I OREGON EMERALD VOL. 18. EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1917. NO. 78. * Personnel Will Be Announced Thursday; Bert Breeding in Charge. GROUND AROUND SENIOR BENCH DECLARED SACRED New Portage to Be IvIade;Walks Built; 20 Frosh to Be Put on Hasher’s Duty. * I Lack of funds for carrying out the proposed improvements on the campus on University Day has caused a change in the plans already announced; and the unsettled condition of the men awaiting a call to arms has postponed the ap pointments of committees until to-mor row or Thursday. Bernard Breeding who has charge of all work to be done on University Day has revised his plans In accordance with the scarcity of money and has laid out the following outline of labor: 1. The raising of first bridge on the millrace in order that canoes may pass underneath without tipping over. W. F. Osburn, owner of the bridge, will fur nish the materials, tools, and an experi enced foreman to take charge of the work. 2. The construction of a new portage between the millrace and the river. This will be attempted only on condition that the water is low enough to permit work without risk. 3. The preparation of the track for the inter-company track meet scheduled for Saturday. 4. The rolling of six tennis courts and general cleaning up of their sur roundings. 5. The rolling of the road in front of McClure. 8. The construction of a walk from the library to the back of Deady hall. 7. Decorating for the Junior Trom. 8. Painting the “O” on Skinner’s Butte. 9. General assistance at the Cam pus lunch. Twenty freshmen will. be chosen for this work. 10. The construction of a walk lead ing to and surrounding the Senior bench, and the erection of a fence or similar 'barrier marking off this corner of the Campus for the use and enjoyment of seniors only. 11. Preparations for the Canoe Car nival scheduled for Thursday evening. These preparations will consist of elec trical wiring, constructing and decorating special barges for the band and glee clubs, attending to the entrance of ca noes on Thursday'evening and arranging for seating the spectators. Breeding announces the names of 14 men who are to take charge of this Canoe Carnival work and promises to relieve them from work on University Day. They are to report at thi Mill race and boat house at one o'clock on Thursday to join Sheehy. The list is as follows: Leonard Floan, Oscar Gor eczky, Walter Grebe, William Haseltine, (Continued on page three) ECHO TO WRITE FEATURES * * * # CO-ED GOES TO SEATTLE « « * « TO JOIN STAFF OF THE STAR Echo Juno Zahl, a senior, left college last week to accept a position with the Seattle Star. Miss Zalil will be con nected with the paper a^ a feature writer. She has had the position in mind for some time and about two months ago went down to Portland and made ar rangements for accepting the position. Since then she has been fitting herself for the place by taking journalism courses at college. Although Miss Zahl had enough credits to graduate, she elected to leave without completing her course rather than risk missing this opening. Miss Zahl was prominent in campus circles. She was a member of Theta Sig ma Phi, feature writer on the. Emerald for a year, editor of the woman’s Emer ald, a member of University Players, and Junior woman on the student council last year. She had one of the principal parts in “The Climbers”, the senior play to be staged here 'this week-end. Miss Zalil will visit in Tacoma with an aunt for a few days and then begin her journalistic duties. FIJIS SCORE 14 TO 0 Tuerck Twirls Good Game; Mis plays Are Costly. Sigma Chis and Phi Delts to Meet Tomorrow in First of Finals. Phi Gamma Delta slipped into the fin als of the Doughnut league yesterday by administering a liberal coat of whitewash to the Oregon Club. The score was 14-0. The Fijis took advantage of the many misplays of their opponents and aid 'd by some timely hits had no trouble in roll ng up the imposing total. Bill Tuerck did the twirling for Pni Gamma Delta and was in such rare form that the Oregon Club secured bit one bingle from his delivery. He fanned five men in the five innings. Dow Wilson shared the honors with three blows and some clever fielding stunts around the third cushion. The first inning was 50-50. With two men down, Heywood reached first whin Simola stumbled over his grounder and measured his length on the sod. Dutton got a free ticket but Tuerck nabbed Hey wood off second by a quick throw to Grebe. Except for Harper’s single in the fifth, not another Oregon Club man reached first base. The Fijis Degan the run-getting in the second on Lind’s smash to right and Hedges’ home run over Spangler’s head. Wilson singled and W. Sheehy walked after this, but Grebe skyed out to center for the final out. This was sufficient to win the game, but the Oregon Clubbers were charitable enough to contribute a few more in the third. Simola went safe on Gambll’s wide toss to first. Knudsen hit one down the first base line which Center threw (Continued on page two) “Right About Face’’—Scramble for Dates; Perfect Hatching Plans for “Da Best Yet” «*** * * * * -',■5 By Gladys Wilkins i When someone steps up behind you this week and says "High and slick and round all over, bigger than K. K. K., the progressive dinner, the glee concerts. Junior Week-end—What is it?” don’t begin looking through all of your pock ets quietly to see where you’ve mislaid it. I‘ut one foot behind you in a military manner, about face, and speak thus: "The Varsity band concert and dance”. It's the pass word that will let you into the realm of the Wise Ones. The whole plan is brand new— hatched this week only, but by May 18, ! ■the date set. it will have scratched a small hole in the pocketbook of every student and every person in Eugene who j is a loyal Oregonian. The place is to be the Armory; if there tsn’t room inside, pavement stretches away on both sides; the time is to be 8:00 sharp, and the purpose—to swell , the Women’* Building fund. The Varai^ band is absolutely the' only all-University organization in cap tivity; it employs not one outsider at any time, and furthermore, it doesn’t need them. It has been the constant policy to have every player a student registered in college, and at no time has this principle been broken. Darly in the fall, many of the parts were woefully lacking in both strength and tune, but Mr. Albert Perfect, band director, has taken each one of those parts, found new material, and drilled them all incessantly until the work at the present time is al most perfectly balanced. There is probably no organization on ;i cnmpus which has such Tiefpr-pnrii.ig demands on its time as a band. Start ing in with the first football practices, it goes out to stir up pep and spirit and cheer the men on their way; it goe3 to see the games and on all the football trips; basketball season it works over time; assemblies, rallies, parades, base (Continued on page four) If You Want to See Something Jolly Good Then Pep Up and Step Out for Dates to On Friday evening of this week the class of 1917 will present at the Eugene theatre Clyde F'itch's celebrated comedy masterpiece, “The Climbers,” with a cast of Senior stars which, from all ac counts, is scheduled to outshine all previous eonstilations of college thespians. The Senior play, an event which always looms large on the University calendar, this year bids fair to loom larger than ever, for besides being one of the chief attractions of Junior week-end, the Senior play committee expects the forthcoming production of “The Climbers” to register the high water mark of amateur dra matic activity at Oregon. For the past week James Mott, who staged the 1916 class play, “Arizona,” and who:.e productions of “The Fortune Hunter” and “The Dictator" here are familiar to all Oregon students, has been driving the crack Senior cast at professional speed through nightly rehearsals. Even at this stage the rehearsals have all the appear ance of real performances, and the director has already pronounced the famous play ready to go on. As a play, Clyde Fitch’s master piece, “The Climbers”, stands in % class practically by itself. It has been hailed by many critics as the long-sought-for “Great Ameri can Play.” Some have gone even further and acclaimed it the great est modern drama of this or any other country. Whether this is true or not there is little doubt that “The Climbers” is the most original play on the stage at the present time, and perhaps the the most interesting. It is thor oughly American—a real flesh and blood story of one of the most ab sorbing phases of American life, told as no other dramatist but Fitch could tell it. It appeals with equal strength to the “high brow” and the “mob”, and it con tains that rare combination of comedy and melodrama which is largely responsible for the play’s tremendous “punch.” The original production of “The Climbers” at the Bijou theatre New York, in 1902 was one -\f the most important events in the dramatic history of this country. The play ran for a year at that theatre, and the following year its remarkable run was duplicated at the Duke of York’s theatre in London. Since then it has been played regularly every season by every first class stock organiza tion in the United States. 'The Climbers” has the unique distinc tion of having made a star of practically every member of the original cast, among whom were Robert Edson, Frank Worthing. Amelia Biggham, Clara Blood good, Madge Carr Cooke, and 41 dozen other leading lights of the American stage. As for the Senior Players, ac cording to the director, it would be difficult to imagine a more per fect amateur cast than the one which will appear Friday in “The Climbers.” Most of the members have had four years training in dramatic art, and have established their reputations in many prev ious plays. They have been care fully selected with a view to their physical and tempermental fit ness for the various roles, and al together Mx-. Mott considers them the strongest acting combination he has yet directed here. Several of the men in the cast of the Senior play have either ap plied for commissions in the of ficers’ reserve or have joined the^ local coast artillery companies. Owing to the uncertainty of the dntes on which these men will be called to the colors their parts have been understudied from the beginning of rehearsals, so that in any event “The Climbers” will go with a complete and fully pre pared cast. The following are the stars who will shine at the Eugene theatre Friday evening, and the partsthey will play in “The Climbers”: Richard Sterling ... Alex Bowen Edward Warden . Earl Fleischmann Frederick Mason ....,. Fred Kiddle Johnny Trotter . Ernest Watkins Howard Godsby . Bernard Breeding Dr. Steinhart . Kenneth Shetterly Ryder. Victor Sether Jordan ...:. Nicholas Jaureguy Leonard . Dale Melrose Mrs. Sterling, nee Blanche Hunter. Rosalind Bates Ruth Hunter . Bernice Lucas Mrs. Hunter. Eyla Walker Jessica Hunter .. Alice Hill Clara Hunter .Martha Beer Julia Godsby . Margaret Spangler Miss Siller ton.Mildred Brown Thompson . Louise Allen Marie .,. Ruth Roche SYNOPSIS Ast I. Late Winter, at the Hunter’s, New York. Act II. The Following Christmas eve, at the Sterlings, New York. Act III. Christmas Day, at the Hermitage on the Bronz River. Act IV. The Day After Christmas, at the Sterlings. The Seat Sale for “The Climbers” will open at the box office of the Eugene Theatre, Thursday morning, May 10. at 9 o’clock. ARCHITECTS GET WAR JOBS Several Go Into Federal Service as Draughtsmen and Boatbuilders. Architecture students as well as pre medics and chemists find ■ themselves in demand by the government for use in war preparations. Due to the fact that very few University men in this depart ment have had office work they cannot enter the civil service as regular draughtsmen. There are, however, many openings for ship carpenters, boat builders, machinists, wood calkers, and ship fitters. Possibly one-third of the University architects have either gone into service or are intending to enter soon. John McGuire and Curtiss Marshall who left for the Bremerton Naval Station will work as marine draughtsmen. Glenn Stanton and Peter Jensen may leave soon and O. B. Sollie has already com pleted arrangements for departure Wednesday. He has been in the govern ment employ previous to this time and will go to Tacoma. PRESIDENT BACK SOON Passed Week-End in Washington, D. C.; May Get Household Arts Head. President Campbell will probably re turn from his trip east in a week or ten days, according to Karl Onthank, his secretary. He spent Friday «ind Sat urday in Washington L) C. where he at tended the convention of the National association of State Universities. On Saturday he heard Secretary of War Baker who spoke before the assembly of about 183 college pre.-idents. Mr. Baker urged in his address that the University men under the conscription age be dis couraged from enlisting. President Campbell went from Wash ington to New York City, and before his return will visit several eastern cities. While President Campbell is in the east he will be on the lookout for sobie person as a possible head of the de partment of household arts which will be installed in the University next year. The real purpose of the trip, however, was to attend the convention at Wash ington and to visit other universities and colle*"’ SOME SUSPENSE, FELLOWS # # # # JOHNNY AND BILL WAIT * * # « EAGER FOR NATION’S CALL Cuts didn’t make any difference to Bill Snyder nud Johnny Beckett yesterday. Neither did the contents of the Sigma Nu or Beta mail box, in fact the waste basket at the ]>ost office filled up with Sunday magazines and other literature remarkably fast while the two athletes searched in vain for two envelopes bear ing the government letterhead. Yes, Johnny and Bill were expecting summons. They had figured out to the exact hour just when they should be. notified of the acceptance of their appli cation to the officers' reserve corps. Monday, May 7, would surely be the last day they would remain in doubt. It wasn’t a vacation they took when they went down town early in the morning. No one realizes what a harrowing sensa tion it was to pull out arm load after arm load of mail, all addressed to other fellows. Between trains they sat or walk ed around and chewed—well chewed in desperation. At last dwitight drew on and the United States government inhospitably closed its doors and left the heroes of the gridiron to go wearily to their res pective houses nnd seek solace in sym pathy and slumber till another day should dawn. Political Pulse Grows More Fe vered for 34 Aspirants. Three New Names Added, Joe Hedges Withdraws; Ballots to Be Long Variety. The fate of thirty-four candidates for student body office rungs in the balance of tomorrow’s elections. Every student will have a chance to cast a ballot for his favorite candidates in the lowec hall of Villard any time between ten in the morning and two in the afternoon. Although the political pulse of the campus has been below normal this year on account of threatened and actual war nnd the enlistment of a large proportion of the men in some department of army or navy, it seems to be rising by jumps just now and promises to be at fever heat by tomorrow. Three new names have been added to those made public in the regular nomi nations Inst Wednesday, Clyde Hall for senior member of the Student Council, Beatrice Thurston for junior member, nnd Dorris Medley for « member of the Athletic Council. Joe Hedges hus with drawn from the race for membership in the Athletic Council. The ballots are of the long variety and will bear the following list of candi dates: President of the Student Body: Harold Tregilgns and James Shechy. Vice-presient :Rny Couch. Secretary: Emma Wootton nnd Leura Jerard. Editor of Emerald: Harby Crain, Ad (Continued on pnge three) TRACK MEET ENTHIES FOR SATURDIY 016 Preliminary Tryouts for Places on Teams Begin This Afternoon. J LARGE CUP WILL GO TO VICTORIOUS COMPANY Bill Hayward Announces Fine Gold Medal as Trophy to High Point Winner. Preliminary tryout* for places on the various track teams of the six compan ies iu military drill began this afternoon directly after the drill hour. Each after noon there will be a number of tryout* for places on the various company teams. The schedule for today ran a* follows: Company One: 50 yds., 100 yds., 440 yds., and discus; Company Two: 50 yd*.. 100 yds., and broad jump; Company Four: 50 yds., 75 yds.; Company Six: 50 yds., 100 yds., and shot put. Tomorrow’s schedule will be run off as follows: Company Six: 75 yds., and 220 | yds.; Company Five: 50 yds., 220 yds., and 8S0 yds.; Company Four; 220 yd. hurdles; Company Two: 220 yds. and javelin. Five men of each company will be se lected in each event. Bill Hayward in charge of the affairs signifies his inten tion to have all entries ready for the I finals to be held on next Saturday after noon. To make the competition keen a large cup will be given to the victorious com pany. Besides this the high individual point winner of the meet will receive | a gold medal which Bill assures will be j a first-class one. By first glance the First Company I seems to have the edge of the combat j but several of the others have some first class surprises they will spring. Com pany One lias in the field a congregation of “comers” ns follows: Westerfield, Watkins, Blncknby, Cossman, Tuerck, Atkinson, Bartlett and Dudley. Company Two looks forward to Gil bert, Fitzgibbon, Breeding, Huntingtons and Brock, while Company Three chal lenges with Belding, Alexander, Sheehy, Jensen, Cook and Boylen. Company Four follows with no less a good aggregation of Furney Shockley, Reinhart, Medley, Snyder nnd Sehwering while Company Five will have to fill up n good many places with raw material led by J. Fox nnd Ray Hausler. TO MAKE TEST OF BLIND Dr. R. H. Wheeler to Experiment at Salem Institution. Dr. It. H. Wheeler, professoT of psy chology, will go to Salem Friday to oegin a series of tests of the intelligence of he students in the state school for the blind. Dr. Wheeler, besides employing method* already established, will try some orig inal tests along the line of the ability of blind students to resist suggestion and illusory phenomena. Several trips to the institution will be required to give Dr. Wheeler the basis necessary for hi* conclusions. Junior Week End Will be Ushered In 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4' By Canoe Fete Next Thursday Night 44444444 Junior Week-end if) but two days away. With at least twenty entries, the annual eanoe fete on the millruce Thurs day night will open the gala days, and from then on till Sunday the time will be filled with interfraternity sports, campus work and play, tennis, arcnery nnd swim ming contests staged by the University women, the Senior play, and the annual prom. Very greatly simplified in every respect, the Week-end is to be devoted in a great share to the entertainment of alumni, and it will be almost in the na ture of an acquaintance party, so long has the campus been deluged with guests ' to the exclusion of loyal old gruds. The Shack is to be chief place of celebration Thursday night. Strings of electric lights over the dancing plat form, colored fires burning below, and a battery of search lights played up the race will afford ample opportunity for seeing both people and canoes; more, strings of lights and Japanese lanterns will droop across the water from the upper platform of the Shack and into the trees on the opposite bank. A great black “O” hanging suspended above stream, and fireworks, complete the plans for lighting. Jimmie Sheehy, chairman of the fets committee, wants everybody to under stand the time set, and act accordingly. That time is 8:15 sharp. The procession will start down from the lower bridge nt 8:30 as soon as it is sufficiently dark. It is planned that the canoes come at half-minute intervals, allowing everyone to see them thoroughly, and preventing the i ush of former'"years. An anumiurpr will be stationed on the north side of the race, to announce the name and owner of each canoe as it approaches. In a special corner of the Shack plat form the judges will be seated—Prof. \V. F. (5. Thacher, Dr. George Rebec, Mrs. Mabel Holmes Parsons, Mrs. Mar (Continued on page three.)