Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXIV.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16. 1923
NUMBER 93
MANY CHANGES IN
CONSTITUTION OF
A.SIO. DESIRED
Owen Callaway Heads Student
Council Group Working on
Suggested Revisions
STUDENTS VOTE IN MARCH
New Plan Would Eliminate
Four Student Committees
and Change Awards
Constitutional Changes Considered
Addition of one alumnus and
one regent to the executive coun
cil.
Consolidation of work of activ
ities committees.
Award of letters to members of
winning teams.
Change in requirements for win
ning a track letter.
Standardization of women’s ath
letic award requirements.
Limitation of blanket awards to
men who graduate.
Six proposals to change the A. S. U.
O. constitution are being worked out
by the student council committee on
revision, according to Owen Callaway,
chairman. The committee will put all
proposed amendments into writing and
will present them for student vote at
an election in March.
A member of the board of regents
on the executive council has been sug
gested by alumni in Eugene. They
hold that such an addition would prove
a connecting link between the students ■
and the state. The idea has received
favorable consideration at the hands j
of the committee. It was at first sug-1
gested that this regent should be an;
alumnus of the University, but no ac-!
tion has yet been taken in this matter. ]
Students to Vote
The proposal to have one more alumni
representative on the council, will be j
submitted to the students for vote, ac
cording to Callaway. Since the an
nouncement of the alumni clamor for
more representation, what student opin
ion has been expressed has been favor
able to the change. Numerous letters
from former students asking the addi
tional vote have been received. Eugene
alumni declare that there should be at
least two more graduates on the coun
cil. They point out that unless alumni
are given a hand in student affairs and
athletics, the undergraduates can hard
ly expect a large degree of support
from the old students.
Plans for merging several activities
committees have been drawn up by the
revision group. Under the new plan the
nine committees will be replaced by
five. There will be committees for
athletics, forensics, publications, music,
and women’s activities. Under the
plan there will be approximately five
members on each committee, which will
be clothed with a greater degree of re
sponsibility than under the present sys
tem. The membership of the committees
and the council will overlap to some
extent.
Advisory Committee Suggested
The main feature of the change will
be the substitution of one advisory ath
letic committee for the five groups for
each sport. To this committee the coun
cil will look for recommendations of .
athletic policy, hiring of coaches, and
other matters pertaining to athletics.
The committee will consist of faculty,
students, and alumni and will be largely
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Chemist Who Talked
in Villard Assembly
Prof. O. F. Stafford
WOMAN’S GLEE CLUB
CONCERT 10 BE TONIGHT
Twenty Four Voices Will Be
Heard in Entertainment
With all its members in excellent
vo^ce, and able to give a delightful and
interesting program, the Women’s Glee
club of the University, will present its
annual home concert this evening at
8:15 o’clock in the Woman’s building, j
The club has a membership of 24, all
of whom have had from one to four i
years vocal training, and it is expected |
that the program will be one of the \
best, and most varied, that has ever!
been given on the campus. John Stark
Evans, director of the organization, has i
been rehearsing the girls every evening
—the final dress rehearsal being held
Thursday. Mr. E\j;ans is especially
pleased with the work that, has been
done and commended the girls for their
ability and interest in making the con
cert a success.
Ted Gillenwaters, manager of the
club, has worked out pleasing and novel
lighting effects which will be used dur
ing the entire program, and deserves
special commendation for the complete
ness with which he arranged the con
cert. Gillenwaters recently returned
from a trip to the southern part of the
state where he made advance bookings
for the spring trip of the club. Before
the trip, the home concert program will
be given in Cottage Grove, with the
exception of the singing of Debussy’s
“Blessed Damozel,” which has been es
pecially worked up for the concert to
night.
The personnel of the club is as fol
lows: first soprano, Florence Garrett,
Hillsboro; Gwaldys Keeney, Portland;
Kathleen Kem, Cottage Grove; Joanna
James, Rainier; first alto, Bernice Alt
stock, Portland; Alice Baker, Oakland;
Marvel Skeels, Coquille; Eloise Mac
Pherson, Portland; Vera Price, Scap
poose; second soprano, Marian Linn,
Eugene; May Fenno, Eugene; Con
stance Miller, Centralia, Wash.; Leona
Gregory, Molalla; Alice Tomkins, Cas
cade Locks; Dorothy Poill, Eugene;
second alto, Maxine Buren, Salem; Mar
garet Powers, Marshfield; Alberta Car
son, Hood River; Muriel Meyers, Mer
lin; Mildred Brown, San Jose, Cal.
Virginia Owens, Portland, is accompan
ist for the organization.
RECITAL IS FEBRUARY 27
The joint recital of Ronald Reid, in
structor in piano, and John B. Seifert,
teacher of voice in the school of music,
is to be held February 27 in the Meth
odist church on Tuesday evening.
Through a typographical error in yes
terday’s Emerald the wrong date was
announced.
Radio Is Praised as Medium
of Broadcasting Education
Will the radio as an educational me
dium survive the waning of interest in
air-transmission as a novelty? This is
a question which has been raised by
recent interest shown in the transmis
sion of educational matter by radio
through the lecture series which has
been given in Portland under the aus
pices of the extension division.
There are undoubted advantages in
such a means of getting over a lecture
on some subject of current and general
interest, in the opinion of Alfred Pow
ers of the extension division, who was
interviewed on the subject of the radio
in relation to its future'as an educa
tional factor.
The radio lecture by virtue of its
novelty reaches many persons who
would be uninterested in a written lec
ture on a similar subject. The very
novelty, however, may in time operate
against the extension of radio lectur
ing, as the novelty will disappear and
with it the general interset.
Spaking in favor of the radio lecture
Mr. Powers said, “A large number of
the radio sets are owned by boys and
young people, which fact has a large
significance. The boy is interested in
the radio primarily because he is in
■terested in it mechanically, but after
he has learned to operate one a world
of culture is opened up to him. He can
‘listen in’ on the best music and the
best of lectures.” Here again novelty
plays a part in radio popularity.
“There is another aspect to consider
in radio lectures,” said Mr. Powers,
“and that is the great economy of it;
economy both to the listener and to the
speaaer. It would be practically impos
sible for one man to reach such a large
number of people in the state as he can
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BEGINNING IS ONLY
MADE IN SCIENCE
STATES STAFFORD
University Professor Explains
Research Work in Field
of Chemistry
INVENTIONS CAUSE CHANGE
Lumber Discovery Is Cited as
Example of Results of
Efficiency Study
“We are entering into a new era of
science, where it is impossible for the
unsupported individual to meet the stu
pendous tasks that lie ahead in utiliz
ing the natural sources of energy.”
This was the statement made by Pro
fessor Orin Stafford, head of the Uni
versity chemistry department, in his ad
dress before the assembly in Villard
hall yesterday, on “Scientific Research
and Public Service.”
The field now requires organized ef
fort, according to Professor Stafford.
Men must band together and devote
their own energy in developing the
energy that lies loose about them. “It
is not the question of finding new en
ergy that is so important, as is the prob
lem of utilizing more effectively the
sources we now have,” he said.
Only a beginning has been made, on
ly the easiest things have been accom
plished, pointed out Mr. Stafford. Here
tofore all scientific progress has been
done as a result of individual effort,
and during the past, many achieve
ments have multiplied the effectiveness
of energy, as the use of a steam power
established by James Watt, the inven
tion of the sowing machine by Howe, |
and the electrical devices created by
Marconi and Edison as well as numer
ous other scientists’ work.
Scientific Men Cited
Jenner, Pasteur nail Lister were also
cited as noted conservers of energy by
Mr. Stafford, who stated that the man
of science heretofore has often, if not
always, blazed the way for improve
ment. But today progress has become
a problem of the public, and in order
for it to receive the many advantages
of advancement, it has become the
highest duty of the state to participate
and lead in scientific research.
“The ultimate goal of life is happi
ness,” said Mr. Stafford, “and from a
scientific viewpoint the essential fac
tor in seeking that goal is an under
standing of the environment. Men are
all parasitic in their mode of living,
for all the energy comes from the sun,
and they are obliked to obtain that en
ergy by indirect methods.” This pro
cess of getting this power in itself in
volves an expenditure of energy, said
the speaker, and the cost of pain and
sacrifice. The ideal condition for get
ting the natural sources of energy is
that which can be met without any near
approach to exhaustion. Such a state
varies with the climate of the different
parts of the universe, Professor Staf
ford pointed out.
Energy Less in Tropics
The minimum of energy required is
small in the tropics and greater in the
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GARRETT IS SECRETARY
OF COMMERCIAL CLUB
Oregon City Organization Chooses
Graduate of University for
Executive Position
Oregon City, Ore., Feb. 5.—(Special
to the Emerald.)—Byron O. Garrett of
Hillsboro was selected Wednesday by
the board of governors of the Oregon
City Commercial club as executive sec
retary of the local commercial body
which a few months ago underwent a
complete change of organization.
Garrett was formerly secretary of the
McMinnville Commercial club and was
associated with the commercial club of
Salem. He is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Oregon in the class of 1921
and majored in dommerce. Garrett
was the first president and one of the
organizers of the University of Oregon
chamber of commerce, the first colleg
iate commercial club to be admitted to
the United States Chamber of Com
merce. He is a member of Beta Gamma
Sigma, honorary collegiate commerce
fraternity.
Garrett is an overseas veteran, hav
ing served 15 months; nine months of
this time was in France with the head
quarters corps of the first army.
The commercial club here has been
i reorganized under the old plan of oper
ation in vogue more than a year ago.
' It had been changed into a eomplica
j ted system which was found inoperative
j and subsequently abandoned. There
j has been no paid secretary of the club
for seven months.
VARSITY HOOPERS
TO TRAVEL NORTH
U. of W., W. S. C., Idaho Are
Strongest Opponents; Bill
Hayward With Team
HARD CONTESTS LISTED
Eight Men Will Make Trip to
Lift Oregon from Third
Conference Place
"We are going north with the team
with tlie idea of winning every game
of the trip,” said Coach George Boliler
yesterday in speaking of the northern
jaunt on which the squad starts this
afternoon at two o’clock. Bill Hay
ward is accompanying the team in order
that they may be in the best possible
condition for the games they have
scheduled, and special arrangements are
being made in an attempt to take a
supply of Eugene wcter with them.
The men making the trip are Hunk
Latham, Don Zimmerman, Hal Chap
man, Russ Gowans, Earl Shafer, Had
don Rockhey, Arvin Burnett and Fran
cis Altstock. This will provide plenty
of substitutes, and they will certain
ly be needed as the schedule for the
trip is a strenuous one. Ralf Couch
will be unable to make the trip because
of an infected foot which has kept him
off the court for the last week.
Hard Games Scheduled
The three hardest games will be with
Idaho at Moscow, Washington at Seat
tle, and Washington State at Pullman.
Washington State and the University of
Washington both beat Oregon on the
Eugene floor, but if the Webfooters
are going in anything near their nat
ural stride they should be able to re
verse the dope. On their tour Idaho
took a beating here, but on their own
floor the team is nearly invincible, ac
cording to Coach Bolder, as the Moscow
floor is long and narrow, and puts the
visiting team at a great disadvantage.
Washington State is evidently im
proving rapidly, for the team traveled
over to Moscow Wednesday night and
by superior shooting managed to hang
a defeat on the Idaho Vandals, thus
practically eliminating the Idaho team,
as this gives them four defeats.
Oregon Holds Third Place
This also puts Oregon in third pi ice
in the Conference standings, and she
is only one game behind Washington
and the Oregon Aggies, who are tied
for first. .
The team is certainly up against a
hard proposition on this trip, for on the
twelve day trip it has five games
scheduled, and every one of these games
is a hard one. The first comes tomor
row night against Whitman at Walla
Walla, and if Borleske’s crew continues
to work as it has been doing for the
last few weeks,- it will prove no snap
to boat them. ,
Monday night the Varsity tangles
with the Idaho Vandals at Moscow in
what promises to be a real battle, with
the floor on ^lie side of the Idaho
team. If the Oregon men can win that
game they should be able to take all
of the others. Wednesday night, on
the 21st,they play Washington State at
Pullman, and on Thursday meet the
Spokane Athletic club at Spokane.
Oregon Out for Revenge
The Washington game is slated for
Saturday night at Seattle on the 24tli,
and this should also prove a real strug
gle, as the Huskies beat the Oregon
team in the last minute of play here,
and the Lemon-Yellow will be out for
revenge.
'i'he Aggie games this last week def
.n.tely proved that the Oregon quintet
is over its mid-season slump, and if
it can keep up the stride it hit against
the Aggies, it will no doubt be able
to turn in a clean series of wins for its
trip.
CLUB liEARS^DRTBOVARD
Advocator and Emancipator Honored;
Evolution of Vertebrates Told
Dr. John F. Bovard, head of the
physical education department, deliver
ed an illustrated lecture before the
Condon club Wednesday night in Con
don hall on “Reptiles and Their Place
in the Animal Kingdom.” Dr. Bovard
altered his previous intention of speak
ing on the sabre-toothed cat, and in
stead discussed the evolution of the ver
tebrates. By use of slides, he indica
ted the characteristics by which the
vertebrates may be recognized. He
traced the rise and division of the ani
mals to-the present day classification.
The meeting was held in commemora
tion of the birth of Charles Darwin,
i exponent of the theory of evolution.
As both Darwin and Lincoln were born
on February 12, 1809, honor was paid
the advocator of natural selection and
1 the great emancipator.
JACK MYERS IS
CO-OP PRESIDENT
BEN MAXWELL AND PAUL STAL
EY ON EXECUTIVE BOARD
All Other Officers Retain Places in
Organization; Meeting Is Called
to Determine Policy
The officers of the board of direc
tors of the Co-op were elected at a meet
ing held in the store Wednesday night
for the purpose of organizing the new
board, elected by the members of the
cooperative store at the annual meeting
January 15.
Jack Myers, a junior, was elected
president; Ben Maxwell, vice-president,
and Paul Staley, secretary-treasurer.
Maxwell and Staley are both sopho
mores. The other members of the pre
sent board are Paul Sayre, a junior,
and Orlando Hollis, freshman. Dean
J. F .Bovard, and Dr. J. H. Gilbert are
the faculty members. Under the sys
tem of organization of the board, each
member, with the exception of the
freshman representative, who is elect
ed for one year only, hold office for
two years. Thus the two juniors, My
ers and Sayre, will go out next January,
while Maxwell and Staley will have
their positions for two years.
A special meeting was called for
Tuesday, February 20, to settle busi
ness and form the policies for the com
ing year, which was to have been done
at Wednesday’s meeting but was post
poned on account of the absence of the
faculty members of the board.
LOU COOUDGESTARS
LAST NIGHT AT HEILIG
Mask and Buskin Production
Draws Big Audience
“Come Out of the Kitchen,” the
Mask and Buskin production, was play
ed to a largo and enthusiastic audience
at the Hoilig theater last evening. Tiro
play itself, admittedly A. E. Thomas’
best work, offered unusual opportunity
for good acting.
Lorna Coolidge scored the biggest
success of the year in her interpreta
tion of Olivia Dangerfleld, afterward
Jane Ellen, the charming little Irish
cook who won the hearts of both the
Yankee from the north and all his
guests. Miss Cdolidge has exhibited
great versatility in past roles, but
found this one especially suited to her
ability.
Yern Eudge, known for his character
work, has demonstrated his ability to
play a straight part in his portrayal of
the Yankee from the north, who rents
the old family home of the Banger
fields, and unwittingly employs Olivia
Dangerfleld as his cook. He played op
posite Lorna Coolidge very adequately.
Kate Pinneo, in her interpretation
of Mandy, the verbose, generously pro
portioned, devoted old black mammy,
added to her laurels won in Guild hall
comedy roles. Her voice quality is es
pecially good. Those who saw her as
Addeliney Bowersox in “The Raggedy
Man” will appreciate her versatility
the more.
Barrel Larsen did well as Tuck, the
lawyer, well-meaning, but grumpy and
inefficient, even in his love-making.
Ilildegarde Repinen played the part of
Bess, the sister, a spoiled and peevish
member of the old southern family.
Elizabeth Robinson portrayed with ease
and ability the role of Mrs. Falkuer,
the Yankee’s friend from the north,
who took it upon herself to investigate
the domestic machinery in the home,
and thereby tangle the plot. Star Nor
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TWO NEW BRIDGES WILL
GO UP OVER MILL-RACE;
_
Finish of Franklin Paving Will Lighten
Traffic on Other Streets, and
Prevent Accidents
At a recent meeting of the Eugene
city council plans were made for the
erection of new bridges over the mill
race at Ninth avenue, and on Franklin
boulevard. These bridges are to be
built of concrete to withstand the heavy
traffic. After these bridges and the
paving on Franklin have been finished
a large portion of the traffic which
now causes more travel on Eleventh and
Thirteenth streets will be relieved. This
will be a distinct advantage to the
University, in the elimination of noise
and of danger of accidents to students,
particuarly on Thirteenth street.
No action was taken by the city coun
cil in regard to the Hilyard street
bridge over the mill-race. This struc
ture has been in an unstable condition
for some time and was recently con
demned as unsafe. A number of stu
dents are compelled to cross the mill
race at this point on their way to and
from home.
Although the city council made no
definite provision for repairing this
bridge, it will probably be improved
in the near future, according to the
city engineer, Harry Bevereaux.
NAMED BY CLASS
Douglas Farrell Is General
Chairman; Homecoming
Plan to Be Used
FRIDAY CHANGES POSSIBLE
Group Heads Form Director
ate to Discuss Events
of Annual Program
Plans for tlio 192,'1 Junior week-end,
May 11 and 12, were launched yester
day at a meeting of the class of ’24,
when Jimmie Meek, president, announ
ced committee appointments for the big
event.
Douglas Farrell was appoiuted gener
al chairman of the affair. The plan used
in putting across homecoming will be
instituted, that of having the commit
tee heads moet with the general chair
man as a directorate and discuss the
activities of their committees. Meet
ings of the entire committee Will be
scheduled from time to time and the
findings of the higher body presented.
A plan is under consideration to
change the nature of campus day. It
is felt that the University system of
keeping the campus in shape has done
away with the need of the general
clean-up, and for the past few years the
men who have turned out to work have
little or nothing to do. Some sort of
an event will be scheduled for Friday
morning, however, according to those in
charge, and #vill be known by the old
name of “campus day.”
Myers Heads Junior Prom
The Junior prom, one of the big ev
onts of the week-end, will be directed
by Jack Myers. Mary Alexander, chair
man, and Andrew Karpenstein, have
been placed in charge of the music.
Other prom committees are: Feature,
Frank Carter, chairman, Shirley Ed
wards, Gladys Wright and Marion Lay.
Decorations, Bandall Jones, chairman,
Francis Linklater, William Nettleship,
Marcella Berry, Mildred Le Compte
and Lurline Coulter. Programs, Bay
Harlan, chairman, Ed Kirtley, Miriam
Swartz and Edna Largent. Floor, Lyle
Palmer, chairman, Lee Weber, Margar
et Seymour and Virginia Pearson. Re
freshments, Margaret Griffith, chair
man, Betty Pride and Moe Sax. Pa
tronesses, John Piper, chairman, and
Georgia Benson.
Edlund Manages Canoe Fete
Eddie Edlund will be in charge of the
canoe fete. His committees are made
up as follows:
Floats: Jason McCuue, chairman,
Freda Goodrich, Betty Garrett and Ed
Haney.
Lighting: Francis Haworth, chair
man, Charles Spere and Harold Hold
inan.
Jlleaohers: Russ Uowans, chairman,
Verden llockett, George Horsfall and
Linn Roycroft.
Feature: Knut Digerness, chairman,
Nancy Wilson.
The campus luncheon, always a big
undertaking and the source of some of
the perplexing problems of Junior
week-end, will be in charge of Velma
Farnham. Emmy Lou Douglas, Henry
etta Lawrence, Mary Ann Hanson,
Gwaldys Keeney, Gladys Anderson,
Charlie Dawson, Francis Altstock, Al
fred Shields, and Tom Chatburn, will
assist in the direction of this commit
tee ’s activities.
Publicity, both in the way of adver
tising the week-end on the campus and
throughout the state and during the
two days of the program, will be hand
led by Art Rudd, chairman. Ben Max
well, George Godfrey and Ted Janes
are the other members of the commit
tee.
New Committees Named
A new committee has been named to
meet the situation of entertaining high
school students who will not come down
as guests of houses. An effort will be
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EDUCATOR TO SPEAK HERE
Superintendent of Berkeley Schools
to Be Guest of Dean Sheldon
Dr. It. B. Wilson, superintendent of
schools in Berkeley, California, will ar
rive on the campus Sunday and will
speak to education majors at nine o’
clock Monday morning.
Dr. Wilson, who, during his visit on
tire campus will be the guest of Dr.
H. D. Sheldon, dean of the school of
education, is prominent in educational
lines and is chairman of the committee
for the reorganization of common
schools of the national education asso
j ciation.
On Monday afternoon Dr. Wilson will
j resume his trip eastward, making a
short stop at Chenney, Washington.