Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXIII.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1922.
NUMBER 57
Self-Government
Is Solution
College Students, Old Enough to
Think for Themselves, Should he
Allowed More Freedom in Handl
lng Problems.
‘Rules’ Outworn
Merit Seen in Greater Latitude Al
lowed Undergraduates in Univer
sity of California to Settle Ques
tions.
University of California, Berkeley,
Jan. 12.—(P. I. N. S.)—The question
whether it is proper for a young wo
man stjident at the University of Cali
fornia to go out at night unchaperoned
is left entirely to the discretion of the
young woman herself, it became known
at the university today, following an
nouncement of the suspension of the
old chaperone rule at Stanford univer
sity.
There has never been any attempt
by officials at the University of Cali
fornia to prescribe rules of such a na
ture for students at Berkeley, prob
ably because, it is said, the University
of California has never maintained
•dormitories.
Since the adoption of the “honor
system” and student self-government
there has been no tendency on the part
of officials or members of the faculty
to hamper the personal freedom of stu
dents.
A year ago the students themselves
prescribed “rules” which applied to
sorority houses. One of the “rules,”
which was rather a suggestion than a
mandate, frowned upon a woman be
ing away later than midnight unless
she previously had left at the house
information as to where she was go
ing and where she might be found.
Miss Lucy Stebbins, dean of the wo
men, said that the matter of student
conduct was left to the students them
selves. ’’'here are no fixed rules of any
kind that apply to the conduct of stu
dents at the University of California, it
was asserted.
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The above news story from the cam
pus of the largest co educational insti
tution on the Pacific Coast makes some
rather astonishing revelations. At Cali
fornia, close by the so-called “vicious”
and “immoral” city of San Francisco
the women students are allowed to use
their own discretion in the matter of
making dates and keeping early or
“late” hours.
Yet, here at Oregon we find that
there is a continual attempt to tighten
up on the strings which already make
the life of a co-ed one continual round
of rebuke for an innocent breaking of
u rule which requiresvjfhat no matter
what the exeuse is, 10:30 is the cur
few hour.
• • •
Only recently, if we understand cor
rectly, the Dean of Women attempted
to put in another rule which would
amount to a campus “blue law” de
claring that the co-eds should not have
dates on Sunday night. When the
proposed new regulation was voted
dewn the Dean of Women in a state
ment to the Emerald said it was due
to the laek of cooperation on the part
of the upper class women.
Well and good, and so it should be.
How long can we continue to be pro
vincial and be held up as an example
of the “small town” collegef
• • •
College women, we were told recently
by President William A. Neilson, of
■Smith College, “Are not the sweet un
sophisticated little school girls who
filled the college a decade ago.” His
statement is taken as authority, but it
is evidently little heeded here at Ore
gon. We ’ have here the same rules
which governed the college girl a de
cade ago and in fact the rules are de
clared to be even more strict than they
-were at that time*
We have a Woman’s League here
at the University of Oregon. We have
a Y. W. C. A. here. Why is it not pos
sible for some of these all university
■women's organizations to get together
and draw up their own set of “rules”
as they are in effect at California and
should’ be at every other institution
where women who think for themselves
are enrolled. And by “rules” of this
nature we mean “rules” in the same
sense that they are made at California.
Not a mandate here either, but a
sort of understood suggestion that a
digression from the standard of con
duct as it is discussed in these meet
ings of the University women will be
“‘frowned upon” by the co-eds.
Whv not have here a little of this
Smith College idea which President
Neilson declared was “To let the wo
men make their own rules and regula
tions when they transgress these they
are onlv working against themselves.”
This is the way the Smith College au
thorities bring to the co-eds a realiza
tion of “their own responsibility.”
It is approximately the way that the
University of California handles the
situation
College students can surely think for
themselves. There is continual harp
ing upon the subiect that this is an ad
waneed age and that education has ad
vanced. According to this theory then
it is high time that the college student
who ranges in age from 19 years to 25
years be made to realize their own
responsibilities. Let’s have a student
government, a little less interference J
bv the facnltv and make this institn
■tion one in which we will work out our
(Continued on page fnorl
Organized Rooting by Crowd
Impossible as Bill
Hayward Seen
DETAILS OF GAMES GIVEN
Hawaiian Hospitality is Lauded
by Members of Oregon
Team
There have been rallies and rallies,
but never a demonstration such as that
with which Oregon welcomed back her
gridiron battlers after an absence of
almost a month in the romantic atmos
phere of Honolulu. It was a welcome
such as Oregon has never seen before.
From the moment that the long line
of welcoming students, preceded by the
gloom-dispelling Oregon band, swung
down town from the library, gaining
volume at each street corner, until the
dancie at the armory broke up at about
8 o ’clock, the sincerity of the welcome
manifested itself in spontaneous shouts
of greeting whenever a member of the
team came into view.
The throng surged up to the railway
station just as the Shasta slid in amidst
puffs of steam. In a moment the
team had alighted and were engulfed in
the milling mass of greeters.
Booting Not Possible
Organized rooting was an impossibl
ity when the husky frame of Bill Hay
ward clambered down the vestibule
steps followed by the team, each one
tan-faced from the tropical sun. Hands
were thrust forward from every side
and a rapid fire of such questions as:
“Where’s your grass skirt?” and
“Let’s see you do the hula,” greeted
the boys after one great, united vocal
effort reverberated from the barren
slope of Skinner’s butte.
Those who returned last night were
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hayward, Captain
Mart Howard, Floyd Shields, Spike
Leslie, Hal Chapman, Bart Laughlin,
Tiny Shields, Bill Reinhart, George
King, Charlie Parsons and Hunk La
tham.
Shy Huntington and his bride, Bud
Brown, Prink Callison, Karl Von der
Ake, and Dutch Gram stayed in San
Francisco, but will probably arrive on
the Shasta tonight.
Team is Cheered
From the station the crowd thronged
into the armory where students heard,
for the first time, the details of the
games from the boys who carried Ore
gon spirit across the Pacific to the vol
canic isle of Oahu. When the gang
had finished giving a yell for each
member of the team, Mart Howard told
the boys how Oregon managed to garner
victories in both their post-season
games.
The first game with the University
of Hawaii on December 26, was easy
as Oregon was in the best of condition
and outweighed the island team 10
pounds to the man, the score being 45-0.
“Everything went our way,” was the
way Captain Howard put it. In the
second game with the Pearl Harbor
fleet the score of 35-5 does not indicate
the stiff fight which the Oregon boys
had to put up for victory. Oregon was
outweighed eight pounds to the man and
the naval eleven showed none of the
inexperience which made the first con
test an easy victory.
Hospitality is Praised
All of the boys could not say enough
in praise of Hawaiian hospitality but
the strict training rules laid down by
Rill Hayward prevented their accept
ance of much entertainment planned for
them by the islanders.
George King says that there was
very little time left for pleasure and
that had not Oregon been in the very
best of training due to the watchful
ness of Bill Hayward the team would
have suffered from the very hot cli
mate
Bill Reinhart lauded the good sports
manship of the teams Oregon met and
“aid that next year the Lemon-Yellow
will turn out one of the best teams they
have ever had and emphatically de
clared, “I’m not fooling you.”
Spike Leslie presented his broad grin
and stated that if you want to learn
the hula see King.
Bill Havward managed to elude the
<rang after he stepped from the rail
wav coach so the opinion of Oregon’s
“grand old man” was not voiced.
WHITMAN GLEE TO BE BUSY
Wv;tman College. Walla Walla, Jan.
12.—CP. T. N. S.)—Twenty-eight con
certs will be given by the men’s var
':tv glee club throughout Washington,
cVojron. and Idaho next spring. Every
town visited last season has requested
a return engagement.
Maid in Barber
Chair Creates
Male Stampede
In spite of the prevalence of bob
bed hair among the co-eds of the
campus, it is not every day that the
actual shearing process can be wit
nessed. On Tuesday afternoon an
innocent frosh wended her way to
the barber-shop, near the Oregana,
to have her blond curls trimmed.
Seated on her swivel chair and en
veloped for the fray, like a member
of the Ku Klux Klan, she chanced
to glance window-ward. Nine or 10
delighted Kappa Sigs, encircling the
view like a pack of Jack London’s
famous wokres, greeted the amazed
eyes of the maiden. A book held
between herself and the window
proved useless, and before three locks
had fallen, the eager spectators had
obtained a kodak and snapped the
source of interest. For the sake of
the other bobbed-haired damsels,
who might be subject to undue scru
tiny for signs of a new hair-cut, the
name of the co-ed is-(deleted by
censor).
TWO MEETS SCHEDULED
FOR VARSITY MAT MEN
Heavyweight Needed to Fill
In Division
With two wrestling meets, one with
O. A. C- and one with the University
of Washington, scheduled for next
month, the Varsity wrestling team
finds itself without a man in the heavy
weight division and but one man, Ny
gren, in the light heavyweight class.
Unless more men turn out for this sport,
Nygren, who is really a middleweight,
will have to go up against the light
heavies of other colleges.
O. A. C. has an exceptionally strong
mat team this year and the Varsitv
squad is training lard for the meet
with them. Although Washington also
has a good bunch of grnpplers, neither
the Aggies nor U. of W is reputed to
bo very strong in the heavyweight
class- Coach Barnes is very desirous
of having some men turn out for this
weight. “They do not have to have
nnj experience as long as they can tip
th ; scales at about 2W pounds and are
not afraid to work,’-' says Barnes.
In the other weights, the men are
rapidly rounding into form. Winnard
and Bradley are the best bets in the
middleweight class and although Win
nard is not in his best condition he is
a wrestler of known ability and will be
in good shape for the meets. In the wel
terweight division Kirtley is about the
only man who is booked for a berth on
the squad. Whitcomb, Stranc and Wat
ters are the lightweights who are
showing up the best. Whitcomb is the
star of this trio on account-# of his
wonderful condition.
Captain Wegner and Kirk are the
class of the featherweights. Wegner
is over weight for this division but is
of the opinion that he can get down to
the required 122 pounds.
With everything up to the middle
weights taken care of in good style,
it now remains for a few heavyweight
men to enroll to make a well rounded
team that should show up well against
the other college teams
STUDENTS WILL BANQUET
WITH EDITORS OF STATE
Tonight’s Affair Will be Attended by
Members of Department, Eugene
Merchants and Professors
In the final day of the sale of tick
ets to journalism majors for the annual
editorial banquet tonight it is reported
that practically all of the upperclasK
men will be present and a number of
the freshmen and sophomores.
The banquet will be attended by
nearly a hundred newspaper men, by
business men of Eugene, and by Uni
versity professors. More effort is be
ing expended this year to have the
students mingle with the newspaper
editors and managers than in previous
years.
The ticket sale among the faculty
has been under the charge of Stan Eis
man and among the students in charge
of Kenneth Youel. Tickets can be ob
tained today from the two chairmen
and from Professor George Turnbull,
at the journalism annex.
DEAD LAUDS “OLD OREGON”
Lois Laughlin, graduated from the
English department in 1919, has writ
ten to the alumni secretary asking for
back numbers of “Old Oregon,” the
alumni publication, and the 1918-17 and
1917-18 Oreganas. Miss Laughlin
'auded “Old Oregon” for it’s success
in keeping the old “grads” together
saying that it was the only way she
had to keep in touch with her alma
mater.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Phi DeHa Theta announces the pledg
ino> of Walter Bunker, of Oakland.
California.
LAWMAKING SHOULD
RECEIVE ATTENTION
SAYS SPEAKER BEAN
Leader of House Addresses
Students at Regular
Assembly
LEGISLATORS ARE LAUDED
Remuneration of Members Too
Small; Longer Session
Advocated
The importance of greater interest
in legislative matters by university
students was strongly emphasized in
Thursday’s assembly by Louis E. Bean,
speaker of the house of representa
tives of the Oregon legislature. Mr.
Bean, who has been a member of the
house for the past 12 years, pointed
out that the responsibility of carrying
on the state government would, in time,
fall upon those persons now students of
the various institutions.
“You have a great responsibility
resting upon you,” Mr. Bean told the
students, “because Oregon will call
upon you tomorrow to take tho place
of the men and women who are now
making tho laws; and the responsibility
is not slight. It is just as great as
that of the executive and judicial de
partments, and often greater.”
Criticism Said Unwarranted
Mr. Bean spoke of the criticism
which has often been accorded the
state legislators by unthinking people
and various newspapers throughout the
state, and explained that, for the most
part, this criticism has been largely
unwarranted.
“I have never found a body of men
and women more honest and sincere,
with the interest of the state more at
heart than this body which comprises
the Oregon legislature,” asserted the
speaker. “Certainly, these people are
as sincere ia their purposo as are any
legislators of any state,” he continued,
“They have been trying to do their I
best, and I believe that the rank and
file of the people of Oregon appreciate
their efforts.”
urvuuuiuj
The small remuneration received by
the legislator!) was mentioned, the
speaker advocating an increase in the
present salary of three dollars a day to
a figure that would at least defray
their actual living expenses while at the
capital. He would not, however, favor
an increase in salary to such an extent
that legislative office would be sought
for mercenary reasons. Together with
increase 'in salary, Mr. Bean advocated
a longer legislative session. An in
crease in the session from 40 to 60
days would, he said, bring about greater
efficiency in handling legislative mat
tore.
Legislative Methods Told
Mr. Bean outlined briefly the work
ing of the legislative system and ex
plained the various steps necessary for
the passage of state laws.
The taxation question is one which
should receive the attention of all
thinking citizens, he said. Oregon’s
debt totals $353,000,000 while the as
sessed taxable wealth is one billion dol
lars. Although the estimated total net
income in 1921 did not exceed $55,
000,000, yet Oregon must contribute
$67,000,000 in taxes.
EDITORS ARRIVE EARLY
FOR ANNUAL MEETINGS
Big Rush is Expected This Morning
Eleven Newspapermen on Campus
One Day Ahead of Time
Although the majority of the dele
gates to the annual newspaper con
ference will not arr've in Eugene until
this morning several came last night.
The trains this morning are expected
to bring their quota- The sessions will
not begin until 10 o’clock.
Those who arrived last night are:
Carle Abrams, of the Salem States
man, and Mrs. Abrams; E. A. Koen, of
the Dallas Observer; Frank A. Clarvoe,
of Portland; George Putnam, of the
Salem Capital Journal; George Quayle,
secretary of the state Chamber of Com
merce; B. W. Bates, of the Roseburg
News-Review; M. C. Maloney, of the
Marshfield Times; Edgar B. Piper, of
♦he Oregonian; Don Sterling, of the
Portland Journal; I. V- McAdoo, of the
8"io Tribune, and Harold E. Hunt, of
the Portland Journal.
Editors’ President,
Cottage Grove Man
Elbert Bede
PRESIDENT GIVES
STATE EDITORS
WARM GREETING
President Campbell last night issued
a statement giving a cordial welcome
to the Oregon editors and their wives
who today and tomorrow are the guests
of the school of journalism at the
Fourth Annual Newspaper Conference.
President Campbell’s statement fol
lows:
The University is always delighted
to welcome such a body of men and
women as the editors and publishers
of the state of Oregon. The press
of the state stands side by side with
the institutions of higher learning
as a leading agency of education.
We recognize in the editors and
publishers of Oregon a group of
friends of the University and (of
higher education in general; a group
that is measuring well up to its op
portunities for popular enlightenment
and is constantly becoming a stronger
force in the building up of a great
and prosperous commonwealth.
It is a fine thing he have the edi
tors and publishers assembled on the
campus for the discussion of their
problems and the improvement of
their profession. The annual sessions
are productive of inspiration both
to the press and to the University.
We are glad to meet our friends of
the press in this personal way and
hope they will have a most profitable
and enjoyable visit.
P. L. CAMPBELL.
SCHROFF ART EXHIBIT
ATTRACTS ATTENTION
Collection Now in Seattle Will
Be Brought to Campus
A collection of almost 100 paintings
of Prof. A. H, Schroff’s collection are
now on display at Seattle, under the
auspices of the Seattle Society of Fine
Arts.
These paintings are all the work of
Prof- Schroff, and include scenes of
Oregon, California, and a few of Mas
sachusetts. The collection is attract
ing a great deal of attention in nortli
ern art circles, and according to plans
now on foot, the entire group will b->
brought to this campus early in Febru
ary.
Among the paintings that are es
pecially attractive, according to word
received by Mrs. Schroff, are scenes
of the Willamette, the picturesque Mc
Kenzie, and several scenes depicting
the action of the sea along the coast.
Many of the canvasses are completed
sketches which Professor Schroff
brought back from California after
his visit there this summer, where he
taught art in the summer school at
Berkeley. Points of interest visited
during this trip were Point Bobos, an
artist colony, Monterey, and Seventeen
mile drive. Many interesting sketches
were obtained from these trips, which
were later depicted on canvas.
Professor Schroff expressed himself
as well satisfied over the reception
which his pictures are receiving in
Seattle, and is anxious to give the stu
dents and townspeople of Eugene an
opportunity to view this collection.
RTFLE CLUB HAS COACH
Stanford University, Stanford, Cal.
Jan. 11—The Stanford Ttifle club now
has a regular coach to superintend its
practice in preparation for matches dur
ing the quarter. R. D. Richardson, the
coach, is a captain in the Infantry re
serve.
FULL PROGRAM READY
FOR EDITORS OF ST A TE
CONFERENCE WILL
OPEN AT 10 WHEN
DAILY IN GATHER
Over 70 Representatives of
Oregon Press Expected
to Register
BUSINESS MEETING AT 1:30
Banquet Will be Held Tonight
At Osburn; Many Will
Give Talks
With an attendance nearly twice as
large as last year, the Fourth Annual
Newspaper conference will hold its
first meeting this morning at 10 o’clock
in the Woman’s building. Almost
every regular publication in the state
has delegated representatives to be
present at the sessions of the editors.
The first session is a joiut meeting of
the daily newspapermen which will be
held in Memorial hall.
At 11 o’clock the state meeting of
the Associated Press will be conducted
by Gilbert Parker, assistant western
manager, in the men’s reception room.
At the same time Frank Clarvoe, north
west manager of the United Press, will
call a meeting in the women’s recep
tion room.
The stream of jourdnlists began to
come in last night but the largest num
ber will arrive this morning. Many
of the delegates aro bringing their
wives with them and special attention
has been given to providing a portion
of tho program of interest to the wo
men. Many of the men will bo enter
tained at the various fraternities.
Oregon Knights In Charge
The Oregon Knights havo been put in
charge of conducting the guests to and
from the trains and of showing them
about tho campus between sessions.
Wives, families, and other guests will
be entertained and cared for by Miss
Elizabeth Fox, Mrs- P. L. Campbell,
and Mrs. Eric W. Allen.
The men here are editors, publishers,
owners, manngorB, and representatives
of the various newspapers of the state.
It is estimated that before the regis
tration tonight is complete there will
be more than 70 signed up.
All of tho daily papers of Portland
have sent men to tho conference. J.
E. Wheeler, cf the Portlnnd Telegram;
II. F. Irvine, editor, and P. L. Jackson,
mnnager of tho Oregon Journal; Edgar
B. Piper and Paul B. Kelty of the Ore
gonian, and Fred L. Boalt of the Nows
are here. Many other men of news
paper prominence both in and outside
of the state aro interested in this con
ference in which the chief topic of dis
cussion will be the betterment of the
newspaper situation in Oregon.
Doan Allen, who has been in charge
of preparing the program has askod
that the visitors note the change in the
schedule for this morning. He has
expressed th(f desire that all the ses
sions meet on time. Tho two day per
iod will be crowded full of business
and unless punctuality is the rule, Dean
Allen predicts a great deal of confu
sion.
Busmens meeting at ±:ou
President Robert W. Sawyer of the
Rend Bulletin, president of the con
ference will call tho business meeting
together at 1:30 for the appointment
of a committee on nominations and the
roll call. The general topic of tho
meeting which follows will be “Adver
tising.”
The editors will gather tonight at the
Osburn hotel for the annual banquet.
With them will be Eugene business
men, professors of the University, and
nearly all of tho upperclass journalism
students on tho campus. It will start
at 6:30 o’clock and will be directed by
the Eugene Chamber of Commerce and
the Oregon Chapter of Sigma Delta
Chi, national honorary journalism fra
ternity. President P. L. Campbell will
act as toastmaster.
Those who will speak at the banquet
are U. L. Ray, president of the Eu
gene Chamber of Commerce; Oeorge
P. Cheney, publisher of the Enter
prise Record-Chieftain; Miss Helen
Manning, of the school of journalism:
Addison Bennett, of the Oregonian; B
Frank Irvine, of the Oregon Journal;
Gilbert Parker, of the Associated
Press; and Edgar B. Piper, of the Ore
gonian.
Houses to Entertain
At noon today the various houses
(Conttmnod on pngo four;