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Oregon Daily Emer; VOLUME XXIV. iXIIVERSITY OF.OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1923 LD NUMBER 113 DUBOIS, AUTHOR AND SOCIOLOGIST HERE MOW Orator of Colored Descent Will Meet Various Groups While on the Camnus SPEAKER LEARNED LEADER Race Question Will Likely Be Topic of Noted Writer in Talks to Students W. E. B. DuBois, author and orator, of negro descent, will be on the campus { Wednesday, March 21, to speak to var ious groups interested in social welfare work. Mr. DuBois’ program is not def initely arranged yet but any campus organization wishing to hear him should communicate with Prof. Walter Barnes, who has charge of the arrangements of Mr. DuBois’ program. Dr. DuBois has laid bare to white readers what it means to live within the veil of a color line which bars from fellowship men and women whose minds and characters otherwise anight be of close kindred. • His “Souls of Black Folk” and his “Darkwater” express the cry of one who “thinks white” from inside a negro appearance. “The dangerously clear logic of the negro’s position will more and more loudly assert itself,” he declares in The Souls of Black Folk, “in that day when increasing wealth and more intricate social organization preclude the South from being, as it so largely is, simply an armed camp for intimidating black folk. Such waste of energy cannot be spared if the South is to catch up with civilization.” DuBois Has Harvard Degree The speaker will come to the cam pus from Portland where he will speak next Saturday night in Lincoln high school under the auspices of the Oregon Social Worker’s association and Will iams avenue Young Men’s Christian as sociation. Dr. DuBois has received de grees from Fisk university and Harvard university, and has studied at the Uni versity of Berlin. His thesis leading to his Harvard degree of doctor of phil osophy was his exhaustive study, “Sup pression of the Slave Trade.” He taught at Willberforee and Atlanta universi ties and has been an assistant and fel low in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is now director of publicity and research for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and in connection with his work he has edited the Crisis, has made various in vestigations for the national govern ment and has contributed sociological studies to leading magazines. Dr. DuBois is author of “The Sup pression of the Slave Trade,” “The Philadelphia Negro,” “The Souls of Black Folk,” “John Brown, Quest of the Silver Fleece,” “The Negro,” and ‘•Darkwater.” “HANDSHAKE” IS OFF PRESS Theta Sigma Phi News Bulletin Is Mailed to Alumnae “The Handshake,” annual alumnae publication of Theta chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, women’s national honorary journalism fraternity, came off the press March 11, and was mailed to near ly 60 alumnae of the local chapter. “ ‘The Handshake’ is put out be cause we are interested in our alumnae, not because we are interested exclusive ly in the profession,” says the publica tion. It is made up of parts of letters written to the editor from old members, telling of “their work, husbands or babies, as the case may be,” according to the injunction of the letters sent them early in February. At present, from the Oregon chapter, Helen Brenton Pryor is in Peking, China; Boberta Killam Harwood is in Cordova, Alaska, while there are five members in New York, and others in Louisiana, Utah, Montana, Iowa, Cal ifornia, Oregon, and Washington. Theta Sigma Phi has been on the Or egon campus since 1915, and this is the fourth edition of “The Handshake.” There are ten active members in the local chapter of which Mary Lou Bur ton is president. Bosalia Keber edited this year's issue of “The Handshake,” and has produced a very creditable pub lication, according to Dean Allen of the school of journalism. DEAN BOBBINS WILL SPEAK Dean E. C. Bobbins of the school of business administration will go to Ore gon City today to talk to the “Live Wire” club, an organization of Oregon City business men. He will return to night. Oregon Man Named on Coast All-Star Team Hugh (Hunk) Latham BISHOP SUMNER WILL BE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER Bishop Pays Seventh Annual Visit to the Campus “The Great Adventure” will be the topic of the assembly address on Thurs day morning in Villard hall when the right Reverend Walter Taylor Sumner, bishop of Oregon for the Episcopal church, will speak to the University community. “The bishop’s address will not be a sermon in the conventional sense of the word but will have relig ious implications,” said Karl Onthanlc, secretary to the president of the Uni versity, in speaking of the assembly program. Bishop Sumner will be on the campus Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week on his seventh annual official vis it to the University since he came to Oregon from Chicago some years ago. He will hold numerous conferences with students individually and in groups but will appear before them publicly only once. Older students on the campus i will recall his former visits with en thusiasm fo^ he has made many friends on previous trips. His social schedule is already nearly arranged and houses or individuals wishing to entertain him sometime during his stay must consult Dean Fox at her office. In addition to the address made by the bishop, Madam Rose McGrew of the University school of music will sing a solo during the assembly hour. The work of the bishop of Oregon takes him to all parts of the state and | hence he is in close touch with Episco | pal families throughout Oregon and will find many representatives of these ! among his friends on the campus. The | bishop makes Ins headquarters in Port ' land but travels so much that he is widely known and popular add over J the district over which he has jurisdic j tion. His visit to the University is ! always a much-anticipated event in the year and proof of the welcome awaiting i him is his full schedule throughout his I stay in town. He will devote three days to the students and on Sunday will be occupied with diocesan affairs in town. STORE OWNERS COMPLAIN Students Create Disturbances in Down Town Confectionery Is Charge Complaints have been made by pro prietors of various Eugene confection ery stores concerning the conduct of University students while in these shops. Paper napkins are thrown about j the building, it is charged, and a gen ! eral rough house is carried on. Al though this conduct cannot be said to be characteristic of the majority of stu dents, there is a considerable number who do make a practice of creating dis I turbances in these establishments. Although there has been no direct ac cusation made against the students and their conduct in the show houses, there is a noticeable amount of misconduct and excessive noise in the theaters at times, but this cannot be laid to college students alone. Advisability of Holding Games in Men’s Gymnasium Is Pointed Out LATHAM ALL-STAR CENTER Plans Made for Heating of Armory for Practice Next Year The Basketball banquet which is held each year at the close of the season was staged at the Anchorage last night with members of both the varsity and freshmen teams, the basketball com mittee, and student body officers pre sent. The main business brought before the meeting was a discussion of the advisability of moving the games for next year back to the men’s gymnasium and thus give the Oregon team some home court advantages. t Gym is small The gym will only accommodate about half the present student body, and for this reason the games were played in the Armory this season to accommodate the crowds, but this elim inated all the advantages that the team would obtain by playing in the gym. The general consensus of opinion seems to be in favor of keeping the games at the Armory, but during the discussion it became evident that pro bably the most glaring need of the Uni versity at present is adequate gym nasium facilities, and according to Dear Bovard, a basketball pavilion is one of the first things to be taken care of under the new building program an nouneed by the University last week Handicapped by Colds Plans are now under way wherebj the Armory will be heated for practice next year, and in this manner the tean will have a better chance, as this yeai it practiced in the cold, and it was due to this sort of condition that the mem bers of the team contracted the colde which handicapped them in the Oregor Aggie games at Corvallis, and the Washington State game here. This banquet closes a very success ful season for Oregon basketeers, foe from the lowest team in the conference last year they came up to better thar a middle place this season, and but foi a mid-season slump, caused by sickness would have finished among the leaders as they did win from Idaho in the game here by a considerable margin and play ed them a close contest on the under sized Idaho floor. Bohler Picks Latham Another fact which contributed to ward the high standing of the Webfoo* aggregation this year was the picking of Hugh “Hunk” Latham as both all Coast and all-Northwest conference cen ter by Coach J. Fred Bohler of Wash ington State College, who makes hi: selections each year as a result of a ma jority vote of all the coaches of th< teams in the conference. Hunk had a close race for the hono: with Hjelte of O. A. C. but by virtui of his speed, shooting ability, and de fensive work he won out over his mori experienced opponent from the Aggi< institution. Hunk still has another yea ahead of him and if-he plays the bram of ball next season that he put out thi: year he should take both honors again FARRELL CALLS MEETING Junior Week-End Committee to Discus; Plans at Condon Hall Tonight The first meeting of the entire Jun ior week-end directorate since its or ganization, will be held tonight at 7:1; in Condon hall, according to Chairmai Doug Farrell. The dates of Junior week-end hav been changed to May 18 and 19 am some problems and facts in connectioi with the shift will be presented ti the committee as well as other matter which have been considered by tin directorate. Reports of all committee chairmei will be read and the general progres of Junior wreek-end plans will be talkei over. Members of the committee ar asked to come with opinions on th proposed change of campus day fror a clean-up affair to an all-Universit; rally.. WHALE PACKARD’S TOPIC “A Restoration of a Miocene Ceta cean Paddle” will be the title of th paper to be read by Dr. E. L. Packar at the meeting of the geologists to b held at Berkeley, Cal., on March 11 In a news story appearing last week th subject of the paper was stated incoi rectly. It was said that Dr. Packard' paper was on “The Flipper of a Prf historic Quail.” IA MONTH IS MICE STMT LIVING COST HERE Housing Groups Charge $37.50 for Board and RoT>m; Incidentals Extra SAME OUTSIDE OF iHALLS Books, Supplies, Lab Fees Run from $40 to $90 in Various Departments ' The average living expense to a Uni I versity of Oregon student is approxi j niatelj $60 a. month. This sum is not ; paid by all the students in the Univer j sity for there are some who pay less | than this amount, but these figures rep j resent an approximate estimate of the ’ general living expenses in the Univer I sity, as obtained from the administra tion, the house managers and a number of individual students. The board and room bill combined with some incidentals as laundry bills, ; week-end dates, miscellaneous expenses in the fraternity houses, clothing ex i penses for each month and other minor incidentals in the way of shows and i social affairs go to make up the month : ly expense of the college student. Considerable discussion has been I aroused on the campus over the recent statement made by President Henry Suzzalo of the University of Uashing ton, who declared that a student who | expends more than $65 per month dur ing the college year was a detriment j to the University. It was after reading this statement that the writer undertook to compile a ! fair and conservative estimate of the ] living expenses of the students of the i Oregon campus. Fraternity Average $37.50 The general average for the living expenses in the fraternities and soror ities of the University was found to be $37.50 for the monthly board bill plus .'the extra incidentals such as laundry I bill, which will average about four j dollars every month. A conservative es timate of five dollars is allowed for dances for men. Two dollars and a half was allowed for extra cost in the living organizations incurred by the house dances and other social events, ten dol lars was found to be the average for clothing expenses per month and the balance of six dollars used for other in cidentals. This estimate will not hold ! true in respect to Friendly hall, for the reason that the board bill is less than at other places of residence, due to the fact that all the food is purchased wholesale and in carload lots for all the halls of residence by one author ized head and this wholesale purchas ing aids to keep down the hall expenses. Non-Fraternity Expense Equal Expenses were computed for the stu dents in the Oregon club who are non fraternity men and are not living in the hall. An investigation revealed that the board and room bill equaled the amount paid in the fraternities and that the cost of living in private homes was not any cheaper than in the frater nities. Some students in the club do live for less than $37.50, but the cases are a small minority. The same figures for their incidentals can be used with the exception of the two dollars and a half for miscellaneous expenses in the fraternities for social purposes. Fees required for the various Univer sity courses were averaged last year during the spring term and the average was found to be slightly lower than four dollars, but at the beginning of this year the fees were raised one dol lar. E. P. Lyon of the business office estimates the general average amount of fees paid by one student *o be five dollars, although some students are pay ing $17.50 to $30 in laboratory fees, he said. The pre-medic course requires the highest fee because the more ad vanced subjects such as physics, chemis try and zoology require the use of ex ceptionally expensive apparatus, and breakage of laboratory material must be paid for. A total of $33.75 is re quired for the three term registrations, or $11.25 each term. 5 The following scale has been eompil ed by the University officials and pre 1j sents three tables of expense, but the J great majority of students will fall in 1 the second table: 7 Room and board—$390, $315, $360. Fixed fees at registration at $11.35 per term—$33.75, $33.75, $33.75. : Class tax—$1.00, $1.00, $1.00. Books, class supplies, laboratory fees— ? $40.00, $70.00, $90.00. ^ Incidentals, eliurch, recreation, laundry. ; etc.—$63.00, $135.00, $325.00. Gymnasium fee—$3.75, $3.75, $3.75. } Military fee (returnable)—$10, $10 $10. 9 These three tables do not include the (Continued on page three.) KILPATRICK RIDES HOOT OWL'S GOAT Initiation Broadcast from Oregonian Tower Is Heard Here Among the list of goat riders initia ted into the “Ever Growing Wiser Or der of Iloot Owls” appears the name of Earle Kilpatrick, director of the ex tension division of the University of Oregon. At 11:45 o’clock, Friday evening, the Grand Screech read Earle Kilpatrick’s application. His gavel rapped order. All the big owls, little owls and of ficial owls gave a hoot, and a motion on the floor was entertained for a call of the house. All members except Su pervising Screech, Mayor Baker, were present. Then a hooter hooted from one of the high perches, “1 move that Earle Kil patrick do be admitted.” The gavel was rapped, a bell rang, and then to the accompaniment of a Ba-aing of a. goat, Kilpatrick was ridden into the organi zation. “The Ever Growing Wiser Order of Hoot Owls” is a radio organization, i with the “Padded Cell” broadcasting station, KGW, of the Morning Oregon ian as its central roost. The transmis sion was caught Friday evening at the Friendly hall receiving station of JEd ward Robbins. JUlin HIM mUNIblln WILL SING SI VESPERS Madame McGrew and Siefert also Have Solo Parts •Toliu Claire Monteith, of Portland, is! to sing the baritone parts of “The Sev-1 on Last Words of Christ,” by Theodore Dubois, to be given Sunday by the Uni versity choir, according to an announce ment made by John Stark Evans, di rector. Mr. Monteith is a singer of exceptional ability and was recently heard on the campus in Gounod’s St. Ce cilia mass. The soprano and tenor solos will be taken by Madame Eose McGrew and | John B. Siefert of the school of music, i Madame McGrew and Mr. Siefert took ! part In the cantata when it was given last year and their voices have seldom been heard to better advantage. “The Seven Last Words of Christ,” is being presented by the University choir for the second time, and it is one of the most famous and beautiful things in sacred music. The cantata opens with a soprano solo, “O all ye who trav el upon the highway, hearken to mo, and behold me: was e’er sorrow like unto my sorrow? For the Lord Al mighty hath dealt bitterly with me. Call me no more Naomi; from today call me Maria.” This is followed by the first words, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” A cli max is reached in the second word, “Verily thou shalt be in Paradise to day with me;” and the third word, “See, O Woman! Here behold thy son beloved!” A baritone solo is given next, “God, My Father, why hast thou forsaken me?” The fifth word has bar itone and tenor parts, “I am Athirst!” and “Father into Thy hands I commend my soul.” The sixth word is a tenor solo. The cantata closes with the sev enth word sung by the soprano, tenor, baritone and chorus, “It Is Finished!” Bishop Walter Taylor Sumner, of Portland is to deliver the invocation, and the services are to be held at 4:30 o’clock, March 18 at the Methodist church. TOOZE CALLED TO CANADA Lamar Tooze, chairman of the Uni versity endowment fund campaign, has been called to British Columbia, where the father of Mrs. Tooze, Mr. Sheehan, is seriously ill. Mrs. Tooze has been in British Columbia since the first news i of her father’s illness. I-: Sorority Members Hope Action Will Stimulate Others to Contribute Funds BANQUET HELD SATURDAY «iimidt; irom many raris OT State Back Move of Women in Helping Oregon By unanimous action of both active anti alumni members of the organiza tion, the Oregon Alpha Delta chapter ot the national Delta Gamma sorority voted a gift of $1000 toward the ten million dollar campaign, to be used to ward the erection of a student union building in the near future. The action was taken by members of the sorority at their annual re-union banquet at the Osburn hotel, Saturday evening. The gift was made in the face of the fact that the sorority was already obli gated for payments on its house, and was contributing toward the national scholarship fund of the fraternity. Al so, many of the girls in the organiza tion are helping to oarir their way through the University. The action was inspired by “real old Oregon spirit,” according, to Beatrice Thurston Page, president of the Delta Gamma Building association. A novel means was hit upon toward the safe investment of the gift money. After some casting about, tho two youngest active members of the local chapter were selected and each was given a ten year endowment policy made out in her name. The two girls selected were Margaret Boyer of Port land, and Esther Church of Eugene. Student Union Lauded “The action taken by the girls,” said Jeanette Calkins, business manager of “Old Oregon, ’’and herself an alumnae of the chapter, “was made with su premo faith in the University of Ore gon and its students. It was inspired by real old Orogon spirit, and a realiza tion that such a‘n organization as a stu dent union is one, and one of the best, if not the only way of keeping alive our University spirit in the face of increas ing numbers of students. We must in crease the leaven as we increase the loaf, if the whole loaf is to be of kin dred stuff.” Other members of the sorority ex pressed tho belief that such an action on the part of the campus group would stimulate the interest of the student body in the Ten Million Dollar cam paign itself. “Alumni are constantly coming down here to tho campus,” said one of the alumnae members nf the organization, “alive with all of tho news about the ten million campaign, which they have heard in their home towns throughout the state. The state of warmth of in terest which they find at the University regarding the campaign will largely de termine their future interest or lack of interest in the campaign. Many Attend Banquet Alumnae guests who attended the banquet Saturday included Mrs. Wm. Keller, Mrs. Lowell Paget, Mrs. Boss Giger, Mrs. Boss McKenna, Clem Cam eron, Mary Alta Kelly, Mildred Hunt ley, Polly Kerr, Catherine Dobie, Helen Brown, Claribel Williams, all of Port land; Helen Casey of Koseburg; Ina McCoy, Salem; Vivian Chandler, Mon mouth; Mrs. Cyrus Sweek, Wenatchee, Wash.; Lillian Stupp, St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. A. A. Bogers, Mrs. Bex Under wood, Mrs. Hugh Ford, Mrs. Harold Turner, Mrs. Frederick Duun, Amy Dunn, Dorothy Lowry, Marian Taylor, (Continued on page three.) Oregon Student Plans to Tour Continent of Europe on Bicycle I By Margaret Skavlan With a sketch-book and a note book, a sense of color and a desire to see Vienna, Edgar Bohlman, a sophomore in architecture, leaves the campus the be ginning of next term for Europe. He plans to bicycle over Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Austria as his in clination leads him—a tramp de luxe. Ho will ship out from Portland as a deck-hand, going by way of Panama to New York—a trip of about four weeks. Front there he will go on across. “I’ll stay as long as my money lasts,” he said with a twinkle in his eye when asked bow' long he would be gone. He expects, however, to return in time to help his Bachelordon brothers with ruslt week plans next fall. Bohlman’s idea is to see things—to get a background for his work in stage decor ation that he pluns to do. While on the campim he has become known for his decorations for dances. This year he de signed the decorations for the home coming dance and the sophomore formal, besides five other formals. j “One can always eat grass, yon know,” he said, in speaking of living in the open, and going from place to place on a bi cycle. He said he might try going up to a pleasant cottage at night-fall and offer to milk the cow in return for sup per, bed and breakfast. Though he has never been out of the state of Oregon, Bohlman believes that there is no time like the present for gypsying—especially while the rate of ex change is so low. While working in Astoria last summer his case of the _ (Continued on page three.)