Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXIII. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1922 NUMBER 101
REVENUES NOT
IN GRAVE PERIL
Public Supports Higher Education
in State; Recruiting of Preppers
Denied; $903,426 Expended Last
Year; No State Money Used in
1920 Millage Campaign.
COST IS NORMAL
Average Salaries Paid Instructors;
Professors Working Long Hours;
$286 is Cost of Instruction per
Student for Year; Results En
couraging.
Requests from students have come to
the Emerald asking for a brief discus
sion, before the students depart for
their homes, of the educational issues
which certain persons are raising in
connection with the tax reorganization
movement in the state. The following
are some of the questions raised:
Q—Is it true that education in
Oregon is facing a dangerous crisis?
A—There is need of making the is
sues clear again, but there is no reason
for panic. Higher education in Ore
gon is supported by the public and the
public has the right to discuss and
criticise the institutions and does so
at frequent intervals. It was only
twe years ago that the people voted the
present millage bills by a majority of
more than three to one.
Q—Are there indications that the
people have changed their minds about
higher education since the spring of
1920?
A—The leaders in the present attack
upon the millage bill seem to be the
same persons, largely, that honestly
opposed it from the first and worked
against it at the last election. There
is no reason for supposing Jthat the
much larger number of persons who
voted for the bill are any more vacil
lating in their views than the opponents
of public higher education. People
voted for the bills because they wanted
good institutions in which to educate
their young people and not from a sud
den impulse.
Q—Do University professors and stu
'dents travel about the state urging
high school students to attend college,
in order that the University may later
show the need of more funds to care
for a larger student body?
A—The University does not desire to
recruit its numbers. It does wish to
respond courteously and fully to the
high school senior’s annually recurring
need of information as to what are the
opportunities ahead of him which the
state offers. Of late years the Univer
sity has made a special effort to place
its facilities at the service of those
for whom it can do the most good; its
contact with the high schools has be
come largely an effort te pick out those
students whom the state can profit
most by educating and to prevent the
unfit fTom wasting time and money at
tempting a University course.
Q—Is it true that the University ex
pends $1,500,000 a year?
A—No. The total income was $903,
426. This includes $64,000 paid by the
students themselves in fees and several
other amounts. The millage bill fur
nished $831,226.
• • •
Q—Was state money spent on the
laBt millage campaign?
A—It was not. The campaign was
entirely financed by persons who re
garded it as a patriotic duty to get
the truth before the people.
Q—Does the University pay exces
sive salaries?
A—The salaries paid are somewhat
below the median line for state Uni
versities of equal grade. The Univer
sity is just holding its own in the mat
ter of keeping and getting high grade
professors. It loses some occasionally
to other states, and at other times is
able to get or keep the men it needs.
Q—Is the University slack in its de
mands upon its staff?
A—The University is upon an ef
ficient working basis as is demonstra
ted by numerous comparisons with other
institutions made by many different
judges. As to statistics it is shown
that the Oregon professor works rather
more hours per week than the average
in similar institutions; there are
slightly more students here per instruc
tor than is usual, and the per capita
cost of instruction is below the average.
Accurate records are kept of all these
matters. That the education furnished
is of high grade is demonstrated by
the remarkable records made by Ore
gon students who have gone East for
advanced work.
Q—Is it folly for the state to con
tribute toward the education of lawyers
and doctors?
A—All civilized states do this. The
only alternative would be to accept
this service from other commonwealths.
Oregon, with its startlingly original
form of government, based so largely
upon direct legislation, is in especial
need of a soundly educated bench and
bar, composed of men familiar with
the Oregon System. As to physicians,
this is not a profession of high financial
return, and the prospective doctor must
devote himself to his education until
he is nearly thirty years old. It is the
universal practice for governments, in
the interest of public health, to con
tribute toward this expense. Besides,
the medical center, which is growing
up around the Medical School, in Port
continued on page two.)
OF RESERVE BONK,
0. L MILLS IIBGES
Portland Banker Tells of
Perils Confronting
Finance System
BLOC ATTACK IS SCORED
Advance Commerce Classes
Hear Talk; Operation
is Described
Far superior to any financial system
ever before adopted in this country is
the Federal Reserve System,” said A.
L. Mills, president of the First National
Bank of Portland, in an address to the
assembly yesterday morning. “To main
tain this system,” he stated, it is nec
essary to protect it from political inter
ference and too much government bank
ing.”
Mr. Mills was for three years one of
the 12 bankers who made up the advis
ory council of the reserve board. He is
prominent in northwest financial circles,
and well known for his part in building
up the First National Bank of which
he has been president for a number of
years.
System is Described
The workings of the federal reserve
system of banking, which originated in
1914, were described by Mr. Mills, who
said, “All systems of national banking
used previous to this one failed to save
the country from the many financial
panics that have been experienced from
time to time, and so, following the last
great crisis in 1907, the federal reserve
system was worked out. The success of
such a method has already been demon
strated, and future success will be as
sured if the matter is handled as it
should b'e.”
“ A formidable attack on the system
has been made in congress by the so
called Agricultural Bloc which is de
manding that a genuine dirt farmer be
put on the board,” continued the speak
er, and it seems as if the bloc may be
successful in adding this member, which
will in no way contribute to the efficiency
of the board. This would be objection
able class legislation, for if a farmer be
on the board, why not a manufacturer, or
an exporter, or a miner!”
Active Support Heeded
The continued success of the system,
Mr. Mills. declared, depends upon the
whole-hearted protection from any po
litical influences that might possibly
enter, and the unwavering active support
by the people of the country. “The
practice of damning the Federal Re
serve Board for all the economic ills of
the country must be abandoned,” he
said, “for I can bear witness as a mem
ber of the board, that the men at the
head of the organization are striving to
the best of their ability to administer
their offices according to the law, im
partially, and for the best interests of
the people.”
Commerce Classes Addressed
At 3 o’clock Mr. Mills spoke to the
advanced classes in commerce. Federal
reserve notes, he said, are issued accord
ing to the amount of commercial paper
the member banks have on deposit in the
reserve bank, and therefore the issue
corresponds to the fluctuations in busi
ness. Each member bank places a cer
tain percent of its capital with the re
serve bank, 40 per cent of it in gold
coin, and the rest in commercial paper. J
The 40 per cent is invariable; it is never
removed from the reserve bank. The
amount of commercial paper deposited
varied according to business.”
Mr. Mills told how the bankers of
Portland saved the situation during the
panic of 1907 by issuing so-called j
“wheat notes,” which were notes with ^
a certain amount of wheat as security.
This tided them through until a ship
ment of gold coin arrived from England
two months later.
LAST OF SERIES GIVEN
Professor Sweetser Talks at Hnt on
“Salvation In the Slums”
Professor A. R. Sweetser delivered the
last of a series of religious lectures yes
terday afternoon at the Y. M. C. A. Hut.
The title of this lecture was “Salvation
in the Slums.”
He attempted to prove that religion
was a real and vital thing in every man’s
life, by showing how the lives of men and
women from the slums of our big cities
had been transformed by their conver
sion. The lecture was illustrated by
stereopticon slides, showing the faces of
some of tht great slum workers, and also
the pictures of some of the men and wo
men who have “made good” after their
acceptance of religion.
LAW CLASS WORKING
ON MOOT COURT CASES
Trial to be Held Each Week Next
Term; Damage Suit and Breach
of Promise Named
Moot court cases which are being
worked up by Professor R. Justin Mil
ler 's law class will come to trial early
next term. The incident where Wil
liam Coleman, law student, was lately
thrown out of an automobile near the
library is at present being worked into
a case for a damage suit. LeRoy An
derson is planning a civil case in which
there will be filed a breach of promise j
suit for trial. A prominent engaged
couple on the campus is expected to fare
in this. Thus far only the pin has
been planted. The announcement took ,
place last night. Next a quarrel will i
have to be arranged so that there will
be a case for trial.
The members of this class plan to j
have some very interesting cases ready
for trial starting in the second week
of next term. Thus far only civil cases
are being worked up. The criminal
cases will follow. They are expected
to create sensations when the felonies
are committed. Sororities and frater- :
nities aTe advised to keep an eye open !
for night prowlers who may have de- i
signs on some jeweled pin or gold fish
jar. A trial of these cases will be held
each week in the next quarter.
ART AWARDS ANNOUNCED
MANY PRIZES ARE OFFERED FOR
SPRING TERM WORK
American Institute Medal to be Given
Student Graduating From Course
With Best Record
Announcement has just been made at
the school of architecture and allied
arts of the prizes which will be awarded
to students in the school for work dur
ing the Spring term. The list of prizes
follows: American Institute medal for
student graduating with best record;
Oregon Chapter of the American In
stitute of Architecture prizes of $20
and $5 for the two seniors whose im
provement in the last years’ work in
architectural design is greatest; Ben
nes prizes of $20 and $5 for two jun
iors whose improvement is most marked
in the junior year; Miles prizes of $60
and $5 for the two sophomores whose
records are highest; Reed prizes of $10
and $5 to the best freshmen in design
and an additional $10 and $5 to the
best students in domestic design.
The alumni of the school will give
a prize for the best design submitted
for the first project of the spring term
among the seniors, the amount of which
will be announced later. The White
house prizes of $25, $15 and $10 each
will be awarded to the three students
presenting the best data books at the
end of the term.
For the work of the students in fine
arts a prize of $15 is offered for the
best work in life class, one of $5 for
the best in design under Professor
Schroff and another of $5 for work
in the art of the book, all of these
being offered by Mr. Bennes of Port
land.
The Holford prizes of $20 and $5 are
offered for the two best water color
sketches submitted by the opening of
the fall term and the Bennes prize of
$10 will go to best portrait study in
either bas relief or in the round. An
other of $15 will be presented to the
student completing the best original
composition in sculpture.
Students in the normal arts courses
will receive the following prizes: The
Bennes prizes of $3 each for the best
work in Design, Design II and peda
gogy. The Dean prizes of $3 each will
be given for the best work in home
decoration, weaving and pottery.
It is expected that these numerous
prizes will be an added impetus to the
work in the school next term. They
will be awarded at a final judging of I
the work of the students at the end
of the spring term.
KWAMA PLEDGES NINETEEN
Formal Public Notification Takes Place
at Regular Assembly
Nineteen Kwamas, wearing pink tu
lips, accompanied by as many other
pledges filed into Villard hall yester
day morning to assembly. The girls 1
pledged were Helen Harper, Frances
Lyons, Margaret Powers, Mildred
Marsh, Hdwina Richen, Margaret Fitz- j
simmons, Ruth Akers, Catherine Spall,
Mary Skinner, Marjory Baird, Norma
Wilson, Maud Schroeder, Wava Brown,
Marian Bhy, Cleo Base, Atha Rogers,
Dorothy LaRoche, Ruth Sensenich and
Genevieve Phelph.
Kwama is a secret sophomore honor
society whose purpose is to further the
spirit of democracy on the campus. It
was founded in 1912 by five girls.
Nineteen freshmen women are pledged
each year, and these become active
members when they are sophomores.
PLEDGING IS ANNOUNCED
Delta Theta Phi announces the pledg
ing of Bert Gooding of 8t. Paul, Ore
gon.
COUNCIL APPROVES
SIMPLE RULES FOR
STUDENT CONTROL
Code Consists of Nine Points
As Drawn up by House
Representatives
LAWS ARE MORE LENIENT
Reduction of Greater Oregon
Committee to Five Members
is Sanctioned
The now code composed of nine sim
ple rules to replace the old set of some
twenty-five laws for student govern
ment, was favorably received by the
student council at its meeting yesterday
afternoon. This code was drawn up by
the house representative committee, and
was read to the council by a representa
tive of that committee.
The council went on record as favor
ing the rules and they will now be sent
to the student affairs committee for
adoption or rejection.
The text of the code is as follows:
Quiet hours shall be maintained dur
ing the week after 7:30 p. m.
Calling hours shall close at 10:30
every evening except Friday and Satur
day, when it shall be 12 o’clock.
There may be no dancing parties
within two weeks of final examina
tions.
Evening dances shall be scheduled
with the dean of women one week be
fore the dance is given.
Girls shall be in their residence not
later than 10:30 p. m. after picnics and
canoeing parties.
All picnics must be adequately chap
eroned by some one approved by the
house chaperon or the dean of women.
Students are forbidden to shoot the
rapids at the head of the millrace in
canoes.
The students participating in hazing
in any manner or to any extent what
soever shall be liable to expulsion.
Any conduct on the part of a stu
dent to the prejudice of good order and
discipline or of a nature to reflect upon
University or student honor, shall sub
ject the student offending to dismissal,
suspension, or to such other disciplinary
measures as may be imposed by the stu
dent council.
Another plan sanctioned by the coun
cil last evening was that of cutting the
Greater Oregon Committee from 80
members to five members; those five
members to choose speakers to visit
the high schools throughout the state
and speak before the student body.
Formerly, 40 students and 40 alumni
have composed this committee, the com
mitteemen themselves making the ad
dresses. This method has proved un
satisfactory and inefficient. The new
plan will tend to secure only the best
speakers, who will explain the Univer
sity system to the preppers.
Another plan which was favorably
received had to do with giving pub
licity to the various departments of
the University during and previous to
Junior Week-end. The plan as sub
mitted was during the two weeks im
mediately before Junior Week-end, to
devote a certain column in the Emerald
each day to this publicity, and to have
a different department written up each
day.
MONEY IS NOT SOLICITED
Contributions to European Friendship
Fund to be Voluntary
The movement among the freshmen
women to got money for the European
friendship fund is not a drive, and the
money is not being solicited, according
to an investigation conducted by the
chairman of the student drive com
mittee, Raymond Lawrence.
The original plan of collecting the
money did not include solicitation, but
some of the members of the committee
became over-zealous. The idea upon
which the movement was supposed to
be carried on was that the contribu
tions should be absolutely voluntary.
Miss Josephine Evans, chairman of the
freshman committee, declared that the
contributions, henceforth, would not be
solicited and no one would in any way
be forced to give money to this fund.
FLANS FOR HIKE DISCUSSED
A meeting of the California club
was held last night at which tentative
plans were discussed for a hike to be
given for the members of the club dur
ing the spring vacation. Very few of
the members will return to their homes
during the vacation, as the distance is
too great. The meeting was a strictly
business one.
SPRING REGISTRATION
MAY BE FINISHED NOW
Advisers May Grant Conferences or
Ask Students to Walt Until
After Examinations
With the consent of the faculty ad
visers, registration for the spring term
can now be completed, according to the
announcement given out by the regist
rar. The business office will accept
fees and the registrar's office will
accept study cards for filing any time
during the remainder of the term.
In the absence of faculty legislation
on the subject there has been no time
formally set aside for pre-registration
for the spring term and advisors are
privileged, if they so desire, to grant
conferences with students nnd complete
registration as soon as possible. Ad
visers who, because of the proximity of
examinations, find themselves too busy
to carry on pre-registration may ask
students to wait until the official day
of spring term registration which is
Monday, April 3.
Classes will begin Tuesday, April 4,
and study cards must be filed with the
registrar on or. beforo Wednesday,
April 5. After that time a late regis
tration fee of $1 and additional 25
cents for each day must be paid.
K«PPII SIGS LEAO sports
GOLF PROPOSED FOR ADDITIONAL
INTRAMURAL CONTESTS
Trophy Not Yet Selected For Winners;
to be Plaque or Three
Year Oup
Kappa Sigma leads in the all-year
doughnut standings at present with 11
points, while Sigma (’hi, Oregon Club,
and Kappa Theta Chi are tied for sec
ond with 1(5 points each. Sigma Alpha
Epsilon stands third with 20 points.
Only four sports have been played off
so far, theso being basketball, wrestling,
boxing, and the physical ability tests.
Handball is in progress at present but
the finals will not bo run off until after
the Bpring holidays in order that the
games will not interfere with examina
tion study. The singles in handball
have been finished, Sigma Chi taking
first and Kappa Sigma second. The
scores will not be tabulated until the
doubles are played off, as they nro to
be averaged with the results of the
singles.
Addition of Gotf Proposed
There is a great deal of discussion
going on at prosent as to the advisability
of adding golf to the doughnut schedule.
Campus opinion seems against the sport,'
for although it is good exorcise, there is
no varsity team in this event, and one
of the principal aims of doughnut sports
is to bring out men who may develop
into varsity material, say officials of
the school of physical education. An
other argument is that the only links
adequate for the matches are those of
the Country club which are quite a dis
tance from the ciunpus. If doughnut
golf were added to the all-year schedule
it would soon be necessar) f( i tb* TIrr
versity to construct some sort jf l>
course nearer the campus, and it is a
question whether the pleasure the few
who play golf would get from the links
would repay the University for the ex
pense of constructing such a course.
Several Teams Withdrawn
The advisability of expanding the all
year schedule to contain too many sports
is ulso under discussion. If too many
sports are put into the schedule for the
year most of the organizations will not
be able to support teams in some of
them and will drop out. Several of the
teams have withdrawn for this reason,
and the more teams that drop out the
less successful the plans will be.
There has been considerable complaint
from students and officials of tho school
in regard to tho method of scoring the I
events, for every sport by the present
system counts the same number of
points. This is not a fair basis for
scoring, some of the coaches think, for
the reason that track, baseball, and has
ketball are a great deal more important
as games, and also take a great deal
more time than handball or tennis would.
Criticise 8coring System
Another criticism is that tennis, hand
ball, and swimming teams can be made
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CAMPA SHOPPE TO EXPAND
Combined Dance and Banquet Hall to
be Added Next Fall
Plans for the construction of au ad
dition to the Campa Shoppe in which
banquets and dances can be held have
been completed by Herschel Taylor.
Construction work on the room, which
will adjoin the present location will
start this summer tfnd will be completed
by the time college opens next year.
Hardwood floors and all facilities for
either small parties or large banquets
will be installed. The room will be
30 by 60 feet in size and will be so ar
ranged that by means of sliding doors
| it can be made into three smaller rooms
for private dinners.
mum TELLS
CAMPUS Of LESSON
CLEANED FROM WAO
Values Wrong Says British
Educator in Talk at
Villard Hall
SPEAKER VOICES OPTIMISM
Many Points Are Brought Out;
Men Who Fought Looked
to in Future
Gomes now out of the old world
where urose all tho ills which stalk
abroad today, four years after the groat
war, a Britisher, a small man with a
broad forehead, who talks, as Britishers
on tours in America are wont to do, of
many things.
From a keenminded, scholarly Briton,
citizen of the world empire to which
means tho most perhaps this great world
flux, one close to that government,
this Oregon campus has heard much
that is new, strange and startling
and has been given a glimpse into
tho European attitude.
“The real lesson of the war is that
our civilization has been sick. Our
values are wrong; we are not so much
civilized as we thought we were. We
have been unduly materialistic. And
tho real lessons will not manifest them
selves until the next generation.”
Dr. Alfred E. Zimmern thinks that,
said that last might in a talk in Vil
lard on “The World After the War,”
a talk in which, on a friendly chatty
basis, ho told tho University community
more of what ho cnme here to tell. And
through all he said, through tho pic
tured background of tangled situations,
deadlocks, racial cross pulls, national
ambitions, commercial rivalries, in
which recent well-informed speakers
brought to Oregon have seen little but
an ominous presage of disaster to come,
showed a spark of leaping optimism.
Points Brought Out
Flashing in the body of his suggestive
talk were the following, told in stac
cato fashion;
The greatest treasures we've got
In Europe are the men who fought in
the war. When the reins in Europe
are seized by these men who know
the deeper values of life great things
will come about.
We in Europe have suffered in
wealth and in numbers but we have
more souls.
The big achievement of the Wash
ington conference was not that it
sunk so many battleships into the
sea but that it devised a better way
to use what is left.
Cooperation in armaments must
sooner or later be extended to com
modities which underlie armaments
and civilisation itself.
I believe that we’ve got to rise
to the conception of trusteeship for
raw materials and that If we don’t
begin to realize the International
significance of these raw materials,
the grievances of those countries
which do not have access to
them, and the tinder for international
conflagration contained in them, we
may have another war before we
know it.
The Genoa conference comes about
three years lata and its ineffective
ness will be In proportion to its late
ness.
Russia has walked Into the night,
she has walked Into Asia; she doesn’t
count.
We now have in Europe all the
elements of a real cooperative or
ganization. We are going to have
a lot of regional pacts along the line
of the Pacific pacts.
You have sold your child (the
fourteen points) but we have taken
It In. I hope that It has not taken
us In. We still take them seriously
because we believe In keeping our
word.
The most likely causes of war are
not racial, religious or national, thinks
Dr. Zimmern but commercial struggles.
“Oil without which our navies cannot
move” is in the hands of two great
companies representing two great
powers he said. A trusteeship for raw
materials he stressed. In the League
of Nations he sees a great hope. 8ome
of its functions will always be reg
ional in Europe; some will have to do
with trade and there he sights an op
j port unity for a worldwide organiza
tion to deal with “that terribly dis
I puted question. For purposes of
economic development there should be
1 a world wide organization and the
quicker the United 8tates is associated
with it the better. Within these next
few years there must take place an
international economic conference.”
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(Continued on page three)