Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXIII.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1921.
NUMBER 10
STUDENTS URGED
TO ADOPT STAND
FOR DISARMAMENT
Penn State College Suggests
Mass Meetings on Eve of
Big Conference
MOVEMENT GAINS IMPETUS
President and Vice-President
of A. S. U. 0. Heartily in
Favor of Idea
Possibility of united action on the part
■of the universities and colleges through
out the United States, favoring disarma
ment, on the eve of the disarmament con
ference to be held in Washington, D. C.,
December 3, is seen in a wire received
here from Pennsylvania State College
yesterday. The telegram urging action
on the matter was sent to the president
of the student body and the editor of the
Emerald.
The text of the message was as follows:
“Pennsylvania State College suggests
united student action favoring disarma
ment. Each college to hold a mass meet
ing deciding upon the proper poreedure
to follow.
United Action Urged
“It is suggested that on December 2,
a mass meeting be held in all the colleges
throughout the nation and a resolution
passed, this to be wired to a delegate
sent from each college to Washington D.
C., who will present the resolution to the
conferees attending the disarmament con
ference December 3. ’ ’
The message closed with the word that
the movement was gaining momentum
. throughout the east and urging that the
word be carried along to the colleges in
this district. It was signed by E. E.
Overdorf, chairman of the student gov
ernment council at Pennsylvania State
College and by C. T. Douds, chairman of
the committee on disarmament.
Progressive Says Bartholomew
Lyle Bartholomew, president of the A.
S. U. O. declared last night that he be
lieved the movement one which should
receive serious eonsideratian by the stu
dent body of the University of Oregon.
“This progressive idea is in line with
our policy, ’ ’ he said, ‘ ‘ and I believe that
we should by all means get the student
opinion on the subject. ’ ’
Norton Winnard, vice president of the
A. S. U. O. declared himself as being
heartily in favor of such a movement
providing it be carried out to a success
ful conclusion.
That united action on the part of the
university and college student associa
tions throughout the country would have
considerable import with the conferees at
the meeting was the opinion of all who
were interviewed on the subject.
Wide Endorsement Given
The disarmament conference has been ;
endorsed by civic organizations through
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Ghosts of Old Kincaid
Pass in Penned Review
By JEAN STHACHAN
“Eight there is where I got away
from the Aggie’s tackle when I made
that touchdown,” or “right there is
where I dug my nose in the mud when
■Washington got me on the two yard
line.” Such might be the comments
of some of Oregon’s football stars who
made their fame on old Kincaid field.
But in a short while, perhaps “right
there” the spot so dear to the heart
of the hero—may be covered up by the
University science museum building, or
a building for science class rooms, the
plans for which are already pretty well
erystalized in the mind of W. K. Newell,
superintendent of grounds. With the
tearing down of the old grandstand,
Kincaid field is losing its last tangible
reminder of the glorious victories apd
the equally glorious defeats in football
and track, staged by Oregon between
the years 1901 and 1918.
The four acre plot was part of a
large tract owned by H. R. Kincaid, a
citizen of Eugene. It was definitely
secured by the University for an ath
letic field on March 21, 1903, although
it had been used as an athletic field
for sometime. At that time no funds
were available for the purchase of the
ground, but it was secured on a five
year lease, $300 annually, with an op
tion to purchase any time for the sum
of $10,000.
As the plan was to own the field
eventually, it was graded for sports in
1903, at a cost of $1200 or $1500 which
in the opinion of L. H. Johnson, comp
troller of the University, was an ex
penditure which would be equal to
$5,000 now. The purchase of the field
was made on October 24, 1908. The plot
was never formally named but was
called Kincaid field after the former
owner. Grandstand and bleachers were
erected by the alumni association, and
I famous football men as the two Latour
! ettes, Jack and Earle (“Sap”), Eberle
! Kuykendall, “Dutch” Thayer, Joe
i Templeton, Fred Zeigler, “Chuck”
Taylor, and many others.
“As I think of the early days of
athletics on Kincaid,” said Professor
j H. C. Howe, former faculty member of
the athletic council, “I have mental
pictures of Anse Cornell, the little, run
ning quarterback who took the breath
I of the spectators; and “Weary”
| Chandler, who used to sit in class with
an expression of great weariness and
who played football like a demon,
j “Weary” was one of the most wonder
ful players Oregon has ever had. Then
there was Fred (“Khaki”) Moullen
:—“Iron-toe Moullen” as he was called.
Nobody ever saw such kicking else
| where, as he did. He could stand at
; the goal and kick the ball past the
| middle of the field. Time after time,
1 he was made to sit down and take off
; his shoe to show that he did not have
1 a piece of iron in it—no one could
j understand such kicking.
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TYPHUS WOE IS TOLD
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I
Russian Relates Suffering
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A O IF OREGON STUDENT
Vivid details of death and suffering
more realistically hideous than Dante’3
picture inferno; an 18-month trip with
the American Bed Cross anti-typhus
train through plague-stricken Siberia;
stories of university life in Vladivostok,
where students, <300 crowded into a
room hardly large enough for 40, took
notes by the light of two candles,—
these are only a few experiences which
Wasily Muller, recently arrived from
Bussia and now registered in the pre
medic department of Oregon, has to
relate.
Muller, who was business manager of
the sanitary train of 36 cars with a
personnel of 42 men—a long white train
which slowly moved over the snowy
wastes of Siberia to Chelrabemsk, near
the Urals, in February, 1919—is only
23 years old.
‘ ‘ They called me the young fellow, ’ ’
said Muller when referring to his com
rade, that little group of men, several
of them Americans, who, for human
ity ’s sake,'' as Muller termed it, ‘ ‘ visi
ted the typhus afflicted districts of
Bussia, treating 200,000 men.” Five of
his comrades died, two were stricken
with paralysis, and only one man out of
the 42 did not get. the typhus. That
man was Muller.
Very minutely and technically, the
Russian student explained that spotted
typhus, a peculiar disease, is caused by
the bite of a parasitic louse. After the
period Of incubation, the fever of the
victim goes up to 104. Then after the
crises is reached, the temperature
rapidly drops and unless checked death
will result in the great majority of the
cases.
The Japanese army of occupation is
using the ‘‘hard hand” in Russia, as
Muller termed the mailed fist of the
Nippon, after fruitlessly searching for
the appropriate word. Starving Chin
ese come over the border unchecked
and pillage the homes of the disarmed
peasants. Conditions in Russia are in
conceivable, said Muller. ‘‘I cannot
understand how a human with brains
can be a bolshevik. I have been
through 14 revolutions and am tired
of them. ”
Frequently as Muller related his ex
periences amid death and bolshevik
desolation, he would reach for his Eng
lish or Russian dictionary. “My father
is a Dane by birth and is now an in
structor in the Far Eastern university
at Vladivostok,” said Muller when ex
plaining his non-Russian name. His
mother was a Russian.
“Kulomsino,” said Muller “was
called the station of death. With the
Kolchak army retreating and the bol
sheviks advancing, the scene was ter
rible. It was in the summer time, one
year ago. The dead were placed in
cars with ice until wagons came and
hauled the bodies away. Holes were
dug, and perhaps 90 men would be
buried in one hole. A wooden cross
would be erected above them with no
names—only ‘90 men’.”
In a low voice and with a slight mois
tening of eyes which unwaveringly
looked into those of his interviewer,
Muller told about the death of his com
rade, Captain F. Conner, 20-year-old
commander of the train of mercy, after
the previous director, Captain Buke
ley, now director of the First National
Bank of Honolulu, had been taken sick.
Near Novonilolaevsk, Captain Conner
and Muller walked six miles through
the cold and snow to their train. Con
ner contracted typus and died.
The white train, the only Red Cross
train west of Omsk, was known to
millions of Russians. The marching
armies and peasants were, always glad
when the train neared, since food could
be procured and disinfection for the
dreaded typhus would be given.
After spending 18 months in the ty
phus districts of Siberia, the train, with
only a few of the original personnel,
was forced back to Vladivostok by the
advancing bolsheviks.
“And now what are you going to
study?” asked Muller’s father, a gradu
ate of Cambridge, when the lad arrived
home.
“Medicine,” was the reply. And
although his father had thdught the
Siberian expedition would have made
the study of medicine repugnant to his
son, Muller intends to complete his
medical education at Oregon and then
go back to his own country.
ORECHESTRA TRYOUT HELD
Results of Tests for Women’s Glee
Club To Be Announced
Tryouts for positions in the Univer
sity orchestra are still being held and
the list of successful aspirants will
not be known before the end of this
week according to Rex Underwood,
director.
The second of the final tryouts for
places in the Women’s glee club will
be held this evening. Leland Coon,
director, expects to have the club’s
personnel complete by Wednesday of
this week.
NEW SLOGAN SELECTED
“JIM GILBERT, 1903“ SUBMITS
WINNING SHIBBOLETH
Phrase to be Used in Advertising Home
Coming; Dierdorff’s
Second Choice
“Home to Meet ’Em,
Back to Beat ’Em. ’ ’
This is the Homecoming slogan. It
was submitted by Dr. James Gilbert,
present member of the University fac
ulty, affectionately known by count
less alumns and students as “Jimmy,”
who submitted the phrase, along with
four others, over the name of “Jim
Gilbert, 1903.”
The slogan selected was the unani
mous choice of Jack Benefiel, Jeannette
Calkins, Karl Onthank, and Norton
Winnard, the committee named to pro
cure a slogan for the 1921 Homecoming
to be used on all advertising for that
event.
Several other phrases were considered
very good among the 16 selected for
final consideration. “Reunite for Ore
gon fight!” submitted by John Dier
dorff, was second choice of the com
mittee. Other slogans worthy of men
tion were those of Wallace Walsh,
“Oregon pep makes Oregon rep!” and
Frank Mayer, “Oregon fight wins!”
D. E. Patterson, ’22, who is teaching
school at Alma, sent in a slogan from
there.
The chosen slogan will be featured
in the first issue for the year of Old
Oregon, which will be out about the end
of October. It will also be used on let
ters sent out to the various alumni.
Th slogan last year was, “You can’t
beat Oregon fight!”
GREEN CAPS BACK AT WISCONSIN
The University of Wisconsin stu
dents by a heavy majority vote in popu
lar elections decided to reinstate class
rushes and green caps.
EMERALD BUSINESS STAFF
Members of the Emerald business
staff whose names appear in the
masthead in this issue are requested
to meet in Professor Thacher’s room
in the journalism annex tonight.
The meeting will be held promptly
at 7 o’clock and several important
matters will be discussed.
PLANS FOR RAISING
$500 DEFICIT MADE
BtlMAN’SLEAGDE
Series of 3 Concerts Expected
to Clear Debt Left From
Symphony Concert
SEASON TICKETS ARE $1.50
Irwin Mutch, Dean Landsbury
Cyrena Van Gordon Will
Appear in Recitals
In order to raise the $500 deficit
left by the Portland Symphony orches
tra concert which was given on the
campus on May 7, the day of the dedi
cation of the Woman's building, the
Woman’s League is giving a series of
three concerts this term, the first of
them on October 26. A special rate of
$.1.50 for a season ticket for the three
is being made in the hope that all the
concerts will be uniformly attended.
Tickets for the single concerts will be
$1.00.
Cyrena Van Gordon, prima donna
mezzo-contralto of the Chicago Opera
dezzo-contralto of the Chicago Opera
Company, will appear on October 26,
while J. Irwin Mutch, baritone, will be
the attraction on November 12, ami
John J. Landsbury, dean of the Univer
sity school of music, will give a piano
recital on December 9. Unless other
plans are made, the concerts will be
held in Villard hall.
un .Northwest Tour
Miss Van Gordon is at present on a
Northwestern tour under the direction
of the Elwyn concert bureau of Port
land, and special arrangements have
been made for her appearance in Eu
gene. It is said that her career has
been phenomentl, for shortly after her
“discovery” by Cleofonto Campanini,
she appeared with the Chicago Opera
company in “Aida,” and has since
sung most of the leading contralto roles
with that company. She appeared sub
sequently as Azucena in “II Trova
tore, ” Laura in “Gioconda” and in a
number of Wagnerian parts. She is an
Ohioan by birth, and received musical
training in Cincinnati. The Chicago
Herald-Examiner, in commenting on her
part as Brunhilde, in the “Valkyrie”,
says, “By what she accomplished last
evening, Miss Van Gordon takes her
place among the foremost singers of the
•lay. She is fulfilling the late Maestre
Campanini's prediction, ‘You will one
day be one of the greatest dramatic so
pranos of the age.’ ” The Chicago
Evening American says of the same
opera, “She was indeed a star of the
first magnitude. ’ ’
Mutch a Pupil of Seagle
Mr. Mutch is a baritone of unusual
range, and has been one of the fore
most artists with the Ellison-White
Chautauqua company, with which he is
now connected. lie is a pupil of Oscar
Seagle.
The recital on December 9 will be the
first appearance of Dean Landsbury on
the campus for several years. Since
his coming to the University in 1914
he has practically given up concert work
due to the pressure of his duties here,
During the winter of that first year
hero Dean Landsbury went on an
eastern tour, the contract having been
made before he accepted the position
on the faculty. Last fall he accom
panied his former pupil and roommate,
Arthur Middleton, the famous bass
baritone, on a Northwest tour, and
played at the Mu Phi convention here j
a year ago. With the exception of these ]
engagements, lie has confined his at |
tention to University work.
Other Concerts In Series
This series of concerts will be follow
ed in the winter term by concerts by
Mr. Middleton, Olga Steeb, pianist, and !
Sascha Jacobinof, violinist. The pur !
pose of the first three, however, is to i
clear the Woman’s League of the debt
assumed after the Symphony concert
in the spring; the1 others are under the]
direction of the school of music.
BAND BEING ORGANIZED
MAJOE BAIRD SELECTING 35 MEN;
LIST BEING PREPARED
Members to Come Mostly From Ranks
of R. O. T. C.; War Department
Asked to Furnish Leader
“Mighty Oregon” will again ring I
out to the martial strains of a band, S
fifty pieces strong. “The band will j
be one which the University will be |
I proud to call her own,” according to;
j Major R. C. Baird, commandant of the
i R. O. T. C., who is now forming it.
The formation of the largest bandI
the University has ever had is progres- j
sing rapidly, and in a few days the
band will be fact. Clerks in the R. O.
(Continued on page four)
Roundup Fame
Wins Publicity
Job for Rudd
Funny, isn't it, but a good man can't
bo kept submerged. Now for instance
just a few weeks ago up in the Happy
Canyon city of Pendleton, that famed
wild west burg which copies its ponderous
frontier headgear from our own seniors,
there lived a young man referred to by a
certain Portland paper as the youthful
publicity agent of the greatest of all
roundups.
After the dust of the bucking broncs
had permanently settled on the vacant
grandstands, the publicity agent for the
Pendleton roundup migrated in the gen
eral direction of Eugene to resume sopho
more studies in journalism. At the uni
versity where he enrolled there is an em
bryonic army, locally termed the R. O. T.
0., whose military maneuvers and stra
tegical victories often pass unheralded.
Battles are fought and victories are won,
but only the combatants know the re
sults.
But, lo! the youth who informed the
world concerning the assemblage of long
geared sunfishing steeds was detailed to
one of tho companies which silently
guards the eastern gates of the univer
sity. This youth was called out of ranks
and formally notified of his appoint
ment as correspondent for the K. O. T.
C. exhibitionary force.
And so. thrown into a new pond, Art
Rudd, publicity agent for the Pendleton
roundup, emerges struggling but tri
umphant.
LEM OUT FOR SHEKELS
HUMOROUS MAGAZINE TO MAKE
DRIVE FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS
Committee Appointed for House Or
ganizations; Slogan Is
“Line Up With Lemmy”
Armed with the campaign slogan
‘Line Up With Lemmy,” Oregon's
liumorous magazine, Lemon Punch, will
make its first appearance on the cam
pus Wednesday morning in a two day
lrivo for subscriptions. Organization
»nd booth committees have been ap
pointed for the campaign and head
quarters will be made in front of the
library. Subscription rates are $1.25
which will include six issues, two each
ierm.
As was the custom last year, the first
Five organizations to report 100 per
sent will receive leather bound volumes
if “Lemmy” for the coming year. In
iddition bound volumes will be given
;o the man and woman who obtain the
ugliest nhmber of individual subscrip
tions. Wilbur Iloyt manager, will be
in charge of the campaign and Phebe
[>age will have charge of the booth
jommittee.
Following is the booth committee for
Wednesday and Thursday appointed by
Miss Gage: Florence Muirhead, Eleanor
Kilham, Agnes Schultz, Dick Sundoleaf,
Roscoe Hemenwav, and Wilhemina
Beck stead.
The following house organization
committee has been appointed by Wil
bur Hoyt:
Alpha Tau Omega—Lawrence Hull,
Len Jordan.
Beta Theta Pi—Lot Beattie, Wolcott
Buren.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon—Ben Reed,
Francis Wade.
Phi Delta Theta—Lyle Janz, Ivan Rob
erts.
Kappa Sigma—A1 Krolin, Tom Wjntt. j
Sigma Chi—John Palmer, Austin
Hazard.
Sigma Nu—Ivan McKinney, Carl
Newbury.
(Continued on page four)
OREGON SMASHES
WAY TO VICTORY
IN PACIFIC GAME
Varsity Starts Slowly and
Wakes Up Only After
Opponents Score
EARLY FUMBLING COSTLY
Lemon Yellow Combination’s
Hard, Straight Football
Wears Down Visitors
After a first half replete with fum
bles and penalties, the Oregon football
eleven smashed its way to a 21-7 vic
tory over Pacific University in the
game played Saturday afternoon on
Hayward field. The Lemon-Yellow
showed to excellent advantage during
the last minutes of play, and with the
varsity line opening great holes in Paci
fic 's first defense, the varsity backs
tore off gain after gain.
Huntington’s aggregation was slow
in getting under way and though the
varsity backfield made substantial
gains, was unable to shove the pig
skin over for a touchdown, until Paci
fic had scored and kicked goal. In the
middle of the third period with the
ball in Oregon's possession on Pacific’s
ten-yard line and a touchdown seem
ingly imminent a fumble in the back
field gave the ball to Blackman, the
visitors’ spoedy right end, who raced
tho length of the field for a touchdown.
Blackman was a student at Oregon last
year and played on the freshman
basketball team.
Varsity Gets Going
With the score, Pacific. 7, Oregon 0,
tho varsity opened up. Captain Howard
received tho kickoff and returned It
5 yards, another fumble in tho back
fiold lost the ball, but Howard re
covered it with a 15-yard gain. Then
with the Oregon backs Oram, Shields,
Jordan and Chapman smashing through
tho Red and Black line for substantial
gains the ball was taken steadily up the
field in a series of line bucks and off
tackle plays. “Tipy” Shields carried
it over from tho 4-yard lino and
“Spike” Leslie kicked goal.
Timo was called for the third quarter
with the ball in Oregon’s possession on
Pacific’s ten-yard line, but with the
resumption of play in the fourth period
tho varsity scored in two plays, Hal
Chapman, quarterback, carrying it
over from the five-yard line for Ore
gon’s second touchdown. “Spike”
Leslie kicked goal a moment later
making the score Oregon 14, Pacific 7.
Visitors Fight Well
Oregon’s final touchdown came a
few minutes later when after a series
of line bucks and short end runs that
carried the ball to Pacific’s four-yard
line, “Tiny” smashed through, Leslie
kicking goal.
The visiting team put up a good
defensive fight against the Oregon
machine but made only four attempts
during tho game to make gains on line
plays, relying upon Adams, fullback, to
punt them out of danger. The game
was delayed throughout by tho taking
nut of time, and during the latter part
of the contest one of the lighter visi
tors was injured on practically every
down.
(Continued on page four)
Powers Finds Gold Beach
Youths Most Precocious
Peru ami Africa have nothing on Ore
gon when it comes to interesting <Iis
eoverieg, according to Alfred Powers
of the extension division, since his re
turn from attending State Teachers’
Institute at Cold Beach. lie made the
trip in a motorcycle with a side car,
and his partner in the undertaking was
also an Oregon man, George W. Sehan
tin of the class of 1912, who is now
vice-prsident of the East side Motor
cycle Company of Portland. They
traveled by way of Derange, Scotts
burg, Alleghany, and over the Seven
Devils’ Road to Bamlon. From here
they took the Coast hjghway to Gold
Beach, and went south to Crescent City,
California, and back by way of the old
Grants Pass road.
Mr. Powers related several astonish
ing incidents about the youth of Gold
Beach. Evidently, the possibilities of
Oregon’s youngsters have not all been
discovered. One boy in the seventh
grade, twelve years old, attended the
institute, never missing one lecture, fie
told them that this was his sixth in
stitute. It would have been his seventh,
only one year there was no institute
at Gold Reach. A ten-year-old youth
had killed two deer already thin season.
His father accused him of steadying his
rifle on a forked stick. Ho protested,
saving that his knee was the only sup
port he needed. But these early
achievements are as naught to Mr.
Powers’ most astonishing revelation
eomerning the youth cf that part of the
state. A three yeur old, upon being
accused of smoking cigarettes, scowled,
and produced r very good sized pipe of
the eorn cob variety.
A strange combination was discovered
at the P —akers hotel at Gold Reach.
The hotel is owned and operated by an
O. A. C. man and an Oregon man. To
j all appearances, these partners dwell
j in unity of spirit, but they wager
I warmly on the Homecoming game.
Mr. Powers discovered the only pub
lic school golf course in the state, when
his party stopped for a day at Wind
Chuck river. The links are the idea
of schoolmaster Davies of that section,
an athlete of sixty-two years. The
course is circular, and the game is
played around his school house. The
balls are of tightly woven yarn, and
the clubs are cut in the woods.