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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1927)
©regmt ©ailg 5nteral& | University of Oregon, Eugene SOL ABRAMSON, Editor EARL W. SLOCUM, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD Mm Nui, MttMgins Editor; Harold Mangum, Sports Editor; Florence Jones, Literary Editor; Paul Luy. Feature Editor; News and Editor Phones, 666 lil EDITORS: Beatrice Harden, Genevieve Morgan, Minnie Fisher, Barbara Blythe, EM Haggerty. Alternates: Flossie Radabaugh, Grace Fisher. MIGHT EDITORS: Wayne Morgan, Jack CooHdge, Bob Hall. BPORTfi STAFF: Jack O’Meara. Dick Syring, Art Schoeni, Charles Burton, Hoyt Baraett. FEATURE WRITERS: Donald, Johnston, Ruth Corey, AJ Clarke, Sam. Kinley, John Butler iVPKK NEWS STAFF: Jane Epley, Alice Kraeft, Edith Dodge. HEWS STAFF: Helen Shank, Grace Taylor, Herbert Lundy, Marian Sten, Dorothy Baker, Kenneth Rodaner, Cieta McKennon, Betty Sshultze, Frances Cherry, Mar garet Long, Mary McLean, Bess Duke, Ruth Newman, Miriam Shepard, Lucile Carroll, Maudie Loomis, Ruth Newton, Eva Nealoci, Margaret Hensley, Margaret, Clark, Ruth Hansen, John Allen, Grayce Nelson, Dorothy Franklin, Eleanor Edwards, LaWanda Fenlason, Wilma Lester, Walter Coover, Jbfcn Black, Thorsen Bennett. BUSINESS STAFF Mitten George __ Associate Manager Francis McKenna .. Circulation Manager Herbert Lewis _ Advertising Manager Ed Bissell . Ass’t. Circulation Mgr. Nell.... Advertising Manager Wilbur Shannon .-. Circulation Ass’t Larry Thieten .. Foreign Advertising Mgr. Ruth Corey ... Specialty Advertising Bath Street .. Advertising Manager Alice McGrath . Specialty Advertising Advertising Assistants: Flossie Radabaugh, Roderick LaFollette, Maurine Lombard, Bharies Reed, Bob Moore, Bill Hammond. Office Administration: Dorothy Davis, Ed Sullivan, Lou Anne Chase, Ruth Field. 19m Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of Mm University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during the college year. Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffic* at Btupone, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.60 per year. Adver Ikiag rates upon application. Residence phone, editor, 2298-L; manager, 1320. Bostnees office phone, 1806. Day Editor This Issue—Genevieve Morgan Niaht Editor This Issue—John Nance Assistant—Fred Deuel Unsigned comment in this column is written by the editor. Full responsibility Is assumed by the editor for all editorial opinion. rf BELONGS to the depth of the religious' experience to have felt forsaken, even by God. •—Whitehead. Handicapped by A Good Record AGAIN Oregon's basketball team is pointed for a championship; not. that one might guess it from outward student manifestations. But this is neither a plea for “more « spirit” nor an acclamation of the '“great silence as a good sign. It is merely a statement of the fact that an unusual winning record for a few years creates a mental attitude that regards victories as a natural order, and anything less as unac ceptable. Which is another way of saying that it is easy to back a •winning team and pleasant to be rate a losing one. The present basketball team is deserving of praise not simply be cause it is likely to win its second •championship in three seasons. This in itself is a tribute to athletic prowess. But championships might !be, and' could be, incidental. This year they are not. Five men, who are by sheer labor giving 3,000 non combatants something to brag about, are playing remarkably line basket ball under a terrible handicap:— the knowledge that they are ex pected to win. Nothing counts but. victory, simply because having won once and twice, the performers be come gladiators who are expected to “do,” while the silent crowd •calmly turns thumbs up or down. Any objective observer at a bas ketball game must notice that the spectators can understand and ap preciate only scores. A beautiful •play—beautiful in the real meaning of the term—in which the ball is cleverly carried from one end of the floor to the other, has no mean ing unless it is climaxed with a score. If the ball is lost after the fine play, there are grunts of dis satisfaction:—the play has meant nothing. Good playing is secondary to scores. Which is perhaps not just as it should be. The player who knows that his unsuccessful scoring attempts will register more deeply than his good floor work must, work under a severe mental as well as physical strain. The man whose poor showing on one occasion takes precedence in the spectators’ minds over all the ex cellent work he has done previously wfln feel rather uncertain about the glory. •Oregon teams might win forever, but the odds are the other way. Bcfent must eventually enter. When this does happen, it is to be hoped that a losing team that, tries hard and plays fairly will be appreciated as much as a championship team that is far superior to all its rivals. The team this year, we should snv, has had to taste bitterness even in victory—the realization that victory was expected as matter of fact. It is this spirit that forgets easilv, and persistently cries for new coaches after each season of defeat. even if it has been preceded by several years of championships. This is not a plea for more root ing, rallies, and hymns. We have long suspected that it is not the side that has the most organized rooting, but the strongest side, that wins. We mean only to point out that the basketball team, especially the three veterans, Okerberg, Wester gren and Gunther, who are about to make their final bow, deserve praise not only for a fine record, but espe cially because they have continued to play fair and hard under the handicap of distorted student expec tations, Their supporters have been their handicap. We would add here, too, a word of praise for the coach, William Rein hart. He has no doubt been keenly aware of the handicap under which the students have placed his men, yet lie has continued to recognize victory as incidental to good play ing, and athletics only as part of the University and not as the Uni versity. He has neither now nor previously taken the view, too common among coaches, that all in athletics is absolutely good, and that the professional spirit of win ning is the criterion of athletic ex cellence. There is no better means of spreading a healthy view of ath letics than by giving credit to the occasional and rare coach who does that very thing by example. Welcome to A New Arrival THE Delta Gamma sisters are to be complimented on their new pledge. He will doubtless af ford refreshing variety to the chap ter photographs. “Precious” is an excellent name for an infant goat such as we judge the new arrival to be. Might there not be danger, however, that, as maturity ap proaches, the youngster will feel a sense of shame for the sweet dim inutivet Perhaps “Vici” might prove more appropriate in the long run. Seriously speaking, the goat is, perhaps, the most useful and ver satile of pets. In the lists of beauty, character and accomplishment he holds the undisputed lead. He is, fortunate soul, blessed with a ful some hirsute adornment but needs not shaving. Then too, his is a practiced palate, comprising both the qualities of the epicure and the gourmet. He savours esculent de lights that the human palate wots not of. Who among us, for instance, Could find solace for that three o’clock fag in ruminative consump tion of a pink tricolct chemise! And what do we know of the re fined delicacy of a Van Camp’s pork and bean can! Then finally, there is the depth and the ever wide horizon of his vocal attainments, not even exceed ed by the peculiar pungence of his person. “Ba-a-a, Ra-a-a!” Does this not, in a single word, masterfully sum marize the whole of our contempor ary philosophy! H. A. Need $>500? Just Write Good Short Story for Harper's and Win Coin Only a few weeks remain in which to enter work in the Harper inter collegiate literary contest for the prices of $500. $;!00, and $200 of feted for the three best prose manu scripts written by undergraduates ia any American colleges and uni- , versifies. The manuscripts arc to j be sent directly to Harper’s Mag azine, 49 East 33rd Street, New i Y«prk City, before March 5, the ! closing date for the contest. Ijast year the manuscripts writ ten by Oregon undergraduate stu dents for the contest were collected by Professor W. P. G. Thacher and from the five best ones selected by a group of judges made up of fac alty members one, written by Julia Goiiman, m freshman in history, re ceived honorable mention in < the hnn! contest. I'he contest Inst year was limited to writers of stories, but has been extended this year to any article of prose that is original. Tt may be an essay or a story but must be written out of its outhor’s own life : and ideas and imagination. Pi Sigma to Initiate Four at 5:30 Today _ Pi Sigma, national classical hon- j orary society, will initiate its new members, who have just been elect ed, in the Woman's building at 5:30 today. The new members are Pro- | fessor P. (1. (1. Schmidt, Thelma Al ley of Los Angeles, graduate stu- i dent; Joanne Ackerson of Portland,! TheSEVEN A PEDESTRIAN IS A MAN WHOSE SON IS HOME FROM COLLEGE. IMPRESSION Homely literary (tagout Lighted as unobtrusively As a waterfront Saloon Where men With mouths that Slip over their faces come to Drink. Inside, The students sit With books before them And read and squint And squint and Read and Squint And Squint. MILLIONAIRE SHOE MANU FACTURER, 80, WEDS EM PLOYEE, 26, reads a headline in the New York World. She’ll prob ably get well heeled [before she leaves him. I’ve always thought it would be nice if the dispensary was furnished with a copy of this paper. It would be so handy to fold in your lap and write letters on while you are wait ing. * # • It’s a good man who recognizes Sis own tux when his room mate wears it. BASEBALL OWES ITS FIRST HOMER TO THE GREEKS. Roses are red, Violets are blue, You wear pink ones, And so does Sue. All of us think our jobs the most arduous. But the person I feel for is the dramatic critic for this paper when he has to review tonight’s plays. Please ask your cooks to save the ir coffee cans. The girls over at Renmes Hall like to start geranium slips in them about this time of the year. DAILY AFFAIRS Subjects for joy: >, The grade on a returned paper. Weather. The new suit. A date. Subjects for gloom: The grade on a returned paper. Weather. The old suit. A dute. Our idea of a soft job would be to figure income taxes for college professors. YESTERDAY there WAS a man walking DOWN the street WHICH you may think IS nothing out of THE ordinary but THIS man had on A big hat which YOU see distinguishes HIM from most of US anyhow WELL to add to this THERE was a stiff WIND blowing and THE two do not MIX well at all and THE hat met defeat AND woke up in a PUDDLE of water and AS boys and girls will DO on such occasions WE laughed but the MAN who owned the BIG hat did not JOIN in with us AT all and I COULDN 'T understand THAT at all. THE FIRST REQUISITE OF A | ROOD LIAR IS A GOOD MEM- I DRY. junior; and Justine Aokerson of Portland, junior. The society is an organization for upperclassmen and graduate stu dents only. Following initiation which will be in Latin, there will be a banquet at the Anchorage at t>:l,\ at which* Professor Frederic Dunn, head of the Latin depart ment. and Francis F. Powers, pres ident of Pi Sigma, will speak. Mem bers of Collegium Augustale, under graduate Latin students organiza tion, ure invited to attend. i ■Theaters HEILIG: Last day: “Faust,” the age-old legend, which Marlowe and Goethe evolved into magnificent tomes, and to which Gounod set his unforgetable music. Perhaps the most startling scenes are those in which Faust and the devil are shown whirling through, space, on the lat ter’s cloak, the while the earth rolls by beneath them. Friday and Saturday—“A Beg ular Seout,” featuring Fred Thom son. .Silver King, famous movie horse, does some novel turns afid feats. Seven troops of Bo’- Scouts worked in the production which de picts the life of the young American boys. MCDONALD: Last da^: Adolphe Menjou in “The Ace of Cads”, a genuinely entertaining adaptation of the Michael Arlen play, with the screen’s most pol ished artist in his most gala role as the hero-villain who never kissed a woman until he had made her want to be kissed—with beautiful Alice Joyce heading the large cast of play ers; special feature: “How to Dance ‘Black Bottom’ ” showing the or igin and all the steps of America’s newest dance craze; Sharkey Moore and the “Merry-Macks” in “Valen tines,” featuring “I Never See Mag gie Alone,” and with Frank Alex ander, piano soloist; International news events; Frank Alexander in musieal comedy setting on the organ. REX: First day: The captivating star, Laura LaPlante in “Butter flies in the Bain,” a delightful drama of a saucy young miss, who believed in the double standard, with the sky the limit, and who wanted to lead the carefree life of a social butterfly, with never a thought to the brevity of theflr joyous existence,—James Kirkwood plays opposite the star; selected comedy and news events; John Clif ton Emmel at the organ. Fewer Patients at Infirmary Indicate Slack in Epidemic Two rush days at the infirmary, Monday and Tuesday, have passed by this week comparatively quiet. Although the ratio between the in coming and outgoing patients is still in favor of the former, it is proportionally less alarming than the two previous weeks, according to Dr. Fred N. Miller University physician. Six la grippe patients said at least a temporary goodbye to the infirmary and the doctors therein, Monday, according to Dr. Miller. Continued use of the infirmary annex proves that the epidemic, is by no means quelled yet even though it is well under control, Dr. Miller declared. “The annex-dwellers are in a bad way. Not only do they have fewer visitors, because of the ignorance of students about the location of the annex, but they have no mag azines with which to pass the time, as those in the infirmary hav^. Pati ents of the infirmary are kept sup plied with magazines by means of the j fund provided for that purpose, but those in the annex are left to their own devices and the thoughtfulness of friends,” the doctor said. Anyone feeling in a kindly mood who would like to get rid of mag azines, old or new, is asked to leave them at the infirmary annex, 1370 Onyx street. PARR ARROW Shirt with n/b Arrow collar on it. This shirt has the long point collar. It is made of a genu ine imported English Broadcloth—the best in collars and in shirts that you can buy. Ask Your Dealer ,CAMPUS ! Bnlletini Faculty and Charter members of Delta Sigma Rho will meet at Vil lard hall at 4 o’clock tomorrow for picture. Luncheon at 12 noon, Thursday at the Y hut for Dr. Harold Bowman. Men who can attend leave their names with Mr. Davis or Mrs. Don nelly today. Temenids meets Thursday evening, 7:15, at the Craftsman’s club. All Eastern Star members invited. Pi Sigma initiation, 5:30 today, Wednesday, at Woman’s building. British Labor Leader To Speak on Campus On English Problems Kenneth Lindsay, of London, a prominent British labor leader and publicist, who is making a lecture tour of America under the auspices of the League for Industrial Democ racy, will speak to members of the school of journalism and depart ment of economics here Wednesday, February 23, it has been announced. Mr. Lindsay will speak on eco nomic problems in England, and in particular of the British labor move ment and unions. He is an Oxford student and co founder of the Oxford University Labor club, first labor president of the Oxford Union. He visited the United States in 1922-23 with the Oxford Union debating team and later traveled for the Workers’ Ed ucation Bureau, visiting universities, trade unions, and labor federations. New Library Books Contain Latest Ideas From Literary World A literary achievement which will prove vitally interesting to the num erous admirers of the famous essay ist and novelist, Arthur Benson, is “The Diary of Arthur Christopher Benson,” edited by Percy Lubbock. The book, which is one of the new est at the library, contains eight illustrations. A. C. Benson was master of Mag dalene College and was formerly for many years assistant master at Eton. His brilliant career was crowded if not eventful, and in these, his personal papers, we find a number of amusimg and interest-' ing sidelights on the great and near I great. Another of the newer interesting books is “Sex Expression in Liter ature,” by V. F. Calverton, author of “The Newer Spirit,” with an introduction by Harry Elmer Barnes. This book attacks prudery and pur itanism as characteristics injurious to contemporary literature. It is a justification of freedom of sex ex pression in our new art. “Evolution for John Doe,” the theory of evolution, its proof and history, by Henshaw Ward; “Fanny Burney and the Burneys,” edited by B. Brimley Johnson; “Old Fogy,” edited by James Huneker; “My Faith in Immortality,” by William E. Baron, author of the “Life of Abraham Lincoln,” and “Twilight,” by Count Keyserling, are the other new books at the library. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE EMERAIA Classified Ads FOR SALE—New Underwood Stan dard Portable typewriter. $45.00. Phone 97. fl5-16 WANTED—Used copies of Durant, Storv of Philosophy. University Co-op. f!6 Saves Razor Blades THE softer your beard when shaving, the less work for your razor. 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The latest development of Otis Collective Automatic Control permits of the use of automatic push button ele vators in the highest class and size of hospitals, where heretofore the auto matic type was limited to low buildings where the elevator service was infrequent. Collective Control is so arranged that the elevator automatically answers all the calls in the direction in which it is travel ing, and does not require any operator. It also stops on any trip at all floors for which a button in the car has been pressed, the older system of control necessitating the elevator answering only one call at a time. It is significant that the Medical Build ings of the University of Chicago, pic tured above, as well as the St. Luke’s Hospitals in Chicago and Cleveland are installing Otis Collective Control Push Button Elevators, representing the last word in hospital elevator operation. OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY Offices in all Principal Cities of the World
