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University of Oregon, Eugene BAY NASH. Editor EDITORIAL BOARD MILTON GEORGE, Manager Claudia Fletcher.Managing Editor Carl Gregory . Telegraph Editor Clarence Craw .P. I. P. Editor Arden X. Fangborn _ Literary Editoi Waiter Coover ..Associate Editor i Richard H. Syring __ Sports Editor j Donald Johnston .....- Feature Editor j Elizabeth Schultze .Society Editor , XNews ana sailor rnoneo, odd DAY EDITORS: WilJiam Schulze, Mary McLean, Frances Cherry, Marian Sten, j Dorothy Baker, Miriam Shepard. NIGHT EDITORS: J. Lynn Wykoff, chief; Lawrence Mitchelmore, Myron Griffin, Rex Tussing, Ralph David, Floyd Horn. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Joe Rice, MU Prudhomme, Warren Tinker, Joe Freck. Glenn Gall, Harold Bailey, W. J. Loundagin, Harold Kester, Charles Barr, Wilfred Brown, Thomas Pumfrey. SPORTS STAFF: Joe Pigney, Harry Duttofl, Chalmers Nooe, 'Chandler Brown, Warren Tinker, Scott Milligan. FEATURE STAFF: Florence Hurley, John Butler, Clarence Craw, Charlotte Kiefer. THEATER NEWS: William Schulze, John Caldwell. UPPER NEWS STAFF: Amos Burg, Ruth Hansen, La Wanda Fenlaaon, William Haggerty. NEWS STAFF: Grace Taylor, Eli.se Schroedor, Maryhelen Koupal, Josephine Stofiel, Thirza Anderson, Etha Jeanne Clark, Mary Frances Dilday, Elaine Crawford, Audrey Henricksen, Phyllis Van Kimmell, Margaret Tucker, Gladys Blake, Ruth Craeger, Leonard Delano, Chrystal Ordway, Margaret Reid, Glenna Hfeacock, Irene Urfer, Joe Rice, Leonard Hagstrom, Margaret Thompson, Alice Gorman, Thelma Kem, Evelyn Shancr, Floyd Horn, Jean Young. BUSINESS STAFF LARRY THIELEN—Associate Manager iiut.n street . Advertising Manager BUI ilammond . Asa’t. Advertising Mgr. Charles Reed . Asa’t. Advertising Mgr. Lacielle Gedrge __ Mgr. Checking D*it. jjih tfate* .... f oreign Aav. Mgr. j Wilbur Shannon _ Aus't. Circulation Mgr. Ray Dudley ___Assistant Circulator Ed. Blssell —.. Circulation Manager Frederica Warren . Circulation Assistant ADVERTISING SALESMEN—H. Day Foster, Richard Horn, Harold Hester, Ray Smick, John Caldwell, Kenneth Moore, Eugene Laird. FINANCE ADMINISTRATOR—George Wener. ADVERTISING ASSISTANTS—Harold Bailey, Herb King, Ralph Millsap. OFFICE ADMINISTRATION—Lova Buchanan, Margaret Poorman, Dorothy David son, Helen Katenbrink, Pauline Prigmore, Margaret Underwood. The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Studenta of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during the eoliege year. Member, United Press News Service. Member of Pacifie Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the poatoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscrip tion rates, $2.60 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 Issue— Clarence Craw Assistant Night Editor— Tom Pumfrey THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1928 Lawmakers Advance Constructive Legislation SOMETHING of even more mo ment than next year’s student offieial personnel is the legislation up for the voters’ action at the same time. The student administra tion has recognized the need of four constitutional amendments and one revision of the A. >S. II. O. By-laws. Topping the list is a imeasure to put the lecture program on the same . basis as the popular concert series. At a cost of a quarter to each student, the management would be enabled to insure the most at tractive speakers at a great econ omy. A half dollar is charged now for each offering of the year’s pro gram; favorable reception of this amendment by the students will ad mit the entire campus on their stu dent body tickets to every lecture at a total individual expengb of seventy-five cents for the year. The lecture series, operating on the costlier schedule nyw in use, has had'a record year in attendance and high quality speakers. Few who heard one of the lectures will 'not agree that its admittance price was insignificant in proportion to the valu"; anyone who doesn’t concur ought to figure up how much it costs him every time he listens to his pet bore on the faculty. Such a series as we have had this year is worth subsidizing. And if we vote yes, the quality will go even higher. This amendment, should pass. An outgrowth of the spat just closed between the juniors and the student council is the proposed regu lation of campus entertainments through their finances. The additional clause would give the student council specific powers in place of those it allocated to it self by implication! in the affair betwixt the Junior Week end direc torate and student council. The committee of experts showed that if the trend towards centralization were followed, the authority would most logically fall to the council. The other measures to be brought up are purposed to hew out the dead timber from the constitution. The proposed simplification of the pres ent, elaborate ritual for the award ing of trophies is particularly com mendable. Give Credit Where Credit Is Due Tt/JAKE tennis a major sport. Tennis lettermen and mem bers of the squad, backed by other minor sports groups, are seeking to iiave the net game placed on an equal basis with football, basketball, baseball and track. The popular justification given for the need for winning tcaims is that they «erve to advertise the Univer sity, and tlic'ro can be no question that they do so for the university which is represented by victorious athletic teams becomes known far and wide. It is not only that ath letic prestige begets more athletes to carry on the record, but that even the more intellectually inclined stu dents, saving the self-styled intel lectuals, are likely to prefer an in stitution with a reputation for fine athletic teams. For the past several years, basket, ball and tennis have been the most uniformly successful in giving rise to favorable publicity to Oregon athletics. Basketball is already a j major sport and needs no further inducement to lure players than the splendid record made by Oregon teams under Coach Rinehart. Ten nis, because of stars on the Oregon squad, has attracted attention to the University by means of columns of , material appearing in the news papers of tlii- coast. The outlook I for tennis at Oregon promises even greater triumphs because of new stars with several years of collegiate | competition ahead of them. Oro igon’s netmen are deserving of rec I ognition equal to that given in any 'other branch of college athletics. W. 0. j Officers shouted, the band played, land the R. O. T. t'. passed in review. I At the end of the field, double time was given and the companies hur ried toward the barracks, glad the parade was over. That feeling will continue as long as military drill is compulsory and not voluntary. W. C. Oriental Art Dominant in Books y Received at The Warner Library Chinese Painting Japanese Prints Among the Latest Additions to Collection Tho brilliant nrt of tho Orient runs riot through tho colorful pages of some 30 hooks recently received at tho Murray Warner Museum li brary. Those at tho library havo examined the books with delight, but not inanv students as yot have learned of their presence. They are euro to be popular with those who j know something of Chinese and Jap anese culture, and even the casual ! browser will enjoy tho pictures. There are a number of exquisite specimens of the photo-engraver’s art. Most of the books are illustrated in color, especially the group de voted to the Fine Arts. Of these, | perhaps the most notable is a vol ume of “The Color-prints of Hiro shige,’’ by E. F. Strange. This book contains the most complete biography of Hiroshige that has yet appeared in any European language. In addition to his well-known land scapes, full consideration is given to the delightful series of flower and bird compositions, rare fan-! prints, nml other distinctive fea tures of his work. Chinese Painting Featured “How to Know Japanese Color Prints,” by A. F. l’riestly, is beau tifully illustrated, as well ns "The Art of Japan,” by L, V. Lodoux, "Guido Posts to Chinese Painting,” by L. W. Hackney, and "Chinese Painting,” by John Calvin Fergu son. Mr. Ferguson has distinguish ed himself both as a diplomat and scholar. Reeoaning president of Nanking University in he has been political advisor to the presi dent of the Republic of China since 1910. In 19:10 lie was appointed a member of the Commission tp Man churia and Siberia, and in 19:21 was a delegate for the Chinese govern ment to the Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments and Far Eastern Questions. He devotes his leisure hours to the study of Chinese art and litera ture, and is considered one of the leading foreign authorities in Chi na upon these subjects. His books, ‘Outlines of Chinese Art,” and ‘Chinese Mythology,” are ■ well known, and his latest work, “Chi nese Painting,” is said by students of Oriental art to be one of the greatest of the year. He has been a friend of Mrs. Murray Warner for years. Books of Travel “Art.Through tho Ages,” by Hel jn Gardner, and “The Chinese Rug Book,” by M. C. Eiplcy, arc other important books on art included in the shipment. Aside from the books on Chinese and Japanese art, there are several books on description and travel in the East. One of these, exquisitely illustrated in color, is “Japan, a Record in Color,” by Mortimer Men pcs. Another book on Japan is “Japan, Korea and Formosa,” by Burton Holmes. Two books on China, “Through the Moon Door, Resident in Peking,” by Dorothy Graham, and “A Griffin in China,” by Genevieve Wimsatt, will prove interesting. Pierre Loti’s “India” and “King Cobra,” by Harry Her vey, will please those who enjoy travel sketches. The last named is an • autobiography of travel in French Indo-China. In the field of literature, there are some volumes which should prove absorbing among the new books. Upton Close, whose real name is J. W. Hall, has written one on “The Land of the Laughing Bud dha.” The theme of the contact of the colored races with tho white, especially the Chinese, is handled in a work called “Snuffs and But ters,” by E. N. Lamottc. Miss La mottc has studied the Chinese ques tion for many years, and tho ap proach to tho problem is said to be handled with sympathy and under standing in her book. “A Girl from China (Soumay Tchen,g),” by B. Van Vorst, gives an account of the life of a young Chinese woman who has taken a degree in law at the Sorbonne. Sho plans to return to China, go into Parliament, found a woman’s bank, and serve her coun try with tho other young states men who are “patiently trying to unify China.” Character Interpreted “Her Closed Hands,” by B. L. Simpson, known as B. L. Putnam Wcalc, is an interpretation of Chi nese character and habits. Other books on these subjects are “Jak ata Talcs out of Old India,” by Marguerite Aspinwall, “The Wind that Wouldn’t Blow,” by A. B. Ghrisman; “Foreign Magic,” by .T. C. Cockran; “Gems of Chinese Lit erature,” by II. A. Giles; “It Hap pened in Peking,” by L. J. Miln, “A History of Russian Literature,” by 1). S. Mirsky, and “Monogatari Tales from Old and New Japan,” b; 1). C. Seitz. There is also a book by Harold Lamb, called “Genghis Khan,” on history, of which the Boston Trans cript has to say, “The whole color ful history is spread out like a mag I nific-cnt moving panorama, and dull would he be of soul who would not thrill to it. An astonishingly bril liant. work hag been achieved bj Mr. Lamb.” A former resident of Eugene and teacher in the Eugene Bible Uni versity, Mrs. Maude Whitmore Mad den is the author of two books or | Oriental missions. She taught Ori j cntal Immigration Problems at the j E. B. U. for four years, and her sons were students at Oregon. Bhe ami her husband have been mis sionaries in Japan for many years Her new books are called “When ) the East is in the West,” aud “Young Hearts in Old Japan.” Lectures by Faculty Members Scheduled Miss M'ozelle Hair, director of or ganization and aihuinistration of ci rrespoudeuco study, will talk bo fore the Girl's League of Eugene High School today on the subject of “Business World in Prospect.” The meeting is being held under the aus pices of the Eugene high school vocational conference. On April “7, Earl Leslie Griggs, assistant professor of English, will address a meeting of the .Ellen Hawkins Study club on "Shakes peare.” On April l’n, Emma B. Waterman, assistant professor of physical edu cation, will speak to the Girl’s League of Springfield high school on " Possibilities of Physical Educa j tiun.” : ___ Recital (Continued from page one) nic;il brillialice. Mr. llicks was en cored after both groups. The entrancing melody of the re frain in Mr. Adam’s first solo, "Ah, Mooli of My Delight,” was en hanced by delicate terminations of phrases and good dynamics. Soft tones created a quiet mood in the first of the Bayou songs by Strick land, and gave a lazy crooning ef fect to the syncopated lilt of the refrain. The second of the negro songs. " I're.taiin ’ Time,” was site cessful in creating the atmosphere of a southern scene. The intense viuor of the “ Morulu ’ on dr Ol ’ Bayou’’ contrasted well with the two succeeding numbers. A’rs, Vn derwoul, as a-'companist, played with her usual interpi-”a‘iv e j erdinotion “Promptly at 9:37 a. m. the war den sprang the trap and the rope tightened. One minute and thirty seconds later the prisoner was 'pro nounced deaf.”—News item. Surely no state in this civilization of ours inflicts such cruel punish ment as this! BILL BERG FIGURES AS NIGHT CLUB LADY — Striking Phi Sig Co-ed Dragged Into Court Billie Berg, better known as “Fatima,” proprietress of an ex clusive San Francisco night club and member of Phi Sigma Kappa sorority, took the witness stand in the moot court held Tuesday eve ning by students of the law school. | Clad in a coon skin coat and pre j seating a very charming appearance, this gay member of the younger set claimed she was a “War «Baby.” Upon being questioned as to just what she meant by that, she replied, “Ihn an appeal to arms.” LIFE’S LITTLE TRAGEDIES Returning from the Co-op where he went to purchase paper to finish his articles, the Co-op ad writer has ! to wait hours and hours before he can get back into a mood to con i tinue the defense. V JUDGE: "Why did you come so far to testify in this trial?” FATIMA: “Because I live so far away.” » * » On some of those wet mornings especially, Little Blue Eyes couldn’t understand why a certain house in sisted upon awakening its members with “Good Morning, Mr. Kappa The stories about the three-year old cigar smoker in Seattle have led us to this one conclusion: there must be a brand of cigars in Seattle that is unobtainable down hero in Eugene. TEN YEARS AGO IN EUGENE By I. Swan Council voted three months ago to make a legal holiday of every day it didn’t rain. At its meeting last night, this and other useless laws weie stricken off the hooks. * * * CHARLES OX NOSES INTO RACE FOR FAIRMONT BUS By CHARLES OX Mr. Charles Ox late last night^ turned in his candidacy announcing that lie was running for the Fair Charles Os the student body elections. Ox has a long c o a t-t a i 1 to back him up as qualifica tions for the office. During his coll e g e visit he h a s handled pub licity on paper t o w o 1 s for ship - wrecked eowbovs a u d won* first prize as pinch hitter in tin- University fly swatting cam-j . paigu . As naval advisor of the canoe fete he compelled all floats to carry life-boats and gallantly asked that in ease of disaster all women and children be allowed to leave first, providing they first secured written permission from the Dean of Women. He is also corporal in the 15. O. T. U. and member of "Sigma tbit’s l’aw,” national hon orary hiking fraternity for legless centipedes. Released from pledge Is Johnny Wkister; Broke a date with House proxy’s sister. FAMOUS LAST WORDS "We’re sure of all their votes. Why, they just promised them to us,” SVVF.N SBFRS Bulletins All backfield men and ends are urged by Captain McEwan to turn out tomorrow. Gamma Alpha-Chi, important meet ing at 5, Journalism building. Rehearsal of entire cast of the Jun ior Vod-vil at 11 a. m. at the Ileilig theater. Meeting of Greater Oregon Direc torate at Administration building, four o’clock. Very important. Picture to be taken for summer publicity. Donut Baseball—League A, Kappa Sigma vs Bachelordon; league B, Phi Kappa Psi vs. Psi Kappa, Thursday at 4 o’clock. Phi Theta Upsilon business meeting today at 4:30 p. m. in the Wom an’s building. Frosh Commission meeting today at 4:30 p. m. at the Bungalow. Very important. To-Ko-Lo meeting tonight at 7:30 at the College Side Inn. Import ant. Freshmen and sophomores out. International Relations elu'b meets tonight; Mr. J. B. Wadsworth, professor of . romance languages, will lead the discussion on Spain and her colonies. At the geog raphy room, Condon hall, 7:30. Alpha Kappa Delta—Special meet ing today at 11 o’clock in front of the old library. Short. There will be a meeting of the Mathematics club Thursday eve ning at 7:30 in Professor De Cou’s room, No. 1, Johnson hall. Canoe Fete directorate meeting to day at 5 o ’clock In room 104, Journalism building. Alpha Delta Sigma—Big time at the Anchorage this noon. Bring your ideas with you. Eugene, Oregon Ready for Any Occasion! These Coats Display Approved Modes Wherever you go, anyone of these coats will give you that “well-dressed feeling.” Styled in the approved manner, the fabrics and tailoring add to their desirability. For Women—Misses—* Juniors Broadcloth finishes, the popu lar kasha and dressy silk fab rics are ready for your selec tion. 1 Girls’ Baseball Series Will Begin Next Week Girls’ interclass baseball series will begin next week. Team picking was started last niglit and will con tinue Friday and Monday nights at 4 o ’clock. 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