Oregon daily emerald., February 28, 1922, Image 1

Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXIII.
./DIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1922
NUMBER 88
OREGON DEBATERS
TO DEFEND COAST
HONORS THURSDAY
University of Washington and
Stanford Teams to be
Contested
THREE VETERANS ARE OUT
Sales Tax Will be Argued;
Eastern Colleges May Be
Met Next Year
The University of Oregon affirma
tive and negative debating teams will
defend their title to the Pacific Coast
championship next Thursday when they
meet the teams of Stanford and the
University of Washington. Villard
hall is to be the scene of the contest
here, Washington sending her negative
team against Oregon’s affirmative. All
negative teams are to travel. Wash
ington comes here; Oregon goes to
Stanford; and Stanford meets Wash
ington at Seattle.
The question which will be debated
is “Resolved: that the federal govern
ment should impose a tax on manu
facturer’s sales.” “The question is a
hard one to debate,” said Clarence D.
Thorpe, Oregon coach, yesterday.
One New Man on Team
Three of those on Oregon’s teams are
veterans, having appeared against
Reed and Oregon Agricultural College.
These are Claude Robinson, Charles
Lamb, and Paul Patterson. Ralph Bailey
is the new member of the team,
and is showing up well, according to
the coach. Lamb and Robinson com
prise the negative, and Patterson and
Bailey the affirmative team.
“Oregon is up against a tough propo
sition this year,” said Prof. Thorpe in
speaking of the prospects for victory.
“She has won two consecutive times
in the past two years. Both Wash
ington and Stanford have new coach
ing staffs and are out after our scalps,
so they say. I cannot say whether we
will win or lose, but I do know that
we are sending two excellent teams into
the fray.”
Two Judges Chosen
Two of the three judges have been
chosen for the debate at Villard hall.
They are Edward L. Clark, dean of the
business school of the Oregon Insti
tute of Technology, and H. H. Herd
man, former principal of Washington
high school, Portland, and now rep
resentative of the National Safety
Council in Portland.
Stanford has written to Mr. Thorpe
in regard to the; possibility of ar
ranging debates with eastern colleges
next year. It is suggested by them
that the winner of the Pacific Coast
Triad debate meet a champion middle
western team in sectional competition.
Stanford is in correspondence now
with various middle western schools.
Pitching Candidates
Meet Bohler Today
All candidates for battery posi
tions on both the Varsity and fresh
man nines are requested by Coach
George M. Bohler to meet this after
noon at 4.30 in his office. Instruc
tions for preliminary work-outs will
be given and some equipment may
be issued.
On account of the fact that so far
no freshman baseball coach has been
appointed Coach Bohler will give the
first-year pitchers and catchers their
starting instructions. According to
the coach it is important that all
candidates for battery positions be
in his office promptly at 4.30.
HENDRICKS KEEPS LEAD
HALL SWIMMERS OUTCLASS
DELTA ZETA ENTRIES
Agnes Schultz High Point Winner,
Making 15 Points; Next Meet to be
Held This Afternoon at 5
STANDING OF TEAMS
Hendricks Hall . Ill
Kappa Alpha Theta . 112
Susan Campbell Hall . 90
Alpha Phi . 89
Delta Zeta . 63
Kappa Kappa Gamma . 62
Hendricks Hall still holds first place
in doughnut swimming by defeating
Delta Zeta 50 to 18 in the meet Satur
day afternoon. Alpha Phi won from
Susan Campbell Hall by 29 to 26. Fri
day night at 5 o ’clock Kappa Alpha
Theta defeated Kappa Kappa Gamma
39 to 29.
Agnes Schultz was the high point]
winner for Hendricks Hall, scoring 15
points, which is the maximum score for
one swimmer.
“We have discovered a lot of good
material for class swimming and var
sity through the doughnut swimming,”
said Margaret Russell, president of the
Women’s Athletic Association.
The next meet will be held at 5
o ’clock today between Alpha Phi and
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Kappa Alpha
Theta and Hendricks Hall and Susan
Campbell Hall and Delta Zeta. Hope
McKenz.ie, who was on the varsity
swimming team two years ago, will
dive for the Kappa Alpha Thetas.
MANY PREPPERS COMING
High School Editors and Student Body
Officers May Number 350
Winifred Graham will have charge
of the conference of high school edi
tors and student-body officers which
will be held on the campus April 14
and 150. About 350 guests are expected
to be here at that time, and 1068 let
ters will be sent out by Miss Graham
and her assistants to presidents and
secretaries of student bodies and to the
editors and managers of high school
publications.
A number of communications favor
ing this conference have been received
at the business office and it is hoped
that a large number of “preppers” will
accept the invitation to visit the Uni
versity campus and take advantage of
the conference.
Harold Newton, ’19, Vice-Consul
For United States at Kobe, Japan
Harold (“Skinny”) Newton, ’19, is
now American vice-counsul in Kobe,
Japan. News of his appointment is
carried in a letter just received from
bim by Eric W. Allen, dean of the
school of journalism, in which New
ton was a student.
“Skinny,” whose appointment to the
important post of viee-counsul at the
largest port on the Pacific comes to
him in his 25th year, has had steady
advancement since he went to Japan
after his graduation less than three
years ago. At first he served as in
structor in English in a Japanese col
lege in Osaka and next was appointed
to the staff of the Taisho Nichi Nichi
Shimbun, a metropolitan newspaper
-printed entirely in Japanese at Osaka.
Newton, who came to the University
from La Grande, has always had a love
for travel. In 1917-18 he served on a
vessel of the United States shipping
hoard, which took him to the orient and
other far parts of the earth. Return
ing. he took his diploma in journalism
and was on his way again. This time
the call of the orient drew him to
Japan. He is a member of Delta Tan
Delta and Sigma Delta Chi.
Newton’s letter, written in Kobe on
Eebrnarv 8. starts out by addressing
Dean Allen as Eric, and is as follows:
“I have addressed yon by your first
name because T am no longer an under
graduate. and I see no reason why a fel
low cannot be somewhat intimate with
his major professor after he has gone
into the world, and as there is a good
stretch of water between us I fear no
verbal calling down.
“Upon my return to these shores
from Siberia, where T was sent as a
courier for the government, I called at
Yokohama. Although I had not time
to see your sister, I believe you stated
that she was in the Y. W. C. A., and
worked there, I made inquiries at the
Y. W. C. A. and was told that Miss
Allen was on the other side of the city
at the time.
“Vladivostok is in a worse mess than
ever before. The Russians look H. H.
H.—hopeless, helpless and hungry, and
I can think also of another H-they
looked like. The cut-throats in charge
at Moscow are the cause of such mis
ery, a word written across the face of
every inhabitant except certain clas
ses.
“Speaking of being definite reminds
me that, owing to my journalism train
ing to “boil down” statements and not
“gush,” I have been too abrupt in
some of the official correspondence I
am obliged to write, which habit has
caused me to be called on the carpet;
not that I gave incorrect information,
or failed to be authentic, but that I did
not string out the sentences somewhat.
However, the training your classes gave
: me in accuracy, and how to stand up
and talk to a person, has been a bles
sing.
“ know that you will be pleased to
hear that I have been appointed a vice
! counsul. My commission was signed on
November of last year. No glory,
plain work brought it about. I will
probably serve at this port for some
time to come. Do you know that Kobe
is the largest port on the Pacific in
amount of tonnage of vessels entering
and clearing, and that it is larger than
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TANNER DESCRIBES
METHODS OF TAKING
POTASH FROM KELP
American Chemical Society
Told Way of Commercial
Seaweed Harvesting
DR. WILLIAMS GIVES PAPER
Acidic Nature of Alcohol is
Considered a Result of
Long Research
Methods of harvesting kelp and the
process of securing potash therefrom
for the market were treated in a paper
given by Professor H. J. Tanner of the
chemistry department at the meeting
of the Oregon section of the American
Chemical Society in McClure Hall Sat
urday evening. Dr. R. J. Williams gave
results of research work which tend to
show that alcehols may have acidic
properties.
Professor Tanner told of the govern
ment plant at Summerland, California,
used in obtaining potash and other pro
ducts from kelp, a form of sea weed
which grows in large beds in that vicin
ity. This sea plant grows in water
from 10 to 50 feet deep, where it at
taches itself to the rocky bottom by
means of a number of small tentacles,
called “holdfasts.” The long stems
grow to a length of 150 to 200 feet,
stretching to the surface and then
growing out horizontally in a great net
work of tangled runners. They are held
on top of the water by bulbs which
grow on the stems at frequent intervals
and which are filled with air.
Harvesting is Described
To harvest the plant a boat has been
constructed with a cutting arrangement
of knives at the front. As this vessel
moves through the field, the seaweed
is cut off about 10 feet below the sur
face of the ocean, taken up by a belted
conveyor and dumped into the hold of
the harvester. A full load of 100 tons
is cut in about three hours and is suffi
cient to keep the plant working at full
capacity for the day.
New shoots spring up from the stalks
of the cut plant and the field is ready
for a new harvest in from six weeks to
three months.
The kelp is put through a number of
processes in the factory, with the result
that from 100 tons of the seaweed are
obtained two tons of potash (a valuable
fertilizer), 24 pounds of iodine, and
1400 pounds of decolorizing carbon.
This carbon, called kelpchar, is used
for filtering purposes in the removing
of impurities from various substances
and is better for this purpose than
other forms of carbon.. It sells for
$600 a ton. Each 100 tons of kelp con
tains 88 tons of water.
Moving pictures showing the Sum
merland plant and the various manu
facturing processes involved were used.
Dr. Williams Gives Paper
The paper presented by Dr. Williams
gave the results of considerable of Mb
research work here, results which di
rectly contradict the generally accept
ed text-book theory regarding the pro
perties of alcohol and the esters. His
results indicated that alcohol, usually
considered alkaline, may be of an acidic
nature, and that esters may be consid
ered as acid anhydrides. This opens up
a debatable question of a very interest
ing character with the possibility of
reversing a number of common concep
tions.
A large number of members of the
society, as well as others interested in
the subject of chemistry, attended the
: meeting. Professor R. K. Strong, head
of the department of chemistry at Reed
College, presided. The meeting was
preceded bv a dinner at the Anchorage.
Y. W. BUDGET LACKS $580
National Convention Will be Held at
Hot Springs, Arkansas April 20-27
At the meeting of the Y. W. C. A.
^finance committee Thursday afternoon
in the Bungalow, it was announced that
there is a deficiency of $580 in the
: budget. $1145 has been pledged by
members of the Y. W. and all are urged
: to get in their pledges. The budget
system was explained and various meth
ods of cutting down expenses were dis
! cussed.
A cemmittee of Katherine Watson,
Geraldine Root and Chloe Thomson
was appointed to devise some plan of
raising money to make up the def
i fieieney.
There was also a discussion of the
national Y. W. C. A. convention which
will be held April 20 to 27, at not
I Springs, Arkansas.
iTKi MIDDLETON
wm GREATEST
Artist Finest Bass-Baritone
in World Today, Says
Dr. Landsbury
SINGS TOMORROW NIGHT
Program Varied; Favorites by
Handel and Mendelssohn
on Program
“Arthur Middleton is unquestionably
considered the greatest bass-baritone
in the world today,” said John J.
Landsbury, dean of the school of mu
sic, yesterday in commenting upon the
artist who is to appear in concert in
Villard hall tomorrow evening at 8:30.
“Without doubt this will be the great
est song recital ever hold on the cam
pus. Furthermore, the program will
appeal to everyone,” the Dean added.
The program consists of a variety of
songs, and will be rendered almost
entirely in English. It includes the
following selections: “Arm, Arm, Ye
Brave,” nnd “Where’er You Walk,”
by Handel; Mendelssohn’s “Roamer
Bold,” Rossini’s “Largo A1 Facto
tum,” “Banjo'Song” and “How ’s Mv
Boy?” by Homer; a group of four
Kipling songs, — “Barrack Ballad,”
“Smuggler’s Song,” “Mother O' Mine,”
and “Danny Deever,” nnd two old Ital
ian favorites, “Lungi del Caro Bene”
and “Povero Mariner.” In addition the
accompanist, Mr. Wille, will give a
group of piano selections.
Best In Fortissimo
“No one can compare with Middleton
in fortissimo and dramatic work,”
Doan Landsbury declared, “and he has
developed a wonderful pianissimo. He
is the greatest interpreter of ‘Danny
Deever’ in the world. He has prac
tically a perfect voice, and his diction
is absolutely perfect.”
Mr. Middleton is making an exten
sive tour of the Northwest, and is com
ing to Eugene under the direction of
the Elwyn Concert bureau and at the
invitation of the Woman's League of
the University. He is at present a
member of the Metropolitan Opera
company, in which capacity he has
appeared more than 200 times in “The
Messiah,” and 150 times in “Elijah,”
as well as in a host of other well-known
oratories. Due to his work in “Elijah”
he is known from coast to coast as the
“greatest Elijah of them all.” Mr.
Middleton haB toured as soloist with
the New York, the Chicago, and the
Minneapolis symphony orchestras. He
is purely an American product, as he
has received all his training, and done
all his concert work, in this country.
He has never traveled abroad.
Oregonian Gives Praise
The Portland Oregonian, in a criti
cism of Middleton’s recital in Port
land, makes the following statement:
“About as perfect as a singer can be,
and blessed with a fine bass-baritone
voice that is skillfully placed and
trained, and with a distinctiveness in
diction that is a joy and a rest to hear,
Arthur Middleton, bass-baritone of the
(Metropolitan Opera company of New
York, appeared in concert last night
in the public auditorium.” And fur
ther—“It seemed to the audience that
Mr. Middleton never sang better in this
city. There were the same graceful
style of singing, the big, noble voice
and the strong masculine stylo in
phrasing.”
Students will be admitted to the con
'cert for $1, providing they show their
student body cards at the time of pur
j.chasing the tickets. The admission fee
for all others is $1.50. Tickets are be
ing handled through the various organi
zations on the campus, and by the Co
op, Kuykendall’s, Linn Drug Co., and
j the Morris Music House.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY TO SPEAK
Lester Humphries of Portland, Uni
ted States district attorney, will ad
j dress legal and pre-legal students of
the University at the Delta Theta Phi
chapter house, 751 Twelfth avenue
i east, on “The Courts and Law Enforce
ment.” Mr. Humphries has made long
study of this subject. The meeting will
i open at 7:45.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCED
Delta Theta Phi announces the pledg
i ing of Armand C. Fuchs of Baker.
1 " -— ..
Emerald Staff Meetng
There will be a very Important
meeting of the news staff of the
j Emerald this afternoon at 6 o’clock
in the 8hack. Every member of the
staff 1* expected to attend.
World-Famous Singer
Arthur Middleton
CONCERT SEATS RESERVED
GIRLS’ GLEE CLUB PROGRAM TO
BE IN WOMAN’S BUILDING
Ticket Sale for Saturday Evening
Entertainment Will be Carried
on Through Co-op
The ticket sale for the homo concert
of the Women’s Glee club, which will
be given at the Woman’s building next
Saturday evening, began with a good
start yesterday. All seats aro reserved
and are selling for 75 cents. Tickets
are to be had at the Co-op and at Kuy
kendall’s Drug store down town.
In past years all similar concerts
have been given at the Eugene theatre
but since the completion of the Wo
man's building with its capucious audi
torium they have been given there.
An audience of approximately 1000
people heard the concert given by the
Men’s Glee club. The down town
theatre could not have accomodated
so large a number and it is with that
knowledge in mind that the manage
ment of the Women's Glee club is
emphasizing the fact that their concert
will be given at the Woman’s building.
Director John Stark Evans foels also
that this time of year is more oppor
tune than has been the case in former
years when the home concerts of stu
dent organizations were given late in
the year when many other events were
crowding the calendar. Work on the
program is progressing rapidly and a
concert of high order is promised.
Patrons and patronesses for the Glee
Club concert will be: President and
Mrs. P. L. Campbell; Dean and Mrs.
John Straub; Dean and Mrs. Colin V.
Dyment; Dean Elizabeth Fox; Dean
John L. Landsbury; Madame Rose Me
Grew; Mr. John B. Siefert; Mrs. Anna
L. Beck; Mr. Rex Underwood; Mr. and
Mrs. John Stark Evans.
IDEALS OF CHRISTIANITY
IN JOURNALISM URGED
Understanding of Sermon on Mount
Basis of Newspaper Progress,
Says Dean Allen
The principles of the Sermon on the
Mount ns applied to actual fae,ts in
journalism were discussed by Dean Eric
W. Allen of the school of journalism
in a talk on “Opportunities for Chris
tian Service in Journalism” before the
University Christian Endeavor society
at Central Presbyterian church Sunduy
evening at 6:30,
After Christ selected his twelve dis
\ ciples he took them upart into a moun
j tain to give them instructions for their
j guidance in Christian service—what
! they were to teach and what their gen
eral attitude was to be. The purpose
, of these men the speaker said, was to
reach the public and accomplish cer
tain ends. This, said Dean Allen, is
precisely the aim of the journalist.
Thus from the standpoint of service
they should both be guided by the same
instructions in breadth and sympathy,
idealism, strength and courage, the
higher law, and spirituality.
“Progress in Journalism,” said Dean
Allpn, “must, T maintain, be in the line
of deeper understanding of what was
meant by the Sermon on theMount, und
a more skillful application of this
teaching to actual fact.”
PRESIDENT HAS GRANDSON
Sidney Elliot Henderson, Jr., is First in
Campbell Family
President and Mrs. P. L. Campbell
: have received the announcement of the
arrival of Kidney Elliot Henderson, Jr.,
who has the distinction of being the
first grandson in the Campbell family.
The young man is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Kidney Elliot Henderson (Lucia
Campbell) and was born February 12,
in southern Oklahoma where Mr. Hen
derson is interested in zinc mines.
TO AGAIN CONSIDER
Joint Session of the Order of
the “0” and Council
Members Held
SPEAKERS EXPRESS FAITH
Meeting Called to Clear up
Charges of Dissention
in Departments
At u joint mooting of tho Order of
tho “O” and representatives of tho
executive council held last night in
Dean Straub’s room in Johnson hall
Conch George M. Bohler was asked to
reconsider his decision not to be an ap
plicant for his position for tho posi
tion of coach for the ensuing year. The
request was not made by the meeting
which took no action whatsoever but
came from the various speakers who
expressed their absolute faith in Coach
Bohler and their desire that he remain
on the coaching staff.
Meet to Olear up Charges
Tho meeting wns called Into yester
day by the Order of tho “O” with the
sanction of President Campbell for the
administration nnd President Bartholo
mew of tho associated students as a
result of Bohler’s determination last
Friday not to become an applicant for
the position of basketball and baseball
coach for the next collegiate year. The
primary purpose of the meeting was
to clear up charges of lack of har
mony on tho part of the coaching
staff and the physical education depart
ment proper under Dean Bovnrd.
Executive Council Meets Thursday
It is expected that Coach Bohler will
make his final decision whether or not
to become an applicant for his present
position before the next meeting of the
executive council which convenes on
Thursday. In case Coach Bohler should
hot decide to apply for his position the
council will put machinery in motion
to securo a new coach for next year.
For in spite of the fact that at present
the salary of tho baseball and basket
ball conch is payed by the physical edu
cation department the eloction is made
by the executive council.
RECEPTION TO BE GIVEN
BY TRI DELTS FRIDAY
Miss B. Louis Fitch Hoad of Eugene
Federation of Women’s Clubs
to be Quest of Honor
Miss R. Louise Fitch, recently elected
president of the Eugene Federation of
Women 's clubs, will be guest of honor
at a formal reception to be given by the
Delta Delta Delta in the Alumni Hall,
Friday evening.
Miss Fitch is a sister-in-law of Mrs.
George Fitch, secretary to Dean Dyment.
She is a Tri Dolt alumna and was house
mother of the local chapter three yoars
ago. She was national president of the
organization during the war and worked
overseas with the Y. W. C. A. making a
survey of the war work done by the
French women. The results of her work
were published in a book, “Madame
France.”
The Eugene Federation of Women’s
clubs lias a membership of about twenty
women’s organizations. The Women’s
League of the University is now a part,
and will have a vote on all affairs af
fecting Eugeno.
Miss Fitch is a graduate of Knox
College. She has done graduate work
here, and has had one year of work at
Berkeley. She was president of the
Eugene branch of the A. C. A. last year.
SLOAN HIGH MAN IN SHOOT
Varsity Rifle Team Completes Work in
Contest Held by Telegraph
Emerald Sloan, who shot 559 shots
out of a possible 600, proved to be Ore
gori’s high-point man on the varsity
rifle team, which completed its shoot
ing in the Ninth Corps Area contest
last Saturday. The freshman and
1 sophomore tea.os had completed their
’ shooting in the early part of the week.
! Edson Bigger was the second high
: score man on the team, and Don Zim
merman fell to seventh on the list. The
team average was announced by Coach
j Knowles as 526.1. The scores from the
' other competing schools have not yet
: been received. The men in order of
rank are: E. Sloan, E. Bigger, P. La
selle, O. T. Gant, A. M. Wilhelm, H.
Bonebrake, Don Zimmerman, M. Eby,
1 0. L. Beider.
CONDON CLUB ELECTS
Condon Club announces the election
of Hally Berrv, of Junction City, to
associate membership.