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SIGMA DELTA CHI INITIATE'S EDITION
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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
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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.