Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXV
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1924
NUMBER 12*
JAPANESE NINE
TO PLAY VARSITY
Mejii University Baseball
Team to Play Fifteen
Games on Coast Tour
TEAM TO TRAVEL EAST
Oregon Stands Good Chance
of Making an Oriental
Invasion Next Spring
Oregon’s baseball men will meet
strong competition when they bat
tle with the tonring Mejii univer
sity nine from Japan here April 26.
Jack Benefiel, graduate manager,
has just announced that the Nip
ponese diamond athletes have been
lined up with twelve games
to play during their 15-day invasion
of the Pacific coast. Oregon will
be the eleventh team to face them,
so that they will be in good condi
tion by the time they arrive in Eu
gene.
Interest in this game should be
keen, as there is a strong possibility
that Oregon will get a chance to
tour the Orient next spring, if they
make a good showing against the
Mejii nine.
Schedule Is Given
According to Benefiel, the in
vaders will play O. A. C. after
their game on the campus, and then
will travel East, playing against
some leading nines there. They .will
return to the Pacific coast in Au
gust. Their complete schedule of
games on the coast is as follows:
April 15 and 16—University of
Washington at Seattle.
April 17—Sixth Avenue club of
Tacoma, at Tacoma.
April 19—City nine of Seattle, at
Seattle.
April 20—Nippon Athletic club,
at Seattle.
April 21—Gonzaga university, at
Spokane.
April 22—Washington State col
lege, at Pullman.
April 23—Longview City club,
at Longview.
April 24—Knights of Columbus,
at Portland.
April 25—Salem City club, at
Salem, Oregon.
April 26—University of Oregon,
at Eugene.
April 28—0. A. C., at Corvallis.
OREGON REPRESENTED
BY FORMER STUDENTS
Ferdinand T. Struck, ex-’ll, is
representing the University of Ore
gon at the centennial celebration of
the Franklin institute in Philadel
phia this month. Several reports
have been received at the alumni
office of ex-Oregon students who
are representing their alma mater
at various conventions and cele
brations. Struck is on the board
of public instruction of Pennsyl
vania and is author of a recent book
on manual arts. All universities
have been asked to send, a repre
sentative to the celebration.
Another Oregon representative is
Beatrix de Graff, ex-’24, who will
attend the first annual meeting of
Northwest alumni secretaries in
Spokane, April 10 and 11. Miss de
Graff will represent the Oregon
Alumni association.
Claude Robinson
Deserts Campus
to Pursue Studies
Claude E. Robinson, student
body president, has demonstrated
his ability to solve problems of ,
student body affairs, campus
questions, and executive prob
lems of various kinds. There is
to be added to his other achieve
ments—that of solving the prob
lem of studying.
Robinson has found a way to
study or write papers without be
ing interrupted which, in itself,
is remarkable for a student body
president.
The way of it is that Robinson
leaves Eugene and campus affairs
and journeys to the neighboring
community of Springfield. There
he takes a room in the hotel and
.studies to his heart’s content.
This discovery was given to the
public through the enterprising
work of a campus journalist who
covers Springfield news for one
of the Eugene papers.
SENIORS DANCE AFTER
LAST NIGHT’S MEETING
Orders for Caps and Gowns
Must be Placed Soon
The report that the class play had
been chosen was given at the first
senior meeting of the term, held in
Vdlard hall last night. The wearers
of the sombrero dispatched their bus
iness in short order and adjourned to
the College Side Inn, where they pro
ceeded to give a demonstration of the
spirit of ’24.
Announcement was made to the
class that the caps and gowns for
graduation should be ordered from
the Co-op before April 15, and that
a $5.00 deposit will be required, $2.50
of which will be refunded when the
cap and gown are returned. Com
mencement announcements may also
be ordered at the Co-op, and will cost
12 cents apiece if ordered before Ap
ril 15, otherwise they will cost 14
cents each.
Eddie Edlunds, chairman of the
dance committee, submitted a pro
posal for a class dance to be held in
a downtown hall next Friday night.
He announced that the affair would
be open to any senior, and that cam
pus clothes would be in vogue. The
proposal was accepted by the class
with a great deal of enthusiasm.
The senior play committee reported
that it had selected the farce comedy,
“It Pays to Advertise,” for the sen
ior play. Tryouts for the production
will be limited to members of the
senior class, and will be held in V>1
lard hall at 1:00 p. m. Saturday. The
pay is to be directed by the senior
members of Mask and Buskin, nation
al dramatic fraternity, members of
which are among the most prominent
in campus dramatics.
It was voted to assess each mem
ber of the class the sum of twenty
five cents for the campus luncheon.
The election of a permanent secretary
for the class was brought up by Pres
ident Sayre, and he suggested that
the class be prepared to vote on this
selection by the next meeting.
The meeting was closed by a talk
by Doug Farrell on class spirit, which
culminated in the adjournment of the
meeting, followed by a rally in front
of the library and a party at the Tnn.
Defendant Fined $4,999.99_
in Case of Jones vs. Tamba
After a deliberation of less than
five minutes, the jury, composed of
three men and three women, in the
case of Jones versus Tamba, found
the defendant guilty of slander and
a fine of $4,999.99 was imposed, at
the mock trial held in the moot
court of the County Court House
last night.
The case was the result of an oc
casion in front of the Library, when
Randall Jones, after taking a drink
of water from the fountain, ran
into Tamba, who was in the vicinity
at the time.
“G’wan home, yon are a damned
bootlegger. You’ve been drunk for
a month,” were the words which
Tamba is said to have used.
' As a result of this uncalled
slander, pressure has been brought
to bear on Jones, which caused him
to have to leave school just as he
was about to receive his B.A. de
gree.
The defendant contended that
the words did not constitute slan
der, when uttered at a time> the
defendant was angry. “I called him
a bootlegger for lack of something
else to say,” said Tamba, “and I
didn’t think what I said.”
“If you didn’t think, how was
it that you made two complete
thoughts,” asked the attorney for
the plaintiff. “Why didn’t you
call him a damn foolf”
“I could have called him a fool
but I didn’t happen to think of
the word.”
“Do you use the word bootlegger
oftent” «
“Yes, since the Volstead act.”
“As oftem as the word foolt”
“Yes.”
John MacGregor and C. A. Potts
were relieved from serving on the
jury because of false statements.
SHOUT COURSES
WILL GE GIVEN
Commercial Secretaries to
Hold Annual Session on
the Campus Next Week
SPEAKERS WELL KNOWN
Instruction in Problems of
State Development and
Organization Is Offered
For the fourth consecutive year,
a short course for commercial secre
taries will be conducted on the cam
pus under the auspices of the state
association of commercial secre
taries and the school of business
administration of the University.
During the week of April 14 to
19, between twenty-five and thirty
chamber of commerce secretaries
from towpS throughout the state will
receive instruction in problems of
state development and technique
of organization work.
Sessions Are Popular
Four years ago this short course
was established on the University
for the benefit of the secretaries of
chambers of commerce, and so effec
tive and practicable has this proved
that every, secretary who attended
the first course, and who has re
mained in chamber of commerce
work, also attended the second and
third courses and expects to be pres
ent at the coming session. Only
about twenty-one secretaries in the
state receive pay for their work,
so a large percentage are giving
their time merely for the good they
derive from the work.
The sessions are to be held at
the College Side Inn, and the secre
taries will be quartered at the Os
burn hotel in a series of rooms
turned into the form of a dormi
tory.
Various Phases Taken Up
The program for the course this
year is divided into the following
parts: (1) a series of educational
courses on economics, business
cycles, salesmanship, public speak
ing; (2) all phases of chamber of
commerce technique; (3) assembly,
forum and fireside discussion; (4)
discussion of the program of the
state chamber and the development
committee of the Portland cham
ber; (5) recreational feature's.
Jake D. Allen and A. S. Dudley
will be two of the prominent
speakers at the sessions. The for
mer promotion manager is a San
Francisco man of vast experience.
He will have charge of the tech
nique of chamber of commerce
work. Mr. Dudley, manager of the
Oregon state chamber of commerce,
recently returned from a trip East,
where he conducted national pub
licity for Oregon and her resources.
He formerly had charge of this
same kind of work in Sacramento.
Prosperity Prophesied
All chambers of commerce have
been urged to send their secretaries
to this valuable course, at which
instruction will be given on how
to operate a chamber at its maxi
mum capacity. Business me>n pro
phesy that the next few years will
see unexampled prosperity in Ore
gon. The state is recognizing this
situation, and has reorganized the
state chamber of commerce on a
stronger basis than ever. The local
chambers are consequently urged
to prepare to receive the largest
benefits possible from this period
of prosperity.
FOURTH OF STUDENT
RECITALS SATURDAY;
About ten students in the school |
of music will be presented by their j
instructors in a recital next Saturday
at 1:30 in the lounge room of the !
music building. This is the fourth
of five student recitals for the year, !
the last one probably occurring about
the middle of May.
An urgent invitation to be present j
is given to anyone interested in the
school of music, as well as any town
people who wish to attend.
FACULTY OF MUSIC SCHOOL
TO CARS FOR REID’S PUPILS
“Arrangements have been made
by other teahers in the school of |
music to take care of Ronald Reid’s j
work,” says Dean John J. Lands
bury, and he wishes all pupils of
the former instructor to report to
him immediately. ‘
Less Than Four
Days Left for
Paying of Fees
Fines iWill Be Charged
After Saturday
Three and a half more days, in
cluding today, are all that remain *
of the week allotted for paying
fees. The cashier’s windows will
remain open from 8:30 to 12 and
from 1:30 to 3 every day except
Saturday, when the windows will
close at noon. After that time,
an extra fee of $3 will be charged
for late filing.
As yet the students have not
flocked to pay their fees in suf
ficient numbers to avoid the last
minute rush, according to the
cashier. The morning hours, espe
cially the first part of the morn
ing, are not used by students and
those who wish to avoid standing
in line should come the first thing
in the morning.
It has not been estimated as
yet how many have paid their
fees, but the number is not as
large as it should be, due to the
half-holiday Monday morning
when the business office was
closed.
NEW MEN APPOINTED
ON EMERALD STAFF
Cash Awards to be Given
for Best Term Work
Jim Case, a member of the news
staff of the Emerald, has been ap
pointed to the position of night ed
itor, according to Art Rudd, editor,
after a conference with the editorial
board.
Alfred Erickson, George H. God
frey and Pete Pours are appointed
to the sports staff. Erickson and
Godfrey were members of the Emer
ald staff last year, while Laura has
been serving as a reporter on the;
news staff.
Interest is keen among the mem- j
bers of the staff of the daily over
the contests for the term, in which >
prizes amounting to over $80 will be j
distributed. These are given for ex-1
ceptional work as reporters, day and j
night editors, loyal service and work I
in development.
EDISON MARSHALL IS
AUTHOR OF NEW BOOK
Edison Marshall, former journal
ism student of the University of Ore
gon and nationally known writer, has
recently completed an historical nov
el entitled, “Seward’s Polly.” The
scene of the book is set in Alaska,
and copies will be released by Little,
Brown and company about June 24.
The future literary works of Edi- j
son Marshall will be published by j
the Cosmopolitan Book corporation, |
which is a Hearst organization. His
novels are to be run in serials in the
Hearst publications and will be ad
vertised extensively by the maga
zines. The Cosmopolitan Book cor
poration has just five authors, who
are: Peter B. Kyne, James Oliver
Curwood, Conningsby Dawson, Peter
Clarke McFarland and EdiBon Mar
shall.
MEN’S GLEE CLUB
WILL ENTER CONTEST
—
The men ’a glee club will sing in'
Portland Monday, April 28, at the I
Northwest Intercollegiate glee club
contest. O. A. C., Willamette’ univer
sity and Washington State college
will also be represented.
Vernon Motschenbacher, ’14, ex
president of the student body and also I
of the glee club, has charge of the!
Portland association of alumni from
all of these schools, and is arranging j
the contest, which will be held in
the Municipal auditorium.
GIRLS’ OREGON CLUB
TO GIVE SILVER TEA
The Girls’ Oregon club will give
a silver tea Friday afternoon,
April 11, from 3 to 6, in the Y. W.
C. A. bungalow'. The profits of the
tea will go toward making the Uni
versity infirmary a more cheerful
place for the students there.
Hostesses for the affair will be
Frances Douglas, Thelma Kimber
ling, Bertha Atkinson, Thelma
Riley, Mary Chisholm and Mildred1
Braaten. • •
BASEBALL SOUAD
STAGES CONTEST
Work of Latham in Box
Is Outstanding Feature
of Six - inning Game
HITTING IS IMPROVING
Practice Tilts Are Desired
Before Opening Game
With Whitman, April 23
* Profiting by the excellent
weather, Coach Beinhart has been
putting his baseball crew through
some strenuous practice the past
few days. Yesterday afternoon the
squad was divided into two nines
and a six-inning game staged.
Three of the corps of pitchors
worked two innings apiece during
the melee, and the coach got a
good line on most of the men.
The outstanding performance dur
ing yesterday’s practice session
was the work of Hunk Latham in
the box. The big boy relieved
Ringle on the mound and between
streaks of wildness displayed enough
pitching ability to give him a strong
consideration for a regular berth
as a pitcher. He struck out at least
five men during the two innings he
worked, and showed that he had
plenty of speed. Occasionally he
would flash out with an underhand
throw that had the batters guessing.
Ringle and Sausser Used
Bingle, who started the pitching,
was wild as a March hare and
walked the first three men. After
that he settled down somewhat and
showed flashes of real ability. Saus
ser hurled the last two stanzas. He,
too, was wild, but showed enough
to warrant that he will improve.
The pitchers worked for both
teams during their stays on the
mound. No attempt was made
to record the score, but one
of the nines showed up con
siderably better than the other
and appears to be the poten
tial varsity. This aggregation con
sisted of the following men: Orr,
catcher; Scriptures, first; Ross,
second; Bittner, short; Hobson,
third; Terrel, right field; Sorsby,
center; and Wright, left field. Most
of these men are veterans and ap
pear to have the jump on their
rivals.
Diamond to be Harrowed
The opposing nine was composed
of Jimmy King, first base; Trout
man, second; Dinty Moore, short;
Woods, third; Frum, right field;
Mills, center; Peterson, left field;
Cook, catcher.
Besides Latham’s pitching, some
of the bright lights of the practice
were the batting of Hobson, Bitt
ner, Sorsby and Wright. Frum made
an excellent throw from deep right
to catch a runner at the plate. The
diamond was far too rough for
very efficient fielding, but will be
harrowed and rolled this morning
in readiness for another practice
game this afternoon.
Whitman Nine Good
The varsity as yet has no games
lined up before thei opening confer
ence tilts with Whitman, April 23
and 24. An effort is being made
to stage a practice game with the
Eugene city nine, Saturday after
non, however. Unless some real
practice games are scheduled, Ore
gon is likely to be sadly handicap
ped when they stack up against
Whitman, as the Missionaries have
already gone through a practice sea
son in which tbey won eight games
out of nine played.
The now diamond near Hayward
is yet far from completed and there
is a strong possibility that Cemetery
Ridge may have to be used for
some of the first conference games.
MEN IN ARCHITECTURE
PLAN SPRING OUTING
Ye Annuale Springe Outing for
the men in architecture is being plan
ned for Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
April 25, 26, and 27, at the camp of
Professor E. II. McAlister near Blue
River. Plans are being made to take
as many of the majors in design as
transportation and commissary facil
ities will permit.
Last year the men had a similar
experience, and came back to make
other students envious by recounting
tales of the fish they had caught,
the hikes made, and the lazy time
thOjy had spent following the com
pletion of their architectural prob
lems.
Women’s Houses
Open for Dime
Crawls Tonight
A dime—ten cents. That is the
only requisite for admsision to an
hour’s dancing at any of tho wo
men’s houses at 6:30 tonight. Sev
en-thirty has been set as tho hour
of departure and the committee
urges the men to come on time and
leave ou time.
A number of the women’s houses
which are not near the campus will
not entertain at home. Alpha
Delta Pi will have the Campa
shoppe, Alpha Phi will have the
Delta Tau Delta house, Delta Zeta
has engaged the College Side inn,
I Chi Omega will have the Sigma
Chi house, Kappa Omieron will
have the sun room of the Woman’s
building, and Pi Beta Phi will use
the Kappa Sigma house.
TRYOUTS FOR SENIOR
PLAY TO BE SATURDAY
Mask and Buskin to Manage
and Direct Farce
Tryouts for the senior play will
be held in Villard hall at 1 o'clock
Saturday, April 12, Ted Baker, man
ager of Mask and Buskin, which is
handling the play, announced yes
terday. All seniors are eligible to
appear in the Commencement play,
and as many as possible are urged
to try out. The play to be given is
“It Pays to Advertise,” by WalteT
Hackett and Roi Cooper Megrue.
“It Pays to Advertise” is a well
known farce, which has been played
with great success before. As a
laugh producer, it has always been
well feceivLyb The plot is con
cerned with a millionaire soap man,
who is too conservative to adver
tise, and his son, with no money,
nor soap, but with certain ideas
about advertising.
Mask and Buskin, of the National
Collegiate players, will manage and
direct the production of the play.
New officers, olocted yesterday,
will immediately take charge of the
management. The officers are:
President, Dave Swanson; vice
president, Bernard McPhillips;
secretary, Betty Belle Wise; man
ager, James Leake. Outgoing of
ficers were, president, Darrell Lar
son; vice-president, Katherine Pin
neo; secretary, Wenona Dyer; man
ager, Ted Baker.
PRESIDENT'S HEALTH
GREATLY IMPROVED
Word has been received from Pres
ident P. L. Campbell that ho is pro
gressing nicely under his course of
treatment in Portland. President
Campbell is at the Portland Surgical
hospital under the care of Dr.
Coffey. He is undergoing a treat
ment to aid him in convalescing from
his attack of influenza.
President Campbell expects to re
turn to the campus the early part
of next week, since he feels so much
better.
FRANK JTJE TO BE SOLOIST
AT VANCOUVER MEETING
Frank .Tue, well known tonor in
tlio school of music, will be the
soloist at a meeting of the Orpheus
club, at Vancouver, Washington,
on April 11.
OREGON TO HIKE
OLYMPIC TRUES
Sanction of the Conference
Members and Approval
of A. A. U. Officers Given
TRYOUTS MAY 30 AND 31
T. Morris Dunne Is Chosen
Referee; New Events Are
Added to Regular Meet
The Olympic track and field try
outs for the Pacific coast will be
held on Hayward field, May 30 and
31, in conjunction with the regular
Coast conference meet. This, said
Jack Benefiel, graduate manager,
has been assured sinoe the sanction
of the other members of the con
ference has been gained and favor
ablo word received from the Ama
teur Athletic union officials.
T. Morris Dunne, secretary for
the A. A. U. of this section of tho
country, communicated with Mr.
Benefiel yesterday that he had se
cured the official sanction of Mr.
Reuben, national secretary, for the
organization to make Eugene the
scene of the far-western tryouts.
This will give those elected to com
pete in the national tryouts, at Bos
ton, 15 days in which to make the
journey and condition themselvee
for this final grind.
Judges Not Picked
The selection of the officials will
be attended to at once, according
to Virgil Earl. He said Mr. Dunne
had agreed to approve of the selec
tions made by tho University of
Oregon. Coach Hayward says this
problem of picking officials is
made much easier by the fact that
Mr. Dunne has consented to act as
referee. Mr. Dunne has been promi
nent as a track official on this
coast for many years.
The University, said Mr. Bene
fiel, is financially responsible only
for tho $2,000 guarantee, which is
divided among the coast conference
members according to their milage,
and is not responsible for any ex
penses incurred by representatives
of other institutions. The meet will
call into action the best athletes
of the coast, for it is expected
teams' will be entered from every
institution capable of prpducing
athletes.
Events to be Added
The usual distances will be run;
that is, 100 yard, 220 yard races,
and so on, instead of the 100 and
200 meter events, to be used next
summer in Paris. Some additional
eight or ten events must be added,
however, and some of these will
be according to the metric system.
Those to be added are: 3,000 meter
walk; 3, 5 and 10 thousand meter
running races; the 16-pound ham
mer throw; the 56-pound weight
heaving contest; the hop, step and
jump, and the steeple chase. The
steeple chase requires a specially
constructed course which includes
two water jumps.
The conference scoring will be
kept separate from the scores re
corded for the tryouts; so not only
will it be possible to determine the
standing of the college teams, but
the ability of all individuals will
l e shown in this competition which
will encompass the best talent on
the coast.
Campus Couples to Be Aided
by New Student Venture
By J. W. P.
“What’s all this talk I hear about
Student Union?” inquired a dainty
co-ed, pink of cheek and bobbed
of hair. “If there’s any.labor con
nected with such a union, don’t ask
me to have anything to do with it.
My brother joined the Canoers’
Union once and was expelled for
violation of rules. And I have be>en
lenry of these unions ever since.”
And patiently her masculine com
panion tried to explain the differ
ence betweem the Student Union
and the closed shop.
“Why the capitalists themselves
cannot have any argument against
this proposition,” he explained.
“This is something we are going
to build. The Studemt Union is a
building and not a bricklayers’
Society for the Mutual Protection
of the High Level of Wages. Can't
you see, little one, that by collect
ing 'enough money, we can then
have a Stude.nt Union; whereas by
organizing a Society for the Mutual
Protection of the High Level of
Wages, the bricklayers can, by
means of their union, then secure
(lie money they demand?”
“Yes, of course,” said she win
somcly. “It seems to me I was
taught something like that in my
economics class. But really, old
thing, what are we going to do with
this Union after we get it? Is it
like marriage, so that you can get
a divorce if you don’t like it? Or
do you have to ke**p belonging to
the blamed old thing until you dis
integrate?"
“Listen, my chlid,” said the
other. “You can get all this through
that petite, but nevertheless thick,
head of yours if you’ll only pay at
tention to tin? facts. Now quit
manicuring your nails w^h that
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