VOL. 20.
EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEB. 15, 1919.
NO. 47.
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TBIIIIK1L010D;
LEIVESjJf. WORK
■Is Acting Secretary of World
Student Christian
.Federation.
WEE BIT HOMESICK AS
SHE THINKS OF OREGOM
^Expects to be Back Here Next
Fall; Sorry to Miss
Commencement.
News that Miss Elizabeth F. Fox, who
alias been in Y. W- C. A. war work in
France for «. year, is mow in London
acting as general secretary for the world
Student Christian Federation, was re
ceived on the campus yesterday.
Her letter in answer to a Christ
mas letter from the Women's League
follows in part:
“You will remember my speaking of
the World Christian Student Federation
conference at Lake Mohonk. It is the
general secretary of this federation, Miss
Ruth Rouse, with whom I am to work.
Just today (January 14) I received a
letter from her directing me to meet
her in Paris the last of the month, where
1 will spend two weeks with her getting
as she said, ‘the point of view of the
student of the continent.’ (Then we will i
go to London. I am going as her con
fidential assistant and I believe that I
am to hold the fort while she has some
lest and a vacation.
wv«e 1» uiiuui i vi i v (j u i iu'mij
“At any rate it is going to be a won
derful opportunity to get in touch with
the student work all over the world
/and I shall be so glad to share with the
Oregon students all I glean.
“I shall be very sorry to miss com
mencement, but I am coming back to
Eugene for the fall at the very latest
The University students are very dear
to me and I think of yon more often
than you know.
“We have all been so interested in the
fact that some of the Y. W. C. A- sec
retaries are going into Ilussia. There
has been the temptation several times
to go to some of these far away fields
of service, Japan, China or Russia.
“For ten long days I’m to be free and
I feel like a school girl after hours. And
the best of it is that a very lovely friend,
is going to be able to take her leave
at the same time, so we are going down
to southern France together. I’m very
tired, but not too tired to keep on after
a little rest.
Sees Dr. Stuart
“One day I visited the little city of
Blois and called at the dispensary Dr.
Stuart was instrumental in building up.
but found that she had left and is prob
ably in England now. But frequently
the paths of friends cross.”
Concerning the Woman’s League let
ter, which took the form of a minia
ture newspaper christened the Oregon
Chatterbox, Dean Fox says:
“The eidtors of the Oregon Chatter
box have my heartfelt gratitude and ap
preciation. I have carried the journal
about with me, reading bits to various
appreciative friends until it is worn to
shreds and I am forced to save clip
pings from it and put the bulk of the
paper in the sacred fire. ,
Homesick Over Villard Hall
“Not a word of it has escaped the re
readings and I tsmly have enjoyed it- T
love the little picture of Colonel Leader
arsd the one at Villard hall makes me
homesick a bit, but tomorrow I take my
first step homeward. That is, I am
leaving the position with the army girls
and am turning tny face toward the stu
dents of the continent.”
ANNOUNCE ARRIVAL OF SON
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Schmidt Now at
Home in Yakima. Wash.
Announcement of the birth of a son,
Jack Lincoln, February 12. to Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Schmidt was received this
Anmrning by friends on tht campus. Mrs.
Schmidt was formerly known ns Miss
Mary Gillies and was campus Y. AY. C. A.
general secretary at the University for
rears, leaving the University in lOlfi.
Mrs. Schmidt is a former student of the
University.
Young-Old Athletic
| Fan of 71 Is Proud
of Grandfather 113
He is one of the painters working on
the remodeling of the old drill shed. Ac
tive, alert, dear-eyed, if perhaps a bit
heavy on his feet, he took great interest
in the extension of the gymnasium fa
cilities.
"Yes,” he said; ‘'athletics is great for
the young fellows. I used to be some
thing of an athlete myself.”
"So? What was your particular line?”
‘'Tumbling; had several years’ experi
ence with a circus.”
"How did you like it? Put you in fine
shape physically, didn’t it?”
“Y'es, except when I broke my legs
in accidents. But even when I was 62
years old I won the fat men's rhce, the
old men's race and the free-for-all 100
yards at Tanforan park, San Francisco.
I still enjoy sports and hardly ever miss
a ball game.”
“When you were 62! Why, you don’t
look that old now.” His hair appeared to
be just turning gray.
“Oh, I'm 71—71 last January S. Mj
grandfather, back in Mount Pleasant,
Pennsylvania,, was 116 on January 17,
but he’s all right. He gets pretty spunky
right now if you remind him that he’s
getting old. I still go to dances and en
joy them too. Haven’t a bad tooth in
my head (and he exhibited o fine double
row of dental cutlery), and I don’t use
spectacles to read.”
And still people keep on quoting “the
allotted three score years and ten.”
For the sophisticated reader who
thinks this article is a fake: The old
man is C. C. Kiester, of 353 West Sev
enth avenue.
LEGISLATORS FAVOR
SUMMER SIP HERE
Col. Leader Finds Ways and
Means Members Friendly
to Appropriations.
Colonel John Leader, just back from
a short trip to Salem, where he spoke
before the ways and means committee
concerning the passing of several war
measures now before the Segislature,
sand that the committee was most en
thusiastic about the camp to be held in
Eugene this year. They stand strong
ly in favor of the appropriation of $20,
t>00 for the keeping of National Guard
officers and high school officials and
are unanimous in favor of the appro
priation of this money.
The bill will be voted on at the refer
endum in June, and it is Colonel Lead
er’s opinion that it will pass with a
large majority.
In a recent letter to Colonel Lead
er, Senator George E. Chamberlain
states that later there will he compul
sory military training in the high schools
throughout the whole United States
and that he is anxious that Oregon be
the first state to establish this so that
in the fall the other states may have
a working organization as a model
At present the high schools of Ore
gon have gone very enthusiastically into
the voluntary military training which
they have adopted, according to Colo
nel Leader, but that next year the three
hours a week is to be made compul
sory. Equipment is to be had on ap
plication to the committee of Educa
tion and Special Training a tWashing
ton, D. C.
Colonel Leader will make his next trip
in April, when he will visit the schools
of Iloseburg, Grants Pass, Medford and
Ashland, which will complete his tour
of the state.
HONOR GIVEN PRESIDENT
Dr. Campbell Made Vice President of
League Meeting in Portland.
President P. L. Campbell has been ap
pointed by Governor James Withveombe
as honorary vice chairman of the com
mittee in charge of the Northwest Con
gress for the League of Nations, which
will be held in Fortlund February 1G
ind 17 under the auspices of the Na
tional League to Euforce Peace, as
sisted by delegates from Oregon, Wash
ington and northern Idaho- The speak
ers are to be Ex-President Taft, Pres
ident A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard
University, and Ex• Ambne,<adorq Van
Oyki and M>rgentb«u, and Frank P.
Walsh.
A series of nine of these conferences
ire being held in the United States.
OLD-TIME CUSTOMS
WILL SEE REVIVAL
AT COLONIAL FETE
Program for Affair Announced
by Helen Anderson,
Chairman
“I prithee gentle ladies and men of fair
demean
Attend you to the message that brings
me on the scene.
If backward through the pages of his
tory thou would'st turn.
Of our colonial forefathers most sure
ly thou did'st learn
And bright upon these pages shines
forth a name wo know
From cherry tree and hatchet days to
batting desperate foe.
’Tis Washington we honor and pay him
homage too.
On February twenty-second this cour
tesy is due
To keep his birthday bright and gay,
We’ve fashioned for you ail a play.
We beg of you to come at eight
And see us all in solemn state.
Bedecked in satins old and jewels quaint,
And puffs and powder and a bit of
paint.
’Tis ail to be at Johnson hall
I prithte, come ye. one and ail
Observe the poster at the gate.
And mind—ye that ye be not late.
—Dean Louise Ehrmann.
This invitation was road to tho audi
ence between the first and second acts at
the piny last night by Miss Gwladys
Bowen, dressed in a lovely old colonial
costume.
The day for panniers, powder, puffs
and party dresses draws near. Every wo
man in the University, so Helen Ander
son and her committee hope, is going to
appear in an eighteenth century costume
nt the colonial assembly in Johnson hall
February 22. The success of the as
sembly depends so much on the co-oper
ation of every student, both men and
women, that all the workers for the
event beg for thoughtful preparation.
Living Pictures a Feature
Rumor has it that a novel device is be
ing planned for determining the most
fetching colonial maiden at the ball. The
music alone will be worth the price of
admission but when one considers that
quaint Gainsborough, Romneys, and Rey
nolds portiats of belles and beauties of
long ago are to reappear in life and that
Charlotte Banfield herself is to be the
heroine of one play at least and further
more that some unusually lovely dances
are to be tripped off, one realizes one
whole evening full of joy.
Then the chance to dance with “my
lady of long ago” in Hendricks hall and
to hear a real poet rend her own verses,
for Miss Frances (Jill has consented to
that as well as her violin work with Miss
Dyntt, are two more vital reasons for
seeing Mellie Parker or her committee
about tickets the moment they go on
sale Monday.
Posters advertising the assembly will
appear on the campus next week. Mel
lie Parker, business manager of the fete,
hns appointed the following to make
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GREGORY BACK IN EUGENE
Education Professor to Make Trip to
Portland Monday.
Professor C. A. Gregory, of the school
of education, who for the last week has
been making a complete siurvey of the
schools of Baker City, returned to Eu
gene Thursday- Next Monday he will
make an extension trip to Portland. He
is scheduled to go Wednesday to Silver
ton, where he will address the parent
teacher association. Thursday Profes
sor Gregory will go to R-oseburg, where
he will begin his extension class in “Ed
ucational Measurements" for the teach
ers of Roseburg schools. Saturday he
will address the School Masters’ club
at Ashland. He will also speak before
the commercial elub nt Medford.
BIRD STUDY CLASS OFFERED
A one-hour class in bird study will be
offered for the spring term by Dr. John
F. Bovard, head of the zoology depart
ment. This course will be for people
who are particularly interested in birds
arad will not be a course in bird biol
ogy such ns has been offered before.
Trips will be taken to places around
Eugene where the birds may be studied
in their natural habitat. The skins of
the bird* will also be studied.
VARSITY IS VICTOR
OVER O.A.C. FIVE;
FMJEIT COOKS
Oregon Rolls Up 27 to 17 on
Aggies; Durno and McCart
Stars of Evening.
The University of Oregon basketball
five defeated the Oregon Agricultural
College quintet last night by the score
of '-’7 to 17, while the Oregon freshmen
defeated the O. A. 0. rooks by the score
of 3S to 20. The varsity game was fast
and furious, with Eddie Durno and
"String” McCart fighting for first place
in the scoring line. Durno got first by
one point turning in a card of 11 for
the evening while McCart had to stop
with 10.
Coach Walker played the same lineup
against the Aggies as he used against
Washington here last week, and they
seemed to get along nicely. Every mem
ber of the Oregon team scored at least,
once during the evening, which does not
speak very well for the guarding of the
Aggies. Nish Chapman, at guard for
Oregon, got away and scored three field
baskets, which gave him a total of 0
points for the evening.
Oregon went into the game at Cor
vallis last night determined to win the
rest of the games on her schedule.As was
expected. Coach Ilargiss sent “Butte”
Reardon in at a regular guard against
Oregon but he failed to score. McCart
and Arthur. the two orange and
black forwards, were nee high in the
scoring lines and played the best game
for their team.
The two teams are meeting again this
afternoon, with another game between
the two infant fives to open the yy’s
festivities.
The lineup:
Oregon 27 O. A. C. 17
Durno, 11.F.Arthur, 5
Fowler, 4.F. 'McCart, 10
Tjind, 4.C. Eikleman
Chapman, 6.G. Reardon
Jacobberger, 2... ,G. Reynolds, 2
DATE SET FOR TANK MEET
Senior and Sophomore Girls Will Swim
Tuesday Evening.
Senior and sophomore women will
hold n swimming meet ini the pool in the
men's gymnasium next Tuesday at 7 :!!<)
p in. The events to be entered will be
the same as those in the freshman and
junior meet. After these preliminary
meets are over, class teams will be cho
sen and the, intends as meet will be held
February 25. The sophomore girls who
will swim are Ami laigius,, Naomi ltob
biins, l/oota Rogers, Hope Mackenzie,
Lillian Auld, Mildred Dodds, Lois Macy,
Lucile McC'orkde. The seniors are Car
oline Alexander, Helen Anderson, l’earl
Crnine, Ella Dews, Catherine Dobie,
Melba Williams, Marion Coffey.
CLASS GOES MARKETING
University Cooking Classes Study Meat
at First Hand.
Meat marketing was fully demonstrat
ed to the cooking classes lust Tuesday
afternoon when Miss Antoinette Shorn
way, instructor, and the eleven girls en
rolled, visited linxlers Brothers’ meat
market on Eighth avenue, where they
were shown the different cuts of meat,
and instructed as to the best use of each
cut and its relative price- After delv
ing deep into the mysteries of meat cuts
and fully exhausting the subject, the
class explored the large refrigerator, in
order to study the meat there as a whole
unit.
DR. CASWELL AT ALBANY
Professor in Charge of Financial Expert
Work of “New Era” Committee.
Dr. A. E. Caswell, of the physics de
partment of the I’niversdty, was in Al
bany Monday attending a meeting of the
‘‘mew era” committee of the Willamette
Presbytery of the Presbyterian church.
He was appointed to have charge of the
financial expert work, and Mrs. Tim
othy Cloran was appointed president of
the missionary work of the presbytery.
The work of the ‘new eita” committee
is an after-war movement and was in
augurated by the general ussernbly of
the church last May.
Delta Taus Annex
Tri Belts’ Cook, and
Merry War Is On
The Tri Pelts and the Delta Taus are
no longer on speaking terms. The Tri
l>elts claim their is a real grievance.
The whole trouble came about over a
cook, the Delta Delta Delta’s cook,
whom the girls claim, the Delta Taus
stole from them.
The former Delta Tau cook had to
leave, but before she went she told the
boys that she would see they had some
one else to prepare their meals. It seems
that the Tri Pelt’ cook was her friend
and she told her that she had a fine
opening for her.
The Delta Taus were sorry to lose
their cook. They hadn't found another
one by the night their cook left and con
templated getting their own breakfast
in the morning. But what was their sur
prise when they scurried to the kitchen
in the morning to find there a fine
breakfast and a smiling, effieieut eook.
.She told them she had come early that
morning with all her baggage and was
going to stay. The Delta Tans didn't care
a bit.
Then the fun began. They discovered
in some way that their former friend liny!
deserted to the enemy. They were
wroth, very wroth. They phoned to the
Delta Tans. They told lUom plainly that
their cook had been stolen that the Delta
Tans must have taken her away the
night before.
More telephone conversations follow
ed that day, but to no avail. The Delta
Taus maintain a calm and composed ex
terior. They have the cook.
Kappa Sigma Team Defeated
in Hard Fought Finals;
Score 15 to 8.
Slgmn Chi won tho inter-fraternity
Imskt'thnl! championship for tho third
consecutive- time by defeating’ tlie Kap
pa Sigma team, 15 (o N, Thursday night.
The game was the second of the cham
pionship series between the winners in
the two leagues, the first game having
been won the night before by Sigma Chi.
Kappa Sigma took tho lead early in
the game and maintained a good margin
until the last few minutes of piny, the
first half ending with the score 7 to 4
in their favor. The game wns won for
Sigma Cm during the hist five minutes
of play after Ken Breed lind been sub
Btituted at center for “Brick" Leslie
who had taken Breed’s usual place on
the Sigma Chi’s team. The final rally
netted seven points.
“Pinkie” Bo.vlen wns high point man
for the Kappa Sigma team and “Dinty”
Moore for the Sigma Chi quintet.
The perpetual Spaulding trophy and
ihe new two-year cup offered for the
first time this year will he presentd
yto Sigma Chi during the Wednesday
assembly.
SIGMA CHI KAPPA SIGMA
Hanna 4.P.Boylen 4
Moore 7.F.Anderson
Leslie, Breed 2....C.Still 2
Blake..G. ...<... .Masterson 2
Brown.G.Mautz
Referee, Bill Hayward.
VISITING HOURS ARRANGED
Students May Call at Infirmary From
I0 to II and 3 to 4.
; , -• ‘‘n visiting hours are to be kept
at the l’Diversity infirmary from now on,
according to l>r. John Bovard, chairman
of the student health committee, because
the nurses in charge there cannot hive
visitors coming in at all times of the
day, (us they have been doing- Visiting
hours will be from 10 o’clock to 11 iu
the morning and from to 4 in the after
noon.
in this way the students mid the nurs
es will be able to co-operate to tin* ad
vantage of both, was the opinion of Dr.
Bovard.
The health reports are enabling the
health committee to keep truck of the
cases of Illness on the campus, said Dr.
Bovard, and the students should set' that
they are kept up as they should be, as
this is the only way that the situation
can be handled.
E
POPISH SUCCESS
II BENEFIT Dll
Win Commendation of Large
Audience for Good
Entertainment.
MISS BAMFIELD DIRECTS
FLAWLESS PERFORMANCE
Norvell Thompson. John Houst1
ton and Hester Hurd Take
First Honors.
By BESS OOLMAN.
Before the curtain rang down on th«
first act of ‘‘What Happent-d to Jones"
at (Up Eugene Theater last night, it was
evident what had really happened, was
that he had become decidedly popular, I19
and the whole cast put together. And
the commendation of the large audieneq
was deserved for the performance, was
distinctly good entertainment. The
merit of the production lay almost er^
tirely in the noting, coached by Miss*
Charlotte Han field, for (leorge Broad
hurst’s farce is old and filled full of the
old situations which have been seen ove(
and over. -
The most noteworthy feature of ths
I affair was the evidence of its able dl
| rection. From tho ris.- of the curtail)
at the scheduled minute, to its drop n1)
tin- end. there were no apparent flaw*
in smoothness. The absence of nil hitch
es. and hurriedness or the forgetting of
lines, was remarkable. Tho effort*
which were exerted lor the success of
the piny, not only by the Dramatic De
partment, by the Student body In thq
different departments generally wet-*
fully repaid by the real success of til#
evening.
Setting Is Attractive
The si tting itself was remarkably nt«
trative. The care taken to repaint thq
set, and the care for detail, was evident)
Many thanks are due the committee tp
charge and to the stage manager.
It is hard to say which of the east,
was worthy of most note because of tho
unusual general excellence. But good ns
they all were, first honors probably go
to Norvell Thompson. John Houston and
lleBter llurd. *
Mr. Thompson loft nothing to he nsked
for as Jones, tho hymn-book agent even
as to the rolling of his eye. A part1
hard to handle without affectation, ho
played it with a nicety of values, carry
ing it just far enough hut not too far.
As to John Houston, he left his for
mer successes far behind, in the light of
his animated < harneterization of tlie old
professor. He was inimitable and his
make-up was admirable.
Makeups nro Rood.
Hester llunl's make-up was also of
the same category of excellence, She
brought to In'!- role of Olivia Starlight,
reams of humor and did ns plover a
bit of elmrnrtor work ns has been done
for some time by a student.
Adah McMurphey, ns Cissy, had a
lento perl ness- Her costumes fitted in
S charmingly with the setting. With very
little previous University dramatic ex
perience, she showed up well. She
played a role rather well suited to her.
It won’t be difficult for Kathryn Hart
ley to keep the Wolf away if necessary.
She can go on the stage. As Mrs,
Goodly, she was made up just right,
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BASEBALL ATTRACTS GIRLS,
Indoor Playing to Begin Next Week;
Forty Learning Rules.
itegular pluying in women’s indoor
baseball will begin next week, according
to Miss Gladys Gorman, coach. This
week has been given over to learning
the preliminary rules for the game. <
At the first practice next week, each
girl will he given the chance to play at.
every position <>n the diamond, thus
i learning to he an all around player in
stead of playing at only one position.
Miss Gorman said that if any girls
are staying away because they could not
practice at 4 o'clock they should comej
at 5, or vice versa. About forty girl^
ivave. attended the. class.