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Oregon Daily Emerald VOLUME XXIV. UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1923 NUMBER 101 OREGON DEBATERS WILL MEET COAST TEAMS THIS WEEK Triangular Clash Will Decide Championship; Varsity Has Several Veterans STANFORD TO COME HERE Sale of Light Wines and Beers Will Be Question Discussed in Villard Friday Thursday night, March 1, Oregon's negative debate team, consisting of Paul Patterson and Max Maceoby, will meet the University of Washington af firmative team in what is likely to be the biggest forensic event of the year. This debate, which will be held in Seat tle, is the first of the Oregon-Stanford Washington triangular forensic contest. On the following evening, March 2, Charles Lamb and Ralph Bailey, the Oregon affirmative team, will meet the Stanford negative in Villard hall. That same evening Washington’s affirmative will meet Stanford's negative at Palo Alto. This series of debates will de termine the Pacific coast champions. “These coming two weeks present the greatest period of forensic activity of the year, and we can justly expect large crowds to turn out for the debates,” said Prof. C. D. Thorpe of the public speaking department and coach of both the men's and women’s teams. Both ; Washington and Stanford are working hard to put their home debates over big. Washington alone is preparing for at least two thousand persons to turn out there Thursday night. The question, “Resolved that the Federal government should legalize the manufacture and sale of light wines and beers,” is one that is of nation wide interest, and is one that is being dis cussed by many prominent persons and papers of the country. Oregon Has Three Veterans Three veterans are representing Ore gon this year, and for this reason the University has a good chance to win according to Professor Thorpe. Paul Patterson holds the record of never having lost a debate, and will give Washington a lively contest, said Mr. Thorpe. He has been on the Oregon team for two years. He also has been selected to represent the University in the Old Line oratorical contest to be held in Albany March 9. Lamb helped to defeat the Stanford team at Palo Alto last year, and is ready to put up a hard fight against the same op ponent Friday night, said Mr. Thorpe. Ralph Bailey is the other veteran. He was a member of the team which won over Washington last year. Max Mac coby is a new man in debate this year, but his work has shown up exceedingly well, and he will undoubtedly put up a splendid fight, said Mr. Thorpe. The women's varsity teams begin their activities on March 8, when they hold a dual debate with Oregon Agri cultural college on the question, “Re solved that the United States should cancel the war debts of Belgium, France and Italy.” This question has become unusually interesting because of the recent invasions of France into Germany which have aroused much feel ing for and against the French, pointed out Professor Thorpe. Women Meet O. A. C. May Fenno and Frances Simpson make up the affirmative team which will debate on the campus against the O. A. C. negative. Miss Fenno was a member of last year’s team, and has been active in forensic work during ^ier four years at the University. This is the first year for Miss Simp (Continued on page three.) Guild Hall Star Will Play Lead in Comedy Hildegarde Repinen “THREE SINS” TO STAR HILDEGARDE REPINEN Guild Hall Comedy Will Play Three Performances Ililclegarde Repinen, well-known star of Guild Hall, is playing the lead in Bert Davies’ comedy, “Three Sins,” which will appear tomorrow night for the first per formance on the campus and will run for three nights. The comedy is rich in satire, Davies being well known for his satirical ability. He has selected the prevalence of those persons who consider that they can write plays and has worked it in cleverly in the plot. He has also taken some of the special characteristics of the English law court and has given them some hard smacks. The entire production is rich in humor and not only is the play com edy ami very funny comedy, satire and very clever satire, but, of especial inter est to students of play writing, it is technically perfect. The cast follows: Henry .Barney McPhillips Evelyn Hughes .Lorna Coolidge Miss Ferris.Katherine Watson Paul Hughes .Darrel Larsen Mr. Pearson .Tom Crosthwaite Lady Epping .Hildegarde Repinen Miss Berengaria Mortimer . .Katherine Pinneo Clinton Perry .Arthur H. Johnson Judge Wray .Morris Bocock Lord Oswald Bruce-Bannerman . .David Swanson Lady Lucy Lister . . Elizabeth Robinson Miss Vanderhide .Mabel Gilham Lady Beaeroft .Patricia Novlan Lord Epping .Edwin Keech Dr. Gull .Gordon Wilson Mr. Craven, K. C.George Bronaugli Mr. Hickory .Wade Kerr Associate ...#....Lee Emery The Court Usher . ...Cloyd Blackburn ^The boy .Katherine Watson END OF TERM APPROACHES One month from today the last class es of the term will be held. Only four more weeks of sleepy 8 o’clocks, of weary 1 o ’clocks. Only four weeks of showing up in classes when one’s mind is in the mountains or on the millrace or even just outside the class room door. And after these four weeks— (delightful climax) there are three days of exams. The 28th, 29th, and 30th will be occupied in finding out the amount of knowledge that has been stored in each student’s brain. The spring vacation begins Saturday, the 31st, and extends through April to the 8th. PLEDGING ANNOUNCED Kappa Sigma announces the pledging of Paul Carey of Palo Alto, California. Earth Tremor in Lake County Observed by Arthur Campbell Earthquakes in the Lake county country are a phenomenon which great ly surpasses the thrill of sticking to the hurricane deck of a bucking bron cho sunfishing and darting through the tall sagebrush, intimates Arthur Camp bell, member of the class of 1922, in a letter written to Dr. W. D. Smith, head of the department of geology. Camp bell, who is principal in the Lakeview high school, relates his personal exper iences during the earth tremor and tells of several interesting incidents. While on the campus, Campbell was ac tive in student body activities. “As I was reading the Emerald in the high school library this afternoon, I noticed your article about the lack of proper instruments for the record ing of earthquakes in Oregon,” writes Campbell in his informative letter to Dr. Smith. “I have a copy of your paper on earthquakes in Oregon, and I after an experience I recently went through I read it again with interest. ‘ The experience I refer to occurred on the evening of January 10. I was working in the gymnasium with the basketball team at the time and was playing center and jumping for the ball. When I hit the floor everything i seemed to have gone wild. The floor was moving and there was a severe rumbling in the earth. These shocks lasted for about five or six seconds, and were of increasing strength to the last I tremor, which was the strongest and stopped with a seeming thud.” Campbell in his letter minutely de scribes the quakes and Dr. Smith will use this data in revising his paper on Oregon earthquakes. According to i Campbell, the area in which the earth quake was felt was extensive in the (Continued on page three.) RIFLE TEAMS OF MERSITT BEAT EAST TEAR SCORE William Buchanan High Point Man With Record of 559 Out of Possible 600 0. A. C. MEET IS MARCH 10 Hendricks Hall Wins in Do-Nut Contest With 454 Out of a Maximum 500 All six stages of the ninth corps area rifle match have been fired by the three teams representing the University, with final scores of 5368 for the first team, 5240 for the second, and 4928 for the third. The score of the first team is approximately two hundred points above the score made last year, states Lieutenant M. E. Knowles, in charge of rifle shooting, and the military depart ment is confident that Oregon has plac ed herself with the first five teams at least. The results of the meet, in which all coast and northwestern colleges main I taining R. O. T. C. units took part, will be announced March 5. High individual score for Oregon vras made by William E. Buchanan, who made 559. Lyle Nosier scored 553 and Sherman W. Smith 549. These scores are computed on a basis of 600. In the sitting position Thomas Page seored 99 out of a possible 100, and Buchanan made 95 in the standing position. Scores made by the first team follow: W. E. Buchanan, 559 out of a possible 600; Lyle Nosier, 553; T. N. Page, 548; Joe Peak, 546; Rupert Gilbert, 543; W. C. Haydon, 528; Ed Britts, 525; L. B. Blackney, 524; John M. Larson, 522; and Carrol Ford, 520. O. A. C. Team Picked The personnel of the first team of 15 men picked by Lieutenant Knowles to represent Oregon at Corvallis against O. A. C., March 10, are W. E. Buchanan, Lyle Nosier, S. S. Smith, T. N. Page, Joe Peak, Frank DeSpain, W. M. Ait ken, Rupert Gilbert, Ted Mays, Ralph Van Waters, E. Robnette, W. C. Hay den, Ed Britts, L. B. Blackney, and Robert McKnight. Alternates are O. J. Beatty, J. M. Larson, A. B. Dorsey and Carrol Ford. Hendricks Wins Meet In the girls ’ do-nut meet just com pleted the Hendricks hall first team placed first with 454 points out of a possible 500. Other teams stood as fol lows: Freebooters (town girls’ team), 452; Alpha Xi Delta, 451; Hendricks hall second team, 427; Susan Campbell first team, 422; and Susan Campbell second team, 399. Due to sickness, and pressure of campus activities, no other girls ’ houses were represented. A meet, in which all organizations will be en tered, will be held later in the spring. Higli scores for the girls were made by Katherine Kressman, Hendricks hall, 97; Paloma Randleman, Alpha Xi Delta, 94, and Lola Keiser, Eugene, 93. COMMERCE BOOSTERS COMING APRIL 2 TO 7 State Development Will Be Stressed in Short Course for Chamber of Commerce Secretaries The third annual meeting of Oregon chamber of commerce secretaries at the University school of business adminis tration for a sjiort course in business and commercial work is scheduled for April 2 to 7. Members of the business faculty and other professors will con duct the classes assisted by outs, lec turers brought here for the occasion. While only 25 secretaries attended last year, it is expected that at least 50 will enroll for the course this year. From April 2 to 6 the secretaries will devote their time to regular class work in the classrooms of the school of busi ness administration. As far as is known at present the group will not be divided into separate classes. While the program has not been worked out in detail as yet, it is known that the course will be divided into three distinct sections: that which con cerns the secretaries themselves, that which involves the community as a whole, and club technique. Special em phasis will be made this year on the discussion of problems of state develop ment. In addition to the business faculty, other speakers definitely arranged for are A. S. Dudley secretary-manager of the Society of Chamber of Commerce, ! who will give a series of lectures dur ing the week, and Ralph D. Casey, pro i fessor in the school of journalism, who will discuss how the secretaries may ; get their best results in the newspapers. Mr. Casev was formerly on the staff of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. The semi annual meeting of the state association of commercial secretaries 1 will be held some time during the-week. Leader’s Discordant Yell Attracts English Rooters Colonel Gets Excited During Progress of Rugby Game and Forgets That Oregon Spirit Is Far Too Noisy for Foreign Stands I By Colonel John Leader London, Feb. 10.—(Special to the Emerald.)—I am writing this letter from a craving for sympathy, because I regret to say that in the first football game I witnessed in England I behaved in a manner which was admittedly un becoming to an officer and a gentle man. I had just come back from a kind of dime novel trip in Ireland and found that 1 had arrived in London just in time for one of our great football games and that my hosts had secured me a ticket for the stand. Personally I am more socially fitted for the bleachers, but I took thankfully what was offer ed. The next day we traveled down to the suburb where the game was taking place, my two kinsmen tvho accompan ied me being faultlessly dressed from their pearl stick pins to their elegant spats. I also was dressed somewhat above my station and looked far hand somer than you have ever seen me, having made some slight additions to my pre-war wardrobe. I remember when first I came to America cursing bitterly because some of the comforts I was accustomed to in the old country were lacking, but I confess that I spend most of my time cursing now, because so many comforts are lacking to which one has become accustomed in the last five years. This applies particularly to football. The stand which is the biggest rugby stand in England holds 10,000 people most uncomfortably, and the rest -of the onlookers stand in rows round the field and try hard to see something of the game by craning over one another’s heads. No arrangements whatever are made for the' comfort of anybody. , After seeing the rugby game again, I must unhesitatingly reiterate my op inion that there is no comparison what ever between the rugby and the Amer ican game. Both nations have been trying in every way to improve their national football game, but as there are over a thousand men in England who play rugby to one man in America who plays our game, the progress in rugby has naturally been far greater. There are thrills every moment of the game, and whereas I read somewhere that there are only six minutes actual play in the average American game there are at least sixty minutes of ac tual play in the hour and ten minutes which a rugby game takes. Rugby is to our game, what baseball is to cricket. This particular game was a most thrilling one and on many occasions even my immaculate kinsmen sitting on either side of me said softly, “Played, Sir,” or “Played indeed, Sir.” On many occasions the bleachers opposite us broke into quite vigorous clapping of hands and one particularly vulgar old lady sitting in front of me who evi dently had a son playing once called out quite sharply “Bravo, Bill.” I ad mit, of course, that I used sometimes to get almost enthusiastic myself over the varsity games in Oregon but that is long ago now, and let us draw a veil over my hideous past. At the same time I admit to feeling (Continued on page three.) STUDENT BODY TO MEET AT ASSEMBLY THURSDAY Amendments to Constitution to Be Considered The regular bi-monthly meeting of the A. S. TJ. O. will be held during the assembly hour Thursday morning in Villard hall. In addition to the busi ness of the student body which will be presented by John MacGregor, pres ident, there will be a brief address on student problems by Dr. Jesse Kellems, a University alumnus of Eugene. Several amendments to the constitu tion of the A. S. U. O. will be presented for the consideration of the students and as these are all of vital importance to the welfare of the campus it is urg ed that all students make a special ef fort to attend the meeting. It is proba ble that action will be taken on these amendments at the meeting as there will not be another regular gathering of the associated students this term. An outline of the proposed changes in the constitution will be announced in the Wednesday Emerald so that all stu dents may have an opportunity to con sider them carefully before they come to the meeting. At a meeting of the executive coun cil this evening these amendments will be presented for approval and will then come before the student body for the final decision. Reports will be received from the Greater Oregon committee on the work which has been done under the revised system during the past Christmas va cation and plans for further work on the part of this committee will be an nounced by Paul Patterson, chairman. It is expected that work will be done to further the advertising of the Uni versity among the higher grade of stu dents in the state high schools who are to be encouraged to come to Oregon. During the coming spring vacation the committee will carry on some definite program of work in their home towns, which will be explained at this meet ing. There will also be a report on the gift which the A. S. U. O. made to Col onel John Leader recently on the eve of his departure for England. ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED The cat was let out of the bag, liter ally as well as figuratively when Hilde garde Repinen announced her engage ment to William Enke, Sunday night at the Tri Dclt house. The girls were as sembled in the den late at night, all the lights but one were turned out and a dazed Persian cat was allowed to es cape from the bag in which he had been imprisoned. Around his neck he bore a card on which was written “Hil degarde and Bill.” Miss Repinen is a junior in the University and very | prominent in campus dramatics. She is a member of Delta Delta Delta, Mask and Buskin and Kwama. Mr. Enke is a member of the class of ’24 also. mm WILL TRY FOR Price Will Be Reduced $.50 if Drive Is Successful A campaign to secure 200 additional . Oregano, subscriptions will begin tomor row and close Saturday. The reason for waging a second campaign is iu reduce as low as possible the cost of the col lege year-book to the University stu dents, and this will only be possible if an extra 260 subscriptions are se cured. The number subscribed in the first drive was 11160 and if an extra 100 is subscribed, the price of the book will be reduced to $4.50; and if another 100 subscriptions are secured the price will be lowered to $4.25. If this cam paign is successful, this will be the lowest price for which the Oregana has ever been sold. The sales price of the 1921 Oregana was $5.00 per, copy. How ever the reduction all depends on the success of the drive. The 1923 Oregana will be the largest book that has ever been put out and will contain more new features than previous issues. Velma Farnham, edi tor of the year book, was in Portland three days last week discussing the plan of the book with the printers, se lecting the type, and arranging with the engravers for the cuts to be used. This campaign is launched only for the purpose of reducing the cost of the book to the students; which is now $4.75. The co-operation of the students will be needed to put the Oregana over as the “biggest and best.” Those who care to subscribe can do so at the Co op during the days on which the new drive will continue, February 28 until March 3. FINAL HOOP GAME OF LEMON-YELLOW Squad Tired by Northern Trip But Fans Look for Win from Willamette Bearcats ALL BUT W. S. C. BEATEN Zimmerman Only Man Oregon Will Lose by Graduation; Prospects Good Tlie Oregon Varsity meets the Wil lamette Bearcats at Salem tonight in the last game of the season and should bring up their northwest percentage average by a win over the Capitol city quintet. The Bearcats have lost a ma jority of their games this season, and were badly defeated by the Varsity in the game here so all dope points to an Oregon victory. The members of the squad arrived home Sunday afternoon from the north ern trip, and were all pretty wtell tired out after the strenuous twelve day trip. According to Coach Bolder the men were all “hopped up” for the Ida ho game, which they lost by the nar row margin of five points and from that time on played poor basketball, because of the fact that all hope of winning the championship was gone. May Use All Men i ne team is not in the best of eon ilition for the Willamlette mix, but will no doubt be able to win from the Bearcats because of their better team work and shooting ability. Willamette pulled a surprise last year and hung two late season defeats on the Lemon Yellow, but their chances of repeating the stunt this year are slim. The entire squad will make the trip to Salem, since it is the last one of the season, and unless the game is quite close will probably all get a chance to break into the lineup. Idaho and Washington went into a tie for the Northwest championship when the Huskies defeated Oregon last Saturday night, and are arranging to play a three game series on a neutral floor for the championship. Coach Boh ler refused to predict as to which team will win, as lie says Idaho has the best passing combination and Washington the best shots. To Play California Whichever team wins will play the University of California for the Pacific Coast championship, as after the Bears beat Stanford three out of four games the Stanford authorities showed real sportsmanship by renouncing all claims to the pennant although they were tied with the Bears in the per centage column. Although the percentage column of the Northwest would seem to indicate that the Oregon squad is one of the weaker teams of the conference the scores of the games it has played will disaprove this as we won one game from Idaho which is tied with Washing ton for the top of the column, and lost the game played here to Washington by only two points, and these were made in'the last thirty seconds of play. Besides this Oregon has beaten every team in the conference with the excep tion of Washington State, which team, although doped to be one of the weak est aggregation,!, hung two lop-sided defeats on the Lemon-Yellow score sheet. The team, under Coach Bolder, has done a great deal more than was ex pected of them at the first of the sea son, and with the loss of only one man, Don Zimmerman, Oregon should have an outfit that will lead the conference next season, local fans believe. Sandburg Stays Up Till Dawn Meeting with Campus Groups By Nancy Wilson With his brown-clad ankles anil his blackclad feet dangling easily over the edge of a table, his banjo across his knees, and coffee of long coldness and creamless blackness at his elbow, Carl Sandburg on his recent Visit to the Uni versity of Oregon, sat up and talked -to a group of students and faculty mem mers. He sat from twelve o’clock Fri day night until a foggy seven o'clock Saturday morning. The informal talk began at midnight at the Anchorage tea house. The poet had been invited there by members of Crossroads, an upperelass and faculty philosophical group, after his lecture and the reception given by Pot and t^uill and Ye Tabard Inn, literary or ganizatiohs on the campus. The cans eric began at that hour and continued while the hours grew small and length ened slowly into the longer ones of dawn. The /ire went out and the tea house was cold; so was the coffee, and the sandwiches were gone, but the poet and members of the informal party talked on. At 3:30 Sandburg put on his overcoat and closed a window, but was not in the least ready to go. “1 am good for the entire night with a group like this,” he said. He recited pootrv and played his banjo, asked ques tions and listened to original poems and ballads that some of the men pre sent had heard here and there in log ging camps and out of the way places. Sandburg is interested in the sort of poetry that is in this country analog ous to the folk songs of the old world, and as lie travels about lie tries to pick up scraps of rhyme and rhythm for his rag-bag collection. At four o’clock when Sandburg put on his overcoat some of the faculty men present woke from their fascinated daze (Continued on page three.)