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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1927)
Famous Orator To Lecture on Fascisti in Italy Soldier of Fortune Gets Material for Speech From Experiences Skeyhill to Be on Campus Next Wednesday Night Tom, Skeyhill, the young orator who comes to the University next | Wednesday night, January 19, is an Australian, a soldier, a poet, a world traveler, student of literature, political economy, anj world af fairs. He is indeed a student of world affairs. He has been “on the go” since 1914 when he enlisted as an “Anzac,’’ a boy of 18, to do his bit in the World war. Since then he has visited many lands, has trav eled over a quarter of a million miles, and has visited every Euro pean country except Portugal. While fighting in the terrific fury of battle at the Dardanelles in 1916, he was stricken blind from a shell explosion and bayoneted through both hands. For three years he was totally blind. He became known as the famous Australian blind soldier-orator. Other coun tries, including the United States, asked him to help in war work. Won Fame As Speaker During this time lie won fame as a war speaker and on one notable occasion raised $23,000,000 in twen ty-three minutes at the Metropoli tan Opera House in New York, on the same platform with the lato Colonel Roosevelt. It was Roosevelt that said of him, ‘ ‘ I would rather bo on the plat form with Tom Skeyhill than any other orator. ’ ’ In 1918 he miraculously recovered his sight at Washington, 1). C. A year later he attended tho peace conference in Paris. In 1920 ho ran tho lines into Soviet Russia to study Bolshevism first hand. Ho came back to the United States, in 1921, speaking here and in Canada. In 1922 he was again in Europe at tending tho Geneva conference and visiting the Near East, Italy, Ger many, France and England. In 1923 lie filled 30Q lecture engagements in America. Following this lecture tour ho completed another and then again turned to Europe. Learns About Fascisti When there during his last trip, Tom Skeyhill became intimately ac- i quainted with the Fascisti govern ment and it was he who said, “The Fascisti do not rule Italy—they are Italy. ’ ’ “Mussolini and the Black Shirts” is the name of the lecture he is to deliver on Wednesday. He has a pleasing voice and he speaks as a man who has truly mastered his subject. The lecture will be given in Vil lard hall at 8 p. m., January 19. Admission is 50 cents for students and faculty and 75 cents for towns people. Season tickets for the next three lectures may be obtained for $1.25 for townspeople aid 75 cents for students. They are on sale at the Co-op, the graduate manager’s office, and at the door. Fees (Continued from page one) iginiated in the financial crisis of the University induced by an in crease in attendance out of all pro portion to tile increase in income. This process of shifting the load to the student’s shoulders cannot be carried further, President Hall believes, in light of these statistics. Even in the so-called private or i endowed institutions of the east, it | is pointed out, the student is not ex- ; peeled to carry the cost of the j institution but is relieved by income from other sources. The proportion charged against the student at Ore gon, nearly 22 per cent, is held to be about the upper limit of what is practicable in the west. As Others See it A Letter (Daily Kansan) His Excellency, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, Sir: We bow with you in your tribute to the fallen dead, who thought that by their lives they were advancing the cause of democracy; we murmur with you, fervently, a prayer for peace; we go even farther, and re quest you to do your utmost for the attainment and furtherance of peace. Jingoistic utterances will make for war; reverent tributes may make for peace; but tributes do not in themselves achieve peace. Peace comes by peaceful acts—give and take with equanimity in internation al intercourse; a manifestation of peace is peace. “We shall not be able to cul tivate the arts of peace by constant appeal to primal instincts,” you say, and we concur. Then let us curb our instincts of pugnacity, of self-os tentation, and acquisitiveness. Let us watch, then, that we fall not into international greed; let us halt any trend toward militarism, any boasting of national strength; let us extend to other nations, not the privileges, which under reversed con ditions they might extend to us, nor the privileges, which under those conditions, we might ask of thorn— let us extend to them the privileges which we now enjoy. We lost in common with all other warring countries, you say. Then, let us share in common, not rebuke them for not kneeling in gratitude because “there is a bank to serve their needs.” You say “We shall avoid any na tional spirit of suspicion, distrust and hatred toward other nations. Can wo then, as you declaro five min utes later, dictate to the other na tions the terms on which wo will meet them in working for peace? Remember you said, “The first re quisite for this purpose, (under standing, good will, and friendly re lations) is a friendly attitude on our own part.” And then, “We realize thoroughly that no one will protect us unless we protect ourselves.” Do they con note the same meaning? Referring to the military establishment, you say, “It is a menace to no one ex cept (the evil-doer, ” We remind you that in the functioning of a military establishment, which is war, that it is impossible to pick out the evildoers from the whole; we remind you that poison gas and shrapnel and bombs discriminate not between the doers of good and evil, but take unhesitantly, unheed ingly, unmercifully, all life that lies in their path; we remind you that in the trenches the innocent died with the guilty, whether Hun or Yank. In summarizing the disasters of war, you say, “It is not only be eause of these enormous losses suf SPOT AND FLOOD LAMPS For Rent With Color Screens 1027 Willamette J3t. Phone 304 Decorate Your Tables for Your High j School Guests With Flowers FROM j Raup’s Flower Shop \ BE HAPPY EUGENE BUSINESS COLLEGE It’s A Good School Stenographic, Bookkeeping or Secretarial Course Special Classes by Arrangement A. E. Roberts, President Phone 666 992 Willamette St. Eugene, Ore. Swimming Team Appears Better Than Last Year Abercrombie Optimistic Over Prospects for This Season If the varsity swimming team fails to win a single meet this year, t the season will not be a complete failure from Coach Ed Abercrom bie’s point of view; he points out that almost every man of last year's squad has shown a marked improve ment in his chosen event. Three of this year’s team were (out ast season for the 200 yard i breaststroke. Of these, Julian Smith ; failed to qualify as a varsity swim mer while Sinclair and McGregor | were clocked in about 3:12. At present, Smith regularly makes 2:58 ! while Sinclair and McGregor are 'good for 3:03. Last year’s best bet in the 200 yard backstroke was Bob Gardner j who was capable of about 2:20 for the distance. This season there are .three varsity men who make 2:14. iOn the freshman squad, Johnny Al j len, a Eugene boy who never had tried the event before, has already j turned in a mark of 2:15 and Me Alpin, former Multnomah club swim mer, is credited with 2:10. Johnny Anderson, another freshman, re cently sprinted the distance in 1:55. In the 440 yard distance, Frank Reid, who failed to make the var sity last year, is capable of making the creditable time of 6:14 while “Iron-man” McCook, who does ev erything in the order of events but dive, is swimming the distance in 6:20. The greatest surprise of the sea son is the excellent time turned in by Charley Silverman, a freshman, in the telegraphic meet with Wes leyan university. Silverman made the difficult 440 yard event in the remarkable time of 6:06 3-5. Johnny Anderson, former Mercers burg high school swimmer, has brok fered alike by ourselves and the rest of the world that we desire peace, but because we look to the arts of peace rather than war as the means by which mankind will finally de velop its greatest spiritual power.” Is that in harmony with your state ments that our navy is the best in the world, and our military forces are the largest we have ever yet maintained in time of peace? Are such an army and such a navy arts of peace? “We must face the facts. Our main responsibility is for Amer ica.” Mr. President, we fail to un derstand you. Did you dedicate that memorial to peace or to war?' en three University records this year and is just getting started. He shattered the 40 yard dash record with a mark of 10 3-5, the 100 yard mark with 58 seconds, and the 220 with a new mark of 2:35. On the whole, Coach Abercrombie is satisfied with the showing made and declares that, with a new men’s swimming tank, the University of Oregon swimming team will be push ing the strongest teams on the coast for first honors. Bolt Is Put on Door To Bar Latecomers “Here’s a real story,” said Don ald Barnes, professor of history. “A bolt has finally been put on the door of Villard assembly. For thir teen weeks I have tried to get a bolt on that door, finally I bought one at the five and ten cent store for fifteen cents. “Nearly everybody in the Univer sity has tried, and finally they said it was too expensive. The only per son who wasn't appealed to was Dr. Hall, and I was going to him next. And now the late comers have to go up in the balcony and hide be hind the green curtain, most of them being ashamed to come out in the open.” Margaret Stahl, ’26, Eddy Smith, Married j Margaret Stahl, ’26, and Edward; D. Smith, Jr., ex-’26, both of Port land were married there Januarv 10. Miss Sraht was on the campus last year and was a member of Otcliesus, honorary dancing society, and Alpha Chi Omega. She is a daughter 'of Mr. and Mrs. H. Y. Stahl of Portland. Smith is a former University stu dent. While on the campus, Eddie was a member of the upper news staff of the Emerald and was af filiated with Delta Tau Delta, fra ternity. He is now doing day po lice reporting for the Oregonian. The young couple will make their home in Portland where Mr. Smith will continue with his work. Pledging Announcement Orchesis announces the pledg ing of: Margaret Bunn, Florence Grebe, Roberta Wilcox. Learn to Dance Well Ballroom—V alencia—Ballet ■ —teachers— Katherine Srang & Milton George Feature dances furnished Phone 2279; Hours, 1 to 9 P. M. STANora DANCE STUDIO 90 E. 9th St. (upstairs) FILMS Developed and Printed at Carl R. 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