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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1934)
COMMENT AND DISCOURSE (Continual jrom Pane Troc) ger from Colgate came pretty r.eer to pulling the whiskers of the Long goat and it now remains for some bright, upstanding young man to administer the coup de grace. We have no inside dope on the subject but it seems logical to sup pose that prior to the Ij.S.U. game Mr. Wilderman will break into print with some communications back and forth with Huey which will be worth a million to Oregon publicity. Anyhow the Kingfish is no fool. Like some of the wrestlers who have graced local arenas, his meal ticket is his huge unpopular ity around about the country. If it comes to the point he would most likely enter whole-heartedly into a libel-slinging contest with all com ers. We nominate Sammy to arouse the Senator from Louisiana for the edification of the nation. TURKEY TALK: What would our illustrious ancestors, the Pil grim Fathers, think if they should happen to drop into one of the country’s great stadia on Thanks giving day ? Our guess is that they’d sit through the first quarter bemoaning the desecration of such a solemn occasion and spend the rest of the afternoon howling "hold that line” and beating the chap in front of them over the head with the program booklet. Who says wc haven't something to be thankful for? We can thank our lucky stars the administration didn’t decide to hold classes on Thursday too. Hope the turkey' we intend to wrap ourselves around is in a bet ter state of preservation than the now famous one used by the Ore gon State lads for sandwiches. It is considered quite legitimate for a turkey to show signs of deteriora tion when it reaches the hash stage but no self-respecting bird should consider sinking so low as to poi son his consumers during the sec ond or sandwich stage. Thanksgiving day is an Ameri can institution; as typically Amer ican perhaps, as ham and eggs. As such we are privileged to observe it any way we jolly well please. The very fact that we do observe it any way we please is in itself an act of thanks giving for the bless ing of being American. Here’s a. line or so we have clipped from re marks by William Lyons Phelps: “Gratitude may not be of any value to the one who receives it, but it is of enormous value to the one who gives it. . . . It is like singing at one’s work. Further more, the only way to preserve the spirit of thanksgiving is to spend it profusely, even carelessly.” Take it or leave it. , # * NEWS ITEM: "George Hobson, of Bolckow, Mo., is said to be able to tell within a few ounces the weight of a hog by its squeal” American Magazine. Looks like that guy ought to be able to build an independent, for tune if he could apply his knowl edge to political aspirants. This country could afford to pay well for such a service. MASTER TEKPSHTIOKEANN Members of Master Dance at a recent meeting decided to hold try outs Wednesday, December 5, at 7:30 in Gerlinger hall. All girls interested in trying out must have had two terms of in terpretive dancing or the equiva B AM) REHEARSAI CONDUCTING C LASS MEETING TONIGHT The band conducting class will hold a public rehearsal in the band room at the R. O. T. C. barracks Tuesday afternoon from 3 till 4. Bruce Senders of Albany, senior in business administration, will con duct, and anyone interested is in vited to attend. Special invitations for all of these public rehearsals have been issued to members of the Eugene high and University high bands. The program is as follows : New Colonial March ...Hall Lustspiel Overture.Keler-Bela Grand Selection from “Tann hauser” .Wagner Poet and Peasant Overture . .. Suppe Don Quixote Suite .Safranek Pasadena Day March.Vessilla SPEECH BY DEAN REBEC {Continued from Pane One) ture and perhaps our philosophy over to the ladiej’ clubs while our men profess to be “too busy.” “What price success” might be I he title of this disregard within us. During the eras of rush-and go we have beeh used to looking out instead of looking in. Don’t forget that success has more than outward gain it has inward being. A man shall first of all BE and af ter that he can go out for success if that is what his urges are for." Dean Rebec talked on to explain that in spite of all this a man can not ignore the public and the pub lic needs. To realize his social self is to realize a vital part of him self.” Consult Yourself “Forget morality and righteous ness and all those other things and practice first of all psychic health. The road to mental health has the same rules as the road to physical health. As you plan your four years of college consult yourself carefully; we want a practical knowledge but there are more who really need to utilize their innate mental capacities. If they don't they will suffer a psychic acne mia.” "Today’s ideal is the saint's ideal. Dare to be great. Dare to have ex cellencies. Dare, venture, try to be. Be all that you can be, mor ally, religiously, aesthetically it’s all in the game of life!” MUSIC RECITAL The University of Oregon music school will present Miss Robin Le Vee in recital at the Music build ing Tuesday evening, November 27, at 8:15. Miss LeVee is a student of Mine, McGrew and will sing the follow ing program: I Haydn .With Verdure Clad (Aria from the Creation II Mendelssohn ... Auf Flugeln des Desanges(On Wings of Song) III Schubert AVohin? (Whither?) Schubert Ungeduld (Impatience) Torelli . Tu Lo Sai (Well Thow Knowest) Benoneeni Per La Gloria D' Odorarvi (Though T Only Bow Before Thee) Pugolisi .. Tre Giorni) ‘Tis Three Long Days IV Scott The Jasamine Door Spross Will o' the Wisp Woodman A Birthday lent, must present an original dance composition, and be tested on dance techniques. ^ Dying Logan Elm j n ” The famous J-ogan elm at Circleville, Ohio, believed to he fhe oldest living thee east of the Rocky mountains, was the scene of a recent gathering to raise a fund for its preservation. Its'life is threatened but may be prolonged for perhaps another century if steps are taken without delay. Thousands of per sons from ail parts of the country visit the tree every year. BOOK DISCUSSION By Root I F ITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW, by HANS FALLADA. Published by Simon and Schuster. American writers of noble-and courageous characterization are probably, and more than likely, arching an eyebrow over the suc cess in this country of the Ger man Fallada’s frank account of two pathetically naive youngsters whose inconsequential tribulations and crib-ulations form the move ment in “Little Man, What Now?’’, that novel the title of which so po tently suggests social and econom ic upheaval. For Author Fallada, whose easy style and genuinely fresh and unstudied humor make the book sparkle, has attempted nothing epic nor given his charac ters gilded boot-straps by which to pull themselves above the pit of industrial chaos and (error exist ent in their lives. Hans Pinneberg, a young book keeper with no claim to distinc tion except his “seif respect,” and Emma Morschel (called Bunny), only daughter of a German labor er, decide to marry when a well known doctor, to whom they have gone for help, advises them that their baby is two months on its way and that they “can manage somehow, others have done it on less money.” Hans, whose present position depends on his not marry ing, soon loses his job when the truth is found out and, on the di- ( rection of Bunny, the couple goes to Berlin to Hans' mother, a gen uinely humorous person whose Ra belaisian bawdiness and noisy “parties” force the couple to hide away in cheap rooms over a fur niture store. Hans loses his clerk ing job in a department store; the baby is born; and, after a brave attempt to find re-employment, there is nothing left to face but loss of “self-respect” and slow de generation. Author Fallada acknowledges that Hans is weak. Face to face with his first major problem and disappointment Hans said, ‘We're poor people, Bunny and I. Probably I won’t get any unemployment pay here, and what what ’ sud denly he began to sob ‘what in the world is to become of us?’ But perhaps it isn't weakness ex actly. Perhaps it is because the wife, Bunny, has such a child-like sense of surety of benel’icient fa tality. She says to a friend, ‘You see, the others steal wood for their fuel. I don't think its so very wrong, you know, but I told the lad he wasn’t to do it. Vie must not fall below himself, Jachmann, T won't have it. He must keep his D fn3 fnl TO Rj fS] ra rrn m m ra nana m m nr, rz. self resepct. Luxury- -yes, if you like, but its our only luxury, wo must stick to it, and we'll be all right.’ However there is nothing noble about Hans, who harbors deep re sentments at every little slight real and imaginary, until, at last he has nothing left but the ‘strong mother-heart’ of Bunny on which to rest. Fallada has written consciously but extremely well. He deals with reality, and although he may ap proach the poetic he avoids it to keep consistent with an earthy re lationship to the incestuous civili zation of Europe. The book's key note, brief and reserved, i3 struck in the first few pages: ‘They sat in the kitchen, their backs against the cold stove. The door to the lit tle kitchen balcony stood open, the curtain stirred faintly in the breze. Outside—over a stifling yard, all asquawk with radios, hung the canopy of night, scat tered with stars.’ NORTHWEST SCIENCE ASSOCIATION An invitation to present a paper before the Northwest Scientific as sociation which meets at the Dav enport hotel in Spokane December 28 and 29, was received yesterday by Dr. Warren Dupre Smith, head of the Oregon department of geol ogy. Dr. Smith was invited to ad dress the assembled savants on the subject of the origin of Crater lake. Due to a ruling of the state board of higher education which prohibits out-of-state travel by faculty members during the school year, Dr. Smith was in doubt as to whether he would be able to ac cept the invitation. Dr. Smith spent the past sum mer at Crater lake national park where he served in the capacity of ranger-naturalist. Send the Emerald to your friends. Subscription rates $2.50 a year. Let a Classified Ad Iron Your Troubles Can vou afford one? i Yea! 10c per line LYIN’ LOW By ROOT Hel-lo, somebody! There was a young co-ed from Nyssa Who wouldn't let college boys kyssa So she got her degree In three years—just three And I'm sorry to say we DON'T myssa! News Note: The first Kampus Kognomen Klub held their first and last meeting on Tuesday last. The following officers were nom inated by remote control: President—J. Doyle Pigg Vice Pres.—John Hogg V. Vice Pres.—Elizabeth Hamm V. V. Pres.—George Root. We once “walked a mile’’ for a Camel But conditions and so forth do shift, And now, from that very same mammal We find ourselves getting a “lift." Alice Hult, speaking the lan guage of the flowers—or somp th’n, sez that if college girls are lilies they undoubtedly are callous lilies! And it follows, then, that our dramatic stars must be Guild ed lilies. * * * Lines Penned in Passing—(Out!) Excuse me, but it amuses me To muse about the muses,—see! Confusedly I find my musing Grows much less clear and more confusing. If asked, I think I should refuse To say a word against a muse So as my weary thots confuse I sigh and ask me, “Wot’s the use ?” Then as my cat gets under foot I give said beast-and awful boot, And as she mews about her bruises I sit and muse about the muses. And thus the muses, so you see, Amuse me quite amusingly! We are told by a more or less reliable source that “Polivka,” translated literally, means “soup.” The only unmitigated conclusion we can draw is that the young fel low is simply ‘Doug Soup”! NO! Sez Sue Junior, those AREN’T the Senior Six parading around on the Libe steps this noon. They are the fellows who are ruin ing their amateur standings by joining the professional journalism honorary: Frankenstein Lucas, In gagi Robe, Dracula Quille, Raspu tin Raj, White Zombi Vernon, King Kong Root, and Quasimodo Lin coln. Nize boys, too—it’s too bad, really! Who WAS that husky, three year letterman named Biff Nelson Congratulations to Jack Riley WINNER 1000 CIGARETTES Following winners 200 class. Bruce Hamby Ed Hanson Paul Fox Bill Hazeltine Richard Proehstel PHILIP MORRIS AND CO. LTD. CRESTED CHRISTMAS CARDS .. . You will enjoy seeing our new display of choice greetings which are appropriate for fraternity crests. Make your selection early. Valley Printing Co. Stationers Phone 470 76 \V. 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Advertisements take the handkerchief Advertisements help you find the best there is to find and know it when you find it. off of your eyes. They equip you with keen vision. They lead you direct to the shaving cream that will give most fresh ness to your skin, to the most tempting clothes, to the sparkling drinks most pleasing. They put in your hands famil iar good things guaranteed to please. You can’t afford to buy under a blind man’s buff. Read the advertisements to avoid the blindness—and the buff. DON’T OVERLOOK THESE TODAY. Oregon Daily Emerald “Influencing 3,500 Moderns”