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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1927)
®tcgon ©ailg ^mcraUi University of Oregon, Eugene SOI- ABRAMSON, Editor _EARL W, SLOCUM, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD Bar Nash Managing Editor; Harold Mangum, Sports Editor; Florence Jones, Literary ’ Editor; Paul Luy, Feature Editor; News and Editor Phones, *66 PAY EDITORS: Claudia Fletcher, Beatrice Harden, Genevieve Morgan, Minnie Ffcher. 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 Kinley, 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 McKcnnon, Betty Sehultse, Frances Cherry, Mar garet ' Long, Mary McLean, Bess Duke. 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Day Editor This Inane—Bee Harden Night Editor This Issue—Charles Burton Assistant—■ Sidney Dobbin The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of fbe University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during .the college year. Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffioe at Eogene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.BO per year. Adver tising rates upon application. Residence phone, editor, 2293-L; manager, 1320. Business office phone, 1896. Unsigned comment in this column is -written by the editor. Full responsibility is assumed by the editor for all editorial opinion. NO thing is ever by divine power produced from noth ing.—Lucretius. If Democracy, Why Not Genuine WHILE no references were made to “an invidious move ment on the campus’’ it is possible to interpret the plea for “the old idea of democratic education,’’ made by the president of the stu dent body to the Eugene chamber of --commerce, yesterday, and reported in the Guard, as virtually an at tack on the program for educationa readjustment suggested by an in dependent student committee. This was probably not in the speaker’s mind, but his own words as quoted in last evening’s newspaper will doubtless give comfort to the op ponents of intellectuality in the college. “An educational aristocracy,” the news report credits Mr. Riggs with saying, “leads to aristocracy in all its phases.” Ergo, if democrat ic institutions are to bn maintained, we must keep education on a demo cratic basis. We should like to know the mean ing of “aristocracy in all its phas es.” Assuming that it means snob bishness (for that is the collegiate interpretation) we question the ac curacy of an assertion that such a spirit, regardless of its qualities, is fostered by intellectual aristocracy, and the implication that, “the well rounded student” is always socially democratic. But this is all beside the point, except insofar ns it tends toward a picture of the student, who seeks learning for its own sake as some form of freak who has about as much value to a university .os has the so-called student who comes to have a good time. Mr. Birrs is quoted as having di vided students into three classes: First, the intellectual student, who «omes to develop his intellectual faculties to the exclusion of all pise; secondly the “average stu dent’’ who comes to get as much as he can (well put) and who becomes a well-rounded American bv virtue of participation in extra-curricular activities and athletics as well os in matters scholastic; and thirdly, there is the person with no serious purpose who is a hindrance to the university. Quoting from the news text: The aims of a university as outlined by the speaker are to develop leadership and character, tind to do this an institution di vides its work into academic or curriculum and extra-curriculum activities. Tn the first is the class room work; in the second are the athletics and committee work to aid in developing the physical, Commun ications Proving That “Mens Agitat Molem ’ ’ To the Editor: When the verdant members of the plastic age, freshmen at the University of Oregon, first become acquainted with this institution of teaming and gaze wide-eyed at the motto on the University seal, ‘'mens agitat molem,” how they inset thrill from the bottom of their super collegiate oxfords to the tip of their super eollegiate headgear with their awakening sense of the power of mind over matter. How •their health - service-examined-and eatalogued little hearts must throb ■with the expectation of the miracu lous if somewhat mechanical im provement of their own intellects in mental, and character virtues of a student. Before going further, we would ask how many students become well developed according to this formula. How many participate actively in athletics and how many are on committees and what not? All the athletics the majority of Btudents participate in are those mild forms of gymnasium) that even “intellec tuals” take. And how many have the opportunity to bo benefitted by so-called leadership-developing com mittees? Mr. Biggs may not be working on the assumption that the primary concern of a university is not in tellectual, and that those who come to college for education as a worthy end in itself are maladjusted per sons who do not belong; but this is the attitude of most persons who say tho things attributed to him. Com ing to think of it though, isn’t it barely possible that wo have in our teachers an intellectual aristocracy? And isn’t it possible that an aris crat of brain may live as good a life and bo as beneficial to the world as an aristocracy of brawn—aye, and even develop character? Apostles of middle-class American democracy certainly would not deny these persons the right to prepare for life as they wish to live it. • • • Wo are in entire accord with Mr. Biggs’ reported stand in opposition to any increases in student fees. Al ready heavily taxed, the students are contributing far more, finan cially, to their education than is the state. To add to this heavy burden would be to force out of tho univer sity persons altogether deserving. A dministration ! Please Take Notice B ran think of hotter reasons » * why the library should not bo closed during the assembly hour than are put forth by a correspond out who pleads in behalf of those “registrants” who find time to think of books only at 11 o’clock on Thursday. One very good renson why there should bo no attempt to force at tendance is that Tory few of our assemblies, unfortunately, are worth the time they consume. Surely those to whom our corres pondent. refers as “the administra tion ” do uot believe that our as sembly programs are suited to all tastes and interests! The idea of coercion also rubs a bit, but fortunately students are not yet horded into one flock and shooed to the assembly hall, and there remain many other places where one may spend an hour. The unwelcome design has failed miserably, wo are happy to report again. This has been evident to the j students for some time, and may ] ]*crhaps have come even to the no | tiee of the administration. the course of their four-year con tact with our enlightened pedagogi I cal system! Then, Mr, Editor, picture their I disillusionment, their downright I consternation and indignation when, i in the course of their college career of important house business, bull 1 fests, and blind dates, they manage to find a few precious moments for study at the University library— only to discover the place closed tighter than a meeting of the board of regents. The reason for this course, the authorities doggedly as sert, is that students must attend he assemblies. Regardless of whether the program is of universal interest I or not, regardless of the possibility that an emergency might arise 1 wherein a student would have to use the library at that- hour in or dor to prepare an assignment, the ! administration hauls blindly at the ' reins and refuses to consider a 1 change of course. To say that the bit is galling to the majority of the : TftSEVEN L SEERS THIS IS NATIONAL LAUGH WEEK. • • • The idea is spreading tremendous ly. Yesterday someone asked me if I was planning to run for editor of the Emerald next spring. • # * Also, it is only too fitting that tho Independent Student Investiga tion committee should choose this same month to make their report. • • • BUGHOUSE FABLE “Money moans nothing to me,” said Jack Benofiel as he looked around over the small crowd at the ; game. • • * What a prize Is Simon Breeze; Swam the channel With axel grease. • * * FAMOUS HOODS Mother . Woman .. ..Winked Maiden -.. Red Riding .. Mount . • # • It would be like climbing on the band wagon now to exclaim over the humorous writing of Corey Ford. Nevertheless he has one of the cleverest articles I have read for some time in tho late issue of Vanity Fair. It is entitled “Ice Skating For Ladies,” and is one of the most enjoyable ways of putting in twen ty minutes that I can think of. * * * No Gretchen, that part in the Oregon Pledge song that goes like this: “Now uncovered, swears thy every son,” does not refer to the habit fraternity brothers have of pulling the covers off one another. * # * -wa iirv 1 fleas are mado to tielde fools like me, But only God can tickle a flea. ' FAMOUS LAST WORDS * Hero comes a torpedo! * **#•«**»•*» • » • Goms from literature—"W'ords are tho most powerful1 drugs used by mankind.” Some people use them as chloroform. And ho who gives many co-eds a treat, Is signing a lease on poverty street; And he who gives his professor some praise, Builds little palaces for higher grades. • • • CAMPUS STROLLING The girl with the coat that looks like an old spotted cow1. She is al ways conscious of it on her back, too. Florence Wilbur still has a holly wreath in her window. Is it a case of sentiment or just plain forget fulness, Florence? A sophomore with rubbers on. Cakes, and cakes, and cakes in the window of the Col lege Side to talk the co-eds out of their dieting. They go by once and glance longingly, but pass on. The next time they begin to weaken, and after that—Oh what’s a pound more or less? Two girls sitting on tho senior bench. I think there are warmer seats for a day like this. Professor Howe going home to din ner. I wonder if he whistles his s ’s. * • • BRING BACK THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF, HAT FINS AND BUG GY WHIPS. CO ED OOUNCIL Bear Auntie— Bow can I smoke cigarettes with out getting the fingers on my right students and fails utterly in its avowed purpose of enforcing attend ance at assemblies is but stating a truism. Bow the old Pioneer must laugh as he strides across the campus and •notes what little influence mind has over the matter, gray or other wise, in the heads of the administra tors of the University. How must townspeople feel, those who help support this institution, when they make the trip to the campus to use the library, only to be faced by locked doors and the statement that the library is closed in order to force students to attend the assem bly, and that they, the townspeople, must also come some other time. How delightful it is, Mr. Editor, for the verdant members of the plastic age, freshmen at the Uni wrsitv of Oregon, to learn in the shadows of its ivv covered walls that education is an enforced -and mechanical process of intellectual spoon feeding whereby anyone pos sessing the time and money may share in the benefits of the domin ion of mind over matter. William Schulze. hand all stained with nicotinef Iva Camel.' Dear Iva— j Try using your left hand. Auntie. • • • ABOUT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR IF THE COOK’S CAN-OP ENER WOULD BUST WE WOULD ALL STARVE TO DEATH. President Addresses Alumni at Portland On University Plans President Arnold Bennett Hall, speaking before the alumni asso ciation of Portland last night said it was his dream and hope that the University of Oregon may so con tribute to the material develop ment of its resources and the spir itual growth of its people, that its service will repay many fold the sacrifices entailed in its generous support. “It is through the leadership of the graduates and through their pa triotic and efficient service Tender ed to the people of the state that the University must justify itself,’’ he continued. “I hope that the alumni will share with me this ideal and that we may move resistlessly for ward giving generously of what wo have and are to the up-building of a better commonwealth. ’ ’ He discussed further the program of the University and the relation of the alumni to its activity. Tho dinner given by the alumni in President Hall’s honor was fol lowed Ly bridge and dancing. The alumni wore given an opportunity to meet President and Mrs. Hall, after the address. Critique fContinued from page one> criticisms of the work and much encouragement to the students. A work shop was the idea of the room containing the work of the students of Victoria Avakian. Looms were draped with hand weaved scarves and other pieces of work, several tables were covered with material need in batique work and dainty little silk hankies, and walls were covered with dress designs made by the class in dress design ing. Large, glajing signs covered the walls and door which wrarned the public that they were not to talk to the employees, others warn ing the employees to keep to their work and not to watch the time. Exceptional Work Exhibited In those rooms devoted to the work of Nowland B. Zane’s decora tive design classes, Mrs. V. H. Mc Ginty’s book and poster classes, and Maude I. Kern’s classes in normal art., exceptional work was exhibited. So good was most of the work that those judges who criticised the work praised it *hnd remarked about the unusual ability of the students, many of whom are freshmen. At noon each department enter tained its visitors at the Anchor age. The exception was the infor mal luncheon given by the sculpture group in the sculpture studio in honor of Judgo Carey, attended by advanced students in sculpture, Judge Carey, and Mr. and Mrs. Avard Fairbanks. At the banquet last night inter esting talks were given by Judge Carey, Mr. Pureoll and Dr. Rudolf II. Ernst. Several musical num bers, a feature by Miss Lillian Stupp’s class in dancing, added to the pleasure of the evening. In ad dition several little features were given by the students of the dec- i partment. Theaters - McDONALD: Second day: “.The Whole Town’s Talking,” a scream ing farce comedy adaptation of the John Emerson-Anita Loos’ hilarious stage success, with Edward Horton, Virginia Lee Corbin, Otis Harlan, Dolores del Eio and an all-comedian cast, in a rollicking comedy filled to overflowing with laughs and sur prises that rocked New York till its sides ached and hailed by the critics as “even funnier than ‘Poker Faces;’” also: the second of “The Collegians,” those delightful com edies of college life; ShaTlcey Moore and the Merry-Macks in “A Spanish Omelet,” featuring “In a Little Spanish Town,” tonight at 7:25 and 9:40; Frank Alexander’s musical comedy; Webfoot Weekly of state events. • * * EEX: First day: “The Flame of the Yukon,” a brand new, 1927 version of the greatest of all dramas of the Canadian North, where prim itive passion reigned- under the glow of the northern lights, and brawn and grit meant fortune for those who dared,—the cast is. an all favorite; comedy and International with musical accompaniment by John Clifton Emmel at the organ. Coming—“The Lady of the Har em,” with Greta Nissen, William Collier, Jr., and Ernest Torrence. Yearling Swimmers to Meet Vancouver High _ Announcement was made yester day by Coach Edward Abercrom bie that the freshman swimming team will meet the Vancouver high | school team in the local pool Febru ary 19. An attempt was mlade to arrange a meet with the Washington school for this week end but was unsuc cessful. Abercrombie's yearlings are find ing it difficult to locate opposition sufficiently strong to test their strength. REX NOW! Use the OREGON ELECTRIC Going Home $5.30 Portland and Return Tickets on sale Fri., Sat., and Sun’s; Return limit Tuesdays Low Round Trip between Eugene and the following points, daily 15 day return limit: Albany $2.50; Corvallis $2.25; Forest Grove $7.10; Salem $3.80; Woodbum $4.75; Hillsboro $6.75. Trains leave 8:00, 10:50 a. m. 2:00 (Ltd) and 6:05 p. m. L. F. Knowlton, F. S. Appelman, Tray, l’sgr. Agt. Agent Phone Main 140 Phone 317 —To Have Your Suit Properly Pressed Frosh Glee Irvin & Irvin 643 E. 13th St, , CAMPUS Bulletin ; Day Dinner—Interested faculty I members and graduate students are ; invited. Anchorage 6:15, Jan. 22. , Telephone 2263B for information. Girl’s basketball. New schedule: ^ Freshman, Tuesday, 4:05-5:15; Thursday, 4:40-5:50; Sophomore: 1 Monday, 4:40-5:50; Wednesday, (4:40-5:50; Junior-senior: Tuesday, I 5:15-5:50; Friday, 4:40-5:50; for wards, only, all classes, Thursday, | 4:05-4:40. j The following men are to make the trip to Portland to compete with the Multnomah club swimming team Saturday night, and will meet Coach Abercrombie at the Southern Pacific depot at 11 o’clock tomor row morning: Byerly, Reid, Thomp son, Davis, McCook, Sheridan, Greulich, Smith, .Kier, Fletcher Newbegin, and Johnson. Dean Sheldon will lead student group discussing “The Changing Basis of Religious Authority’’ at Westminister House Sunday, 6:30 p. m. All students welcome. Social Swim at Woman’s building, Friday night, 7:30 to 9. All students and faculty invited. Subscribe for the Emerald DOBBS HATS Dobbs 6C Co, New York’s leading hat ters, introduce today the MIRAMAR, the new hat for February and early Spring. The graceful brim with its downward sweep is re-inforced by the welt on the under side. It is shown only in the Dobbs shops in New York and in our establishment. House Managers — A Special in Meats — Fancy Sugar Cured Hams, lb.34c Cottage Rolls, lb.33c Bacon, by slab, lb.42c Underwood & Elliot Phone 95 Today — Saturday MATINEE SATUEDAY AT 2 P. M. MILTON SILLS in “THE WALLACE BEERY — ENID BENNETT The boldest, wickedest, merriest pirate that ever spat in a galley ditch—the roaringest ruffianly ras cal that ever scuttled a ship or stole a maiden’s heart—don’t miss it!