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Oregon Sunday Emerald VOLUME XXIV. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 1923 _ NUMBER 106 This Week CONGRESS CLOSES SESSION CHARLIE, POLA HAVE SPAT HARDING BOOM STARTS RUHR STRUGGLE STATIONARY • • • MANY FREED BY RITNER * * * BOURKE COCHRAN DIES ,, * * * 'cabinet is switched OLD, OLD SKULL FOUND This week marks the closing of the 67th session of congress. A hectic ses sion, and a stormy one, but not without tangible results. The farm credits bill is beyond the danger line, as is the de ficiency bill, and the filled milk bill is on its way home. Congress’ greatest achievement, think some, is the satis factory settlement of the British debt. The poor ship subsidy bill, which caus ed such a stir, fell low at this session, and may never recover. The movie-loving world was stirred this week by a real lovers’ spat be tween Charlie Chaplin and the beautiful Pola Negri. Pola, hearing that Charlie uttered the time-worn phrase, “Too poor to marry,” immediately went into an emotional fit, and called everything off. Charlie succeeded in denying the allegation, however, and now all is roses again. Road work in Oregon is to go forward with a boom this season. The highway commission will advertise for bids call ing for $800,000 in highway construc tion, and is also planning on the huge bridge over the Willamette at Harris burg. Proposed projects call for re surfacing, building new roads, as well as paving many of the more important highways. A boom “Harding for President” is already being launched by Harding’s friends. This, early activity indicates a lively campaign in store for voters during the next presidential race. French invasion in the Ruhr has not caused any real trouble during the last week, although the Germans have stat ed that they will be unable to control the people in the invaded province, should real hostilities arise. The strug gle has settled down to a grim game of waiting, with neither side gaining any thing. • » • Records recently made public indi cate that Roy Ritner, of Pendleton, while acting as governor during 01 eott’s absence freed approximately 14 per cent of the prisoners in the state penitentiary at Saleih. Many of those turned loose were murderers in for life, and almost all manners of crime are included in the catalogue of deeds of these pardoned men. Kourke Cockran, a member of the United States house of representatives, and one of the country’s most able ora tors, dropped dead last Thursday, a victim of apoplexy. He was known the world over for his oratorical ability, and for his staunch stand against the prohibition amendment. . . 4 President Harding this week switch ed the lineup in his cabinet, placing Dr. Hubert Work as secretary of the interior, and Senator Harry S. New, of Indianna as head of the postoffice de partment. Work succeeds Albert B. Fall, and New takes the position vacat ed by Dr. Work. * * * * Of great interest to geologists and other scientists is the alleged discov ery of the skull of a human being sup posed to have lived during the Tertiary period. If the skull is an authentic relic of this period, it is the oldest sign of humans known. NEW ICONOCLAST APPEARS Paper Supposedly Published by College Students Quotes Upton Sinclair Madison, Wis., March 1.—“The Scor pion.” a four-page publication, calling itself “A political newspaper, publish ed fortnightly by a group of students at the University of Wisconsin,” ap peared on the campus on February 9. It declared itself “Not recognized as a University publication” and did not name its editors, but printed its office address. The first number carried ar ticles criticizing various aspects of the university, and reprinted two chapters from “The Goosestep.” a new book by Upton Sinclair. There was much talk in the newspa pers about “expulsion” of the editors. Noaction has been taken by the faculty, however, because the publication so far contains nothing for which students are ever disciplined, authorities declare. LAUGHTER CALLED SUPERIORFEEUG | Loud Guffaws Held to Be Self Advertisement; Jokes Often Based on Tragic Happenings | RESPECT PRICE OF HUMOR . — Scientists Say Snicker Throw back to Our Primitive Days; Misfortunes Cause Most Fun By Waldemar Seton From childhood on, the average mor tal has the merits of laughter constant ly impressed upon him. It seems to be the ambition of every parent to make his progeny into a human hyena or a second Pollvanna. Poets flood the weary world with their rabid ravings on the wonderful effects of a laugh. Song writers are forever coming forth with some bit of so-called melody extolling the various virtues of a sunny disposition. One of these gems which is always received by the laugh lovers with loud shouts of approbation is entitled, “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kitbag, and Smile, Smile, Smile.” Even doctors say that a good, hearty laugh is an aid to digestion. What is laughter that the whole world should rise and acclaim it king? What is laughter that men should pre fer to sing of its charms and starve, rather than work at an honest trade and gi’bw fat? What is laughter that it should make people who have never sung a note in tlieir lives, and never will be able to, stand up and crack their throats in praise of that facial contor tion which is called a smile? What is laughter that it should make doctors desert their pills and physics, and say that there is nothing better for the digestion than a hearty laugh? What is it? Laughter Is Throwback Scientists say laughter is a throw-1 back to our primate days. They say. that originally it was the bellow which ! our aboriginal ancestors emitted when1 they had shown their supremacy over some ape or over some other fellow beast. They say that laughter is mere ly a matter of self-advertisement,—an advertisement in which you call atten tion to your superiority and to anoth er’s inferiority. I once took one hundred so-called jokes, and analyzed them for their mirth-provoking qualities. Ninety-six of them depended upon the misfortune of some persons or persons for their laugh, and the other four were not I runny, musts mueij-aiA jvj*.©o ical of all laughter. Laughter arises only in the misfortunes of others. When some one has a mishap, a feeling of superiority surges over us, and we feel j called upon to let the world know of I our superiority,—and we let it know j by emitting joyous, gusty guffaws, i Take for example: A man slips and the lower end of his spinal column comes in contact with the hard and unyielding pavement. What do we do in “a case like that? Do we turn our heads and shed a silent, but sincere tear for the poor unfortunate? We do not. We indulge in shameless laugh ter. We glory in our own superiority. Infection Is Fatal “And the poor unfortunate, what of him? Does he rese" our implication of his inferiority? He does not. He instantly becomes infected with the hal lucination that he is a born humorist. Before his accident, he was a dignified man, a man who realized that a sober face is indicative of sound thinking, a man who knew that idiots and ticklish children were the only persons who were constantly laughing. After his accident what is he? He has lost all self-respect. He is imbued with the idea that he is a wit. He sub ; scribes to joke books. He buys rubber ! tacks, and cigars that explode when you I light them. He discards his judge’s j wig in favor of the fool’s cap and | bells. He becomes a monkey on a j stick, funny to look at, but of little value to the world at large. He has sacrificed all on the altar of laughter. So it is with all of us. Laughter is a trap set for our unwary feet, a ser pent coiled in our path, a siren who \ charms us and destroys us. As such we ! should know laughter, and as such we should avoid it as we avoid the sirens of Ulysses who ever sought to lure the mariners of old to death and destruc tion. EXTENSION DIVISION HEAD PRESENTS CHARTER TO CLUB Earl Kilpatrick, director of the uni versity extension department and re gional director of the state Kiwanis club, went to Tillamook Saturday to present a charter of the club to a new ly organized group of that place. He went by way of Astoria where between 40 and 50 other persons accompanied him to Tillamook. Students Steal Fruit and Candy Off Honor Stand Northwestern University, Feb. 28.— Some time ago there was established at the Northwestern university several “honor” candy and fruit stands. Stu dents were supposed to help themselves and deposit the proper amount for the articles taken. Recently, however, thefts have be come so numerous that a watch was placed on the stands, resulting in the detection of six students, one of them a girl, taking fruit and candy without paying anything, or short changing the deposit boxes. A fresh man stole one apple; a graduate stu dent stole 30 cents worth of candy and fruit; a sophomore ten cents’ worth; a co-ed one apple, and two freshmen help ed themselves to fruit worth 15 cents each and neglected to deposit any mon ey whatsoever. The cases of the six offenders will be placed before the student council at a special meeting. JUNIORS-SENIORS WIN IN ‘CROSS-PAVEMENT’ MEET “Speed” Peltier, Varsity Ground Hound, Tears Across Tape First; Race Takes Runners Down Town The interclass cross-country yester day afternoon resulted in the junior senior joint team winning with 29 points. The sophomores came second with 34 points against them and the freshmen last with 57. “Speed” Pel tier, veteran varsity runner, was first to cross the tape, covering the three miles in 18 min., 12 sec. Tetz for the sophomores crossed one second later. The entire course was on the pave ment. The runners started at the men’s gym, going down Thirteenth street to Willamette and down Willamette to the fountain and return. One of the main ideas in laying out the course was to arouse some down-town interest in Lem on-Yellow track. It was Coach Hay ward’s plan to have the traffic stopped during the race and blow a siren to at tract attention, but the city said “no,” and the race was carried on through the regular street travel. The names of the runners and time made are: Pelteir, s., time 18 min., 12 sec.; Tetz, so., 18 min., 13 sec.; Beatie, jr., 18 min., 21 sec.; Keating, fr., 18 min., 22 sec., Walkley, s., 18 min., 48 sec.; Wintlier, so., 18 min., 52 sec.; Carlson, so., 19 min., 28 sec.; McCall, ur., 19 min., 30 sec.; Madlund, so., 19 min., 34 sec.; Searles, So., 19 min., 35 sec.; Gerke, fr., 19 min., 42 sec.; Wingard, 20 min., 53 sec.; O’Rurke, fr., 22 min., 1 sec.; McCabe, fr., 23 min. The biggest event so far this season will be held next Saturday afternoon on Hayward field in the form of inter class relays. In these 64 men will have a chance to take part. The races will consist of the half mile, the mile, the two mile, and four mile relays. Bill ex pects to be able to pick four men from each class for every race with the pos sible exception of the four mile. It may be probable that the juniors and seniors will be forced to double up as in yesterday’s competition. The men who will take part will be picked this week. The relay require ments call for 220 yard men for the half mile relay, 440 yard men for the mile, 880 yard men for the two mile, and milers for the four mile. There will be four men picked from each class for each race, making 64 total. MEN TO SING AT ASSEMBLY Phi Mu Alpha Will Entertain Students With Annual Concert on March 8 Phi Mu Alpha, men’s national music organization, will give its annual en tertainment at the next assembly, Thursday, March 8. The program will not be announced until next week, but according to Balph Poston, chairman of the affair, it will include orchestra numbers, bass solo by Aubrey Furry, tenor solos by Arthur Johnson, piano solos by Arthur Hicks, and a double quartet number. Phi Mu Alpha was established on the ' Oregon campus two years ago. The principal ideal of the organization is to build up American music, and try to make appreciation of good music more general. Members are taken in, not only from purely professional merits, but also those who are interested in putting the musical profession on the | basis with others, and who try to get | the best there is in music. The pur pose here differs somewhat from that of Mu Phi Epsilon, in that the latter organization stresses more the profes sional standing. Faculty members of the University who belong to Phi Mu Alpha are Dean John J. Landsbury of the school of music, who holds a national office in the organization; Rex Underwood, John Siefert and Ronald Reid. Glen Morrow is president of the society. Building Planned as Social Hub of Entire University; Eating Facilities Wanted SMOKING DEN IS DESIRED Conflict With Aim of Y, M. C, A, Is Forseen; Financial Ob stacles Are Also Bugaboo By R. F. Lane During the vacant hour, where do you go? During the many vacant hours between classes where do you go? And the answer suggested is the erection of a Student Union building. There will be provision for smoking and swearing and spinning of yarns—if fellows want to; and there will be provision for combing bobbed hair, gossip and danc ing if girls want to, and a place to study for men and women. A cafeteria installation will serve meals three times a day at as near cost as possible. There might be other features in cluded in the plans of the building. A large dance floor, fitted" with sliding partitions to subdivide the large room into six or eight smaller rooms any one of them suitable for dancing par ties, for lecture rooms or for club meetings. The large floor might serve for an auditorium as well as a dance floor. Y. M. Also Has Plans The V. M. C. A. has plans for a new building which would contain “social rooms,” a cafeteria, as well as an audi torium.* This building, like a Students’ Un^i would presumably be erected on the campus. Its purpose and existence would be parallel to a Students’ Union, and so, whichever building comes first, one will be a duplication of the other. Which means that the erection of a Y. M. C. A. building will prvent the erec tion of a Students’ Union, and that the Students’ Union will prevent the erec tion of a Y. M. C. A. building. The dilemma is inescapable. Yet the Y. M. C. A. heads express themselves as heart ily favoring a Students’ Union building. This may mean one of two things: The Y. M. C. A. would like to dominate the Students’ Union or forestall it. Sec retary Putnam of the Y. M. C. A. has plans for the erection of a “Union School of Religion” off the campus, but near it. This institution, and a Student Union would care for both religious and social student desires. It seems likely that a “Union School of Religion” and a Y. M. C. A. would ra ther subdue these social needs. But as much as students themselves may want a Student Union, and as much as there may be need for an aud itorium, there are serious objections to a building planned on so large a scale. For every brick the A. S. U. O. must go into debt. At the present time it is not out of debt, and the ex ecutive council has no intention of assuming additional obligations. Building Costs High Building costs at present are high, and even if the consent of the execu tive council was obtained, no building large enough could be built for an amount secured by reasonably pledging the A. S. U. O. credit. Further, there is opposition to the erection of cheap buildings on the University campus. This financial problem as it stands .is a factor against a Student Union. There are probably other buildings the University needs more than a Stu dent Union. ’ There is equipment the University needs more. There is need for more instruction in art, in music, and in other departments. Upon one thing there is unanimous agreement. There should be and there soon must be a University Commons. A commons would relieve the halls and provide a> means of obtaining inexpen i sive meals in whatever quantity iiuliv | iduals want. There are very few prob lems in connection with a commons, and a movement to create one should be speedily introduced. Commons Presents Solution Meanwhile the University of Oregon I is growing. It is not the University I it was ten years ago. In ten years ' there are prospects of its having secur ed ten million dollars, and when that occurs, Oregon will not be the Univer sity it is at present. Oregon will be | a ’larger University. Its growth is certain to continue, and some anticipa ; tion must be made for it. For the | present a commons is the solution; foi i the future a Student Union. INVESTIGATION PROVES STUDENTS LIKE SCANDALS University of Wisconsin, Feb. 28.— College students read scandal more thar anything else, according to an investi gation completed by the journalism col lege of the University of Wisconsin. Anti-Co-ed Band To Organize at U.of Wisconsin An organization of male students is ] about to be formed at the University of Wisconsin of males who pledge thern I selves not to marry college women. It j will be known as the “Society for the i Welfare of Male Students.” “The or ganization is intended primarily to in fluence men in the university against chasing a woman student for a wife”; the reason stated is that such marriages are apt to result in divorces or unhappy home relations. FROSH FIVE EASILY WINS FROM COLUMBIA 28 TO 16 Slow, Unscientific Game Kesembles Vol leyball Tilt; Centers Exchange Too Many “Love Pats” In a slow and listless contest marred by numerous fouls and several wordy arguments, the frosh five took the sec ond ganle from the Columbia university preppers yesterday afternoon, 28 to 16. Columbia presented a five-man de fense at the outset which seemed to disturb the yearlings not a little and they were unable to score for sovoral minutes. The visitors worked with greater vim than in Friday’s contest and held the lead during the first part of the opening period. Their close checking indirectly lost them the lead for the babes were enabled to forge ahead by virtue of free throws which Bryant converted. The initial period was hard fought with most of tho points being gained through foul throws. It ended 13 to 8 for the freshmen. In the second period tho opposing centers, Gosser and Brennan began to exchange “love taps” with such a bold frequency that Beferee Eddie Edlunds was shocked into sending them both to the showers. The changes which re sulted seemed to demoralize the play ing of both squads, and from then on they put up a ragged exhibition. Wild passes and ineffective shots at the bas ket featured for both teams. The frosh managed to connect just a little more frequently and this enabled them to win. No exceptional playing was no ticeable on either side. Hobson was perhaps the only frosh who displayed his usual form. Gosser was unable to convert a single basket, while Bryant shot three field goals and six fouls for a total of 12 points. For Columbia Al bers and Murphy put up commendable games. The line-up: piroah_28 Columbia—16 Bryant 12.F.Ginty 2 Stoddard 6.F.Murphy 4 Gosser .C.Brennan 5 Hobson 4.G.-. Logan Mautz 4.G.Schulmerich ! Farley 2.S.Albers 4 S.Sweeney 1 Beferee, Eddie Edlunds. ERROR IN NAME HOLDS UP PAYMENT OF INSURANCE Dean Dyment, Who Served Overseas During War, Is Asked to Help to Get Soldier’s Fund A reminder of war days has recently ! Come to Dean Colin Dyment of the I college of liberal arts in the form of a letter from a woman in Bloomdale, johio, who writes that a small girl there is unable to get $10,000 which was j left to her in the shape of a war insur j ance policy, on account of a mistake in ! the spelling of her name on the policy. | This friend of the little girl asks the : dean if he can recollect any informa i tion concerning the generous soldier . which will clear up the difficulty. Dean ! Dyment served for several years as officer in the intelligence department . of the army, and was a member of the famous 91st division. In his answer to this woman’s letter I the dean explained that after the first phase of the Argonne fighting the 362 infantry of the 91 division was transferred to take part in the battle of the Scheldt river. One division was about 7900 men short, due to casualties and illness, and about 5000 men from the 84th division were sent in as re placements. Among these was a Bul garian named Steve Petcoff, from Bloomdale, Ohio, who was assigned to Company II. In the first day of battle PcD-off was killed and although no one actually saw him fall, his body was found about a mile from the town of Waereghem, and he was buried with seventeen others in a grave whose num ber the dean can utter with alarming accuracy, but which no human reporter ilarcs repeat. Petcoff had taken out $10,000 war insurance policy through the govern ment and made it payable to young Hermie Frederick of Bloomdale.. Through some mistake the name on the police appears as Armie Frederick and therefore the small girl has never been : ahie to get the insurance during the four years that her legator has been i dead. ikn1C OF TUI'S TOMO MEAN STUNT No Permission Asked of Oid Timer to Take Away Dope from Final Resting Place CARCASS COMES OUT NEXT Petrified King Should Rise in Wrath and Smite Down Robbers of Sacred Dump By Monte Byers Over in Egypt they are having one cantankerous time. It is all the out come of historically inclined bozos root ing up the muck in the Valley of Kings for the preserved hide and bones and kitchen utensils of one Tutankhamen, branded as the halfwit, high scepter swinger of Thebes, in the valley of the Kile. In spite of the 3000 years which tried to seal over the hiding place of the mighty dumbcll, these bespectacled scientists, geologists, historians, and what not, have managed to dig right into the old boy’s back yard and re move his culinary paraphernalia and his gymnasium apparatus and now they ire all going in after the petrified car cass of his nibs. What for? To set up in some corner of an antique shop and charge six-bits a throw to cast your lamps on the cold foatures of the Bucko who swayed the destiny of the Nile. But we ask, have these slaves of science consulted old stupid about tak ing his pots and pans and his own shrunken anatomy out into the sun light to become the center of attrac tion of a race that doesn’t care wheth er Tutankhamen is a brand of cigar ettes or the name of a south sea jelly fish? Permission Overlooked No they didn’t ask “Tank” for a writ of trespass, but went right in through the gate and started rifling his cache of boiled ham and pickled pig ’h knuckles. When they got that out they went right back and got his shaving set, and his riding boots, and the old shay in which he dashed about Thebes in regal splendor. Now we ask you, gentle reader, would you consent to having some one muss up the sanctity of your eternal slumber by breaking open the old casket, prod ding you in the ribs with the business end fo a pick and then carting you off for the general public to gaze upon in some open place? In the first place you wouldn’t get by very heavy. By the time you would bo ripe for the debut, your raiment would be a mess of shambles and they might run you in as a wobbly or a knight of the ties. That is where Tu tank had it on us. His trappings were soaked in a conglomeration of cow horn, whale oil, and nearly dead eggs, a com bination that would keep the elements at bay until the world bumps into the Pillars of Hercules. Without doubt you wouldn’t like to have some bird with a muck stick break up your slumber, by telling you to roll out and prepare for the parade to tho museum. Well then, think of “ lank. He may have another year to pound the feathers in his sarcophagus. Again he may be jerked before that time to ap pear in a one act play before the rude, leering public. Wrath IS ITtxuoieu Put yourself in the old boy’s shoes (sandals to be exact) and think how you would act if a gang came in and told you to “rise and shine.” What would you do? You’d rise right up out of your limestone bunk, grab your jewel studded mace, paste the intruder on the c6nk, roll over and dream about how you and Asher-Jaser-Ter-Bousky used to play marbles in the alleys of Thebes. Think of poor old Tutankhamen. His slumber is about over and he will soon face the public. Pity him. His crock ery is to be spilled all over the globe and blundering people of the times will come to stare at him. But then the old boy may not care, as his soul left his body and went into the body of a pig rooting in the cabbage patches along the Nile. HONESTY POLICY PREVAILS Very Little Money Lost at Iowa State College on Students Trusted Iowa State, March 1.—“Honesty is the best policy,” is one of the unwritten mottoes of the Iowa State students. ! Recent investigations at the College Inn and the College Book Store have disclosed the fact that very little mon ey has ever been lost by business men in trusting a student. Many apparent evidences of dishonesty such as making : out checks on banks where the issuer had no funds and signing wrong ad dres'os was attributed to carelessness on the part of the student. Ninety-five per cent of the instances in which the above happened were re ■ deemed by the students concerned, ac i cording to business men.