VOLUME XXX
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1929
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NUMBER 93
Problems Of
State Survey
To Be Studied
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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
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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.”