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Oregon Daily Emerald VOLUME XXIV. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1923 NUMBER 157 OREGON DEBATERS WIN IN CONTEST WITH CALIFORNIA Audience Gives Affirmative ^ Decision on Question of Ruhr Occupation MATCH FINISHES SEASON Coulter and Fenno Members of Oregon Team; Glee Club Star Sings Solo In the first contest ever staged be tween the women debaters of the Uni versities of California and Oregon, Lurline Coulter and May Fenno repre senting the University, defeated the California women by a decision of 53 to 23, in the one-sided contest held in Guild hall last night. The decision was determined by each member of the audience casting a ballot for the team considered as giving the best speeches on the basis of consistent, logical ar gument, effectively presented. The audience-decision plan was used for the first time on the Oregon campus last evening. The question debated was “Resolved that France was Justified in her Occupation of the Ruhr.” Lurline Coulter upholding the affir mative side of the question for the University of Oregon, was the first speaker. In a straight-forward and concise speech, Miss Coulter declared that' France was justified in her occu pation of the Ruhr on the grounds that France was entitled to reparations from Germany; that Germany had agreed to pay indemnities, and since France had waited for four years for the repara tions and had received none, she had to take some measures to get them and the seizure of the Ruhr as the vital sec tion of Germany was justified; that the French people were overtaxed and in order to reconstruct their ruined areas they must get reparations from Ger many; that Germany through her deed of destroying so much of French terri tory ought to pay the reparations. Selfish Motives Charged Marion Harron was the first speaker on the negative side for California, and in a deliberate and thoughtful manner stated that France was not justified in her occupation of the Ruhr because France has no just cause for demand? ing the reparations; that France does not seek reparations alone but the po litical and economical dominance of Germany; that no other benefits but the selfish ones of France would result from the occupation; that France by demanding the reparations was prevent ing the stabilization of the world. She said the Allies had failed to recognize the inability of Germany to pay and had given Germany no chance to be rep resented at the conferences in the mat ter of settling reparations. In her last debate for Oregon, May Fenno in an eloquent talk gave the sec ond speech for the affirmative. She maintained that the occupation was just on the grounds that France was seeking the needed reparations and that France needed protection as Ger many had repeatedly shown evidence of intending to again invade France and gain back what little she had lost in the war; that Germany had avoided every method by which she could re pay the damage that she had done to France. * Argument is Distinctive Violet Lecara, California’s second speaker, devoted the most of her seven teen-minute constructive talk to a vig orous and somewhat witty method of tearing down the affirmative’s consruc tive argument. The rebuttals were somewhat differ ent from the usual debate in that the two negative speakers were each given a seven-minute speech, while the two affirmative talkers were allowed six (Continued on page three.) TODAY’S EVENTS 8:30 a. m. Fainting of the “O”. 8:50 a. m. Frosh-Soph Tug-of-war. 9:30 a. m. Burning of the green. 10:00 a. m. Oregon-O. A. C. baseball game. 12 m. Campus luncheon. 2 p. m. Oregon-O. A. C. track meet. 4:15 p. m. Correct Clothes show for high school girls. 8:15 p. m. Canoe Fete. 10:30 p. m. Fraternity smokers and dances. SATURDAY, MAY 19. 10:00 a. m. Oregon-O. A. C. tennis meet. 10:30 a. m. Preliminaries high school track meet. 10:30 a. m. Water carnival on mill race. 1:00 p. m. Oregon-O. ji. C. baseball game. 3:00 p. m. High School track meet. 8:15 p. m. Junior prom (armory). SUNDAY, MAY 20. Open house at all living organiza tions. SHORT STORY WINNER IS MARGARET SKAVLAN Second and Third Prizes Given in Edison Marshall Contest Margaret Skavlan’s story, “A Por trait by Dupres,” has been awarded the first prize of $30 in the sixth an nual Edison Marshall Short Story Con test. “The Beggars of the Moon,” by Walter Kidd received the second, prize, $10, and “The Seven Last Words,” by Edward Miller, honorable mention and an autographed copy of Mr. Marshall’s latest novel, “The Isle of Retribution.” Miss Skavlan is a member of Pot and Quill and Alpha Xi Delta. Kidd, who did not return to the University for the spring quarter is a member of Sigma Pi Tau and won the first prize in a contest in Portland last year, which was limited to the members of Meble Holmes Parson’s Short Story Class. Miller is a member of Ye Tabard Inn chapter of Sigma Upsilon, and of Bach elordon. Miss Skavlan and Miller are sophomores and Kidd was a freshman. All of the prize winners are in Prof. W. P. G. Thacher’s short story classes. “This contest was the best ever held both from a standpoint of the number of manuscripts submitted and in the evident excellence of the work,” said Mr. Thacher in announcing the prize winners. “The unusual interest in authorship, which is being taken on the campus is unquestionably due in a large measure to the distinguished success of Mr. Marshall, and to the encouragement he has given young writers. His in terest is not limited to the story contest but is shown in his willingness to speak to classes on occasions of his visits to the campus, and in his never-failing de sire to be of help to the students.” The judges were Alfred Powers of the Extension Division, John T. Hotchkiss of the J. K. Gill company of Portland and Robert E. Case, publicity manager of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Case is a graduate of the Univer sity, has had considerable success in the short story field and is a, member of Ye Tabard Inn, of Sigma Upsilon The winners in last year’s contest were Verne Blue and Nancy Wilson. Mr. Thacher requests that all authors who submitted stories call at his of fice for their manuscripts as soon as possible. Others submitting stories were Wil liam Akers, Sydney Thornebury, Taylor Huston, Ethel Johnson, William Silver ton, Beatrice Conway, Margaret Scott, Lawrence Hartmus, Jessie Thompson, Esther Strieker, Marguerite E. Tag gart, Merryl C. Shaver, Arthur J. Lar .son, Rex Stroud, Nancy Wilson, E. P. Hoyt, Katharine Kressmann, Dorothy Kent, Norbourne Berkeley, Jr., Harold Evans and F. W. Linklater. 1923 Oregana Is Like Mirror, Reflecting Campus Activities A mirror—in which is reflected the traditions, the dreams, the ideals, the beloved landmarks of “Oregon—our alma mater—” one’s best friends, the good times of a year, the varsity battles— that is what an annual should stand for, and what, in so complete a sense is the Oregana for 1923. Knowing that it is a book of memories for every student, ' the editor and staff have labored faith fully to make it representative of the best and most characteristic on the Ore gon campus. Beginning with the cover of volume XV of the Oergana we find a certain dignity and distinction in the formal lines of the front, the black leather bind ing with its heavily embossed Oregon seal of gold. A touch of originality is the dedica tion—“A Pioneer on the Oregon ‘ cam pus before the advent of the familiar bronze statue— In 1902-03 the ‘Web foot’ appeared as a slender volume, the first endeavor in the extensive field of University student publications—and a noteworthy achievement it was. It was to the staff of this first University of Oregon annual that this, the fifteenth volume of the Oregana is dedicated.” Accompanying it is the old Webfoot staff leaning against a board fence in a typical Oregon display of climate. The photographs of the University scenes should bring praise in their ar tistic effects—the stairs from Alumni hall, the Woman’s building and the Adminis tration building veiled in snow, the en (Continned on page three.) POORLY-mHINED LAWYER MENACE, SAYS DEAN HALE More Efficiency Held Needed in Administration of American Justice Better Education is Part of General Reform Movement Asserts Speaker A better trained and more efficient personnel, a higher degree of efficien cy in the machinery of justice, and bet ter cooperation on the part of the pub lic are the crying needs in the adminis tration of justice in America today, W. G. Hale, dean of the University of Oregon law school contended in his assembly talk yesterday on ’’The Ad ministration of Justice.” “My purpose is to encourage you to real sober and serious thinking,” Dean Hale said in leading up to the heart of his subject. “The value of the law is measured by its administration. If the administration of justice breaks down, those elements of democracy so dear to the American people, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, will no longer be assured.” Acknowledging the need of better conditions in the administration of justice and recognizing the unfavorable criticisms on the part of the public, Dean Hale spoke in defense of the whole systenj of justice. We cannot expect, he said, to have as efficient a system as has Canada or Great Britain. The latter has been many centuries working out its present system; Personal Equation Stressed “There is no question about improve ments being needed in the administra tion of justice,” he said. “Everything into which the human element enters needs and will continue to need im provements.” It is this personal equation that Dean Hale placed first in his list of great needs in the realm ot law. “We need a more efficient personal equation,” he said. “We are dependent in the last analysis on the training, efficiency and wisdom of those who administer jus tice. So we need a better trained bench and bar, and a better trained police force.” Thanks to law schools and bar asso ciations, more men highly trained are being prepared for the profession now than .ever before, is the opinion of the law dean. The Oregon bar association at its recent meeting sent a petition to the supreme court asking that a ruling be made requiring all prospective law yers to have had at least two years col lege training before beginning the prac tice of law. There is also a movement in some places to raise this requirement to four years, he said. Peril in Lack of Brains “The real problem,” said the dean, “and let me stop to stress it, is not the corrupt lawyer, but the inefficient one. He passes by almost unnoticed, but the ‘shyster’ lawyer gets the headlines.” Here again the administration of jus tice is not in a class by itself, he said. Adding “the legal profession has no monopoly on ‘ shysterism’ ” Congestion, idleness and lack of co operation among the personnel in the profession are back of the need for more efficient machinery is his opin ion. Federal courts under the direction and leadership of Chief Justice Taft have taken definite steps in reform along the line of cooperation and a swifter and more highly efficient ad ministration of justice. “We need better cooperation with the public, and here is where we all have a part to play,” said Dean Hale in his closing remarks. “We need assis tance from the public in aiding and assisting those whose business it is to enforce law and admnister justice.. It is necessary that citizens not only point out flaws in justice, but also assist in eradicating them. Man Not His Own Judge “We must guard against the accep tance and the tendency to help create a public opinion based upon personal disappointment and personal resent ment. The American people have got to have a better conception of the due process of law, and due process of law does not mean a man is a judge in his own case, as he undoubtedly is when he thinks there is no justice because his side does not win.” Two violin solos were played at the opening of the assembly by Gwendolyn Lampshire. STUDENT ELECTED PRINCIPAL Word has been received by Prank Bennett, who will receive his degree from the school of education this spring of his election as principal of the Kla math County high school, at a salary of $2700. Mr. Bennett has had ten years experience as a teacher, and is consid ered one of the best students in the school of education. University Becomes Mecca of Preppers Hundreds of Visitors Appear on Campus Today; Program Committee Ready to Carry Out Plans of Biggest Junior Week-end in History The Oregon campus is the meeca to day of hundreds of high school “prep pers” from all over the state. They began to arrive at noon yesterday and are now pouring into Eugene on every train. Every living organization on the campus reports a full guest list. With the work of preparing for the campus events, entertaining the guests, staging the athletic contests and decorating for the prom, Oregon students will have the busiest week-end in the year. The Frosh-Salem high tennis meet yesterday afternoon and the debates last night opened festivities and at tracted considerable interest. This morning at 8:45 all frosh who have earned their numerals and the Order of the “O” men will report in front of the Campa Shoppe and march to Skinners Butte, where the annual painting of the “O” will be staged. Each letterman is asked to bring a ten foot paddle (more or less) and lots of elbow grease to put behind it, accord ing to George King, president of the organization. The senior cops will gather in front of the library at 8:30 to supervise the Frosh-Soph tug-of-war and the burning of the green caps. Stars and paddles will be very much in evidence and all the spirited features of campus day will be retained, except the clean-up fea ture, which has been abolished. The main athletic event of the morn ing will be held on Cemetery Eidge at 10:00, when tho Varsity mixes with the Aggies in the third of a four-game ser ies, the first two games of which were played on the O. A. C. campus last week. While these events are going on, scores of juniors will be working down a1 the new armory decorating for the junior prom. Programs for the event' are in the hands of the committee and are declared to be the best that have ever been used here. The Mid-Nite Sons are to play for the affair and the decorations will depict an entirely new idea. The class has planned a dance on such a' large scale that the problem of preparing for its success is a serious one. “Unless juniors turn out and sup port this dance better than the have been doing, the prom will have to be given up,” Doug Farrell, general chair man, said last night. Tho situation (Continued on page three.) LINEUP IS SHIFTED FOR SAME WITH AGGIE NINE Bohler Changes Positions in Practice Game with Frosh A muchly shaken-up lineup will probably face the Aggies on CemeteTy Bidge today as a result of the poor showing in the last game against the Washington State Cougars. Bohler has shifted the men around in practice, and judging from their looks during a practice session with the frosh, he has found a smoother working combination. In the practice tilt with the frosh, Svarverud was shifted to center field and Frank Troutman was sent in to cov er the hot corner. Tiny Shields was holding down the initial sack. It is possible that Hunk Latham will go back to his old place at third for today’s game. That would leave a hole at first if Shields is called to the mound, unless Ward Johnson’s injured foot is suf ficiently recovered to permit his re entrance to the game. Collins and Sorsby seem to be fix tures in the flanks of the outer pasture, as both have been hitting the ball and fielding their positions well. What ever shifting will be done will not af fect the Zimmerman-Ross combination around the keystone sack. The fielding ability and the good throwing arms of that pair have been responsible for sev eral snappy double plays in the last few games, although Zim has been in the throes of a terrible hitting slump for some time. Either “Skipper” Brooks or Lefty Baldwin will probably do the heaving in today’s mix. Brooks has been show ing to good advantage and, although he has not started any games, he has been serving as a relief pitcher and has suc ceeded in holding the opposing bats men in check, with the exception of one bad inning at Corvallis. The Ags will undoubtedly start either Young or Woodward in the box as both of these twirlers have shown good stuff this year. It was the former that held the Varsity scoreless and allowed them but four hits in the first Oregon-O. A. C. game last week. The Beavers are reported to have a crew of sluggers, chief among whom is “Red” Ridings, the big sorrel-thatched shortstop who is a familiar figure among those who saw the Aggie basketball team in ac tion Jhst fall. O. A. C. took a 5 to 2 defeat at the hands of the Washington Staters in the first game of their series, and their pitchers will of necessity be weaker than they would be had they had a layoff of several days before this game. The probably lineups of the teams will be as follows: O. A. C.—Duffy, c., Young, Wood ward, p., Perry, lb., Boss, 2b., Bidings, ss., Tasto, 3b., Parkinson, If., Sullivan, cf., Noonan, rf. Oregon—Cook, c., Baldwin, Brooks, Shields, p., W. Johnson, lb., McKenna, 2b., Zimmerman, ss., Latham, 3b., Col lins, If., S^arverud, cf., Sorsby, rf. UNDERCLASSMEN TAKE CLASSES Unwilling to miss the senior picnic Tuesday, several girls who are doing practice teaching in the University high school got underclassmen to take their classes, while they enjoyed them selves at Coburg bridge. WINS PENDLETON HIGH DEBATE FROM ASTORIA Trophy Won by Eastern Ore gon Team Second Time Pendleton high school, winner of the inteseholastie debate championship last year, repeated last night and won the state forensic honors by defeating the Astoria high school 2 to 1. The Pendle ton team, upholding the negative side of the question, “Besolved, that the United States needs ship subsidies to overcome the advantage of foreign trade,” is com posed of Rex Kramer and Donald Heath. The two teams met last night in the finals of the state intersectional debates, Astoria having won the western Oregon title and Pendleton the eastern Oregon honors. Charles Prael and Tyyne Saari arc the members of the Astoria team. Kramer was on the Pendleton team which last year won the state title from the Grants Pass team. The Pendleton tram won tho DeCou cup twice now, and will have permanent possession of the trophy by one more victory. The final contestants for the state championship met in Guild hall as a pre liminary to the women’s varsity debate. Judges for the vening were Robert W. Prescott, Dean E. C. Robbins, and Prof. C. D. Thorpe. Israel and Saari upholding the affirm ative side of the question, stated that the United States needs ship subsidies to overcome the advantage of foreign trade. Kramer and Heath, of Pendle ton, argued that foreign vessels had but one way of paying their debts to the United States—through home-grown goods shipped on their own vessels, and said that if American shipping rates were lowered this opportunity would be taken away from them. PRESIDENT GREETS PREPPERS “The University extends a most cordial greeting to all its Junior Week-end guests. We hope that you may have some measure of the same pleasure as guests that we enjoy as hosts and hostesses. Your coming marks the pleasantest season of the year, and your pres ence on the campus brightens with good cheer every University activity. May you come often and stay long. (Signed) P. L. CAMPBELL. CINDER CONTEST PROMISES BUTTLE TILL LIST EVENT 0. A. C. Struggle Is Severe Test for Depleted Squad, Is the Opinion of Coach VETERANS ARE INELIGIBLE Loss of Virden, Weber, Brocher Necessitates Training of Many New Men This afternoon at three o’clock Starter George Philbrook’s gun will start the, knights of the cinder oval on the grind that will decide whether the bearers of the Orange and Black or those of the Lemon and. Emerald will carry off the laurels. The first event on today’s pro gram is the century dash, and with Cap tain Larson pushed by stiff competition and with the track in a shape that makes it one of the fastest on the coast, some good time should be recorded. Those who attend the annual affair will see a Lemon-Yellow track squad that is well trained, one that is in the ’’pink” that only a veteran coach can place it in, one that will battle the Ag gies to the last inch in every event. But these same spectators will see in the same fighting gang only the rem nants of the championship calibre squad that started cutting the cinders of Hay ward track at the beginning of the sea soft. They will see an Oregon team that has only the barest chance of walking away with a victory. Trainer’s Plans Upset So says the veteran trainer himself, and Bill is not a peddler of bear stories. “We will be lucky to get away with 45 points,” said Hayward last night, “and only through the most improbable upsetting of dope can we hope to carry the meet.” Bill went on to tell how at the biginning of the year there was the brightest track prospects in soveral years with plenty of men turning out and no dearth of good material. Ben Virden, tliG brilliant frosh point win ner of last year, Lee Weber, hurdler and all around mainstay, Brocher, frosh sprinter, were reckoned by the coach as sure cogs for a championship squad when the season started. But came the winter term scandal sheet and with it the foreboding news that all three of these men had made themselves ineligible through low grades. Resigning himself to this blow, Hayward set about laying plans for building up another squad. Ho worked hard with the rest of the gang that was turning out and the results of his labors and those of the squad were shown by the fact that the seven-man tea representing Oregon placed second in the Washington Relay Carnival at Seattle April 28. Tilings didn’t appear quite so bad after this meet but a week afterward Covalt, one of the mainstays in the mile relay team quit the squad and Bill was left in the lurch again. As a re sult, according to Bill’s own statement, the team is in poor shape to cope with the Aggies, and there is small chance of an Oregon victory. Surprises Hay Be Had Despite these setbacks the men that will bear the Lemon-Yellow colors to day may spring several upsets, as was the case last year when Oregon was nosed out through failure to take sec onds and thirds, although the varsity look seven first places to the Aggies’ five. Ralph Spearow, pole-vaulter ace, is counted on for several points in the field events while Koepp, Peltier and Kays are due for hard races in the dis tance events. Larson anl Oberteuffer, sprinters, will likewise make it hard for Dad Butler’s runners to make many points in the dashes. In the other events the Aggies are conceded the edge (Continued on page two.) Armory Artists Prepare for Big Rosin Rushers9 Conclave Tomorrow evening will find the prep per guests and the students of the Uni versity migrating to the armory to en gage in a few reels of terpsichorean har mony. The juniors have been putting in several vicious licks and will put in more today getting the skip pavilion ready for the biggest and best prom ever. The conclave of rosin rushers is sche duled to be a riot of color in the line of decorations. Artists with the claw hammer, the sawing saw that can saw, artists who are experts at climbing monkeylike out on the steel beams of the armory, and artists with the needle areb usily engaged in tacking up a mean assortment of decorations. The floor—well, it is promised that it will be in good condition for the mix, well greased, moped, rolled, graveled and even the gum of other dances has been removed. Traction tread and non skid foot envelopes are barred from the inelee. Oh, yes, the orchestra—it will be a good one, guaranteed to wean enough noise out of string and wind parapher nalia for one large crowd to gambol over the maple in perfect unison. The crowd—yes, it is understood that there will be a crowd out for the even ing’s entertainment. The crowd will be large as indicated by the rush for soup and fish regalia. Hie tailors and pressers, growing lean and hearing __ (Continued on pip two.)