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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1916)
ASTORIA EDITOR GIVES $20 FOR NEWS STORY John E. Gratke Opens Prize Contest to Students of Jour nalism for Good Yarn. LORIS GRATAE PLAYS VIOLIN , i Eleven-Year-Old Girl Enter tains at Assembly With Se lections Prom Wagner. The student ib journalism, who, be tween now and ithe end of the semester writes and has published in some news paper the best constructive news story will receive a dash prize of $20 from John E. Gratke,' editor of the Astoria Evening Budget.1 E. W. Allen, |dean of the school of jornalism, made this announcement yes terday afternoon to the combined classes in journalism, which had as sembled in the commerce building to lis ten to a talk toy Mr. Gratke on newspa per work. i The contest is to be open to all stu dents in .journalism, irrespective of classes. The story must show enterprise in the gathering of matriel and it must be of some valufe to the reader. Pro fessor Allen expressed the hope that this will be tbe beginning of annual contests in the journalism school. Students Have Advantage In his assembly talk on “The Problem of Making a Living,’’ Mr. Gratke said: ‘You students oi - journalism have a _ _ A- _ BA ^ A bb B. A IT BAB A V -ABA A. #■ A ^ A great ad^hntage e ver me, because it took me half my life to learn by experience what you are learning here. You have a big field and wonderful opportunities here on the Pacific coast, and the news papers of the n< xt generation will be better because of your work. My motto for success is: Get one line of work, stick to it, and through everything, do your Very best.” Big Oeed for Women There is a big field in newspaper work for women, Mr. Gratke said. “I even employ a girl to operate a linotype. She gets $22 a week «lnd can have a job just as long as she wants it. Her presence raises the moral tone of the whole me chanical department,” he said. Mr. Gratke was'accompanied to Eu gene by his 11-yiar-old daughter, Loris Gratke, a violinist of ability. Miss Gratke played several selections at as sembly, including ipieces by Wagner and Kr^isler, and was' encored on each num ber. Miss Taylor, also from Astoria, i was her accompanist. While in Eugene Mr. Gratke and party stayed at the Osburn hotel, where I they were entertained at lunchfeon by i Processor Allen s;nd Mrs. P. L. Camp- J bell. I Sigma Delta Chi Elects MANDEL WEISS WALTER DIMM FLOYD WESTERFIELD DeWITT GILBERT KENKlETH MOORES JAMES SHEEHY TENNIS TRYOUTS NEAR Courts Reserved After 3:30 for Eight Members of Varsity Squad. Fresh men Ready for Semi-Finals. The cement tennis court at versity is now reserved from every day for the use of members of the varsity tennis squad, chosen tain Lewis Bond. On the squad at pres the Uni 3:30 on by Cnp ent are Walter Church, “Tubby er, Paul Bond, Roscoe Hurd Moores,- Frank Scaife and Don They are practicing for the tryouts for the t^am, which will begin the March. These will be in the pature of ’ Wheel Kenneth Roberts. Inst of a tournament. The freshmen players are now running off a games to determine the champion. The unner up winner of this series and the rn will be added to the present squad and compete with the others for places on the team. Weather Interferes With The freshmen who started tournament are Harvey Mad Wyville Sheehy, Paul Downard ston Laraway, Lawrence Hersh Lyon McOready, and George Those who will play in the se: ■which will be played off as soo: weather permits, are Harvey Thurston Laraway and Lawrern shner. tennis series of Play in their den vs, vs. Thur ner vs. Tucker, mi-finals, n as the Madden, ce Her The team will be chosen by p tourna ment among the members of the squad, the three highest point winners secur ing places on the team. ILIST Leonard ard bat HARVARD STUDENTS E In spite of Major-General Wood’s statement that a Harv talion would be of no military value, the preparedness hysteria which broke forth at Cambridge shortly before vaca tion has reached a culmination in ual enlistment of Harvard regiment. 1,000 students in a the act 10WA STATE COLLEGE. A “Dishonor Roll” for professors who keep their classes five minutes or more overtime, has been inaugurated in. the columns of the college paper. Membeiy of the class detained may hand in the name of the offender. GRINNELL. A recitation hall is being erected at Grinnell at a cost of $150,000. Plans have been made for four quadrangles— fine arts, college, men’s, and jwomen’s buildings. Two Voluntary Drill Companies Enlist: Organizers Elect Temporary Captains A rising vote of more than 125 men at the second voluntary drill mass meet ing, held yesterday noon in Villard hall, decreed that voluntary drill shall be a reality at the University and that two companies be foribed immediately. Seventy men at the meeting signed slips of paper guaranteeing their enlist ment in the companies, It is expected that at least 25 more who were unable to attend the meeiting will enlist. Of the 70 who signed, about 20 have had pre vious military experience. Two temporary captains were elected, who will organize [men at once. Edward Harwood, of Alaska, who has been a leader of the movement, and J. E\ Fos ■ter“ secretary of 'the campus Y. M. C. A., were chosen, i, o 1 \ The next move js dated td take place in the Oregon National Guard armory' next Wednesday or Thursday night when prospective' “drillers" will meet for preliminary instruction and organi zation. Officers 0(f the national guard under Colonel Hammond will conduct the preliminary instruction. The num ber of men already enlisted assures the formation of two companies of fjbout 50 men. The meeting was presided over by A. C. Shelton. J. D. Foster and Colonel C. C. Hammond gave short talks enlarging on the advantages and necessity itary training in some form at the Uni for mil m, U. S. versity. Lieutenant Willis Shippa c A., located in Eugene as instructor of the coast artillery corps of the Oregon National Guard, told of the success of voluntary drill at the University of Min nesota, of which he is a graduate. Both Colonel Hammond and Lieutenant Ship pam assured the students every possible assistance from the national guard. Those who did not have the oppor tunity of signing up at the meeting may do so by signing a papep in the editorial room of the Emerald in° McClure hall, or one in the campus Y.M.CsA. also, by signifying their intention to either of the captains. Part of the plans of the Organizers is to have professors give lectures on such part of their work ns might pertain to military subjects and to have stiff offi cers of the Oregon National Guard come to the University and give addresses. OREGON TEAMS WILL DEBATE FRIDAY NIGHT Affirmative Will Contend With Stanford Here; Negative With Washington at Se’attle. The annual Coast League debates are to be held Friday. The affirmative Ore gon team, composed of Earl Fleischman and Walter L. Myers, will debate with Stanford in Villard hall Friday evening, at eight o’clock. The negative team composed of Cloyd Dawson and Nicholas Jaureguy will re bate with the University of Washington at Seattle. The question is “Resolved: that the United States should maintain a navy above third rank in fighting efficiency.” Two of the judges for the Oregon Stanford debate will be Jay Lewis, an attorney of Corvallis, and Eugene Brook ings, an attorney of Portland. The other judge has not yet been chosen. “Our teams are working hard and com ing along pretty well,” says Professor Prescott, coach of the Oregon team. “Washington and Stanford always put up keen, efficient debaters and it will not be an easy task to defeat them,” says Cloyd Dawson, manager of the Ore gon team. “But we have been working hard every evening and if we do not win we will not feel ns though we had not accomplished anything.” What Stanford has been doing in de bate this year has not been learned, but Washington broke even with Reed Col lege a short time ago. Arthur Prieet, who coached the Washington team so successfully two years ago, is back help ing it again this year; while Emmerson Bassett, who assisted Priest at Wash ington a few years ago, is coaching the Stanford team. I_ Another Lottery Dance 4 ★ ★ ★ i Elut No Men—Absolutely i Another lottery! Not a leap year one this time though—that is as far as the fellows are concerned. It is one olf these exclusively feminine affairs. In fact the sole badge of masculinity will be one stolen long ago from our seafaring ancestors—th > middy blouse. i Arrayed in these the pseudo suit ors will pig their lot chosen partners to the men's gym fo a Friday after noon dance given by the women’s league. ,The lots were drawn yesterday af ternoon in Villard hall. Eyla Walker whs presider and holder of the lottery •hat. Roberta Killam and Miriam Tin ker were the “matchmakers” and Adrienne Epping chief recorder. The names of the “men” with thei. partners will be posted in the library a^>d women’s gym this evening. -, SHAKESPEAREANS TO MEET Club Will Celebrate Tercentary With Shakespearean Program. To celebrate the tercentenary of Shakespeare’s birth the Shakespeare club will hold a special meeting after Lent. Mrs. J. F. Thorne, Mrs. Nellie Burr Leonard and Mrs. A. W. Griffin are the committee in charge of the cele bration. It will be for club members only and will probably be given at a private home rather than at the chamber of commerce, where the regular meetings are held. Scene from Shakespeare will be play, ed, Ingersoll’s “Tribute to Shakespeare” read and various other articles on Shakespeare given. i Lack - Of - Leadership - Causes - Delay j ! ★ * * * ★ I Oregon - Backward - Says - A. - H. - Harris I A. H. Harris, who has travelled about 5,000 miles over Oregon making a com mercial and industrial survey of the state for the Oregon Journal, addressed the class in Commercial and Industrial Sur very in the architectural building Wed nesday afternoon. Mr. Harris says he visited commun ities all over the state, wherever he could travel on railway or stage, and in some places where neither could be used. “The one vital fault in our organize tiojr"4# the barrenness in rural life,” said Mr. Harris. “The reason is, in my judge ment, largely due to the lack of leader ship, not so much the lack of leadership in the rural districts as in Portland and other of the large towns of the state. Leadership canSot be bottled up. What leadership there is in Portland and in the rural districts is purely financial.” “The condition in Oregon is the same as in every other state still in its swad dling clothes,” continued Mr. Harris. ‘All over Oregon there is a tendency to grab, to control, with no thought of the community. We should devote our time for the advancement of the community as a whole and not for purely selfish rea sons.” “What is leadership? What are you people coming to the University for? You are spending your time here to fit yourself for leadership. There are op portunities in every community for lead ership and it isn’t necessary to have a large bank account to be the leader." “From one end of the state to the other there are communities that would be forging ahead today if it wasn’t for the lack of leadership. “The pioneers were leaders, but there is no one to take their places as they go, these pioneers had a crude kind of lead ership. In the last 20 years there have been no leader* developed. “Take McMinnville for instance. There is a1 town in the midst of a rich coun try, but in the last 10 years it has just been] keeping time, all because there is no community leadership. Baker City is one of the other communities of the state that I has been lying dormant. Twenty five years ago under the leadership of the pioneers, Bakey Ci*v was a growing ■place but a decade ago she lost her lead ership. What has been the result? Baker City isn’t forging ahead.” “There is a lack of preparation for leadership in our educational institu tions. In our institutions of higher learn ing todny we seem to forget the fact that othe^' things are needed than lawyers, doctors an<^ teachers of higher education. There is an utter lack of preparedness for public service. Without this prepar edness you cannot make good, you lose and the state loses.” “The man who attains the greatest success is the man who loves his work and works the hardest to attain the high est degree of efficiency. There are lots of men who say they never had an op portunity,—There are opportunities for everybody, never plead their lack.” IDAHO TAKES WALLOPINGS. Idaho, by taking two husky wallop ings from the W. S. C. basket tossers last week, won the undisputed cellar championship of the Northwest Confer ence as that was her last chance to break into the win column of the basketball percentages. The Gem State quintet was several degrees below par this season. At that, Keane, their mainstay, was mentioned as all-Xorthwest forward ma terial. . ® J ‘ \ ' (T 8 • A • c'°—— o Santa Clara showed some of her big league class last Thursday by handing Stanford’s diamond artists a 10-7 lacing, Plenty of the Benny Kauff and Ty Cobb stuff was in evidence as far as stick wielding is concerned, for the box score showed a grand total of 28 binglea. 1202 ATTEND LECTURE COURSES. A total attendance of 1202 persons has been reported for the calendar month ending on February 29 in the Portland extension class and lecture i course work carried on by the Univer sity. The following instructors have had charge of the work: Professor Percy P. Adams, architecture; Dr. o-George Rebec, psychology and art; Mrs. Mabel Parsons, English; Professor R. W. ^Prescott, public speaking; Professor D. |W. Morton, commerce; Professor D. C. ' Sowers, commerce, and Dr. Landsbury, music. Of the 3,000 students enrolled in the 1 Literary college of the University of Michigan ’ only sixteen received “A” | grades in each subject carried during > the first semester. Glee Club May Tour to Honolulu; Trip to Coos Country Postponed PETER IBBETSON PLAY FULL Of SUPERNATURAL Presentation in Guild Theatre Friday, Saturday, Answers Psychological Question. A play full of the supernatural will be “Peter Ibbetson,” (which will be present ed in Guild hall on Friday and Saturday evenings of this week. Can people meet in their dreams arid then remember whnt has gone on and what has been said without any communication between them? Are they able? afterwards to get what lias been said and done and to re member what it is all about? "Peter Ibbetsonj’ takes this up in the entirety and then explains the whole thing. From the: story of the play it would seem that speh were the case and that people ma: actually remember what has taken place and may actually com municate through «the medium of dreams. The play was dramatized by Archibald F. Reddie, professor in the department of dramatic interpretation, some time ago, and it is this version which is to be put on tomorrow and Saturday nights. “Special lighting effects are being put in,” said Professor Reddie. "Seven new lighting circuits are being installed and these, with the new scenery that we in tend to use, will add to the better results of the production.*' The program of| the play includes the following: Captain Audems, a prisoner on parole ...I..../’.. .Mr, Watkins Mrs. Plunkett, sister of Mme. Pas quier .|.Miss McLaren. Mme. Seraskier, wife of an Hungarian patriot .I.Miss Chalmers Catherine, English wife of M. Pas quier .:.Miss Fenton Mere Francoixe, bonne a toute faire .Miss Cornwall M. Jean Pasquier, an inventor. .1.Mr. Batley Major Duquesnois, a prisoner on par ole ....Mr. Shetterly Charlie ,son of Plunkett.. .Miss Gilmore Mimsey, daughter , of Mme. Serr.skier . Miss Hart Madge, daughter of Mrs. Plunkett.... .Miss Nash Pierre, called “Gogo,” son of the Pas quiers ..Miss Hadley Medor, the dog..J.liTajor Rover The “Prince Charimant,” the “Fee Tarapatapoum,” friends1 in the unseen. Lady Cray.Miss N. Cox Lord Cray.;.Mr. Earl Mrs. Linot.i.Miss Dunlap Mr. Linot, a “har^hitect,” her hus band ..Mr. Maddock Footman at the Cray’s... .Mr. Shaffner Colonel Ibbetson, cousin of Mme. Pas quier and in love with Mrs. Deane ..Mr. Brosius Peter Ibbetson, formerly “Gogo” Pasquier, adopted son of Colonel Ibbetson . Mr. Iteddie Sir Edwin Landseer.Mr. Brown Mrs. Glyn, a widoilr.Miss Killam Mrs. Dean .;.Miss Epping Mnry, Duchess of Towers Miss Peterson Blake, the valet of Col. Ibbetson. ..Mr. Wilkins Benson, maid.Miss Kletzing A warder at Newgate jail...Mr. Snyder Gabriel Aubery, Mr. Brown; Gatienne, his mother, Miss T. Cox; Aline, his sister, Miss Glittery, dream people. Attendant at the prison for insane criminals .Mr. Bowers Madge Plunkett, cousin to Peter Ib betson .I.Miss Taylor The play will be under the personal direction of Profetisor Ileddie with the following assistants: Properties, Mr. Sether; costumes, ^Hisses Crosby and T. Cox, and the Messrs. Bowers and Shaff ner; electrical effects by Mr. Prim, as sisted by members- of the class; stage managers, oMessrs." (Burgard and Beckett; make-up, Mrs? Thorne and Mrs. Bates. Special music will be included by Miss Brown, with a special dance directed by Miss Frieda Goldsmith. Special arrangements are being made, according to Professor Ileddie, for the circulation of tickets for the production. The plan is to have them placed in each house. I The curtain is ucheduled to rise at Si.’K) Friday uight owing to the meeting of one of the clubs on the campus. On Saturday night the time will be 8:15. Southern Oregon Will Be Visit ed Next Year Instead of Eastern Oregon. A Coos Bay trip that had been plan ned for the men’s glee club during spring vacation has been postponed. The prin cipal reason for putting off thq trip ia on account of the unfinished railroad to Ct*os Bay, which will not be completed until July. Another reason is that busi ness conditions are bad in that part of the country. Definite arrangements and dates for the trip will be made the first part of the summer. Leslie Toose, manager, says that the trip will be made next Christmas vacation instead of the usual eastern Oregon trip, which will probnbly not be made again for about two years as the eastern part of the state has been “worked to death.” Toozc says there is a possibility of the club making a trip from San Francisco to Honolulu. Nothing definite is yet known. C. E. Stone, genernl traffic man ager of the Great Northern and Pacific steamship line, J>as heen written a let ter to see if the voyage is a possibility. If Tooae is successful, the trip will be made in April and about two weeks will be taken. Twenty-two young men, with Tooae and Ralph Lyman, dean of the school of music and director, will accom pany the club. The plan is to travel from Portland to San Francisco on a boat belonging to the same company mentioned and then go on the Great Northern, which sails in April, to Honolulu. It takes four days to go to Hawaii and four days to return, while about two days would be spent in Honolulu. If the young men can go, they will sing on board the steamer both going and coming. Thoy are to receive nothing but their traveling expenses. WOMEN’S TEAMS WILL GOMMENGETENNISWAR Representatives Have Been Ohosen; Matches Will Be gin Nest Week. Preparation for the tennis doughnut series are completed. The organizations have elected their teams, lots for oppon ents have been drawn, the cement court has been reserved for the event and last but not last the hose have been chosen! Ten representative teams have been picked. They are: Tri Delt, Euth Rals ton, Mary Murdock; Gamma Phi, Dor othy Dunbar, Joy Gross; Dexter Club, Prances Baker, Esther Campbell; Alpha Phi, Alene Phillips, Elizabeth Carson; Delta Gamma, Roberta Killam, Caroline Alexander; Chi Omega, Dorothy Bonnet, Ruth Kerber; From the college at large Echo Zahl, Adrienne Epping,; t*i Phi, Louise Wilson, Ruth Lawrence; Theta, Anne Dawson and Mary Chambers; Kap pa, Dorothy Wheeler and Grace Reed. The line up for the preliminary matches is as follows: Theta vs. Pi Phi; Tri Delt vs. Gamma Phi; Kappa vs. College at large; Dexter vs. Alpha Phi and Delta Gamma vs. Chi Omega. These first matches will be played Monday from one to four, the second and semi-finals Tuesday and thti finals Wednesday afternoon. All matches will go to the winner of the first set except in the finals when the last two sets out of three will determine the champion ship. HAS LARGEST ENROLLMENT California is the largest University in America in point of number of students enrolled, according to an article by J. C. Burg, of Northwestern University, re cently appearing in “Science.” The fig ures relating to tHTS conclusion include the total attendance of the college-year only. In total attendance, including Summer session, Columbia leads California with 11,888 to 10,500 students enrolled, not including the large number of students in the University Extension Division, Columbia also exceeded California in growth during the last decade and has the largest number of summer students. The University has the most college under graduates with Harvard a close second. —Daily Californian.