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
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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
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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.
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with Bob Steele. Showing today
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McDONALD —- "Rainbow Trail,”
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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.
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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.
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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."
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