Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXIV. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1923
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NUMBER 90
Senior Women’s Honorary Will
Get First Charter Given
to Pacific Coast
LOCAL ACTIVE SINCE 1910
Scholarship, Leadership, and
Service Are'Emphasized
by National
The petition of Scroll and Script,
senior women’s honorary society, to
Mortar Board has been granted, ac
cording to a telegram received yester
day morning by LeLaine West, presi
dent of the campus organization. By
grant of the petition, the University of
Oregon has the first chapter on the
Pacific coast.
Mortar Board was organized in 1918
for the purpose of promoting three
ideals—service to the University, schol
arship, and leadership. At present there
are 18 chapters among the leading
universities and colleges of the country,
and there are many more interested in
petitioning. Scroll and Script’s petition
was submitted at a national convention
of Mortar Board held the week-end
of February 2 at the University of
Michigan.
Scroll and Script was founded at the
University of Oregon, June 3, 1910,
by Ruth Dunniway, Mae Sage, Juliet
Cross. Helen Beach, Mary DeBar, Olive
Donnell, and Lilah Prosser. The organ
ization in earlier years required for
membership a scholarship average of II,
together with one major and two minor
activities. Before the last election of
members this basis was somewhat
changed to confirm to that of Mortar
Board, and now those girls who have |
a standing of a high III and who are j
outstanding in campus activities are el- j
ected to membership.
Pledging Is Tradition
The pledging to Scroll and Script
at the campus luncheon during Junior
Week-end is one of the traditions of the
University. At that time members of
the society who are back on the campus
march through the crowds in the caps
and gowns and pledge new members
with ribbons and flowers.
Among campus activities undertaken
by the organization each year is to
take over a meeting of the practical
ethics class and explain the meaning
and purpose of Scroll and Script to the
members of the class, who are usually
all freshman women.
Honorary and associate members of
the Oregon University faculty are Dean
Elizabeth Fox DeCou, Miss Grace Edg
ington, Mrs. Anna Landsbury Beck,
Miss Ida V. Turney, Mrs. Norma D.
Solve, Miss Lois Laughlin, Miss Anne
Hardy, Miss Mildred Hawes, and Miss
Marian Taylor. Miss Lillian Stupp,
who is a member of the chapter of
Mortar Board at Washington Univer
sity at St. Louis, is also a member of
Scroll and Script.
Five Members Are Active
Active members of Scroll and Script
are LeLaine West, president; Emily
Veazie, secretary; Helen Addison, treas
urer; Alice Tomkins; Helen Hoefer;
Felicia Perkins; Bernice Altstock; Inez
King, and Margaret Jackson.
The ,une for the installation of Mor
tar Board on the campus has not yet
been announced, as the local group has
to be inspected before affiliation.
DEBATE QUESTION
CHOSEN BY WOMEN
UNIFORM DIVORCE LAWS TO BE
SUBJECT DISCUSSED
Oregon and Washington Teams to Meet
March 7; Team Selected After
O. A. C. Contest
The question for the debate on March
7 between the women’s varsity debate
teams of the Universities of Oregon
and Washington has been chosen, but
as yet the exact wording has not been
decided. It will be on the subject of
uniform divorce laws in the United
States. The University of Washington
would like the question to be on mak
ing a epnstitutional amendment rather
than a law.
The dual contest will be held March
7, but as yet the Oregon teams have
not been selected, and will not be
chosen until after the debate with O.
A. C. Seven girls are now working
on the subject for the debate with
Washington.
No further details are known regard
ing the Peace oratorical contest, to be
held sometime in the spring. Very
few are signed up for the tryouts which
come sometime in February. May Fen
no and John Gavin are the only ones
who have signified their intention to try
out. The contest was started in 1917
and all orations must be on and about
peace. It is a state-wide activity and
the reward is a cash prize.
IS STAFFORD’S TOPIC
Chemistry Head Will Describe
Research at Assembly
Professor Orin Stafford, head of the
chemistry department of the University
will be the speaker at the regular as
sembly on Thursday morning in Villard
hall. His topic will be “Scientific Re
search and Public Service,” and he will
discuss the value of the research re
cently conducted in the chemistry de
partment on the campus which resulted
in the addition to the sum of industrial
knowledge of a new process for conserv
ing waste wood.
This discovery will play an important
part in the lumber industry of the coun
try and will be of great benefit to lum
bermen in Oregon particularly. Since
it was through Professor Stafford’s ef
forts that this process was perfected,
he is well fitted to tell the University
students of the relation of all research
to public service and to explain the
utilitarian value of laboratory process
es which affect all branches of indus
try.
Professor Stafford will illustrate his
address with a number of slides which
show the actual methods of research in
laboratories.
Since the announcement of Professor
Stafford’s process a great deal of com
ment has been made on the value of
his discovery. The Portland Oregonian
describes it as “the most outstanding
contribution to science yet made by a
University of Oregon man.” So great
a quantity of eheap waste wood mater
ial is available in the Northwest that
the. possibility of commercial savings
through the use of this new method is
a boon to many mills in this vicinity
as well as all over the country. It will
now be possible to utilize mill waste in
the carbonization and wood distillation
industries since a fine grade of charcoal
can be obtained from this material by
means of the Stafford process, in. addi
tion to the usual by-products obtained.
This will mean a salvage of practically
all of the waste material in modern
lumber mills and seems entirely prac
ticable from a financial point of view,
according to a number of lumbermen
who will be affected by the new process.
Fast Faculty Five Flays Foxy
Journalists in Jumping Joust
In a basketball game which was a
combination of lacrosse, blind man’s
buff, water polo, and ice skating, Har
ry ’s Husky Hoopers romped on Youel’s
dumping Yournalists. In other words
the faculty horsed the journalist quin
tet 29-19.
The game was a revelation to the
spectators. Each team revealed some
thing in the line of cleverness. Youel’s
gang unlimbered an uncanny two hand
ed pass which usually passed the ball
into the hands of one of Harry Scott’s
knights of the maple court. The fac
ulty, on the other hand, have absorbed
some of Coach Bohler’s pivot playing
and kept the newshounds clawing the
air in the approved hunt and peck sys
tem.
The game was clean throughout, only
15 fouls being called, two of them be
ing unethical blunders by Captain Scott,
Cossman, big guard of the victors, got
track and the hoop game mixed up
when he tried to use Mungo Fraser’s
neck for a hammer handle, for same
which Referee Altstock was required
I to call a foul on him. Altstock dis
played. rare judgment in calling fouls,
not doing so until the man with the
! ball was being trampled by his oppon
■ ent.
The faculty scored first when a triple
pass, Ringle to Barnes to Scott, went
for a counter. The journalists retalia
ted five and two-fifths minutes later
| when Touel hjeltied the ball into the
basket after a melee underneath.
For the faculty Scott and Fairbanks
| bore the brunt of the scoring, with
Ringle doing a “Stonewall Jackson”
under the basket. Scott, Ringle, Barnes.
Fairbanks, Cook and Oossman formed
j the faculty squad.
Fraser was the outstanding star for
the newsgatherers. Hoyt, Touel, Shir
ley and Anderson formed the vanguard
of the journalistic attack. In the sec
ond half General Hoyt whispered to
Captain Touel that they needed re-en
foreements, and three huskies, Rudd,
Akers, and Cooper, steamed onto the
floor in an attempt to stem the faculty
tide.
OREGON FIVE ENOS
NOME PLAY; TRIP
TO SHOT FRIDAY
Five Remaining Webfoot Tilts
Scheduled to Be Played in
Hostile Haunts
VARSITY TIED WITH IDAHO
Vandals and Huskies Conceded
Best Chance to Grab Off
Conference Honors
The last home game of the year for
the Varsity basketeers was the 38 to
29 win over the Aggies here Saturday
night, and all the remaining contests
will be played in hostile territory.
The team will leave Friday for a tour
of the Northwest during which they
will tangle with Idaho at Moscow,
Washington at Seattle, Washington
State at Pullman, Whitman at Walla
Walla, and Willamette at Salem. The
Varsity lost to Washington and Wash
ington State on the home floor, so both
these games promise to be hotly contest
ed.
Oregon is tied with Idaho for third
place in the Conference standings now,
with Washington and the Oregon Ag
gies tied for first place, as Washington
lost to Idaho on the Moscow floor Fri
day night while the Aggies were get
ting the same medicine here from the
Lemon-Yellow.
Huskies Look Like Champs
Washington seemingly has the best
chance to cop off the Conference honors
at present, as the rest of her games
are on their home floor, while the Ore
gon Aggies still have their trip ahead
of them, and will have to play superior
ball if they can tour through the North
west and get off without losing any
games.
Idaho with only three loses against
her still has a fine chance in the pen
nant race, as all the rest of her games
are on her own floor, and most of the
other teams concede her a victory on
those conditions. Unless Washington
or O. A. C. can finish the season with
out another loss it seems that they will
come out tied with Idaho, for since
the Vandals have lost only three con
ference games so far, they still have
a remarkably good chance to come in
with the winners.
Varsity Chances Slim
Oregon’s bad slump, during which she
lost a counting game to both the Aggies
and Washington State, was practically
fatal to any championship hopes, as it
is a practical impossibility to win all
the games to be played on the trip.
The loss to Washington State was un
expected and but for the sickness of
Latham, Zimmerman, and Gowans
would never have happened.
The Oregon Aggies nave a poorer
chance of taking the bacon than either
Washington or Idaho, for they have lost
two games already, one to Idaho on the
Corvallis floor, and one to Oregon here
Friday night. The. Aggies still have
their trip ahead of them, and since they
lost to Idaho at Corvallis, it is hard
to see how they can expect to beat the
Vandals on the Moscow floor.
The game with Washington at Seattle
is also a hard one to predict the score
of, as both teams will be out for a win
at all costs, and the Aggies, were just
barely able to nose out the Huskies at
Corvallis in the last game the Washing
ton team played on its trip.
The championship of the Southern de
partment of the league is not quite as
involved, and at present it looks as if
the winner of the Northwest scramble
will' mix it with the Stanford Cards for
Pacific Coast honors.
DR. C. U. CLARK ELECTED
TO COSMOPOLITAN CLUB
Noted Lecturer Honored at Conclusion
of Talk in Guild Hall; WiU
Write to Organization
Dr. Charles Upson Clark, noted lec
turer and historian, who had been giv
ing some interesting talks on some
phases of the European problems to
students last week, was made an hon
orary member of the Cosmopolitan club
by a unanimous vote of the society last
Friday afternoon in Guild hall after
his address on “What We Can Learn
from Foreign Elements.”
“In view of the fact that Dr. Clark
has traveled many countries and is a
man of cosmopolitan ideals,” said C.
S. Pil, president of the club, in nomin
ating Dr. Clark an honorary member,
“it is appropriate for this club to con
fer upon him the honorary membership
of this organization.” Henry Dirkson
seconded the nomination, which was
passed unanimously.
Dr. Clark was warmly applauded by
the audience and expressed his appre
ciation of the honor conferred upon
him.
SEMESTER PLAN
GOES BY BOARD
MASK AND BUSKIN
CAST WILL 'COME
OBI OF KITCHEN'
Clever Comedy to Be Put on
in Heilig, Coached by .
Claire Keeney
MISS COOLIDGE IN LEAD
Dramatic Talent of Campus
Combed to Make Most
of Thomas Play
Aristocratic southerners masquerad
ing as cooks, butlers, and maids; a poet
poked into a cupboard with a negro
wench; a rich lawyer caught making
love to a saucy Irish servant; spicy
love plots and counterplots; these are
but hints of the rapid action, the ab
sorbing interest in “Come Out of the
Kitchen,” which will be staged by
Mask and Buskin, dramatic society, at
the Heilig Thursday night, February
15.
“Come Out or the Kitchen” needs
only a well-chosen cast to make it suc
cessful from every point of view, and
Claire Keeney, well-known dramatic
student, who is coaching the production,
is confident that every character in the
play is carried by capable campus dra
matists. The vehicle is admittedly the
best A. E. Thomas has ever written.
Parental Affection Motif
Not only is the comedy introduced
cleverly, but the length to which par
ental affection will cause children to go
is also forcibly depicted. The real soul
of the play, which is borne along on the
current of delightful comic situations,
is in the struggle of carefully reared
southern children to turn mercenary
and provide funds to aid their ailing
father.
Lorna Coolidge portrays the part of
“Olivia Dangerfield,” who later be
comes “Jane Ellen,” the saucy Irish
cook. Around the brains and versatil
ity of this character the entire story
hinges. Miss Coolidge has taken prom
inent parts in campus productions for
the past three years, and as “Olivia,”
and “Jane Ellen” she is amply able to
demonstrate the ability that has creat
ed her popularity in dramatic circles.
A typical northern Yankee, bored by
his riches, is Vern Fudge. Quest for
excitement and adventure leads him as
Burtin Crane, to the South, and his
every expectation is fulfilled. Fudge
has taken part in Reading campus pro
ductions for three years, and he# drops
naturally into the spirit of this one.
Kate Pinneo In Character
A jolly, verbose, negro mammy, of
extra-liberal proportions, is the old ser
vant “Mandy,” played by Kate Pinneo.
Long experience in similar eccentric
roles has enabled Miss Pinneo to make
the most of this many-sided and mirth
provoking character.
Darrel Larsen is aptly described as
“a lawyer first, and a gourmand after
wards,” and with inborn ability, makes
a fizzle of Ills amorous advances to the
cook. The real estate agent, “a south
ern gentleman minus the southern pol
ish” is played by Virgil Mulkey, a pro
fessional theatrical man who has left
the stage for a two-years’ training in
the University dramatic department.
Elizabeth Robinson, who is “Mrs. Falk
ner,” was the leading dramatic star
at O. A. C. last year.
Others in Cast
Other experienced members of the
I cast are Star Norton, as “Cora Falk
ner,” Alfred Meyers as “Charles Dan
gerfield,” Ted Baker as “Paul Danger
1 field,” and Ted Larson as the poetical
i “Mr. Lefferts.”
Mask and Buskin, the Oregon chap
ter of Associated University Players,
is the official dramatic organization of
the University, and admits to member
■ ship only students who have proved
I acting ability. Its annual production
is always looked forward to by towns
people as well as University folk.
TCT’.T.T.TiMK HOLDS MEETINGS
Jesse Kellenis, a prominent evangelist
and a graduate of the University, has
for the past week held meetings at the
First Christian church of Eugene. Mr.
Kellems is perhaps the best known ev
angelist of the Christian denomination
in the United States. He received his
B.A. degree at the University and the
i degree of D.D. from the Eugene Bible
I University. While in Eugene, Mr. Kel
i lems is visiting his mother, Mrs. Louise
1 Kellems, of this city.
RADIO SET PROVIDES
MUSIC FOR FRIENDLY
_ i
Ed Robbins Installs Outfit in Hall; |
Unfavorable Weather Makes !
Receiving Difficult
hitting at a table with a pair of
“phonos” over one's head, and listen
ing to the strains of music from a Los
Angeles orchestra, or to a sermon by a
minister in Sail Francisco is the latest
diversion among the students at Friend
ly hall since the installation of a Wost
inghouse Senior peanut tube radio set
by Edward Bobbins, a freshman living
at the hall.
The set was installed last Saturday
and since then, several programs have
been received through it, most of them
from the broadcasting stations KFI, at
Los Angeles, and KTO at San Fran
cisco. The atmospheric conditions have
not been very good for transmitting
radio messages, which has caused them
to be rather faint, but under favorable
conditions it is expected that concerts
and lectures from San Francisco, Los
Angeles, and Portland will be heard
plainly.
The set has no amplifier, the instal
lation of which would greatly add to
the clearness of the sounds. The aerial
which intercepts the radio waves is a
copper wire approximately 120 feet
long and is strung from the roof of
Friendly hall to the top of one of the
fir trees between that building and the
library. Another wire strung to one of
the other nearby trees, forming a Y
shaped aerial, is planned, to increase
the receiving capacity of the set.
KAPPA THETA CHI WILL
. GET PHI PSI CHARTER
Formal Ceremony in Charge of
Portland Alumni Group
The installation of Kappa Theta Chi,
local fraternity, as the forty-eighth
chapter of Phi Kappa Psi will be held
this week-end. The local chapter will
be known as Oregon Alpha. The port
land alumni association of Phi Kappa
Psi will have charge of the installation
program and the details of the affair.
Reservations have been made for ap
proximately one hundred and fifty vis
iting Phi Pais, among whom are in
cluded John L. Porter of Philadelphia,
' personal representative of the national
president of the fraternity; Shirley Mo
serve of San Francisco, national vice
president, and Dan G. Swanuell, last
grand president of the fraternity, who
will come from Champaign, Illinois, for
the installation exercises and will ar
rive here Friday. Representatives from
the Stanford and California chapters
will be in attendance, as well as mem
bers of the Washington chapter. Among
the Portland alumni who will attend
are Dr. William Wallace Youngson,
president of the Portland alumni asso
ciation; A. B. Winfree, H. G. Effinger,
E. T. Sturgeon, and Judge E. T. Bro
naugh.
Friday evening the formal initiation
and installation of the fraternity will
take place in the Odd Fellows hall.
Saturday morning the national officors
will visit the local fraternity Omega
Upsilon at O. A. C., which is petition
ing Phi Kappa Psi. Saturday after
noon there will be a reception at the
Woman’s building in honor of the of
ficers and in the evening a banquet at
the Osburn hotel will conclude the for
mal events of the installation.
EX-ART EDITOR OF LEMON
PUNCH IS MINE REPORTER
“Bunk” Short Says He Must Go Under
Ground to Get News for His Paper
Work Exciting
According to word received by Dean
| Eric W. Allen, of the school of jour
I iialisin, Eugene Short, ex-’22, is in Oat
i man, Arizona, reporting mining news
for the Oatman Mining News. When
on the campus, Mr. Short, more famil
iarly known as “Bunk,” was art editor
i of the Lemon Punch and it was his
I prolific pen that created the little comic
character of “Lemmy.”
“Reporting mining news,” says the
! letter received by Dean Allen, “is a
little different from other reporting as
! the reporter generally has to go down
in the mines and see for himself and
the news is of a technical sort. Fre
quent visits to the different mines, how
ever, makes the work interesting.”
Short plans to return to school in
the spring. He is a member of Alpha
Tau Omega.
FACULTY DEFEATS
CHANGE IN TERM
ST5TEM 38 TO 31
Instructors and Departmental
Heads Numbering 73 Vote;
Three Not Listed
REFERENDUM IS BY MAIL
Ballots Counted Yesterday;
Several Change Sides, Is
Belief Expressed
Voting 38 to 31 in favor of the term
plan the referendum ballot taken by
mail last week and yesterday, the fac
ulty has given its final decision on
what is considered one of the most im
portant issues arising in the University
for a number of years. Out of the 75
eligible to vote, only three failed to
cast a ballot, namely, Earl Kilpatrick,
Ira Richardson and Carlton E. Spencer.
The change of faculty majority in favor
of the present system is due, according
to those counting the votes, more to
the members who swung over to vote
for the term plan than to the larger
vote cast.
The second clause of the ballot insert
ed to determine the date of going into
effect of the semester plan, if adopted,
likewise showed a large majority in
favor of putting off the change as long
as possible. Out of 67 voting, 45 were
in favor of 1924 and only 22 desired
to make the change at the beginning of
next school year.
Students Oppose Plan
,As far as the campus in general was
concerned, the beginning of the agita
tion relative to the proposed reverting
to the old system of dividing the school
year into two parts began when the
faculty announced their decision by a
narrow majority in favor of the change.
The Emerald, opposed to the change, at
once determined to ascertain student
opinion on the proposal, and sponsored
a student straw vote. The results of
this vote showed approximately 98 per
cent of the students voting favored the
term plan.
The discussion did not end when the
results of the straw vote were known,
neither among the students nor among
the faculty. With the assurance of
President Campbell that the results of
the straw vote would be awaited with
interest, and would have weight with
the faculty, reaction of such an over
whelming majority of the students in
favor of the term plan on the faculty
was awaited with interest. Members
of the faculty, desiring the present
system, asserted that enough members
in sympathy with their side were not
present at tho meeting. Others thought
the absentees evenly divided on the
issue.
Medics for Term Basis
Members of the medical school fac
ulty in Portland felt they ought to be
considered in the matter, too. An ad
visory vote was taken and submitted
to the resident faculty. This vote show
ed the Portland professors in favor of
retaining tho present system.
When the referendum ballots were
sent out last week following the faculty
meeting, there was a great deal of
uncertainty among the faculty and stu
dents as to which side would gain tho
victory. Neither side was certain of its
majority and only yesterday’s count
would settle the matter.
ALUMNI VISIT CAMPUS
Former Emerald Staff Members Now
Engaged in Journalistic Work
Jay Allen, former member of the
editorial staff of the Emerald and a
) member of Sigma Delta Chi, is visiting
the campus. Mr. Allen is now working
on the Portland Oregonian.
Ruth Austin, who worked on the Em
i orald staff last year and is now employ
ed on the Capitol Journal at Salem,
; is another alumni visitor on the earn
pus. Miss Austin is a member of
| Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and
Theta Sigma Phi honorary journalistic
| fraternity.
' l’hebe Gage, member of the class of
! ’22 and former vice-president of the
| Y. W. C. A. cabinet, is another alumni
visiting here. Miss Gage is a member
of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and
Kwama.