Oregon Daily Emerald library VOLUME XXIV. UNIVERSITY. OF OREGON, EUGENE, SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1923 NUMBER 124 SIGMA CHI LEADS DO-NUT STANDING IN LATEST COUNT Kappa Sigma Loses Top Place for First Time in Two Years; Phi Psi Is Second SWIMMING MEET IS GOOD Track, Baseball and Tennis Remain to Be Run Off During Spring Do-nut standings to date: Sigma Chi..20 Phi Kappa Psi.21 Kappa Sigma.22 Phi Gamma Delta.29 Oregon Club.35 Sigma Alpha Epsilon..37 Phi Delta Theta.38 Bachelordon .41 Delta Tau Delta.46 Sigma Nu .47 Friendly Hall.54 Alpha Tau Omega.55 Phi Sigma Pi.60 Alpha Beta Chi.62 Chi Psi .66 Beta Theta Pi.69 Delta Theta Phi.74 Phi Delta Phi..74 Kappa Delta Phi.74 The Sigma Chi do-nut athletes by taking first in the wrestling meet held Friday night, and first in the swim ming meet held yesterday afternoon put themselves in the lead in the intra mural standings, thus putting the Kap pa Sigs out of this place for the first time in two years. The Phi Kappa Psi teams stepped out and by annex ing fourth in wrestling and second in swimming put their teams in second place in the do-nut standings with 21 points, only one point behind the lead ing Sigma Chi men. The Sigma Chi teams have put up a strong race for the honors this year, be ing handicapped at the first by grab bing off 15 points in basketball. Since then they have redeemed their honors by taking first in swimming, wrestling and the physical ability pentathlon, and third in handball. With four teams definitely in the running for honors yet, and only three sports left, track, baseball, and tennis, it is evident that there will be some exciting games in the finals of these sports. Palmer Wins in Swim In the swimming meet yesterday af ternoon Lyle Palmer was the outstand ing star as he took first in the 40 yard dash, first in the 60 yard backstroke and fourth in the hundred yard swim, besides swimming a lap in the relay. Hockett and Horsetail divided second place honors as each carried off eight points, but Hockett also swam a lap on his relay team. The final scores on the meet were Sigma Chi first with 25 points, Phi Kappa Psi second with 17, Oregon club and Sigma Nu tied for third with 11 points each. The finals in the do-nut wrestling tournament Friday night gave Sigma Chi first place with' 28 points. In sec ond place came Kappa Sigma with 17 1-2 points. Third place was taken by Oregon club with 11 points. In fourth place came Phi Kappa Psi with 9 points; fifth place Phi Delta Theta with 7 points; sixth place Delta Tau Delta with 6 points, and Phi Gamma Delta seventh with 5 points. EMERALD VETS DINE ON DESK Scribes of Campus Make Merry While Working The oldest denizen of the news rooms ! could not recall when a group of news papermen had ever before, in all his tory, presented a copy desk to a school of journalism. Never, certainly, such a dream of a copy desk as was given Oregon by generous members of the State Editorial association. Therefore, for a historic occasion, a fitting cele bration. Theta Sigma Phi and Sigma Delta Chi members got together Saturday afternoon and arranged a “christening party.” Members of the women’s hon orary raided the downtown delicates sens while the men gave their moral and more or less financial support. Six o ’clock, and the new copy desk, well swathed in newspapers, was a festive board surrounded by a group of young journalists dining al fresco. Ow ing to lack of space, the long list of refreshments provided is* regretfully omitted. Entertainment features were provided largely by Harry Ellis, who gracefully yielded to the clamor that he recite again the story of Horace the pet lion. Mary Lou Burton would have chris tened the desk had a name been agreed on; but the mere lack of a name was not allowed to mar the enjoyment of an occasion. Henry Fowler, ’14, news editor of the Bend Bulletin, once editor of the Em erald and a member of Sigma Delta Chi, was brought in as a guest of honor.' In Henry’s day the -Emerald had but one woman staff member, the society editor, and the men of the profession were firmly of the opinion that, taking it by and large, woman’s place was the home. The complete disappearance of “them days” was noted by the Bend man when he viewed a c.opy desk sur rounded by as many women as men, and all of them active on the Emerald. The merry party over, the staff went back to work, and the finest of copy desks is functioning normally. The old desk, in use nearly ten years, is to be used in the advertising department. Phil Brogan, managing editor of the Emerald, takes his place in history as the author of the first story to be handled over the copy desk. Phil also read copy on it and wrpte the head himself. NEWSPAPERMEN ELECT CHENEY TO PRESIDENCY Eastern Oregon Editor Is Friend of Students George P. Cheney, editor and publish er, respected as well as feared by his brother exponents of journalism, warm friend of the University, himself a student and companion to college men and women, was accorded the honor of" presidency of the Oregon Newspaper conference in the closing minutes of its fifth annual session yesterday. Che ney is the editor of* the Enterprise Record-Chieftain, a little weekly pub lication surviving in a remote part of the state, based on sound journalism principles, and good management. He will be the incumbent of the execu tive ’s chair until the next sessions of the conference, a year from now. A continuation of the first day’s pro gram took place in the morning con ferences yesterday. The Rev. E. Y. Stivers of the First Christian church of Eugene boosted the idea of church advertising as a means of expanding the power and the influence of tha church, as well as a way to attract • congregations to attend services, when (Continued on page four.) Porch Piffling Is Popular Among Campus Sofa Snakes , By P. O. P. With the advent of spring days comes the advent of a new game, “Porch Pif fling” which bids fair to become the national pastime of the campus this spring unless nipped in the bud by those students who still have some re gard for Oregon traditions and student activities. Here is the way the game is played: PLAYERS: Any number of slick toed, cake-eating youngsters on the campus who are not content to hide their dancing ability behind the four walls of a dance floor but who must parade their prowess to less accomplish ed individuals. Players must be of both sexes and so dumb they think track is a place where trains run and baseball the cry of a low, wicked baby. Boys and girls unable to do all that is the “latest from Portland” or “what they are all doing in the east,” should stay at home and study or get out for spring athletics. PLACE: Most any sorority house porch, preferably one that faces a prom inent thoroughfare, where many towns people pass. Houses facing streets upon which many out-of-town motor ists pass during the day are the best sites obtainable. PURPOSE: To advertise to the world that the Univesrity is the home of all the best dancers in the nation; that it is a school of such serious-minded students who are here to prepare them: selves to lead a high, noble and benefi cial life, that they can spend an entire afternoon displaying their terpsichor ean arts to passers-by. METHOD: Boys in golf nickers and other appropriate clothing with hair well stay-combed call at sorority house right after lunch where bobbed-haired girls join them. Victrola is brought out on the front porch and set in motion. Dancing, if such it can be called, is then started and continued until 10:15 on week nights, and 12:15 on week-end nights. Time is taken out during the struggle for a little spasm of bridge and (Continued on page four.) eHEIlTER OREGON MESSAGE WILE GO ULL OVER STATE Every Student to Carry on Work of Committee in Vacation, Is Word UNIVERSITY DAY PLANNED Student and Alumni Speakers to Visit High Schools; Assemblies Planned “Every student in the University a greater Oregon committeeman, ready to talk Oregon and let the people of the state know of the greatness of the in stitution.” This is the motto Paul Patterson, head of the greater Oregon committee, wants every student who goes home for spring vacation to remember. Members of the various musical or ganizations will also carry the message of “greater Oregon” throughout the state. The Men’s Glee club is going east as far as Baker. The Girl’s Glee club will tour the Coos Bay section, and the orchestra will visit southern Ore gon. Beports from the alumni secre tary’s office indicate that alumni in the various towns to be visited are look ing forward to the appearance of the University groups and plan to hold a regular varsity celebration when they arrive. University Day April 4 April 4 is to be University day. Ev ery Oregonian is expected to get in touch with the local chairman in their home town and help stage a special high school assembly, with student and alumni speakers. University day in Portland high schools will be held whenever the high schools happen to have the weekly assembly during the University’s vacation period. The latest issue ef Old Oregon, alum ni publication, featured University day, and printed the following list of local chairmen, who will have charge of the work of arranging the celebrations. I Alumni Heads Named Astoria, Virgil D. Earl; Ashland, Carlton Logan; Albany, Wallace Eakin; Athena, Mrs. M. L. Watts; Baker, Homer Jamison; Bend, Helen Jphns; Burns, Helen Purington-Dillman; Cor vallis, Eyla Walker; Central Point, Her bert Clarke; Cottage Grove, Herbert Lombard; Dallas, Robert Kreason; En terprise, Ralph Tavenner; Forest Grove, Margaret Russell; Grants Pass, Alice Mary Lighter; Hood River, R. W. Kel ly; Hillsboro, Byron Garrett; Heppner, Cal Sweek; Junction City, Beulah Steb no Thornton; Klamath Falls, Wanda Brown; Lebanon, J. J. Canoles; Lake view,"Mrs. Lolo Hall; La Grande, Dr. Ray Murphy; Medford, Beatrice Gay lord derrick; Marshfield, Wayne Wells; McMinnville, Madalene Logan (Willa mina); Oregon City, Charles Gratke; Ontario, Earl Blackaby; Pendleton, Elsie Fitzmaurice; Portland, F. Harold Young; Prineville, Dessel M. Johnson; Riddle, Dr. Robert Langley; Roseburg, Josephine Morehead Lillburn; Sheri dan, Mrs. Otto W. Heider; St. Helens, Jewel Tosier; Salem, Isla Gilbert; Sil verton, H. C. Tsehanz; The Dalles, Lay Carlisle; Wasco, Lois Barnett. DEBATE CHAMPIONS TO BE HERE JUNIOR WEEK-END High School Debaters from All Dis ' tricts In the State to Strive in an Elimination Contest The district high school debates of Oregon have been held and the winners of each district decided. Inter-distrlw debates will be held from April 13 to May 4, to decide the winning team of eastern Oregon and that of western Oregon. These two teams will then de cide the state championship on the Or egon campus, during Junior week-end. The team winning the state cham pionship will be awarded the DeCou cup, offered by Prof. E. E. DeCou, of the University faculty. This cup was awarded last year for the first time, going to Pendleton high school. Each school has a team of two members. The inter-district question will be “Re solved, That the United States should adopt a policy of ship subsidies.” The district championships have been won by Astoria, lower Columbia dis trict; Beaverton, west side; Browns ville, northern Willamette; Roseburg, southern Willamette; Coos River high school, of Coos Bay; Klamath Falls, southern central Oregon; The Dalles, upper Columbia; Pendleton, Umatilla; Union, eastern Oregon; Ontario, soutli trn eastern Oregon; andlAshland, in the lower Columbia district. The Dalles, Pendleton,®and Ontario will debate for the eastern Oregon chapionship, and Astoria, Beaverton, Brownsville, Coos River, Klamath Falls and Ashland will compete for the west ern Oregon championship. Writers Advised to Learn Life Through Experience Prominent Author Believes Young People Who Desire tq Enter This Field Should Get Acquainted With Public The young chap or the girl who is graduated from college with a talent for writing and a desire to make a suc cess in the writing field, has just one vitally important thing to do, in the belief of Mable Holmes Parsons, Port land author of verse and short stories, who wras on the campus for the state editorial conference. Mrs. Parsons told an Emerald reporter yesterday that she thought the important thing for a young would-be writer to do is get out and learn about life by taking an ac tive part in its affairs. “The first thing to do is to learn what the public wants through becom ing personally acquainted with the pub lic—which means forgetting yourself,” Mrs. Parsons said, and explained that by the old slogan, “what the public wants,” she meant that a writer can not hope to make people like his stor ies, unless he understands people in the first place. Working on a newspaper Mrs. Par sons considers one of the best kinds of training for writers, because men and women in newspaper work meet all sorts of people, hear their stories, inter view them, and learn their point of view. “The problem of the short story wri ter, the feature writer, the reporter, or any other writer,” said Mrs. Par sons, “is the interpretation of the oth er person’s point of view. It isn’t one’s own point of view that counts, in writing short stories, it is one’s in terpretation of life. The man who sells <s= Ilia soul for the ‘ready dollar’ is not the man who writes”—(Mrs. Parson’s voice spelled ‘ writes ’ with a capital W)—“because his work is not a true interpretation of life. And if a man’s work is a true interpretation of life,” slio went on, “the style of it will not be false.” The question of style Mrs. Parsons thinks is the worst stumbling block for the young writer. “The pitfall, the danger for college wfriters, ia ‘fine writing’,” she explained—“consciously well-written stuff,” for she believes that students often get so much inter ested in the sound of words and the building of paragraphs that they for get to give a picture of life and peo ple. “You can’t ‘get anything over’ un less you stay close to the common heart,” Mrs. Parsons maintains, “and this is why newspaper training is such good training for writing of any sort.” What the student wants to do, she summed up, is to get away from a man nered personality, to write the way people really talk when one man is tell ing a story to another, and to inter pret the public life as it is really lived. Mrs. Parsons was an underclassman at the University of Michigan when she sold her first short stories, but she decided that she needed to see more of the lives of other people, and “be eomo personally acquainted with the public,” as she put it, so she went to the largest newspaper in Michigan, and obtained a position. '‘Sap and Salt” Author Pleases Audience With Talk At the annual banquet held for the visiting newspaper men Friday night at the Osburn hotel, Paul Cowles, su perintendent of the Western division of the Associated Press, made the open ing address. Talks followed by J. E. Shelton of the Eugene Guard, Frank A. Clarvoe, Northwest manager of the As sociated Press, Margaret Scott, senior in the school of journalism, Henry D. Sheldon, dean of the school of educa tion, N. J. Levinson of the Portland Telegram, Anne Shannon Monroe, rep resenting the women writers of Oregon Stephen Hart of the Commercial Re view, Bert Moses of Ashland, and Don Sterling, managing editor of the Ore gon Journal. Edgar B. Piper, editor the Ore gonian, pronounced the “benediction,” so called by President P. L. Campbell, master of ceremonies. A welcome was extended the visiting editors by Mr. Shelton as a member of the board of directors of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce. , A greeting from Karl A. Bickel, pres ident of the United Press in New York, and a pledge of cooperation from M. D. Tracy, head of the Pacific division at San Francisco, were read by Mr. Clarvoe. Miss Monroe pointed out the wealth af material in Oregon for writing. “I am hoping our Oregon writers will see in this country a place of romance and adventure and beauty,” she said. “They •an do for it what has been done for Scotland, and other places known through literature.” Stephen Hart reviewed his field of aommercial journalism in giving the ‘second thought in market reports.” Bert Moses, whose syndicated feature, ‘Sap and Salt,” delights so many, gave a short, humorous talk. TWO WILL BE INITIATED Sigma Delta Chi to Take in Portland Newspaperman and Student Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism fraternity, will hold initiation this morning for Reuel Moore, ’21, now of the Oregon Journal staff, and Earle Voorhies, senior in journalism. Moore svas a member of the Emerald staff dur ing his last two years in the Univer sity and since his graduation has been an the Salem Capital Journal as well is the Portland paper. He is a mem ber of Phi Sigma Pi fraternity and is staying with his brothers while at tending the annual newspaper confer snce. Earle Voorhies has been prominent in journalistic circles while at Oregon. He is now a special writer for the Sunday Emerald. His home is at Grants Pass. Visiting newspapermen who are mem bers of Sigma Delta Chi will assist the active members in the ceremony. SENIORS TAKE HIGHEST SCORE IN GYM EXHIBIT Ruth Tuck High Point Winner in Individual Score The women’s gym exhibition given Friday evening^n the Woman’s build ing was attended by a large crowd, en thusiastic in its applause of the various drills, apparatus work and stunts. The grand march, With 600 girls, partici pating, presented a dazzling effect of white mass marching and ^counter marching in long lines. The gymnastic drills were very effective, being execu ted with symmetric accuracy. The senior majors in black suits did excellent work with dumb bells and the physical ef ficiency tests including rope climbing, high, running and swinging jump, som ersaults, ladder tip-up, basketball throw, and prone fall showed good squad work. The varsity walk, in which each participant imitated some animal was decidedly humorous while Oregon pass ball, played with lemon yellow and green covered basketballs, proved very interesting. Special indiv idual exhibitions by a representative class demonstrated the type of work done in the individual gymnastics de partment. The interclass apparatus meet was won by the senior class, the score in points being 34.43. The juniors scored 32.85 points while the freshmen fol lowed close with a 31.48 point score. Ruth Tuck, a senior in the school of physical education, was the high point winner of the meet making 39.5 points. Golda Boone, a freshman, took second place with 38 points to her credit. The Hayward cup awarded each year to the class winning the meet, and last year won by the junior class, will be pre sented this year to the winning team. UNIVERSITY COUPLE WED Marc Latham and Ina Mae Proctor Married at Silverton The marriage of Marc Latham, ’21, and Ina Mae Proctor, who attended the University last year, was announced yesterday, the ceremony tajrfng place at Silverton. Mr. Lath^uJ i3 in t employ of the SilverLui Lumber erfmi pariy. >le is a membPk of *jjfi/T)elta Theta and was prominent in tgtshtfWmll and baseball on the eainpmi/' » ^ Mrs. Latham is a meij Delta Delta. The couple passed Eugene last night on the Shsfefci.' REGENTS MEET APRIL H The second regular meeting of 1923 of the board of regents of the Univer sity will be held April 7 in Eugene. A number of important matters are to come before the members at that time. This is the first meeting that has been held during the vacation of the stu dents for a number of years and the regents are assured of a session of un interrupted work while the students are absent from the campus and quiet reigns over all. CONFERENCE ENDS WITH LUNCHEON AT HENDRICKS HALE i More Than 160 Hear Speeches at Annual Function for Visiting Editors DEAN ALLEN TOASTMASTER George P. Cheney, President of Association, Expresses Thanks to University Short speeches by members of the school of journalism, President P. L. Campbell, and Georgo P. Cheney, pres ident of the State Editorial association for the ensuing year, featured the an nual editors ’ luncheon held yesterday noon in Hendricks hall. Approximately 160 persons, the majority of them news paper men from all sections of the state, attended the banquet. Eric W. Allen, dean of the school of journalism, presided as toastmaster. “You are doing us a splendid serv ice in bringing us to the Oregon cam pus each year, permitting us to meet the young men and women of this uni versity,” said Mr. Cheney, the newly elected head of the editorial associa tion, in thanking Dean Allen and the University for the two-day program. Mr. Cheney, editor of the Enterprise Rocord-Chieftain and a graduate from the University of Michigan, especially commended Dean Allen for the diver sified program which characterized the session ending with the luncheon at noon. . Future in Laboratories Fertility and the potential produc tiveness of the state of Oregon was the keynote of Presidtnt Campbell’s plea for the support of higher education. Quoting an eminent railroad adminis trator, President Campbell told the as sembled editors of Oregon that the fu ture of industry lies in the laboratories and referred to the discovery of Prof. O. F. Stafford, member of the Univer sity department of chemistry, as an example of the research work being carried on by this institution. The speaker reminded the > visiting news paper workers that higher education was not a liability to the state. Stu dents w)io “flunk” out of the Univer sity due to inadequate teaching facil ities and crowded classrooms are not primarily to blame, intimated the speaker in condemning the methods of wholesale education. Preaidwrt'uamp bell several times during his address a suggested to the editors that they could play a major part in the development of the state’s resources. President Once Reporter Before introducing President Camp bell, Dean Allen told the editors, stu dents, and visitors.that the head of the University was once a reporter on the Kansas City Star and that dreams of a great highway he had worked into “copy” at that time have materialized. The highway referred to is the Kansas City boulevard system, said to be one of the most beautiful roads in the Uni ted States. Leith Abbott, senior in the school of journalism, introduced by the toastmas ter as a product of the school of jour nalism who had acquired a knowledge of many of the newspapers of the state during his college course, spoke about the new copy desk and what it meant to the students. John MacGreg or, president of the associated stu dents, extended a welcome and a good bye, and expressed his sorrow that approaching term examinations did not permit the visitors to mingle more with the University group. Mrs. Edna P. Datson, in charge of the University halls of residence, ar ranged the luncheon. OREGANA WORK COMPLETE Engraving to Be Finished This Week; Staff' Is Small But Efficient Page proofs of the Oregana will soon be coining back from the Oregon City Enterprise, according to Hal E. Hoss, who attended the newspaper confer ence this week-end. Prank Andrews of the Hicks-Chatten Engraving com pany, who also attended the conference, sfated that all of the engraving for the jaiar book would be finished this week. |y“Tlie Oregana staff was small but efficient,” said Velma Faruliam, editor, “and it was only by close cooperation that all the work was in on time.” EAST EMERALD OF TERM This is the last Emerald of the term. Those students who daily comb the campus for spicy bits giv en out each morning in newsprint are given a respite from their labors in order that they may write a few of those term papers, and otherwise prepare for that nemesis—examina tions.