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Oregon Daily Emerald VOLUME XXIV. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 7. 1923 NUMBER 108 FHI BETA KAPPA 109 Graduates, 56 Women and! 53 Men, Accorded Honor j by Scholastic Body NOTED PERSONS LISTED April 19 Chosen Tentatively as Installation Date of Local Chapter Election of alumni to Phi Beta Kap pa, national honorary scholastic frater nity, was completed last night, 100 graduates being selected from the class-! es 1878-1922 inclusive. Of this number 56 women and 53 are men. The list includes one federal, and one circuit judge, lawyers, physicians, college pro fessors at Oregon and other institu tions, high school instructors, and var ious other professional persons. The tentative date for the installa tion is April 19, Dr. Henry Hand Hat field, dean of the faculties of the Uni versity of California will be the install ing officer. The members of the com mittee in charge are Dr. F. L, Stetson, i Prof. F. S. Dunn, Dr. D. E. Clark, Mrs. i Eric W. Allen and Miss Florence Whyte,! The local chapter of Phi Beta Kap-' pa includes about 35 of the faculty who | were foundation members. President i Campbell was elected recently to honor ary membership. senior class for membership after in stallation is already at work. The mem-' bers are Dr. W. E. Milne, Dr. E. S. Bates, Dr. James W. Gilbert, Dr. O. E. I Stafford and Miss Mary Watson. Judge Bean Selected Those elected and the classes of which they are members: 1878: Federal District Judge Bobert S. Bean, Portland; Mrs. Ellen Condon McCornack, Eugene. Mrs. McCornack is the daughter of the late Dr. Thomas Condon, pioneer Oregon geologist, and herself lias received recognition for her work in geology. 1881: Claiborne M. Hill, president of the Berkeley Baptist Divinity School, California. 1884: Benjamin B. Beekman, lawyer, Portland. 1886: Miss Ida Patterson, educator, Eugene. 1887: Herbert S. Johnson, son of the late J. W. Johnson, first president of the University of Oregon. 1888: Arthur James Collier, former professor of geology at the University of Oregon and now in the service of the U. S. Geological Survey. Dr. Henrietta Moore, Portland, former professor of English, University of Idaho. 1890: Arthur L. Yeazie, lawyer, Portland. 1891: L. Clarence Yeazie, lawyer, Portland. California Faculty Man Named 1893: Arthur P. McKinley, teacher of classics, Southern branch of the University of California. 1894: Miss Emma M. Wold, writer | and worker for women’s organiza tions, Washington, D. C. Miss Wold ! is a former resident of Portland. 1895: Mrs. Julia Veazie Glen, Seat-1 tie, wife of Dean Irving M. Glen, of j the college of fine arts, University of 1 Washington. 1897: Miss Annie Laura Miller, writer, Portland. Miss Miller is the j daughter of the late H. B. Miller, j former director of the school of busi- j ness administration, University of Oregon. 1898: Alfred A. Cleveland, pro fessor of education, Washington State College. Judge D. W. Kuykendall, judge of the circuit court, Klamath county, Oregon. 1899: Bertha Slater Smith. 1901: Walter L. Whittlesey, staff (Continued on page three.) SELF-INVITED MEN GET BID TO DINNER ALPHA PHIS TELL JOURNALISTS ACTION FINALLY APPROVED Scribes of Campus Publish Plea for Feed Last October; Formal Accep tances to Be Placed Under Mat Sigma Delta Chi and Alpha Phi will observe an armistice in their invita tional warfare next Friday evening while partaking of food from the same board. The armistice between the Al pha Phi tong and the S. D. C. type writer battalion was brought about in this manner: In the issue of the Daily Brews broadcast last October during the an nual Y. M.-Y. W. Mix the following article appeared: “Sigma Delta Chi ac cepts with plasure the invitation of Al pha Phi for dinner.'’ Yesterday mo ■ i ing members of Sigma Delta Chi found tacked on the bulletin board in Die • n.'ck” some invitations to appear at the Alpha Phi house next Friday eve ning at 6:30. Thus ended a breach of truce which followed the innovation of a “tradition” last year. The journalists first invited them selves to enjoy the hospitality of the Alpha Phi domicile last year when an identical item appeared in a publica tion. The invitation was approved by the girls and in answer to this approv al the scribes invaded the University press and made up elaborate accept ances—some of the cards being several feet square and worded in type sever al inches high. Later in the year the journalists took the Alpha Phis down town for a dance. All the versatility and ingenuity of the scribes is now being commandeered by the president of the chapter, for the girls have delivered an ultimatum to the effect that acceptances to the invitations must be placed under the Alpha Phi door mat before midnight Thursday. The Alpha Phis will be requested not to call the police or shoot if some Horace Greeleys, Ben Franklins, or Danas in disguise, are seen meandering about their premises. PHI NIU ALPHA TO GIVE CONCERT AT ASSEMBLY Varied Program Chosen by Men’s Music Fraternity Phi Mu Alpha, men’s honorary music fraternity, is to give its annual stu dent body concert at assembly Thursday in Yiilard hall. The program is to be opened with an orchestra number from Faust, which will be the heaviest part of the program. The orchestra is composed of the following men: First violins, Rex Underwood, Bansom McArthur; second violin, Wil son Gailey; viola, Balph McClaflin; cel lo, Balph Hoeber; bass, John Anderson; clarinet, Frank Dorman; cornet, Maryl Deming; trombone, Herbert Hacker; piano, Vincent Engledinger. Besides the orchestra number there will be vocal solos by Arthur Johnson, tenor, and Au brey Furry, bass, and the program will be closed with two songs by the double quartette, first tenors, John Seifert, Cur tiss Phillips; second tenors, Wayne Akers, Ralph Poston; baritones, Glen Morrow, Ronald Reid; basses, Aubrey Furry, Maurice Eben. The following is the program to be presented: Ballet Music from Faust .Gounod a. —-Entry of the Trojan Maidens. b. —Solo Dance of Helen. c-—Bacchanale and Entry of Phyrne. Phi Mu Alpha Orchestra At Dawning .Cadman By the Waters of Minnetonka. .Lieurance Arthur. Johnson Caprice Espagnole .Moszkowski Arthur Hicks Duna .McGill Aubrey Furry On the Sea .Buck Rockin’ in de Win’ .Neidlinger Phi Mu Alpha Double Quartette Laughter Extolled as Sign of Individual Happiness and Joy By Beck Link “Scientists declare that laughter is. a throwback to our primate days. They say that originally it was the bellow which our ancestors emitted when they had shown supremacy over some ape or over some other fellow beast. They say that laughter is merely a matter of self-ad- ] vertisement.”— Sunday Eme rald. Have you ever laughed? And haring laughed did you not feel the irresistible i impulse to climb, exulting, up the near est telegraph pole and swing by your tail? Didn't you want to lease a Foster & Kleiser billboard to tell the world of vour superiority to the rest of the apes, sabre-toothed tigers, and what not? We do not claim to know the myster ious evolutionary processes that have taken place since our ancestors howled from the tops of the Fever Trees on the banks of the great grav-green greasy Limpopo river; we can’t fold our hands in introspection and communicate with our subconscious on the aboriginal in stinct that cause us to glory shameless ly in the misfortune of others; why, we haven’t even met Herr Freud; but we do like to laugh once in a while. Doggonit, we haven’t even felt the tinkling of a rudimentary tail itching for the lofty heights of a Western Union wire. If laughter is “a trap set for our unwary feet, a serpent coiled in our path, a siren who charms and destroys us,” (Continued on page four.) POINT SYSTEM IS TOO COMPLICATED SITS COMMITTEE Organizations Are Thought Too Numerous; Work Falls on Few People RESOLUTION IS PASSED Membership of Societies Is Considered Duplicated in Present System ' That proper evaluation of student ac tivities is a matter of individual capa city of students themselves and that the enforcement of the point system involves too much machinery to be prac tical was the consensus of opinion ar rived at by a joint meeting of com mittees of the faculty and associated students held Monday afternoon. A resolution was passed favoring the in vestigation by a committee of student organizations on the campus with the idea of deciding on those which might be considered unnecessary. There are quite a number of campus honorary organizations, according to E. H. Decker, chairman of the faculty col loquium committee, that are of doubtful value and might well be eliminated. It was felt that students in authority on the campus are appointing the same individuals over and over again on committees, thus the great portion of the work falls upon the shoulders of a few. The great number of honorary organizations on the campus have in cluded in their membership many of the same people, the number not being distributed justly over the student body. This, according to the commit tee, is where one of the greatest faults in the system lies. The' advisability of revising the point system was discussed by the committee at considerable length but no action was taken. For about two years this sys tem has been in force but only nomin ally in force, according to E. H. Deck er. Following is the resolution as carried by the joint committee of the collo quium and students studying the ques tion of student activities: Whereas, 1st. It is the sense of the committee that the responsibility for participation in student activities is an individual matter and an adjustment for each student to make. 2nd. We feel that there are too many organizations and that the same stu dents participate in too many of them. 3rd. We feel that the present over burdened condition of the students is largely due to the fact that those in authority appoint the same students over and over again, and that the num ber participating is too small a propor tion of the student body. Therefore, we recommend: 1st. That the President of the Asso ciated Students, the President of the Women’s League, class presidents and others in authority, exercise great care in distributing appointments over a wider range in the student body so that the same student will not be tempted to engage in too many activities. 2nd. We recommend that the Presi dent of the University, together with the President of the Associated Stu dents, appoint a committee to inves tigate the purpose and aims of our student organizations with the idea of eliminating those unnecessary. Those making up the faculty com mittee were E. H. Decker, chairman; John F. Bovard, E. T. Hodge, C. D. Thorpe, Erie W. Allen. Those compris ing the student committee were Arthur Rosebraugh, Inez King, Marvel Skeels, Betty Pride, Delbert OberteufEer and Paul Patterson. U. H. S. FIVE UNDEFEATED Local Basketeers May Be Chosen to Play Championship Contests With no defeats against them, the University high school seems to have captured the sectional championship. The closest contender for the honor is Hendricks high school, which has been defeated twice, once by Cottage Grove, and once by the U. H. S. players. A return game between these schools will be played iVednesday evening in the Hendricks high gym, but evai if the campus players should be aefeated, they would still be ahead. The game Wednesday night promises to be an exciting one, as the two schools, always rivals, are equally de termined to carry off the game. The conference in Salem, where the state championship will be determined will take place March 15-16-17, and unless something unusual occurs, the U. H. S. players will be the representatives of this section, which includes Linn, Lane, Lincoln and Benton counties. Interesting Sights on Trip into Mexico Are Described Oregon Girl Tells of Visit to Nogales; Local Color of Border City Holds Charm Fascinat ing to Americans ! _ By Jeanne Gay (Iho following colorful article was written by Jeanne Gay, member of the Emerald staff last term, when in No gales, on the border line between Mex ico and the United States. Miss Gay, who will return to the University next term, is touring the southwest with friends.—Editor.) Nogales, Ariz.. March 3.—(Special to Emerald.)—We went to Mexico, twelve of us, to see the sights. The trip was made on my part in that remarkable car “that takes you there and brings you back”—the Ford. The 'country going down was verv iuteresting: hills stacked up like pyr amids, brown and yellow, and sand speckled with mesquite bushes. We spotted the Santa Oruz river, a mere trickle that we wouldn’t mention, but worth a lot in this arid country. Fresh green cottonw-oods lined its banks. Set tlements were passed along the way— groups of half a dozen adobe houses or shacks made out of tin cans, the t,w'o common types of building material. The window sills were of bright blue. Chick ens, dogs, and children all mingled to gether on the bare earth yard—some times swept clean, but more frequently left, with the filth of years. Young cavorting calves with their unemotional mothers watched us drive past. Our first stop was at Teumacacori Mission for lunch. This mission is over 400 years old, made of adobe and at one time plastered over, but now in a state of delapidation and desolation. For many yqprs people thought that there was buried treasure left in this place by the monks, and parts of the mission have been torn away in seareli of silver. The walls were a yard thick for protection, and in the rear of the structure was a round fort with gun holes. Presently we were only five miles from Nogales; green paint suddenly dominated the scenery. Every group of houses was smeared with green. A modern interpretation of cliff dwellers was seen on the high hills near the city of Nogales: frail looking Shacks ap parently clinging to bare cliffs. Some times there would be seen long ramb ling houses attached seemingly to the sheer face of the hill. Soon we were in Nogales, the border itself! To all outward appearances, it was a typical southern American town, but by just stepping across the line, marked by posts, all was changed! Tire land of munnna (tomorrow) lay before us. Back of us floated the American flag. We were in another country. We walked up the streets, observing everything. In an open square the sidewalks were lined with benches, and small black-eyed boys vigorously shined shoes. In another block, hunched close to the walls, we counted half a dozen wretched, tattered, blind beggars. Ev erywhere was dirt—and mongrel dogs. At a corner we threw coins to small, dirty, grinning urchins. A wild scram ble, and one lad—his front teeth were missing—got three dimes. The women were either pretty or homely, but all seemed to be blessed (Continued on page four.) SECRETARY APPOINTED FOR JUNIOR WEEK-END Lois Pixley Is Given Important Post on Class Committee In order that records of discussion and action may be preserved for fu ture reference, both this year and next, Lois Pixley, lias been appointed secre tary of the Junior week-end commit tee. Miss Pixley was chosen for this position because of her extensive ex perience in this line of work. The or ganization of the material and the final shaping of it for use by the chairmen of the various committees and for next year’s junior class require considerable ability on the part of the secretary. Miss Pixley will serve as a regular member of the committee and in addi tion to taking charge of the records will ; work on the directorate in an advisory i capacity with the chairman. She for i merly was secretary in the graduate ; manager’s and the alumni secretary’s i offices. It has been found by this year’s committee, as by committeemen in past years, that plans have to be worked i out anew each spring for the staging j of Junior week-end. This means the | loss of much needless effort. ! Special care is taken to record all suggestions made in meetings of the | general committee or the directorate. , In this way the value of the inspiration I will not be lost as it is often done I when valuable suggestions are simply 1 made and held over. Because of the lack of records it is necessary for committee workers to search out people who have had to do with Junior week-end committees in the past and obtain whatever information they remember. Chairman Farrell has ! also referred to the files of receipts of j expenditures in the attic of the Ad building and has obtained some valua ble data on costs and similar matters. The directorate will meet this1 afternoon at 4:30 in the accounting and auditing room of the school of business i administration for a brief discussion of problems. A general committee meet ing will be announced at that time, 1 probably for Thursday or Friday. The ! various committees have been meeting with the committee heads, and basic plans for the furthering of the annual junior class enterprise are declared to be well under way. INFIRMARY OPEN TO VISITORS Since the number of influenza cases has decidedly decreased, the health ser vice has again opened the infirmary to visitors between the hours of two and •four every afternoon. Owing to the large number of grippe and influenza cases during the months of January and February, Dr. Livingston thought it j advisable to prohibit visiting. PLANS COAAPLETED FOR NEWSPAPER CONFERENCE Prominent Journalists Will Take Part in Program With everything in readiness for the fifth annual Oregon newspaper confer ence and favorable reports from Oregon newspaper men who will attend the con ference set for March 22, 23 and 24, every indication points toward one of I the most successful conferences yet held on the Oregon campus. A special feature of the conference will be the formal dedication of the new, three-story journalism building. The program for the conference has been practically completed and includes many prominent newspaper men of the state as well as men who are conspicuous in national journalistic work. Among the prominent journalists of the state who are scheduled for talks at the confer ence are: Elbert Bede, editor of the Cottage Grove Sentinel, Bruce Dennis of the. La Grande Observer, Hal E. Hoss, Oregon City Enterprise, E. B. Aldrich, Pendleton East Oregonian, and George Aiken, Ontario Argus. At this conference, the organization of the Trade Journal section will be per fected. F. W. Beach, president and man ager of the Pacific Northwest Hotel News, or Curtis L. Beach of the editorial and business staff of the paper, will give a paper on “Trade Magazine Circula tion,” at the organization of the section. In addition to the main conference, there will be several subsidiary meet ings held. The members of the Asso ciated Press will meet on Friday at 12:15 until 2 o ’clock at the Anchorage. Paul Cowles, who is superintendent of the western division, with headquarters in San Francisco, will preside at this meet ing. The United Press clients will meet at the same hour at the Anchorage and the meeting will be presided over by Frank A. f'larvoe, general bureau manager in Portland, or Fred Ferguson of New York, who has signified his intention of attend ing the conference. GOLF TOURNEY PROPOSED Plans for Handicap Meet to Be Dis cussed at Meeting of Golfers Plans for an all-University golf tour nament will be discussed at a meeting called by Merry! Shaver, University golf instructor, for the men’s room of the Woman’s building tonight at 7:30. Student golf enthusiasts met recent ly and appointed a handicap commit te-1 ernsisting of Don Goodrich, Bill Swindells and Ambrose i Cron .n. The records of student golfers uc being looked up and a handicap list is being pi epared. According to Shaver, golf is increas ing in popularity as a sport among col lege students. Different coast institu tions are taking it up seriously and it will soon be the fad of the Oregon cam pus. HEATS OF CLASS RELAYS WILL EL RUN ON HAYWARD Tryouts for Saturday’s Meet Will Be Conducted This Afternoon BIG TURNOUT REQUESTED Interclass Competition to Give Coaches Line on Varsity Material The tryouts for Saturday’s big inter class relays will be held this afternoon on Hayward field, and Coach Bill Hay ward expects every man who has been out for two weeks or more to be on deck. It will require G4 men to run the races, which necessitates a big turnout at the trials today. This meet will be by far the biggest and most important to date as practical ly every contestant who has shown any thing at all will have the opportunity of competing in one of the relays. There are to be four of these—the half mile, the mile, the two mile, and the four mile, and four men will be chosen from each class for each race, making a total of Hi per class and 64 altogether. Upperclassmen Needed There may be some difficulty in pick ing enough men from the junior and senior classes as the supply seems to be limited. In the cross-counrty race last week the two upper classes had to go in together, but it is hoped by Bill that a sufficient number will show up to fill every place in every event. The half mile relay teams will be com posed of four 220-yard men, the mile of 440-yard men, the two-mile of half-milers • and the four-mile of milers. Sixteen men will run in each race. According to the present intramural track schedule this will be tho last in terclass contest of the year. The remain der being inter-organization competi tion. Tho inter-organization cross-coun try and inter-organization relays are. listed to come before the Washington re lays at Soattle which will be held on April 28. Hayward Pleased While it is still too early in the season to tell much about how the Lemon-Yel low aggregation is going to round out for tho collegiate meets, Coach Hayward seems well pleased at the showing made thus far. There are a large number signed up and most of them have been training consistently from the start. No phenoms have come to light, but a win ning track team is not always made up of phenoms. If a man has any athletic ability a lot of hard, consistent work will usually do the rest. It is true that Oregon has a few good men who can be counted on in a meet, but she lacks a well rounded organization and that is the de sirable thing. Hence all the pre-season competition to get as many men under training as possible in as many events as possible. BUILDINGS BEING REWIRED Fire Hazards Decreased in Compliance With Fire Marshal’s Orders Recommendations of the state fire marshal are being carried out as rapidly as possible, H. M. Fisher, superintend ent of buildings and grounds, said yes terday. Workmen are rewiring the li brary, and when they have finished there, will start on McClure hall. The fire marshal when here some time ago, named the library as oue of the greatest fire hazards on the campus, be cause of defective wiring. Mr. Fisher is having all the wires encased in lead conducts, and is rearranging the cir cuits to relieve overloaded wires. Prac tically the same work must be done in McClure hall. In accordance with the marshal’s or ders, adequate fire escapes will be plac ed on Deady and McClure halls. Minor changes in lighting fixtures in the wo men’s residence halls have already been made. . The University heating plant, being so close to the other buildings, is a hazard, but this cannot be remedied now because of lack of funds. A new plant, however, is part of the plans for l'.r future. BULLETIN University of Idaho, Moscow, March 6.—The University of Idaho won the second game of the coast championship series from the Uni versity of California by a score of 29 to 25 at Moscow last night and thereby cinched the coast title. Monday night’s game resulted in a 28 to 20 victory for Idaho. By vir tue of this win Idaho is winner of the coust championship for the sec ond successive season.