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University of Oregon, Eugene RAY NASH, Editor MILTON GEORGE, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD j Robert Galloway_ - Managing Editor Walter Coover-Associate Editor; Claudia Fletcher - Ass't, Managing Editor Richard H. Syring-Sports Editor Arthur Schoeni . Telegraph Editor Donald Johnston .. Feature Editor Cart Gregory __ P. L P. Editor Margaret Long_Society Editor Arden X. Pangborn_Literary Editor News and Editor Phones, 655 DAY EDITORS: William Schulze, Mary McLean, Frances Cherry, Marian Sten. NIGHT EDITORS: J. Lynn Wykoff. chief; Lawrence Mitchelmore, Myron Griffin, Rex Tossing, Ralph David, Floyd Horn. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Joe Rice, Mil Prudhomme, Warren Tinker,} Clarence Barton, Joe Freck, Gordon Baldwin, Glen Gall, A F. Murray, Harry Tonkon, Harold Bailey. SPORTS STAFF: Joe Pigney, Harry Dutton, Chalmers Nooc, Chandler Brown, Warren Tinker. FEATURE STAFF: Florence Hurley, John Butler, Clarence Craw, Charlotte Kiefer, Don Campbell. UPPER NEWS STAFF: Amos Burg, Ruth Hansen, La Wanda Fenlason, Flossie Radabaugh, William Haggerty, Herbert Lundy, Dorothy Baker. NEWS STAFF: Margaret Wat3on, Wilfred Brown, Grace Taylor, Charles Boice, Elisc Scboeder, Naomi Grant, Maryhelen Koupal Josephine Stofiel, Thirza Ander son, Etha Jeanne Clark, Mary Francos Diiday, William Cohagen, Elaine Crawford, i Audrey Henrlkson, Phyllis Van Kimmell, Margaret Tucker, Gladys Blake, Ruth Craeger, Leonard Delano, Thelma Kem, Jack Coolidge, Crystal Ordway, Elizabeth Schultze, Margaret Reid, Glenna Heacock, Irene Urfer, Joe Rice. BUSINESS STAFF LARRY THI ELEN—Associate Manager Butb, Street ..Advertising Manager Bill Bates --- Foreign Adv. MgT. BID Hammond __ Ass’t. Advertising Mgr. Wilbur Shannon .... Ass’t. Circulation Mgr. OtrcielJe George _ Mgr. Checking Dept. Ray Dudley - Assistant Circulator Ed. Btsaell..- Circulation Manager ADVERTISING SALESMEN—Charles Reed, Frances Mullins, H. Day Foster, Richard Horn, Harold Keoter, Ray Smick, John Caldwell, Sam Loders. FINANCE ADMINISTRATOR—George Weber. ADVERTISING ASSISTANTS—Harold Bailey, Herb King, Ralph Miilsap. OFFICE ADMINISTRATION—Doris Pugsley, Hanyette Butterworth, Helen Laur gaard, Margaret Poorman, Kenneth Moore, Betty Boynton, Pauline Prigmore, Mar garet Underwood. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Student* of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily exempt Sunday and Monday during the college year. Member, United Press News Service. Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Pres*. Entered in the postofflee at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscrip tion rates, $2.50 per year. Advertising rates upon application. Residence phone, editor, 721; manager, 2799. Business office phone, 1896. Day Editor This Issue—Mary McLean Night Editor This /sane— Myron Griffin Assistant Night Editors—Joe Freck Closing Down On Open House THE University name garbling festival called open house on the social calendar, is under suspi cion. Half a dozen students inter viewed yesterday by the Emerald were openly hostile to the affair.as it has been conducted'—only one would speak for it. The premonitory wriggle which worms presumably make before they turn seems to be under way.. Whether the doughty gallants that circumnavigate the campus each fall in progressive jumps from house to house, or their hostesses, Spartan like in miles of frozen smiles and feebly pumping arms, are the morn sinned against in this initial social holocaust is a question too delicate ly balanced for us to decide off hand. But both the Hfjfgressors and their grinning greeters have had about enough, they agree, and are ready to arbitrate. There are any number of alter natives more desirable than the ex tremely clumsy open house system as it is perpetrated. Houses might be paired off in a rotating schedule, an all-Univcrsity central affair in honor of the freshmen with efficient Introductory machinery could be ar ranged, or any similar combination which would serve the purpose. But, why not allow social accli matization to proceed normally with out any necessarily perfunctory re ception f Dean Straub has always formally presented the men of each incoming class to their prospective dates. The soluti#n is very simple. Isn’t “metcha at. frosh assembly” just as valid as “metcha at open house?” Dean Bhijyoll has neatly nipped ir tho liutl a naughty little plot. A shyster jewelry saJesman has taken ie a number of students on a surrep titious fraternity srhemo, the dean revealed yesterday. Fortunately for the Greeks within the law, tho illegitimate embryo T. N. K. of Oregon succumbed at birth and can never grow to molest them with its intrigues. But. reflect that men of voting age were anxious to plunk down an initiation fee and the price of a fake badge without investigating then chalk up a few more to Bar num’s score. Dr. Packard Interprets History of Oregon 'll trough Primeval Fossils Geology Professor Reconstructs Fossil “Ancvloceras Oregonensis'* From Fragments Fossils by the dozens, and even by the hundreds, ranging from the dolieato pink tracery of the nnist fragile coral to the bony fragments of the great reptillian monsters that ome made Oregon their home, are the surroundings of Dr. 1.1. L. 1‘uek ard, professor of geology, in his little office and laboratory in tlie basement of Condon Hall. To casual observers most fossils seem more unintelligible rocks and dull-colored shells and chips of bone, but to Dr. Packard the\ are alive. Before his eyes the three tolled slit'll tilled with the mud of centuries becomes a trilobite with j strange colorings and bizzarre wing like, appendages, swimming in the seas of Cambrian Time with thou sands of its follow creatures; the rock develops into a braehiapod, a great clam like creature in the mud flats of the primieval world; and the fragmentary bone evolves into a gigantic dinosaur who drags his sluggish hulk about through the marshes of Eastern Oregon. Cephalopod Reconstructed On a table in l)r. Packard’s lab oratory lies the broken remains of a cephalopod more than four foot long, a creature of which the devil fish and squid are modern proto types* Dr. Packard lingered one of the fragments carefully, almost lovingly, as a physician might lay his hand on one of his patients. '■ 1 dug this ouu out of a shalo h> k on Bridge Creek, near '.he Age and Wisdom In Defense of Youth George B. MaeMinn lias been teaching English literature for more than twenty years, first at Brown University and now in California. That he does not think the modern collegian the worthless rascal many portray him to be is indicated in an article in the March number of • the North American Review, en titled “Our Serio-Comic Undergrad uates.” If one skips through the article, .In-' may lift a-few passages heue and there without seriously break ing into the train of thought. “There is nothing fundamen tally wrong with our unman nerly undergraduate, and he is certainly one of the most vital creatures on earth.* * * * “As a matter of fact these healthy, hearty, clever young people are singularly fond of sim ulating indifference and an ig norance which cannot truly be charged against them. Many of them in spirit are like the superb loafer who, on his class day night, surcharged with emotion, weeps at having only one thing to bo ashamed of in his college career, namely, his having “made” the honor society, Phi Beta Kappa! The typical under graduate has a strong distaste for the modal. But that is far from saying that ho is, or is willing to be accounted, a dun derhead.” Only recently, President James Rowland Angell, of Yale, made the statement, that an investigation of the records of his institution show ed that the collegian of the present day is in all respects equal to the students of previous generations in the matter of grades, deportment, honors gained in college and pros pects for a probable success in life. In addition, he says that the enter ing student of today is in most cases better equipped to undertake College work than was his fellow of the years past. An argument overheard several years ago comes to mind. A man some sixty years young was dis cussing modern youth with a man about 45 years old. A heated re mark from the latter lead the elder man to remark: “You know, when a. man reaches forty, he begins to live in the past.” Temporarily, at least, it ended the argument. Now, it is suggested that a least a goodly portion of the detractors of present day students are living in the past and do not know the facts. —W. C. Theater Showings HEILIG—Association Vaudeville tonight—Palis Serenaders in an “Evening in Honolulu”; Von Stremmel in “The Tom Mi* of Vaudeville”; Ferguson & Sunder land in “Bits of Musical Comedy”; “Kat Knaps”, a musical panto minchovely presented by Florence Seeley & Co.; Mann Brothers in “Two Jolly Sailors on the Bounding Ropel,” Mack SennetVs comedy, ‘ For Sale, a Bungalow”; M. G. M. New's; Curiosity Novelty, and Top ics of the Day. Comi,ng—“Love”—Playing again Friday and Saturday. John Gilbert and Greta Garbo in Tolstoi’s surg ing story, “The Student Prince,” the big stage success brought to the screen. “Baby Mine,” featuring George K. Arthur and Karl Dane. “Broadway” the big melodrama of the cabarets, (road show.) BEX—Last day—Florence Vidor in “Honeymoon Hate,” adapted from the Saturday Evening Post story of a tempestuous love, replete with romantic comedy in which a newly wedded couple took their petty jealousy along on the honey moon, and with many laughable complications resulting before they found each other; also, clever com edy and Krazy Kat cartoon, “Grid Irons,” and Oregon Pictorial screen review; Marion Zurcher at the or gan. » • * * McDONALD—First Day-Adolphe Menjou in “Serenade”—the new show opening today at the Mc Donald offers movie-goers one of the most varied bills in many months headed by that suave romancer, Menjou, in his cleverest role, that of a composer of love ballads, who writes his melodies to the better ment of his love affair of the mo ment; then, the short subjects are unusually good, with a Bobby Ver non comedy, “Splash Yourself,” a Koko cartoon classic, “Koko’s Quest,” and the latest world news, as recorded by Paramount News; on .the ;stage, „GebaaW.,MeMur^hoy and bis popular Kollege Knights ate featured in a melodious stagehand act, “Syncopated Serenades,” with the McDonald Chorines, peppy danc ing maidens, in a new revue of steps, produced upder the direction of Katherine Stang, nightly at 8:150. Frank Alexander, and his silver voiced organ, accompanies the en tile pictorial program as only Frank can. Coming—-“A Man’s Past,” the first American made starring vehicle for that famous foreign, character actor, Conrad Veidt, comparable only to Emil .tannings, and said by many critics to be the greatest ar tist in American films; note—the McDonald “A Man’s Past—Should Be an Open Book” essay contest is open to all readers and many valu able prizes will be awarded itlie winners. (Soon)—Sid Chaplin in “The Fortune Hunter.” town of Midi ell, Oregon, last, sum mer,” Or. Packard said. “Ordinary cephalopoda are tightly coiled, but one in a elude loop, like this, is un paralleled. I shall give it the scien tific name of Aucyloceras Oregon eusis. ” Before he will bo done with the specimen, Dr. Packard will recon struct it, gluing the broken parts together and constructing a new head and tail of plaster, so that Aucyloceras Oregonensis will look as nearly as possible like he did when he lay down and died and was covered with the oozes of the East ern Oregon sea during Cretaceous Time, a million or so years ago. History in Making Back of his fossil collecting and reconstruction Dr. Packard has a definite purpose: to formulate and record the history of Oregon from the beginning of life, through all ages and evolutions of animals to the modern world. It is a difficult task, and there are many ages and i periods that are yet unrecorded. For the past ten years Dr. Pack lard has spent his summers hunting I'for fossils, and in that period he I has discovered more than a hundred ■ entirely new species, as well as many others never before found in Oregon. Each new fossil he finds i has a definite place in the narrative ho is preparing, and every- year the ; vacant places become fewer and 1 | fewer. As he works in his labora tory with these relies of ages loug since passed, he looks forward to the day when he can present the geologic history of Oregon as a com plete story throughout all time. lT. 0. L. A., Los Angeles, Feb. -!>.—(P.l.P.)—With the establish ment of more friendly rotations be tween the lr. C. L. A. and other universities of the coast as its pur pose, the traditions committee last week passed a resolution as fol- , lows: "That it should be the pel- 1 icy of this university to extend to the best of its ability all courtesies possible in its relation with other institutions, whether thpy be ath letic, scholastic, administrative or social, aad that this policy be rec ogniz'd by the A. S. I’. 0 and its officers (president, committees and 'ell-loaders') and almi-is rstiou.” SONG DEDICATED TO HOS PITALS AND INFIRMARIES: “THE MALADY LINGERS ON.” • * * COMMUNICATIONS Dear Seers: •Speaking for the Eugene Police Force and other similar organiza tions, I am forced to request that no more chapters of the Angle Worm’s Revenge be printed. Such a book, full as it is of sex problems, etc., etc., will have a degenerating effect on the morals of the eds and co-eds. Don’t'y°u think sof Much scandalized, AUNT MEHETIB'LE SEFIRA. # * * THE ANSWER IS “YEST* “THE ANGLE WORM'S . REVENGE” Synopsis: Rattlesnake Pete shoots his burro In the halter for riding his bicycle without written permis sion from the Dean of Men to live in an apartment. A fugitive, he joins Napoleon’s retreat from Mos cow and travels on his stomach. Now go on with the story. CHAPTER II Lured to Ambush A shallow draft truck horse pawed at his stable in Friendly hall while a lone Eskimo loaded his kyak with senior cords for his win ter supply of grease. Rattlesnake Pete stiffened as the cactus stabbed him, then flung him self blindly upon hi* assailant and uttered a low cry of dismay as his hands filled with stickers. “Curse yoff,' Charlte-Ox’;” he bel lowed, as h<j. adjusted his finger prints on the castus’ throat. “You ain’t gawan to leave dis yer cabin alive.” The cactus was cool as a cucum ber ns he shifted his goggles over his chin and climbed into the cock pit of his hay-wagon. The giant motor roared as one of the oxen honked both hprns for assistance. In the middle of the lake a light dust curling ' up from a carpet sweeper warned the redskins the U. S. cavalry was riding to the res cue. Then the dawn broke in three pieces. * (To be continued) TODAY’S GEOGRAPHICAL ANSWER “Did President Coolidge ever cheat in college?” “No; but Calcutta class.”. (And mountains quavered at Her dynamic exhiliration.) PROM OUR BOOK NOOK “The Private Life of Dick Gor don” will soon be off the press ready for public inspection. The plot for the story was secured when some of Dick’s mail was sent by mistake to the. Delta Epsilon hangout, where it was opened and earcfully per used. Nichol O’Day, who has been ap pointed to work out a plan whereby certain students will be extended the privilege of remaining in Eu gene during spring vacation to pay their fees and thus avoid the rush of students arriving Monday after noon. O'Day realizes also that cer tain self-supporting students must first earn their money, so they will be .allowed to remain during vaca tion and pay their fees each day as i earned. He strongly advocates a further raise in fees, to make it .possible for students to ride on busses and go to shows free. ' , LAYING ALL JOKING ASIDE, WE DON’T THINK THE DATE FOR PAYING FEES SHOULD i HAVE BEEN MADE PUBLIC, FOR $60,000.00 BANDITS ARE LIABLE TO MAKE THE TRIP OUT FROM CHICAGO. % STATISTICS NOT WORTH KNOWING If Methusalah were now alive, he could smoke two packages of cigarettes a day for 2546 years without having to worry about a cough, if he lived that long. * * * FAMOUS LAST WORDS "Don’t cry, little flower girl.” SEVEN SEERS I -— -.» Campus Bulletin “Goethe’s Critical Theories,” by Associate Prof. S. Stephenson Smith. I Class—Criticism. 108 Villard, 9 a. m. '“Causes of the Eecent Growth of Foreign Trade,” by Assistant Prof. Donald M. Erb. Class—Economic History. 105 Deady, 9 a. m. “The Religious Invasion of the Greco-Roman West,” by Dr. George Rebec. Class—Philosophy of His tory. Ill Johnson, 3 p. m. Sophomore members of To-Ko-Lo meet tonight at 7:30 at the Col lege Side Inn, Pi Lambda Theta meeting at the Anchorage today at noon. International Relations Club mem bers will meet tonight at 7:30 in the geography room, Condon hall. A program has been arranged, and absences must be excused. The Murray Warner Museum Li brary on the third floor of the Woman’s building will be open daring the spring vacation at the regular hours, from 2 to 5. The Mathematics Club will meet in room 1, Johnson Hall tonight at 7:30. Anyone interested is in vited to hear students explain the use of the slide rule and the work of women in mathematics. Recital (C&ntinued from page one) on tho final note was followed by hearty applause. The last number of the group, “Go Call Irene,” another selection from the “Atalanta,” portrayed two distinct moods. One moment the mistress was acchsed in crisp cut phrases of being “cruel, rplentless, unfaithful ancf hard-hearted.” Then in exquisite gentleness a love mes sage in direct contrast to the bit terness of the denunciation was sung. The slow trill of this passage added to its beauty. ^“Che Gelida Manina,” from Puc cini’s opera “La Bohenjp,” which Toiloive# tefe.^fitit group, told tho story of the poet Rudolph’s song even to those of the auditors who could not translate the words. At least they were conscious of the tender solicitude expressed in the opening lines as Rudolph cried, “Your tiny hands are frozen, Let me warm them into life.” They must have felt a tingle of pride at the declaration, “I am a poet,” and the happy mood expressed as Ku dolph tells Mirai.of the pleasures of his dream life, if not conveyed by the words, was felt in the rhythm. And certainly they could not help but feel the sadness of the poet awakened from his dreams to wist ful realization that he is in love and cannot be satisfied by dreams any more. All these moods were clearly interpreted. Again in “Der Neugierige” of the German lieder group, Mr. Siefert ran the gamut of emotions. One moment the lover reproached the brooklet, then pleaded with it to tell if his love- were returned. The pos sible “yes” was sung jubilantly, the “No” in abject misery. The ac companiment as played by Louis Artau suggested the murmur of the brooklet. In hushed tones Mr. Siefert sang “The Wanderer’s Nanchtlied,” pic turing the quiet of the woods at nightfall. The prolonged high tones and placidity of the ending were in keeping with the peaceful mood of the weary traveler. “Im Waldeseinsamkeit” began «in a similar fashion but rang -with passion in the middle contrasting section. The harmony of the ac companiment .added to the wistful ness of the' ending. Mr. Siefert read the English ver sion of the German numbers before singing them—an act greatly ap preciated by the audience. But of the concluding “Standchen” by Brahms he humorously remarked that college students probably need ed no information on serenades. Certainly the rhythm in itself was sufficiently entrancing. • “My Lute” and “A Baby’s Hair Is Built of Sun” of the final group were sung in a delicate manner. One of the most dramatic numbers and one with a touch of the ultra modern was Bridge’s “Mantle of Blue.” The first pictured the hush that had fallen over the sorrowing home. Then came a weird passage depicting the terror of Death, from which the song returned to quiet and ended mournfully. The ecstatic mood of “Clorinda,” with its tripping minuet rhythm, rvas in direct contrast to the pre ceding number. From its prevail ing note of sadness the final number, “Autumn” by Cloran, worked up to a climax that brought applause to be satisfied only by an encore. Confidence - - —brings poise and success in fentertaining. The most discriminating are confident of the best in service and food at— ~ The Eugene Hotel Broadway at Pearl Phone 2000 N t - On the Down Side of Our World The Parliament Building of New Zealand at Wellington is equipped with Otis elevators / I The ANTIPODES! No other word in the language has such a far-away sound. The old writers used to amuse them selves by imagining a land where every thing was topsy-turvy; where people walked on their heads, built their houses upside down, and where the trees grew into the earth, spreading their roots into the air. And we of the north still feel a certain strangeness about these regions when we read of their cold, blustering Julys, and their rose-crowned Januarys,—merely a sign of our own provincialism, no doubt. As a matter of fact, the real Antipo des are very much a part of the modern world. In Australia and New Zealand small towns are growing into cities, the cities are constantly being embellished with huge new buildings equipped with the latest type of Otis Eleva tors. ' One of the old writers we have spoken of would doubtless, ask if the elevator men in the Antipodes say Up! when the elevator is descend ing and “Down!” when it is mounting. No matter how top^y-turvy the other side of the world may be regarded by some, the fact remains that Otis Elevators are accepted quite casually and do their daily work in antipodal buildings. OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY Offices in All Principal Cities of the IVarid