Oregon daily emerald., February 08, 1923, Image 1

Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXIV.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE,. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1923
NUMBER 86
THETAS LEAD ALL
CAMPUS CROUPS
IN FALL GRADES
Alpha Sigmas and Alpha Phis
Come Second and Third in
House Averages
MEN HEADED BY FRIENDLY
Fijis Top 16 Fraternities With
Standing of 3.50; Women
Retain Honors
Kappa Alpha Theta leads the list of
the fall term house grades with an av
erage of 2.94. Alpha Sigma has second
honor with an average of 2.97, and Al
pha Phi is third with an average of
2.98, according to statistics given out
from the office of the registrar yes
terday evening. Friendly Hall again
heads the men’s organizations, this time
with an average of 3.26. Phi Gamma
Delta is second in the men’s group,
leading the fraternities on the campus
with an average of 3.50. Beta Theta
Pi is second in the fraternities with
3.58.
The fall term averages caused quite
a shake-up in the rating of the spring
term of 1922. For the past nine months,
the Alpha Chi Omegas have been at the
top of the University grade list. Their
average for the fall term places them
fourth in the list, there being but one
point between the Alpha Chi Omegas
and the Alpha Phis. Likewise, there
:is but one point difference between the
standing t of the Alpha Phis and the
Alpha Sigmas. Friendly Hall leads
the men’s organizations for the fourth
•consecutive time.
Women’s Average 3.25
The average of all the women’s
houses is 3.25, and of the men’s houses,
• 3.71. The general average of all the
houses is 3.47. In the spring term the
women’s' average was 3.18, the men’s
was 3.58, and the general average was
.3.37.
A striking feature of the grade line
up which appears below is the fact that
the last 15 organizations in the group
-of 34 listed are all men’s. Following
Is the average for the houses as compil
ed by the office of the registrar:
1. Kappa Alpha Theta.2.94
2. Alpha Sigma.2.97
3. Alpha Phi.:.2.98
4. Alpha Chi Omega.2.99
■ 5. Pi Beta Phi.3.08
6. Delta Delta Delta.3.15
7. Thacher Cottage.3.17
8. Kappa Kappa Gamma..3.25
9. Friendly Hall.3.26
10. Delta Zeta.3.28
11. Gamma Phi Beta.3.30
.12. Tau Nu.3.31
13. Hendricks Hall.3.32
14. Alpha Delta Pi.3.34
15. Delta Gamma.3.35
16. Susan Campbell.3.39
17. Chi Omega.3.43
18. Phi Gamma Delta.3.50
19. Alpha Xi Delta.3.53
.20. Beta Theta Pi.3.58
21. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.3.62
.22. Kappa Theta Chi.3.66
23. Phi Sigma Pi.3.71
24. Alpha Tau Omega.:.3.73
25. Phi Delta Theta.3.75
26. Delta Tau Delta.3.77
:27. Sigma Nu.»..3.80
.28. Kappa Sigma.3.83
.29. Alpha Beta Chi.3.85
,30. Sigma Chi. 3.90
•31. Delta Theta Phi.3.93
■ 32. Kappa Delta Phi.4.06
33. Chi Psi.4.08
■34. Bachelordon .4.12
Women’s average.3.25
Men’s Average.3.71
•General average of houses.3.47
CORSAGE ACTION
IS VOTED DOWN
INDIVIDUAL HOUSES MUST MAKE
CHOICE IN MATTER
Interfratemity Council Will Commend:
Organizations Doing Away With
Unnecessary Expense
Members of the interfraternity coun
cil at the regular meeting last night
voted down the motion to put the coun
cil on record as being opposed to the
giving of corsages, the consensus of
opinion being that it should be up to
the individual houses to decide this
question. As an indication that the
group is opposed to all unnecessary ex
pense, a resolution was passed to the ef
fect that houses deciding to do away
with corsages should be commended.
Another question taken up by the
council last night—a question in line
■with a sentiment now prevalent on the
campus—was relative to the isolation
of the student group from the current
affairs of the world. The belief was ex
pressed that discussion groups should
be formed on the campus, and a pro
posal by Professor Justin Miller that
members of the faculty give weekly
half-hour talks before the members of
the various living organizations was
adopted.
A resolution was passed in favor of
taking cross-country racing and boxing
from the list of intramural sports. It
was brought out, that ten different in
tramural sports take too much time
from the individual members of the
houses and that no practical value is
gained from them. A letter will be
sent to the school of physical education
recommending that the sports be taken
from the intramural schedule.
MARKED CHINEES MADE
IN STAFF OF EMERALD
Campus Daily Will Have Mor
gue for University Data
Changes in the Emerald staff and se
lection of several new reporters were
made yesterday by the editors, and the
renovated masthead appears for the
first time in this morning’s paper. One
of the most marked alterations in the
staff is the creation of the information
bureau, headed by Rosalia Keber, for
merly on the reportorial staff. Miss
Keber, who has named Maybelle King
and Pauline Bondurant as her assist
ants, is now supervising the building
up of a newspaper “morgue” for the
Emerald and every item pertaining to
campus activities or individuals will
be filed away for reference.
Jessie Thompson, senior in the school
of journalism, is now copy desk super
visor of the Emerald. She instructs
the copy readers and supervises the I
copy desk for a period each afternoon.
Rachael Chezem, formerly exchange ed
itor, is news service editor and later
will select two assistants. It is plan
ned to run a column of condensed news
j from other colleges twice each week
hereafter. Harold Shirley, formerly one
of the news service editors, has been
transferred to the sport staff.
Ted Janes has been transferred from
the staff of night editors to the daily
editors, being replaced by Leon Byrne,
formerly on the sport staff. Freda
Goodrich is the addition to the
group of daily editors, taking the place
temporarily of Don Woodward, who
will be busy with Oregana work during
the next month.
Several members of last term’s staff
have not returned to school or have
resigned because of conflicting work.
Persons included in this group are
Hugh Starkweather, Mabel Gilham, and
Jane Campbell. Jeanne Gay is not in
school this term, but will act as medi
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Ban on Flowers Brings Forth
Idea of Vegetable Corsages
Now that the ban on corsages at for
:mals has been sanctioned by the wo
men, there is some agitation toward
ifinding ways in which to circumvent
the issue. Flowers have long been es
sential part in woman’s makeup for
a formal affair, and to some, at least
it is a custom hard to break away
from.
From the masculine point of view the
absence of corsages is a wonderful
thing—financially. There is a con
siderable amount of mental relief in
knowing that one doesn’t have to trot
-down to the florist and plank down sev
eral berries for shrubbery. After the
formal is a thing of history he is able
to rattle the washers saved on flow
ers with a certain feeling that the for
mal was a decided success.
If, however, the women crave cor
sages, there are ways in which the ad
ornment may be provided without great
expense. How about a little flower gar
den out in the yard behind the sorority
house? Here is a chance for a two
fold entertainment. The young lady
can while away her spare hours in the
posy bed, learning something of horti
culture and thinking about the won
derful corsages that she has cultivated
all by herself.
At the dance she can gleefully ex
; hibit the garden product to her escort,
! and his praises will reach the sky. Of
j course she may not hear the thankful
I sigh that escapes his lips, or see his
j hand caress the bankroll.
Then there is the vegetable formula
| for the solution of the corsage prob
j lem. Vegetables are cheap, can be
grown much more cheaply than flow
ers, and can even be purloined out of
: some nice garden patch. They are col
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HOUSES REDUCE
HAZARD OF EIRE,
SAYS INSPECTOR
Fraternity Dwellings Declared
by State Marshal Safer
Than Two Years Ago
ALL PREMISES ARE VISITED
Suggestions Made to Reduce
Danger; Wiring Found
Source of Peril
Fire hazards in the fraternities and
sororities on the Oregon campus are not
so great as they were two years ago,
Deputy State Fire Marshal Horace
Sykes said yesterday. Mr. Sykes, with
Deputy Fire Marshal James S. Gleason
conducted a thorough investigation of
the fire hazards in all the Greek letter
organizations yesterday.
The greatest fire dangers, according
to Mr. Sykes, were found in paper
strewn basements, especially in the sor
orities, where the women are careless
about putting waste paper in the rub
bish boxes and also in the use of elec
tric irons and electric hairdressing ar
ticles. The men’s houses, Mr. Sykes
said, the conditions were not so bad,
although the outstanding possible fire
hazard in the fraternities was found
to be in the use of cigarettes and more
so in the careless electrical wiring for
lighting purposes.
Chute Adds to Hazard
Overloaded circuits were found to be
a common hazard in all the organiza
tions because of the great amount of
electrical appliances used. In one house
which provides a paper chute from the
top floor to the basement, Mr. Sykes
discovered that paper thrown in at the
top floor was scattered about the base
ment, thus inviting a serious fire be
cause the chute would act as a draught
and chimney for the flames to spread
through the house. During his inspec
tion yesterday Mr. Sykes found evi
dence of two fires resulting from im
proper fire protection to the timbers
beneath the fireplace hearth.
“The worst hazard in any house is
the human fire hazard,” Mr. Sykes de
clared. By this he meant the personal
carelessness of the inhabitants of the
building. A feeling that every fire
proof house free from fire causes a spir
it of overconfidence among the mem
bers of the house and they become care
less because of the feeling that safety
is believed to be provided for in a
building of this kind which in reality
is not wholly fireproof.
As a remedy and a means to prevent
fires in i.lie fraternities, Mr. Sykes sug
gested that every house head should ap
point a member of the house as house
fire marshal who would look after the
fire conditions in the building and to in
spect the house frequently.
The students have shown a splendid
spirit of cooperation with the inspec
tors, Mr. Sykes said, and are anxious
to do anything to provide adequate mea
sures for house fire safety.
Since the last inspection two years
ago when conditions were much worse
than at present, a noticeable number
of fire escapes have been provided by
the houses in fulfillment of a recom
mendation by the fire marshal at that
time that the houses add more fire es
capes to the buildings.
Mr. Sykes and Mr. Gleason are mak
ing this investigation at the request of
the University administration.
WOMEN DEBATE 0. A. C.
Frances Simpson Is Given Position on
Girls’ Varsity Team
The girls’ varsity debate team now
consists of Lurline Coulter, Margaret
Duerner. Frances SimpBon and May
Fenno. Frances Simpson, one of the
Susar? Campbell hall debaters, takes
the place of Eugenia Strickland, who
was first chosen for the team.
These girls will meet the O. A. C.
team on February 27, on the question,
“Resolved, that the United States
should cancel the allied war debts of
France, Italy and Belgium.”
Mr. Thorpe and Elaine Cooper are
coaching the teams and report that the
girls are working hard.
CODE CONTEST ENDS FEB. 27
A ten-dollar reward seems to have
but little appeal to the University wo
men when it comes to writing a suit
able code of ethics for them, according
to the committee in charge of the ethics
code contest now being conducted. Feb
ruary 27 is the last day on which any
paper on the subject may be turned in
but as yet very few have handed in any
suggestions or codes. All materia’
should be handed in at Dean Straub’s
office.
Request for More
Alumni on Council
To Be Investigated
Activities Committees Declared Cumbersome;
Student Group Appoints Body for Working Out
Revision of Constitution for Approval at Special
A. S. U. O. Election in Early Part of March
A move on the part of the alumni
of the University for greater represen
tation on the executive council was
recognized by the student council last
night. Letters protesting against the
present organization have been received
from many alumni. As a result the
council appointed a committee to re
write the constitution, for approval of
the students at an election early in
March. The committee consists of Ow
en Callaway, chairman, Kenneth Youel,
and Ellen McVeigh.
Under the present constitution there
is but one representative of the alumni
on the council. Until the old athletic
board was abolished in 1920 the alum
ni had a greater part in the affairs of
the University. When the change was
made it was thought that graduates did
not care for further representation, but
recent indications do not seem to bear
out this fact, according to Owen Calla
way, chairman of the committee. Those
who are protesting bring out the point
that in other colleges alumni have a
larger proportionate representation. Dr.
Delbert Stannard is the present alumni
representative. There are now six stu
dents, four faculty members, and one
alumnus on the council.
Callaway told the student council
that the present system of activities
was ineffectual and that they should be
reorganized. Other members of the
council expressed themselves as behov
ing that the committees were too un
wieldly, and involved too much organ
ization. Although it was left up to the
committee what the remedy should be,
it was the feeling that the committees
should bo centralized to a greater de
gree. Members of the council express
ed the opinion that instead of a com
mittee for every sport and every ac
tivity there should be about three main
committees which Should handle every
thing and be more closely responsible
to the executive council.
There are a number of other propos
als to change the constitution before
the student body. These proposals will
be incorporated in the revised consti
tution for the student vote. Among
the proposals for change is the provi
sion to make the yell leader a member
of the student council, which was
brought up last term. A number of
changes in the women’s athletic rules
will be included. Other changes which
have come up before the council and
which will be acted upon by this com
mittee are the proposal to change the
track awards, the provision for the
granting of a letter to members of vic
torious cross-country teams, and a
(Continued on page three.)
AGGIE QUINTET HOLDS
LEAD IN CONFERENCE
Oregon Tied With Vandals for
Third Place in Hoop Race
Northwest Conference Standings
W. L. Pet.
Oregon Aggies.6 1 .858
Washington .,.5 1 .833
Idaho .4 3 .571
Oregon . 4 3 .571
Whitman .3 3 .500
Washington State .3 3 .500
Montana .1 2 .333
Pacific .1 4 .200
Willamette .0 7 .000
Oregon took a big drop in the Confer
ence standings this week as a result
of the defeats by both O. A. C. and
W. S. C., and instead of being tied
for first place as she was last week,
has now dropped to a tie for third
place with Idaho. The men were in a
slump for both of these games, and as
they both were very important it is
hard to see just how the Varsity will
be able to win enough games On their
northern trip to put them back in the
running for conference honors.
The Aggies have all the earmarks of
a championship team this year, and in
both the games with Oregon showed su
perior ability to locate the basket, and
seemed also to be in better condition.
Since they walloped Washington State
last night by a 24 to 14 score it seems
that they will be hard to stop, as Wash
ington seems to be the only strong con
tender at present and the Aggies have
already beaten the Huskies once and
should be able to do it again.
Washington may also drop a few
notches in the standings this week, as
they play Idaho on the Moscow floor,
and the Vandals haven’t lost a game on
their own floor yet this year. Wash
ington also meets Whitman on this trip,
and the Missionaries may pull a big
surprise and hand the Huskies a beat
ing, although this is rather doubtful.
The Varsity still has a chance to re
deem itself though, for by handing the
Aggies a defeat here on Friday night,
and then winning all the games on the
i northern tr.ip it would be able to come
out pretty close to the lead in the
conference, but another defeat will pro
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ACTIVITY SCHEDULE FOR
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
Friday: Wrestling, Oregon vs. O.
A. C., 3 p. m. in Men’s gym. Basket
ball, Frosh vs. Rooks, 4:30 in Men’s
gym. Basketball, Varsity vs. O. A.
C., 7:16 in Armory. Frosh Glee, 9:00
in Woman’s building.
Saturday: Frosh vs. Rooks, 4:30 in
Men’s gym. Varsity vs. O. A. C.
7:15 in Armory.
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TWENTY-SIX FRESHMEN
ELECTED TO TO-KO-LO
“Student Citizenship” Is Basis
for Selecting Men
To-Ko-Lo, the University’s only hon
orary underclass society has elected 26
men of the class of ’26 to membership.
They will become active next year as
To-Ko-Lo is a sophomore organization.
The men chosen are Bobert Mautz,
Walter Kelsey, Boy Farley, William
Gosser, Alvin Hills, Herman Blaessing,
Clayborn Carson, Ted Mays, Ben Calla
way, Fred Martin, Otto Mauthe, Powell
Garland, Bolf IClep, Claude Snow, Louis
Anderson, Paul Krausse, Ogden Mills,
Albert Sinclair, Kenneth Stephenson,
Mike Goodell, Arnold Southwell, Jer
ome Gunther, Joseph Saari, Perry Dav
is, Carl Dahl, Jack Bivenburgh.
Officials of the organization have
conferred with the alumni of To-Ko-Lo
and the men honored by election have
been chosen as the result of their “stu
dent citizenship.”
A reorganization of To-Ko-Lo was
effected in the fall term by juniors
and seniors who are alumni and as a
result the matter of choosing men has
been conducted on a different basis
than before and instead of pledging
freshmen in the fall term time was al
lowed to see the prospective members’
work.
At the first meeting of the fall term
several local business men, who were
enrolled in To-Ko-Lo in their student
days, told of the history of the order
and urged that the old principles of
University advancement and friendship
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NEAR EAST CRISIS
OR. (M’S TALK
IN VILLARO TODAY
Noted Historian and Lecturer
Will Address Students at
Weekly Assembly
MANY ATTEND MEETINGS
Various Groups Hear Talks by
Authority; War in Europe
Highly Probable
A general exposition of the problems
of the Near East and their relation to
the problems of Europe and the Uni
ted States will be'the subject of Dr.
Charles Upson Clark who will spt ak be
for the University assembly in Villard
hall this morning. This topic is of
current interest, because of the Lau
sanne conference which is being held at
the present time in an attempt to solve
these very problems.
Dr. Clark characterizes the action of
the powers participant in the Lausanne
conference as “bluffing.” He does not
believe, however, that such a charac
terization of the situation immediately
relieves the Near East tangle of dang
er, ho thinks that the game of “bluff
ing” is exceedingly like playing with
lire in a closely packed powder room.
“I look for the imminent war to
rise in the Near East,” he says.
Dr. Clark also rogards the presence
of the militarist element in Constanti
nople with uneasy eye.
“I know the militarist in various na
tions and among numerous peoples,”
said Dr. Clark, “and I do not think that
his presence in Constantinople during
the present period of tenseness helps
the situation any.”
Gives Three Lectures
Today is Dr. Clark’s second day on
the University campus. Yesterday he
devoted to a foundation lecture on the
geographical outlines of Europe, an his
torical lecture on Borne, as the capital
of the Caesars, and an evening lecture
on the art and architecture of south
eastern Europe.
Today, in addition to his speech be
fore the University assembly, Dr. Clark
will lecture to all upperclass students
in the school of journalism on “How
Propaganda Works; the Greatest Dan
ger to the State. ” This lecture will
be illustrated from foreign newspapers.
The interest of the University facul
ty and students in Dr. Clark’s lectures
was evidenced yesterday by the large
attendance at his various lectures.
Speaking before a capacity audience in
the University Guild hall, Dr. Clark
briefly outlined the geographical situa
tion in Europe, especially that in south
eastern Europe. He related how in
many cases of new divisions and boun
daries laid out by the Peace Confer
ence, it was necessary for a farmer to
have a passport in order to legally pass
from his house to his barn.
Difficulties Are many
“Indeed,” said Dr. Clark, citing a
specific country, “in passing between
the .two principal cities of this district,
the governments havo been obviating
the difficulties so that now it :s neces
sary to have your baggage inspected
only six times instead of ten.”
In his afternoon lecture on Borne,
Dr. Clark illustrated his talk with beau
tiful slidos, portraying the various mod
ern and historical sites of Borne, and in
his evening lecture, in addition to a
marvelous collection of slides showing
the architecture, and art and costumes
of the Balkan countries, Dr. Clark ac
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Sandburg Is Not “Hard Boiled”
Poet, Only Human, Say Critics
Carl Sandburg, the so-called “hard
boiled” poet, will be on the campus
February 2d to vindicate his character
from this aspect which so many people
have attached to his name. This “hard
boiled” stuff about Sandburg is all a
myth, say many critics, and the poet
will appear in person to substantiate
the critics’ belief.
“He is not one to sit aloof hurling
thunderbolts, or one to be only rever
ed,” says Walter Yust, a critic of the
Bookman calibre. “He does not speak
with hard slaggy iron and steel voice,
but rather in a rich, soft friendly bar
itone, with a slight drawl.”
In stature Sandburg is tall and ran
gy. Usually he wears a grey suit with
a grey cap aslant on his iron grey hair.
; Barge silver rimmed spectacles rest on
! his nose, and his chin is usually cov
ered with a grey stubble.
“There is no lyric effeminacy in the
curve of -Mr. Sandburg’s chin, in the
tilt of his cap, in the stubble of his
chin, ‘mellow, massive and human’,”
Harriet Monroe says of him.
“The ‘natural rythms of a manly
life’ that Plato insisted upon ages ago
when ho stated his case against poets,
just as they tumble along roughly in
Mr. Sandburg’s vibrant verse, beat out
from the very unpoetic look of this
poet; when he talks there is no jabber
nor affectation in his speech, and when
his eyes burn out their black fire, your
attention is gripped by that same hon
est man-to-man sincerity which he is
able to put into the grinding, crashing
angular words of his unrhymed, freo
rhythmed verses, and you can under
t stand more clearly why his verse must
be unrhymed, free-rliythmed, and uu
[ fettered, for meticulous rhyme and me
i tie in Mr. Sandburg’s verses would be
! like woolen mits on the fingers of a
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