Oregon Daily Emerald
VOLUME XXV
UNTVEB8ITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1924
NUMBER 135
CLASS CAPTAINS
CHOOSE HELPERS
Freshmen and Sophomore
Leaders Select Teams
for Student Union Drive
TWO GROUPS LIST 340
Entire Staff of Workers
to be Given Tomorrow;
All Will Meet Thursday
The silent tentacles of the Stu
dent Union organization have been
started on their outstretching way.
Yesterday 340 workers for Student
Union were selected by no less than
20 captains of canvassing teams.
The web of cooperation is being
more finely spun Tomorrow the
announcement of the entire staff of
workers will be madie, And the
complete systematized corps will
tie an integral group ready to go on
the four day drive.
The freshman and sophomore
classes ea<^i have eight canvassing
teams of usually ten members
apiece, which will take their class
es in hand and swing them into
the great student throng gathering
to lay the foundation of a great
strucure. *
Details of Work Given
The teams were selected by the
class captains who met yesterday
for the express purpose of making
the appointments. The junior and
senior appointments will be ready
to announce tomorrow,, and on
Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock the
entire Student Union working or
ganization will get together for the
first time in Villard hall to take a
survey of itself and find out just
what steps must be taken first in
order to prepare the way for the
great “kick-off” next Wednesday,
a week from today.
Last night, at a meeting of the
executive committee, comprised of .the
heads of the three main committees,
namely, the main canvassing, the
stunts, and the publicity groups,
some of the details of the work for
the four day drive were enumerated.
Today arrangements are being made
to have 2,000 pledge ribbons printed,
so that every student in the University
will have the opportunity to wear one
by the time the last quota is sub
scribed at some time during the four
days.
Work to be Thorough
Subscribers to the Student Union
will be, literally spiked and , their
achievements will be advertised to
their fellows. Those workers will be
equipped with pledge blanks and
armed with information and argu
ments for the campaign.
There is to be a full program of
instruction at the general workers’
meeting, which is to take place to
morrow evening at 7:30 in ^ illard
hall.
The names of those appointed to
the freshman and sophomore commit
tees are as follows:
Sophomore names
Women—Mary Brandt, chairman.
Team 1—Anna De Witt, captain;
team members, Tmogene Lewis, Cath
erine Franciscovitch, Helen Gripper,
Ruth McGregor, Anna McCabe, Edna
Murphy, Betty Rauche, Margaret Vin
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Dean of Women
to Discontinue
Teas This Spring
“On aecount of the increase of
outdoor sports during the good
weather, Mrs. Esterly’s Thursday
teas will be discontinued for the
remainder of the spring term.”
This edict was greeted with
genuine sighs of regrets from the
feminine element yesterday after
noon. The custom of students
gathering at the tea hour around
the inviting fireplace of the
dean of women, has proved
very popular among the Univer
sity women all year, judging
from the large group who have
attended these informal gather
ings.
Each day during the spring
from 4 until 6 o’clock, baseball
games, hockey team practices,
and horseback riding occupy the
time ordinarily devoted by* the
women to the tea hour;
VIRGINIA BACON, '84,
TO REPRESENT OREGON
Alumna to Attend A. A. U. W.
Conference in the East
Virginia Cleaver Bacon, ’04, with
the United States Employment service
in the Junior division at Washington,
D. C., will be the representative of
the University of Oregon at the an
nual conference of the American As
sociation of University Women, to be
held at Washington, D. C., April 21
26.
For the first year after Mrs.
Bacon’s graduation from the Uni
versity she was an assistant in liter
ature on the campus. He has been
engaged in journalistic and library
work continuously since 1910.
As an author Mrs. Bacon has had
stories published in Munsey, Sunset,
Judge, Youth’s Companion, Overland,
Holland’s and Scribner’s, as well as
| contributing to a great many news
papers on both the California and
eastern coasts. She has also writ
ten a number of scenarios.
Oregon’s representative has done
graduate work at a number of other
universities, including George Wash
ington university and Chicago.
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COMMERCE WOMEN
TO SELL DOUGHNUTS
Big, fat, fluffy doughnuts buried in
a bank of sugar for one nickel, or
one jitney, or five coppers. Take one
from the baskets of the members of
Phi Theta Kappa, who will estab
lish their market around Commerce
hall today. The /members of the
honorary commerce society will sup
ply the salesmanship—and the stu
dents will pass out the necessary five
cents.
The reason for the pleasant hold
up is explained by Mary Hathaway,
president of Phi Theta Kappa. Each
year a $50 scholarship is given to
some upperclass woman in the school
of business administration and the
doughnut sale is the means of secur
ing the necessary sum.
Aodpt the motto, .“Come prepared”
and you will get satisfaction.
PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT
Sigma Beta Phi announces the
pledging of Laura Prescott of Ash
land, Oregon.
Mary Raker Reveals Bird
Habits to Samara Members
Students are not the only ones
who migrate to and from this cam
pus. There are a large number of
birds, which travel from one^part of
the country to another in search of
congenial surroundings, and stop for
a while on the campus and in the
vicinity, to size up the situation and
move on if they are not satisfied.
Some remain for the summer, others
are winter visitors, and still others
elect to make it their permanent place
of abode.
It is not everyone who meets these
feathered visitors and becomes ac
quainted with the residents of the
air. They do not hold open house at
the beginning of the year in order
to meet their friends. Yet they can
always be found by true friends who
are willing to search them out.
And they have one such friend on
the campus. One who is willing to
visit them in their own homes and
learn their habits and ways of liv
ing. One who has a friendship with
the birds and is willing to introduce
the campus to her friends. Last night
she did so in a speech before Samara
and the botany classes in room 103
Deady hall.
This is Mary Raker, senior in the
University and a student of the bird
life of the West, who with her father,
has spent much time studying birds
and their habits. The lecture last
night was illustrated with many col
ored slides showing birds of all kinds
and descriptions in their native sur
roundings. The slides were made by
Robert Horsefall, of Portland, who
visited many secluded spots and found
the birds in their private hauhts in
making the pictures.
Stories of bird life and bird strife
(Continned on page four.)
DUDLEY SPEAKER
AT CONFERENCE
Vining Will Outline Work
of Oregon State Chamber
at Today’s Gathering
PARTY COMES TONIGHT
Eugene Rotary Club Is Host
at Entertainment Given
Delegates and Faculty
The third day of the annual short
course for commercial secretaries
promises to be even more interesting
than the former ones. A. S. Dudley,
manager of the Oregon state chamber
of commerce, who has just returned
from a trip East, where he has been
arranging for publicity on the recrea
tional and industrial development of
the state of Oregon, will be one of
the speakers today.
The work that is being conducted
by the Oregon state chamber will be
outlined at the session starting at
1:15. Irving E. Vining, from Ash
land, who drew a large crowd when
he spoke at the retail merchants ’
convention held here in February, will
talk during the assembly hour from
11 to 11:50.
Hostesses Axe Named
There will be an informal party
given by President and Mrs. P. L.
Campbell for the secretaries at the
Woman’s building.this evening at 8
p. m. Phi Theta Kappa, women’s
honorary' commerce fraternity, will
act as joint hostess with Dean Vir
ginia Judy Esterly, Mrs. Edna Pres
cott Davis, and Mrs. Anne Lands
bury Beck.
The Rotary club of Eugene enter
tained the secretaries and the staff
of the school of business administra
tion at luncheon yesterday.
The program for today is as fol
lows:
9:00-9:50 — Mechanics of Public
Speaking, A. S. Dudley, Portland.
10:00-10:50 — Principles of Eco
nomics, E. C. Robbins.
11:00-11:50—Assembly, community
singing. Speaker, Irving E. Vining,
Ashland.
12:00-1:15—Luncheon.
1:15-4:45—The Work of the Ore
gon State Chamber of Commerce: 1.
Land Settlement; 2. Tourist Travel;
3. Marketing; 4. State Publicity.
6:15—Dinner.
8:00—President and Mrs. Camp
bell’s Informal Party, Woman’s
building.
U. H. S. NINE PREPARES
FOR TILT WITH ALBANY
The University high school base
ball nine is working out every
night on its diamond near the
Music building in spite of the cold
and rainy weather. The team has
already played two practice games,
one of which it won and the other
lost, and now the men are work
ing hard to strengthen the weak
spots. Burton, as pitcher, has been
going good, fanning out about ten
men in the game with Cottage
Grove last week, and allowing them
only one run.
His backing was not exception
ally good, however, and the coach
is working on the rest of the in
field and the outfielders (to gjfet
them ready for the first big game
with Albany high, April 25. Hid
ings, as the receiving end of the
battery, has been doing very good
work and can be used as pitcher if
necessary. •
LANDSCAPE EXHIBITION
EXTENDED TO APRIL 25
The exhibition of landscapes by John
F. Carlson, New York painter, will
remain on the campus until Friday,
April 25, when it will be packed and
sent to Seattle. All students and
faculty members as well as Eugene
citizens are especially' invited by the
instructors in the school of architec
ture and allied arts to see the paint
ings before they are sent away.
Fifteen really unusual canvases
may be seen, including some of es
pecially beautiful snow subjects.
Carlson works for texture in his
paintings, and his canvases have been
scraped and repainted and painted
again, giving both texture and a
charming broken color treatment.
Total of 1924
Fees Paid Says
Business Office
Banks Return Eleven
N. S. F. Checks
When the business office closed
Saturday noon, 1901 students had
paid their fees. Since then, 23
more have paid. These students
have had to pay the $3 fee for
paying after the allotted time.
The business office has re
ceived a total of 11 N. S. F.
checks. Six came back to the
office last Saturday and five
since then. All those who have
had their checks returned for not
sufficient funds will have to pay
the late filing fee of $3 also.
The business office does not
know the exact number who have
failed to pay their fees, but it is
supposed that the number is fair
ly large. No effort will be made
to see that all pay their fees
since there is no accurate means
of finding those who are in
school and those who are not.
The business office assumes that
those who do not pay their fees
are no longer in school. Only
those who have paid fees will re
ceive credit for their courses.
COMMUNITY GROWTH
ASSEMBLY SUBJECT
Jake Allen Is Both Author
and Lecturer
Jake D. Allen, the speaker at as
sembly Thursday, will speak on “Or
ganized Community Development,” a
subject that he knows very well. For
a period of ten years, his time has
been largely occupied in analyzing
community and organization prob
lems.
He is at present the promotion man
ager of the D. M. Linnard hotels
and has his headquarters at the Hotel
Whitcomb, San Francisco. He is a
member of the San Francisco Cham
ber of Commerce and many other or
ganizations, including the San Fran
cisco Advertising club, the San Fran
cisco Commercial club, the Califor
nia Association of Commercial sec
retaries.
Mr. Allen is a prominent speaker
and is quite in demand. He has made
addresses to 400 Chambers of Com
merce. In California he has ad
dressed all the major advertising
clubs and the most important busi
ness service clubs. In 1920 he was a
lecturer on chamber of commerce
technique at the University of Wis
consin, in 1921 he was a lecturer on
the same subject at Stanford univer
sity and in 1922 at the University of
Montana and Stanford university.
He is the author of several articles
on chamber of commerce work. These
are “Chamber of Commerce Analy
sis and Survey,” Chamber of Com
merce Campaigns,” “Chamber of
Commerce Membership Maintenance,”
“Chamber of Commerce Publicity,”
“Program of Work for Chambers of
Commerce.
The music for assembly Thursday
will be a ’cello solo by Lora Teshnor.
CONDON CLUB ELECTS
NEXT YEAR’S OFFICERS
Election of officers of the Con
don club section of the Geological
and Mining society was announced
after a meeting held Tuesday fore
noQn. The newly elected officers
are Don Frazer, president; Mac Me
Clain, vice-president; Don John
son, secretary; and Ollie Mercer,
treasurer. Installation of offi
cers will take place at the annual
banquet to be held April 30.
The retiring officers are Don
Zimmerman, president; Alec Shipe,
vice-president; Hally Berry, secre
tary; and Mac McClain, treasurer.
THETA SIGMA PHI PICKS
OFFICEBS FOB NEXT YEAB
At a meeting held at the Anchor
age yesterday noon, Catherine
Spall of Portland was chosen to
head the organization of Theta
Sigma Phi, women’s national
honorary journalism fraternity, for
the coming year. Margaret Morri
son of Hood River was elected
secretary and Marian Lowry of
Walker, treasurer:
DR. MEIKLEJOHN
TO VISIT CAMPUS
Former Amherst President
to Arrive Here Thursday
for Only Two Day Stay
STUDENTS WILL BE MET
Dr. Sholz of Reed College
to Accompany Easterner;
Both Famous Educators
Alexander Meiklejohn, former
president of Amherst college, and
one of the leading progressive edu
cators of the United States, will be
on the campus Thursday afternoon
and Friday, to meet the faculty and
student groups of tho University.
Motoring with him from Portland
will be President K. F. Scholz, of
Reed college.
Since the time of their visit to
the University is to bo very limit
ed, Dr. Meiklejohn and President
Scholz will endeavor to crowd as
much as possible into the short
time allowed. Dinner in honor of
the visitors will be served at the
Anchorage, to which members of
the faculty are to be invited. At
7:30, Dr. Meiklejohn will meet
active members of Agora, Dial,
Cross Roads and the editing class
in Alumni hall. This gathering is
not to be exclusive and all persons
interested in educational progress
are welcome to bo present, though
no attempt is being made to 'drum
up a large audience.
Leaders Axe Named
Dr. Meiklejohn is ranked with
the foremost authorities and stu
dents of modern tendencies in edu
cation in the country, among whom
are Frank Aydelotte, president of
Swarthmore college, and President
Scholz of Reed. These men, through
extensive research in all branches
and phases of progressive educa
tion, >are leaders in that move
ment in education often referred
to on the campus as “Oxforditis.”
During his office as president of
Amherst college from 1922 to 1923,
Dr. Meiklejohn was the leader of
a re-organization of the Univer
sity’s teaching methods, and intro
duced progressive reforms in the
| general administration of the col
, lege. He did develop a rare eager
ness and interest in learning in the
I students. When Dr. Meiklejohn re
signed, many of the professors
turned in their resignations also,
and part of the graduate students
refused to accept their degrees,
the feeling within the college being
so strong in favor of the presi
dent ’s standpoint.
Various Positions Held
! Throughout his entire life, Alex
ander Meiklejohn has been promi
nent in educational circles. Born
in England, February 3, 1872, ho
moved to America at the age of 8
years, entered school and -was grad
uated from Brown university in
1893, with a degree of B.A. Tak
ing two more years of graduate
work, he obtained his M.A. from
the same university in 1895. From
there, he entered Cornell and was
given his Ph.D. degree in 1897.
Returning to Brown university,
Dr. Meiklejohn held different pro
fessorships in the institution, being
head of the department of phil
osophy from 1901-1912, when he
was made president. He is a mem
ber of the American Philosophical
society, American Psychological
association, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma
Xi and Theta Delta Chi.
Dr. Scholz Rhoden Man
President Scholz, author and
professor of history, was a Rhodes
scholar at Oxford in 1904-7, a mem
ber of the first goup under Rhodes’
will, and a student at the Univer
sity of Berlin. He came to Reed as
[president in 1921. He is a member
iof the American Historical society
and Phi Beta Kappa, and has
written extensively on philological
and historical topics.
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DR. EDMUND S. CONKLIN
WILL ADDRESS CLASSES
Dr. Edmund S. Conklin of the
psychology sjppartment will take
over two lectures of the personal
hygiene classes in the absence of
Dr. Il(-rt£ia Stuart Dyment. Dr.
Conklin will address all sections of
the class on Tuesday, April 22, and
on Tuesday, April 29. No arrange
' ments have as yet been announced
for the rest of the lectures of the
Shorn Hair Makes
Women Ineligible
for Bonneville Job
“Only long-haired gilds need
apply, ” is the single specifica
tion given for six college women
who might desire a position for
the entire summer at Bonneville.
Mr. and Mrs. Noyes Eben Tyr
rell, owners of a cafe at Bonne
ville on the Columbia highway,
40 miles from Portland, each year
employ college women to wait on
the tables. This year six will be
taken from this University, in
addition to others from the vari
ous colleges in the vicinity.
Wages are $50 a month as well
as room and board. Cottages are
provided for tho girls with only
four to a cottage. These are under
direct supervision of Mrs. Tyrrell.
Dean Virginia Esterly will talk
further with those desirous of
inquiring into the details of this
opening.
EASTERN OREGONIANS
BUCK GIFT CAMPAIGN
Dean Henry Sheldon Finds
Alumni Enthusiastic
“Eastern Oregon people are show
ing good re-action to the Gift
Campaign, under the leadership of
very enterprising alumni,” said
Dean Henry D. Sheldon, upon being
interviewed yesterday. “The 'news
papers are willing to give the cam
paign publicity and I believe the
prospects of putting the drive
across are quite good.”
Dean Sheldon Jeft Eugene on
April 6 for Eastern Oregon, where
he investigated the success of the
campaign in that region. In the
cities where he visited, there have
been committees of workers formed,
each one headed by an alumnus of
Oregon. These men are: Arle
Hampton, La Grande; Henry Mc
Kinney, Baker City; Harold Black
aby, Ontario; and Robert Kellogg,
Enterprise.
Dinners were given at each of
tho towns, the heads of the com
mittees explaining the campaign,
while Deam Sheldon placed before
the diners the groat need of build
ings on the campus.
“I think it is particularly splen
did that, although a few of the
Eastern Oregon cities have been
hard hit by the agricultural depres
sion, the alums are determined to
meet their full quota,” said Dean
Sheldon. “It. is planned by the
heads that every town and city im
Oregon will have a dinner on the
opening night of tho drive, to fur
ther it in every way possible. These
affairs have already been arranged
for.”
The drive, which will extend from
May 9 to tho 29th, estimates the
quotas on the basis of 3,800 alumni,
at, a donation of $260 each. Dean
Sheldon says the people are gener
ally enthusiastic, and are good
material for the industrious, influ
ential workers, who, he says, have
organized the campaign so thor
oughly.
JUDGE HENDERSON TO BE
OREGON REPRESENTATIVE
Judge Charles E. Henderson, who
was graduated from the University
in 189.3, will be Oregon’s represent
ative at the semi-centennial of the
founding of Purdue university,
LaPayette, Indiana. This celebra
tion is to take place May 1, 2, 3.
Judge Henderson will present the
felicitations of the University of
Oregon to Purdue on that occasion.
DISTANCE MEN
CET INTO SHAPE
Inclement Weather Fails
to Stop Track Athletes
From Spring Training
TEAMS SHOW UP WELL
Sprinters and Mile Runners
Endeavor to Develop
Stamina and Distance
In spite of the cold weather, the
track athletes are not missing prac
tice these winter days, for with
the relays coming Mhy 3, and »
dual moot with Washington in less
than a month, much conditioning
will bo necessary to get the men
into shape.
Last night, several of the dis
tance men who have been on the
shelf the last fow days with vari
ous ailments were out performing.
Bill has a crew of men working in
these distance races, who, if they
escape the ravages of hard luck,
should develop into point winners
for the school. Totz, McCool and
Keating make a fighting trio that,
once they get into shape, should
give other conference distance
runners a |real racp. 1 There are
others who have not been out for
the varsity squad before this year
who are also showing promise. Van
Guilder and Stephenson should give
the others competition for a place
on the team if they keep improv
ing as they are doing.
Football Men Tracking
Several men from the (football
squad have reported for track since
the close of spring practice. Ken
Bailey, Jens Terjesen and Ed Kel
ley are playing around with the
weights. Terjesen was on the frosh
squad of 1922 as a discus heaver.
Vic Risley had his outfit of
quarter-milors out last night giving
them the air. This is one of the
hardest races listed in present _day
track meets and requires hard con
sistant training. Last night thia
crew not only breezed a quarter
at good speed; but did their stuff
several times around the track
with tho mile squad. This is to
develop stamina.
Complete Schedule Given
The next practice they will
probably work with the sprinters,
in addition to doing their own dis
tance. A quarter-miler needs the
speed of a sprinter and endur
ance of a distance man. Couple
this witli the fighting heart and
the norve of a big game hunter,
and the ideal is reached.
This spring’s program for the
varsity as listed is:
April 19—Local competition.
April 26—Interclass moot.
May 3—University of Washing
ton relays at Seattle.
May 10—University of Washing
ton, dual meet, Eugene.
May 17—Dual meet with O. A.
C. at Corvallis.
May 24—Open.
May 30-31 — Olympic tryouts
and conference meet, Eugene.
LIBRARY BUYS PERIODICALS
FOR HISTORY DEPARTMENT
A new sot of periodicals, “Le
Moyeu Ago,” has recently been
purchased by the library. The set
contains 3.3 volumes and deals ex
tensively with the history and
! language of the middle ages. The
| periodicals were obtained primarily
for the history department.
State Development Discussed
by Dodson, Portland Manager
By Frances Sanford
To get the business men of Ore
gon to cooperate in helping mar
ket the agricultural products of the
state, to encourage greater land
development, anil to sell Oregon to
ourselves and subsequently to the
outsiders—these are the most im
portant ways in which W. B. D.
Dodson, manager of the Portland
chamber of commerce, who is at
tending the short course for com
mercial secretaries being held on
the campus this week, believes
greater Oregon development can
be most effectively accomplished.
“The part of the state around
Portland has raised $300,000 to
spend on this development pro
gram over a period of two years,”
he said yesterday. Sitting up very
straight, and discussing these prob
lems of state development with the
most serious of expressions in bis
brown eyes, Dr. Dodson radiated
sincerity and strength of convic
tion with every word that he ut
tered.
Half of this amount sot aside
will be spent each year, according
to the speaker. The first fiscal
year expires on the coming July 1.
The program is divided into three
parts: the marketing of agricul
tural or soil products, the land set
tlement work, and the publicity
for recreational and tourist travel
about $35,000 is devoted to market
(Continued on page four.)