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
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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
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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.
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Another Lottery Dance
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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.
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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.
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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. . ®
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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.