VOLUME XNVIl
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1927
NUMBER U5
Curry Talks
On Desires of
ModernYouth
Students Interested in Life
According to Noted
Clergyman
Says Youth Wants
Kick Without Regrets
Students’ Attitude Toward
Religion Is Analyzed
TO LIVE bravely, freely and col
orfully is the desire of youth,
said Dr. A. Bruee Curry, noted
•clergyman, who spoke at assembly
Thursday on “The Youth Move
ment,” taking as his special phase
iof the subject, “The Christian Youth
Movement.”
Dr. Curry defined the movement as
the revolt of young people for their
Tights and privileges. Students are
interested in life, and in the rela
tionship between education and life,
he said, basing his statement on
his findings through visits to col
leges and universities all over the
United States.
Students Want New
Students are apt to miss nothing.
They want a kick without regrets.
They are impatient with all organ
ized institutions, in business, re
ligion, politics and even the home,
he said.
However a certain loyalty to es
tablished custom leads them to crit
icize—to discover ways to keep the
good features of certain institutions
and to combine them with new
ideas, made to meet changing con
ditions and ideas. In explanation
of this idea Dr. Curry said, the
older generation says to youth,
■“Here, take this dose, it’s good for
you,” and youth responds, “Just a
minute. I don’t like ;the smell,
couldn’t we use something else
that, will do the work and doesn’t
■smell so bad?’
Defines “Yeasty” Persons
This desire for improvement is
not a matter of chronological age,
■said Dr. Curry. “I know some twen
ty year old people who are sold to
the status quo, I’m sorry to say.”
There are many older people who
«re “yeasty;” that is, there are
people who are constantly moving
and growing, seeking to change and
improve the order of things, he con
tinued.
JL ctlli 1/ct-llVlctg (I UU U l tx imuiv-u
group of people who are wondering
what life is all about,” he said, in
dicating that a small part of the
mass of students are of the
“yeasty,” forward-looking type.
There are Christian students who
want to keep things as they have
been in the past. Such a student
is faithful and loyal but he is not
the type who is going to do any
thing.”
Dr. Curry cautioned the students
to snap out of the rocking chair
attitude, and to find some place
where they can take an interest in
discovering something new. “It is
not for me to say, ‘Bite in here, or
there,’ ” he said. “You must have
a slant of your own. In every pro
fession there is need for experimen
tation and a need for the ‘I’m go
ing to see for myself’ attitude. You
will then for the first time know
the thrill of living. Some day many
of you will discover it.”
Discusses Religion
In discussing the phase of the
Youth Movement touching on re
ligion, Dr. Curry said, “People now
won’t back up a particular church,
they are impatient with religious
forms, but when one talks about
Jesus, there is a change in attitude.
‘He’s different,’ say students.”
Jesus was a leader of a Youth
Movement and all the nations now
know of Him. He lived freely,
bravely and colorfully. He was a
Youth. He was ten years under
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Mortar Board to Hold
Annual Election Soon
Mortar Board will elect its new
members from a tentative list of
fifteen candidates to be selected by
junior women, Wednesday, May 4,
at Villard hall.
According to the plan which was
started a year ago the junior wom
en will ballot to select fifteen from
their number who have participated
in student activities and have at
tained a high scholastic standing.
Mortar Board will choose their
members from that list.
Esther Setters, president of Mor
tar Board, requests all junior wom
en to attend in order that a fair se
lection can be made.
Dr. Smith Shows Slides of Philippines
- And Picturizes Life, Customs of Islands
With vivid picturization, enriched
by many years of experience, Dr.
Warren D. Smith, of the geology de
partment, switched on the high
lights of three centuries when he
lectured on “Spanish Influence in
the Philippines” before Sigma Del
ta Pi, honorary Spanish club, in
Condon hall last night. The lecture
was illustrated with over 100 col
ored slides.
Imbued with all the enthusiasm
of one whose mind has been colored
with the glamour of his subject, Dr.
Smith swung down the centuries,
depicting 300 years of Spanish rule
when Legaspi’s priests and their
successors made ghastly journeys and
lived and died in hardship and pri
vation of body and soul that they
might raise the heathen on the long,
slow lift from barbarism to the
greater glory of God.
“It was the faith and courage of
the Augustian friars of Spain,” Dr.
Smith said, “who forestalled the
religion of Islam, spreading like a
flame among the islands of the
South, by fearlessly erecting their
great stone churches in the far hot
jungles of the wilderness and chris
tianizing over 91 per cent of the
Filipinos.”
The travelogue ran the gamut of
Filipino life, socially, economically
and politically, from the day when
these islands of the “Encantados”
rose out of the blank Pacific before
the galleous of Magellan; down to
the present day when the primitive
island races emerging out of a sea
of chaos are scarcely learning to
swim.
Dr. Smith stressed the importance
of the strategic position neld 'by
the 400 islands of the archipeligo,
stretching north and south for over
800 miles along the coast of Asia.
Among a population of 10 million
people over 87 distinct dialects are
spoken, which is one of the greatest
forces against the people’s emanci
pation and development. At the
time of the arrival of Magellan,
over a dozen alphabets were used.
The Philippine islands are prob
ably more seriously afflicted with
leprosy than any other country in
the world. Every person in 2000
is a leper. Given' such a basis of
proportion, we in America would
have over half-million lepers where
with all our acession overseas we
have fewer than one thousand.
The Philippines have the larg
est leper colony in the world; by no
means a product of the Spanish
regime when 10,000 lepers ran loose
through the islands.
Dr. Smith was one of the first
American geologists in the Philip
pines, where he held a position won
through competitive examination,
for 12 years. During this time his
explorations carried him through
fever-swamps and across the rugged
mountain barriers of many of the
islands where fever and hostile na
tives made the jungles places of
stalking death.
Despite the years of exposure to
which he subjected himself in the
death swamps of> the tropics and
the fact that his daily companions
were swept away by the ruthless
ravages of cholera, dysentery and
malaria, Dr. Smith was sick only a
day for every year that he spent in
the Philippines.
Perhaps that is why he can de
pict so vividly impassable mangrove
swamps, the romantic architecture
of Spanish missions, pearl shells
large enough for baby cradles,
erupting volcanoes belching smoke
and ashes out of the tops of islands
and the floating bamboo homes on
the Pasig.
America Losing
Hold on Chinese,
Asserts Maddox
Professor Says Foreign
Control in China
Can’t Go On
“We cannot keep or maintain a
system of foreign control in China.
If we don’t give up our rights vol
untarily, eventually they will force
us to do so,” said William P. Mad
dox, instructor in political science,
in an interview on the Chinese ques
tion.
Historically and climatically there
are two regions in,China, that of the
South and that of the North. Those
in the tropical south are more ex
citable and vigorous.' Historically,
the south and north were at one
time divided into two Chinas by the
Yangste-kiang river, he explained.
The southern Chinese group are
more democratic than the northern.
The northern want a strong central
government, and both factions want
freedom from foreign control. The
foreign powers have control in four
ways—exterritorial rights, customs
control, which they don’t want to
give up for fear the Chinese will
put too high a tariff on goods, leased
ports and economic concessions, he
continued.
The southern party is having dif
ficulty in maintaining their own
unity, being divided into radical
and conservative groups, and then
too, they have the opposition of the
foreign powers.
The French anfl the British are
afraid the Chinese are getting too
much control in Peking. They also
are afraid that Bussia is supporting
the Cantonese. America is trying
to maintain neutrality, offering to
negotiate with either the northern
or southern party, and regarding the
question as 'strictly Chinese, for
them to solve. Most of the other
powers seem secretly for the north.
To the present the United States
has succeeded in keeping on friend
ly terms with China, for instance
their attitude in the Boxer rebellion
indemnities, but since the war they
seem to be getting more like other
powers and losing out in friendship,
he concluded.
Appendix Removed
Proves Not Serious
Ruth Newman, sophomore in jour
nalism, who was operated upon for
a sudden attack of appendicitis last
Saturday, was yesterday reported
much improved and in a cheerful
mood. She is expected to be out of
the Pacific Christian hospital with
in a week. She will not come back
to the University until next fall
but will stay at her home in Grants
Pass to recuperate.
Ball Players
To Battle With
Huskies Today
Webfooters Have Equal
Opportunities in Two
Game Series
Fourteen University of Oregon
baseball players left last night at
7:15 on a northern invasion which
brings them against the University
of Washington Huskies in a two
game series. The first contest is
scheduled for this afternoon and the
second tomorrow morning.
Denny field, Seattle, will prob
ably witness a royal pitching battle
this afternoon when Bill Baker,
Webfoot star chucker, and Hal
Gardner, big right hander and cap
tain of the Husky nine, face each
other from the mound. Both flingers
have good strike out records. Bill
Bajjer hung up a season’s record
several weeks ago when 13 Pacific
University Badgers were turned
back to the dugout. Hal Gardner
led the Purple and Gold nine to a
victory over the College of Puget
Sound last Saturday with superb
pitching. Fourteen strike outs fig
ured in the Huskies’ 5 to 1 win.
Coach “Tubby” Graves of the
Washingtonians has had the same
troubles as the rest of the coaches
of the northwest. The lack of ex
perienced lettermen has caused him
considerable w-orry and calculation.
Hal Gardner, pitcher; Joe Johnson,
short; and Coe Malone, outfielder,
are the only diamond performers
wearing the coveted “W”.
After much shifting of material
Graves finally made his choice of
a starting line-up for the Husky
nine’s first conference game. With
Hal Gardner on the mound, Kenny
MacKenzie, relief baekstopper of
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McDaniel, Engineer,
Succumbs Suddenly
B. E. McDaniel, chief engineer of
the University heating plant, died
suddenly Thursday afternoon at 4
o’clock. The cause of his death is
unknown. After returning from the
plant Thursday he complained that
he was not feeling well, and suc
cumbed a short while after lying
down.
McDaniel was born in 1871 and
since his arrival from California
in 1JS90, has made his home in Lane
county. Previous to his engagement
by the University he worked in
garages in Creswell and Eugene,
and has been serving as chief en
gineer for about four years. He was
a member of the Masonic lodge and
the Presbyterian church.
He is survived by his wife and
four children, one of whom is in
Louisiana.
Oratory Meet
In Music Hall
Tonight at 8
B. McCroskey Oregon’s
Representative in
Contest
Speakers Limited
To Ten Minutes Each
“The Constitution” Title
Of His Oration
Oy'XNE of the best debaters who
'-'has ever represented the Uni
versity of Oregon,” said J. Stanley
Gray of Benoit MeCroskey, Oregon’s
entrant in the National Inter-Col
legiate Constitution contest to be
held in the music auditorium tonight
at 8:00.
“McCroskey’s oration is outstand
ing, and he delivers it in a master
ful manner,” Gray said.
All colleges in Oregon are eligible
to compete in the contest, but in
formation has not yet been received
from national headquarters, where
all entrants must be registered in
order to participate, as to the num
ber of contestants who will be here
tonight.
Speeches on Constitution
Speakers will be given about ten
minutes for their orations, which
must be concerning some phase of
the constitution or one of the early
presidents. “The Constitution” is
the title of McCroskey’s oration.
The winner of tonight’s contest will
compete in the Pacific coast finals
early in May, and the winner in
that elimination contest will go to
Los Angeles where the national con
test will take place some time in
June. All entrants in the national
contest in Los Angeles will receive
a money prize, ranging from $300
to $1500.
Benoit MeCroskey has debated
for Oregon three years, and has
orated two years. In 1925 ho took
first place in the Tri-State contest
and also in the Peace Oratorical
contest, with his oration, “The Last
Mile Stone.” Last year he was to
be Oregon’s entrant in the Consti
tutional contest, which he is enter
ing tonight, but due to illness could
not compete. This year, fall term,
he debated against the team from
Sydney, Australia, and early this
term he and Bonald McCreight de
bated against the University of
Washington at Seattle.
Spencer May Preside
Two years ago Oregon won fourth
place in the national inter-collegiate
contest when Jack Maguire partici
pated, winning an award of $400.
Carleton Spencer, registrar, has
been asked to act as chairman of
the contest, but has not yet def
initely accepted. Judges will be Dr.
George Winchell, Eugene, Dr. George
Hurley, Eugene, and Charles Hardy,
Eugene attorney.
Graduating Members
To be Entertained
By Mu Phi Epsilon
To honor its graduating students
and new members, Mu Phi Epsilon,
national music honorary for women,
will give a May Day breakfast Bun
day morning at nine o’clock at the
Eugene hotel.
The eight graduating members of
the organization who are to be hon
ored Sunday are: Grace Potter, Ade
laide JohnMn, Daisy Parker, Myrtle
Jannson, Alma Lawrence, Olga Jack
son, Beta Warnock,, and Harriet
Ross. In addition there are about 19
new members of Mu Phi who have
been elected to membershtip last
spring term and during this year,
who will be guests of the honorary.
Mrs. Anne Landsbury Beck, in
structor in the school of music, will
act as toastmistress, and will give
a short talk particularly to the in
itiates. Mrs. A. E. Roberts, presi
dent of the organization, will ad
dress the graduating members.
Ed Crowley Injured
In Pole-Vaulting
Ed Crowley, varsity letterman in
the pole-vault, ran up against the
1 Fate sisters yesterday, when he tore
the ligaments in his right ankle
while vaulting. Crowley will prob
ably be out for the rest of the sea
son.
After the accident occurred,
Crowley was rushed to the Uni
versity dispensary, and several X
rays were taken, which showed sev
eral ligaments torn, but no bones
broken. Ed was going well over It
j feet. Last year he took firsts in the
Washington and O. A. C. meets.
New Officers
jTell Policies
ToBe Pursued
President-Elect B e e 1 a r
Favors State Help
For University
Mangum Plans Larger
Paper for Next Year
Miss Benton Will Select
Oregana Staff Soon
ELECTION is over and the cigars
have all been passed around.
The victors are now formulating
the policies to rule the campus for
the next year and tolerating the
questions of curious reporters and
ambitious committeemen.
Few definite policies have been
announced but the major officers
have given some tentative plans for
the year.
Sentiment regarding traditions
and campus activities promises to
be conservative and the decision of
the students regarding the Emerald
amendment satisfactory to all.
Beelar Makes Statement
“I think it is very fortunate that
the amendment question has been
brought up and decided,” said Don
Beelar, newly elected president of
the A. S. IT. O., when interviewed
yesterday. “This election has shown
what the students want. Next year
we can start out with a definite un
derstanding of student body opin
ion concerning freedom of the press
in the University. Since the stu
dents have shown their approval of
an unrestricted publication, by vir
tue of democratic rule it is a good
thing.”
Mr. Beelar expressed a strong de
sire to see the University depend
upon the statfc legislature for funds
rather than upon the personal sub
scriptions of alumni and students.
He also approved the building pro
gram which has been outlined by
the executive comnyttee.
Mangum Gives Policies
Harold Mangum states that his
policies will probably correspond
with those which have been ad
vanced by Sol Abramson in this
year’s Emerald. He intends to in
crease the size of the newspaper
from four to six or eight pages. “I
hope no occasion will arise for self
appointed investigation commit
tees,” said Mr. Mangum, “and all
departments of the University will
receive representation regardless of
my personal ideas concerning them.”
Vena Gaskill, secretary for next
year, was a little weak-voiced when
questioned by the reporter and ex
plained that election week had been
filled with colds and mid-term ex
aminations. Her plans for the year
were not explained. She expressed
her belief that “traditions are the
root of Oregon sentiment and loyal
ty. However,” Miss Gaskill added,
“I think as the University grows
there aae some traditions which
will have to be done away with.”
Oregana Staff Soon
Mary Benton promises to an
nounce the staff for next year’s
Oregana soon stating that each per
son selected will have to show an
intense interest in publications as
well as ability.
Herbert Socolofsky, vice-president
for next year, heartily approves
the accomplishments of the outgo
ing student body officers. He ex
pects activities of the associated
students to receive proper support
toward the accomplishment of even
greater things in the future.
Lakeview Man Will
Teach Here Next Year
O. K. Burrell, head of the com
merce department and athletic
coach at Lakeview high school,
Lakeview, Oregon, will teach ad
vanced accounting in the school of
business administration next year,
according to Dean E. C. Bobbins.
Mr. Burrell is a graduate of the
University of Iowa and will receive
his master’s degree there this sum
mer. Before going to Lakeview Mr.
Burrell taught two years in the
high school at Irnbler, Oregon.
| Melting Snows Raise
Millrace Water Level
The millrace is assuming normal
proportions again.
8novf melting in the mountains
has caused the water in the millrace
to rise some two feet since last
Tuesday morning, making it possible
for canoeists to paddle all the way
uj> to the portage.
T ragedy Exposed
In Musical Comedy
Given by Juniors
If one were to drop in on any of
the many rehearsals for Creole
Moon, the musical comedy of the
Junior Revue, he would see nothing
but twinkling toes, flashing eyes,
and hear crooning songs.
Rut, sad as it is to relate, under
neath this surface of gaiety is
grief, even pathos. Tor, it seems
that two of the leading characters
(who has asked that their names be
withheld) have for the past few
months, been absorbed in one those
beautiful little romances. They had
kept their feelings a deep secret
from their friends but apparently,
some capricious wind carried a bit
of discord from some distant isle.
The inevitable break came.
This sweet little miss with the
winning smile and laughing voice,
will sue the ruddy-cheeked lad in
the courts for breach of promise of
marriage. This will be the first of
the civil cases on the docket for the
moot court work for the third year
law students. The girl has secured
the services of Margaret Woodson
and Ed Kelly and tho defendant
has retained Hymen Samuels and
Bob Mautz to protect his interests.
The trial will take place in the
Lane county court house on Tuesday
evening beginning at 7:00 o’clock.
Debate Awards
Will be Made at
Next Assembly
Twelve Men, Six Girls
To be Honored
By Rewards
At the next regular assembly de
bate awards will be made to both
men and women winners, in accord
ance with the by-laws of the A. S.
U. O. constitution.
Ralph Bailey, first year law stu
dent, who has represented the Uni
versity in debate five years, will re
ceive an award. Benoit McCroskey,
three year debater, will ibo awarded
a shield. Jack Hempstead, Donald
Beelar, Mark Taylor, Dudley Clark,
and Roland Davis, who have debat
ed two years, will be given white
gold “0”s. Avery Thompson, Joe
McKeown, Ronald Robnett, Walter
Durgan, and Ronald MeCreight,
first year men, will receive yellow
gold '‘0”s.
Walter Durgan, as men’s foren
sic manager, will be awarded a
white gold letter. Jack Hempstead,
general forensic manager, will re
ceive a gold gavel, and Frances
Cherry, women’s debate manager,
will be given a white gold pin.
The women to be awarded are:
Frances Cherry and Cecil McKer
cher, who have both debated three
years; Margaret Blackaby, a two
year debater; and Marion Leach,
Pauline Winchell, and Irene Hart
sell, who have debated one year.
Awards for girls are the same as
those for the men.
James Hall to Teach
At Stanford; Will Also
Seek Ph. D. Degree
James K. Hall, who last year re
ceived his master’s degree in the
department of c&onom'icB at , the
University of Oregon, has recently
been appointed an instructor in cit
izenship work at Stanford for the
coming academic year. An oppor
tunity for graduate study in social
sciences, in which field Mr. Hall is
seeking a doctor’s degree, will be
combined with the instructorship.
While a student at Oregon, Hall
specialized in the study of trans
portation under Dr. Peter C. Crock
att. His thesis dealt with the sub
ject of competition between express
companies and other carriers, and
his study on this subject will ap
pear in the next issue of the Com
monwealth Review.
Hall has *been instructor in eco
nomics at Pomona College, Clare
mont, California, during the past
year.
Washington Faculty
Prohibit U. S. Criticism
UNIVERSITY OF WASHING
TON, Seattle, Wash., April 28—No
criticisms of the United States will
he made and no resolutions will bo
made at the Students' Emergency
committee for peace with China to
morrow night as a result of a fac
ulty ruling. The faculty decree spe
cified that no Chinese student would
he allowed to criticize the American
policy in China. In fact no critic
ism of it will be allowed.
Tennis Team
Matched For
Tilts Today
Reed and Multnomah Club
Netmen to be Met
In Portland
Stale Tournament to be
Held Here Next Month
Conference Round-Robin
Set for May
r | ''HE last of the Oregon varsity
tennis team leave this morning
for Portland where they will take
part in the first
» competition of the
L. year against the
| Reed college net
I men. Last season
1 the Portland boy*
1 were defeated by
1 the lemon-yellow
H racqueteers by a
17 to 0 count, and
" according to ad
vance dope the
Oregon varsity
should do nearly
Henry Neer is well again tins
year.
Thore will be six singles and
three doubles matches this after
noon. Roy Okerberg, number one
man for Oregon, should win his
match. Tom Cross is rated by Ceach
Ed Abercrombie as being one of
the best boys on the Webfoot line
up, and it is believed that he will
be a consistent winner throughout
the season.
To Meet Clubmen
The varsity will play the Mult
nomah netmen Saturday and expects
a much harder meet than against
the collegemen. Last year the club
men gave the varsity a hard fight,
although they lost 5 to 2, but they
are now considered much stronger
than they were and if the Oregon
team wins again there is no reason
to believe that they haven’t a good
chance to take the northwest title,
Coach Abercrombie declared.
For the doubles matches Coach
Abercrombie has paired off Boy
Okerberg and Henry Neer; Mel
Cohn and Dick Edge; Tom Cross
and Clare Hartman.
This line-up gives the Oregon
team all-around ability on the court.
In the Cohn-Edge combination Edge
is good on base line playing while
Cohn works well close to the net or
in volleying. Okerberg has altered
his serve and by putting more top
on the bull seems to have gained
more control, which coupled with
his terrific speed makes him a very
formidable player.
Plenty of Reserves
Coach Abercrombie has a reserve
strength this year that is equal in
ability of many varsity teams at
Oregon in past years. Besides the
men making the trip George Mead,
Bill Powell, and H. Hutchenson, let
termen, are turning out. These men
are on a par with the boys making
the trip, but some of the other men
are more in need of experience in
actual competition than the veter
ans.
A state tournament is being
planned for May 26 to 28, to be
played on the Oregon campus. This
will be an open affair with no qual
ifications required for entrance, the
coach announced. This probably
will be the only tournament to be
held in the state for unattached
players this season.
Round Robin Series
A round robin tournament will
be played here during Junior week
end, in which Stanford, Washing
ton, O. A. C., and Oregon will be
represented.
In case of rain or other adverse
weather conditions preventing the
regular university courts from being
used the floor space in McArthur
igloo will be commandeered and the
matches held there.
There is room for two doubles
courts there, and it is possible that
in the future matches will be held
all-year around with other schools
and colleges of the Pacific coast, the
coach pointed out.
Hempstead to Address
Ad Club at Luncheon
Jack Hempstead, varsity debater
and orator, will speak before the
Eugene Advertising club at a lunch
eon in the Osburn hotel this noon
on “The Tide of Crime.” He will
give the same address in the Tri
State Oratory contest here next
week.
Hempstead will also speak at the
Methodist church Sunday night at
8:00 p. m., using the same oration.