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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 78 Will Oregon Place Hoopster On All-Coast Five? Ridings Groomed for Job On Mythical Quintet; Rooks Include Stars Will any of the University of Ore gon basketball players be selected on the mythical all-coast five? This is a question which is puzzling the minds of campus basketball fans. In the first half of the season’s play which ended last week in McAr thur court, there has not been any more consistent, performer than Oregon ’ s own Gordon Hidings, floor captain and scoring ace. Gordon Hidings Up to date Tunings loads all in dividual scorers in number of games played. At the present Monty Sni der, Washington forward, is in the lead, but the Huskies have played eight games to the Webfoots’ six. Ridings has not only won the ap proval of local fans but his per formance against the Aggies in Cor vallis last. Saturday night was of high calibre. He has averaged more than nine points for each con ference tilt. There is not a hoopster on the Oregon team or perhaps any con ference team in the northwest loop of the Pacific coast conference who is any more versatile when it comes to handling a basketball. In addi tion to being an excellent shot, Rid ings plays the floor like a veteran. Defensively he is everywhere. Sev eral weeks ago when the center problem was still perplexing Coach Billy Reinhart, Ridings was shifted to center for several nights’ prac tice. Ridings has plenty of competition in the Northwest. Don’t think that just because Bill Burr, Aggie cap tain and forward, was held to a measely three points last Saturday that he isn’t a capable hoopster. Then there are Monty Snider, Husky ace, and Cloyso Overturf, Montana high point scorer, to be reckoned with. Taking all in all, we believe that Ridings can hold liis own with any of the above men tioned and probably exceed them when it comes to all-around playing.' The present basketball tour will probably decide whether Oregon for the fourth consecutive year places a player on the mythical all-coast five. Coach Billy Reinhart has a jinx over the Aggies when it comes to playing on their own floor. Since he assumed the head basketball coaching reins, a game has never been lost to the Aggies on their (Continued on pope three) Pens and Umbrellas To Be Sold at Auction; Lincolns if Unclaimed Two weeks from today you may be standing with a crow1 ? stu dents about an auction s \ the library steps counting you cels, dimes, pennies, quarters, ^ hat have vou. You may be do % is with a hope of regaining som * t ing pen, hat, umbrella, or e ^ favorite pipe .or cigarette-holde \ Just two weeks remain for to redeem what ever you have been able keep your hands on. at the end of the allotted time yo have not awakened from your tran quil slumbers to the harshness of life as is . . . well ... it isn’t the writer’s fault. Somebody may outbid you on your own um brella. '. • Chaperones tor Dance Include Many Notables Governor, Mrs. Patterson, Other State Officials, To Attend Ball The fine response received from the large list of patrons and patron esses invited to attend the “Bal de 1’Elegance” of the senior class, Saturday night in the woman’s building, shows that more interest is being taken in this year’s dance than ever before. Letters -of ac ceptance have been received by Myra Belle Palmer, .committee in charge, from all those invited. Heading the list is Governor and M’rs. Patterson, who plan to be in Eugene for the event. In addition to several state officials prominent people have been invited from Port land, Boseburg, Medford and Eu gene. The patrons and patronesses for the “Bal de 1’Elegance” include: Governor and Mrs. Patterson, Hon orable Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kozer, Honorable Mr. and Mrs. C. A. How ard, and Honorable Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kay, all of Salem. From Portland will come Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Corbett, Mr. and Mrs. George Gerlinger, Bishop and Mrs. W. T. Sumner, and Mr. and Mrs. George Joseph. Judge and Mrs. J. W. Hamilton of Boseburg and Mr. and Mrs. John Carkin of Med ford will attend from southern Oregon. Eugene patron and patronesses in dude: President and Mrs. Arnold Bennett Hall, Bean and Mrs. John Straub, Dean and Mrs. Elmer Shir rell, Mrs. Judy Esterly, Dean and Mrs. J. H. Gilbert, Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Chambers, Mr. and Mrs. George H. McMorran, Dean and Mrs. George Bebec, Dr. and Mrs. C. V. Boyer, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Fish, Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Harris, and Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Church. Henry Fitch Expresses Preference For Snake As House Companion Some people keep goldfish, others keep canaries, others poodle dogs, and, some men even keep wives as pets. Henry Fitch, sophomore, bi ology major, from Medford, how ever, thinks snakes make ideal house hold companions. Coiling, writhing, squirming, hiss ing snakes — representing the ser pent who, some say, caused man’s fall! The ideal playmate for the wife and kiddies! “They’re lots of fun,” Fitch said, when interviewed. “I’ve always liked them. When I was small I used to catch them and keep them about the house in boxes and under tubs. “When I was about six years old I had the habit of coiling them about my neck. This practice was usually indulged in with water snakes, garter snakes, and othei harmless “garden variety” serpents. One time, however, my parents nearly lost their favorite son when I carelessly wrapped a very beau tiful copperhead about my shapely neck. The snake, fortunately, did not bite. They are very poisonous.” Within the last few years Fitch has gone into the collecting of snakes on a large scale. He has a large screened cage about 12 feet square at his home to hold his sinu ous play-fellows. Snake collecting is a great hobby, Fitch says. He has read all the books he has been able to obtain on the subject. Whenever he has an opportunity he corresponds with men in the East who are interested in them. Every summer Fitch gathers to gether a motley collection of both rare and common snakes. This heterogeneous gathering of serpents includes many rare as well as com mon ones. The rare snakes he keeps or sells. But, he turns the others loose in the fall as they will freeze to death if left out in the cage all winter. They come “home” to visit, though. He has often found them outside of the cage — chatting amiably, per haps— looking in at the others. Snakes are generally prone to make the best use of their environ ment, according to Fitch. They usually accommodate themselves to situations in a very versatile man ner, in fact. For instance, they are not a bit squeamish about bathing in the same water that they later drink. Many of them climb about on the ' bushes provided in the cage. Some, i King snakes, for example, with their muscular, sinuous bodies are able to climb a smooth wall. Their food consists of smaller snakes, birds, worms, rats, etc. This they receive when they can get it—once a week, perhaps! They eat, though, quan tities of food weighing more than themselves at one sitting. They have varied tastes and fears. Some are calm and unruffled under all conditions while others cringe and slip away from noise, etc. When caught in a corner, though, they will always fight. Fitch, who is known as an au thority on Oregon snakes in his part of the state, has caught many rat tlers bare-handed. They Hare the only poisonous snakes in Oregon, he 1 says. Conflict Seen As Developer OfPersonalitv j Dr. H. L. Bowman Makes Annual Address to Student Body Battle Severe Between ‘Ought to and Want to’ eligion Must Keep Pace With Education •‘The element of inner conflict seems to bn. the price that man pays for his emergence into personality,” said Dr. Harold Leonard Bowman in his annual address to the student body at yesterday’s assembly on “The Integration of Personality.” “Man has come into the stage in which inner conflict, doubt, and uncertainty are evidences of pro gress, but in order to completely assume his status above the beasts, t^iere must be further advance out of conflict into peace,” he con tinued. Doubt is not a permanent state, but a pathway, a stimulus guiding on to that which is true, according to the speaker. Conflict is a higher stage than lethargv, but inner peace is still higher. There is a mental health as well as a physical. The path to both is analogous, for while bodily well-being is caused by the nroper, wholesome functioning of the organs working unconsciously together, mental health involves the complete integration, or working together, of all the elements of per sonality, in Dr. Bowman’s opinion. Some Dual Personalities Each person achieves a normal mind just to the extent that ho achieves united, potent equilibrium of personality, the speaker believes. All are possessed of inner conflicts, but some are aware of dual person alities, or those in»wliich there has been no integration. The conflict of the law of the jungle with the spiritual ideas of a civilized world, “the want to with the ought to” actions agreeable to self with the well-being of society, fantasy with reality, bluff with ac tual knowledge, a child’s instinct for independence with parental con trol, and the herd instinct with the urging of individuality are instances Dr. Bowman quoted as familiar forms of inner conflict.^ The sneaker said that the sufer ing produced from such battles is sometimes so inteixse that the sub ject will do anything to evade it, often by repression or rationaliza tion. Under the method of repres sion the conflict continues and works its way out in abnormalities, while under rationalization the sub ject, sometimes unconsciously, de velops a system of ideas to justify a .certain path of action. Half-Heartedness Hurts Dr. Bowpian, as an instance of the effect of rationalization, de scribed a minister who, after a teacher in his Sunday school had re fused to marry him, became, uncon sciously but genuinely, an atheist, so that he could leave the church and yet keep his pride intact. Sometimes the conflict is so severe that the rational processes break down and the individuals find release in suicide, by which nothing is accomplished, according to Dr. Bowman. Whenever people are un happy, discontented, grouchy, gos sipy, touchy, and hafe all the quali ties that hold them back from being happy, contented, aspiring, and from tasting life at its best, there is con flict. Dr. Bowman indicated that the way out is toward the integra tion of personality, along the line of full, complete, and unremitting com mitment to some one task or pur pose that will possess their lives completely. He said that one reason people are so troubled is that they , are half-heartedly occupied in bo many activities, and that that is why society women are more neu rotic than presidents of the United States. Where Religion Helps “Within religion may be that which leads to the integration of personality,” declared the speaker. “Many religious people are just as hard to get along with as others, but they .haven’t found the essence of religion. They want to do right, but they don’t want to do it at the price of the surrender of some of their prejudices.” “How today can we live in har mony with the inherent purpose of the universe?” asked Dr. Bowman, and answered his question with “by doing the will of the Father,” whose first quality is righteousness, not in any pale, aenemic, medieval (Continued on \>age two) Bribery Charges on Indiana Governor Dropped After Trial (I?y United Tress) INDIANAPOLIS, Iml. Feb. 16.— Governor Ed Jackson was absolved today from the charge of attempting to bribe the former governor War ren T. McCray. Judge Charles McCabe upheld a defense motion for a directed verdict of acquittal after the state had closed its case today. The motion was made on the ground that, the changes against Jackson were invalidated by the statutes of limitation which provid ed for prosecution within two years cf the time the act is committed un less the defendant is guilty of spe cific actions to conceal the crime. Laws of Deity Misinterpreted, Says Bowman Friction Caused by Lack Of Co-operation from Human Mind Not a sermon in character was Dr. Harold L. Bowman’s talk, which he gave last evening in Alumni Hall, nor yet was it a mechanical thing with the monotonous power of put ting the listener to sleep. One might safely say that it had to do with laws—a certain species of laws that cannot go out of effect or ,be vetoed, the laws that govern the world we know. “God is not an experimenter,” was one of the first premises with which Dr. Bowman started. “He is not doing in slovenly fashion that which could bo done better, and the divine way, if we only understood it, is the best in the long run. If His laws were less than perfect, lie could not be God.” It is misinterpretation of God’s laws that causes a lot of the trouble nowadays, according to the speaker, because there is nothing that can be right for God and wrong for man. In drawing a distinction here, Dr. Bowman remarked: “It would be wrong for a person to go out and pollute a well with typhoid germs— but would it not be just as wrong to charge God with the blame of that epidemic?” * A consistent universe involves law, is the next point that Dr. Bow man elucidated. The dependability of law, he illustrated, is a valuable discovery, and it must-be unvarying, for it is through this great order cf the universe that we can see the operating of this creative spirit that we call God. “But the working out of this law will involve suffering when there is ignorance of how to cooperate with it,” the speaker ex plained. “For instance, mix fire and wind—there is grief.” Since this is true, Dr. Bowman be lieves, we should not attribute the woes of the world to the workings of God. It is rather that we, our selves, get out of touch with the Creator’s will. “The divine plans,” Dr. Bowman asserted, “are hamper ed, hampered, by the workings of human minds, like the Giant of Lilli put, by the cords of the dwarf men.” “We have not solved the problem of sin or evil,” the speaker said in conclusion, “but we can take a he roic and creative attitude toward it—we can face the music.” This ho defines as an “attitude of coopera tive creation.” For the v.arld is still in the mak ing, Dr. Bowman believes, and even so, we, still have a long way yet to go. And it docs not take an extra ordinary person to be a cooperative creator. Doctors, by trying to find out how diseases can be overcome, are doing just this thing, and so is every person who is trying to make life a little more beautiful for other people. News Reel, Parodies Feature Girls’ Party Held at 4Y’ Bungalow A large variety of entertainment was featured in a party for the freshman commission girls at the Y. W. C. A. Bungalow Wednesday evening. Dorothy Robnett, social chairman of the Y. W. C. A. fresh man cabinet, was in charge of the affair, which was attended by 50 girls. The first item on the program was a dance. This was followed by a clever vaudeville skit on college life by the Susan Campbell delega tion. Contributing to the fun of the event the Alpha Chi Omega fresh men showed a I'athe News reel, and the Alpha Omicron Pi girls gave a parody on the Big Parade. Frosh Trim Salem Five In Fast Tilt Filial Score 39-30; Babes Trail Visitors, 19-10, In First Half Infants To Tangle With Kooks in Igloo Tonight Is High Scorer Eberliart Willi 16 Points Frosh (39) (30) Salem Horner (2) .F. (9) Duffy OUnger (4) .F. (4) Lyons Eberhart (16) .C. (13) Beecher Cafjcins .G. (4) Kelly Dvorafc (2) .G.. Echer Makinen (8) .S. Kafoury Archer (6) .S Referee: Swede Westergen. By HARRY DUTTON Coming from behind in a fast moving second half rally Spike Les lie’s Oregon ducklings turned back the flashy Salem high quintet in McArthur Court last night to the tune of 39 to 30. Gene Eberhart, gangly center for the yearling hoopers, took high point honors of the evening with 16 markers, being closely seconded by Beecher, Salem pivot man, who was chalked down with 13 before the tilt ended. Erratic Passing by Frosh The game started out in an unin teresting manner, the play being marred by erratic passing, especial ly on the part of the frosh. Salem started the scoring when Beecher converted a cripple and added a point from the foul line beeouso Eberhart rode in on his shoulders. The capitol city youngsters made the freshmen look ragged in the first half. The ducklings held on to the ball with the same tenacity with which they would hold a very hot potato. When, the frosh mentor led his hoopers to tho lockers at the end of tho first period the score read 19 to 10 for the red jer j scyed visitors. New Combination Started In the second half Coach Leslie started a new combination, starting Makinen and Olinger, at forward with Dvorak and Archer guards. The frosh seemed, to take a new lease on life in this canto, and baskets by Makinen, Eberhart and Dvorak boosted the score 16 to 19 withing a couple of minutes after the opening whistle. Little Alf Makinen began to make himself obnoxious to the Salem prep pers about this time, paying partic ular attention to the slippery Duffy. Besides making eight points in this half ho shadowed Duffy so close that the latter collected but one field goal in the final 20 minutes. Dvorak Breaks in Lineup Ed Dvorak broke in the opening lineup for tho first time this season and was the only frosh besides Eb orhart who played the full route. Archer played a good floor game in the last half, making a couple of difficult baskets, one from the side and another time jumping out of a general melee under the frosh bas ket to slap in a counter. Beecher and Duffy showed up best for tho visiting quintet. Duffy, though a little fellow, handles the ball like a veteran and can dribble and shoot with enough skill to make him a constant scoring threat. Rooks Tonight at 7:30 The freshmen have now success fully surmounted the first, and easi est hurdle of their week-end bas ketball schedule. Tonight they again /told forth in McArthur Court where they will attempt to give the Aggie rooks a reception similar to the one meted out to the Salem preppers last evening. The game with the rooks starts at 7:30. Lesile will probably use his new lineup against the Orange year lings, consisting of Olinger, Makip cn, Eberhart, Archer and Dvorak. Horner, Calkins, King, Lillie, Ru benstein, Stoddard and Walgren all saw action in the last tilt with the O. S. Of freshmen and some of them will undoubtedly get in part of tho time tonight. At present the fresh men have suffered two losses from the rook quintet. Tomorrow they go to Corvallis for tile final game of their season. Aiumni Officers Back From Trip to Portland Miss Jeannetto Calkins, alumni secretary of the University, and Miss Margaret Boyer, managing edi tor of Old Oregon, have returned from Portland, where they attended a, regional alumni meeting the first i of the week. i Shoe Shiners Aequire Professional Finesse, Says Wade Newbegin As a result of the mid-term ex-, animations held last Wednesday, Professor Wade Newbegin, S. O. S., P>. 0., 1?. IT. I?., and other degrees, takes pleasure in announcing that fully three-fifths of his class in shoe-shining will receive passing marks. For two weeks beforo the annual j Junior Shine Fay, Professor New- j begin held extensive night classes, covering every phase of the busi ness, from administering the polish to popping the shine rags, until a professional degree of excellence was acquired by most of those en rolled. Final examinations in the course will be given privately, the in structor stated. Oregon’s Team On Last Lap of Debating Tour 30 American Universities Await Contests With Globe-T rotters Some time next Wednesday a ship will steam past the Statue of Lib erty into New York harbor bearing on its deck Benoit McCroskcy, Jack Hempstead, and Avery Thompson, three University of Oregon boys who will be on the last lap of the longest debate tour ever undertaken by an American college. Their hearts will be filled with gladness at their return to their native land, their bnggago filled with movie films, mummy heads, and other souvenirs of foreign lands, and their pockets, like tlioso of John the Baptist, will bo entirely devoid of the scrip that is so necessary for existence in modern times. Proceeding to the office of Thomas Cook and Son, the debaters will find there a sheaf of contracts for de bates with nearly thirty American universities, the blessings of a grateful alma mater, and not a dol lar of expense money. A chilly February breeze off the harbor will remind them of the still more chilly night ahead of them in the park. Such was the story of ,T. K. ITorner, University debate coach, who has thus far striven'in vain to raise the necessary funds for the wandering Oregonians. “The boys need about four hun dred dollars to start their American tour,” Mr. Ilorncr said last night. “We have a lot of contracts, most of them with guarantees. I have tried to raise money on them, but so far I haven’t raised a cent. I wrote to the boys andHold them that they would have to sleep in either Hyde Park or Battery Park, but I recom mended Hyde Park because it is a little more sheltered from the sea breezes.” Y.W. Cabinet To Be Chosen Interviews To Be Basis of Choice of Directorate For Work Interest and Activity Aim of New System Secretary Large Number of Girls To Try Out for Posts Selection of members for Y. W. cabinet will in the future bo made on the basis of interviews with Miss Dorothy Thomas, secretary. This gives every Oregon woman who is interested in the work an oppor tunity to take an active part in it without necessitating previous ex perience or acquaintance with the present cabinet group. The time for the first interview will be next Friday, February 24. Any girl who wishos to become a cabinet member must arrange to have a conference with Miss Thomas some time next week. She will ,be expected to tell why she would like to bo active in Y work, and what branch of the activity she would be most interested in. Any ideas she may have as to liow that work should bo carried on should bo given at that time. Former cabinet mem bers will try out for places in the same manner. Many Aspirants Wanted “Wo are anxious that a number of girls try out for theso places be cause the more competition there is, the fairer tho final choice is apt to bo. Above ^11 things, tho girls should not ,bo afraid to try out tho first time, anyway. Even though they know very little about it all and simply feel interested, they should see Miss Thomas next week,” stated Paulino Stewart, president of Y. W. The now system was adopted bo caus'e in the past girls have become members either because someone has recommended them highly or thought them very much interested in tho work. Sometimes the choice has boon made on tho basis of past Y. W. activity, but not always. This manner of choice eliminated entirely the girl who was interested but just didn’t know how to get a s ■ rt in the work. The new plan aims to reach such girls and give them an opportunity. The information gathered by Miss Thomas during the interviews will bo turned over to a committee which will select tho best material for tho appointive positions on the cabinet. Tho names will also be used in nominating for tho elective offices. “Like Civil Service” “The thing is based on tho idea of civil service, but wo won’t call it that becauso it sounds rather for midable,” Miss Stewart stated. “Even though a girl does not get the position she seeks, she is almost (Continued on page two) Capable Cast Presents Grim R. U. R. Production Before Large Audience By S. C. M. Fantastic, grim, brilliantly satiri cal was It. U. it., the melodrama by Karel* Capek, acted last night by tho Guild Theater Players, under the direction of Florence B. Wilbur, head of tho drama department. That the cast should attempt such a play, made famous by Tho Theater Guild in New York six years ago, and achieve the distinction and success that it did last night is a tributo to the department and to Miss Wilbur. Outstanding roles were those pl?yed by Lawrence Shaw as Domin, general manager of Rossum’s Uni versal Robots; Constance Roth, as Helena Glory, tho wife of Domin; and Cecil Matson in the portrnyal of Ahjuist, tho architect of tho firm of R. U. It. Busman, the business manager, played by Gordon Stearns, drew much spontaneous laughter from the audience. Into the character of young Harry. Domin, manager of Rossum’s Universal Robots, automatons which have all the characteristics of hu man beings except a soul, and which are turned out from factories by the thousands, in the bigger and better machine age of the futuro which the drama portrays, Lawrence Shaw put an assurance and breezy self-confidence entirely fitting tho first act. In the second act, ten years later, when Domin begins to fear and be haunted by the Robots, who threaten to dominate tho few people left on earth, he is distract ed and uncertain and finally goes mail. Ho supported tho whole rolo capably anil with surety. Constance Roth, versatile actress, played Helena Glory, representative of a Humanity League for tho im provement and enlightenment of Ro bots, who falls suddenly in love with the manager of the factory with sympathy anil skill. Notable was the bit where she burned tho formula for the manufacture of artificial men. Cecil Matson, as the old archi tect, who believes in prayer, was well played, especially in the epi logue to the play where he trios desperately to devise again some formula for making machine men. Busman, tho business manager, who, when tho end of humanity was near, says merely, “Well, I may as well close my accounts,” and be gins adding the figures, was por trayed with humorous skill by Gor don Stearns. Sulla, tho Robotess stenographer; Nana, a maid, and Radius, the lead er of the Robots in revolt, were others whose performances stood out from the whole. Grace Gardner as the second Helena, and Arthur An derson as Primus gave a pleasing touch to the epilogue. Staging effects and lighting were unusually well carried out and de serve especial montion as adding atmosphere to tho play. The sharp satire on industrial society which make the play novel and thought provoking was evidently appreciated by tho largo audience, to judge from applause.