Oregon
Emerald
VOLUME 21
EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1920
NUMBER 52
ASPIRING ATHLETES .
TO HAVE OPPORTUNITY
IN NEW MEDLEY MEET
1 ‘Has Been*,” Former Stars,
Will Break Into Limelight
In Coming Contests
COMPANY EVENT MARCH 13
Intramural Affair to Encourage
Men for University Track
Squad
Mexican athlets, “has-beens,” and
former stars will be given the op
portunity to break into the limelight
in the medley track meets to be held
in March under the direction of Bill
Hayward. The first event will be
the intercompany meet March 13, the
feature of which will be a medley
relay race. The second will be an
interfraternity medley track gather
ing. This will be held about two
weeks after the company affair.
To Get Athlets ut
The interfraternity affair is to be
held for the purpose of getting the
athletes out on the cinders so that
more men will report for varsity
track. Each house on the campus
will enter a team in the meet, in
which anyone may partcipate. The
varsity men are not to take part in
their own event, but they may go out
for something in which they have
never had experience. The frosh will
be allowed to show their wares.
A medal will be given to the high
point man of the meet, and it is
thought that a cup will be presented
to the winning team. The heads of
the houses are to be responsible for
the turnout of men in their house.
Relay to be Feature
The feature of the company meet
is to be the medley relay race, a new
contest to be introduced into intra
mural athletics at Oregon. The med
ley race takes seven men, each run
ning various distances. The first
man runs 100 yards, the second 220,
the third 440, the fifth 880, the sixth
100 and the last man finishes over
' a mile course.
Tryouts for the first two distances
will be held March 6. March 8 try
outs for the 440, 880 and mile runs
will be scheduled. All of the other
field events are included on the pro
gram.
A cup will be awarded to winners
of the relay and field events. The
Imperial hotel of Portland has donated
the cup which is to be given.
OREGON GIRLS TO DO
DUMP WORK
FOUR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
TAKE POSITIONS WITH ELLI
SON-WHITE CIRCUIT
Spring fever and the Ellison-White
Chautauqua are responsible for the
departure of several girls from the
campus. The Delta Gammas seem to
be the concentration point of the
combination. Marion Taylor, one of
their number, left about 3 weeks ago
to travel in eastern Oregon as a con
tract writer for the Chautauqua. Miss
Taylor received commendation in
last week’s bulletin put out by the
Ellison White people.
Eunice Zimmerman and Lois Hall,
both of Eugene and members of the
same sorority, will leave the Univer-i
sity April 20 to take charge of Junior!
work on the Ellison-White circuit.
They will travel through Arizona, Cal
ifornia, Oregon, Washington, Mon
tana, Utah and Idaho, remaining five
days in each town visited. Together
with four girls from middle west col
leges they will have charge of play
ground work, and each will devote!
a short time to story telling.
Ruth Nash, a senior from Aberdeen,
S. D., and member of Delta Gamma,
will leave for Arizona about May 1, to
take a position as director of one of
the circuits of the Chautauqua. She
will travel through a number of the>
western states and take general
charge of the meetings in the towns
where the circuit is scheduled.
Conatabule Takes
Life Easy; Hunts
Klepto, Not Tracks
Some constabules let their du
ties weigh heavily upon their
shoulders and some don’t, but
the Pi Phis have goon reasons to
suspect that crime and lawless
ness bring few wrinkles on the
brows of at least one local police
officer.
Several hours after receiving
notice of the perfectly good bur
glary case which would have
made the ordinary detective’s
mouth water, the officer of the
law pulled in with a grin on his
face and asked the girls if they
were sure there wasn’t a klep
tomaniac in the house who could
have stolen the $200 worth of
goods. Having no luck on that
clue he took a Gareless look
around the house. But no, he
could not be persuaded to go to
the basement, where there were
fresh tracks made by the robber
as he entred the house, or up
stairs where there were signs
of the intruder’s work the night
before.
Upon being told of all the ar
ticles stolen, our hero humorously
remarked that they would have
almost a washtub full if they got
all that back again.
“If I find that man I’ll sure fix
him, all right,” remarked the
wearer of the star, as' he left the
place. But the thief has little to
worry about, the Pi Phis think.
3 TEAMS DEBATE TUESDAY
Hendricks Hall, Sigma Delta Phi and
Alpha Delta to Argue
Hendricks Hall, Sigma Delta Phi
and Alpha Delta will debate Tuesday
night on the question “Resolved, that
the principles of compulsory investi
gation as defined by the Canadian Act
of 1907 should be applied to all dis
putes arising between railway com
panies and their employees.” The
triangular debates will be held in the
Administration building at 7:30.
Wanda Daggett and Ethel Wake
field, Hendricks hall affirmatives,
will meet Elaine Cooper and Lelah
Stone, Alpha Delta negatives, in Dr.
Milne’s room. Mabel Black and
Jennie Maguire, Hendricks hall ne
gative team, will debate with Alice
Hamm and Alice Curtis, the Sigma
Delta Phi affirmative team, in Dean
Straub’s room. The Alpha Delta af
firmative team, composed of Doris
Sawtell and Marie Ridings, will meet
Sigma Delta Phi negative team com
posed of Elaine Cooper and Beatrice
Hensley, in Professor Prescott’s room.
TEACHERS’ UNION IS TOPIC
Closer Organization of Profession Will
Be Topic for Debate
Pi Kappa Delta, the honorary edu
cational fraternity, is to discuss the
question of unionization of teachers
at a meeting' to be held next Friday
evening. J. . C. Almack will give a
paper on the affirmative and W. C.
Hoppes will take the negative side.
"This is one of the leading subjects
for discussion among teachers at the
present time,”- said Mr. Almack, act
ing director of the extension division
and a member bf the fraternity.
“As many as 500 organizations
have been formed among teachers,
which have affiliated with the Ameri
can Federation of Labor during the
last three months. But the general
position taken by the teachers is,
that it is not wise to affiliate with
this organization, though they do
believe in a closer organization of
teachers. At the same time an ag
gressive movement is being carried
on by those who have joined the
labor organization to induce others to
come in.
VIOLINISTS MUCH NEEDED
Appeal Made for Musicians for Or
chestra—Instruction Free
Two or three violinists are needed
in the University orchestra immediate
ly, and persons eligible and willing to
serve will receive free instruction, i
it was stated this afternoon by Rex!
Underwood, instructor in violin at
the University school of music.
Violinists who have not heretofore
volunteered their services should now
lio so, if only with a view to helping
the organization, Mr. Underwood de
CHANGES IN STUDENT
CONSTITUTION TOPIC
AT COUNCIL MEETING
Amendments to Be Outlined
at Assembly Scheduled
For March 4
VOTING DATE SET LATER
Election of Varsity Yell Leader and
Emblem for Men’s Glee Club and
Football Discussed
Proposed amendments to the stu
dent body constitution regarding the
election of the Varsity yell leader
and football and men’s glee club em
blems were outlined and discussed at
the student council meetingThursday
evening and a student body meeting
was scheduled for Thursday, March 4,
to present the proposed changes
which will be voted on at a date to
be set later. The student council
also passed a motion in favor of
accepting the University orchestra
as a student body activity.
One question which has been be
fore the minds of the students for
some time is that of how the Var
sity yell leader should he chosen.
Lindsay McArthur and two other men
not yet named will present this mat
ter to the students. Many students
feel, according to Stanford Anderson,
president of the associated students,
that the yell leader should be elected
by the student body at the annual
spring term elections, instead of by
the student council.
Requirements for “O” Discussed
It has been felt for some time by
football men that it is too easy a
matter to win the football “O’s”,
Mr. Anderson toid the council. The
men at present want to make the win
ning of the football “O” mean more
than it does. The way things stand
now, Mr. Anderson said, the men
can win their “O’s” by playing the
first half of any game with a team in
the Northwest conference. In this
way a man could win his “O” and
not take part in any of the big games
of the Pacific conference at all. The
feeling among the men is that to
win an “O” by playing one or more
games in the Northwest conference
does not require enough effort and
they wish the standards changed so
that a man will have to play the
first half of any game in the Pacific
conference in order to win an “O.”
This matter will be presented by
several of the Order of the “O” men
at the assembly.
Emblem May Be Changed
The question of the change to be
made in the size of the men’s glee
club pin will be presented to the
students by George Hopkins at the
student meeting. At present the
glee club men receive a pin which is
very large and, according to Mr.
Hppkins, of such a size that they
feel almost ashamed to wear it
when they should be able to feel
proud of it. At a recent student coun
cil meeting Mr. Hopkips spoke
about the pins and showed a new
model which he had had made, which
will cost approximately the same
as the larger pin and which is con
sidered by the men much more ap
propriate and attractive. Student
council passed in favor of accepting
this new pin for the glee club and
planned at the time to present the
matter to the associated students at
the next meeing.
Orchastra Acceped as Activity
A motion was passed by the council
at the last meeting in favor of ac
cepting the University orchestra as a
student body activity. The motion
was passed in response to an appeal
from the orchestra presented by Rex
Underwood, the director. Mr. Under
wood explained that the orchestra
put in four hours a week of faithful
practice and does fairly creditable
work, for which the members receive
little or no recognition. If the orches
tra is accepted as a regular student
body activity and the students and
faculty are agreeable, plans will be
made, according to Mr. Underwood,
for the orchestra to make a trip
similar to the trips made by the glee
clubs and which Mr. Underwood feels
would be a financial, success.
Illusive Hares Lead Hounds Astray
Hot Dog Lunchls Award For Chase
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Paper Hunt Ends at Hendricks Park
“They went that way!”
“No—they went the other way.”
Two hundred students this morning
followed the illusive white trails
which led over the hills to the top
of Hendricks park and a monstrous
picnic lunch, which marked the goal
of the first University paper chase
on record.
Early this morning the hares set
out and scattered the paper markers
over pavements, bridges, through gul
lies, up hills and through thickets.
Slim Crandall, Carl Knudson and Jack
Benefiel laid the trails. One led
around Judkin's Point, another down
Alder street and over the field back
of the R. O. T. C. barracks, and a
third went past the Masonic ceme
tery.
At 10:30 the hounds started from
Kincaid field in full cry. They divid
ed into three parties, each following
separate trails. . Lindsay McArthur,
Jeannette Moss and Dean Pox led
one party, Elston Ireland, Eleanor
Spall, Mabyl Weller and Merritt Whit
ten led the second, and Lyle Barthol
omew, Frances Habersham, Austrid
Mork and Winifred Hopson led the
third.
Hendricks park was reached short
ly before noon. Buns, wienies, beans,
coffee, milk, apples—and pickles—
constituted the menu. Sixtey-seven
pounds of “hot dogs” disappeared be
fore the carnivorous appetites of the
hungry students. Adelaide Lake was
the guiding genius of the commissory
department. She superintended the
arrangement, of the lunch, which was
furnished by the different organiz
ations on the campus. Ella Rawlings
was in charge of the schedule and
general arrangements. The paper
chase was announced at the last
minute Friday night. Dorothy Dun
iway took charge of the advertising
and spread the news to the four
corners of the campus.
After the food disappeared, the
second course arrived, canned music.
The platform that served as a table
was cleared and promptly converted
into a dance floor.
Old Sol played his part in the af
fair. The weather was ideal—not
cold, and not hot enough to make
the chase unpleasant.
Although this is tfye first paper
chase that the University has staged
it is hoped to make it an annual af
fair in the future.
HOOPERS REST FOR
CLASH WITH 0. A. C.
HERE MARCH 5 AND 6
Varsity to Start With New Zeal
Monday to Trim Aggies,
Says Shy
No practice lias been the order of
routine for the Varsity basketeers
this week, following the Stanford
games, and the quintet is taking a
much needed rest before beginning
regular workouts for the O. A. C.
games which will be played here
March 5 and 6. These two games
will flish the season for the Varsity.
Coach Huntington said today, “I
am giving the boys a little rest for
the remainder of the week and we
are going to start in with new pep
Monday, to beat the Aggies if beat
ing them is possible." It is proba
ble that the regulars will be in good
shape by the latter part of the week
and that Coach Huntington will use
the same line-up which proved so
effective against the Aggies in their
series at Corvallis.
Stanford took the Aggies into camp
by a score of 41 to 27 in the first
game of the series played in Corval
lis last night, which, according to
comparative scores, puts the Aggies
and Oregon on about an equal basis.
California also defeated the Univer
sity of Washington quintet by a
score of 22 to 17 in Seattle last night,
which throws the Bears back into
second place 1 nthe conference stand
ing.
The games of the last of the week
are being looked forward to with a
great deal of interest by the fans.
The O. A. C. rooks and the Frosh
will stage a preliminary battle each
night before the Varsity games.
OREGON TEAM WINS DEBATE
Idaho Defeated 2 to 1 Upon Subject
of Closed Shop
Oregon won a 2 to 1 victory in de
bate over the University of Idaho last
night in Moscow. The negative team
that won was composed of Remy
Cox and Ernest Crockatt.
The next Varsity debate will be in
Eugene with the British Columbia
College next Monday night. George
Black and Wilbur Carl, affirmative
team, will argue the question, “Re
solved: That the application of the
principle of closed shop will best
serve the cause of an industrial
peace.” If the flu ban is off the
debate will be in Villard hall, but if
the health conditions will not permit
a gathering the contest will be in
one of the class rooms.
ALEX PEARSON JR.
FLYER, TO RECEIVE
DECREE OF B. B. A.
Experience In Army to Give 13
Needed Credits to Man Who
Flew Across America
Lieut. Alex Pearson, Jr., a member
of the class of 1917, was yesterday
granted a B.B.A. degree from the
school of commerce. Lieut. Pearson,
who joined the army in 1917, lacked
13 credits of graduation, but came
here yesterday and made arrange
ments to receive the lacking credits
for his military experience.
Lieutenant PearBon, who is still In
the service, Is on leave and has been
visiting with hlB parents in Portland.
He returned to that city yesterday
afternoon.
Pearson was one of the pilots who
made the transcontinental flight In
army planes last fall. He was at
tending the University in 1917, but at
the outbreak of the war enlisted In
the aviation corps and was sent to
the flying school at San Diego. After
completing the course there he was
transferred to the various training
camps throughout the country, and
was later assigned to Wilbur Wright
field as an instructor.
In the transcontinental flight last
fall Lieutenant Pearson piloted one
of the planes which was among the
first few to establish the records for
the round trip. HiS plane experienced
considerable difficulty, being caught
in a snowstorm while crossing the
state of Wyoming.
Pearson is at present attached to
the forces doing guard duty on the
Mexican border. He pilots one of
the planes which runs from El Paso
to Douglas, Texas, at periodical in
tervals on scout duty.
NO EXAMS FOR “U” GRADS
Oregon Sheepskin Makes Student
Eligible to Columbia
University of Oregon graduates will
be allowed to enter the graduate
school at Columbia university, New
York, without examination of any
sort, according to word received by
Kirby Miller, a senior.
Mr. Miller, who now lives in Eu
gene, wishes to do graduate work in
philosophy next year, but has not
decided on the university ho will at
tend. He has been writing to insti
tutions throughout the country for
entrance requirements and finds that
University of Oregon graduates may
enter advanced graduate schools with
no difficulty.
INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
GROWS LIGHTER; BAN
MAY BE OFF MONDAY
Health Committee Will Meet
First of Next Week to
Take Action
NO NEW CASES REPORTED
Convalescents Are Dismissed From
Infirmary on Account of
Illness of Nurse
The influenza epidemic on the cam
pus is on the downward, path with no
new cases reported yesterday or the
day before, according to Dr. E. H.
Sawyer. University physician. Three
patients were dismissed from the in
firmary yesterday and with no new
ones admitted the conditions look
very favorable. It is the hope of
the health board to raise the ban
Monday morning, stated Dr. Seth
Kerron, county health officer, but no
action could be taken today because
there were more calls for nurses than
there had been all week. The Univer
sity officials will meet Monday also
to consider raising the ban, and their
action will probably depend entirely
upon whether it is raised in the city
or not.
“The health report from all the
houses on the campus was favorable
yesterday,” stated Dr. Sawyer, “and
the situation at any itme did not jus
tify the remarks made in the com
unication which appeared on the edit
orial page of the last issue, of the
Emerald, for there has never been a
need this year of closing the library
or class rooms, but dances were elim
inated in order to co-operate with
the town which closed its sources of
amusement.”
On account o fthe sickness of one
of the nurses at the infirmary most
of the convalescent fever fiase* were
dismissed yesterday, but Dr. Sawyer
issues a warning to all convalescents
to take unusual care of themselves so
as not to suffer a relapse.
SOPHOMORE LOTTERY
CHANGED TO MARCH .6
Matinee to Replace Evening Affair
Which Conflicted With
Basketball
Is the Bophotnore lottery going to
take place? Well, We’ll tell the
world It is, says Skeet Manerud, pres
ident of the claBs. The only change
Is in the dhte, which has been put on '
the afternoon of March 6 Instead of
the night before as first announced.
Should the ban still be on, the frolic
will be turned info an open air af
fair—you can’t stop a live class. The
change in date was due to the fact
that there are two basketball games
Friday night, which would give the
dance a late start.
Dancing will start at 3:30 and con
tinue until the time of the evening
game. And there will be plenty of
eats, according to the committee in
charge.
“Some of the boys are beginning to
worry whether their lottery partners
are going to ask them or not as only
a small percentage of the girls have
Bhown the right spirit and make their
dates,” states Mr. Manerud, “but
now that the time has been definitely
set It is hoped the girls will pep up."
STUDENT BECOMES EDITOR
Wilford Allen to be on City Desk at
Grants Pass
Wilford Allen, Junior i nthe school
of Journalism and reporter on the
Emerald, left today for his home in
Grants Pass to take over the city
editorship of the Rogue River Cour
ier, a position which his father is
giving up for other business. During
the last week Allen has been on the
telegraph desk of the Morning Regis
ter, sUstituting for Otto Gilstrap,
managing editor, who was suffering
from an attack of influenza.
Allen expects to return to the Uni
versity next fall.
Mrs. Jane Thachor is in the In
firmary with tonsilitls. She was
taken there yesterday, but is report
ed to be improving today.