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Oregon VOL. 20 EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 26,1919 No. 70. EDITORS UNCORK FLOW OF WIT AT Edgar B. Piper, C. E. Ingalls and Others Entertain With Humor C. V. DYMENT MAKES HIT Journalist Red Cross Officer Tells of France — President Is Toastmaster More than 150 persons sat clown at the banquet given by the Chamber of Commerce to the visiting editors and their wives, in the Chamber’s dining room last night. Many kind things were said by the visitors about the Chamber of Commerce and about Eu gene, as a result of the impression made by the banquet. Vastly more was of fered than had been advertised in the programs, and every speaker was credited by his hearers with hitting the bullseye. President Campbell, of the University, was toastmaster, giving each speaker what Frank Branch Riley would call a flattering kickoff. The visitors were welcomed to Eu geue by E. C. Simmons, president of the Chamber of Commerce, in a happy little speech in which he called atten tion to the ample jail facilities of this city for any editors who might go wrong. He regretted the absence of some of the more sensational of the recent Eugene editors. Ingalls Makes Response In response Claude Eugene Ingalls, editor of the Corvallis Gazette-Times, president of both Willamette Valley and Oregon State Editorial associations, expressed his appreciation of the fact (as told him in his inquisitive early youth) that this town had been named after him. While praising Eugene, he suggested an excess of deliberation among the people here, saying that if the angel Gabriel were to ask Eugene to come rortn, it coum De reuea on to come fifth. E. E. Brodie, editor of the Oregon City Enterprise, suggested in a short address the possibility of getting the National Editorial association, which is to hold a traveling convention in July and August and is coming t^st to Cra ter Lake, to stop in Eugene for a few hours on the way south. Pointing out the value of a National Editorial asso ciation convention to a city, Mr. Bro die called attention to the fact that Arkansas received 7,000,000 lines of publicity on the last session of the ps sociation, held in that state. This amount of space is 25,000 columns, or enough to make a strip one column wide and eight miles long. Dyment Tells of France Colin V. Dyment, who is credited with one of the very greatest feats of newspaper reporting in the entire war, the gathering of the data on all the casualties of the Ninety-first division, including 1400 killed, described at the request of the toastmaster, his method of gathering the information which has been of such comfort to the mothers of the men wso fell at the front. Mr. Dyment got the idea of taking up this work, the gath ering of the data and the communica ting with the relatives, he said, from his experience with one soldier who, as he lay dying on the battlefield, irre levantly referred to a letter he had received from his mother, in a town in Georgia. He wanted Mr. Dyment, who was in the service of the Bed Cross, to read the letter. Mr. Dyment picked it out from among a packet of five, in cluding one from the soldier’s sweet heart, read it, then cut the address from the upper corner, and, at the sol dier’s request, wrote the mother. He told the Georgia woman of her son’s last words, and of how and where he came to his end. The thought occur red to him, why not do this for all the mothers of the casualties in the 91st? Officers Lent Aid In carrying on his work, he said, he (Cetatinued on Page Three) Girl Editor Tells Big Editor How; He Talks Back “When I read the editorial page of the Oregonian, I always begin at the bottom of the column and go up,” said Erma Zimmerman last night when speaking at the editors’ banquet at the Chamber of Commerce. ‘ ‘ Then we will put the short items at the top, hereafter, ejaculated Edgar B. Piper, the editor, and added, “And that is what they teach the students in the school of journalism to do, is it?” Miss Zimmerman still has a standing offer of a dollar, when she can tip the scales at 100 pounds, but nothing daunt ed, mainly because she had not mem orized her speech and therefore could not forget it and get all fussed, she re plied, “Just ask the editors if they don’t do the same thing?” With a roar of laughter, for Mr. Piper loves a comeback (if the oppo nent can get away with it) he subsided and waited his turn when he was called upon and then remarked that he was really trying to brighten up his editor ial page, even if the young lady did have to stand on her head to read it. EMBRYO EDITORS 11 UNTIL 2 A.M. Gibes and Scribes, Newspaper Conference Special, Is Launched Had the campus ghost walked last night—and maybe he did—and had he peeked through the basement windows of McClure hall at about 2 a. m., he surely would have witnessed a sight that would have tempted almost any healthy ghost to enter and partake of the fun — maybe he did, all unbe knownst. Seated about the room on tables, stools and an occasional chair were some eight people. All were working at the height of speed. Several were pecking nervously away at typewriters with amused looks on their races, others read long sheets of ptoof with intent expressions and all chewed sandwiches and drank coffee between looks with equal enthusiasm. A loud laugh broke from one of the party and operations were stopped for a minute while a short poem was read, then everybody laughed and the work progressed once more. This kept up until 2:30 when the lights were turned off and the indus trious eight stopped work to go home for a few hours of much needed sleep. Today a jflaring yellow four-page paper, printed in gaudy green ink and entitled Gibes and Scribes was handed to each member of the state editors’ convention who had luncheon at Hen dricks hall this noon. It is full of so called gibes and little bits of personal dope gleaned from goodness knows where about these editor men. On interviewing some of those whose names appear on the staff of this up start it was found that these people are in hopes of establishing Gibes (and Scribes as an annual visitor to the campus at the time of the conventions. Those most in favor of having this custom indefinitely perpetrated are the mice who reside in the basement of McClure’s—it sure was a fine feed. . DATE SET FOB VOCAL BECITALS Arthur Faguy-Cote, instructor in i voice, will present his pupils in recitals on May 6 and 13, in the Y. M. C. A. hut. Programs and participants will be announced at a later date. BEN DOBBIS TO SPEAK Lieutenant Ben F. Dorris, who has recently returned to his home in Eugene from service overseas with the 91st division, will be the assembly speaker Wednesday morn ing. Lieutenant Dorris, who was wounded severely in the jaw in action, while in Belgium, was award ed the Belgian Croix de Guerre for bravery. He is a graduate of the University in the class of 1915. DLL CAST PICKED FOR SENIOR PUT Harold Grey, Jimmie Sheehy and Estes Brosius Complete Personnel [ The cast for the senior play, ‘ ‘ Fac ing the Music, ’ ’ is now complete. The final tryout was held Thursday when three men were selected. Due to the •comparatively small number of men in the class of ’19, it was thought that these parts would have to be filled by juniors. However it was found that the senior class possessed enough men of dramatic ability to make the play senior in fact as well as in name, seven of the nine characters being rep resentatives of the class. The three ehosen Thursday are Harold Grey, Jim my Sheehy and Estes Brosius. The complete cast is as follows: John Smith .Curtiss Peterson Rev. John Smith .James Sheehy Dick Desmond .Harold Newton Sergeant Duffell .Harold Grey Col. Duncan Smith .Estes Brosius Mabel .Doris Slocum Nort .Marian Coffey Miss Fotheringay .Ruth Graham Mrs. Pouting .Hester Hurd Jimmy Sheehy, who is to play the jart of the Rev. John Smith, is a most valuable addition to the cast. His quiv ering voice, his bearing and his loving manner combine to make him an ideal parson as well as an ideal husband. We could hardly expect to see the sedate ex-president of our student body as the affectionate lover which he proves himself to be upon the stage. The role of Mabel, the parson’s wife, is played by Doris Slocum. Her loving manner undoubtedly qualifies her to play opposite the affectionate Sheehy. Her part is exceptionally heavy as she plays opposite all the men characters. Her stage bearing is very good, and she handles herself very well in both the serious and the comical phases of the play. The management is well pleased with the east. Behearsals are being held daily, under the direction of Don Or put, and the progress is very rapid, j Skinny Newton, who is managing the play, says: “The plot is complicated and funny, and it would be impossible to find actors in the senior class better suited to their parts. We have had a hard time getting characters from the 19 class, but Orput has succeeded fin ally in getting a well-balanced cast. ’ ’ ‘ ‘ Pacing the Music ” is of English origin and the setting is in that coun try. Despite that, the play is distinctly American in style. There are many com plicated situations and predicaments. The senior play has always been one of the outstanding features of Junior Week-End. This year’s performance will live up to former high standards. It is not as heavy as productions of past graduating classes, and this, with the merriment it will cause, assures it even a higher rank than the senior perform ance of other years. The play is to be produced at the Eugene theater on Friday night of Junior Week-End. TERM WILL END JUNE 16 ■* Commencement to Follow Exams Set for June 11, 12, 13 Carlton Spencer, University registrar, said yesterday that the college calendar for th^ remainder of the year would be carried out according to the schedule printed in the catalog, which opposes the rumor which has come into being during the past few weeks that com mencement exercises would be held be fore examinations. This means that the regular college term will close on June 16, following the commencement exercises. Exam inations will come on June 11, 12 and 13; and those students not staying over to enjoy the senior festivities will be able to leave for home as soon as their particular examinations are over. As yet no schedule has been announced for the time of the different examinations according to the number of hours of the course. MULTNOMAH AND i VARSITY MEET IN FIRST FOCAL GAME _ Semi-Pros in Portland Bunch; Wilson and Durno Battery for Oregon Oregon and Multnomah will play the first game of the local season this af ternoon on Cemetery Ridge. The game is called for 2:30 and Jimmie Sheehy, captain of last yea'rs’ team, will call balls and strikes. The club team is due in at noon and after having the festivi ties with the varsity will depart for Portland this afternoon. Numbered among the celebreties that the club has on its roster are a number of semi-pro stars of Portland, among them being Hughie McKenna, Mike Block and Feitchenger, who played an end for the Multnomah football team last fall. The visitors have not sent in a list of their players or how many they are planning on bringing with them for the game. Coach ‘ ‘ Shy ’ ’ Huntington, of the Oregon team, announced his batting or der last night with “Billy” Morrison leading off and playing second. Rhine liart, Lind, Medley, Gamble and Camp bell will follow Morrison in the order named. Houston, Leslie and either Wil son or Durno will complete the list. Huntington said last night that ho ex pected that he would use both Wilson and Durno during the game. Varsity batting order for this after noon: Morrison .Second Base Rhinehart .Shortstop Lind .First Base Medley .Right Field Gamble .Center Field Campbell .Left Field Houston .Third Base Leslie .Catcher Wilson or Durno .Pitcher LAIRD WOODS HOME AGAIN Former University Student in Three Battles; Wounded Slightly Laird Woods, formerly of the class of 1918, is another Uninversity of Ore gon man who has returned from the service and is now at his home in Dallas, Oregon. Woods enlisted in March, 1916, in the infantry, and was sent to Van couver, Washington, later transferred to Camp Withycombe, Oregon, Camp Mills and then to France, where he saw service for fourteen months. He was in the battles of Belleu Wood, St. Mihiel and Argonne and was slightly wounded by shrapnel last October. At the time of his discharge he was a corporal in the 104th infantry. GREY TO INSTRUCT AT TANK Will Be Assistant in Charge of Swim mers; Dean Walker’s Idea Hereafter the swimming tank will be in charge of a guard who will also act as instructor. Harold Grey, one of the best swimmers in the University, will, beginning next week, be at the gym to assist all beginners. Anyone, whether a member of any class or not, may take advantage of this opportun ity to learn to swim. This is an en tirely new idea and was inaugurated by Dea Walker. RELEASE ORDER ARRIVES Colonel W. H. C. Bowen, commanding j officer of the It. O. T. C. received or ders Thursday from the war depart- , ment relieving him from the service [ May 5. His successor has not yet been : appointed but it is probable that I Lieutenant Colonel Raymond C. Baird as the second senior officer, will take his place. TENNIS CONTEST MAY 24 The Varsity tennis schedules for the coming season so far have not been worked out. The only definite date set for a contest is that with the Uni versity of Washington on May 24, at Eugene. The O. A. C. date has not been arranged. Dean Walker hopes to have a more complete schedule later in the season. K. K. Klamor Makes Initial Bow Before Karnival Tonight With every member and pledge of Sigma Delta Chi hurriedly working at their utmost speed, snooping about the packed crowds in search of choice juicy bits for their paper,.scooping their rival concern by hours, and then beating it back to the office in double quick time where in a frenzy of haste, stories were written, eopyread, set up in type and then whisked off to the pressroom where they took a place on a modorn, up-to-date, sensational sheet, the “K. K. K. Klamor,” making its bow to the reading public at the K. K. K. tonight. The paper is a one sheet affair com plete, with editorials, a column of sen sational stories concerning the doings of the people who are at the Karnival and including weather report, etc. It was edited by a staff composed of James Sheehy, Alexander Brown and Leith Abbott, active Sigma Delta Chi men, while Harris Ellsworth and Harry Smith, pledges, served as newsboys, cub reporters and tramp printers. Three editions of the Klamor nre be ing issued, each one giving a complete resume of the evening’s big doings and also sidelights on those present, who with, and why. The sheet is being put out on the new Spoedplex Model 19475(1 Optiinus press recently purchased by Sigma Delta Chi for the occasion while the type is being set on a new Royal model typewriterplex, which gives a wonderful reproduction of type which resembles that of a typewriter in overy way. 200 ENTRIES FOR STATE TRACK MEET Twenty-five High Schools to be Represented in Contest Junior Week-End There will probably bo 200 entries in the state interscholastie championship track meet, which will be held under the auspices of the University May 10. The meet will be one of the features of Junior Week-End and will take all of Saturday. According to the present arrangements the preliminary events will be staged Saturday morning and the finals will be run in the afternoon. A number of those who are entering the meef are planning upon coming to Eugene early in order to see the Var sity basketball game with the Univer sity of Washington, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, and the dual track meet with O. A. C. Friday after noon. The management of the meet will be under the direction of “Bill” Hayward, who has established somewhat of a rec ord for the efficient manner in which he has run off these meets in previous years. The state meet has not beon held for two years but “Bill” has hard ly lost any of his cunning and the prop ers can depend upon their being busy from the time they first report at the gym. The officials of the meet will be made up of the Oregon track squad, members of the Order of the “O,” Portland sport writers, and T. Morris Dunne has been invited. It is also expected that there will be several members of the faculty who will serve as officials in the meet as several of the members of the faculty have won fame on the cinder path during their college days. Don Orput, assistant graduate mana ger, will leave Sunday for Portland where he will attend to several business matters in connection with the meet and will probably arrange for some of the officials. The awards have already been procured by the University and include a large cup for the individual high point man and 16 sets of prizes. There is also some talk of giving a shield, or something on that order, to the winner of the relay race. Listed among the schools which are expected tc enter teams in the meet are: all of the Portland high schools, Tangent, Lebanon, Oregon City, North Bend, Medford, Eugene, Mollala, Prine villo, Madras, Astoria, McMinnville. Union, Pendleton, Roseburg, Grants Pass, Silverton, Ashland, Albany, Hood River and Baker. S. C. Morton, of St. Helens, New President; Scribes Enjoy Visit to Campus PRINTING IS MORNING TOPIC Cost Systems Discussed; Friday Afternoon Devoted to Advertising About forty editors of the state, some of whom brought along their wives, concluded today the first annual Ore gon newspaper conference. The ses sions, which lasted two days, were held at the School of Journalism. The con ferences are to be held annually here after. 8. C. Morton, of the St. Helen’s Mist, I was elected first president of the con j fcrenco; 0. W. Robey, Oregon City Courier, vice-president; Elbert Bede, j Cottage Grove Sentinel, secretary-treas urer; and Eric W. Allen, dean of the | School of Journalism, University of j Oregon, chairman of the program com i mittee. Advertising was the main topic for yesterday’s discussion when the confer ence began at 2:30. It was followed by a ride around town and a banquet at the Chamber of Commerce last even I Cost Accounting Today’s Topic Cost accounting formed the basis of a more or less informal discussion this morning when the conference was call ed to order by President C. E. Ingalls, of the Corvallis Gazette-Times. The conference committee on resolu tions, composed of E. E. Brodie, W. C. DePew, A. E. Frost, Eric W. Allen and W. IT. Weatherson, introduced the fol lowing resolution which was passed on and adopted: ‘ ‘ Resolved, That for the promotion of the interests of the newspaper and printing industry of the state of Ore gon, that the name of the Willamette Valley Editorial association be changed to the Oregon Newspaper Conference; that annual meetings of said conference bo held at the school of journalism of the University of Oregon in Eugene in January, commencing in January, C. W. Robey First Speaker C. W. Robey, of the Oregon City Courier, first speaker of the morning, in talking of the co operation of the state printers, said: “the printing bus iness should have standard selling prices instead of the prices on jobs on letterheads ranging from $4 to $13.50. If there are two shops in one town,” he said, ‘ ‘ the printers should get to gether and mark their product" instead of trying to cut others’ prices.’’ Mr. Robie recommended the hour cost sys tem worked out by Eric Allen as an excellent one and said that if the Ore gon printers had taken advantage of it they would be making money today. E. E. Brodie, of the Oregon City Morning Enterprise, said many shops in Oregon have no competition at all but lose money on the cost of production for lack of a cost finding system. He is of the opinion that an average cost system cannot be handled satisfactorily, that each individual case should be handled in an individual way. If any j body goes into a new town to start a shop Mr. Brodie contends that he can i always get some business that will be I profitable if he knows enough to | charge enough. ‘ ‘ Many printers lose money on ten or | fifteen per cent of the jobs they turn j out and think they will make it up on j others, but as a matter of fact they | never know just where they stand.’’ Elbert Bede Gives His Views Elbert Bede of the Cottage Grove I Sentinel, emphasized the importance of | saving time in the country shop. There is one big thing that many country newspaper men overlook and that is the importance of having things con venient. Time is wasted looking for things, pushing things out of the way (Continued on Page Four)