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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1933)
Symphony To Gi ve Concert! At McArthur Frances Brockman To Be Soloist Townspeople and Students May Hear Orchestra Without Admission Charge Schubert’s Unfinished symphony and the Max Bruch concerto in G minor with Frances Brockman as violin soloist are outstanding in the program for the University orchestra concert to be given at McArthur court Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. There will be no ad mission charge for the program, which is the first of a forthcoming series of 12 concerts sponsored by the A. S. U. O., all of which will be free to students. Miss Brockman, a sophomore in the University and student of Rex Underwood, has attracted a great deal of attention the past two years as a violinist of unusual abil • Ity and poise. Last year she played a Mozart concerto with the orchestra, and those who heard her then are looking forward to her interpretation of the difficult Max Bruch concerto. In addition to the Schubert sym phony, the full orchestra will play the Beethoven “Leonore" overture No. 3. Written for Beethoven’s only opera, this overture is one of the most popular dramatic com positions of Beethoven. A string orchestra within the full orchestra will play a Mozart serenade, "Kleine Nacht Musik," and a double string quartet, with clarinet and piano, will present Prokofieff’s "Overture on Jewish Themes.’’ Since the public, as well as the University student body is to be admitted to this concert without charge, it will hot be necessary for students to present their A. S. U. O. cards at the door, as has been done in past years. CAMPUS CALENDAR (Continued from Page One) Charm school of Philomelete meets tonight at Phi Mu house, 8 o'clock. Speaker, Dr. Howard R. Taylor. Master dance will meet tonight at 7:30. All members bring dues. Frosh commission cabinet meets today at 4:30 at the Y. W. C. A. Amphibian meeting at 7:30 in the Women’s pool Thursday. Women’s intramural swimming, women’s swimming pool, 4 to 5 o’clock. 1’rose and poetry group of Phiiomelete will hold a short busi ness meeting at the Alpha Xi Del ta house tonight at 9. Each mem ber is asked to bring her favorite poem for the poetry scrap book. Pi Sigma will have its picture taken for the Oregana at 12:30 in front of Condon. Phi Mu Alpha meeting tonight at the music building, 7 o’clock. DR. HALL TAKES OVER WASHINGTON POSITION (Continued front Page One) college. His mother had been a college instructor before her mar riage. Thus Arnold Bennett Hall was reared amidst the culture to which he later dedicated his career. Graduated in 1904 Arnold Bennett Hall was gradu ated from Franklin college in 1904. He was granted the degree of doc tor of jurisprudence cum laude by the University of Chicago in 1907, and was admitted to the Indiana bar the same year. He then went to Northwestern, where he taught for 11 years as an associate professor in political science. In that time he wrote three widely used legal textbooks •—‘Outline of International Law,” ‘‘The Monroe Doctrine,” and ‘‘Hall’s Fallback on Elementary Law.” The degree of LL.D. was confer red on Dr. Hall by Franklin col lege, his alma mater, in 1924. Affiliations Are Recalled Dr. Hall is affiliated with the j American Political Science associ- 1 ation, the American Social society, the League to Enforce Peace, the j American Institution' of Criminol ogy, the American Judicature so- i ciety. the American Peace society, the American Society for the Ju- • dicial Settlement of International Disputes, the Social Science Re-! search Council of America, and the Universal Union for Peace. | For several years Dr. Hall was chairman of the committee on problems and policies of the Social Science Research Council of Amer-! ica, and in 1923 founded the Paci-1 fic coast regional committee of that organization. Delegate to Institute In 1927 Dr. Hall was a delegate to the Institute of Pacific Rela tions. On several occasions he has been asked to address the Pan-J Pacific conference on international school relations. Dr. Hall is state chairman of the National Student forum, and in | SOCIETY- - - “°“™er Editors To Be Oregon Guests This Week End The Oregon Press conference will be the center of attraction for social affairs this week-end. Fri day evening a banquet will be held it the Osbtirn hotel for the editors, University faculty and students The banquet is sponsored by the Eugene Chamber of Commerce. Dean Eric W. Allen will preside and the chief speakers will be Chancellor W. J. Kerr and Judge Lawrence T. Harris. One feature of the evening will be the awarding of the Sigma Del ta Chi cup to the best weekly newspaper in the state. * * * Phi Mu honored their house mother, Miss Sue Badollet, last Fhursday evening with a surprise dinner. Alumnae of the sorority were also guests. Miss Badollet was presented with flowers, and the Phi Mu trio entertained the jroup. * * * Phi Chi Theta, business adminis tration honorary for women, held i bridge party and waffle supper Wednesday evening at the Phi Mu louse. Maryellyn Bradford was in charge of the affair. j * * The Krazy Kopy Krawl was the most important social event of the ast week-end. The dance was held at the Campa Shoppe, and was sponsored by Alpha Delta Sigma, national professional advertising fraternity for men. The committee in charge was beaded by Ned Kinney, with Bill Russell, Ed Cross, Grant Theum mel, and Bob Hall assisting. Patrons and patronesses were Mr. and Mrs. W. F. G. Thacher, Mr. and Mrs. Arne Rae, Dr. and Mrs. Karl Thunemann, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Jones, Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Schwering, and Mrs. Alice B. Macduff. A. Schoeni Married In Salem New Years -J Of much interest to the campus is the news of the marriage of Art Schoeni, ex-editor of the Emerald, to Grace Colborne of Portland. The marriage took place in Salem on New Year’s day. Mrs. Schoeni is a graduate of Oregon State col lege where she was affiliated with Gamma Phi Beta. Mr. Schoeni is now a correspond ent for the United Press »n Salem. He is a member of Sigma Pi Tau and of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism honorary. $ # >;: Another vacation engagement announcement was that of Virgin ia Shuey, ex-'33, of Eugene, to C. Richard Riley of Portland. The announcement was made Thurs day, December 22, at the home of Genevieve Dunlop, at a breakfast party. The announcements were delivered from a Santa Claus pack. * * * Theta Sigma Phi and Gamma Alpha Chi will entertain at a luncheon for wives of visiting newspaper men at the press con ference next Friday. The lunch eon will be held at the Silver Latch tea room. Sigma Delta Chi will also entertain at a luncheon for newspaper editors on Friday. # * Several houses entertained with exchange dinners during the past week. Last Wednesday Gamma Phi Beta entertained Delta Tau Delta with dessert and coffee. Last Thursday Alpha Delta Pi en tertained for Sigma Chi with des sert and coffee, and Phi Sigma Kappa entertained Alpha Phi for dinner. Wednesday of this week * * * A senior class dinner for Gam ma Phi Beta was held last Satur day at the Silver Latch tea room. The affair is annual, and this year there were 12 seniors present. Lu cille Kraus was in charge of the arrangements. 1930 was invited by President Hoover to participate in the White House conference on child health and protection. Fishing and hiking are also looked upon with favor. The long trail over Horse creek on the up per McKeKnzie river was a favor ite tramp of Dr. Hall’s. The other old Indian paths in this vicinity are also familiar to the former University president. Dr. Hall Likes Sport An enthusiastic sports devotee, Dr. Hall followed with* interest the University athletic tgams. He was untiring in his efforts to get an outstanding football coach for Oregon after Captain J. J. Mc Ewan had resigned and finally succeeded in persuading the cele brated Dr. C. W. Spears to try his luck on the Pacific coast. After two successful seasons Spears, too, resigned last spring following the drastic revisions made by the state board of higher education. FACULTY CONTROL DIS CUSSED BY LEADERS (Continued from Page One) lege in matters foreign to the pur pose of its foundation. All expe rienced educators recognize these dangers and consider it their duty to safeguard against them.” President Robert D. Leigh of Bennington college holds the op posite view. "The inescapable fact with re gard to academic devices of sup pression is that they do not sup press, he declares. Indeed, the ef fect upon students is strangely perverse—as perverse as that up on naughty children when punish ed by irate parents. To forbid stu dent publication is to increase the reading and discussion of the thing forbidden. To prohibit student as semblies or to pronounce a tabu on subjects or speakers is to drive them not even underground but across the street into a bigger hall with a larger and more attentive audience. it requires not much insight to see that in a world of newspapers, magazines, books, radio, movies and endless public talk it is impos sible to keep the college student from access to the new, the bi zarre, the fanatical, the dark and Ignorant criticisms, the bright and fragile utopias of our time. In the interest of sound thinking, the de velopment of critical judgment and of a sense of values they should certainly have that access. “Where more harmlessly than in the cool academic groves can the steam of protest and discontent escape ? “Suppress protests and bizarre notions, hide them indoors, send them outside the campus walls, and they immediately become glamorous and important far be yond their desert. Give them a free and normal part in the life of the college and they will serve as source material for development of mature thinking and for judg ment freed from the emotional re sults of childish protests, fears and antagonism. Clearly, freedom and tolerance in these matters lead to a sounder educational result than the necessarily futile and dramatic combats resulting from authori tarian censorship." Victor P. Morris Talk Over Radio Speaking over KOAC Tuesday evening, on “The World Wide Farm Crisis,” Victor P. Morris, profes sor of economics, showed how me chanical development has changed farm conditions of the days of Thomas Jefferson, as compared to those of today, with its numerous problems. The farm crisis is world wide. Transportation and communica tion have so tied the world togeth er, that a crisis on the farms of America has its counterpart in Ar gentine, Australia, Europe, and Canada, Morris pointed out. Wher ever farming has ceased to be the simple diversified business where the single family is practically a self-sufficing unit, crisis exists. With the possible exception of j China and Russia, there is no coun ! try where the agriculturists, de spite special measures of protec tion, have not suffered severely from the precipitous decline in the prices of their products. Morris gave several other instances add ing, “The mere mention of all of these, points out clearly the way in which these world-wide farming interests are identical with those of many here in Oregon.” Still another consequence of the price collapse is the long chain of circumstances set in motion by the decline in the purchasing power of the agricultural sections of the country. “Overproduction is an other reason for trouble,” Morris j continued. “This overproduction I problem involves very bewildering | international programs.” | “Our immediate interest," he | said in concluding, “is to aid in re building of world markets.” Alpha Kappa Psi Group Hears Local Attorney Ed Bailey, prominent Eugene at torney, spoke before Alpha Kappa Psi, professional commerce and business honorary fraternity, last Tuesday at a dinner at the Anchor age. Dinner was preceded by the regular business meeting held in the Commerce building. Plans were made to hold similar meetings every two weeks during the remainder of the year. Charles Gillespie, president, presided. Hermians To Hear Talk j On Olympics Tonight Miss Janet Woodruff will give ' an informal talk on the Olympic j games at the Hermian meeting be ing held tonight at 3 in the Her mian club room at Gerlinger hall. Elizabeth Hahner, president of the organization, announced that popcorn balls and apples will be | served. Kreisler Concert January 23 A mistake in the date of the Kreisler concert was made in yes terday's Emerald. It in January 23, rather than January 29, a?s was announced. BA special bus will take those interested in the con | cert to Portland and return them the same day. Sigma Pi Tau entertained Kappa Alpha Theta for dinner, and Chi Psi entertained Pi Beta Phi for dinner. Thursday of this week Al pha Omicron Pi entertained v^ith dinner for Signm Alpha Epsilon. Theta Chi for Alpha Chi Omega. Sigma Phi Epsilon for Pi Beta Phi. and Delta Zeta for Phi Delta The ta. World Fellowship To Hold Meeting World fellowship, international relations group of the campus Y. W. C. A., initiates its term activi ties tonight with an open meeting at the Delta Gamma house, 1584 Alder. The meeting begins at 9 o’clock with a report of the recent Northwest International confer ence at the University of Wash ington, attended by Katherine Popp and Hermine Zwank, Oregon representatives. Y. W. officers report that the World Fellowship group is becom ing one of the organization’s most popular activity groups, under the leadership of Helen Binford, who 'epresented the University recently as a member of a Student Move ment tour of Europe. Miss Binford has announced the appointment of Edna Murphy as membership chairman and Eliza beth Crommelin, secretary. During the evening program, open to all women students interested in world affairs, Marie Saccomanno will sing a group of songs, and re freshments will be served. Lib Has Legislature Bills The library is now receiving all house and senate bills that are be ing introduced in the present legislature. These bills are on file in the reference department where they may be consulted by anyone interested in seeing what is bing discussed and voted upon at our state capitol this session. ±_ Dr. Kiang Hu Of The Orient China Produces Culture of Hifllt Standard Eastern Civilization May Provo Only Remedy To Present World Ailments McGILL UNIVERSITY, Mon treal. Jan. 18 Because China has produced and represents an indi genous culture which is of a very high standard, simple and prac tical. old yet living, non-aggres sive yet prevailing and perpetrat ing, passive yet enduring all this is sufficient reason why the west ern world should take up Chinese studies. Added to this is the fact that diplomatic services, mission ary activities and industrial de velopments in China all necessi tate the knowledge of Chinese studies. This was the opinion expressed today when Dr. Kiang Kang Hu, professor of Chinese studies, spoke over station CKAC on the Grad uates’ society broadcast program. Dr. Kiang stated that he had frequently been asked the three following questions: Of what do Chinese studies consist ? Why should the V/est take up Chinese studies ? and How may they start and pursue their Chinese studies ? Hus Indigenous Culture In the first place, Chinese studies contain every branch of human knowledge in the Chinese world. “She has an indigenous culture which embraces religion, philosophy, social and natural sci ences." China in 1850 had the largest number of publications of any language. Owing to the comparative difference between the spoken and written language these studies have remained as a sealed book even to those western ers who understand and speak the Chinese dialects but who have ——*^——■———■— Questionnaires on College Football Show Many Views NEW YORK, Jan. 18—(Special) While Columbia university’s ath letic affairs this week continued to be the subject of a special investi gation. faculty opinions sought by the Columbia Daily Spectator showed widely varying opinions on college football. Editors of Spectator recently sent a questionnaire to each of 250 faculty members, asking par ticularly for their views on meth ods of organizing intercollegiate football and on charges that foot ball was being over-emphasized at Columbia. The questionnaire was prepared, following the decision of the uni versity administration to investi gate the Columbia athletic depart ment. This inquiry, which has been long favored by Spectator, i3 now in progress. Meanwhile, results of the Spec tator questionnaire failed to show any great preponderance of opin ion either for or against present methods of organizing intercolleg iate gridiron competition, but they did show that “faculty members are intelligent human beings,” ac cording to editors of the student paper. Thirty-four faculty members de dared they favored the present or ganization of college football, while 29 disapproved it, and 19 others expressed the belief that Columbia was not suffering from overemphasis of football, in com parison to other institutions. A majority of the faculty mem bers denied they would discrimin ate in favor of a football player, although several admitted they would be willing to aid grid heroes, should they need a little special ■ coaching. One professor recommended that “football should be more frankly professional, and the money should go to the university." Another de clared he had “never seen a game worth 50 cents,” while a third bit terly condemned paying coaches “more than the' best professors.” On the other hand, one faculty member commented that "football as played at the present time “seems to be brilliantly intellectual procedure.” Which may or may not balance such remarks as "bor ing” . . . "detrimental to the edu cational interests of the players” ... "a narcotic, deadening the stu dent to important issues of life” . . . and “too brutal." made no special study of the classics. The Chinese civilization because it is unlike the modern western type with all its defects may yet be a remedy to the present world ailments. This desire to learn Chinese studies can be especially shown in the United States where about 150 universities have a Far East department and are likewise equipped Finally, to those desirous of learning these studies, Dr. Kiang advised reading the standard tran slations of Chinese literature in general. Unfortunately the num ber of these books is limited. Moreover the language itself should be studied, and with the aid of dictionaries may be self-taught. Entertainment Reports Must Be in This Week Reports on all entertainments this yea rat which an admission charge of 40 cents or more was charged must be turned in to the University business office by Fri day, January 20. The University is required to report the entertainments to the collector of internal revenue in all cases where the function is spon sored in the name of the Univer sity. The reports must contain the name of the entertainment, the building in which it was held, the date upon which it was held, and the name of the person in charge. PROFESSOR SAYS COLLEGE SHOULD BE PLACE OF MIND Alexander Meiklejohn Criticize# Elective System and Part# Of Universities MADISON, Wis., Jan. 18—(Spe cial)—Claiming that the univer sity should be a place of the mind, and not a training school as it is at present, Prof. Alexander Meiklejohn defended hi3 20-year old address, delivered at his in auguration as president of Am herst .before two dozen students in the Memorial Union recently. “Thinking,” he said, "should be taught and encouraged for two reasons. First, it is pleasant in itself. Secondly, it gives insight and perspective, which the world so sorely needs today. There are many things to be done at the present time, but no one know3 what to do.” Mr. Meiklejohn attacked the elective system and the depart ments which concentrate upon technical training to the neglect of an education. "When technical training for a profession, such as medicine, interferes with your gen eral development, you had better become a plumber and keep up your general development.” Today Emerald news will be presented on the Emerald-of-the Air program over KORE at 12:15. This evening at 7:15 Dr. War ren D. Smith of the geology de partment will deliver the first half of a 30-minute lecture on why it is folly to grant the Philippines their freedom at this time. It is hoped that the opposite side of the question may be presented in the near future by some person friendly to the policy of Filipino freedom. ' ' A* aocoa—mwpm gax.«MCT«w ILLUSION: This very old illusion was invented by Indian fakirs, l'he secret was unearthed in 1849 by the great magician, Robert-IIoudin. At that time, ether had just been discovered, and little was known about it. Houdin claimed that he had discovered that this new anesthetic could make people light as air. To prove it, he caused the subject to rise into the air and float apparently suspended. He passed a hoop around the body to show there were no wires or supports. EXPLANATION: There arc many, many explanations for this old trick. One is that the girl wears a concealed harness, which ends in a socket between her shoulder blades. This is attached to a piston below the stage. The piston is pushed up from below, causing her to rise in the air. The piston is invisible, because it is covered with mirrors which reflect surrounding draperies, similar to the background. I'he magi cian can pass the hoop over her body because it is cut in one place. It can be pulled apart for a second when it passes the piston. Source: "Modern Magic" by Professor Hoffmann. George Koutledge & Sons. ... i Copyright, 1983, U. J. KcynokU Tobacco Company _ NO TRICKS ..JUST COSTLIER TOBACCOS ! N A MATCHLESS BLEND It’s fun to be fooled_ ...it’s more fun to KNOW Another “magic show” is cigarette adver tising. One of its greatest tricks is the illusion that cigarettes can be made miraculously "MILD" through manufacturing methods. the explanation = All popular cigarettes today are made in modern sanitary factories with up-to-date machinery. All are heat treated-some more intensively than others, because raw, inferior tobaccos require more intensive treatment than ehoice, ripe tobaccos. The real difference comes in the tobaccos that are used. The better the tobacco, the milder it is. jj^BT* I* is a fact, well known by leaf tobacco experts, that Camels are made from finer, MORE EXPENSIVE tobaccos than any other popular brand. This is w hy Camels are so mild. This is why Camels have given more pleasure to more people than any other cigarette ever made. It’s the secret of Camels’ rich “bouquet” ...their cool flavor...their non-irritating mildness. All the natural, ripe goodness of Camel’s tobacco is kept fresh for you by the famous air-tight, welded Humidor Pack. Don’t remove it.