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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1927)
QDtegmt Datlg ijimecalfi University of Oregon, Eugene RAY NASH, Editor MILTON GEORGE, Manscer EDITORIAL HOARD Robert Calloway Managing Editor Claudia Fletcher Ass’t. Manafcinj? Editor William Hasprerty . Telegraph Editor Arthur Schoeni . .... P. 1. P. Editor Arden X. Pangborn, . Literary Editor Walter Coover ...r.Associate Editor Richard H. Syring . Sports Editor Donald Johnston . Feature Editor Margaret Long *. Society Editor News and Editor Phones, C55 BUSINESS STAFF Larry Thielen . Associate Manager Ed Bissell . Circulation Manager Ruth Street . Advertising Manager Wilbur Shannon .... Ass’t. Circulation Mgr. 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 United Press News Service. Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene. Orgon, as second-class matter. Subscrip tion rates, $2.50 per year. Advertising rates upon application. Residence phone, editor, 721 ; manager, 2799. Business office phone, 1895. Day Editor Thin Issue—Dorothy Baker, Night Editor This Issue—Floyd Horn Assistant Night Editors Rex Tussing WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER S, 1927. Leaders or Meddlers In the Making THE function of :i stuff univer sity, ns it appears to Dr. Wjl littm Wallace Cfimpbell, president of the University of California, was epitomized in n speech at the Los Angeles branch in this manner: ‘‘Contrary to popular student be lief, the state of California does not support the University of Cali fornia in order to prepare the young men and women of this state for a successful living of their lives. Rather, the state of California has need for educated citizens. It is therefore concerned that among the students at the univer sity there shall be in the making many of the future leaders of life's activities. . . .” In saying “successful” we trust that Dr. Campbell was not using the jingoistic parlance of commerce 'but had in mind the fullest possible fruition of latent faculties implied by real education. We should call for an evaluation of the two expressed aims. Is it more valuable to the state to have citizens successfully living their lives or to have manufactured lead ers of life’s activities? And' just 'where is the distinction? It is our conviction that the po tential leaders should have success ful living emphasized rather than the importance of wedging them selves into affairs. Of leaders, enough is enough, but California will never have too many good citi zens who have mustered the secret of living successfully. And if that should happen, there is room for them in Oregon. Aii experiment recently conducted nt tlie University of Minnesota welt illustrates the effect of such em phasis on externals in universities. It was shown that about one-fourth of the students were cheating their way through college and indicated that: “ the universities have been training men ... to analyze and solve ns far as possible the many problems which concern the public. . . .” and inter, that it is only “today that they are be coming the severest critics of their own procedure.” 'I’lie concern of the state for the university should lie not merely for leaders, but for men who can rise to leadership when they are needed, men who can defeat circumstance in living their own lives. The other type are not lenders, they are med .dlers. IT herein We Discuss The Weather Bill1111T days. Days of sunshine. Clray days. Pays of clouds and rain ami wind. Autumn days at Ore gun. Happy days all. Days for work and days for play. Days of youth. To those who have spent, many long years on this old earth of ours, the coming of the fall days may symbolize the approaching winter of life, but that is not the ease with youth. To youth fall is but a season of the year—a. season, which has its own special attractions. What if storms follow in the wake of autumn? Autumn is the time for football, the king of sports. Why bother about the weather when King Football is seated upon his throne? Wind and rain but increase the hazards of the game and make the outcome more uncertain. A bit of wet does not dampen the ardor of a full-blooded sportsman. Cool nights suggest pulse-quick ening music, a smooth floor, and a skillful partner. Youth is having its fling. Are football games and dances all that Oregon means in the fall? No, not at all, for football games come but once ia week at the most and. dances but twice as often. The powers that be in the University see to it faithfully that each stu dent hats work to do in the re mainder of the time. This is just, for youth is the time to learn—-to learn to work and to play, for both are necessary to a happy life. If one does not learn to play 'while young, he can not do so once his habits of life are formed. Thus it is that we mix out days with work and play—sunny days and rainy days at Oregon. — W. C. Wo Cannot Sing The Old Songs TTtTllKN the traditions committee ▼ ▼suggested that a new alma muter song he substituted for the j“ Pledge Song” now in use, the happy chord so struck induced sym pathetic vibrations in the Emerald. “Mighty Oregon,” predecessor to the “Pledge Song,” has a swing and vigor almost unsurpassed; a rousing fighting chorus and an infectious beating rhlythm an exultant con queror’s cry of victory, lint “Mighty ()regon” is essentially a challenge I of the gridiron, and nil is not war at Oregon. So the “Pledge Song” came with its expression of broader sentiment and richer harmony to re place it. John Stark Evans wrote the “Pledge1 Song” as a choral selection for trained voices and its subtile tone-blending is completely wasted in mass singing. The glee clubs and choirs are the only competent mediums for its effective rendition. Others have difficulty with its range, tempo, and interpretation. They mangle it intolerably. We aeeil a song—a comprehensive expression of what Oregon really is. A song of irresistible rhythm, tech nical simplicity, and exalted, rather than exultant, theme. Beauty of Oregon Girls Noticed by Miss Thomas, New V . If. Secretary " W'lutl diil I notiro partirulurly about Oregon? Well, perhaps I slum Id n't li'll,” Miss I tin othy V. Thomas, new Y. VV. secretary, hesi laird, smiled, tliea admitted. “Tlie beautiful rills!’’ "There is stleh a i harm and geu uineaess almut the pimple, too,” she said. "I just lave it here." .Miss Thomas is from Lincoln, N'e brasha, where she has lived most of her life. She is small, quite young, and anxious to her erne a part of Oregon. bast year she rereived her mast or’s degree from the I'niversit v of Nebraska. This is the first time she has held the position of V. \Y. seeretarv, but she did all sorts of V, work at the ITiivorsity during her Under-graduate day s. "At first I didn't want t,* eome so far west," she sai l. "I!ut after I had Wrilten m,\ application, 1 be e.iiiie so enthused and exriletl that 1 didn’t want to go anvwhere else." It was while Miss Thomas was ailing us chairman at the Kstes I’ark i. M. and V \\'. regional eon terenre, whiidi corresponds some ! what to mu Keaberk ilieet:ng.s and in 'which seven states pail i • ■ i pa t ed. i that she deeided to enlei the field I of Y. \Y. work. As a member 01 tin vesper elioir, of the church re I latious and inissionarx eomiliittees. a ltd as state 'dinirnian of the stu j dent friendship find, site had firs'I became seriously interested in the possibilities of tlu* V. W. A. Miss Thomas also acted as vice president of tlu* big sister organi /ation. :iI tin* I’nivorsity of Nebras ka. The number of girls on theii rumpus, she said, is as great as out total student body registration. Tlu* big sister plan there is carried out much as it is lion1. A committee of fourteen in charge elect six hundred ! big sisters and initiate them during j the spring. Hig sisters write little j sisters during tlu* summer and help •them during registration week. bushing there is much like it is | at Oregon, Miss Thomas stated, ex , eept that only three days, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, are a! | lowed for rushing dates. The pledge list cannot be auuouaeed until the following Sunday. “I think you have an unusual V. W . cabinet.” the new secretary said. The girls are eonscient ions and i hardworking. They have planned [a wonderful program.** I haven't got acquainted with | the l yiiversity i nearly as much as !o wish, yet. I’ve been ° so busv here in the 'it ice. This new honor system sgetus very promising, and I think von: art school is verv fine.** “Tlu* expanse of green grass on ae campus and your straight trees struck me at once. We have manv tn « < ;,t Nebraska, but they are all bent and gnarled.’* *’I have just about exhausted my vocabulary writing home about Oregon, Its scenery and its peo TfeSEVEN , SEERS 9 “THE PRESSURE IS ALL | (MINE,” SAID THE HERO AS HE EMBRACED THE HEROINE. I know not well my family tree; Whether Swede, or Greek, or Jap, But of all the tree, I readily see They all think I’m the sap. We heard a Delta Gamma say the other day that her last date was so dull that he couldn’t even entertain, , a doubt. * * » Ogo TelJ, famous linguist and ex plore, who is visiting the Univer sity over the week. He is a relation of the Swiss A'pple Man, William Tell, being a distant cousin through the hiarriage of a divorce step-sister. Mr. Tell speaks 17 languages, any one of which would have been enough. At present he is making ah exaustive study of collegiate bedtime storiee, a,nd believes he has worked out a system whereby lie can comprehend their main ideas by the gestures Used in relating them. He favors equal rights for college pro-1 fessors and also.favors moving the millrace up into the graveyard. Little Blue Eyes is [dimming a ; World tour and says she is anxious j to visit Sing Sing in the Canary! islands. * * K Embarrassing Moments After locating a secret sorrow during open house whom you ar- . identic- admire and rushing over to I her before a brother does, find your self with mouth nviide open hesitat ing between, asking her for the dance, or sneezing nil over the living room. * * * BULLETIN A census taker making the round Saturday night at open house dis closed the interesting fact that many names on the campus arc simi lar. A list showing relative number having same names: Smith—338. Jones—259. Hart—125. Schaffner—125. Marx—125. Brghmph—587. Jkqldt—403. Brown—221. Black—197. Black and Blue—Everybody. The (I'umma Nil girls are still so much on edge over open house that whenever the doorbell. ring's every one in 1 lie house lines up. # n * Seers Land Scoop! (By Divided l’ress) Paris, Sept. d. After six seconds of careful and painstaking research it has been fully proven that the battle at Waterloo between Na poleon and the Duke of Wellington whs not thrown. The surprising I fact brought out at this time is I that at the start of the game Na poleon's horse stumbled and shorted the I! battery on his broadcasting set which burned out a tube, and without the radio communication from their leader the soldiers tuned in on the Dempsey-Tunuey fight, and when Dempsey lost the fight they gave up in despair. When dupe Pluvius and .lack l-’rost get together they have a merry time singing: “llail! Hail! the gang’s all here!” Tin: TRAMP'S NU\1. ‘‘Thanks f >f the l'.uggy Ride.” SEVEN SEERS. Thirty-five Seniors Teaeh in University lli Thirty-five would • ho teachers, soiiiois in till' srliool of education, iuo now |uniticing in the Univer sity high school, according to Priu i i|uil K. U. Moore. In addft torn there are three jdiysiyal education irnjojls who pre teaching physical education. All those teaching in the Uuiiver site hli sehool met lasl night to ! diseuss their various [iroldeliivS. llarl U. I'ouglas, professor of edmatioii. and Mr. Moore addressed the aueet iiifi. Send the Emerald Home Dial members meet at 7:30 Wednesday evening with Dr. Os burnc. Old and new Thespians meet in Woman’s building Wednesday at 7 p. m. Orchesis meet tonight at 7:30. Pi Lambda Theta meeting Thurs day noon at the Anchorage. Rally committee will meet today at i o’clock in the upstairs room at the College Side Inn. A class in dancing, gymnastics and swimming for townswomen will lx: held every Thursdhy evening from 7:30 to 9:00. Members of the faculty are invited to attend free. Physical ability tests will be held in the men’s gymnasium Saturday, October 8, at 9 o’clock. Those who have already taken the test may do so again if they wish to raise their grade. The highest grade nil I stand. There will be a sheet posted on the bulletin board in the locker room of the gymnasium for all men who wish to participate .to sign. Radio returns from the finst world series baseball game will be available, starting at 11 o’clock tliis morning, at the Camptis Y, M. C. A. hut. Cosmopolitan club party this eve ning at the Y. M. C. A. liut. For eign students and Americans in vited. Portland Couple Gives Herbarium to Museum Another addition has been (ha unted to the herbariums in the de partment of botany in Deady hall by Mr. and Mrs. William Woodward, formerly of the Woodward and Clark drug busiinoss in Portland. Mrs. Woodward is a cousin of Pro fessor Henderson, 'who is curator of the botany museum. The ease was given in honor of Thomas Howell, who was the pin f!!0.U.S.PAT.0FF T.O^.ca For College Women Golashes ..$2.48 THE HUB 646 Willamette leer botanist of the Northwest. Mr. rlowell wrote the first descriptive jotany of the Northwest country iJul did a great deal of collecting, nost of which the University now ! has iu its musetum. The new case, j which will arrive soon, will be one I of the modern steel type and will I be used to house Mr. Howell’s col I lection. Pledging Announcement Delta Zeta announces the pledging of Elinor Derby of Hood River and Eunice Payne of Nampa, Idulio. Undiscovered country in industry HE globe’^ surface no longer holds much undiscovered country, hut the pioneer-minded man can still find plenty of it in industry—partic ularly in the telephone industry. In the Bell telephone companies throughout the entire country, men are now exploring the 1930’s and 40’s and 50’s, charting the probable trend Depopulation and the require ments for service. In research and development, and in telephone manufacture as well, the Bell System takes seriously its respon sibility to give adequate service now and to gird itself for-a long future. BELL SYSTEM tA nation-wide system of 18,000,000 inter-connecting telephones “OUR PIONEERING WORK HAS JUST BEGUN’1 It Happens in the Best Regulated Families »; By BRIGGS The websters come ouer /M THE GVEMlMG- FOR A SOCIAL CALL. but you c/^RRy the point and she Gives iry on the promise that you'LL all se e^tremeuy pui£T AND GUST LOOK IN AT THE CHILD. /AND YOU ALL T«P . Toe UPSTAIRS AND and you ask thcm if Tfiey wouldn't likc To see the NEW BA&y. ARE GAZING- AT THE GLEEP.'NCr INfANT BREATHLESSUV UJHeN TOE. SUDDENLY BARXS LIKE A LION AT FEUDING- TIME AWQ. WAKE.5 UP THE 13A0/ - AND THE MRS. THROWS COLD WATER ON THE IDS/) 0ECAVJ51E THE child is asleep. AkjD you AND OOE weSSTERi RETIRE TO THE cellar IN D)S<5PACf WH£RE;you TE-UL W/M IT.'TVEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF HE. Smoked old <?OWOS Old Gold Hie Smoother and Better Cigarette not a cough in a carload 1527, P Lonllud Co Sst. 1760
