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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1928)
University of Oregon, Eugene ARt)EN X. TANGBORN, Editor LAURENCE R. THIELEN, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD Arthur Schoeni.Managing Editor Carl Gregory......Asst. Managing Editor Joe Pigney.Sports Editor Leonard Delano.P. I. P. Editor Serena Madsen.Literary Editor .Leonard Hatfstrom.Associate William Haprprerty.Associate Dorothy Baker.Society Donald Johnston.Feature Clarence Craw.Makeup Editor Editor Editor fjo oun itri.iuu / News and Editor Phone 656 DAY EDITORS: Lawrence Mitchehnore, Mary Frances Dilday, Serena Madsen, Car) Gregory, Ela'ie Crawford. NIGHT EDITOR": Rex .Timing, chief: Winston J. Londagin, Walter Butler, Chas. H. Barr Me: lyn F. Mayger, Mildred E. Dobbins. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Ted Hewitt, Alyee Cook, Mary Ellen Mason, Fred Bechill, Stivers W. Vernon, Ruth Gaunt, Nils Eeklund, Barney Miller, Carl Metzen, H. A. Wingard. SPORTS STAFF: Estill Phipps, Delbert Addison, Alex Tamkin, Chan Brown, Joe Brown, Fred Schultz, Harry Van Dine. UPPER NEWS STAFF: Ralph Millsap, LaWanda Fenlason, Harry Tortkop, Chrystal Ordway, Margaret CJark, Mary McLean, Wilfred Brown. REPORTERS: Mary Klcmm, Evelyn Shanor, Myron Griffin, Lester McDonald, Maryhelen Koupal, Cleta McKennon, Audrey Henricksen, Margaret Reid, Gene Laird, Ruth Hansen, Alice Gorman, T. NeiJ Taylor, Willis Duniway, Lois Nelson, Vinton Hall, Dorothy Thomas, Dorothy Kirk, Carol Hurlburt, Phyllis VanKimrhel, Beatrice Bennett, David Wilson, Victor Kaufman, Dolly Horner, Aileen Barker, Elfse Schroeder, Osborne Holland, John Dodds, Henry Lumpee, Lavina Hicks BUSINESS STAFF William H. Hammond Associate Manager George Weber Jr.Foreign Adv. Manager Wilbur Shannon.Circulatfon Manager Charles Reed...Advertising Manager Richard Horn. Asst. Advertising Manager Harold Kester....Asst. Advertising Manager Business Office Jrnone 1896 The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Member cf the Pacific J hter-colleglite Press. Entered in the post Office 4t Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates, $2.60 a year. Adver tising rates upon application. Residence phone, manager, 279V. Day Editor This Issue— Sdrena Madsen Night Editor This Issue— Charles II. Barr Atst. Night Editors This Issue— Ruth daunt Stivers W. Vernon Vote Down the Addition To Student Fees (Conlinuctt from Page One) she shall he unable to spend as much money as was spent last, Vear or Iho year before. It is tlie fetish of practically all student editors to wish to excel. li is a human tendency, but. one which is likely to drive year-hook business managers distraction and one which almost invariably leaves an unpaid debt! from one year to the next. There is no .ssity for the gratification of such a desire. The task of the editor is to discover how much money may be spent, and then to spend it with extreme caution. No editor can be termed successful who departs from college with the balance sheet of his records showing red, though his book may be slightly smaller in size than that of tllic preceding year. No matter how small a year book may be, it. need not be inferior in quality, and if the editor of the present volume has already decided il must he inferior in that, respect, then we respectfully suggest that the editor turn over the task to anot her. The logical solution to the problem of the Oregano, if it is to be continued at all, is to place someone of experience in charge of the entire work. This should be a man of some knowledge of printing, some idea of college life and a man of excellent business acumen. A good proportion Of the money now spent on the book should pay himfor his work, and he should spent on the book should pay him for his work, and lit' should present form is really little more than a contribution on the part of the advertisers, should be handled the same way. Thus the bOok'-eould be made to pay for itself, with Ijiose interested in it rightfully footing the bills and those not inter ested in it having the privilege of disregarding iti. The book might lie small some years, but it would never be “inferior.” As for the alternative of publishing no Oregana at all, we feel that such a suggestion is too good to be fume. The elimination of the book for a year of Iwo probably would serve to put it upon a sane financial basis again. The memory of the big book of 1927 would be gone and there would be no glorious example for the new editor, if a stkulent, to excel. Probably the book would pay for itself for the first year or two at least. ft * * * There seems 1o he cohiparat ively little question as In xvheliher or not the students want the ()reg;ana. Most of them seem to feel that it is tradition on the campus which should remain. It is, therefore, probable that (In' hook shall he published in some form or other, student fax or no student tax. We feel certain, however, that within the. next decade the Oregano will disappear alohg with the year hooks of otliei lending; colleges all Over the country. There is no neeessitk' of rushing; the matter as long; as the hook will remain within its financial limits. Our correspondent, ostentatiously defending; the OfOgraha. points out one excellent reason for its discontinuance in that it duplicates the same news which appears in the Emerald only the communication fails to point out that it does so several moiiths after the events are past. Is there any reason foi such duplication, and if not which should <;o? * # # ♦ In his criticism the one important query is that regarding: the payment of fees for the Emerald under a scheme some what similar to that proposed for the Oregjana. We feel eer lain that our correspondent will admit that the Emerald has a grreater function in student life to perform than lias the Oregrana: we feel certain also that he will errant that tlu Iniversity of Oregon has g;ro\vn beyond the "bullctfin board stagfe and must have some means of disseminating; dail\ news to tlie studeut body at larg;e. Even so we declared yesterday that student fees for at' tivities not directly coUeerued with seholastie endeavor havt reached the saturation point. We tin not cotisider that am activity which depends upon the taxing; of those who do not benefit is operating;' in I lie most satisfactory manner. On tlu other hand, we tlo feel that the fact that the Emerald is forced at the present time to operate under an arrangement that i> unfair to a few students can he construed into an arggiiment for adding; still more of a burden. The whole thing; boils down to the old truism that: two wrong's cannot make a ri'dit In the meantime the Orepana issue will he voted upon It will mean increasing; student fees from *19.75 per term tt $-1.00 per term, or t,filing; the editor to spend as much names as the hook can earn on its own merits. . Commun ! nations CELLULOID AND MATCHES To tin' Kilitor: “People who live in celluloid houses shouldn't throw matches.” When the Kmersihl objected to the adding of $1.25 to the fees to finance the Oregnnu simply because it had no direct scholastic benefit, 1 immediately began to try to recol lect all the scholastic benefits that "ere derived from flie said Daily hmeruld. As tar as I could sot*, tho\ aro much tho same its tlioso of1 thi Orcgnna; tho sumo functions art described; tho sumo pictures art printed; tin1 sumo events tiro record oil. Vet. oath term the Kmorntd re cones its allotted sum from tlu same lone suffering fees as it is now trying to deny tho Orogann. I'oos it tear, perhaps, that some "broad minded’ students will collectively s.n of tho Oregnnn'and Kmerald "Oh, what’s all tho fuss .about, any way,” and abolish them both on titoly f 1’, _\1. Poetrjj ^ ^ Book Reiuiews ffiiterarii ^wtiutt—£&ttei> fag Serena ffla&5?n Dr. Muller Writes Play I)r. Gustav Muller, assistant pro fessor of philosophy, has let the flaws of the mechanistic tendencies in American civilization rankle long enough in his unperturbed philo sophical mind to set down his objec tions in a one-act play, which he j wrote this summer while in his na tive Switzerland. The plav, trans lated from the original, may be en titled, “Thu Call of the Desert.” Dr. Muller has wrought the thun dering tale of the exodus of the .tews from their land of bondage, and the accompanying ruin of a traitor of the race, into close an alogy with the breadth and depth of contemporary cultures, and of Amur- ! ica, as she lives today by the be- i traval of her own inheritance. The analogy rests in the over tones so effectively produced in finely woven sense patterns, but the flavor of American indulgence may be tasted throughout. The play takes place the night before the eXodus in the house of a rich Jew who has gained his position by the enslavement of his own people. His mother and sister, dragged from their hut to his palace, are his only associates, and he lives in constant fear of the loss of his position with the Egyptians. The mother, crazed by the force of unaccustomed pres sure, and the sister, heaping ruin upon her brother, and then heeding the overwhelming urge of her de parting people, desert him. Nothing but the stretching desert awaits the Jew. It is supreme tragedy, and runs the path that Dr. Muller feels is America’s untold story. The play is to be published before Christmas, and the city theater of Hern is considering presenting it shortly afterwards. Dr. Muller mod estly said, upon being questioned about it, that it received “favorable comment at the hands of the Ger man press” after his public render j iiigs of it in Bern. Its brevity, its plot (clearly thought through and clad in a grand simplicity) all point, to a halo of undaunted faith that lifts its con text above the usual dogmatic and uncharitable treatment of American thought and purpose, and relegates the play to the realm of art. - -Constance Bordwell. Jade Things ■lade t lungs . . . Carved ornaments mi tables. Tables Oriental Covered with rieli tapestry Of varied coloring’'*”’ That makes more vivid Jade things . . . Pendants that whiten Slim throats of gorgeous women; Drops hung from olive Make sloe-eves glisten With unshed tears . . . Bracelets. Of jagged intricacy, ('rusted with tinted pearl. Jade things. . . Whispers in a scented room, Murmurs in heavy darkness, Thoughts and hopes In dingy temples Of jade things. . . Mary McKinney. The Baffled Bumble Bee A l)ei’ buzzed madly at the window pa no| A blustering boo with a big bass bumble Roitred his nige with a grumbling niunlbloj Bumble, buzz and bumble; Bumped and boat the glass with all his might and main, Bumped and bruised his boozer in a frenzy of the brain. Then ho took a tumble . . . And though it was in vain, lie rose and flow again toward the window pane. The blooms and the blossoms on the other side, The win, and Iho air, wore all the things ho wanted. Ho didn't understand the thing that kept him haunted, Nor the reason he was taunted; But buzzed and blindly butted his own sliieide, Bumbling and buzzing the bungling •bumpkin died. . . Although he was undaunted, Although he tried and tried, lie never reaehed the blossoms on the other side. Ralph Millsap. “A Minor for Witches” By Esther Forties "A Mirror for Witches" is the latest result of Esther Forbes' search for the elegant idealism, the devout literature, the driven snow that was the purity of yesterday, i The other tWo outgrowths ate "O Itonteel l.ady," and a big shout of laughter, provoked by "liodie’s Laities’ Book," in " The Independ ent.” In "A Mirror for Witches," the title page fells us, is reflected "the life, machinations, and death of famous Doll Bitby, who, with more than feminine perversity, preferred a deulou to a mortal lover. Here is also told how and why a righteous and most awful judgment befell her, destroying both corporeal body and immortal soul.” Its equivalent, and perhaps its in spiration, exists in medical case his tories by Paton, or Osier. The book is a witty satire on puritanism, but what with: “Mrs. Hannah would undoubtedly be given a place in heaven, She was a pious woman, always at meeting, lecture, or prayer. There were already millions of just such vixens singing miserable hymns, badly out of tune, about the golden streets. If she did in some way get down to hell, the demons promised that they would all get to gether and make it hot for her,” it is not at all the sort of tiling to pack along to a week-end at a min ister’s house. —Marjorie Slmne. “The Children” By Edith Wharton If an authoress wants to worry a forty-six year old engineer about whether he should marry a middle-aged, cultured, beautiful wid ow or the fifteen-year-old daughter of a multi-millionaire—that’s her business. But I hate to have to make it mine. Especially if the fifteen-vear-old girl, is foster-mother to a small sister and two small brothers, a pair of wee Italian twins and an actress’s flaming haired daughter, all a good deal younger than herself. But this Edith Whar ton has done in “The Children.” Fresh from an arduous engineer ing job in Egypt, Martin Boyne meets Judy Wheater, daughter of a college classmate. Judy, almost grown-up in spite of her fifteen years, has with her and in her charge the six smaller children. Judy’s father and mother had been di vorced; her father had married an actress, with one red-headed daugh ter as a result. Her mother mar ried an Italian prince, found him to be a beast, and divorced him. A previous marriage to a lion tamer had presented the prince with twins, a boy and a girl, and these Mrs. Wheater had taken with her to give a home. "Mr. Wheater then di vorced the actress and remarried Mrs. Wheater. When the story opens Mr. and Mrs. Wheater have just set tled down again, but Judy doesn’t ! expect the tranquillity to last, Meanwhile she is centering her whole life on keeping her flock to gether. Thus far the book was without particular interest to me. I liked the children, but would rather have left them to play their games and chatter to each other while I pur sued some more interesting occupa tion. Beautifully phrased though and with a wealth of out-of-doors metaphor that brought the rustling tree-tops and coy wild things into the flutter of an eye-lid or the lift- I ing of an arm, “The Children” was | impressive rhetorically. As a story —give me thirty-five cents for a Cosmopolitan magazine. Mrs. Wharton’s characterizations are complete, but unconvincing. One sympathizes with her, and hates with her, and is perplexed with her, but without feeling that anything vital is concerned. I did hope, though, that Boyne would marry or adopt Judy. The widow was too suave, and tightened her lips at the wrong times. I would have liked the book a great deal better if the ending had come sooner—much sooner. —J. C. Eberhart. SiMPU/ ! , dieting There will be a .very important meeting of the Frosh Commission tonight at 7:30 at the “Y” hut. All members are requested fo be present without fail. Beta Alpha Psi meets today at 5 o’cloek in 101 Commerce. The university men’s glee club meets this morning at five minutes to eleven in the Woman's building for the assembly. Alpha Kappa Delta—very important business meeting in Dr. Mueller’s office today at o p. m. Pi Lambda Theta Founders’ Day ai luncheon at the Anchorage, Thurs day, Nov. 1 Gamma Alpha Chi will hold its in itiation Thursday at 11 a. m. in the men’s room* of the Woman's building. Heads of Houses must hand in the names and addresses of the presi dent of their alumnae association in Portland at the dean of wo men 's office. 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