VOL. 18.
EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1917.
NO. 49.
CIST FOB SENIOR
M IS SELECTED
Rosalind Bates, Eyla Walker,
Earl Fleischmann and Alex
Bowen Have Leads.
PLOT IS MELODRAMATIC
RELIEVED BY COMEDY
“The Climbers” to Be Put on
May 11 Under Direction
of James Mott.
The oast for the senior play “The
Climbers” to be given May 11 was se
lected by the play’s coach, James Mott.
k\htst night following tryouts which were
In Id in Guild hall yesterday afterno n.
The two women’s leads of the play were
won by Rosalind Bates and Eyla Wal
ker; the male leads going to Earl Fleiseh
luann an 1 Alex Bowen. The complete
cast is as follows:
Mrs. Sterling (nee Blanch Hunter)..
.Rosalind Bates
Mrs. Hunter.Eyla Walker
Jessica Hunter.Mary Alice Hill
Miss Hunter.Bernice Lucas
Clara Hunter.Martha Beer
Miss Godesby.Echo June Zahl
Miss Sillertou.Mildred Brown
Tompson .Margaret Spangler
Marie.Ruth Roach
Edward Warden.Earl Fleischmann
Richard Sterling.Alex Brown
Frederick Mason.Earl Bronaugh
Johnny Trotter.Ernest Watkins
Hr. Steinart....Ben Fleischmann
Ryder.Frank Scaiefe
Gc desby.Bernard Breeding
Richard Sterling, Jr.Uncast
Servant . Uncast
Jordan.Nick Jaureguy
Leonard .Roland Geary
The play written by Clyde Fitch who
considered it his best work. The plot has
a melodramatic basis relieved by com
edy. "The play," said .-.r. Mott, "is won
derfully adapted to our purpose. It has
good strong parts, at least ten big acting
parts and they should all work out well
for there are quite a number of seniors
who are really good actors.
“The role of Mrs. Sterling is an emo
tional role originally starred by Amelia
Bingham. Mrs. Bates is an emotional
type of actress and will give a good per
formance of it.
“Mrs. Hunter is a character comedy
part originally carried by Madge Carr
L Cook who introduced the character of
•Mrs. Wiggs.’ in Airs. Wiggs of tne Cab
bage Patch’ and 1 believe Miss Walker
will be able to handle the part very
neatly.
• lue role ot Edward \\ aruen carnea
by Earl Fleischmann, is a straight lead,
and Alex Bowen’s role of Richard Ster
ling is a serious one. Bowen has always
handled comedy parts before but I be
in ve if the play produces a surprise it
will probably come from Mr. Bowen's
handling of his part.”
The play is a story of a New York
family. Old man Hunter of a prominent
financial family married a social climber.
One of his daughters, Blanche, inherited
all of her father’s good *ense, the rest
of the family are social climbers like the
mother. Disaster comes upon the family
tnrough the climbing propensities and ex
travagance of the family and the play
opens in the drawing room of the Hunter
home as the family return after the fu
neral of the father. Fitch takes hold of
this scene and makes pure comedy of it,
end then carries his characters through
three more acts of comedy and melo
drama to let them work out their salva
tion.
Montrose Moses and Virginia Gerson
in a prefatory note to the play say
"Mr. Fitch’s most distinctive vein be
gan to assert itself in this play, his vein
of the commonplace raised to a height
of refreshing satire, which was brilliant
and unusual. In fact the very unusualness
of the opening scene resulted in 'The
t’limbers’ being sent traveling from
manager's ofiee to manager's office be
fore Miss Amelia Bingham accepted it and
assembled around her a brilliant company
r
for its production."
The play was originally produced at
the Bijou theatre in New York in 11(01
and iu 11K13 was billed at the Comedy
theatre, London. The playing time of the
production is two hours.
The play was selected by a committee
composed of Alex Bowen, Echo Zahl
am. Rosalind Bates who were appointed
by Roland Geary, senior eliss president.
George Colton is manager of the play.
Surplus receipts from the play will be
dt voted to the senior memorial.
HARRY S. TEIHPL ETON
j H 4 p ?? t F M r ' p ' n \ ), YM
PIA, WASH., WHO IS ASSioT
i N G DR. ADAM HIS WF.lK.
DEAN FOX URGES VOCATIONS
—
Many Lines of Work Beside Teaching
Are Open to Women, Says Miss Fox.
“Girls cL not realize the great num
ber of occupations jptn to them. They
usually thick that the teaching profession
is the only one for which they can fit
themselves. This is not the truth. There
are dozens of professions open to girls
more profitable and congenial. It is the
duty of the teache/s to see that girls
are told of them and train •<' for tasks
compatible with their temperaments.”
was the gist of the address of Dean
Elizabeth Fox to teachers of Douglas
county at Roseburg Saturday night.
Miss Fox enumerated the vario is
vocati .us. specially fitted to women that
any girl could adapt herself to with the
proper training in the grades. They
ranged from library work, Y. \V. C. \.
secretaryships and ehautauqua lecturing
to police matrons. She urged that
each girl’s needs be looked into and an
effort made for special work to be given
wherever possible to help girls to the
earning of a livelihood in other fields
than teaching.
While in Douglas county Miss Fox
also addressed the I’arent-teache s’
association at Wilbur. These were the
first of a series of extension lectures
Miss Fox is planning to give throughout
the semester.
TYPE BOOKS ARE RECEIVED
Journalism School Gets Old Magazines
From Type Founders.
The journalism department of the Uni
versity recently received from the Ameri
can Type Founders company of Port
land, a large number of professional
magazines that the company has present
ed. at different times toward the collec
tion which Dean yjlei. is making.
Among the magazines are “The
American Printer,” “The Inland Print
er,” “The Master Printer,” “Publishers’
Guide,” “The Printing Art,” “The Ameri
can Printer,” and many others. Recently
two boxes of express were sent to the
department containing a number of vol
umes illustrating the styles of type em
ployed in a remote past. There are ex
amples of odd styled letters and many lit
tle curly cues no longer used in decorat
ing title pages. The most interesting
volume is one issued by McKeller, Smith
and Jordan, at the time of the 100th
anniversary celebration of their exist
ence. There were .nly a few of these
published and they were distributed
among the different type founderies and
branches in existence at that time, and
to a few public libraries throughout the
United States. This volume entitled,
"One Hundred Years of Type Founding,”
covers a. period from 17thi to 1S0G and is
valuable in stduying the old style print
ing.
BISHOP SUMNER COMING
Expected Here May I for a Few Days’
Stay.
Bfehop Walter T. Sumner of the Ore
gon diocese of the Episcopal church,
is to visit the Oregon campus in response
to requests from students. President
Camnbell has writ:, a to the bishop to
the effect that May 1 will be a conven
ient time for his visit on the campus an 1
it is probable that -.e will be here for
a few days at tint time. The bishop will
speak i.t vesper service durir.g his stay
on the campus.
OREGON TO PUY III
SEITTIE THIS WEEK
Bezdek to Take 8 Players to
Games With Washington
Thursday and Friday.
May Meet Willamette Five
Wednesday Night. New Com
bination May Surprise.
(Jimmy Sheehy)
The varsity basketball team, accom
panied by Coach Hugo Bezdek and
student manager, Kenneth Moores, will
leave Wednesday afternoon for Seattle,
where they will meet the University
of Washington on Thursday and Friday
nights in th final conference games of
the 1917 season. The players making
the trip are Lynn McCready, Jay Fox,
Dick Nelson, Fred Cate, “Shy” Hunting
ton, “Boo” Sims, Hollis Huntington, and
Carl Nelson.
Providing a sufficient guarantee is
posted the team may stop off in Salem
Wednesday night to play Conch Mat
thew’s Willamette university five. The
Methodist o have been burning the wires
the past few days in an effort to
schedule Fezdek’s varsity for a game.
Saturday night Or igon will close the
season by hooking up with the fast
Multnomah club quintet of Portland, in
the club gymnasium.
Coach Bezdek hud a little to say
when asked concerning the team’s
chances in the Washington games, “It's
hard to tell what we will doo,” said
Bez. "If we get off on the right foot
we’ll give them an awful battle. The
boys may spring a surprise.”
Bezdek will start a new combination
in Friday’s game. Dick Nelson, who
has been coming strong of late, will be
used at center. McCready and Hollis
Huntington will work in the forward
positions with Shy Huntington and
Sims guarding the a ski t. Sim replaces
Jay Fox at guard.
At present the Washington five is
playing at top speed. Last Friday and
Saturday they defeated the O. A. C.
team by large scores. As usual captain
and coach Jack Davidson was the big
racket in the scoring line. If Sims
and Huntington can k^ep him from
finding the net too frequently the var
sity should have a chance for an even
break in the series.
HYGIENE SOCIETY EXHIBITS
Gives Physical Information to Boys of
Adolescent Age.
An exhibit for the benefit of adolescent
boys was si own Frk ..y in the Education
building. The exhibit was brought to
Eugene by Earl .T. Cummins, field secre
tary for the Oregon Social Hygiene
society.
The society has done work in 117 cities
in Oregon, but has shown the charts in
only seven. The intention is to show the
pictures in all the high schools.
The charts illustrate the subject under
consideration. Athletes are shown in
training, and the boys are recommended
to take exercise of ;.l' forms of work. It
is advised that sensational stories should
be avoided and that the boy should cul
tivate entire self-control. Chivalry to
mothers, sisters, and av women is urged.
The Oregon Social hygiene society was
formed in 1911 chiefly through the
efforts of Calvin S. White, head of the
state board of heaP.u. The society was
supported for two years by private sub
scriptions, but since 1913, by legislature
appropriation.
SHELDON IS GOING EAST
Will Address National Superintendents’
Asscciation.
Dr. 11.0I>. Sheldon, dean of the school
of education, will leave tomorrow for
Kansas City where he will read before
the National Superintendent’s associa
tion a paper on “What Teachers Colleges,
Schools of Education and Normal
Schools Are Doing to Actually Prepare
Their Graduates on Socialization Work
in the Schools.”
Mr. Sheldon goes direct to Kansas
City, returning by the southern route.
He does not know when he will arrive
in Eugene as he stops at M*dford and
other southern towns giving extension
lectures on the return trip.
Professor DeBusk will have charge of
his classes during his absence.
Address Centers on Conflict Be
tween Science and the
Bible.
SPEAKER HAS BUSY
SCHEDULE FOR TODAY
Will Give Assembly Address To
morrow; Dr. Pence to
Assist.
♦ ♦
♦ DR. ADAM PROGRAM ♦
♦ Tuosday. 4
♦ 11 to 12 a. ra.—Personal Interviews ♦
♦ 2 to 4 i>. m.—Personal Interviews ♦
♦ 7 to 8 p. in.—Lecture in Villard. ♦
♦ S to 9 p. m.-—Personal Interviews ♦
♦ Wednesday 4
♦ 10 a. in.—Assembly address, “Last 4
♦ Summer Among Soldiers in 4
4 Europe.” 4
♦ 7-8 p. m—Lecture in Villard. 4
♦ ♦
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Personal interviews from 11 to 12 a.
m.. 2 till 4 p. in. and from S to 9:80 p. m.,
a leeture to men of the Fniversty at 7
p. m. in Villard hall, and a eonferenee
with the Y. M. C. A. cabinet at 4 p. m.
constitutes Dr. John Douglas Adam’s
program for today.
Dr. Adam says he cannot announce the
subject for his lecture tonight as he
does not yet know the needs of the men.
“I have been in the west only a week
now, so am entirely unfamiliar with the
needs of the Oregon students. After ob
serving tile conditions I will be able to
decide what to talk about.” he said.
Dr. Adam last night addressed an au
dience of 400 men in Villard hall in the
first of n series of four lectures, each to
merge into the following one. Last night’s
topic was “Science, Reason and Faith.”
“Faith and reason,” said Dr. Adam,
“are the co-ordinate factors in a well
rounded life. Each is needed for the
other. Reason is belief walking, and faith
is belief with wings.”
The speaker centered bis address
around the conflicts between science and
the Bible. “I don’t want you to believe
in the whole Bible,” asserts Dr. Adam,
“but I do want you to believe what you
do believe.” Dr. Adam stated that he
had much sympathy for T’niversity and
college men for the reason that they
generally encounter conflicts between the
Bible and science. In the Middle Ages,
the speaker asserts, theology dominated
over science and philosophy; in a later
period philosophy held sway over the
ology and science; and at the present
time science is dominating over theology
and philosophy. “They are merely tak
ing their turn,” the speaker stated.
In addition to the address the Univer
sity orchestra under the direction of Miss
Winifred Forbes, gave a fifteen-minute
(Continued on page two)
GLEE CLUB PROGRAM FOR CON
CERT FRIDAY EVENING, FEB. 23.
The program follows :
PART I.
A Warrior Hold.West
Glee Club
Rass Solo, “Italian Boat Song” Maltci
John Black
“De Songs My Mammy Sang"... .Soulee
Glee Club
Violin Solo—“Hungarian Dances"
. Brahms
Robert Scearce
“The Autumn Woods” .(laities
Glee Club
Piano Solo—“l’apillons d’Amour”
..Schuett
Raymond Burns
“ ‘Xeath Mistletoe” .Ambrose
Glee Club
PART II.
“Wake Miss Lindy”.Warner
Baritone Solo—“Prologue from ‘I P&g
liacci”.Leon cat alio
William Vawter
“Syncopated Spasms in Song”
Ralston, Holzmau and Burns
“Optical Illusions”
Moore and Morrison
“Extract of Grand Opera”.Root
Smith, Scearce, Weinheimer
Beach and Burns
“As I Sit and Dream at Evening”
.Kelson
Glee Club
COMEDY BARDS RUN LOOSE
* # * #
“COLYUM” WRITERS INVADE
« # « «
BEWARE! YOU’RE WATCHED!
Stalk not abroad on the campus un
mindful of onlookers, oh students! Mask
all mirth provoking or unseemly deeds in
shrouds and bury them before they have
reached the ears of joke doctors and
comedy bards. For a new order has come
to be since Professor W. F. G. Thacher
has begun to encourage the art of writ
ing that lighter literature known as the
“Komiek Kolum.”
True the class is not large, it num
bers but eight, but the field is not so
1 road but what the principal family cup
beards may be entered and the skeletons
taken out for an occasional airing. At
present the colyumists are confining their
efforts to the campus and have succeeded
in the short time during which the class
has been organized in uncovering the
most startling characteristics and events
at the University.
Considerable originality has been
shown in the treatment. As this is prob
ably the first time colyum writing has
been taught in college there is no set
course of study. Each student chooses his
own style which varies from mock news
paper to verse and anecdotes. “The
Foamin’ Colyume” and “Without Warn
ing” which appeared in the Inst issue of
Oregon Spirit are two exemaples. Other
titles are “The Lemon Squeeze,” "Rags
and Tears” and “Ad-Verse Hits.”
WILL BIND NEWSPAPERS
Mr. Douglass Wants Students Witlj Ex
perience in Work to See Him at Once.
To out down expenses, the library will
hereafter bind newspapers, instead of
sending then to the bindery. Formerly
it was cheaper to have the papers bound
in inexpensive mnnillu covers, but since
the price of binding has risen, ,M. II.
Douglass, librarian, thinks,that lie can
save money by having it done in the
library by student help. “The advantages
will be”, he says, “that it can probably
be done cheaper, it will do away with
having to send the papers out of the
library and will provide work for
students.”
Mr. Douglass got the idea of having
the papers bound in the library, from
Stanford University where for several
years newspapers have been bound in
their bindery successfully. He issues a
(•all for any students who have had ex
perience in binding to come to see him at
once. If he is unable to get students with
experience, he thinks he will be able
to train those wishing to do the work in
a short time since the work is not very
difficult.
The Portland and Eugene papers and
the New York Times are bound in more
permanent bindings, but the others which
the library receives from nil over the
stute will be bound in mnnillu covers
similar to those in vhich the papers are
now bound.
There are few calls for hack issues of
state papers, but when they are needed,
as for thesis, they are needed urgently,
says Dr. Douglass. The papers are label
ed and So can be found conveniently and
the paper covers keep out the light.
Y. W. C. A. CABINET ChrOSEN
Annual Conference to Be Held at Sea
beck; Plans Being Made.
The newly-elected p’ esident of the Y.
W. A., Ruth Wilson, in conference
with the executive ommittee and Miss
Tirzu Dinsdale, general secretary, have
appointed the following herds of com
mittees for the ensuing year: Member
ship, Mary Bishop; meetings, Dorothy
Flegal; bible study, Eva Von Berg; social,
Ruth Pearson; finance, Mildred Stein
metz; missions, Sarah Barker; associ
ation news, Delilah McDaniel; publicity,
Helen Brenton; prantieal service, Essie
McGuire; social service, Ruth Westfall;
house, Katherine Johnson
The annual summer conference will be
held tit Heabeck again this year and
Dorothy Collier has been appointed head
of a committee whose work shall be to
advertise the conference i.t Oregon and to
secure delegates.
HONOR SYSTEM TAVORED
Oklahoma is considering the adoption
of an honor system, .vhieh is to be voted
upon at the coming election. The ma
jority of the students, especially the co
eds, ;eem to be in favor o' it, and it is
almost certain that t will pass.
DM LIKES TO ANGLE
THE ELUSIVE TROUT
Fish—He Would Rather Do
That Than Anything Else
in the World.
LAMENTS OVER BIG
ONES HE HAS LOST
Noted Speaker Tells of His Ex*
periences in Scotland
and Canada.
(tty Roberta Killam)
Fishing—that is what John Donglna
Adam would rather he doing than any
thing else in the world, except, of course,
preaching to college young people. In
the summer when the sea trout and
salmon are thick in the Scottish streams,
he packs up nis fishing tackle nnd leaves
for a week or ten days in the Highlands.
“I have a longing for fishing”, he said
when asked if he didn’t get a little home
sick for those vacation days. "I am happy
even if I don't get ft fish. There is a
fascination even if you are not a good
fisherman.
“Oh. this is the fishing country! Yes
terday I stood on the lower Willamette
and I saw’ the possibilities of so many
pleasant days that light be spent there—
fishing.”
Once upon a time, when Or. Adam was
a little boy, he climbed up in a cliff over
the Highland Kiver—and fell in. A whirl
pool caught him nnd he became uncon
scious. When he came too he was lying
on the bank and some of his schoolmate
resellers were telling him about it.
Some years later he went fishing on
the edge of Canada with a man who
was at that time the moderator of the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian
church in the United States. They fish
ed for hours and caught nothing.
Finally Mr. Adams hooked something.
Leaning far over the edge of the little
boat lie pulled and pulled. In a minute
his friend got excited, pulled the leader
and the fish was lost. Dr. Adam didn’t
say n word. The Moderator gasped and
remarked “Adam, that was the most un
godly silence that I have ever heard.”
“Was it a big one?”, I asked.
"Don’t say that. They are all big
ones that you lose. Haven’t you henrd
about the good Scotch wife who inquir
ed after her hushaud's luck when he re
turned home after a day with the hook
and line?
‘Sammy, did you catch any?'
‘Yes, I caught u monster of a big on*
•that weighed near to 10 pounds, but
the fellow dropped off my hook.’
‘Well, mon. if you didna puil him in,
how did ye know what he weighed?’
‘And didn't he have scales on his
buck?’ ”
Last summer Mr. Adam hadn’t time
to go fishing. He spent all of the mid
year months among the “soldiers of the
Queen” in Europe.
His jolly smile disappeared and he
; grew serious in telling about the “boys’’
and the “kind English ladies”.
“Oh, they’re so brave! I saw
thousands of them in the hospitals. In
one hospital there Were 250 men with
out legs, and I didn't hear a whine or
a complaint. I talked to them, read,
and tried in every way that I could to
cheer them up.—And I’m going back
again this summer,” he said enthusias
tically.
“Mrs. Waldorf Astor is one of the
most wonderful women in the world.
She has turned her fine English estate
near Iamdon into a hospital and spends
every day going through the wards
helping in every way possible.”
I>r. Adam is an enthusiastic golfer,
but—that’s another story.
EXAMS OPTIONAL AT U.OFW.
Bugbear of Seniors Relieved by New
Action of Faculty.
_ a
The bugbear of senior examinations
has been nearly done away with at
l Diversity of Washington. The fac
ulty has pussed a rule making it op
tional with profeasors to give final
exams to senior members of their classes,
classes.
The new rule goes into effect this
year. The action of the faculty follow
ed the investigation of data from other
colleges and the recommendation of the
plan by the student body.