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Robinson Did It
■y^lTII liis usmil disregard for difficulties,
Horace W. Robinson lias gone ahead
with the production of ‘‘ Ethan Frome’’ in an
effort to bring this great play to the campus.
The spirit with which lie undertook to pre
sent the stage adaptation of Edith Wharton’s
famous novel is to be commended only the
more, in view of the result.
On a minute stage, with scarcely adequate
facilities, he has planned and executed the
story of that drab, yet dramat ic preson, Ethan
Frome. With his usual finesse at designing
and directing he has created a play that every
student who cares to know and appreciate
drama should see. In spite of the limitations
of his stage, through bis own initiative and
the excellence of his east, Robinson has
brought a play to the Ouild hall which owes
apologies to no one.
Many said it couldn't be done. If anyone
doubts that it has been done, he should see
“Ethan Frome’’ tonight at Guild hall. Well
acted, well staged, “Ethan Frome’’ stands
among the best of recent (luild hall produc
tions.
A Few Inaccuracies
^HE didn't sound like “a small soul'' at all.
In fact she sounded like one of the greater
souls who can take the mistakes of a college
editor with good humor, and no soul that
Saint l’eter might squeeze under his thumb
nail could do that. We refer to Jhg house
mother who telephoned the other night to
acquaint us with a few inaccuracies in our
“Thou Shalt Not " editorial of Thursday’s
column.
“A few inaccuracies’’ is rather a .skin-*
saving way of putting it. While the fact re
mains that the code established recently for
the conduct ot women students is narrow
minded restrictions, but can do nothing about
we must admit that the mtich-malinged house
mothers had nothing to do with its enaction.
The meeting at the Delta Gamma house
a week ago Thursday, to which we referred,
was composed not of the assembled house
mothers, but of the heads of houses, presi
dents of the sororities.
The “commandments’’ which we attacked
nere not legislated at this convocation at all.
llic rules were drawn up l»v the I niversity |
administration and dropped in the laps of I lie
sorority presidents, who had nothing to say
in the matter, but sat in meek obedience while
they were presented, where if they'd had the
spine of a jellyfish they'd have rebelled.
And, further than that, a great number of
house mothers are opposed to such narrow
minded restrictions, btu can do nothing about
them. They are saddled with the respons
ibility of enforcing the rules laid down by !
the administration, and that’s that.
Well, the only thing we can do is apolo
gize to the house mothers; they arc just the
innocent tools of administrative Victorianism.
# * * #
jyjUKT the administration bear tin1 wholi
blame? There is undoubtedly a great
deal of pressure for the regulation of women
students brought to bear from outside the
University. But we wonder in what degree
outside pressure is responsible for such un
l’eas'oliable restrictions as those forbidding
girls to wear shorts to the table spring term,
prohibiting “snacks" after certain hours in
the evening, and ordering the little lambs
to be abed by 11 or 12 o'clock. We don’t
believe the narrowest parents would demand
such regulation of their daughters.
Possibly there may be pressure from cer
tain quarters for the enforcement of other
restrictions- those compelling women going
on picnics to check out and in and be home
by nine o’clock on Sundays, refusing fresh
man women permission to go on picnics un
accompanied by upperclass women, and for
bidding coeds to visit apartments. But they
are no more defensible than those totally un
reasonable regulations noted above. And, in
their implication that college women are in
capable of ordering their own moral behav
ior, they are much worse. Perhaps the ad
ministration would not enforce rules of this
sort if it were not urged to do so from out
side. That is the most extenuating thing that:
can be said in its favor, and it isn't much.
'J^IIONE in charge of student welfare at the
University don't have to give sueli timor
<uis heed to these promptings from off the
campus. The moral maturity of students
should he just as important a product of uni
versity training as the development of minds.
It could be, too, if students were cut loose
from the administration's apron strings and
given greater personal freedom, accompanied
by greater responsibility.
As it is now, the moral coming-of-age.
when young men and women can go forth in
society able to govern themselves, is post
poned in college. Students form the idea that
moral behavior is a matter entirely enforced
by authority; they miss the fact that funda
mentally it must be ordered from within.
They don t detect the reason, the organic
necessity, for decency and temperance; they
see those principles only as regulations en
forced by tin1 University administration. And
they go forth at commencement time more or
less well-equipped mentally, but morally re
tarded.
The University has to a large degree re- j
sisted attempts of outsiders to interfere with i
its academic curriculum, which it should con
tinue to do. Hut if it is to provide students
with more complete equipment for the busi
ness of living than mere academies, it should
now toll the meddling Anthony Comstocks
where to get off.
Col.Letuler Aroused
(Continued from pane one)
and the town was thinking of forti
fying the McKenzie and Siuslaw
rivers, to which homeless Eugen
eans could flee to defend their lives.
Similar Sentiment
This Colonel Leader is the same
who said last week: “The first part
of this continent to be struck by
communism will be the western
part of America, and Australia, and
right now these territories are well
covered by trained agitators acting
under orders of the third interna
tionale.
"Australia has hunted many of
them out. . . . These trained and
very active agitators are largely
responsible for the sit-down strikes
this year.''
‘Pacifists' Persecuted
The fever heat of patriotism
brought suffering and loss of pres
tige to some, those individuals
whose anti-mobilization or slight
ly pacifist sentiments caused them
to be charged with pro-Germanism.
Two Oregon persons thus suffered
the loss of their positions. They
were Allen Eaton, instructor of art
appreciation, and Margaret Inte
ger, reference librarian.
On October 20, 1917, the Univer
sity’s board of regents accepted
Eaton's resignation because he had
attended a. Chicago meeting of th ■
People's Council of America for
Democracy and Terms of Peace.
Although he claimed the charges
of disloyalty to the government
wore “framed" and that the organ
ization was neither pro-German
nor disloyal, he was removed.
The action was pushed by the
Eugene commercial club, the Eu
gene chamber of commerce, the
Eugene post of Spanlsh-American
war veterans, and a committee of
the mothers of sons in the service.
The chamber's resolution read in
part: "Not because he has as an
individual brought disgrace upon
the state, but because of the seed
of disloyalty sown by him as a
member of the council, and for the
effect it will have upon the minds
of the students of the University
of Oregon and the general public
toward the chief educational insti
tution of the state, which we all
feel should be a leader in patriot
ism .''
"Near Traitor"
"Mr. Eaton has come perilously
near being, if he is not, a traitor
to his country, as that term is de
fined in the constitution," said .1. S
Workman, spokesman for the vet
erans. While admitting Mr Eaton's
attendance at Chicago unwise. t;>
persons signed a petition favoring
his retention, some of whom were
George Kcbce, Ellis Lawrence.
W. K. G. Timelier, John K Lands
bury, Hugo Uezdck, E. E DeCou,
James D. Barnett, 11 C. Howe,
H L> Sheldon, It C. Clark, M It
Douglass. Kredcric S. Dunn, Ernest
S. Bates. O. E. Stafford, R L
Shinn, B W. DuBu.sk, Warren D
Smith Erie W. Allen, John R
BovatU, George Turnbull, and J. U
Gilbert.
Eaton made the following state
ment to the public before the ac
ceptance of his resignation: "The
only peace 1 want is a righteous
peace, no other can tic an enduring
peace, l am not willing that this
war shall stop until the doom of
Prussian militarism is sealed in
every laud and on every sea But
I am not willing to continue this
war one day longer, even in the
name of patriotism, of liberty, or
of God; it will bp a crime in which
1 will not knowingly take part."
Librarian ‘Klred*
Margaret Upleger. the reference
librarian, suffered the same fate
for being charged with pro-Ger
manism, although she later mar
ried an American army officer. In
the Emerald of October ti, 1917,
Alexander G. Brown wrote: "The
registration in the German depart
ment shows a decrease in compari
son with last year. lTp to the pres
ent the number taking German is i
lt>9 as compared with 318 taking
the course last year." The Ger
man department was moved from
the present site of the art school to !
the basement of Deady hall, and
many books m the school library
were mutilated in that pictures of
the Kaiser were torn out. Dr.
E. G. G. Schmidt, present head of'
the German department, was reti
cent. this week in desi ribing inci
dents of a similar nature during
the war day.- because he said some
of the adverse sentiments still exist
here, and he didn't want to rake up
the muck again.
In the tall aftei America declar
ed war, Coach Hugo Bezdek of the
football squad was hampered by
having s . many men in the set vice,
so he issued a public call in which
he said he expected all college men
over 110 pounds in weight to re
port for the gridiron sport.
At a Sigma Nu dance soon af
ter. every man had to bring two
girls to accommodate the female
sex because of the scarcity of men
By June, this, almost 1300 Uni
versity men were in the army, in
cluding Ui faculty members, soo
graduates, and lido Oregon-trained
ordnance students. America lost
126,000 li\» s while engaged iu the
first World war. 1
Scene of Gruesome Death Among the Aspens
Proud of their ship—;i super transport capable of carrying 21
passengers and built for use in the Holland service, a pilot, a co-pilot
and several guests left Burbank, Canifornia, to ferry the skyliner
to New York for reshipment. There was no radio, no means of
communicating with the ground or picking up radio beam signals.
A blinding snowstorm beset the ship in the high mountains of
northeast Arizona. And here is the wreckage, as found by seachers
who toiled through the snow up the slope of Mt. Kaldy, where
the ship crashed head-on. Two bodies were thrown clear, the others
were burned beyond identification.
♦ EMERALD'S *
Quiz of the Week
By ELISABETH STETSON
Grab a pencil in each hand a mark away! If you get a
score below six it's terrible, seven and eight are average,
and a score above eight makes you practically a Phi Bete.
The quiz this week was given to three members of journal
ism honoraries who all made just average, getting seven
questions right. They are: Clare Igoe, member of Theta
Sigma Phi, and Bill Pease and Gordon Connelly, members
of Sigma Delta Chi.
The answers are found on another page of the Emerald.
1. Those agust seniors will take exams spring term after all because
the faculty:
a. Thinks exams should be given because of existing regulations.
b. Just wants to be mean.
c. Although probable grades have already been Sent into the regis
trar's office by examination time, thinks that seniors shouldn't be
favored over other students and excused from exams.
d. Says that exams are a definite part of the educational process.
2. An ingenious coed decided the price of vegetables was too high
and that she would have a garden of her own so she liberally sprinkled
a new university lawn with radish seeds. The university where this
agrieu'tural experiment took place was:
a. University of Minnesota.
b. University of Southern California.
c. University of Texas.
cl. University of Iowa.
3. You probably know this one hut mark it anyway, tire newest ob
stacle of a long scries to moving the 150,000 volumes of books and
equipment now in the old library to the new library is:
a. Decision to wait until head librarian Douglas can return from
New York.
b. Lack of a detailed and definite plan, satisfactory to everyone
concerned.
e. ltunioi that the students want to use the new building for a
recreation center and dance hall.
d. The i oceiii rainy weather which would damage books as they
were being moved.
•1. Jiinnij Dorsej, whose name has figured prominently in recent
Emerald stories, is known as:
Picketing in Protest
TRKiGi
Los \ngeles
.step against i
ulumnst ration.
,'tiices.
workers atfiliated with tin- Worker s Alliance, pro- i
lie aietlioil.s used In the Los Angeles l ountv Keliot ‘
I’hej are shown picketing in trout of the LACKA
I
a. One of the original three cheers.
b. An actor in “As You Like It."
c. One of the two best clarinetists in the game along' with Benny
Goodman.
d. A prominent member of Sigma Delta Chi.
5. "The flowers that bloom in the spring, Tra La" w’as the theme
song of a bunch of student botanists who went off on a wild flower
hunt in the rain the other day. What twm of the following didn't they
find. Like a shy violet in the grass lurks the answer to this one.
a. Dog tooth-violets and Bird’s bills.
b. Fairy-slippers and Oso berry bushes.
c. Trillium and Synthyris (a small blue flower).
a. Salt and Pepper along with Skunk Cabbage.
6. Campus food handlers will not be examined because:
a. Their nervousness might cause them to spill the soup the next
noon.
b. The cost of examining all food handlers on the campus would be
prohibitive.
c. Examinations in the past disclosed too many butter fingers and
coffee spillers.
cl. Examinations must be made by the local food handler's union
and they haven't enough money to conduct one.
7. Salem high faculty recently suppressed a “necking questionnaire"
in the high school sheet because:
a. The idea was gotten from a similar Stanford questionnaire which
tlie Emerald had commented on.
b. The questions “to neck or not to neck” was one beneath Salem
High students.
c. Faculty censor in the "churchiest town in the state" objected to
such an article.
d. It w'as decided the faculty should start censoring the paper and
that was a good place to begin.
S. Oregon has its own commandments now that the housemothers
and heads of houses have announced some admonitions for ladylike
and correct coed conduct. The principal one of these was:
a. Thou shalt not drink pink lemonade in the College Side after
5:15 on Tuesdays.
b. Thou shalt not order food after 10:30 on week nights, even though
thou art starving to death.
c. Thou shall not smoke at dances.
d. Thou shalt not ride in open model T fords.
9. As the result of our modern diet,a Cleveland scientist says that:
a. Our teeth are turning to calcium declorophyl.
b. Our faces and hips are getting narrower.
c. Our toes are getting smaller.
d. Mother-in-laws are becoming fewer.
10. Too late for the Easter parade but determined to be fashionable
anyway, California track stars'have decided that they are going to
wear after this:
a. Shirts with half sleeves.
b. Sleeves with half shirts.
c. Trunks with' half sleeves.
d. Olympic regulation track uniform.
lYa< o Forums
(toutiutied from (•age one)
Stephenson Smith will lead the dis
cussions.
Dr. Thomas Stavely, exchange
professor from England olio is
aow at Heed college, will be the
featured speaker of the forum, and
.vill speak at a general assembly
Thursday.
The schedule is as follows:
Monday Schedule
2:00-3:30 Problems of neutral
ly, led by Dean Morris in the
wen's lounge at Gerlinger.
2:00-3:30 Youth movements in
ther countries, Karl W. Onthank
n the women's lounge.
3:30-5:00 Communism and fas
cism in relation to international
friction, presided over. S. Stephen
son Smith in the men’s lounge.
3:30-5:00 Distribution of natural
resources in relation to political
Boundaries, Warren D. Smith in
.he women's lounge.
2:00-3:30 What student can do
to aid peace, Dean Onthank in the
AWS room.
2:00-3:30 Specific international
policies of the United States, Dean
Morris in the men's lounge.
3:30-5:00 The need for access to
; natural resources as a cause for
j war, Warren D. Smith in the AWS
: room.
j 3:30-5:00 International causes of
Fascism, S. Stephenson Smith in
the men's lounge.
\\ ednesday Schedule
2:00-3:30 The possibility of 'he
United States participating in in
ternational organizations, Dean
Morris in the men s lounge.
2:00-3:30 Campus policies to
: ward war and peace. Dean On
thank in the AWS room.
3:30-3:00 The clash between fas
cism and communism in Europe
land Asia, S. Stephenson Smith in
| the men's lounge.
3:30-5:00 A plan of international
i control of natural resources and
• communication.
1 (WeMn HI?
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SKIPS 6-JUMPS
By ORVAL HOPKINS
I ^HORT short: Once upon a time
there was a little girl who was
a very good little girl. And smart
too. She always did what her
mother told her because her.
i mother was a very wise mother
i trusted her and put the facts be
fore her to figure out for herself.
And being a very wise little girl
she had much fun going to dances
and riding around in cars with
boys and all that stuff.
But withal she was always a
j very good little girl.
Then the time came when she
j should leave home and go to col
! lege. She, left with the wise
words of her mother ringing in
her ears, that she should just
use her little head and do what
she thought was right and she »
knew she would, too.
So at college she joined a sor
ority or something and discov
ered that she had to be in at
12:15 a. m. practically all the
time. And this seemed very
strange to the little girl because
she had never had such restric
tions at home and was yet a very
good little girl. Is it that they
don’t trust me, she would ask
herself, or what.
But, being a very wise little
girl—and good, too—she accepted
the rule and didn’t murmur. And
she soon became very popular and
got to go hi-lee-hi-loing no end.
And she always would say I have
to be in by twelve fifteen, I don’t
know why but I do. And she went
to dances and never did anything
that a nice little girl shouldn’t do.
But she could have.
• * * *
rjoHEN spring came and there
were picnics and all that stuff.
And whenever she went on a pic
nic with some of the boys and
girls she found that there had to
be an upperclass girl along. This
baffled her. Always the upperclass
girl would go off somewhere with
her lad friend and would come
back in time to go home. And
while the upperclass girl was set
ting this beautiful example our
little girl was always very good
and never never did anything
wrong.
But she could have.
It all seeme'J very strange.
Here 1 am, she would say to
herself, getting in at twelve
fifteen and being used as a de
coy for upperclass girls all the
time. But if 1 wanted to be a
bad little girl I could sure be
one, O boy. Because the cozy
little nooks are just as dark be
fore 12:15 a. in. as they are after
and the. upperclass girls never
are around anyhow when we go
on picnics. 1 don’t know where
j they are but they’re never
around. So I could be bad if l
wanted to be bad.
But she wasn't.
She wasn't because she knew
what was right and what was
wrong and was a little too smart
for the boys. I don’t know', she
would say to herself, w'hat a silly
curfew law could do to stop me if
I wanted to be a bad little girl,
or what a chaperon could do about
it if it were a good night for
murder and I felt sort of funny.
So she lived her own life, but
there were a lot of people who
thought they were living it for
her, the end.
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