IMPORTANT MEETING of Women’s League, Wed nesday, at 4 p. m., in Villard Hall SOPHOMORE PICNIC Leaves Library, Thursday, for Seavey’s Ferry, 3:30 P. M. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY. MAY 20, 1913. Vol. XIV; No. 92 PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK a ARE STARTED 1 COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE PLANS FOR COMMITTEES ON IMPORTANT MATTERS TO FORM MUNICIPAL LEAGUE Educational League and Commissions on \Vrater Power and Co-opera tion Is Plan. Five definite actions have been started by the fifth annual University Commonwealth conference, the great est in the history of the State: A committee of seven members from Oregon institutions of higher education will be an auxiliary to the Oregon Citizen’s Educational League and the People’s League of Higher Education to serve as their experts in the work of educational readjust ment in Oregon. A commission of seven members will be organized to investigate co operative systems of business organi tion. A commission of 15 members will undertake the investigation at home and abroad the problem of the devel opment of Oregon’s water power re sources, which shall draw up plans to embody a state policy. A commission of seven men will plan the organization of the Oregon Municipal League for co-operation among the Oregon cities. The announcement of a plan to en large the faculty of the University of Oregon by bringing experts in business lines, such as Oregon bank ers, merchants, sociologists, engineers and others to lecture to the students in Eugene. Appointments of the first three commissions are to be made by Hon. H. B. Miller, former consul at Harbin and at Belfast, who presided at ses sions of the conference Saturday. The committee to secure organiza tion of the league of municipalities will be named by Professor F. G. Young shortly. The announcement of the broaden ing of the scope of instruction in Uni versity classes was made by President (Continued on third page.) KAPPJISIG MD SIGMA 1 ARE ELIMINATED Avava Club Wins First Contest of Semi-Fnals, for Which Six Teams Qualified. By winning from the Kappa Sig ma’s, 5-2, in the play-off of a tie game, the Dorm qualified for the semi-finals in the Doughnut League. Ken Reed held Cornell and Co. hit less throughout, while the Dorm com bined three hits with enough wild heaves and boots to sack the Kap pa’s woolen. This put the losers in the “also-ran” league. Last evening Avava Club defeated Sigma Nu in the first game of the semi-finals by the score of 8 to 5. The Sigmanumerouses took the lead in the first round, but the replacing of Dobie with Buck Bigbee on the hill, and the attempt of Speck to break all of Wilbur Wright’s altitude records, turned the tide of defeat from the club’s side of the ledger. “Nut” Rolfe’s two-bagger, with two on, fur nished the thriller. Sigma Nu joins Kappa Sigma in the consolation cir cuit. Tonight Phi Gamma Delta and Ore gon Club meet, and Wednesday Alpha Tau Omega and the Dorm mix. BRUCE, IN DOG HOSPITAL, IS MISSED AT C0LLE6E CLASSES Dog Gets in Mixup With Rough neck Dog With Dire Results. Bruce, the pride and joy of the Beth Reah house, will be compelled to cut classes for a few days, as the result of an onslaught by “Kelly,” the buckskin terror to d^fdom. Bruce was accompanying one of his sorority • friends down Willamette street Monday afternoon, when the bull-dog waylaid him. Not to be outdone by the “Irish” bull dog, the Scotch collie waded energetically into the fray, but by the time the owner of the bulldog pulled them apart, Bruce was bitten through one of his hind legs, cutting into an artery. He was then taken to a veterinary, leaving a trail of blood in his wake, and will now have to rest in the hospital until his leg heals. ORGANIZATION PLANS TO COLLECT DOLLARS RESULT OF WOMEN’S SESSION DURING CONFERENCE Effort Made to Have Each Woman of State Contribute to Women’s Building. To collect a dollar from every wo man in Oregon for a fund to erect a building upon the University of Ore gon campus is the plan of a new or ganization which is to be formed, largely through the effort of Portland women. The women in this way pro pose to assist the University Co-eds who a few days ago announced a plan of their own to raise $50,000 for a woman’s building. The motion to create the new or ganization for this purpose was made by Mrs. M. L. T. Hidden, of Portland, at the women’s session of the Univer sity Commonwealth conference Satur day. Among the other Portland wo man who will be active in the com pleting the organization and the pushing of the hollar-per-member plan are Mrs. Vincent Cook, Miss Jes sie Goddard, Mrs. Dr. Catherine Manion, and Mrs. Fletcher Linn. Miss Ruth Guppy, Dean of Women at the University, represents the Organiza tion in Eugene; and Mrs. W. D. Da vidson, in Medford. In the meantime the University women will continue their original plan, selling candy, and soliciting sub scriptions, using the money to in crease the fund which they have started. Mrs. E. S. Parsons, of the English department, is to be the guest of Miss Rossiter, Librarian, and Dean of Wo men, at Reed College, all day next Saturday. AUTO TRIP PLANNED Varsity Supporters Get Rate of One half for Excursion to O. A. C. Saturday. * o - o A rate of $2.00 for the round trip to Corvallis for the baseball game and track meet Saturday, has been offered by a local auto company, should there be enough students who desire to make the trip by automobile. The plan is to leave early enough in the morning to reach the Aggie stronghold before the nines cross bats in the deciding game, and leave imme diately after the track meet. Those desiring to make the trip, should leave their names with Obak, includ ing those who have their own cars, but who will join in the excursion. The roads are reported to be in good shape, so as to allow good time to be made. SEiroJ Spring- Fever Still Rages. EX-PREACHER MAKES EDITORS OPEN EYES D. C. SANDERSON TELLS MEM BERS OF STATE PRESS HOW TO GET RICH OFF NEWSPAPER QUIT PULPIT TO GET RICH Newspapermen Sit and Wonder at Story of Freewater Editor who Turned Personality Into Money. .. A little short, ordinary-looking man admitted that he had been a preacher for 20 years named D. C. Sanderson, of Freewater, Oregon, put to shame a score of Oregon newspapermen at the meeting of the State Press Associa tion on the University campus Satur day, when he told his experience as editor of the Freewater Times. The two speakers preceding him spoke d'.sparragingly of the country paper; had attributed the many failures to lack of systems, and then quibbled over the proper systems of figuring costs on a daily. Sanderson arose, declared that he himself knew noth ing of system, that he did not even keep books. He said he had assumed $285 of debts on the Freewater Times five years ago, and had been given the paper with a circulation of 117. In the five years he says he has made off this paper some $16,000, and is now earning $250 a month. He has a modem plant, where before he had nothing. He says he selected the newspaper business to provide for his old age. His success he attributes not to system, but to personality of the owner. He charges higher rates than do most of the editors present at the meeting; his field is the small est. At the time he went into the newspaper business he was the pastor of the biggest Presbyterian church in Canada. “I don’t put a word in my paper that I do not believe,” he said. “In that is my success. I educate my people. I am king of my community. The minister is the greatest power in the world for good, except the news paper. Nothing^n this world is bet ter than to be the editor of a little country newspaper.” The newspaper men present listened with open eyes and mouths. Preceding him spoke A. H. Harris, of the Portland Labor Press, who cen sured the newspapers for not charging more for their advertising space. “The biggest business man in Eugene told me this morning,” he said, “that his whole business had grown largely by continued newspaper advertising. ‘No other influence,” he told me, ‘has Continued on page 3. BY SIGMA DELTA CHI PRESS FRATERNITY ENTER TAINS NEWSPAPER MEN OF WILLAMETTE VALLEY SANDERSON MAKES SPEECH Regent Miller and President Campbell Also Respond at Newpaper men’s Dinner. “The Arehimedian lever to lift the United States, is the public press,” declared D. C. Sanderson, editor of the Freewater Times at the banquet given Saturday evening by the Sigma Delta Chi fraternity to the newspa permen visiting the State University for the Commonwealth Conference. Mr. Sanderson, former lawyer and former preacher, asserted the news paper is the greatest force for the help of humanity. “The salvation of the state lies in education,” said President Campbell, as he reviewed the place of the Uni versity of Oregon in the complex gov ernment which the State of Oregon now has in the initiative and refer endum. Franklin Allen, president of the fra ternity, welcomed the guests, and Karl Onthank, of the Oregon Emer ald, told the visiting editors of the aspirations of the journalism students. Carleton Spencer was toastmaster, and Professor Allen spoke the parting words. Visiting editors who spoke were Phil Bates, Col. E. Hofer, R. J. Hendricks, and Mrs. Rosalie Gaulding. Regent M. A. Miller spoke briefly. It was the first time in Oregon that the editors have been entertained by a press fraternity. Those present were H. Y. Kirkpatrick, Express, Le banon; Frank Jenkins, Register, Eu gene; S. L. Moorehead, Times, Junc tion City; M. D. Morgan, Bulletin, Harrisburg; D. C. Sanderson, Times, Freewater; W. A. Dill, night editor of Register, Eugene; E. J. Finneran, Guard, Eugene; J. E. Werlein, Port land; E. Hofer, Oregon Manufacturer, Salem; Philip S. Bates, Pacific North west, .Portland; Mrs. Rosalie Gauld ing, Oregon Journal* Portland; Elbert Bede, Sentinel, Cottage Grove; A. H. Harris, Portlaq^l Labor Press; Bert R. Greer, Tidings, Ashland; Hon. Mil ton A. Miller, Lebanon. The members of the fraternity who were present, included Andrew Col lier, Karl Onthank, Fendal Waite, Franklin Allen, Leland Hendricks, Sam Michael, Don Rice, Harold Young, Earl Blackaby, Thomas Boy len, Carleton Spencer, Arthur Geary, Professor Allen, and President P. L. Campbell. THADDEUSWENTWORTH OREGON’S MODEL STUDENT: HAS NOT YET CUT A CLASS Big Senior Has Gone Four Years Through College With Perfect Attendance Record. Perhaps no student in college has such an enviable record for prompt ness and attendance to classes as that of Thaddeus Wentworth, a Senior in the Economic Department. During his four years in the Uni versity, Wentworth has never missed a class, and it is only once that he has appeared before a professor after the “tardy bell.” Wentworth, who hails from Port land, is in two ways one of the “big men of the University. He weighs 235 pounds in his stocking feet, and has always taken a prominent part in college activities. MOULTON’S STEPSONS Oregon Men Expected to Land Large Lead in Dual Meet Saturday. With the Oregon-O, A. C. meet scheduled for the coming Saturday, the dopesters have begun to make predictions as to the probable out come and have already conceeded the blue ribbon to Bill Hayward and his track squad. According to the sheet, the varsity seems to have an edge of 20 or 25 points over the “Aggies.” A victory for Oregon in Saturday’s meet is by no means certain, as “Dad” Moulton’s men have had no chance to demonstrate their ability thus far this season, and may spring several sur prises, which the dopesters have not accounted for in their predictions. “Dad” Moulton, the veteran Stanford coach, in the few weeks that he has been in Corvallis, has built up an en tirely new team from that which won the four-cornered meet with Multno mah, Columbia, and Pacific, earlier in the Spring. Hayward not only expects to cap ture a majority of firsts, but is tak ing a large squad to Corvallis, in or der to pick up any stray points. Every possible point winner will make the trip. With Captain McClure, Huggins, and Windnagle, Oregon should have no difficulty in landing the distance events, while Neil, Cook, and Heiden reich are counted upon to take care of the three weight events. Parsons, if in good form, will take the broad jump. This insures the varsity 35 points in first places. All the other events promise to be closely contested. (Contined on la>t page.) READ OFFERS CUP Wants McClure and Windnagle to Run Official 880 for Coast Record. Declaring that he believes either McClure or Windnagle is capable of making a coast record in the half mile run, Dr. S. D. Read, a prominent den tist of Eugene, has offered a silver cup to be presented to the winner of such a race. “I have always been interested in the keen competition between Mc Clure and Windnagle,” said Dr. Read today, “and before McClure graduates I would like to see a record made in the 880 yard race that will stand for a number of years.” The only limitation that Dr, Read attaches to his offer is that the race will be so arranged, with the proper officials, that any time made in the event will stand as an official record. LEADS LEAGUE O. A.