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VOLUME XXIV.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1922
NUMBER 55
This Week
Fire Kills Seven
Two Eugenlaas Drown
Ireland Is Free State
Fire Razes Astoria
Harding Gives Message
S. F.-C. F. Wrangle on
Hews Briefs of Interest
Eugene was saddened this week by
two tragic events. On Wednesday, a
dwelling at 1381 Eighth avenue west
jointly occupied by Iver Johnson and
family, and James Church and family,
caught fire when Mrs. Johnson cast
gasoline on the flames of a heating
stove, and four members of the Church
family, and three of the Johnson fam
ily are dead as a result. Mrs. John
son mistook the gasoline for kerosene,
and the explosion that ensued wrecked
the small frame house, which immedi
ately became a seething furnace, crem
ating the bodies of four children. Two
other children, and Mrs. Johnson died
later as the result of burds.
• • *
As a result of the capsizing of their
boat in the swoolen Willamette river
yesterday morning, G. D. Linn, father
of Marion Linn, a member of the
senior class, who is proprietor of the
Eugene Sand and Gravel company,
and Henry Nestle, employee of the
concern, were drowned. Although a
crew was put on immediately to drag
the river for the bodies, they had not
been recovered and the search is still
continued. The fatal accident oc
cured about eight o ’clock while the
two men were attempting to string
a cable across the stream opposite the
gravel plant.
• • *
Ireland, after many centuries of En
glish rule, has been granted standing
a3 a free state, with Timothy Healy
as its first Lieutenant governor. It
now has the same ranking as Canada,
with the only connecting link to Brit
ain being the Lieutenant Governor.
The state will now make its own laws,
enforce them, and it is hoped, obey
them. The little Isle is far from peace
ful, however, for the Republicans are
now irreconcilable, and will be content
with nothing less than absolute inde
pendence. So factional warfare still
continues, and likely will for some
time to come.
• • •
Its heart eaten out by flames
which raged through it for hours Fri
day, Astoria took time last night to
compute its losses at $12,000,000, which
city officials estimate to be the toll
of the blaze which swept away twenty
four blocks of the city ’s business dis
trict, destroying every department
store, hotel, bank and scores of small
business establishments.
Two thousand people were made
homeless. The city was cut off with
out banking facilities. No food was
obtainable except from a central dis
tributing station established by a
swiftly organized committee of 50
business men, who had been at work
for hours. Relief arrived hourly by
train and automobile from Portland ind
other points. At nightfall the situa
tion was in hand. Beds had been pro
vided for all without them and hot
meals were served at several stations.
About 30 students here are from As
toria. Many have gone to the scene
of the disaster, and others expect to
(Continuei on page two.)
MUNLY, ’IB. TELLS
OF EUROPE'S NEEDS
Oregon Graduate Back After
Three and Half Years
With the American Forces
ARMY CAREER IS ENVIABLE
France is Improving Rapidly
Says Captain; People Com
ing Back to Their Homes
“The conditions in the devastated
areas of France are being rapidly im
proved,” declared Captain William C.
Miinley, medical corps, who was gradu
ated with the highest honors from the
U. of O. Medical school in 1916 and who
recently returned to Portland after
spending over three and one-half years
overseas with the U. S. forces. “This
is due mainly to the fact that the
French people are returning to their
native land from foreign countries and
helping in the work.
“Arrangements are now being made
whereby Hugo Stinnes, the great Ger
man financier, will use some of his
resource^ in rebuilding France,” said
Munly, who found the employment sit
uation in France and Belgium in fine
condition with everyone working. There
is no unemployment in Germany; but
due to the collapse of the German mark,
persons on small salaries fear starva
tion from day to day.
“The.working class are in fair con
dition,” continued the captain. “Those
who are suffering the most are the in
telligent—the salaried persons, college
professors and others receiving meager
salaries.”
Has Enviable uareer
Captain Munly, although just past
thirty, has had an enviable career.
Upon being commissioned in the army
in October, 1917, he was sent to Fort
Oglethorpe, Georgia, where he remain
ed until December, 1918. During the
last six months he was camp surgeon.
Also while there he was picked out'
from a group of four thousand medical
officers for an examination by the
National Board of Medical Examiners,
which he passed with the highest stand
ing ever recorded.
Leaving there he was stationed for a
short time at Letterman Hospital in
San Francisco. In June, 1919, he was
sent to Brest, France, and then to Is
Sur-Tille, near Dijon, where he had
charge of the repatriation of more than
four thousand German prisoners. After
that he went on a toun. of inspection
with the West Point cadets and visited
every sector and all of the large camps
which were occupied by the American
forces in France.
Travels Over Europe
In October, 1919, he was transferred
to Coblenz as chief of the mbdical
service at the base hospital, wher? he
was granted various ’eaves jf absence,
on which occasions he visited practical
ly all of Europe -nd tlii north of Afri
ca. Conditions Austria he found
paiticularly deplorable. ‘‘This is par
ticularly true of the professional class,
the physicians, lawvers and professors.
The Austrian kronen (which at par is
equivalent to nearly twenty-five cents)
is nearly valueless,” he declared. “One
can get about one million kronen for
three American dollars. A person can
not carry enough kronen on him at one
time to pay for one night’s lodging in
a first class hotel.”
Captain Munly met a number of Ore
(Continued on pngu three.)
Exams Week and Half Away
* * * * * * * * *
Home Thoughts Bring Thrill
With the fall term of the University
cnrrieulum nearly over, and exams only
a week and a half in the offing, many
of the University students will soon
be “hittin’ it for home.” And this
mentions the freshmen more especially
than any one else. Two weeks at home,
before the grind of the rest of the year
begins seems like fairyland to many
a student in his first year here.
When the train pulls into the old
station, and he swings off the steps,
and trots off up the man street of the
“burg” or sedately boards the street
car with—Heights, or—Avenue on it,
if he lives in the city, his heart will be
gin to palpitate as he rounds the cor
ner, the old familiar corner, near where
“mother” and “father,” or “ma” and
“pa "live.
He will have just a touch of the air
approp’ate to a college man, and more
than likely the side of his black travel
ing bag, or the brown leather of his
heirloom suitcase will present an im
posing green and yellow Oregon pen
nant, which he bought at the Co-op or
the University -drug store, just before
leaving the campus.
• • •
Much depends upon the man himself,
whether his first three months in the
University have changed him consider
ably in the eyes of his family or not.
If there be a sister or sisters in the
family, they will spy it at once, and tell
the world about it. He grouches: “Aw
go on, Susy, don’t be silly. Aw fer
cat’s sake, be quiet! Say ma, didja see
my new hatf What d’ya think of itt
Pretty catty, not”
And mother’s quiet eyes "watch won
deringly. He is in the second stage of
Shakespeare’s table, but it seems more
lik the fiftieth stage to mother. He
just seems to acquire one. fad after
another (this time it’s what Susy calls
a “Cake-eater hat" and a sort of gen
eral swagger) and yet underneath all
of her boy, mother can see the man
(Continned on pag« two.)
Ye Co-eds, Heed
Advice; Do Not
Wed a Tightwad!
Orange, N. J., Dec. 9.—There is dan
ger in marrying a tightwad, the Eev.
Sayre Miller, pastor of the Washington
Street Baptist church, here, has warn
ed the girls of his congregation.
The minister then specified two kinds
of tightwads, the slot machine variety
and the cash register species. The
first hands over dollars under exas
perating protest, while the other doles
out one large sum and nothing for the
longest time.
“The wife of the slot machine hus
band,” Rev. Miller said, “becomes the
slot machine. He drops a coin in and
gets a scant sup of provisions for im
mediate use. Six months after he says
to her, ‘With all my earthly goods I
thee endow,’ she is compelled to use di
plomacy to get 70 cents for the ice
man.
“When the wife of the cash register
husband asks for more he says, ‘What
did you do with the $10 I gave you the
other day?’ He has a vivid memory of
the amount, but a woderful forgetful
ness of the interval.
“Under no circumstances should a
young man get married unless he knows
how to play the game of give and take.
“If I were a wife and my husband
pushed aside a dish I had prepared for
him I’d be tempted to create a Charlie
Chaplin scene by dumping the dish on
his head.
“I believe" every^man ought to be
compelled to Spend one day a month
doing the home tasks of his wife. He
would swear by noon that some Joshua
had caused the sun to stand still.”
AURORA UNDERWOOD TO
PLAY m ‘POP’ CONCERT
Favorite Musicians Will Give
Selections from Chopin
Aurora Underwood, instructor in pi
ano at the school of music, is to make
her first public appearance since her
return from New York, at the “pop”
concert which is being given by the
University Orchestra, Thursday, De
cember 14.
Mrs. Underwood was graduated from
the University with the class of 1921
and immediately afterwards went to
New York where she studied with Ethel
Newcomb and Edwin Hughes. Both
Miss Newcombe and Mr. Hughes were
students of Leschetizky, and for a time
Mr. Hughes was hi sassistant^. Before
leaving New York Mrs. Underwood
gave a recital in Mr. Hughes’ studio,
choosing things written by Chopin,
Schumann and Beethoven for her pro
gram, besides other classical, romantic
and modern compositions.
Mrs. Underwood has always been a
great favorite among campus music lov
ers because of the dash and bril
liance of her playing. She has very
fine control of light and shade tones,
and the characteristic full, round tones
give her playing a sureness that is
delightful. Tor her part of the pro
gram Mrs. Underwood has chosen a
Chopin group—waltz in A flat, Noc
turne in B flat, and his Ballad in A flat.
One “pop” concert is given by the
orchestra each term, and admission of
25 cents is charged, which goes to the
credit of the orchestra in the student
fund. This money is used to purchase
instruments and to partially defray the
general expenses of the orchestra. Bex
Underwood, director of the orchestra,
is arranging the programs so that each
concert will last only an hour, giving
in each' compositions which represent
the best composers of the classical, mod
ern and romantic schpolB of music.
The concert will be given in Villard
at 8 o’clock and the following program
will be presented:
Overture: Orpheus in the Underworld
. Offenbach
Ballet Suite .Bameau-Mottl
1. Minuet
2. Musette
3. Tambourin
Orchestra
Chopin Group:
’ Waltz in A flat
Nocturne in B flat
Ballade in A flat
Aurora Underwood
Hungarian Dances Numbers 5 and 6
..... Brahms
Orchestra
ARIZONA GIRLS GET HARSH
PENALTY POR VIOLATING CODE
University of Arizona, Dec. 5.—Ten
freshman girls who have broken the
penal code imposed by the sophomore
girls of the University of Arizona, were
punished by being forced to wear large
bright green pasteboard earrings, an
extreme surplus of rouge, and large pla
cards bearing in distinct lettering the
words, “I am an ignorant frosh.” Not
only did the girls have to wear these
all day but they were required to attend
assembly in a body where, as their
names were called out, they had to rise.
PHI KAPPA PSI IS
GDANTEDTOLOCAL
Kappa Theta Chi Has Charter
After Four Years of Work;
36 Actives Will Be Initiated
CHAPTER 49th OF SOCIETY
Formal Ceremony to be Held
on Founder’s Day of The
Organization, February 19
A chapter of Phi Kappa Psi, na
tional fraternity, has been granted to
Kappa Theta Chi, local men’s organi
zation, according to word received on
the campus yesterday. Installation is
planned for February 19, which is the
annual Founders’ Day of the fraternity.
When the local fraternity is installed
as Phi Kappa Psi it will be the four
teenth national mens’ fraternity to be
established on the Oregon campus.
There are twelve- national womens ’
organizations. The last mens’ organi
zation to be installed was Chi Psi, in
1921, and the last womens’ group to
be installed was Alpha Xi Delta, last
May.
Phi Kappa Psi has chapters at the
University of California, Stanford Uni
versity, and the University of Wash
ington on the Pacific coast. The Ore
gon chapter will be the 49th chapter
of the fraternity, when it is installed
in February. Phi Kappa Psi was
founded at Jefferson College, in Penn
sylvania, on February 19, 1852 and has
chapters in many of the eastern col
leges. Extension in the Middle West
and Pacific coast has been limited.
Was First Owl Club
The Kappa Theta Chi fraternity was
organized as the Owl Club on January
5, 1919 by a group of men then living
'in Friendly hall. The following fall
they occupied the house at the corner
of 11th and Mill streets, which they
retained until the present school year.
The organization is now housed in a
building of its own at 729 11 Ave. E.,
which was purchased last spring from
F. L. Chambers.
At the present time there are 36
active members of the chapter, who
will form yie nucleus of the new or
ganization. The total membership of
the chapter is approximately 60, all
of which will be initiated into the na
tional organization, according to the
plans which have been formulated.
Kappa Theta Chi now has 14 pledges,
who will be taken into the local or
ganization before the national frater
nity is installed.
Among the alumni of the organiza
tion are Lindsay McArthur and Roy
Davidson, ’20, Don Davis, Jacob Jacob
son, Clares Powell, Stanley Evans, Lee
Summerville, Lyman Meador, Stanley
Lowden, Merritt Whitten, William
Porter, ’21, and James Say, John Dier
dorff, and Alexander Brown, ’22.
Elected in Cleveland
! At the national convention of Phi
Kappa Psi last June Kappa Theta Chi
was given an accredited rating and the
action which is announced today was
taken by the executive council of the
fraternity at a meeting in Cleveland,
Ohio. Members of the Portland Alum
ni association of Phi Kappa Psi and
of the coast chapters of the fraternity
have been particularly instrumental in
bringing it to Oregon.
Dr. Frank Rutter, formerly of the
school of business administration, and
now on the faculty at Dartmouth, is
a member of Kappa Theta Chi.
It is expected that several hundred
alumni of Phi Kappa Psi and members
of coast chapters will attend the instal
lation ceremonies in February.
“VANITY, VANITY,” BUT—
NOT ALL VANITY, SAID
Public Policing of Pair Countenance
Is Sign of Misplaced Vanity
Says Dean of Women
Berkeley, Dec. 9.—“Vanity is the re
sponsibility of every college woman,”
said Dr. Ruby Cunningham of the hy
giene department of the University of
California. “The trouble with most
girls is that they have too little vanity
—not too much.”
A littlb vanity is a dangerous thing
to be without. To look her best, be
at her best, and make the most of
: the natural gifts she possesses is the
j duty of every woman, according to Dr.
| Cunningham.
“This does not mean wearing cast
off tea or dinner gowns to college, for
that is not vanity. To be clean and ap
propriately dressed is the most essential
thing to being sensibly vain. I do not
| care if my nose is shining; but if a
woman does it is perfectly all right to
powder it, providing one is vain en
ough to do it in the right place at the
right time. Those who complete their
make-up in public are not vain. They
■ would not do this, if they were.”
Fellow Students
Brand the Face
Of Willie Sykes
Los Angeles, Bee. 9.—(P. I. P. A.)—
As n frame-up again the University
of Southern California and to “get ev
en” with him, William Sykes an ex-ser
vice man attending the University of
California Southern Branch, in a writ
ten statement, placed the entire blame
fof the branding initials “U. S. C.” on
his forehead about six weeks ago to
his fellow students at the branch.
“I immediately informed Mr. Book
man,” said Sykes, “that I did not be
lieve it was U. S. C. students who
branded my face with iodine, but he
told me to keep the thing quiet. I offer
my sincere apologies to the students of
U. S. C. for the part I played in caus
ing the irreparable damage to an inno
cent victim, the Trojan institution.”
Sykes said the ill-feeling against him
was caused by not helping guard the
wood pile one Thursday evening.
“The branding of Sykes by three as
sailants, who gagged and tied him to
the bed, created an acute situation be
tween the two student bodies. The
newspapers carried sensational. stories
about the use of nitric acid in burning
the initials, when iodine was used, and
the statements given out by Beckman,
executive secretary of the southern
branch, tended toward sensationalism
and the indictment of U. S. C. for the
crime in the eyes of the public,”
stated Judge Bowen, in charge of the
investigation and legal advisor for the
University of Southern California.
OAY-TMAYNESS VICE
OF COLLEGE GENERATION
Family and Church do Not Be
gin to Function Properly
Columbia University, Dec. 9.—“The
spirit and temper of journalism, which
may perhaps be fairly described as
day-to-dayness, is the besetting vice of
the present day generation,” said Dr.
Nicholas Murray Butler in the course
of his annual report as president of
Columbia University made public re
cently.
“This spirit and temper,” Dr. Butler
continued, “have notably invaded Am
erican education to its grave undoing,”
He pointed out the purpose of educa
tion as making clear the distinction
between mere newness and real value.
“An education,” he said, “which does
not understand this fact, or an educa
tion which neglects to emphasize and
to interpret this fact is little, if any,
better than no education at all.”
Dr. Butler also pointed out that
school, family and church all must co
operate to produce a rounded educa
tion in the individual, and said:
“If family and church did their full
duty or anything approaching it, many
of the severe criticisms now brought
against schools and colleges would dis
appear.”
“Beferjjng to the inevitable tenden
cy of the elective system to confine a
student's interests to his chosen spe
cialty, Dr. Butler spoke of the success
of a broadennig cultural course institu
ted at Columbia some time ago and
known as an “introduction to contem
porary civilization.” The faculty is
now going a stop farther, he said, and
is preparing to introduce a second
course of general character, an “intro
duction to modern science.”
COLLEGE NO MATRIMONIAL
BUREAU, ASSERTS PREXY
Dr. Philblad Says Young Things of
Both Sexes Should Hie Them
selves to Labor
Lindaborg, Kan., Dec. 2.—(I. N. 8.)
—Bethany college is not a lovers’ para
dise, nor is it a matrimonial bureau,
and gay voung Lotharios will have to
hie themselves to some region other
than around classrooms and dormitories
to pour forth their sentiments to beau
tiful co-eds.
This was the gist of an admonition
to students of the university during
chapel services recently by President
Ernst Phlblad.
A short time later Dr. Pihlblad an
nounced: “We will sing song No. 24.”
One glance at No. 24, and then: “No,
we’ll sing the Doxology.”
Here are the first two lines of No.
24.
“Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love!”
Dr. Philblad had previously remarked
that young men and women of the col
lege were spending too much time in
each other’s company and not enough
with their books.
'SIN DIEGO CONTEST
CLOSED TO OREGON
Permission for Webfooters
to Play West1 Virginia is
Refused b y Conference
SEASON ONE OF SUCCESS
Many Obstacles Overcome by
Coaches in Turning Out
Victorious Team This Year
San Diego, Calif., Dec. 9.—(Spec
ial to Sunday Emerald)—The Pacif
ic Coast Conference meeting at
Seattle today, voted down the pro
position to allow the West Virginia
Oregon game, and immediately
wired this decision to the committee
in San Diego. Gonzaga will take
Oregon’s place, having established
an enviable record by losing only
one collegiate game during the pres
ent season, that to W. 8. C., 10-7.
By EP HOYT
Old King Football, buried decently
and with due and fitting obsequies on
the Oregon campus, following the con
ference decision to let the Trojans play
Penn State New Year’s raised his in
domitable old head from out the grave
for a day or two at the prospect of a
game with the undefeated West Vir
ginia eleven. Certainly it’s true that
a game between Oregon and West Vir
ginia would have been of far more
interest than either of the two games
now scheduled with eastern teams.
• • •
But the Pacific Coast conference sit
ting in state at Seattle decreed other
wise and Oregon will not play West
Virginia or anybody else. Just how the
Coast conference reconciles its refusal
to Oregon and what amounted to per
mission for Stanford to do the same
thing with PittBburg as an opponent
is hard indeed to figure.
The eleven with its headquarters at
Morgantown has a wonderful record
sf achievement for the season just
passed. Ten games were played by the
Mountainers, nine of them were won
by substantial scores while one 12-12
tie was played with Washington and
Lee. —
• • •
Everything considered, the Webfoot
football season may be considered one
of real .achievement, a credit to the
ability of the Oregon coaching staff.
Throughout the season the team was
hampered by serious injuries to star
players. In fact Oregon went into the
season with two of her ablest men out
of the game, Prink Gallison and Cap
tain Archie Shields. Starting with a
nucleus of two the injured list rapidly
grew throughout as the big gameB drew
nigh and when Callison and Shields
found themselves really able to do their
stuff others whom the success of the
team depended upon were out of com
mission.
. • • •
Practically every member of the
squad was out at some time during the
season and they were several whose
injuries were so severe that they were
lost to the team for the year, notably
Rud Brown, and Chuck Parsons, who
was hit in the kidneys during the Wil
lamette game, Troy McCraw, who had
his knee badly twisted against the
Methodists, and Dutch Gram who
suffered a severe injury to his knee in
scrimmage and was lost to the squad.
Some great football players pass on
this year, Prink Callison, Tiny Shields,
Rud Brown, and George King. All
four of them have been mentioned for
places on mythical all coast elevens
by coast sport critics and deserve every
bit of the praise they have won for
themselves. There is however a player
in the Oregon line, Floyd Shields who
may not be back next year, whom all
sport writers have overlooked in pick
ing their elevens, who is one of the
best and most consistent linemen ever
developed at Oregon. In speaking of
the work of Floyd Shields for the two
years he has played on the Oregon var
sity Bart Spellman characterized him
as the greatest guard developed at
Oregon since 1913 which date repre
sents Spellman’s first knowledge of
Oregon football.
FOUR OREGON MEN HONORED
BY WHITMAN SPORTS WRITER
The Whitman College Daily, in nam
ing their choices for the mythical All
Northwest football eleven place four
Oregon men on the team. They are,
Callison, “Tiny" Shields, Hal Chap
man, and George King.