EDITOR: MTRTAM ETCTTNER
THE EMERALD MAGAZINE
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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1935
DIRECTOR : R. RTEPITENRON' SMITH
cRet)olt On the Campus’
Presents Emotional Tirade
Alternating Truth and Fancy
Once again publishers Covici-Friede bring to the surface of the j
literary ocean a great monster red-eyed and ominous but for all that '
rather pathetic. James Wech.sler, writer of “Revolt on the Campus,”
was once editor of the “Columbia Spectator," campus daily for Colum
bia university of New York.
From Mr. Wechsler’s experience and “that of others in being sub- !
jected to violence countenanced or encouraged by college authorities !
for the sin of holding opinions at variance with those accounted
orthodox," he is supposed to have gained inspiration and justification
for writing this jagged feverish book about the holy revolt of the
college student. j
Truth Ignored
But unfortunately Mr. Wechsler
ignores any possible journalistic
distinction by not only painting a
beautiful picture of a young mind
on a passion binge but also ignor
ing simple canons of truth.
The result: the book, while pre
senting some enlightning incidents
of pre-war hysteria in institutions
of higher learning, and some true
pictures of undergraduate sloth
fullness with ridiculuous emphasis
the picture of the prosecuted col
lege student whose life is made
miserable by "socialites” and big
bad “athletes.”
Oregon Case Inaccurate
Mr. Wechsler favors Oregon
with some choice inaccuracies. He
refers to Dick Neuberger’s bitter
fight for optional "athletic fees"
and “dance fees.” Mr. Wechsler,
shaking his young fist and stomp
ing the floor, tells how Howard
Ohmart was persecuted.
For the edification of the whole
world, and even Mr. Ohmart, Mr.
Wechsler tells of Ohmart’s being
"dragged from his room and vig
orously beaten by the emissaries
of the athletic office —- Oregon
athletes." He says that when Mr.
Ohmart protested, the attack was
intensified until his resistance
ceased. (Howard Ohmart himself
laughed at this one.)
The book is a series of incidents
of equally sensational character.
And before the college student
completes the book he thinks of
himself not as a college student
but a jail bird and a stuffed one
at that!
Jolt Possible
If one were to take a fine
toothed comb, a very fine toothed
comb, and go through the book he
might find some credible material
on which to write a fair argument
for jolting college students out of
their day-dreaming activities, and
inspire them into some sort of in
terest in a world into which they
are to be shortly tossed.
But Mr. Wechsler puffs as he
runs because ho is not in shape for
such a fast pace.
R. Lucas.
New 'Comeback*
If
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Evidently travel, instead of a
Connecticut garden, supplies Ger
aldine Farrar with the “delicious
sense of soul freedom” in quest of
which, 13 years ago, the spectacu
lar prima donna triumphantly quit
the opera stage. Hale and happy,
Miss Farrar is pictured above in
New York on her arrival from her
annual vacation in Germany.
SERIES
“Gilbert and Sullivan,” part III,
by Hesketh Pearson. Harpers,
October, 1935. Pages 601 to 613.
Iji three consecutive issues of
Harpers, ending in October, Hes
keth Pearson has outlined the im
portant events in the lives of Gil
bert and Sullivan, has painted their
personalities in printers' ink.
If these men were as witty, as
stubborn, as unique as the author
has portrayed them, they were in
deed salty characters.
I'Knew Him When —
Bjj Bob Prescott
He was an arresting vision even
to strangers. His face bore an ex
pression of bitter, relentless cyni
cism that could only be achieved
in campus literary circles.
One knew that he had consoli
dated in his facial expression all
the learning of the suave head of
the department down to the most
humble assistant who told dirty
jokes to his classes hoping his col
leagues would hear about his pro
grams.
Rarely was he questioned or
doubted by his professors. Though
it is conceivable that they were
better informed, the students were
strongly prejudiced in favor of
their young god and invariably re
marked, “What an ass Dr. is
becoming lately."
His expression in conversation
was quite literary. Members of the
campus writing honorary of which
he was a member rarely missed a
meeting. This was because their
own faces lacked depth and artis
tic feeling. By associating with
him their intuition is said to have
been increased as much as three
hundred and fifty per cent.
In his second year he became
famous for two reasons. 11c was
suspected by his professors of hav
ing at his finger tips a formidable
knowledge of the classics, and
some nice quotations on humanism,
naturalism and other philosophies
dear to their hearts. Invariably
they would jump and then beam
proudly about the classroom when
he quoted Rabelais' “Fais ee que
voudrais.”
It isn't very difficult to say
“Fais ce que voudrais” after a lit
tle practice, however.
He also became famous among
his contemporaries for his broad
field of interests. He was astound
ingly versatile. His poker, bridge
an dchess; his drinking, singing
and women were a tribute to his
respect for form. An embryo Leo
i nardo . . .
Very rarely and discreetly he
would drop a compliment to a de
serving friend. “That last yarn
wasn't half bad,” he would say.
His friends thought that as a critic
he was unsurpassed.
In his junior year he mastered
the columnist's technique in seven
ty-two hours which is still a record
His observations were delivered
with such a skill that his readers
and friends forgot their nostalgia
for New York and Vanity Fair and
decided that after all it was pos
sible to be smart even in a hinter
land.
His senior year was a crowning
triumph. His column became mag
nificently saturnine and his friends
proudly sympathized with him over
his unfortunate love affair.
Within a week his professors un
derstood the situation and the new
depth to his work, falling over and
over each other in understanding
i him, privately regretting their own
! unruffled emotional lives.
I can hardly wait to see him
! again for our paths have strayed
these last ten years. I had a letter
from him last week in which he
said that he, Josephine and the
four youngsters were coming down
| for the Homecoming this Saturday
'if the Telephone company would
let him off for the week end.
RECENT BOOK REVIEWS
MARY OF SCOTLAND AND THE
ISLES by Stefan Zweig. New
York. Viking Press. S3.50. Pp.
361.
Murderer, adulteress, betrayer
and schemer are only a few of the
many black-balling names Stefan
Zweig hurls at the heroine of his
latest historical biography, Mary
Stuart, Queen of Scots.
The author is a sadist who
wounds the reader by his psycho
analysis of Mary Stuart, painting
her as a cold-blooded tyrant who
brooks no interference. Elaborated
references are cited of words and
actions of this unfortunate queen,
and, as a whole, the references
misconstrue the probable real in
terpretation meant by the woman
herself.
Hollow Praise
Again, Zweig lays great stress
on the culture and beauty of the
heroine, but his praise rings hol
low in the face of the more de
tailed portrayals of her shortcom
ings. The scene of Mary Stuart’s
death, which the author dwells at
length, is presented as more of a
sneering mockery than as an epi
sode which calls for regret or sym
pathy.
Familiar History
One finds in this book all the
pageantry and political background
of royal courts during the 16th cen
tury. One reads familiar tales
about the tragic Scottish queen,
but Zweig permits a view behind
the conventional curtain and the
reader sees Mary Stuart in private,
animal-like passion, throwing away
By Barney Clark
By BARNEY CLARK
After a long, dreary period in
which the motor industry brought
forth only improvements which
were not improvement (i. e.
"weight-redistribution” and “knee
action") and engaged in a stren
uous competition to see how much
alike they could make their mod
els, three cars have at last
emerged with something new.
No. 1 is the Cord, dormant for
the last few years, but remembered
fondly by the curve-busters. Ris
ing Phoenix-like from its ashes,
Cord flaunts a brand-new “back
bone” frame, front-wheel-drive, a
V-8 motor, and the newest and
most vital body design yet seen on
an American motor car. Cord’s
cutest trick is its headlamps, hid
den under trap-doors in the fend
ers, popping up at the touch of a
lever.
No. 2 is the Lincoln-Zephyr,
Ford's medium-price bid. It too has
a “backbone" frame, in which the
j body panels are structural mem
bers. Advantage: a light body with
! extreme rigidity. The motor is a
110 h. p. V-12, suspension is the
same as the Ford V-8, and the
body is definitely streamlined, with
a knife-edge nose. Price: About
$1,300 f. o. b. Detroit. Rumor says
it performs like nothing human!
No 3 is the Scarab, Bill Stout’s
rear-engined deal. This beetle has
all four wheels independently
spiling, a tear-drop design, and
will cost five G's. So severe are Mr.
Stout’s ideas on streamline that
i he has lopped off his door-handles,
! substituting electric spring locks.
No running boards or fenders,
either, mar its bulbous beauty.
Only 100 will be produced this
year.
Being piqued by Hudson-Terra
plane’s phrase, “Radial Control.”
we went investigating. It turned
out to be an arrangement of four
torque-arms, two to each wheel.
They take brake and thrust loads
off the springs, prevent weave and
sway. We haven't driven one yet.
but it looks as though this may
take some of the curse out of their
Hotchkiss drive.
Chevvie, as we predicted, was
far from startling. The new
models are trying hard to look like
Buick, hardly a laudable ambition.
Hydraulic brakes, G. M.'s. bogey
man of some years back, are on
Chevvie now, and the compression
ratio is stepped up to 6 to 1. Knee
action is optional, and who's sur
prised. The interior finish, as al
ways, is nice.
According to Time, November 4.
Packard salesmen are using this
sales-point, "The Packard 120 can
run away from a Ford!" Boy,
that’s what we call class war!
lonor and crown for her lover,
Bothwell.
Colorful and well-written from a
strictly rhetorical standpoint,
‘Mary of Scotland and the Isles”
falls short of being a good biogra
phy; the reader can formulate no
unbiased opinion; can feel no sym
pathy, as he *must see through .he
eyes of the author, who gives de
risive sympathy to Mary Stuart
while glorying in her indiscretions.
M. Graham.
STRONG MAN RULIES. Shuster,
George Nauman. New York. Ap
pleton-Century, 1934. Pp. 291.
$2.00.
Fascism’s days are numbered,
Mr. Shuster concludes in his sec
ond book on the Nazis. Described
in the half-title as “An Interpreta
tion of Germany Today” and based,
as was “The Germans,” on months
of study in Germany on an Ober
laender Trust fellowship, the pres
ent work can scarcely be called im
partial, for it presents a definitely
anti-Nazi view.
Being a Catholic, the author ex
presses disapproval of the “equal
ity” basis of the “new churches.”
His opinion here is more subject
to controversy than in the rest of
the book. Convincing evidence and
logical argument back up his main
contentions. In the foreword he
thus states his case:
No Propaganda
i\or are mere any irons in my
fire . . . The reader will see that
there is not one line of propaganda
in this book.”
Normally a strong-minded peo
ple of widely divergent political
and social convictions, the Ger
mans, almost crushed by the de
pression, were hypnotized into
unity. This false structure, Shus
ter believes, will gradually burn
itself out, and from its ashes will
rise a planned order to remedy
modern social ills.
For the reader interested in fur
ther investigation a bibliography
is appended. Most of the source
material, though, is in German,
and this author discounts English
editions of the same works as
"badly expurgated.”
H. G. Buel.
NOT FOIt HEAVEN by Dorothy
McCleary. Garden City, N. Y.
Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc ,
1935. 360 pp. $2.00.
"Animals and men—fertilzer all.
My horse and I will go together.”
Such are the sentiments of that
weather-beaten old woman of the
soil, Mrs. Bostwick, in Dorothy Mc
Cleary's “Not for Heaven."
An outspokne book whose very
frankness is its only excuse for its
coarseness. This novel is not espe
i-ially pleasing to the finer senses
and is apt to somewhat nauseate
a reader whose tastes do not in
clude the giving of medicine to a
horse and watching for the reac
tion. There is humor, however, in
the mannerisms of the main char
acter.
Mrs. Bostwick is one of the types
of hard working and knocked
about characters which Dorothy
McCleary features in her stories,
writing from a background of a
stiff struggle for existence in her
own life. The products of a writer
have not been found very remuner
ative at times by this author.
L. Anderson.
ROAD TO WAR, by Walter Millis,
Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston,
1935, 460 pages, $3.00.
Walter Millis, in his “Road to
to War” has done an immense
amount of work gathering docu
mentary proof of the mistakes
made by President Wilson and
others of the administration. Of
course it may be altogether true
that he has disregarded proofs
other than those which concern his
views. He has, however, produced
a very readable book out of a re
hash of the whole mess that was
America’s position before 1917.
Reasons Given
Starting with the out-break of
war in Europe, “Road to War” fol
lows painstakingly the events
which inevitably drew America in
to the conflict—the rising war
fever—the superiority of the Brit
ish propaganda to that of the Ger
mans — submarine warfare — and
the selling of munitions to the
allies. The fact that Mr. Millis, who
is a journalist, damns Wilson,
damns the administration and
damns England makes his faint
praise of Germany conspicuous.
“Road to War” skillfully re
places the glamour and adventure
of war with a true money-grabbing
sordidness. But Mr. Millis reveals
his belief that such a thing a3
America in another war is far
from impossible.
P. Brainard.
SANITY
Louis E. Bisch, M.D.—Reader's Di
gest, Nov., 1935.
“If you fear you are losing your
mind it proves that you are not in
any such danger at all. To be
afraid of anything really shows a
desire to avoid it,” says Dr. Bisch.
The article explodes several mag
nificent obsessions common to har
assed beings, and may be profitable
reading for students just before
exam time! The article is not con
densed, but was especially written
for the Reader’s Digest.
Library Displays Unusual
Japanese Book Collection
A display of Japanese works
owned bv Dr. A. R. Moore, profes
sor of general physiology, is ex
hibited in the showease on the
main floor of the University li
brary. Dr Moore bou<rht the Jap
anese articles in Sendai, and the
few Chinese ones in Peking while
he was there in 1933 and 1934.
Anions' the books, which rang-’
from early eighteenth to the pres
ent century, are: Cherry Blossoms
and Sake, printed in 1721: several
works of Hokusai, all of which
were printed in 187fi and which in
clude “Views of Fuii," “Book of
Architecture," and “Tokaido,”
which is of the “Road of Pilgrim
age from Tokyo to Fuji." Also,
there is a book of anatomy, pub
lished in 1770, taken from a Dutch
work if 1710, with European il
lustrations. In the late eighteenth
century a manuscript book on
whaling was printed on mulberry
bark paper. This is included in the
collection. A history book, the
"Conquest of Japan.” is of the
seventh century, B. C.
Very recent publications, the
“Chinese Book of Birds,” and a
“Chinese Book of Forests" were
both printed in 1934 in Pekin, and
are lithographic prints. The form
and binding of the Chinese books
is unusual.
A printing block, illustrating th<
method of -printing from fixed
types, wa^ used in the Orienl
centuries before Gutenberg's in
vention. The particular block or
display is a fortune teller's octa
gon. containing magic numbers b>
means of which the best dates foi
important undertakings could be
determined.
A carving of a Japanese wood
cutter is of the hardest wood, and
a modern work of art. It is from
the "Alps” west of Tokyo.
The seals displayed are typical
of the present Oriental usage.
Made from bamboo, bamboo root,
and quartz crystal, they are singu
lar in that no two characters can
ever be alike. The counterfeits can
be determined by concave mirrors,
which show up any irregularities.
They are Chinese articles, and
nearly absolutely essential in the
Chinese business world, because no
one will accept a check, receipt or
any official document unless it is
stamped with the person’s seal.
The seals print by being dipped in
a mineral ink.
The novel display will be shown
for the next week.
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“The Challenge of
Europe’’
“The Challenge of Asia’’
both by
SHERWOOD
EDDY
$1.00
To Lecture Here
Thursday.
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Chit-Chat
By Henrielte Ilorak
Eugene Christians are brushing
up the town in preparation for the
visit of “challenging,” Y M C A
Sherwood Eddy, writer, talker, in
tellectual globe trotter, and for a
long time the favorite “quote” man
of small town pastors. Seems that
Eddy is on a tour of the United
States chatting about the “Mean
ing of the Present World Crisis.”
But then, challenging seems to be
a literary sport of Eddy. Three of
his books, recently reprinted in
the dollar editions—“Challenge of
Russia,” “Challenge of the East,”
and “Challenge of Europe.”
In his earlier years Eddy began
as a YMCA worker in foreign
fields; in Asia, India, the Near
East, China, Japan, Korea; just
recently he has returned from a
tour of Europe where he gathered
data on the ups and downs of the
various countries. He has held
tete-a-tetes with the foremost
statesmen of Europe, including
Hitler and Mussolini. His books
seem to be clear enough analysis
of world events; might be a good
idea to hear what he has to say to
the University students Thursday.
He saw—and now he’s coming!
“Sudden Death!” Coming’ out
early in November. Publishers pre
dict that sales will soar into the
millions. The first portion of the
book was published in the Reader’s
Digest last July, and already
3,000,000 copies have been re
printed. It has turned out to be
the most sensational piece of writ
ing since “The Message to Garcia.”
Excerpt from the coming work
by J. C. Furnas and Ernest N.
Smith: “The spine was snapped
clean, bent at an acute angle, and
its bare end protruded from a rent
in the skin like the stump of a
horrible, bony tail. That man is
still alive. He has been operated on
25 times. He is always in acute
pain and paralyzed from the waist
down. Last year they sat him up
iri a chair and let him play poker
all evening with some old cronies,
as he used to do before they
sneaked across the white line on
the curve. He cheered up so that
they almost forgot he was half a
dead man. But they remembered
again when one of them, feeling
something sticky underfoot, looked
down and saw a pool of blood
spreading under the table. All eve
ning a heavy man, seated in a
heavy chair, had been crushing his
foot into an oozing pulp and he
had never felt it!” Still feel like
stepping on the gas ? ■
Chicago’s Mayor Edward Kelly
put the padlock on Jack Kirkland's
dramatization of “Tobacco Road,”
novel by Erskine Caldwell. New
York critics have lauded the play
-—it is now in its second season on
Broadway. Chicago’s mayor finds
it a mess of filth and degeneracy,
without rhymn or reason.” Sam H.
Grisman, of New York, co-owner
of the play, is in Chicago fight
ing the mayor and his padlock
through every court. Could it be
that Chicago which coddled a Ca
pone now can't take an innocent
social drama, namely, “Tobacco
Road”? Dear, dear!
Crooked mustached Lowell
Thomas who smirks at mililons of
theater goers each week througn
the courtesy of Fox Movietone will
tell “The Untold Story of Explora
tion,” late in November. Never
mind, his face won't stare from
the pages.
Germans consume 156.9 pounds
of meat and 216 pints of beer per
capita every year.
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Noted Publisher
One of a group or 25 prominent
American publishers who sailed
for the Philippines to attend the
inauguration of the new island
government next month, William
Allen White, famed publisher of
the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, is
shown here as he appeared on the
liner President Grant, leaving
Seattle. The publishers accom
panied a large congressional party
on the voyage.
Short and
Street
SLEUTH
“Getting- Along With Women,”
by anonymous author, Harpers,
October, 1935. Pages 614-623.
“Few men get along with wo
men—” says “anonymous” as a
starter. He implies that few men
understand women and as a con
sequence many are “taken in.”
“Anonymous” says something
else; all women want to “possess”
their man, and the males don't like
it. He quotes a friend, “Every wo
man wants to possess and absorb
I her man.”
“Anonymous” says he is a writ
er for newspaper and novel, and
has been connected with the thea
ter.
Louis Bromfield is a writer, for
newspaper, novel and magazine
and certainly knows where Broad
way is.
In the October issue of Digest
and Review there is an article,
“The Girl I Almost Married,” by
Gladys Oaks, condensed from Ser
enade.
Miss Oaks quotes Louis Brom
field, “—our love is stopped by
man’s ancient fear of being pos
sessed and absorbed by women.”
Two persons (?) with the same
idea?
STORY
“I’ll Be Back," by Frances Wood
ward; Saturday Evening Post, No
vember 2.
Illustrated by our favorite John
LaGatta the Post this week gives
us an entertaining back-to-the-old
estate story. An interesting con
trast in characters and a struggle
between the girl-he-wants-to-mar
ry and the girl-who-wants-to-mar
ry-him, developed in catchy, mod
ern phrases, gives this tale a cer
tain freshness.
Campus Writer
Uses North ir es t
As Plajj Locals
HIGH COUNTRY, by Alice Henson
Ernst; Metropolitan Press, Port
land, $1.75.
"Live here! X can’t . . . It’s so
awful still and quiet. Makes me
think too much, I reckon. Jes’ ,
can't quit thinkin’, somehow,
’bout things I'd ought to be for
gettin’.”
That is “Tombstone” speaking.
"Tombstone,” the lonely run-away
youth whose mistrust of fellow
men makes him an unhappy victim
of northern silences and tragedy
in "Spring Sluicing,” the first of
the "four plays from the Pacific
Northwest” in Alice Henson
Ernst’s widely appreciated first
book publication, "High Country.”
The American Library association
has this fall placed it on their high
ly selective list of “preferred
books.”
Captures Spirit
In four keeniy-wrougnt, ciramar
c interludes, Mrs. Ernst captures
;he very spirit of the high north
country where the individual
‘struggles in the midst of conflict
cften too severe for his prevailing.”
The first three plays, “Spring
Sluicing” and “The Valley of Lost
Men,” one acts, and “Out Trail,”
full length play, deal with charac
ters and incidents in the Yukon
country in the 90’s. “Out Trail,”
however, is more especially con
cerned with “the apathetic back
wash which followed the great
prospective wave” of the gold rush.
The last play, “The Wooden Wife,”
is a drama of the Chilkat Indians
before the white invasion. Sim
plicity and richness of character
make these plays vitally real.
Noteworthy
“High Country,” continuously
hailed as a “noteworthy contribut
tion to regional literature,” is no
less an adventure for the casual
reader. To those of us included in
the geographical classification
“northwest,” literary locales laden
with .woods and waters and snow
peak scattered silence often fail to
arouse an adequate appreciation of
the writer’s achievement. The
more or less civilized Northwest,
still mentally in a lethargic hang
over from covered-wagon senti
mentality, witl never produce any
regional literature worthy of the
name until local writers see the
value of following Mrs. Ernst’s
lead of striking out boldly in an at
tempt to capture colorful reality
through cultural interpretation.
G. Root.
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