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Oregon Emerald VOLUME 21 EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, May 1, 1920 NUMBER 72 f MEW CANDIDATES SEEK ELECTIONS TO - STUDENT OFFICES Chapman And Houston Out For Vice-President’s Position 29 ASPIRANTS ANNOUNCED Wayne Akers, Kate Chatbum, Ruth Flegel and “Hank” Foster Will Run. (By The Deady Bug) Six more candidates for student body offices have been announced, making a total of 29 aspirants to be nominated at the student body next assembly Thursday. The of fices of vice-president of the stud ent body, senior, and junior man on the council, and senior and junior woman on the council are the ones that have attracted those who have announced tneir candidacies yesterday and today. “Nish” Chapman, and John Hous ton are the newly announced candi dates to oppose Jack Benefiel for vice-president of the associated stu dents. Chapman is president of the junior class, has served as sopho more man on the Student council, and is a member of Friars, Phi Del ta Phi, To-Ko-Lo, and Order of the “O”, of which he is secretary. He has represented the University in three branches of athletics, foot ball, basketball and track, and was chosen as All Pacific Coast guard in basketball. Houston has served a« Junior man on the student council this year, was assistant yeu leader last year, was a letterman In base ball last spring. He is a member of Mask and Buskin, Torch and Shield, and Order of the “0”. He is vice president of the campus Y. M. C. A., and led the Oregon delegation to the convention at Des Moines during the holidays. He is chair man of the student body dance committee, and chairman of the committee aranging the Junior vaudeville. He is assitant Univer sity historian this year and made his Emerald “O” serving as a re porter during his frosh year. He is chairman of the Klamath county del egation in the millage tax work. 5 Seek Student Council Job. Kate Chatburn is now in the race for senior woman with Wanda Brown, Lois Macy, Mary Moore, and Florence Riddle. Two women are to be elected for this office. Miss Chatburn is a member of Mu Phi Epsilon, national musical fra ternity for women, a charter mem ber of the new musical society and has been a member of the glee club for three years. For senior man on the council, with three men to be chosen, four men are at present in the running with the announcement today of ‘Hank” Foster for this position. Poster is- president of the Order of ‘O”, is a member of Alpha Kappa Psi, Mask and Buskin,. Torch and Shield, Friars, and the Athletic Council. He has been captain of :rack for two years in 1919 and L920, and is at present in charge of iistrict 7 for the millage bill cam paign. The other men previously an lounced for this office are Leith Abbott, Don Davis, and George Hop dns. Ruth Flegal has entered the race 'or junior woman on the council, >pposing Helen Nelson ^and Eleanor Spall. Miss Flegal is treasurer jlect of the Y. W. C. A., a member >f the executive council of Women’s League, of Tre Nu and Kwan. Only me woman is to be chosen for this josition. Lyle Bryson Still Unopposed Wayne Akers is the newly an nounced man for junior man on the council, for which Ned Twining has ilready been announced. Two are to ne elected. Akers is a member of :he varsity track squad, a member if the glee club, the band, the or chestra, the music council, and is (Continued on page 2.) HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE TEAMS HERE MAY 12 Ten Oregon Districts to be Repre sented at University During Junior Week End. The ten victorious teams «of the Oregon high school debating league will run off the final series of de bates at the University May 12 to 15, during Junior week-end. The high schools sending teams are Marshfield, Salem, Medford, Enter prise, Knappa, Corvallis, Eugene, Pendleton, The Dalles, and Lake view. The names of the individual contestants are not yet known. Two teams, an affirmative and a negative,' from each high school are to take part. Two complete rounds will be had for each team whether it wins or looses. A point system of grading has been adopt ed whereby winning the dabate will count one point, and each Judge’s vote one point. This will make it possible for a team from a certain high school losing one or more de bate, to still have a chance at win ning in the finals. After the first two rounds, the lower half will be dropped, the others will run off the semi-finals, in which the schools still holding the highest averages will be entered. The teams will arrive in Eugene Wednesday evening and the series will begin Thursday. No definite schedule for the debates will be made until the contestants arrive. Detailed arrangements for enter taining the guests have not yet been made, thought it is expected that some will probably be invited to stay at the different houses on the campus, while others will go to the hotels. PI KAPPA DELTA ELECTS 4 Local Honorary Educational Frater nity to Initiate .May 7. Four new members were elected to Pi Kappa Delta, local honorary educational fraternity, at a meeting held in the education building Thursday evening. The new mem bers are L. C. Douglas, Roy Stroud, William Thornton, and Lloyd A. Enlund, will be initiated May 7 at the Y. M. C. A. hut. A special com mittee has been appointed to work up a suitable program for the oc casion, and as this is the first in itiation services the club has held the occasion is looked forward to with interest by the present mem bers, and with trepidation by the new. Some discussion was held as to the possibility of maintaining an ac tive chapter on the campus during the summer school, and taking m some of the teachers throughout the state who will be here at that time. The club has for its purpose the furthering of the professional spir it among those engaged in educa tional work, and expects to include only those who are working for their life profession and who w.'ll add to the standing and value of the club. MAUD LOMBARD, *19, HERE Teacher in Roseburg Brings Little Pupil for Feature Dance. Maud Lombard, a graduate of the class of 1919, who received her de gree from the department of physi cal education, is spending the week, end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Lombard, of Eugene. Miss Lombard is instructor in physical education in the Heinline-Moore Conservatory of Music at Roseburg, Oregon. Her work is chiefly the teaching of aesthetic dancing to women and children from 5 to 45 years of age. Some regular gym nasium work is given to the women. Accompany Miss Lombard is one of her pupils, Mildred Sinniger, of Roseburg, age 10 years old, who gave two dances, “the Butterfly," and “the Night-in-gale” as the fea ture of the Sigma Delta Phi formal at the Osbum Hotel, Friday even ing. Eutaxian will meet Tuesday, May 4, at 7:00 p. m. at the Bungalow. All members are urged to come and bring dues Announcement. 1*1) COLONEL MORROW AND STAFF REVIEWOREGON R. 0. T. C. BATTALION National Head of Reserve Corps Pleased With Showing Of Local Men STUDENT ATTITUDE PRAISED Day'Taken Up With Close and Open Order Drill, Field Problems and Formal Parade. (By- Charles Gratke) For an instant the band stopped. Only the thud of marching feet was heard. Than as the strains of “Mighty Oregon” broke forth, com pany after company swung into ine and the Reserve Officers Training Corps battalion passed in review be fore Colonel Frank J. Morrow, na tional head of the Reserve Officers Training Corps. In company with three officers of the general staff, Colonel Morrow was here yesterday to conduct an official inspection of the R. O. T. C. Beginning with a review and inspec tion in the morning, the battalion went through exercises in instruc tion, close-order drill, open-order drill, setting up drill and attack and defense problems. “The "ex cellent progress made by this cadet corps is highly gratifying,” said Colonel Morrow. He complimented the University for the fine spirit of corporation , in military work found both among the students and fac ulty. In his talk before the cadets just before noon dismissal, Colonel Morrow outlined the purpose of the R. O. T. C. Its main objective,, he said, is the training of college men so that they will be qualified to lead the American armies in case of another crisis. With this is coming the development and inten sifying of the national spirit through the training that is making for the willingness to be of service to the country. Rifle Range Visited. Colonel Morrow is accompanied by Colonel Ralph B. Lister, Major James F. McKinley, and Captain El vin Hunt. The party remained over today to visit the rifle range and make a general inspection of the military facilities offered for train ing at Oregon. One of the features of the in spection was the supervised in struction carried on during the morning. The battalion was divid ed into squads, and men were picked at random to instruct and drill each (Continued on page 4) ELLA RAWLINGS LIKES Y.M. SECRETARY WORK Conducts Five Gym. Classes and Attends to Office Work at Payette, Idaho. Ella Rawlings, a former student, writes that she is enjoying her work as assistant secretary in the Y. M. C. A. at Payette, Idaho. She is at present conducting five gymnasium classes, each of which meets twice a week. One of the classes is com posed of girls in and below the sixth grade, two of seventh and eighty grade girls, one of high schopl girls and one of women. She also attends to the bookkeeping and general office work in the Y. M. C. A. , “We are putting a playground in order now,” she writes, “and it will soon be in use—and that means more work for me; outdoors.” Miss Rawlings was a Junior when she left the University at the end of the winter term. She was Junior woman on the student council, pres ident of Tre-Nu, and was one of the delegates to the Student Volunteer Convention at Des Moines last Christmas vacation. The Y. M. C. A. secretary at Pay ette, Charles W. Koyl, with whom Miss Rawlings is working, is an al umnus of the University, having graduated with the class of 1911. / MILL RACE TO BLAZE WITH LIGHTS; CANOE FETE TO BE BRILLIANT Seats Will Be Provided For Spectators, This Year, It Is Announced eOSTIIME PARADE PLANNED Junior Week-end to' Have Events Spectacular and Interesting For P rappers Benefit. Brilliantly colored lights to be strung along the race-way, as well as new seating accommodations for the crowds that will turn out, are among the plans for making this years canoe fete the best in his tory, according to Jack ‘Benefiel, publicity manager for Junior Week end. Benches are to be constructed on both sides of the race, if pos sible, from which to view the most spectacular event of the entire week-end. Unlike previous Junior week-ends at Oregon, this year Thursday is to be as important a day on the pro. gram as the rest of the week-end", says Benefiel, and it is hoped that the majority of the preppers will ar range to arrive in Eugene Thursday afternoon, if possible, in order not to miss the costume parade which also is to be elaborated upon, as well as the canoe fete. Clever Ideas Sought. The costume parade, which Is to start from the mens’ dormitory, at 7 p. m. sharp, is to be larger and better than any there has ever been before, says Benefiel, who urges that the students begin now to think up clever costumes to wear. “We want the costumes to run to the clever ideas,” said the publicity manager this morning, “and not to the. cave-man stuff as' heretofore. There will be a board of censor ship present, which has already been selected.- This board has suggested that costumes similar to those worn at the Sophomore party be used, as well as take-offs of prominent cam pus characters or faculty members.” This parade has been an old cus. tom of Junior Week-end, but it is to be greatly elaborated upon this year, it has been announced, and prizes are to be offered for the best maks-ups. As usual this par ade after leaving the men's dorm will go through all the women’s houses on the campus a«id thence down Eleventh street to Willamette, and down Willamette, led by the (Continued on page 4) WOMEN’S BASEBALL TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK Hendricks Hall and Faculty Teams to Play First Game Tuesday Night In Outdoor Gym. The women’s doughnut league baseball series will begin next week, according to Dorothy Reed, head of baseball. The drawing will be held the first of the week. No girl will be allowed to play on a house team unless she has been present at six practices, said Miss Reed. This includes regular class work in baseball and special class at 4 o’clock on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock in the women's outdoor gym, there will be a game between the Hen dricks Hall team and a team com posed of faculty women. The per sonnel of the factulty team is Miss Mary Perkins, Harriet Thompson, Mozelle Hair, May Sibbald, Rosalina Espinosa, Myrrha Hepburn, Cather ine Winslow, Emma Waterman, and Dean Elizabeth Fox. The Hendricks Hall team is com posed of Marion Bowen, Ruth Wolff, Helen Dustin, Margaret Lucius, Frances Habersham, Florence Jog ger, Vera Henderson, Cecile Barnes, and Ollie Stoltenberg. MULTNOMAH TO SEND TEAM OF 7 SWIMMERS Mill Race to be Scene of Aquatic Events as Feature of Junior Week-End. Arrangements have just been completed with Multnomah Amateur Athltic club of Portland, for a team of seven swimmers to be sent to Eugene to compete with a team from the University on May 14, during the Junior Week-end festivities. The events will take place during the afternoon of May 14, according to the present plans and will be held in the mill race Just below the Anchorage. On the program of events wiU be included a 60-yard dash, 100-yard dash, 100-yard breast stroke, 60 yard back stroke, fancy diving com petition and a one-mile marathon. Thei% is a great deal of good material for a representative team, and tryouts will be staged in the tanjr every hfternoon up until the time for the meet. Among some of the best man who have so far turn ed out for the team are Hazard and Howard in the sprints, Andre apd Kapps in the fancy diving events, Hedges and Digman for distance. A number of others are turning out who are showing up to good advan tage, and there promises to be some stiff competition for a place on the team. Freshmen are eligible for places. COMMITTEES TO CLEAN UP All Men Out In Flannel Shirt* to Work Saturday, Junior Week End Dandelion squads and wrecking crews will be among the workers on Clean-up day, Junior week-end, ac cording to Wiley Knlghten, who has charge of this part of the program. Committees for all work will be ap pointed soon. Much work has to be done around the Campus this year. The trenches on the military field are to be filled in; snags on the mill race will be removed, a gravel walk will be laid from the 12th street approach to the Education building, dandlions will be dug up and work will be done on the athletic fields. The commlttes in charge of the work will be named early next week. “Every man wears a flan nel shirt and works” Is the edit of the chairman. ARMENIAN FUND GETS $60 Proceeds from Matinee Dance for Relief. Music Furnished Free The matinee dance in the men’s gymnasium Friday afternoon netted approximately $60, which will bC turned over to the state fund for Armenian relief. Tickets were sold Friday in all of the houses and on the campus by committe working under Era Godfrey. “We feel very well satisfied with the rseults of the dance, consider ing that the baseball game between the freshmen and O. A. C. rooks attracted so many of the students,” said John Houston, who was in charge of arrangements for the dance. “The idea of selling tags was only adopted at the laBt min ute, and we did not have time to work it out so very well.” Music for the dance was furnish ed by Wayne Akers, Howard Kelly, and Bob Mann. CANTATA TO BE REHEARSED Orchestra and Chorus Will Pratice in Villard on “Rose Malden.” Festival chorus practice on the “Rose Maiden” will be held in Vil lard Hall next Tuesday evening, ac cording to A. Lukken, director. This temporary move from the Y. W. hut to Villard is being made so that the orchestra and chorus may practice together. ^he Festival is but a month away, and Mr. Lukken urges that every member of the chorus turn out for each practice. He further states that new members will be welcome to the chorus, since It la smaller than he wishes. KAPPA SIGMA WINS IN INTERFRATERNITY MEET; DELTS SECOND Relay Race Cinches Meet; Two Leaders Tied Up To Last BLACKABY WINS TROPHY A. T. O. Man is High Point Wlnnc.’ With 13'/2; Portwood Follows With 121/2 Counters The Kappa Sigma fraternity tea- \ captured the silver trophy cup i.. the interfraternity meet this aftc noon on Kincaid field by annex!; 3 41 points, their nearest competitoi , the Delta Tau Deltas scored i ; points. The other organization taking part in the meet finished i the following order; Oregon Club. 30 points; Betas, 22 points; A. T C. 20% points; Friendly Hall, 1/ points; Sigma Chi, 15 points; F . Delta, 12% points; S. A. E. 1. points; Fijis, Owl Club and Sign Nu, 5 points each, and S-Maralda. 4 points. me meet was ciosejy coniesi c between the three leading teams an' not until the Relay race was it pc sible to pick the winners In ti e number of points. Some sixty at . letes took place in the meet ar.,1 Trainer “Bill” Hayward is wc 1 pleased with the turnout and the r' suits of the races. A number cn preliminary heats were run off r ' 10 o’clock Saturday morning on co count of the huge list of entries. "Bill" Blackaby, a member of t : Alpha Tau Omega team was hig point winner of the meet, and wi n the trophy cup with a score of 13 j points, although he was hard pres ed by Donald Portwood, who score l 12% points in the met. Portwo is a member of the,Delta Tau Delia team. The other high indlvidu point winners were: Hunt, Friend y Hall, 10J4, Oberteuffer, Betas, 1<i: Larsen, Delta Tau, 9%; Kuhnhau en, Kappa Sig«; 9>4; Shields, Kap; < Slgs, 9; and Watters, Sigma CM. 7%. Following are* the results of the events: 100 Yard Dash—Larsen, Delta Tair Oberteuffer, Beta; Kuhnh&usen, Kb pa Sig; Jensen, Fiji; Lucas, Friend:y Hall. Time 10.2 seconds. 440 Yard Dash—Collins, Oregc i Clubs; Hayslip, Sigma Nu; Wya Kappa Sig; Lucas, Friendly Ha”. Sloan, Oregon Club. Time 63 sc • onds. 880 Yard Dash—Peltier, Oregc i Club; Wooding, Oregon Club; M Donald, Beta; Scott, Oregon Clu’ Koepp, S-Maralda. Time 2 min., seconds. One Mile Run—Walkley, Oregr Club; Akers, Beta; Koepp; S-Mar alda; Vonder Ahe, A. T. O.; Robe: ‘ son, Sigma Nu. Time 4 min. 38 se • onds. TWO MHO KUn—uavis, UW1 U1U Blackburn; Coleman, Sigma Cfc! Fassett, Oregon Club; Ireland, Ka pa Slg. Time 11 min. 10 seconds. High Hurdles, 120 Yards—Hurf Friendly Hall; Ireland, Kappa Slg Time 17 seconds. Low Hurdles, 220 Yards—Collin Oregon Club; Haysllp, Sigma Nu: Wyatt, Kappa Slg; Lucas, Friend Hall; Sloan, Oregon Club. Shot Put— Strachan, Phi Deltr Shields, Kappa Slg; Brown, Slgm: Chi; Greer, S. A. E.; Blackaby, / T. O.; Brown, Sigma Chi. Distant 113 feet, 8 Inches. Pole Vault—Portwood, Delta Tat Watters, Sigma Chi; and Myer*. Phi Delt; seconds, Chapman, Bet:: Height, 10 feet, 10 Inches. High jump, Myers, Phi Delt, ard Blackaby, A. T. O. first, Andre, Ka~ pa Slg; Bowles, Kappa Slg; ar:' Case, Delta Tau; third. Height, f feet, 5 inches. Broad jump, Bowles, Kappa S:~ Portwood, Delta Tau; Blackaby, / T. O. Greer, S. A. E.; Lucas, Friend (Continued on page 4)