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OREGON VOL. XIII. WEDNESDAY. MAY 1, 1912. No. 52 EUGENE, OREGON, NOMINATIONS HELD FOR STUDENT BODY OFFICES NEXT TEAR CONTEST FOR PRESIDENT BE TWEEN EDWARD BAILEY AND CARL SPENCER EMERALD EDITORSHIP TO BE CONTESTED Political Aspirants Scout Vice Presi dency and Managerial Jobs on Monthly. A superfluity of oratorical pyro technics marked the annual nomina tion of student body officers this morning for the election to be held next Wednesday. The speeches which will be made at the national political conventions this summer were fore shadowed and eclipsed by the efforts of the ’varsity spellbinders, who were so eloquent as to almost make amends for the absence of the fam ous harangues of “Beauty” Robi son. Nominations Are Few. Although the number of aspirants this year is not nearly so laige as in former elections, and several offices almost went begging for lack of can didates, indications point toward pretty races for several of the most coveted offices. Edward Bailey, Oregon’s big foot ball tackle, will carry the hopes of the opposition to Carleton Spencer for President of the Student Body. The name of Bailey was placed in nomina tion by Chet Moores. Earl Jones pro posed the name of Spencer in a strong speech, and the nominations were closed with no further contest. Another two-man fight developed for the editorship of the Oregon Em erald. Editor Powell nominated Fen del S. Waite as his choice and rec ommendation for the position, and President Ray then sprung a surprise by relinquishing the chair to Vice President Geisler and putting forward an insurgent candidate in the person of Karl Onthank, the present Oregana editor. Candidates Also May Petition. For Vice President of the Student Body, Manager of the Oregon Month ly, Managers of the Emerald and Oregon Monthly, and four Associate Editors of the Monthly, there were no extra nominees, and these offices will therefore go by default unless new names are placed on the ballot. President Ray announced that this may be done by a petition signed by ten or more members of the Student Body and presented to him between now and Monday morning. The names of any candidates nominated in this way will be placed on the ballot along with those formally proposed this morning. List of Nominees. The list of candidates, and those by whom they were placed in nomina tion, follows: President Student Body—Edward Bailey, (Chester Moores); Carleton Spencer, (Earl Jones). Vice President Student Body—Bur leigh Cash. (Robert Kellogg). Secretary Student Body—Carin Degermark, (Allyn Roberts); Anne McMicken, (Andrew Collier); Eliza beth Busch, (Burns Powell); Alice Farnsworth, (David Pickett). Two Members Executive Commit tee—Ben Chandler, (Rex Turner); Thaddeus Wentworth, (Harold War ner); Erwin Rolfe, (Allyn Roberts). Three Members Athletic Council— Carl Fenton, (Allie Grout); Dean Walker, (Harold Cockerline); Paul DR. REBEC ORGANIZES CHINESE SEMINAR A seminar under the leadership of Dr. George Rebec of the Department of Education is being organized for the study and discussion of the Chin ese Revolution. Dr. Rebec has read extensively concerning Chinese af fairs, is well versed in the literature of things Chinese, and has lectured on the changes in China in connection with his courses in ethics at Mich igan. An inexpensive text book, “The Chinese Revolution, • costing fifty cents will be used as a basis for this study. The book is hot off the press and is written by Dr. Judson Brown, who has studied China on the ground. Copies will be on sale at the Book Exchange this week. The seminar which will meet this Tuesday evening at 7 o’clocsk in Dr. Schmidt’s room of Deady Hall, will be open to every one interested. SENIORS STUDY RACES Miss Hammerstrom and Mike Stastny Investigate Local Influence of Finns and Bohemians Two theses in the Department of History. Matthew Stastny, “The Bo hemian Element in Oregon,” and Ruby Hammerstrom’s “The Finnish Ele ment in Astoria,” deal with racial in fluences in this state. Mr. Stastny has been studying the general history and development of the Bohemians in this state, and has made a careful location of their larger settlements through local newspapers and personal correspondence. Their social characteristics are considered, as well as their general influence. Miss Hammerstrom has just com pleted a mass of statistics relating to the Finns in Oregon, and espe cially in Astoria. The importance of her subject is shown by the fact that she finds the number of Finninsh school children in Astoria greater than the enrollment of American. She has obtained information about their families from every Finn in school. She takes up their history in that city, and considers their attitude to ward prominent questions of educa tion, politics and church affiliation. Miss Brown Visits Y. W. The Y. W. C. A. has been favored this week by a visit from Miss Ann Brown, the Secretary of the Student Volunteers of the National Y. W. C. A. She gave the Y. W. C. A. a very enthusiastic talk upon student volun teer movement, Monday afternoon. Miss Brown was a guest at the Gam ma Phi Beta House during her short stay here. A reception was given in her honor yesterday afternoon. Alsea Hawley spent the week-end at her home in Cottage Grove. Briedwell, (Ralph Moores); Joe Jones, (Clarence Walls). Editor Oregon Emerald—Fendel Waite. (Burns Powell); Karl On thank, (Leon Ray). Manager Oregon Emerald—-Abe Blackman, (Robert Kellogg); Robert Wray, (Karl Martzloff); Andrew Collier, (Dean Walker). Assistant Manager Emerald—Ly man Rice, (Andrew Collier). Editor Oregon Monthly—Flora Dunham, (Hawley Bean); Elizabeth Lewis, (Homer Jamison). Four Associate Editors Monthly— William Cass, (Burns Powell); Lucia Macklin, (William Dunlap); Esther Grissen, (Phil Hammond); Mason Roberts, (Lyle Brown). Manager Monthly—Ernest Lamm, (Howard Zimmerman). Assistant Manager Monthly—How ard Zimmerman, (Ernest Lamm). WEEK END PROGRAM ALREADY FULL SAYS JUNIOR COMMITTEE TRACK MEETS, DANCES AND BALL GAMES A FEW OF THE EVENTS PROMISED RALLY GIVEN FOR NON-DANCING VISITORS Junior Prom a Feature—Time Not Definitely Set for Canoe Carnival. Junior week-end promises to be as busy this year as ever before since the schedule is full to overflowing. The Junior oratoricals will not be included on the program this year, though they are a feature of long standing. No one has manifested any interest in taking part, so that it was decided to omit them entirely. The program is scarcely settled as concerns one or two of the events. The athletic engagement with O. A. C. rather upset the program as it was originally planned. The canoe carnival was to have been held Friday afternoon, but the dual meet with the Aggies has been set for that time. Program Extensive. As the program now stands, it is: May 8, Wednesday, P. M.—Baseball I game with W. S. C. May 9, Thursday, P. M.—Baseball ; game with W. S. C. May 10, Friday A. M.—University Day, Luncheon on Campus. Friday, P. M.—Dual meet with 0. A. C. Fri day evening—Dramatic Club Play, “Engaged.” May 11, Saturday, A. M.—Inter scholastic meet preliminaries. Satur day, P. M.—Interscholastic meet fin als. Saturday evening—Junior Prom, Men’s Gvm. Complimentary ticKets to the base . ball games, the track meet, the dram [ atic club play and the junior prom, will be given to all athletics and in structors. For the benefit of the “preps” who do not dance, a rally will be held in Villard Hall, which is expected to give the visitors a chance to get acquainted. Bill Hayward will give several stere opticon lectures which will show the form used in the various track events by record holders, also the value of preliminary high school training to the successful college ath lete. Special places of vantage along the banks of the mill race will be al loted to the visitors during the canoe carnival, which will take place Fri-1 day afternoon. Trophies Given at Prom. Committees have been appointed for the prom and arrangements are be ing perfected rapidly. The general committee promises a number of clever innovations, at the big dance, designed to inspire the Oregon spirit in the “preppers” present. The troph ies for the interscholastic athletes will be presented at the dance. The Junior Annual will be distrib uted Friday, May 10, and the Wo men’s Emerald will appear on Satur day. The Canoe Carnival will be worked in in some of the slack moments. The Tennis tournament with M. A. A. C. will probably be played off Friday morning. Miss R. Louise Fitch, the editor of the Trident, has been a guest for several days at the Tri Delta House. The Tri Delta Alliance were enter tained at the Tri Delta House Monday evening. OREGON TRACK TEAM LEAVES FOR BERKELEY Five of Oregon's track athletes, ac companied by Trainer Hayward and Manager Geary, left last night for Berkeley, California, where they will compete in the all-Coast meet next Saturday. The men who made the trip are: Martin Hawkins, hurdler, McClure and Huggins, distance men, Bill Neill, javelin, and quarter miler, and James Johns, sprinter. A number of good men and possi ble point winners were left behind on account of the large expenses of the trip. Ben Williams, pole vaulter, was not able to make the trip on account of the sprained ankle sustained at the Columbia meet. While in Berkeley, Manager Geary will attend a conference of the man agers to decide where the meet shall be held next year and the conditions governing the entries. TICKET RATES ARE CUT Geary Announces Blanket Ticket for Junior Week-End Meets and Games. All previous “Bargain Counters” and “Economy Sales” will be eclipsed in their saving to early buyers by a plan that Mgr. Geary has concocted to insure a balance on the ledger after the smoke of Junior week-end has disappeared. As the athletic program this year includes two ball games and two track meets, the combined cost of admis sion to all would be $2.20, and nearly five dollars to those who cannot go alone. In order to relieve this finan cial burden, and to insure good crowds, tickets to all four events will be dispensed for $1.75. This will not include the Junior Prom. Tickets will be on sale at Obak’s and the Y. M. C. A. Exchange on the campus, beginning Thursday and con tinuing until Monday evening, when the “big sale” positively closes. Any student who wants to earn a ticket, can do so by selling ten, which can be procured at the Exchange. This price is open to all. Booster Duryea, of the local com mercial club, is arranging to decorate the business streets in honor of our visitors, and the Merchants Protective Association have agreed to close their stores from 2 to 4 on Friday after noon, the date of the O. A. C. track meet. INITIATIVE AND REFEREN DUM LA U RE AN SUBJECT Next Saturday evening the Laure an Literary Society will be favored with a talk by one of Oregon’s loyal alumni, Representative Allen Eaton, who will speak on the “Workings of the Initiative and Referendum in Or egon.’’ Mr. Eaton is thoroughly acquainted with the workings of the Oregon sys tem, having taken an active part in all the late political reforms of the state. He has been concerned espe cially with the inside machinery of the initiative and referendum since the University of Oregon has been in volved in it. Friday, May 3, the Laureans will hold their annual banquet at the Os burn hotel. The society is looking forward to this “feed” with enthu siasm and are making every effort to insure its success. Between twenty and thirty active members and sev eral of the alumni members are ex pected to be present. o Beatrice Locke, Constance King, and Margaret Deering, visited the Theta House over the week-end and were participants in the “April Frolic.” CO ED APRIL FROLIC GIVES OUTLET FOR FEMININE SPIRITS VARSITY GIRLS IN FANCY DRESS STAR BEFORE EXCLUSIVE AUDIENCE REFERENDUM RAG PROVES POPULAR Faculty Jokes and Millrace Hits Also Well Received by the Onlookers The annual April Frolic was held last Saturday night at the Men’s Gym nasium, and was generally conceded to be the best ever given. All the clubs and sororities participated, and every stunt was enthusiastically ap plauded. The first act was a pantomime by the Tri Deltas, entitled “Miles Stan dish,” and was well acted out, with Josie Moorhead as the small boy and Norma Graves as the irate father. Next came the Gamma Phis in the Referendum Rag, which scored a big hit, as the suffragette costumes were exceedingly realistic. After this ap peared a minstrel show, put on by the Thetas, and the songs and local jokes, were good examples of such minstrel screams as those presented by Tom Burke and Jerry Martin. The Eutaxians, under the title of the Eutaxiphone, gave a song, full of local hits, which highly pleased the audience, if not the prominent people mentioned in the stunt. Fancy Dances Well Received. The Gloomy Glooms was well given, led by Gladys Cartwright, as well as the Grand Opera, in which the Mu Phi Epsilon Society took part. The Lambda Rhos tripped lightly in a chorus girl costume, led by Lucia Macklin, while Edna Miller and Agnes Elliott sang a song full of take-offs on the millrace. The Beth Reahs, in the stunt Orh narip Hijubellites, got off several clev er hits on Dr. Stuart and other mem bers of the faculty, who were laughing spectators in the balcony. There was also given a realistic representation of I)r. Stuart’s grace ful fancy dancers, by the Oregon Club, while as a fitting climax the Chi Omegas put forth, in the startling way, the dangers of late eating. After the stunts a grand march was formed, led by Birdie Wise and Freda Goldsmith, and dancing and eats were indulged in for the rest of the evening. VALUE OF STUDENT CONFER ENCES WILL BE SHOWN * ’ • For the purpose of enlightening the men of the University who are inter ested in Y. M. C. A. work, on the annual Columbia Beach Student Con ference, held June 14th to 23rd, Mr. Gale Seamen, Student Coast Secre tary, will give an illustrated lecture, Thursday evening, in Professor Sweet ser’s room, at 7:00 o’clock. This lec ture, which will point out the advan tages of student conferences in gen eral, and the Columbia Beach confer ence in particular, will be the regular weekly Y. M. C. A. meeting. Mr. Seaman will illustrate his talk with scenes from the last conference. Dr. (). It. Gullion will give the fourth address of the “Health and Strength” series Wednesday, at 7:00 o’clock, in Deady Hall. Miss Brown, the traveling Secre tary of the Y. W. C. A. Volunteer Movement, is visiting Florence Cleve land at the Gamma Phi Beta House this week.