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/ Oregon Emerald VOL. 20 EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1919. NO. 85. STUDENTS POURING TETTERS IN FEOOD INTO STATE FIGHT Registrar’s Office Kept Busy Mailing Missives Urging Aid for Bonds HARD BATTLE EXPECTED Campaign Chairman Sees Much Opposition to Bill Which University Wants Letters by the score are going out from the registrar’s office to the vote ters of Oregon urging an affirmative vote for the reconstruction bill at the special election Tuesday. Karl W. On thank, secretary to the president, urges that the students continue sending the letters up until time for the election as he believes that the student attitude is going to sway the vote one way or the other. “I realize that the hardest fight we have is on the $5,000,000 Reconstruc tion Bonding bill.” says Clark Leiter, director of the Oregon reconstruction campaign. ‘ ‘ There seems to be devel oping a general tendency on the part of the people to vote ‘ no. ’ I believe that our best chance of. success lies in concentrating on getting the favorable vote out to the polls.” , Non-Voters Can Help Students who can’t vote on account of age should do what they can to con vince other people of the advisability of the measure, Mr. Onthank said. Perhaps not more than one-third of the students can vote so it is really up to the people who can’t to do cam paigning. Speak to your neighbors nere in Eugene and above all don’t for get to write those ten letters home. Provisions for students to be sworn in at the polls have been made. There will be two faculty men who are free holders at the polls from two to five in the afternoon. Students will vote in the precinct in which they live. The majority of the fraternity mpn and women will /ote at the Patterson school but each student should inquire as to the precinct boundaries before go ing to this school to vote. When Money Would Go Out of the funds provided by the measure $500,000 is assigned to the buildings on the University campus. Another need met by the measure is provision for a reconstruction hos pital on the campus of the University Medical School at Portland . The expenditure of $4,000,000 jointly contributed by state and nation would reclaim 80,000 to 100,000 acres of Ore gon lands and furnish at least 1,000 homes for discharged soldiers and sailors returning to their native state. Besides funds for state buildings the reconstruction measure assigns some $2,000,000 to the contruction of irriga tion and drainage works inside the state. V. H. VAWTER NEW REGENT Medford Man, 1886 Graduate, Will i Succeed W. H. Gore _ Vernon H. Vawter, of Medford, has been appointed a member of the board i of regents of the University to fill the ; vacancy left by William H. Gore, also of Medford, whose term has expired. The appointment was made by the governor. Vawter is a graduate of the Univer sity in the class of 1913 and his pre decessor is a graduate of the 1886 class. Both are bankers of Medford. Vawter’s father is also a graduate of the University and was a classmate of Mr. Gore. While in college Mr. Vawter was very prominent in college activities had held a great many offices. He was president of the glee club, was a mem ber of Friars and a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. His wife was a Univer sity of Oregon guf, formerly Miss Aletha Emery, ex- ’14. J Freshman Plays Clever Trick Bat Pays Bill in End And some say humor is not alive on the campus. What about this? Some time ago Martha Tinker had a boquet of flowers pinned on her coat. When she went to take her mu sic lesson she left the coat, with the flowers pinned on, in the waiting room of the music hall. When she returned the flowers were gone. Patty French, who was in the office, said that she remembered seeing John Stark Evans take the flowers and that he said he was going to take them home to his wife. Now, the flowers stood for something to which not everyone on the campus is eligible, so Martha was worried. She was also amused. She thought to show John Stark, so she ordered some flowers from downtown and had the bill sent to John Stark Evans. Then she went home. In half an hour, the telephone rang and a deep apologetic masculine voice started to explain how sorry he was about the | flowers and that he didn’t know they were Martha’s. Then he went on to explain that Patty French gave him the boquet and told him to take it home to his wife. He had just learned, he continued to explain, that the posies were Martha’s and he was ordering others to be sent up from towTn im mediately. Then it was Martha’s turn to be embarrassed. Finally, Martha said that it would not be necessary to order any more flowers as she had already bought some and—and—the bill vras being sent to John Stark Evans. - Then it was that a judicial decision was made by the two on whom the joke fell. And the bill was sent to Patty. LORE OF OREGON DRAWS DEMENT Former Professor of Journalism to Return to Campus Next Fall Colin V. Dyment, one of the best liked professors that ever trod the Oregon campus, will return to his former position in connection with the School of Journalism next September, according to the recommendation which President Campbell will make to the board of regents at the forthcoming meeting. Mr. Dyment, however, will probably not devote all his time to his journalism work for the first year, at least, as it is likely that the regents will wish to entrust him with other | duties. When Mr. Dyment -came to the Ore gon campus in 1913 he formed a con nection he has found it impossible to break, and it is as a still loyal Oregon ian that he returns. He followed the Oregon boys through the war, he lis tened to the dying words of many upon the fields of France, he brought back such words of comfort as he could to the bereaved parents at home in the old state, and he has written the heroic record of the Oregon dead. When Mr. Dyment set about organ izing his work at the University of Washington, where he went as head of the department of journalism, it was to Oregon that he turned for help, and his assistant through all his successful Seattle 'career, was an Oregon student, Miss Grace Edgington, whose ability he had learned to appreciate in the Oregon class rooms. It was on the Oregon campus, too, that Mr. Dyment found his wife, whom he married in Paris just on the eve of his departure for one of the terrible ad vances in which the Oregon boys of the 91st division took part. Dr. Bertha Stuart Dyment, formerly head of the department of physical education for women, will be for some time engaged in important medical work in Portland, and it is extremely improbable that Mr. Dyment will spend all seven of the days of the week in Eugene. TWENTMWO MEN WIN LETTERS IN SPRING SPORTS 10 Get “0”s In Baseball; 12 In Track; Number Larger Than Usual A total of twenty-two “O” ’s will be awarded participants in spring ath letics this year, ten men receiving let ters in baseball, and twelve in track. It is expected that the winners will receive them this spring, as, according to Dean Walker, they have been or dered for some time. Eddie Durno, Dwight Wilson, Julian Leslie, Herman Lind, Billy Morrison, Bill Reinhart, Johnny Houston, Dot Medley, Jimmy Sheehy, and John Gam ble were those who won a letter in baseball. This list compromises the team which played throughout the season, and two pitchers. In track, more men made their let ters than in several years. The twelve men are: Henry Foster, A1 Runquist, Don Belding, Dwight Parr, Leith Ab bott, Dow Wilson, Newt Estes, Harry Hargreaves, Stan Anderson, Si Starr, Floyd Bowles, and .lay Mulkey. Of the new letter men in baseball, two men have won theirs twice before, and four men once. Dot Medley and Jimmy Sheehy are the two veterans of the team, both of them outfielders. Dot has played in his favorite garden throughout the three years, while Jim my spent a season cavorting about third base. Dwight Wilson, Herm Lind, Billy Morrison, and Billy Reinhart will re ceive their second baseball letter. Eddie Durno, Jiggs Leslie, and Johnny Houston are those receiving their first sweaters. All three were members of last year’s freshman team. A1 Runquist and ‘ ‘ Hank ’ ’ Foster are the letter men who will be en titled to wear two lemon stripes about their sleeves in track. They are the only members left of last year’s small crop of letter men in that sport. Some of the track men to whom let ters are to be given, owe their suc cess to luck, others to hard work, while others had them thrust upon them. ‘ ‘ Skinny ’ ’ Hargreaves and ‘ ‘ Dubs ’ ’ Mulkey are best of pals, and when they both, tied for first in the broad jump in the Washington meet, friends thought a rupture of their friendship might ensue. The real reason they are now sporting twin white papamas is that they each won a letter, and so didn’t have to divide one. »*»# *** »** * * EMERALD AWARDS. * • _ * * Leith Abbott * * Elizabeth Aumiller * * Elva Bagley * * Mary Ellen Bailey * * Helen Brenton * ♦ * Alexander Brown * ♦ Frances Cardwell * ♦ Dorothy Cox . * ♦ Pierce Cummings * ♦ ♦Lyle Bryson * ♦ Louise Davis * ♦ ♦Catherine Dohie ♦ ♦ Dorothy Dixon ♦ ♦ ♦Dorothy Duniway * ♦ *Harris Ellsworth * ♦ Lee Hulbert * ♦ Elston Ireland ♦ ♦ Warren Kays ♦ ♦ Raymond Lawrence ♦ ♦ * Adelaide Lake ♦ ♦ Helen McDonald ♦ ♦ Wanna McKinney ♦ ♦ ♦Helen Manning ♦ ♦ Virgil Meador ♦ ♦ Velma Rupert ♦ ♦ James Sheehy ♦ ♦ Frances Stiles ♦ ♦ Stella Sullivan * ♦ Harry Smith * ♦ Eleanore Spall * ♦ Nell Warwick * ♦ ♦Erma Zimmerman * ♦ * ♦ ♦Second year numerals. ♦ • • Committees in Portland Trying to Raise $40,000 Before Commencement Total subscriptions, to date, to the $100,000 Woman’s Building fund arc approximately $55,000, according to George If. McMorran, chairman of the Eugene city committee. At the special election next Tuesday the voters of Eugene will decide on a proposed $5, 000 special tax to be applied to the fund. This would make the amount raised in Eugene about. $25,500. Committees in Portland, assisted by Miss Charlies Fenton, alumni secre tary, are busy trying to raise $40,000 before commencement. The raising of this amount would practically complete the full $100,000 to be raised by priv ate subscription to match the : state’s conditional appropriation of $100,000. Early completion of the fund would insure the start of construction work this summer. Colonel John Leader left today to speak on behalf of the Woman’s Build ing in Portland. He will talk to the i Realty club, the Business Men’s club, the Chamber or Commerce and the Ad | club this week and probably to other j organizations later. The Portland , committee, composed mostly of old I Oregon students, is as follows: Edgar | Smith, ex ’08; Arthur Geary, ’07; Lair Gregory, ex ’ll, Dean Collins, ’70; Alice Benson Beach, ’05, and Homer Angel 1, 1900. A recent letter from Miss Fenton an nounced a gift of $1000 from the Port land Clearing House and a pledge of $500 from A. S. Roberts of The Dalles in memory of his son Allyn Roberts, a graduate of the University, and a nunr her of smaller gifts. The board of regents plans to start the building as soon as the total sum is pledged and one-half of the money is in, according to Karl Onthank. Mr F. Lawrence, University architect, is rapidly completing the plans. Largest Gifts Listed. Following is a list of the largest con tributions to the Woman’s Building Fund: J. C. Penny Co., $150; Allen and Lewis, $250; Ax Billy Store, $200; W. W. Brown, $500; Burden and Graham, $150; P. L. Campbell, $1000; F. E. Chambers, $550; Mr. and Mrs. F. L, Chambers, $1000; Cockerline & Weth erbee, $200; Mr. and lilrs. A. C. Dixon, $50Q; Eugene Register, $250; Large’s I Cloak and Suit House, $150; Lackey’s iiowciij oiuic, «p u-tj, mciYiui i an tx Washburne, $1000; Mason - Ehrmann Co., $250; Aildie B. Osburn, $200; Os ; burn Hotel, $1000; L. H. Pierce, $250; Fleischner Meyer & Co., $250; Mrs. 8. II. Friendly and daughter, $500; Guard Printing Co., $200; O. R. Gullion, $250; I T. G. Hendricks, $1000; Mrs. W. F. Jewett, $1000; Lang and Cot, $150; Rorer and Brundage, $200; Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Snodgrass, $150; Yoran’s Printing House, $150. Those who contributed $100 follow: R. A. Booth, W. H. Brenton, Moun j tain States Power Co., Marion Veatch, S. R. Allen, Mrs. Cornelia An keny, W. W. Calkins, Eugene Excelsior Co., Eugene Woolen Mills, C. S. Frank, W. T. Gordon, Alton Hampton, William Hayward, W. A. Kuykendall, L. H. Johnson, Seth Laraway, Linn Drug Co., Ellen C. McCornack, A. H. McDonald, D. W. Morton, Myers Electric Co., Pet erso'.i & McCully, Preston & ifales, Price Shoe Co., F. G. G. Schmidt, H. D. Sheldon, S. Smeed, Wade Bros., D. E. Yoran, F. G. Young. FACULTY MEN APPOINTED Two members of the faculty have been chosen as officers in the Oregon State Society of Mental Hygiene, with headquarters in Portland. They are Dr. B. W. DeBusk, professor of educa tion, and Dr. E. 8. Conklin, head of the psychology department, the former being elected vice-president of the or ganization and Dr. Conklin as a mem ber of the executive committee. The bureau is one newly formed for state work. Boys Try Archery, Giving Girls Their Chance to Laugh Since the beginning of out-door sports early in the term, girls darting to and fro on the areherv range have been a source of amusement for not a few super-cynical young swains. Many an assuming youth will admit to himself that he has been wakened from one, if not a number, of long, languid laboratory experiments by the passing of a “Lady Cupid” or by th< whir of her ridiculous nrrow. There is something siren about those wielders of the bow, along with the sportful entertainment which they givo to the campus. Consequently, into this situation, there enters an element of curiosity, and those familiar with the appertaining adage, have known for a long time that tragedy was lurking around the corner. Yesterday the climax of the season came, when two colleg men, bubbling over with inquisitiveness and gallan try, took advantage of tlio archery instructor’s absence and in true Sir Walter fashion offered their services as caddies. The archerettes accepted graciously, and soon the pseudo-caddies were desirous of trying their aim at the target which they likened unto the broad side of a barn. Permission was granted. The men took their footing as if preparing to open the engagement with a kick-off. The bow seemed to be strung too tight ly, the goal seemed miles away, for i targets have a habit of moving. The | novice archers let go, and their arrows | snaked in tlio grass, out of bounds about forty yards from the sixty-yard I lino on which the “broad side of the l barn’’ was standing. This was proof i enough that football tactics could not | bo used on an archery range, and evi dence also that the William Tell sport requires more skill than is generally believed by the ordinary youth. At least it required more than either A1 Bowles or Pat Masterson, archers pro torn and captains of curiosity, had thought. AfflT TEACHERS TO flEW10 FOIL Dean Pox, Professors Stafford and Schafer, Miss Watson to be Back The University is to have several instructors who are not now on the campus, back next year. Among those returning are Miss Mary Watson, who has been at Columbia University for the past year studying for her master’s degree; Dr. Joseph Schafer, who has been in Washington, D. C., all winter, doing historical research work for tho committee on historical information, expects to return to the campus in j August. Mrs. Schafer leaves Eugene Sunday to join her husband at Wash ington and will stay with him there until August. > Dean Elizabeth Fox will return to the campus next fall. She is at pres ent stationed in England and is as sistant to one of the heads of the na tional Y. M. C. A. there. Whenever the head secretary cannot go on a ; tour, she sends Miss Fox. News has been received by Dr. F. L. Shinn, professor of chemistry, that ! Professor O. F. Stafford, head of the ! department, who is now on leave of ! absence in Boston, with Badger & | Sons, chemical engineers, may return i for summer school. Despite this letter, however, Dr. Shinn states that he does I not really expect him back before fall. Professor Stafford’s invention,which i is an apparatus for the distillation of wood wastes, has proved to be a suc ; cess. All the main features have been worked out. It is only on side issues which have come up since Professor J Stafford began on this project that is detaining him in Boston now. BEZDEK’S BETURN AGAIN RUM9RED; GOOD OFFER SENT Athletic Council Gives Him Choice of Being Coach or Athletic Director CONTRACT ANOTHER YEAiL Pennsylvania State College Turn Out Fighting Team Under Oregon Man (By ALEXANDER G. BROWN) With the close of college but two weeks distnnst the campus is beginning to hum with gridiron gossip for next fall. The rumor of the return of Bez dek 1ms not been substantiated by any word from him to the business office and while the student body at large would like to see “Be/.” back, this appears almost impossible for next season at least, for while he might be able to terminate his contract with the, owners of the Pittsburg “Pirates” it is hardly probable that he could get out of his contract with Pennsylvania State College. It is understood here on the campus that Bezdek’s contract with Pennsyl vania has another year to run and they would hardly be turning him lose, as he gave them the, first real football team that they have had for several seasons. His eleven was about the only one that wns ablo to stand up against Pittsburg and gave them a real contest. Council Makes Offer It is common knowledge, hero on the campus, that the athlotic council, in a meeting on May 24, sent a message to Bezdek offering him the position of director of athletics, under a one year contract, or to engage him as coach of football for the season only. No ans wer has been received at the office of President Campbell, according to Karl Onthank, secretary to the presi dent. The press report from the east, to the effect that “Bez” would return to Oregon has been denied by the great Oregon coach and the office of the pirates have also issued a statement to the effect that they had no idea of letting Bezdek go and, as far as they knew, he had no thought of quitting. Bezdek has given Pittsburg one of the best teams that it has over had and has them right up in the race. Conditions such as these would hardly point to Bezdek quitting the “Pir ates,” for this season at least. Campus Opinion Strong Campus opinion is back of every effort being niaile to have Bezdek return to Oregon, not only as coach of football, but to handle athletic work during the entire season. “Bez”, as coach of football and basketball, has turned out some great teams. Ilis name is connected with the gridiron history of Oregon, and the students, especially those who were here during the time that “Bez” served, are anx ious to see him return, if not for next season at least for the year following. One thing that is a certainty and that is if Bezdek were to return to col lege this fall a number of the old tim ers who have been in tiie service would return to college next fall. Without ‘1 Bez ’ ’ on the job this is not so cer tain. Numbered among men who are in tliis list are well known Oregon stars as Bill Snyder, Hollis Hunting ton, Brick Mitchell, Lloyd Tegart, Bill Steers, “Monty” Monteith, “Ken” Bartlett, “Brick” Leslie, Art Berg, “Spike” Leslie and several others. Dope Sheet Out This is about tlfe time that the old dope sheet is dragged out and every body begins figuring upon who will be back next fall. Starting in at center and taking that all of the men will be back who have said that they intended to return in the fall, Oregon will have “Prink” Callison, center on the team last fall and “Brick” Leslie who occupied this (Continued on Page Five.)