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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1929)
University of Oregon, Eugene ARDEN X. PANGBORN, Editor LAURENCE R. THIELEN, M&nagei EDITORIAL BOARD W. E. Hempstead Jr.Assoc. Editor Leonard Hagstrom.Assoc. Editor Arthur Schoeni.Managing Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Carl Gregor- .Asst. Managing Editor Joe Pigney ...„.Sports Editor Donald Johnston .Feature Editor Lavtnk Hicks .Society Editor Serena Madaeu .Literary Editor Leonard Delano ..P. I. P. Editor Clarence Craw .~.Makeup Editor Jo Stoficl..Secretary Newa and Editor Phone 665 EDITORIAL STAFF DAY EDITORS: Vinton Hall, Lawrence Mitchelmore. Serena Madsen. Carl Gregory, Harry Tonkon ; Mary Klemm and Mary Frances Dilday, assistants. NIGHT EDITORS • Rex 'fussing, criicf; Fred Bcehill, Victor Kaufman, Charles Ban Barney Miller, Mildred Dobbins. ASST. NIGHT EDITORS: Julia Currie, John Dodds, Evelyn Hartman, Beatrice Bennett, Jean Carman, Jo Barry, Ralph Yergen, Alyee Cook, Dave Totton, Thornton Shaw, Gracemary Riekman. GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORTERS: Margaret Clark, WilTred Brown, Carol Hurlburt, Audrey Henriksen. SPORTS STAFF: Delbert Addison, Alex Tamkin, Joe Brown, Fred Schultz, Harry Van Dine, Warren Tinker, Harold Fraundorf. REPORTERS: Mary Klemm, Myron Griffin, Maryhelen Koupal, Cleta McKennon, Margaret Reid, Alice Gorman, T. Neil Taylor, Willis, Duniway, Lois Nelson, Dorothy Thomas. Phyllis VanKimmel, David Wilson, Aileen Barker, Elise Slhroeder, Osborne Holland, Henry Lhmpee, Merlin Blais, Rex 'fussing, Mack Hall, Helen Cherry. Barney Miller, Bob Guild, Mary Ellen Mason, Ruth Gaunt, Lenore Ely, Ruth Campbell. BUSINESS STAFF WilFam II. Hammond Associate Manager Charles Reed.Advertising Manager George Weber Jr.Foreign Adv. Manager Richard Born.Asst. Adv. Manager Dorothy Ann Warnick....Asst. Foreign Mgr. Harold Xester.Asst. Adv. Manager Phil Hammond.-.Service Dept Ted Hewitt.Circulation Manager Ruth Crcager.Secretary-Cashier Larry Jackson.Asat. Circulation Mgr. Margaret Poorman.Mgr. Checking Dept. Business Office Phone 1895 ADVERTISING SALESMEN: Addison Brockman, Lucille Catlin, Emmajanc Rorer Bernard Clapperton, William Cruikshank, Elaine Henderson, Bob Holmes, Ina Tremblay. Betty Hagen. Margaret underwood. Osborne Holland. OFFICE ASSISTANTS: Harry Hanson, Dorothy Jones, Cleota Cook, Kathryn Perigo, Julianne Benton, Guy Stoddard, Louise Gurney, Jane Gilbert, Fred Reid. I he 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 of the Pacific Inter-collegiato Press. Entered in the post office at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates. $2.50 a year. Adver tising rates upgn application. Residence phone, manager, 2799. Jo Stofiel, secretary. Dav Editor This Vinton Hall Night, Editor Thin Issue-Vred Bechill Asst. Night Editors This Issue-*Alyce Cook Gracemary Riekman A Plea for Fewer, Smaller and Quieter Dog Fights .Buoyed up by the success attendant upon the Emerald's recent crusade for soap in the men’s gymnasium, another cam paign is being launched with this issue for fewer and smaller dog fights in the Condon reserve library. Where those dogs come from or where they are going or to whom they belong no one lias ventured to prophesy. But the dogs are there. Practically any afternoon or evening, especially Sunday afternoon, dogs of every kind, shape, color, descrip tion and previous condition of servitude congregate in the main reading room at Condon. Small, brown canines; huge, woolly specimens; speckled, shaggy Airedales; fox terriers, bull-dogs, and police hounds, all are represented in the university’s' sacred shrine of study. ' ■ Usually the (logs troop in, sniff around, and lie down com placently at the foot of some conscientious seeker after know ledge. Sometimes they (the (logs) leave the building peacefully after surveying the situation But often a fight is started when two or more ilea carriers desire to occupy the floor space under the same desk. Or si fence will be reigning, the dogs contentedly dozing, and a stray member of the dog fraternity out on the street will pierce the stillness of the night or afternoon with a bark at the wheels of a speeding automobile. Shrill calls like these are heeded; every dog in the library either answers immediatelv in kind or assembles at double time, leaving a startled audience ol scholars in nerve-fraved bewilderment. Euless other suitable ordinances can be passed for the pro »VM' w"i,l,m,M’ n‘ n"' Of this eommiiiiit v the Emerald recommends the immediate procurement of kennels and chains to accommodate them and make for the maintenance of CAMrtJS Vs • fi aH>R|JM ' (Kditoriul mile: Tlio Kiiicruld has received <i minilicr of romiimiiirn • lolls (’it her Ion Ion;; or iiiodo iiod for tlic correspondence column. Those "III I'o glndl.i print t'tl, providiii,; tho writers will condense eniti lol tor to our specified limit of ‘JOd words, mid si};ii tlioni in every lust mice. (.om meree Fraternity Appoints Committee To cooperate with the national committee of research sponsored l»v Alpha Psi, nat ioua | profes sion;i 1 fomnirnM* fraternity, t lit' local fliiipter has appointed a chairman tor a home committee. 1‘hilip \. Liveslex, of Port la nil, has hot'ii appointed as chairman of tlic committee. Livcslex is a junior majoring in business administration Ho lias had considerable experience in committee work, stated Ralph Lever, president of the local chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi. The object of the committee is to prepare a report as to the kind of work high school graduates get and their remuneration, as compared with college graduates. ”l< is believed,'* said Ralph (ie.ver, “that some interesting sta tistics as to the value of a higher education will he forthcoming from this research.” At the same meeting of the chap ter, Frank R. Haliin, senior major iug in husiuess administration, was elected as master of ritual, to take the place of Ronald M. Mct'reight, who left the university recently to accept n position with the dant en Knitting Mills of Portland. Italian Vocalist to Sin# Solos for Oratorio Society (Conttnn* d from jmye one) the soprano soloist. .Slio also ap pc*red in "Klijuli” lust yenr. iicuiue AibtoU. also ol Portland, will .sin)' contralto sold work. Win* is well known in Eugene, having t ormorly attended the university mol appearing ninny times in various student presentations. bite wits very prominent in musieal eireles while mi the eumjius mid wits n inoinln r ol I't Beta Phi sororitv. binee her graduation from the uni- j versify, Miss Alstoek has studied in j the east, and, in addition, to concert i and choral work, is now soloist from Portland radio station KtiW. '•’he Eugene Oratorio society, nit- j dvr the direction of Mr. Evans, mid I composed of more than “00 voices, 1 has done excellent work in the |ytst, and will Ue rcnicntlicrcd tor their success in the presentation of “Tito f real ion, ’ “ flic Messiah,” and “Elijah.” V CAMPUS fteuuciii^ Tabard Inn will meet tonight, 7:30, at the home of L. Kenneth Shu maker, 13ff9 Emerald street. Pot and Quill meeting, 7:31) in the men’s room of the Woman’s building. The German club will meet tonight ut 8 at the Alpha OmicAm l’i house. This is the last open meeting and all those familiar with German and interested in it are invited. The make-up staff of the campus movie will meet in room 10-1, Journalism at 3 o’clock tomorrow. Thespian meeting to lie held tonight (Tuesday) at 7:30 o'clock. Prof. A. R. Moore’s class in elemen tary biology will have a lecture at the regular hour instead of a quiz. Important business meeting of Sig ma Delta Chi today at noon at the Anchorage. Open meeting sponsored bv Alpha Kappa Delta Thursday evening in Alumni hall. Sociology majors are invited. Theta Sigma Phi luncheon at An chorage today noon. The Y. W. C. A. cabinet will meet tonight at 7:30 at the Bungalow. Frosh commission is to meet this afternoon at I o’clock in the Y. W. 0. A. Bungalow. Christian Science organization at University of Oregon holds its regular services, tonight at 8 in the Warner Museum iihrnry, third floor of the Woman’s building. All connected with the university are cordially invited to attend these services. Mu Phi Epsilon and I’lii Mu Alpha will have their pictures taken to day at t o’clock in front of the old library. The Ambler Yesterday wo saw: BOB KNOX biting Hie end of his fountain pen . . . AL1DA THIRB WKLL loaded with books . . . PAT IfK'IO PASCUA showing his gold tooth in a wide grin •. . . EVAN HUGHES and his butterfly tie . . . AGNES STABS BERG carrying a towel . . . GARB KBEMM snub- j bing a relative . . . GWENDOLYN SHEPARD, her mouth full of sand wich . . . OBGA SADIEEK skipping up the stops of the Ad building . . . BERNICE BUND winking at. a friend . . . MER-BYN MAGER read ing during a lecture . . . JACK RICE telling another fib. Emerald Reporters Search For the Elusive Aimee (Continued from Page One) the dining car,” remarked the por-j ter, whose bribe had evidently not been sufficient. “But you can’t come on this train,” reiterated the conductor. The girl ran buck to the lighted j cars. There was no one standing at I the door to the kitchen car. She dashed in; ran through the curs; chicken, potatoes, and negroes; then into the diner. No one there looked like Aimee. Then into the Pullman. “Did you,” she gasped to an unsuspi cious women, “see Airs. MacPher son.” “Wliv yes,” the woman answered. A FRESHMAN WALKED IN the Anchorage the other day and said “Gee, I dido 'I know this place was here. Why didn't someone tell me.” We hope (hero aren't mam like that. The ANCHORAGE Kill two birds with one call YYT L are equipped to take care of your Dry C 1 e a n i n g needs as well as regu lar laundry work of all kinds. 825 is the number New Service Laundry S3!> Iliylt Phone SL’ft ■‘She is licre in one of these drawing : rooms.” There were two compartments. One of then A and one of them B. The naive reporter knocked oil B. i “Come in,” said a man’s voice. As far as it was known, Aimec .! wasn’t travelling with a man. The : wrong compartment. The reporter lifted her hand to knock on the next door. She looked up and saw tho conductor. He took her by the shoulder. “You arc dis-'• turbing the passengers. You will have to get off.” 11 is hand was a firm one. The girl got off. Tlie four reporters met outside. “The brakeman said that she was in car 4(1,” said the scholarly boy. “This is the window of her com partment,” gasped the girl and tried to reach it, but she wasn’t tall | enough. The boy with the wide grin I rapped on the window; he rapped i and rapped. Aimec refused to I “open up.” I hen the train moved. It drew i out into tlie night. The flag show ed its red light; then turned to! green. Aimec was gone. By OSBORNE HOLLAND 1 ^ be °hl reliable crook drama lias ■ Iici'ii resurrected once more and pve- ! sented in a new form in “The Mid night Taxi,” now playing at the i McDonald theater. Rum runners,' hijackers and gem thieves combine! to furnish a thrilling picture of! underworld aristocrats matching wits with each other. Antonio Moreno has raised a I brand new soup-strainer especially I for “The Midnight Taxi” and is 1 excellently cast, as a wholesale li quor dealer who turns out to be the hero. William Russel and Myrna Doy, who are fast becoming the standard pair of crooks, have again run away with high honors and] stolen the leading rides. l’lcnt.v of comedy is provided by I the antics of Tommy Dugan, fresh! from ihe Bowery, whose unusual gags give rise to many a hearty laugh. Although the picture is brimming over with romance and action and very well directed, it somehow falls short of being a really big production. This Week’s Program McDONALD — Tuesday, Antonio Moreno in “The Midnight Taxi,” Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, “The Patriot,” starring Fmil .tannings. COLONIAL —r Tuesday, Florence Vidor in “Doomsday,” Wednesday; and Thursday, Beorge Bancroft in j “The Dragnet”;, Friday and Satur day, Charlie Chaplin in “The Oir ,us.” REX — Tuesday, “The Outcast,”! starring Corinne Griffith and Ed mund1 Lowe; Wednesday and Tliurs- I day, Esther Ralston.in “The Saw-j dust Paradise”; Friday and Satur- j day, “The Water Hole.” | HEILIG—Tuesday and Wedncs- | day, the Taylor Players in “Thu j Family Upstairs’^; Thursday only, I Association vaiifteville road show; Friday and Saturday, the Taylor Players in “Saintly Hypocrites and Honest Sinners.” CO-EDS Will make your combings or cut hair in all the latest stvlcs. MRS. C. E. MORRISON Phone 2447J Romano Studio - ■ __| Vacationist Finds This Smoke O.K. Eric, Pennsylvania 1 Sept. 25, 1928 Larus it Brother Company Richmond, Ya. Dear Sirs: Havingjust returned from my fishing camp in northern Ontario, and in the reflections upon a fort night of most excellent weather, wonderful fishing and complete camp comfort, I feel that an appreciation of Edgeworth is due, as one of the principal factors of our enjoyment. In past years. 1 have taken along a supply of various well-known brands of smoking tobacco, never having be come fully acquainted with the differ ence in the smoking qualities of the so-called high-grade tobaccos now ! upon the market, and acting upon a tip from an old smoker friend, and as ! a matter of convenience in packing, this year I took along a dozen tins of Edgeworth Plug Slice. There are no places nor conditions in existence where the contentment drawn from a briar pipe meets with keener enjoyment or more critical analysis than heside the camp-fire after a strenuous day in the great outdoors. It is the unanimous opinion of the smokers among my party that Edge worth is without b peer, and that its smoothness, fragrance and fine smok ing qualities are unsurpassed and un- j matched; and 1 thank you for making it possible to obtain it. Yours truly, (Signed) H. N. Curtiss Edgeworth Extra High Grade Smoking Tobacco Tickets for B. A. S. A. Dance on Sale Today February 8 Is Date of Hop; Novel Pasteboards 75c Tickets for the tration Student dance scheduled Business Adminis Body association for Friday, Feb ruary 8, in the Woman's build ing, are now on sale, Ralph Geyer, chairman of pub licity, announced yesterday. “The ’price,” said the chair man, “is the low est ever charged for a c a m p u s dance. Just six bits.” ^ ^ iKcimisentatives Ralph Geyer to hamlle ti,k,t sail's were appointed as follows: Grace Griggs, Roma Whisnant, Har vey Robertson, Ralph Geyer, Del bert Richmond, and Margaret Bar ra ft. Tickets may also be purchased at the library in the Commerce build ing, Geyer stated. Commerce is reflected from even the tickets for this dance, the first social event of the association. They are printed in the form of a bal ance sheet with the outstanding features entered as debits and credits. Assets are entered as: Goodwill, patents and pro cesses . Hall, plant and equipment .115 Orchestra notes receivable .40 Operating punch .10 Total . $1.75 Liabilities: Notes payable .$ .75 Contingent good time pro fits . 1.00 Total . $1.75 Records Are Broken in Saturday’s Swimming Meet (Continued from Page One) the MOO-yard event. Miller, Blank- ^ enburg, and Edwards were the swimmers. A crowd taxing to capacity the seating arrangements of the Wom an’s building pool was present at Saturday’s meet. A hundred or more were turned away. One of the events at the meet ex pected to set new time was a wash out as far as records were con cerned. The 100 yard free style j time was 58 seconds, the Pacific coast short course record being held bv .Tohnuy Anderson at 50 seconds. Anderson himself was third, placing behind Mae Miller, freshman, and Civet Floyd, his varsity team mate. Summary: 100-yard relay — varsity, first; freshmen, second. Winning team, Floyd, Sharp, 11a I ton, Anderson. Time, 1:19.4 (Pacific coast confer once record is 1:19.2 Iicld by Stan ford ). 200-yard breast stroke—Blanken burg, fyeshmen, firsts Lafforty, freshmen, second: Sharp, varsity, third. Time, 2:36 flat. (Betters unofficially national intercollegiate '■ record of 2:36.5). 40-vard free style—Walton, fresh men, first; Floyd, varsity, second; Anderson, varsity, third. Time, :1!).4. 440-yard free style — Silverman, varsity, first: Hanson, freshmen, second: Creech, varsity, third. Time, 5:38. (Betters unofficially Pacific northwest record of 5:41.5 held by Silverman). 150-vard back stroke — Walton, freshmen, first; Torrey, tTeshmen, second; Allen, varsity, third. Time, 1:45.2. (Betters unofficially Pacific coast conference record of 1:49.5 held by Anderson). 100-yard free style—Miller, fresh men, first; Floyd, varsity, second; Anderson, varsity, third. Time, :58. Fancy diving—Thompson, varsity, first; Ilirks, freshmen, second; Mar latte, freshmen, third. Medley relay — Freshmen, first; varsity', second. Winning team, Mil ler, Blankenburg and Edwards. Time, 3:31.4. Chinese Art Reports Read at Club Meeting To Domestic Arts club met Mon day afternoon, February 4, in the Porcelain room in the Woman’s building. Two papers on Chinese art were special features on the pro gram at this meeting. Mrs. Mabel F. Whitton Swaford read a paper on the history and use of Chinese pottery, speaking especially of the Ming blue and white, the Ming red, and the “Peach-bloom” pottery: and Mrs. 11. 11. Pierce read one on “Underglazed and Overglazcd Por celain.” These papers were prepared by a perusal of books in the Museum li brary, and were presented last week at the meeting of the Fortnightly club, of which Mrs. Pierce and Mrs. Swaford are members. COMING . FLORENCE VIDOR. • LEWIS .STONE NEIL HAMILTON. 'v rt'rWfo' ties IWiSf. LOOI5TCU * IIMQI/IRINC - HEPCRTER Today’s question: Do you think that house grades should he com piled on a comparative basis.’ Ruth Helms, senior in history: “Yes, I think it makes the students work harder tor grades when they are trying to raise the standard of their house. If a house doesn’t have a high standing otherwise, it will work for a high grade place on the grade sheet.” Forrest Finley, sophomore in Eng lish: “Surely. There can’t lie any fair standards that are removed from a competitive basis.” Elise Srhroeder, junior in journal ism: “When they decided not to have a scandal sheet any longer they did it with the idea of not giving the individual grades publicity. The way it is now it is little better than the old method, and I believe the matter of grades should concern the individual instead of the organiza tion. It causes hard feeling between the houses, too.” Scott Milligan, senior in journal ism: “I don’t think they should in clude law school grades because they carry fewer hours and points are hard to get. Their average is us ually about a point lower.” CLASSIFIEDS LOST—Men’s light colored gloves, in old library on Sunday. Please call Shaw at 29138, or leave at university depot. 2-,ri-0 * —what a- quantity of human oil Orgy and emotion is ex pressed in their rich brown depths. Wo can furnish your home with an air of exotic rich ness. “The Shop That’s Different’' Aladdin Gift Shop Next to Y. M, 0. A. Changing Horses AI' the portals of our large cities— . New York, Baltimore, Detroit, and soon Cleveland—a semaphore halts a luxurious flyer drawn by a puffing steam engine. A simple switching maneuver, and electricity takes charge. A giant electric locomotive) quickly under way, glides silently into the home stretch with its long string of Pullmans. Like a thoroughbred it makes the run— tirelessly. Passengers alight in a clean terminal —clean because there is no smoke or soot. Another milestone in transportation— another event in the life of the iron horse! Civilization is progressing, with elec tricity in the van. How far this advance will take us, is a problem for our future leaders. It is for them to develop and utilize new applications of electricity— the force that is pointing the way over uncharted courses, not only in railroad ing, but in every phase of progress. The G Y met'ogtam is found «'n large electric locomotives ■•nd on Nf A7DA lamps, elec TM vacuum cleaners, and a multitude of other appliances vhich serve us all It is tHe mark of an organization that is dedicated to the cause of electrical progress. GENERAL' ELECTRIC GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPARE £^hTnTTt Rp-.v ~ V C S. K