Nordics Fight Latins On Who Found America .Chicago ‘Book Battlers1 Say Erickson Did Discovering (By United Press) CHICAGO, Nov. 18.—Tho Nordic and the Latin dashed today in a dispute that went baek even far ther than the revolution battle be tween William M('Andrew, suspend ed superintended of schools, and Mayor' William Hale Thompson. Tho new question which puzzled twentieth century Chicago was, “Who discovered America?” Oscar Durate, school trustee and editor of “L’Italia,” Italian news paper, announced a movement to have the name of Leif Ericson Drive changed to Christopher Columbus Drive. He also served notice that any attempt by Ericson to usurp Columbus’ place in the school books would be opposed. Mrs. Bertha Peterson, vice presi dent of tho Norwegian National League, replied that she had proof, based on documents in the Vatican Museum, that Ericson discovered America 500 years before Columbus even thought about borrowing Queen Isabella’s jewels. Theaters • ._ HEILIG—Friday and Saturday— Marion Davies in “Tillio tho Toiler.” Tillie of tho comics on tho screen ■with all her jolly pals. “The Vis ion,” a startling picture, photo graphed in natural colors. Eugene’s popular stage show band, Freddy Holt and his Arcadians, offering a now Paul Ash style program. Coming—“Tho Firo Brigade,” the big parade of peace times. “Cali fornia,” Spanish love, American courage. 1 * * • McDONADD — Last day — “ Bose of The Golden West,” with Mary Astor and Gilbert Boland; also, “Collegians”: George McMurphcy's “Kollcge Knights,” in a “Spanish Serenade,” featuring “Spanish Nights,” from “Creole Moon,” by Billy O’Bryant; Frank Alexander on the organ; Paramount News. Coming — George Ade’s famous American college classic, “The Col lege Widow,” with Dolores Costello and the U. S. C. student body and I football team; on the stage, first public appearance of E. H. S. con cert orchestra under the direction of Sharkey Moore. BEX—Last day—Buck Jones in ‘‘Chain Lightning,” a tingling ro mantic adventure of a two-gun naan of the west, who was lightning on the draw and an eagle-eye on thfe sights; also, another episode of “Blake of Scotland Yard,” with Hoyden Stevenson Student Delegates To Detroit Convention To Be Selected Soon \ To work up interest in the Detroit convention, which meets from De cember 28 to January 2, Bruce G. Gray will be on the campus Novem ber 21 and 22. Mr. Gray is traveling secretary of the student volunteer movement for foreign missions. Send t the Emerald Home Dance Etfcry Sunday Night —At— Coburg Bridge Orswell's Orchestra ‘ Dancing 8 p. m. to 11 p. m. 1 Gentlemen 75c . a—————————- ■■g Be Proud of Your B. V. D.s They're out of sight, but someday you might be in an auto wreck and they’ll take you to the hospital. Besides, just think how good it feels to have a clean fresh pair next to your skin all the time. Domestic Laundry Eugene, Oregon ffinmt (Bur Book ffiooh By tlic Literary Editor To the cultivated reader every book is interesting. The binding may be gaudy, the print atrocious, and the story plotless, but the real lover of books will find something attractive in any published work. The interest may be permanent or it may be fleeting; herein lies the comparative worth of books. Every man should have two li braries—one of them to contain books which appeal mt the moment, books which can be read without effort in idle moments of relaxa tion, and tho other to contain books jof permaneHt value, books wlrih af ford a lasting source of pleasure, j Of the latter type a greater number lhave come from the presses of the ;publishing companies of the United j States in the last few months than at any previous similar period in history. Herewith are notes on a few vol umes which will add to the value of any library. SHAKESPEARE, ACTOR-POET, by Clara Long worth tie Chambrun. New York. Appleton. $3. The real skill of a biographer lies not in the painstaking tracing of ir relevant dates and data, but in the accurate recreation of a living and human character. When a national figure has long been dead, there grows about his memory an almost impenetrable wall of legend and formality. Biographers no longer consider him as one like themselves —with virtues, faults and foibles— but as a vague intangible something to be represented by dates, deeds, and idolatry. The trend of modern biography is away from this concrete encyclope dia sort of thing and biography such as Lvfton Strachey’s “Queen Vic toria” has been evolved. In the humanizing of a great figure, Clara Longworth do Ohambrun has suc ceeded to an admirable degree in her “Shakespeare, Actor-Poet,” re cently published by Appleton. At the same time she has lost none of the scholarly exactitude which much characterize acceptable history, whether it be national or personal. How many thousands of volumes have been written and published on the various phases of Shakespeare’s life and works, probably no one knows. That Clara Longworth de Ohambrun’s will* rank in the inter est of the average read with any of them is certain. “Shakespeare, Actor-Poet” was awarded the Bor din prize by tho French academy. * » « THE KINGDOM OF BOOKS, by William Dana Ofeutt. Boston. Little, Blown & Co. $5. Having none of the characteris tics of a textbook, either in organ isation or style, this volume will appeal greatly to students of all ages. A . typographically beautiful book, illustrated with numerous plates that open'a tremendous field of in terest and speculation, William Dana Orcutt’s “The Kingdom of Books,” published recently by Little, Brown and company as a companion vol ume to the author’s previous work, I “In truest of a Perfect Book,” will add greatly to any permanent li brary. Anyone who is interested in tooks of a plane higher than the [■imaginative food of pre-adolescent legions, will find hours of enjoy ment in Qxcutt’s book. One can [browse through it almost as one can browse through a library. In a de 12 Pencils with Name Printed in Gold, 60c Johnson City, N. Y. assorted colors, high grade No. 2 black lead, postpaid. Oases 1 for six pencils, Morocco, $1; leather, 75c; imitation leather, 50c. LIFE AND HERALD, Johnson City, N. Y. L. & E. BEAUTY SHOPPE Phone 1731 Permanent Waving Com plete . $8.50 Finger waving, water waving, marcel prints, manicuring— Each 50c 3J213MSM3I3IB lightfnllv informal stylo—almost as though chatting over the afternoon teacups — Oreuft discourses upon books from the incunabula to the present. The pedantic air of the average discussion of external features of books is pleasantly lacking in this new volume, yet “The Kingdom of Books” is illuminating to the tech nician as well as to those whoso in terest is confined to the mere read ing of books. JOHN PAUL JONES: MAN OF ACTION, by Phillips Russell. New York. Brentano’s. $5. “We shall better comprehend the man with whom we have here to deal if we understand that though he was first of all a man of action he was also intuitively an artist. With ships and men, (instead of paint, pen or chisel, he strove to make real his dreams of a glorious world.” In the forward quoted above, Phillips Russell concisely states the method of approach of his entire book. Russell’s sympathetic char acterization of Benjamin Fiwukliu recently was greeted with high ac claim by those readers truly sophis ticated enough to gain real enjoy ment from the reading of well writ ten biography. His John Paul Jones is treated with the samo under standing sympathy that was the keynote of his earlier work. Russell does not say that John Paul Jones was perfect, nor dojys he try to alibi bis imperfections. He merely treats this fiery, historical character with an understanding that not lie alone but all men have faults. Not the least remarkable part of the volume are the vigorous en gravings of Leon Underwood, eight of which illustrate the text. THE CAPTURE OF OLD VIN CENNES, by Milo M. Quaifc. In dianapolis. Bobbs-Merrill. $2.75. A classic of American history for the first time made readable to the average admirer of courage is “The Capture of Old Vincennes,” edited by Milo M. Quaife. Written by George Rogers Clark in 1789, this epic o# conflict has lain for nearly two hundred years unread except by a few diligent "scholars. The story was an enthralling one—-the march in the dead of winter, the men on the. point of exhaustion, some of them hungry and partially clothed, the forced crossing of the mighty Ouabuclie rive’r whose icy waters swirled ominously about the necks of the wading soldiers, the final triumph! Dr. Quaife explains the long ab sence of Clark’s narrative from lit erature: “Clark’s spoiling and syn tax wero as original as was his mili tary genius; even the trained scholar finds difficulty at times in determining his- meaning; and it is entirely safe to say that but few persons, aside from professional scholars, have ever possessed the The House by the Campus XUT9BING English Modem Languages Latin Mathematics MRS. SADIE M. MARTIN 975 E. 11th Ave. No Matter How Much You Learn YOU KNOW ONLY SO MUCH AS YOU REMEMBER. Your mind will obey you just in proportion, to the I requirements you place upon it if you give it a chance. You can al ways remember if you train your mind to serve you when and as you want it to serve. You can think and talk better and clearer with training that will take but a few minutes of your time. Prof. M. V. Atwood, formerly of the N. Y. Col lege of Agriculture at Ithaca, now Editor of TTtiea Herald-Dispatch wrote: “I have all momory courses and yours is the best of the lot. You owe it to the public te publish it in book form.” In response to this and other demands this course has been issued in a handy little volume to fit your pocket and the1 cost is but Three Dollars postpaid until December when Five Dollars will be the price. LIFE AND HERALD, Johnson City, N. Y. Eye strain is a waste of energy and endangers success. 362 determination and interest to read the Memoir through. The pity ot this is evident for not often ha* so much stirring adventure and daunt less endeavor been compressed with iu the limits of so few pages.” • * * OLD COURT LIFE IN FRANCE, by Frances Elliot. New York. Put nam. $5. “Old Court Life in Franee” is an informative volume of absorbing in terest when not taken in large doses. Sprinkled with illustrations that in vite reading, it is an excellent en tertainer when picked up and read at random. Inasmuch as the author has made a life study of the me moir history of France, the material contained in the 642 pages is au thoritative as "well as interesting— a rare combination. The period with which “Old Court Life in France” deals is that which led up to tho bloody revolu tion. An intimate and accurate pic ture of the famous and infamous characters of this time is present ed. One who has enjoyed the pages of “Old Court Life in France” will be interested also in the companion volume, “Old Court Life in Spain,” by the same author. U. S. Oil Magnates Win First Skirmisli With Mexican Firms (By United Press) MEXICO CITY, Nov. 17.—Ameri can oil interests won a signal vic tory today when the supreme court enjoined the Mexican government in enforcing a section of the oil and land laws against the Mexican Pe troleum company. Magistrate Salvador Urbina, who was negarded as chiefly responsible tor the supreme court decision, told the United Press tonight that it still was necessary for American companies to seek confirmatory rights—that is, that tho concerns would have to have their titles con firmed by the government. fBarnyard Golf9 Popular Pastime; Local Tossers Practice Each Day '“A perfect ringer!” “Oh man, he’ll bo the 'rtiimptin' some day!’' Drop around at tho little sand court between the carpenter shop and the railroad track some noon and watch them ring those horse shoes right over the iron peg in the ground. Every noon the “future horseshoe thrower champoens” vie with each other ’midst tho gasps of the enthu siastic neighborhood boys and other spectators. Campus employees are tyell repre sented theso sessions, for they file out from the University Depot, the Extension Division building, tho carpenter shop, and “points south” for their mid-day recreation after lunch. “The men that play every noon,” said W. M. Kirtley, employee at the carpenter shop, “have not formed any sort of organization. It was attempted once, but since there is a feeling against games being played on Sundays and holidays on the University grounds, the plan was unsuccessful.” Kirtley has been in employment at the carpenter shop for eight years. He is a member of the Eugene Horseshoe Club, which has its main tournament in the spring every year, and won, at one time, fourth place Why God Made Hell Do you know why! If you don’t, you should learn NOW—at once. 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