PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, TUESDAY, APRIL 29. 1913.
Vol. XIV; No. 83
COMMONWEALTH MIS
TO BE WELL ATTEHOED
DELEGATES FROM PORTLAND
WOMEN’S CLUBS AND ORE
GON ENGINEERS HERE
MAY 17
OREGON EDITORS WELCOME
Newspapermen to Hear Addresses
While Prominent Women Will
Speak to Co-eds.
Saturday, May 17, the second day
of the Commonwealth Conference, is
to be a big day, especially for the wo
men of the University and the editors
of Oregon newspapers.
Along with the excursion of Oregon
Engineers, which will arrive here Sat
urday morning, the Women’s Club of
Portland will be represented by a
large number of delegates who will
take part in the afternoon’s program.
At the same time there will be an
editorial meeting. After partaking of
a luncheon which will be served by the
University, the excursionists will meet
with the University women to discuss
problems of interest to the women of
the state. Some of the topics to be
discussed are: What the University
of Oregon does for the women; what
the University can do for the state in
general; and what the women of the
state can do for the University.
Among the women who speak are:
Mrs. H. C. Wortman, Mrs. Vincent
Cook, Mrs. Solomon Hirsch, Mrs. Sa
rah Evans, president of the Woman’s
Clubs, Mrs, Fletcher Linn, Mrs. Jas.
B. Kerr, Miss Isom, Portland librar
ian, Miss Rowland, dean of Reed Col
lege, and Miss Goddard. Some of the
other prominent Portland women who
will attend are Mrs. Frederick Eggert,
Mrs. Helen Ladd Corbett, Mrs .J. N.
Teal, Mrs. McArthur, Miss Henrietta
Failing, Mrs. W. B. Ayer, and Mrs.
Geary.
Co-eds Will Speak.
At this meeting several University
girls will speak. Some of the speak
ers and their subjects are: Elizabeth
Busch, on the work of the Juvenile
Court; Nell Hemenway, on the topic
of Journalism; Amy Rothchild, on
settlement work; Lena Newton, “The
Responsibility of College Girls to the
State,” and Ruth Stone, “The Univer
sity as a Preparation for Life Work.”
The afternoon session of the edi
tors will include several addresses on
the general subject of the place of the
press in the community. B. Frank Ir
vine, of the Oregon Journal, will speak
from a metropolitan editor’s point of
view, A. E. Voorhies, of Grants Pass,
will represent the smaller dailies, and
D. C. Sanderson, of Freewater, will
describe a remarkable career in coun
try journalism. Further entertain
ment for the visiting editors is about
to be arranged.
Following this, scenes from “Peer
Gvnt,” the commencement play, and
folk dances will be given on the cam
pus, along with some form of enter
tainment by the Portland women and
music by the University orchestra.
After the campus program the Uni
versity Women’s League will give a
tea in honor of the visiting women.
Those in charge urge that all students
and faculty members co-operate in or
der to make the day a success.
A movement has been started at
Drake University, Iowa, to compel
their freshmen to wear green caps.
It is argued that “it serves to get the
newcomers in the proper spirit to
wards the University activities.
The relay team of the Northwestern
University set a new four-mile rec
ord last week at Des Moines, IowTa.
The new record set is 18:36 2-5, which
is ten seconds faster than the former
record held by Wisconsin.
SOMETHING TELLS BILL THAT U.
OF W. HAS A HEAVYWEIGHT
Sudden Desire of Dr. Hall to Include
Hammer in Meet Causes Hayward
to Smile.
There must be a weight man at the
University of Washington, is Bill
Hayward’s conclusion, apropos of the
receipt of a number of letters from
Doctor Hall, the athletic director and
track coach at that institution, asking
for the inclusion of the 36 pound ham
mer event in the Conference Meet this
year.
But to these urgings, Hayward is
turning a deaf ear, for he remembers
how, at the last meeting of the repres
entatives of the various Conference
Colleges, everyone but himself wanted
to abolish the hammer throw, and
how they finally did put that event in
the athletic cold storage.
Just why Washington wants the
event back again, Bill does not know,
unless “there’s a reason.”
MOTHER GREAT MORAL
AND SOCIAL INFLUENCE
THIRD YEAR JOURNALISTS RATE
COMPARATIVE FORCES
Editor Rated Second, While Clergy
men and Policemen Rank Below
the Educator.
That the influence of the mother
is the greatest of social and moral
forces, and the influence of the police
man and police magistrate hardly
worth considering, was the consensus
of the belief expressed by the mem
bers of the third year class in Jour
nalism at the University of Oregon
in the course of an examination today.
The class was asked to mark on • a
scale of ten the comparative .effect on
the formation of public opinion of the
efforts of each • of the following
classes: Clergymen, mothers, police
men, legislators, magistrates, editors,
and educators.
Next to the mother, who stood at
the top of the list, practically all the
students placed the editor, marking
him an average of 7 to the mother’s
8. The clergyman’s marks varied
from 2 to 4, just above the policeman
and magistrate, and about on a par
with the legislator. The educator, in
the belief of the majority of the stu
dents, ranks somewhat higher, com
ing in above the clergyman and leg
islator and below the mother and the
editor.
The editor’s influence is attributed
by the students not entirely to his
writing of “editorials,” but rather
more to his control of the morals of
the whole paper.
FORMER STUDENT APPOINTED
OREGON DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Clarence L. Reames, who was ap
pointed United States District Attor
ney for Oregon by President Wilson,
was a student of the University, in
the years of 1895 and 1896. He left
Oregon, however, before graduation to
study law in the office of his brother,
A. E. Reames, at Medford. He was
admitted to the bar in 1904.
Mr. Reames, who is now only thirty
four years of age, has had a remark
ably rapid rise in public life. Up to
1908 he was deputy prosecuting attor
ney. During the last session of the
legislature he was an active Demo
cratic leader and represented Jackson
and Douglas counties.
MISS PERKINS TO ADDRESS
EUTAXIAN SOCIETY TONIGHT
The Eutaxian Literary Society will
hold its regular meeting this evening
in the Library building.
The program will consist of an ad
dress by Miss Mary Perkins on the
American Academy of Letters, des
cribing the Qualifications necessary to
election to that body of literary mas
ters.
EXTEMPORE SPEAKING
INCLUDED iN CONTEST
DUAL ORATORICAL MEET WITH
U. OF W. IN MAY WILL BE
ENTIRELY NEW DE
PARTURE
LEAGUE IS REORGANIZED
Pickett, Donald, Heider, Zimmerman,
to Enter First Try-out
Saturday.
For the first time, inter-collegiate
extemporaneous oratory is to be in
troduced in the Northwest, when Ore
gon orators meet those from Wash
ington in Portland late in May. A
preliminary contest will be held Sat
urday morning in Villard Hall, to
choose the orator to represent Oregon
in the dual contest. Those competing
:ue David Pickett, James Donald, Otto
Heider, and Howard Zimmerman.
Auditorium Secured in Portland.
For the contest with the University
of Washington, R. C. French, manager
of the Portland Y. M. C. A., has of
fered the free use of that auditorium.
There will be two parts to this con
test—oratory, and extempore speak
ing. “International Peace” will be the
subject in oratory, while for the other
event the judges will give the con
testants their subject a few moments
before he speaks on it. One man does
not hear the other speak, and hence
gains nothing by being last speaker.
The newly organized league, with
all the colleges in the conference en
tered, except the University of Idaho,
is the culmination of the old league
first with Oregon, Washington, and
Idaho, and later with Oregon, Wash
ington, and Montana. The Oregon
Agricultural College proposed certain
amendments to do away with two sets
of judges and establish one set, who
shall judge all the contests. These
amendments have been accepted by
all the colleges in the Northwest, ex
cept Idaho, who is not in this league.
Will Substitute Tri-State League.
This dual contest is to substitute
the tri-state league, between Oregon.
Washington, and Montana, which has
been abandoned, and will temporarily
substitute the proposed Northwest
Oratory League, to be composed of
the six oratory colleges. The forma
tion of this latter league has been
prevented this year because of the
procrastination of the northern col
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DISCUSS REFERENDUM
MOVE AT ASSEMBLY
President Campbell and M. J. Duryea
Will Explain Present Situation
Regarding Petitions.
The students of the University will
be informed tomorrow morning of the
exact situation in regard to the cam
paign now being waged in the State
for Higher Education, and for the
support of the University in the ref
erendum, should it be called. The
speakers will be President P. L.
Campbell and M. J. Duryea, secretary
of the Eugene Commercial Club.
President Campbell has been in
Portland for several weeks past and
is thoroughly in touch with the situa
tion and sentiment and pfans for the
coming effort to encourage the citi
zens of Oregon to support their insti
tutions of high education. Morris J.
Duryea, manager of the Eugene Com
mercial Club, has attended several of
the meetings held recently in Port
land, and will present a different side
of the situation. Each speaker will
take fifteen minutes in discussing the
conditions. Special music will be of
fered by Albert Gillette, the popular
boy baritone of this city.
in MAY AFFECT
CHAMPIONSHIP HOPES
BASEBALL TEAM MISSES PRAC
TICE WITH TWO O. A. C.
GAMES COMING
MAY 2, 3
CORVALLIS BUNCH STRONG
Winners of Games With M. A. A. C.
and Regina Will Give Varsity
Hard Tussle.
(By J. Ward Arney.)
Old J. Pluve gummed the deal again
yesterday. In fact he did his passed
performance one better by espousing
to his cause tearful Niobe, and be
tween them they stirred up quite a
lachromose production, in true April -
shower style. Captain Ben and some
dozen of his pennant contenders
braved the elements for awhile but
finally had to take to the tall timber,
as dispirited as a flock of wet chick
ens, for practice means a whole lot to
them now, with the 0. A. C. games in
sight, Friday and Saturday next.
Dope Against Oregon.
These two games with the Aggies
give promise of being hotly contest
ed, if comparative scores can be de
pended on to furnish a basis fo ■ dope.
Multnomah Athletic Club took our
measure a couple of weeks ago, 7-4,
while Saturday the aggregation from
Doc Stewart's school turned the ta
bles by defeating the Clubmen 12 to 4.
Figuring along this line, O. A. C.
would have Oregon beaten to death,
but taking into consideration the fact
that Oregon went on the Multnomah
field after a grueling trip over the
Northwest and minus the services of
both Capt. Chandler and Mount, cal
culation would place the two teams
on nearly the same footing, as to their
relative strength.
In Coach Jesse Garrett, the Corval
lis institution has a thoroughly cap
able and efficient tutor, who knows
baseball tactics from Alpha to Omega
and can be depended on to bring a
team over here well versed in the
strategies and tricks of the game.
Fans will remember him as Port
land’s leading pitcher for years and
as the pilot of the Pendleton Club in
the Western Tri-State League during
last season. He is a heady, brainy
ball player, and a fighting manager
and coach, so should have his pupils
full of pep and ginger.
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GEARY MAY ARRANGE
MEET WITH BERKELEY
California Track Team on Trip East
May Be Induced to Stop
Off Here.
Manager Arthur M. Geary has writ
ten a letter to Berkeley, asking for a
track meet between the University of
California and Oregon shortly after
May 10, to be held in Eugene.
The Berkeley team has planned to
leave about that time for a trip east,
participating in a meet with the mid
dle western colleges, probably at Chi
cago, and then journeying to the
east, where they will take part in a
meet with Yale, Harvard, and other
big institutions of that section. Last
year this team won the middle west
championship.
Q This'-yea^ the t&am wiil carry ten
men, and it is hoped that they can be
induced to stop off at Eugene for a
m et with the University, while on
their way east.
The Sophomore team won the inter
class track meet at Whitman last
Saturday with a score of 41 points.
Bowers for the Seniors was the high
point winner, annexing 19 points.
SENIORS TO FROLIC ON GREEN, DANCE
IN HOP DRYER, RETURNING LATE
Hayracks Leave Library Thursday at
3:45 P. M., for Seavy's Ferry—
Every Senior Will (Jo.
Bouncing along- on hayracks, in the
good old fashioned way. the one hun
dred and ten Seniors will leave all of
their college cares behind them next
Thursday afternoon, and hold another
potpourri of fun at Seavv’s Ferry.
Their previous well thought our
plans nipped in the bud by the Fac
ulty, the Senior committee decided to
stake its little romp day after tomor
row. The conveyances will leave the
Library at 3:45 sharp, the women of
the class furnishing the lunch. Ar
riving at the Ferry, the men will build
a bonfire, while between courses, mem
bers of the class will make real
speeches.
'Phis feature over, a dance, the real
thing, will be held in Seavy’s hop
house across the river. Three house
mothers will act as patronesses.
Should it rain rI hursday morning, the
picnic will not be held.
DOUGHNUT BASEBALL
RAIN FOLLOWS DRAWING-UP OF
SCHEDULE
Interfrat Directors Consider Satur
day’s Track Meet us Well as
Ball Schedule.
Meeting; yesterday afternoon be
fore old man J. Pluvius loosed his tor
rents that put all athletics on the
kibosh for a while, the Interfraternity
Athletic Council drew up the Dough
nut Baseball Schedule for the remain
der of the season. But as rain caused
the first game to be postponed, which
was to have been held yesterday, the
whole schedule is thrown back. As
soon as the weather permits, the
first scheduled game will be played,
the other games coming in the follow
ing order. Sigma Chi vs. Dormitory;
Avava vs. Zeta Phi; Kappa Sigma vs.
Oregon Club; Alpha Tau Omega vs.
Phi Delta Theta; Dormitory vs. Kap
pa Sigma.
Phi Gamma Delta and Sigma Nu
have already qualified, so were not in
the drawing.
The directors voted to hand Ed
Shockley a blue envelope to affect his
services as umpire, and also to allow
each team to choose their own referee
hereafter.
Details of the interfraternity track
meet were considered, it being deter
mined that there should be five en
tries from each house, although the
relay race will be thrown open to all.
The events will be arranged in the
same order as the Multnomah meet
last Saturday, while the whole meet
will be under the personal direction of
William L. Hayward.
GERMAN CLUB WILL DISCUSS
HEIDELBERG TONIGHT
Heidelberg, its history and promin
ent features, will be the subject of the ;
German Club meeting this even
ing, at the Mary Spiller house, at k
o’clock.
The program is as follows: Open
ing remarks by the president, Amy
Rothchild; vocal selection, by Vernon
Mptscenbacher; Castle of Heidelberg, !
Lucia Macklin; University of Heidel
berg, Kffie Rhodes; Comparison of
German and American Students, Pro
fessor Hugo Koehler; vocal solo, Ken- j
neth Frazier.
As the result of a petition signed
by a majority of the students, a de
partment of public speaking has been
established at .Stanford University.
The object of the new department is
to create more interest in debating
and forensics, in which subjects of
special instruction will be given.
Credit will also be given members of
the debating and forensic teams.
CLEVER STUNTS MARK
ANNUAL APRIL FROLIC
SORORITIES. CLUBS, HOUSE MO
THERS AND FACULTY WO
MEN UNITE IN GOOD
TIME
MANY VISITORS SEE EVENT
Kappa Alpha Theta Wins First Prize
for Originality and Cleverness
of Show.
(By Bess Lewis.)
The Froiic, like Gaul, was as a
whole, divided into three parts. Those
who performed, which included most
of the eo-ed, faculty women and
house-mothers; those who witnessed
it from the gallery; and those who be
long to the Oregon Chapter of the
Woodmen of the World, “on the out
side looking in,’’ among whom many
local celebrites are numbered.
Kappa Alpha Theta opened the
show with its “Trained Seals,” who
performed in a manner worthy of
their handsome trainer and who
showed almost human intelligence,
Mu Phi Epsilon followed with the
“Evolution of the Dance,” from the
Indian war dance, then the Colonial
minuet, barn-dance, Merry Widow, to
the Texas Tommy.
The Oregon Club stunt was partic
ularly clever—“The End of the Con
troversy.” ... .....
Ceremonies Interrupted.
Miss U. of ()., the charming, blush
ing bride, entered on the arm of her
father, President Camppell, and pre
eeeded by dainty flower girls, to be
wedded in the “holy bonds of actri
mony” to Mr. 0. A. C. by Reverend
H. .1. Parkison. But the ceremony
was interrupted by a crowd of pro
testors, who strung Mr. Parkison up
by a rope let down from the gallery.
Chi Omega gave “The Last Chap
ter,” a pantomine of the finalee of a
sorority melodrama and romance.
Lambda Rho gave a County Fair scene
with a characteristically cosmopolitan
crowd of spectators. Gamma Phi Beta
presented “The Desperate Seniors,” in
which they took off prominent Seniors
making a last desperate attempt to
capture a man by the formation of a
society for that purpose. This was a
splendid chance for several of the
Seniors to see themselves as others
see them and to profit thereby.
Kappa Kappa Gamma followed with
a circus, which had a baby elephant,
a camel, a horse, a strong woman, a
fat baby, a real clown, and other fea
tures.
Faculty Members Featured.
Delta Delta Delta called its stunt
“Gymjinks Comedy,” and gave a
successful imitation of Dr. Stuart and
one of her classes, which was helped
out by several catchy, snappy songs—*
worded to suit the occasion. Beth
Reah gave a series of motion pictures
and characteristic poses of prominent
faculty members.
The Eutaxians put many of these
same people into the “Fountain of
Youth,” and marvelous were the re
sults.
Triple-A scored a huge success when
they presented a Macbeth-like scene
in which a dozen little red devils
burned the souls of the Sophomores
in a flaming cauldron.
A splendid innovation in the Frolic
was the introduction of stunts by the
housemothers and faculty women. The
housemothers were charming and
much appreciated in their “Southern
Hospitality,” when they served punch
to the thirsty crowd. It will be a long
time before the faculty women will be
forgotten and “Nix on Corvallis for
us,” will always recall a line of dig
nified (?) faculty wives in their pro
test against going to Corvallis.
Dancing Concludes Frolic.
The stunts were followed by a grand
march, which can never be equaled for
its cosmopolitan ensemblfe, after which
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