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Oregon Daily Emerald VOLUME XXIV. UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 25, 1923 NUMBER 137 JUNIORS VOTE TO ABOLISH CLEANUP Program of Entertainment To Take Place of Work on Saturday Morning STUNT TO ADVERTISE SHOW Men of Class Called Out For Fatigue Duty on Bleacher Construction by Race Tlio Junior class voted last night to abolisli the clean-up feature from the annual junior week-end campus day and to substitute a program of entertain ment for the hundreds of visiting “preppers.” The decision was made on the grounds that the arrival of guests on the campus is not an occa sion for an annual spring clean-up any more than visitors at home are received amid the flurry of spring houseclean ing. It is probable that the clean-up week-end, possibly to the Saturday pro ceeding May 18, the opening day of the festivities. Considerable interest was arouaed last night in the presentation of the advertising stunt for the varsity van ities, the annual Junior vaudeville show. A prominent Oregon junior is to be masked and disguised generally to appear on the campus at various times before the Vanities show, May 3. A liberal prize is to be given to the first person who guesses the identity of the “ Oregon Jester,” as the mystery man will be called. More details are to be announced later by Ted Baker, chairman of the show committee. Will Construct Bleachers Eddie Edlund, head of the canoe fete committee, issued a call for every jun ior man to report in front of the an chorage at 9 o ’clock Saturday morn ing to assist in the construction of a group of temporary bleachers for the canoe fete. The girls of the class are meeting in Villard this uoon at 12:30 to plan a “feed”'for the worker^. A committee will call on juniors who fail to respond to this call, according to those in charge. A meeting of the entire canoe fete committee will be held today at 4:15 in the accounting and auditing room on the third floor of the commerce building and representatives from every organization on the campus are asked to meet at the same place at 4:15 Thursday to discuss the canoe fete. Each representative should be the head of the canoe fete float in his or her organizations, says Ed Hanley, the com inittee head, who is calling the meeting. A directorate meeting will also be held in conjunction with the meeting of home representatives. The main body of discussion was taken up over the matter of the clean up. Doug Farrell, chairman of the en tire junior week-end committee, will talk for the proposed change before the student council tonight. Jack Myers and Eddie Edlund reported on the prog ress of their work. v The class officially thanked H. M. Fisher, superintendent of grounds, Mrs. Edna P. Datson, and Frank Wright for the work they are doing to •advance the junior week-end plans, rrize awards were announc ed for girls who succeeded in selling boxes at the Varsity Vanities produc ton. The request was made at the meet ing that junior workmen bring ham mers, rakes, hoes, shovels and other tools Saturday morning, when they re port to Mr. Fisher’s crew of super visors to build the bleachers on the mill race. A plea for the whole hearted sup port of very member of the class in the staging' of Junior week-end was made by Jimmie Meek, class president. moved ahead of junior Fisher Is Thanked DONUT MEN OUT s IN EARLY HOURS Sunrise Practice Is Rule Among House Teams Will the early bird win the champoin sliip of the doughnut baseball? In order that the old adage might remain true to form some of the teams will have to start at midnight. For the past few days three or four houses have been get ting out as early as six a. m., and going through the strenuous efforts of mak ing year-round tea hounds into baseball players. It is indeed a strange sight to look upon the crews in their motley cos tumes performing on the diamond. It is f(uite different to throw.a league base ball around on the ball grounds than to pass the sugar around for another cup of tea. But despite their awk wardness too much credit cannot be given to these mighty sons of Oregon Spirit, who brave the early morning dews for the good of their organiza tions. If only George Bolder could get out and see these proteges of the national pastime—his worries regarding a win ning varsity would be over. And. if Bill Hayward could set his alarm clock at the early hour when only crooks and moles should be about and see the Pad docks and Bays dashing at a madden ing speed after a gracefully muffed fly, wouldn’t he take an extra rub at his eyes and quickly get out a pad and pencil and sign up these hidden wonders? With the; first doughnut baseball game only a short time off it is ne cessary for the organizations to get their practice whenever possible and from all observances it seems as if the boys were taking advantage of the early morning coolness to get the kinks out of their arms and their batting eyes back into shape. The next question which arises is ,what to do for grounds in case all of the houses come out in the morning! ALPHA PHI GIVES SI 101 10 STUDENT UNION FUND Fraternity Fifth on Campus To Make Contribution Alpha Phi, women’s fraternity, stir red up renewed interest in the recently lagging contributions to the proposed Students Union of the University by moving that the chapter contribute $1000 to the fund for the building, as being a worthy object, and a good in vestment on the part of the student body of Oregon. Alpha Phi is the fifth organization on the campus to donate $1000 to the unioa project which sprung up almost spom taneously on the campus, but which has been sponsored in large part by the June graduating class. Besides these five organizations, the members of the senior class are pledged to contribute to the fund, and a $1000 fund was given by alumni of Kappa Sigma fraternity, although this amount was not definite ly specified as going toward a student union. At the time of the Kappa Sig ma alumni donation, the idea of a union had not yet sprung into being among the students on the campus. The method of investment of the sum which will be available for use in ten years, has not yet been decided accord ing to Chloe Thompson, president of the local chapter of Alpha Phi. It is ex pected that the means will be selected by the chapter this week after careful consideration. “We felt that a donation toward the erection of a student union was the best use to which our money could be put,” said Miss Thompson. “The chap ter was unanimous in feeling that such a project was worthy of the hearty support of every student of the Univer sity of Oregon.” Following are the members of the (Continued on page three.) Elsie Ferguson's Personality Obliterates Mundane Thoughts By Jeanne Gay Moonbeams—Elsie Ferguson—forever. A face that was alive with person ality and animation, entirely free of all piakeup, a warm grey ribbon hat under which masses of soft wavy au burn hair curled, and light blue eyes smiled—this was Miss Ferguson as she stood on the platform of the depot yes terday, slim and correct in her grey tialleur with its long wrap-around coat and a wrap-around skirt, that hung down in a point in the back, her beau tiful silver fox, her black silk stock ings and black patent leather slippers completing the stunning costume. And then she started talking, the material evidences such as freight trains and signs, people and noises all disappeared as if by a magic wand and only the magie voice was left—a voice that was thrillingly low and every word as full and melodious as an organ note. And what was she saying? With great animation Miss Ferguson discoursed on the future of the legitimate stage and the moving picture world as she sees it. “There is absolutely no comparison,” she said, “there is so much more to the spoken stage but unfortunately the moving picture is killing it, especially in the smaller towns where there is practically no demand anymore. “I shall continue to act in the pic tures,” she went on, “but I feel that unless the movies are educational to a necessary degree they fail in their (Continued on page three.) DO-NUT BASEBALL PLAY WILL STMT l First Three Games of Series Scheduled for Next Week on Military Diamond RULES FOR LEAGUE POSTED Organizations to be Divided Into Classes; Teams Will Play at Least 3 Times The do-nut baseball league will get under way Monday, April 30, with the following schedule for the week begin ning on that date: April 30, Alpha Beta Chi will play j Bachelordon at 4:00 p. m., on the field in the military parade ground. Tuesday, May 1, Phi Sigma Pi will meet Kappa Sigma at 4:00 o’clock on the parade ground. Wednesday, May -, Phi Gamma Delta meets Kappa Del ta Phi at 4:00 p. m., at the R. O. T. I C. field. The do-nut schedule for the remain der of the week is broken by the two VarsitA games on Thursday and Friday with Pacific University. No do-nut 1 games will be played on those two days. Three Games Siated The following teams will compete in the first round of the tournament which will be run off a game a day when the circumstances permit. The weekly schedule of games will be anounced at the beginning of each week, accord ing to George Bolder, who has charge of the tournament. The first round was paired off by lottery: Alpha Beta Chi vs. Bachelordon, Phi .Sigma Pi vs. Kappa Sigma, Phi Gamma Delta vs. Kappa Delta Phi, Alpha Tau Omega vs. Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Chi vs. winner of Alpha Beta Chi, Bachelor don game, Delta Tau Delta vs. Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon vs. Sigma-Nu, Delta Theta Phi vs. Oregon Club, Friendly Hall vs. Phi Kappa Psi. A sheet of rules for the do-nut tour nament will be posted on the bulletin board in the men’s gymnasium. The most important are those relating to the rounds of the contest. It is strongly uigeil that all the team captains make themselves thoroughly acquainted with the rules so that no mistakes will be made. The teams are to play games of seven innings and if there is light enough the games will be played after ■six o ’cloelj. The first round consti tutes the games listed in the pairings selected by lottery. The winners in the games in the first round will go into the first replay round. Replay Round Planned After the entire first round is played off the first replay round will be play ed. The losers of the fil'st replay round are given another chance to come back by going into the second replay round. Aftyw the second round is played off, the second replay round is played as in the case of the first round. The win ners of the second round will go into the third round. The losers of the sec ond round go into the second replay round. The winning teams in the second re play round go automatically into the third round while the losers in the sec ond replay are eliminated from the tournament. In the third round the winning teams go into the fourth round while the los ing teams are eliminated from the con test. In the fourth round the winners go into the fifth and the losers are eliminated. The fifth rdund winners go into the last and final round, the sixth, and the losers are eliminated. v» nmup x cam imuv, Thus by tliis system a team plays at least three games. A team may lose the first two games and by winning in the second replay round get into the third round and by not losing any more games may win the cup. If a team loses the first game and wins the second it will go into the second round; and if it loses in the second round it will go into the second replay round to play to enter the third round. The winning teams of the first and second replay rounds will be matched. This does away with the unsatisfactory method of selecting by lottery. If five or six strong teams are grouped in order a team by either losing or winning will be paired with a stronger or weaker team. Thus team captains should plan their strategy of playing from the chart in Bolder’s office. Varsity or freshman men listed on their respective squads will not be eli gible for do-nut games, unless they have been withdrawn before the first regu lar varsity or frosh game is played. After that a man will not be eligible unless he is cut from the squad by the coach. All men not cut from the squad and not taken on the northern trip will be eilgible after the last Varsity (Continued op. page three.) CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENCY ARE YET TO COME OUT Katherine Watson Would Be Oregana Editor; Is Third Aspirant For Position POSSIBILITIES ARE MANY Harley Covalt, Mary Skinner, First to Enter Race For Student Council Seats From the way aspirants for the pres idency of the A. 8. U. O. are avoidng publicity it would seem that this year’s race would be the hardest for years. No candidates have yet announc ed themselves, which would seem to in dcate that the contest will be close and interesting. There is no thought of a dearth of candidates, however, and it is too early to begin to think of possible darkhorses. Announcements made yesterday for council jobs will doubtless start the list, which is sure to be long. For sen ior men on the student council, Harley Covalt has entered the arena, and for junior woman on that body, Mary Skin ner. With the declaration of Kath erine Watson for the editorship of the Oregana, tlire are three in the field. Katherine Watson Enters The latest entrant into the lists for the head of the annual, Katliernie Wat son, is a sophomore in the University. She has been in the University Com pany and prominent in Y. W. C. A. work for two years. Last year she was chairman of the finance committee of the campus associatou and this year acted as treasurer. She is a member of l’ot and Quill and Dial and is on the staff of the Emerald. She belongs to Pi Beta Phi. Harley Covalt, who aspires to the po sition of senior man on the student council, will represent the University in track at the Seattle Relay Carnival. He is a junior and has been prominent in track. He majors in law and is a membr of Delta Theta Phi and Phi Sig ma Pi. Mary Skinner, aspirant for junior woman on the student council, is a soph omore and has been active on the cam pus for two years. She is a member of Ivwama and was one of the founders of Thespians. She has been chosen advisor on the freshman commission of the Y. W. C. A. for next year. She is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. WOMEN’S.LEAGUE WILL NOMINATE AT MEETING Florence Jagger Committee Chairman; Body Will Choose Candidates; Dean Edgingtcn To Talk Although there has been no announce ment as yet of any names for candidacy in Woman’s League, the air is tense with excitement, and many whispers have been buzzed about. Whether rumors are true or not will be determined at Women’s league mass meting in Villard hall, Thursday at five o’clock. The nominating commit tees, composed of Florence Jagger, chairman, Margaret Scott, Ellen Mc Veigh, Mary Alexander, Marjorie Fle gei, and Velma Farnham will then an nounce candidates, and others may be nominated from the floor. Elections will take place the follow ing week in the library entrance, with Margaret Scott in charge of polls, sev eral assistants being chosen by her. Dean Grace Edgington will for the first time appear before the women of the University in her capacity as Dean of Women, and will speak for a few moments at the meeting. There will also be musical numbers. Other topics of interest to be dis cussed at the meetings are, the sale of concessions at the spring baseball games, the Tuesday teas, which will be continued throughout the Spring term, and plans for the Sunday breakfast at which Women’s league council will be hostesses for members of Student and Executive Councils. W. A. A. DELEGATES LEAVE Florence Jagger and Georgia Benson Attend Conference at Stanford Florence Jagger, president, and Geor gia Benson, secretary, of the local Wo man ’s Athletic association, left Mon day night for Stanford University where they will attend the western sec tional conference of the National Wo man’s Athletic association conference. Miss Benson will act as secretary to the conference, Oregon being elected to fill this office last year when the conference was held in Eugene. The session will last three days and the delegates will return next Monday. Prominent Actor Appears Tonight I* Claire Keeney HUMOR WILL FEATURE BARRIE PLAT TONIGHT Keeney Has Good Comic Role; Love Tangles Unraveled Claire Keeney, whose work in com edy roles is well known to campus aud iences, will play an extremely funny part in “The Professor’s Love Story,” dames Barrie's three-act comedy which will again be produced by the Univer sity Company tonight for the first time since 11)14 whn it toured Southern Ore gon after a successful appearance at home. Pete, Keeney’s role, is the part of a canny Scotch servant, who is in love with Effie, also a servant, iI is love affar is very muddled because of the presence of Headers, who, also in love, with Effie, and just as canny «s his rival, hesitates to propose to her unless he is sure Pete is going to pop the question. aiiu uiaugie is auuuruinaieu iu mu Professor’s love affair, which involves several other persons. Fergus Reddie played the role of the professor in the last apparance of the play and it is known as one of his best comedy rolo3. Charlotte Banfiekl plays Agnes the sister, who also has a love story, not as amusing as Effie’s, or gay like the professor’s, but with the sadness of dis illusion. Mabel Gilliam does some very good ! acting in the role of Lady Gilding, car rying out the character of that design ing person in an artistic way. Arthur Johnson plays Dr. Cousins, and Wade Kerr plays Dr. Yellow leaves, both engaged in the curious case of the professor, whose health seems to be failing for no apparent rea son. Lorna Coolidge is playing in the role of Lucy White, the secretary. MRS. HEARD IN EUROPE Former Librarian Sends Message To Miss Hair of Extensiojr Division Mrs. Roy -Heard, formerly Miss Mar garet Upleger, who will be remembered by the faculty members and older stu dents, as having worked in the Univer sity library for many years, is now on a trip to Europe with her husband, Capt. Heard. Capt. Heard lias been stationed in the Philippines, but is now traveling because of ill-health. A card received by Miss Mozelle Hair, of the exten sion division, from Mrs. Heard, writ ten from Rangoon, March 13, gays they will stop at Colombo, Ceylon, Port Said, Cairo, Alexandria and Vienna, after which they hope to return to the United States. GOOD mu WINS VENGEANCE FOR OREGON NINE Varsity Takes Measure of Vandal Hurler Before Invaders Can Score RESULT IS 13 TALLIES TO 7 Errors Help To Spell Defeat for Gem Staters; Shields Works Well on Mound An otherwise perfectly keen after ] noon was ruined for a young man named Golden, when Oregon ran in a squad of i runs in the second, third and fourth ! innings of yesterday’s game and had it practically sewed up before the visi tors from Idaho had succeeded in hook ing a single counter. The final count was 13 to 7, and until the first of .the seventh the Vandals were unsuccessful in getting a single counter due to the good work of “Tiny” Shields, who appeared on the mound for the Lemon Yellow, coupled with an airtight defense, which weakened j slightly in the last two frames. Idaho Off Color | The Idaho nine was completely off I color and several times more than one error was pulled in an attempt to make a play. “The Comedy of Errors” was what one of the Vandal men dubbed the melee. He named it appropriately, as his side accounted for a total of 10 dur ing the afternoon. The three-inning slaughter which put the contest on ice for Oregon was start ed by Doug Wright, who was first up in the last of the second and got to first after being hit by pitcher Golden. Um pire “Spike” Burke from Portland de manded proof from Wright that he had been hit, but when Doug was able to present a badly bruised finger, the Umps finally decided that ho deserved the walk. Latham Gets Two-Bagger Sorsby, up next, hooked one for a hike to first, and Earl Shafer followed with a beautiful sacrifice, which put Wright on third and Sorsby on second. Hunk Latham then cracked a two-bag ger which scored Wright, and Cook not to be outdone hooked one of Golden’s offerings for another two sack clout which scored Sorsby and Hunk. “Tiny” then came up and by cracking out a nasty little fly, brought Cook in and ended the scoring for that inning. The Oregon nine pepped up and by this four run lead, hooked three more in both the next cantos, which perfor mance caused the Idaho coach, McMil lan, to send in A1 Fox to replace Golden with the opening of the fifth frame. A1 performs nearly as well on the mound as he does on the basketball floor and kept the hits fairly scattered for the rest of the game, leaving the Webfootcrs off with only three coun ters for the five innings that he did the heaving. This game broke the series even and leaves Oregon with an even record of (Continued on page three.) ASTRONOMY COURSE POSTPONED Those interested in the stars, the moon, and other celestial fixtures may devote as much time as they desire at star gazing this term, but not under the supervision of Professor E. II. Mc Allister, since there will be no course in astronomy this year, according to an announcement made by McAllister yes terday. Astronomy was scheduled for the winter and spring terms, but be cause of an excessive amount of work during the winter term, Professor Mc Allister was unable to start the course which will now be postponed until next year. Student-body Officers9 Duties Demand Time,Skill, Interest Article III STUDENT BODY OFFICERS Everybody knows that the race for the positions of student body presi dent, vice-president; secretary and edi tor of the Emerald is lively, and all wait with poorly concealed excitement to learn the final returns on election day. Few of the students, however, know what really is in line for these candidates not privileged to join the Lame Ducks after the fun and sus pense of election day is over. The president of the student body not only presides at the regular and spe cial meetings of the Associated Stud ents, but also at all of the meetings of executive council and student coun cil, one of which meets each week, and meetings of the finance committee of executive council, which also meets once each week. Aside from this there are innumerable more or less informal and students. Then, the student body president is Oregon's representative abroad, and at home. He attends the conferences of student body presidents. He is called meetings of committees both of faculty upon for speeches of welcome to visi ting bodies,. such as the Legislature, High School conferences and the like. He plays a big part in Homecoming. In order to “get away with” the of fice of student body presidents, a man must be capable of organizing work—he must know the student body, and know who can be depended upon in order that the various undertakings of the student body may be run smoothly. • The president of the student body has a seat and a vote in Executive and (Continued on page three.)