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Oregon Daily Emerald VOLUME XXIII. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 3. 1922. NUMBER 72 VACHEL LIU IS CALLED HOME, AGED MOTHER ILL Telegram to Mrs. George Fitch Cancels Engagement at University INTEREST WAS AROUSED Visit May be Arranged for Next Year; Disappointment is Evidenced Oregon will not hear Vachel Lind say. The coming on Tuesday night of the “peddler of dreams” who carries the distinction of being one of Amer ica’s foremost poets has been indefi nitely postponed. Word came by tele gram yesterday' to Mrs. George Fitch who had been preparing for his lecture here that he must start immediately home for Springfield, 111., because of the serious illness of his aged mother. There is no possibility of his coming later in the year, it is believed, be cause of the fact that he is signed for & series of lectures which will probably be taken up as scheduled. He was to have appeared at the University of Washington last night and in Portland later in the week. His arrival in Eu gene was scheduled for Monday night at which time a dinner was to have been given in his honor by Mrs. Fitch who once knew him. Campus organi zations were preparing to greet him in a way to make memorable the visit of this man who is called by the New York Evening Post as “the most intensely original and blazinglv romantic poet of this generation.” On the success of the Lindsay lec ture depended in large measure plans for bringing other celebrities to the campus and the foundation perhaps of a fund and an organization to make these visits permanently possible. Cam pus interest however has been so aroused by the announcement of his coming that it is probable that these plans will be carried through. In the telegram received yesterday from A. F. Armstrong, professor of English at Baylor university, Waco, Texas, the suggestion was made that the engagement be postponed one year. Thus there is a great possibility that Oregon will yet hear Vachel Lindsay. Yachel Lindsay would have seen hopeful things in the wide campus in terest aroused over the mere announce ment of his coming and what it stood for. There is genuine disappointment felt over his inability to fill his en gagement. EUROPEAN FUND IS $95.42 A total of $95.42 was raised last week by students and faculty on the University of Oregon campus toward the Student Friendship fund for the support of European students. This money has been sent to the headquar ters in New York City as Oregon’s contribution toward helping those fore ign students. Of the total amount raised here $55 came from the faculty. The money was collected at a booth in front of the library last week. CANADIAN RAIL PROBLEM IS REVIEWED BY ENGINEER Duplication of Lines Discussed in Talk Given Science Students by J. P. Newell J. P. Newell, consulting engineer of the Oregon Public Service commission, spoke to pre-engineering students Wed nesday night in Deady hall on the sub ject of “Canadian Railways.” Mr. Newell pointed out that the “wildcat” building period that termi nated just before the war in Canada has resulted in duplicating all lines in J the Dominion, which lack of business < has forced the Canadian government to take over. The government owns a greater railway system than any other in the world. More than two thousand miles of this Canadian railway is in the United States, placing the Canadian Government in the peculiar situation of taking orders from the Inter State com merce Commission. “The 'Grand Trunk Railway is one | of the best constructed roads in the world but it is a useless waste as scarcely any traffic is carried on over that road,” said Mr. Newell. “No man has yet been discovered who is big enough to superintend the Canadian system and a man from the United States will probably be chosen.” After the talk Professor and Mrs. Sweetser served a light lunch to the students in one of the laboratories. SCHROFF ON EXHIBIT JURY ARTS INSTRUCTOR IS JUDGE AT NORTHWESTERN DISPLAY President Suzzallo Guest at Reception Given by Seattle Society In Honor of Professor Professor A. H. Sehroff of the fine arts department, has returned from a trip to Seattle, where he served last week on the jury of the annual North west Artists exhibit held at the Se attle Fine Arts society last week. Mr. Sehroff was enthusiastically received by the artists of Seattle who had seen his exhibit there during the last month and throughout his visit he was ex tensively entertained by a number of friends and artists of the city. Professor Sehroff was accompanied on his trip by his wife, who is well known as a painter of miniatures, and while in Seattle the Sehroff’s, saw a number of private collections of paintings as well as those exhibited at the society. Of these there were 400, and Mr. Sehroff was honored in being one of the six judges of the entire ex hibit. “The most gratifying thing to me during this trip was the appreciation of the artists of the city,’* said Mr. Sehroff after his return in speaking of his visit in Seattle. He stated that he discovered a number of very talented artists of the northwest at the exhibition. A large reception was held for the Schroffs during the week at the Seattle Fine Arts society at which Presi dent Suzzalo of the University of Wash ington and a number of students of that university were guests as well as a great number of artists and society people of the city. All of the guests were enthusiastic in their praise of Mr. Sehroff’s one-man exhibit, which will be sent to Eugene later in the month and will be on exhibit here after February 15. Psychology Lab Has Instrument Which Detects Mental Storms “Drop around at the psychology lab oratory and get a good story about the scientific instruments they use there,” the day editor told a reporter the other day. “Our readers might like to know of those things.” So the faithful newsgatherer made his way to McClure hall to get the “story.” “Come right this way. and I’ll start you on one of our simpler machines of experiment, said the man of science when the reporter presented himself at the laboratory at the appointed hour. Walking over to an object that looked much like a long jelly roll he continued: “This is the plethysmograph, which records distention of the periph eral circulatory system in an uphoristic tendency or a decrease in the case of disphoristic conditions. ” At this point the reporter’s nerve began to leave him for the instructor went on to mention such psychological commonplaces as sphygmoinmanometers. aesthescometers and pscendoseopes. But remembering the words of his chief he stuck. The first piece of apparatus described turned out to be a machine that would very accurately show the experimenter whether or not his subject was pos sessed with pleasant or unpleasant thoughts. Another afforded the means -of testing the actual endurance of isolated muscles and the effect of pleasant or unpleasant thoughts upon them. The techistoscope turned out to be a machine by which the observation powers of a subject can be minutely ascertained. It works on the principal of a camera shutter giving the experi mentor a one twenty-fifth of a second glance at an object after which his observation ability is measured by the number of details remembered. Still another instrument is capable of meas uring the color zones on the retina of the eye. The automatograph, which might well 1 be called a ball bearing Ouija Board, is used to record muscular reactions to thoughts and sounds. An antique tilting board, which was used in the days when the department of psychology was still young, is still in the possession of the department and is on exhibition in the main laboratorv room. It was used to indicate the flow of blood to definite parts of the body in response to thoughts. The subject would lie on a board, balanced from the center much in the same fashion as the old teater board of childhood memories. As various activities were thought of by the subject the board would incline to the side where the muscles involved in the imaginary ac tion were located. This tilting board was one of the first pieces of apparatus obtained by the psychology department. It has not been in use for several years. EDUCATION, PEACE, INTERNATIONALISM, CALLED U.S. NEEDS Dr. H. L. Willett, University of Chicago, Tells Assembly of America’s Illiteracy MORAL IMPULSE DESIRED Students’ Responsiblity for Improving World Condition is Emphasized Peace, internationalism and educa tion are the three big things for which America must strive with all her powers, said Dr. Herbert L. Willett, of the University of Chicago, speaking to the university assembly yesterday morn ing in Villard hall. Dr. Willett, who is a vigorous and forceful speaker, plunged at once into his subject, outlining the goals which he declared that America must reach in order to maintain her present leader ship among the nations. Peace is a true American policy, asserted Dr. Wil lett. “Our very wars have been fought in the interests of peace.” The French and Indian war was fought, the speaker maintained, to clear the way for an ad vancing civilization, the Revolutionary war was fought in the interests of Peace on the American continent, and taught England her greatest and best lesson, the difference between over ridden colonies and great allied domin ions. Mexican War Deplored Dr. Willet excused the War of 1812, in saying that we had become used to fighting England and to winning from her, so we fought her again, and won again. The War of 1848, or Mexican War, was a blot on American history, the speaker declared. The two wars just mentioned, Dr. Willett declared were of the sort that we desired to for get, for they were departures from the true American spirit. Next in our his tory stands the Civil War when, as the speaker expressed it, we once for all united this country in indisoluble bonds, and announced to all the peoples of the world, that never again would we stand by to see another nation hold a subject race in bondage. And last, within the memories of most of those alive were the Spanish-Ameriean of 1898, when we fought to convert slaves into freemen, and the World War in 1917 when we undertook a war, not our own, to rid the earth of the military curse, and assumed the resulting leader ship of nations. “Our boys had a ren dezvous with death: they had pledged their word and they kept it.” Americans Still “Lethargic” With the close of the late war, the bugle call of internationalists feeling was sounded, but to its notes, the (Continued on page three) GRACE EDGINGTON VISITS CAMPUS ON WAY SOUTH Faculty Member to Spend Two Months In New York; Will Install Theta Sigma Phi at Berkeley Miss Grace Edgington, member of the faculty of the University of Oregon who is now on a leave of absence of a year, will leave for San Francisco this afternoon after spending two days in Eugene visiting. Miss Edgington has been at Steila coom, Washington, for the past three months resting, reading and doing some study. She is now starting on a trip which will take her through several middle western and southern states and will end in New York City, where she ex pects to stay about two months. Going directly from here to Berkeley, California, Miss E^gingl|on, who is national organizer of Theta Sigma Phi, women’s journalism fraternity, will in stall a chapter at the University of California. She will inspect the Stan ford university chapter, and will visit at the University of Southern Cali fornia. From there she will go to Kan sas to visit both the state university at Lawrence, and the state industrial col lege at Manhattan. She will inspect the chapters of Theta Sigma Phi at the University of Texas at Austin, and at the University of Kentucky at Lex ington. In New York Miss Edgington says she expects to hear some good music, see some good shows, visit some friends at Columbia university and enjoy her self generally. She will leave there in time to return to Berkeley, for the summer term of the university there, where she will teach a class in news writing and will work with Bean Allen, of the University of Oregon, on the summer session edition of the Daily Californian. CONVENTION DATE FOR RICH SCHOOL LEADERS DECIDED Student Council Sets Meeting of Presidents, Editors Women in March WOMAN’S LEAGUES SOUGHT Curtailment of Junior Week end Features is Favored and Recommendations Made Hearty endorsement of a plan to is sue invitations to the presidents of high school student body organizations, edi tors of high school newspapers and yearbooks and to one representative woman from each of the accredited high schools of the state to spend a week end on the Oregon campus as guests of the university was given by the student council at a special meeting of that body last night. The council has called the convention for a date early in March. Extended cooperation with the high school students of the state has grown out of the successful convention, held last year, of editors of high school news papers which was held by the school of journalism at Junior Week-end. The date has been changed this year with a view to helping the high school rep resentatives solve the problems in their work. A March convention, it is thought, is early enough in the school j year to allow the students to put. into i practice beneficial suggestions they may gain out of the conventions as well as to view the campus at its best be fore the spring term political rivalry and elections and the confusion at tendant upon Junior Week-end. Problems of dross, conduct and other questions that confront the girl enter ing college will be discussed at the meetings of the women and it is hoped that this plan will lead ultimately to the establishment of woman’s leagues in the high schools of the state. Each high school will probably be allowed to choose the woman to represent them as they see fit. Details of the conven tions were left by the council to be worked out later. A committee com posed of Floyd Maxwell, Ella Rawlings, Helen Carson and Lyle Bartholomew : will work out the details of the con 1 vention. Adoption of a program that will elim inate certain Junior Week-end features and place a limitation on others ns previously carried out was effected by the council after a lengthy discussion in which the council went into a com mittee of the whole for the considera tion of details proposed in the cutting down of the expense of the annual spring event. The recommendation of the committee to the junior class in cludes the following points: elimination of the senior play as a Junior Week end event; limitation of the number of entries in the canoe fete to 20 floats; limitation of the cost of the individual entries to $20; erection of bleachers along the mill race to accomo date the canoe fete crowd; recommenda tion that the University pay for the campus luncheon; starting of Junior Week-end Friday morning at 8 o’clock; establishing the price of the Junior Prom as one dollar; and favoring as the ultimate solution of the Junior Week end problem some plan by which the associated students would issue the in vitations for the May festival. The plan of the council, in recom mending the erection of bleachers, is to pay the expense of such permanent bleachers by selling reserved seats. In limiting the number of entries in the canoe fete to 20 floats the council sug gests that some of the organizations may combine if they wish to do so, thereby cutting down the individual ex pense and work of preparing a float. Each entry, it is suggested, should be limited to one canoe. Establishing a maximum of cost as $20 will take the fete out of the class of professional decorators. The junior class will be informed of the action of the student council for mally at its next meeting. A com mittee composed of Floyd Maxwell. Clayton Ingalls and Imogene Letcher was appointed by President Bartholo mew to present these suggestions to the juniors. The campus committee was author ized to instruct the Oregon Knights to enforce campus regulations in regard to walking on the turf, particularly around the Woman’s building. Com plaints have recently been received of student disregard for the lawns about the campus and it is felt that the Ore kon Knights can best enforce this cam pus rule. WEATHER EORECA8T Ran Francisco,—North Coast Friday, rain, fresh southernlv winds. Shadow Is Seen By Ground Hog; Spring Delayed Regularly once a year that inconspic uous and unassuming little animal, popularly known as the ground hog, correctly as the wood chuck, and sci entifically as the marmota monnx, be comes the subject of general interest and conversation. Yearly his habits and habitat, generally unknown, be come popular comment on February 2. On that day Mr. Woodchuck exer cising his gift of prophecy, pokes his he ail out into the world and looks upon the weather. Mr. Woodchuck never errs in the foretelling of spring, and indeed he shouldn’t!—for his family have been prophets ever since Mr. Radger of Germany built his first an cestral den. Yesterday was Ground Hog day! The general dull gravness would indi cate to Mr. Woodchuck that spring was just foolin’ and was really coming soon. If, however, he happened to be nosing about during those ten minutes just before noon, when the sun was out, he’d go back into his den and sleep another forty winks. CO-OP ELECTS DIRECTORS NELSON ENGLISH IS PRESIDENT; MCCLAIN TO BE RETAINED Dividends May be Larger Next June; 800 Students Are Paid Members of Association Nelson English, ’23, was elected presi dent of the Co-op directorate at a meet ing held Wednesday night in the office of the manager, Paul Sayre, ’24 was chosen vice-president and Harold Simp son, ’23, is scoretary.troasurer. Besides the officers are Tom Hughes, ’25, newly elected, and Dean ,T. F. Bovard and Prof. T. ,T. Bolitho, who serve with the officers on the board of directors for the ensuing year. Carl Newbury, the retiring president reported that the Co-op is running on a sound financial basis. The report was based on statistics obtained by Virgil De Lap and Carl Myers, students in the ! department of business administration, j who have been making an audit of the books. They found that the cost of doing business was 16.6 percent of the net sales and that the net profits were 5.82 percent. It was brought out at the meeting that the six pereont dividend, which was de clared in favor of the members last year will probably bo equalled or excoedod | next June. There are now about 800 paid members of the Co-op association as comparod with 600 last year. By a unanimous vote Manager Marion McClain was retained at a salary of $200 a month and the building now occupied by the store was re-rented at $50 a month. A discussion of problems in connection with the business succeeded the business meeting. Nelson English, the new executive, said that the policy of service to the students in regard to text books will be carried on in the most efficient manner possible. Regardless that discounts from the publishers are very small, he said,, “the policy of selling at publisher’s prices will be continued.” While practi cally all books come from tho East and freight is abnormally high, still books will be supplied to students at the same prices as those paid by students at East ern Universities, he promised. Oregon will enter the basketball lists against the Aggies tonight with the squad sadly weakened, for three players, two of them formor lettermen, Beller, Latham, and Couch are still out of condition on account of the “flu.” Latham and Couch will be used if they are needed but Franz Bellor will probably not get into the game al though he will come out in a suit. However there are some bright sides to tho situation. Ton days have passed since the last game and the time has been utilized to advantage in improv ing the varsity's shooting and passing, with the result that the quintet will show more stuff in spite of the “flu” than they have evinced thus far this year. Aggies Expect Fight Then too, tho Lemon-Yellow is up against their traditional and Agricul tural rivals and, as a recent issue of the Barometer naively puts it. . . . “Oregon is at the bottom of the Con ference list.but they always manage to pick up enough over there to give tho Aggies a real fight and the Beavers are far from confident as to the outcome of the game.” Rutherford will probably start his Ags with Captain Stinson and Fern ley, forwards, Hjelto, center, and Ross and Richards guards. The Corvallis mentor has some mighty talented re lief men in Lyman, Ryan and the two Gills. Coach Bolder Is uncertain as to who will open up for tho varsity but it is likely that the combination of Andre and Rockhey or Kdlunds, for wards, Zimmerman, ceuter, and Bur nett and Goar guards will answer the initial gun. Mat Men to Give Show Tho wrestling teams of the two schools will furnish tho thrills in a curtain raiser that is scheduled to start promptly at 7 o’clock. There will be six bouts from tho 125-pound class to the heavyweight division. The classes and Oregon representatives follow: 125. Wegner; 135, Whitcomb; 1-15, Kirtley; 158, Winnard; 158 Nygren; unlimited, Bradway or McKeown. The Lemon-Yellow matmen are out to avenge last year’s overwhelming de feat at the hands of the collegians and every varsity representative looks good for a win with the possible exception of Kirtley, who has shown real class all term but is now weakened from a recent attack of “flu.” Two Veterans Strong Winnard nnd Wegner are members of last year’s aggregation and both wrostled strong matches against the Farmers last winter. The rest of the men are all newcomers to the squad but have shown the stuff in the work outs. Tho bouts will probably be refereed by Ted Thye, Northwest middleweight champion. THREE HOOPERS ILL; MM GE UNABLE TO ENEER AGGIE GAME Quintet Shows Improvement in Shooting Since Tilts With Stanford MAT CONTESTS FEATURE Grapplers Will Meet 0. A. C. Before Basketeers Swing Into Action Tonight 350 Beautiful Volumes Now In Pauline Potter Homer Set OiftH of beautiful, rare, and well bound volumes during the last few weeks have brought the total number of books in the Pauline Potter Homer Memorial Collection of Beautiful Books to nearly 350. This collection, which is now housed in the mezzanine floor in the central part of the University library has no equal in any public li brary in the state, says M. II. Douglass, librarian. Nearly all of the books come in singly although there are one or two sets in the collection. Home of them have been gathered by random trips through old bookshops. The finest books which are donated to the library for general purposes are selected and placed in this collection although free for public perusal at any time, has the rule that no books are to be taken from the building. People who have been interested in the project have given money which the librarians have used to buy books ordinarily not obtainable. The collection was started in 191A with the gift of the books which had belonged to Mrs. Pauline Potter Tin mer before her death in the influenza epidemic in the fall of 1918. As a stu dent in the University four years be fore that time she had been an assist ant in tho library and went to Sim mons College after her graduation here to study library work. She was a member of Gamma Phi Beta. Tier parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Potter are residents of Eugene. Soon after her death several of her friends in the University added a num ber of rare books to those which had belonged to her and together with the donations made by students, friends, and relatives the group was called a memorial. Since that time more than two hundred books have been presented to the library for this collection. At. first the books were cared for on a small shelf but as the collection grew it became necessary to find better means of preserving them. Now two cases in the mezzanine floor fail to pro vide enough room and another has been ordered. It is tho plan to util ize all of the space in that room for the collection when it grows large enough. (Continued on page four)