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RAY NASH, Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Claudia Fletcher - Ase’t. Managing Editor Joe Rice . Telegraph Editor n»rl nwtrnrv .......... P. I. P. Editor Walter Coover ... Associate Editor Richard H. Syring —_ Sports Editor Donald Johnston .. Feature Editor Society Editor &rden X. Pangborn_Literary Editor Elizabeth Schultze News and Editor Phones, 656 DAY EDITORS: William Schulze, Mary McLean, Frances Cherry, Marian Sten, Dorothy Baker, Miriam Shepard. NIGHT EDITORS: J. Lynn Wykoff. chier; Lawrence Mitcheimore, Myron Griffin, Rex Tussing, Ralph David, Floyd Horn. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Joe Rice, MU Prudhomme, Warren Tinker, Joe Freck, Glcrn Gall, Harold BaUey, W. J. Loundagin, Harold Hester, Charles Barr, Wilfred Brown, Thomas Pumfrey. SPORTS STAFF: Joe Pigney, Harry Dutton, Chalmers Nooe, Chandler Brown, Warren Tinker, Scott Milligan. FEATURE STAFF: Florence Hurley,, JMin Butler, Clarence Craw, Charlotte Kiefer, Don Campbell. UPPER NEWS STAFF: Amos Burg, Ruth Hansen, La Wanda Fenlason, William Haggerty. NEWS STAFF: Wilfred Brown, Grace Taylor, Elise Schroeder, Maryhelen Koupal, Josephine Stofiel, Thirza Anderson, Etha Jeanne Clark, Mary Frances Dilday, William Cohagan, Elaine Crawford, Audrey Henrickqgn, Phyllis Van Kimmell, Mar garet Tucker, Gladys Blake, Ruth Craeger, Leonard Delano, ChryBtal Ordway, Mar garet Reid, Glenna Heacock, Irene Urfer, Joe Rice, Leonard Hagstrom, Margaret Thompson, Alice Gorman, Thelma Kem, Evelyn Shaner. BUSINESS STAP'F LARRY THIELEN—Associate Manager Ruth Street .. Advertising Manager Bill Hammond ...... Ass’t. Advertising Mgr, Charles Reed . Ass’t. Advertising Mgr. Lucielle George -.... Mgr. Checking De.it. Bill Kates ... f oreign Adv. Mgr. Wilbur Shannon .... Ass’t. Circulation Mkt. Ray Dudley___ Assistant Ctrcraflftdr Ed. BisSell .. uircujauon manager rreoenca warren . L/ircuiauon ABBraurm ADVERTISING SALESMEN-—H. Day Foster, Richard Horn, Harold Kester, Ray Smick, John Caldwell, Kenneth Moore. FINANCE ADMINISTRATOR—George Weher. ADVERTISING ASSISTANTS—Harold Bailey, Herb King, Ralph Milisap. OFFICE ADMINISTRATION—Doris Pugsley, Haryette Butterworth, Helen Laur gaard, Margaret Poorman, Dorothy Davidson, 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 except Sunday and Monday during the college year. Member, United Press News Service. Member of Pacifie InteraoDeglate Press. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscrip tion rates, $2.60 per year. Advertising rates upon application. Residence phone, tditor, 721; manager, 2709. Business office phone, 1805. Day Editor This Issue—Frances Cherry Night Editor This Issue—L. II. Mitchelmore SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1928 Scientific Fortune Telling for Freshmen FROM the southern extremity of the campus, word comes in of another big research problem nearly completed. Harl H. Douglass is forecasting the fortunes of this year’s freshman class, and if liis prophecies are fulfilled the Univer sity will at last have a reliable tester for entrants. Almost every conceivable witness of the student’s past has been sum moned by the investigator. These records, with the intelligence tests now familiar, indicate the student’s position on the hypothetical ladder of success which is being built. Just what success is, in the eyes of the educational researcher, is not clear. A definite basis for the pre diction of success or failure sug gests that some definite success is sought. Apparently not; perhaps it is morely ability to make nine hours a term. The genuine benefits of the study, it seems, are the probing into the dubious relationships between high school and college courses. Last, term’s exceptional dcejfcso in Uni versity flunk-outs invoked curiosity —are students being sent down bet ter prepared from the high schools? That is the looso explanation of campus faculty men. When the study is complete, perhaps we will be able to tell whether it is that, or some thing else. AN is a restless animal and must be up and about, doing something even though it is of no importance. Of late years, one of his pet diversions has been to spend much time and effort, in devising names for the different, weeks making the llfty-two. No one can deny that he has had a phenomenal success in this most unique undertaking. In fact, with an army of voluntary willing-work ers, he has succeeded so well that the supply of names exceeds that, of weeks. Such a situation to be per mitted to exist in an age of cold and calculating scientific progress! This man conies forward with the claim that such and such a week shall be known and observed by the multitude as “(lood Cheer Week.” And just across the way is his dou ble, proclaiming the heart-warming virtues of "Homes for Birds Week.” This week, that week and the other week! Nothing but weeks, weeks, weeks; growing weaker, weaker, weaker I Latest of the tribe to make it self known to an anxiously waiting public is “Thought Week,” spon sored by the associated students, the V. M. C. A. and the V. W. C. A. of the University of Denver. The idea of encouraging thinking is in deed a noble one, but it is not at all new, although it may be rare. What will come of it? Nothing, in all probability. Today marks the end of "Though Week." It mn\ be pessimism to say so but it should be a safe bet that "Thought Week” and such thoughts as it may have unearthed will have passed into the limbo of cast-off ideas before the end of a fortnight. The trouble with the "weeks” would seem to be that they have their origin in enthusiasms or the desire to create enthusiasm for uu May the Weeks Pass Quickly dortakings which havo little or no driving power in themselves. They are a result of perspiration rather than inspiration, and us such, gen erally die when the enthusiasm dies. .Tuck rabbits were introduced in America to make more game. They became a pest. The same is be coming true of the multitudinous “weeks.” The best, suggestion made recently was that of an obscure in dividual who wrote advocating a week to end “weeks.” May the thought prosper! —W. C. Time Relativity Shows Collegians Up CONSIDER, for a moment, the student who “hasn’t time.” lie who claims to have less than tho customary twenty-four hours daily at his disposal is indeed in a sad way. He (it might just as truthfully be she) “hasn’t time” to get that assignment for the 10 o’clock class tomorrow, or to write a few lines to the folks at home, or to devote, even onco a week, to wor ship in some church. Last Sunday a providential dispensation of extra time must have been grunted a num ber of our hard-pressed collegians, for wo saw them at the Easter serv ices. Somehow we admire the few who frankly eschew religion because they feel it is a delusion and a snare for the mob minded, but we wonder if the others are going to “haven’t time” their way to the grave. Wo wonder what a univer sity cun lie expected to do for the man or woman who drifts with eycry current that comes, content to giv es an excuse for not having thought out a definite and purposeful course of action, the inevitable excuse ol the slipshod—“1 hadn’t time.” — W. S. Why ISot Senior Sleet) Week? AFTER four gruelling years of hectic participation in Fresh man Rush Week and Sophomore That Week, amt Junior This Week am Senior Heap Week, and Exam Week and, in fact, all the fifty-two weeks it seems unite time to install another just for the advantage of those win have survived. A sort of order of merit—or endurance reward. It would have all tho advantages of the other Weeks—seven full days of participation—and none of tin disadvantages — no hurrying, m worrying, no handshaking. In shon —Senior Sleep Week. —R. N. Spring Fever \ Doped for Knockout T! Spring Fever and 11 rim Reality is now being staged. The results ot this long, drawn-out fracas will In published June 155, 1'J-S, Spring Fever has been in training | for some time but Grim Realty i I said to be still in the doldrums i Reality is, however, given the otldi i by the faculty, the interested on lookers, because he has a long list of knockouts to his credit. Some critics are inclined to thinl that Spring Fever latest reports are all experts assert, betting odds are Reality must win is a bluffer. Tin dubious. Nearly nevertheless, tha big, and Grin iu the end. —F. J . Professor F. S. Dunn To Speak Thursday Next Thursday Professor F, H. Dune ■will give an address before the con gregation of the First Methodist church on “Thi' Now Calendar.’ ITofcssor Dunn has taken an activi interest in promoting the new cal oinlar system which would ilivitl It In- year into thirteen months am ouch month into the same number e <3:l v g. THERE IS ONLY ONE BLONDE THAT GENTLEMEN PREFER— that is a blonde beard. You don’t have to shave it so often! PROMINENT ATHLETE DESERTS KIDDIE KA!R A twin drive Kiddie Kar, propelled by Diesel engines and said to be driven by Dun Stadelman, was towed into the local police station late yesterday after its driver had jumped out and left it after failing to stop before turning into Broad way from Alder. The Kiddie Kar, first Diesel en gine model to be seen in Eugene, will be turned over to a local art exhibit if not claimed within ten days. TODAY’S DIRECTORY ANSWER “Dick, you can scrub the front porch.” “Liko Ilelliwcll!” In psychology lab this week the students are supposed to spend the three-lhour period measuring their intelligence. Most of them are on their way home within ten minutes after they arrive. “Is this tlie morgue?” “I guess not. 1 <lon’t see no body!” If the professor never disputes anything in the text he is using, then it’s ten to one he is its author. When that Aprillc withe his shoures sotc \re droughts of Marche haddc pierced to the rote . . . Then doeth Bill llayward dighte his vernall peavo Where trakstyrs yskyppe aboute and yavelins heave. • COLLEGIATE FABLE “There’s no sense in any of you fellows buying stamps as long as I ' have ftny left.” STILL SEEKING “U” DEPOT WASHINGTON, I). C., April Id — (Special)—The United States post office department was still unsue cessful at a late hour today in its desperate efforts to gain control ot the University of Oregon sub-station which it considers will turn in more gross receipts per year than the oeu tral postoffieo in New York City. 1 LIFE 'S LITTLE T HAL EDIKS -Mr. Colgute tinds a tube of liii j shaving eieam that fails to make | his beard "soft ami pliable.” Roleasod from pledge Is Jimmie Carruthers; He just wouldn’t dance With all the house mothers. Skoczix Freeuia, psychologist ami sax player, is confined to his home with pneumonia which he contracted as a result of playing his saxophone during a whole dance before Ik I noticed that it had a leaky valve. STATISTIC NOT WORTH KNOWING If college students tried as hard to study as they try not to, Phi Beta Kappa would be about as exclusive as the Y. M. C. A. OF R NATIONAL SLOGAN IS "Mlk AMERICA FIRST.” UP IN CANADA THEY .SMILE AND SAY "SEE AMERICA THIRST.” ODE TO THE UNIVERSITY , "Fees." FAMOUS LAST WORDS "Como on fellas let’s go up t< l the April Frolic, ' viKVCV SPURS Theaters McDONALD—The last —The last, and best, half of our Gala Easter Week, bill, headed by Harry Langdon, in “The Chaser,” a glor iously funny farce comedy; also, George McMurphey and his Kollege Knights in “Springtime Fancies,” featuring a brass quartet and Kenny Allen, soloist, in a special setting, nightly at 8:50; also Lupino Lane in “Hello Sailor,” an ocean of fun; Koko, the clown, in a cartoon classic, and Paramount News events; Frank D. C. Alexander in musical comedy settings qn the mighty or gan. Coming—“The Love Mart,” with Billie Dove and Gilbert Roland, in a George Fitzmaurice production, with an elaborate atmospheric pro logue featuring the Stang studio dancers and vocalists. REX—Last day—Gene Stratton Porter’s popular romance of the Limberlost, “Freckles,” with Ho- j bart Bosworth, John Fox Jr., and Gone Stratton; on the stage, Patter son school “Kiddies’ Follies,” fea turing a dozen of 'Eugene’s clever est kid stars, nightly at 8:50; clever comedy and International News evonts; Marion Zurcher at the or-; gan. Coming—“Slightly Used,” a com edy delightful, with May McAvoy and Conrad Nagel. Frolic (Continued from page one) erie Talbot, Beatrice Milligan; freshmen, Katherine Rochester, gen eral chairman; Lucile Kern, Marvin Jano Hawkins, Louise Miller, Elea nor Fitch, Jane Colors, Ailsa Mas sey, Muzetta Blair, Margaret Poor man, Dorothy Ormsby, Gladys Clau sen, Wilma Enke, Harriet Mcnder nach; Maxine Glover at the piano. Large Attendance Urged “This is the only time of the year when all the women of the campus may get together for a good time,” said Frances Plimpton, general chairman of the affair as social chairman for the Women’s League, “and we hope that they will all come, for we are planning what we think will prove one of the most en tertaining evenings of the campus year.” Fee Charged An admission fee of 15 cents will bo charged for admittance to the floor, and 35 cents for balcony seats. Both the balcony and the doors to the main floor of the Woman’s build ing gym will be opened at 7:30, and all women of the campus and Eugene | are invited to witness the Frolic. The committee- urges that those at tending the Frolic bring exact small Bulletins Vagabond locture—“Living Paleo lithic Men,” by Dr. Warren D. Smith, at the regular 8 o’clock geologic history of man class, Con don hall, Monday morning, April 16. Greater Oregon committee members for district No. 10 will meet Mon day in room 104 Journalism at 4 p. m. The following members must be present: Dena Aim, Ken Bod gers, Ben Giesy, Ed Siegmund, John Creech, Don Speer, Dick Horn, Augusta Gerlinger, Bill Baker, Ered Calef, Stan Laugh lin, Dan Trullinger, Beulah Camp bell, Bill Delschneider, Fred Hol lenbeck, Ruth Field, David Pom pel, Harold Mannine, Mae Tobin. change where possible to avoid rush and congestion at the" door. Popcorn and ice cream pies will be sold for 10 cents during the eve ning, and small change is also to be desired to avoid confusion in pay ing for them, according to the com mittee. LAST DAY ! SPECIAL MATINEE Today at 2 P. M. wwa PRICE GI0RY with Victor McLaglen Edmund Lowe Dolores Del Rio Positively No Advance in Prices 784 E. 11th Ave. League Heads To Go To Seattle Meeting Esther Hardy, president of Wo men’s League, and Edith Dodge, president-elect for next year, will leave on Monday for Seattle where they will attend the convention of the Western Intercollegiate Associa tion of Women Students to be held on the University of Washington campus. They were elected by the Executive Council of the League #to represent the women of the Oregon campus at the convention which will convene on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. They will return the last of the week. Attendance at O. S. C. Totals 3800 Students OREGON STATE COLLEGE, COR VALLIS, April 13.—(P.I.P.)—Anew registration mark of 3800 full-time students has been # reached- The grand total, including summer ses sion and short courso students, is 5200. The school of commerce leads with 84.3, while engineering comes second with 536. 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