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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
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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.”
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* ‘‘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. ’ ’
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“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.”
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WALK THEN, DERN YE, WALK.
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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
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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. Regular practices will
be held every Monday night at T
o 'clock. Eegular practices will be
held every Monday night at 9 o'clock
and Wednesday and Friday at seven.
A large turnout is expected as only
one letterman from last year, Lloyd
Byerly, is eligible.
State Editors to Hold
Annual Meet in March
Eric W. Allen, dean in the School
of Journalism, who has been in Port
land conferring with Joe Thomison,
editor of the Hood River Glacier,
in regard to the plans for the com
ing newspaper conference, which is
held annually in Eugene, announce*
that the dates for the meeting are
set for March 4 and 5.
President Arnold Bennett Hall will
take a leading part in the program.
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