Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXIV.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1923
NUMBER 149
CUE FETE HE#
TO BE VOTED UPON
IT DILLARD TIM
Choice Expected to Create An
Interest in Week-end’s
Most Colorful Event
RULER’S THRONE ON FLOAT
Seventeen Prominent Co-eds
Chosen by Men’s Houses
Have Names on Ballot
The queen of the Junior week-end
canoe fete will be named today when
students vote at a booth in Villard hall
at the same time the ballots are marked
for student body office.
, The election of a queen is a new idea
on the campus this year and since its
proposal the Junior week-end commit
tee has been working enthusiastically
to make it a success.
The girls were nominated t>y the
house with which their organization
was paired off in the canoe fete draw
ing. Every student in the University
will be entitled to one vote and the girl
getting the most votes will be named
without any announcement of how
many votes any candidate receivers.
This will prevent any embarrassment
on the part of defeated candidates.
Haney Has Charge
Ed Haney has the contest in charge.
The booth at which the ballots are
handed out will remain open during the
same hours that student body elec
tions are in progress, acording to his
announcement.
The queen will occupy the place of
honor on the Junior float in the fete—
another new idea to be featured this
year. This float will lead the parade
of floats down the race and the queen
will receive the homage of the crowd.
She will also be given a favored place
to watch the fete and will, of course,
receive considerable publicity in con
nection with the honor.
This year’s canoe fete will be one of
the most colorful that has ever been
seen in the history of the Junior week
end, say those in charge. Elaborate
lighting is being planned and reports
from houses which are planning the
floats indicate that ideas generally are
clever and in most cases original.
Judges Not Announced
The names of the judges will probab
ly not be announced until the night of
the fete. It has been decided that three
people chosen to name the winning
float sit apart and not be allowed to
confer before giving their decision. This
will prevent the talkative member or
members of the committee from sway
ing the decision, according to the theory
J of the Junior week-end directorate.
The girls who have been nominated
for queen are: Margaret Alexander,
Marjorie Hazard, Dorothy Jean Simon
ton, Margaret Seymour, Gwladys Keen
ey, Georgia M. Shipley, Gertrude Mc
Intyre, Mary Alexander, Elsie SkQog,
Alecia Agnew, Grace Caviness, Marion
Lay, Thresa Rauschert, Gladys Wright,
Helen Ball, Ada Harkness and Kath
arine Crandall.
DELINQUENTS NOT TO VOTE
Petition Stating Seasons for Failure to
Pay Fees Will Admit Student
Thirty-three University iof Oregon
students will be prohibited from voting
at the student body elections today ow
ing to failure to pay their registration
fees before 3 p. m. on Monday. This
was the word given out by the regis-^
trar’s office yesterday. “The voting
list is made up immediately after the
closing of registration,” says Mr. Lyon,
“and those who have not paid are not
legally members of the associated stu
dent body.” These 33 must write and
sign a petition giving their reasons for
failure to pay fees and this petition
must be voted upon and passed before
students are again admitted to the Uni
versity. ,
AMENDMENTS WHICH WILL BE
VOTED ON TODAY
To permit incorporation of the
associated students.
To make Lemon Puneh A. S. U. O.
publication.
To amend constitution and by
laws of associated students, making
arrangements for appointment of
Lemon Punch editor, and fixing the
pay of editor and manager of Lemon
Punch. -
To insert clause in by-laws, pro
viding for the granting of letters to
members of varsity swimming team
making eight points in conference
meets.
To grant B. O. T. C. band emblems.
*
ARTISTS DESIRE
NICOTINE BUSH
Rendezvous for Smokers
Wanted in Court
A new nicotine tree, a sanctuary for
smokers to rival the famous one in
front of the Administration building,
is the new ambition of the men in the
allied arts and architecture department.
They want it in their new court—-and
not only a tree, but a picturesque bench
to go under it, so that they can give
themselves to courting Lady Nicotine
with the greatest possible comfort.
Real bohemian atmosphere, they
claim, will result, and the spirit of
masques, and dominoes, of fans and
veils, will hover near. Besides, they
say, after five or six long hours in the
drafting room, they deserve a respite,
without sprinting to the other end of
the campus. *
Besides, they darkly hint, they are
not the only ones who desire such an
arrangement. fhe instructors, after
equally long hours can join them for a
friendly smoke—and think how impor
tant is contact with an instructor—es
pecially when everyone is happy!
LILLIAN S HELD IN
CAPTIVITY BY BANDITS
Oregon Graduate Taken From
Train Near Pekin, China
Lillian Auld, ’22, one of those kid
napped several days ago when Chinese
bandits raided the Pekin express near
Sucliow, is still captive, according to a
cablegram reaching Eugene yesterday
afternoon. Reports reaching this city
in the morning said that Miss Auld,
together with her aunt, Mrs. Lillian
Seton and their friends, Mrs. Ellen
^leming of Manila, had been released
and sent to Pekin.
The consul at Pekin, however, wired
he could find no trace of them there.
Shortly before 2 p. m. yesterday a re
port came from London saying that
Mrs. Seton and Mrs. Fleming had been
released, but Miss Auld was still held
captive.
Cablegrams are being sent out by
Lillian’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. David
Auld of 1057 Patterson street, Eugene,
in an effort to locate her. No details
of the reported capture are as yet
available, but the general circumstance
of the raids have become well known
through the news stories of the past
three days.
Miss Auld, her aunt and Mrs. Murray
Warner left Eugene last October for
the Orient. Mrs. Warner did not ac
company them on the entire journey,
returning to Eugene last week. It was
the original plan to visit Japan and
Honolulu before coming to the United
States next July. Last word received
from the two Eugene women was to the
effect that they had left the Philip
pines in April for the China coast, there
to entrain for Pekin.
Miss Auld is well known on the cam
pus, being a member of Kappa Alpha
Theta, national women’s fraternity,
Dial, and past president of Pot and
Quill, the latter two being honorary
women’s writing fraternities. She was
an artist of note and a writer of a num
ber of short stories, several of which
have been published in Collier’s and
other magazines. She also wrote fea
ture stories for the Portland Oreganian.
BYRNE TO ENTER HARVARD
Graduate Student Will Complete Work
for Doctor’s Degree
Norman Byrne, ’21, who will take his
M. A. this term, and who has done
part time teaching in the University
conducting classes in ethics, logic,
introduction to philosophy and philoso
phy seminar will enter Harvard this fall
for a two year course in philosophy at
the end of which he expects to have
completed the work for his doctor’s
degree. He will be accompanied by
Mrs. Bryne, who takes her B. A. and
B. M. at the University this spring.
While at Harvard she will specialize in
music, having taken her major in piano
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryne expect to make
the trip by automobile, leaving Eu
gene in July and stopping at Glacier,
Banier, and Yellowstone national parks,
and Chicago. The fall term at Harvard
commences September 23.
SAMARA ELECTS OFFICERS
Mary Druley is Newly Chosen Presi
dent of Honorary Botany Society
j ' Samara, honorary botany society,
] elected officers for the coming year
j at the meeting held Monday evening.
1 The new officers are Mary Druley, pres
ident; Sylvia Erdman, vice-president;
Edna Thornber, secretary-treasurer;
and Wave Brown, historian.
A picnic supper on the race is plan
ned for Thursday afternoon. All mem
j bers of the club are to meet at 4:30
at Deady hall.
FROSHTRUCK TEAM
' TO MEET ROOKS m
0. A. C. SATURDAY
Final Tryouts to Determine
Personnel of Squad Will
Commence Today
3 TO ENTER EACH EVENT
First Year Men Have Point
Winners in Field Events;
Aggregation Has Hopes
The final freshman track tryouts
which will determine the men to make
the trip to Corvallis this w°ek-end will
start this afternoon at 3:30. The Ore
gon youngsters will tackle the Aggie
babes on their track Saturday after
noon. Hayward is sending three men
for each event.
Starting this afternoon at 3:30 and
extending until tomorrow afternoon,
the events will be run off in the follow
ing order: Wednesday, 100-yard dash,
440-yard dash, half-mile, shot put, dis
cus, broad-jump, 120-yard high hur
dles. On Thursday afternoon: the 220
yard dash, mile, high-jump, javelin and
220-yard 'low hurdles will be run off.
The number of contestants in the
Oregon-O. A. C. freshman meet is al
ways unlimited and Hayward is enter
ing three men in each event. Accord
ing to Bill, the first three men in each
event in the tryouts will be the men
to make the trip to Aggie land.
Books Former Victors
Last year, in fact, the last two years,
the rooks have hung the Indian sign
on the frosh. From the looks of things
this year is to be the turning point.
That does not mean that the rooks are
weak on the track because they are re
puted to be a fast crew this year, but
Oregon’s babes have a lot of men that
are good for seconds and thirds, in ad
dition to the usual number of first
place winners.
In the sprints Lewis, Kelsey, Ber
trand and Snyder are all working hard
and any three of them may get the
choice for next Saturday. “Gib” Mc
Auliffe, who pulled a tendon in the
tryouts last week, is out of the- run
ning as far as the frosh-rook meet is
concerned and possibly for the rest of
the season.
Keating and Gerke have shown the
best in the distances but since there
are to be three men each in the mile
and half-mile, there will be some new
men show up in the tryouts. Captain
Carlberg is the class of the 440-men
but Hermance runs him a close race.
Mautz ueaving anot a
In the field events the frosh are ex
ceptionally strong. With Bob Mautz
heaving the shot around 45 feet and
both Anderson and Mautz hurling the
discus over 100 feet, things look pretty
bright in that line. Kelsey, Cleaver and
Tuck are the most consistent perform
ers in the jump. Kelsey is the star of
the trio with a mark of over 20 feet
in the broad jump, “Louie” Anderson
besides working in the discus and
broad-jump, is throwing the spear
around the 150-foot mark.
After looking over the results of the
frosh-Columbia meet last week, it is
evident that the frosh will put a for
midable aggregation in the field against
the Ag yearlings.
FROSH SUMMONED TO FIELD
The Order of the O issues a summons
to 30 freshmen, the names of whom ap
pear below, who will report today at
3 o’clock on Hayward field for work.
The freshnfen who are to report are
A. M. Clark, C. E. Causen, H. Cofoil,
C. A. Colistro, B. L. Cook, G. D. Cooper,
G. B. Cooper, C. B| Crawford, J. C.
Crocker, A. M. Cronin, P. Davis, H.
Day, H. J. De Franeq, B, E. DeLong,
P. P. Dempsey, Frank De Spain, W.
De Vaney, C. A. Dobler, P. L. Dodds,
G. B. Dodson, V. L. Domingo, F. B.
Drinker, T. E. Driscoll, G. M. Drury,
L. C. du Buy, H. Dutton, B. D. Eby,
B. A. Edmiston, E. E. Eggleston.
EXTENSION STAFF IS ENLARGED
Prof. E. C. Carleton, superintendent
of the Eugene schools, will be field rep
resentative for the extension division
next year. The staff at present is com
posed of six members in addition to the
stenographers. They are: Earl Kil
patrick, director, Dr. Dan E. Clark, Al
! fred Powers, Miss Mozelle Hair, Miss
■ Mary E. Kent and Prof. Ira Richard
1 son.
MEN'S GLEE CLUB
WILL NPPEAfl IN
CONCEBT FRIDAY
Program Will Be Same As One
Given on Vacation Tour;
Evans is Director
MEN ARE VETERAN SINGERS
Roy Bryson’s Work Acclaimed
Triumphant; Quartet
Meets Applause
A varied program, even better than
the one which scored such a general
success on the spring vacation tour,
will be given Friday night at the Meth
odist church, when the University
men’s glee elub will appear in its an
nual home concert under the direction
of John Stark Evans, associate dean of
the school of music.
The men’s glee club is made up large
ly of veteran singers—men who have
worked under Mr. Evan’s direction for
two and three years. The program at
tracted wide attention all along the line
of the trip and following its presenta
tion in Portland, the metropolitan news
papers were enthusiastic in their praise
of the results.
Mr. Evans Responsible for Success
The secret of this year’s success is
due largely to Mr. Evans’ ability to
choose a group of musical numbers that
will keep an audience delightfully in
terested. The home concert will benefit
by the advantage of having the Metho
dist pipe organ, which will be used to
especially good advantage in Kipling’s
“Hymn Before Action,” the headline
number of the entire evening’s enter
tainment. The combination of the
men’s voices and the organ music is
characterized as “superb.”
Boy Bryson’s work with the club this
year has been a revelation to even his
most enthusiastic friends. The way he
sings “Her Rose” is a triumph incom
parable in many ways to anything that
has been heard in University glee club
circles for years.
Quartet Takes Well with Audiences
The quartet is also bound to score a
"mighty hit. In pratically every concert
of the spring trip they were given from
four to seven encores and in several
cases their humorous numbers created
such a good natured riot that it was dif
ficult to get the crowd willing to listen
to anything else.
The light and massive numbers are
grouped in such a way that the entire
evening is bound to please.
No reserved seats will be sold but
because of the two prices, 50c and 75c,
seats in the church will be divided into
two groups and people holding the 75c
tickets will be given their choice of the
house.
ORDER OPPOSES MEASURE
Proposed Award for Swimmers Consid
ered Detrimental to Wearers of O
The Order of the O at a meeting last
night took a definite stand against the
constitutional amendment placed upon
today’s ballot legalizing the awarding
of varsity letters to swimmers. The Or
der went on record as discouraging the
associated students from sanctioning
such an amendment which it considers
detrimental to the best interests of
Oregon athletics.
A formal resolution was passed ad
vocating the defeat of the measure at
the polls tomorrow. “We feel that the
alleged merits of the proposal are based
on the fact that encouragement must
be given the varsity swimmers to save
the sport from rapid decadence,” said
George King in explaining the action
of the lettermen. “It is the sentiment
of the Order that a varsity O is an
award and not a symbol of encourage
ment for participation in any sport. We
feel that the defeat of the measure,
a proposed amendment to the student
body constitution on today’s ballot, is
for the best interests of varsity ath
letics and for the integrity of the O.”
DICKERSON RETURNS TO WORK
R. S. Dickerson, professor of history
in the University high school, has re
turned to his work, after a two week’s
illness.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCED
j Phi Delta Theta announces the
pledging of Elmer Tuck of Roseburg.
CANDIDATES FOR A. S. U. O
OFFICES
President
Claude Robinson
Don Zimmerman
Vice-president
Frank Carter
Haddon Rockhey
Secretary
Marcella Berry
Velma Farnham
Adah Harkness
Senior Woman, Executive Council
Kate Pinneo
Junior Man, Executive Council
Jack Day
Ed Tapfer
Senior Men, Student Council (3)
Hal Chapman
Harley Covalt
Russ Gowans
George Horsfall
Art Rosebraugh
Senior Women, Student Council (2)
Lurline Coulter
Gladyse Wright
Junior Men, Studeht Council (2)
L. E. Angell
Herbert Brooks
Milton Brown
Thomas Crosthwait
Hesden Metcalf
Junior Woman, Student Council
Augusta DeWitt
Margaret McCabe
Mary Skinner
Sophomore Man, Student Council
Bob Mautz
Lea McPike
Yell Leader
Ted Baker
Jack Myers
Editor, Oregon Daily Emerald
Edwin Fraser
John Piper
Art Rudd
Editor, Oregana
Freda Goodrich
Margaret Skavlan
Katherine Watson
“MUMMIE MINE” WILL BE
SOLD BY MISS LETCHER
Leading Feature of Varsity Vanities Is
Being Copyrighted; Will be Offered
to Orpheum Circuit First
“Mummie Mine,” the one act musi
cal comedy written by Imogene Let
cher of the school of mupic, and which
was the leading feautre of the Varsity
Vanities will be placed on the market
in the near future. It is copyrighted
now. Miss Letcher will offer it first
to the Orpheum. A friend of Madame
Rose McGrew’s who is influential in
vaudeville circles will produce the act
in Denver, Colorado. If “Mummie
Mine” is not welcomed by producers
as a vaudeville act, its songs, which
contain original thoughts, and enchant
ing bits of melody, will be marketed
separately.
Phil Lions, a member of Phi Gamma
Delta, who has hhd a number of songs
published, will undertake the sale of
the songs. George Olson’s orchestra
will play songs from “Mummie Mine”
at their appearance here Wednesday
evening.
STUDENTS TO ELECT
FOR 1923-24 TODAY
Polls Will Open
At 9 and Close
At 3 in Villard
RETURNS FROM.
POLLS WILL GE
POSTED HOURLY
Campaign Has Been Markedly
Quiet; All Offices But
One Contested
Associated Students of the Univer
sity of Oregon today will select the men
and women who are to handle the stu
dent administrative affairs, edit pub
lications, and represent the University
during the school year 1923-24.
Polls will open in Villard hall at 9
o’clock this morning and will close
pronjptly at 3. There are 2400 students
uow registered in the University and if
all of these are to vote today, an aver
age of 400 must cast their ballots each
hour. Students who were late in pay
ing their laboratory fees, and who have
since been reinstated must present their
receipts when voting.
Now that the mist of battle has dis
sipated into attentuated wisps and the
hour of calm has settled on the politi
cal ocean, a review of the campus cam
paign shows it to be one of the quiet
est in many years. This uninterested
attitude has been attributed to the dom
inance of the athletic controversy which
broke up many political chats during
the week-end. This eclipse of political
issues is even more remarkable when it
is realized that but one office is uncon
tested—that of senior woman on the
executive council. Kate Pinneo is the
only one in the field for this position.
Discreplon Urged
John MacGregor, president of the
associated students, has broadcast an
earnest plea to the A. S. U. O. group,
asking the students to seriously con
sider the respective merits of the var
ious candidates and to use discretion in
casting their ballots for those who will
hold office during the'coming year. “It
is my sincere hope that all the students
will realize the importance of this elec
tion and will vote today,” said Presi
dent MacGregor last night in a state
ment for the Emerald. “If a largo per
centage of the students will vote today
next year’s officers will realize the
importance of the offices they hold and
will work more earnestly.”
Speaking about the balloting today,
MacGregor made this statement: “Stu
dents should exercise the greatest care
in marking ballots, for that section of
the ballot marked incorrectly will be
cast out.
“The voting will end at 3 o’clock to
day and this evening we will know who
are to govern next year,” said Mac
Gregor. “A word must be said about
the afterinath: Although it has not been
apparent that there has been hatred in
the present campaign, there is a danger
that minor undercurrents have crept in
student lifo. We are students of a
University which is rapidly growing,
and it is impossible to believe that
petty differences can outlast the heat
(Continued on page three.)
Old Familiarity Between Profs
And Students No Longer Exists
The good old days are going. Nowa
days they put clever little signs on their
doors, saying that you must knock, or
’ ring the buzzer, or plaster a hand ta
too on the casing before you can take
’ your lowly carcass across tflie thres
; hold.
1 It isn’t like the good old days when
, one could steam into his pet profes
sor’s den, slap him on the back, call
him by his first name, lean back in
'*■ his favorite chair, help yourself to his
' special brand of cigarette. Then you
- could start the handshake act. But
1 them days is gone now.
The way some of our professors hiber
nate and try to evade the great unwash
ed student multitude, is almost as pit
> iable as the ex-high sachem of Germany,
who whiles away his time behind the
shackled gates of Doom, knockiug off a
few cords of wood every diem.
It won’t be long until some of them
will have clever little announcements
over the door that “The Canine relishes
and consumes human flesh,” or “En
ter here and you get flunked in the
final ex.”
Without doubt some of these profes
sors will, if they are annoyed much
more, put up steel barricades and post
one or two troopers from the R. O. T.
C. army at the door, with fixed bayo
nets and orders to shoot after the sec
ond command.
There is no telling what the pre
requisites will be if they qoutinue
this policy of guarded seclusion. Bring
back the old days when you knew the
prof and he knew you to well.