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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1932)
Wilson Relates Adventures Of Forensic Team in Jap an JTravels Among Nipponese Outlined by Returning Oregon Debater By DAVID G. WILSON HONOLULU, T. H. (By Mail. I —You can’t write for a paper that Isn’t being published, and the Christmas vacation suspension of the Emerald has delayed the re port on the last six weeks of our tour for some time. We established two records in Japan. In Tokyo we defended American absence from the League of Nations in the first debate ever held in Japan. And we spent nearly three weeks in the country without getting as much as a dis tant glimpse of Mt. Fujiama, the Mecca of all visitors. For that matter we had only a day in Nara, famous for its shrines and its tame deer roaming the streets, to devote to sight-seeing. The Japanese had been preparing for our arrival for months, and the program they had outlined for us looked like a railway time table. We spoke to the students at Hwansei Gakuin college at Kobe within an hour after we arrived from China. That school set the theme for the whole Japan tour with a large sign over the entrance to the campus, “WELCOME ORE GON.” And “Oregon” was wel comed and rewelcomed many times a day up until the afternoon that we sailed from Yokohama on the Taiyo Marti, bound for Honolulu. The debate in Tokio was the only one, participation in a half dozen oratorical contests in Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto and Tokio being the other headliners. Japan has ac quired the habit of offering silver cups as prizes in all sorts of inter collegiate competition, and in these contests we acquired seven cups, not to mention nine medals, six pennants and a plaque. The United States customs officials at Hono- j lulu were all set to charge us duty on imported silverware. Intercollegiate athletics among Japanese universities are strongly encouraged by the government as a safety valve to keep the students rrom indulging in the “strikes” and political intrigues that are so absorbing to Chinese students. Apparently the university mar ket for athletes is becoming Amer icanized, for we noticed rumblings of protests in the press against th$ “subsidizing” of outstanding players in baseball, hockey and rugby football. One large news paper charged that, free tuition and other helps were granted these players by certain universities. The same paper complained bit terly of the soft jobs with nice salaries that were handed out to athletic stars after graduation. They used as an example a well known baseball player who had been hired by a Tokio music store at the high salary of $150 a month! That would seem a very modest salary to us, but not in Japan, where the average college gradu ate can expect a salary of only $35 to $40 a month, if he is lucky enough to find a job. At present only 40 per cent of the 35,000 men and women who graduate each year from Japanese universities can find employment. Japanese university baseball, whether it is purely amateur or not, seems to be of a much better quality than is displayed by Amer ican colleges. While we were in Japan an American all-star team, made up of such players as Lou Gehrig, Frank Frisch, Mickey Cochrane, and Lefty Grove, was in Japan to play a series of 13 games with Japanese university teams. They won all their games, but several they edged out by scores like 7 to 5 and 3 to 2. It is apparent why Japanese college Sez Sue SHOPPING COLUMN A New Year A new term and a new start! Bogin again with new resolutions and -shall we say a new scarf? Or was it ear rings that you wanted hut didn’t get for Christmas? The most marvelous bargains now in smart, practical things. Follow “Sue's” example by doing your post-Christmas shopping now ! No Need — To wait for spring it’s al ready here! “Seelng's believ ing,” you say? All right, then, come down to the University Florist, on Thirteenth, and see for yourself! Here's gay tulips to brighten any dark corner. And jaunty yellow daffodils they'll make the gloomiest day brighter. And hyacinths, in lovely shades, are so fragrant and last for a long time. Any of these spring flowers will make your room much more attractive try them! Resolve — To star.t the New Year with the best school supplies. The Oregon Pharmacy, across from the College Side, has exactly what you want. Notebooks, fillers, ink, fountain pens. And stationery for the letters home. Also typewriters for sale or rent. And remember the Phar macy is the campus agency for Western Union. Buy delicious Miss Saylor's and Whitman's chocolates here, too. Unusual With the color and charm of China’s former splendor are the lovely bits of imported jewelry that ‘‘Sue" has found for you. Imagine no two pieces alike, all individual and so worth hav ing. Barrings, pendants, and rings as exotic as you could wish. At the Oriental Art Shop, in the Eugene hotel building. Some smart - looking costume jewelry, too, now at half-price! Just the pieces for your new sport frock! The Social Calendar — Will be out soon. Look it over. Then think over your wardrobe. Have you just the right thing to wear each time? Have you just the right jewelry for each dress? Come to Lara way's Jewelry Store, on Wil lamette, and let them help you. If they don’t have exactly what you want, they'll order it for you. Take advantage of their service and outfit yourself for the term. Probably — One of your New Year's reso lutions was to look your very best every day! Start off right by coming to the Angeline Dress Shop, on Broadway, for your clothes, and you can't help but look your best. Why? Be cause they have the best-look ing clothes for the lowest prices! You can outfit yourself in a stunning school-dress or look ravishing in a dance frock and still have enough of your allowance left for some of their clever hats! Si I Mesh's In With mesh hose leading as smartest of all this season! The beauty of them is, of course, that they're equally good with sport suits and dress frocks when they are made of silk. At Buster Brown's Shoe Store, 933 Willamette, you’ll find marvelous - looking mesh silk hose for $1 a pair! Sounds too good to be true. You'll want at least two pair iu the new shades. Janet Osburnt—-call at the Fox McDonald theatre box-office before Sunday night anil receive two pusses! teams who tour America win most of their games. Government police keep careful check on Japanese universities to suppress the expression or spread of “dangerous thoughts.” When ever a public meeting of students is held, some responsible adult must assume full responsibility for all that is said, and may be pun ished if police reporters feel that any remark is not strictly ortho dox. Police agents were careful listeners at nearly all of our de bates, and in Tokio we received a friendly visit from an agent of the foreign police, who quizzed us to find if we believed in capitalism from Alpha to Omega, taking careful notes on all our replies to his questions. Our two weeks in Hawaii have been a busy conclusion to seven months of travel. Nine speaking engagements, including two de bates with Oregon’s old debating and football rival, the University of Hawaii, kept us busy enough. In Honolulu we saw our only foot ball game of the 1931 season when Hawaii defeated Drake university of Des Moines. Far from being the haven of peace and safety we had looked I forward to from Manchuria, Hono lulu v/as patrolled night and day by military police and naval shore police to prevent resumption of se rious trouble between riavy sailors ami Japanese and Filipino resi dents which follojved an assault on a naval officer’s wife. The Terri tory of Hawaii, next to the Pan ama Canal, is the most heavily fortified place under the American flag. More than 23,000 army and navy men are stationed there at all times. Today, as we sail for home, the temperature is 80 degrees in the shade, and everyone is deserting the family Christmas trees for a swim at Waikiki Beach. Doesn’t seem much like Christmas out in Honolulu. VINCENTS HAVE CHILD When the Emerald printed re cently a list of the “campus Christ mas babies,” it overlooked one, the one of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Vincent. Mr. Vincent is professor of paint ing in the school of architecture and allied arts. HEMPSTEAD REVIEWS HISTORY OF DEBATES (Continued from Page One) f?er of debate, the job Cliff Beckett has now. We scheduled the debate with the University of Sidney, and I signed the contract formally for the students. I wondered how we could ever return that engage ment. Australia seemed so far away.” The next year Hempstead be came general forensic chairman, was a member of the debating team and very interested in ora tory. So interested in oratory, in lact, that he won the national World Peace prize in oratory. But the idea of a world tour was con stantly in his mind. As a journal ism major, he could see the news value of such a tour, and its possi bilities for advertising Oregon. When he said anything about it, he met with ridicule, even with scorn, but he believed in his “fan tastic notion" and finally sent out contracts, agreements, and ques tionnaires all over the world. After 18 months of hard work mid unprecedented planning, that world tour became a reality. In October, 1927, Walter Hempstead, Avery Thompson, and Benoit Mc Croskey started westward around the world. Over land and over sea they went, to India, Egypt, Hawaii, China, Japan, literally all over the world. Anil at 5:55 on Friday, April 20, 1928, the first collegiate round-the-world debating team was greeted with the University band in “resplendent green and yellow uniforms" (to quote the Em erald of that date) and a big rally when they stepped off the Shasta. Robert Miller was a sophomore, too, when he came to Hempstead in the fall of 1930. “Say, Hempstead," Miller told him, "I want to know what chance there is to send a debate team on another big tour around the world." Hempstead says that he stood and looked at Miller for a while before he could answer, remember ing the work and worry that that first world tour had cost him. “That’s been done, Miller," he said, “several times. Several teams have followed us.” He ex plained that it cost too much to go by land, but that a Pacific Basin tour would allow sea travel, which is much cheaper. “Furthermore, Bob, that will at tract more dramatic attention than a world debate tour, because it has never been done before, Ore gon is right on the center of the Pacific coast, and Oregon's admin- i istration has specially encouraged ; that sort of thing, as evidenced by the museum and the Murray War ner essay contest." So the idea of the Pacific Basin debate tour began to grow into reality out of the experience of the debaters who made the first world tour. From that time on, their expe rience largely paralleled the expe rience of its pioneers, but the trail had already been broken, if only roughly, and though there were many seemingly insurmountable obstacles of a practical nature, Welcomes .Julius L. Meier, governor of the state of Oregon, who welcomed the good-will debaters on their ar rival in San Francipco from Hono lulu. Law Body Slates Gathering To Plan Legal Piiblialion E<lilin<; Work oil Quarterly Review Expected To Begin Soon The student editorial work for the next quarterly issue of the Oregon Law Review will probably begin to take form immediately af ter a meeting of all students of the law school in room 105 Oregon at 3 o’clock today. With the purpose of introducing, especially to first year law stu dents, the method of writing stu dent material for this legal pub lication, Charles G. Howard, editor in-chief, will preside. Every law student is given an opportunity, with cases provided, to work over material. An average of six to eight of these articles are accepted each issue, being passed by faculty members and the editor in-chief. Each student whose articles have been accepted for publication will automatically be placed on the stu dent editorial board. Prof. Howard emphasized the value of working on case notes for this, “the extra-curricular activity of the law school,” as a way of “discovering exceptional talent in students, and promoting enthus iasm in a practical work, as welt as providing material through the law publication to be utilized by practicing lawyers of the bar as sociation and a means of throwing new light on old cases.” though even when the team set out it had no funds at ail available, owing to the peculiar financial embarrassment of the student body, such difficulties were finally overcome by Miller and his care fully chosen colleagues. “The Pacific Basin Good Will tour,” as it was finally named, “is a masterpiece of p 1 a n n i n g,” Hempstead declared. “From a dip lomatic standpoint far more was done than we were able to do on our trip. They have been actually ambassadors of good will. The tour is certainly a success beyond our fondest hopes.” Ralph C. Hoeber helped a great deal with the coaching, and Hemp stead expressed his appreciation to Dean James H. Gilbert for his imaginative influence with admin istrative matters, and to Burt Brown Barker, Governor Meier, the Pendleton and Eugene Odd Fel lows, the Portland East Side com mercial club, chamber of com merce, and Oregon Dads, for finan cial support and efforts to aid the Good Will team practically. The O. K. Shop "For a Neat Haircut’’ -25c l'.. L. Pederson 848 Olive MANDARIN CAFE CHOP SUEY o CHINESE DISHES AMERICAN DISHES Wo cater to home parties. American Cook and American Management CO WEST 10TH STREET TALKIE TOPICS ■ - — STATE ■—- “South of Santa Fe,” with Bob Steele. Showing today and Saturday. McDONALD —- "Rainbow Trail,” featuring George O'Brien. Show ing today and Saturday. HEILIG — “The Dreyfus Case,” starring Cedric Hardwicke. Showing for the last time today. COLONIAL “Monkey Business,” and the four Marx brothers. Showing till Saturday. Historic Film at Heilig • One of the most accurate histor ical pictures recently filmed is "The Dreyfus Case,” which is showing at the Heilig for the last time today. The original plot from which this picture is constructed was so dra matic in its own way that nothing additional was needed to make it a powerful film. Cedric Hardwicke as Dreyfus and Beatrix Thomson as his wife are not up to the highest standard as far as acting goes, and for that reason the picture proves some what boring to one not familiar with this justly famous case of misguided justice. * •* * ^ Marx Brothers at Colonial Whether you are taking one of these musical appreciaton courses or not you will find at least one type of music in this “Monkey Business,” that will appeal to your what shall we say sensibilities? Still sensibilities is a poor word because that is one thing that these four comedians are not. Any way you will feel like rallying all the time after you have seen them. “Rainbow Trail,” at McDonald “Rainbow Trail,” starring George O’Brien and Cecilia Parker is showing at the Fox! McDonald today and tomorrow. * * * Bob Steele at State “South of Santa Fe,” with Bob Steele is making its first appear ance on the State screen today and Saturday. Cedric Hardwicke and Beatrix Thomson who are appearing in “Ttie Dreyfus Case,” showing at the Heilig for the last time today, Colliers Publishes Novel Written by Ernie Haycox Word has just been received that Colliers has accepted a full length novel serial written by Ernie Hay cox, graduate of the school of jour nalism with a B. A. in 1923, and a well-known western story author. Haycox has been writing for the Colliers magazine for some time but the stories have all been of the short story variety. This is the first full length novel he has had accepted by a magazine. It will probably be released some time in the spring. LANDROS READS PAPER Mrs. Edna V. Landros, instruct or in Greek and Latin, read a pa per before the Classical division at the Oregon State Teachers’ as sociation held in Portland during the Christmas holidays. The title of her paper was “Unemployment and Prosperity at Athens in the Fifth Century.” Japan-American Trade Increases Despite \S ar In the fourth anniversary of the Japanese-American Courier, pub lished at Seattle on New Year’s day, there appeared an article by Dr. John R. Mez, professor of eco nomics and political science in the University dealing with the trade between the United States and Ja pan. Professor Mez writes that de spite the Japanese exclusion, the trade between the two countries had shown considerable increase, and it is to be expected that the bond ofc friendship between the Americans and Japanese will be made much stronger. Dunn Addresses Meeting On Militarism of Cieero Frederic S. Dunn, chairman of the U. of O. department of Latin, spoke at the annual meeting of the northern section of the Classical Association of the Pacific States, which was held in Seattle Decem ber 31. His subjeok was, "The Mil itarism of M. Tullius Cicero." “Eugene’s Own Store” McMorran & Washburne - PHONE 2700 - SALE: — Iron Bridge Lamps Complete With Shade and Cord $1.00 Adjustable for height - - - adjustable for angle of light - - - artistic design. Splendid for student rooms. $1.95 Value at Only $1.00 SECOND FLOOR Copr.. 1932. The American Tobacco Co. "There’s none so good os LUCKIES" SHE’S MISCHIEVOUS, RESTLESS, AND 20, WEIGHS 112 POUNDS. Miss Harlow has smoked Luckies for two years . . . not one cent was paid for her signed statement. She rose to stardom in "Hell’s Angels'* . . . and if you’ve seen her new COLUMBIA PICTURE, "THREE WISE GIRLS," you’ll understand why thousandsof girls are trying to match her riotous platinum blonde locks. We appreciate ail she writes of Luckies, and so we say, "Thanks, Jean Harlow." "I’ve tried all cigarettes and there’s none so good as LUCKIES. And incidentally I’m careful in my choice of cigarettes. I have to be because of my throat. Put me down as one who always reaches for a LUCKY. It’s a real delight to find a Cellophane wrapper that opens without an ice pick.” “It’s toasted” Your Throat Protection—against irritation—against cough And Moisture-Proof Cellophane Keeps that "Toasted" Flavor Ever Fresh TUNE IN ON LUCKY STRIKE— of today becomes the news 60 modern minutes with the world’s finest dance orchestras and Walter Winchell, whose gossip of tomorrow, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evening over N. B. C. necuorfts.
