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OR SIGMA DELTA CHI INITIATE'S EDITION . EGON OFFICIAL ORGAN EMERALD OF STUDENT BODY VOL. 17. EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1916. NO. 66. OREGON LOSES IN DEBATES AT BOTH SEATTLE AND EUGENE Stanford Men Down Fleisch man and Myers With Nega tive Arguments in Villard. QUESTION OF 3RD-RATE NAVY Dawson and Jaureguy Also De feated in Talkfest by Washington. The University of Oregon debating team, supporting the affirmative, lost to Stanford university by a 2 to 1 vote last night in Villard hall on the subject, “Re solved: That the United States should maintain a navy above third rank in fighting efficiency.” Earl Fleischmann and Walter Myers spoke for( Oregon while A. H. Morosco and W. I. Ames represented Stanford. At the university of Washington Cloyd Dawson and Nich olas Jaureguy, representing Oregon on the negative side of the same question, were defeated 2-1. The negative for Stanford brought forth the issues that (1) there is abso lutely no need of the United States main taining a navy above third rank for the reason that there is no nation on earth in a position to successfully attack us. Japan looks toward the Asiatic countries for her expansion and not toward the western hemisphere. Her navy is only half as strong as that of the United States. (2) The present war between England and Qermany will so cripple Germany that she will not be in a position to at tack the United tSates. Moroseo said that all the military oversea expeditions of recent history show that we do not need a great de fensive navy. The Dardanelles’ naval operations resulted in an absolute fail ure. It took the British government three years to conquer a handful of Boers in South Africa. With the Mon roe doctrine the states of South Amer ica and Central America could augment the forces of United States by only one half in case of violation of the doctrine. A third rank navy with coast defense is sufficient and doubly so on account of the present European war which is weakening all the nations involved. In arguing for the affirmative Fleisch man and Myers said (1) that in all his tory it has been the nation with the greatest navy that has won the wars in which it engaged. European and Asiatic nations cannot but disagree with the United States on questions of vital im portance. The United States has pos sessions that other nations want. If they are in a position to take them, they will do so. Germany thinks of the Mon roe doctrine as a piece of impertinence to be repudiated at any time. Japan is building a navy at such a rate that she will soon outstrip the United tSates. Japan and any eastern European nation could attack the United States simul taneously. The Panama canal is open to destruction by earthquake or bombs. The fleet would be separated and de stroyed if in war traffic was stopped through this waterway. (2) A nation is stronger aft r war than before. At no time in history was the United States as strong as after the Civil war. There will always he con flicting interests in the world, and in the end nations will not submit their vital in terests to arbtration, but will draw the sword. (3) All that separates the United States from Germany is the English fleet and Atlantic ocean. With the first destroyed, Germany would be at liberty , to do as she wished concerning the Mon- , roe doctrine. The United States is op- I posed to militarism as involved in a j mighty army; an aeroplane fleet would ] not be an adequate protection alone. The only instrument which the United States can insure her existence is with ; a navy ranking above third rank in fight ing efficiency. The judges were Marshall A. Dano, of the Oregon Daily Journal, Portland; Eu- : gene Brookings, attorney. Portland, and Jay C. Lewis, an attorney of Corvallis, i Towels Used to Print on by Dean Vandal Takes Towels to Make Unique and Original Pro grams for Play. When is a program not a program? Answer: When it’s a towel. No joke. That is what the neat, novel, f ray crepe programs for tonight’s per formance of “Peter Ibbetson” are. Dean E. W. Allen likes to be original i i the work turned out by the University Press. The other afternoon Tie was rather up s gainst it for unique programs. He “fig 5 ered” a while and puzzled a while long er. Then he pried open the tin box that 1 olds the journalism department’s sani tiry paper towels and—had his program I aper. J. Frederick Thorne happened in about that time. “Where did you get the be-e eautiful imported Japanese crepe?” he c ueried. Dean Allen just pointed to the ravaged towel box. He pointed and laughed. So c id Mr. Thorne. Well? Six Athletes Represent Oregon at Far Western Meet Saturday; Rain Hampers Training. Six men have been chosen to represent Oregon at the Far Western indoor track meet to be held in the armory at Cor \ allis one week from today. The men are, Fee, Muirhead, Straub, Belding, Bost v'ick and Montague. “Chet” Fee and “Moose” Muirhead are both entered in five events. “Chet” will handle the polevault, shot put, javelin, and run the high and low hurdles. “Moose” will go after the high jump, broad jump, high and low hurdles and t le pole vault. Ray Straub will enter t le quarter and the half mile events and vill be assisted in the half by Montague. The distance running will fall on Beld i lg and Bostwick. Belding has been work ing on the mile and will enter that event v'hile Bostwick will go after the five mile r tee. The rainy weather and the poor train i tg facilities have handicapped the Ore gon men considerably. The sprinters have been unable to do any real work for over a week and the weight men have been in much the same way. However Bill Hay ward may pick a sprinter and another v-eight man within the next week. If any more men are taken to the meet they will be selected from the following: sprint ers, Peacock, Westerfield, Burgard, Har ris, Davis and Thompsin; weight men, Bartlett, Callison and Johns. OFFICERS TRY OUT FOR DRILL COMPANIES ( ompetition Open to Everyone, Merit Alone Will Decide; “Everyone Out,’’ Says Harwood. Tryouts will bo held Wednesday night ii the armory at 7:30 p. m. to determine who shall be the officers of the two re cently formed volunteer military com panies. With the first organization started and enough men signed up to £ ssure two full companies, those in charge are anxious to begin active drill. Any student in the Unifersity is eligible to compete for the officer’s positions, f nd merit alone will determine the final selection. At the meeting Wednesday the ques tion of arranging a definite drill night will be fully discussed. Owing to the pressure of studies and various meetings 1 eld Wednesday night, it has been found £ bad time for men to drill. If it is not possible to arrange a time convenient for £ 11 concerned, arrangements may be made whereby the two companies will c rill at different hours. “It is essential that every man who is interested in the drill movement be I resent at Wednesday night’s meeting,” said Ed. Harwood, temporary captain i f one of the companies. ‘Tlans will be lorinulated immediately after the try cuts for active drilling.” Captain J. D. Foster has a copy of the drill regulations in his office at the M. C. A. He has offered them for th' use of any student who desires to 1 rush up on the subject. COLLEGE SATELLITES III FORM HUNTER Production to Be Staged at Eugene Theatre, March 31, and April 1. (JAMES MOTT) A glance at the cast of “The Fortune Hunter”, which the University Players are to stage at the Eugene theatre on March 31 and April 1st. for the benefit of the Women's Building, will disclose a veritable constellation of local college stars—twenty odd planets of the frst magnitude—• whose individual and com bined shining power is something enor mous. Conspicuous among these brilliant lights is Merlin Batley, TO, who will play Nat Duncan, the juvenile lead. Nat is the fortune hunter, and it is around him that Winchell Smith has written his fam ous comedy. No one need be told that Batley is a good actor. Even Batley himself -would not venture to contradict such a statement. His admirers will be interested in learning, however, that in the part of Nat Duncan, Batley has a role that fits him as though it had been built to his measure. It was originated in 3910 by Jack Barrymore, and it was this part that raised the now famous com edian to hs present enviable position in stardom. Batley looks like Barrymore, walks like him, talks like him, and acts like him, and Director Mott says that the popular senior is going to give a per formance of Nat Duncan that would call forth praise even from his distinguished predecessor in the role. Playing opposite Batley as the dashng Duncan is Echo June Zahl in the role of Betty Graham. Miss Zahl needs about as much introduction to University play goers as Mr. Batley does. The part Miss Zahl plays in “The Fortune Hunter’’ is said to be the best “engenue lead” an American author has ever written, and it would be difficult to find a player better fitted than she to play it. Betty is the daughter of old Sam Graham, the village druggist (Ralph Ash, TO). She is 18 years old, and is a regular little spit fire. She makes her first entrance wear ing a dirty face, and an old calico dress, and carries a bucket of hot water and a scrub brush. The first thing she does is to call down the two village gossips, and during her first act everybody in the cast comes in for a vehement dressing down at the hands of Betty. Finally the young fortune hunter appears, and Betty, who in the meantime has worked herself up into a fit of hysterical rage, jumps on him with both feet. The scene which follows is one of the finest ever wrtten into a comedy. Betty is not only taken down, but straightaway falls in love with the good-natured scape goat who has cpme to the village with the idea of marrying the banker’s daughter (Miss Emma Wooton). That is the end of Betty in rag?. During the latter half of the play she is the most beautiful and sweetest little girl imaginable—and Miss Zahl's portrayal of Betty in the last two acts is just as ef fective as it is in the first two. The cast of “The Fortune Hunter” has been selected with scrupulous regard for "types”, and when it comes to a character type there is probably only one man in college who could give a real professional performance of the role of Sam Graham, the inventor-druggist. That man is Ralph Ash, TO, and Ash is the man who will play it. There is no better character part on the stage than Sain Graham. It made a star over night of Frank Bacon, who played it in the original production, and it is the ambtiop of every character actor on the stage to f^ppear in this famous role. The director considers Ash's portrayal of Graham equal to that of any profes sional who has played it since Bacon made the part famous, five years ago. There are twenty-two parts in “The Fortune Hunter.” Every part is a good one. and every one is played by an actor who has already made a reputation in some former local production. It is the intention of the University Players to rtuno Hunter” the most n the history of college if you miss it you will rself for the rest of the make “The Fo notable event theatricals, and be sore on you year. AGAINST rom a stra lent* of Pen ■ one out of ting class sc CLASS SCRAPS. tv vote taken among the nsylvania it appears that five is in favor of con raps. BASEBALL INDOOBS KOI IKDOOB BASEBALL Team Practices This )Veek in Gym. Pitchers Work oji Floor, Fielders at Handball. (JIMMY SHRERY); You over-gullible, dope-seeking base ball fan. draw up your lounging chair a little closer, cross your legs, and we w.ll impart to you the straight stuff funn baseball’s wet weather headquarters— the gymnasium. If you had wandered by Hayward Hall the past few days about the hour of four you would have heard straige sounds rising from the smooth surfaced floor, echoing among the beams, and finding an outlet through the open windows along the running track. Your first, thought is of a light cannonade, of an approaching artillery corps, as you listen to the con tinual thump, thump, then a pop-a-bnng. Your curiosity aroused, you hasten up the two flights of stairs, taking three notchers at a time, swing back the heavy door and peer into the confines of the gym. Ten Pitchers V.'crk. Instead of seeing and hearing artillery in action throwing out a veritable show er of lead, you look upon 10 big gunners, each in turn hurling forth a white glob ule at five well-constructed targets. They are none other than varsity pitchers, Tuerck, Nelson, Rathbun, Furney, Knigh ton, Kennou, llullock and freshmen \\ il son, Hum and Uagleish, unlimbering their arms by Krupping to catchers Huntington, liisley, Holcomb, lteigaid and l’eil. While the fans have been roasting their shins around the fireplace thlese stormy afternoons, wondering what kind of a team would represent Oregon on the dia mond this spring, some ill) players have been going through a daily grind of con ditioning and exercising in order to keep their ever susceptible muscles in trim. It is not indoor baseball but baseball in doors. While the battery men are in the warm-up process the more anxious out fielders and infielders find diversion in bouncing the I'ara around the walls of the handball court. Quiz Also Given. Every afternoon at 4 p. m. Coach lin go Bezdek, garbed in his fighting togs, calls the boys together in a room off the gym and subjects them to an hour of third degree examining on various funda mentals and inside points of the game. “Grebe’ what cun you look | for with a man on first and nobody down, and where would you play?” and "Maiosn, if you were on third base with nobody down would you try to score on a ground ball to the infield?” These are bijt a sample of the questions that the coach fires at the men in rapid succession in an effort to find out how much or how little they know. Offensive Explained. “I want to take up tile offensive side of baseball,” said Bez,, in talking to the squad during one of the blackboard ses sions. “By the offensive I mean the scoring of runs. How do we, score runs —-by hitting and baserunning. This base running is an art. “The secret of this baserunning, boys, is all in getting your start,’1’ continued Bezdek. “Go down as soon as the ball leaves the pitcher's hand and hook the base on the opposite corner that the baseman is covering. Be ever alert, worry the pitcher, and pull off something to keep your opponents guesping.” Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights were given over to lit Iks of the above nature. Bez, with thp aid of a piece of chalk and a blackboard, showed the boys various plays, cross-examined ■ them on important details and was in turn questioned by the players. Such a program will be continued until the weather again permits outdoor practice. NOTICE! BAND PRACTICE MONDAY, 4 P. M. This meeting is especially impor tant as the band is to appear in Springfield Friday, March ill. Also several very important matters are to be discussed. MAURICE HYDE. Actors' Cutetrix Pester Mr. Reddie Kittenish Comedians Almost Wreck Dress Rehearsal Before “Dream Drama.” Professor Reddie has his troubles. To some people they seem comedy. Here is a little glimpse of the funny side of it, as seen by an Emerald reporter at the dress rehearsal of "Peter Ibbetson” Thursday night. Imagine the scene as an especially dark and glommy one. The hero, name ly Professor Reddie, is about to have another of his dreams. All is quiet. He is in the midst of a hit of tragic actiug. Suddenly, out in the hall subdued snick ers arise. Out of the scene rushes the professor. Out into the hall, hot foot. Lo and be hold! What should he find! A couple of the young “kittens” of the play have filled the wooden shoes worn by Mere Francoise, full of water from the drink ing fountain. "Hugh,” grunted Reddie, “No more brains than a lot of monkeys.” That was all that he said and he resumed the work of the rehearsal. A little later, when about to kill a man—in fact the man is already dead— Professor Reddie is kneeling on the floor staring with horrified countenance at the dead visage of his fallen victim. A servant enters. (In the wrong place, of course). That has to be done over again and the professor has to get back into the swing of the scene once more. Professor Reddie does not keep strict ly to his lines. At one time when “Mimsy” was in a most tragic and seri ous mood he did not respond to the cue. They waited. Then suddenly he woke up. "Take that again, Mimsy. I am try ing to think how I can get that dog in here tomorrow night.” The professor dislikes to have his dress shirts used for the make-ups. “I don’t want my dress shirts used for makeup rags,” he said, in giving direc tions to the players as to the makeups of the following night. “I have lost three or four now, and one of them was a four-dollar shirt. Yes, it was the only one that I ever owned.” Yon, verily, Professor A. F. Reddie has his troubles. THOSE HUTS WERE RENTED BY INITIATES Sigma Delta Chi Neophytes Parade Campus in Evening Dress and Rain. Onn of the downtown stores experi enced iin unliernlded run on collapsible opera hats last Thursday and for a time the haberdashery was considering the feasibility of sending a rush order for a shipment of the $7 skyscrapers. Those half dozen high crowned lids that adorn ed tin' brows of a like number of stu dents Friday morning on the campus were rented. This explanation comes lest some might get the idea that the wearers had lately fallen heirs to a hid den fortune or were rolling in wealth. ]>e Witt Gilbert, Mandoll Weiss, Walter Diinm, Kenneth Moores, Floyd Westerfield and James Sheehy garbed in evening clothes, carrying canes, and each wearing a “plug hat” paraded about the campus and attended classes Friday morning. They were being put through as initiates to Sigma Delta (.'hi, a national journalistic fraternity. Were it not for the fact that some of the men wore their sweaters under their boiled fronts, they might have passed away in the cold, biting wind, rain and snow. Great drops of rain bouuced off the high crowned regalia and besmirched the lily white starched bossoms. Co-eds snickered and laughed aloud, yet ad mired tin* new campus smart set. Var sity men gathered in front of Deady be tween classes and called out “Taxi! Taxi!” or “Cab, sir!” to the near freez ing initiates. ) “I want,” said the earnest college graduate, “to be associated with the things that count.” "Good.” cried the accommodating em ployer, “Walter, take this young man and show him how to work the adding * machine.” GUILD PLAYERS SCORE NEW WITH DRUM* “PETER IBBETSON” Virginia Peterson and Profess or Reddie Big Stars in Charming Play. LIGHTING EFFECTS FEATURE Supernatural Production Car ries House by Final Gripping Scenes. (JOHN DEWITT GILBERT) Rising steadily in plot, interest, inter pretation and excellence, “Peter Ibbet son”—"the dream drama”—last night in Guild hall proved a most delightful suc cess. The audience dispersed in the al most applauseless silence of a “perfect tribute.” Virginia Peterson, playing the lead, was not, as she characterized herself, “a horn Bohemian;” not that, but a beautiful woman; a duchess, in truth; and a star in the part. Twice, as the play ran its course, scenes appeared of more than ordinary excellence. The first came in the initial act when, through the inkiness of utter dark, rasped the hoarse voice of the slbeptalker, Prof. Archibald F. Reddie in the name part. It was a gripping and novel scene, although somewhat marred by the tittering of the audience. Final Aot Good. Again, in the final act, in the insane ward, Professor Reddie touched a chord of great worth. The gray, haggard, mad, 30 year prisoner in the pitiable wreck of a broken mind produced a bitter and awful effect that is worthy of much com ment. With those two exceptions, the play in general was one in which character rath er than action stood boldest in relief. Beginning with tho prologue which set forth a scene 12 years before the time of the play, forming a basis for several of the dreams that come later, the action proceeds rather slowly. In the first scene it is simplei even heavy. The sec ond scene gives the first dream and an inkling of the course of subsequent de velopment. The second act brings n rather weak love part and a death-struggle that is more or less pitiful in the feigned feroc ity of feather blows. Action Rises. From this point on the play rises in plot and action. Character and interpre tation improve, securing a very desirable effect and hearty response. We see the two souls, irretrievably separated by g^uy granite and jailers, prove that "stone walls cannot a prison make” and unite during thirty years in beautiful dreams. Then the insane scene and the final vision with Miss Peterson leaving her dreamer prostrate on the earth. Lighting Spkndld. The lighting effects in Guild hall are splendid. Seven new circuits give even greater range and beauty to the possibili ties. These were used to the utmost ad vantage last night and witli most desir able results. The tones and shades of color added immeasurably to the delight ful character of the play. The cast of 31 persons was rather unwieldy and makes particularly diffi cult the task of designating any who stood pre-eminently in the product, m. Perhaps if we mention the character work, though not the action, of Mr. Bro sips, Robert Killum, Merlin Batley and Adrienne Upping—including always Miss Peterson and Professor Iteddie -we will come nearer hitting it than not. No little credit is due the latter for the dramatization of the play presented last night. With the possible exception of the prologue, its scenes follow ad mirably the novel by Ge> rge du Ma ."b \ Ini this prologue, the action is cluttered and confused by a multitude of characters who have little influence and slight bear ing on the story. A possible reduction in their number and a slight lessening of the ground covered should result in a stronger and less tangled thread which must be followed at a rather jeopardous risk for some time through the loom up on which the fabric of the story is woven.