VonKuhlmann
To Talk Today
At Assembly
German Diplomat Will
Talk of Reich Policies
CLASSES DISMISSED
Former Foreign Affairs Secretary
And Author To Give Lecture
In Gerlinger at 10 A. M.
Dr. Richard von Kuhlman, prom
inent German diplomat, will speak
on "Germany's International Po
sition," at a general assembly at
Gerlinger hall at 10 a. m. today.
Classes at that hour will be dis
missed so students may attend the
lecture.
Following the lecture, a lunch
eon will be held at the green room
I of the men’s dormitory. After the
luncheon a conference on interna
tional matters will be held at the
same place. Dr. Victor P. Morris
is in charge of the luncheon.
Robert G. Klosterman, German
consul at Portland, will accompany
Dr. Kuhlmann on his hisit here.
20 Years in Service
Dr. Kuhlman has been in the
German foreign service for more
ihan 20 years. He has held diplo
matic positions in St. Petersburg,
Persia, London, Morocco, Stock
holm, Washington, and The Hague.
For five years preceding the out
break of the World war he was
counsellor to the German embassy
in London, under three successive
ambassadors. During this time
his efforts were directed to the
establishment of a complete An
glo-German understanding con
cerning all outstanding questions
including colonial settlement in
Africa, all near eastern questions
in Turkey, Mesopotamia, and the
ersian gulf. All these arrange
ments were finished and initialed.
K The ratification was fixed for Aug
ust 4, 1914*, £he day of the English
declaration of war.
Pacifist Speech Decried
Dr. Kuhlmann was appointed
secretary for foreign affairs in
1917. He left this office after a
speech which military authorities
considered pacifist.
He had devoted considerable at
tention to economic questions. He
is president of the Neunkircher
Steel company and vice-president
of the Stumm corporation. He has
taken an active interest in politi
cal problems and relations be
tween Germany and England and
France. In addition to several ar
ticles in German newspapers he
has written a book, "Thoughts on
Germany," which has been pub
lished in Germany, England and
the United States.
Dr. Kuhlmann is the first Euro
pean to appear here for a long
time and is the outstanding for
eigner to speak here for a longer
period.
I)r. Unger To Lecture
At Meeting Next Week
Dr. Hilber J. Unger, Carnegie
research fellow in physics at this
University, will give a lecture on
"What Do We Know About Mole
cules?” at an open meeting of Sig
ma Xi, national science honorary,
next Thursday at 8 p. m. in room
103 Deady hall.
Members of Sigma Xi at Oregon
State have been invited to attend
the meeting.
Diplomat
Dr. Richard von Kuhlmann, GerX
man political leader and author
lecturer, who will address the stu
dent body at a general assembly
this morning at 10. No less an
authority than Winston Churchill
calls von Kuhlmann “the greatest
• living German orator in the use of
the Knglish tongue.”
.
N. Thorne Gives
Requirements of
Capable Teacher
‘To Make To Know How' Keynote
Of Successful Instruction,
Says Educator
“To make to know how” is a
fundamental requirement of a good
teacher, according to Norman
Thorne, supervisor of high school
teaching in PorLland, who last
I night gave a speech at Gerlinger
| hall before Omega Delta Pi, under
graduate education club.
Mr. Thorne stated that there are '
several qualities an instructor must :
have in order “to make to know
how.” He or she has to know the
subject. Knowing this specific line, !
the teacher must next have a I
method of teaching.
Teachers above the mediocre
class prepare assignments weeks
in advance, emphasize and make
use of drill work in class, and have
the ability to instruct the whole
group at once and not just a few
choice pupils. Those who rise up
into the excellent class, have in ad
dition to the former qualities, per
sonality and enthusiasm in their
work.
Mr. Thorne’s concluding advice
to the future teachers was, “when
you get in a tight spot, think back
over your school days and try to
remember some teacher of yours
being in the same fix and what she
did about it.”
Schneider Cops
Handball Crown
Sol Schneider recently won the
all-campus handball championship
by defeating Paul Hughes by a 2
to 1 count. Schneider, last year’s
titleholder, came through with two
crushing victories after he had
dropped the first match to
Hughes. The first game ended in
a 21 to 15 victory for Hughes,
while Sol copped the last two en
counters, 21-14 and 21-18.
The final match in the double
division has not as yet been
played. The Schneider boys form
one combination while Bailey and
Chatterton comprise the other.
Sheldon Traces Development
Of Early American Colleges
Sketching the developments in
early United States colleges, Dr.
H. D. Sheldon, professor of his
i tory and education, gave a lecture
on the “Formative Period of Amer
ican Universities, 1873-1893“ Wed- ;
nesday night in Villard half. This
was the third of a series of facul
ty lectures sponsored by the com
mittee on free intellectual activi
ties.
The real university, as it is de
fined today, was not established
until many years after the found
ing of colleges in America, ac
cording to Dr. Sheldon. In 1860,
he stated, there were 30 or 40 so
called universities, which consist
ed merely of a liberal arts college
and one or two loosely affiliated
professional schools.
“The treal beginning of the
American university,” said Dr.
Sheldon, “I think we can trace
back to the calling of Henry Ta
pin to the University of Michigan
in 1852.” Tapin, as president, es
tablished in the university tradi
tions and principle^ which have
been modeled after by other insti- ■
tutions both at that time and lat
er. Tapin’s chief contributions
were the employing of teachers
regardless of their religious affil
iations, establishing several paral
lel courses to choose from instead
of one uniform course required of
all students, and developing sec
ondary schools.
Cornell university, founded in
1868, followed the Michigan tradi
tion, but also, according to Dr.
Sheldon, emphasized the utilitarian
side of education. ‘‘The founding
of Cornell was the first thing that
aroused the interest of the coun
try in regard to the new idea of
education.”
Up to this time, stated Dr. Shel
don, professional schools had
played a minor part in higher edu
cation, anyone desiring to enter
the medical school only being re
quired one or two years of high
school training. Charles W. Eliot,
president of Harvard university
from 1879 to 1904, began the move
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Eerie Business Marks Play;
i Production on Again Tonight
By BOB GUILD and
S. STEPHENSON SMITH
The stage trees shook and quiv
| ered ... a dolorous wind moaned
i forebodingly . . . lightning flashed
I. . . hoofs clopped ... a woman
'screamed . . . the man from tomor
row walked ghostlike into yester
day . . . there was storm over
Berkeley Square.
All this last night at the Guild
theatre when the local players
bowed their way through a spirit
ed. colorful production of Balder
ston's eighteenth century hash.
The play took strange liberties,
employed carelessly and whole
heartedly many clinches of the
drama, had some good spots, some
bad.
The lively applause which mark
ed the closing curtain marked the
triumph of director and actors
ever a script which these review
ers cannot hand many bouquets.
Since G. B. S. nearly died from
covering the London theatre
there has been nobody to tell Brit
ish playwrights the bludgeoning
truth about their sins. The par
ticular blend of sentimental mush,
tin-pot occultism and schoolboy
metaphysics which Mr. Balderston
exports back into the eighteenth
century is well calculated to dis
gust the age of Reason with its
descendants. But when Mr. Thros
tie voiced our sentiments about
the matter; what Horace Walpole,
Lady Mary Mortley Montagu, or
Dr. Johnson would have had to say
about this tosh, we shudder to
think.
But this grousing is leveled at
the playwright. After all, the pro
duction staff and the actors made
good theatre out of the play; and
while our analytical wits were not
persuaded, we enjoyed the spirit,
the peace, and the vivid spectacle
of the piece.
The story of a man who|
walked willy-nilly back 150 years
is incredible but as a predeces
sor has said, it “turns your mind
free in strange places." Gram did
a good job of sustaining a hecti
cally intense role as the dream
deluded victim of time's pranks. We
did wish that he had soit-pedalled
a little now and then. More re
straint, more delicacy, a more
gradual building up to his frenzied
climaxes, along with more re
straint on his single strokes, would
have helped.
Wilbur Walker as Throstle was
most nearly in the spirit of the
century. He had a clear-cut 18th
century edge about him—a minc
ing air of solid English society
man, that marked his characteri
zation as very nearly authentic.
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B. Hamby Leaves
To Cover Oregon
Wash. Ball Game
T>RUCE HAMBY, Emerald
sports editor, left for Seat
tle this morning to cover to
night’s Oregon - Washington
basketball game. Hamby went
north with Bill Reinhart, coach,
who remained in Eugene last
night to watch the condition of
Homer Stahl. Malcolm Bauer,
assistant sports editor, will di
rect the sports page in Hamby's
absence.
LaGrande Houghton, reserve
forward, made the trip, as did
Ed Kunkle, regular forward at
the start of the season but now
out with a bad knee, and Bud
VanDine.
William T. Foster !
Says Prosperity |
Still in Country
Former Reed College President
Believes Confidence Only
Remedy for Nation
“We of the United States have
today all the wealth, all the natu
ral resources, everything we pos
sessed four years ago in the so
called days of prosperity!” Such
was the opinion of William Tru
fant Foster, former president of
Reed college, in a lecture last
night at Villard hall, which he
divided into two separate parts,
“Alice in Blunderland” and “Crip
pling the Schools.”
"As far as the nation is con
cerned,” he continued, "there is no
need for retrenchment.” The case
of this nation he diagnosed as
mental, not physical, and the rem
edy as lying only in confidence.
The sole hindrance to this cure,
he showed, lies in the popular
adoption of the laissez-faire idea,
the method of pursuing individual
interests. Collective action is the
solution to this extremely impor
tant problem, the only means out
of this situation.
“The education of the American
youth must not fluctuate with the
stock market,” said Dr. Foster,
expressing his views on the sug
gestion that the next step in re
duction be made in education.
The Oregon system of education
is not alone in its problems, ac
cording to Dr. Foster. He cited
examples of similar or worse situ
ations from states all over the na
tion, where all degrees of educa
tion have suffered, and where the
surplus of teachers is even great
er.
Big Assortment
Of Lost Things at
University Depot
T OSE something? If you did
it is probably at the lost
and found department of the
University depot. There is a
let of good fountain pens, not
to mention a whole wardrobe
irom hats, overcoats and scarfs
to compacts, lipsticks and
school books. Identification is
all that is necessary to recover
the lost article.
C. T. Haas Speaks
At General Law
School Assembly
Prominent International Lawyer
Addresses Group on Law
Between Nations
Charles T. Haas, prominent in
ternational lawyer of Portland,
spoke before a general assembly
of the law school students Wed
nesday evening on the subject,
"International Law.”
In the course of his talk Mr.
Haas pointed out many things con
cerning this field to the students.
The advantages of specialization
in some field of law was shown
first and then the particular ad
vantages of international law were
cited.
International law is a law be
tween nations, not of nations, and
consists of customs and uses sup
plemented by treaties. He poiqted
out that it could contain no hard,
fast rules, because the minute that
countries let themselves be gov
j erned by such things they would
lose their sovereignity and thus
no longer be independent nations.
Mr. Haas cited numerous per
sonal experiences and present ap
plications of the law to illustrate
his talk. Among the things in
which international law is involved
are workmen’s compensation when
the Widow is a foreigner, foreign
inheritance, immigration, naturali
zation, deportation, and interna
tional business of all kinds.
The speaker particularly urged
students of law to take up the
work, telling them of the oppor
tunities in the field, the ever in
creasing demand for men qualified
to do this type of work, and the
small number of men now engaged
in the occupation.
Mr. Haas is particularly quali
fied to speak on international law,
for he is an authority on the sub
ject and is practically the only in
ternational lawyer west of Chica
go. He is master of five languages
and is attorney in the United
States for 14 foreign nations.
The lecture was preceded by a
banquet at the Anchorage given by
the law faculty and members of
Phi Delta Phi, legal fraternity, in
honor of Mr. Haas. Don Moe was
in charge of arrangements.
Student Trio
Eating For 741
Cents A Week;
—
Emerald Figure Beaten
By One Group
• |
GREAT NEED SHOWN
Warm Commendation Is Received |
From Facility Members;
Criticism Heard
Campus skeptics who doubt the
possibility of boarding on $1.54 a
[week, as outlined in the Emerald
plan for reduced living costs, may
be shocked to learn that each of
three students have been dining
for the past term on just half that
sum.
Determined to remain at the
University despite the absence of
opportunity for employment, the
trio has banded together, and with
out stealing farm produce or
"bumming" meals the small group
has solved the food problem for
the weekly sum of 74 cents apiece.
Wielding fry-pans and step ket
tles, they have managed by strin
gent economy to keep up their
weight and stave off that hungry
feeling.
Many Students ‘Backing’
Publication of the Oregon Daily
Emerald plan for reduced living
costs for hard-pressed students in
Wednesday's issue brought to light
several instances of student groups
preparing their own meals at a
weekly cost of less than $2.00 per
individual. In the 74-cent-per-week
group, rent took the lion's share
of the trio’s fund, amounting to
$5.50 per month each.
Widespread comment on the
Emerald plan was heard on the
campus yesterday. Faculty mem
bers interviewed were unanimous
in the opinion that economic con
ditions warranted the introduc
tion of some project for reducing
‘ the cost of student living. Stu
dents saw in the proposal a meth
od for permitting many with lim
ited- budgets to stay at the Uni
versity during the spring term.
Others thought it a feasible!
scheme for allowing new students
to attend school.
Bettor Menu Possible
Answering criticisms that the
menu was rather bare in spots,
the sponsors pointed out that the
sample schedule of meals was de
liberately placed at a low figure,
and that more variety and luxur
ies could be provided at small ad
ditional cost. Mention was also
made of the fact that utilization
of present vacant domitory facili
ties at bare maintenance costs
would release extra funds for pro
viding a nutritious, balanced diet
for students participating in the
cooperative plan.
The Interfraternity council, in
executive session yesterday, form
ally approved any practical plan
for reducing student living costs,
but scored the procedure of the
Emerald in bringing forth its pro
gram. The complete text of the
resolution follows:
The Interfraternity council of
the University of Oregon, meeting
in executive session on this date,
passed the following resolution:
“WHEREAS the Interfraternity
council is wholeheartedly in favor
of any practical plan for reducing
the living costs of financially
pressed students, it nevertheless
feels that the Emerald editorial
campaign for the so-called "Emer
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Ex-Oregon BackHeld Coach
To Be in Charge of Aviation
Gene Vidal, former backfield
coach under Capt. J. J. McEwan, is
to be named assistant secretary of
commerce, in charge of aviation,
according to press dispatches from
Washington.
For three years Vidal was head
backfield coach at Oregon and is
widely known in Eugene and Port
land sporting circles. He resigned
at the end of 1928, although Mc
Ewan continued here through 1929,
to go into business in New York
with Keith Kiggins, former Eu
: gene business man.
Vidal was named on the All
Eastern team the last two years
he played football for the At-my,
where he came after starring for
three years at North Dakota. He
played halfback at> West Point.
After graduating, he entered the
army air service and was sent to
France on reconnaissance work.
Friends relate his anecdote of
“traveling all across Europe with
no other equippage than a tooth
brush and a pair of shorts in his
mackinaw pocket.”
Vidal is an old friend of Bill
Hayward, Oregon track coach. The
two first met in 1920, when Vidal
was a member of the American
Olympic tea mand Hayward was
on the coaching staff.
Colonel Hayward recalls Vidal’s
athletic record: “At Antwerp, com
peting against the world’s great
est decathlon stars, Vidal placed
seventh —just out of the money—
as only the first six points earn
points. Brutus Hamilton, now Cal
ifornia track coach, was the only
American to finish ahead of Vidal.
Hamilton placed second.”
A fair judgment of Vidal’s ath
letic ability may be made from
anecdote of Eugene friends.
The first time Vidal ever played
golf was on the course of the Eu
gene country cllub in 1926. One
week after he started, he was con
sistently shooting beneath 75.
While in the East, Vidal has
been studying law under the tutel
age of his father-in-law, the blind
Senator Gore, of Oklahoma.
Battles for Life
Homer Stahl. Oregon basketball star, who early this morning was
fighting a losing battle with double pneumonia. Hospital officials
said “condition still critical—not so well as earlier in the day.”
I _ _
Delta Tau Delta
Cancells Dance
For This Evening
VS7XTH Hornet Stahl near
” death at the Pacific Chris
tian hospital, Delta Tau Delta
fraternity Tuesday cancelled its
formal dance for tonight. The
dance money was appropriated
Cor the importation of a special
ist from Portland in an effort
to save Stahl's life.
Delt's were in constant at
tendance on Stahl’s parents at
the hospital yesterday and last
night, while doctors worked
feverishly in an effort to pro
long the life of the boy.
First Polyphonic
Chorus Concert Is
Slated for Sunday
Initial Number of Series of Twelve
Includes 95 Mixed Voices;
Solos Listed
With the series of Sunday af
ternoon A. S. U. O. concerts now
in full swing, announcements of a
new concert trails the heels of re
views of the last one. The Uni-1
versity Polyphonic chorus will give
its first concert on the present
series of 12 at McArthur court
next Sunday afternoon. There will
be no charge for admission.
Roy Bryson is director of the
Polyphonic chorus, which has
established a sound reputation in
recent seasons. Up until this year
it was known as the second divi
sion of the Polyphonic choir. The
smaller first division of the Poly
phonic choir, directed by Arthur
Boardman, will appear in a spring
term concert.
The chorus numbers 95 picked
singers, men and women. Its pro
gram for next Sunday, as an
nounced by Director Bryson, will
present a score of songs in an
hour’s time, all of them to be sung
in English. Only four of the pro
grammed songs, according to Bry
son, have ever been sung before by
a Eugene chorus.
Intermission solos will be # pre
sented by two outstanding stu
dents of the piano and a violinist.
YMCA Cabinet Selects
Nominating Committee
At the last meeting of the Y. M.
C. A. cabinet, a committee was ap
pointed for the purpose of select
i ing and nominating possible offi
cers for the coming year.
The members of the committee
are: Cecil Espy, Clark Irwin, Ken
1 neth Furguson, William Kidwell,
i Rolla Reedy, and Dave Wilson.
I Donald Saunders, senior in chem- I
istry was chosen chairman.
Commonwealth
Review Is Ready
For Distribution
Bi-Monthly Publication of Social
Science School Has Articles
By Prof. Crunibuker
The January issue of the Com
monwealth Review has been re
leased for distribution by the col
lege of social science. This pub
lication is issued bi-monthly by
the department in collaboration
with the schools of business ad
ministration, education, journal
ism, law and physical education.
Leading articles for this edition
of the magazine are by Professor
Calvin Crumbaker of the Univer
sity economics department on
“Shall Oregon Tax Its Municipally
Owned Utilities”; William H. Dres
son, associate professor of agri
cultural economics at Oregon
State college, on “Public School
Taxation in Oregon”; Willis C.
Warren, University of Oregon
graduate student in economics, on
“Unemployment Insurance vs.
Charity”; Dr. Philip A. Parsons of
the University sociology depart
ment on “Welfare Administration
in Lane County.”
Among the other contributors
are: Waiter G. Beach, Stanford;
G. Bernard Noble, Reed college;
R. C. Clark, University of Oregon;
Charles Gulick Jr., University of
California.
The staff of the Commonwealth
Review is composed of: John H.
Mueller, editor; associate editors,
James D. Barnett, Calvin Crum
baker, D. R. French; editor of
news notes, George Turnbull; edi
tor of book reviews, L. S. Cress
man. All of the staff are mem
bers of the faculty of the Univer
sity of Oregon.
Stahl Fights
For Life; Fate
Is Uncertain
Next Twelve Honrs Will
Determine His Lot
WINS FIRST LETTER
Oxygen Is Used To Keep Patient
Alive; Father Remains
At Bedside of Son
By BRUCE HAMBY
George Homer Stahl, veteran
reserve forward on the Oregon
basketball squad, fought a desper
ate battle for his life last night
against double pneumonia, while
his team-mates journeyed north
ward to Seattle to meet the
Washington Huskies. Stahl’s con
dition was reported as “very cri
tical” at a late hour last night.
Doctors stated the next 12 hours
would determine whether his fight
was a losing or winning one.
Bill Reinhart, Oregon coach, re
mained in Eugene as his team left
for the north, to stay by the bed
side of his pupil. Reinhart decided
to leave for Seattle this morning
when it became apparent that
there was nothing he could do.
Stahl had only two weeks ago
achieved his greatest ambition,
winning a varsity letter. In his
first conference start in three
years, against Idaho, he led the
Webfoots to their one and only
conference victory. He scored nine
points and played an outstanding
floor game.
Played Just Week
He participated for a few min
utes in last week's game with
Oregon State, but was taken out
when Coach Reinhart noticed that
he was playing below par and was
apparently feeling ill. The follow
ing morning he was taken to the
University infirmary, where hi3 .
condition was found to be serious.
His father, G. V. Stahl of Port
land, was in Eugene to witness his
son’s playing and ordered his re
moval to a hospital. His condi
tion gradually became worse dur
ing the first of the week and
Thursday morning doctors and
friends became alarmed as he
sank rapidly. He was placed in an
oxygen tank yesterday morning
in an attempt to save him. In the
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Student Recital
Given Last Night
Participants in last night’s stu
dent-recital were Hollis Hoven,
organist; Alice Woodson, mezzo
soprano; and Mary Jeannette Den
niston, accompanist. Smiling, Miss
Woodson presented a varied pro
gram, ranging from compositions
by Handel and Brahms to Kounts.
"Standchen” by Brahms, a gay,
airy number, was sung very well.
Miss Hoven presented two dif
ficult numbers, “Fifth Sonata” by
Builmont” and "Toccato and Fu
gue in D-minor” by Bach. This
latter has a ponderous, strong
type of beauty. Both soloists re
ceived flowers, presented by ush
erettes, lovely in white.
The other program given last
night by the University music de
partment was the weekly program
over KOAC in which Hose Simons,
mezzo-soprano; Aimee Sten, pian
ist; and Edna Whitmer, accom
panist, took part.
German Statesman, Orator
Likes Golf, Hunting, Politics
A
By HENRIETTE HORAK
He is human and he plays golf!
In fact, this great European diplo
mat who is at ease in the presence
of kings and dictators, and is a
friend of presidents, counts it as
one of his great accomplishments
that he made a “hole in one,"
once, long ago.
Dr. Richard von Kuhlmann, ex
! foreign minister of Germany and
I one of the world’s most outstand
ing public figures, will speak at a
general assembly in Gerlinger hall
at 10 o’clock this morning on “Ger
many’s International Position"
and he expects to see a lot of nod
ding heads, he remarked last
night in an interview at the Eu
gene hotel.
"College students do need some
sleep sometime, and occasionally
make up lost time during a lec
j ture.” But, Dr. Kuhlmann admit
; ted, nodding heads do not disturb
I him.
| The famed orator and diplomat
defended American university stu-j
I dents and declared that although
European students are as a rule
more serious about life and more
informed and interested in inter
national affairs and policies.
America has never yet failed to
supply great and strong leaders
in time of a crisis.
Dr. Kuhlmann is a peace advo
cate and believes that the world
has seen enough of war, but it will
take a long time for nations to
agree on the question of arma
ment reduction.
Business in Germany is on the
rise, he declared, although there
are still 5,500,000 men unem
ployed. The greatest problem of
Germany is to regain colonies, he
said, but where these will be he
declined to answer.
Asked if it is probable that the
kaiser will return to Germany.
Dr. Kuhlmann replied that it is not
possible; in the first place, to do
so, the whole of Germany would
have to be behind the move, and
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