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Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXV
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY. JANUARY 12. 1924
NUMBER 68
WILLAMETTE IS
TO PLAY TONIGHT
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interesting Contest With
Bearcats Seems Assured;
Game to be Called at 8
TEAMWORK IS IMPROVED
Lemon Yellow Shows Up
Well in First Game of
Season with Pacific Five
TONIGHT’S LINE-UPS
Oregon Willamette
Hobson .F.... Steincipher
Qowans .F. Wilkinson
Latham .C. Logan
Chapman .G. Patton
Shafer .G. Fasnacht
With Pacific out of the way, Ore
gon will entertain the Willamette
Bearcats tonight at 8:00 on the
Armory maple. Coach Reinhart and
his warriors gave the fans some
thing to think about Thursday
night when they held the Forest
Grove men to three field baskets
and eight points from the foul line.
Reinhart’s five-man phalanx de
fense kept the Pacific men out
of the danger region, and a Pacific
shot at the hoop was a rare thing.
What Willamette has is unknown,
but their teams of the past few
years have given the varsity stiff
competition, especially in 1920 when
Hunk Latham slipped the winning
counter through the hoop a frac
tion of a second ahead of the gun.
Hard Game Expected
Neither team will be in top sea
son shape for the go tonight, but
the performance of the varsity on
Thursday night is enough evidence
to prove that they will be there
prepared to give the Capital city
men a good run for top honors on
the score sheet.
The Oregon teamwork against the
Badgers was wonderful, the short
snappy passing and sure pivoting
kept the opponents at sea most of
the time. The Webfoot guard com
bination worked fine. Chapman and
Shafer make an excellent team,
either man able to stop an attack
and also able to slip down the floor
now and then and ring the bell for
two counters.
Latham Starts Well
Latham was humping along at
his old time clip Thursday, but his
shooting wasn’t up to the standard
of other years. He played the floor
nice and' fed his forwards at every
opportunity. The old eye will come
around soon and then the other con
ference hoopers will have to go
hard to stop him scoring.
Gowans and Hobson make a nice
forward combination. Hobson might
have been a trifle scared at the
start, but he soon settled and sue- ■
ceeded in hooping the ball five
times. He was high point man and
played a great checking and floor
game. Gowans is coming around ^
into shape and a few more games 1
will put him on edge. King played
some flashy basketball while he
was in and will be heard from be
fore long.
Alstock, Gunther, Tuck and Hard
ing got chances to go against the
invaders and kept them from
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Peculiar Animals
Astonish Visitors
to the Allied Arts
The number of strange beasts
and birds constituting the men
agerie of the -school of architec
ture and allied arts has been a
matter of astonishment to all
visitors.
These animals are not in cages,
nor yet at large, but painted in
masterly and convincing form on
the backs of smocks. The tradi
tion began last year, at the time
of the annual Bohemian ball,
given by the Architects' club.
A burlesque dragon, above a
scene which the men in the draft
ing room call “a Japanese fishing
village,” stands out vividly
against a bright yellow back
ground. A ferocious cross-e^ed
bull tosses angry horns. One
smock has an Egyptian motif—
like a fresco from King Tut’s
tomb. There is even a Polly of
brilliant plumage perched in a
large ring. A skull smokes a fatal
cigarette.
Of monkeys, there are two
varieties—a littlg yellow one with
fluffy sidewhiskers and a startled
expression, and an orange one
twisting an affectionate tail
around its master’s arm.
ORATORICAL EFFORT
WILL BE REWARDED
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Mrs. Jewett Gives Second
Cash Qsnation
Another incentive for participa
tion in oratory at Oregon has been
added in the form of a cash dona
tion of $100 recently made to the
University in memory of W. F. j
Jewett. The monejt is to be used '
as a stimulus toward proficiency j
and interest in oratory.
The exact nature of the distribu
tion of the' fund among the vari
ous oratorical activities of the j
campus has not as yet been definite-;
ly decided upon, but it is planned j
to expend it for excellence shown in 1
tryouts for oratorical contests, and
for exceptionally good work in the I
public speaking departments, in j
such courses as extempore speaking
and pre-legal English.
The gift is the second from the
same source, Mrs. Jewett having
contributed $50 for this purposo
last year.
The contests scheduled for this
year, and the awards for each arV:
The state old line contest, in which
there are seven participants, Ore- ;
gon, Albany college, Pacific univer- [
sity, Willamette university. Pacific
college, Oregon Agricultural college,
and Linfield College and in which the
winner receives a bronze statuette :
of Lincoln; the Northwest oratori
cal contest, between the Urfversi- j
ties of Oregon, Washington and I
Idaho, with a cash award of $50; j
the state peace contest with its I
prizes of $50 and $100; and lastly ,
the Failing-Beekman contests, open 1
to seniors only. The Failing prize
is $150 and the Beekman $100. j
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SOPHOMORES SELECT SHIRTS
TO BE USED AS SYMBOLj
University of Southern California |
—(By P. I. N. S.)—Sophomore men j
at the University of Southern Cali- j
fornia will wear lumberjack shirts >
to distinguish them from the other j
students. The shirts are of a uni- j
form design and will be worn over ;
their regular shirts as a sweater, j
Portland News Editor Gives
Opinions on College Values
(Mr. Boalt, editor of the Portland
News, spoke to the High School
Press association yesterday on, “The
Feature Element in the News.”—
Editor.)
By Fred L. Boalt
Dean Straub, and I were table
mates at the banquet last night. It
was the first time we had met, and
the dean wanted to be nice to me.
So he said:
“You are a college man, Mr.
Boalt?”
And I had to tell him that I am
not a college man, that I was ig
nominiously kicked out of a prepar
atory school for extraordinarily bad
behavior, and that a perplexed and
out-of-patience parent made me get
a job.
Heigho! That was a long time ago. j
I have been a rambling newspaper
man from that day to this, but back I
in the little home town in Ohio where j
I was born, my mother enjoys from ‘
time to time a sweet revenge on cer- j
tain catty women of the neighbor- !
hood who at the time of my early
disgrace sympathized 'with her, be
cause of her no-good son, who they
phophesied would come to his end on ;
the gallows or in a drunkard’s grave.
And the old cats smile politely out- 1
side and writhe inside.
My mother, when these women j
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ART TUCK BUCK
IN UNIVERSITY
Spring Track Prospects
Brightened by Return
of Well Known Athlete
TO TRAIN FOR OLYMPICS
Squad Shows Weakness in
Dash and Hurdle Events;
Winter Work is Started
Varsity track prospects for the
coming season took a jump sky
ward yesterday when it became
known that Art Tuck, a contender
in the Olympic games in 1920 at
Antwerp, and a former coast record
holder in the javelin and point
winner in the weights for Oregon,
had registered in the University,
after an absence of two years.
Tuck, who has two more years of
varsity competition at Oregon, has
been working in eastern Oregon
since leaving school. He turned out
for the first time yesterday on Hay
ward field and heaved the spear
180 feet, which indicates that it
will "'not take him long to round
into an even greater form than be
! fore.
Two Named for Olympics
j Art came to Oregon in his high
school track days, in 1918, and re
presented his school, Redmond, in
jthe state track meet here. He was
! the only entry from there and yet
1 he, single-handed, copped enough
j points to give his school the state
! championship. He won firsts in the
| javelin, shotput, discus, and in sev
; eral of the sprints. From that day
! to this the name of Tuck has ranked
|among the premier track men of
the time.
Tuck states that it is his inten
tion to train for the Olympic games
[this year, with the hopes of being
recommenced to go to the Olympic
tryouts in Boston for the American
team, in June. This makes it prob
able that the Oregon team will
have two athletes at least of the
Olympic caliber, as Ralph Spearow,
vaulter and broad jumper, has been
mentioned as a candidate for the
American Olympic team by many.
Bill Hayward has already been
tentatively named as one of the
coaches for the American athletes
abroad.
Tryouts at Boston
There will be no district tryouts
this year for the American team,
but candidates will be picked by
local representatives at the various
meets over the country to go to Bos
ton and meet in a final tryout.
Those who are successful will then
go to Paris and begin training for
the international competition.
Many good men have been lost to
Oregon this year by their dropping
out of school and the return of Tuck
will help to bolster up a weakened
squad. From last year’s compara
tively strong freshmen aggregation
Bill has very few point winners
coming up. Kelsey was a big loss
to the squad for the sprints and
hurdles were seriously lacking in
material this year. Carlburg, an
other of the frosh winners of last
season is not in school.
Winter Practice Begins
Hayward has commenced winter
practice this week and has quite a
number of men out, although the
amount of material is doubtful. He
has the weight men working out in
the gym, while runners are practic
ing nightly on Hayward Sell. Bill
has the men turning out in small
groups, however, so that he may
give them as much personal* in
struction as possible. “I will make
my team from the men who are
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MEN’S SWIMMING TANK
OPEN TODAY TO DELEGATES
In order that the delegates to i
the High School Student Body Offi
cers association and the Press as- ,
sociation may have a chance to en- |
joy a few hours’ swimming, the1
tank in the men’s gymnasium will
be open this morning from 10 to
12 and again in the afternoon from
2 o’clock until 5. The tank is lo
cated on the lower floor of the
men’s gymnasium. A filter system
has been installed which greatly!
aids in keeping the water clean and
sanitary.
Seniors’ Last
Bust Is Formal
Dancing Party
It s Leap Year — Girls
To Choose Names
The senior class, for its last of
ficial “bust” is planning some
thing new and novel in class par
ties, something compatible with
•the dignity of upperclassmen soon
to be thrust out into the cold
world of affairs. The seniors are,
to make it short, planning a for
mal dancing party.
Friday the eighteenth is the day
and the date, and it’s to be at the
Osborn hotel. The girls, in view
the fact that it is leap year, are
to be given the golden opportunity
of choosing their partners for the
evening. Selections are to be made
between now and Wednesday, and
the names of the men they have
asked are to be written on a slip
of paper and put in a box in the
library, just to_ the left of the
reference room entrance.
All names must be in by Wed
nesday, says tlie committee.
WOMEN HRE APPOINTED
TO LEAD HOOP TEAMS
Practices Show Rivalry for
Class Teams
Heads of women’s class basket
ball teams have been appointed and
regular practices have begun, pre
paratory to the inter-class games,
which will start January 25. The
leaders are Lynetta Quinlan, for
the seniors; Muriel Paul, for the
juniors; Alda Knips, for the sopho
mores, and May Fan Vurpillat, for
the freshmen. Their duty is to get
the girls out to practice.
The juniors, so far, have the
largest turnout, with 20 girls
working for positions on the first
and second teams. The freshmen
come second with 17 aspirants. The
sophomores have 13 out and the
seniors only eight. It is expected
that there will be keen competi
tion for positions on all the teams,
each class, except the seniors, plan
ning to have two teams.
One day each week is assigned to
a class for work in the indoor gym,
where coaching is given the girls.
Each class holds another meeting
once a week in the outdoor gym
for practicing the different posi
tions.
A short game is to be played
Saturday morning at 11:10 for the
benefit of the visiting high school
delegates. The teams will be made
up of six juniors and six seniors.
LARGE INCREASE SHOWN !
IN BOOK CIRCULATION
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Library Volumes Total 130,470 for
1923; Growth is 7,625 Over
Record for 1922
Comparative statistics have just
been made by the library between j
1922 and 1923 in regard to books |
and circulation. A record taken,
last month showed a total of 130,- i
170 books belonging to the library j
while for 1922 there were only
122,845. j
New books purchased from de- ;
partmental fees were 1,332 for j
L922 and 2,007 for last year. Not 1
so many were added from library
5nes this year as last, however, as :
records indicated 237 new additions
for 1922 and 190 for 1923. Law I
books purchased number 199 for
1922 and 849 for 1923. Miscellaneous
gifts were 1,457 in 1922, but last
year did not fare so well, with
only 538.
Books circulated for home use
numbered 52,450 for 1922 and 54,-'
383 last year. From stacks for 1
reading room purposes 7,683 and
7,929 were issued, respectively. Quite !
an increase was made in reserve ,
book circulation from 1922 to 1923,
the records being 180,513, and for
last year, 299,948. At the school
of business administration at the
reserve department, 16,049 volumes;
were given out in 1922 and 35,955 !
in 1923.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Phi Sigma Pi announces the
pledging of Milton Peterson of
Portland.
CROWDED SESSIONS
MARK CONFERENCE
DELEGATES MEET
PRESS PROBLEMS
Opportunities for Service
by High School Papers
I Outlined in Conference
ATTENDANCE IS LARGE
By Kathrine Kressman
Advice upon every branch of jour
nalistic and managerial work was
given the visiting high school dele
gates in the two meetings of mana
gers and editors held yesterday. The
number of delegates was far greater
than the committee had foreseen and
the meeting of the afternoon had to
be changed from the editorial hall
of the Journalism building to the au
ditorium of the campus high school.
Among the outside speakers who
addressed the conference was Fred
Boalt, editor of the Portland News,
who characterized human interest
stories as the soul of a paper. Mr.
Boalt explained the importance of
feature writing from the interest
point of view. Hal E. Hoss, of the
Orogon City F b-prisc, spoke brief
ly on adverth in annuals, declar
ing that he looked forward to the
time when year books might be put
out without advertising.
At the morning session John Piper,
associate editor of the Oregon Daily
Emerald, welcomed the delegates
with a survey of the field of high
school publications and former con
ferences. He attributed the large
numbers attending the conference to
an increasing interest in the work
done rather than the efforts of the
committee.
Dean Eric Allen of the University
school of journalism spoke of the
high function that the high school
paper can fill among the students.
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? SIDELIGHTS 7
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Knighthood is not all dead. Some
of the chivalry displayed by the
Oregon Knights in tugging about a
suitcase is just as picturesque as
that of their illustrious forerunners 1
of the middle ages.
What would a conference bo, any
way, without tags? One thing no- i
ticeable, however, is the absence of
discrimination. Last year the dele- <
gates wero labeled, “Editor,” “Presi
dent,” “Manager,” “Secretary,” ,
etc., according to the office they
held. This year one tag uniform in
size, color, and wording was given
all delegates.
This does away with the rainbow
effect that the tags produced on the 1
campus last year. Then there were ,
red, white, green and yellow tags; 1
now only the yellow ones are in
evidence. !,
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Also, what would a convention be J
like without free literature? But ■
the only thing in this line that was
distributed this year was the pro
gram. One leaflet covers the activi- ,
ties of the whole convention.
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The committee got rather sleepy
before closing hours at midnight
Thursday night but the delegates
kept coming in until that time and
gave them plenty to do.
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One young fellow asked to be en- 1
tertained at one of the women’s
houses when he gave his choice of
the various places on the campus.
The committee is not certain whether 1
he is a professional sheik, or whether
he got his Greek mixed. 1
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The delegate who probably made I
the longest trip to get to the con- i (
vention is Helen Hebbling. She , j
comes from Joseph and is the only
representative on the campus of the I
Joseph high school.
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No, Henry, they speak English.
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i
i Press Conference
I Association Head
♦—-O
Paul G. Traeblood
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j List of Names
i Shows 346 from
Oregon Schools
Delegates from practically every
nigh school in the state of Oregon
ire now on the University of Oregon
iampus taking part in what is gen
erally regarded as the most success
ful conference of high school repre
sentatives ever held here. There are
146 delegates registered with the
committee in charge of the conven
:ion. A list of the names of those
ittending the conference follows:
Student body presidents—Dan Poling,
Albany: Myron Hawley, Antelope; Harold
Shogren, Alsea; Clifford Daughtery,
Brownsville; Louis Amort, BenBon high
school, Portland: Homer Dickson, Cottage
Srove; Adolph Kleger, Clatskanie; Harry
Hedgepeth, Creswell; Berge Hvidding,
3anby; Edith Owen, Cloverdale; Arden
Panghorn, Commerce high Bchool, Portland ;
tester Lemon, Corvallis; Carl Boswell,
Central Point; Marion Gibbs, Florence;
/era Davis, Fossil; Carl Klipple, Franklin
ligh school, Portland; "Clarence Ebert,
forest Grove; Opal Van Meter, Grass
/alley; Dorotha Egger, Grants Pass;
Cenneth Van Nice, Halsey; Kenneth
dnklater, Hillsboro; Julian Ager,
(lamath Falls; Kenneth Groves, Lebanon ;
Uton Matthews, Lorane; Louis St.
)enis. Lakeside; Clark Price, La Grande;
)orothy Clark, Monmouth; Aili Enegren,
darshfield; Austen Dodge, Myrtle Pointi
Vayne Mason, Madras; Winston Rice,
dyrtle Creek; Kie Birchfield, McMinn
ville; Rolf Goerton, Merril ; Ruth Going,
darshfield : George Streff, Mill City ; Mary
Jolman, Mapleton; Genevieve McNown,
dcKenzie; Ruth Bryant, Moro; Frank
’erl, Medford; Esther Peterson, Newport;
Valter Cole, Newberg; Dan Hitchcock,
'lorth Bend; Lillian Ryker, Oregon City;
jeon Spada, Parkrose; Louis Revis,
^rineville; Chester Wheeler, Pleasant
Bill; Hazel Reese, Rainier; Paul True
dood, Roseburg; Gordon Galbraith, Red
nond: Pitt Penney, Rogue River; Carol
Converse, Riddle; Walter Kelley, Reeds*
>ort; Calvin Henry, Sutherlin ; Kenneth
Vestenhouse, Scio; John Ricks, Silverton;
)on Wilson, Spray; Alice Tomseth, Pre
ident; Addie Wray, The Dalles; Herbert
[’eylor, Thurston ; Velora Maxwell, Tang
nt; Donald Beeler, Warrenton ; Viola
lore, W«iHoo ; Everett Booster, Woodburn ;
Reginald Haight, Walker; Alpha Neuby
foncalla; Ger^d Snyder, Eugene; Don
fennimrs, Jefferson high school, Portland;
jarl Byers, Independence; Francis Reil
ng. Monroe; Humboldt Greig, Lincoln
tigh school, Portland; Roscoe Anderson,
food River; Joe Watt, Falls City; Paul
ne Isham, Leaburg; Helen Hebbing,
Joseph ; Leroy Cholds, Kerby; Rollen
rohns, Glendale; Mervyn Behnke, Astoria;
)wight Hedges, Oregon City; James
Cvans, Junction City; Alameda Darey,
leedsport: Vida Davis, Drain; John
jaley, Ashland; Fern Simpson, Santa
'lara; Mary Stephens, Crow ; Nellie
lust.
Editors and managers of high school
lewapapers, school notes, annuals and
lagazines—Mary Davis, Josephine Ral
ton, Louise Mason, Albany; lone Callo
way, Katherine Starr, Charles Robertson,
trownsville; Elsie Shultz, Bay City •
(Continued on page four.)
EIGHTH SCHOOLS
SEND DELEGATES
Student Body Organization
Held Important Factor
in Unifying Activities
YEARLY BUDGET PRAISED
Women’s Field of Interest
Broadened by Education
Say Conference Speakers
By Mary Clerin
Delegates from 80 high schools
all over the state were gathered in
Villard hall yesterday for the open
ing of the annual high school con
ference. Three hundred and fifty
high school students representing
student body officers, editors and
managers of school publications,
and officers of girls’ leagues met
in joint session.
President Campbell gave th^
welcome to the delegates telling
them what could be accomplished
by this conference. He likened edu
cation to the right arm of the state,
saying that these conferences helped
the advancement of education.
Claude Bobinson outlined the aims
of the conference as means for dis
cussing high school problems and
arriving at a solution and as an
insipration for higher education.
Student Body Discussed
Student body presidents and of
ficers discussed tho student body
as a school organization and in re
lation to the community. Girls'
league delegates held open forum
on questions pertaining to their
problems.
C. A. Howard, superintendent of
schools1 in Marshfield, pointed out
that tho value of a student body
organization in high school lay in
its powior of unifying all activities
and in developing school spirit.
Delegates agreed that a system of
requisitions and a yearly budget
wero a good solution for financial
difficulties arising from loose check
ing on spending of school funds.
School Great Enterprise
In tho afternoon session Super
intendent Howard said: “The school
is the community’s biggest enter
prise. Tlie greatest help we can
be to our community is to help
carry on our school well.” Another
way in which the student body can
cooperate with the community,
continued Mr. Howard, is to work
in conjunction on drives and cam
paigns.
Junior chambers of commerce
were recommended by those schools
that had them as a means of ob
taining the support of the towns
people. Lester Lemon, of Corvallis
high school said that it was through
their junior chamber of commerce
that they got the support of the
Corvallis chamber of commerce for
their east and west football games.
Due to the absence of John Car
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Campus Activities Featured
in “College Night” Program
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It is with “College Night” that
he prepper gets the real insight
nto the life of the University. Last
light before a crowd which filled
he women’s gymnasium to capa
city, phases of some of the most
nteresting activities on the campus
vere portrayed to the visiting dele
rates.
The selections by the University
irchestra, the Men's Glee club, the
min’s quartet, and the Women’s
llee club were thoroughly enjoyed
>y every member of the crowd as
lembled. But the part of the pro
;ram which appealed to the visi
ors perhaps the most, and which
vas one of the more impressive
lumbers, was the awarding of the
weaters by “Shy” Huntington to
the football men of the past term.
Huntington, awarding the emblems
for the last time to Oregon men,
handed out 18 sweaters.
For the first time under the new
regulations of the Women’s Athletic
association, sweaters were awarded
to five campus women who have
made the required 1000 points, by
Miss Florence Aldcn, head of the
women’s physical education depart
ment.
Frank Short, performing in hi*
usual speedy fashion, entertained
the gathering for a few minutes
with his artistic drawings and
cartoons. He might have given a
longor exhibition, but, having an
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