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VOLUME XXV _UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11. 1924.. NUMBER 67 4 SCHOOL OFFICERS IBRIMB MEET Conferences Will Begin at Nine o’clock This Morning in Auditorium of Villard MEMBERS HEAR DUTIES Administrative Problems of Student Body to be Discussed by Delegates One by one, group by group, dele gations at a time from sections of the state, remote and nearby, are arriving for what is for them one of the outstanding events of the year. At 9 “o ’clock this morning opens the conference of High School Student Body Officers and the High School Press association. Accredited delegates from more than 80 schools of the state are coming to promote the idea of the conferences, namely to assimilate the problems of student body ad ministration and to bring into mutual association^ students in the preparatory schools in the various parts of Oregon. Complete Program Given The committee in charge of the conference is able to announce the plans for the meetings completed. Arrangements for the guests have been attended to, and the Univer sity, with its usual glad hand, and hearty hospitality is endeavoring to make the visit of these high schoolers successful to the utmost degree. Many of them have come to the campus for the first time. Many of the young folks have come long distances under considerable difficulty. And the careful atten tion of the University welcoming committee has been striving to make them feel at home. Members are Instructed Upon arrival the delegates reg istered at the booth in the Admin istration building, were identified, and received instructions as to thg organization playing host to them, and their duties during the confer ence. Accredited representatives to the conference are presidents of student bodies in the high schools, editors of high school publications, managers of such publications, and representatives of girls’ leagues in high schools. An effort is to be made by the University Women’s league in these conferences to stim ulate general interest among high school students in the girls’ league idea. Instruction and demonstra tion will be given them regarding the function of such an organiza tion. Meetings of these girls will be held apart from the conference of the presidents and the press as sociation. An association of high school girls’ leagues will be formed to meet again next year. Officers will be elected and committees will be appointed. Girls’ representa tives will be encouraged to bring about the organization of such leagues in their schools if they do not already exist. Meeting at Nine The opening of the conference will take place this morning at Vil lard hall. All delegates will meet at this time to hear a welcome by President Campbell and Claude Rob inson, president of the associated (Continued on page three) Disobedient Ones Come In Contact With Chill Water Three offenders against the rules of Friendly hall were im mersed in the cooling water of the mill race at a public exhibi tion given at the Anchorage yes terday noon. Pete Ermler, one of the mid-winter swimmers, is a | frosh who neglected to appear on I the library steps for the session with the order of the “O” just before assembly. The other two I were involved in the affair be cause of a challenge resulting in neglected telephone duty. Lawrence Osterman, a. frosty was on telephone duty at the hall when Herschell Brown, a sopho more, tempted him to skip out and leave his job. “You’re not game to go to a show and let the telephone go to the dogs,” Brown challenged. Osterman considered the pro position. Brown thought he was bluffed and declared, “If you will go I will pay for the ticket.” That was too much of a tempta tion to the dissatisfied telephone operator and he struck out for the movies. When the affair was brought to light both men were sentenced to the mill race cure. PARTIES PLANNED FOR NIEHT OF JANUARY 18 Frosh Affair is Postponed Until After Glee The night of January 18 is going to be a gala night for members of the sophomore, junior and senior classes, who are planning separate parties for that time. The Frosh have postponed their affair until after the frosh glee, on which they are concentrating all their energies at present, according to Lowell Baker, president of the class. The sophomores are to entertain at College Side Inn with a masked costume dance, at which a prize will be offered for the cleverest costume. Bob McCabe is in charge of refreshments, and he promises all the punch that *the crowd can drink. Margaret Vincent and Tom Graham are in charge of the Skits and vaudeville, and promise some thing now in the way of entertain ment, with a few surprises. Adrien ne Hazard is in charge of the pat rons and patronesses and is also planning some of the vaudeville. The Mid-Nite sons are to furnish the music and the affair is no-date. Rough-neck clothes are to be the order of dress for the Junior Jazz Jinks, to be given at the Campa Shoppe the same night. The wo man who wears the most original costume and the man who brings his partner to the dance in the most unique vehicle will be the winners of the two prizes offered. Partners will be chosen by lottery, the list to be published early next week. Tentative plans of the senior class indicate that the hombres of the sombrero will take their women and their tuxedos to the Osborn hotel for a formal dance. ELECTION ANNOUNCED G. and M. society (Condon club) announces the election to full mem bership of Bryan Hendon, Shawnee, Oklahoma, and E. P. Cox of Eu gene. Eugene Goodrich of Eugene is elected to associate membership. Student Pastor Gives an Opinion on Race Question By Bruce J. Giffen Seasoned observers of religious gatherings gasped at the daring with which they ripped the lid off at the Student Volunteer convention at Indianapolis. Readers of the Daily Emerald have had already a sample of it. perhaps, in what was reported by Dr. Paul Harrison’s speech on race discrimination. It would be a great pity though if the ear o? the student public should be lost to a more detailed report of this truly wonderful convention by reason of disagreement with what this speaker had to say about drawing the color line in fraternity life, and so on. Dr. Harrison was by no means a foreground figure at Indianapolis. Perhaps there was at least a dash of the fanatic in his utterances. ■ It is to be said, however, that those five or six thousand American students, a full proportion of them, from south of Mason and Dixon’s line, did not flinch in the least at facing squarely the race question. Nowhere was there a demand for in termixture by marriage. The leaders of every rac displayd a pride of race that should be calculated to pre serve race identitly and race integ rity. But it was made clear and em phatic that race discrimination and injustice is not “the Jesus way.” Our own Dr. Eebec tells his classes that the Greeks seemed to have “no awareness of that live-stock, called (Continued on page three) VARSITY SPOUT Fifteen Men Turning Out for Night Practice on Tuesdays and Fridays GOOD MATERIAL FOUND Meet Planned Within Next Two or Three Weeks With Freshman Squad With the initiation of swimming on the Oregon campus as a letter sport this year, comes the prospect of the strongest aggregation for several seasons. Fifteen men are turning out for practice under Coach Fahl every Tuesday and Fri day evenings at 7:30. Park, man ager of swimming this year, has ar ranged a tough schedule, including the big meet with O. A. C. at Cor vallis early in February. This is the first season in which swimming has been conducted on a large scale under the lemon-yellow colors, and the degree of success this year will largely decide whether it will be continued as a major sport. There is an abundance of evenly distributed material for this year’s aquatic team, with strong entrants out for each event. McCabe, Gard ner, Herron, Smith, Mauthe and Dye are entered in the 50, 100 and the 220 sprints. Horsfall is entered in the 220 and the dives, and Angell also is showing to good ad vantape in diving. Palmer is mak ing good time in practice in the 50 and 100-yard events. Heider and Wiswall will probably be contest ants in the plunge. Lee is out for the 100 widearm and Sinclair, Burt and Yoran are the other aquatic hopes. Old Men Back Palmer, Angell, Yoran, Horsfall and Wiswall are the members of last year’s swimming team who are back and will make strong bids for their “O.” Buchanati, fast breast j stroke on last season Is team, is back, but has not turned out yet in suit. McCabe and Sinclair are outstanding swimmers from last j year’s freshman squad. T'he freshman aggregation this j year, under the coaching of Don Park, is shaping into, a speedy \ group, and is especially strong in | the sprints and short distances. | Lombard is showing probably the | best at present and gives indica- j tions of becoming a star in the j dashes. Alderman, Bonbright and Marshall also are demonstrating in creased ability at the short dis tance. Stone Does Well Stone is the outstanding figure in the dives at present and is showing good form in his plunges. The other men who round out the speedy squad at present are: Boy den, Dills, Jeffries and Kingmen. The freshmen will probably have a main meet with the Rooks and may be one or two more contests with other opponents ^et to be decided. A meet will be held within the next two or three weeks between the varsity and frosh squads for the purpose of rounding out the condition of the teams under com petition. WRITING COURSE ADDED Correspondence Work Will be Given By Miss Mary Perkins A new correspondence course in advanced writing has just been prepared by the extension division of the University, and is being of fered this week for the first time. The course will be given by Miss Mary Perkins, of the English de partment of tho University, and will cover about the same ground as the written English courts which are required of all campus students. The extension division offered a course in theme writing, formerly, which was much in demand, saya Dan E. Clark, of the extension division. This haB been replaced by Miss Perkin’s new course which is longer. Sugary Circles Are Approved by Entire Campus Students and Others Doughnuts were the watchword of the campus yesterday. All day long, from the first peep of the winter sun above the eastern hori zon until the last lingering beam of light slipped away behind the western hills, the Theta Sigma Pi girls served the circular pastry to a hungry student body. Everyone ate them. Students, faculty, visitors and all others who happened to stray in the vicinity of the University. In classes, be fore classes, and after classes wherever one might look he would see the sugary things rapidly dis appearing. One hundred and sev enty-five dozen of them slipped down the throats of persons on the campus. And money. The girls scooped it up at every corner. Faculty members tossed coins from win dows into the hollow tin cash reg isters attached to each basket. When they counted the profits at the end of the day they found themselves better off by over $60. A few more days and the Theta Sigma Pi room in the old journal ism shack will be decorated with all manner of new and attractive things. EMERALD OFFERS CASH PRIZES TO WORKERS Awards Totaling $175 Will be Given This Year Beginning this term all staff mem bers of the Oregon Daily Emerald and those trying out for positions will compete for cash prizes to be awarded for meritorious work on the publication. A budget of $175 has been set aside to be used as the editorial board sees fit in mak ing the paper more efficient. The money will be divided into cash awards for the next two terms, and the winners will be announced at the close of each quarter. Seven contests, arranged with the idea of promoting competition among the workers on the paper, have been scheduled. The highest award will be $15, which will go to the person judged to be the most efficient all-round worker on the staff. The best daily news editor will be given a $10 prize, while the night editor who puts out the best average of papers clean from typographical errors will re ceive a like amount. Two awards of $7.50 each will be given as first prizes for the most usable tips for news stories and for the most unassigned stories printed. In the tip contest second and third prizes of $5 and $2.50 are announced. Second prize of $5 is to be granted to the contestant taking second place in the un assigned story contest. First prize of $5 and second prize of $2.50 will constitute the last two prizes. The first will be for the beat news story of the term, while the other award will go to the writer who has the best feature story printed. A careful check will be made by the editorial board over all stories turned in for these con tests. It is the desire of those in charge of the contests that it be made known that all workers on the Em erald, whether officially members of the staff or not, are eligible for the prizes. Later in the year an other one and possibly two other prizes may be announced. The spring term awards will be an nounced at the Emerald banquet held annually at the Osborn hotel. PULLMAN INSTALLS RADIO BROADCASTING MACHINE Washington State College—W. 8 C.’s radio station, K F A E, plans an extensive program in the near future on various instructing topics The station reports that fans in Toronto, Philadelphia and Wycliff B. C., have been able to listen clear lv to the topics, and with the inova tion of a new announcer the re cent programs have been of specia interest. HOPE HELD FOR RUSSIAN PEOPLE E. G. Colton of Y. M. C. A. Relates Many Hardships Felt Under Communism NECESSITY FOR AID TOLD Student Life is Described; Relief for Educational Heads Declared Urgent “There is infinite hope in a land and for a people who have a hun dred thousand men and women who will stand by and take severe punishment in order to educate themselves to build up the future of their state,” E. T. Colton, one of the international secretaries of the Y. M. C. A., declared, in speak ing on “The Present Trend in Russia,” at the assembly in Villard yesterday. Mr. Colton is assisting the Stu dent Friendship Fund association to obtain help for the starving Russian students. Students are Suffering In Odessa, Russia, he pointed out, 30 per cent of the students live all winter, a winter in which the snows begin in October and remain until April, in rooms without heat, half of them sleeping on the floor, and many without blankets. Sev eral groups of students have but one outfit of clothes suitable to be worn to lectures, so they arrango their hours to permit each one to take li'is turn in going to classes. Two-thirds of the students in the j last five years have been victims i of epidemics, and tuberculosis is ! rampant. “Since 1914, Russia has been go ! ing through a process of exhaustion, j It began when Russia cast all her j resources into the great war on the i side of the allies, until three and i one-half millions of Russian sol diers were in prison camps in Ger | many and Austria, and until sol 1 diers were going to battle with only their fists with which to fight. Russia fought until her cities were filled with breadlines. Let us thank God and Russia that she stayed J until Paris and channel ports were safe,” Mr. Colton said. This exhaustion, beginning with the war, was increased by the re I volution and famine, and was fur I ther aggravated by the Communis | tic movement which attempted to I put into practice a pure economic I communism. This type of cornmun-. ism is the very antithesis of free dom. It put the Russian popula tion beyond the possibility of feed ing, clothing or housing itself. Teachers’ Salaries Small The professors received about 40 million rubles for ten months teach ing, which in American exchange would be $13, and which, if taken to a second-hand store in Russia, would not buy a suit of clothes. Mr. Colton emphasized the neces ! sity of preserving these professors from starvation, as it is on these men of learning that the future of Russia depends. A quarter of a million dollars is the sum Mr. Colton expresses the hope of raising through American students. Kitchens are being set up at the various Russian colleges, and he estimates that it takes $1.50 to feed one student for a month. “Is the civilization of Russia worth saving ” he asked, and then said the answer is to be found in the great wealth of literature, music and science that has come from Russian civilization. “Here in Russia we have a chance to save a | great Christian civilization, em bodying a religion that has reached a spiritual exaltation,” he declar ed. “They have never had their chance, but there is no soul in all the world that has such a vision of freedom as has Russian,” he con 5 eluded. Rev. H. W. Davis, Y. M. C. A. secretary, gave the invocation. The Men’s Glee club sang “An Oregon Hymn,” the new Oregon song com posed by Ronald Reid, of the school j of music Fire-Escapes Are Being Constructed for Busy Scribes They are putting fire escapes on the journalism building; real steel balconies with ladders and a twelve-foot jump to the greens ward. We don’t know who first thought of such a thing—per hrps George Turnbull brought the idea back from the east. We understand that all the newspaper plants back there are equipped with them. Although wooden ones with turned spindles and a winding stairway would have harmonised much better with the Romeo and Juliet balcony in the rear, these will give the' place a very business-liko appearance. We want it understood that this is in no way a reflection on our character. We admit that we turn out some hot stuff, but it is never fiery. Some of our discus sions may bo spirited, but they don’t get heated. It has been rumored that the last time the insurance inspector was around ho insisted he smelled smoke. Now this is because of the chemistry lab above us and is entirely beyond our control, but where there is so much smoko, there must be a little fire. It is best to be on the safe side. Really, though, they would have inter fered must less with the archi tectural beauty of the place had they put them on the inside. STUDENT FRIENDSHIP FUND RECEIVES SI 65 Money Will Go For Relief of Russians When the booth outside of the library closed yesterday evening, $165 had been pledged and paid to the student friendship fund for the relief of students in Russia. President Campbell, when inter viewed soon after the address by E. T. Colton, speaker at yester day ’s assembly, who pleaded for college students to contribute to this fund, said, “I wish most heartily to commend to the stu dents and th0 faculty the worthi ness of the cause presented in as sembly today by Mr. Colton. In no better way could we show our friendship for the ‘intelligencia’ of Russia than by subscribing to the student friendship fund. Never in the past, have Oregon students failed to voluntarily contribute to worthwhile causes, and I am suro that the same will bo true of this.” One dollar and fifty cents will feed a Russian student for a full month and small contributions will be of tremendous help to those in a starving condition. Y. W. offi cials expect that many more pledges will bo received within the next few days. Students who were not at as sembly, or were unable to got pledge blanks, can get them at the Y. W. C. A. They may sign pledges for future payment or contribute at once. All checks should be made payable to Florence Buck, who is local treasurer for the fund. OREGON DEFEATS PACIFIC 44 T014 Passing and Floor Work Big Factors in Victor’s Successful Offense RED SHIRTS TAKE LEAD Varsity Men Ahead at End of First Half; Game is Hard Fought Contest Oregon took a flying start on her conference climb last night by taking th0 long end of a 44 to 14 score from the Pacific Badgers. The game was harder fought than the score would indicate and the Badgers contested every point. Ira Tucker was the big gun in the Pacific offensive, althongh the whole team passed well. It would be impossible to pick a star from the Oregon machine and in spite of the fact that Hobson was high pointer, with 10 counters, the pass ing and the floor work of the whole team were the big factors in the Oregon win. The Webfoot five-man defense was well night impregnable, and only on three occasions were the Badgers able to break through for field goals. Time after time the Rod Shirts would work the ball down the floor, only to have a pass intercepted or to be forced to shoot long range shots. On the other hand, it was not so hard to turn said defense into an offense which, although, at times, appeared list less, showed great promise. Hunk Latham Stars Hunk Latham accounted for but five of Oregon’s points in actuality, but the big fellow was a mighty im portant cog in the Lemon-Yellow scoring machine. His passing, dribbling and pivoting wasi one of the features of an otherwise rather colorless game. The Forest Grove lads threw a scare into the local fans when, after the teams had fought the first five minutes without a score, Jesse, Pacific forward, slipped through the Oregon defonse and rolled one through the hoop for the first score of the game. The Badgers’ lead was short lived, however, as a brace of points from the foul line by Lath am soon tied the count and from then on, the locals were never headed. Hobson, Latham, Shafer, and Chappy followed with baskets in quick succession and, at halftime, Oregon led by a 20 to 7 score. Rockhey Kept Out Early in the second half, Alstock replaced Shafer, who was taken out on four personal fouls and later Reinhart sent in a host of second string men. The offense of the sec ond stringers did not work quite so smooth, but the checking was on a part with that of the first, combina ation. Haddon Rockhey, who was slatod to handle one of the forward jobs, was forced to watch the game from the bench, due to the fact that he tore a ligament in hia ankle in Wednesday’s practice. Hia injury will probably keep him out * (Continued on Page Two.) Imps of Jazz to Hold Sway During College Night Fray “Zat so? No rest for tlio wicked, and a prize in every package?” “Yea, bo! A prod with every pun, and ‘honi soit ijui mal y pense. ’ ” “I getcha, brother. You’re try ing to make out a good time for mo tonight. Yes, I'm going to get mine. College Night’s tonight. They’re all going to be there, the belles, the gals, the skoits, and the janes. Better come along, she’s going to be a pretty party.” Thus the whole world talks—or some portions thereof. The boys are going to get their stripes to night. The girls will get theirs too. The music-making men and women are slated to slip us some mean Korrect Kollege Harmony. Yea and Bunky Short, will have his animat i ed sketches jumping all over the place. Songsters will wax songful; actors will try to show symptoms of intertainment. The Night has a monopoly on the college social cal endar and the indulgence of all students is asked. Those men who will receive their football sweaters are: Dick Bead, A1 Sinclair, Gordon Wilson, Hugh Latham, Moe Sax, Gene Shields, James Bailey, Jack Bliss, Ed Kirt ley, Carl Yonder Ahe, Bobert Mautz, Vic Risley, Ron Williamson, Louis Anderson, Hal Chapman, Cogs Campbell, Jens Terjesen, and Len Jordan. Girls who will be awarded their letters are Winifred Hobson, Char jlotte Howells, Dorothy McKee, I Wilma Chatten, Theresa Robinette, 1 Ftorence Baker, and Lois Barnett. Intra mural debate awards will also be presented.