Oregon
VOLUME 21
* EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13. 1920
NUMBER 32
LACK or INTEREST
DISPUTED IN VOTE
DN PACTAND LEAGUE
Student’s Indifferent Attitude
Attributed to Numerous
Local Events
HASTY DECISIONS MADE
• Many Desire to Have Treaty Ratified
Satisfactorily to AU as Soon
as Possible
In the early voting on the campus
* tMiiy on the Peace Treaty, Proposi
, tion No. 1, in favor of the ratification
of the League and Treaty without
amendments or reservations had a
lead of two votes over Proposition
No. 5, favoring t|ie immediate con
tusion of peace and leaving the
qiestion of the league until later.
' Up to noon the voting had resulted
as follows:
, Sixty-one students and 12 mem
bers ^.pf the faculty voted for
Proposition No. 1, which reads
o as follows:
I favor the ratification of the
League and Treaty without am
* endments or reservations.
Sixteen students and no facul
ty members voted for No. 2:
* I am opposed to the ratifica
tion of the League and Treaty in
* any form.
Forty students and one faculty
member voted for No. 3:
I am In favor of the ratifica
tion of the Treaty and League,
* but only with the specific reser
vations as' voted by the majority
of the senate.
Twenty students and nine fa
culty members voted for No. 4:
I favor any compromise on the
0 reservations which will make pos
sible immediate ratification of
the Treaty and League.
Sixty-ninestudents and two fa
* culty members voted for No. 5:
! favor the government pro
v ceeding to make peace with Ger
many at once, leaving the ques
tion of a league of nations to be
settled afterwards.
Fifty-two students and seven
faculty members voted for No. 6:
I favor a compromise on the
reservations of such a character
as will avoid the danger, of de
feating ratification while still
making clear that America can
v only be involved in war by a
declaration of congress, that
domestic questions and the Mon
roe doctrine are entirely outside
of the jurisdiction of the League,
that the plural vote of any mem
bers are all disqualified in the
event of a dispute .wherein we
are disqualified from voting, and
that on deciding to withdraw we
* are to be the judge of whether
our obligations have been met.
A decided lack of interest regard
* ing the League of Nations is mani
fest on the Oregon campus, judging,
from the attitude of several students
interviewed as to their stand on
* the matter, which was voted on to
day by students and faculty. In
difference and ignorance are the main
* causes for this feeling in the opinion
of many. The subject requires too
much thought and careful consider
ation, they say, and local topics of
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DELEGATES TO TELL
OF DES MOINES WORK
Message Will Be Given at Vesper
Service—Program to Come Later
at Mass Meeting
The delegates sent by the Univer
sity to the Student Volunteer confer
ence at Des Moines will present their
message from the convention to the
student body at vesper service Sun
day, January 18. according to John
Houston, delegation leader. In ad
dition to the program to be presented
at this time the delegates are plan
ning to arrange for a mass meeting
of the churches of Eugene at some
time soon. The churches were very
loyal in giving support to the dele
gates and those who went to Des
Moines feel that they have a message
which will be of value to the church
es. Programs will also be given by
the delegates under the auspices of
the Y. W. C. A., Y. M. C. A. and
the University Women’s league.
The convention, attended as it
was by over 8,000 students, includ
ing representatives from 40 nations,
was so large in every way that,
upon returning to the campus the
delegates expressed a feeling of deep
responsibility to the student body
that sent them andt a determination
to the best of their abilities to give
the students the inspiration and world
outlook which they received while in
Des Moines.
The fourteen delegates who went
to Des Moines were Don Newberry.
^Lindsay McArthur, John Houston,
‘John Gamble, Wayne Akers, Nor
ton Winnard, Mabyl Weller, Louise
Davis, Ella Rawlings, Ruth Flegal,
Eleanor Spall, Ethel Wakefield, Mil
dred Weeks and Miss Urith Dailey.
FICTION BOOKS WANTED
Students Asked to Furnish Reading
Material for Lumbermen
The University library is calling
for books, mostly fiction, to be sent
to lumber camps in the northwest,
for the benefit of the men in the
woods who are unable to - secure
other, reading material than that
which is sent to them.
Numerous calls have been coming
in from the various camps and an
active campaign to secure the books
will probably be launched at a very
early date. The library itself has
furnished all the books it can pos
sibly spare from its shelves, and is
now calling upon the students to aid
in sending reading material to the
loggers.
O. A. C. IN DEBATE LEAGUE
Vacancies in International League
Team to be Filled Friday
R. W. Prescott, professor of public
speaking, announced that he had re
ceived a letter from O. A. C. ac
cepting the request to enter the
Northwest Triangular Debating
league, comprising Oregon, O. A. C.
and Washington State college. As
soon as definite answer is received
from W. S. C. Professor Prescott said,
plans for debate will be formulated.
Tryouts will be held Friday after
noon at 4 o’clock to fill the two va
cancies on the Oregon team in the
International league, composed of
Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia.
The question is: “Resolved, That
the movement of employers for the
open shop should receive the support
of the public.” Judges will quiz the
debaters on both sides of the ques
tion and the best two will be given
the positions.
The tryouts for oratory will be
held Saturday afternoon.
* Lone Auctioneer Touches Prineville
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•> Baskets Go High for building Fund
y *«■ s
There are ways and ways of rais-i
ing money for the Women’s building,
but few that simply put the town
on the map in the way the little city
& Prineville was during the Christ
mas holidays. The town, which
boasts of a population of somewhere
around two thousand inhabitants,
turned in $?,00, practically all of
which w as raised through the efforts
of one man, a generous, big-hearted
westerner, whom the University may
put on its roll of staunch friends in
the future for he made good all in
one evening.
The drive started out badly with
a dance which, when the music start
ed up, found everybody and his bro
ther at home instead of hopping
around the hall and swelling the bank
roll. Only a meagre sum was clear
ed from this affair, so the committee
interested a few high school girls „ in
the cause and they promised to put
on a basket social to finfsli up the
o.uota.
All went well until the time came
to raffle the baskets and there were
no bidders. Seeing the girls’ dis
appointment, a big rancher (the
hero of the story) stepped up and
declard in a masterful voice that he
would see the thing through the way
it ought to go.
He left and was only gone a few
minutes and when he came back he
was not alone. He brought with
him two dozen of the prize swains
of the town, and climbing on the
table proceeded to raffle off the
baskets himself, doing- most of the
bidding for his patrons and collecting
on the spot. No one got off with
less than $10 a basket. When he
had finished two baskets remained
unsold.
“Who is the wealthiest Jew' in
town?” he yelled. Upon receiving
his answer he roared, “All right,
this basket is said to him for $100.”
“Who is the biggest banker in this
burg?” was the second question fired
at his gasping audience. “Sold, the
last basket to the banker for $100,
and cheap at the price.”
And this is the story of how Prine
ville 'happened to turn in $300 into
the Women’s building coffers instead
of $30.
Tlttll PROSPECTS
Fi LEMON-YELLOW
BRIGHT THIS SEASON
No Varsity Meet Here; Foster
Will Captain 1920
Team
MANY VETERANS RETURN
Experienced Crew Will Report at
Start of Season—Frosh and
Rooks Tangle May 15
With football togs stored away for
the year and 'the basketball schedule
on, the track season looms up on
the horizon in intercollegiate sports,
and prospects are being lined up for
the 1920 track team. It is expected
that the team this year will be one
of the fastest that has ever repre
sented the lemon-yellow, as a num
ber of the members of the team in
’17 and ’18 have rturned, in addition
to the last year’s squad.
Eugene will be without a varsity
meet this year owing to the two
which were held here during last
season, and the only meet here will
be the one between the O. A. C.
“rooks” and the “frosh” squad, which
is scheduled for May 15. The first
intercollegiate meet will be with
the University of Washington at
Seattle on May 8, following this on
May 15 at Stanford university will
be held the conference meet, and on
May 22 the dual meet with O. A. C.
will take place at Corvallis.
Foster’s Return Strengthens
Track prospects took a decided
jump last week with the return of
“Hank” Foster to the campus. Hank
was captain of the track spuad in
1918 and has been elected to pilot
this year’s squad through the season.
He majors in the sprints, the low hur
dles and the broad jump, and during
his last season here was the biggest
point getter on the Varsity.
Ken Bartlett, who won his letter
in the weight events on the 1917
squad, is also back this season and
will be out for his old position. “Si”
Starr, “Dow” Wilson and Leith Ab
bott, all lettermen of the last year’s
squad, will be candidates for a place
on the squad this season, Starr in
the pole and weight events, Abbott in
the half-mile and Wilson in the hur
dles and the 220. Stan Anderson,
Dwight Parr, Warren Gilbert and
“Skinny” Hargraves are all lettermen
who can also be depended upon to
make a showing on this year’s squad. |
Hargreaves has not returned ‘to!
school yet but is expected back by
the beginning of next term. Ander
son is a 440 man, while Parr is a
two-mile runner, Hargreaves majors
in the speed events and the jump.
Last Year's Frosh Strong
In addition to the above lettermen
are several members of last year’s
frosh squad who will no doubt show
up to advantage this season. They
are Floyd Bowles, Art Kuhnhausen,
Louis Dunsmuir, Wayne Akers,
“Prink” Callison, “Rus” Meyers, Sid
Hayslip, Dick Sunderleaf and Cre
cene Faris. Bowles showed up good
in the broad jump and Kuhnhausen
and Dunsmuir are likely looking ma
terial for hurdlers. Callison and
Fariss handled the weights on the
frosh squad, Meyers worked in the
pole vault and Hayslip and Sunder
leaf will make a strong bid for the
440-yard race.
EXTENSION COURSE FORMED
New Course in Modern Education Of
fered by Dr. Sheldon
Dr. H. D. Sheldon, dean of the
school of education, is offering a new
course in ten lectures dealing with
the present tendencies in modern
education. The course is given pri
marily for the teachers of Eugene,
said Miss Mozelle Hair, secretary of
the extension department, although
any one' who may be interested in
the work may enter the classes. The
fee will be the same as for any re
gularly registred extension student.
The classes will meet once a week in
the City hall, Dr. Sheldon deliver
ing all the lectures.
Miss Hair stated that the extension
department will be glad to organize
other classes for which there rnay be
a demand.
The first meeting was set for Tues
day at 4:15 and at that time all
arrangements for the class work
were to be made.
“Le Foyer" to Have Program
A meeting of “Le Foyer,” the
I rench club, will be held in the Dun
ftalow.on Wednesday evening at 7:15.
There will be a program and a gen
eral discussion of business. Every
member is urged to be present.
VARIED JOBS ILD
III EXCESS or ssooo
Y.W.C.A. Employment Service
Sees Greater Activity
Than Ever Before
MANY EARN THEIR OWN WAY
i Twenty-five Per Cent Almost Wholly
Self-supporting According to
Records
Sixty per cent of the men in the
University earn part of their college
expenses and about twenty-five per
cent are almost wholly self support
ing, according to records for last term
kept by Rev. A. M. Spangler, secre
tary of the campus Y. M. C. A. The
records show that 500 jobs of various
kinds of work were given to men last
term through the “Y.” The total
amount of money earned by these
men was $5000, This list does not
include men who secured work with
out the aid of the “Y” secretary.
• “More men are working their way
through college this term than ever
before,” Mr. Spangler said today.
“This is probably due to the fact that
many former ex-service men are able
to come to the University with the
help of the $25 a month from state
aid and earn all the rest of their ex
penses easily.”
The men do a variety of work, and
some earn as high as $100 monthly.
One boy buys broken down automo
biles, repairs them and sells them at
a good profit. Many are earning their
expenses by selling all sorts of art
icles on commission. One boy is an
undertaker. Some have organized
their own busineses. Among the jobs
which the men find useful in earning
money on the campus or in town are
the following: Stenography, all kinds
of office work, preaching, clerking in
stores, reporting, operating linotypes,
waiting on tables, janitor, working in
the library, carrying mail, collecting
bills, driving automobiles, playing in
orchestras, tuning pianos, surveying,
building bridges, carpenter work, gar
den work, tutoring, reading papers,
posing,- and the usual odd jobs, such
as carrying wood.
CONDON CLUB ELECTS
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
16 Names Added to Organization’s
Roll—“Arizona Copper Mining’’ I
Subject of Discussion
At the last meeting of the Condon
club 16 associate members for the
organization were elected, and Frank
B. Kelsey, graduate student, now as
sisting in geology in the place of
Lewis Bond, was elected to full mem
bership. The associate membership
is made up of students who are
either underclassmen majoring in geo
logy or upperclassmen of other scien
tific departments who are interested
in geological subjects.
The program for the evening’s
meeting, which was held on Thurs- i
day in the geology room, consisted
of a discussion, by Jay Shively, on!
the subject of “Arizona Copper Min
ing.” The meetings of the Condon
club are held on the first and third
Thursdays each month and an in
teresting schedule has been arranged
for future meetings.
The associate members of the or
ganization are Elvira Thurlow, Ce
leste Foulkes, William Skidmore, Jay
Shively, Raymond Porter, Paul Cook,
Robert Riggs, Homer Gent, D. L.
Powers, Edwin Cox, Ray Allen, Ian
Campbell, Leo Hartlein, Dean Hurd,
George Duke and Ray Van Horn.
VARSITY DEBATE FOR GIRLS
Women of U. of W. and O. A. C. Ask
Triangular Contest Next Term
The University of Washington and
the Oregon Agricultural college have
notified the Women’s Forensic league
of the University that they are ready
to enter a triangular debate to be
held the last of the term, according
to Miss Ethel Wakefield, president
of the league here. "The contracts
have not been drawn up yet,” said
Miss Wakefield, “but knowing that
plan is agreeable is a big thing.”
The Women’s Forensic league will
hold regular meetings each Thurs
day at 4:15 in Professor R. W. Pres
cott’s room, Jiliss Wakefield said, and
that she particularly desires that all
members attenfi the next meeting
:ince matters of unusual importance
will be discussed.
FINLEY TO LECTURE
AT NEXT ASSEMBLY
Former State Biologist Will Come
With New Pictures on Bird
Life in Oregon
W. L. Finley, former state biologist,
will lecture on the birds and wild
life of Oregon, and show his new
moving pictures of them at the
Thursday morning assembly.
“His is a national reputation for
studies in bird life,” said Dr. John
F. Bovard, of the zoology depart
ment, in speaking of Mr, Finley.
The National Audubon society asked
Mr. Finley to speak all over the
country on the subject of birds. Dr.
Bovard further said, and he spends
about' two months of each year in
the east giving his lectures and show
ing his iheautiful pictures. “Most of
them are Oregon birds,” he explain
ed, “because Oregon has th best and
the greatest bird reservations in
the country.”
Mr. Finley lectured here last year
but the talk which he will give
Thursday will be entirely new, as
are the pictures.
I NEWS BUREAU IS PLANNED
College Journalists Institute Means
'or News Organization
While in Des Moines those Student
Volunteer delegates who were inter
ested in journalism attended a news
paper convention at the Savery hotel.
It was decided to form an ex
change bureau by which the col
legos could get the big news easily
and keep i ntouch with each other.
The plan was first suggested by a
McGill student, after representatives
from different schools had told about
their respective papers. This means
of organizing for publication was
thought a good one.
A representative of the Register
Tribune took the names of all pa
pers which would form the exchange
bureau, and a committe, composed
of representatives from some of the
large eastern colleges, Yale, Har
vard and the University of Texas, and
some of the western institutions, was
appointed to work out plans for this
college press bureau.
This committee will send news
about the convention, and the work
that was done there.
Y. W. TO MEET THURSDAY
New Girls Especially Invited to Flrat
Meeting of Term
The first Y. W. C. A. meeting of
the new term will be held at the
Bungalow on Thursday afternoon at
5' o’clock. A song fest in charge of
Laura Rand has been planned in hon
or of the new girls on the campus.
The officers of the association want
all the new girls to attend this meet
ing for it will be a good oppor
tunity for them to meet one another
as well as the older students. Tea
will be served during the hour.
BENEFIT PLAY IS GIVEN
Comedy Put on by Loeta Rogers for
Women’s Building
To Loeta Rogers, a major in the de
partment of public speaking, belongs
the credit of selecting and coaching a
cast and producing the play, “Mrs.
Pat and the Law,” in her home town
of Independence, Oregon, during the
holidays, the proceeds of which were
turned over to the Women’s building
fund. Miss Rogers coached the play
when it was given in Guild hall by
University students shortly before the
Christmas holidays.
OREGOI QUINTET BIWS
10 m«l II FIRST
GOME; SCORE 23-22
Dement, Center, For Visitors
and Durno, Forward, High
Point Winners
VARSITY NEEDS PRACTICE
Borleske's Men Better in Teamwork
and Basket Shooting—Ander
son is Referee
Whitman’s superior teamwork and
| their big 'center, Dement, proved too
much for the Lemon-Yellow five last
j night in the opening game of the
; season, and the visitors carried off
I the game 23 to 22.
As the score would indicate, the
game was not one-sided and almost *
from the Initial whistle it was any
body’s game, though Oregon had the
long end of the score the first half.
A large part of Oregon’s defeat was
due to their lack of practice and
with a little more time to get start
ed the results will probably be dif
ferent.
Dement, Whitman center, scored
the first basket of the game, taking
the ball from the middle of the floor
and shooting the basket over Boiler’s
head. A few seconds later Francis
Jacobberger scored Oregon’s first
tally. Time out for Chapman. De
ment, who threw five out of ten of
the Whitman goals, scored two in ra
pid succession. Rich and Dement
took the ball down the floor, the for
mer scoring .an open basket. Whit
man by the clever passing which
characterized the ganfe, succeeded in
making another goal.
Durno Thrills Crowd
Durno Immediately came to the
rescue with two baskets in quick
succession. Double foul called for
rougli playing and both teams failed
to convert. Lind scored a pretty
basket by throwing the ball over his
head from a difficult angle. It was
nearly the end of the half before
either team could toss another hoop.
Then Garber scored.
Eddie Durno thrilled the crowd by
making a marvelous shot from the
side of the floor with one hand. Half
ended with a 17 to 15 score in Ore
gon’s favor.
Both teams came back in the se
cond half with a lot of fight. Durno
fought like a wildcat. He was all
over the floor. He shot two more
goals this half, one of which was
another of his famous long shots
From a few feet past the center of
the floor he threw a perfect basket.
Dement al^o scored four more points.
Dement was undoubtedly the star
of tile Whitman outfit. He was fast
und rangy for he gave Lind some
trouble guarding him. Rich, right
forward, also loomed up as one of
the visitors’ best bets.
No one can deny that Eddie Durno
was the shining light of the whole
game. He was always after the
ball, displayed wonderful speed and
made several difficult shots, although
he missed several ordinarily easy
shots from lack of practice. Eddie
Durno was the Lemon-yellow high
point man, making five field goals.
The game was so close and such
a good fight that many of the Eu
gene sport followers expect Oregon
to cop off a victory. Whitn^an, liow
fContlnaed on page g)
Rivals of Mystic Alexander to Show
Wealth of Magical tricks on Program
Claiming that all things may be;
transformed and may be made to,
disappear, and that anything and!
everything, with the exception of
funds for the Women’s building, may
be made to automatically appear,
come Erwin J. Ludeman and Virgil
H. Mulkey, mystics par excellence,
with a wealth of “numerous nifty
novelties” in twentieth century ma
gic, entitled “A Night of Mystery,”
which they will offer to the public
on Friday and Saturday evenings of
this week in Guild hall, the proceeds
to go to that yet unsolved problem,
tiie Women's building.
This entertainment, which is com
posed of two acts of baffling mystery
patterned after the methods of Alex
ander, Thurston and Leroy, the
world’s premier magicians, is the
first of its kind' ever to be offered
at the University by University stu
dents, Ludeman, who is a sopho
more in the University, has been in
| terested in and has practiced magic
'since his grade school days, as has
; his co-worker, Mr. Mulkey. As a
result, these students have come into
possession of an extraordinary know
*(lge of this art, as well as a costly
collection of material for their act.
Mr. Ludeman and Mr. Mulkey have
given their act before lodges and
clubs In Portland, as well as at sev
eral entertainments In Eugene, in
cluding the Y. M. C. A. smoker last
term, and they have several con
tracts to present their act during the
week-ends in surrounding towns.
< onsidcrable time was spent during
* *l,! Christmas holidays in prepara
tion for the entertainment. Albert
H. Woertendyke will assist them in
presenting the act in Guild hall.
Following is a brief outline of the
performance:
Act 1
Twentieth century magic and
sleight-of-hand tricks.
Feature—Jada-Wola, famous Indian
trick.
Act 2
Spiritualism, Including:
1. —The Mummy’s Hand.
2. —The Spirit Painting.
3. —Slate Messages.
4. —The Return of the Intellect.
5. Table Floating, miscellaneous.