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Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXV
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1923
NUMBER 50
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DELTA ZETIl WINS
DO-NUT SERIES
Women’s Teams Score Over
Men’s Representatives
by Vote of Seven to One
TROPHY IS SECOND WON
Zeta Kappa Psi’s Silver
Cup Secured Last Week;
Friendly to Get Shield
Women debate fans had their
big night last night when they were
given a chance to cheer a girls’
forensic team, as a result of Delta
Zeta’s seven to one victory over
Friendly hall in the final contest
of the do-nut series.
By this victory Delta Zeta
wrested the campus championship
from the men debaters and gained
for themselves possession of the tall
*1 silver loving cup which Tau Kappa
Alpha, men’s national forensic fra
ternity, presents each year to the
winner of the all-campus do-nut
debate.
Much Enthusiasm Shown
Because of .the fact that the Phi
Gamma Delta men’s team last year
triumphed over the Susan Campbell
hall women’s team by the same
seven to one score, feeling ran high,
with the general preponderance of
the “dope” favoring the men.
Delta Zeta, with the addition of
the Zeta Kappa Psi cup won by
them last week from Hendricks and
Susan Campbell halls, is now pos
sessor of two of the three ' campus
debate trophies—the other award,
the Tau Kappa Alpha shield, having
been won by Friendly hall last week.
This shield is given each year to
the winning men’s team.
Score is One-sided
The scores made in each of the
debates, with the judges’ votes and
one additional point for victory:
Delta Zeta, affirmative, 4, and
Friendly hall, negative, 0; Friendly
hall, affirmative,’ 1, and Delta Zeta
negative, 3.
Dorothy Newman and May Helli
well made up the Delta Zeta af
firmative, and Dorothy Abbott and
Mary MeCullagh negative team.
These teams represented one fresh
man, two sophomores, and one
junior.
Faculty judges for the contests
were: Professors George Turnbull,
C. D. Thorpe, Ida V. Turney and
H. G. Tanner, Miss Ethel Wakefield
and Paul Patterson.
PORTLAND SOCIAL CENTER
HOLDS FALI^ CONVOCATION
The fall convocation of the Port
land school of social work of the
University, was held in Portland
yesterday, December 4. Among the
speakers for the day were: Presi
dent P. L. Campbell, Mrs. George
Gerlinger, regent of the University;
Dr. Richard B. Dillehunt, of the
Portland medical school, and Prof
F. G. Young, of the sociology de
partment of the University, with A.
L. Mills presiding.
Women Take Hike
of 220 Miles with
Minimum Effort
It was vacation and the very
time to take a hike. The map
was studied, Canyonville was the
place selected. So last Friday
morning three Thanksgiving stay
overs from Hendricks hall pre
pared their packs, and while their
friends shook unbelieving heads,
they turned their faces to the
south with the farewell word that
they were headed for Mexico.
This is an account of facts, 'but as
in all yarns there is a mystery,
yet to come.
The hikerettes returned Sun
day, very reticent about their
travels, and with an air that plain
ly told what they thought of their
term-theme-crazed associates, who
could find no other amusement but
studying.
Try as the other girls would,
they could not learn about the
“thrilling adventures” of the
wandering three.
“Weren’t you afraid of being
held up?” they were asked. ,
“Didn’t you do anything wild?”
In desperation the process of
quizzing was continued, and at
last the questioners got their re
ward and the secret of the trip
is out.
“Aren’t you just tired to
death?” was the final question.
“Oih, yes, we are; so weary.
We hiked 15 whole miles out of
the entire 220!”
BETH QUINTET AGAIN
LEADING IN LEAGUE A
S. A. E. and Phi Delt Teams
Winners in Contests
STANDING IN LEAGUE A
Beta .
Fiji .
Friendly .
Phi Delt .
Sigma Chi ....
Phi Psi .
Oregon Club .
Delt .
W. L. Pet.
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4
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The fast Beta quintet again as
sumed the lead in league “A” by
winning from the speedy Phi Psi five
in the-fastest and best played con
test to date, 21 to 19. The game
was decidedly in the Betas favor
during the first half and they led
at half time 17 to 9. The scrappy
Phi Psis came back in the second
period and came within a hair of
tieing the fleeting winners in the
last few minutes of the contest.
Both teams passed exceptionally
well, and would work the ball close
under the basket only to lose it
through the close checking of their
opponents. Spectacular shooting was
a feature o fthe contest, with Gun
lher of the winners and Harding
for the Phi Psis, making some fancy
long shots. Gunther with 12 points,
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Anna Case, Metropolitan Star,
to Appear in Concert Friday
On Friday evening at 8:15 in
the Methodist Episcopal church,
Anna Case, lniversally known Met
ropolitan opera star, will be heard
in Eugene for the first time. Her
appearance will also mark the sec
cond of a series of concerts to be
given under the auspices of the
music committee of the associated
student body. Anna Case is the
only woman artist to appear on the
campus this year. There will not
be another concert until the ap
pearance of the Mens’ Glee club on
the evning of January 8, 1924.
Anna Case is probably lauded by
critics to a greater extent than any
other woman of the artistic world,
for she has gained her success un
der difficulties that no other
woman of fame today has had to
compete with. She triumphed over
the stern tradition that foreign
training necessary to possess ar
tistic culture and recognition, not
an easy task when one thinks of
the many renowned artists who have
all possessed European training.
She is spoken of time and time
Jagain by critics as having “one of
the most luscious natural voices now
to be heard in the world of song,
which is really a voice of gold, and
a personality of compelling magne
tism and a charm of portraiture
that is beyond compare.’’
The music critic of the New York
Sun in a recent article said, “Anna
Case has established claims for pos
sessing a voice of great beauty, ex
cellent technical skill and a finished
style. Her voice is also of a lovely
quality, clear diction and exquisite
sentiment and charm of feeling.”
The old saying that beauty of
an artist and superb art do not
mingle is entirely repudiated when
one sees Miss Case, for she is often
spoken of as not only possessing a
wonderful voiee, but also being a
rarely beautiful woman.
The admission of students to the
concert will be by student body
ticket, and the townspeople will pay
the regular admittance fee. This
concert will, without a doubt, mark
one of the most artistic features of
the concert season.
CO-OP 10 STATE
BUSINESS FACTS
Officials of Campus Store
Meeting with the A. S.
U, 0. Finance Committee
CO-OPERATION PLANNED
Suggestions Will be Made
to Executive Council;
Report After Holidays
The possibility of a closer con
nection between the A. S. U. O.
and the University Co-Operative
Store association was discussed yes
terday afternoon at a meeting of
the Co-Op official board, the Co-Op
manager, and the finance committee
of- the executive council.
The financial phases of the campus
store were discussed by thoso in
attendance and it was generally felt
that more general information con
cerning the operation of the store
should be placed before the student
body. Although all facts concern
ing the store have been available,
there has not been enough interest
to assure a general disseminatfbn
of the knowledge.
A report of the meeting will be
carried back to the executive coun
cil and it is thought probable that
some plan will be formulated where
by a greater interest will be taken
in the store.
Service Performed
Facts brought out showed that the
Co-Op is performing a real service
to the students in the matter of
text books. A general statement
concerning all phases of Co-Op man
agement will probably be issued in
the near future.
“The meeting was held, not
as an investigation of the Co-Op,
but for the purpose of a greater
understanding of the whole situa
tion on the part of student body of
ficials. It may be possible to bring
a closer connection between the
A. S. U. O. and the store,” Frank
Carter, vice-president of the student
body, said last night, following the
meeting.
Facts .Promised
Carter indicated that while no
definite plan is ready for announce
ment, the finance committee would
probably have some definite sugges
tions to present to the executive
council. It is thought that the re
port will not be given until after
the holidays, inasmuch as some of
the members of the reporting body
will be out of town when the execu
tive committee meets next.
Discussion of the Co-Op situation
was opened this year by some Em
erald communications. The affair
was finally closed as far as the
Emerald was concerned, until some
more constructive suggestions could
be offered than were appearing in
the communication column. A state
ment from Manager Marion McClain
was issued in answer to a number
of questions which had been raised.
Now that actual work has been
done to bring about closer rela
tions between the student body and
the Co-Op, more information has
been promised.
VACATION IS BUSY ONE
Many Books Borrowed from Lib
rary; Term Papers Written
As an oasis amid deserts of de
I linquent term papers and piles of
procrastinated studying, came the
Thanksgiving vacation—a grade
saver, a breathing space in which
the scholastic balance of many con
cerned was regained. And then the
fact that exams loom up darkly in
the horizon of only two and one
half weeks hence, added fervor to
'the situation.
That much labor was expended
and many book reports and various
compositions were created is evident
by the number f books circulated
from the library during vacation
days. In the reserve department
alone 1151 books were given out.
i On Friday 330, Saturday 425, and,
: increasing on the last day of grace,
i 396 books were circulated during the
4 hours the library was open Sun
day.
In the circulation department a
total of 604 books went out, which
is an increase over the record if
last year’s Thanksgiving vacation,
when 550 were given out.
COACH HUNTINGTON
GIVES RE SIGN A TION
FOOTBALL PROBLEM PRINCIPALLY A
QUESTION OF MATERIAL SAYS
PROFESSOR HOWE
[This is the second of a series of ar
ticles on the local athletic situa
tion written at the request of the
Emerald, by Professor Howe. These
articles were written before the
resignation of Shy Huntington, brt
it is felt that their interest is not
diminished by this new phase and
that their publication should tend
toward a better understanding of
the conditions surrounding Ore
gon's athletics. The Editor]
By H. C. Howe
When discussing the football sit
uation no one seems- to think of any
thing but a change of coach and per
haps more money ftr coach’s salary.
But Oregon’s problem is fundamen
tally one of material, not of coach.
When one listens to the old timers
telling of their glorious days, one
hates to look back to 1001, when we
lost to Whitman, and made up for it
by narrow-margin defeats of Che
mawa, Pacific and Pendleton high
school! Or back to 1902, when we
played two scoreless ties with Albany
college, as well as one with O. A. C.
But as a matter of fact we played
only two institutions now in the
Coast Conference in 1901 (beating
neither) and played only one such
institution in 1902. Verily those
were the “bush league days’’!
Bob Forbes, in 1908 and 1909 had
only three of our present Conference
rivals on his schedules, and Bill War
ner, coaching Oregon in 1910 and
1911, had only two such games each
year. Bezdek had three Confer
ence opponents in 1913, and four in
each of the three following years.
This present year, 1923, is the first
in which Oregon has had to face
five coast conference games in one
year. As Bezdek would say. “wo’re
in the big league now.”
We can no more go through a
const conference schedule today
with 14 or 15 usable men than a
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DEBATE SEASON OPENS
HERE THURSDAY NIGHT
Triangular Contest to be
First on Schedule
The varsity debate season will
be ushered in tomorrow night when
Oregon meets Reed college and O.
A. C. in a triangular debate on the
subject: Resolved, That the United
States should immediately recog
nize the present Soviet government
of Russia. Oregon will be repre
sented by Joe Frazer, Ralph Bailey,
Walter Malcolm and Marion Dickey.
Frazer and Hailey, the Oregon
affirmative team, will meet the
O. A. C. negative here on the Ore
gon campus, at 8:00 o’clock in Vil
lard hall. Oregon’s negative team,
Malcolm and Dickey, will journey
to Portland tomorrow morning to
meet the Reed affirmative in Reed
college chapel. The other contest of
the triangle will be between the
O. A. C. affirmative and Reed nega
tive at Corvallis the same night.
Judges for the debate to be held
on this campus will be three Port
land men, R. J. Kirkwood, a busi
ness man, and Charles E. Lenon and
Frank Hilton, both attorneys.
An innovation in this series of
forensic meets will be the use of
the new “open forum” plan, where
by after the judges have heard the
debate and handed in sealed ver
dicts, members of the audience will
be afforded the opportunity of ask
I ing members of either team any
j points about the question which
| they desire to know more about, or
points which the speakers have not
touched on. At the conclusion of
this open forum discnssion, the
judges’ votes will be opened and an
nounced.
GYM ADDS EQUIPMENT
Wrestling Facilities Are Increased;
• Three Mats Now in TJse
A wrestling mat 24 feet square
and three new mat covers have been
added to the equipment of the
physical education department. The
new mat cost $318, while the cost
of the three covers was $120.
With the addition of the new ma
i there are now three mats for the
! wrestlers to work on. The two
small mats were not large enough
; for the men that are turning out
j for wrestling. The new mat will
greatly increase the facilities for
the grapplers.
Harry A. Scott, director of the
department, announced that the
covers on the mats will be changed
i every day to prevent the spread of
skin diseases. He also requests that
students who use the mats cooperate
in regard to that matter by keeping
their clothes and shoes clean.
CO-EDS HEAR TALK ON
CITIZENSHIP TRAINING
National Secretary Forms
Women Voters Clubs
Mrs. W. H. Gray, national secre
tary of the National League of Wo
men Voters, spoke yesterday to the
University women on the necessity
for training for citizenship and the
need of education on public ques
tions of the day.
“The object of the league,” Mrs.
Bray said to the reporter, “is purely
and simply educational. We are
not good citizens unless we can learn
how to vote, to understand the great
principles and policies of the gov
ernment, the political problems and
the qualities of the candidates.”
Mrs. Bray is visiting the colleges
of the seven states of Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California,
Arizona and Utah, arousing an in
terest among the women in politi
cal questions and in voting. Clubs
are being formed in the univer
sities under her guidance for the
discussion of legislative measures
that are proposed. She has just re
turned from O. A. C., whore the
women have perfected plans for a
league.
The National League of Women
Voters is a non-partisan organiza
tion, states Mrs. Bray. It is made
up of women of all parties who get
together on common ground for dis
cussions. Then they may go back
into their parties, carrying back the
results of this discussion. “It is
not a party organized to carry on
sex war.” The organization of the
party came about after the war
when the question arose as to
whether democracy was functioning.
“Forty-nine per cent of the peo
ple were voting in the national elec
tions and only thirty-nine in muni
cipal elections. This apathy is
serious. The study of these ques
tions should come when the youth
are impressionable, in the years at
college. The necessity of the en
forcement of the law must be known
for we cannot bring our children
up in the demoralizing atmosphere
of disregard for law.
“We want every woman of age
to go to the polls. Our goal for
the next presidential election is to
have 75 per cent of the people vote.
The co-operation of the universities
with classes of citizenship has been
splendid. It will help to bring
about the goal.”
Miss Gertrude Talbot was elected
temporary chairman to form a
Eugene club at yesterday’s meet
ing.
Mrs. Bray was a student at Le
land-Stanford and the University of
California, where she was a journ
alist. She leaves for California this
morning. Her next visit to the
campus will be in the spring.
O
Reasons for Waiving
Claim for Re-election
Set Forth in Letter'
Grid Mentor to Leave Oregon in June After
Present Contract Expires; Action Expected
Soon by Athletic Board of Executive Council
Just when members of the athletic committee of the student;
body, administration officers and interested alumni were be
ginning to roll up their sleeves for the annual football-coachinjp
squabble, Charles A. (“Shy”) Huntington, the present coach,
and admittedly a leading candidate for coach of the 1924 var
sity, handed a letter to President Campbell at 4:30 yesterday
afternoon, giving up his claim for re-election.
For several years past the election of a football coach has
been featured by long nocturnal sessions of the executive coun
cil, by scores of smaller meetings, and by a general tension,
felt wherever Oregon’s students or alumni were gathered.
Sports Editor
Compiles Shy’s
Six Year Record
As Oregon Coach
Compiled by Ken Cooper
Herewith are submitted the
figures of Shy Huntington’s coach
ing record at the University of
Oregon. Coining back in 1918, Shy
took over the coaching reins at the
school, whose team he !had previous
ly piloted to a national cliampio v
*;iip.
0
47
20
13
0
7
87
23
27
24
0
9
16
6
104
7
13
0
17
0
0
37
7
21
7
0
7
47
35
21
145
27
37
0
6
3
13
10
3
113
40
35
21
0
7
3
0
7
113
1918
Multnomah
Foundation S. Y.
Camp Lewis
O. A. C.
California
Washington
1919
Multnomah
Idaho
Washington
Wash. State
O. A. C.
Multnomah
Harvard
1920
Multnomah
Idaho
Stanford
Washington
O. A. C.
Southern Cal.
1922
Pacific
Willamette
Multnomah
Whitman
Idaho
W. 8. C.
O. A. C.
Washington
1923
Willamette
Pacific
Whitman
Idaho
W. S. C.
Stanford
O. A. C.
Washington
20
0
35
0
6
13
7
0
7
7
40
0
7
10
0
0
21
38
1921
Willamette
Pacific
Idaho
California
W. S. C.
U. of Hawaii
Hawaiian Stars
Multnomah
3
7
7
39
7
0
5
7
75
0
0
20
3
0
0
0
3
26
0
7
0
0
13
14
6
26
66
o
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When the man who has guided
the destinies of Oregon’s football
team for six seasons gave up hia
chance for re-election he did what
was termed by the administration
official who gave the story out “a
yery gracious thing.” General
praise was aecorded Mr. Huntington
for his attitude, shown in the letter,
which follows:
December 4, 1923.
Dr. P. L. Campbell,
President of the University.
Dear President Campbell:
The writer, after six seasons as
head football coach at the Uni
versity of Oregon, now asks you
to accept his resignation as coach
and ns a member of the staff of
the school of physical education,
to be effective at the expiration of
his present contract.
I am indeed sorry to come to
the foregoing decision, and feel
that in justice to you, who hava
always believed in and supported
me loyally, and to my team of the
season just past, which has also
supported me loyally, and to my
many friends who have always
stood by mo, I should make a brief
statement of my reasons for thus
resigning.
My principal reason is that
what I shall call “home town
psychology” has from the first op
erated against me. Each year
my teams have been with me, but
the alumni have not. The students
for the most part have always been
with me, particularly of recent
years, and in the season just past
I have had excellent support from
the student body. The alumni,
however, have carried on a sort
of guerilla warfare. They have
demanded a “high priced” coach,
a “Bezdek” or a “Dobie” or a
“Warner,” and not for a moment
does it appear to have entered
their heads that a “home town
boy” might possibly be a good
I coach.
So, without knowing the facts,
or investigating the material I
have had to work with, or look
ing into my coaching methods,
they have watched our games
with their thumbs down and some
of them have even wished to see
us lose in order that their cries
for a new coach might be heard.
These same alumni have never, in
my six years us head coach, so
much as raised a hand to help the
athletic situation at our univer
sity. The president doubtless
knows that a man cannot be en
tirely successful in coaching a
football team without united sup
port behind him. It is not even
sufficient that the campus be solid
behind him.
I do not feel that I have failed
as a coach nor do I feel that I
have been as unsuccessful a coach
as the season just past might in
dicate. As a* matter of fact I
have won most of my games. I
have always been an exponert of
good sportsmanship as I knew you
wished Oregon coaches and Oregon
men to be. I have taught good
hard clean football, and my team*'
(Continued on page three)