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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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