable public opinion, re
echoed through newspaper columns,
is the supreme court of the world,”
Mr. Flynn said, “and the game of
business is the greatest game in the
world.” The speaker urges stu
dents to play the game fairly and
honestly, and to keep “pegging
away” toward success.
“I’d like for all of you young
peiple to bo peptimists when you
get out in the world. A peptimist
rolls up his sleeves and goes ahead
and does it,” said the speaker in
stressing the importance of deter
mination for success in life.
Miss Pauline Knowland, member
of the women’s glee club, presented
two vocal solos at the opening of
the program. Frank Fay Eddy of
the Unitarian church delivered the
invocation.
Agnes Von Lehe Gives
Senior Organ Recital
Agnes Von Lehe, organist and
graduate student in the school of
music, gave her senior recital in
the music auditorium at 8:15 last
night. Marguerite Hill, contralto
and junior of the music school, was
well received in the two numbers
she sang for Miss Von Lehe.
Among the renditions of the or
ganist were the Sonata in B flat
from Mendelssohn, Tunnagalli’s Al
legretto Villereccio, and Midsummer
Caprice of Johnston.
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