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Twelve Candidates Listed
to Run for Offices in
Group for Coming Year
ELECTIONS ARE APRIL 29
Georgia Benson Reports
on Convention at Mass
Meeting in Guild Hall
At a mass meeting of Women’s
league, held yesterday afternoon
in Guild hall, nominations of offi
cers for the coming year were
named by the nominating commit
tee composed of Miriam Swartz,
chairman, Maude Schroeder, Eliza
beth Griggs and Freda Goodrich.
The candidates as named by the
nominating committee are: Presi
dent, Winifred Graham and Jeanne
Gay; vice-president, Mary Clerin
and Mary Bartholomew; secretary,
Maurine Buchanan and Lucinda
Dell; treasurer, Anna DeWitt and
Janet Wood; sergeant-at-arms,
Delia Sherwood and Glenna Fisher;
reporter, Elizabeth Cady and Kath
erine Lauderdale.
President Givee Report
Elections will be held Tuesday,
April 29, and every woman in the
University is eligible to vote. In
accepting nominations, the execu
tive council of the league urges the
candidates to bear hn mind the
“point system,” so that no woman
will carry more than 10 points in
campus activities.
2x report oo. iuo Aoauciauuu uj.
University Women’s convention at
the University of Arizona, at Tuc
son, was given by Georgia Benson,
who acted as a representative of
the women of Oregon. „
Many Issues Discussed
It was recommended at the con
vention that Women's league elec
tions be held early in the spring
term in future so that both the
new president and the retiring
president be able to attend the
conference.
In summarizing the work of the
conference, Miss Benson touched
upon the importance of vocational
guidance and the problem of the
unsocial girl as brought out by the
round tabje discussions. She em
phasized especially student and
faculty cooperation, respect for
University regulations, and the
final installation of the academic
honor system for the University of
■Oregon.
Y. W. WILL SUPERVISE
GRADE GIRLS’ BANQUET
On April 30, the grade school
Girls ’ Reserve corps of Eugene will
put on a Mothers’ and Daughters’
banquet under the supervision of
the University Y. W. C. A. An
outstanding number on the pro
gram will be an address by Miss
Helen Price, national secretary of
the Y. W. C. A. Girls’ Reserve
corps for the Northwest.
The University high school divi
sion of the Girls’ Reserves will
also give a Mothers’ and Daugh
ters’ banquet some time during
this coming week, the definite
date as yet being undecided. The
Eugene high school is holding a
Fathers ’ and Daughters ’ banquet
on April 24.
Salamander Lives
Without Eating
for Four Years
Among the curiosities to be
found in the aquariam of the bi
ology department is a salamander
which has not eaten for four
years.
The animal shows clearly the
results of its long fast, for it is
very emaciated and fits well
into the “skin and bones” class.
Its skin is wrinkled and hard,
and through it may be seen al
most every bone in the animal’s
body.
When first acquired by the de
partment, the salamander was
given food, but it showed no de
sire for decaying leaves and dead
organisms. For the past four
years it has not had anything to
eat, yet it lives and is expected
to do so for some time. m
Members of the biology faculty
explain that the animal is living
on stored up energy and due to
its inactivity, it requires but lit
tle of that. From the salaman
der’s appearance, it doesn’t seem
to have much energy left, but it
manages to move around and
seems perfectly content with itb
environment. For this reason, the
animal will not be fed—and any
how the shock of getting some
thing to eat might kill it.
VISITING SECRETARIES
ELECT NEW OFFICERS
J. H. Fuller, Ashland, Heads
Organization for Year
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
VOTED FOE NEXT YEAR
| President—J. H, Fuller, Ash
land.
| Vice-president — Lynn Sabin,
Klamath Falls.
| Secretary-treasurer — William
P. Allyn, Hood Elver.
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One of the most important events
in yesterday’s program for the
chamber of commerce secretaries’
short course was the election of
officers of the state association of
commercial secretaries at the an
nual meeting held last evening in
the rooms of the Eugene chamber
of commerce.
The officers eleeied for the ensu
ing year are: J. H. Fuller, Ashland,
president; Lynn Sabin, Klamath
Falls, vice-president; William P.
Allyn, Hood Eiver, secretary-treas
urer, The directors are: B. T.
Spaulding, Grants Pass;. A. M.
Simons, Grants Pass; E. E. Chad
wick, Eugene; and E. E. Morris,
Portland. The retiring officers are:
L. Antles, Bend, president; Lynn
Sabin, Klamath Falls, vice-presi
dent; and Barney Garret, Oregon
City, secretary-treasurer.
Tonight the secretaries will hold
their annual banquet, a gala occa
sion for the secretaries who have
attended the course all four years,
for these men will' be presented
with certificates from the Univer
sity of Oregon to the effect that
they have completed their work and
may be graduated from the course.
“Business Cycles” is the sub
ject upon which F. E. Folts of the
school of business administration,
will address the session this morn
ing at 9 o’clock. An interesting
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Diogenes Stumbles on Truth
Hid Away in Student Union
“Kub-a-dub-dub,
Three men in a Tub,
The Butcher, the Baker,
The Candlestick Maker . . •” bad
nothing on Diogenes in his re
nowned barrel raising his lantern
in search of the Truth. For if old
“Di” roamed the earth today, he
should surely fihd his haven in a
Student Union. There, intuitively,
he should be led, to discover the
truth with a capital “T” in every
part of the gTeat structure. For
there he should find eternal democ
racy with the butcher, baker and
candlestick maker, and the modern
day flapper herself, all mingling
together on the same social plane.
Diogenes could have been no
stickler for form carrying his domi
(Cile about with him and fraterniz
ing with men in the close quarters
pt his staves and hoops. Ah, h»w
roomy, how magnificent, how ideal
—what a splendid place of repose
for his quarry. Truth could have
no more excellent house than this
Student Union.
And so old Di, with flowing beard
draped over the bow of his ancient
vehicle, can be imagined trapsing
up Thirteenth avenue by the dark
of the moon, with . outstretching
arm suspending by its handle the
ever-glowing lantern, which is to
flicker only as the legendary sage
pushes the door into the lighted
hall of the Student Union to find
his coveted resting place on the
lounge. There he will shake the
hand of the “piffler” or the
scholar, or the gay pedagogue, and
say, “Well, brother, I'm glad to
find you here, for now I shall erect
my easel and paint honours to the
^at-laat discovered Truth.”
SPOUTS ACTION
OPTO STUDENTS
In/framural Competitions
Should Exist, in Opinion
of Athletic Instructors
TEAMS ARRANGE MEETS
Physical Education Heads
Cooperate With Houses;
Council Works on Plans
By George H. Godfrey
The move to abolish interfrater
nity contests came from the stu
dents themselves, and any move for
intramural competition to replace
the former system must, likewise,
come from the students.
This is the sentiment expressed
by members of the school of physi
cal education and of the athletic
department. All are agreed that
some form of intramural athletics
should exist, and all are agreed that
the interfraternity method is the
best. Some favor a limitation of
events to be entered, whilp one
member was for an expansion of
the old program.
Teams Arrange Meets
The belief that the action of the
interfraternity council abolishing
the old program was detrimental
both to the individual and to the
University was freely expressed. No
substitute was offered, they point
out, and the act was taken with
out consultation with the physical
education department, and without
representation from those who were
promoting the program.
No substitute plan will be of
fered by either the school of phy
sical education or the athletic de
partment. At present, arrangements
are being made to hold “dough
nut” contests in tennis and base
ball. In this, notices will simply
be sent around to the living or
ganizations, and all teams entered
will be placed on the schedule. The
teams will not need to represent a
fraternity, nor will any group be
compelled to enter teams.
Scott Favors Sports
“We will go ahead just as we
have done in the past,” said Harry
A. Scott, professor of physical
education. “We never have com
pelled any group to enter a team
in any sport. The students them
selves have attended to the enter
ing of teams—we have merely been
the instruments in seeing that the
contests were carried out on a con
structive basis. I see no reason
why interfraternity sports should
have been abolished, nor do I be
lieve that they should even be cur
tailed.
“We have tried to have an ex
tensive program. This was to give
as many men as possible a chance
to participate., If a man cbuld
not play basketball, or baseball, he
could find a chance to compete in
swimming or handball. No one was
forced to enter anything.
“The reason living organizations
were taken as units fdr this pro
gram was simply because there the
organization was perfected, and h
group loyalty was already built up.
This loyalty is essential, for no
five men picked up at random are
going to work together like five
men taken from a group.”
Earl Suggests Plan
Virgil Earl, director of athletics,
believes that the students should
find their own solution to the prob
lem. Organization for intramural
spots will be up to those that de
sire them, he said,' and his depart
ment will simply cooperate in any
way possible. Mr. Earl believes in
a more modified program than was
in effect last term, however. He
suggests that a “major-minor”
plan be adopted. This would in
clude four major sports and four
minor sports, and each organization
could choose two of each in which
to participate. This, he thinks,
would eliminate many of the diffi
culties, and at the same time give
many an opportunity to participate
in sports they like.
Bill Hayward, track coach and
trainer, believes in intramural ath
letics, but he is as yet making no
comment on the action ab(>}ishing
them. He cites,.however, the fact
that last term, while the inter
fraternity competition was in force,
150 men were turning out daily for
track, and that now, since the
abolishment, the number has dwin
dled to 80. Other factors may have
caused this, however, he says. One
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Women’s League
Leap Year Dance
Is Set for May 2
Proceeds Are to Go to
Social Treasury
One dance in the year when
men watch their hostesses plunge
their hands deep in their pockets
for 85 cents, is the leap year
dance, to be given by the Wom
en’s league, Friday evening, May
2, at the Woman’s building. Pro
ceeds are to go to the social treas
ury- of the organization, to pay
for its share in the expenses of
sending Mary Bartholomew to
the Student Volunteer conven
tion, in Indianapolis, last Decem
ber. Surplus above the social
treasury quota will go to the
scholarship fund.
“The floor is going to be
fixedi up satisfactorily to all,”
said Lucinda Dell, in charge of
the dance, “and we are going to
have the Midnite Sons—seven
pieces. It will cost 85 cents and
we want the girls to get behind
us and ask men. It’s a leap year
dance.”
Miss Dell callfed a meeting last
•night of' her committee and made
several plans. Her general com
mittee as it stands is composed
of Delores Pearson and Alberta
Carson. Other committees will be
appointed later. Tuesday and
Wednesday of next week, girls
living organizations will be visit
ed with ticket se’lers.
The Women’s league has
spent no money other than the
convention expenses shared with
the Y. W. C. A. from its social
treasury
organizedgomInity
IS NATION’S STRENGTH
Jake D. Allen Urges Motto
of Service in Talk
The strength of the nation lies in
its communities and the course of the
nation will be determined by the di
rection that the communities take,
said Jake D. Allen, speaker at the
assembly yesterday.
Allen, who is recognized as one of
the authorities on community devel
opment in the West, showed how 75
per cent of the people in the United
States live in towns of 2500 and over.
“We are a nation of cities and
towns,” he continued. “Almost three
out of four people live in towns of
over 2500." *
The speaker pointed out that the
two great executives before Coolidgo
turned their attention to the com
munity. He quoted Woodrow Wilson,
who said, “The strength of the na
tion lies in well organized communi
ties.” Another man prominently
known said of communities—“as the
community goes, so goes the nation.”
The part that the various business
men’s clubs play in building up the
community wag also shown by the
speaker. The Botary club, the cham
bers of commerce, and others of like
character all help to build the com
munity into a well organized active
body. These groups of business men
have for their central thread of or
ganization, service. They take for
their mottoes such words as “We
build,” “He profits most who serves
best,” while the communities profit
from their efforts.
PRE-EASTER MEETINGS
END THIS AFTERNOON
The concluding pre-Easter meet
ing of the week will be held this
afternoon in the Y. M. C. A. hut
at 5 o’clock. Rev. Bruce Giffin,
Presbyterian student pastor, will
give a dramatic reading, “The
Last Terrible Week,” and John
Siefert, of the school of music, will
sing a solo.
There will also be special Easter
music with a prayer and a short
scripture reading. “The Last Ter
rible Week” is a dramatic reading
which tells of the suffering of
Christ during the week preceding
and culminating in his crucifixion,
say Y. M. C. A. officials.
Attendance at the meetings al
ready held this week has been very
good considering the manifold in
terests of students on this campus.
Members of the faculty and both
men and women students have been
present. The sponsors of these
meetings hope that an unusually
large number will be present at
this last meeting this afternoon.
SEED OF UNION
DRIVE IS SOWN
MeiklejohnT alks on
Future Universities
Educator Answers Many Questions Advanced
by Audience; Says Youth Will Think for
Themselves if Given Sufficient Opportunity
An audience composed of faculty
members and students, for the most
part representing discussion groups,
crowded Alumni hall to ove; flow
ing to hear Dr. Alexander Meikle
john,; for 11 years president of
Amherst, lead a discussion on “The
Collego of Tomorrow.” In con
trast to the customary manner of
presentation, Dr. Meiklejohn gave
a comparatively brief survey
of his subject, and devoted
I the remainder of the eve
ning to the answering of questions
which he solicited from his audi
ence. “If you can’t ask questions,”
he said, with a touch of tho humor
which ran throughout his talk dur
ing the entire evening, “I’ll knew
that you haven't been thinking,
and that I’ve put you to sleep, or
else, you’re just naturally sleepy.”
This remark, lightly said, might
be said to lead to the gist of his
message: that young America
should be taught to think for it
self. “If young America is given
a chance to study, it will do it,”
he declared. Dr. Meiklejohn decried
the attitude that education can be
administered in bucketfulls and by
professors who are assumed to have
reached the point of saturation in
the accumulation of knowledge in
their particular line of interest.
“What do you think of the so
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LIBRARY TO INSTALL
INDEX FOR EMERALD
Stories Will be Listed on
Subject Cards
A card index of the stories ap
pearing in the Emerald will be in
stalled at the University library,
maiking it possible for students to
quickly look up material in past
issues, according to arrangements
made with M. H. Douglas, librarian.
The system will be started with
in two weeks under the direction
of Miss Caroline Walton, of the
library. Back issues will bo listed,
so that by the end of the summer
term, it is expected that a complete
file will be had covering all the
important divisions of campus news
from the time the first copy of the
daily was printed.
A copy of the index will be kept
at the Emerald office for use by
the staff, and members of the
school of journalism. Stories will
probably be listed according to
subject matter on separate cards,
with the volume, issue, and page
number indicated, affording almost
immediate selection of the desired
article in the bound volumes.
Need for such an index was felt
from the constant requests at the
Emerald office and the library for
information about articles appear
ing in the paper, or subject matter
treated in back issues.
EUTAXIAN literary
SOCIETY HAS ELECTION
Officers were recently elected
by the Eutaxian Literary society,
the oldest organization on the Uni
versity of Oregon campus. New of
ficers of the society are: President,
Mildred Crain; vice-president, Peg
gy Boyer; secretary, Eloise Buck;
treasurer, Cecile Bennett; and
sergeant-at-arms, Mary Donaldson.
At the next meeting of Eutaxian,
which will be held at the Y. W. C.
A. bungalow, Wednesday, April
30, Mrs. Mary Watson Barnes will
talk ot the group, discussing George
Moore. This is the second of a
series of faculty talks on prominent
literary figures, planned by the
secretary. The first was given last
week, when Professor Thorpe
talked to the society on John Gals
worthy.
DEAN ESTEELY TO SPEAK
IN TWO OREGON TOWNS
Dean Virginia Esterly will leave
the campus Saturday to speak in
two towns of the state. Sunday
she will address the state council
of religious education which is to
meet Friday, Saturday and Sunday
in McMinnville. The following
evening she will talk at the
mothers’ and daughters’ banquet, a
high school function, in Pendleton.
Dean Esterly expects to be back
at her duties Wednesday.
MU PHI SCHOLARSHIPS
OFFERED MUSICIANS
Extra Lessons Will be
Awarded This Year
The local chapter of Mu Phi Ep
silon, women’s honorary music fra
ternity, offers two music scholar
ships again this year. One of these
goes to an underclass and the other
to an upperclass girl. Qualities
possessed by the winners which are
taken into consideration are scholar
ship, personality and musical abil
ity. A special qualification for
the underclass scholarship is recog
nized ability which needs to be de
veloped, while the upperclass wom
an is selected for her ability as well
as for what she has really accom
plished.
The students receiving the schol
arships are at liberty to select their
own teacher, and this year, ^h.o
faculty in the music department
have decided that the teachers
selected will give an extra lesson
a week. This is practically the
same as two scholarships to be used
at the same time.
The choice of the student is not
restricted to any one department.
This is the fourth year the scholar
ships have been awarded, and the
third year for the granting of two.
Students who have had the advan
tage of the former ones are: Voice,
Annabelle Denn and Ruth Akers;
violin, Alberta Potter and Mary
Burton; and piano, Bernice Yeo.
Applications for the scholarships
should be written and mailed, or
taken, to Mrs. A. C. Dixon, of Eu
gene, who is chairman of the com
mittee, before May 1, as the judg
ing should be done before the final
we^ks of school. Anyone feeling
qualified is asked to send in an
application. The negular scholar
ship pays for one lesson a week in
any of the music departments.
MEMBER OF CLASS OF ’23
ANNOUNCES ENGAGEMENT
A huge box of candy, containing
the cards of Miss Dorcas Conklin
and of Joseph Lowell Stockman,
announced an engagement at the
Delta Zeta house last night. Miss
Conklin, a graduate of 1923, was a
member of Hermian club and of
Delta Zeta, and was well known in
the physical education department.
Mr. Stockman is a graduate of O.
A. C. and a member of Kappa Sig
ma. Both Miss Conklin and Mr.
Stockman are now in Pendleton,
where the former has charge of
physical education in the public
schools.
GIRL STUDENT UNDERGOES
APPENDICITIS OPERATION
Louise Denham, member of
Alpha Xi Delta, who underwent an
operation for appendicitis Wednes
day morning, is improving rapidly
in the new Pacific Christian hospi
tal. Miss Denham is from Elgin,
and is a freshman in the English
department.
THRONG HOUSED
OS IDEA CROWS
Personnel of Canvassing
Teams, 300 Strong, Told
of Plans for Campaign
FARRELL INCITES PEP
Many Conveniences Which
New Building Will Have
Depicted by Speakers
The Student Unio» pot began to
boil last night when the entire per
sonnel of the canvassing organiza
tion, some 300 strong, met in Vil
lard hall and was instilled with en
thusiasm for the Student Union
idea. The great dream of the paet
few years assumed more concrete
form as inspired speakers told all
the workers about Student Union,
and virtually built its foundation.
The executive committee handled
the meeting. Class chairmen, class
team captains, and the actual soli
citing workers themselves listened
breathless for 45 minutes as the
picture was drawn, clear, flawless
and magnificent—the conception of
the building which is to be the pre
servation of Oregon Bpirit and the
salvation of student body integrity.
Union Facilities Cited
The possibilities of such a build
ing were enumerated with vivid de
tail. It was shown what a con
venience it will be for student ac
tivity to have an exclusive head
quarters. The lack of many purely
student facilities was recalled. The
common student hearthstone, the
lounge, the billiard parlors, the
smoking room, the cafeteria, the
banquet hall, tho library, the co
operative store, the conference and
club rooms, the student body of
fices, the graduate manager’s head
quarters, were all projected to the
listeners in inspiring terms. Every
one present, it might be said, waa
sold on the proposition, and went
from Villard hall determined to
equip himself with all possible in
formation on the campaign details.
Claude Robinson, president of the
student body, told the workers of
these things. He made the Union
a reality to them. He declared ite
absolute necessity. And he had
them nodding their heads in agree
ment with his every statement. He
left them with an appreciation of
what the University training is do
ing for them.
Earning Power Increased
“Tho figures of the National
Bureau of Education for the year
1917 show that the earning power
of a college-trained man or woman
is $1,200 more per annum than it
would be if he had not gone to col
lege. At the end of 40 years,"
said Robinson, “the accrued income
of such a man should be $50,000
more than the person who has not
had the benefits of college.
“At this rate, we can afford a
part, a more increment of our po
tential wealth to that institution
which has changed our lives to
make them thus productive. Our
little donations will take the form
of an expression of our apprecia
tion for something which has
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STUDENT UNION NEWS
PLEASES CAMPBELL
President P. L. Campbell, who in
recovering from his recent illness
at a Portland hospital, is receiving
daily reports as to the progress of
the Student Union movement on
the| campus, and word from his
physicians indicate that the pleas
ure which these reports occasion is
aiding him materially on his way
to recovery.
The Student Union campaign is
the initial enterprise in the entire
gift campaign and its success is ex
pected to mean a great added impe
tus to the central movement.