Oregon Daily Emerald VOLUME XXV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY. ABRIL 8, 1924 NUMBER 128 Campaign Will Halt All Other University Work; Drive to Start April 23 STATE WATCHES EFFORT Earl Shafer to be Leader of Seniors for Drive; Others Are Appointed By J. W. P. Tli ere comes a time when all things must cease. And it might as well be said right here and now that the University plant will just about have to come to a standstill on the four days which are being set aside for the Student Union campaign. These should be crowd ing days in student history. They will be days of activity, of serious thought, of calculation and imagin ing. Neither Claude Robinson, Haddon Roekhey, nor anyone else connected in any capacity with the Student Union campaign think that aca demic. work will stand a ghost of a show when study, activity and or ganization for the campaign gets under way. If the faculty want to give competifioii to this all-student weekend by calling classes, they may. But woe to the popularity of the professor who fails to wink at careless attendance of his classes at this time. For this is to be the time of times. This is to be a period of only a couple of school days which will bring a monument of years to student en terprise, life and gratitude for benefits received. Organization Makes Progress LiiKe tlie incoming riue, which no particular increment of time can be said to be at any one depth, the organization for the Student Union drive progresses and grows greater. Haddon Roekhey, who was appointed general chairman of soli citation during the four days, has chosen eight students who will act as class captains and assistants to organize the members of the stu dent body into their various classes for personal canvassing. Earl Shafer and Henrietta Law rence are captain and assistant respectively of the senior class. They will head the network of teams which will be organized under yiem for individual solicita tion of not only seniors, but also special students of all kinds. Ed ward Sox and Winifred Graham will head the junior organization; James Leake and Mary Brandt, the sophomores; and Fred West and Esther Setters, the freshmen. All these captains and assistants are now making their selections of subordinates ot start the actual work when the time comes. The complete organization is expected to be ready by April 22 to make the big kick-off on April 23. Students Show Interest “There is to be absolutely no monkey-business about this cam paign,’> Haddon Rockliey said yes terday. “This drive for the Stu dent Union is to be one affair that the students will take seriously. The discussions about giving money are not to be superficial chats or disinterested discussions taking place around fraternity fire-places. Every man and woman in the Uni versity is going to feel his or her personal responsibility to back this movement to the fullest extent of his power. It is not my Student (Continued on page three) JOURNALISM MAJOR ACCEPTS FELLOWSHIP Vishnu Vitthal Oak, a senior in the University school of journalism, has been granted a junior fellow ship in Clark university, Wor chester, Massachusetts, for the academic year 1924-25. He will ac cept the offer. The fellowships of this nature are reserved for those applicants who are judged to be within two years of their academic years of their doctorate. It includes free tuition, and $100 in addition. Mr. Oak obtained his M.A. at the University of California last year. At California he specialized in economics. Mr. Oak’s home is in Bombay, India, where he taught mathematics in a school for several years. Program Outlined ; for May Meeting of Oregon Authors The tentative program for thei meeting of the Oregon authors, to : be held on the campus May 3, includes a number of addresses on j the general subject of modernism I in literature. The program, ac 1 cording to present plans, will be gin with a luncheon which Ye Tabard Inn and Pot and Quill i will give for the authors. In 1hc afternoon, there will be a I rather formal conference, at I which the addresses will bei ( given. In the evening, the University will give a banquet for the dele j gates. Tickets to this may be pur chased by local people interested in the conference. Following this, j the delegates will attend the Junior Vod-vil. Ye Tabard Inn will then entertain the men with a smoker. lIBCIUlilllLrBE ASSEMBLY SUBJECT Dr. H. L. Swartz to Speak in Villard Thursday The speaker for assembly Thurs day, April 10, will be Dr. Herman F. Swartz, president of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. The topic that Dr. Swartz will speak upon will be, “The Idealistic Vocations.” Dr. Swartz will be on the cam pus from Wednesday evening through Sunday. Besides speaking ; at assembly Thursday, he will ad dress the state convention of the Christian Endeavor, to be held in Eugene the latter part of this j week. Also, Dr. Swartz will be a speaker at a luncheon to be given I in his honor by the Y. M. C. A. at ! Thursday noon, at which he will i ‘- r,-P 4-U ~ tian life It is planned to have Dr. Swartz address vespers service ’ next Sunday afternoon. Those that know him, say Dr. j Swartz is quitei a remarkable man, ' and has done much to build up the S Pacific School of Religion since be : coming its head. He is especially interested in getting recruits for f the ministry and has done much along that line. Henry W. Davis, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. here, says that Dr. Swartz is a very magnetic speaker. Mr. Davis is acquainted with Dr. Swartz, having met him when he resided in Berkeley. Dr. Swartz was characterized by members of ■ the student body of the University I of California as the best assembly 1 speaker that they had heard last year, according to Mr. Davis. Dr. Swartz has been on the cam pus before, although he did not address an assembly at that time. He stopped here on his way back ! from speaking at Washington State college and was the speaker at a luncheon given by the Y. M. C. A. Thei assembly will be in Villard hall instead of the Woman’s build ing. The music for assembly has not yet been announced. Who will give the invocation has not been decided. LAST RESPECTS PAID TO CHARLES H. FISHER The students of the University and the townspeople of Eugene yesterday morning paid .their last respects to the memory of Charles H. Fisher, University regent and veteran Oregon newspaper man, whose death occurred on Saturday. As classes were 'closed during the morning, scores of facul ty members and students attended the funeral services,, held in the Yeatch chapel. The services were conducted by the Rev. Charles E. Dunham, of the First Baptist church, of which Mr. Fisher was a member, and music was fur nished by the University male quar tette. Following the ceremony, the body was taken to Roseburg for bur ial. DOROTHY COLLIER LEAVES FOR AMERICA MARCH 29 Dorothy Collier, former secretary of the University Y. W. C. A., sailed for the United States March 29. She will visit in the East be ; fore coming to her home here, and ! plans to attend the national Y. W. j C. A. convention in New York from April 29 to May 6. Miss Collier has | been on a tour of European and ' Asiatic countries for nearly a year, | having sailied the latter part of last spring for England. FORENSIC YEAR j RATED SUCCESS ! Debating Season Is Past; Two More Oratorical Meets Are Scheduled MANY GIVEN TRAINING ' Plans Being Made to Lay Out 1924-25 Program: Coaches Are Hopeful By Frances Sanford Oregon’s 1923-24 debate season is a thing of.the past, and her ora ; torical activities are half over. Only j two more contests remain in the i season’s schedule, the tri-state ora j torical contest between the Univer sities of Washington, Idaho and Oregon, and the Failing-Beekman j orations, restricted to seniors, the former contest scheduled for May 22, and the latter for June 13. In surveying the season that has j passed, it becomes evident that Oregon made a creditable showing. ! The University participated in a number of events not ordinarily in cluded in her forensic schedule, land, while the teams have not. been entirely victorious, over half the I contests have been won. In the I field of oratory, Oregon has taken j second place in both contests that 1 have been held. New Coaches Train Considering the fact that the de bate teams were trained by new coaches to whom conditions hero were unfamiliar, and that there was considerable deviation from the regular schedule, the debate sea-. son has been a success, according to Elam Ainstutz, forensic man ager. i During tne year a large nurnner ' of people have been trained, and the experience that they have gained will prove particularly valuable to . them next year, pointed out the de bate coach, H. E. Rosson. Already j plans are being laid out for a j schedule for next year which the coached1 hope, will be as attractive ! as the one that they have followed this past year. Some Contests New Among the new contests held this season was the men’s triangular debate with Idaho and British Columbia on January 18, a contest , which was reinstated after five ! years, and which proved to be a very satisfactory debate. Oregon won two to one over British Colum bia and lost two to onei to Idaho in t this contest. The radio debate, conducted by1 the University of California and the University of Oregon, on Febru ary 29, the first meet of its kind ever staged, proved to attract the ; attention of people throughout the entire country. Oregon won in this contest by a safe margin, the judg ing being accomplished by the audi encet mailing in their decisions. A word from the California coach shows that the debate was success ful from the standpoint of both parties. In the minds of those who worked out this experiment, there is the* hope of repeating this event next year. The realization of this dream of bringing together the arguments of two contestants hun (Continued on page three) HIGH SCHOOL DEBATES TO DECIDE CHAMPION The annual high school debates, to decide the champions of Oregon, are nearing completion, according to Dr. Dan E. Clark, of the Univer sity extension division. The winners of the district de bates have been decided and •inter district debates will follow until the winners of eastern Oregon and western Oregon are decided. These will compete for the championship of the state about the middle of May. Due to the fact that Junior Week-end is earlier this year than usual, the championship will not be decided at that time, as has been done formerly. The district champions are: War renton, of the Columbia River dis trict; Tillamook, northern Willam ette; Salem, middle Willamette; Eugene, southern Willamette; Myrtle Point, Coos Bay; Ashland, southern Oregon; Bozana, central! Oregon; Hood River, north central ! Oregon; Pendleton, Umatilla; ; Union, northeastern Oregon; and Burns, southeastern Oregon. Richard M. Nance Receives Award for High Grades Foreign Trade Student Has 1.13 Average The Beta Gamma Sigma fresh man avrard for- this year goes to Richard M. Nance, a student specializing in foreign trade. Every year the freshman man in the school of business administra tion who has the highest averagei for the fAll and winter terms, is given recognition by having his name engraved- on a brass plate, which is in the Commerce build ing. Nance had a. straight “I” card for the winter term and his aver age for both terms was 1.13. He lives in Portland, and is a gradu ate of Washington high school. He’ is one of the students on the campus who is absolutely self supporting, ns he works six hours a day, besides preparing for his classes. ' 1. W. C. IS, TO INSTALL NEW OFFICERS TODAY Josephine Seamen Will be Speaker at Meeting One of the larger and more import ant meetings of the year for the stu dent Young Women’s Christian asso ciation will be held this afternoon at 5 o’clock in the Y. W. C. A. bunga low. The occasion is to bo the instal lation of the 1924-25 officers who were elected last term. It is especially important that all members of the new cabinet be pres ent. One of the most impressive num bers in the ceremony will be the talk by Vary Clerin, retiring president. Miss Josephine Seaman of La Jolla, California, will be the principal speak er at the meeting. Miss Seaman is fill i‘*i nn4!nnnl 4 ! ... of the Y, W. C. A. She is at present visiting Dean Esterly. Special music is being arranged for by Florence Ruck and Muriel Paul. All University women are invited to attend the meeting, and all members of the association are particularly urged to come. Officers do be installed are Flor ence Buck, president; Marv Donald son, vice-president; Marian Lowry, secretary; Lois Fstcrbrooks, treasur er; and Helen Andrews, undergrad uate representative. SECOND DIME CRAWL IS WEDNESDAY NIGHT The second dime crawl of the year will take place on Wednesday evening, when all the men of the campus will change their dollars to dimes and make the rounds of tho various women’s houses between the hours of 6:30 and 7:30. Men are asked to have their dimes ready at the door in order that no delay will be caused in mak ing change. The members of Alpha Delta Pi have engaged the Campa Shoppe for the evening in order to be nearer the center of activities, and the Delta Tau Delta house will be turned over to tho members of Alpha Phi. Delta Zeta will have the College Side Inn for the affair, and Chi Omega will have the Sigma Chi house. Jeanne Gay, chairman of the af fair, asks that all money taken in bei turned over to her as soon as possible in order that an early esti mate may be made of the amount taken in. FROLIC CLEARS $250 FOR LEAGUE’S FUNDS The April Frolic was decidedly a success financially, the women clearing about $250. There were a large number of girls present, and practically all the seats upstairs in the Woman’s building were sold to women who were not students. In addition to the admission charged to spectators, there was an entrance fee of 10 cents to the girls, and ice cream sandwiches were sold during the evening. The greater part of the money will be used for the Women’s league scholarship fund, declared Anna De Witt, who was general chairman of the affair. PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT Beta Theta Pi announces the pledging of Glenn F. Schneider, of Twin Falls, Idaho. ATHLETES FAVOR DOUGHNUT SPORT Two Different Opinions Are Held by Other Classes of University Students | ' MODERATION ADVOCATED Development of Varsity Material Is Pointed Out as Benefit from System By George H. Godfrey A thorough sounding out of stu dent sentiment on the action of the i inter-fraternity council in abolish ; ing inter-fraternity sports amounts to this: The active athletes, that is, the men who are either on var sity teams or competing for places on teams, are heartily in favor of a system of intramural sports similar to that discarded. Some favor limitations, hut all favor doughnut competition. Men who are not accustomed to “turning out” for varsity teams, i are often opposed to intramural, and especially inter-fraternity, programs. A third class, however, is com posed of mem not regular athletes who really like to participate) in the sports. These men usually favor a system that would simply allow any team to enter or not to enter, at will. Exercise Claimed Beneficial The athletes point to the dough nut sports as the varsity’s great est ■ source of material, and they 1 see in the passing of the system a restriction of the field in evory J event. Also, these men claim that participation, even though at times I compulsory, heightens a man’s in t t crest in game®, and thereby builds up a stauncher body of supporters tor Oregon teams. It is also claimed that the physical exercise is beneficial, and that doughnut sports provide it many times when for lack of such sports, the student would never have an incentive to go out. The general impression gained after discussing the question from all angles is that somei pro gram of doughnut sports should ! certainly be adopted, that the j absolute abolishment of inter fraternity athletics was more or less a mistake, and that the final [ solution is to be found in the adop tion of a new system. The new system must be more modcirato than the old one, yet contribute equally to varsity teams, and have the same beneficial effect on the* men, l and on athletics in general. Latham Makes Statement Captains of the varsity teams all | favor a program of doughnut sports, all condemn the action of the inteir fraternity council, but at the same time, all favor moderation. Hugh Latham, captain of the basketball team, severely criticizes the abolish ment, terming it “hasty and un justifiable.” “Doughnut sports were becoming too extensive, I be lieve,” lie says. “But, instead of trying a remedy, the council kicked | them out altogether. It’s liko kill ing a dog in order to rid him of his fleas.” Latham offers a definite pro gram, in which throe sports, basketball, track and baseball, would be compulsory for every liv ! ing organization, halls of residence, and the mein’s Oregon club. Then ! an option of two more sports out of a choice of several could be allowed. Optional sports would bo tennis, swimming, wrestling, box j ing and other minor activities. In | tLis way, the system could bei sim plified, ye«t still contribute material I for the varsity teams. All awards would be scrapped. Eeed and Chapman Favor Dick Reed, captain of football | for next year, and Ilal Chapman, captain last fall, both are emphatic ally in favor of the inter-fraternity sports, but believe the program formerly in effect should be some what cut down. Reed favors stress ing major sports, while Chapman is in favor of eliminating some of the less important events. Both be» lievo that the average student lias some time for athletics, and that the doughnut system is best for the individual. They, and all others ' queried, are in favor of abolishment ' of all awards. That tlie action, although it may have been justified, was rather (Continued on Page Two.) Cashier’s Windows Open for Payment of Term Fees Now j Tt behooves the wise student to ; pay his foes at the business offioe i early this week, in order to avoid the last minute rush, according , i to Id. ]\ Lyon, cashier. The cashier’s windows will re- y main open from S:30 to 12:00 and ; from 1:30 to 3:00 each day except ' Saturday, wheat the windows will close at noon. Fees paid after that time will have an extra $3 | added to them for’ late filing. All fees, including registra i tion, laboratory and non-resident fees, are payable at this timei It is easier on the workers in the business office if the students come early to pay their fees, in stead of waiting until the last day or two, and it is especially requested that they observe this advice. DEAN HALE RETURNS University’s Weeds Are Told to Clubs of State “I m getting to be a seasoned campaigner,” said William G. Hale, dean of the school of law, who just returned yesterday from a week’s j trip of lectures for tho alumni gift i campaign. Dean Hale, as. part of the organization work, has been presenting the reason why the Uni versity needs $5,000,000 for build ings and general developments. During tho past week lie spoke at St. Helens, Hood River, Astoria, Portland and Seattle. Two persons are chosen to cover each county for the campaign work —one to present the needs of edu cational conditions which have given rise to the campaign, and tho other to outline plans as to how the campaign can bo carried on ; most effectively. Dean Hale is to be engaged for | some time in the campaign work i and is leaving again Wednesday on | another trip. This time he will talk at Pendleton, Spokane, Butte, I Boise, and Burns. Also it has been arranged tenta tively for a trip beginning April 28 to May 1. The trip will be made 'Through eastern Oregon. Lectures will bo given to commercial clubs, Kiwanis clubs, and other civic or ganizations on general extension service for the University. In addi tion, a lecture will be given April 24 at the Hillsboro Rotary club. RONQUILLO TO SPEAK TO COSMOPOLITANS Romeo Ronquillo, who attended the State Student Volunteer con- ^ vontion held at Corvallis a few weeks ago as a representative of tho University Cosmopolitan club, will speak tonight at the meeting of the foreign students in the Y. W. C. A. bungalow at , 7:30. This is the first meeting of the Cosmopolitan club for this term, and an opportunity to become a member will be given to any one. wishing it. There uro several can didates for admittance into the society. Mrs. F. C. Pursly, mem- , her of tho Congregational church I choir, will sing a few selections. Mrs. R. E. Griswold will be her accompanist. ' FROSH SCHEDULE Sunshine Will Enable Men to Get Down to Practice During Next Two Weeks ROUGH DIAMOND MADE Infielders to Get Chance for Grounder Exercise and Faster Work-outs Spring baseball practice for the* freshman squad has been slow get ting under way this year, 'because of the inclement weather and the lack of adequate training grounds. However, with Old Sol peeping out and with the weather warming up in true baseball fashion, the green cappers will get down to hard work for tho next couple of wooks in order to get; in shape for the start of the season. A very rough diamond has been constructed upon the It. O. T. C. drill ground, where tho frosh squad can get in a little infield practice. This will give the infielders an op portunity to get accustomed to the old hard-liit ground balls. The rough field has prevented any in field practice and with the conjunc tion of the weather bureau has slowed up tho work-outs. Running Practice Held With the temporary diamond in readiness, Coach Earl put his mon through a. little snappy practice in running bases last night. He also had them work on the play of get ting a baserunner in the liotbox and then run him down. The frosh then tried to adapt themselves to the mysteries of the hook slide, and sent the sawdust flying in all directions in their efforts to hook the imaginary bag. This with a little bunting, hitting and fielding practice wound up thei day’s work out. Tt is a littlei too early yet to pre dict the probable strength of tho freshman team. However, there wero. some twenty-five candidates out for the practice session last night. This is possibly not near as many as should be out at this stage of the season, but there are enough to whip into a fast little team, if they show any class at all. Squad to be Reduced Earl will probably keep the men hard at work mastering the funda mentals of tho sport for the next few days and by that timo will have enough of a lino on the pros pective material to begin cutting down liia squad. No regular schedule has been out lined lor the freshman team as yet, but some hard games are being lined up for a little later in tho season. The frosh will undoubtedly have their regular exchange series with the Rooks, and may take a trip to Portland to play somo of the faster interscholastie nines there. Y. W. GROUP WILL MEET FOR WEDNESDAY LUNCH The first business meeting of tho term for the Y. W. C. A. new cabi net will be held Wednesday noon at the College Side Inn. It is very important that all members of tho group bei there. Florence Buck, president of the Y. W. C. A., is to outline the plans for the year and to lint' up the various departments of the association. Portland Japanese Student Achieves Authorship Fame Once upon ;i time (as all good stories should begin) there was a little boy in Japan who refused to study his lessons. He was a merry , little boy, and handsome—taller | than most of his race, he grew to ! be. Instead of studying, he used j to write and write. Btories he wrote, and poems. At last his mother and father conferred to- j gather and decided that Ken—for that was his name, should leave, school, go to America, and earn I money for another brother to at tend art school. Ken Nakazawa did come to i America. He left school and earned , enough money to put the artistical- , ly inclined brother through thei Tokio school of fine arts. But he did not give up his beloved writing. He wrote in his own tongue, and j in that strange western tongue called English. Working as a laborer in Portland, he took exten sion work with the. University of Oregon, and under the interested guidance of Miss Ida V. Turney, English instructor, he produced a collection of charming and poetic stories. Even a play. “The Purple Butterfly,” and other stories were collected, and the lad had hopes of making them into a small volume. His artist brother, who had by that time gone to Paris to study art, became enamoured of the idea of illustrat ing it, and for years the little book was laid away. “Moonbird,” one of the collec tion, was last month placed with (Continued on page fomr.)