/ ' ' - * VOLUME XXV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1924 NUMBER 143 A EUGENE PUNS TO BOND CUT Sum of $500,000 to Erect Auditorium on Campus to be Raised by Issue COMMITTEE IS NAMED Measure Is Expected to Come Before People; 20 Year Bonds to be Used The city of Eugene will bond itself for $500,000 for the purpose of building an auditorium on the University campus, if plans started at a meeting of about 35 of the leading business men of the city, held in the Chamber of Commerce last night, are carried out. , At this meeting it was decided that a municipal bond issue offered the most equitable distribution of the raising of the funds, “We want to show the people of the rest of the state that we are back of this movement to care for the growing student body of the Uni versity,” declared Frank L. Cham bers, speaking at the gathering last night. Issue for 20 Years According to plans made by the business men, this issue of bonds will be for 20 years. They will be paid off in 20 annual install ments. It is expected that the measure will come up on the ballot at some election in the near future. A committee composed of L. E. Bean, Campbell Church, and Carl Washburne was appointed to look after the details of placing the measure on the ballot. ThiB com mittee will start work at once and expects to have the measure before the people at an early election. “This is a very feasible plan for raising the quota necessary to con struct an auditorium on the Uni versity campus,” declared W. W. Calkins, president of the United States National Bank. It will al low individuals to make private gifts as they see fit and will, at the same time, show the state that the city of Eugene is interested in the welfare of the University. “The alumni who are in the city and others who have received spe cial benefits from the institution will be expected to contribute in addition to the general levy,” he declared. Seating Capacity 6,000 The auditorium which will be constructed just back of the Memorial Court, will be almost as large as the Portland auditorium and will have sufficient seating capacity to accommodate 6,000 per sons. It will be used for conventions, for student assemblies, and for mass* meetings of all kinds. It will be the policy of the University to .have it always open to meetings sponsored by citizens of Eugene or Lane county. EUGENE WOMAN PHYSICIAN TO DO DR. STUART’S WORK Dr. Leslie S. Kent, Eugene phy sician, will take over Dr. Stuart’s office hours from now until the end of the term. She will be in Dr. Stuart’s office from 1:30 to 2:30 daily from now on, and girls are privileged to visit her at those hours. * JAPANESE BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO MEET VARSITY TOMORROW GLEE CLUBS TO MEET APRIL U IN PORTLAND Joint Recital to be Given on Campus Tuesday The Oregon Men’s Glee club will appear Monday night, April 28, at the Portland municipal auditorium, in a contest with five other glee clubs, members of the Pacific In tercollegiate Glee Club association. The other colleges competing are Washington State college, O. A. C., Pacific university, Willamette uni versity, Whitman college, and Uni versity of Idaho. The program is to be composed of three sections. The first is a song of their own choice by each school; second, each school will sing “Morning Hymn” by Hen schel, and in the last group, the schools are each to sing one of their college songs. Lots will be drawn before each group, to deter mine the order in which the club* will sing. Oregon’s selection for the first group is “Shores of Sigh ing” by Choffin, and they will give “In a Harbor of the Moun tains” as the college song. This intercollegiate association is part of the national association and the “Morning Hymn” was selected by the headquarters in New York City. The same procedure will be followed here as in the Chicago and New York contests, which came earlier in the spring. The glee club leaves for Port land Monday morning and sing in the evening. The following day, they will return to the campus with the Washington State college glee club, which, with the local club, will give a concert Tuesday eve ning in the Woman’s building at 8:15. The bulk of the program will be rendered by the guests. “We may expect an exceedingly interesting program from the Washington State club,” says 'John Stark Evans, director of the local club. “They have some serious selections and four or five have been re ported as screamingly funny. They have made several long trips this spring, and have been extraordin arily successful. ” Oregon gave a joint concert with Washington State at Pullman, No vember 3, ami this appearance will be in the nature of a return en gagement. It is the last musical event to be presented on the cam pus this term and, bcicording to Jaek Benefiel, graduate manager, probably the best. The admission price to students is 50 cents “He Who Gets Slapped" Has Climax of Immense Power By L. B. The critic of Guild hall plays need spend but little time discussing the dramatic value of the hall’s offerings _Fergus- Beddie chooses his produi tions with care. In “He Who Gets Slapped,” however, his pupils have a vehicle extraordinary, and whether they fully grasp its significance is questionable. The possibilities of the play are so great that the" company must neces sarily extend itself to fulfill them. While the setting reveals little but the tinsel and blare of the circus, the tremendous dramatic power of the play compresses much of life into a few minutes. Andriev has, in “He Who Gets Slapped,” given us real ism veiled by romanticism. “He,” Darrell Larsen, dominates the play. He leaves little to be de sired interpretatively. One wonders, however, if a distinct differentation between romanticism and realism might not be as effective as an amal gam of the two. Mr. Larsen appears to have perfect understanding of his part. Consuelo, the “bareback tango queen,” played by Wenona Dyer, sym bolizes beauty, youth and innocence. Miss Dyer’s interpretation is pleasing if not altogether convincing. Two parts of merit are Jackson, _ • ■ - (Continued on page three) TRACK AND FIELD MEET TO INCLUDE ALL EVENTS ‘Ganging’ of Two Classes Not to be Allowed Saturday’s track and field car nival will include all the events of a regular meet, and will decide the cinder path supremacy for the four classes of this school. The meet will start at 1:30, and, according to Coach Hayward, there will be lots of officials and the affair will be over in time to see the ball game. In this meet each .class will have to fend for itself. There will be no “ganging” of juniors and seniors as in the reljiy carnival last term. This should give the freshmen more than an even break, since they have a greater number of men to pick from than all the other classes put together. By garnering a sufficient number of second and third places, with a possible first or two, they might wrest the championship from their upper-class brethern. In a measure, this will be the deciding factor in the picking of some of the candidates for both the varsity and freshman relay teams, although one or two races will be contested later in the week before the permanent candidates are picked, says Bill. LIBRARY PURCHASES BOTANICAL MAGAZINES A shipment of 66 volumes of back year editions of the Fortnightly Re view has recently been received by the library. The publication is an English review of literary and gen eral articles with a scope similar to that of the Atlantic Monthly. The new volumes practically complete the files at the library. Among other new editions lately purchased by the library is an im portant set of botanical periodicals. The books were published in London in 1892 and include volumes 3 to 18. The collection, which is edited by a group of noted scientists, is one that Prof. A. R. Sweetser, head of the botany department, has been anx ious to obtain for some time. MISS COLLIER WILL BE ! OREGON Y. W. DELEGATE Miss Dorothy Collier, national, secretary of the University Young1 Women’s Christian association lastj year, will represent Oregon at the national Y. W. C. A. convention to be held in New York City, April 29 to May 6. Miss Collier, whose home is in Eugene, has been on a tour of European and Asiatic, countries for the past year. She recently re-! turned to the United States, and is at pi.-ocnt visiting friends in the! east. She expects to come to Eu-' gene some time later in the sum mer. GRADES CHECKED FOR PHI BETA KAPPA LIST The registrar’s office has been busy checking the list of seniors to find those with averages that will make them eligible for Phi i Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity. An average of 2.25 is required j and the entire list of seniors is 1 being gone over. Last of Series Taken, 6-7; Latham Cinches Contest With Homer in Seventh RUNS BREAK UP 5-5 TIE Visitors Retain Lead Until; Fifth Frame; Oregon Is Held Scoreless to Third Oregon’s ball tossers cast preced ent into the discard yesterday after noon. Not since the palmy days of Art Berg has a varsity nine won two games in a row, but Bill Reinhart ’s team did it yesterday afternoon when they bested Borleske’s Missionaries in the second game of the series, 7 to 6. Latham put the contest on ice in the seventh inning when he drove the horsehide almost to the confines of the graveyard for a home run, send ing Bittner in ahead of him. The re sulting two runs broke up a 5-5 tie and put the varsity ahead. The vis itors made a desperate attempt to regain the lead in the eighth, but fell short by one run. Whitman Scores in First Coach Reinhart sent Brooks in to do the mound work and the solemn visaged southpaw had trouble getting settled down during the first few in nings. Whitman scored a run in the first canto, repeated the performance in the second, and ran the count up to four in the third. All of their counters came as the result of solid hits and some neat baseball. Brooks pitched good ball after the fourth. Matsuno, Whitman, a Japanese twirier, held tbd varsity stickers score less until the third when Brooks crossed the platter after walking, tak ing second on Sorsby’s single, and scoring when Garrett muffed Ross's liner. The visitors retained their lead until the fifth inning. In this frame Whitman’s defense went hay wire. Brooks and Sorsby both got to the bases on errors, Ross walked ind Hobson scored the first two with i hit through second. Latham then came through with a timely binglo and Oregon had the lead. Score Tied in Seventh. Both twirlers received stellar sup port after the fourth inning, and there was no more scoring until the seventh. In this inning Bcirleske’s 3rew again tied the count. Tsuda Dpened with a terrific three-bagger to deep left and scored as Garrett was being put out at first. Brooks man aged to dispose of the next two men. Then followed the varsity’s half of ;he inning and Latham’s Babe Ruth ;lout which won the game. The vis itors scored in the eighth when Brooks walked Yenney, who was* sac rificed to second, took third on Bitt ner’s wild heave to first and scored on a long fly to center. Not a Mis sionary reached first in the ninth, however, and the game was over. .After Wednesday’s thirteen inning battle, yesterday’s game lacked the excitement of the first tilt but it was a much faster contest. Only two er rors were made by each side, both twirlers Receiving fairly good sup port. Sorsby, Latham and Hobion were the hitting stars for Oregon, while Dean led the ..visiting stickers. | (Continued on page three) FACULTY AND STUDENTS GO TO REED FOR WEEKEND A number of faculty and stu dents have gone to Reed college this weekend, in acceptance of the invitation extended by President Richard F. Scliolz, of that institu tion, to hear a short course of lec tures by Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn. INSTRUCTIONS TO BAND All members of the Univer j sity band are expected to be at j the Woman’s building at noon ! today, in uniform, with their j instruments, ready to play for j the Student Union Drive lunch ] eon. Members of the band will ! also be served with luncheon, j It is extremely important that 1 all be there and be there on j time. DRIVE QUOTA HALF RAISED FEVER OF DRIVE INCREASES DAILY Luncheon and Pep Talks to Precede Posting of Latest Results Today MEETING TO BE BRIEF Today is another day. Its import ance consists in its being next to the last. .Forty-eight hours to get over the top! Paces are beginning to quicken. Breaths are bated. The excitement grows more and moro tense. Everybody wonders what the outcome will be. Today is another day. Workers will go forth with revived spirits. More and more people will be approached to subscribe to Student Union. The issue grows more serious with the passing of the hours. And the real ization that the full quota of $200, 000 must be secured by midnight Sat urday night is driven homo to the mind of each worker. Luncheon Given Today Today brings another meeting. At noon the drive organization will eat, and in the midst of the feeding it will take an inventory of itself and trace the monkey-wrench in the machinery, if there be one present. At high noon time Mrs. Davis will unveil the lus jious victuals of her always pleasant festive board, and as the pungent smell of well-cooked food permeates the air and tickles the appetites of hungry workers, they will seat them selves to enjoy a meal and hear one mothers’ problems. The meeting today is scheduled to be brief. It will be only long enough to conclude the business on hand. There will bo much to talk about, Chairman Rockhey predicts, because bis forces will not come together again until tomorrow night after one and a half days of unflagging efforts. Competition Grows Keen The R. O. T. C. band will be at the neeting to provide the flare of trum pets and the beating of drums. After the meal the entire gathering will idjourn to the east end of the Wo nan’s building and from there pa rade to the headquarters building where another ceremony of posting scores will take place. This will be livelier than the one of yesterday, rhe competition between classes is growing keener and the others are rager to head off the triumphant jun ior class which walked away with the honors yesterday. Reports of captains and chairmen will be heard today just as they were rendered yesterday, according to Chairman Rockhey'. All such officers are to be prepared to render these reports early during the meeting. There will be short pep talks by the committee workers, and the meeting will close early, so as not to drag long after 1 o’clock. SIDELIGHTS <£» --- Milton A. Miller, state senator and former collector of customs for the port of Portland, who spoke to the drive workers at yes terday’s luncheon, is an example of an Oregon student who has never lost the “Old Oregon Spirit,” in spite of a few grey hairs. He was a student here back in ’84 and ’85. In those days therfe were only 200 students on the cam pus. Later he was on the board of regents for 12 years. There is one argument for pledg ing to the Student Union which cannot be answered, according to Claude Robinson. Suppose that instead of calling for donations to the Student Union, they had decided to raise the money- by a tax on the students. This tax would probably have been set at $75 a year. (Continued on page four) <•>----«$• Last Year’s Head of A.S.U.O. Who Started Idea Here O John MacGregor New Arguments to Aid Student Union Following are some imniutablo arguments for Student Union:. 1. It is pnrt of the University’s gift campaign. Tho students have adopted as their part tho raising of $200,000 for a student build ing. 2. The A. 8. U. O. has no head quarters, no home. It requires one. Student Union will provide it. 3. You are saved $200 by the opportunity to subscribe to the Student Union fund. If the en dowment campaign were not bo ing conducted, the University would charge each student a tui tion fee"of $75 per year, or $300 for four years. And if this were done the money would not bo spent on a student building. 4. If you want your money to go toward any of tho other build ings in the endowment group, it will be accepted as such. 5. Each student, receiving the benefits of an education, owes a debt to his Alma Mater. Here is the opportunity to pay it. f>. Since tho gift campaign is in dispensable to the future of the University, it must succeed. In order that the greater campaign succeed, the Btudent campaign must, succeed. 7. The payments of $10 per year or $5 semi-annually, are easy. The installment plan makes it easy to contribute. Have you Signed up? 8. The Student Union will pie servo the integrity of Oregon spir it. Do your part. WOMEN TO TAKE FIRST HIKE OF YEAR SUNDAY The first W. A. A. hike of the season will start from the Wom an’s building for Pisgah mountain at 9:30 next Sunday morning. It is for a distanco of about eleven miles, and , according to Janet Woods, head of hiking, there will be much scenery along the way. The hike is for all girls on the campus and can bo counted toward a letter or sweater in the W. A. A. point system. Those intending to go are requested to bring their own lunch and five cents for coffee. The return is planned for the mid dle of the afternoon. BRIDGE DEDICATION HAS FACULTY SUPPORT A number of faculty members are expected to attend the dedica tion ceremonies for the new Booth bridge at Winchester, Sunday after noon, according to Karl Onthank. Mr. Onthank, L. H. Johnson, Dean Walker and Dean John Bovard are members of the com mittee in charge of the ceremony The bridge is across the Ump qua river and has been named in honor of R. A. Booth, of Eugene in recognition of his work while state highway commissioner. SHU SIGNED BY SNIDERS Workers Report Progress of Canvassing During First Day of Campaign JUNIOR CLASS LEADING Goal Not Yet in Sight, Says Rockhey, But Next Two Days Will Tell the Tale Hope is in the hearts of those giv ing all their timo and energies to the drive that it will be brought to a successful conclusion Saturday. To date a total of $84,080 has been pledged to the Student Union. The percentage of students won over and pledged is 42. Tho halfway mark was not quite reached at the end of the second day’s canvassing. But it is felt that when the working teams actually get into the spirit of the drive they will be more effective and bring in subscriptions rapidly. Milton Miller Speaker The status of the Union drive was first learned at the banquet held for the drive teams at noon yesterday. Haddon Bockhey, chairman of solicit ing forceB, conducted business with neatness and dispatch. Ho got the business under way early in the meet ing. First ho called upon the drive teams to report their successes. Each team captain roso, when his name was called, and told how many persons had been interviewee^ and how many pledged. The chairmen of class or ganizations then gave their summar ies of pledges secured, and th'e re sults were scored on the blackboard in the assembly room. During the banquet Rockhey called upon Milton A. Miller, prominent Oregon democrat, to say a few words I to the assembled workers. He told them of their wonderful opportuni ties as citizens of the fairest state of the land, that he was a graduate of tho University, and that he hail hod the pleasure of being a membor of the board of regents. Juniors Lead Pledging The gathering, when the meal was iconcluded and after Claude Robin ison presented to them a poignant ar jgument in favor of tho Union which i he urged them to use, filed out and jwent to the headquarters building for the drive, where a simple ceremony of posting team scores was held. The junior class has made the most progress in the drive thus far . The members of the class of 1925 have pledged $23,525 to the Student Un ion. This is 52 per cent of their quota to be raised by Saturday night. I The senior class is second in the com petition with pledges amounting to $15,220, or 44 per cent of their to tal. the sophomores by noon yesterday i had signed up pledges aggregating $21,710, or 43 per cent of their quo ta. The freshman class had made the poorest showing. Their aggregate score was $23,625, a larger individual score than any of the classes showed. i Hl|t the size of tho class gave it a percentage score of only 39 per cent. Flying Squadron Functions Pledges continued to be brought into the Student Union headquarters all day. The headquarters continu ally ran out of supplies, pledgo rib bons, etc. The flying squadron, which is organized to meet emergen cy calls when the regular solicitors re quire succor, started to function yes terday. Some of the emergency workers succeeded in putting over their deals, wTien the prospects hov ered in hesitancy as to what they should do. The organization of these emergency committeemen is proving satisfactory. They will do their best anil hardest work today and tomor row, gathering together the loose ends !of the campaign.