Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLtJME XXV _'_UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY. JANUARY 22. 1924_NUMBER 7g
NEWSPAPER MEN
TO HAVE MEETING
Program For Sixth Annual
Conference on Campus
Rapidly Being Completed
DEAN ALLEN WILL SPEAK
February 15 and 16 Date
Set For Affair; Course
in Newswriting is Planned
Plans for the sixth annual confer
ence of Oregon newspaper men, to be
held February 15 and 16 on the cam
pus, are rapidly nearing completion.
A conference of the faculty has been
called for today to talk over matters
pertaining to the event. Professional
journalistic problems of the state, in
cluding those of the business office
^ and the advertising department, will
' be discussed, and several faculty
members will give addresses.
Opening is Friday
Dean Eric Allen of the school of
journalism will describe the Euro
pean newspaper offices and their me
thod of publishing, and will give a
comparison of American and conti
nental journalism. Dean Colin V.
Dyment, who is the author of the
Oregon code for newspaper men, will
be in charge, of a short course in
newswriting which many of the edi
tors will take.
The conference will open Friday
morning and several prominent news
paper men are to be on the program.
Print shop problems will be the prin
cipal topic in the afternoon, and lead
ing state printers will take an ac
tive part in this phase of journalism.
The annual banquet will be an event
at the Osburn hotel in the evening in
honor of the newspaper men. Fac
ulty men, students, and townspeople
will attend this function.
Ad Club Entertains
The University advertising club is
sponsoring a breakfast Saturday
morning for visiting advertising men.
Advertising problems will be dis
cussed during the morning session
and prominent advertising men of
the state will lead the discussions. A
luncheon at Hendricks hall is planned
for Saturday noon, and journalism
students will participate in this.
Under the direction of the Ben
Franklin club of Oregon, the after
noon will be devoted to print shop
problems. An informal round table
talk at the College Side Inn will oc
cupy the attention of the journalists
on Saturday evening.
Conference to he Large
The increased success of each suc
ceeding conference leads those in
charge of the affair to believe that
a greater number of newspaper men
than ever before will attend this
year.
A paper by Arthur W. Priaulx, of
Drain, Oregon, on some phase of
journalism, will be read as a part of
the program for the conference, and
is Being anticipated by those plan
ning to be present.
Officials of the organization are
f George P. Cheney, editor of the n
terprise Record-Chieftain, president;
Nate Elliot of Salem, president of
the Ben Franklin club; Hal E. Hoss,
of the Oregon City Enterprise, presi
dent of the state editorial association.
S. B. WARNER TO SPEAK
District Attorney’s Association in
Portland to Hear Paper
Professor Sam B. Warner, of the
school of law, is to lecture at the
annual meeting of the Association
of District Attorneys of Oregon, in
Portland on Friday and Saturday
of this week. “Beview of Crim
inal Cases Decided by the Supreme
Court in the State of Oregon in
1923” is the topic of the paper Pro
fessor Warner will present on Fri
day afternoon’s program.
Dean William G. Hale, of the
school of law, will also attend the
meeting and will cooperate in help
ing with the presentation of the
program. The enforcement of the
prohibition law is to occupy more
or less the center of the stage at
the meeting, and the subjects of
traffic laws and criminal investiga
i tion are also to be up for discus
sion.
Leap Year Tea
for Mere Men
Is Girls’ Latest
All Sorts of Dainties
Included In Menu
“Leap-year teas” don't happen
every year. So that is why the
event scheduled for Thursday is to
be such an outstanding affair in
the social calendar of the week.
With such a title the men of
the University must know it is for
their special benefit. And so it is,
and they are especially urged to
attend the affair which will be
held in the Y. W. C. A. Bungalow
from 2 to 6 o’clock, Thursday af
ternoon.
At the “Leap-Year Tea-room”
there will be served all varieties
of sweets and confections, the com
plete menu being announced later.
Special music is to be given says
May Ban Yurpillat, in charge.
MANY STUDENTS FAIL
TO SION UP PROPERLY
Petitions For Changing of
Courses Not Filed
The numbers of students who
have failed to drop courses they
have not passed and who have gone
into other classes wjthout register
ing in them is very large, accord
ing to Miss Gertrude Stephenson of
the registrar’s office. Miss Stephen
son is in charge of checking the in
formation cards filled out in all
classes with the year’s study pro
gram.
The cheeking has been completed
alphabetically through part of the
D’s, and there have been found |
over fifty who have either neglected
to drop a course or who are attend
ing some class for which they are
not registered. Failure to have reg
istered for a new course means that
no credit can be given for that sub
ject. In case that a student has not'
dropped the remaining two terms
of an a, b, c course that he has
flunked in, a failure is given him
for those two terms, also.
Wednesday is the last day on
which petitions to drop courses will
be accepted without having these
petitions go before a committee.
Miss Stephenson urges that all stu
dents who have not taken measures
to drop the remaining two terms of
a, b, c courses failed in, do so
immediately.
Another phase which causes
trouble is that brought about by
students who are attending classes
without being properly registered in
them. Under the new system of
registration for the year, new
courses must be added the first two
weeks of each term. Many stu
dents have signed with the in
structor of a course without making
the change with the registrar. No
credit can be given for the course
until the student has it enrolled
on his study program.
The problem of notifying all
those who are attending classes in
which they are not registered is a
large one. If a list of those who
have some error on their study pro
gram were published, said Miss
Stephenson, it would be almost as
much work as putting out a second
scandal sheet.
FOREIGN CLUB MEETS
Cosmopolitans Have Open Session
Everyone Asked to Attend
Cosmopolitan club will meet at
the Y. M. C. A. hut tonight for an J
interesting meeting. There will be
a program of speakers and a dis
cussion of tpoics that were taken
up at the student volunteer conven- j
tion will be held.
The meeting tonight will be an
open one and anyone interested in
foreign affairs is asked to attend, j
Any foreign-born student is entitled
to membership in the club as well
as any one interested in other coun
tries.
BASEBALL PRACTICE TO BE
IN ORDER SOON AT U. OP C.
University of California — Cali
fornia’s baseball players will start
the 1924 season with a practice
game on January 28. Twenty games
have been booked for the Bears, in
cluding three games with Stanford
'on April 12, 19 and 26.
Teams Will Participate in
Triangular Debate With
0. A. C. and Willamette
MEET TO BE IN FEBRUARY
Evacuation of Ruhr Region
is Question For Debate;
One of Vital Interest
Mildred Bateman, Dorothj^ Ab
bott, Margaret Woodson, and Mild
dred Whitcomb, have been chosen
as the members of the women’s var
sity debate teams, which will meet
Oregon Agricultural college and
Willamette university in a tri
angular meet some time in Febru
ary. The four were selected at the
final tryouts held last Saturday in
which six other women participated.
Miss Bateman and Miss Whit
comb will make up the affirmative
team, while Miss Woodson and Miss
Abbott will compose the negative
team.
Team is Experienced
Both Miss Bateman and Miss
Woodson debated on the varsity
teams last year, both having made
the varsity squad in their freshman
year. Miss Whitcomb was a mem
ber of the Susan Campbell hall
teams which last year won the
Zeta Kappa Psi cup in the do-nut
debate series, Tvhile Miss Abbott
was a member of the Delta Zeta
teams which won both the Zeta
Kappa Psi cup and the Tau Kappa
Alpha cup in the finish of the do
nut series this year.
Question of Interest
The question picked out for the
February meet is, “Resolved: That
France should immediately evacuate
the Ruhr district.” “The question
is one of vital interest to the peo
ple in this country today, and links
closely to events transpiring in
Europe, and is therefore a timely
subject for debate,” said Gerrit
Demmink, assistant debate coach.
Oregon’s affirmative team will
meet the O. A. C. negative team
in Eugene, and the campus nega
tive team will go to Salem to de
bate the Willamette affirmative
team.
Debaters Work Hard
The winners, as well as the rest
of the debate squad, have been
working on the question for sever
al weeks. Judges at Saturday’s
tryout were: C. D. Thorpe, head of
the written and Spoken English de
partment 1 H. E. Rosson, debate
coach, and Gerrit Dpmmink, assist
ant debate coach.
The contest in February will be
the first debate of the year for the
women. Another debate, a dual
meet with the University of Cali
fornia, will be held sometime in
1 May. A similar meet was held
last year in which the Oregon wo
men were victorious.
GRADE SYSTEM BANNED
Only Failing Marks to be Given Out
at Michigan University
University of Michigan—A new
system of distributing grades at the
University of Michigan, arising from
a desire that students pay less at
tention to individual grades and
more attention to the subjects
treated in the course, wTas passed at
a meeting of the faculty of the
school of law and will take effect
immediately in that school.
By this new plan, students will
not know what grades they have
received in any particular course
unless a failure is recorded. They
will be informed only of the num
ber of hours of each grade which
they received during the semester.
EMERALD NEWS EDITORS
WILL DISCUSS PROBLEMS
Several important problems con
cerning copy desk problems of the
Emerald will be discussed at a
short meeting of the Emerald news
editors and all students who are
part or full-time copy readers. The
editor and managing editor will
lead the discussion. The group of
special writers on the staff are also
invited to attend the meeting
scheduled at 12:45 today.
FARCE PORTRAYS
LIFE OF THEATER
‘The Dress Rehearsal’ to be
Given in Guild Hall by
Junior Drama Company
DAVID SWANSON IN LEAD
! Large Cast Including Many
Campus Stars Will be
Seen in Amusing Comedy
‘‘The Dress Rehearsal,” which
! will be presented by the junior
company at-Guild hall next Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, is a
farce concerning the theatrical pro
fession. In it a play is cast, re
i hearsed and performed. The idea
| is so excellently handled that
throughout the whole play the
humor never loses its freshness and
interest is well sustained.
Plot is Outlined
Jerome Del den, a wealthy young
“man about town,” is in love with
a young ingenue, Rettina Dean. Ho
joins her company to be near her
and his attempts to act are not the
least amusing feature of the play.
Her mother, however, has positive
ideas about her daughter’s future
as a star; and firmly refuses to al
low the lovers to marry. Belden
decides on what he thinks to be a
clever idea; he decides to back Bet
tina in a play which will be a com
plete failure on Broadway, , and
makes the arrangements unknown
to “Dora’s Dilemna,” the play de
to “Dora’s Dilemma,” the play de
cided upon, and the amusing twist
at the end, sustains interest to the
end.
David Swanson, who played in
“The Green Goddess,” “Dover
Road,” and “Peter Ibbetson,” this
year, will play Jerome Belden, with
Gerda Brown playing opposite him.
Reddie Directs Comedy
Katherine Pinneo and Terva Hub
bard will play the leading character
roles; those of Mrs. Dean and Max
Rosenbaum. Tompkins, the stage
manager, and Effie, the actress, will
be played by Paul Krausse and
Beth Fariss. Others in the cast
are Henry Sheldon, Walter Malcolm,
Bernard McPhillips, Lexro Prilla
man, Helen Mayer, Florence Crouch,
Florence Crandall, Clifford Zehrung,
Tom Hines, John Ellestad, Gordon
Wilson, Virgil Mulkey, and Wade
Kerr. Mr. Reddie is directing the
comedy.
Tickets for “The Dress • Re
hearsal” will be on sale January 23,
at 9 a. m., at Guild hall. Prices
are 50 and 75 cents.
The next play by the senior and
junior companies will be the
j “School for Scandal,” by Sheridan,
a classical comedy and will prob
ably be given in the near future.
BIG SISTERS HOLD FORTH
Tea Hour Moved to from 4 to 6;
New Sponsors Added
A “Big Sister” tea will be given
by the Women’s league, Wednes
day afternoon, 4 to 6, instead of
the regular tea scheduled for that j
day. Additions have been made to |
the former list of sponsors and
include women who have registered
in the University this term. This
list is posted on the bulletin board
in the library. All uppercdass wo
men are urged to consult the list
and take the.“little sisters” to the
tea. Five cents per couple will be
charged.
Genevieve Phelps has been ap
pointed to act as chairman of the
“Big Sister” committee and take
the place of Luella rfausler who is
not in school this term.
MONTANA HAS COLLECTION
OF OLD BOOKS IN LIBRARY
University of Montana.—(By P.
I. N. S.)—-One of the features of
the new library on the University
of Montana campus is the collection
of manuscripts and histories of the
northwest dating back to 1820. The
collection contains many volumes
of history, several of them being
the original works, a complete set
of the session laws of Montana, old
newspapers and photographs of In
dian warfare, and rare manuscripts
and papers.
“WE ARE THE SOCIAL PROBLEM/’
COMMENTS ENGLISH VISITOR
AT EASTERN CONVENTION
Religious Topics of Toddy Are Discussed by
Canon Woods, Rector of Cambridge Church;
“Is Religion Luggage or Does It Carry You?”
By Lester Turnbaugh
“God's way of life is concerned
with the whole of life; thore is no
pious realm' sot apart for the rest
of life. Though we are in the
kingdom of God, we act like
strangers in a strange country.”
Slowly, thoughtfully, and with
perfect poise, Canon Edward S.
Woods, rector Holy Trinity church,
Cambridge, England held his vast,
educated audience at the Indian
apolis convention with apparent
ease while he uttered with the re
gularity of clock work concise, yet
pithy, statements liko the above.
He spoke on four successive morn
ings on the subjects, “What Do We
Believe About God?” “Sin and
Forgiveness,” “The Church and the
Kingdom of God,” and “What Are !
the Sources of Power?”
In this group of six or seven
thousand delegates were those who .
held all shades of beliefs ranging
from strict fundamentalists to the
more or less radical liberalists. They
represented scores of different Pro
testant denominations. Yet all were
forced to listen to the logic, the
simplicity, the depth of thought,
the sincerity of this educated
pastor, lecturer and author.
“It is of most vital concern that
our thoughts about God be right
thoughts,” he cautioned his audi
ence in his opening address. lie
followed this with a succession of
short sentences, each of which is
food for thought.
“Too many people worship their
religion instead of God. Any re
vealing of God which is adequate
must be made in a personal way.
The greatest thing any man can
discover is to learn that God is
what .Tesus said he was. God is
inconceivably greater than we, but
not opposite us,” wore some of the
high points in his first talk.
Speaking on “Sin and Forgive
ness,'” he said:
“We are the social problem; it j
cannot be outside us. The final
(Continued on page three)
WRESTLING PROSPECTS
Five Men Drop Team Work;
Lightweights Weak
From reports that have been sent
out, O. A. C.’s wrestling possibili
ties are decidedly drear for the
opening meet with Oregon on Feb
ruary 9. Five of Coach D. O. Fer
rell’s first string men are out of the
running because of injuries sus
tained in practice.
Coach Widmer has a strong group
of men out for the light-heavy
weight berth, while the O. A. C.
mentor is calling for men in this
weight. Akers, who held down the
job last year, is going strong with
Wells and Mills close right behind.
The O. A. C. coach has lost three
men in the light-heavy-weight divi
sion, which left him in rather a bad
condition. Mattson, 175 pound man,
received a strained shoulder muscle
which will put him on the shelf.
Frank Bryan, middleweight defender,
dropped out of practice because of
illness. Pierce Walker, a 135 pound
grappler, will probably be out for
the season because of a dislocated
knee. Carl Avrit, a light heavy,
dropped out of school, which will
keep him from representing the
orange and black in the Oregon meet.
Tt seems that Harvey Robertson,,
who is almost sure of landing the
145 pound berth again, will probably
meet Jerry Heston in the meet with
the Corvallis lads. Tt was expected
that Robin Reed would enter in the
welterweight class, but he may go on
at some other weight.
With only three weeks left before
the opening meet, Coach Widmer is
working his men overtime in order
to put his men on edge for the meet.
From present indications Oregon has
a good chance to send the O. A. C.
group home with the small end of
the score. But it is, as yet, a ques
tion that cannot be answered, for the
visitors may arrive with a strong
aggregation of grapplers.
SCHOOL MAN TO SPEAK
Illustrated Lecture Will be Given
to Commerce Students
“Investigation of Speech,” is the
topic of an illustrated lecture to
be given by George B. Thomas,
educational director of the Western
Electric company, at the school of
business administration Thursday
evening at 8:00 o’clock in room
105.
Mr. Thomas, a graduate of Ohio
State university, is on a lecture
tour of the country, and has a re
putation as an educator and illus
trator. He. is speaking before the
student body at O. A. C. on Thurs
day afternoon and will come to the
campus directly from there. Mr.
Thomas’ lecture is the first one
given at the school of' business ad
ministration this term, and is open
to anyone interested in attending.
SIGMA PI TAU DEFEATS
PHI SIGAAA PI PLAYERS
Beta Team Outplays Delts
in One-Sided Match
Sigma Pi Tau annexed a hard
fought match from the Phi Sigma
Pi representatives in the doughnut
handball league A, yesterday after
noon, when the score was finally de
cided at 18-21, 21-15, 22-20. The
match was fast and was hard fought,
with the final outcome in doubt un
til the last play of the deciding game.
The Sigma Pi Tau team was com
posed of Gabriel and Phillips, and
Phi Sigma Pi of Huston and Wood
ward;
The Betas walked away with their
match in league B by decisively de
feating the Dolt team, 21-6, 21-4. The
Beta team composed of Beatie and
Westergrer. put up a fast brand of
handball and decisively outplayed
their opponents in all departments of
the game. Heerdt and Kilgore
formed the Belt combination.
Tn the game last week-end the Phi
Psis won from the Sigma Pi Tau
team 21 -7, and 21-9, in two easy games.
The victory classes the winners as a
dangerous contender for the cham
pionship of league A, and as a parti
cipant in the finals. Tn the game
Saturday the Sigma Chi handballers
took the hardest fought match of
the week by winning two torrid
games from the Kappa Delta Phis,
22-20, 22-20. Both contests were
bitterly contested and the winners
had to go into extra points to decide
the match.
The games so far have been for
the most part very closely contested
and the vicing teams seem to be fair
ly evenly matched. There aro some
excellent handball players in the
school and some of the teams are
putting up a brand of ball that is
hard to boat. The contests in the
various leagues are being hard-fought
and any aggregation will have to dis
play a mean ability at the game in
order to get into the second round.
Some of the teams seem to have an
edge on the others but it should be
a figlit-to-the-finish.
Thegames for tomorrow are:
Phi Delta Theta vs. Chi Psi at
4 p. m.
Psi Kappa vs. A. T. 0. at 5 p. m.
OLD CULTURE REVEALED
BY U. OF C EXPLORATIONS
University of California—(By P.
T. N. S.)—Members of the depart
ment of anthropology have recent
ly been conducting researches in
the lake region of the San Joaquin
valley to determine the character
of the prehistoric Indian culture of
that region. Ancient mounds in
the vicinity of Tulare, Buena Vista,
and Kern Lake were excavated.
Th^ university’s explorations re
veal an Indian culture in the San
Joaquin valley which was very
highly developed. These excava
tions show that the Indians lived
there thousands of years ago.
CINDER ARTISTS
Competition Will be Held
Every Saturday Morning
For the Next Few Weeks
COACH WANTS MORE MEN
Any Man Willing to Work
Faithfully Can Make His
Letter, Says Bill Hayward
Oregon, has two traek stars of na
tional reputations and several men
who 'are sure point winners in any
meet, yet in spite of that fact, ac
cording to Bill Hayward, the
chances of a winning track team
this spring are not too good. “More
men, more men,” Bill exclaimed.
“There are good men on this
campus who should be reporting out
in suits, and for some reason they
are not doing it,” he said.
Training Vital Factor
Training is a vital factor, in, fact
one might say, the vital factor Bill
states, and now is tho time to start
this training. The bright weather
of the past two days has brought
one or two ambitious men out; and
has considerably heartened those
who have beon grinding away for '
the past few months during the
time when old man winter has had
his say. For the time being the
work in the inside quarters has been
abandoned; but tho material is
handy and will quickly be installed
if needed.
Ability to perform under com
petition is a desirable quality that
Mr. Hayward intends to develop in
his proteges during the next few
weeks of training. “There are two
kinds of men,” he said. “Those who
make their best records while prac
ticing, and those who perform best
when they are heartened by the
cheers of the spectators.” Bill ex
plained that though the last type
of man was the most valuable it
was possible to train a candidate
so that, while he might never be
inspired sufficiently to better his
best practice record in actual com
petition, he could at least do his
best under these circumstances.
Track Meets Planned
“We are going to have track
meets every Saturday for the next
few w;eeks,” he remarked, concern
ing his plans for this training dur
ing the winter months. In these
meets Bill intends to have the men
work at different events than those
which they are training to enter
in, and thus get the habit of work
ing under competition when at a
disadvantage. He hopes by this
method to bring the men past that
period of self-consciousness that ^
seems to “tighten” some of them
up whoa they make their public ap
pearance. ^
“Men who will stick” is Hay
ward’s plea. While it isn’t record
ed that Bill ever made a sprinter
out of a woodonleggcd person, still
ho has performed some feats that
are almost as impossible in the way
of developing seemingly useless as
pirants for track fame.
More Men Needed
“There is a time in almost every
man’s eollege caroer,” says Bill,
’’When it is possible for a track
man to make a letter; providing
he trains faithfully.” With this in
centive, as well as for the love of
the sport alone a good many men
are turning out; but there is room
for several times as many, and ac
cording to Bill, himself, he would
welcome every one who comes out
with the determination to “stay
with the game.”
“RED” NORRIS TO VAULT
FOR OLYMPICS IN SPRING
University of California—“Red”
Norris, star pole vaulter for Cali
fornia for the past three years, will
wear a winged “O” suit this spring,
according to a recent announcement
by Charlie Hunter, Olympic club
track coach. Norris is still attend
ing University of California, but
is barred from further service on
the varsity because of his three
years previous intercollegiate com
petition. Norris tied with “Bill”
Black of Stanford in the big meet
last year.