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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1927)
(©rcguu Sally Emerald University of Oregon, Eugene SOn ABRAMSON, Editor EARL W. SLOCUM, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD Ray Nash Managing Editor- Harold Mam-urn, Sports Editor; Florence Jones, Literary ' Editor ; Paul Luy. Feature Editor ; News and Editor Phones, 65u day EDITORS: Claudia Fletcher, Beatrice Harden, Genevieve Morgan, Minnie Fiaher. Alternates: Flossie Radabaugh, Grace Fisher. NIGHT EDITORS: Bob Hall, Clarence Curtis, Wayne Morgan, Jack Coolidge SPORTS STAFF: Jack O'Meara, Dick Syring, Art Schoeni, Charles Burton, Hoyt Barnett. FEATURE WRITERS: Donald Johnston, Ruth Corey, A1 Clarke, Sam Kinlev, John Butler. UPPER NEWS STAFF: Jane Epley, Alice Kraeft, Edith Dodge, Barbara Blythe. NEWS STAFF: Helen Shank, Grace Taylor, Herbert Lundy, Marian Sten, Dorothy Baker Kenneth Roduner, Cleta McKennon, Betty Schnitze l ranees Cherry, Mar garet Long, Mary McLean, Bess Duke. Ruth Newman, Miriam Shepard, Lucil^ Carroll, Maudic Loomis, Ruth Newton, Dan Cheney, Eva Nealon, Margaret Hensley, Bflj Haj^rerty, Margaret Clark, Ruth Hansen, John Allen, Grayce Nelson, Dorothy Franklin, Eleanor Edwards, LaWanda Fenlason, Wilma Lester. _ BUSINESS STAFF Milton George . Associate Manager Sam Kinley Advertising Manager Herbert. Lewis Advertising Manager Lnrry Thielen ... Foreign Advertising Mgr. Joe Neil . .. Assistant Advertising Manager Francis McKenna .... Circulation Manager Ed Hissed . Ass’t. Circulation Mgr. Hob Dutton .. . Ass’t. Circulation Manager Kuth Corey . Specialty Advertising Alice McGrath . Specialty Advertising an -r.’l TJ „ .1I Pr.rlnninlr T.q_ Advertising Assistant*. xvum oucd, , I—7, V a« u;i. « Follette, Maurine Lombard, Charles Reed, Carol Lberhart, Bob Moore, Bill Ham mond. Office Administration: Dorothy Davis, Ed Sullivan, William Miller, Lou Anne Chase, Ruth Field, Roberta Wells. Day Editor This Issue—Claudia Fletcher Night Editor This Issue—Jack Coolidge The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during the 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, 2293-L; manager, 3 0. Business office phone, 1895. _ Unsigned comment in this column is written- by the editor. hull responsibility is assumed by the editor for all editorial opinion. _ HOW charming is divine phil osophy.—Milton. What Are We Shouting About? WIIAT is the matter with the universities? To say that nothing is WTOnig is to refuse to listen to persistent rumblings of discontent that are .arising from colleges throughout the country. Undergraduates are show ing a new interest in their own. education, and in a somewhat vague and groping fashion they are ex pressing dissatisfaction with the edneational machinery. The movement is as disorganized as it is widespread,—an indication that it is something of a spontan eous revolt. It is directed primar ily by a few students, but it car ries the force that is born of sin cerity and determination. First evidences of such a move ment on our own campus were vis ible last spring. A student report on the lack of intellectual activity within the university caused some thing of a stir—mainly outside the institution. Within it made a favor able impression on a few faculty members and a few students. Long reports on educational re form are not half so collegiate as plus-fours or yellow slickers. In stitutors of such changes are tol erated much the same as old-fogev professors who insist on talking about the pleasures of learning. Per haps there is truth, as much as there is venom, in a student’s remark that “if Mens Agitat Molem, an average sized peanut would stand firm as the Kock of Gibraltar before a com bined assault of the usual student ■mind of the University of Oregon.” Be that as it may the attempts to discover what is wrong with the University are to continue. A story in today’s Emerald heralds the work of a new self-constituted group that is engaged in carrying on the move ment begun last year. • This is no gathering of mourners, or of apostles of a new educational creed. Those engaged in the work are simply examining into the Uni versity’s educational machinery in the belief that it may possibly be so adjusted as to give some meaning to the designation “university.” Despite our avowals of love, rev erence and admiration for “dear old Oregon” it may be discovered that our zeal has made us content with sentiment, while at the same time we have lost sight of essence. It may be well to sto^ shouting hallelujahs long enough to find out what we are shouting about. Much Ado About Nothing TWO newspapers in Oregon made front page and editorial ma terial out of the meager items in the Eugene press on the failure of a | local restaurant of collegiate nomen | clature a sliort time ago. Both were evidently under the impression that I the business was a student-managad j establishment, and one waxed sharp ly critical of the university faculty for not training students to avoid financial calamity of this sort. The incident is not indicative of any habitual hostility for the uni | versify on the part of the news 1 papers mentioned. Neither is it 1 necessarily an indication of the pal I pable ignorance regarding educa tional matters so often displayed by persons having no direct personal , interest in them. It is, most probably, simply a S manifestation of the professional news gatherer's habit of thought. The newspaper man is likely to lose his perspective in his desire to put out an interesting paper. Very often, his desire for news of the sort that is read with greatest interest im pairs his sense of accuracy. This is probably what happened with these two papers in their treatment of the restaurant incident,—11. A. Ball (Continued from page one) Dorothy Ward; tioki‘tw, L'omild Jef fries; patrons, Ksther Setters; floor committee, Veil Flynn; construc tion, Hill Kidwell; publicity, Alice Kmeft. Though nothing in particular has lieen started ns yet, the first direc torate meeting has been bold and each member is now busy Jitiinig up their committees. Much thought is being directed toward the decorative scheme around which much of the success of the ball will center. Kbp has distin guished himself on the campus in the field of danei decorative schemes having worked out the motifs for the Sophomore Informal of the class of ’27, and the Junior from hist year. Much is expected of him this year and those familiar with his work feel that they will no tbc dis appointed. i'oimiiilttM’ (Continued from page one' general organization may be made to serve more adequately the min ority of intellectually active stu dents which it believes to exist. Reports To Be Published The body has been at work since early last term and it wit' publish tomorrow the first of a series of findings and conclusions, which wilt appear from time to time, with the end in view of arousing stu dent and faculty interest in the needs of the student minority. It aims to offer constructive proposals to help solve ilie problem, which it holds to be entirely neglected at present. The University, it believes, is almost exclusively concerned with serving the mass of university pupils to the prejudice of its stu dents. Defining the present eampus at titude, the committee observes that “to the mass of university pupils, who pursue education for its profits, the student, who devotes himself to learning for its benefits, is a freak. And existing administrative prac tice indulges this notion. This is not as it should be; for the student really is, by definition at least, a proper element of a university.’’ The local movement is part of a national student awakening to their own educational needs. This move meat is becoming more and more articulate, although it has not yet reached the stage of organized ac tion, except casually in various con ferences, and such publications as The New Student, Comptroller's Office Allows Ten Days for Winter Fee Payment On Wednesday morning, January lit, at 8 o’clock, the collection of fees for winter term will commence, was the announcement made from tlm comptroller’s office yesterday. The window will be open from 8:00 until 12:00 and from 1:00 until 4:00 except on Saturday when the office closes at noon. Pees may be paid anytime be tween the 10 and 20 but it is the wish of those in charge that the stu dents will come early and avoid a last minute rush. The penalty for late payment is $3.00 for the tirst day and 23 cents per day for each day thereafter for one week. After that date any student not having 1 paid all fees and penalties shall be considered automatically suspended from the University and will. re I eeive a grade of P in all courses. N. S. P. checks coming back to TfcSEVEN SEERS IT’S A RACE NOW BETWEEN THE STRANGLER AND THE D’AUTREMONT brothers to SEE WHO CAN GET ARRESTED j rHE MOST TIMES. • # • DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRY TALES? Once upon a time there was a high school conference :ui<l every fraternity on the campus said: “No, you choose your men first. We want to be perfectly fair.” » * * With the Sigma Nu and Sigma Pi Tau fires, the Beta murder, Sig ma Chi calamity, and speeches by the Journalism faculty, the high; school delegates should have had a \ very enjoyable time. „ St t Do you have trouble studying in the graveyard? Do you find it hard to track hick ir.v nuts with your fingers? Do you miss four out of five 3’clocks every week? ' , And do you find that 729 and 204 are always busy? If you are natural you will an twer yes to all these questions—if not page the undertaker. • • • And speaking of undertakers. There was once a traveling sales man at a convention Tia Juana who was sober and didn’t tell a single story. • • • Mary had a little skirt, ’Tu-as short and neat and trim; And Mary looked just like a bird As she hopped from limb to limb. « * * Another college professor lives up to the absent minded standard set for them. Yesterday Dean Allen left his car parked in front of the Anchorage after lunch and walked back to the campus. Later in the afternoon he glanced ;out of the window of his office and missed seeing the empty hitching post. He became quite alarmed until he con centrated for a few seconds and thought of what he had done. My idea of! a cheap sport is the fellow who says, ‘‘Give me a drink of your Gordon Water, I’ll buy you a coke sometime.” SEND THIS TO TIIE FOLKS The rain is raining all around, It rains on the just and the unjust fellers; But chiefly on the just because the •unjust Have the just’s umbrellers. Week’s Best Wisecrack “I haven’t cut a single class so far this term and I don’t think I will at all. » • * One of the things I can’t under stand is why 1 can send a role of Emerald all the way to Italy for on ly three cents and when I send the same size role to Medford it costs six cents. It' you don’t believe this just try it for yourself. One of the best reasons for smok ing a clay pipe is that you never have to pick them up when you drop them. MOST EVERYONE is ON THE lookout for SOMETHING TO laugh AT MOST of the time AND THE other night 1 WALKED into the COLLEGE SIDE inn and THERE WAS a big crowd AND 1 11A1) to go way BACK IN the rear before 1 COULD find a booth AND AS 1 went along EVERYONE LOOKED at ME AND laughed but 1 DIDN’T realize T HEY W E R E laughing AT M E until I sat DOWN AND discovered A FRILL of my SHIRT TAIL below my COAT. • • • Today we award the stucco cook ie to the old lady who said she didn't care to have a reproducing piano in her house because she only had room for one. « * • No Gretehen, Arnold Bennett Hall is not a girl’s dormitory. the office after the final date for payment will be considered the same as late penalty and the same pen alty inflicted. The additional pen alty of paying all fees for the rest of the year with cash is also in cluded. Most of the N. S. E. checks that are turned in to the office are from students who wait until the last few days before making payment, al though there is much less difficulty in this respect than formerly, it was announced. Pledging Announcement Mu l’hi Epsilon announces the pledging of Grace Janet Chalmers, Mary Clark. Mrs. George Hopkins, Miriam Little, and Melba Williams. 'theaters McDONALD: Second day: Bod LaBocque in “The Cruise of the Tasper B,” a delightful comedy Irama of laughs and love, adapted from the highly- successful ;stage day by Don Marquis, with Mildred Harris costarred; special musioal "eatures: Frank Alexander playing selections from the Gilbert and Sul livan opera, “The Pirates of Pen :ance,” and Sharkey Moore and the Merry-Macks in an atmospheric pre sentation, “Sfea Sharpers,” a medley sf music and mirth, featuring ‘Moonlight on the Ganges';” com ply, “Wet Paint,” and Internation il news events. Coming—Edward Horton in “The Whole Town’s Talking,” a rapid ire farce comedy, hailed as being jven funnier than his “Poker faces,” being an adaptation of the John Emerson-Anita. Loos stage :omedy that kept New York rocking vith laughter for over a year. BEX: Last day: Florence Vidor n “You Never Know Women,” a •ompelling love drama behind the scenes in Broadway’s large theaters, ivhere fame comes overnight, and omance plays a double role, with [mwell Sherman and Clive Brook supporting the captivating star; mmedy, “Wild and Woozy;” Kino ?ram news weekly; John Clifton Emmel at the organ. Coming—“The. Flame of the Yu kon,” a brand new 1927 version of the most famotis of northland melo dramas; “Souls for Sables,” with flaire Windsor and Eugene tl’Brien eo-starred. COLONIAD: Today and Wednes day: “The Dark Angel,” with Ron ald Coleman and Yilmy Banky. Heart beats mingling with the drum beats of war—society pageants of amazing surprises—fantasy—color ful love scenes. All here to thrill you in one of the year’s finest films. Also an International News and comedy. Coming Thursday, Milton Sills in “The Sea Hawk.”' Pledging Announcment Phi Kappa Psi announces the pledging of Gordon Guthrie of Los Angeles, California. CAMPUS ! 1 Bulletin*, Webfoot staff meeting in editorial office today 4 o’clock. Humanist club: Regular dinner at Anchorage tonight at 6:00. Dr. Warren Smith to lead discussion. Kwama: Important meeting to night in Woman’s building at 7:15 sharp. Dial: Meets Wednesday night at 7:30 with Ruth Miller, 1791 Alder street. Intramural Sports Committee: meets today at 5 o’clock sharp in 101 Woman’s building. Story About Cloran In Teachers9 Magazine A personality sketch of Timothy Cloran, professor of romance lan guages, written by Thelma Park, junior in the school of journalism, appeared in a recent number of the Oregon Teachers’ Monthly, an edu cational magazine printed at Salem, Oregon. Adam wasn’t dumb! Neither were Sampson, Anthony or Nero!, Even you— You Never Know Women with i FLORENCE VIDOR LAST DAY! i The REX / B U S T E R B R O W N S H O E 9 s s T O R E Girls How many different words can you make make from the letters in our store name? The co-ed turning in the larg est list of different words will have her choice of a pair of slippers and the second prize is a pair of all silk chiffon hose The contest ends Jan. 30th. Winner announced Feb. 2nd. Get busy co-eds. Think fast and furious Buster Brown Shoe Store Broadcasting calls for intense con centration and I find I am more comfortable and “at home” when enjoying a cigarette, lam fully con vinced that there is nothing injurious to the voice in doing this—otherwise I wouldn’t do it—and I find the height of smoking enjoyment in Lucky Strikes. “This IsWJZ”-AVoice Millions Hear Clear, resonant, appealing, J. Andrew White’s voice is constantly safeguarded S the dean of radio announcers, J. Andrew White’s voice is known to people throughout the land. Mr. White has won a large following of admirers because of the con stant dependability of his voice, ever in perfect condition. He smokes Lucky Strikes, both for finer flavor and throat protection. Lucky Strikes have become the favorites of men whose priceless voices thrill their audiences, as they have with the millions because, first, they afford greater enjoyment and second, they are certain not to irritate even the most sensitive throat. The world’s finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos, prop erly aged, perfectly blended, give them their richer flavor. But in addition, a costly extra process—toasting for 45 minutes—develops the hidden flavors of the choicest tobac cos and at the same time removes all “bite” and harshness. Smoke Lucky Strikes. They give added pleasure—you’ll like them. “It’s toasted” Your Throat Protection