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Oregon Daily Emerald VOLUME XXIV. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1923 NUMBER 145 JUNIOR WEEK-END COMMITTEE HARD IT IIMK ON PLANS Event Promises To Be Best In History of School; May Add Some New Features CLASS WANT FETE QUEEN Prom Will Be Colorful Treat; Special Programs Edited By Six Neophytes By Art Rudd Working like a great, well oiled ma chine, the junior class committee which has b?en commissioned to put across the 1923 Junior week-end, has its plans well usder way for the greatest event of its kind in the history of the Uni versity. Doug Farrell, general chairman, has been working with his staff for weeks to perfect plans and has had, as one of the main idea the desire to put nov elty into each division of the program. “We do not want to do away with the usual successful and tried events,” he said at a directorate meeting last night, ”but we do want to put a new feature into every Junior week-end event in order that our part in the his tory of the Junior week-ends may be beneficial to the idea of this activity as a whole.” He has been successful and through the hearty cooperation of his commit tee heads is able to promise the stu dent body that the coming festivities will contain plenty of new life. To Have Queen of Fete ' One of the biggest innovations going into effect is the election of a canoe fete queen from the girls of the junior class. ' Ed Haney of the canoe fete committee has this matter in hand and will present the plan of nomination within a short time. It is probable that the men’s houses will choose a girl from tiie organiza tion with which they are paired off in the canoe fete lottery. These girls will probably be voted upon in a public election at which every student will have a vote. The number of votes cast for any one candidate will not be an nounced in order that any embarass ment for the candidates who run low in the list may be avoided. Eddie Ed lund, the chairman of the fete, has been working with other members of the committee and after consulting with faculty and students generally, it was decided to carry out the queen idea. Entries In By Saturday Names of entires in the canoe fete must be turned in to Haney by Satur day night, according to the edict of the directorate. Judges are being se lected and work will start soon on the junior float, which will carry the canoe fete queen on the night of that color ful event. It has been ruled that only $18 may be spent by each house in stead of the $25 as previously an nounced. Randall Jones, head of the decora tions committee for the Junior prom, reports that he has one of the most striking and elaborate schemes of dec oration ever seen on the campus. He has had the detailed work of preparing ,the decorations going on for nearly a week and juniors may be expected to be called upon for assistance between now and the staging of the annual dance. His committee is made up of Mildred La Compte, Lurline Coulter, Marcella Berry, Ed Kirtley, Bill Wil (Continued on page three.) SENIOR FOUNTAIN TO BUBBLE AGAIN Spring Ducking Parties Are Now Possible At last the fountain of the class of 1913 ■will be spouting again. This is a sure sign that spring is, or nearly is, here. H. M. Fisher with one of his assistants spent an hour or two yester day afternoon in scrubbing out the fountain and putting it in shape ready for actual use today. The fountain is turned off during the winter months and when the milder weather comes, it is cleaned and used as an added beau tifier to the campus. With a stiff bristled brush in hand, the assistant applied a white cleansing powder to the bristles and went to it. From lack of use during the past few months, the drain and feeding pipes have become somewhat clogged with sedmient so long wires were employed in clearing the leaves, twigs, and debris away. Mr. Fisher stated that before long he intends to drain the fountain, allow it to dry out and paint it with a water proof white. Until good weather is certain, he will not be able to do this, however. A. S. U. 0. MEETING HEARS Vote To Be Taken on Proposals At Election Wednesday Four proposed amendments to the constitution of the A. S. U. O. were read in the spring term student body meeting in Villard hall yesterday, and will be voted on next Wednesday at the time of the general student elec tion. The first one read provides for plac ing Lemon Punch, campus humorous magazine, on the basis of a student body publication. Under the provisions of the amendment the editor of the campus humorous publication would be selected by the student council. The editor and the manager would each re ceive $200 a year for their services. Any amount left over at the end of the school year after all bills have been paid would be divided one-eighth to the edi tor, the same amount to the manager, one-fourth divided among the mem-< bers of the staff, and the remaining half to be turned over to the treasurer of the student body. Other amendments provide for the awarding of letters to swimmers who have earned at least eight points dur ing one season, sweaters to members of the University band as a reward for one year’s work, and that author izing the incorporation of the student body, one of the clauses making it possible for the student body to build and maintain a student union build ing. All amendments will be printed in detail in the Emerald early next week. MU PHI CONCERT PLANNED Campus Musicians Will Give Program In Methodist Church The annual concert of Mu Phi Ep silon women’s honorary music frater nity, will be given next Sunday at 8 p. m., in the Methodist church. A full evening of music is promised with the following program: Marion Lawrence, a senior student of organ, will render several selections; Joanna James will give a vocal solo; Alberta Potter and Jane O’Reilly will play a double violin number; Bernice Altstock and Marvel Skeels will give a vocal duet, and there will be several selec tions by the Mu Phi chorus. Campus Pinochle Championship Won by Hard-Boiled Geologist Karl VonderAhe is pinochle champion of the campus by virtue of four wins to the two of Ian Campbell and the one of Edd Haney. The husky rock artists spent a live five hour tilt try ing to settle the question as to who was the card shark in the tournament, but VonderAhe, almost consistently bidding on hearts, won out. Bidding ran high, set-backs were frequent and brilliant playing marked the tourna ment. A beautiful inlaid cigarette case was awarded to the winner. The tournament started in the winter term. Some 35 took part in the games. At 7:45 the seal of a new deck of cards was broken, and the rock ar tists, garbed as flashy gunman and for ty-niner, started action, after listening to the injunctions of the honorary chairman, Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the geology department and Don Zimmerman, president of the G. and M society. Buies prohibiting observers from spitting tobacco juice in the left eye of the honorary umpire and pre venting the repetition of swearing were strictly inforced by the offical bouncer, Glenn Walkley. VonderAhe got the first bid with heart trumps. The significance of this was not overlooked by the bystanders who commented audibly. Campbell came in strong, jumping from 130 to over the 300 line. His at tacks came too late. VonderAhe took the game. The second round went to Haney; the third to Campbell. The fourth was claimed by VonderAhe. Charms, tin gods and amulets failed to save the contestants. VonderAhe captured the sixth and seventh rounds, after some stiff bidding. The vanquished expressed their op ionions, stating “the best man won.” VonderAhe says, “You are the best players I was ever up against, but the old adage ‘lucky at cards, unlucky at love’ is all wrong.” Coffee was served to the distracted players during the evening by fair mai dens from the audience. PINK-EYED MTS HELP ZOOLOGISTS STOOrfBEDITT Transmission of Traits Seen In Research Carried On By Nichol and Eby MANY ANIMALS ARE USED Inherited Characteristics Are Shown by Experiments In Immunization By Genevieve Jewell Hundreds of pink-eyed rats, each with characteristic perforations or notches in his wee ears to distinguish him from his albino brothers, are used in an experiment being conducted by Walter Nichol, instructor in the zool ogy department, and Marvin Eby, sen ior in the department. 'The primary purpose is to study transmission of in herited characteristics. An attempt is being made in this relation to immun ize the animals against their own tis sues by injecting into their blood some particular tissues such as lens tissue in solution, to discover if an anti-body is then developed in the animal to des troy the injected lens tissue, and if so to what extent this anti-body effects the animal’s own eyes and also what changes or defects may then occur in lenses of offspring. The experiments are similar to those made by Prof. M. F. Guyer, of the Uni versity of Wisconsin, who, after years of experimentation on animals, has re cently reached the conclusion that ar tifically induced resistance to infection may be transmitted to later generations. Babbits Are Immunized Professor Guyer stated before the American Philosophical Society last week that by inoculating successive generations of rabbits with the germs of typhoid fever he was able to develop in their blood an anti-body which is transmitted from mother to offspring and renders them more immune to the disease. Rabbits of the fourth and fifth generation so treated may be made capable of overcoming an injection of 30 or 40 times as many typhoid bacilli as the original rabbits could stand. Whether such acquired immunity is also transmissable through the paternal side has not yet been determined. “If the results of our ^uture experi ments bear out our present data, it becomes evident,” stated Professor Guyer, “that when succeeding genera tions of rabbits are immunized to ty phoid bacilli some modification is made in the immunity mechanism whereby individuals of later generations are cap able of developing higher resistance against these germs than were the in dividuals of the first generation treat ed.” Torrey Praises Work Dr. H. B. Torrey, head of the zool ogy department, in commenting on Pro fessor Guyer’s experiments, said, “Dr. Guyer is doing one of the most inter esting pieces of work being carried on in the field of genetics. His experi ments announced not long ago stim ulated a number of researches, includ ing those going on at present on the campus. Experimentation has been ma terially furthered by the new methods introduced by Professor Guyer and the opportunity the new methods give to examine the whole subject of inheri tance of acquired characteristics.” • Fowls are Subjects Babbits and fowls as well as rats are being used in the campus experiments. In a number of the rats lens tissue ob tained from other rats or from animals having similar lens proteins, such as sheep, pigs or rabbits, is injected at cer tain intervals before breeding and dur ing pregnancy. The rats already have had several injections but have not been bred. The other portion of the rats have been treated similarly with a solution of the vitreous humor of the eye. Efforts are also being made to self immunize hens against their own albu men. Likewise in some of the roosters the male germ cell has been injected in order to discover what effect may be produced by the possible anti-body on the fowls’ own germ cells. LUCAS TELLS ENGAGEMENT Announcement was made of the en gagement of Frieda Biehn and Marvin K. Lucas at the Delta Tau Delta house last night. Miss Biehn is a member of Zeta Tau Alpha fraternity at O. A. C. Lucas is a Varsity track man and a junior in the University. He is a mem ber of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Both of the young people are from Klamath Falls. PLEDGING ANNOUNCED Kappa Delta Phi announces the pledging of C. P. Horn of Falls City, Oregon. Student Body Nominations Reveal Single Dark Horse George Horsfall Is Fifth Man to Be Added to List of Candidates for Senior Job on A. S. U. O. Council By Lester Turnbaugh “Now for the fun.” It was John MacGregor, president of the A. S. U. O., speaking as he brought down his gavel: in the student body meeting yesterday in Villard hall and prepared to curb, if necessary, the stirring, eulogistic, flights of oratory apropos of the an nual nomination of student body offi cers for the ensuing year. And fun it was, if laughter and hear ty applause is any criterion. MacGreg or himself opened the nominations with humorous warnings to budding political campaign leaders to make their talks short and lively. “I am going to warn any long-winded speakers that I will swing the gavel on them,” lie said. “Even though you have ‘had a girl in mind’ for two or three years, you can tell all her qualifications in three of four minutes.” Then began an intermittent flow of oratory consisting of brief resumes of the duties of the various student body officers, outbursts of eulogy, the extent and profundity of which is heard only at these annual occasions, and short bits of spicy humor; all of which was interspersed with vigorous applause. Down through the long list of 34 nomination speeches the students waited with abated breath during the brief seconds of quiet that followed MacGreg or’s '‘Are there any other nomina tions?” The dark horse—who would be the dark horse? Not till the nomi nees had been checked off half way down the list was that curiosity sat isfied. George Horsfall, nominated for senior man on the student council, was the only dark horse of the day. Time-worn expressions such as “we are particularly fortunate” and “I have a man in mind, ”or “We ought to con sider very carefully” were not wanting in the nomination talks. Other expres sions not quite so ancient were: “He stands on his own feet,” or “He had the kind of Oregon spirit that existed before it was diluted by golf socks and knee |rousers,” and “He is not a tea hound or a cake-eater.” Even the stately and supposedly ser ious seniors entered into the spirit of the occasion by playing grammar school pranks on each other. More than one end-seater suddenly found nothing to sit on but the floor, and wasted no time in sitting on it. And despite woman’s suffrage and the vast amount of talk relative to the part women play in politics and politi cal campaigns, one nomination speech was given by a woman. Inez King, journalism senior, gave the last stir (Continued on page three.) SOPHOMORE WOMEN TO MEET KLAMMERS Life Saving Methods Will Be Feature of Splash About 35 girls will participate in the swimming exhibition put on by the department of physical education for women tonight at 8:00 o’clock in the Woman’s building. All students, fac ulty members, and townspeople are in vited to witness the program and a spe cial section will be reserved to accom odate faculty and townspeople. The performance will be in four parts with a swimming meet between the sophomore class champions and a pick ed team of swimmers from other classes. The events of this meet will be: one and three lengths free style for speed, plunge for distance, breast stroke, back, and relay races. Life saving methods will be demonstrated by mem bers of the American Red Cross Life .Saving Corps. Four swimmers will stage a canoe tipping stunt followed by rescue work. Exhibition diving will also be a part of the program and water polo will be played in two seven minute lialfs by teams of seven girls each. FRESHMAN NINE GOES TO CORVALLIS TODAY Chances for Success in First of Two Game Series with Rooks is Fair For Frosh The entire freshman baseball squad will leave for Corvallis this morning to encounter the rooks in the first of a two game series there this afternoon. A second game will be played tomor row. Just how the yearlings will fare in these games, the most crucial of the season for them, is hard to predict but it is safe to say that they are better prepared to cop the rook series than any freshman team in years. Last year the rooks managed to win all four of the contests in baseball from the Oregon babes but it seems likely that a different story will be told after this year. So far the only comparative data on the tw,o rival nines are the games with Columbia university. Ore gon’s yearlings cleaned up on the Cath olics in two games, while the rooks were defeated in the one game they played the preppers. This may not be a fair comparison, but it indicates that the frosh will have at least an even chance. With Lefty Carson and Fred Harri son, the two premier twirlers, perform ing in the style they did in the Colum bia games last week, and with the rest of the nine backing them up in a like manner, the Aggie first year men will have to go hard to win. The babes finished their preparatory practice with a game against the var sity Thursday night and are in fairly good shape for the games today and tomorrow. Either Carson or Harrison will start in the box with the rest of the lineup as follows: Bliss, catcher; Scriptures, first base; Bittner, second base; Slade, shortstop; Hobson, third base; Terrill, left; Carson or Harrison, center and Frame, right field. METCALF PLACED ON LIST FORJUNIOR MAN Students Nominate By Petition According to Secretary Late last night Margaret Jackson, secretary of the A. S. U. O. announced that she had received a petition signed with the required number of student voters requesting that the name of Hes den Metcalf be placed in the list of nominees for junior man on the student council. Metcalf, a sophomore majoring in law, was freshman president of the class of ’25, being elected upon the resignation of Ralph Bailey, after a considerable amount of agitation had grown to intensity concerning the honor of that office. At that time it was agreed by the sophomore class that an attempt would be made thereafter to raise the office to the position it should hold in the studont body. He is a member of the Intercollegiate Knights, being elected in an honorary capacity into regular membership in recognition of his work in changing the office according to the new view taken of the freshman presidency. As far as is known this is the only petition being circulated this year to place a name on the list of nominees. According to the constitution of the A. 8. U. O., a nomination may be placed on the list provided a petition signed by 50 members of the student body is filed with the secretary within two days after the regular nominations. Last year no requests were made by petition to place a name on the list. It is understood that Metcalf was to have been nominated at the assembly but due to a misunderstanding the name failed to be placed before the students. A large number of students signified their desire to remedy this oversight by circulating and signing the peti tion. VARSITY HUMBLES PACIFIC III FIRST CAME OF SERIES Webfooters Hammer Invading Twirler for Counters In Fourth and Eighth SHIELDS HOLDS VISITORS Badgers Not Dangerous After Second; Amburn, Pitching Ace, Has Bad Finger The Oregon ball-tossers appeared in a brand new set of uniforms yesterday and gave them a good initiation, as the hard hitting of the Web-footers, coup led with several errors by the visitors gave them an 11-3 victory over Coach Frank’s Badgers from Forest Grove. The teams seemed evenly matched up to the fifth frame, as Pacific had suc ceeded in getting a two to one lead. Coach Bohler’s crew got to the Pacific pitcher in this canto and pounded him for a total of four runs, and incidently batted around doing it. Mace Believed in Seventh The Pacific pitcher, Mace, was reliev ed in the seventh by Bliss, but this failed to stem the Oregon attack, as they put across two counters in that period, and followed this with four more in the eighth. The longest hit of the d£y was made by Jesse, third sacker on the Pa cific lineup, who cracked a three-bagger in the eighth inning, but was caught when he tried to stretch it into a home run. Oregon Men With Pacific An interesting fact in connection with the Pacific aggregation is that two of her best men formerly attended col lege here, while Coach Frank was an assistant instructor in the physical edu cation department here one year. Blackman and Amburn were the former Oregon men on the team, Amburn being the best pitcher on the squad, but is temporarily on the shelf with an in fected hand, while Blackman plays at first. Today’s game is scheduled for 3:30 o ’clock. The score: PACIFIC AB R H Harrison, 2b. 4 11 W. Hoar, cf. 3 111 W. Hoar, cf.3 11 Jesse, 3b. 4 0 2 Blackman, lb. .. 4 0 0 Matson, If. 3 0 0 0 0 Fiske, rf. 3 10 0 1 Roberts, c. 3 0 116 Mace, p. 3 0 0 0 3 Bliss, p. 0 0 0 0 1 E O A 3 3 3 1 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 1 1 3 1 .31 3 6 7 16 12 AB H R E O A Total . OREGON Svarverud, 3b. 5 0 0 1 3 5 Shafer, 2b. 2 1 0 2 0 0 Moore, 2b. 3 110 10 Zimmerman, ss. 4 2 2 0 0 4 Latham, lb. 5 2 2 0 15 4 Baldwin, rf. 3 1 0 0 0 0 Collins, cf. 3 10 0 10 Roycroft, If. 5 12 0 12 Cook, c. 4 2 2 0 6 2 Shields, p. 5 2 2 0 0 3 Total . 39 13 11 3 27 20 Score by innings: 123 456 789—R H E DREGON . 010 040 240—11 13 3 PACIFIC . 002 000 100— 3 6 7 Threo base hits—Jesse. Two base hits—L. Hoar, Cook. Struck out—By Shields, 6; by Mace, Umpire—Speck Burke. Varsity Vanities Believed One Of University’s Premier Plays By Phil Brogan “Varsity Vanities,” presented last night by the junior class at the Heilig Theatre of Eugene, has been acclaimed one of the best productions ever staged by University students. The musical comedy, “Mummy Mine,” written and directed by Imogene Letcher, was the feature of the entire show and was greeted with repeated applause and calls for the author. The theatre was crowded to capacity, all seats having been sold out many hours before the first act, which began shortly before nine o’clock. It is the opinion of many that Varsity Vanities should be staged again for townspeople and students who were unable to obtain seats last night. “Madame Butterscotch,” a grand opera in three operations, written by Ted Osborne, drew much laughter and applause from the hundreds of students and faculty members that crowded the theatre from the first orchestra row to the uppermost seats in “nigger heaven.” Phi Beta Phi’s April Frolic skit, ‘‘A Night of Dreams,” was ono of the several artistic productions of tha evening with Katherine Watson, as Lord Fauntleroy, watching through eyes mystified with sleep the revue of bunnies, tin soldiers, and the Spirit of Dreams, played by Bernice Altstock. “The Finnish Finish” proved to be a humorous skit, a light prelude to the harmony later created by the Univer sity Glee club quartet, Curtis Phillips, Wilbur Phillips, Russel Brown and Aubrey Furry. Following this, the Ore gon Jester, Paul Sayre, was presented to the audience. The winner of the ten dollar prize was Jack Beck. In the “Finnish Finish,” Winona Dyer played the man’s part and Kath erine Pinneo played that of the wo man. Both girls are from Astoria. The opening act of the junior show was Atalanta Victorious—a cast of nine maidens, daintily treading the panto (Continued on page three.)