Oregon Daily Emerald
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VOLUME XXIV.
TTNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY,' MARCH 20, 1920
NUMBER 119
OWEN SELECTED
VARSITY ORATOR
FOR PEACE MEET
All Oregon Colleges Eligible
to Enter Contest on
April 27
THREE SPEAKERS TRYOUT
Prizes of $75 and $50 Are
Offered to Winners
At Salem
George E. Owen of Veneta, Oregon, a
junior in the school of education, will
represent the University at the Peace
oratorical contest to be held in Salem,
April 27. He was selected at the tryouts
held in Yillard hall last evening. Others
who competed in the tryouts were May
Fenno and Ernest Henrikson. Faculty
members who acted as judges were
Prof. Melvin T. Solve of the English
department, Prof. Walter Barnes of the ;
history department and Prof. Justin >
Miller of the law school.
Revived Last Year
The Peace oratorical contest is an
activity in which all Oregon colleges
and universities are eligible to com
pete. A similar contest has been con
ducted in the eastern states for over
ten years, but was started in Oregon :
during the war. After a few years!
of activity it wras dropped and wras not
revived until last year. The University
had no representative at the meet last
year.
Two prizes are given for the best ora
tions, a first prize of $75 and a second
of $50. The contest somewhat differs
from the other oratorical activities in
that the orations are limited to 1500
words and must be on the subject of
peace.
The winning oration from the state
is sent in to the National Peace asso
ciation. Last year the O. A. C. orator
won the state title and also first place
in the national contest.
Owen’s First Year
The subject of the orations are not
announced until the time of delivery.
The contest this year will be held at
Willamette University. This contest is
the second oratorical activity of the
year, the first having been the Old
Line| contest in which the University
was represented by Paul Patterson.
This is the first year that George Owen
has participated in forensic work.
Two more oratorical contests are
open for Oregon students to try out for.
The Northwest meet, and the Failing
Beekman orations which are limited to
seniors. Tryouts for the Northwest
contest will be held the first of May.
RICHARDSON AT COOS BAY
Value of Higher Education Is Subject
of High School Addresses
Prof. Ira Bicliardson, of the exten
sion division of the University, left
this morning for Coos Bay where lie
will address different high schools and
local teacher’s institutes.
This afternoon he will address the
student body of Marshfield high school;
Wednesday morning, North Bend high
school; and Coquille high school, Wed
nesday afternoon. “The Value of
Higher Education,” will be Professor
Bicliardson’s subject at the high
schools.
.He will address the local institutes
at Bandon, Thursday; Myrtle Point,
Friday, and North Bend on Saturday.
At the institutes, Professor Bichard
*son’s talk will be on “Measuring the
Product of Education.”
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SENIOR INTERNED
WITH HEAT MAINS
Good Men Can’t Be Kept
Down: Sass Arose
Theoretically, John Sass, Friendly
Hall senior, is dead; he has ceased to
exist; he has departed this life; he
ain’t no more among us. But John
is still alive and as well as ever iif spite
of the foregoing statement.
It so happens that John isn’t happy
unless he is tormenting someone or
someone is tormenting him. In this
case some one plotted against John.
He was reclining in an easy chair in
the lounging room when a gang of
ruffians rushed in and seized him by
the hands and feet. A tall sophomore
of ministerial mean walked ahead with
bowed head. Then came John and the
pall bearers and a crowd of mourners,
weeping and wailing as if they had
lost all that was dear to them. The
regulation funeral march was played
as Mr. John Sass was borne toward the
grave in front of the hall.
The deceased was squared away for
lowering and as the pallbearers lowered
their burden into the hole, a saxophone
hidden from sight played “Nearer My
God to Thee.” Poor John. He was
a good man, and you can’t keep a good
man down, and to the surprise of all
concerned John climbed out of the
ditch of the steam main as full of life
as ever.
OREGON RIFLE TEAMS
DEFEAT UTAH MARKSMEN
Washington State College Meet
Scheduled March 24
Scoring 3553 against 3215, the Uni
versity rifle team won the match re
cently conducted against Utah Agri
cultural college, according to word just
received by the military department.
This makes 13 victories for Oregon, out
of 17 matches entered since the rifle
firing was begun at the R. O. T. C.
barracks.
The girls’ team also defeated the
Utah girls by a decisive score on
March 3.
Scores of the University riflemen in
the meet were: Page, 376; Hayden, 368;
Smith, 366; Eobnette, 363; McKnight,
361; Beatty, 353; Gilbert, 351; Peak,
341; Larson, 340; Buchanan, 334.
Eeturns from the match with the
University of Washington will be re
ceived today or tomorrow, according to
Lieutenant M. E. Knowles, in charge of
rifle firing.
The University is now firing against
Washington State college in a meet
that will be concluded by March 24.
T'. N. Page completed his shooting yes
terday with a score of 378 out of a
possible 400, a score that military auth
orities declare is excellent.
BEICK WALLS BRUSHED
Carefully brushing the brick surface
of the new Journalism building with
a heavy wire brush, a workman paused
in his occupation to explain to an Em
erald reporter the reason for his task.
The bricks, he said, have accumulated
a white powdery substance, which is
caused by moisture and after drying,
must be brushed off with the wire
brush, and an acid applied as a pre
serving fluid to restore the brick to its
natural color. In brushing the surface
the new mortar sometimes breaks loose
and must be repaired before the acid
is applied. The workman estimated that
the job would probably occupy the next
six weeks.
WALKER SPEAKS ON X-RAY
Dr. Ralph C. Walker, of the Univer
sity of Oregon medical school faculty,
will give the regular radio extension
lecture, on Friday evening, March 23.
“The Uses of the X-Ray and Radium,”
will be his topic.
Story of Christ’s Crucifixion
Vividly Told in Sacred Cantata
By Margaret Sheridan
Under the eapahje direction of John
Stark Evans, of the school of music,
the University choir gave for its an
nual Easter program, Theodore Du
bois’ “Seven Last Words of Christ,”
assisted by Madame Bose McGrew, so
prano, John B. Siefert, tenor, of the
school of music, and John Claire Mon
teith, Durjifone of Portland.
ubois built hi3 cantata about the
crucifixion of Christ on Mount Calvary,
and because of its subject and music,
the cantata is. without exception, one
of the most beautiful of all composi- !
tions of sacred music. The cantata is
opened with a soprano solo, which
Madame McGrew sang with exquisite j
interpretation. The seven words, sung
as solos and trios followed, alternated
by the clamor of the crowd, sung by
the choir.
John Siefert sang marvelously well,
with power, force or sympathy, as the
change in theme demanded. Mr. Sie
fert was in excellent voice and sang
in a way that brought out all the
pathos and tragic beauty of the canta
ta.
With the exception of the introduc
tory solo, Madame McGrew was heard
only as a part of the trio, in the third
word, “See O Woman! Here behold
thy son beloved,” and the seventh
word, “It is finished.” Like Mr. Sie
fert, Madame McGrew sang unusually
well, and her evident perfect know
ledge of the score gave her singing a
double charm. Madame McGrew’s
voice is clear, with remarkable volume,
and she uses it with splendid control.
Tlie baritone parts run through the
entire canata, either with the soprano
and tenor or as solos. Mr. Monteith
was at his best in the fourth word, a
solo, “God, my Father, why hast thou
forsaken met”, the pathos of which
only a voice so rich as Mr. Monteith’s
could do justice to.
The choir, in the role of the people
at the crucifixion, gave an intensely
dramatic and finished performance.
(Continued on page three.)
SENATE PEST
TO GIVE CHANGE
EOR FINE ACTING
he Passion Flower” Full of
Spanish Atmosphere and
Dramatic Intensity
DOROTHY HALL IS IN TITLE
—
Miss Banfield Takes Heavy
Role of Acacia; Large
House Expected
An opportunity to see “The Passion
Flower,” Benavente’s masterpiece,
which lias been played on the stage
and in the movies with great success,
will be afforded the campus when the
Company will present the play .with a
capable cast for three nights, March
22, 23, and 24.
The play is melodrama of a very
superior type, written by this Spaniard
who is recognized as the most import
ant contemporary literary figure of
Spain, as well as a person of importance
in the literary world at large, master
hand in the drawing of character, and
winner of the Nobel prize for 1922.
Dorothy Hall in the title role, that
of Acacia, called La Malquerida, the
Passion Flower, interprets a young girl
who has hated her stepfather so in
tensely that she has come to love him,
unknown to herself. She fights the
very idea of having him for her father
so much that she wounds her mother,
to whom she means everything. She
baffles everyone with her strange
moody silences and her fierce outbursts.
Miss Banfield in Striking Role
Charlotte Banfield, loved by all Guild
Hall fans, will play the heaviest role
of the production, that of Raimunda,
mother of Acacia, who loves with a ve
hement love and hates with an unfor
givable hate. To her the honor of the
family is above all, and she would turn
even against her daughter if need be
for its sake.
Darrell Larsen will do some of the
hardest work he has done in the Com
pany in the role of Esteban, the step
father, a difficult role requiring a high
degree of finish, but one which Larsen
has proven himself capable of handling.
Esteban, in love with his stepdaughter,
fighting against it and yet unable to
exist without her, is a torn and broken
man when events follow one upon the
other after his plot to rid Acacia of
her lovers, rendering him the slave of
his own servant, and it is only at the
realization and declaration of the two
of their love for each other that makes
him strong at the end.
Play Each and Deep
Holmes Bugbee, as Rhubio, the serv
ont, proves his acting ability once more.
The part is an especially good one, with
its best moments in the scenes between
servant and master.
The entire play is rich in lines, rich
in color, tense with action and dramatic
incident, and yet there is a smothered
tenseness; it is not fire but smoke. The
sympathy of the audience is immediate
as into the gossipy voices of the senor
itas, Raimunda speaks with a forboding
of gloom.
I Perhaps no play that the Company
I has attempted has excelled this one
j in dramatic intensity and it is pre
| dieted that the house will be filled to
i capacity each night.
FIDO DISLIKES LECTURE
Canine Pupil Disturbs Science Class by
Leaving Before End of Period
A new comer in Dr. James D. Bar
nett’s class in modern government at
tracted considerable attention Monday
morning when he disturbed the students
by walking up and down the rows of
seats, parking himself on Dr. Barnett’s
platform, giving vent to undignified ex
pressions, looking out the windows, and
making himself generally conspicuous.
The new classmate is a large yellow
dog, who, realizing the closeness of the
examinations, is doing some last min
ute preparations in order that he may
receive his letter in this course. He
seemed to be bored with most of the
lecture, however, and voiced his disap
proval occasionally, at which Dr. Bar
nett would change the topic.
His chances of passing the course do
not appear very rosy, for he committed
the unpardonable sin of leaving the
classroom before the bell rang. It was
believed that he went to withdraw from
the University. While in the room the
canine student earned the reputation
of being considerable of a wag, put
ting all the other members of the class
in the shade in this particular.
NEW RULE MADE IN LIBRARY
A new ruling in the library is to the
effect that no one is to be allowed in
the stacks from the main circulation
desk but those who present a card of
permit. The permit is to be obtained
from M. H. Douglass, head librarian.
Campus High’s Rise to Fame
in Basketball Is Phenomenal
Little School with Less Than 50 Boys to Pick Team
from May Journey East to Play for
Championship of Nation
By Alfred Erickson
There is the taie of tiny Center col
lege which a year or so ago startled
tiie denizens of the sport world by the
triumphant exploits of its football elev
en. Today there comes into promin
ence a little institution not far from
the University campus which will bo
to the basketball public of the state of
Oregon what Center college is to the
gridiron fandom of the nation.
University high school is the institu
tion in question. A few days ago it
was relatively unknown in athletics
outside the confines of Lane county.
Now its fighting basketball team holds
the interscholastic championship of the
entire state and is considering the pos
sibility of journeying to Chicago and
battling for the national title in the
tournament there April 4, 5, 6 and 7.
The story of the performance of this
little gang of hoop experts is one full
of surprises. Starting out the season
with a rather mediocre quintet of bas
ketball players, they steadily develop
ed under the coaching of T. W. McFad
den, a member of the University high
school faculty. The first big surprise
came when they almost downed the
strong University frosh five. Then
came a decisive defeat of Cottage Grove
high and a week later a victory over
Eugene high. Later Albany high fell
before them and still later a second de
feat over Cottage Grove and Albany.
The campus preppers were then recog
nized as possibilities for the district
championship, but Eugene high was
not satisfied and University adminis
tered its second defeat to them. The
district championship then seemed al
most certain, but came a disputing chal
lenge from Scio high school and though
the local lads could not see the justice
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of having this match they acquiesced
to Seio’s demands and defeated the lat
ter decisively in a game for the dis
trict championship.
With the district championship in
hand the University hunch eutered the
state tournament with little prospects
of winning; but here again they spilled
the dope by winning their first game,
with The Dalles high, 2S to 25. Their
next game was with the redoubtable Sa
lem high school five and here the Uni
versity youngsters proved the dark
horse of the tournament by drubbing
the confident Cherry City lads, 37 to
23. This game put them within an ace
of the state title and this they captured
in a terrific game with Astoria, 28 to
25.
To cap the climax, after the play-off
had been held at Salem the coaches
of the various schools that had parti
cipated got together and chose a myth
ical all-star quintet. Three of the
University high players were named on
this team—Ridings, forward, Bradley,
center, and Powers, guard.
The performance of the University
lads is remarkable from the fact that
not one of them is more than 18 years
of age and every one of them is an A
or B student in his classes, which cor
responds to I’s and II's in the Uni
versity. Ridings, star forward who
was the sensation of the state tourna
ment by his basket shooting, is only
10 years old, and has an average of
B in his studies. McCormack, the other
forward is 17 and holds a B-plus aver
age. Powers, all-state guard, is 18
years of age and also holds the distinc
tion of having a straight A or I aver
age. Bradley, the oldest, is 18 and has
(Continued on page three.)
ARRANGEMENTS MADE
FOR GLEE CLUB TOUR
Southern Oregon Towns Will
Be Visited by Bus
Tod Gillenwaters, manager of the
University Women’s Glee club, return
ed yesterday from .southern Oregon,
where ho spent last week arranging
for the appearances of the club in its
annual spring vacation concert tour.
Gillenwaters arranged for concerts in
Roseburg, Medford, Glendale, Grants
Pass and Cottage Grove.
The club will leave Eugene, Monday,
April 2, and will return on April 7. A
bus will take the organization to each
town and this plan, a distinctly new
idea, is thought to be bett'er than trav
eling by train for the reason that the
members of the club wrill not be com
pelled to arise so early in order to meet
their trains. T^is is a perplexing prob
lem while making the trip by rail. An
other feature of the bus trip is that
short stops can bo taken whenever it
is desired which will help eliminate the
tediousness of the journey.
The alumni in each town has evinced
considerable interest in the appearance
of the glee club, Gillenw'aters said, and
are doing their part to make the trip
a success. The newspapers are giving
wonderful support to the club as well
as the alumni. During his trip Manag
er Gillenwaters made special effort to
secure the best places in the towns
in which tp give the concert. The
high schools in each of the towns book
ed for an appearance are conducting
the ticket sales for the glee club.
Twrenty-one girls will make the trip
besides Mr. and Mrs. George Hopkins,
who will chaperone the party. Ted
Gillenwaters, manager, also will travel
with the club.
NEW MAGAZINES WANTED
Waiting Boom of Dispensary Lacks
Reading Material
Patience. It takes a lot of it to sit
around in the University health ser
vice waiting room until your turn comes
to imbibe several ounces of “spray.”
And it takes some more when you have
to twiddle your thumbs, and think of
whatever’s the matter with you, or
look at a medical journal, with its big,
scientific words.
“Won't someone donate a few of the
popular magazines that find a place in
the attic or in the furnace a few weeks
after publication?” asks the dispensary
frequenters.
The nurses at the dispensary do their
best to keep a few magazines on the
table, but most of those they are able
to find are tattered and coverless, and
rather cheerless looking. What is want
ed is a few current issues of widely
read publications. Six months takes
most of the interest out of a magazine.
E OUT
March Issue of Old Oregon Has
Many Good Features
The March issue of Old Oregon is
just off the press. News that will cause
the alumni to pause and allow their
thoughts to wander back to days at
Oregon, is contained within its 36
pages.
“Talking Points” of the different de
partments of the University are assem
bled so that the old grads can note the
growth and improvements since their
sojourn on the campus. Cuts of some
of the more recent buildings on the
campus add color to the publication.
Oregon’s athletic record in basket
ball and wrestling, and pictures of the
individual stars are featured. Short
items containing news of the most im
portant events that liavo occurred on
the campus during the winter term,
give an insight into what is taking
place. Several of the regents of tho
University are also accorded consider
able space.
The women’s glee club is given a
half-page cut. Scones from several
fraternity houses and the halls of resi
I deuce are likewise represented.
Perhaps the feature of most interest
is the news of the classes. Sidelights
on various members of these classes
from 1882 until 1924 occupy several
pages. Graduates from these classes
are engaged in Various vocations, from
that of postmaster in a small town to
banking positions in large cities.
“The family Mail,” another section
of the magazine, is composed of letters
from the graduates. Most of these com
munications mention the big part that
the “youngsters” are now playing in
the lives of former Oregon students.
I DEPARTMENT RECEIVES $50
Money Given by Mrs. W. F. Jewett Will
Be Used for Public Speaking Prizes
A gift of $50 to be used in encourag
ing public speaking in the Universtiy,
was given yesterday to the public
speaking department by Mrs. W. F.
Jewett of Eugene, in a letter sent
with the money, Mrs. Jewett said the
gift could be used in any way the
department might see fit.
Professor C. D. Thorpe announced
last evening that the money would be
used as prizes, known as the Mary
Jewett prizes; forty dollars going to
the winner in the tryouts for the North
west oratory contest to be held some
time in May, and ten dollars to be
given as a prize in the extemporary
speaking contest to be conducted in the
spring.
Mrs. Jewett also said that she hoped
she could give more towards the fund
next fall.
DUBOIS, WRITER
BHD SOCIOLOGIST,
ON CAMPUS TODAY
Orator of Colored Descent to
Address University Groups;
Public Is Invited
VISITOR IS NEGRO LEADER
Interest in Race Question Is
Indicated by Demand Made
for Author’s Books
Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, writer and
educator, will make his first address
ou the campus today at the Y. M. C.
A. hut at ten o ’clock when he will
speak to Dean Allen’s editing class and
Dr. R. C. Clark’s American history
(dass. All students and the public are
invited to this lecture, as well as the
one which Dr. DuBois will give at the
Hut in the afternoon at three o ’clock.
The speaker comes here from Port
land where he addressed a large aud
ience of both races at the Lincoln high
school Saturday night. At noon he will
be the guest at a luncheon at the An
chorage by members of the faculty.
His schedule is in charge of Prof. Wal
ter C. Barnes.
Has Harvard Degree
Dr. DuBois has taken a degree from
Fiske University and three degrees
from Harvard. He was the recipient
of the Slater fund and as such studied
in Germany and traveled in England,
Prance and Italy. He was professor of
economics and history for 14 years at
Atlanta University. In his career he
made an extensive study of the negroes
in Philadelphia at the request of the
University of Pennsylvania, the result
of which was the book entitled, “The
Philadelphia Negro,” of which Dr. Du
Bois himself says in “Darkwater,” “I
essayed a thorough piece of work. I
labored morning, noon and night. No
body ever reads that fat volume on
‘The Philadelphia Negro’ but they treat
it with respect and that consoles me.”
The ancestry of Dr. DuBois is traced
to two Huguenots, Jacques and Louis
DuBois, who were driven from Prance
by Louis the Fourteenth into Ulster
county, New York. Dr. DuBois’ grand
father, Alexander DuBois, was born in
the Bahamas, being the son of a de
scendant of one of these two exiled
men and a native mulatto slave.
Ancestry Is Mentioned
Dr. DuBois himself has a flood of
negro blood, a strain of French, a bit
of Dutch but no “Anglo Saxon,” ac
cording to the story of his life which
is to be found in Darkwater.
Books by Dr. DuBois and other publi
cations on the raco question which have
been placed on the temporary shelf in
the library have been very popular
with students and faculty members for
the past week, according to Mrs. Mable
McClain, librarian, indicating that
there is much interest in the coming of
the speaker to the campus. Of the
15 books placed on the shelf, two
thirds of them have been in constant
use.
UNDERWOOD RECITAL
IS THURSDAY EVENING
Seven Advanced Music Students Will
Be Presented in Methodist
Church Concert
Rex Underwood, instructor in violin
at the school of music, is to present
his pupils in recital Thursday night in
stead of Wednesday night as previous
ly announced.
The program will be given by seven
of Mr. Underwood’s advanced pupils,
assisted by Joanna James, soprano. It
is to consist entirely of solo work, with
the exception of Paul Juron’s “Sil
houettes,” which is written for two
violins.
The recital is to be given at the
Methodist church at 8 o’clock and the
following program will be presented:
Concerto No. 9.DeBeroit
Adagio
Finale
Nina Warnoek
Concerto Rornantique.Godard
1 Canzonetta
Allegro
Jane O’Reilly
On Wings of Song Mendelssohn-Achron
Margaret Phelps
Air Varie.Yieuxtemps
Gwendolyn Lampsliire
Group of songs
Joanna James
Ave Maria.Sehubert-Wilheluj
Wanda Eastwood
Fantasy Appassionata.Vieuxtemps
Alberta Potter
Cavatina .Bohm
Charlotte Nash
Silhouettes.Paul Juron
Idylle
Douleur
Bizarrerie
Alberta Potter, Jane O’Reilly