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Oregon Daily Emerald VOLUME XXIV. UNIVERSITY, OF OREGON. EUGENE, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1923 NUMBER 116 MUCH MATERIAL SEEN BT BOHLER EBB BALE SQUAB Games This Season Will Still Be on Old Diamond; New Field Not Ready PITCHING STAFF IS WEAK Infield Will Be Strong With Veterans Back in Line-Up; Baldwin to Pitch By Ken Cooper f According to the latest reports, the followers of Oregon’s diamond fortunes will watch the Lemon-Yellow willow wielders from the bleachers of ceme tery ridge for one more season. This, in spite of the proposed plans for a new baseball field south of Hayward field. The infield of the old field is be ing filled in and although work is far from completed it is thought that it will be ready for the first call, which will probably come during spring vaca tion. On looking over the material which is on hand for Bohler to shape into a nine, one finds a wealth of promising prospects, in addition to the veterans of previous teams. The first thing that the critic looks at when trying to fig ure out the pre-season dope on a ball team is the pitching staff and it must be admitted that Oregon is weak in this respect. The most reliable of the hurl ers is “Lefty” Baldwin, a veteran of last year’s pitching staff. He reports that his arm is in good condition this year and it is probable that the greatest burden of the slab duty will fall on ] the husky port-sider. The relief work will be upon the shoulders of Ringle and Wright, both from last year’s var sity. Outfield Looks Good The prospects for a heavy-hitting outfield look fairly bright, with Zim merman, Sorsbv and Roycroft back in the harness. Zim was one of the most consistent hitters on the varsity last year and more than once his long bat ■was the worry of the opposing pitchers. The left field position will undoubtedly go to him. Sorsby and Roycroft afe fast fielders, although they do not rank with Zim in the hitting department. The most promising outfielder from the babe crew of last year is Brooks, al though it is possible that he will be used to bolster up the pitching staff. The infield looks like the proverbial million dollar infield. Terry Johnson, who watches over the jnitial sack with the same nicety that he watches the wing position of a football team, will probably be in the lineup. Second base will probably be under the watchful eye of Jimmy Ross, who won his letter in that position last year. The little fellow plays a dandy fielding game and is a good man to start the batting list as his diminutive size makes him hard1 to pitch to. The other side of the key stone sack will probably be covered by either Collis “Dinty” Moore or “Swede” Vester. Dinty Moore is the original hard luck king. Moore Out for Short Tor two seasons, now, Dinty has been forced out of the game by injuries be fore the season was well started. Yester covered the short patch for the frosh and last year showed his ability to clout the old apple to all corners of the lot. Hugh Latham draped his long form around third base last year and held that corner of the diamond intact and his bullet like peg to first cut off many a hit. “Hunk” will be called (Continued on page three.) EVASIVE FROSH FORFEITS BOND Culprit Fails to Appear; Loses Four Dollars Some freshmen always appear prompt ly on the library steps when the Order of the “O” requests them to—others do not. This is a story of one who does net. When he was summoned to be present at the weekly session he “fox ed” the wielders of the wicked stick by staying away, thus making himself con spicuous by his absence. He succeed ed so well this time, that when he was summoned again the next week, he stayed away once more, thereby making himself still more conspicuous. Last week the wearers of the “O” decided to insure his appearance, so he was re quired to post a bond of four dollars which was to be forfeited if he did not appear on the steps Thursday morn ing to redeem it. When the roll was called, he was among those absent, and as a consequence, his four dollars went up in smoke, as each letterman, fortunate enough to get a share of the spoils, was sporting a 15-cent cigar immediately after the foreclosure of the bond. yj. TO ELECT OFFICERS FOR THE COMING YEAR Voting Will Be on Thursday from 10 until 2 At the annual business meeting of the Y. W. C. A. held yesterday after noon in Villard hall, comprehensive reports of the various committees sum marizing the work of the year were read and nominations for the officers of the ensuing year were made. The nominations were as follows: president, Mary Clerin and Edna Lar gent; vice-president, Helen Andrews and Mary Bartholomew; secretary, Mar garet Phillips and Thelma Kimberling; treasurer, Katherine Watson and Ed wina Riehen. The election will be held next Thurs day, from 10 until 2. In the evening the annual Y. W. C. A. banquet will be held at the Osburn hotel at which time the result of the elections will be made known, in accordance with the annual custom followed by the organi zation. Reports woTe made by Emily Veazig, chairman of the membership commit tee; Katherine Watson, chairman of the finance committee; Helen Andrews, chairman of the service committee; Marion Lay of the social department and Helen McCormack of the freshman commission. A triangle of the Girls ’ Reserves was present and demonstrated some of the work done by the service department. Bishop Sumner gave a short talk at the meeting and Frances Pierce played a piano solo. MU PHI EPSILON TO MEET Joanna James, Ruth Akers, Lois Parker Will Give Musical Program Writers of romantic music, will be the subject, for discussion at a meet ing of Mu Phi Epsilon, national honor ary musical fraternity for women, which is to be held in the Woman’s building on Saturday afternoon at 3 o ’clock. This is the second meeting at which romantic writers have been discussed. The program for the year includes the study of classical, romantic, and mod ern music, two meetings being devoted to each. The musical program for the afternoon will include numbers by Ruth Akers, Lois Parker and Joanna James. Marion Laurence will give the paper on the subject for the day. All members are especially urged to be present, a3 this is the last meeting of the term. Men Will Revel in Womanless Frolic on Evening of April 14 Now do you hear, there! All you men who haven’t dates for the April Frolic, April 14, are asked to come and bring yourselves to Villard hall, where the male element will congregate and engage in a little entertainment, free from the presence of the weaker sex, Due to regulations, the gathering will be a no-date affair as far as cigarettes are concerned. The men are urged to indulge heavily in the dreamstieks be fore they reach Villard. The committee in charge states that it will be a smoker full of pep, some thing doing every minute to keep the crowd on edge and send it home feel ing that the evening had not been wast ed. It will not be the slam-bang type of smoker, where one jovially soaks his nearest fellow with a mushy hunk of pie, or playfully breaks the furni ture on another’s head. As it i9 planned, there will be a reg ular program, featuring campus talent of all descriptions. It will be new stuff which has not been exhibited on the campus before. There will be athletic events: battlers pasting one another; bonecrushers tearing one another to Bhreds. Several musicians will be secured to put on numbers and some male song birds will yodel for the entertainment of the multitude. One or two of the numbers will be skits, such as, “Willie leaned too heavy on the town pump handle,” or something else. Eats! Yes, there will no doubt be some sort of fodder for the hungry crowd. Just what it will be, the com mittee has not decided, but there will be chow for all hands. One of the big features of the gath ering of the University masculinity is that it will begin on time and end on time. It is planned to keep up a rapid fire of acts throughout the evening. So while the women are kidding them selves into thinking that they are put ting something over on the men, the men will be staging a little bust of their own. MEET WILL OPES TUCK SCHEDULE Frosh to Contest Washington and Franklin High School Teams Saturday | COURSE TWcTmILES LONG Oregon Not to Take iPart in Washington Relay at Seattle This Year The first competition with outside track teams comes Saturday afternoon when Washington and Franklin high schools will vie for honors with the freshmen in a cross-country race. The run will start at three o’clock on Hay ward field and will be about two miles in length. Six men will make up each team, with five places counting. Yesterday afternoon the cross-coun try aspirants tried out by running the course that will be covered Saturday. The frosh who will run against the Portland teams are Keating, Gurkey, Skinner, Stevenson, Gilbert and Win gard. Hayward says that it is quite possible that Franklin and Washing ton boys will have the edge on his proteges due to the Oregon men’s lack of experience. Original Plan Opposed Hayward’s original plan for devel oping all the material turning out has miscarried due to some opposition from outside his realm. The interfraternity competitive matches have been called off as a result of the eamplaint regis tered with the physical education de partment, and it is up to the coach to devise other means of providing ex perience and competition for his men. It was not Hayward’s intention when he scheduled the meets between the various men’s organizations, to bestow special glory on the winning frater nity, but to keep up interest and de velop liis teams through a spirit of competition. Bill has a hundred men turning out regularly, and the intef organization meets would have solved the problem of giving each of them some part in the season’s schedule. Aiding in the production of varsity athletic material is a definite virtue of intramural sports, and decidedly the plan outlined by Coach Hayward would have done just that, without working a hardship on any campus group be cause all the men necessary to carry out such a program are out there and willing to compete. If intramural sports are to be cut down there are some that could be eliminated, and make no appreciable difference in turn ing out varsity material. Revival Is Desirable A general revival in track interest is desirable this year. For the past several seasons Oregon has not been able to make a very brilliant showing because there were not enough peo ple interested. Now there is a great abundance of material and Hayward is hopeful of developing a winning team, but sustained interest is essential to the realization of his desire. Inter organization competition would no doubt stir up more student interest than will be evinced without it. Oregon will not take part in the Washington relays at Seattle this year, according to Hayward, because there would be too much expense and too lit tle income. DEBATE LEAGUE T0 MEET Convention Will Be Held in Berkeley; Oregon Not to Send Delegate The Pacific Coast debating league will hold a meeting in Berkeley March 23 and 24 to arrange rules of conduct for the league which was organized last fall. Oregon is entitled to send a del egate, but due to the nearness of the examinations it is thought no represent ative will go. Other institutions which are members of the organization and which will very likely send delegates are Stanford, O. A. C., Reed college, Whitman college, Washington State col lege, and the universities of California, Washington and Southern California. Other business to be taken up at the meeting next Friday and Saturday, will be the problem of judging debates which involves the question as to wheth er the three-judge plan, the expert judge plan, or no-decision method is the best system to use. Through the work of this league de bate activities will be carried on next year on a much larger and more inten sive scale. Each state in the league will hold a triangular debate, and the winning team from each of these con tests will represent their respective state in the coast contest. PLEDGING ANNOUNCED Kappa Delta Phi announces the pledg ing of Wade Kerr of Eugene. Bishop Believes Intolerance By-Product of War Hatred Youth of Today Not Interested in Teachings of Bible, Says Oregon Prelate in Talk to Students at Weekly Assembly “Beligion is more than a rule of etli ios; more than the Golden Rule; more than models and forms—it is a means of uniting human beings with that su preme power which we call God—bind ing us so closely that we are given strength and will to live up to our moral standards,” said Bishop Walter Taylor Sumner of Portland, who ad dressed the students and faculty at yes terday ’s assembly on ‘‘The Great Ad venture.” Bishop Sumner believes that the youth of today is not greatly interest ed in the Bible or religion. As an ex ample of this lack of interest, he cited an instance which occurred during the war period at the Great Lakes naval training station, when 87,000 recruits passed through the station. Four-fifths of these men expressed themselves as not being interested in any particular religion. The bishop assigns this lack of religious enthusiasm, so universal throughout the world at present, to a general confusion by men in all walks of life of the essentials of Christianity with its non-essentials. The existence of such an increasing number of dif ferent sects and creeds—there are more than 250 in the state of Oregon alone —is also a probable cause for the con fusion, the bishop believe^. People are at a Ipss to know which one of the diverse teachings is the true faith. “Life is the great adventure,” said the speaker. “A hazardous, experierfee, I an exciting occurrence, filled with ro ■nance and happiness, calling for great acts. I come to you as a friend in the hope that I may arouse in you a desire to know more about this supreme pow er whom we call God, that you may more fully meet the demands of this adventure. “We must uot fall into the error of thinking that we have all the civiliza tion,” Bishop Sumner said. “We can contribute out share of progress and development only as you and I build up character and by our own moral standards compel our government to take its stand on the right side of world moral issues. “We and our children are passing and will pass through the by-products of the war—when we taught hatred and malice and man’s slaughter of his fel low men as a part of our program of patriotism. It was necessary, but may God forgive us! This is no time for malice, this is no time for religious intolerance and race prejudice, which is an outgrowth of the malice of the war. We must try to overcome this narrow bigotry. It is breaking down our community cooperation, our family life and our friendships—it is damna bly un-Christian. “ To make money, if it is to bo right ly used, is to foster an idea of service. You are here because some one has produced the money to keep you here —your time here represents the body and mind of your father and your mo (Continued on page three.) HIGH SCHOOL DEBATING TEAMS WILL MEET HERE ’ — | Championship Is to Be Deckled During Junior Week-End The winners of the eastern Oregon high school debates will meet the win ners of the western Oregon debates on the University campus, during Junior week-end, to decide the state champion ship of Oregon. The cup which is to be awarded was given by Prof. E. E. DeCou of the mathematics department of the Univer sity. Professor DeCou was the first secretary of the high school league, which has been in existence since 1907. This is the third cup which has been given, the first being called the Re gent ’8 cup. It was finally won by Grants Pass, after they had twice won the state championship. The second cup, awarded by the Lau rean and Eutaxian societies of the Uni I versity, was presented to Salem| in 1921, after they had won the champion ship three times. The DeCou cup was awarded last year for the first time, going to Pendleton high school. Per manent possession will be given to the school winning the championship three times. The state of Oregon is divided into I 11 districts by the executive commit i tee of the Oregon High School Debating | league. There are inter-district de i bates, during the year, eliminating all but the two best teams, one from east ! ern and one from western Oregon, the final debate taking place at the Uni versity at the time of Junior week-end. There are two members on each team, sent here by funds from the league. The subject for the final debate is chosen by the executive council of the league, and the debate material fur nished by the state library at Salem. The winners of the eastern and western Oregon teams will be decided by March 17‘ The executive council is composed of President P. L. Campbell, J. A. Church ill, state superintendent of schools; Miss Cornelia Marvin, state librarian; Dr. Dan B. Clark, of the extension div ision, secretary of the league; and A. C. Strange, superintendent of Astoria schools. GRADUATE IS NOW OFFICER Emerald Sloan, ’22, Commissioned as Second Lieutenant in U. S. Army Emerald Sloan, a member of last i year’s graduating class, and cadet-ma j jor in the R. O. T. C. last year has recently received his commission as sec j ond lieutenant in the regular army, and has been ordered to Fort Missoula, Montana. Sloan took a four-year military course in the University, graduating with hon I ors from the military department. Since ! his graduation, he has been engaged in | newspaper work at Kelso, Washington. | Just before leaving for Fort Missoula: ' last Saturday, he visited his parents, who live in Eugene. APRIL FROLIC PLANS Women’s Show on April 14 Will Be Closely Guarded Annual April Frolic plans are now practically complete, according to Mar garet Beatie, general chairman. At a committee meeting last Tuesday, all committee heads were instructed in their duties, and everything is in work ing order so that final arrangements can be made at the beginning of the new term, for the Frolic will take place the first Saturday after vacation, on April 14. Rosalia Keber is head of the stunt committee. This year the women’s or ganizations which did not participate last yera will put on stunts. They are Tri-Delt, Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, Pi Beta Phi, Susan Campbell hall, Alpha Sigma, and Alpha Delta Pi. All names of stunts are to be in today to the committee, so that the programs may be arranged. Other committee chairmen are Muriel Meyers, floor manager; Inez Fairchild, programs; *Mary Skinner, food; Hilda Chase, stage manager; Madge Calkins, music; Margaret Seymour, clean-up; [Katherine Lyons, judges; and Dorcas Conklin, properties. Ice-cream sand wiches are to be sold, and will be dis pensed by an able committee. Between each skit there will be music by an ex cellent jazz band, for dancing. As usual, women guests will be ad | mitted to the balcony, upon the pay ! meat of 25 cents. Costumed co-eds ; will bo charged 10 cents, i Tt is rumored that there will be var | ious attempts on the part of the male j student population to witness the co-ed j “bust,” but also as usual, their plans i will be thwarted by staunch guards at j every door, and private detectives who I will detect even though the costumes | be most intriguing. WRITERS TO VACATE SHACK New Journalism Building Will Be Oc cupied Before End of Winter Term The “shack” is nearing the end of its career as a harbor for budding journalists, and is doomed within the | next few days to assume the role of annex to the main building. Acording to Dean Eric Allen, the new , building is about completed and the process of fitting up and moving in will I occupy the next few days. The car pent>y work is finished and the elec tric wiring nearly so; telephones will be installed Saturday. Linoleum for the Doors has arrived and is in the building. The furniture has been order ed and, according to the manufacturers, is all in stock, so that there will be no delay in shipping. The painting is fin ished and the radiators are all in place, [ so that while some of the shelving and other fixtures will not be all complete, enough will have been done so that it will be possible to use the building for classes and for the coming state | newspaper conference. 91,000 IS GIVEN BY LEMON PUNCH FOB UNION FONO Hammer and Coffin First of Honorary Organizations to Make Donation NEW MEMBERS ELECTED Society Desires to Stimulate Contributions from Other Campus Groups The first organization of its kind to make a contribution to the gift cam paign is Lemon Punch chapter of Ham mer and Coffin which yesterday an nounced the presentation of $1000 to ward the erection of a student union. The plan is similar to that recently adopted by the Delta Gamma sorority. Action was taken at a meeting of the chapter yesterday noon. According to plans the ten million dollar campaign will be made the ben eficiary of a ten year life insurance policy to be taken out in the name of one of the younger members of the society. Premiums are to be paid by Hammer and Coffin and at the onl of the ten years the $1000 will be paid to the regents of the University. The members of the society have expressed a desire that the money be used for a student union. Braddock Fledges Support Action was taken through a desire op the part of the members of Hammer and Coffin to stimulate similar gifts on the part of these professional or honorary societies which are financially able to assist in the campaign for a student union, according to members. “Hammer and Coffin and the members of the staff of Lemon Punch want to help the Gift Campaign in every pos sible way and we want to see a student union on the campus,” said Doc Brad dock, editor of the Punch, yesterday. Braddoclc declared that the magazine would assist the campaign and the agi tation for gifts for the student union through its columns. Coming simultaneously with the an nouncement of the contribution to the campaign is the announcement of the election of members and stac promo tions. At the meeting yesterday seven men were elected to membership who have been contributors to the Punch this year. Those to be initiated are Claude Snow, Rolf Klep, Charles Stock well, Jack Beck, Bill Nettleship, Paul Carey, and Jack Boyd. Staff Appointments Made Chief among the appointments an nounced by Doc Braddock, editor, is that of Knut Digerness to the position of associate manager. Others are Char les Stockwoll, circulation manager; Jack Beck, associate editor; Jack Boyd, assistant manager; and Bolf Klep, Claude Snow, Paul Carey, and Bill Net tleship, art staff. Other members of the staff of the number which will appear March 19 are as follows: Doe Braddock, editor; Mil ton Brown, manager; Kenneth Youel, Francis Linklatcr, associate editors; Stu Biles, art editor; George Godfrey, national advertising manager; Inez Fairchild, advertising manager; W. F. G. Tliacher, advisor. SOPHOMORES VOTE TO LEVY SPECIAL TAX Money Will Be Collected With Fees for Registration and Will Be Used for Junior Week-End At the sophomore class meeting held yesterday afternoon in Villard hall, a tax of 2Q cents was voted by the mem bers, for the purpose of helping to fi nance the Junior week-end. This tax is to be added to the sophomore regis tration fees for next term but will not go into effect unless all of the four classes vote a similar tax. So far the senior and junior classes have signi fied their intention of imposing such a tax and it remains for the freshman class to pass a similar measure. It was also decided to hold an in formal dance on either April 20 or 21, the exact date to be decided upon later. The president was instructed to appoint committees to take charge of plans for the dance. REDDIE WILL READ DRAMA Ashland Study Club Sends Invitation to Appear Tomorrow Professor Fergus-Reddie of the de partment of drama and the speech arts will leave Friday night, motoring to Ashland, where he will read Macbeth, at the request of the Ashland study club, on March 17. Arthur Johnson will accompany Mr. Reddie, both returning on Sunday. Mr. Reddie’s reading ability is well known and on many occasions the University has enjoyed his recitals.