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In Tommy Atkins’ Country
'T'O the students who study British journalism at the Univer
sity of London, the engagement of the Prince of Wales would
be far more important newspaper copy than the resignation of
Sir James Ramsay MacDonald as prime minister. They ex
pressed such an opinion in no uncertain fashion last week when
the following hypothetical situation was placed before them:
You are editor of a national daily newspaper (British, of
course). The following events are reported to you. To which
one would you give first place in your newspaper? Please mark
the events in order of preference:
War between Brazil and Argentina.
Famous actress found murdered.
Financial collapse ol’ Germany.
Engagement of the Prince of Wales.
Abolition of the League of Nations.
Resignation of the Prime Minister.
One hundred lives lost in British liner wreck.
Five hundred lives lost in French mine disaster.
Famous scientist receives message from Mars.
That was rather a difficult predicament for a group of em
bryo newspapermen. All the stories dear to an editor’s heart
had been placed within their reach for them to do with as they
willed. There were disasters, murders, wrecks, international en
tanglements and even a fantastic message from Mars. Yet, with
out the slightest hesitation, 89 per cent of the students said
they would place the engagement of Edward of Wales over all
the rest. The other votes were scattered throughout the list,
only one-half per cent saying they would give preference to the
resignation of the prime minister. The stories dealing with in
ternational affairs received but a smattering of ballots, the abo
lition of the League leading the collapse of Germany by a narrow
margin.
Thus Great Britain's foremost students of the fourth estate
show that their opinions and ideas are/fundamentally the same
as those of their contemporaries across the sea. To them tho
engagement of the young man who eventually will become their
country’s figure-head is better copy than the resignation of the
aged statesman who controls the administrative department of
the British empire.
And their opinions also are those of the men who now operato
England’s newspapers. Let Edward of Wales announce his en
gagement and there will not be space for much else in London’s
dailies. Japan and Russia could start a war to the death on
the same day and most of the citizens of England’s capital would
be impervious to it. The space devoted to the prince's betrothal
would be comparable only to that given to the Lindbergh case
in America, when the kidnaping of a small boy crowded the Ori
ental entanglements and the League of Nations off the first
page.
Policy or Pollyanna?
Jj^VEUY once in a while we open our morning mail to find a
vehement, denunciation of some editorial or column that
graced the preceding day’s paper. Usually such communications
aie unsigned, and after a hasty perusal they are ordinarily con
signed to the waste basket. Anonymous letters are contemptu
ously regarded by editors the country over.
But yesterday we received a note that we temporarily with
held from the us'uai disposition. As we glanced through its ion
tents our feeling of disdain was replaced by one of amusement
and finally by one of reflection. The anonymous writer took
tin- time and trouble to spread his indignation over two closely
written pages in a thorough-going condemnation of an article
by one of our colunmnists.
He advised us to stick to our knitting and leave comment on
matters of other than a campus nature to better qualified men.
We were roundly scored for what he considered an unwarranted
criticism of his home state. The native son strongly questioned
the propriety of u college newspaper indulging in discussion of
subjects thut have perplexed greater minds than the Emerald
editors.
So the question arises Shall a university daily newspaper
confine its comments to editorial philosophizing on the need for
wider paths to the Music building, bigger ham sandwiches at
the campus luncheon, and kindred subjects? Or shall it under
take to express the collegiate viewpoint on matters of moment,
local and national? Shall we seal our lips regarding national
politics when the din of the campaign echoes in our ears? Shall
wc bury our heads in the .sands of modesty if the grime of gov
ernmental corruption sweeps about us? Shall we close our eyes
to the injustice of a Mooney case?
These are questions thut every college editor must answer.
Is he to make his paper an entertaining sheet of local gossip 1
oi an intelligent journal of collegiate opinion? Thu type of edi
torials that have occupied this column constitutes our reply.
If our anonymous correspondent will let us kucm hi name
we may print bio letter—and perhaps hm picture.
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By V. H. Hal
When the 23-year-old job
printer, Benjamin H. Day,
started the New York Sun he
employed a chap by the name
of George Wisner to cover the
police court. Wisner did such
an excellent job of this that
he was given half interest in
the paper.
The second page of the July
21, 1834, issue contained such
an amusing account of a di
vorce case as reported by this
young man that I feel bound
to reprint it here.
It is as follows:
Yesterday morning a little curly
pated fellow, by the name of John
Lawler was called up on a charge
of kicking over the mead stand of
Mary Lawler, alias Miss Donohue,
alias Mrs. Donohue.
Magistrate, (to the complain
ant): Mrs. Donohue, what were the
circumstances of this affair?
Complainant: You will be so
good sir, if you please, as to call
me Miss Donohue. It is my maid
en name, and I wish no other.
Mag.: Very good, MISS Dono
hue, how came he to kick over
your stand, and break your bottles
and glasses?
Comp.: Aye yes, now, I like that
better. Every virtuous woman
should be called by her own right
and proper name.
Mag.: Well, let’s hear your story.
Do you know the boy?
Comp.: The boy, did you say?
Indade, sir, divil a bit o’ boy is
there about the baste, nor man
neither, barring he drinks brandy
like a fish. (Loud laughter).
Mag.: Did you ever see him be
fore ?
Comp.: Indade I guess I did.
Many years ago he was my hus
band, but your honor sees, I gave
him a divorce. That is, ye see, I j
gave him a bit of paper, stating J
that I wouldn’t live with him no
longer.
Prisoner: It’s no sich thing, yer!
honor. She used to go off with 1
other men, and so I sold her for a '
gill of rum.
Comp.: (Shaking her fist at the
prisoner). A GILL was it, you
haste? I’ll take my Bible oath that
it was a whole blessed pint,
(laughter.)
Mag.: Well, well, it matters not
whether it was a gill or a pint.
Comp.: Indade it matters a good
deal to say that a good virtuous
woman like me isn't worth no
more nor a gill of rum. (Turning
to prisoner.) You baste of the
earth. I’ll bung out your ’tother
peeper. (The prisoner had but one
eye.)
Mag.: (getting out of patience)
Madam, if you want this man pun
ished you must tell me what he
has been doing.
Comp.: Indade then, I’ll tell you
what.he has been doing. You see,
I was down to the market, selling
some mead and spruce beer, to get
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a little money to support my chil
dren with. Last night the brute
came down where I was, and, says
he, Mary, says he, will you go and
live with me again? And says I
go long, you divil, for you know
I gave you a divorce. And then
says he, if you don't go and live
with me, I'll break every damned
bottle of made that you’ve got.
Then says I, John Lawler, if you
touch my made I'll break your
head. And then your honor, he up
with his foot, and he kicked the
bottles, and the glasses, and the
peanuts- all into the dirt!
The prisoner was committed.
CAMPUS ♦ ♦
ALENDAR
Rehearsal of the entire play of
“Hamlet” will be held tonight at
7:20 o’clock in Gerlinger hall. All
men are to be in costume except
the sailors and grave-diggers.
VV. A. A. will hold a mass meet
ing in the league room of Gerlin
ger hall this afternoon at 5 o’clock
to hear the report on the A. C. A.
C. W. conference.
The A. A. U. W. cordially in
vites all graduate students and
seniors to a tea to be held from 3
to 5 in Gerlinger hall this Satur
day.
Westminster guild will meet at
9 o’clock tonight at Westminster
house.
Ve Tabard Inn meets tonight at
Omega hall, 7:30. Neophytes, Lar
ry Fischer and George Bishop, call
at Mr. Thacher’s office at 9 a. m.
Junior Week-end directorate
meeting at the College Side at 4
this afternoon. All directorate
members are urged to be present
as the meeting is of the utmost
importance.
Interfraternity council members
will meet in room 110 Johnson hall
this afternoon at 5 o’clock.
Beggars Opera choruses (men
and women) will rehearse tonight
at 9 o’clock in Villard hall. Im
portant!
Heads of houses and representa
tives will meet at men’s gym for
canoe race drawings today from
1:30 to 3:30.
I liespians will meet tonight at
7:45 in the sun porch of Gerlinger
hall. Very important.
McElroy’s Band
Will Appear Here ■
Cole McElroy’s “Oregonians”
dance orchestra, famed Columbia
Don Lee broadcasting system band
of McElroy’s Spanish ballroom,
Portland, will be featured at the
Midway ballroom, three miles
south of Eugene on the Pacific
highway, at a dance Saturday eve
ning, April 30, according to an
announcement just received from
Me Elroy.
Of particular interest locally is -
the fact that Prent Gross, diree- ,
tor of the organization, is a for
mer University of Oregon student. ,
Cole McElroy is also well known ,
here as a former Eugene man and ,
University student. He will per- ,
son ally act as master of ceremon- j
ies for the evening.
Forum Group To Give
I'Ians lie I ore Election 1
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Bases for the recommendations j
of the Forum committee on repre- .
sentation were determined yester- t
day afternoon, according to Dave
Wilson, chairman. They will be
presented at the next meeting of
the forum.
Recommendations on organiza
tion will be drafted at a meeting
of the committee within the next
few days. They are expected to!
include at least two plans depend
ing upon the power the Forum is
to have.
The next meeting of the Forum
is expected to be held before cam- a
pus elections on May 5. I f
Beta Alpha Psi Will
Dim* Honored Visitor i!
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Joseph C. Landrud, '23. regional, s
auditor for Montgomery Ward and' w
Co., will be the dinner guest of a
Beta Alpha Psi. national account-1 C1
ing honorary fraternity, tonight at a
the College Side at 6 o’clock.
Landrud will speak on the reor- d
ganization of big business to meet a
the problems of the depression. tl
He is now regional auditor for I tl
Ward's at Kansas City, with <>8
chain stores and two mail order
houses in his district. He is re
membered by the faculty as Joe sii
Olsen having changed hts name Ai
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April 27, 1922
LOST — At Alpha Phi house
Wednesday night, somewhere be
tween the front yard and mill
race, three Sigma Delta Chi pins.
* * *
A garden hose was successfully
used to extinguish a blaze on the
roof of the Phi Sigma Pi house
at 639 Eighth avenue east yester
day evening.
* * *
The Student Council voted six
to one to rescind the order to elim
inate the campus luncheon from
Junior week-end activities.
* * •
Removal of some of the bleach
ers on Kincaid field revealed a
dozen or more robins’ nests, some
of them containing small blue
eggs, on the sills and braces of
the structures.
* * *
Final senior papers must be
filed by May 1.
* * *
Dr. J. H. Gilbert, head of the
department of economics, will
speak at a meeting of the Grange
at Goshen Saturday on "Taxa
tion.”
* * *
“Caesar and Cleopatra,” by
George Bernard Shaw, was pre
sented by the campus dramatic
company in Guild theater last
night.
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"Vision and Revision” is to be
the topic of Dr. Richard F. Scholz,
president of Reed college, at an
assembly today. “He says as
much in one hour as any other
man can say in three hours,” com
mented Dean Eric W. Allen last
night.
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Starving Alaskan
l Indians Refused
Aid by Red Cross
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 26.
" —(AP)—A picture o£ human mis
r ery “so dire as to be almost unbe
1 lievable," was drawn today by Pi
lot Art Woodley, upon his return
here from flying The Very Rever
t end Francis Menager, superior of
■ the Jesuit missions in Alaska, over
the country between the mouth of
the Yukon river and the Hooper
bay region.
This r<%ion was struck by a ti
dal wave last December and several
native villages destroyed.
Coincident with Woodley's re
turn, it was reported here the Na
tional Red Cross had refused a
request for $2,000 to buy food for
reputed starving natives in the
district, after the bureau of Indian
affairs in Washington, D. C., had
declared reports of suffering to be
exaggerated.
Several hundred natives in a
number of villages visited by
Woodley and Father Menager, they
said, were virtually without food.
Missionaries had given aid, but*
their resources were said by Fath
er Menager to be limited, and now j
no more help can be offered. He
said sickness was breaking out
among the natives and there was
fear of floods as a result of the
| melting of heavy snows.
"Nowhere at any time has there
been more need for relief,” Wood
ley said. "These people are so des- !
jperately in need of sustenance they1
j are resorting to unprintable meas
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A 15-minute chat on new books
and their writers will be given on
the Emerald of the Air this after
noon at 4:15 by Roy Sheedy, lit
erary editor of the Emerald. It
is Sheedy's intention to make this
discussion as purely local as pos
sible; that is, to read the reviews
which arc appearing in the Emer
ald's "Literary Signpost,” and dis
cuss the writing of students and
alumnae of the University.
In today's talk, the speaker will
discuss some half-dozen new books
and their writers as well as tell
the latest news of literary activi- ■
ties on the campus.
OIJ\ EK TALKS ON DEBATE
Robert T. Oliver, graduate as
sistant in the speech division, spoke
Monday night at the Universitj
high school on the value of debate. | 1
The . . . Edited By Roy Sheedy
LITERARY SIGNPOST
' 'ECCLESIASTES SAID . . .
j Edison Marshall, who was a stu
dent of the University not so long
ago, and is the best known writer
ever to come from this school, has
just had a new novel of the out
doors published, “Th'e Deputy at
Snow Mountain.” It is described
as “an exciting story of the New
North, of a man’s fight to establish
his innocence, and the help of the
woman who believed in him.” Mar
shall also has a story running se
rially in the American magazine
at present, “Forlorn Island.” Mak
ing no attempt to write for the in
tellectuals, Marshall knows the art
of pleasing the general public.
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It is quite probable that another
issue of Ducdame will be published
before the end of the term. A mag
azine for the publication of crea
tive writing by University stu
dents is a very valuable asset to
the campus, and should be given
as much encouragement as possi
ble. The first issue was well re
ceived, particularly on other cam
puses, and proved that such a mag
azine can be self-supporting.
Some of the new books on the
High Hat rent shelf of the Co-op
are the following: “Three Loves,”
by A. J. Cronin; “Once a Grand
Duke,” by Alexander Nicholas, who
ought to know; "American Out
post,” by Upton Sinclair, not a
western story but the famous cru
sader's autobiography; “Reunion
in Vienna,” a play by Robert E.
Sherwood, in which Lynn Fon
tanne and Alfred Lunt are now ap
pearing in New York.
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How many best-sellers of last
year did you read? Here is the
T
list, as compiled by the Publisher'3
Weekly in the order of their sales:
Non-Fiction
“Education of a Princess,” by
Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia;
“The Story of San Michele,” by
Axel Munthe; “Washington Mer
ry-Go-Round,” Anonymous; “Bon
ers;” “Culbertson’s Summary,” by
Ely Culbertson; “Contract Bridge
Blue Book,” by Ely Culbertson;
“Fatal Interview,” by Edna St.
Vincent Millay; “The Epic of
America,” by James Truslow
Adams; “Mexico,” by Stuart
Chase; “New Russia’s Primer,” by
M. Ilin.
Fiction
“The Good Earth,” by Pearl S.
Buck; “Shadows on the Rock,” by
Willa Cather; “A White Bird Fly
ing,” by Bess Streeter Aldrich;
“Grand Hotel,” by Vicki Baum;
“Years of Grace,” by Margaret
Ayer Barnes; “The Road Back,”
by Erich M. Remarque; “The
Bridge of Desire,” by Warwick
Deeping; “Back Street,” by Fan
nie Hurst; “Finch’s Fortune,” by
Mazo De La Roche; “Maid in
Waiting,” by John Galsworthy.
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