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VOLUME XXX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1929 3f= NUMBER 93 Problems Of State Survey To Be Studied —- ® o Four Groups to Meet on Campus Mareli 21, 22 For Study of Questions Determining of Major Issues to Be Purpose Religious Edueation Unit To Talk Moral Training When prominent state partici pants in four different fields— religious study groups, chambers of commerce secretaries, crime preven tion study grpups and stream polu tion study groups — gather here March 21 and 22 for the 1029 Com-' mon wealth Conference, they will focus their attention on Dr. Arnold Dennett Hall’s proposed survey of state resources. The Commonwealth Conference, an annual university event instituted more than a decade ago by the Into Dean F. 0. Young an<T bringing together students and leaders of the state for discussion of timely, weighty problems, is being directed by Philip A. Parsons. Dean David E. Faville is chairman of the cham ber of commerce secretaries divi sion, Dean John Bovard of the stream pollution study, H. S. Tuttle of religious study, and Dean Charles Carpenter of crime prevention study. Resources To Ee Studied “This year the conference-will bo devoted wholly to survey problems and will represent one of the move-j nients to get the attention of the state on Dr. Hall’s extensive pro posal, which would involve thor ough checking of all resources, eco nomic and social, of Oregon,” said | Mr. uTiittle when questioned vaster-1 day about progress of the chair- j men’s plans. “The real purpose is not so much i to make speeches at the conference about the survey us it is to deter mine wliat will be the major prob lems ami to determine just wliat will be needed in the survey,” he declared. The religious division will study the organization of religious and uplift agencies and deal with their problems, stressing especially the need for information. Educational Problems Listed The five particular aspects to be studied are: (1) social reorganiza-! tioil and its bearing on religious I life; (2) problems of curriculum I material for religious teaching; (.’!) problems of rural organization j of religious agencies; (4) problems j of religious instruction in connec tion with the public school system; (!>) problem of non-sectarian moral training within the school. t\ A. Howard, state superinten dent of schools, will discuss the fourth topic on religious education •in public schools, and T. W. Bibb, president of Albany college and an expert on rural problems, will dis cuss the third, dealing with rural | organization of religious agencies. | C. E. Farnum, director of the or ganized inter-church work in Port land, will be a general speaker. Denominational field workers and religious leaders ‘who would be in terested in the survey have been invited, Mr. Tuttle explained. Business Ad Students To Hear Coast Leaders ‘Opportunity Day’ Comes On April 9 This Year Finns ase already under way for the annual “Business Opportunity Day” at the University of Oregon. April i> has been definitely selected as the date when students of the university may listen to interesting “speeches from successful business men «of the Pacific coast, according to Carl Rodgers, Chairman. The conference this year is being spon sored by the Business Administration .Student Body association with the assistance of the various profes sional and honorary commercial fraternities. 1 I * ‘•Business- Opportunity Day” last year was very successful, and the students greatly appreciated the chance to meet and hear the vari ous business men who attended the conference. This year promises to be even more successful, and should prove a really valuable source of information and contact with the business world, said Rodgers in speaking of the event. Letters and invitations will be sent out to the various speakers during spring vacation. The com mittee in charge, composed of Roma Whisnant, Ralph Gever, Wade New begin and Harold Guide, reports that more detailed information will be ready for publication the first week of spring term. Students Want Editorials; ! Right About Face. -EDITORIAL-; Readers ot‘ the Emerald want editorials. That fact lias been thoroughly established through the poll taken on the campus this week, a resume of which is published in another column of this issue. It is not often in the life of any editor that there eomes a time when he can view with pleasure an overwhelming de mand that he reverse some policy he has set. That peculiar situation has arisen in regard to the Emerald, lor the poll has shown that students not only read editorials, but actually consider them with some degree of critical thought. Such a situation could not but warm the heart of any editorial writer, and consequently, it is wi>h pleasure that we announce that the Emerald, beginning with the first issue of spring term publication, Avill reinstate (its editorial column. For the rest of the year the Emerald will pursue a policy of, constructive comment, with particular study and consideration placed upon student problems. ' In acting in this matter the editorial board of the Emerald has constantly kept in mind the quotation from Emerson with which the present regime was introduced: “A foolish consis tency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Reinliart to Talk About Basketball Over Air Tonight Program Under Direction Of Sports Writers Will Include Music by Delts The associated students of the University of Oregon, aided by the Professional Sports Writers assoc iation, will give the third'of a series of sports lectures over KOBE to night, starting at S o’clock. . Billy Reinhart, head baseball and basketball coach at the university, who Wednesday was appointed head back-field conch of the varsity foot ball team, will give a 15-minute talk on basketball. A musical program also lias been arranged. It will feature the Belt' trio, composed of Maurice Kinney, Bob McAlpin and Bob Holmes, ac companied by Bob Keeney, who will play the banjo. Sam Wildefman, director of the news bureau, who is in charge of tiie programs, will give a brief resume of sports. Four Additions Swell Tliacher Patients to 10 Colds, Grippe Send Five to Infirmary, Totaling 11 Four now patients were admit ted to Timelier cottage yesterday, making the number there ten. One of the cases was of scarlet fever, that of Lauren Buel, and three, those of May Gill, freshman in edu cation, Merrill Swenson, sophomore in law, and Betty• Barber, 'VorC of measles. One case of sparlet fever, that of Vernon Arnett, was released yesterday. There are still four cases of scar let fever in Timelier, the three old ones being those of Bill Beatty, Roger DeBusk, and Bernice New house. ^here are five cases of the measles at this time, the old ones being those of Velma Garoutte, and Maurice Wagonblast. Maurice Schnorenberg is in with the mumps. Five new names on the infirm ary roster have swelled the num ber of patiefnts there to eleven. Three of the new cases are colds, one is la grippe, and one is ton silitis. Those with colds are: Jean Tcmplet sophomore in romance lan guages, Anton Peterson, sophomore in journalism, and Marion Keep, sophomore in education. James Manning, junior in history, has la grippe, and Marie Koberstein, freshman in art, has tonsilitis. The six old patients are: Jonnie Shelley, Joe Black, Joe Brown, Gwen Panton, Edna Peterson, and Elsie Cimino. Student Committee Imposes Penalties Upon Three Students One student was fined $10 and I all the credit he earned fall term, | another was ex polled and a third 1 was suspended ^ntil the opening of the fall quarter bv the student ad visory committee at its meeting yes terday afternoon. The fines weie imposed upon a | student who took books from the I library and signed a fictitious name ! in order to keep them over time. \ For the latter offense he was fined i $10, and lost his fall teim credit for signing a fictitious name. The expulsion was for stealing j from fellow students, while the sus | pended student had liquor in his 1 possession I Editorials Essential Says Student Opinion Signers Favor Resumption Of Policy; Show Interest Emerald editorials are read and arc essential to the paper, in the opinion of the students on the cam pus, judging from the response ac corded the ballot printed this week asking students their views on the subject. Practically all of the bal | lots turned in declared that the signers wanted editorials and showed that, upon an average, the .students read more than half the 1 editorial matter published in the Emerald. Many reasons we're cited on tlie ballots to show that editorials are desirable. Some of them showed serious thought upon the question, some were facetious and some failed to take the trouble to explain11 why.” A few of the answers were: “Some campus features need snapping up and the usual student | won’t take the trouble.” “Because they are intelligent ex pression of student opinion.” “What would you do without edi torials if a situation arises, like last fall, referring to the student voting question.” 1 “At least some students read them, and for them it would be worth having them continued.” “A newspaper without editorials is like crackers and cheese without beer, or nil August dinner without applesauce.” “They provoke thought once in a while, whether they .are good or not.” One of the ballots was filled out by a professor, saying he believed editorials were desirable and say ing that lie would like to see them resumed, “because I respect and enjoy convictions and the expres sion of them.” y. M. C. A. Officers Members of Cabinet Installed for Year Y. if. C. A. officers and cabinet members for the following year were installed yesterday afternoon at the Y. M. hut. Since Henry W. Davis, advisor for the group, was absent in California, the affair was entirely student managed, Alson Bristol, retiring president, being in charge. Those who wore installed were: Don Campbell, president; Hal An derson, vice - president; Walter Evans, secretary; Shailer Peterson, treasurer; Wilbur Sohm and Alson Bristol, advisory cabinet members. Following the installation, a joint meeting of the old ‘and new cabi nets was held during which the outgoing cabinet members gave sug gestions on the details of committee work and on the general future policy of the organization. An intramural ping-pong tourna ment is to be held at the hut under the auspices of the “Y” early next term. Vespers to Be Held In Music Auditorium An. excellent program has been ( arranged for the vesper service Bun dav at 4:.'!U p. m. in the music audi torium. L. O. Wright, former mis sionary in Mexico and now instruc tor in Spanish here, will act as reader. The vocal quartette of the First Baptist church will sing, and Daisy Parker, director of the Bap : tist choir will be at the organ. This will be the last vesper ser j vice of the wear except for the big Easter program which will fea ture the “Hallelujah Chorus,” sung by the Eugene Oratorio, and a solo, “I Know That My -^Redeemer thveth,” by Madame Rose McGrow. To Speak Here This is Christy Thomas, general manager of the Seattle chamber of commerce, technical speaker at the spring short course for Oregon chamber of commerce secretaries to be held March 19 to 23 at the school of business f, dministraticn at the University cf(Oregon. Organization r.nd scope of* the chamber of com merce, publicity, secretarial ethics, membership, and finance will be among topics discussed by Mr. Thomas. Oregon Debate Duo Scores Win Over Nevada U. Verdict Three to Nothing For Durgan, McKeown; Jury Question Subject A throe to nothing decision was the verdict of the judges in fnvpr of Oregon, when the University of Nevada, at Reno, tangled in a ver bal encounter with the University of Oregon. Walter Kurgan and Joe McKeown, University of Oregon, de bated the affirmative, and Melville Hancock and Adam Bible, Univer sity of Nevada, upheld the nega tive. Judges were L. L. Graham, district freight and passenger agent in Oregon for the Southern Pacific; K. T. Anderson, an officer of the Bank of California, Portland; and P. H. King, also of the Bank of California. Chairman of the contest was Burt Brown Barker, vice-presi dent of the University of Oregon. The question, “Resolved, that the jury system be abolished,” was dis cussed warmly pro and con. “The jury system is a mockery of jus tice,” the affirmative argued. “It is being replaced under our very noses by boards, commissions or the judges themselves, because it is in competent and unprepared to deal out justice, because it is slo%- and expensive, and Daniel Webster says, ‘Justice delayed is justice denied’.” “But a flexible justice,” the neg ative replied, “is more desirable than the one established by prece dent, the type of justice dealt out by the case-hardened judge, who is subject to the whims of the political boss. As long as democracies are run by politicians, the jury must be retained in the system of justice. The hasty decision of a judge today becomes a dogma of tomorrow, but the jury is the only organ which can eliminate*this hindrance to justice.” Uregon s tujle f earn Outshoots Alabama, Oklahoma Mechanics The University of Oregon rifle ream interrupted its almost im| broken record of defeats by winning from Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical college, and from the University of Alabama, in the match held last week. The other victory was over Washington State, two weeks ago. The scores were as follows: Oregon, 3598; Oklahoma, 3185; Alabama, 3456, Oregon win ning by 113 and 143 points, respec tively. High point man of the match was Warren Powell, of Oregon, with a j score of 373. Powell crowded out | Harvey Wright, who has led in all j of the previous matches, from the ! top of the list. Men whose -scores j placed highest on the Oregon team I were Warren Powell, Earl Xelsoit, Philip Livesley,- Wayne Veatch, Kenneth Allen, Harvey Wright, Keith Ingalls, William Puustinen, Howard Minturn, and Frank Ilall. Hunt Selects Directorate i For Districts Greater Oregon Committee Named to Cover State For Summer of 1929 First Meeting to Be Held Tonight at 7:00 Sid»-appoinlmeuts Will Be Made in Near Future By JOE PIGNEY Appointments to the directorate of the Greater Oregon committee for llfi!) were announced yesterday by l’nul 1). Hunt, general chairman. Edwinn Grchel, Portland, was named secretary of tlfe-committee for the coming year. Work of the committeemen, who will canvass the 12 districts of the i state, will be outlined in the first meeting of the directorate tonight in 110 Johnson hall at 7 o’clock. A second meeting of the appointees will he held in the Administration building at 10 o’clock Sunday morn ing and final instructions for the spring vacation activities .will be given out by Karl Onthank, execu tive secretary of the university, and Earl M. Pallett, registrar. Wo hit to Start Soon Preliminary work of the Greater Oregon directorate will begin at once, and the'spring vacation will be devoted to the organization of assemblies in the high schools of the state, and listing the desirable students who are eligible to enter the University of Oregon. The immediate \Vork of the vari ous committeemen will be to^ or ganize the workers in each of the 12 districts. This will be done as soon as possible in order that the appointments may be approved by Hunt. To assist in the completion of the sub committees, Hunt has requested that all students who desire to work on the Greater Oregon project get in touch with the chairman of the district in which they live. The purpose of the Greater Ore gon committee is to show the pros pective students the advantages of the University of Oregon. Appointments' Listed A general assistant for thg sum mer campaign will be named by Hunt at the beginning of the spring term.* The following are the,direc torate appointments anil the dis iriets: District. No. 1—Vinton Hall, Lake view, chairman. Lake, Harney, and Malheur counties. District No. 2—Richard Lewis, Baker, chairman. Baker, Grant, Union, and Wallowa counties. District No. 3—James Raley, Pen dleton, chairman. Umatilla, Morrow, Gillam, and Wheeler counties. District No. -1—Margaret Cum mings, Klamath Palls, chairman. Klamath, and Jackson counties. District No. 5—William Daslinoy, Marshfield, chairman. Coos, Curry, and Douglas counties. District No. C—Harold Goldsmith, Bend, chairman. Deschutes, Crook, and Josephine counties. District No. 7—Kelsey Slocora, Hood River, chairman. Morrow, Hood River, and Sherman counties. District No. 8 — Herbert King, chairman. Clackamas and Multno mah counties outside the city of Portland. District No. 9—Don Campbell, Eugene, chairman. Lane, Linn, and Benton counties. District No. 10—Roll Bishop, Sa lem, chairman. Marion, Polk, Yam hill and Lincoln counties. District No. 11—Jess Douglas, Portland, chairman. City of Port land. District No. 12—Stan Brooks, As toria, fliairman. Clatsop, Columbia, Tillamook,and Washington counties. Publicity director, Joe Pigney, Portland. Tuttle’s Eighth Article Accepted by Magazine An article written by Harold 8. Tuttle, profeasor of education, has been accepted by Religious Kdnca tion, a magazine for the teacher of religion, and is being published in this month’s issue. This is the eighth of Professor Tuttle’s articles to appear in recent publications. It duals with the research con ducted in week day religioint' in struction in the schools conducted by the instructor last year. His re search, which went into four types of religious training -ethical code, Bible information, worship service, and group study projects—were given to about 900 school children in Eugene, and showed the ethical code method to be the most effec tive. Traveler To Speak L Bicliard Halliburton went around the world on a shoestring. For the past five years he has surrendered heart and soul to the call of ro mance—across Asia and Africa, from Spain' to Siberia, and up and down the. Seven Seas. His first book, “The Royal Read to Ro mance,” shattered all literary rec ords for books on travel and adven ture. His most recent effort, "The Glorious Adventure,” bids fair to outdo the record of “The Royal Read.” Mr. Halliburton’s name has become, almost overnight, a by-word for youthful enthusiasm, sparkling imagination, and for the dauntless liberated spirit of the age. Final Tryouts for cOh Dear’ Planned To F inish T\>day tlnst Chance for Campus Aspirants to Compete, Says Boone Hendricks The final tryouts for ports in “Oh Dear” will bo held today in Villard assembly hot when and d:00. Any student on the campus who has not tried out may do so at that time regardless of the previous ly announced schedule, according to. Boone Hendricks, one of the judges of the tryouts. “There are very few men who have tried out for parts in the chorus,” Hendricks said last, night. “ We are in need of a great many more men candidates, and wo also would like to have more women try out.” Tryouts for the lead parts in “Oh Dear” wero held last night. The judges will definitely select the leads and the members of the choruses tomorrow. All students who have specialty acts which they would like to pre sent, as a part of the Vodvil will ho given an opportunity to present them before the judges the first week of the spring term, Hendricks said. While the Junior Vodvil director ate, under the direction of Paul Hunt and Tom Stoddard, is hard at work in preparation for the big show to be presented next May, the other members of the Junior Week end directorate are preparing their budgets and considering their indi vidual directorates, which will be appointed soon after the opening of the spring term. New Chief of Normal Visits Officials Here Father of Oregon Student Busy With New Plans Looking for teachers for the new Piaster n Oregon normal, in La (.ramie, !L. Pi. Iiilow, recently an nounced president, spent yesterday morning in Eugene, conferring most of. the time with officials in* tin education building. Here only for a few hours Mr. Inlow, who, in taking tin* helm ot the new normal school ended an ex tended period us superintendent of schools in Pendleton, Oregon, was too busy, lie declared, to discuss prospects of the school. But hr did find time to say, enthusiastic ally, that “the building is rapidly being finished and that it is going to be a splendid one.” It is) hoped now that a sumntei session may be oftnducted in tin new institution. “You see, I’m even too busy tc spend much time with my daugh ter,” smiled the educator. Kin* is Hope Inlow, junior in sociology 01 tin* campus, and admitted that il was only by “tagging her dui around anil visiting in between con ferem-es” that she was able to set him. R. Halliburton To Tell About Thrilling Life n o ^ O ---_ Well-known Lecturer Set. To Speak to Students On Saturday Evening Romance Fills Days Of Prominent Writer Sacred Taj Mahal Visited By Young Romanticist “Tin’ most roimuitlc’ momonl of my life, I mot alone,” declared Richard Halliburton, romantic nd vonturor, wlio is to spoilk at flto Woman’s building, Saturday, March 9, at S o’clock. “This was in Agra;’’ ho eontin uod, “a city of northorn India wlioro I visited tho immortal Taj Mahal, tho tomb of matchless beauty built L’SO years ago by the eni|ieror, Shah dehan, to commemorate the perfec tion of his adored wife, the Empress Mumtaj i-Malml “liver since that childhood day whoa I first looked upon an oil painting of -1 hi* tomb and read the story of its creation, I bad dreamed of a day to come when I should see aifll perhaps touch the Taj Mahal. “The morning after 1 reached Agra, 1 set out alone. I pgssed be neath the ruddy arch that coSfeninnds entrance to the gardens of tluKXpj, ami there beyond in the blinding summer sunshine, I saw it, a miracle of sky, verdure, and ivory, beckon ing to me through the framing gale wav. Mv dream castle had come to life! Spends, Day at Temple “I answered its cull with abso lute surrender. The entire day X remained beside the snowy temple, enchanted by its serenity. “Twilight came, and tho wind censed. Tho tropical dark blue background of all this beauty was fading into tho night. At ttiis time of the month the moon rose nearer < the hour of dawn than darkness, and yet X knew that at midnight every visitor must depart from Uje gardens. Already guards were clos ing the tower gates; sentries were gathering before the threshold of the tomb. Suddenly the thought came to me, ‘Why not try to stay?’ “The romantic possibilities of such an adventuro captivated my fancy. Quickly I hid in a darkened grove. The watchmen carrying their lamps came close to me, but passed on. Presently I heard the ponderous iron-bound doors groan :is they- were swung laboriously into place. Then I heard the clank of •latteriag chains, and their echo reverberating from wall to wall across the breathless garden filled mo with sudden dread, for I a mor tal, was not imprisoned with a palo oearl ghost—.1 wait alone with Taj Mahal! Sacred Vault Entered “For an hour, and an hour more, waiting for tho moon, I lingered patiently beneath my willow grove. Then with tho tolling of two, tho shroud was lifted from the sky as tho moon glinted through the boughs upon the sleeping garden. Stealthily I crept around the sleep ing sentries, softly crossed tho threshold, and entering stood be side the faint-lit tombs of tho adored Mumtaj and her Shall in Shah. Forgetful of sentries, I whis tled a subdued note and listened to its re-ringing slowly dying echoes far up in tho blackness of the vault. “No one was awake to see me creep forth into the balmy night to watch my shadow as it left tho marble platform and moved aguin across the moon blanched park. On a marble bench, I wnt beside tho deepest lily pool and looked at the great white blossoms drifting alpong tho reflected stars of an Indian sky, and as I looked, there seemed to come from its depths a call. “(paly an insonmial owl watched me remove my clothes, or heard the faint ripple as I dropped into the alabaster pool. This was a page from the Arabian Nights, this at last was romance! “In the hour before dawn, I sat resting by the pool, alone in all this supernatural beauty a strange ec stasy came over me. I and all that , 1 had beheld was myth. Suddenly, ‘('aw, raw, caw,’ a crow in tho nearby grove startled mo back to reality, i glanced up to find dnv streaking the east. There was. a rush of wind, a rustle of leaves. All tit once l was aware of being bitterly cold. Realities began to emerge before my eyes. The gar dens lay about me stark and tang ible. “The Taj, which a moment before . had been an airy bubble, threaten ing to evaporate in the moonlight, had turned again to stone. “I flung on my clothes, hurried to the tower gate, and surrendered my self to the sentries.”