Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXV
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, APRIL 11. 1924
NUMBER 131
Music to be Furnished by
Eight - Piece Orchestra;
Programs Are 'Elaborate
FEATURE TO BE SECRET
Production of Harmony and
Unity in Every Detail
Is Aim of Committees
Mary Hathaway, who is in
charge of this year’s junior prom,
reports tjiat work is coming along
well in all branches. “The organi
zation is being rapidly perfected,
although the actual work will be
largely concentrated at the end,”
she says. “The committees are all
doing good work.”
The music committee has ar
ranged with Jack Myers for an
eight-piece orchestra, with two
pianos. This will insure the most
essential feature of the dance. The
committee on decorations is busy
now making huge screens to cover
vacant wall spaces. These screens
are nine feet square and will
carry out the decorative scheme.
The general idea of decoration
promises to be very lovely, the
committee reports.
Feature Is Secret
The feature is being kept a
secret. The only words which the
committee will utter concerning it
are that it is to be both “beauti
ful” and “different:,” , The pro
grams for the dance are already in
the hands of the printer. This year
they are to be very elaborate. In
this they follow the plan for the
whole prom, which is to keep it in
expensive, yet make it highly ef
fective.
The usual admission will be
charged for this year’s prom. Seats
in the gallery will be 25 cents
apiece. Mary Hathaway states that
the committee is planning for at
least 600 couples.
Unity Will be Aim
Refreshments will be served dur
ing the evening. These will con
sist of punch and wafers. The
unity is being carried out even in
this* line, for the punch is to be
kept in tone with the general idea
of the dance. The floor commit
tee has charge of' taking care of
the wraps of the guests. They have
devised a system of checking the
women’s coats, so that there will
be no. confusion and as much speed
as possible.
Under Mary Hathaway, all the
aommittees are working together
and correlating their work, so that
each feature of the evening’s pro
gram will thus be in harmony with
every other feature. The prompt
work and the early efforts of the
committee will probably tend to
lighten the last-minute rush and
make it go over easily.
The committee asks that a num
ber of workers from each house be
ready to come to the Armory and
help decorate just before the prom.
SIX STUDENTS WILL GIVE
MUSIC RECITAL SATURDAY
Six music students will be pre
sented by their teachers in a re
cital, Saturday, April 12, in the
lounge room of the Music building.
Those on the program for piano
music are: Edith Sliffe, “Prelude
and Fugue,” by Bach; Rita War
noek, “Prelude,” by Stojowsk^
Althea Peterson, “Indian Runner,”
by Bernstein; and Shailer Peterson,
“Serenade Badine,” by Gabrielle
Marie. Inez Robinson and Olive
Merry will give vocal solos, sing
in<r Villanelle,” by Del Acqua,
and “The Bird of the Wilderness,”
by Horsman, respectively.
‘Ma’ Punishes Two
Youngsters Who
Canoe Up Rapids
“Ma” punished two youngsters
for trying to canoe on the rapids
yesterday.
Their little craft had a sail,
which filled gustily and strained,
and made the water curl away from
the bow, as it skimmed up the
smooth river below the “white wa
ter.”
“Let’s sail up the rapids,” shout
ed No. One.
The shell headed for the “chute.”
The wind blew and the rollers
rolled and the canoe tossed.
Then the wind didn’t blow—but
the rollers rolled and the canoe
tossed.
“Let’s not—,” answered No.
Two, and he gulped icy water. For
the wind had blown, again, the
rollers had rolled, again—and the
canoe had tossed—the youngsters
out.
Quarles Burton and Eric Norman
shivered as they crawled out on the
sand at the “Portage.”
“Say,” chattered the namesake
of the ancient Norse, to one of the
two who had towed them ashore,
“would you mind taking ‘Ma’ back
to the Anchorage for us? We’ll
run back to get warm.”
“Take who?”
Eric shivered again, and pointed
to the bow of the tippy craft, where
was painted, “Ma.”
EIGHT CAMPUS WOMEN
TO ATTEND Y. W. MEET
Oregon Group to Portrav
National Convention
Eight University women will at
tend the state Young Women’s Christ
ian association cabinet convention to
be held at Salem this weekend. The
conference opens today.
The Oregon delegates are Florence
Buck, Betty Honkanen, Eloise Buck,
Virginia Keeney, Helen Andrews,
Mary Donaldson, May fan Vurpillat,
and Miss Florence Magowan.
There will be representatives from
the seven universities and colleges in
Oregon at the meeting. Many secre
taries and leaders of the Y. W. C. A.
on the Pacific coast will be at the
onvention to give lectures and lead
discussions.
Problems of the Y. W. C. A. will
be discussed, and various plans and
outlines of the work will be made out
for the coming year. It will be the
University of Oregon delegation
which will put the national conven
tion of the association on in miniature
before the conference this weekend.
The convention is to be held at Wil
amette university. Other colleges
which will have representatives are
Albany college, Oregon Agricultural
college, Linfield college, Pacific uni
versity, Pacific college.
The meetings and various sessions
of the convention will last until Sun
day.
RIFLE TEAM TO FIRE
AGAINST OKLAHOMA
The men ’a rifle team, which was
disbanded several weeks ago and sup
posedly had ceased firing for the
term, is being reorganized for one
more match this time, against the
[University of Oklahoma. The Okla
homans especially requested a contest.
Captain J.T. Murray asks every man
who thinks he is able to make a good
score, whether he has fired with the
rifle team this year or not, to appear
at the range this week and complete
a course of firing for the match. The
i hooting will be finished tomorrow.
Fairbanks’ Brass Medallions
Will Mark Old Oregon Trail
The unveiling and formal dedi
cation of the Old Oregon Trail
medallion, modelled by Avard Fair
banks, professor of sculpture, will
be held at the Portland chamber
of commerce forum meeting Mon
day. Professor and Mrs. Fairbanks
will leave Sunday for Portland to
attend the services, possibly ac
companied by some of the students
in sculpture.
Oregon pioneers will be honored
by the occasion, for their heroic
struggles in the long march west
ward, which the medallion com
mcmorates. Present by invitation
will be the governors of three
states, Oregon, Washington and
Idaho. Mayor Baker of Portland,
whose interest in sculpture led him
to offer the Forestry building in
Portand for the establishment of a
western School of American Sculp
ture, will participate in the affair.
Walter Meacham, of Baker, presi
dent of the Oregon Trail associa
tion, will attend, and aj number
of Oregon pioneers will be guests.
(Continued on page three)
FROSH BflSEBSLL
PROSPECTS COOD
Heavy - Hitting and Strong
Battery Is Aim of Coach
to Insure Year’s Success
FIVE TWIRLERS TRY OUT
—
Freshman Coaching Staff
Is Greatly Strengthened
by Assistance of Foster
“Loosening up” under a real base
ball sun, the frosh diamond crew is
using the weather to good advantage
by long, hard, daily workouts. Al
though handicapped by rather a rough
field, the frosh are spending a lot
of time in fielding and hitting. Con
sistent hitting and a strong battery,
are among the things that Coach Karl
is now working up to insure a success
ful season. In batting, several safe
hits appear better than a few stray
home runs, and the coaches are try
ing to develop a string of heavy-per
centage batters.
Five Twirlers Out
With the passible prospects of a
fairly heavy-hitting nine -in view,
a reliable pitcher is rather difficult
to choose at this time. With fresh
man baseball practice in its early
stages, the players out for the hurl
ing position have little or no oppor
tunity to display their wares, but in
a short time, the mound candidates
for the nine will no doubt be picked
from among five fellows out for the
job.
Included among the prospects for
the hurling staff is DeLassus, a
lanky speedball twirler from Cottage
Grove. Adolph is another candidate
out for the big job. Schulte, hav
ing had considerable experience in
the box, may develop into a strong
pitcher. West and Kiminki just
about complete the twirling list.
Kiminki is an infielder of great pos
sibilities, but he also is taking a
fling at the delivery end of the game.
A strong piteher for the frosh nine
is the aim of Coach Earl, but he
also wishes to turn over some good
material for the varsity next spring.
Hank Foster Assists
Working behind the bat, are three
catchers of high caliber. The receiver
for the nine will no doubt be selected
from three possible candidates. They
include: George Mimnaugh, Jones
and Marsh. These three men can
handle the stick with ease and are
quite at home behind the bat.
The above men nearly complete the
list of fellows from which to pick
a strong battery. With a strong bat
tery and a consistent hitting nine,
he coming season looks rather bright,
should the possible team pan out in
good style.
The coaehing staff of the frosh
nine las been considerably strength
ened by the assistance of Hank Fos
ter. Although very busy with a
great deal of work, Foster plans on
pending as much of his time as pos
sible in helping to develop the first
year men.
With more hitting and fielding
practice, the frosh will be ready for
jsome real scrimiqage work, which
should bring out the weak spots in
the team. |
MEMBERS OF FACULTY
i WILL SPEAK IN STATE
Various members of the faculty
will journey arouml tlie state in the
near future* acting in the capacity
of speakers or judges.
Eric W. Allen, dean of the school
of journalism, addressed the Leban
on high school assembly yesterday on
the subject of “Journalism as a Life
r Work.”
Today, E. F. Carleton, field sec
retary of the extension division, will
'act as judge of the Telegram’s ora
torical contest for Grant county,
i Professor A. R. Sweetser, head of the
botany department, will speak before
jthe Salem Women’s club on “Wild
Flower Preservation.” Gerrit Dem
tnink, assistant instructor in the pub
! lie speaking department, will act as
'judge of a declamatory contest at
Madras. Tomorrow Mozelle Hair, sec
retary of the extension division, will
talk to the Douglas county zone meet
ling at Sutherlin, and Harold Benja
:min, principal of the University high
j school, will address the Lebanon zone
meeting.
Business Office
Warns Against
N. S. F. Checks
About 1,300 Students
Yet to Pay Fees
Warning comes to the students
from the business office concern
ing N. S. F. checks. So far dur
ing this term’s time for paying
fees, the business office has re
ceived two such checks.
Students who pay their fees at
the last moment and whose
checks are returned N. S. F. after
the time allotted for paying fees
has expired will have to pay the
late filing fee of $3 regardless.
At the close of business yes
terday, about 1,100 students had
paid their fees. This leaves 1,300
who have not. There is left only
today and Saturday forenoon dur
ing which these may square their
accounts with the University.
Yesterday, the number paying
fees was not as large as it should
have been, and as a consequence,
it is believed that the last min
ute rush will be very great.
ACCOUNTANTS MAKE
AUDIT OF CO-OP BOOKS
Net Sales Show $6,843.95
Increase Over 1922
At the meeting of the board of
directors of the Co-operative store
Thursday, Whitcomb Piepenbrink
and Company, certified public ac
countants of Portland, submitted
the audit of the year’s business of
1923. The report was accepted by
the board and the company was em
ployed to make during the year
1924 a monthly audit and state
ment of the Co-op business. This
will include a summary audit at
the end of the year. The company
will also assist with the income tax
return.
The following statement was is
sued by the auditors: “In general,
the books of the University of
Oregon Co-operative Store were
found to be correctly and accurate
ly kept and subject ^o the adjust
ments indicated, correctly reflect
ing the financial condition of the
income and expense of the store.”
Net sales for the year 1923
showed an increase of $6,843.95
over the sales of the previous year.
The auditor’s report also showed
that the total stock of the store
on January 1, 1924, amounted to
$21,280. Of this amount, $8,040
was consumed in text-'books and
the remaining $13,240 in stationery
and miscellaneous articles.
Students Extend
Vote of Sympathy |
<>----—-♦
“WHEREAS, Almighty God,
in his infinite wisdom, has seen
fit to remove from our midst, our
late friend and fellow student,
Ronald Reid, and
“WHEREAS, by his death, the
University of Oregon has lost
one of its most earnest and re
spected teachers and fellows;
therefore, be it
“Resolved by the Associated
Students pf the University of
Oregon that to his sorrowing
family, we extend our deepest
sympathy, and be it further
“Resolved, that a copy of these
resolutions in behalf of our bo
loved friend be sent to his fam
ily, and that a copy be tran
scribed on the records of the
Associated Students of the Uni
versity of Oregon, and that a
copy be published in the student
publication.”
COLORADO COLLEGE
GETS NEVADA COACH
Colorado School of Mines—R. O.
“Corky” Courtright, for the past
five years football coach at the
University of Nevada, has left that
institution and will henceforth
coach football at the Colorado
School of Mines.
Courtwright has turned out some
scrappy Wolf Pack elevens, perhaps
his most notable one being the 1923
team that tied California, 0-0. He
was mentioned earlier in the year
as a possible successor to former
Coach Shy Huntington of the Uni
versity of Oregon.
GLASS CAPTAINS
. ARE APPOINTED
Organization for Student
Union Drive Gets Step
Nearer Actual Launching
HEADS VARY IN NUMBER
Haddon Rockhey, Chairman,
to Choose Solicitors for
Every Ten Individuals
A further step toward the per
fection of the organization for the
Student Union drive which starts
April 23, is the appointment of the
captains of the class soliciting teams.
The chairmen in charge of the en
tire class organization were appointed
arly in the week. These have made
the selections of subordinates who
will be responsible for the actual
oliciting when the time comes. These
aptains will be supervisors of teams
of 10 students, who will be assigned
lists of students to interview and
solicit for donations during the day0
of the campaign.
The freshman captains are Bussell
Lawrence, Bob Love, Earle Childs,
Alfred Goss, Annette Heckman,
Genevieve Spear, Frances Morgan,
and Mayfan Vurpillat. The sopho
mores will have as their captains,
Charles Norton, Floyd McKalson,
-Rodney Keating, Steele Winterer,
Maurine Buchanan, Mary Cool,
Esther Church, and Anna DeWitt.
Upperclass List Smaller
The junior captains are .Ted Gil
len waters, Charles Jost, Milton
Brown, Mary Clerin, Marguerite Mc
Cabe and Martha Shull. The seniors
in charge of the canvassing teams j
are Francis Altstock, Paul Sayre,
and Iiussell Gowans, Velma Farn-1
ham, Ada Harkness, and Rosalia
Keber.
The numbers of captains to each
class vary according to the size of
the classes. The underclasses being
argor, are organized under more
^workers. Haddon Rockhey, general
chairman of soliciting, is making ap
pointments so that there will bo a
campaign solicitor for no less than
every 10 of the more than 2,000 stu
dents in the University.
“We are gradually completing our
lists of organized workers,” Haddon
Rockhey said last night. “Our or
ganization will be so complete that
with automatic precision it will start
on its actual business when the clarion
call is sounded on April 23. And j
there will be no respite until the |
last subscription to the Student!
Union is obtained on April 26, the
last day of the campaign.”
Plans Are Thorough
Eockhey says now that the plan is
to have each student solicited by no
fewer than two persons. There will
be no tete-a-tete combats without an
ppointed referee to report the prog
ress of soliciting. The eternal tri
angle will be present with the Stu
dent Union as the objective of the
campaigning. There will be no
avenues of escape. Student lists of
names are in the hands of the solicit
ing authorities at the present time,
and methods of approach are beirg
mapped out. Conferences are to be
;held with all workers in the campaign.
They are to be given thorough in
fractions by their leaders. There will
lie no hesitancy on the part of any
one trying to help out the Student
Union movement.
Noon Meeting Planned
Each worker will be equipped and
armed with all available information
about the t'nion. He will be able
to expound on its benefits, the feasi
bility of the plan. He will be able
to quote authoritatively, and oven
go into debate on the subject. There
will be no delaying or diverting the
solicitor.
During the days of the campaign
ing, it is planned to hold daily noon
meetings of the 125 workers in the
drive and spur them on to nobler
efforts, hear the progress of the can-1
vassing, and correct errors, and aid
those who are having harder times of
it. Discouragements will be un- i
availing. The zest and enthusiatgn, 1
say the organizers, will carry the en- |
tire campus over the top in astound-1
ingly short time.
Campus Seniority
All Set for Dance
Function Tonight
The seniors are all set for their
liveliest bust of the year. To
night at 8:30 o’clock in Dream
land hall all seniority will
gather for the biggest informal
yet staged by the class of ’24.
Cords and school clothes will
reign as the proper garb. All
those who do not turn out for
the event will miss one of the
peppiest affairs of the year.
Jack Myers and his musical
crowd, the Midnite Sons, will
play the jazz for the occasion.
Eddio Edlunds, assisted by a
committee of four, is chairman
of the dance. He urges all
seniors to come, as they will be
assured of a good time. Especi
ally those who did not attend
tlio class meeting earlier in the
week are urged to attend, though
they perhaps did not hear the de
tails of the event announced at
the meeting.
LIFE OF SERVICE BEST,
SAYS DR. H. F. SWARTZ
Ethical and Religious Needs
Are Emphasized
There is a large field of endeavor
open to the youth of today through
the idealistic vocations — those that
stress the idea of service and not of
mterial reward, declared Dr. Herman
F. Swartz, speaker at assembly yes
terday. Dr. Swartz is president of
the Pacific School of Religion.
Besides offering an opportunity for
ervice, these vocations, such as medi
icino, teaching Y. M. C. A. work, the
ministry and the church, hold forth
a life that brings now experiences
each day, a life that leads to new
things and never goes flat after a
few years. These vocations are among
the most worthwhile, the speaker said.
The need for establishing more
firmly the ethical and religious ideas
of our forefathers is very great today,
he continued. Ho told of men in po
sitions of trust in the nation, men
like Wilson, Harding and Coolidgo,
who recognized the necessity of es
tablishing firmly the ethical and mor
■il foundations of the country. Dr.
Swartz gave as an example a survey
of Indiana, .which showed that 61.2
per cent of the total population have
tin relation to any church organiza
tion, demonstrating the need for mo/e
persons to enter the idealistic voca
tions.
“There is a realm of service open
to the idealistic-minded youth of to
:lay,” ho continued.
Dr. Swartz emphasized the need of
sthical and religious values through
several examples. A business man,
94 years old, said that ho had found
in his own experience that one can
wipe out economic conditions of pros
perity and that within a few years
they will bo restored; whilo if one de
stroys the ethical foundation, there
is no appreciable recovery. The coun
try is facing such a condition today,
Dr. Swartz thinks.
EX-OREGON STUDENTS
TAKE FAST AUTO TRIP
Price Sullivan and Paul Staley, for
mer students of the University of Or
egon, class of ’25, arrived in Eugene
Wednesday morning via a Buiek road
ster of the class of about 1912, en
route from Santa Cruz, California, to
Portland, where they will spend a
two weeks’ vacation. The trip was
made in two days, the last lap from
Sacramento to Eugene taking only 20
hours. Sullivan is with the Chapman
Furniture company of Santa Cruz in
partnership with Frank Chapman, an
other ex-Oregon student, and Staley
is in the employ of the Standard Oil
company there.
Many other former students of the
University who are working in that
part of California were seen by Sul
livan and Staley. Among them are
“Fuzzy” Carson and “Cutie” Slade,
who are now with the Vernon base
ball club, the former pitching and the
atter playing short. Herb Larsen
s working on the San Francisco Bul
etin and Everett Pixley, with the
General Motor company of San Fran
isco. Maud Neighbor and Margaret
Jackson, who are attending the Uni
versity of California, and Margery
Vale, at Stanford, are other Oregon
Btudents whom they saw.
The boys plan to return to Santa
Cruz in about two weeks, when their
vacation expires.
AST TUCK WILL
STM AT OREGON
Rumors of Javelin Hurler’s
Departure Make Cinder
Outlook Appear Gloomy
MEET HERE, MAY 30-31
Varsity May Send Two Men
to July Olympic Games;
Spearow Out for Team
By T. J.
Campus followers of varsity ath
letes received somewhat of a scare
yesterday when a rumor was circu
lated that Art Tuck, veteran jave
lin hurler and weight man for the
track team, was withdrawing from
the University to take a position
with the state highway commission
at Salem. Tuck admitted that he
had receivel the offer, but had de
cided not to sacrifice his chancee
with the varsity and the Olympic
track squad.
With Tuck on the team, Bill
Hayward has a fair chance of be
ing able to send two men across
the waters, to Paris to take part
in the international track and
field contests to be held in July.
Spearow Has Good Record
Ralph Spearow, a man who for
many seasons since high school days
has excelled in the pole vault,
should, if he lives up to his past
achievements, be able to make the
Olympic squad.
Though few expect that Oregon
will be able to capture the coast
meet held here May 30 and 31, the
chances are good that the squad
will be well up toward the top.
Walter Kelsey, stellar freshman on
last year ’a team, will be almost
sure to make points in the hurdle
events.
Spearow and Tuck, besides their
main events, the pole vault and
javelin, will probably make a num
ber of other points. Spearow is out
for the high jump, broad jump, and
may be entered in the 100-yard
dash. Tuck, even if he is not
ontored in the sprints because of
a weak knee, will throw the discuss,
shot, and perhaps the 56-pound
weight.
Belay Team Good
A well balanced relay team is
seen in Arthur Rosebraugh, Vic
Risley, Ben Lucas, and James Kin
ney. The first three named have
all won the letters as relay or 440
men. Rosebraugh is a two year
man.
The decision announced recently
to hold the Olympic tryouts for the
Pacific coast in conjunction with
the regular meet has placed the
University in a position to put on
what will undoubtedly be the big
gest event of its kind ever staged
on the coast. Hayward track
field, with the Addition of the new
220-yard straightaway, which is
now under construction, will be as
well equipped to handle the affair
as any on the coast.
Many to See Meet
It is expected that several thou
sands of people will be here to wit
ness the meet from all over the
coast. Jack Beneficl, graduate
manager, has announced that an
extensive ticket sale campaign will
bo carried on, especially at Corval
lis and other nearby points. Under
the terms of the agreement to hold
the meet here, Oregon must guar
antee $2,000, which is to bo divided
among the institutions participat
ing in the conference sending
representatives to take part in the
meet. The money is divided ac
cording to the distance the teams
have to travel.
UNIVERSITY DEPOT KEEPS
2107 KEYS TO BUILDINGS
There aro 2107 keys, of every
description and kind, which open
every tiling on the campus from
buildings to closets, stored in the
! University depot. They are cata*
logued and hung on panels within
a black painted case, and are easily
accessible, despite their numer
osity. And these are only the keys
which are saved in case the ori
ginals, which are distributed among
the faculty and workers of the Uni
vorsity are lost. Eighty-six keys
grace the belts of the night watch
men. Altogether, H. M. Fisher be
lioves that there are at least two
times as many keys to campus
buildings in circulation. Figure
up the total yourself.