V
FROSH TRAINING
FOR FINAL TILTS
OF HOOP SEASON
Hard Contests Expected With
Salem High School Five
This Week-End
YEARLINGS ARE WINNERS
Score 461 to Opponents’ 296;
Bryant and Gosser Lead
in Goal Shooting
—
After a week’s rest since the rook
games the freshman hoopers began the
final lap of their season’s play with a
stiff workout last night. Two games
with Salem high billed for the men’s
gym, Friday and Saturday afternoons,
are the first of six remaining games on
the yearlings’ schedule. On the follow
ing week-end Columbia University of
Portland will form the opposition in a
duo of games. The season will be
brought to a close on the next week-end
with a couple of games against Frank
lin and Washington high schools.
Some mighty stiff competition is in
prospect for the frosh when they tangle
with the Salem team, and Coach Shy
Huntington is none too optimistic of
his proteges’ chances in these two tilts.
The Capitol City quintet is the class of
the Willamette valley among the high
schools. In some ten games played the
Senators have trounced all opponents
by decisive scores, and they are touted
by a number of credits as the coming
state interscholastie champions. Some
of the teams Salem has defeated are
the Chemawa Indians, Albany, Corval
lis, Ashland, and Medford high schools.
Ashland high, which the 'frosh defeated
47 to 27, was downed by the Salem team
by a much larger score. All this makes
the preppers appear stronger than the
yearlings.
Stendall Lost to Team
The Oregon babes will be weakened
by the loss of Stendall, a fast forward,
who has withdrawn from the Univer
sity. While he was unable to turn out
until after the season had started and
did not play regularly, Stendall per
formed in the utliity role on several
occasions with marked success and was
a mighty handy man to have around.
There is a possibility also that Bill
Gosser, the frosh tip-off mainstay, will
be unable to play this week-end. Gosser
fell heir to a second attack of grippe
last week and he is far from well yet.
With these two men out of the game
the first-year hoopers will have to bat
tle hard to keep up their winning
streak.
Eleven Games Won
In the games already played the
babes have run up a commendable rec
ord. Out of 13 games played thus far
they have lost only two, one to the Che
mawa Indians and another to the O. A.
C. rooks. Both of these defeats were
attributed largely to the fact that half
of the team was in poor condition be
cause of colds. Deck Bryant, the reli
able forward, and Bob Mautz, guard,
were both absent from the lineup in the
Chemawa game and the smoothness
which characterized the teamwork of
the quintet in the previous contests
was sadly lacking. The frosh put up
a game fight but were nosed out 28 to
25. The rook defeat came the next week
while the yearlings were still in their
slump.
In every other game the frosh showed
a consistent punch that earned them
victories, in almost every case by large
scores. A total of 461 points against
their opponents’ 296 is their present
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Poet of Modernism
Coming Here Friday
Carl Sandburg
SANDBURG OFFERS NEW
SUBJECTS FOR POETRY
_
Sweating Farmhands, Rushing,
Trains Verse Topics
By Katherine Watson
In the days of yore, poets sang of
hearths with crackling fires, of plows
turning up damp sweet earth, of old
stages lumbering picturesquely through,
pioneer dangers. Carl Sandburg, a poet j
of today who conies to the University,
Friday, sings of furnaces yawning for!
coal in tenement basements, threshing
machines throbbing out golden wheat in
the midst of a sweating crew of farm
hands, trains rushing with terrifying
swiftness across a crazy-quilt country,.
carrying a bored group of travelers who 1
play cards or munch soggy sandwiches.
And there are some who think that
furnaces, threshing machines, and
trains, because they are more modern,
are not poetic, and that hearths, plows
and stages alone should find their way
into poetry. But there are many more
who find Sandburg’s virile work with
its hum of factory, its throb of engines,
its idiom and slang more adequate to
the day and as deserving of the name
of poetry.
To Sandburg, a girl making change at
the tubes in a large department store
is as worthy of verse as a milk maid
brushing dewy daisy heads with her
swinging pail. A farmer chugging into
the city in his Ford to see a musical
comedy is as good a subject as the old
time farmer reminiscing sentimentally
behind a shambling old mare on the
way to a husking bee.
Sandburg has spoken to us in our own
language, of the things with which we
come in daily contact. He has stood on
the curbstones of our daily lives, not a
ranter, or cynic, but a calm observer,
telling us what he has seen. Nor is
it all harsh and stinging. He is able
to draw with not only long sweeping
strokes, but with fine delicate lines. He
can sing of the dust on a butterfly’s
wing as well as the mud of the streets.
Y. W. SENDS RELIEF MONEY
Gifts to Astoria Association Reaches
Total of Eighty Dollars
Eighty dollars are being sent by the
local Y. W. C. A. to the Astoria asso
ciation for relief work. The money was
earned through sales and through priv
ate gifts.
The Astoria Y. W. C. A. has been in
igreat need of funds as their building
was destroyed by the fire and their
budget was greatly decreased because
the Astoria people find it hard to con
tribute. They have sent appeals to all
the sister associations of the Northwest
and much aid has been sent.
Already word has come back express
ing the appreciation of the organization
for the money and the assistance.
New Crop of Frosh Break Out
on Campus in New Green Lids
>
Get the paddles ready. We have a
new crop of freshmen on the campus,
and quite a few of them at that. They
must be inoculated with Oregon tra
ditions before they leave.
All this is the outgrowth of Presi
dent Campbell’s interest in the Uni
versity. At the convention of the Ore
gon Eetail Merchants in the Chamber
of Commerce yesterday morning, the
president welcomed them to the Univer
sity, saying that the portals of the in
stitution were open for their entrance.
He said that in order to enter the Uni
versity, they would have to come as
freshmen and do as freshmen do while
on the Oregon campus, and to prove
his point lie produced a basket full of
green derbies, the badge of frosh sub
mission.
Not to be outdone by the gracious
welcome of the president, the Oregon
Merchants voted to elect him an honor
ary member of the Knights of the
Green Kelly with the provision that
he wear the badge of the order.
So if you students do as you were
done by once in your college career
you will line ’em up, frisk ’em for
chewing tobacco and cigarettes and
proceed to put ’em through the en
trance exam of the frosh; such as, avoid
the senior bench, kiss the seal, paint
the “O,” and don’t wear cords and som
breros.
If you see a silvered or timber
thatched dome half-revealed under a
green lid, gleefully romping on the seal
or nonchantly reclining on the senior
bench, you will, of course, wield the
paddle, “spare not the rod.” If they
smear paint on the campus, smear paint
on them.
When they voted President Campbell
into the class, they wanted to elect the
reporter to membership, but he turned
up his nose, flaunted a pair of senior
eords, passed out, and wrote this yarn
in defiance.
Great Success Predicted for
Wednesday’s Concert by
Student Manager
A. S. U. 0. TICKETS ADMIT
People May Be Jazzed Wfth
Classical Music, Noted
Tenor Declares
Judging from the huge success of
Paul Althouse’s Australian trip, from
which the tenor has just returned, he
should prove even more popular upon
his appearance on the University cam
pus Wednesday evening, than upon his
visit here two years ago, according to
Roy Bryson, student manager of the
concert. Althouse will sing in the Meth
odist church auditorium, Wednesday
evening at 8 o ’clock promptly. Students
will be admitted upon presentation of
their student tickets.
Althouse is personally known to many
of the faculty members on the campus,
largely those of the school of music.
He is one of the younger members of
the vocal firmament, according to a
short sketch of the singer published
recently by Madame Rose McGrew.
Starts Career Young
Shortly before he made his debut at
the Metropolitan Opera House Paul Alt
house had jazzed the piano a bit, for
he was a normal American youth: bare
ly twenty-one, and buoyant, with the
health of the athlete. He could respond
to the rhythms of the popular tunes, but
the greater number of his working mo
ments were given to music of another
sort.
After New York had approved the
new tenor as one rightfully to be wel
comed to the Metropolitan’s exclusive
fold, Mr. Althouse discovered his task
was still larger than he had been led
to believe, because, almost immediate
ly, there came from cities throughout
the country demands for his services
in concert.
Opera Great Experience
“I like opera,” he confessed. “It
fis a wonderful experience — in such
an institution as the Metropolitan—to
have had. Yet the artistic quality of
recital and oratorio singing has for
me a larger appeal. One may not
find, in those fields (particularly that
of the recital), the friendly cloak of
the orchestra to cover one’s vocal blem
ishes. You either sing, during a recital
or else retire to some spot where sing
ing is not desired.
“It was perhaps fortunate that I
learned, early in my career, that the
American people crave music of the bet
ter sort. I found the interpretative
side of my art to be respected as much
as I had respected the use of my voice I
—a use which should reveal it to the
best advantage in every possible way.
People Seek Emotion
“You see,” said the tenor, “the peo
ple seek an emotional sensation in ev
ery kind of music they hear. Perhaps I
should omit from the classification the
sublime classics which appeal primarily
to the mind: Beethoven’s ninth sym
phony, for example; some of that com
poser’s lovliest songs; parts of certain
symphonies by Hayden and Mozart; com
positions of the immortal Bach—as well
as others of the largely intellectual
type.
“From dose observations of my aud
itors in hundreds of recitals which I
have sung in practically all the im
portant cities of the United States and
Canada, I have come to the conclusion
that they find their greatest stimulus
in the music the classical composers
wrote.
Schubert Message Welcome
“Schubert carries a more welcome
message to the majority than the writer
of a commonplace melody—no matter if
that melody has a snap and swing which
appears, momentarily, to have made an
effect. And a dozen other great com
posers whose names it is not necessary
to mention exert a corresponding Schu
berian appeal.
“A program must be carefully group
ed, as the saying goes: the English
songs in one section, those by Ameri
can musicians in another, the broad
aria in its proper place, the Italian, the
Russian, the French songs in their fit
ting spots. I suppose your average con
cert patron would classify all the songs ;
of the ‘better’ sort as ‘classical’; it
seems a word most listeners have chosen
to apply to music which was meant to
live.
Emotional Response Made
“And so I have come to believe, after
this study of audiences of which I
spoke, to regard their demeanor as due
to a species of emotional response which
is none the less pronounced t^ian is
exerted by a jazzing effect. What
makes it a thing to be happy over is
the fact that'from such an effect a ben
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TUTANKHAMEN’S TOMB CUT FROM
MAUSOLEUM OF AGES; GEOLOGY
DWARFS TIME ELEMENT
Dr. Smith Tells of Eocene Seas Which Swept
Over Northern Africa Millions of Years
Before Pharaohs’ Time
By Phil Brogan
Tutankhamen lived but yesterday.
Thebes in all her regal splendor, in
stead of occupying a dim distant place
in the vista of antiquity, is removed but
a day. Three thousand five hundred
years is only a few seconds as recorded
by the sandglass of geology.
Such is the gist of an interview grant
ed yesterday by I)r. Warren D. Smith,
head of the University department of
geology, who has visited the Mile region
on two different occasions, has been
in the tombs of Pharaohs, and has looked
over the sand dunes from the summit of
the great pyramid near Cairo.
Pr. Smith in his interview did not
emphasize the geologic recency of the
pharaohs: he spoke as a scientist, using
a time-measuring yeardstick marked off
in periods of millions of years. Sirius,
the “dog star” in the constellation Canis
Major, shone over the escarpments in
the Valley of the Kings when Tutank
hamen was first hidden away in his lime
stone vault just as brightly as it did
last night when tourists and excavators
walked down the dusty trails to the val
ley of the Nile and Luxor. Sand-laden
winds have scarcely altered the features
of the castellated cliffs during this
period of over 3000 years. Dr. Smith
scarcely touched upon those subjects. He
went back some ten million years and
showed that Tutankhamen is buried in a
mausoleum of the ages.
Powerful pharaohs of ancient Egypt
in the XVIII Dynasty chose “to have a
natural pyramid for a grave, a mountain
for a tumulus.” Little did these rulers
of empires realize that in selecting the
Valley of the Kings, a place on the west
shore of the Nile not far from Thebes,
they hit upon the metamorphosed ceme
tery of life that liad lived in the Eocene
seas millions of years before. Although
not positive, Dr. Smith belives the Nile
escarpments forming the Valley of the
Kings is composed of nummulitie lime
stone. Nummulites, explained Dr. Smith,
were one-celled organisms, foraminiferae
which lived in the ancient seas. It was in
this soft limestone that slaves carved
out sarcophagi-chambers, and it was in
a tomb made up of life of the early Ter
tiary that Tutankhamen rested undis
turbed until recently.
With the aid of areal maps and charts
of the Kile country, Dr. Smith showed
his interviewer the territory covered by
the Eocene sea when it swept inland over
northern Africa. An attenuated arm of
the Cretaceous sea extended down the
Nile to the vicinity of the Valley of the
Kings, but it is Dr. Smith’s belief that
the Luxor area is neither Cretaceous nor
Numidian sandstone, but Eocene lime
stone.
“To the best of my knowledge the Nile
region has been remarkably free from
earthquakes, especially in recent centur
ies,” said Dr. Smith when asked if sois
mic disturbances had not damaged tem
ples, pyramids, and rock tombs in Egypt.
The great African rift passes close to
the Valley of the Kings and it appears
strange that few earthquakes have been
recorded, for the tremors travel along the
rift, according to geologists. It is point
ed out that earthquakes would have rent
the pyramids and tombs and infiltration
of water would have ruined the treasures
and decomposed the mummies buried in
the limestone vaults.
Although versed in the geology of the
Nile region, Dr. Smith has never been
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FOR ALUMNI SECRETARY
Logical Person for Place, Says
* Miss Calkins
That the logical person to fill the of
fice of a second alumnus on the execu
tive council is the alumni secretary, is
the suggestion of Miss Jeanette Calk
ins, business manager of “Old Oregon.”
It has recently been recommended
that an amendment be passed providing
for greater representation of alumni on
the council. It is the opinion of Miss
Calkins that such representation can be
obtained most effectively by placing on
the council the person who is most close
ly in touch with the alumni—the alum
ni secretary.
“The interest of the secretary in the
alumni has already been established.
The person holding the office necessar
ily has a definite knowledge of the
alumni members and is probably more
closely in touch with them than any
other graduate, and has, therefore the
interests of the Oregon graduates as
well as the students at heart,” said
Miss Calkins.
It was pointed out that if a Eugene
business man were elected to the office
much of the first part of his term in
most instances must be spent in study
ing the situation, the growth of the
University, the changes in policy,—all
entailing a readjustment of his point of
view. It is not that he is not interest
ed, but that he is not in close touch
with conditions, while the secretary is
cognizant of the situation at all times.
Such a provision would eliminate the
the disadvantages of a special election
each year since by the proposed ar
rangement the acting secretary would
automatically hold office, declared Miss
Calkins, who further pointed out that
the secretary w uld be available for
meetings, on the whole, much more fre- j
quently than any other alumnus.
It is the opinion of many jjersons
that there should be more co-operation
between the alumni office, the student
body and the alumni at large. This
would be more readily accomplished
through the appointment of the secre
tary as member of the council than in
any other way. Furthermore it would
bring about a closer relationship be
tween the student government and the
alumni magazine, “Old Oregon,” since
the secretary is also the editor of this
publication, pointed out Miss Calkns.
“One objection which might be sug
gested to the plan is that the alumni
secretary is usually a woman, but that
is not necessarily the case,” added Miss
Calkins.
COUCH JOINS HOOP SQUAD
Half'Couch, member of the Varaity
basketball squad,f will leave Tuesday
noon to join the team at Pullman. He
has been routined in the infirmary for
the past ten days with an infection in
his foot caused by an injury to a toe.
VANDALS WIN FROM
OREGON AT AAOSCOW
Counters Tied Four Times;
Final Score 32 to 29
Moscow, Fob. 19.—The University
of Idaho Vandals walloped the Ore
gon basketball five here tonight in a
heart-breaking game, the final score
standing 32 to 29. At half time Ida
ho held the lead at 11 to 11, while at
the end of the first 15 minutes Oregon
was six points in the lead.
The game was much closer than ex
pected throughout, and the score was
tied four times during the struggle.
Idaho excelled in passing, while the
Oregon shooting was a feature.
This win for Idaho definitely puts
Oregon out of all running for honors
in the Northwest conference, while it
gives the Vandals a big boost in their
championship hopes, for unless they lose
to the Oregon Aggies now they will
have an even chance with the Aggies
and the University of Washington.
The Vandals after the win from Ore
gon will spend a busy week preparing
for the Oregon Aggies, as this will be
the game that counts, since the Aggies
were successful in winning from Wash
ington on the Seattle floor.
CLASS TEAMS TO PLAY
PUBLIC GAME TONIGHT
Senior aifd Sophomore Co-ed Quintets
Promise Fast Game; Will Meet O.
A. C. Players Saturday
The senior and sophomore first bas
ketball teams will play an exhibition
game tonight at 7:110 in the gyninasium
of the Woman’s building and the gener
al public is invited to witness the game,
the players of which will meet the sen
ior and sophomore basketball teams of
O .A. C. Saturday. “These two teams
represent the strongest of the class
teams,” said Miss Waterman, coach,
“and it is expected that tonight’s game
will be very fast and the score running
close.” The senior team is practically
composed of lust year’s varsity play
ers, and has no defeats chalked against
it for this season. The sophomore toss
ers have had a very successful season,
the seniors running up a score of 18 to
t.G, which was the only defeat they have
.net. There will be no admission charg
ed for the game. The line-up will be
as follows:
Senior 1 Sophomoro 1
M. Flegel.0.M. Grain
W. Chattin.SC .G, Boone
D. McKee.(i.A.M. Schroeder
P. Lewis.G.A .McMouios
If. McCormick.F.C. Heckman
C. Howells.F.G. Sullivan
PLEDGING ANNOUNCED
Alpha Sigma announces the pledging
of Elinor Bachman of Portland.
STATE RETAILERS
ON CAMPUS HEAR
ADVICE ON TRADE
Warm Welcome Accorded by
Students and Faculty
to Delegates
PROFESSORS ON PROGRAM
Nagley, Kelly and Folts Give
Ideas on Problems That
Worry Merchants
“Oregon has a new freshman class
on her campus. Although not as large
numerically as the usual nm of in
coming classes, our nearest one pos
sesses a surplus of pep and zipper.
Already they have worried Dean
Straub, who lost no time in claiming
them as his own, because they insist
ed on breaking the campus traditions.
These frosh. who wear their green
derbies so fittingly, are the members
of the Oregon Retail Merchants asso
ciation.
“We, the associated students of the
University, welcome you to our cam
pus, not only for this specific occa
sion, but at any and all opportunities
you have to pay us a visit. We are
indebted to you for a valuable inspi
ration. Enjoy yourselves while here
and come again.”
JOHN MacGREGOR.
Serious of expression, yet full of life
as a group of school boys in their an
nual picnic, more than one hundred
members of the Oregon Retail Merch
ants ’ association began their nineteenth
annual convention in the chamber of
commerce yesterday morning. Address
es of welcome on behalf of the citizens
of Eugene and the faculty and student
bodjf of the University were tendered
the visiting merchants by President
Campbell and Eugene business men, and
responded to by A. C. Marsters of Rose
burg. The afternoon session was de
voted to class work in Villard hall.
“One of the great things to be avoid
ed here at the University,” said Presi
dent Campbell in his welcoming ad
dress, “is the danger of isolation. We
need to know our problems first hand.
Your coming here will help us to get
that first hand knowledge. The gain
is largely ours for you bring to us the
practical side of business affairs.” With
considerable earnestness President
Campbell reminded the business men
that the friendship, comradeship and
encouragement resulting from a three
day convention such as this were not
less important than were the discus
sions of technical and strictly business
problems.
Laboratories Bare Secrets
The University is a great place of
research, according to the president, an
institution that is frequently bringing
out of its laboratories heretofore hid
den secrets and applying them through
the aid of business men to make a
better Oregon. He predicted the day
would come when all the large cities
in the state would be heated by electri
city generated by the vast waterpower
now going to waste in the state. “It
is in laboratories such as these on the
campus that the methods will be work
ed out through research to solve the
problems of the present and make the
impossible possible,” said Campbell. At
the close of his speech he was made
an honorary member of the association.
Brains of State Attracted
“Wo are proud that Eugene is the
seat of the state University,” said
David M. Gruliam of the Lane County
Credit Association, in his address of
welcome. “Not only do young men and
women of higher learning gather here
to study and teach, but the brains of
the state meet hero each year, the news
! paper conference for instance, to study
their problems. You aro practical men.
You are men who must use common
sense.”
“I believe the merchants of this
state the past few years have begun to
realize the value of the University and
that they ought to keep in touch with
students and professors,” was the opin
ion of L. L. Thomas, president of the
' association. It was his belief that we
| should teach more practical courses in
! the state schools; that at present many
business men preferred graduates of
I business colleges to those of the Uni
versity or other state schools. This
| condition, he says, ought to be reme
died.
Service to State Stressed
Mutual benefit and service to the
j state wore the words most forcefully
impressed on members of the conven
| tion by A. C. Marsters of Koseburg. Ae
| cording to Marsters, the business men
“should convene for mutual benefit and
real service to the state of Oregon,”
and that they “should take care of the
ideals that tend toward a greater Ore
gon.” ,
Professors Nagley, Kelly and Folts of
the University school of business ad
(Continued on page three.)