Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXV
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1923
NUMBER 9
ADDRESS mm
Edward Bailey, Former Grid
and Track Star to Talk on
Oregon Traditions and Spirit
MUSIC MAY BE FEATURED
Light May be Thrown on Track
and Football Squads for
Coming Athletic Season
Football and fall athletic prospects
are to be the central topic of interest at
the first regular meeting of the A.
8. U. O., this morning at 11 o’clock,
in the Woman’s building.
Oregon spirit will be discussed by
Edward Bailey, of Junction City; one
of the University most prominent
alumni, who is to be the principal
speaker of the occasion. Others who
will give brief talks are “Shy” Hunt
ington, football coach, “Bill” Hay
ward, athletic trainer, and Virgil Earl,
athletic director.
Music will be the feature * of the
gathering, according to Claude Robin
son, student body president, who stated
in an interview yesterday his reason
for encouraging this form of fostering
Oregon spirit.
“Oregon Spirit is really a musical
spirit,” Robinson declared. “One of
the best expressions of Oregon spirit
is singing—not the only one, but a
very good one.”
With this conviction in mind, Rob
inson plans to include community sing
ing under the direction of John Stark
Evans as well as selections from the
quartet of the men’s glee club.
Rockhey to Report
The personnel of the group who will
address the assembly suggests that
some light may be thrown upon pros
pects of the Oregon football and track
squads this season. There will also
be a report on plans for Homecoming
this year, by Hadden Rockhey, chair
man of the annual reunion festivities.
In his address to the student body,
Edward Bailey will especially empha
size the responsibility of each student
in upholding Oregon traditions. Bailey
was a stellar football and track man
during his career on the campus, and
was president of the class of 1913, in
which he was graduated.
Bailey in Legislature
He lives at Junction City, and is
representative to the state legislature
from Lane county. Since his gradua
tion Bailey has kept in close touch
with his alma mater and is vitally
interested in its welfare. “He fought
not only while he was here; but after
wards, and always fights for Oregon,”
said Claude Robinson, in announcing
that Bailey would be at the meeting.
Because of the importance of the
meeting as the first business session
of the A. S. U. O. for the year, and the
anticipated enthusiasm ovar the last
word from those in charge of fall
athletics, the assembly will be held
in the Woman’s building and the usual
seating arrangement by classes will be
followed. The meeting will begin
promptly at 11 o’clock.
DEAN STRAUB’S CONDITION IS
REPORTED AS BEING THE SAME
Latest reports from the Portland
hospital are to the effect that Dean
Straub is resting comfortably, ac
cording to President Campbell who
received the word late last night.
The day for Dean Straub’s major
operation has not yet been set.
Senior Girls Check
Up Currency and
Available Males
With great gusto and gales of
girlish giggles, the great galaxy of
senior women will set out upon the
sea of amorous endeavor next
week-end in the pursuit of the
elusive male.
A careful checking of finances
by each fair fourth year female
will be supplemented by a cautious
category of available males. A
little self-sacrifice in the matter
of gum and candy will speedily
stack up sufficient lucre to admit
two to waffle breakfasts, and
melodramatic shows.
One junior woman has figured
out how to keep a man entertained
for an entire week end on the
modest sum of 27c and is willing
for a small remuneration to divulge
the system to her senior sisters.
The program starts with a long
walk or a mushroom hunt or some
thing like that and includes the
use of a borrowed canoe fitted out
with a package of life savers.
Frank Carter and Andy Karpen
stein, famous seniors in charge of
the circulation desk of the library
announce that they will have date
books on hand in order to give
everyone a fair chance.
Yes, life is going to be interest
ing for the men.
MANY STUDENTSRAY
ON NEW TENNIS MTS
Caretaker Makes Reservations;
Hour'Charge Ten Cents
The new tennis courts, 14th and Em
erald! streets, were topened July 18
for the use of University students and
Eugene people. A fee of 10 cents an
hour is being charged to help pay for
the courts. Through this charge the
courts are expected to be paid for in
20 years. The cost of the grounds is
approximately $6000 and the courts
$24,000.
There are ten courts all of which
are standard size, 60x120 feet. Each'
court is separated by fencing, thus
saving “Will you please return my
ball!” The courts are of cement
and are scrubbed every day. After
rains they are mopped and kept in good
condition.
A caretaker is in charge from six
o ’clock in the morning until late in
the evening. Tickets may be bought
from him or at Dean Bovard’s office.
They are sold singly for ten cents or
in strips of six for fifty cents.
Students taking tennis as a form of
gymnasium work are allowed to play
three days a week free of charge.
Complementary tickets are given out
by the instructors.
“Rudolph Fahl, the University coach,
is going to start a free-for-all tennis
tournament within a few days,” an
nounced Dean Bovard. “The winners
will be the Varsity players. The wo
men’s tournament will be under the
direction of Miss Emma Waterman.”
One of the features of the mew
courts is the reserve system. Courts
can be reserved a day in advance by
notifying the caretaker.
Eugene people are allowed to use
the courts when they are not in use
by the college students. They take
this privilege usually in the early
morning or before dinner. Dean Bovard
reports that two or three travelling
men bring their rackets each time they
come to Eugene and play between six
and eight each morning of their stay
in the eity.
Safety Razor Lures Seniors
in Snappy Moustache Contest
“The beard's the thing” will be the
slogan of the day and for many days
to come, following the formal opening
of the Senior mustache-growing con
test which is to be a prominent fea
ture of Saturday’s underclass mix.
Great long skinny ones, short and fat
ones, misplaced eyebrows and facial
adornments of all varieties, will be
admitted to the contest, and the prize
—f Aye— there’s the rub for ’tis
nothing more nor less than a hand
some safety razor.
Promising contestants have already
put in a few practice strokes in the
hopes of getting into the swing of
the game and excelling a fellow class
man and salesmen of the 101 varieties
of hair restorers, on the market, are
said to be keeping a weather eye on
the senior shieks with the hopes of
finding many a willing purchaser for
their wares.
Anyone of them with an eye to
business would have done well to have
photographed Bandall Jones when he
first returned to campus in a before
and-after-pose, for it is said that even
the fraternity brothers of the gentle
man failed to reeognize the desperate
looking character who appeared at the
Sigma Chi house the first day* of
school.
Milder cases, but just as effective,
nevertheless, are those of Colonel
Meek, of the E. O. T. C., who is said
to have a very imposing growth of
hair on his upper lip, but who is not
excelled by Francis Linklater whose
pet claim te beauty adds a mundane
and substantial look to his otherwise
youthful features.
The benefits of the beard are not
to be overlooked. Take the Smith
brothers, Trade and Mark. Could they
have sold a cough drop without their
beards? It would have been imposs
ible. -Then, too, there is one more
advantage. Our faces always remain
the same. We could change the style
of clothes but the face always re
mained unaltered, until the beard came
into fashion. And the styles in facial
adornment are unnumbered. The lowly
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CROWDED LIBRARY
STUDENTS’ GRIEF
Lack of Suitable Building is Big
Worry to Administration and
Faculty, Declares President
PLAN FOR RELIEF OUTLINED
Week-end Studying Urged By
Officials; Historian’s Room
Will Be Utilized for Space
The administration and the faculty
worry over the lack of a suitable li
brary building probably more than over
any other single item in the Universi
ty’s life, said President P. L. Campbell
in a statement to the students last
riight.
“University libraries as now con
structed cost immense sums of money
and when this University builds, it
wants to build a library that not only
will accommodate any reasonable
growth, but that will also stand for
hundreds of years,” said the president.
Such a structure should cost not less
than a million dollars, and although
the University will have to build it
a unit at a time, even the first unit
ought to cost not less than $45,000,
and no such sum is within the Univer
sity’s reach at this time from state
income, be said, adding that the first
unit of a new library is one of the
very first items of the Gift campaign
now under way.
President Campbell urges that all
who can afford to do so should buy
their own books. “Many of the books
used as texts or as assigned reading in
University courses are worthy of a
permanent place on library shelves.
Possession of a full set of books for use
at desired intervals means a better
education for the possessor,” he said.
“Students should not make the con
gested library quarters an excuse for
slighting their work. Thta determined
student can overcome any obstruction,"
stated the president.
The library needs two times, if not
three times as much space as it now
has, to give the students the accom
modations they need, was the -opinion
expressed by M. H. Douglass, Uni
versity librarian.
To relieve in part, the congested
condition which now exists at the li
brary, the small room on the north
west corner of the second floor, where
the University historian’s office now
is, is being fixed over to be used as
another study room for the reserve
department. About thirty students
may be accommodated in the room, if
the arm chairs are used, said Mr. Doug
lass.
Another system which may be in
troduced, and which is now being used
at the University of Washington, is
to have one copy or more of the same
books which are on reserve, in the rent
collection. The students would then
pay a small sum a day for the books
taken out. Tins plan would also aid
the situation at the reserve depart
ment.
Mr. Douglass also endorses the plan,
whereby students would buy their own
books. He suggests that another good
plan would be to have some of the
houses get together on the campus and
start a library.
He complimented the students on
their patience, and stated that the li
brary force was doing everything in
its power to assist them.
Many students have said they have
not been able to get any books at
the reserve department since they had
come to school, and consequently had
not been able to get their lessons.
In many cases they were not able to
buy the books needed.
FACULTY WOMAN HONORED
Miss Florence Alden Chosen Secretary
of Physical Education Society
Miss Florence Alden, head of the
women’s physical education department,
was elected secretary of the Oregon
Physical Education society last week
end. J. F. Bovard, dean of the school
of physical education and president
of the organization, was present at
the meeting held in Portland.
The meeting was planned to be held
at Multnomah falls, but rain forced
the club to hold the annual gathering
at the Peninsula community house.
Recreation and playground activities
were discussed} particular stress being
laid upon the work of the community
houses and the recreation work of the
hop camps.
Other officers elected were O. C.
Mauthe, of Multnomah club, B. H.
Hager, from O. A. C., and Jennie Hew,
of the Portland high schools.
Council Votes to Dignify
Presidency of Freshmen
Officer to Be Non-Voting Member at Meetings;
Annual Mix Will Be Left in Charge of
Campus Christian Associations
An important step in the program to
put the freshman presidency on a more
dignified basis, and thus promote for
a more successful class organization, is
the action of last night’s meeting of
the student council, which decided to
invite Lowell Baker, the president of
the class of 1927, to sit in as a non
voting member of this year’s student
council. The voice of the council car
ries out the suggestion made recently
in the editorial columns of the Emerald.
Reasons given by the council to
support its action follow: that the
council desires to give the proposed
plan of dignifying the head of the
freshmen a chance, that the presence
of a freshman in the council will en
able the body to decide issues per
taining to the class of '27 with greater
knowledge and that it will be easier
to gain the organized assistance of
the freshmen for studont body work
if their representative is on hand to
obtain full information on whatever
move is under consideration. The idea
has the support of Dean Walker and
other administration workers who are
intrested in student welfare. v
“Lowell will be a frosh in student
council as well as on the campus, of
course,” said Robinson, last night. “He
will, like the usual good frosh, speak
only when spoken to.” “There is no
desire to do away with the tradition
of keeping freshmen in their proper
position, but it is felt that the action
of the council will give the proposed
plan a fair chance to succeed,” he
explained.
The council also discussed the advis
ability of holding a Father’s Day about
the time of the Idaho-Oregon game.
It was decided that the time is too
short and that the present council will
turn the plan over to next year’s body
It was voted to leave the annual
Y. M.—Y. W. mix in the hands of
the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A.
Those two organizations offered to turn
the mix over to the A. S. TJ. O., if so
desired, but it was decided that the
affair would remain under the same
auspices under which a good time has
always been forthcoming in the past.
Henryette Lawrence and Harry
Karpenstein, newly appointed members
of the council, were introduced and
took up their new duties.
FEW EX-SOLDIERS ME
TRAINING IN UNIVERSITY
Decrease of Eight Veterans
Noted; Sixteen Enrolled
The number of disabled men receiv
ing federal aid through the U. S. Veter
an bureau for their education has de
creased from 24 to 16 this year, taking
the figures of the campus students
alone. Besides these, there are four
men studying in the Bible university,
two in business college, and five in
placement training. The year 1921 had
the largest enrollment. Forty were
studying on the campus alone.
The U. 8. Veteran Bureau was the
outcome of the agitation of the public
to have something done for the dis
abled men who had served splendidly
during the war. As a result of this
agitation, the War Bisk Bureau, the
Federal Behabilitation Bureau, and the
Public Health Bureau were combined
in 1921 and entrusted with the work
of looking into this matter, helping
the needy, and giving them vocational
guidance so as to make them indepen
dent economic units of society. Over
10.000 persons were receiving full aid
during the last year, and millions of
dollars were spent by Uncle Sam on
this account. Miss Buth M. Hart is
in charge of the Eugene center, the
head office is in Portland and the
district office at Seattle.
The number of students receiving
restricted state aid under the law of
1920, Chapter XII, has dropped down
from 135 of the last year to 50 this
year. “This number may materially
increase by the end of this week when
all State-aid-men have filed their
schedule in the office,” said Mr, E. S.
Tuttle, an ex-service navy man in
charge of the State Education Aid of
fice at the University. Within about
two years Mr. Tuttle „ expects the en
rollment on the campus to come down
within the first ten figures, as many
students will have completed their Uni
versity career.
Unlike the federal aid, the state aid
is limited to a maximum period of four
years with a maximum annual sum of
6200.00 only, available for any one who
ias returned from field service and de
sires to continue his education.
FROSH REPORT TO HAYWARD
FIELD AT 3:00 P. M. TODAY
Lewis Beeson, Carl Benson,
Philip Bergh, Hugh Biggs, Ken
neth Birkemeier, Otis Billick, Al
fred Boice, Bay Bolger, C. Bolliger,
L. Bolton, David Borenstein, Ector
Bossati, -Tohn Boswell, Horce Boy
den, George Bradburn, Parker Bran
in, Jerry Brandom, Tom Brattain,
Albright Bray, Williams Brooks,
Irving Brown, W. Brown, H.
Brumfield, M. Bush, Alan Button,
Jack Burleson, S. Camiparoli, B.
Cantrall, C. Carter, G. Cantebury,
D. Cash, B. Chaffer, T. Chapman,
Earl Chiles, N. Chinnoek, Alan
Christensen, Gordon Coffey, M.
Collins, Bichard Collins, Morten
Coke, Bernard Collens, B. Compton,
L. Conley, E. Conway, Ward Cook,
Chester Coon, Ivan Cowart, Bobert
Creamer, Eugene Crosthwait, A.
Cruz, P. Culbertson.
HIDDEN TALENT TO BE
UNCOVERED BY TESTS
Questionnaires Will Show
Students’ Abilities
Because of the common complaint
that many capable students are never
given opportunity to take part in stu
dent activities, through the fact of
their talents being unknown, this year’s
administration has evolved a plan to
obtain a record of campus capability.
A group of questionnaires has been
sent out to each organization, to se
cure the names and respective talents
of executive and committee material.
The questionnaire records the chief
interests of the student, opinion as to
his general dependability, his campus
activities, present and past, his ability;
whether along the organizing or the
directing line.
It is often said that a few out
standing students bear the brunt of
campus work. This plan will not oust
the prominent student but it will give
him liess strain and will allow the de
velopment of other talent to help him
and to share his responsibility.
Committee appointments are now
being made, according to Claude Rob
inson, president of the Associated Stu
dents, and many positions will be
awarded upon the basis of this ques
tionnaire.
“In striving to appoint the right
man to the right place,” says Mr. Rob
inson, “we expect to find this a means
of uncovering hidden talent.” It will
of course be impossible to give an of
fice to every capable student but the
administration desires to give every
student of ability a chance to display
his type of work.”
There are places for freshmen,
sophomores, juniors and seniors, for
those whose line is debating, athletics,
music or any student work. Any par
ticular talent whether it be interior
decoration, publicity or electrical skill
is recorded. Previous work and posi
tions held, as well as honors will be
considered.
FEMININE CHEERS
INSPIRE FIGHTERS
Football Fans Treated to Real
Battle; Yesterday’s Affray
Fast and Furious Affair
BACKFIELD SHOWS POWER
Vonder Ahe and Reed Open
Holes in Scrub Line; Gains
Made by Forward Passes
The inspiration of feminine cheers
certainly worked wonders for Oregon’s
fighting football team. Last night,
though two or three men were put
out of the fray with injuries the rest
fought till they were all in, and then
fought 30 minutes longer at increased
speed. Even the coaches must have
been satisfied for practice was cut
short a full half hour, though that
didn’t mean so much to most of the
men since they utilized the time in the
rubbing room getting patched up after
the wild riot of the afternoon.
Oregon’s backfield seems to be
the goods. Chapman, Latham, Sax and
Terjesen form a combination which is
hard to beat in any football company.
They seemed able to work their for
ward passes at will against the scrubs
and their end runs, with little Sax
yielling, “cut, cut, cut” were good for
ten or fifteen yards almost with out
fail; ono or two even getting away for
touchdowns.
Poulson and Anderson Work
Poulson substituted for Terjeson and
played good football. He is ‘catty’ on
his feet and showed good form on the
receiving end of the forward pass or
two that came his way. Louie Ander
son also broke into the varsity line
up with the same old zipper ho dis
played when he ran 80 yards against
the Books for a touch down, last year.
Bart opened the matinee for the
ladies by having his linemen do trick
dives and things in the way of flying
tackles against scrambeling backfield
men carrying the balL The early ses
sions of ‘two on one’ being abandoned
for the afternoon. After a warming
up of this type the real work for the
forwards began.
Bailey Out of Scrimmage
Bailey, being temporariy disabled
was forced to relinquish his place at
right guard to Jack Bliss. Although
Bliss has been working at tackle and
end he handled the guard job in a
creditable manner. Mills continued to
show his usual fight at the other guard
position. Fat Wilson was back in the
center of thei line and though his
leg is not yet well, the inspiration
of the fair spectators, or something,
‘hopped him up’ until he was fighting
with his old form. Shields . and A1
Sinclair also had a chance in the pivot
position; and though their passing and
blocking showed lack of experience
they were both scrapping.
Tackles Show Ability
Yonder Ahe and Dick Reed fought
the whole afternoon in the tackle
berths; and it was the charging of
these two that was responsible for
some of the backs long drives through
the center of the line; in fact at times
Beed’s 200 pounds of muscle and Ven
der Ahe’s charge seemed irresistible.
Bisley and Williamson started as
ends for the varsity; and though they
still show an inclination to break into
the scrimmage before they are certain
the plays won’t go around them, yet
their shiftiness and hard tackling is
such that a little seasoning will make
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Darling Little Co-eds Thrill
Coach9s Growling Gridsters
By Monte Byers
Just about a hundred of those little
dears turned out to watch Shy and
Bart put their growling gridsters
through their tricks. The adorable
creatures shreiked, applauded, yelled,
hollered and did everything in true
rooter style whon one of the first
string backs romped through the Bcrub
line for a long gain.
At first the campus femininity ap
peared shy and scattered in various
sections of the stand. Along came
Yell King Myers and detected the
plight of the doughty hundred. He
beamed a winning smile and said, “Oh,
You sweet things. Scramble together
and let's have a little lung culture.”
So all those bunches of University
sweetness flocked into onie section of
the big stand and Jack pulled the con
tortionist stuff as he led them through
a series of Oregon yells and a number
of “rahs” for the scintillating mem
bers of the squad.
I “A lily on a desert waste,” was the
way one gladiator expressed himself
as he gazed at the sweet gang of lov
liness parked in. the big gloomy stand.
Shy, Bart and Bill beamed up into
the stand, sighed and wished them
undergraduate days for them weren't
gone forever. The mentors chuckled
to themselves when they noted the
effect the squealing stand had on the
dash of the team.
The feminine landscape had a bad
effect on the second and third stringers
who did not get into the combat. On
Ladies’ day they may have to be
tethered outside of the bleachers. Any
way they stood out there on the saw
dust and looked cross-eyed, one at the
scrimmage and one on the grandstand
and we have a hunch that the eye on
the scrimmage was shut. Anyway
their smile for the grandstand ended
in the proximity of their ears.
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