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8> The Sunday Emerald VOLUME XXVUNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, srXDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1924 NUMBER 99 The Bystander “Spray Prescribed’’ Holmes and Watson “The Women—Bless ’em’’ Simply His Wife. _By C, N. H. NURSE (reading) “Spray nose and throat; two drops of prescribed medicine in ear.” We get a certain amount of “kick-” out of visiting the dispensary. The rain pours out side and the branches of the firs furnish free showers to the unwary student on campus paths. We sit leisurely in the warm waiting room and glance over a Literary Digest or an Atlantic selected from the jiile on the table. Surprisingly, they are not more than a month old; at least, those we picked weren’t! In the little dark room the nurse turns the bracketed light to the right position, firmly grasps the top of your head, depresses your tongue and swabs out your throat. Stick in hand, she looks at you with a professional and critical air and, “Did I get that sore spot?” she asks .... The dispenary is just another phase of life in our rainy February and March. Two -weeks ago we re marked that it was raining and now, as with good Queen Vic, we are afraid that “she” will keep on forever! If we followed the vogue of the Portland papers (but we don’t) we would say, “Cheer up, think how much worse February and March are in other climates.” Then we would put on our palm beach suit and go out between showers to pick artificial roses from the bushes in the front yard while our picture was being taken. Well, well. Vic, Vicer and Vixen were much concerned about our being dragged into the debate on modernist literature. If the friend ly author of “To Vic, Vicer and Vixen,” in last week’s Emerald communication columns will drop around and “coffee” with Vic, Vicer, Vixen and C. N. H., the four mentioned will be glad. There was once a time (this is no fairy tale), a period in our country’s history when the womanhood of the nation was rampant, demanding suf frage. Then no man dared to criti cize women openly, unless he ^Vas well protected, for lie was at once seized and mauled (metaphorically speaking) by a swarm of belligerent females. However, it is with the assurance that women, feeling that they have at last gained equal or superior status with men in the nation, will be more tolerant and less quick to defend their banners from imaginary gibes that we offer this suggestion. There are times when men like to be alone; contrariwise, there are times when the women wish the companionship of only their sex. If this is true of social life, still more is it true of intellectual life and student work. In many of the University classes it is highly desirable to have the men and the women work together for the highest good of both. In others it is not so desirable to have them together. For no moral reason nor for the reason of the delicacy .of the subject discussed in any classroom, do we recommend segre gation for some classes, but simply because a more earnest efficiency and a deeper discussion of the sub ject in hand is reached. Many of the University faculty probably have better and more fruitful suggestions than ourselves as to the types of these classes. We only hope that this suggestion will not go unheeded. • % • Dear C. N. H.: “It takes all kind of people to make a world” is an adage which frequently has new applications. The other evening a certain well known University professor at tended the theater. He recognized in the audience an Oregon student accompanied by an attractive young woman. During the intermissions the young man took a text-book out of his pocket and bent his entire attention on the perusal of its pages until the curtain rose again. His companion sat mutely by. The professor could not make up his mind whether the cause was bashfulness or whether the young woman was simply the student’s wife. OBSERVER. Destruction of Democracy a Campus Menace By W. S. J. The Pioneer sits swathed in sack cloth, and methodically shampoos his hair with ashes. The mourners sit in long rows under the Nicotine bush and, rocking back and forth, sorrowfully chant their lamenta tion. The students blindly stumble over the campus, blank fear written on their faces. The campus is menaced! A new terror now threatens the peaceful tranquillity of our little community. War?—No, far ,. worse. Famine? No, far worse. Pestilence? No, far worse. The democracy of our college is threatened. The students are buying .automobiles andi fur coats! The prodigal children of the wan ton rich are spending their gold for numerous costly automobiles, and for fur coats, so expensive that the price of one alone would feed a workingman’s family of nine chil dren for 27 weeks. It is true that most of these costly automobiles are palsied flivvers of the sixth or seventh hand. It is also true that most of the fur coats are the back yard Bunny and the alley Torn masquerading as Hudson Seal and Grey Squirrel. But it is not the money which is in volved, but the principle of the I thing. The spluttering motor ear, i no matter how antique, is the sym bol of plutocracy, and the fur coat, no matter how ratty, spells wealth and power to the hoi polloi. The poor but proud student see ing one of his luckier and wealthier brothers sailing by in his costly Ford, will be so chagrined that he will be tempted to take the prussic acid route. The beautiful, but im poverished co-ed seeing her sisters wrapped in their sleek Seal (rabbit) coats will be so mortified that she will most likely desert higher edu cation for Hollywood and the cellu loid fame. We must protect our democracy. We must not permit our impover ished majority to see our wealthy minority in motor ears and fu,r coats. The sight of such evidences of wealth will make our students envious, and envy is the foe of democracy. Democracy must be preserved. The great unwashed must not bo permitted to see the motor cars and fur coats. The solution is obvious. We shall provide them with blinders of the style once popular with re fractory cart horses, and with their vision thus hampered, all will be saved. Wrestlers Lose to Idaho, 58-30 Varsity Captures Two of Five Matches UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, MOS COW, Idaho, Feb. 16.—(Special to the Emerald)—The University of Oregon lost its first wrestling meet on its northern trip to the Univer sity of Idaho at Moscow, 58 to 30. Oregon won two mathces out of five. Whitcomb of Oregon, in the Oregon won two matches out of three decisions, while Robertson, in the 145-pound division, succeeded in tossing his opponent to the mat for two decisions. The feature of the meet was the bout between Wells of Oregon and Vesser, Idaho, at 175 pounds. Wells took the first bout on a decision, the second was judged a draw, and the third was won by Vesser, neces sitating an extra match, which Ves ser took on a fall in four minutes and 45 seconds. Bitner, of Idaho, took the 125 pound match from Ford, of Oregon, on two straight falls, while Kinni son, of Idaho, took his match with French, of Oregon, in two straight falls. All other matches went the full three periods. Summary: 125 pounds—First bout, Bittner, Idaho, winning from Ford, Oregon, on fall in 2:58. Second bout, Bitt ner, Idaho, winning in 3:36. 135 pounds—First bout, Derr, Idaho, winning from Whitcomb, Oregon, on decision. Second bout and third bout, Whitcomb, Oregon, winning on decision. 145 pounds—First bout, Wicks, Idaho, winning from Robertson, Oregon, on decision. Second and (Continued on Page Two.) Hart Heads Trade Group An alert, pleasant-spoken man, who evidently was master of his subject—advertising—held an in terested audience of trade and class journalists at their meeting in the journalism library yesterday morn ing. In an easy, conversational tone, the speaker advised, counseled, suggested. His subject was “How to Get Foreign Advertising for the Trade and Class Publications.” Back in 1904 and ’05, this man was a student at the University of Chicago. He had probably never considered advertising very seri ously then. He was learning foot ball from Alonzo Stagg, and he was a quick pupil. Ralph Morrison did so well, in fact, that he made the varsity, playing fullback and half back, stepping in Bezdek’s shoes. Now he is just as successful in the advertising “game” as he was in the gridiron sport. Mr. Morrison is business manager of Western Farmer. Sigma Chi is his fraternity affiliation. Stephen Hart, publisher of the Commercial Review, who was re elected president of the Trade and Class Publication association, is a graduate of Northwestern Univer sity and a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Mr. Hart is a veteran in the trade paper field. George Angell, who retired as secretary treasurer, claims Syracuse Univer sity as his alma mater. He wears the pin of Phi Gamma Delta. F. H. “Dutch” Young, gradu ate of the University of Oregon Advertising is Discussion By Ralph Casey (Continued on page three) Haunted House—Towers ^ 9 v 9 Winding Stairs and Ghosts By Ed Miller Familiar to every University stu dent is the old and many gabled house, eommonly known as the “Haunted House,” situated near the business section of the town where Ninth street classes the mill race. Hand in hand with this rem nant of an older Eugene, goes a curious story, of unknown origin, also well known to the successive generations of students. The story runs something like this: Many years ago—no one has ever known the date—a man de cided to build himself a house. Everything progressed nicely until the construction on the first of two towers was started. One night a ghost appeared to the builder. “If you complete this tower,” prophe sied the ghost, “your wife will die.” The owner thought nothing of it. Even thf sudden illness of his wife did not deter him, and the tower was completed. Immediately the wife died. When the second tower was started, the ghost again made a noc turnal visitation, with the warning that death would claim his daugh ter upon completion of the tower. Construction proceeded—and the daughter became ill. At this junc ture the owner took heed and the tower has never been finished. So much for the story. The truth is a different matter. William Campbell, who lives in the house at the present time, built it in 1893. His wife, who, accord ing to the story, died many years ago, is still very much alive. And the daughter, who so narrowly es caped death, never existed. Fur thermore, no deaths have occurred (Continued on page three) Editors Make Plans to Help Gift Campaign Committee of Five is Appointed to Carry Out Publicity. Work Officers Elected By Mary Clerin Tn accordance with the resolution massed at the banquet of newspaper nen Friday.night, George P. Cheney, retiring president of the conference, ippointed a committee of Paul R. Kelty, Klhert Bede, A. F. Voorhies, 3. C. Leiter, Robert Sawyer, and Fd >ar McDaniel to carry out plans for riding the University in its gift campaign. Flbert Bede reported at the lun cheon that the first meeting had been held and that the plans were under ivav. More time will be needed to complete the program, he said. Officers Are Elected The results of the election of offi cers for the next conference were innouneed as Fdgar McDaniel of the North Bend Coos Bay TTarbor, presi dent, Dean Frie W. Allen, chairman if the program committee, and Pro fessor George Turnbull, secretary. Further announcements at the lun cheon were the resolutions drawn by he resolutions committee of Dee D. Drake. M. D. Morgan, and Hal F. Floss. These were four in number. The conference expressed its appre ciation, through the resolutions, for he entertainment accorded them. Condolence was extended to the Wash ngton press association on the death if its president, N. Russell Hill. Tt was resolved by the conference hat the editors study the recommen lations of the program and adhere o the principle of co-operation among ippropriate economic bodies in work ng out agricultural and related prob lems. Law Changes Suggested The conference also took the itand of requesting that the present aw covering printed post office statement of ownership and circula tion be amended so that the penalty for misstatement of ownership shall (Continued on page three) ' Sidelights Taken I Here and There in I Conference Meet ! o By Leonard Lerwill Elbert, Bede, of the Cottage Grove 3entinel, injected a bit of sensa lion into the conferenee meeting Saturday “morning” when he aunched a prolonged attack on the English used by the school of jour lalism in getting out the program. From that document,, Mr. Bede, ifter overriding many protests, •ead the statement that the confer ence would convene at 9:.10 Satur day “morning.” “Now any editor knows,” the Sentinel editor continued, “that norning means somewhere around laylight. Who in the world ever rot the idea that 9:n0 a. m. was ‘morning.” Hal E. Hoss, of the Oregon City Enterprise, repeatedly “rose to the point of order.” “I may be out of order,” Mr. Bede conceded, “but my vocal or gans are not, and I expect to con tinue my objections to the wording if this program.” Dean Erie W. Allen, of the school if journalism, kept his seat in iilence when called upon to defend the school from the charge that it lid not know what the word “morn ng” meant. Some of the students quietly ob served that the term “morning” night not be understood very well iround the shack, but that every Emerald worker has a pretty good anderstanding of all the terms that ipply to the hours just before norning. * * • Ralph R. Cronise, of the Albany Democrat, a graduate with the class if 1911, likes to recall the time n the fall of 1908 when his class (Continued on page three) An Editor’s Interpretation of the Conference By O. C. Leitcr (Manaping Editor, the I’orttamt Telegram) When the gentlewomanly news edi tor of the Sunday Emerald requested me to write my impressions of the Editorial conference, I felt a great deal as i did the day that my first city editor, Newman Joseph Levin son, give me my first assignment on the Oregonian. I remember that day well. lie asked me to see a gentleman in the Chamber of Commerce building and to ask him if he had sold a certain piece of real estate. The gentleman an swered, “No.” I returned and re ported to Mr. Levinson. “Did you ask him what he was going to do with it!” he asked. I answered, “No.” “Well,” he said, “Run right back and ask him.” T did. I went back and asked him all the questions T could think of. 'Finally, hard-pressed, the gentleman “came through.” It seemed he didn’t bwn the property at all. Therefore he told me the truth when he said he had not sold it. It belonged to the trustees of an educational institution, of which he was one. They had met and had made plans for improving the | property. I got the facts finally and returned to the office and wrote them down. Next morning a story a stick or so long was printed in the Oregonian. It taught me a good lesson. I was never afterwards con tented with a superficial covering of a news assignment. And I always J afterwards asked plenty of questions. My impression of the editorial conference? My first thought was to answer as 'did the lady who rode in the ferris j wheel at the Chicago exposition. She had a notebook and, before the great wheel started to revolve and to take her up in the air for a view of the great exposition, had written on a blank page the following: j “My impressions of mv ride in the ferris wheel. j The wheel revolved. She was car ried up in the air. Finally she reached terra firina again. j Seizing her trusty pencil, she i grasped her notebook again and ’wrote: “None.” But that would not be telling the truth. My first impression of the editor- j (Continued on page three) Oregon Takes Whitman Game Score Is 5 1 -28; Latham Stars in Contest WHITMAN COLLEGE, WALLA WALLA, Wash., Fob. 16.—(Special to the Emerald)—The University of Oregon quintet won from the Whitman five here tonight, 51-28, in a desultory contest that was mar red by uncalled fouls and general slowness of the game. The Mission aries started out the game with a rush and led for the first seven or eight minutes, as both teams were checking closely and Oregon trying only long shots. “Hunk” Latham was the out standing star of the game with his floor work and 18 points. Hobson and Shafer both showed up well, the former making 12 points and the latter working well witli the offensive. The half ended with the score 27-16, in favor of the visitors. York led the missionaries in points by ringing five baskets and 5 in 6 fouls. Yenney played well with his floor work and passing. The summary: Whitman 28 Oregon 51 York 15 .F. 12 Hobson Fry 6 .F. 9 Go wans Yenney 4 .C. 18 Latham Kent 2 .G . 2 Gillenwaters Jackson .G. 9 Shafer Substitutions—Douglas (1) for Jackson, Faust for Kent. Fouls converted—York 5 in 6; A'enney 2 in 2, Douglas 1 in 1, Hob son 5 in 6, Gowans 1 in 2, Gillen waters 0 in 1, Shafer 1 in 1. Referee—Penlan, U. of ,0. Track Meet Is Won by Varsity Men’s Determination Pleases Coach In a driving rain, yesterday, the varsity track athletes won over the freshmen by six points. The meet was hotly contested, until the varsity milers won the first three places in their race; in spite of the fact that 'the frosh won four firsts in the seven other events they were unable to over come this lead. The final score was varsity, 391/4; freshmen 33y2. Coach Hayward expressed his ap preciation at the interest the men are showing by turning out for a carnival in such nasty weather, and said that if this fight and determination holds, Oregon is going to put a team in the various meets this spring which will fight like Oregon teams should fight, and that fight is what wins track meets as much as any other type of competition. The results of the different events are as follows: high hurdles, Hall, F, Cruthers, V, and Ronenburg and Codings, varsity and frosh tiod for third. Low hurdles, Young, Y, Hud Clark, F, wore the only two entries. Four-forty, Risley, V, Wilbur, F, Ager, Y. First heat of the 100, Tuck, V, Stonebreaker, F, Moore, F. Se cond heat of the 100, Rodda, F, Kin ney. V, Cach, F. The milers and the half milers each ran a 000 yard race. The result of the milers’ contest: McColl, Crarv, and Schultz, all varsity. The half niilers, Swank, F, Keating, V, and Teiz, V. Broad jump: Flannagan, F, Young, V, and Cray, F. On account of the rain packing (Continued on page three) Student Union Buildings * * * * * * A Comparison of Plans Tlie University of Washington is laying plans for the erection of a student union building, following the reduction of the debt for their stadium. The plan which they con sider at present is very like that of the California union. It will pro vide for all their needs and still will not be impractical, as a struc ture as large as that at Michigan would be, they believe. In a communication received here from the comptroller, Herbert T. Condon, the two unions are com pared. “Some of us here are-of the impression that Michigan’s wonder ful union has rather set Washing ton’s aims too high,” Condon says. “Their million dollar building is truly magnificent but so far beyond our needs or possibilities here that little but discouragement can result from our looking to it for guid ance. California’s union is differ ent. It is less of a hotel and more of the ‘civic center’ tliat all stu dent. bodies need. “It is a practical building, built on a practical plan of financing, and seems to fill to the utmost the needs of the students in their many business cooperations. The building cost $300,000 and the largest single subscription was for $25,000. “The California associated stu dents’ book store, which did more than $300,000 worth of business last year, occupies nearly the entire first floor of the union building. A lunch counter and cafeteria daily serve hundreds of students who ‘stop and shop’ while in the build ing. Upstairs are committee rooms, lounging rooms, A. S. U. C. head quarters, mimeographing offices and alumni official headquarters. “A large room furnished and (Continued on page three) Business Men to Meet Here for Convention Merchants Will Arrive on Special Train at 4:45 This Afternoon Vining to Speak About 200 merchants, not includ ing local business men, are expected to attend the twentieth annual con vention and short courses of the Oregon Retail Merchants’ associa tion that are to be held on the campus under the cooperative man agement of the school of business administration. The convention, starting Sunday evening, will con tinue until Wednesday night. Vining to Speak A special caravan and train will arrive from Portland Sunday after noon about 4:45. Dinner in the palm room at the Osburn hotel Will be the opening affair of the convention, after which University vespers will be held at 7:45 in the Y. M. 0. A. hut with Irving E. Vining, of Ashland, as speaker for the occasion, lecturing on “Vitaliz ing Your Abilities.” Tlie conference is divided into trade divisions, each under a chair man, and business will be conducted after a general meeting of all ses sions. Five trado divisions, which will be represented are: dry goods and department store divisions, grocery trade divisions, meat trade, Oregon shoo retailers ’ association, and men’s wear division. Round table discussions will be held at all these special meetings at which various phases of that particular subject will be discussed. Green Caps Feature After registration of guests on Monday morning the convention will be called to order by Dean E. C. Robbins, of the school of busi ness administration. Dean William G. Hale, of the school of law, will give the opening address in place of President P. L. Campbell. Green frosh caps will be a feature of the convention, as it was decided last year that the convention would be run on a scholastic basis, making first-year attendants wear the caps of green. Sophomore hats will be worn by the merchants who at tended last year. The annual election of officers will take place Wednesday after noon and the convention place for next year will be chosen. The an nual banquet at the Osburn hotel will conclude the program. Doughnut Mat Meet Monday The intramural wrestling tourna ment will start Monday, March 3, and continue throughout the week. Hank Foster, director of the intra mural program, announced last week that the names of the men on the teams should have been turned in to him last Friday, but as only a few houses responded, the date has been extended until to morrow evening. Each house may enter only ono man in each of the weights, which are 118, 125, 135, 145, 158, 175, and unlimited. The men of each weight will be matched by drawing. Foster says that any man defeated in tho early rounds who believes that he is better than the ones that have reached the finals has a right to is sue a challenge. The main object is to have the best men wrestle in the finals. Every man that expects to par ticipate in the toiu-nan^ent must put in seven workouts previous to the opening of the meet. Only two weeks remain for the men to round in condition. Sheets have been placed in the physical education office for the men to sign before going out for training. Ilank Foster wishes to warn the houses that have not paid their $2.00 fee for the year that they do so immediately or be dropped from the intramural league. Only about half of the houses have paid the fee and if some of the leaders are dropped those that have been near the foot of the list will be advanced toward the top.