Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXIV.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY APRIL 26. 1923
NUMBER 138
ASSEMBLY HOUR
GIN OVER TO
Frolic Skit Is Not Included In
Hour of Entertainment
In Villard Today
GLEE CLUBS ON PROGRAM
Organizations Will Make First
Home Appearance Since
Tour During Vacation
Music—the same type of music that
has charms, according to the bard’s
very own words—will feature the as
sembly program today in Villard hall
at 11 o’clock. There will be abso
lutely no lectures, but possibly an an
nouncement or two will be permitted.
However,| all political aspirants are
barred from taking part in the latter,
and only persons duly recognized by
Dean John Straub, rvill be given the
floor, and then for a limited time only
so that the major part of the 50 min
utes may be given over to the musical
program that has been prepared under
the direction of John Stark Evans, pro
fessor in the school of music.
This is the first appearance of the
glee clubs on the campus since their
spring vacation tours. “A Milk Toast”
one of the selections by the girl’s glee
club which was especially well received
in places where concerts were given
will be the opening number of the pro
gram followed by another fajvorite,
“If My Songs Had AVings.”
Male Quartet to Sing
There will be numerous selections
by the male quartet, as well as a num
ber by the men’s glee club. The solo
work will be provided by Miss Joanna
James, who will sing “The Dark King’s
Daughter” Gwladys Keeney and Vera
Price will sing MacDermid’s “Sacra
ment.”
Owing to a misunderstanding in ar
rangements, the Delta Gamma April
Frolic stunt will not be given as for
merly announced. Some of the costumes
> including the wooden shoes and Chi
nese robes used in the stunt, ‘“flie Ten
Million” have been sent back to Port
land and definite plans were not made
in time to procure them for today. Mrs.
George Gerlinger, one of the judges
at the Frolic, expressed the desire that
the skit, which is relative to the gift
campagin, be reproduced! and it is
possible that it may be presented in
assembly later.
Program Is Varied
The complete assembly program for
today follows:
A Milk Toast . Spier
If My Songs Had AVings . Hahn
Girl’s Glee Club
Solo—The Dark King’s Daughter ....
. Bainbridge Crist
Joanna James
Duet, Sacrament . MacDermid
Gwladys Keeney, yera Price
Castilla, Ballad of Spain. Pritheroe
Men’s Glee Club
Selections .
Male Quartet
WOMEN’S MEETING TODAY
Members of Women’s League are ask
ed to bear in mind the mass meeting
to be held at 5 o’clock this afternoon
in Villard hall. This is one of the
most important meetings of the year
according to the president, as at this
time nominations for officers will be
presented by the committee appointed
for that purpose. Immediately after
the meeting the members of Women’s
League executive council will picnic
on the race. This is an annual custom
of the council, as a grand finale to
the years work.
ELECTION ANNOUNCED
Condon Club anounees the election
of Wilbur Godlove of Medford.
PIGGER’S GUARD
NEEDED OFFICER
New Political Openings
Are Suggested
The political bug is in the ointment
and is buzzing to his heart’s content.
There are many positions to be filled
this year. Yet there are several posi
tions that have never known a guar
dian which seelns to be of importance.
What of the mortuary on the hill?
How about a protector for the pigger
and piggess, the sheik and sheikess
who stealthily sneak into the ghost lot
of departed souls and blissfully babble
about the pigger ’g moon and the solar
system in general, The boneyard needs
a guardian, one staunch and unafraid
of the swishing of spirit robes and rat
tling bones.
The craze of engagements has struck
the campus with a bang in the last
year or two. What of a chaperon for
these newly engaged couples? Have
them meet in a drove fo'r their tryst
ing and have the chaperon preside over
the meeting.
The scandal sheet needs an editor.
Hope the one who gets the job will
have a straight two policy as a plank
in his platform.
How about the keeper of the library
steps? This place in particular needs
attending to. A husky f guardian
might be elected for the position.
How about a man to turn out the
lights that have invaded the confines
of the pigger’s favorite places? Lights
are nuisances and should be turned out
at a certain hour.
UNION FU1GIVENSIODO
BY KAPPA ALPHA THETA
Subscription Fourth Made By
Women’s Fraternities
The fund for the future Student
Union of the University has received
another thousand dollar boost from the
donation made yesterday by the mem
bers of Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity,
who turned over a savings policy to
Lamar Tooze at the gift campaign head
quarters, for this purpose. Six cam
pus organizations have now subscribed
to the fund, according to Mr. Tooze,
and he added that the Thetas were the
first group to vote on their gift sev
eral months ago, and notified the head
quarters of their intention, but this
was not announced because of a mis
understanding and delay in definite
action.
The present list of organizations
which have pledged $1000 to the fund
includes Delta Gamma, Hammer and
Coffin, Phi Kappa Psi, Alpha Delta Pi,
Alpha Phi and Kappa Alpha Theta.
It is the hope of the chairman of sen
iors who ' are soliciting subscriptions
among the members of their class that
all 36 of the campus organizations will
pledge the same amount as these houses
thus making a total of $36,000 assured.
This in addition to the $37,0000 which
may be raised by the subscription of
each of the 370 seniors of ten dollars
a year for ten years will practically put
up the Union building.
Members of Alphp Xi chapter of
Kappa Alpha Theta who are sharing in
making this contribution to the Stu
dent Union fund are: Margaret Beatie,
Agnes Brooks, Lorna Coolidge, Lenore
Cram, Elizabeth Geiser, Marion Law
rence, Jessie Lewis, Marian Linn, Imo
gene Letcher, Anabel McKenzie, Cor
nelia Pipes, Elizabeth Torrey, Helen
Stoppenbach, Doris Sengstacken, Jane
Campbell, Marcella Berry, Elizabeth
Garrett, Marjorie Hazard, Martha
Johnson, Henryetta Lawrence, Asteria
Norton, Dorothea Hill, Florence Buck,
Sally Cusic-k, Florence Fortmiller, Eli
sabeth Honkanon, Mary Hardy, Rebec
ca Ireland, Genevieve Phelps, Martha
3hull, Jeanne Elizabeth Gay, Mary Har
ris, Ruth Sensenich, Eleanor Eakin,
Prances Effinger, Georgiana Gerlinger,
Eloise Buck, Gertrude Harris, Adrienne
Hazard, Marion Hill, Edna Murphy,
.\rdis Welch, and Eugenia Zieber.
Veteran Lame Duck Members
Will Minister to Casualties
Now is the time for all good men
and women who know that they are
good to run for offices in the approach
ing student body election. But, as has
been shown in past elections, everyone
cannot win the coveted position, just
one person to the position is all the
rule book allows.
To run and win is great stuff, but to
run and lose—puts a decided crimp in
the aspirations of the office seeker. He
seeks to hide his grief by crawling
away and concealing himself from pry
ing, scorning eyes He feels like a
worm, who brought out of the earth by
the warm spring rains, finds himself
bared to the scorching rays of the sun
on the asphalt pavement. Such is the
life of him who runs and stubs his toe.
But here on the Oregon campus, kind
hearts have provided a sanctuary for
those who flounder in the puddle and
emerge with political pneumonia.* In
the not far distant past, brave hearts
who felt the cruel sting of the political
bee banded! together and formed a
society for their mutual comfort—a
society within which they could con
gregate and sob on one another’s shoul
der and spill their grief in sympathetic
ears.
“The Lame Ducks,” the society for
the protection of those who have tasted
the bitter dregs of defeat, the frater
nity of the also-rans.
On the morning of the day following
the fatal election, when the political
guillotine has lopped the heads of the
few unfortunates, the friendly breth
ren of the monastery “Lame Ducks”
(Continued on page three.)
RELAY SPRINTERS
LEAVE TODAY FOR
SEATTLE EVENTS
Larson, Oberteuffer, Covalt,
Lucas, Hardenberg, Risley,
Rosebraugh Going
OREGON TO ENTER 3 RACES
Five Northwestern Colleges To
Have Teams in Washington
Track Carnival
When Bill Hayward steps aboard
the north bound Shasta this afternoon
at 4:30 headed for Seattle, he will
take with him seven of Oregon’s best
sprinters who will enter in the Univer
sity of Washington relay carnival. The
men who will carry the varsity colors
in the north are Ole Larson, Del Ober
teuffer, Marv Lucas, Elmer Harden
berg, Vic Risley, Harley Covalt, and
Art Rosebraugh.
Larson and Oberteuffer will run in
the 100 yard dash. The competition
in this race should be keen enough to
please the most exacting followers of
track. Hurley, of Washington, wrill un
doubtedly enter in this event and, al
though Larson beat him last year in
the dual meet with the Northerners.
Hurley is considered one of the fastest
sprinters in the northwest.
Entries in Three Events
Oregon’s entry in the 880 yard relay
will consist of Larson, Oberteuffer, Lu
cas, and Ilardenberg. These men all
work well in the 220, which is the dis
tance that each will be required to carry
the baton. Hardenberg will have to per
form in the mile relay also, and with
Rosebraugh, Risley and Covalt, will
compose the team for that event.
Oregon will enter teams in but three
of the seven events which are sche
duled. As it now stands, the varsity
will have no entries in the 400-yard
the two mile, the four mile> relays, nor
the pentathlon. The team will arrive
in Seattle tomorrow morning and, as j
the relays are not to be run until Sat
urday, there will be time for the var
sity sprinters to acclimate themselves
and to work out on the Washington
oval.
Five Schools Enter
The schools which will be represented
in the meet are University of Washing
ton, Washington State College, Univer
sity of Idaho, O. A. C., and Oregon. Al
though there is little available infor
mation concerning the relative strength
of the contestants, it is known that the
Aggie team will be weakened by the ab
sence of their 2-mile relay team, which
has been sent back to the Drake relays
at Des Moines.
AWARDS TO BE LIMITED
Order of “O” Will Standardize Letter
Giving; Opposes Umpire Razzing
The Order of the O went on record
at its meeting last night as favoring
the proposal of an amendment absolute
ly standardizing the awarding of let
ters, according to George King, pres
ident of the organization. According
to this amendment, letters will be
awarded only to men engaged in in
tercollegiate varsity contest, and will
eliminate yell leaders’ and managers’
O’s, and all forms of Old English and
scroll letters. The organization is also
strongly opposed to the wearing of O
sweaters by any women except wives of
Order of the O men, and women in
the Women’s Order of the O. This is
intended to protect the girls who have
really won their O’s in women’s ath
letics.
The O men are also behind the athlet
ic coaches in being opposed, to exces
sive razzing of umpires and referees
from the grandstand in games and will
take measures to prevent this when
possible.
There will be an Order of the O dance
on Friday night at the Campa Shoppe,
according to King, and all members of
the organization will wear their sweat
ers. O blankets will be used for decor
ations.
The Order will likewise sponsor a
student body dance in the Woman’s
building on May 12. N
FROSH CALLED BY “O” MEN
The following freshmen will report
on the library steps at 11 o’clock this
morning: Belden Taylor, Ralph Tuck,
Ken Stephenson, Howard Hobson, A1
Powers, Charles Kilgore, Harry Watson,
John Rice, A1 Bullier, John Marx,
John McIntyre, Frank Smith, Gordon
Slade, Ed Stephens, Louis Bertrand,
Bud Hodgett, A1 Cronin, Herman Blae
sing, Bob Gardiner, A1 Meyers, Ike
Mills, Fred Harrison, Rodney Keating.
Bob McCabe.
ELECTION ANNOUNCED
El Cireulo Castellano announces the
election of Lowell Angell and La Verne j
Terrill.
Clean-Up Day Officially
Abolished by Single Vote
/ —————
Council Chairman Decides Fate of Question When
Split Opinion Results in Tie with Five
for and Five Against
Clean-up day was removed from the
Junior week-end program by action of
the student council last night after a
hot fight which lasted almost one hour.
.Upon calling for a vote on the motion to
do away with the tradition from Junior
weekend, five hands were raised. Upon
calling for those opposed to doing away
with the tradition, five hands were
raised. According to the constitution, a
tie vote is decided by action of the chair
man.
John MacGregor, president of the A.
8. U. O., cast the deciding ballot. Mem
bers voting to abolish the clean-up were
Bernice Alstock, Margaret Jackson, Art
Larson, Jack Myers, and Pat Irelan.
Voting to continue the tradition were
Kenneth Youel, Don Zimmerman, Had
don Bockhey, Ellen McVeigh and Don
Woodward.
A delegation from the Junior class
attended and presented a number of ar
guments urging the abolishment. Some
points advanced were that the University
has outgrown its need for such an event,
that the campus is cared for by a num
ber of men hired for the purpose, that
the time taken up in its conduct could be
better spent in conducting the guests
around the classrooms and introducing
them to major professors thus interest
ing them in their future course here,
that the event did not really promote a
spirit of democracy anyway, and that
there was comparatively nothing con
structive to be done.
Counter arguments were advanced
showing that removing the clean-up from
Junior Week-end to some other time
would kill the event ns a tradition, that
it really promoted democracy among the
students to work shoulder to shoulder on
the campus for one morning of the year,
that if nothing constructive had been
done in the last few years there was no
reason why it should not be done with
proper organization. It was pointed out
that a number of cement walks had been
installed on University day several years
ago and there was no reason why this
could not be done again.
This change will not do away with
Friday as a holiday.
Other business brought before the
council was a request by Oerald Barnes,
of the Physical Education department,
requesting that some form of award be
recommended for presentation to Varsity
swimmers upon winning eight points in
a conference meet. Under this ruling
only two men would bo eligible this
year. The council went on record as
favoring the change and referred the
matter to the constitutional revision com
mittee. A letter similar to that given
(Continued on page three.)
WOMEN DEBATERS TO
MEET 0. OF W. TONIGHT
Marriage and Divorce Question
Will Be Discussed
There is a universal sentiment, ac
Cardin* to some of the up-to-date think
ers, that marriage as it exists today
is an absolute failure, and that some
thing must be done about the momen
tous question of divorce. University
people interested in the problem will
have an unusual opportunity to .hear
the current views and opinions on the
matter, when the Oregon women’s af
firmative debate team contest the sub
ject with the University of Washing
ton ’s negative team at 8 o ’clock to
night in the Y. M. C. A. “hut.” The
exact wording of the question is “Re
solved that the Constitution of the
United States should be Amended so
as to give Congress the Power to Regu
late Marriage and Divorce.”
In commenting on the subject of
marriage and divorce, Professor C. D.
Thorpe, coach of the debate teams said
that statistics show that in Los An
gles and Denver there is one divorce
for every two marriages, in Oregon tak
en as a state there is one divorce for
every two and one half marriages,
while in the whole United States there
is one divorce for every nine marriages.
“The question has to be undoubtedly
settled by the voters within a few
years,” Mr. Thorpe said. Judge Ben
Lindsey of the Denver court recently
made the statement that marriage was
absolutely a failure; while other leaders
of the country have come to the con
clusion that the only solution for the
serious question of marriage and di
vorce is to have uniform laws regulat
ing the institutions.
“Both of the teams have worked up
some interesting and peppy arguments,
and are ready to give the Washington
women a stiff fight,” said Mr. Thorpe.
Mildred Bateman and Margaret Wood
son, the members of the affirmative
team which has the home contest, have
shown unusual progress and success in
their work, coaches say. May Penno
and Eugenia Strickland, who left on
the Shasta for Seattle last night to
uphold the negative side of the ques
tion for Oregon, have done excellent
work, Mr. Thorpe' said, and will de
liver two forcible and convincing talks.
All four of the women worked through
the spring vacation on their speeches.
The judges for the contest tonight
are Elbert Bede, editor of the Cottage
Grove Sentinel; Rev. P. G. Jennings of
the Episcopal church of Eugene; and
Victor A. Collins, debate coach at the
Senior high school of Salem. Dean Ed
gington will act as chairman. Ruth
Akers will give a vocal solo as part of
the program.
The debate will begin promptly at 8
o’clock. “The question to be contested
is every bit as interesting as the pro
hibition question, and we can justly'
expect a good crowd to turn out,” Mr.
Thorpe said.
P. L. CAMPBELL IN PORTLAND
President Campbell was in Portland
yesterday attending the annual meet
ing of the Board of Higher Curriculum.
He will return to Eugene today.
I
I
[[MON PUNCH WANTS
STUDENT MANAGEMENT
Campus Comic May Be Placed
On Basis of Emerald
A desire to have Lemon Punch placed
on the same basis 11s the Emeral.« and
the Oregano, thus making it a student
body publication, has been expressed
by members of Hammer and Coffin,
humorous publication society, which
puts out Lemon Punch. Heretofore the
publication of the magazine has been
in no way connected with student body
government. ,
An important provision of such an
action would be that' the election of
the editor which is done by the staff,
should be ratified by the student coun
cil. The manager of Lemon Punch
would be selected in the same manner
as other managers on the campus, and
profits would be divided on a plan sim
ilar to that of the Emerald’s.
The movement to make the publica
tion of the magazine a student body
affair comes from the Lemon Punch
staff, the members of which feel that
such an action would put “Lemmy” on
a better basis if it were a student
body publication rather than one of
Hammer and Coffin’s. Persons who
are sponsoring the movement are Pro
fessor W. F. G. Timelier of the school
of journalism and a member of Ham
mer and Coffin, and Herbert Larson,
newly elected editor of Lemon Punch.
SPRING FOOTBALL STARTS
Forty Men Signed Up for Gridiron
Practice With Huntington
Hot weather and football usually
don’t come together at Oregon, but
j Coach Shy Huntington has an enthus
iastic group of about 25 out three times
a week now, and next month will have
them practicing evjory day in the
sawdust.
The work being given the men is rud
imentary for the most part, as many
of them have never been out for the
game before, and so far the points that
] have been stressed have been the hand
j ling of the ball, charging, and the posi
j t ion of linemen.
Over 40 men are signed up for the
game Coach Huntington states, and un
less they all start turning out will
soon get flunks in the subject.
Several members of this years frosh
eleven have been working daily and
are progressing nicely according to
Shy. Some of these are Sinclair, who
has the speed, weight and ability to
make a fine guard or tackle, Hunt and
Bailey, both of whom are big, fast fel
lows and several others.
The more experienced men who are
making good ary Wilson, Gooding and
McKeown.
MISS HAIR TO LECTURE
Miss Mozelle Hair, of the extension
division of the University, will attend
a meeting of the southern Oregon fed
eration of women’s clubs, at Talent,
May 5. She will give a lecture on
Egypt, illustrated with slides loaned
by the University. While in southern
Oregon, Miss Hair will go to Grant’s
Pass, Medford and Ashland to attend to
correspondence work there.
CANDIDATE [1ST
LONGER; NO ONE
FOR PRESIDENCY
Marcella Berry Announces
Intention to Contest
For Secretaryship
GOWANS OUT FOR COUNCIL
New Aspirants For Emerald
Berth Are Lacking; All
Avoid Yell Leader
Somewhere on the Oregon campus
there are two or three young men who
will announce their candidacies for the
greatest responsibility, and the great
est honor which can be given a stu
dent—the presidency of the A. S. U.
O. Just who these men are is the chief
topic of conversation around even
fireplace. Each of those mentioned
for the position, is waiting and watch
iug for the move of the other. One
thing is certain, and that is that a
definite move is to be expected writhin
a very short time.
The political game is not without
its developments, however.
Yesterday Marcella Berry announced
that she would run for secretary
against Velma Farnham. Russ Gowans
declared for the position of senior man
on the student council. Harley Covalt
is already in the ring. As yet there
is but one candidate for the editorship
of the Emerald, Edwin Fraser, although
others will probably be announced with
in a short time.
iviarcena Berry, who is m tho race
for secretary, is a junior and a member
of liwama and Phi Theta Kappa, in
which she has been an officer. She is
on the Junior week-end committee and
is a Kappa Alpha Theta.
Russ Gowans, tho latest candidate
for senior man on the student council,
is prominent in athletics. He is a
member of the “Order of the O” and
ia a < basketball ietteiman. He was
treasurer of his class as a sophomore
and is now on the Junior week-end com
mittee, acting as chairman of the
bleachers committee. He is a member
of Oregon Knights, Beta Alpha Psi,
Beta Gamma Sigma, and Delta Tau
Delta.
There are no additions to tho list of
aspirants for the editorship of the Ore
guna and it looks like a three-eornored
race. Mary Skinner, who has announc
ed for the position of junior woman on
the student council, is as yet unoppos
ed. As yet no candidates for yell lead
er have come out.
PHI THETA KAPPA SUMS
UP N. S. F. SITUATION
Folder Published by Women’s Business
Honorary Organization Points Oiit
Neglect of Accounts
That one confectionery store in Eu
gene averages from $5 to $20 per day
in n, s. f. checks is pointed out in a
folder just out, published by Phi Theta
Kappa, women’s honor society in the
school of business administration. This
folder represents the first definite step
taken by a student society regarding
the n. s. f. check question. It was
compiled from figures made available
by the banks of Eugene and the busi
ness office of the University.
In the little bulletin is the further
information that one bank in Eugene
has on an average of 150 n. s. f. checks
per month, and that one prominent jew
elry store averages 500 not-sufficient
funds checks per month. The folder
does not state that these checks are
student checks, but points out the fact
with an idea of showing that the prac
tice is widespread. It does, however,
call attention to the fact that last year
$2,000 worth of n. s. f. paper wont
through the business office of the Uni
versity.
Although the information given out
Tuesday comes at a time when interest
is high in the n. s. f. check matter, it
was planned severol weeks ago, and
students have b.'eu gathering the in
formation since that time.
GRADUATE IN SOCIAL WORK
Marion Bowen, ’21, Is Executive Sec
retary of Astoria Bed Cross
Marion Bowen, a graduate of the
University with the class of ’20, has
recently been selected executive sec
retary of the American Bed Cross in
Astoria, and left this week to take up
her duties there. Her work will be in
connection with the relief work in As
toria which is being carried on as a
result of the fire there. Miss Bowen
was on the campus last year, and acted
as assistar* to Mrs. Edna Datson. She
has been in Portland most of this year
attending the University school of so
cial service.