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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1927)
u e Past Athletes Have Good Jobs As Sport Coaches Kennedy Makes Boner Tf’ith Criticism; Neiv Grid Rale Overlooked By RICHARD IT. STRING Sports Editor Former athletes of the University of Oregon hove shown this fall that all their former muscular endeavors were not just for the pleasures of participation. "With tlie appointment of Clifford (Brick) Mitchell as head freshman football coach at the University of California, Don Park ns head swimming coach at the Uni versity of California, southern branch, and Ilenry (Hank) Foster ns head of the physical education department at the University of Washington, former Webfoot per formers seem to have picked some of the plums. # » » Brick Mitchell played left and back in the days of Hugo Bezdek. The red-haired California yearling mentor was a member of the team that de feated the Uni versity of Penn sylvania a n d was selected on the mythical all const teams in 1915-16. As a member of John ny Bcehett’s fa mous M a 'r i n e C. L. Mitchell team, Mitchell helped win the serv ice championship at Pasadena in 1918. In 1920 Mitchell coached the Olympic club team of San Fran cisco which was considered by many as the stiffest obstacle met by the first of California’s “Wonder Teams.” Teams.” Brick, as he is still known to old Webfoot fans, came to the Univer sity of California this fall from San Mateo high school where he pro duced in five years as many foot ball teams of championship caliber. In 1022, his first year at the Penin sula team, he beat Berkeley, 3 to 0, for the northern state championship. For the next three years his teams won the Peninsula titles and last season Covina fell before San Ma teo, 20 to 0, for the state champion ship. One of Mitchell’s most promising players this fall is Clarence Garrity, fullback from Twin Falls, Idaho. “Moose” Garrity will be remem bered by Oregon students as the big six-foot, 192-poitnd'er, who played with Columbia University against the freshmen last fall. * # # Bon Park, former varsity swim ming manager and assistant fresh man coach in 1924 under Rudy Fahl and 1925 assisting Ed Abercrombie, assumed the head aquatic mentor ship at the University of California, southern branch, early this fall. Park was also Red Cross life-saving examiner while on the campus. He finished his academic work last spring after being out of school sev eral years for war service. Park’s first year at the Los Angeles school will see his teams in conference competition as the southern institu tion will be admitted to the circuit; the first of January. * * # Hank Foster, considered the great est trackman ever to leave the Uni versity, graduated in 1924 and re ceived his M. A. degree from Col umbia in 1926. While a student at Columbia he was director of physi cal education at Riverdale school for boys at Ri verdale-on-the-Hudson. At the University of Washington Foster is complete czar of physical education. Foster left several rec ords of his undergraduate days which have not been broken. A performer in four events, lie holds the Northwest record for garnering the largest number of individual points in any one meet, 2144- He has the distinction of being the only person ever to captain a team for two successive years. Foster headed the cinder artists during the years 1918-19. * # * Lou M. Kennedy in his “Sport Comment” of the Portland Tele gram says that one glaring error of the Oregon team was their fail ure to pick up the fumbled Oregon punt and dash for a touchdown in stead of merely dropping on the ball. Mr. Kennedy says “Football players should have their ‘heads up’ at all times and make the most of their opportunities. Mr. Kennedy is all “wet.” We recommend that he look up one of the changes iu the 1927 rules which says that a fumbled punt may be (Continued on page three) Lita Says Coolidge Is “Si Fellow” As He i ^ Her Hand (B, ed Press) Washingto. O '., Oct. 20.—Presi dent Coolidgi i “swell follow,” Lita Grey Chi ® divorced wife of the famous comedian, de clared today, _a visit to the White House. “He’s nice; \ him,” she add led. “When he 1 me if I was enjoying my stn, Vashington, lie talked like he w illy interested and meant it.” At the White House it was said the president did not realize he was : receiving the most widely adver tised divorcee of the year when a tall, graceful brunette headed the long line of handshakers. Even if he did not realize it, Mrs. Chaplin and her mother carried away the impression that the presi dent knew who they were. Committees For Bonfire Chosen By Joe Standard Applegren Chosen General Chairman; Landenberg Heads Women Twenty men and three women of the freshman class have just been selected by Joe Standard, assistant Homecoming chairman, to make this year’s frosh bonfire a big success. Standard will supervise the work himself, and Charles Laird, as fresh man president, wil act as overseer. Edward Applegren was chosen genera] 'chairmen. The five commit tees under his direction will provide for everything from kindling wood to hot coffee in the building of the “O.” The task of finding, buying, and otherwise obtaining material for the blaze falls to the lot of Mark Gill. He will be assisted by Howard Shaw, Chown Phillips and William Pittman. James Wilbur, as head of trans portation, will see to it that the bundles, boxes and beams reach Skinners Butte. Hendrick Seigrish, Clarence Barton and William Don aldson are the members of his com mittee. The actual work of building will be under the direction of Jess^ Douglas, aided by Donald Johnson, Maurice Wagonblast and William Gillette. The strenuousness of their job will be relieved with food sup plied by the refreshment committee, consisting of Katherine Langden berg, chairman; Margaret Reid and Louise Smart. To guard and cherish the famed blaze will be the duty of the vigi lance committee. Its members are Edward Sigmund, chairman; Dick Manning, Albert Schroeder, Monte Jacobs, Nolan Hallowell and John Reed. Enrollment Increased In Germanic Language i The enrollment in the department of Germanic languages and litera ture shows a 25 pef cent increase oyer the classes of last year, accord ing to Dr. F. G. Schmidt, head of the department. There are about a dozen classes being taught in the department this year, and all of them are very large. The advance classes are almost double in size' this year than were the classes in former years. The extension division classes in Portland also show a big advance ment in size. More students are showing an interest in the Germanic languages than they have since be fore the war, said Dr. Schmidt. High schools are beginning to teach German again. The high schools at St. Helens and Tillamook have added this language to their curricula, and I expect, said Dr. Schmidt, that other schools will soon follow their examples. Mask and Buskin Held Initiation Monday A meeting of Mask and Buskin chapter of National Collegiate Plav ers was held at the home of Mrs. Kenneth Shumaker Monday after noon at 5 o ’clock. Plans for the coming year were discussed. Installation of this chapter on the campus took place after the last ap pearance of the merald spring term and no official notice of the initia tion has been given out before. The O. A. C. chapter conducted the ini tiation ceremonies, assisted by Miss Elizabeth Barnes, national vice president. Officers at the present time’are: Laurence Shaw, president; Con stance Roth, vice president; Etha Jeanne Clark, secretary, and Cecil Matson, treasurer, [• t i Local Pastor Fights Talk By Lindsey - • Large Advertisement in Engene Paper Used By Rev. Clark Judge Declared Unfit To Instruct Students Minister Advises Mothers To Remain Home Using a four-column paid adver tisement in a local newspaper as liis protest tag medfinin, Rev. Fred, J. Clark, pastor of the First Congrega tional church, declared today that Judge Ben B. Lindsey is morally unfit to instruct the youth of our state.” The lengthy statement was both a challenge and protest and was aimed chiefly at Judge Lindsey’s scheduled lecture on “companionate marriage” before students of the University of Oregon and Eugene citizens here tonight. The advertisement was addressed to: “Deposed-Judge Ben B. Lind sey, too sophisticated to be shocked; to the preachers; to mothers, too modern to be moral; to the crowd, morbidly prurient, which like a flock of vultures smelling rotting carrion, will overflow the hall to seize the foul droppings of a di seased mind; to the committee of the Associated Students bringing you (Lindsey) here; to the lecture bureau that stoops to pick its food from the garbage barrel.” Asks Mothers to Stay Home Rev. Clark in the statement asks the preachers of Eugene “is any Christian value ever worth fighting for?” He advises mothers and club women to spend the lecture hour at home in prayer—“if you know how.” The minister, according to ithe statement, also wants to know what parents will do regarding continu ance of attendance of students at the University if sexual alliances are formed following presentation of the theory of “companionate mar riage.” Neither the University nor the student body took any action to ward cancelling the lecture. Alfred H. Schroff To Open Gallery by Display of Sketches Alfred H. Schroff, professor of painting in the University school of architecture and allied arts, made a number of sketches during the past summer, of scenery along the north coast of Oregon, which he will exhibit at the opening of Mc Morran" and Washburne’s new pic ture gallery, November 15. The date for the showing of this work on the campus, at the gallery in the art building, has not been decided, said Mr. Schroff, but will follow three exhibitions for which Dean Ellis F. Lawrence has ar ranged. The first will be a collec tion of photographs, then the American Federation of Arts will show a series of pieces, and the third is to be a group of etchings. Mr. Schroff is a member of the American Federation of Arts, but does not* wish to exhibit with that group. The McMorran and Washburne firm invited Mr. Schroff to be the first to exhibit in their gallery. A private sale will accompany the showing. This collection of pictures made along the Roosevelt highway and the wharves of Newport is the first work, exclusively of Oregon, that Mr. Schroff has shown, and he be lieves that this fact will make it of interest to both University and Eugene people. Students Give Formula For Painting Canvas Some ■of the painting students are stealing a march on the Co-op. Instead of paying the seemingly exhorbitant amount asked for paint ing canvas, they are making their own canvas. The secret formula is this: Coat cheap tent duck with run ning fish glue and let it dry. Then coat it with whiting and boiled oil and scrape it. After it is stretched on wooden stretchers, it may be cut into the sizes needed. Art stu dents certify that this substitute is as satisfactory as the more expen sive grade. Thus, the traditionally poor ar tist saves enough that he may breakfast for a week. More Dimes Crawl Than Ever Before At Term's Debut Thanks fellas! It was the biggest dime crawl in dime crawling his tory, and the girls finished in bet ter shape this year than usual. Don’t take that the other way. It means that enough fabloil “shes” of open house lured again sufficient num bers of that long mysterious and otherwise line to raise $183 for the | imported scholar of the Women’s | league. Yes, that was the largest sum ever taken in by the league as a re sult of its termly dime crawls, ini tiated on the campus to increase the j foreign scholarship fund, which is this year bringing Thoresc C'hnmbel land to the campus. The $183 ex- \ eeeded by more than $00 the bene fits of other* term's—and there are j two more crawls coining this year. Maizie Richards, chairman of the i foreign scholarship committee, also reports that the three largest sums j taken in by single houses arc list ed as: Pi Beta Thi, $17; Chi Omega, $15; Alpha Phi, $12.77. Editors Discuss News Problems At Press Club University of California To Hold Next Year’s Conference _ i Ray Nash, editor, and Milton j George, manager of the Oregon Em erald, returned Wednesday from a trip to Vancouver, B. C., where they } went as delegates from the Univer sity to the annual Pacific Inter-Col legiate Press As sociation which is held for the bene fit of college newspapers. The two repre sentatives left last Saturday for the University of British Columbia arriving there :K Sunday afternoon Ray Nash where they were welcomed by some of the members already there. Three business sessions were held, the first one starting Monday morning in the Hotel Vancouver. A'resume of the past year and general suggestions began the morning’s work. The vis iting editors were then asked to write a contribution for the “Ubyssey,” the University of B. C. publication. In the afternoon talks were given by various speakers and a business session followed. At 7:15 p. m. a dinner party was given to the delegates at the University club, and at 9 p. m. the University gave a dance in honor of the visi tors. Such steps as “Asbestos Re treat,” “Beelzebub’s Pirouette,” “Satan’s Tatto,” and “Stoker’s Special,” supplied incentive to dance. Tuesday morning the business session continued. In the after noon a trip around the harbour in .a private yacht was made after which a tea was given at Indian (Continued on page two) Many Attend Debate Of Lindsey-Newman Seattle, Wash., Oct. 20.—The de bate Wednesday night between Judge Ben B. Lindsey and Rabbi Louis Newman on “Companionate Marriage” resolved itself (into fa plea by both men for the repeal of all laws preventing the. dissemina tion of birth control. More than 4000 persons packed the Eagle auditorium to hear the debate and that many more were turned away. At least 75 per cent of the audi ence were women—this in spite of the fact that the W. C. T. U. had made insistent demands on Mayor Bertha Landes to stop the debate. She refused to interfere. “Free Love” Opposed Lindsey particularly stressed the point that he was in no wav advo cating “free love.” He defined his subject as “simply the present state of lawful wedlock with the use of birth control recognized by law and clergy until there are children by mutual consent.” Rabbi Newman startled the vast audience at the beginning of his speech by agreeing with Judge , Lindsey on the birth control prob lem. But he warned against the “companionate marriage” plan as a makeshift for marriage. Lindsey, it was apparent, was the popular speaker of the evening, the audience continually interrupting him with applause. Lew Desires U.S. as China's Great Friend Oriental Plii Beta Kappa Deseribes tbe Typieal Native Students Frosli With Literary Bent Is Portrayed Dropping Caste System Is Civilization Boon • --— A Chinese-Amerlcan combination in ideals and standards would bo a better influence in the history of tlio future than a Chinese-Russian combination, in the opinion of Dr. T. T. Lew, noted Chinese authority on education and psychology, who spoke at the Thursday assembly on “Introducing College Ways in China.” Dive typical college folk wore “introduced” to the student; body by Dr. Lew, a slender, dignified and kindly man in a blue Chinese coat with a golden key of Phi Beta Kappa dangling from the pocket, tv ho said that “meet my friend” is t#e most important phrase in Amer ican life. A freshman from a well-known family of Central China was the first of the college folk that. Dr. Lew described. The young man was very studious and deeply inter ested in philosophy and literature. His grandfather had spent most of his fortune having blocks carved for the printing of books, many of which he gave away to others in their search for knowledge. “You know, our ancestors were so unfor tunate as to have to read . books long before yours,” smiled Dr. Lew. Was of Humble Stock A short and slender, fiery and en ergetic sophomore from the eastern part of the country came from a rather humble family, his father a small business man, according to the speaker. There never has been any real enste system in China. Any man from any class of people could en ter the competitive examinations and by further examinations ad vance even to the highest position in the state. The children of ac tors, of those who carry sedan chairs, of chiropodists and of bar bers alone were for centuries not allowed to take the examinations, the speaker declared. However, since the introduction in 1911 of the republican form of government these restrictions have disappeared. Now any boy who has the ambition to study hard can rise. Dr. Lew’s sophomore friend studies, writes, and is actively interested in poli tics, and he is accused of being a Red, although ho denies it. To become a modern scientific farmer is the ambition of a quiet junior whom Dr. Lew introduced with the remark that the farmer is the hardest-working man in his community, but that for centuries, scholars havo found a haven in ag riculture. The four Chinese classes, in the order of their importance, have been the scholars, the farmers, the laborers, and the merchants. Father Was Banker The senior at the College of Pekin that the speaker described came from the merchant group, his fa ther being a banker at the treaty port. Recently the merchants have bee regarded with more respect, par ticularly those that are also schol ars, but those that think of money, money, money, and nothing else, are despised. In the future, the (Continued on page two) ' Dr. Lew’s Program Full During Stay in Eugene I)r. T. T. Lew, Chinese educa tional and psychological authority, who has been lecturing before dif ferent organizations on the campuif for the past two days, has a full program for the remainder of his stay. He will address Professor Barnes’ class in China and Japan at 8 o’clock this morning in room 4, Commerce building. At 1 p. m. he will talk before Professor Wil liam Maddox’s class in political science, and at 8 p. m. he will speak to the Cosmopolitan club. Saturday at 8 p. m. President Hall will give a reception in the Woman’s building for Dr. Lew, and Sunday he will be a guest at a din ner at the Anchorage, to be given by the faculty members. Monday, Dr. Lew will speak in Portland be fore the Women’s Research club, and Tuesday he will return to Eu gene to address Dean Sheldon’s class in education at 8 a. m., the editing class at 10 a. in., and Dr. Rebec’s .class in philosophy at .‘1 p. m. Woman in Knickers Makes Natives Gape As Aviatrix Tours (fly United Press) Aboard Steamer Limn at Ren, Oct. 20.—(By radio to United Press’) —Natives of Angra on the Island of Tereeira were more astounded at seeing Ruth Elder garbed in plus fours than at the story of her at tempted transatlantic flight. When the natives saw a woman garbed in knickers, probably for the first time in the history of the island, they stared wide-eyed at her during her visit yesterday. After lunch she and her co-pilot, Captain George Haldeman, toured the island, visiting the monument to Don Pedro IV. They saw ancient water wheels grinding corn and went to the postoffice and cathe dral. At p. m. Miss Elder and ITalde mau returned to the Lima. Angra is on the Island of Ter eeirn, one of the Azores approxi mately 920 miles west of Capo Da Rocn, on the Portuguese, coast. Oregana Plans To Use Campus! Motif This Year Year-Book Is to Follow No Former Precedent, Says Editor “A repetition of any subject is weakening, therefore it is inadvisa ble to again invade the Orient to furnish a motif for this year’s Ore gana, or to turn back to the Middle Ages as used by a former Oregana editor. There is no need to go to another period for inspiration. There is a tremendous amount of material on the campus itself which has never been used. The year-book this time will attempt to embody the spirit of the University of Ore gon between its covers,” Mary Benton, editor, announces. The size of! the book and the num ber of pages will not differ greatly from the Oregana of last year. It is in tho general layout of the pages that the greatest difference will be noted. “Active work on my section is well under way,” Charles Reed, edi tor the Men’s Fraternity section, states, “and the fraternities are re sponding rapidly to the request made that they reserve their space in the Oregana immediately. I am Expecting a hundred per cent turn out in a very short time.” Diana Deininger, editor of the Women’s Fraternity section, says that the women’s houses are turn ing their reservations in more slow ly but that the number is steadily increasing. “I am well satisfied with the way things are going,” she declared, “and I believe that even if the men are getting in their requests for space early, the women will get their full guota in first. . . . just wait and see.” The drive for the sale of Ore ganos will begin November 1, ac cording to Sam Kinley, business manager. The entire details of the drive will be announced soon. Seven Undefeated Eastern Grid Teams Will Play Saturday New York, Oct. 20.—Just where the football strength lies in the East this season will be considerably clarified by this Saturday’s con tests. Seven of the eight undefeated teams —Army, Cornell, Dartmouth, Lafayette, New York University, Pittsburg, Princeton and Washing ton and Jefferson—face important struggles for the first time this year. Yale’s determination to revenge last year’s 33-0'defeat at the hands of the.Army mule largely rests with Bruce Caldwell. Against Brown last week, Caldwell ripped off 141 yards, but went out of the game with an injured shoulder. In spite of an undefeated record, Army has had trouble with every opponent this year. An up and coming Harvard team may throw a surprise into the ranks of the un defeated but untested Dartmouth Indians. The Washington and Jefferson Lafayette battle may develop into the toughest game the East has seen this season. Both teams have shown plenty of power in winning four straight games each. Pittsburg, with a record of 153 points scored to the opponent’s uone, ought not to have trouble dis posing of Carnegie Tech. Penn State’s unexpected power exhibited against Penn last week may make itself felt again this week against the young and as yet un beaten Syracuse team. Lindsey Wants Permanency in Family Homes “Companionate Marriage” Not Trial Attempts Nor Free Love ) Clergy Held Ignorant * Of Social Conditions Judge Advoeates Repeal of Coni9tock Law » ' \ “Mv only purpose is to got per manency into tho homo,” declared Judge Ron R. Lindsey of the Den ver juvenile court in his address last evening in the Woman's building before tho student body and townspeople in tho first lec ture of tiio A. S. IT. O. series. Marriage grew from tho tribal customs when men couldn't get mar ried unless they could prove they were able to support a family, ac cording to Judge Lindsey. In one tribe a man had to kill two croco diles. In time crocodiles got scarce and then they had ,to change it to one. Through tho centuries tho marriage laws have been changing, until now, through changes in so cial conditions, customs have had to bo changed. Says Ministers Mistaken “Those that I’ve discussed com panionate marriage with agree with me, while those that have taken the newspaper headlines alone dis agree,” stormed the speaker. “Most of the trouble with the ministers was that they didn’t know anything about it. They all thought it was free love or trial marriage.” Judge Lindsey stated that he was for 28 years in the domestic rela tions court of Denver, and not moro than half a dozen clergymen came down to see what it was all about. He also said that most. of the broken homes are in the court of domestic relations because of ig norance, bigotry, and|superstitions, all under tho guise of religion, and morality. The first demand of com panionate marriage is tho repeal of the Comstock law, which illegalizes the spread of information, on birth control, and compels the mothers of the race to have families when tho fathers cannot support them, in Judge Lindsey’s opinion. Marriage Classified Judge Lindsey divided marriage into two classifications, one com panionate, with no children, and tho second tho family, with children. The first lie believes should be dis solved by mutual consent if at tempts at reconciliation fail, but tho other should not since tho children must be supported. Tho remedy lies not so much in now laws as in the repeal of freak legislation, bo stated. Stanford Head Raps 1 Tradition and Liquor In Talk to Students (By United Press) Palo Alto, Cal., Oct. 20.—Tradi tions, or about 90 per cent of them, are useless, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford University, told the Stanford students at tho first assembly of the college year. “We want to get away from tho ball and chain of the past,” he said. “The only traditions worth keeping alive aro those which are useful. “There is no reason for you to apo every tradition that has been handed down on this campus simply becauso it is a tradition.” He took a rap at men students wearing old and dirty corduroy trousers, remarking that the wear ing of the working clothes did not seem to indicate that the men were intending to work. The president also told the stu dents that liquor would not be tol erated on the campus. Class Managers for Speedball are Chosen Selection of teams for speedball is under way, and games are expect ed to begin in two weeks, it was announced at tho ’woman’s gym nasium yesterday by Miss Mary Jo Shelly, coach. Class managers have been chosen with Juanita Kilbourn for the freshmen; Marjorie Goff, sophomores; Anona Hildenbrand, juniors, ami Hazel Kirk, seniors. Special class practices have been assigned and the girls are to report to those classes for one practice a week. Monday has been given the freshmen; Tuesday, the sophomores; Wednesday, juniors; Thursday, sen iors.
