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lailtj Jmcralb University of Oregon, Eugene SOL ABRAMSON. Editor EARL W. SLOCUM. Manager EDITORIAL BOARD Mmr Nash _ Managing Editor Harold Mangum —. Sport* Editor , Philippa Sherman, Feature Editor News and Editor Phone*, 656 BUSINESS STAFF Galvin Horn George Associate Manager ... Advertising Manager Kittle? _ Advertising Manager _Foreign Advertising Manager Lewis_Aas't. Advertising Mgr. Krancis McKenna . circulation mauaaisr ■ Bob Dutton ... Ass't. Circulation Manager [ Joe Neil, Ruth Street- i ... Specialty Advertising Alice McGrath .- Specialty Advertising! Roberta Wells . Office Administration . _ _ ..._! Day Editor This Issue—■ Ruth Corey Night Editor This Bob Hall Assistantr— Jack McArthur The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and^ Monday during fhe college year. Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 per year. Adver tising rates upon application. Residence phone, editor, 2298-L; manager, 1320. Business office phone, 1396. Unsigned comment in this column is written by the editor. Full responsibility is assumed by the editor for all editorial opinion. IT is graceful in a man to think and speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth.— Cicero. The Breakdown of An Unwelcome System NOT even a venerable Yale tra dition has been able to with stand the rising tide of student opin ion, and as a result, compulsory chapel attendance at the New Haven institution is no more. Yale was not alone, however, in accepting the change. The campaign against compulsion is neither cen tered at one institution nor is it di rected against one object. The past year has seen the fight directed against forcible attempts to bring the student to religion. In general the move may be said -to have met success, having resulted in substitution of optional systems for the compulsory in several col leges, and the opening of the mat ter to discussion in others. The commendable work was large ly carried on by the National Stu dent Federation, which made a sur vey among collego presidents, edit ors, students and ministers. Surprising it is to learn that the collective opinion did not consign all students to a hot time in the hereafter. On the contrary, there was general acceptance of the view that the student is not now more atheistic or insensible to religion than he was in 1900, but that he has acquired a much clearer perception of the relation of religion to life and social service. In the following opinion, express ed by President Farrand of Cornell, are the views of 70 other univer sity heads, including such men as Thomas of Rutgers, Wilbur of Stan ford and Little of Michigan: “It is obvious that these years have witnessed in tlio world at large a decreasing interest in creeds, but I am inclined to think that there lias been, and particularly in these last years, an increasing interest in the fundamental religious problems ... in that increasing interost tho ; undergraduates of our colleges par ticipate. This shows itself in an eagerness to discuss the underlying problems of religious faiths and de velopments, and also in the respon sibilities of services which the ap plications of religious conviction usually entail.” While opinion of university min isters was rather evenly divided, opposition to compulsory chapel •was based largely on unwillingness to spend effort on unappreciativo! and hostile nudiences. Others held, \ however, that the voluntary groups; need the “message” less than those who refuse to attend. On the whole, opinions varied from tho belief that there has not been much chango to the theory that greater religious in terest exists now among undergrad uates than ever before. This survey if. interesting not only in its authoritative answer (if one is necessary) to the charge that the colleges arc breeding athe ism, but also in its indication of tho organized strength of student opposition to compulsion in any manner or form. Victory is not at hand; neither is it far off. The chapel problem was an old one, and probably one of tho most disturbing. It remains unset tled, although the few victories will probably have a favorablo bearing on the situation in tho schools where compulsion is regarded as hav ing the force of divine decree. Progress is also being made in other fields, heartening advances which should serve to emphasize the fact that though the surface is bare ly being scratched efforts to discard the principle of compulsion may yet be successful. Ironic smiles probably greeted the news that the College of the City of New York has substituted a physical education course for compulsory mil itary training. It will be recalled that student effort directed to the same end last year resulted in strict censorship of the college publica tion, and apologetic speeches by university officials. So, after having thrown about such terms as “reds,” “revolutionists,” and “traitors,” the compulsionists have quietly low ered their flag. Victory in this case was achieved with comparative ease. It will not be so in all cases. But the battle has just begun, and already having been called every reprobatory name in the calendar, the students, skins toughened, carry on. Where reason reigns, the struggle, jf at all necessary, will be brief. Where reason does not reign, and that is where most of the compul sions exist, the battle may be long and drawn-out. In no cases have the students weakened. Their spirit gives sus tenance to the hope and strength to the belief that in the end they will carry their point. A Cold Reception For the Movie Collegian AND what of the motion picture football hero? Horrible, ac cording to the Southern California Trojan. If any Los Angeles paper dares to speak of the movies in that tone, either the picture is ter rible or the newspaper is unusually emancipated. Anyway, the producers of two current so-called college life pic tures will probably blush from shame as they read the Trojan’s castigation, while they shovel in the gold paid by the gullible public to see tho real c’legiates. Here is the editorial. It has double effect if you remember that it ap peared in a Los Angeles paper. It has triple effect when you realize that tho author is probably due to spend the rest of his life in a dun geon for writing this. To show what real freedom of the press is we are publishing this where all may see it: It is quite a mystery how tho understanding movie director can pull such brodies. Imagine a foot ball player engaging in ten min utes of hell-bent football in a hot sun at the end of which he dances off the gridiron into scented arms of some sweet young thing. Imag ine this, and you have before you the closing scene of “Bed” Grange's melodrama, “One Minute to Play.” Now the public is not to suspect that the football player could be in any condition but a fresh romantic one by his ten minutes of play. Artistic movies should be an appeal to the emotions and to past experiences—that is art. The other outstanding brodio supposedly depicting college life was in “The Campus Flirt.” In this picturo there "'as a certain incident known as the “pass-ein over” in which the prospects for Kappa Beta sorority were lined around the four walis of a board ing house living room. In come the Kappa Beta girls. The main group stands back in the doorway while a sorority mem ber enters the room, makes a tour about the lined-up prospects, points her linger a each privileged one and cries out, “Kappa Beta wants you.” Do the movie directors think that the public is as gullible as that? Are there no college men among them? Say rather high school sophomores. Are there no high school sophomores among ♦hem then? Gosh! What an un educated lot movie directors! From Other Colleges "I owe a lot to my fraternity,” says P. Green in the Berkeley "Daily Californian.” “I owe a lot to the students,” the Co-op at the southern branch of the University of California should par aphrase. It has announced through the “Grizzly,” that because of an overcharge, every student who bought a copy of C. C. Maxey’a "The Problems of Government,’' will receive a refund of seventy-five cents immediately upon application One hundred volumes were sold. The ban on dancing at Ohio North ern university, Ada, Ohio, is beinj enforced. "If anyone dances or an\ fraternity conducts a dance, it wii moan immediate expulsion,” Preei dent Albert Smith warned students "Hundreds of stags turned iiraj from varsity dance,” announces th< University Daily Kansan. A peculiar problem is presented here, for the men greatly outnumber the women students, and all “eligible” girls are dated up far in advance. Last year the price of admission to varsity dances was fixed at 75 cents for daters and $1.25 for stags, in the hope of encouraging dating. It has been found, however, that stags cheerfully pay the extra amount, and no difference has been noticed in the number of couples attending dances. Student opinion turns to ward the old system of equal admis sion fee, but no decision has been reached. No one can decide which is the best way since whatever method is tried, the stags keep on stagging and the daters keep on dating the same girls. WANTED—Girl to cook evening meals and two meals on Saturday in exchange for room and board. Must know how to cook. Apply at office of “Indiana Daily Student.” If she doesn’t know how, Ihe’ll have to eat her own lead biscuits. * * • While everyone is getting excited about “the youngest freshman in the University,” everywhere, how about the “oldest freshman?” Northwest jern University, Evanston, 111., claims ;him in Abraham Kalom, 45-year-old i Russian immigrant, who supports his ' wife and three children by raising sugar beets. American Chemical Society of Oregon to Meet Here October 16 The Oregon section of the Amer ican Chemical society will meet in McClure hall, October 16, Dr. Roger J. Williams, president of the Ore gon section of the society and" pro fessor of chemistry here, announced yesterday. Dr. E. C. Gilbert, professor in physical chemistry at Oregon Agri cultural College, and councilor of the Oregon section, will give a re port of the national convention at Philadelphia, at which he repre sented Oregon recently. Dr. Floyd C. Rowland, head of chemical en gineering at O. A. C., will lecture on “The Chemical Resources of Ore gon.” A special meeting of the Oregon Chemical society will be held in Portland, Saturday, November 6, at which Dr. Ernst Cohen, of the Uni versity of Utrecht, Amsterdam, Hol land, will be the principal speaker. Dr. Cohen, a prominent Dutch chem ist, and for the last two years lec turer at Cornell University, will ad dress the society on the subject of “The Metast Ability Matter and Al leged Constancy.” Eastern Economist To Speak Here Friday Dr. Riehard T. Ely, head of the bureau of farm economics in North western University, and for a num ber of years professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin, will speak Friday evening of this week at 6 o ’clock at the meeting of the Social Science club at the Anchor age. Any member of the faculty interested in hearing Dr. Ely is in vited to attend the dinner. Reserva tions of other than club members must be made by notifying Ralph Casey, school of journalism, tele phone 1600. Cover charge is 65 cents. Dean Gilbert’s classes in public finance will hear Dr. Ely speak at 11 a. m. Friday. Students who are interested may attend providing they have no other classes. Dr. Ely will also address the graduate club Sat urday. Professor Gets Prize For Advertising Talk W. F. G. Thacher, of the school of journalism, won the award for the best address at the annual con vention of the Pacific Coast Ad vertising Clubs association held at San Francisco last July. The subject of the address was “The Place of Advertising on the University Curriculum.” The award was to have been a gold medal, but j was changed to a desk set. Taylor to Give Results Of Psychology Tests ; Howard 11. Taylor, assistant pro fessor of psychology, will hold con ferences with freshmen on the re sults of the psychology tests, in 305 i Condon Thursday and Friday from four to five o’clock. TfcSEVEN ,0Vf9HQ OFFERING THE SHUTTLE SONG: “SHUTTLE ACQUAINT ANCE BE FORGOT.” * * * 1. Stand on left leg. 2. Describe an arc with other leg, pausing on way to massage scalp vigorously with foot. 3. Extend arms directly to the rear, and shake well before using. 4. Knit two, purl two. 5. Pick a pipe and pack it. 6. Inhale with short, quick gasps, allowing smoke to protrude from eyes. 7. Jump up and down on ball of one foot and heel of other repeating aloud, “Aimee did! Aimee didn’t!” twenty times. 8. Keep that school girl complex ion, first asking the man that owns one. 9. Touch floor with hands, keep ing knees bent and eyebrows raised. 10. Save the surface and you save all. 11. Save your energy by Washing your clothes with Einso. 12. Cool off with a G-E fan. *’ * # “Say how do you like polo?’’ “Not very good, fact I don’t like it at all.” “"What’s the reason?” “Too much horse-play.” THEIE VACATIONS Spent the early part of the vaca tion on the beaches of Alaska in a reform movement to wipe out neck ing among clams. This accomplished he accepted a contract with a vaude ville circuit and spent the remaind er of the summer giving illustrated lectures on “What I Got Out of College. ’ ’ *■ * * “I GUESS I’M A WEAKLING” SAID THE DEY COP. “I’LL NEV EE POSSESS A STEONG GIN. ’ ’ Our idea of a smart man is the fellow who marries the domestic science teacher so that he can get some practical experience in camp cooking. 1 Just to show Portland wfaat a good Girl Scout she is, Teddy Swaf ford showed two “lost” men the way to go home the other morning. UK. "r The next number on me menu will be a falsetto duet by Russ Ferris entitled, “I couldn’t turn of the dash-lite so I covered it with my hat.” .V *».*»»***** * ‘‘What gets me,” said the * ' criminal, ‘‘is the electric * * chair.” * **»•****»* * As the man who deals in goose feathers says, the first requisite of business is pluck. • VENUS ‘‘Lovely statue over there. ‘‘Whose is it.” ‘‘Oh it belongs to the city.” ‘‘No, no, I mean what’s it of?” ‘‘Granite, I guess.” ‘‘But what does it represent?” ‘‘Oh about $50,000.” ‘ ‘ Thanks. ’ ’ Wear the (jenuinc FISH BRAND SLICKER MAKERS OF THE BEST SINCE IA3G \cwr if s LOOK FOR THIS TRADEMARK AV'^VVai cu^SVu^ STYLES FOK MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN A J. TOWER CO BOSTON WABM! “I’m getting there by degrees,” said the fly as he began his ascent }f the thermometer. Sarah B.: “Bob Mautz was the inspiration of my life, the very eroal of my ambition, but,_” Chi O: “But what?” Sarah B.: “But father kicked the goal.” V • * WALK THEN, DERN YE, WALK. *• * • SEVEN SEEKS Theaters McDonald: last day: Milton Sills and Betty Bronson in “Paradise,” by Cosmo Hamilton, with Noah Beery and Charlie Murray; McDon ald “Merrymakers” syncopating stage band in “Campus Capers,” a medley of music, mirth, songs and dances, nightly at nine; Felix com edy; Kinogram news events and pictures of Oregon-Washington foot ball game; Frank D. C. Alexander at the organ. Coming—Beginald Denny in his first super-farce comedy, “Take It From Me,” adapted from the sen sationally successful musical com edy and portrayed by a great cast of supporting players, also, McDon ald “Merrymakers” in a new pre sentation of “Campus Capers.” Rex—first day: “Combat,” a grip ping melodrama of the Northwoods —climaxed by a tremendous forest ) ^Metofadl — ■w OUftKBTEM amp®/ coy ire—with House Peters and Wanda Flawley, co-starred; comedy, ‘Thanks for the Boat Ride,” an icean of joy; Kinogram news events; Clifton Emmel at the organ. Coming—Hoot Oibson in his most ikeable role in “The Man in the Saddle,” an exciting comedy drama >f the west, and “Fighting with Buf falo Bill,” the greatest story of ad venture ever screened, adapted from :he story by “Buffalo Bill” Cody, limself. Swimming Practice Begins Tonight for Men Announcement has been made by !foach Abercrombie, swimming coach, that varsity practice would begin in the Woman’s building pool tonight at 7 o’clock. 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