\ Oregon Daily Emerald VOLUME XXIV. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY. JANUARY 12, 1923 NUMBER 63 WORLD NEEDS AID OF STMT SAYS J. STITT WILSON These Are Most Tragic Hours Known to Christian Age; Alertness Demanded MORAL POWER IS NEEDED Universities Must Produce Men With Clean Hearts to Solve Problems * It is of fundamental importance that the present generation of college-train ed men and women should be associated with the great issues, perplexities and problems which oppress the heart of mankind during the present generation if their education is to be an advantage rather than a menace to civilized so ciety, declared J. Stitt Wilson, nation ally known student of world problems, in his address at the first assembly of the term yesterday. “The world today is passing through one of the most crucial and critical and perhaps tragic hours it has known in the Christian centuries,” said Mr. Wil son, “and it is in this situation that the lives of most of us will be lived. If you students are only consciona of the days in which you live, you will be of great value to the world in its present race of education against cat astrophe.” College People Leaders According to Mr. Wilson, 73 per cent of the entire leadership of the world is college-trained, and it is for this reason that the message of world needs and social problems is carried to the students of the country in an effort to rouse them to a fulf realization of their responsibilities to society and eliciting their interest and consecration in meet ing and sqjving the perplexities of the human race during this crucial period. The student group now in college will be forced to meet with the most ser ious situation that has confronted col lege students in a hundred years, Mr. Wilson believes. It is because college students are too often unfamiliar with the outstanding characters and the transcending events of their own times that they are unable to contribute definitely to the cause of progress, said the speaker. World Faces Four Problems There are four great problems con fronting the peoples of the world at the present time, according to Mr. Wil son. The first of these is the emergence of the races of the East from their for mer state of outcast and despised mass es and the vital parts they are play ing in the affairs of the world. China upon which not half a century ago the white races looked with a certain poor ly concealed disdain, is possessed of the strongest physical background in the world, the speaker said, and the four hundred million people who comprise this great nation of the far east must be reckoned with in the settling of world affairs. This cannot be done ex cept on the plane of real understanding and comprehension. Chinese students have captured the honors in the uni- j versities of Europe and the United as heathen and pagan. There is India with its three hun dred millions of Indians who “are built for thought,” and the average educated j incorrectly called Hindu, according to; Mr. Wilson, could tie knots in the aver (Continued on page three.) 20 NEW STUDENTS ARE FRATERNITY PLEDGES Seven Men’s Houses, Three Women’s Groups, Announce Additions to Membership Although a complete list of the pledges of the various fraternities and sororities will not be in until the end of the week, the list to date includes the pledging of fifteen men by seven fraternities and three women by three sororities. As is customary at the be ginning of the winter term, not a great deal of interest was manifest in the pledging, due in part to the lack of a definite rush week and pledge day, and also because of the small number of students who entered the University at this time of the year. The list follows: Sigma Nu—Byron Wallace, Astoria. Sigma Chi—M. M. Frost, Portland; Ernest Stoddard, Baker. Chi Psi—Clarence Smith, Portland; Lester Lomax, Portland. Delta Tau Delta—Charles A. Kilgore, Canby. Kappa Sigma—William Ashby, Sal em; Elmer Lewis, Freewater; Thomas Robertson, Salem; Mingus Aitken, Ash land. Phi Delta Theta—Walter Carrington, San Diego; Elvin Hodges, Tacoma; George Henkle, San Diego; Walter Mal colm, Portland. Kappa Delta Phi—Charles Calistro, Portland. Kappa Theta Chi—Maurice Warnock, Silverton. The women’s fraternities: Alpha Phi—Margaret Vincent, Port land. Delta Delta Delta—Katherine Kerns, Portland. Delta Zeta—Helen Dickey, Eugene. Alpha Chi Omega—Anna Vogle. CONFERENCE SCHEDULED FDR FEB. 2,3, ON CAMPUS Plans Made for Next Meeting of Prepper Leaders Much constructive work along the lines of high school student administra tion and editorial policy is expected to be accomplished at the coming conven tion of the Oregon State Association of High School Student Body Presidents and Secretaries, and the Oregon High School Press association, which will meet here February 2 and 3, according to John MacGregor, president of the Associated Students of- the University. In addition to the plans outlined for the regular working sessions of the two conventions, it is planned to take time during their stay in which to show the visitors about the campus, and to entertain them by the customary stu dent show, this time to be “A College ISlight,” and a tea given by the Wo men’s League of the University at which they will be the guests of honor. Many smaller entertainments will probably be given for them by the var ious organizations on the University campus. A committee of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalistic fraternity, is arranging jointly with the school of journalism for the entertainment of the members of the press association. The school of journalism and Sigma Delta Chi will act jointly as hosts to the con vention. The two conventions will open on Friday morning with a joint meeting, at which representative student and faculty members will address the visit ors. The two conventions will then adjourn to meet’ separately for the remainder of the morning. Sessions will occupy the greater part of the af ternoon, according to the tentative pro gram already laid out, and the visit (Continued on page two.) TwoJStudents Arrive in Eugene ~After Strenuous Five Day Trip Five days was the time required by George McIntyre, manager of the 1922 Oregana, and Claire Shumate, freshman in the University, to cover the 135 miles between Bandon and Eugene. The two men, who arrived here Wednesday eve ning told of their trip wearily, for besides riding on a passenger train, a work train, a relief train, in the cab of a locomotive, and on a Ford jitney, they passed the ties for 52 miles. They left Bandon Saturday morning. At Reedsport the train was reversed due to a wreck having tied up the road. That evening the two travelers found themselves at Marshfield. They were forced fo stay there until Monday morn ing when they tried their luck on a work train leaving north. At Canary a tunnel had caved in. A walk of six miles ,'ver the hills and the undaunted men arrived early Tuesday morning at Cushman where the warmth of a hissing engine stand ing on the track enabled them to be comfortable till the dawn. Friendly trainmen allowed the two to ride in the cab to Beck where they left the locomotive and pushed on afoot. A lift on the relief train to the wreck just outside of Mapleton and once more they pushed on. Shumate says the en gine hit a large stone and leaped down the hill, landing there on its back. Only the tops of the driving wheels showed above the flood waters. At noon Wednesday the two struck Noti about 18 miles from Eugene. There a car was hired and the remainder of the way was traversed without further trouble other than the rough riding over mucky roads in the “tin limousine.” Shumate was in the midst of an ad miring group of “brothers” reciting the tale of hardships and his good fortune in arriving during registration when a fellow Bandonite appeared stating he had just made town. This was two hours after Shumate’s appearance. “When did you leave Bandon?” the newcomer was asked. “This morning,” he announced dis gustedly. “That sure was a long trip. Almost ten hours. How long did it take you, Shumate!” But the answer is unprintable. MEMBERSHIP IN SIGMA XI WILL BE RESTRICTED Only Graduates and Faculty Members to Be Eligible for Some Time' | _ HONOR CONSIDERED GREAT New Fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa Most Prominent Honorary Groups Faculty members aud graduate stu dents wlio have shown ability and pro mise in original research in science will be eligible to membership in the local chapter of Sigma Xi, national honorary scientific research fraternity. In excep tional cases some chapters admit up perclassmen to social membership aud such provision may be made eventual ly at Oregon, although no such plans have been formulated. Members of the University science faculty consider the granting of a chap ter of Sigma Xi to Oregon one of the greatest honors given to the Universityi in recent years and say that it is na tional recognition of Oregon’s advanc ing standard of scholarship. The Sigma Xi chapter was granted to the University of Oregon at the na tional convention held jointly at Har vard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology the latter part of Decem ber. The vote was unanimous, accord ing to Professor O. F. Stafford, head of the chemistry department, who repre sented Oregon at the meeting of the American Association for the Advance ment of Science, held in Boston the same week, at which thousands of sci entists from all over the country and Canada were present. Professor Staf ford became, a member of Sigma Xi, which was organized at Cornell Univer sity in 1886, at Kansas University, the third institution to be granted a char ter. Outstanding in World Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity, which recently granted a chapter to the University, and Sigma Xi, are the pre-eminently outstanding honorary organizations in the wrorld. Credit for the securing of the charter is attributed to the high standard of scholarship at the University in pure and applied science, the administra tion’s favorable attitude toward scien tific research and the efforts of the lo cal committee of the science club, members of which are Dr. A. E. Cas well, professor of physics, Dr. B. A. Packard, professor of geology, and Dr. J. F. Bovard, dean of the school of physical educatiin. The following sixteen members of the faculty of the University are al ready members of the organization, having been elected at other institu tions : William F. Allen, Robert Louis Ben son, John F. Bovard, Albert E. Caswell, Edwin T. Hodge, Samuel C. Kohs, Earl L. Packard, Frederick L. Shinn, Warren D. Smith, Orin F. Stafford, Herbert G. Tanner, Harry B. Torrey, Harry B. Voeom, Roger J. Williams, Ann Hardy and Hazel Hauck. Many Works Published Other faculty members signing the petition for a charter included W. P. Boynton, George E, Burget, E. S. Conk lin, H. R. Crosland, H. D. Hoskins, Olof Larsell, E. H. McAlister, W. E. Milne, Harold B. Myers, H. J. Sears and R. H. Wheeler. The research work listed for these members includes ^20 separate published pieces of research as well as numerous projects which are now under way. The date of the installation has not been set but it is customary to install new chapters sometime before March 15 after the granting of the chapter. The installation is personally conduc ted by the president and secretary of the national organization. These of ficers are Dr. Henry B. Ward of Hli nois University, and Dr. Edward Ellery of Union College. Both have been in Eugene previously. Dr. Ellery was the guest of Professor Stafford several years ago and Dr. Ward visited the campus several months ago while mak ing investigations here. It is possible that th local installa tion will not take place until June, con trary to the usual custom. While in the east Professor Stafford, who recently brought to perfection a process for utilizing waste wood on a commercial scale, visited the plants where the method is used and was en gaged in various conferences in regard to the exploitation of the process. Pro gress is being made and it is expected that another plant will be established soon. PLEDGING ANNOUNCED Tau Nu announces the pledging of Marian Wagini of Portland, Oregon. OREGON TO MEET DENTAL COLLEGE OUINTET TONIGHT Tooth Architects Expected to Give Lemon-Yellow Five Stiff Opposition MULTNOMAH TEAM IS NEXT Bohler’s Men Working Better Than Last Year; Tilts Set for Armory The first regular game for the Var sity basketball team is slated for 8 o’clock this evening at the Armory with the North Pacific Dental College team of Portland as the opposition. The two teams have already met once this year, when Oregon took the Dent ists down the line 35 to 21 in one of the barnstorming games. All games this year will be played at the Armory where the floor is much larger and the hall will accommodate a larger crowd than the men’s gym. The Armory floor is algo a great deal more desirable from the players ’ point of view, as the baskets are set out from the wall and the floor is consider ably larger. One feature against the Armory floor is that it is usually quite slick, since it is used for dances every week-end. Line-Up Not Yet Known The team which will line up against the Dentists has not been picked by Coach Bohler, but he will probably start Zimmerman and Altstock as for wards, Latham at center, and probably Chapman and Schaefer as guards. These men played in most of the pre season contests and work well together. Saturday night the Multnomah Club team will drop in from Portland and try to tack another defeat onto the Varsity. The clubmen already have one victory, the 39 to 31 game taken from the Varsity during the Christmas holiday trip. The Lemon-Yellow team has a good chance to turn the tables here, and a hot game is predicted. Better Than Last Year The Varsity looks'a great deal better this season than at ti corresponding time last year, and has a good chance to win a majority of its games if the probable improvement is shown. Tough competition will be met, how ever, as all the teams in the Northwest have practically last year’s squads back. Idaho, which won the coast cham pionship last year, lost only one man and expects a stronger lineup than ev er, while O. A. C., which took second place last season, lias a veteran squad and expects to cop off the coast honors this year. Washington also has a vet eran quintet, making the pickings look harder than ever for the team which finished in the cellar last year. KILPATRICK HEADING ASTORIA RELIEF WORK Extension Division Head Is Not to Return to Campus Before x Next Week Earl Kilpatrick of the extension div ision will not be on the campus this week on account of liis participation in the rehabilitation work in Astoria. Mr. Kilpatrick, head of the relief work, reports, according to the Red Cross Courier, that the health situa tion is good. Those in immediate need are found by seeking them out in their temporary homes. In close cooperation with Mr. Kil patrick are Mrs. Parsons, of the exten sion division in Portland, and Miss Thompson, head of the social service work in Portland. The Astoria Budget expresses thanks to the workers in an editorial. It says, “To the University of Oregon, which loaned trained workers, and to those other institutions which sent experien ced volunteers, and to the local Red Cross chapter members who gave with out stint of their time, Astoria acknow ledges profound appreciation. The friends of our dark hours shall not be forgotten in the batter days to come.” RACHEL HUSBAND RETURNS Geology Graduate Now Employed in Los Angeles Museum Rachel Husband, '21, who was grad uated from the University in the Geol ogy department, is now visiting the campus from Los Angeles, California. Miss Husband is located at the Los Angeles Museum, Exposition Park, as assistant in the paleontology depart ment. Her work consists of separating bones which come from the tar pools of Southern California and looking for fossils in brickyards and cliffs around Los Angeles. Miss Husband likes California and says she finds her work there interest ing. PETITIONS NECESSARY FOR FLUNKERS’ RETURN Dismissed Students Must Prove Their Ability to Carry Work to Be Reinstated Apropos of the statement that thirty eight students were flunked out of the University at the end of the fall term the scholarship committee wishes to impress these and other students with the fact that re-admission is granted | upon petition only after a nine months' interval during which the applicant | must prove to the satisfaction of the committee that lie is capable of carry ing college work. Up to two years ago flunkouts were considered final but the faculty then modified this rule to allow the scholar ship committee to use its discretion in allowing students to re-enter upon the fulfillment of specific requirements which are printed as follows in the University regulations: “A student dropped from the Univer sity under any of the provisions of this code may petition the Probation com mittee for re-admission after nine cal endar months have elapsed.” An im pression has arisen from this that all petitions will be granted but according to Dean Dvment, chairman of the schol astic committee students are allowed to return to the classes only after care ful investigation regarding their abil ity has been r :ade. It has been found that less than an approximate third of the petitioners are able to meet these demands, he stated. Members of this committee are Dr. H. D. Sheldon, Dr. F. L. Shinn, Dr. E. C. Robbins and Miss Mary Watson. MEN’S GYMMSiUM HAS NEW HANDBALL COURTS Rules for Players Are Given by Department Four new handball courts, one of them marked off for squash, will be ready for use in the men’s outdoor gymnasium next Monday. The courts have been so designed that there are no obstacles whatsoever to hinder the players. A new feature is that every court, aside from its regular entrance and exit, has a fire-exit which opens di rectly out upon the street. This was done to conform with fire regulations, and these doors will not be used as a regular means of passage. The central door on Thirteenth street is the only entrance to the building. Boxing and wrestling will henceforth take place on a second floor which has been built in the gymnasium. This will make a place for tumbling on the upper floor of the regular gymnasium, thus keeping the lower main floor clear of all mats and such apparatus. A runway, or “Bridge of Sighs” is now being built leading from the second floor of the main gymnasium to the second floor of the outdoor gym. Following are some of the rules which wifi govern the use of the courts: (1) Daily regular classes have first claims on courts until four o’clock. (2) After four, students are free to play until six o’clock, when building must be vacated and locked. (3) Doubles have precedence over singles. When singles are in progress and another pair makes known that they wish to play, they should be tak en into the game immediately, unless they offer to wait until the game is finished. (4) Singles may not be started when others are waiting for a game. (5) Fire-exit doors should never be used to make an exit from the build ing except in case of fires. Students are urged to cooperate in keeping these doors closed at all times. (6) Lights in the courts are turned on by means of switches behind the doors. Turn out lights when leuving court. t (7) Court No. 1, that in the main gymnasium, will be reserved for faculty use after 4:30 p. m. daily. Students should withdraw at that time if facul ty members come. | SCHOOL ADDS NEW COURSE — ! Aurora Potter to Teach Classes in Sight Singing and Ear Training The school of music lias added to its curriculum this term, a course in ear training and sight singing to be taught | by Aurora Potter Underwood, of the school of music. The course will in clude the teaching of the fundamentals of notation, time, sight singing, and a little about the piano key board. Similar courses have been given for some time in eastern schools of music but it is comparatively new to Pacific coast colleges. No fees are to be charg ed and the class is intended for all stu dents and is not to be limited to music , majors. It will meet once a week, and one half credit will be given when I it is taken with either voice, violin o: : piano. Mrs. Underwood is using “Eai | Training and Sight Singing,” writtei I by George Wedge, which is used in the f Damroscli school of music in New York I for a text book. SEMESTER PLAN WILL BE TESTED BT STRAW VBTE Students Will Cast Ballots in Expression of Their Stand on Faculty Action SENTIMENT AGAINST MOVE Members of A. S. U. 0. Believe Present Division of Year Is Most Logical If present plans materialize, next Wednesday members of the student body will be given an opportunity of expressing their attitude toward the two semester system, sanctioned Wed nesday afternoon by a faculty vote of -9 to 25. Influenced by an apparently unanimous expression of opinion that the faculty should have found out in some way how students regarded the proposed change, the Emerald has de cided to conduct a straw ballot. Yesterday reporters were in touch with students in the various organiza tions and on the campus and it appears to bo the prevalent belief that the ad ministration has passed a measure which is not to the best advantage of the members of the student body. Many students admitted that they were not conversant with the arguments advanc ed for the two semester plan and ex pressed a wish to be enlightened. As the official publication of the A. S. U. O., it is probable that the Emerald will request faculty members to make known in informative articles their arguments for and against the system which was dropped during the war. Arguments Are Advanced Although students willingly confess that they know little about the argu ments for the division of the scholas tic year into two parts, rather than the present tri-semester method, they are not reluctant to advance arguments for the retention of the three-term plan. One of the main arguments put for ward in answer to questions was that the three-term system follows the log ical division of the school year, vaca tions coming at the termination of the fall quarter, Christmas, and at the end of the spring quarter, Easter. Another arguments given by students is that the present short term plan enables stu dents with limited funds to come to the University, knowing that they can drop out at the end of three months with their credit earned, rather than having to leave school during the se mester without credit. It has been pointed out that the tri-semester Bys tem encourages many students to come to Oregon who find work while on the campus and in this way remain to com plete their college course. Although seniors will not be affected by the system adopted Wednesday by J the faculty, unless they return as grad uate students next fall, members of the class of ’23 are taking an active inter est in the campus discussions concern ing the recent change. The majority of the seniors look at the question from the point of view of members of the science faculty, saying that it is a poor policy to tear down a schedule of studies which has been built up after much work. May Reconsider Vote There is a possibility that the term system adopted Wednesday may bo re considered, according to information ob tained from uuthoratative sources. It is believed that this reconsideration will not take place if the students in casting their ballots next week express their belief that the two semester plan is not detrimental to the welfare of the student body. Should students cou demn the newly adopted plan, it is thought faculty members will move that the measure be pigeon holed for an indefinite period. One faculty member who appears to be neutral on the term question yester day intimated that students always op pose new campus legislation, but will find the two-semester system favorable as the present tri-semester plan when once working. HANDBALL FINALS SOON Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Oregon Club Left in League A The second round of do-nut handball 1 in league A will be finished when Sigma I Alpha Kpsilon meets the Oregon club i in the near future. This game must be played immediately on pain of forfeit ure, according to Gerald Barnes of the physical education department, i Friendly Hall, Phi Gamma Delta, and ! Kappa Theta Chi, are the survivors of ! the second round of League B. Unless j there are challenges issued this week, ! these three teams will be rematched an.l I one eliminated before the final round j robin, which will consist of the two I best teams of each league.