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SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1928
Vermes in Literature
Makes Critic Squirm
THE blood and beefsteak melo
drama which has been flavoring
the new Seven Seers serial “is too
much” for one reader. He submits
Ms thoughtful literary criticism of
“the Angle Worm’s Revenge” today.
Our first impulse was to fly to
the defense of our former next door
neighbors, creators of the anneloid
thriller, but a malicious curiosity
held us back. After all, it’s a lot
of fun to sec the other fellow get
a little of . the brimstone now a^d
then. Like Job’s jolly playmates,
we’d rather outwardly mourn and
inwardly gloat than run any risk of
, getting ourselves in bad through our
protection of the miserable.
Anyway, we must confess, wo
liuve absent-mindedly neglected to
follow the tortuous trail of the
worm’s adventures. When we tried
to break into the plot at chapter
HI, we were lost in kaleidoscopic
action. Ho we feel unqualified to
speak, pro or contra.
Only allow us to caution the crit
ic. against snap judgments in the
literary field. We distinctly recall
tossing James Joyce aside as gibber
ish one time; and think how mar
velously I’iotro Aretino concealed
his symbolism. A good rule, dear
critic, 'is, the more unintelligible
the book, the greater its artistic
value (price). There may be excep
tions—the “Angle Worm’s Re
venge” may be one—but lake care
lost you carelessly trample hallowed
ground!
Taking the Matter.
Into Our Own Hands
IN reply to the faculty critics of
student behavior at assembly, a
correspondent states the ease for the
socially responsible type of students
who might make a success of under
.graduate self-government if they
had the chance.
If enough “downright disgusted”
members of the student body show
their distaste for discourteous and
ill-mannered actions toward speak
ers, the assembly tomfoolery will
quickly end. Policing should be a
serious-—an intolerable—rebuke to
tin self-respect of college students.
Communications
David Slings a Brick
To the Editor:
Such asinine trash as the “Angle
Worm’s Revenge” that is clutter
ing the Seven Seers column of the
Emerald these days, is a disgrace
to a college paper. Of all the
empty-headed, brainless, journalistic
ravings this present example in the
Emerald seems to take the grand
prize.
Hure'ly we all enjoy the jokes in
the Heven .Seers and even at times
the good nature! raillery, but to be
forced to absorb such aimless wan
derings as Chapter 11 of the "Angle
Worm’s Revenge” — well, that is
much too much.
As an example of the futility of
education, 1 would like to quote this
choice bit from Chapter 11. “Curse
you, Charlie Ox,” he bellowed, as he
adjusted his huger prints on the
cactus* threat. “You ain’t guan
to leave dis yer cabin alive.”
It is hard to believe that a col
lege studeut at the University of
Oregon could be guilty of writing
such uouscuse, so it would be a great
pleasure to fiud in the* Emerald
some morning, an announcement
- that the. .“Angle Worm la Revenge."
Two Week-Ends
Designed for Fun
THOSE who have agitated for a
wide observance of leap year on
the campus seem to have given up
all hope. The attempt has ended in
failure at other colleges whore it
has been tried this year, and would,
in all probability, have enjoyed but
a slight success here.
With Senior Leap Week, just an
nounced for April 19 to 22, the status
is somewhat different. Senior Leap
Week has come to be a traditional
event of the spring tyrtn. J^ot one
of* the oldest, it is, nevertheless, a
tradition that has .becoipe. quite
liimly intrenched during the few
years of its existence.
If tales and noises originating at
liar Room Busts and Kappa Koffees
of past years can be taken as cri
teria, the week has been a success
when held before. Because of its
significance as a traditional event
of the student’s last year in the
University, it has a reason for be
ing, a reason superior to an expres
sion of passing fancy.
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This year’s Junior Week-end, as
planned by the committee, will be a
complete campus week-end. Last
year, due to no fault of those in
charge, the absence of the canoe
fete kept the celebration from be
ing a complete success.
When of old, the week-end was
devoted to the entertainment of
preppers, there was little opportun
ity for the students to enjoy the
products of their efforts. This n ns
particularly true of the canoe fete.
With the week-end made a campus
Jtffair, the burden of work was les
sened a bit, but there still was
rc om for improvement). Sfudcnts
who worked at preparing the floats
for the spectacle seldom were able
to see the completed craft other
than close-up, thus failing to get
full benefit of its lines and colors.
Such a condition will continue to
exist under the. new plan, but to a
modified degree. Now, at least,
members of houses will get to see
the fete once or twice in four years,
whereas formerly a few fleeting
glimpses was all they could expect.
Meager as the improvement is, it
is an improvement, for a caqpe fete,
such as those that have been held on
j the mill race, is a thing of beauty
I and well worth seeing.
—w. e.
is the dying effort of an inmate of
j the hospital for tho insane at
j .Salem. RALPH DAVID.
Frowns on Assembly Clowns
I To the Editor:
Some critics of modern youth
J have been tempted to liken us to
I untamed savages ami judging by
I’liursdays assembly one could hard
I )y refute their arguments. True
| enough the occupants of the bal
cony did not let slip by any chances
short of actual shouting to display
i their rudeness. Tt is, however, also
true that others sitting on the main
| floor contributed plentifully. In
the first place the side seats usually
I occupied l>v men were sparsely set
I tied so that somo of the rumpus
; must lie attributed’ to tin* vvoiucn.
Their contributions wore uot in
general laughing aloud, boxing
matches and the like, but in a con
tinuous conversation which certainly
j axlded materially to tho confusion.
Why all tin1 uproar? Is it because
■ grown up (?) eollege men and ivo
; men tool above listening to an In
dian legend told by a man whom we
would do well to respect, for ho is
j truly—a gentlemanly scholar? Stu
dents of universities from which we
might well take examples tell . us
that for these institutions assemblies
Luc. respected uud .considered. Jo.fi.UC;
Bulletins
The physical ability test will start
at 9:00’this morning in the men’s
gymnasium.
Frosh baseball men—All aspirants
to frosh nine meet with Coach
Spike Leslie in McArthur court
at 3:30 Monday afternoon.
Phi Chi Theta ■will meet for lunch
eon at the Anchorage, Monday,
March 5.
Rowe
• (Contimei from page one)
ing some of his college friends, who
were in New York.
“I stayed three days in Philadel
phia without spending a cent for
food,” ho continued. According to
Mr. Rowe, there is quite a technique
in securing food without having to
pay for it. One of his favorite
methods was to go to a restaurant
that closed at 1 o’clock, and ask
for the food that would not keep
until the next day. That took act
ing, too, he said.
“The meuu was rather unbalanc
ed/’ he said. “I never ate so much
pie and second hand meat in such
a short space in all my life.”
“It is almost impossible to get
free meals in New York,” said Mr.
Rowe, “New Yorkers have no faith
in human nature.”
The Oregon man decided to walk
the 35 miles to Peekskill from New
York to join his friends and to
keep from spending any money, he
sent it all ahead and started out
with only 10c, and a copy of David
Grason’s “Friendly Road.”
One summer, while “bumming”
around in the Rocky mountain coun
try in a flivver, with a friend, a
playful pup, who as far as they
could determine, was half collie and
half Airdale, adopted them. But
they utilized him and the pup paid
his way by helping them secure
supplies. Mr. Rowe said that since
Jack is an easy name to yell, they
caljed hihi jack, ifqrethey had to yell
at jam: most of the time.
TfaVdWg by freight train has
been Mr. Rowe's favorite method
of transportation. Even yet, he
says, when ho is walking in tho
country and a freight train passes,
he has an impulse to hop it, espe
cially if a door is partly open.
“There is no feeling so delight
fully detached from all care as rid
ing a freight train, getting in tho
open door of a box car, swinging
one’s feet, and watching the fields
go by, not knowing whero you are
going and not caring,” he said.
Mr. Rowe said the reason for tak
ing these motley jobs, and spending
his summers at them, is to learn the
various aspects of lifo at first hand.
Ho spent last summer at Harvard
working on a doctor’s degree.
Theso “roving” days are gone for
Mr, Rowe now, because teaching oc
cupies his time.
fleial. It seems to me that we need
a little pride—self pride—family
pride, house pride, and school pride
—both in attending these weekly as
semblies and, when therein, con
ducting ourselves so we will have
no cause to be ashamed.
Was it because people are forced
to go to assemblies? Perhaps, but
they prove themselves exceedingly
poor sports in making it an hour of
rough and tumble, joking, sneaking
out the door (not even on tip toe!),
and an all-round, juvenile good time.
It reminds me of a small child, who,
forbidden to go to the corner drug
store for an ice cream cone, des
troys all the cakes newly baked for
his mother’s afternoon tea guests
and ruus shouting into the drawing
room making horrible faces!
I wonder whether living organiza
tions realize that conduct, as in the
last assembly, and such has been
frequent, reflects detrimentally on
themselves. Hero sits a group of
brothers—perfectly oblivious of the
presence of anyone, but their own
sweet selves. If well behaved, no
one complains, but if rowdy—they
are dubbed as members of such and
|such a house and that impression
given to other people is one which
| is hard to erase. Can not we, as
normally thinking and acting stu
dents of Oregon, take it upon our
'selves, separately to show some
'small amount of 'courtesy? And
collectively can not our living
groups impress it still further, and
in all can’t wo improve our assem
blies? I know that mauv students
feel deeply ashamed of our last and
| worst display wild they will agree
; with me in saving we owe the
I speaker a most humble apology,
which can best be given by individ
ually and collectively proving that
we, as University of Oregon stu
dents, are really capable of better
conduct in assemblies. 1 fur uue
am curious to have it proved.
••DOWNRIGHT DISGUSTED.”
WASHINGTON STATE COL
LEGE, March —(1*. 1.1‘.)—A col
lege advertising club for the pur
pose of sponsoring and advertising
campus organizations such as the
Associated Students and various
clubs, is being formed at W. S. C.
by Alpha Delta Sigma, national
I honorary advertising . tTjiternity,
THE SEERS WISH TO WARN
ALL STUDENTS AGAINST JOIN
ING A VICIOUS NEW FRATER
NITY NOW FORMING ON THE
CAMPUS.
It is known as Smoka Nu Slg
and la being organized by a power
ful cigarette company In an effort
to atop snipe bunting around tbe
edges of university campuses.
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“IDEAL HUSBAND” CRAZE
ATTRACTS WIDE INTEREST
Not long ago tjie Emerald ran
opinions of various Oregon ed* and
co-eds concerning their ideal mates.
One girl stated that the man for
her must wear Armishaw shoes.
A day or two ago the young lady
received a letter from the Armi
shaw Shoe company wishing her the
best of luck in her search for the
ideal man and informing her that
in case she found him within the
next three years and he measured up
to par except for the shoes, the com
pany would provide the necessary
footwear for a wedding present.
* * *
TODAY’S GEOGRAPHICAL
ANSWER
“Why do all the men stare at
Mabel like that?”
“Boise that figure!” (And the
echoes qf her mighty smiles were
heard for miles and miles.)
* * *
ALMOST UNBEARABLE PRES
SURE HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO
BEAR UPON US BY VARIOUS
ORGANIZATIONS SEEKING to
STOP THE “ANGLE WORM’S
REVENGE.”
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’’THE ANGLE WORM’S
REVENGE”
Synopsis: This is the stirring in
stallment where little Nels Bells
mixes the gravy. The defenseless
shirt is chewed up by the moths.
Now pick up the threads and go on
with the story.
CHAPTER IV
His Master’s Voice
As Rattlesnake Pete entered the
valley, Texas Sam forced a gun
against the ribs of a hermit silk
worm and demanded that he wea've
a pair of silk sox. A cruel beard
spread out on either sido of his face
as fur as the eye could reach with
out a pointer; a dizzy mentality
made his head a landing field for
bats.
As Texas Sam’s finger gripped
the electric iron to press the trig
ger, Rattlesnake Pete’s constable
dog, Tin Pan Pan, sprang out of
the oven with a biscuit in his mouth
and bit the stove pipe in two. Just
then Rattlesnake Pete burst in
through the door of the clearing and
with a shout that shook the apart
ment house, grabbed a shovel and
began to dig up the pansies.
"Have you no heart?” Rattlesnake
Pete demanded, shaking his finger
at Texas Slim in reproof, plainly iu
j censed at his rough behavior.
"No,” growled Texas Slim.
“Fine,” Hattlesnako Pete replied,
"I’ll help you torturo him and see
if he won’t make a couple of silk
|shirts for me.”
(To be continued)
STATISTICS NOT WORTH
KNOWING
It took three men four years
and ten Schaefer lifetime pens
to write theso statistics.
Johnnie Anderson got all riled
the other day because one of his
! girl friends told him to go to the
swimming meet and clean up.
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ETIQUETTE HINT
How to manage the athletic girl
friend: If she plays, soccer.
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t 'O.M M UN IOATIONS
Dear Seers:
Some one told me that they have
to burn hog fuel at the Delta Lamina
.house to keep the piggers warm, and
• it has been worrying me. Could
you enlighten me?
F. POWELL.
I Dear Mr. Powell:
(We are still gentlemen.
Respectfully yours,
SEVEN SEERS.
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS
Dangerous curve ahead!
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i_ . . SE\*E.\ .SEERS. .
- T ■
Theaters
McDONALD—Last day—Adolphe
Menjou in “Serenade” — the show
today at the McDonald, 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 com
poser of love ballads, who writes
his melodics to the betterment -of
his love affair of the moment;
then, the short subjects are un
usually 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, George McMurphey
and his popular Kollege Knights are
featured in a melodious stagehand
act, “Syncopated Serenades,” with
the McDonald Chorines, peppy danc
ing maidens, in a new revje of
steps, produced under the direction
of Katherine Stang, nightly at 8:50.
Frank Alexander, and his silver
voiced organ, accompanies the en
tire pictorial program as only Frank
can.
* * *
BEX—Last day—Peter B. Kyne’s
virile drama of the great Bedwoods,
“The Valley of the Giants,” with
Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon; also,
Billy Dooley in “A Mooney Mar
iner,” an ocean of laughs; and In
ternational News .events; Marion
Zurcher at the organ.
HEILIG—The two great stars,
John Gilbert and Greta Garbo, in
Tolstoi’s surging story, “Love,”
from the novel “Anna Karenina.”
Feature starts daily at 1:30, 3:30,
7:30 and 0:30. In addition, “Will
Eogers in London,” Pathe News,
Aesop Fables; Clare Whittion Mc
Donald singing “Dream of Love,”
theme number to the feature. Fred
dy Holt playing rapturotis musical
score to “Love.”
Gooding College Head
To Visit on Campus
Professor C. W. Tenney, president
of Gooding College, Wesleyan, Ida
5; l|a* j.w*rit4'n Bp^ee, of the
liool of philosophy, that ire will
stop over at the University of Ore
gon about March 4, while on his
Good Will trip, to California. Pro
fessor Tenney will visit his son,
Charles D. Tenney, who is a grad
uate student in English on the cam
pus and also an English assistant.
Dance
TONITE
Spanish Ballroom
JOHN ROBINSON’S
SEVEN SERENADERS
Dancing Lessons Daily
1 p. m. to 9
adolphe
menjou
"serenade’
LAST TIMES TODAY
AND
GEORGE
McMURPHEY
anti his
KOLLEGE
KNIGHTS
with
McDonald Chorines
at 8:50
COMING MONDAY
the Noted Actor
CONRAD VEIDT *
in
“A MAN S PAST”
A heart-tilling drama of love
and honor that reaches new
heights of dramatic achieve
ment.
Stetson Appointed on
Research Committee
F. L. Stetson, professor of erluea
•tion, has recently been appointed a
member of a research committee for
the State Teachers’ association.
This committee will study problems
of certain factors, of efficiency in
Oregon high schools, including the
question of college entrance re
quirements. There, are five members,
with Principal Austin Landreth of
Pendleton high school serving as
chairman.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
March 1.—(P.I.P.—The University
of California Alumni Association is
claimed to be the largest of its kind
iii the United States. It has 20,000
members, which is 8000 more than
on the rolls of its nearest competi
tor, the University of Michigan.
Burt Brown Barker
Here for Two Days
Burt Brown Barker, Vice-president
of the University, arrived on the
campus yesterday afternoon from
Portland to spend a week or so on
University business. Mrs. Baker ac
companied him. They are Staying
at Susan Campbell hall.
Mr. Barker will be engaged in
business having to do with the new
dormitory and will attend the re
gents’ meeting to be held this morn
ing.
Heard the
Latest News?
—That George Weber will present un
i * ^
equalled entertainment Sunday night at
The Anchorage? Singing, piano and
saxophone solos will be featured.
We are offering a 50c dinner, too
—a dinner that is mighty fine. A table
by the Mill-race, good food, a cheery
fireplace and George Weber’s music
—What better way could you spend
Sunday evening?
Monday
Tuesday
REX PRICES:
Matinee - - 20c
Night - - 35c
Children - 10c
A Drama of the Mysterious Orient
The rollicking romance of
a Roaming Ne’er-do-well!
also
4
“A Low Necker”
and
Northern Alaska Today
A Scenic
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ri Safety lo-nmnfcw*
WILLIAM RUSSELL
June coLLYtR-w&iini wdceoU
THEODORE KQStDFF-DUKE KAUAItMOKL
TODAY LAST DAY
PETER B.
KYNE'S
VMLEYSIGIUD
with
Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon
COMEDY INT’L NEWS
Continuous Today
1 to 11 p. m.