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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.