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«♦ ♦. EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE OREGON DAILY EMERALD ~ ♦♦ ©repint M!? ^meralfi University of Oregon, Eugene Arthur L. Schoeni . Kditor William II. Hammond . Business Manager Vinton Hall . Managing Editor EDITORIAL WRITERS Ron Hulibs, Ruth Newman, Rex TuxainK, Wilfred Brown Secretary—Ann Hathaway • UPPER NEWS STAFF Mary Klemm . Assistant Managing Editor Harry Van Dine ... Sports Editor Phyllis Van Kimmell . Society Myron Griffin ............ Literary Victor Kaufman . • P* L p- Editor Ralph David . Chief Night Editor Clarence Craw . Makeup Editor George Weber, Jr. Tony Peterson .. Addison Brockman Jean Patrick . Dairy Jackson . Betty Hagen . Ina Tremblay - Betty Carpenter ... Ned Mars .. Louise Gurney . Bern&dine Carrico Helen Sullivan . Fred Reid . BUSINESS STAFF . Associate Manager .. Advertising Manager .. .. Foreign Advertising Manager . Manager Copy Department .... Circulation Manager . Women’s Specialty Advertising . Assistant Advertising Manager . Assistant Copy Manager . Assistant Copy Manager . Executive Secretary . Service Department .. Checking Department . Assistant Circulation Manager The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Asso ciated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Member of the Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates, $2.60 a year. Advertising rates jpon application. Phone, Man ager: Office, 1896; residence, 127. Day Editor .Willis Duniway Night Editor .Mahr Reymers Assistant Night Editors Esther Hayden, Nan Ruonala International Week Coming WITH the meeting of representatives of inter ested organizations and the election of a gen eral chairman, the formulation of plans for the second annual International Week began yesterday afternoon. The International Week, which will be held this year February 21 to March 1, is sponsored by the Oregon Emerald, the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A , the International Relations club, and a num ber of other groups. The first International Week, held last spring, was very successful and attracted much attention throughout the state. A number of authoritative speakers on international affairs were brought to the campus by the directorate in charge and deliv ered addresses on subjects relating particularly to the relations between the United States and the countries of the Orient. Interested features of the week were the International Banquet, at which each foreign student on the campus was the guest of some American student; and the Pageant of Na tions, presented by the Cosmopolitan club at Guild theater. International Week, the International house which grew out of it, the Murray Warner Fine Arts museum, and the Murray Warner essay contests have, in the opinion qf the Emerald, had a decided effect in bringing about a tendency toward inter national and inter-racial good will on the Univers ity of Oregon campus. The people of the Pacific coast have been brought up with an inherent dis trust and suspicion of the people of the Orient, but on the Oregon campus, where the East and the West mingle, the distrust and suspfcion have been forgotten. The American youth finds that after all there is really no difference between him and the youth of China or Japan or the Philippines. The repetition of International Week each year helps to accentuate this existing spirit, to impress it upon the minds of the students so that it will remain with them in the years following their graduation. W. B. Dr. Clarence W. Spears L K roi est mort! Vive le roi! Athletic storm clouds which have hung over the campus since this fall have parted and through the rift shines the round countenance of “Doc” Spears Dr. Clarence Wilce Spears, if you please. Student opinion, which was quiescent during the recent McEwan affair and failed to take either side of the question, is all behind Spears. They do not know him personally and have never seen him. All they know about “Doc” is his record and that speaks for itself. • They know that “Doc" is ranked with Roekne, Warner, and Jones as a football coach. They know the University would not be paying $11,500 for a second-rater. Also, they know he is a top-notcher in the med ical profession and a surgery specialist of national repute. Besides being acceptable as a football coach he will also be a valuable addition to the University health service. Spears will come to Oregon with everything in his favor an enthusiastic student body behind him, excellent material around which to build his team this year, and a money-making schedule that will give his team a chance at the coast conference title. With Spears as head football coach Oregon hopes to open up a regime of co-operation among faculty, administration, and students that will lead the University to greater athletic heights without the sacrifice of academic ideals before an over emphasized student activity. OPHOMORE class officers intend to keep the ^ class alive through winter and spring terms by promoting more dances such as their own fall term informal or the Frosh Glee. And they also intend to make their meetings more general not confined alone to the organizations. • - It remains to be seen whether 1111® campus needs more informals or glees or balls. The preparation for past dances of the “best ever held" caliber has often led to excessive waste of time and expense. By increasing the number only of the occasions very little is added to student welfare—and, indeed, enjoyment. Perhaps the sophomores remember the last-year freshman class. Bast year this same sophomore class, if memory serves rightly, did institute some thing worth far more than any informal or glee. It took the form of dances too, but that was only incidental. They established a general class feeling. They held dances for their class periodically— no formality nor conscious informality. There was no wild scramble for committee chairmanships; no tlaims foP publicity. If th$ir present plan is to foster that same spirit, it is good. But unless they intend to continue that feeling of class conscious I ness they are planting a sterile tradition-seed in the i campus.—R. T. ° o | • p — -■— ; How times have changed. Time was when a football player was the object of parliamentary degrees, pulpit sermonizing, mayoralty edicts, and finally, kingly pronunciamentos. That was in the j days of Edward III. He still is the object of such attentions only in a different sense. DO YOU REMEMBER the old days when the Order of the “O” used to paddle the frosh on the library steps? And the Oregon Knights checked | up on tradition offenders? "English Prison Has School Atmosphere”— headline. And then there are some cases of schools having a prison atmosphere ask any sixth grade boy'____* Star athletes are picked on all-American teams. Why not have an all-American Phi Beta Kappa Senior Six ? The mistletoe may be all withered, but that does not keep the boy friend from getting fresh. g, --—£ On the Line With Professors Pi----j-—-— -—® From Walter Barnes’ Lecture in Modern Europe on January 15. 1 have the worst lawnmower in Eugene. . . . When the “woman question arises, a number of passions and sentiments are called up. . . .' The male influence on the next generation is now very unimportant. . . . For many years after the institution of Moth er’s Day we didn’t even have a Father’s Day. . . . The necktie merchants originated Father’s Day. . . . Those aren’t my epigrams, I must confess. I took them out of a magazine. . . . Economists are inclined to be pretty well satis fied with the world; we could almost say: “smug.” ... i The Renaissance scholars did not have the Wil ton rugs and the hot and cold water running up and down stairs that we have. . . . The workmen have the vote, but the capitalists have the newspapers to tell them how to vote. . . . I could tell you a lot more stories of this type, but I am afraid that they would be more enter taining than valuable to you. . . . Professors don’t read; they haven’t the time. J IMCollegiatePulse j ..—.is SEX—THE PROBLEM OF THE AGE ' In securing Dr. Thaddens H. Ames, New York psychiatrist, to deliver a series of lectures on “Sex" to the students of Oberlin, the Y. M. C. A. took a step which entitles it to thanks and commendation, j Certainly, it marks an era in the life of Oberlin college t\nd gives a strong impetus to the growth \ of sex as a subject to be discussed freely and un reservedly. Sex is the problem of the age. The flapper and I the flaming- youth, the misunderstood husband and tIre mistreated wife, birth control and eugenics, True Story magazines and sex novels, are all occu pying constant public attention. The fapt that at a liberal college like Oberlin a series of orienta tion lectures draws but a handful w'hile a series on sex draws hundreds of eager hearers is alone sig- ; nificant of this truth. Because thoughts of the body were regarded as earthly and gross, men strove for spiritual develop ment and degradation of body. In their eagerness to curb earthly pleasures for the sake of salvation in after life men beat their body, taught it to en sure hunger patiently, tortured it with lifelong | chastity. And the debasing of the body led to the ! shaming of it. The loveliness, the charm, the sym metry of the human figure were made taboo, and in their place came false modesty, lustful imagery ' and wretched hypocrisy. Our parents, brought up to deem talk of sex shameful, never considered, or openly doubted the | necessity of acquainting their children with the 1 truth of birth and the relations of men and women, j Curiosity led us to ferret out the secrets of this lawful taboo; and the trail led through soul-destroy j ing dirt. Yet many undoubtedly were quite shocked by the revelations of Dr. Ames. Some members of our football team even stated that they thought I he had been outspoken. * But the death knell of secrecy on sex has been ! struck. Silent tongues are not afraid to talk and frowns of disapproval have given way to animated argument. Surely, when men and women learn to understand their individual and mutual problems, ! they will live more happily together. Oberlin Re ■ view. ®------■■ .. ... .(g The Ambler Yesterday we saw: SHAILER PETERSON to bogganing down the stqps of McCLURE without a toboggan. . . . EETA HALL boys in an enthusias tic game of football . . . MARGARET THOMPSON scraping ice off her windshield. ... A PHI DELT freshman busily shoveling snow from in front of the house. . . HAROLD COOLEY actually getting money from the UNIVERSITY. . . . BERTRAND DUVA HELIX 1SAM1NGER and PAUL BIGGS discussing the reason for playing “AMERICA" at the close of "DISRAELI." . . . CLARENCE CRAW trying to find a warm place to smoke. ... A lot LESS sleigh riding. ... A WEEPING WILLOW shedding FROZEN tears. ST""— -’“’Si One Fr’a Penny By $uilfin ffi—,—--——-———S IF you rember . . . I was your moon, your sunrise, I was your far glimpse of sea, Your lonely gleaming Carcas sonne. I was everything eternal, wonderful, unassailable . . . At least you said so. A CCORDING to you now . . . I was a flicker of wings, I was a swill of confetti on the wind, A shaft of sunlight on dusty scarlet. I was everything transient, interesting, but trivial . . . Isn’t that right? —Janet Fitch. * * * FABLE THE SECOND A ND then we have that sorority on the campus—pagan wors en, worshipping at the altar of a false god, gold. Some have a keenly destructive appreciation of the social subtleties, and use them nicely in their business— others, more flippant, take no heed of the niceties of behavior, but plunge headlong into their in trigue—intrigue being basically necessary in the life of these wom en. They are feverish, distorted, exagerated, John Held charac ters, and in their wild eyes gleams the elusive phantom pot at the end of the rainbow— * * * The rainbow is the phantom of social success, and to their distorted minds social success is spelled in numbers of Greek letter pins to be found in their dressing - table drawers — dia monds gleam there, and pearls —now and then onyx, now and then 'the mystic cross, again the omega of purity. But these are but symbols of the ever elusive phantom—it is not the pin they adore and pursue—nor yet the man, but even the glit ter back of it all—that of gold— :Jt :Jj * Go somewhere with one some time, (if you are brave or brazen or rich enough), and see if they order a coke. What?. These mod ern loreleis? These sisters of the pick and shovel ? Not they— count yourself lucky if you have a cigarette left—(for they are furnaces, these)—and daily praise your god if you fail to meet the measure and instead merit the dis card pile. For if the gold is there they never cease until they have it— * n * Love or affection? Bah! Page John Riddell—“And love is a kick in the slats”—only you get the kick in the slats and they have the fun. At least most of them are smart, but m hat of that—a monkey is pre cocious, seemingly — well — at least, may we say in conclusion, “Hail to thee, -, may thy tribe he few and thy followers less.” Kequiescat— PROF. H. C. HOWE ADDS ISEW COLRSE A new course in “Shelley" is being offered this term by Profes sor H. C. Howe, of the English de partment, It is given particularly for graduate and advanced stu dents of English, but there are many sophomores registered in the course, according to Professor Howe. For this reason, it is not being held as a seminar course, as it hijs been limited previously. "Shelley” has not been offered by the English department since 1925, though Professor Howe has taught the class off and on dur ing the 29 years he has been on the Oregon campus. It will be given only winter term, and will be ‘followed by a course in "Wil liam Morris” during spring term. Drawing Department Work in Full Swing "There has never been such an air of Industry, good fellowship, interest, and study in the painting and drawing department before,” Andrew M. Vincent, assistant pro fessor of painting and design, said yesterday. The department has • recentl}' secured easels for study, altera tion in lighting, and new modern equipment of every sort. There will be constantly changing exhi bitions of the work on classroom walls. This work, which consists of mural sketches, pictorial de sign, paintings, and life drawings, is now being framed. Painting of exceptional merit, done by Dor othy Endicott, senior in art, and Eleanor Patten, sophomore in art, will adorn the walls immediately, j PRESS CLASS HAS . ARTICLES PRINTED Four articles written by mem bers of Dr. Ralph D. Casey’s class in specialized press have been ac cepted by magazines recently, it was announced last night. Serena Madsen Scheffer re ceived word yesterday that her personality sketch on President Arnold Bennett Hall will appear in the February number of Old Ore gon. Margaret “Bobby” Reid has sold to the Pacific Drug Review an article on the business methods of the Stevenson drug stores in Eugene. The Pacific Fisherman, publish ed in Seattle, has accepted two articles by William Puustinen on the salmon canning Industry at Astoria, and has invited him to write a third on types of nets used by fishermen on the Columbia river. Latin Play To Feature Pi Sigma Open Meeting Pi Sigma, Latin honorary, will meet for the first time this term tonight, at 8 o’clock in the Y. W. C. A. bungalow. The meeting is open to all those interested, ac cording to Ethel Mackey, presi dent. Plantus’ “Mostellaria,” a Latin play, will be presented by Dr. Clara M. Smertenko’s class in Latin comedy. Dorotha Bailey, James Whitman, Olga Sadilek, Margaret Turner, Alice Olmstead, and Geraldine Johnston, will read the leading parts in the play. A resume of the plot will be given in English by James Whitman, but the play, “Mostellaria,” which means play of the little ghost, will be given entirely in Latin. Bossing Has Article On Teachers Published That there are at least 50 per cent more teachers being trained in the educational institutions of the United States at the present time than there are positions is revealed in an article by Dr. Nel son L. Bossing, printed in the Jan uary issue of “The High School.” This is a publication under the su pervision of the school of educa tion. , Dr. Bossing has made an exten sive study of conditions ail over the United States. In his discus sion entitled, “Surplusage of High School Teachers,” he summarizes the facts obtained. A paper on the same subject was read by Dr. Bossing before the college section of the Teachers’ Association of Oregon, which met at Portland, December 27. Congeniality Is a Necessity when the weather is like it" is, and you are forced to remain in doors all day. Perhaps you would enjoy your self, in fact, you really would, if you could get away from the rest, with your most con genial friends to an at mosphere of good food, and true hospitality. Out on thg North high way, or phone 30-F-ll. The howard Dining Room Are You Run down in the heels ? Doctor Jim says: "We will heel your shoes with collegiate heel plate s—directly im ported from England! Another thing is our delivery service which makes it possible to make that one pair of shoes do." JIM The Shoe Doctor "Look for the Neon Sign" Foreign Relations club meeting tonight at 7:30 in men’s room of the Gerlinger building. Subject, “India.” Music group of Philomelete meets Saturday at 1 p. m. in the women’s lounge of Gerlinger hall. Drama group of Philomelete will meet Sunday at 5 o’clock in women’s room, Gerlinger hall. Women’s league council mem bers, except elected officers, meet for a group picture for the Ore gana in front of Friendly today at 12:45. Charm School group meets at 5 p. m. in the hall of the Adminis tration building today. Social swim in Gerlinger hall at 7:30 tonight. Senior Ball directorate meets today at 5 o'clock in the Sigma Chi house. Pi Sigma will meet tonight at 8 o’clock in the Y. W. C. A. bun galow. The meeting is open to all those interested. “Woman in Her Sphere” group meeting at the Girls’ Oregon club, 1374 Onyx street, Sunday after noon at 5 o'clock. Everyone in terested is invited* PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT Alpha Gamma Delta announces the pledging of Jessie Steele of Eugene. FOREIGN PAPERS COME TO LIBRARY People who like to read newspa pers in foreign tongues—say, Ital ian or Spanish or German or French—can find solace for their desires in the racks of the jour nalism library. 0 The library is now receiving copies of Le Temps, Le Matin, L’lntransigeant, Le Journal,, and Figaro from Paris. Spanish pa pers included in the fil^s are El Liberal, La Voz, La Tribuna, La Nacion, La Stampa, Heraldo de Madrid and El Sol. From Italy the library receives La Liberta, Corriere Della Sera, Gazetta del Popolo, II Messaggero, La Sera, and 11 Popolo d'ltalia, mouthpiece of Mussolini’s government. German newspapers received are Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Cour ant, Hamburger Fremdenblatt, Kolnifche Zeitung, Munchner Reufte Rachrichten, Lokal An zeiger, Neue Freie Presse, and the Algemeen Handelsblad. The Af tenpoften comes to the library from Oslo, Norway. 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