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Newspaper Page Textlibrary Oregon Daily Emerald VOLUME XXIV. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1923 NUMBER 117 JUNIOR WEEK-END Events Present Inducements to Visiting Preppers; t> All Seniors Asked 0. A. C. GAMES ARE SLATED Baseball, Track, and Tennis Are Among Activities for May 18 and 19 The hundreds of “preppers” who will ^ visit the campus at Junior week-end, May 18 and 19, will see, in addition to the usual program of social and campus activity, a heavy line-up of athletic events, according to Jack Ben efiel, graduate manager. On Friday, the 18th, Oregon will meet O. A. 0. on the baseball diamond and track. O. A. C. is rated high in both these sports this year and compe tition will be especially keen. High school students throughout the state watch with interest the annual strug gle between Oregon and the Aggies in all athletic contests, acording to re ports of members of some of the teams that have met the frosh recently, and the fact that the two student rivals will clash at the annual Maytime fes tivities is considered a good drawing card. O. A. C. Games Saturday Saturday will see two more contests with the Benton county college. The second game of baseball will be play ed and the tennis team of the Beavers will meet the varsity. It is expected that several of the new courts will be finished by that time and the tourna ment will be played there. The final event of the week-end is the Freshman-Portland interscholastic track meet, scheduled for Saturday af ternoon. Although no definite an nouncement has been made it is ex 4 pected that every high school in the city will send representatives to Eu gene to take part. This will give the high school athletes of the metropolis a chance to see the University. Students Asked to Write Students are urged to write at once to hibh school students of their ac quaintance inviting them to the cam pus to enjoy Junior week-end. A spe cial effort lias been made to line up a good athletic program and. if the pros pective visitors know of the plans it it felt that a large attendance may be expected. The committee in charge plans to in vite every high school senior in the state to come to the campus when this big event is staged. Cards bearing in formation concerning the program, are to be sent out and special invitations are to be sent out through the high school principals. RACE CHANGES POSTPONED The straightening of the course of the mill race will not be undertaken until after the Junior week-end fes tivities have been held, according to a statement made by the Eugene city en gineer. It will not be necessary, there fore to tear down the bleachers this year but the improvements will neces sitate the razing of the constructions later. The change, however, will make it possible to erect a thousand addi tional seats and will widen the course for the canoes. KNIGHTS WILL USHER The following Oregon Knights are asked to report at the Methodist church Sunday afternoon at three o.’clock to act as ushers: Jack High, Raymond Gar rett, Robert Cole, Bruce Curry, Ben Smith, Maurice Kinzel, Charles Norton, Rufus Sumner, Everett Ogle, Joe Sor rie, Claire Shumate, and Paul Krausse. FIBULA FRACTURE GOES UNNOTICED McClaflin Breaks Bone During Relay Race To break a bone in a leg, to run the last lap of a mile race, then to hobble around the campus for nearly one week without knowing he was seriously in jured has been the experience of Ralph McClaflin, senior in the school of law. McClaflin, a member of the University orchestra, took part in the interclass relays on Hayward field last Saturday afternoon and it was while covering the last lap of his mile run that the smaller bone, the fibula, of his left leg snapped. Not realizing that he had broken a bone, McClaflin finished the race, al though he was considerably slowed down. The soreness in the injured mem ber was quite" noticeable on the follow ing morning, but he thought he had on ly acquired a “buck shin.“ Yesterday he went to the University health service for further medical treat ment and the physician had an x-ray photograph taken of the injured leg. A clean-cut fracture of the fibula was discovered and now McClaflin is hob bling about the campus on a pair of crutches. It is understood that such injuries, es pecially in track events run on a level surface, are infrequent, and it is be lieved that he was temporarily over balanced, throwing all his weight on his left leg when his foot was flat on the ground. INTEREST IN SPEAKING GREATER, SAYS THORPE Enrollment in Department Is Doubled in Last Year Does public speaking as an activity fail to arouse the modern college stu dent’s interest? “No,” says Prof. C. D. Thorpe of the public speaking de partment, in answer to this question. “I think there is a decided tendency among the universities and colleges to make speaking one of the popular ac tivities. “There is a distinct revival in this work,” he added, and gave as reasons' for this statement the fact that all over the country more textbooks on public speaking are being published, and the demand for them is showing marked increase. When asked what had brought the renewed interest, Mr. Thorpe said that everywhere there is a reaction from the old elocutionary style, as the tendency now is to build up the speaking art with the end in view of expressing the thought. “The weight of emphasis is then shifted from delivery to expres sion of thought,” he said. “Then there is a realization on the part of business and professional men that they need training in expressing their thoughts and ideas, in order to make a success in both their business and social life,” Mr. Thorpe said. It was also stated by Mr. Thorpe that there is a tendency on the part of those in charge of the speaking ac tivities to make the subjects spoken of and debated, of more interest to the students, by selecting only topics which are up-to-date and of timely in terest. According to Mr. Thorpe, the Uni versity of Michigan now has 10 per sons instructing in its public speaking department, and the University of Cali fornia, nine. The University of Ore gon ’s enrollment of students in the same department has increased from 35 to 75 in the last year. These statis tics, with the fact that each year more students are turning out to the debates and similar activities show', he said, that there is a greater interest among the college students for the work, de spite the fact that in the larger insti tutions there is a tendency, because of the multiplicity of other activities, to divert the students’ attention and in terest from forensic work. o— Good Old Game of Horseshoes Is Popular Pastime with Men By Monte Byers Minor sports have their place in the athletic curriculum, but there is one sport that the committee has over looked. The ancient and honorable game of “horseshoes” has failed to be reckoned in the roll call. The game of the generations is not written up in Hoyle’s “Book of Games,” but would rate a title in the index, if the corner lot activity of campus devotees were taken into consideration. The origin of the game is shrouded in mystery, but it thought to have been started when Father Noah hurled the giant ring anchor of the Ark over the top of a huge cypress on the crown of Mount Ararat. And so the grand old game has come down to us until we have simplified it to pitching equine ground grippers at pegs in the ground. The pastime has hit the campus like a thunderbolt, and the back-lots ring with the metallic click of the quoits. Each of the men’s organizations has its campus and would-be ehamps. Lo cal Hoyles have devised rules for the game and it is played in the warm spring weather. The distance between pegs must not be more than ten feet farther than the burliest contestant can heave the irons. Fifteen pounds is the maximum weight of the shoes, and barrel hoops and auto tires are barred from the competitions. Twenty-one points is the official game and any points over shall be counted on the fifth game preceding the second after the first is played. Any complexes resulting therefrom must be unraveled by the aid of Jiu Jitsu and Analytic Geometry. Shoes landing within ten feet of the pegs count, and any persons unable to (Continued on page four.) BELIEVES BISHOP Danger of War Between Races Touched on By Prelate in Informal Talk HATRED HELD DANGEROUS Malice and Bloodthirstiness Pumped into Our Systems Says Sumner “We have pumped hatred and malice and bloodthirstiness into our blood un til we’re turning on ourselves,” declar ed Bishop Walter Taylor Sumner in an informal talk before Dean Allen’s ed iting class yesterday morning. “The issues aren’t so big—they don’t involve the integrity of society, it is just the vicious conditions of the war poison ing us. “There is so much revenge and ha tred we can’t get it out of our sys tems. That’s why we don’t have world peace,” he said emphatically. The bish op believes that such a state of the pub lic mind is bound to lead to another world war if it isn’t checked, “and,” he added, “I believe such a war when it comes is only too likely to be a racial war. And fairmindedly we should be studying the situation.” In the event of another great war the'yellow and the brown people might join together, the bishop believes. “I’m not so sure about the blacks,” he stated. “I don’t think we would have any fear as far as the blacks in our coun try are concerned.” Bishop Sumner who spent 11 years in the most vicious and poverty-stricken section of Chicago, and who, according to his own description, has been up live times a night with shootings— shootings when they shoot to kill— told the class something of the condi tions. confronting the negroes in this country. “Colored people are forced to live in the most undesirable parts of the town. What chance is there for the colored race in the great city to rise above itself?” he asked. “There is no place for them to congregate ex cept in the most vicious surroundings. Colored people are like children—they can be influenced by almost anybody.” Negro Is Discussed With the negroes, then, character is mostly a question of environment, the bishop believes. He estimates environ ment as being 75 per cent and heredity as 25 per cent, while with the white people he would reverse these figures. The bishop told of a Dartmouth Col lege graduate, a negro, who could find no work in Chicago, and finally had to resort to a job as elevator man. The negroes are given no chance so they declare there is no use getting educated. “I believe if there were somthing for i him to do when he is educated, the ne I gro would make an excellent citizen,” - Bishop Sumner declared. But the color ed people are a problem because they are so prolific, the bishop added, i The bishop recommended the “Pass j ing of the Great Race,” “The Rising j Tide of Color,” and “Is America Safe | for Democracy?” as three great books I on the race question. But, he said, i some less hopeless books ought to be read as an antidote. “These books do I paint a mighty dark picture of the i future—not the immediate future but j that of the next fifty or one hundred years—a mighty sad picture of civiliza tion,” he declared. FROSH COMPETE TODAY IN CROSS-COUNTRY RACE Portland High School Teams from Washington and Franklin to Enter Contest At 2:30 this afternoon the frosh Washington high-Franklin high cross country race will be held. The two Portland high schools are sending up good teams and the competition should be first class. Six men will make up each team, 18 runners in all. For the Oregon first year men, Keating, Gur key, Skinner,- Stevenson, Gilbert and Wingard will compete. The race will start and finish on Hayward field. One lap will be cover ed on the cinders before the runners leave the field, and one time around before the finish. The teams will leave I the field at the south end of the grand stand, go west to the cemetery road, I south on the cemetery toad to Nine teenth strpet, east on Nineteenth to Yillard street, Villard to Fifteenth street and from Fifteenth street back to the track, a distance of 2.6 miles, accord ing to Bill Hayward’s speedometer. The race will not take longer than 15 minutes, and Bill wants to see some ! student interest shown. Members of the fair sex are not barred. Y. M. Structure Inadequate for Student Union Building ___________ * Center for Actitvities of Campus Life Must Be Imposing Edifice Large Enough to House Store, Offices and Lunch Rooms By Lester Turnbaugh Campus comment relative to the feas ibility of converting the Y. M. C. A. structure into a student union building and gifts by various organizations to the Ten Million Dollar campaign fund for the purpose of erecting a cen tral building for University students, have practically materialized plans for such an edifice. Considerable discussion has been aroused by letters appearing in the Em erald relative to the efficiency of the Y. M. C. A. and to the advisability of using that building, in case the “ Y” were to vacate, as a substitute building for a student union. The general opin ion, so far as has yet been ascertained, is decidedly against using the building for that purpose. It is considered, es pecially by those informed on the work ings of a union, that the building would be entirely inadequate for such a pur pose. The action taken by the seniors whereby they pledge themselves to give $10 a year individually for ten years to the gift campaign contains the pro viso that this money be used for the erection of a student union building. Close on this came the announcement that Delta Gamma and the Lemon Punch chapter of Hammer and Coffin had each given a gift of $1000 to the same fund. These, and the letters appearing in the Emerald criticizing pro and con the work of the campus “Y” and the possibility of a student union, have giv en rise to the question, “Why a stu (lent union,” or ‘‘What is a student union?” The University of California has a student union. A concise definition of this union is contained in the follow ing words: “The general idea of the student un ion is to make a center for all student life upon the campus and to be the I headquarters for all student activities.” j The report of the first annual con j vention of the National Association of Student Unions also contains a para graph that is enlightening as to the “why” of a student union: “It was believed by those present at this meeting that the union is the most vital force in unifying the stu dent body, molding the college spirit, and promoting democracy, thus tending to break down arbitrary class and so cial distinctions. Without such a uni fying force any student body, which is naturally broken up into different departments and classes, is apt to cen ter its interest and enthusiasm in some particular department or organization, rather than in the school as a whole.” “Build a home for Wisconsin spirit!” is the slogan of the Uhiversity of Wis consin in its campaign well under way toward a student union. The idea of a union at Oregon began last summer, according to John Mac Gregor. Some time ago while at the University of California, MacGregor inspected the newly erected student un ion there and returned to Oregon with (Continued on page three.) UNIVERSITY AD CLUB ELECTS NEW OFFICERS Randolph Kuhn Chosen Presi dent at Recent Meeting Tlic University Advertising club, an organization composed of the members of the University who are conspicuous in University advertising circles elec ted Randolph Kuhn, president, Lyle Janz, vice-president, and Webster Ru ble, secretary of the organization, at a meetiug held Thursday evening in the journalism shack. The campus ad club is a member of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World and was granted a chapter by the national society two years ago. The University Ad club has not func tioned very actively, due to the fact that there is not enough work for the club to engage in campus advertising on a large scale. Only one other chap ter is known to exist on the Pacific coast besides the Oregon Ad club, and that is at the University of California. In almost every college and university east of the Rocky mountains one will find an ad club. W. F. G. Thaclier of the University school of journalism and the advertis ing department attended the national convention last dune in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the national organiza tion was deeply interested in the Jun ior Ad clubs which is the name given to the college branches of the organiza tion. William Strandborg, prominent Port land journalist and publicity manager for the Portland Railway, Light and Pow'er company and who is regional director for the Pacific Northwest, was instrumental in securing a charter for the University. The University Ad club will sponsor a breakfast for the advertising mem bers who will attend hte newspaper convention next week. The breakfast will be given Saturday morning at the Anchorage. COLONEL HANLEY COMING State Chamber of Commerce President Will Be Short-Course Speaker Definite arrangement have been made by the school of business administra tion with Colonel “Bill” Hanley, pres ident of the Oregon State Chamber of Commerce, to attend the short course for chamber of commerce secretaries which will be held April 2-7. Colonel Hanley was on the campus the first of the week on his way home from a trip to California, where he has been making a study of state con ditions. He is vitally interested in state development, particularly in Ore gon’s advancement. ' Monday, April 2, he will address the secretaries on the “Relation of the State Chamber of Commerce to State Development.” He will be a frequent talker on other topics later in the week which will be announced later. RELIGIOUS SECRETARY TO BE HERE WEDNESDAY 0. D. Foster, Head of National Church Council, Coming O. D, Foster, secretary of the Nation al Council of Church Boards of Educa tion, which comprises the boards of education of 20 Protestant denomina tions, will be in Eugene next week on a tour of investigation of all the state universities of the West, for the pur pose of studying religious conditions first hand, according to an announce ment made by Bruce J. Giffen, Univer sity pastor. He will arrive next Wednesday, and that evening will attend a dinner con ference at the Anchorage, at which will be present representatives of the administration of the University, fac ulty, students, and various religious bodies. While on the campus he will speak to a number of small groups, although no definite program has been arranged yet. Mr. Foster is at present at the University of California. “We believe Mr. Foster to be the best informed man in America on the subject of religion on a university cam pus,” said the Rev. Mr. GifCen, telling of the character of the work done by Mr. Foster. Religious instruction in the universities is a ticklish matter, he said, because of separation of denomi nations among the students. Mr. Fos ter’s business is to work out some pro gram which will recognize these divi sions of creed, and at the same time conserve the religious and spiritual val ues in the lives of the students. His specialty is the organization of schools of religion, and the cooperation of re ligious forces. VISITING EDI* IDE TO DEDICATE Guests of State Conference to Aid in Ceremonies of School of Journalism RECORD SESSION EXPECTED Over 100 Plan to Attend; Ban quet, Luncheon, Meetings Are on Program The feature of the fifth annual state newspaper conference which will take place March 23 and 24 on the Univer sity campus will be the dedication of the new journalism building which is daily nearing completion. Elbert Bede, president of the state editorial associa tion, will take the chief part in the ceremony, and some other prominent member of the association will present the new model copy-desk which has been made for the school of journal ism as the gift of the editors of the state. In speaking of the approaching con ference, Dean Eric Allen of the school stated yesterday that over a hundred editors are expected to attend the ses sion, making it the largest that has ever been held. Already 54 positive acceptances have been received, he said, and there are also a number of tenta tive answers in the office. In addition to the editors who will attend there will be several groups of trade journalists, advertising men, and free lance writers of the state here at the same time for sectional conferences. It is expected that many of the guests will arrive Thursday evening, March 22, and continue to come in from all parts of the state on Friday. The program for the convention in cludes sessions for the newspaper men on Friday morning, Friday afternoon, and Saturday morning. There will be sectional meetings for the three re maining groups of visitors on Friday . afternoon. Meetings in New Building All of the meetings of the news paper men will be held in the new assembly room of the journalism build ing, the first time that it will be used. A banquet at the Osburn hotel on Fri day evening and a luncheon at Hen dricks hall on Saturday aro additional features of the program. The dedica tion will take place about noon on Fri day, according to plans formulated by Dean Allen. At the banquet there will be a num ber of toasts, and the dean emphasized the fact that one of these will be giv en by Margaret Scott, a major in the school, as it has beon a tradition of these banquets to have.one speech from a representative of the feminine contin gent in the department. All majors in journalism are urged to attend the ban quet, and may obtain tickets at a dol lar apiece. Tlio affair is being financed by the Eugene Chamber of Commerce and tickets are selling for $1.50 to all but students in the University. Sigma Delta Chi, men’s honorary journalism fraternity, has charge of tho sale of tickets on tho campus. Luncheon Is Scheduled Hendricks hall will be filled to ca pacity, Dean Allen prodicts, at the time of the luncheon on Saturday. All of tho guests .arc asked to attend, and the faculty of all branches of the Univer sity will bo represented. In addition as many majors in the school as can be accommodated will be guests at this affair. Addresses will bo given by (Continued on page four.) ___O Tales of Bygone Days on Oregon Campus Are Told by F. S. Dunn Tales of a University campus, un-1 known to present-day students, of class fights over a flag, and of a circus held in the lots where now stand the Sigma t'lii and Delta Gamma houses were told to an Emerald reporter by Frederick S. Dunn, head of the Latin department, and member of the class of ’92. “In those days,” said Professor Dunn, “the only social features were the Lau rean and Eutaxian literary societies, respectively men’s and women's, which met every Friday evening, Once ev ery six weeks, the Laurean would hold an open session at which guests were invited. Of course, the boys all brought their lady friends. Dean Straub was largely instrumental in introducing the boys to the girls. I remember one night he came over and introduced me to some girl. I marched around with her awhile and then ditched her. “The town of Eugene,” he continued, “was a typical small town, with no street lighting, and the campus was surrounded by hayfiehls. There were a few rickety board walks, which had the usual number of tricky boards, flying up to hit one in the face as he made his way through the darkness up to Deady hall. “Yes, there was a men’s glee club a little later,” said Professor Dunn. He opened his book of clippings, carefully pasted in an old ledger. The first one lie turned to, was a program for a glee club concert. “Compliments of the Class of ’92,” the reporter read. This statement was followed on the program by a pen-and-ink drawing of the cam pus, consisting at that time of Villard and Deady halls. There was also a hand-bill advertising the concert, on which was printed the admonition, “If it rains, tako the street car, they will run; if they are full, take a cab, but be sure and come.” The “street car,” by the way, said Professor Dunn, ran from the depot to the campus by way ! of Eleventh street, and was drawn through the mud (for there was no I pavement), by a donkey. Incidentally, ! ;i clipping taken from the local paper (Continued on page three.)