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% OREGON EMERALD PUBLISHED THREE TIMES „A W UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, EUGENE^ SATURDAY,.APRIL 3* 1915 Volume XVII, 0No. 66 AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS THE GOSPEL OF MAN I OLD WORLD CULTURE NOT REAL BASIS OF CIVILIZA TION, SAYS MARY ANTIN EUROPE SEEKS JUSTIFICATION United States Will be Refuge'of For eigners After Great War is Prediction of Speaker Mary Antin, a Jewess from the “pale of settlement” of Russia, au thor of “The Promised Land” and “Those That Knock at Our Gates,” delivered an address on “America in the Light of the European War” in Villard Hall Thursday evening, April 1 The assembly room was well filled, but the little woman succeeded in making herself heard in all parts of the room. She spoke in clear, beauti ful English, and her hearers grasped her ideas instantly. Her first words were of appreciation for the kindness es which, in her own words, had been 'showered upon her in Eugene.” “The new thing about this war,” the speaker said, “is the clamor raised against it. Never before were com batants so eager to be justified in the eyes of the world. War is going out of fashion, that is the reason people seek to justify themselves. “Russia, England, France, each na tion seeks to justify its position by -boasting some vaunted culture or re finement; England for political achievement, Germany for literature and music. These are the very things for the lack of which America has been blamed. But are they the bottom of civilization, as the big talk in Europe would lead us to believe? Before we can have the fruits of civ ilization ,we must have the funda mental things clear down to the bot tom, which none of them have. “Let us see for how much their cul ture counts. It is only a question as to what particular corner of Europe in which the next battle is to be fought, that determines what precious masterpiece is to be trodden in the dust tomorrow. Those things do not last because they are not securely founded, but with America it is dif ferent. We have only one thing—our democracy—but what we have we pass around. That is the difference, the % little we have is the property of all; that is the reason that it is safer with us. “The conflagration in Europe,” the frail little woman went on, “is serv ing to show us where we stand and whither we are going. The chorused sob of despair from the battlefiells and from the desolate homes is smiting our ears. What about civilization? What does it stand us in a time like ° this? When the war is over and the people of Europe will flock to us for the protection of our land and flag; then we will be able to tell; then will the queries be answered.” The underlying point of the entire address was that America is the land of freedom, made so by extreme de * mocraCy. The speaker emphasized that this is the natural haven of all foreigners, and that is as it ought to be. The speaker rose to the height of feeling too deep for words on more than one occasion, and her voice broke , when she was telling of American democracy, freedom and ideals. Twice the audience interrupted to cheer her, but the remainder of the time it sat in breathless silence. Mary Antin repeated over and over in the course of her lecture that Amer ica is noted for her democracy. She said that future generations will hail our democracy as part of the sacred teachings of the world. “Why need we wait?” she ques tioned. “Let us acknowledge it as (Contained on par* 4.) BI6 DOINGS ARE SLATED WHEN OREGON MEETS WASHINGTON Baseball Game With Dobieites Will Launch the Gay Junior Week End Regalia Monday and Tuesday, May 10 and 11, will witness the opening of the baseball conference season in Eugene, by two games between the Uiversity of Oregon and the University of Washington teams. There will be a big parade, consisting in part of the Mayor of Eugene, the President of the University, the members of the Board of Regents, and prominent cit iznes in automobiles, the two teams, the University Band and band wagon. This celebration will virtually be the opening of Junior Week-End also, although the real dates for the latter are May 14, 15 and 16. The Wash ington track meet will be held on Friday, and the interscholastic track and field meet will come off Saturday. WOMEN HIKE MERRY; 61 BURRED 10 NER April Frolic at Hayward Hall An nounced by Poster—a Bait to Masculine Curiosity Coming! The Big Event! April Frolic, Hayward Hall, April 3, 1915. So runs the heading of the green posters today in evidence about the campus, which proclaim the immedi ate arrival of the manless joy-fest. A hint of the stunts to be pulled off by each* sorority and organization is given in a poetical or otherwise, effusion, thus: I— Kappa Alpha Theta— _ !“How Sultan after . Sultan, with his pomp, Abode a destined hour, and went his way.” II— Gamma Phi—• The purport of all this how de do Deeply concerns both me- and you. III— Kappa Kappa Gamma— Come and see a thing absurd, Staged by the Kappas April third. IV— Y. W. C. A.— What Y. W. C. A. may mean to you, Depends somewhat upon your view; But now if you will watch and see, We hope .that you, too, will agree. V— Chi Omega— The lives of college girls and boys Are filled each day with glooms ad joys. VI— Triple A—• We’re sure you’ll all' be very pleased To hear the Triple A, B, C’s. VII— Alpha Phi— To be, or not to be, A question for the Faculty. VIII— Mary Spiller— The Romance of Mary Jane. IX— Oregon Club— Perhaps we’ll come to this some day, If the tango bug should have full sway. X— Triple B— Echo Zahl, all by herself, Will surely be a dainty elf. XI— Delta Gamma— ’Tis the night before the fatal day, Rejoice, the pony’s found, we say. XII— Mu Phi Some spot-light show, Some sights you know. XIII— Tri Delt— You may crowd them and squeeze them In a great big book, But when it is night They’ll come out from their nook. The judges are Miss Perkins, Mrs. P. L. Campbell and Mrs. Frazier. Professor F. S. Dunn gave a stere opticon lecture on “Greek Mythology” Tuesday evening, March 30, before the Eumathian Club. About 50 were present. ID MUTER MUST BE SIIESMIH, SITS LEE “GET NEWS AND HUMAN INTER EST INTO COPY,” SAYS SPEAKER HI6HBR0WISM IS INEFFECTIVE Ad Specialist Must be Student of Production, Markets, Quality, Price, Etc., Is Belief The likeness of the good ad writer to the successful salesman was shown by George D. Lee, President of the Lee Advertising Co., of Portland, in his address on “Copy Writing” be fore the University class in Adver tising Practice, Friday afternoon. “The copy writer must be able to really sell goods if placed before a customer,” said Mr. Lee, and went on to show that the method used by the successful shoe salesman is in epitome the same as that used by the writer of good “shoe” copy. The good ad, he explained, must at tract attention, and establish a point of contact between the seller and the possible consumer. A large number of *ads fail because they lack this point of contact. After the contact is made the ad must proceed with the same steps as in actually making a sale, introduction, demonstration, ar gument and closing. REFEB CUT SYSTEM TO HMf COMMITTEE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS NO LENIENCY AT BEGINNING OF SEMESTERS VOLUNTARY METHOD FAILURE Student Fair Guides May Arrange With Instructors to Take Spe cial Examinations The cut system came uj? before the faculty for action Thursday, and af ter considerable discussion the whole matter was re-referred to a commit tee consisting of Deans Straub and Guppy and Professors Ayer and De Cou. The committee had reported a list of “interpretations,” and it was one of these which started debate up on the system. The report provided that absences at the beginning of the second semester should count from the first meeting of the classes, and not, as at present, from the date of registration. This was not to apply to students just entering. The point raised was that a similar tendency to be in residence and not attend classes existed at the beginning of the first semester, and that this re sulted in injustice to those students who went to work at once without waiting for the “rusjiing season” to pass. “Ads are often dependent for suc cess upon association of ideas,” con tinued Mr. Lee. “I remember when one of the first brands of condensed milk was placed on the market, there was difficulty in securing a suitable package. This company brought out a tin package that suited the purpose admirably. It could not be easily de. stroyed and was vermin proof. The company chose to emphasize this fea ture and put out ads Showing an army of cockroaches attacking one of the milk cans, and of course unable to phase it. It looked like a good ad, but the milk didn’t sell.’’ “Ads are best written in simple words. Remember that children are often the deciding factor in a sale. If the discussion at the dinner table turns upon the purchase of a certain article and little Willie has read an ad cc seen a poster setting forth the merits of some particular brand he will dominate the conversation until he gets what he knows off his chest.” Mr. Hall expressed the belief that successful ads could not be written unless the ad man knew all the con ditions surrounding the article to be advertised. He must understand the production, distribution, quality, price, profit, market and competition. In conclusion, he said: “It takes facts to sell goods. That means that you must recognize the weak points in the product you are pushing and generally the limelight of publicity is fatal to weak articles. Get news and human interest into your ads.” FINALS END FRIDAY Decisive Handball Series Start by Delta Taus Eliminating Oregon Club The finals in interfraternity hand ball are now on and will be finished Friday. In the semi-finals, the Dormitory Club beat the Beta Theta Pi duo 21 11 and 21-14. The Delta Tau Delta team defeated the Phi Gamma Deltas 21-3 and 21-3. The Oregon Club won from the Alpha Tau Omegas 12-21, 2-6 and 21-10. The first games of the finals the Delta Tau Deltas set the Oregon Club men back 21-8 and 21-11. Brownell and “Lefty” Furney, with their long reach, proved too much for Lane and Fleischman of the Oregon Club. It was reported by members of the faculty during the discussion that the present system was not liked by the students. The reply was made that in the only institution in which the purely voluntary system had been tried, it had proved a laughable fail ure, classes of fifteen and twenty stu- j dent^ teom;etim$s being represented at recitations by as few as two or three. Even at this institution, Bryn Mawr, the voluntary system had been abandoned, and something like the present cut system existed in prac tically all universities. One hour courses hereafter may be taken only to the number of six dur ing the four years, not counting one hour courses given in the student’;' major department. The four students who are to be at the San Francisco Exposition during examination week were authorized to make arrangements with their instruc tors to take their examiations at other times. Three summer sessions were ruled to be an equivalent of theresidence re quirement for a University degree in the case of teachers in the state schools who hold a state life certifi cate. FRUITMEN Will PAY SIS FOR BEST BRUNO Pacific Fruit Distributors Offer Prize for Most Suitable Name to Place on Label A letter recently received by Prese ident Campbell from the North Pa cific Fruit Distributors, of Spokane, extends a special invitation to stu dents of the University of Oregon in a prize contest. Fifteen dollars will be given for the most suitable brand (or packing name) which can apply to apples or other fruit of the North west. Second and third prizes will also be given. It is the purpose of the distributors! to use the winning name on their la-! bels and in their advertising. They' want a name that will compare in ef fectiveness with the “Sunkist” brand for oranges which is used by the California Fruit Growers’ Exchange. Minnie Beaver, Nellie ^Beaver and Irene Upleger were dinner guests at Mary Spiller Hall Thursday. ALL-UNIVERSITY LOTTERY DUNCE TO BE STAGED BY SENIORS APRIL 24 BIG6EST AND MOST SENSATIONAL SCRAMDLE IN HISTORY OF ONIVERSITY TROPOSED DY ISIS RARNRMS— 0RAWIN6 TO BE HELD NEXT WEEK An all-University dance, an event which no student of either sex would need to miss, is the aim of the Senior class in inaugurating the first an nual all-University lottery, plans for which were made public today. The project is the outgrowth of the Senior Lottery, an event originated last year by the class of 1914 and repeated by the present near-gradu ates with great success. The plans for the coming all-University Lottery, which will be staged in the Gymna sium April 24, follow in general the suggestions advanced in an Emer ald editorial of March 20. The drawing will take place at a special assembly to be called at 3:00 o’clock on some day next week, to be announced in Tuesday’s Emerald. A committee of students from all class es is to supervise the drawing and see that it is fair and above-board. The names of all the women in the Student Body will .be placed in one large box, and those of all the men in another. One dlip from each box will be withdrawn simultaneously, and the names read together. Each man will be expected to ask his part ner to the dance, or to see that she attends if she so desires. ' “We will have a card1 party running full blast for the non-dancers,” said Elton Loucks, of die Senior Dance Committee, last night. "There will be committees from each class to keep tab on the girls and see that their partners come through with the invi tations. "However, we realize that there may be exceptional cases in which a student will And it impossible to at tend. Since we could not segregate all such cases before hand, we will put all the names in the boxes. The women who cannot attend can in form their partners of the fact. This will leave a number of men free to substitute for the swains who have a legitimate excuse not to go. “All we ask is that the men look out for their partners, either by tak ing them themselves or by engaging an understudy. In this way, a man who cannot possibly attend can likely delegate Vs duties to some unat tached fraternity brother or friend. “As soon as the results of the lot tery are announced next week, the men should call up their partners and make arrangements for the dance. The various vigilance committees will go over the whole list, and try to bring the delinquents to time. The line-up of couples will be published in the Emerald. “If both men and girls show the right spirit, this is going to be the biggest and keenest dance ever staged here, and it will undoubtedly'become an annual event for each Senior class to promote.” The other members of the commit tee are Bert Jerard, Lee Hendricks, Boyce Fenton and Frank Staiger. GREENS OUST YELLOWS After Hockey Game Team is Picked to Represent Oregon at O. A. C. Much money was lost yesterday af ternoon by the campus sports when the “Greens" defeated the “Yellows” one to nothing at girls' hockey. Between 30 and 40 men showed their spirit by much enthusiastic cheering and rooting . A great deal of the in terest was due to the thorough way in which Miss Harriet Thomson col lected the ten-cent admission. Phi Delts watching the game from their back yard were asked to contribute as well as some men watching from the bleachers of Kincaid Field. About $9.00 was taken in. Immediately after the game Miss Goldsmith, Vera Moffat and Jennie Hunter picked the first team and the substitutes who played this afternoon in Corvallis against O. A. C. Memebrs of the first team are: Jennie Hunter (captain), Vera Mof fat, Olga Soderstrom, Margaret Cros by, Jean Bell, Doris Ball, Eyla Walk er, Theresa Cox, Myra McFarland, Ester Furuset, and Mabel VanZante. Substitutes: Gladys Conklin, Hallia Hart, Helen Phillips, and Elizabeth Mintum. The girls pay half of their expenses and the Athletic Association pays the remaining half. They left at 7:35 this morning and plan to return at 7:06 this evening for the April Frolic. Ellen Dominisue is spending the week-end in Portland. Nine sororities at Ohio State Uni versity have picked relay teams of four each and a manager to repre sent them in an intramural track meet. OREGON OUTPOINTS MONTANA IN DEBATE Varsity Negates Government Own ership of Railways and Wins on Two to One Decision Oregon closed the debating season last night by defeating Montana two td one, upholding the negative of the question, Resolved, that the Federal Government should own and operate all interstate railroads acting as com mon carriers, including intra-state lines competing with them. The debate was held in Villard Hall before a fair sized audience. Victor Morris and Cloyd Dawson composed Oregon’s tearri, while Payne Templeton and Clarence Street were the Montana representatives. Prof. E. E. DeCou presided, while Dr. A. C. Schmitt, President of the First National Bank of Albany, Em mett Callahan, a Portland lawyer, and W. R. Rutherford, of McMinn ville acted as judges. “Considering the fact that Montana has not been defeated in three years, and that, like ourselves, she has won ten out of a possible fifteen argu ments this year, I think we should feel proud of defeating her,” said R. A. Prescott, coach of the team. According to the Montana men, the support given debate at their uni versity is greater than that received by football. “I consider the past season a suc cessful one, but, win or lose, it has been most valuable to the debaters in a constructive way,” said Mr. Pres cott. “It has taught them to ap preciate and use evidence and has giv en them a rare insight into econom ics, political, financial and social fields.