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University of Oregon, Eugene
ABRAMSON, Editor
EARL W. SLOCUM, Manager
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Managing Editor Harold Man gum
Sports Editor
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Unsigned comment in this column is written by the editor. Full responsibility
M assumed by the editor for all editorial opinion.
THINKING is the great ene
my of perfection. The habit
of reflection I am compelled to
say, is the most pernicious of all
, the habits formed by civilized
man.—Joseph Conrad.
Thou Shalt Not
Discredit the Court
THE EMERALD acknowledges
with heart-felt thanks and due
humility the very generous action
of the student court in permitting
one of its representatives to join
in the eminent judiciary’s second
star-chamber session, yesterday.
Let it be clearly understood that
“the court’s action was not based on
* the Emerald’s earlier criticism of
the first session. Emphatically not*
What’s more, the austere judges
hesitated to grant admittance to
the reporter for fear that in so do
ing they might appear to be bowing
to outside influence. They permit
ted tho reporter to enter because—
well, just “because.”
■They also told him, after they
bad seriously considered his case,
that he would be denied further ad
mittance if the Emerald in any
way ridiculed the court or reported
its proceedings in a manner not in
keeping with the dignity of the
learned and just magistrates.
After swallowing whole the prin
ciples of faith embodied in the
court’s holy creed, the reporter was
permitted to enter the sacred pre
cincts where justice rules in simple
splendor. So, let it be understood,
the court has no regard for tho
Emerald.
But despite their great learning,
tho judges inadvertently confessed
that though the Emerald may not bo
able to force the court into open
session, it can at least force it to
Temain closed.
Read the story of the meeting in
today’s Emerald. Certainly, tin1 re
porter has done nothing to ridicule
the court. All he has done is report
the proceedings, the questions and
decisions. He has left it to tho
court to make itself look ridiculous.
The court has succeeded.
One culprit agreed with the
judge’s suggestion that he (the ac
cused) is not opposed to the green
hat tradition. The clever lad (al
ways agree with the judge, child
ren) was allowed to go free.
Ah, but the next man very wise
ly said that hats are more com
fortable in rainy weather than are
“lids.” Quite right. Asked it- ho
would continue to wear a hat in
stead of the traditional green cap,
he refused to commit himself. A
wise course in cases of doubt.
Did the very excellent court dis
miss the case and give the man
credit for having sense? Oh no.]
“Four swats from a paddle” will
refresh his memory on the matter
of traditions. Are they going to hit
him on tho head?
Those who confessed disagree
ment with the tradition were asked
to tell why green caps should not
be worn by freshmen. Well, you
very learned judges, let us hear
from you why they should be worn.
You are upholding the affirmative
in this matter; the burden of
proof rests on you. Tell us, won’t
you, why you or anyone has a right
to dictate to someone else on the
hats he should wear. Give us some
of your matured wisdom and don’t
believe too sincerely that your
mock dignity is an acceptable sub
stitute for reason.
And just think of the court com
plaining that it is being unjustly
discredited by the Emertnd!
Lords, majesties, little tin gods,
—fear not. We shall make no fur
ther efforts to discredit you. Just
continue to play house as you now
are, and in a short time we are sure
youwillhave discredited yourselves
far more completely than we could
ever hope to.
Philosopher in Sports
Writer’s Clothing
WRITERS of sports news are
rarely thought of as practical
philosophers. They are more gen
erally considered masters of fiction
writing, which description may or
may not be fitting. Then, there may
be here and there one of those rare
geniuses who combines both talents,
The Emerald’s own Mr. Mangum
has long been recognized by his
readers and co-workers as an excel
lent sports editor. lie is the posses
sor of a refreshing style, masterful
phraseology, and well-directed hu
mor. These talents, combined with
his own experience as a football
player, well qualify him for his
hazardous occupation. There is an
ever-present danger, it must be re
membered, to the sports scribe who
makes the fatal slip of slighting
athletic stars. But Mr. Mangum
weighs 200 pounds, besides being
accurate.
So Mr. Harold Mangum has a
good professional reputation, and no
writer could ask for more. But our
sports editor is also a practical phil
osopher.
“Publicity Secret of Success,
Thinks Mangum,” the Tuesday Em
erald cries in astonishment. The sur
prise comes in the first four words,
for sports writers are known to
think, even out loud, as Mr. Man
gum seems to have done on this
occasion. And the athlete, whoso
photograph appears in the column
gazes upward, as though scanning
the headline, his wrinkled forehead
seeming to indicate great interest.
Two secrets are out: the first, a
positive means to success, and the
other, far more important, the ex
position of Mr. Mangum’s hitherto
unappreciated genius.
The weight of authority rests on
Mr. Mangum’s side, for Mr. Man
gum agrees with Mr, Mangum’s
declaration, and who knows better
than Mr. Mangumf After all, Mr.
Mangum has frequent use of the
line: “By Harold Mangum, Sports
Editor.” %
Why do we write this? Only to
test Mr. Mangum’s theory and to
gi\e him a little friendly assistance,
hy way of publicity, on his hazard
ous climb to the dazzling heights of
success.
Diversions
On a
Penny Whistle
Iowa Interiors
By RUTH SUCKOW
Hero is another trenchant exposi
tion of realism in the much vivi
sected Middle West, a feminine ver
sion this time, which at once calls
up the contrasting dictums as de
livered by Sherwood Anderson and
Sinclair Lewis.
Ruth Suckow in this group of
short stories makes as completo a
cycle as she could have done in a
full length novel by restricting her
snillieu to Iowa farms and hy in
cluding a wide range of types and
j strata. She deals in more direct
| symbols than Anderson and her an
alysis is directed at the homely, np
I parent aspects of her field. Either
I she does not recognize, or else she
! eschews the psychological tortuos- \
ities of Anderson’s preoccupations.
She treats of sex from the view
point from which her characters
themselves see it—an habitual force
having its expression in marriage
and the production of children, not
in the intricate potentialities with
which Anderson sees it activated.
This is perhaps one mark of the
femininity of the treatment. Ruth
Suckow draws the verities of her
saga-like cycle from the molding
force of the social and economic
structure.
The details of the picture lie
against the dark canvas of the
lands, as do plots of color against
the long brown fields of the country
she describes. Running between the
lives is a common force which comes
from and goes back into the land.
Occasionally someone breaks the
pattern, and it is always by break
ing from the land, going out to
urban life, becoming a "city man.”
And even these, if they come back,
feel again the old force reaching
out to them, expressing itself in
old unchanging, inarticulate ways
of living.
In contrast to the detailed em
phasis of Sinclair Lewis’ “Main
Street,” Ruth Suekow diffused her
effect partly by the arrangement in
short stories and partly by the range
of her subject matter over farm,
town, church, soeial life, poverty,
and prosperity. She flashed a suc
cession of sharply etched scenes,
unlike in individual implication, but
all part of a cycle.
Her style is utterly unmannered,
sometimes even harsh; but its suit
able simplicity gives the effect of
spontaneous expression. It might be
the direct narration of one of her
characters. Humour is notably* ab
sent. But at the conclusion of
“Iowa Interiors,” one feels with
the author herself, no doubt, that
in all this there is little humour.
The picture is not drab but its shad
ing is in its poignancy and pervad
ing homeliness. • Ruth Suekow leaves
no doubt about the distorting pos
sibilities as well as the simple vir
tues of corn-raising in Iowa as an
inherited occupation, but she de
livers her opinion with an intense
ly sympathetic kind of pessimism.
A detailed investigation of her
method would point out the almost
stenographic exactness of her trans
positions from life to paper, the syn
thesis of the numerous types she
scans, and her selection of highly
charged situations. But more im
portant than the mounting of her
thesis is the indelibility of the
whole, one illuminated sector from
the life of the great American com
mon people.
One might point in ending, if to
nothing else, to the “Golden Wed
ding,” a short story, to rank with
Anderson’s “I’m a Fool,” as in it
self a«jjustification of the book’s
perusal. Its crisp realism and muted
ironv are incomparable.
M. J. S.
Court
(Continued from page one)
I your memory not to forget and I
(don’t want to see you up here
again,” the judge said as he dis
missed the case.
The third case on yesterday’s
i docket was that of Darold Elkins,
| a flagrant offender of the green lid
custom. The accused’s excuse was
i that “he forgot.”
! Putting on your green lid should
I be like opening the door, not like
j putting on a top coat or rain coat,
j the chairman admonished.
| Since the freshman hatf the proper
S«ttitude and was in favor of fresh
time he was assigned three swats
and warned to wear his lid all the
time.
Kenton Case was notified but did
not appear. He was sentenced to
j six swats for failure to wear his
I lid. Those who were to have ap
j peared last Wednesday were order
' ed by the court to be at the steps
(today.
| The court is composed of Lowell
i Baker, chairman, Tom Graham, and
i Prank Reinhart. Reinhart was not
present at yesterday’s session.
In dealing with each case the
court pointed out to the student
that the offense was against Oregon
traditions. *
Practice Games Held
For Swimming Matches
In Women’s Finals
In preparation for the women’s
swimming matehes, which will be
held next week, a series of prac
tice games are being played during
this week. None of the teams have
been picked ns yet, the selection be
ing difficult due to the number of
women starring in each of the
events.
The games played thus far are:
sophomore first team versus fresh
man third, and a combination of
freshman second and junior second
teams versus the freshman fourth
and fifth teams. The sophomores:
won their match, 33 to -0, and the
freshman-junior combination defeat
ed the freshman teams, 57 to 4.
Individual winners and the teams I
on which they played were: Dena
Aim, sophomore, first, and Doro
thy Endicott, freshman, second;
crawl, Dena Aim, sophomore, first,
and Janice McKinnon, freshman,
second; back stroke, Beth Ager,!
sophomore, first; free style, Eliza-1
beth Gallagher, freshman, third,
and Hazel Kirk, junior, second; j
plunge, Beth Ager, sophomore, first,;
and Myrtis Gorst, freshman, sec- !
und; breast stroke, Dena Aim, sopho
more, first, and Dorothy Endicott, j
freshman, second; diving, Eliza- I
beth Gallagher, freshman, third. J
;u»d Betty Summers, freshman, sec- !
and.
Tfu SEVEN
rv seers
“YOU’BE JUST THE TYPE,”
SAID THE PRINTER AS HE SET
ABOUT CONCOCTING ANOTHER
EMERALD.
The Alpha Chi cook' wishes to
state that in speaking of turning
on the H20 faucet—let’s have soup
—that she is irate that anyone has
stolen her recipe. Now we suppose
for the rest of the year the menu
will be soup via water.
SOLDIER FITS
Some people return from vaca
tions with no wardrobes—but the
best one is Jack Hempstead has
donned a smart well fitting lieuten
ant’s uniform—in care of the R. O.
T. C. Don’t salute.
STACKED AGAIN
Stacks and stacks of things hap
pen back in the stacks—Beware of
the brunette man, who wishes to
help the campus fragiles. All take
heed,' ’tis a warning printed this
day.
A POX UPON THEM!
Now it came to pass that in the
castle Sigma Chi one of the Knights
of the Study Table fell ill with the
plague, and he 'Was sore oppressed.
And his fellow First Knighters
cried, “Fetch this sad Knight a
nightie, and we shall hie him to
yon Infirmarrie. ” So Squire Bill
worthy Williamse, for such was this
pledge with the plague dubbed, was
mounted on a snorting palfry and
hied away to the pest house where
he will hide for several days.
And when this goodly deed was
accomplished the jolly Knights of
Sigma Chi returned to their castle
and there was much merrymaking.
Every knight did raise a tankard of
nitre on high and'the court jester,
Dickity Jones, did cause, much
raucous laughter. But as with a
mighty shout they said, “Let us
away to a joust!’’ Just then a
Phyzicke came in and made known
to them that they must be pricked
by the needle to prevent a spread
of the plague. Then did the Knight
cry, “Dam these leeches! They
sneak in and speak out of their
turn.’’ But it was of no avail, for
they undid their armor and breast
plates and did make much moan,
one fair Knight swooning from the
suffering.
And so throughout the court for
days to come there will be no court
ing of damsels, by reason of the
sore arms.
He is tall
And dark of hair
And lie demands
That she must, wear
Woolen hose
More elothes
Hid she obey
I 'll say.
IN FRONT WE HAVE EXAMS
—ON ALL SIDES RAIN—WITH
ER SHALL WE TERN*
* He answered the call—they *
* called him Coo-Cu. -*
*»* «»*»# *
Now What Is Your Suggestion
‘ ‘ This is here how, ’ ’ states ye
man about college which has no
carriage except the splendid car
riage which he has. “If I make
good grades and demand one gas
engine from the folks they will
say well, you With a vehicle on the
campus will not be able to still
keep up the good work. Now if I
get rotten gradelets they will say.
Terrible! how do you suppose your
grades would be with a car—Guess,
I’ll petition for a credit for walk
ing-take up track, maybe.
DON P AUKS — AW, HE
DOESN’T DOES HE.
SEVEN SEERS.
CAMPUS !
'Bulletin!
Tabard Inn—Very important
meeting tonight at 7:30 in Journal
ism shack.
Thespian: Important meeting
Woman’s building 7:30 tonight.
House managers meeting at T. M.
C. A. huf tonight at 7 o’clock.
Dial meets Wednesday night Ruth
Miller, 1791 Alder street. Usual
time, but be on time.
Chi Lambda Theta will hold a
luncheon, Thursday, November 2, at
the College Side Inn.
Phi Chi Theta meeting—Wednes
day nite 7 o’clock, room 105 Com
merce building.
Meeting of Graduate club, Fri
day, December 3, at 7:30 p. m. in
Woman’s building.
Men’s freshman hygiene—Those
absent from classes this week, se
cure final examination sheets in the
office of the men’s gymnasium be
fore Friday.
Educational club meeting Thurs
day evening, December 2, in room
2 Education building. Paper by H.
S. Tuttle of the school of education,
“.The Progress of Character Educa
tion.” Paper by Miss Stauffer of
the Portland Center, on “The Edu
cational Activities of the Congrega
tional Church.,f
All holders of Harvard degrees
meet at 6 o’clock Thursday at Cam
pa Shoppe.
Following are to appear on (he
library steps today, Wednesday,
at 10:50 a. m.:
Lee Hall
Walt Brown
Hank Bristol
Hank Ball
Neil Dickerson
James Wiley
Bob Hosford
Lawrence Morgar
Herman Fulton
D. Lester Belshe
Darrel Elkins
Kenton Case
Fred Eismann Jerry Van Dervlugt
The following freshmen please re
port at the men’s gym at 4:00 p,
m. today:
Rosser Atkinson
Henry Baldridge
Bill Bartle
Harold Carlberg Don. Speer
Scott Warren Hal Anderson
Terrance King
A. McCarty
Fred Powell
Cecil Gabriel
Philip Ireland
Don Stevens
Tim Wood
Bob Frantz
Sidney Dobbins
Wilbur Harden
Carl Noeske
John Schaefers
Ralph Bates
Cary Thompson
Harry Woods
loe Erkendbreakc
Reynold MaeDoi
Gordon McDowe
Jack Coolidfge
Fletcher Udall
Henry Bristol
Reynold MacDonald
'Theaters
Heilig: Starting today, running
Friday and Saturday—John Gilbert
in “Bardelys the Magnificent,” the
outstanding picture of the year for
Gilbert. It is historical as well as
educational.
Thursday only—Association vau
deville -with five big acts and a spe
cial musical program by the new
Heilig concert orchestra under di
rection of Charles M. Runyan.
Coming attractions—“Three Bad
Men, a. production equal to “The
Iron Horse” and many others of
note.
* * »
McDonald: Last day: Mary
Roberts Rinehart’s spine-chilling,
breath taking, rib tickling mystery
farce, “The Bat,” with all star cast;
Sharky Moore and the Merry-Macks
in “Hula Knights,” a south sea ser
enade, with Hariett Miller, world’s
smallest Charleston stepper, on the
stage, tonight at nine; special scenic,
"Menace of the Alps,” and Interna
tional news events.
Coming Thursday—Gilda Gray in
“Aloma of the South Seas,” an allur
ing romance of the tropical isles of
love; Saturday football matinee;
Notre I)ame-U. S. C. football classic
play for play on the gridgraph in
conjunction with feature picture
and music.
Rex: First day: Marshall Neilan’s
"Diplomacy,” a compelling drama of
love and international intrigue,
with Blanche Sweet, Neil Hamilton
and Matt Moore; comedy and news
events; Clifton Emmel at the orgap.
Coming—Nellie Lowell’s drama of
the big top, “Spangles,” with Marion
Nixon and Pat O’Malley.
Champion Swimmers
Will Come to' Light
At Meet Tonight
A large number of excellent swim
mers have signified their intention
of competing for the championship
of the University which is to be
held Wednesday night at seven
o’clock at the pool in the Woman’s
building.
The event is open to all students
of the University who have not pre
viously competed on the varsity or
freshman swimming teams. The
man scoring the highest numher of
points will be declared the best all
around swimmer in the school.
Officials for the event will be
chosen from among the physical
education majors, and Del Oberteuf
fer has consented to act as starter.
Five events are scheduled in the
following order: 40 yard backstroke,
four fancy dives, 20 yard swim un
der water, 40 yard breast-stroke,
and 40 yard free style. Points will
be awarded according to the ex
cellence of the time made.
Coach Abercrombie urges all men
who are interested in competing to
report to the pool promptly at
seven o’clock tonight.
Pledging Announcement
Sigma Chi announces the pledg
ing of Frederick Schetter of Marsh
field.
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“She kept the wolf away”
Little red riding
HOOD with her basket on
her arm met a wolf. And she
outwitted the old fellow be
cause she used her head. How
ever. if she hadn’t had food in
the basket, she wouldn’t have
succeeded in keeping the wolf
away.
"V^DU have to have food to
buck the world. You’ve
got to eat to keep your brain
going and your wits about you.
When you think you’re going
to meet the wolf, dodge him
by dropping in for a basket
ful at the—
Peter Pan
E.C.S.