VOLUME XXTV. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, .1923 NUMBER 100
This Week
Oregon Legislature adjourns, with.
Pierce well satisfied;
Tutenkhamen to lie in peace for a
while; Ruhr struggle grows grimer;
Ship Bill filibustered almost to
death; Eugene stages motor show;
Smoking ban raises row in Salt Lake
City; Dago Barber swindles half
million;
International counterfeiters at work.
Oregon’s thirty-second, legislative ses
sion came to an end at 1:30 a. m. Fri
day morning, and Governor Pierce did
not get all he asked, expressed himself
as well satisfied over the outcome.
. “What I am trying to do,” explains
the governor, “is to reach out and get
money by indirect taxation. The in
come tax will do this, and the sever
ance bill would have helped, too.”
The income tax measure provides for
an assessment on incomes of over
$1,000 per year, with exemptions of
$1,000 for a wife, and $400 for each
additional dependent. The severance
bill would have taxed timber. Bills
characterised as good by the governor
are the creating of a commission of
finance control, tax conservation and
supervisory commissions, and the ad
ditional tax on gasoline. “On the
whole,” he says, “The boys were pret
ty good to me!”
Tutenkliamen is to lie undisturbed
for a few months longer, for it has
been deemed unadvisable to open the
coffin which undoubtedly contains his
mummy at this time. The gorgeous
tomb will be sealed up, and the wond
ers of the Pharoah will again be
cloathed in darkness. It has been es
timated that it will take two years to
list all the material found in the bur
ial chamber. ,
The struggle in the Ruhr grows
grimer daily, and now bloodshed is
viewed with the grim struggle of “pas
sive resistance.” Both sides still claim
victory, but it is plain to see that
Germany is effectively blocking France
in most of her moves. The output of
all mines remains small, and transporta
tion is very badly congested. The toll
so far is nine Germans killed and 14
injured. No definite moves were made
during the week, and the situation re
mains virtually the same as ever.
The ship bill, filibustered to death,
is now admittedly lost. Harding sitll
has faint hopes for this, his pet meas
ure, but they are very, very dim. The
measure would provide aid for desti
tute shipping interests, but the long
winded senators have just about suc
ceeded in out-talking the bill’s chances.
Other legislation, farm credits included,
is still pending.
Enthusiastic Eugene motorists were
given an opportunity to view the pro
ducts of leading automotive engineers
this week at a real auto show held at
the Armory down town. The “trim
min’s” were quite as attractive as
the many models of speed machnes, and
altogether the display was pronounced
a grand success.
Smoking has been banned in Salt
Lake City, and the officers are having
a rather turbulent time arresting of
fenders, among whom are many of the
town’s leading citizens. A movement
is now on foot to abolish the blue law.
The Irish are still battling, and get
ting nowhere as usual.
A little, dapper dago barber, it has
been found, has swindled the Ameri
can people out of nearly a million dol
lars. Turning banker, he negotiated
in fake stocks, and stole others. He has
made good his escape so far.
International counterfeiter’s opera
tions have been uncovered during the
past week and between 500 and 600
have been arrested. Their work cov
ered all phases of the game, from fake
postage stamps to labels for “bonded”
whiskey. Sentences of 45 years are
sought for those found guilty.
George Washington’s birthday, Feb
ruary 22, was honored throughout the
land, in some places by celebrations and
in others by the declaration of a holi
day. Schools in Oregon conducted
theme contests, and rendered patriotic
programs for the occasion.
. A sport event of national importance
is the purchase of the Boston national
league by Christy Mathewson and a
syndicate of baseball men. “Christy”
was at one time the national baseball
hero, and lost the title only because he
has become too old to play.
PRETTY CO-EDS HOLD HEARTS
FROM WEARERS OF MUSTACHES
University of Michigan, Feb. 20.—
Co-eds of the University of Michigan
do not lose their hearts to the wearers
of mustaehes. In an inquiry conducted
there, twelve of the prettiest girls on
the campus declared themselves strong
ly against the habit of men letting
their lips go unshaven.
SANDBURG CHARM
OF VOICE LAUDED
Blaise College-educated\Minds
Fascinated by Deep Drawl
of Versatile Verse Writer
AUDIENCE JOINS IN MOOD
Mammy Songs, Hobo Tales
From Jungle, Phantasies,
Bring Wistful Longing
r sat up in the balcony peering down
upon a pool of heads. College heads,
with college educations inside them. Carl
'Sandburg appeared and thb heads gave
a show of hands.
From the first the heads gave atten
tion, these blase heads with the college
educations inside them. Not only at
tention but concentration.
His voice was rich and deep. It
drawled now and then, but it was musi
cal and colorful. He stood hands in poc
kets, his feet together, swaying slightly.
No gestures to illustrate what he said;
only words and his voice. Carl Sand
burg’s voice.
The heads leaned forward expectant,
interested. This was unexpected; this
quietness, this force. The man was pe
culiar, but he was colorful. He was tell
ing of beauty and of the appeal which
must be innate or there is no response,
and the heads leaned a little forward.
Then came poems, dropped one by one,
like mist particles in a rolling fog, and
they fell on the heads. Some of the
poems split lights into many lights; and
some of the poems shot sparks like yel
low-hot iron. The poems settled on the
heads and the heads smiled and grew
wistful. But there were other poems,
shake-up poems, drops of hail; they fell
on the heads, and the heads grew stern.
Rootabaga stories, the balloon country,
the bibbed pig country, the Blue-Wind
boy, and the heads smiled and laughed
and showed dream-emotions, and an
swered the endings sea-breaker-like.
“Phantasies,” the heads turned to each
other to say, “but . . . yes, phantasies.”
Mammy songs, hobo songs from jung
les; the heads who knew the south, and
the heads who had beaten their way,
leaned forward . . . Lumpy throats
and laughing throats the heads had, as
they listened to the voice, Carl Sand
burg’s voice, create little visions, great
visions, longings.
Today, tomorrow, Carl Sandburg can
come and tell all over again his stories
and his poems; his blood, vulgar, steel,
pictures, jagged, sober poems; his
chimera stories; his American songs of
the cotton fields and the railroad rods.
And the heads, the blase heads with the
college educations inside them will go
back to hear with him, to see with him,
and to feel with him.
“DREAM GATE” IS CHOSEN
Special Dance Drama to be Put on by
Advanced Class
A special dance drama, entitled
“Dream Gate” will be produced by the
advanced interpretative educational
dancing class, conducted by Misses Lil
lian Stupp, in Guild theatre early in
May.
This production was written and the
musical accompaniment composed by
Bertha Ochsner, while a student at the
University of Wisconsin. Another
feature will be taken from an Ulster
ballad, in which the orchestration of
the dance, with each girl portraying a
musical instrument, will be presented.
These productions are now being
worked upon by the dancing class, and
will be presented in order to show the
public the type pf work that the class
in interpretative educational dancing
is doing.
CUTS ARE NOT TOLERATED
Unexcueed Absences Call for Make-up
During Following Term
University of Nevada, Feb. 20.—Un
excused absences are no longer toler
ated at the University of Nevada since
the negative credit system has been
established. Students who are absent
without leave incur negative credits
and must make them up by registering
for additional hours in the following
semester.
These credits will be counted with
the semester’s grades in computing the
final averages, and a student who has
too many of them may be barred from
face* or clothes.”
YALE CORPORATION LIMITS
FRESHMEN CLASS TO 850
New Haven, Conn., Feb. 20.—Limi
tation of the freshman class at Yale
! in the fall of 1923 to 850 studnts se
i lected primarily on the basis of
j scholastic attainment and promise was
j announced by the Yale Corporation.
| This year’s fieshman class obtained
i 878 men.
Sorority Bans
Love Missels
In Fund Drive
!
Dixie love letters, with a “thrill
guaranteed” and “certain to initiate
you into the ways of southern love
making” at so much per series, is not
a proper way to raise funds for build
ing a sorority house, according to a
ruling of the women’s council of the
University of Alabama. Postoffice
authorities learned of the plan of the
members of the sorority when students
of Columbia University wrote many
letters wanting to get in on the first
chapter of a series of heart-palpitating
letters to run until the end of the col
lege year for the price of $5.
“The letters are thrill guaranteed,”
promised the alluring prospectus that
went out from the university when the.
sorority girls became enthusiastic for
a building fund. “They will initiate
you into the ways of southern love
making—the sweetest in the world—
bringing you under the spell of moon
light on honeysuckle-covered colonTal
porches. Why, before long, Mr. Would
Be-Subseriber, they will have you
dreaming night and day of the dainty
maides, garden paths, and Dixie
moons.” Womens clubs declared the
letters would give the “outside world
a wrong impression of Alabama girls.”
Checks were refunded.
FROSH FIVE HANDS S. H. S.
SECOND DEFEAT, 43 TO 15
Each Man on Yearling Squad Drops in
Counters at Regular Intervals; Best
Ball of Season Shown
The frosh basketeers had their eyes
peeled for the hoop yesterday after
noon with each man in the quintet
shooting them in at regular intervals
they had little trouble taking the sec
ond game from the Salem high rep
resentatives, 43 to 15. The yearling
five displayed the best all around play
ing they have put forth this season and
not for a minute did they slow up the
fast pace set at the start.
The fast prep school team which
gave them such a close rub Friday
failed to function with the same
smoothness and was unable to counter
a single field basket until the final
two minutes of the first half. They
showed the same speed on the floor but
the long arms of Bob Mautz brought
to ruin dozens of their passes that
would have resulted in scores. Time
and time again Mautz retrieved the
pellet for the frosh and his playing
was the lop notflh order throughout the
game. When guarding got monoton
ous the tall boy would dash down the
floor and take a fling at the basket
himself. Two spectacular counters
were the result of such ventures.
Mautz was not alone in the limelight
however. Gosser, Bryant, Hobson and
Stoddard each and all scintillated at
times and the whole team worked with
a surprising punch and consistency.
Bryant added to his foul tossing laur
els by heaving nine free throws out of
13 attempts. Gosser led in field goals
with seven. Stoddard was on the ball
continually and Hobson checked like a
veteran.
Referee Eddie Edlunds called them
close with the result that 28 fouls were
chalked up altogether during the melee.
The score at half time was 20 to 5
for the babes.
The lineup—
Frosh 43 Salem 15—
Bryant 19.F.Brown 2
Stoddard 4.F. Reinhart 3
Gosser 14.C. Okerberg 8
Hobson 2.G. Patterson
Mautz 4.G. Lilligren
S. Fallen 2
S. Adolph
Referee—Eddie Edlunds.
HIGH GLEE PROMINENT
Musical Organizations Give Many Per
formances for Public Gatherings
The University High School Orches
tra and Glee Club have appeared in pub
lic many times throughout the year, at
high school and University gatherings.
According to Mrs. Anna Landsbury
Beck, director, they play with compe
tence and assurance, and have under
taken some very difficult music. The
progress of the prepers in this field as
sures the UnUiversity orchestra and
glee clubs of much future material.
The high school Glee Club has also
grown into a substantial organization,,
between thirty and forty in number,
and Mrs. Beck ha3 been well satisfied
with their work.
LACK OF SUPPORT RUNS
COLLEGE DAILY ON ROCKS
University of Minnesota, Feb. 20.—
The Minnesota Daily, student news
■ paper at the University of Minnesota,
; suspended publication Friday, January
: 26. Lack of student support was given
| as the reason for the failure. The
j daily has been running at a financial
[ loss, less than 1,000 students being
listed as subscribers.
CO-ED DOLES 01
OREGON LENIENT
Other Universities, Colleges,
Much Stricter; First Year
Girls Carefully Guarded
OUTSIDE WOMEN GUARDED
Library Dates Permissible at
Indiana; 10:30 Closing Hour
on Week-ends at U. I,
In reviewing the rules of other col
leges and universities for eo-eds, Ore
gon’s three or four rules seem very
reasonable and lenient. “ University
women shall not go to men’s, clubs or
fraternity houses at any time without
a chaperon approved by the Dean of
Women” is only one of many similar
rules at the Unive-sity of Indiana.
After the discussion last year of
changing the time for being home from
11:15 to 1”:15 on Friday and Saturday
evening it is extremely interesting to
compare the women’s rules of Oregon
with those of other well known insti
tutions.
Rules for the following schools wore
obtained, University of Minnesota, In
diana University, University of Illinois,
Cornell University, University of Kan
sas, Unversity of Michigan, and Penn
sylvania State College. A survey of
these rules shows Oregon’s rules to be
much more lenient and gives the stu
dent much more discretion.
Indiana Rides Cited
Other rules of Indiana University
are, “Women of the freshmen class
are not to be away from their houses
after 7:30 unless accompanied by up
per classmen.” “Women students shall
not be out driving after 9 o’clock, nor
walking in the country after 7:30 un
less properly chaperoned.”
“All rules of the Women’s Student
Government Association apply alike to
all women students living at home and
in “rooming houses,” is one of the fea
tures of the rules at the University
of Kansas. Two other important rules
of that university are: “University wo
men should make no engagements with
university men living in town for later
than 8 o ’clock excepting Friday, Satur
day, and Sunday nights, or when the
date rule is suspended by the council
president.” “Escort directly home from
the library is not considered an in
fraction of the rule. However, this
does not permit stopping for refresh
ments.”
Class Rides at Cornell
Cornell has a system of class rules,
consisting of a different set of rules
for freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and
seniors. However, a general rule is
that “all w'omen of the University shall
be in the dormitories and organized
houses by 10 o’clock on week nights,
10:30 on Saturday nights, unless regis
tered; except that freshmen shall be
in by 8 o ’clock unless registered.
The rules of the University of Michi
gan state that “All houses must close
and engagements terminate at 10:30
p. m. excepting on Friday and Satur
day nights when the hour is 11 p. m.”
Illinois Rules
The closing hour is a little earlier
as set in the rules of the University
of Illinois: “Men callers shall leave
at 10 p. m., excepting Friday and
Saturday, when they shall leave at
10:30 p. m.” Their rules also state that
“There shall be no loitering on the
porches after functions of any kind.”
A resolution of the Woman’s League
of this University is that “As a rule,
callers shall not be received only on
one night between Sunday and* Fri
day;” that is, that there shall be only
one midweek date.
Tn comparison with the preceding
rules, those at the University of Minne
sota are rather lenient, and exception
is made for seniors. “Social engage
ments lasting later than 8:30, includ
ing entertainment of callers, shall be
limited to three evenings per week for
all students exeept seniors. Permis
sion may be obtained for two addi
tonal evenings per month.”
A peculiar rule of the Pennsylvania
State College is that “None may enter
tain twice on Sunday excepting sen
iors, who may do so after Easter.”
In three of the preceding universities
the closing hour is set at 10 o’clock;
and in the other one, the closing hour
is 8 p. m.
PHI BETA KAPPA NOW
AT WHITMAN COLLEGE
Whitman College—Pin Beta Kappa,
national honorary scholastic fraternity,
has been installed at Whitman College
with a membership of twelve faculty
members and six students from the
senior class. Three men and three wo
men were chosen from the fourth
year students, and two women who are
now alumni were chosen as honorary
members.
500 Tests Give
Only a Single
“Perfect Mark”
Only one out of 500 women of the
freshman class who were examined this
year by Dr. Martha Bacon, of the de
partment/of physical education at the
University of Kansas has a perfect
posture and perfect feet. The perfect
woman is Isabel Miller, daughter of
a well-known Kansas City, Kans., at
torney. Last year Doctor Bacon did not
discover a single perfect posture.
“The posture of the American girl
today is shocking,” said Doctor Bacon.
‘‘It is lazy, slipshod, and anything but
beautiful. Nearly every girl has a de
fective posture or spine. The Ameri
can girl has not realized that posture
is a mark of beauty as well as her
face or cloths.”
OREGON VARSITY LOSES
GAME' IN NORTH 39-27
Washington Wins Over Lemon-Yellow
Northern Conference; California
Leads in South
The Oregon varsity basketball team
went down to defeat last night before
the University of Washington Huskies
by a score of 39 to 27 at Seattle. The
game was a deciding factor for the
Washington team because if she had
lost she would have been out of the
race entirely for northwest conference
honors and possibly coast champion
ship. The Oregon players were in a
decided slump as compared with games
earlier in the season.
By virtue of winning last night’s
game Washington is tied for second
place in the northwest-conference with
the University of Idaho as both teams
have lost three games. It is thought
probable that a series of three post sea
son games will be played between the
two to settle the northwest title dispute.
A neutral floor will be selected—prob
ably at Gonzaga University, Spokane.
The winner of this series will meet the
champions of the southern conference
—University of Califoria.
On the northern trip the varsity ran
into unexpected hard games, boing
hardly able to beat Whitman and hav
ing lost to Washington State and Idaho.
In the game played on the Eugene floor
the Cougars did not show that they
were a team of more than mediocre
ability.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
SECRETARY WILL SPEAK
Dudley of Sacramento is Big Feature
of Business Administration.
Spring Short Course
One big feature of the short course
which the school of business adminis
tration will offer to chamber of com
merce secretaries, beginning April 2,
will be a series of addresses by A. S.
Dudley is conceded to be one. of the
ramento Chamber of Commerce. Mr.
Dudley is couceded to be one of the
best known and most successful cham
ber of commerce secretaries on the
coast.
The school of business administra
tion is losing no time in lining up plans
for this second short course of the
season. The past week saw the suc
cessful closing of the merchant’s con
vention, and now every effort is being
directed to making the next course,
which will bo offered to the chamber
of commerce secretaries during spring
vacation, equally successful.
DELT FROSH TAKEPLUNGE
Annual Tug-of-war Between Fraternity
Babes Lost by Betas
The last few spring days have not
warmgd the mill race a bit, and its
waters are still cold, according to seven
licit frosli who took the icy plungo yes
terday, thereby bowing to the supremacy
of the Beta wearers of the green in
the annual Beta Theta Pi-Delta Tau
Delta tug of war.
Preceded by a rally, led by a Dolt
band, the contestants and some 5UU or
more spectators repaired to the race,
where at 1:15 Starter “Doc” Braddock
fired his gun. Fifty-five minutes later
found the frosh still tugging and pull
ing, with the Betas having a slight edge
on the affair. However the Delt frosh
were far from being in the race, and a
momentary halt was called. Four im
partial judges decreed an extra five min
ute session, after which the side which
was behind was to be invited to jump in.
The Beta frosh, however, did the in
viting themselves for three and a half
minutes after the gun was fired the sec
ond time, the first Delt frosh slipped into
tlie water, quickly to be follewed by his
brother freshmen, and the sixth annual
Dolt-Beta tug o’ war was over.
Score:
Delta Tau Delta .4
Beta Theta Pi .2
TIITEUKHUTO
INFLUENCE LUTS
Styles, Paintings, Literature,
to Follow Trend of Ancient
Egypt, Says Prof, Schroff
PHARAOH INVADES PARIS
Spirituality is Given as Cause
of Formality of Ancient's
Work; Architecture Praised
By John Anderson
“Those marvelous now discoveries
in the Valley of the Kings will un
doubtedly have a tremendous effect on
both our art and our literature within
the next generation or two,” said Pro
fessor Alfred II. Schroff, artist and in
structor in the University by profes
sion, and student of archaeology by
way of a holiday. He sat in front of
the fireplace in his study, beside him a
table piled high with books, magazines,
and pieces of manuscript nearly all
dealing with archaeology. Prom time
to time he got up and went around to
the other side of the table or to other
parts of the room to bring a book bv
Brenstec^ Maspero or some other au
thority to illustrate what he was tell
ing of. “Of course, I know that sounds
rhetorical,” he continued, “and I hate
rhetorical expressions, but this is a
fact.
‘^Tutenkhamon lives again! He really
has come back to life. Ho is already
having his effect, too. Why, styles in
Paris are already becoming Egyptian—
they ’ll be Egyptian here in seven or
eight years.”
He called to Mrs. Schroff and asked
if she would fix us up some tea. Pres
ently she brought in the tea with a
plate of toasted cheese on crackers.
“This is fine,” he said, holding up a
cracker. “Much better than cake.”
Then as wo drank the tea and munched
the crackers he went on.
“It is too early yet to pick out any
one definite contribution that these
discoveries will have on art. It will
take a long time to get all this vast
treasure classified so that it will be of
help. However, tho Egyptian con
tribution in the past has been great,
vastly greater than artists and archi
tects have realized. And there is a
great storehouse yet untouched.”
The artist gave some examples of
beginnings made in the arts by the
ancient Egyptians. “Mosaic work,”
he said, was in its height in the Ro
man and Byzantine periods, and we do
not think of its going back any fur
ther.” But ho told of seeing mummy
cases on which were beautiful mosaic
dosigns, and of a suit of armor taken
from the tomb of Tutonkhamen cov
ered entirely with mosaics of jewels.
All. Metal Arts Depicted
“All the arts of the metal worker
are depicted in mural drawings in
some of the tombs,” he continued.
“The invention of glass is generally
credited to the, Phoenicians, those
trader-pirates of the ancient world, but,
by Jovel down there in Egypt we find
tear bottles (tho women for some rea
son or other saved their tears in bot
tles) and perfume bottles in graves.
Cloisonne, we think of as Japanese, but
it was first Egyptian.”
Then Professor Schroff told how
Egyptian art spread all over the world,
even at that time. The Egyptians were
not salesmen. Thoy did not hawk
their art around the country, but there
was a race of salesmen, the Phoenicians.
These traders carried art objects from
the Nile to all the land bordering the
Mediterranean, and as far east as India.
Prom India these things drifted up into
China and finally over to Japan. And
everywhere they made their impress.
“The Egyptians were sculptors,
painters, architects. They discovered
the laws of design, of proportion, of
mechanical construction. Tho Temple
of Karnak, not far from Luxon, is one
of the finest examples of architecture
known. The immensity of its concep
tion, the grandeur of its columns, and
its awesome beauty make it almost
impossible for us,to believe that it was
erected between 2000 and 3000 B. C.
Why, that temple contains the great
est collonaded hall ever built by man.
Think of it. Two or threo thousand
years before Christ! This temple
building culminated in tho Parthenon!
“And yet this art of tho Egyptians
has only begun to help us,” he con
tinued. “But then for that mutter, we
have only begun to get the best out
of the Greek.”
Spirituality Gives Greatness
The reason for the greatness of
Egyptian art, said Professor Sehroff,
is its spirituality. These people lived
for the future. Their building and art
was all in the direction of a life to
come. They believed that after a while
the souls of the departed would return,
. id o they made ready these beautiful
habitations for them. But after all.
this very thing that made the art great
was the main reason for the decline
(Continued on page four.)