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Oregon Daily Emerald * VOLUME XXV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. SATURDAY, MAY 17. 1924 NUMBER 162 FACULTY GIVES OVER 80,100 Totals Will be Announced by Committees at Noon Today at Osburn Hotel TEN DIVISIONS NAMED W. H. Stalker Proposes Plan Whereby 500 Alumni Subscribe $1,000 Each The loyalty of the faculty mem bers to the University, and their interest in its growth was shown yesterday when it became known that the staff, including members of the Medical school staff in Portland, had contributed a total of $63,192.97 to the Gift Campaign. Of this, $54,260.68 represents new subscriptions and the remainder is made up of previous pledges to the Student Union and the fund for financing the campaign. “This is a splendid showing and the committee in charge is certain ly entitled to congratulations,” Karl W. On thank said, continuing that President P. L. Campbell wished to express his heartiest ap preciation of the work done by the committee. Harris Is Chairman Another important phase of the campaign will be brought up when the representatives of the 10 divi sions w'ho are in the field on be half of the Gift Campaign, will meet today at noon at the Hotel Osburn. It is said that they hope to report pledges which will put Eugene alumni and former stu dents over the quota assigned to them. The field forces, headed by Judge Lawrence T. Harris, general chair man, and 10 associate chairmen, have been obtaining pledges since Wednesday noon, and will be pre pared to announce the totals at to day ’s meeting. $1,009 Club Planned A thousand-dollar club, composed of the alumni of the University who will give $1,000 each to the campaign, was proposed by William Hyde Stalker, of Toledo, Oregon, in a telegram to Gift Campaign headquarters. Mr. Stalker, who is a graduate of the 1908 class, offered a $1,000 subscription. The alumni have divided the $1,000,000 they hope to raise into individual shares of $260, but Mr. Stalker believed this was not enough. He suggested . that, while $260 was (Continued on page three) PLANT-LIKE ANIMALS FOUND BY STUDENTS Interest was created among stu dents in science circles recently when it was discovered that a group of bryozoon was found by two members of the University biology class. The specimei# were included in a jar of water obtained in a small stream near Eugene. The bryozoon are animals of a very low order—so low that they resemble small plants, with the ex ception that they have a number of tentacles with which they en snare partieles- of food in the water. The animals adhere to rocks, pieces of wood, leaves, and any thing which will afford an anchor age and when food comes along they reach out a number of small feelers and drag it in. The microscopic animals belong to the mulluseoidea phylum. They are the first that have been found in the vicinity of Eugene, al though specimens have been lo cated in other parts of Oregon. EEV. BEUCE GIFFEN SPENDS WEEKEND IN GEANTS PASS The Rev. Bruce Giffeu, student pastor, is in Granjs Pass this week end. He gave the commencement address last night at the Grants Pass high school. He is expecting to return Saturday evening and will be on hand for his Sunday morning Bible class at the hut. This Bible class meets every Sunday at 9:45 a. m. The class is at present studying the religions and creeds of different ages and of mankind, and spends some time in comparing them with Christian ity. Y. M. C. A. Asking for Clothes for Russian Students The Eugene Young Men’s Christian association is assisting in the work of securing clothes for the Russian college stu dents arid professors, and is ask ing the support of the University of Oregon students. The work is of the same nature as the Stu dent Friendship drive as staged on the campus before, except this time clothing is being asked for in place of money. Tuesday has been set as the last date to turn in donations of clothing. All articles may be turned into the offices of the campus Y. M. C. A., the campus Y. W. C. A., or the downtown Y. M. C. A., which is located be tween Tenth and Eleventh ave nues on Willamette street. VARSITY TENNIS TEAM DEFEATED BY AGGIES Frosh Win Their Contests by 4-1 Score i _ After a long and drawnout battle, : the Aggie tennis squad defeated the varsity by the narrow margin of 4-3 'at Corvallis yesterday. The Oregon ■ net rilen showed a marked improve ! ment in form since their defeat by | the Willamette aggregation. Winning | the majority of the single matches, i the varsity was in line for victory, but lacked the sufficient punch to win im the double matches. Meyer, Rice and McBride defeated their op nonents with considerable ease, al though some of the matches extended into three sets. The combination of Meyer and Rice put up a remarkable fight and had their opponents at the point of defeat time after time, but the var sity pair seemed unable to make their : points at the right time, j The varsity squad was made up of Meyer, McBride, Rice and Crary. On Wednesday at 3 o’clock, the | Oregon tennis team will meet the O. ! A. C. men on the home courts. With j additional practice, and playing on i the local courts, the varsity recquet j wielders should furnish real opposi ; tion to the invading team. The results of the tourney held at i Corvallis yesterday are as follows: Meyer (O) defeated Eckern, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. Rice (O) defeated John son, 6-4, 6-3. McBride (O) defeated | Simington, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. Taylor de feated Grary (O), 6-1, 9-7. .Tone de | feated Slattery (0)„ 6-2, 6-3. The doubles were as follows: Eckern and Taylor defeated Meyer and Rice, 6-4, 6-8, 7-5. Simington and Johnson de ; feated McBride and Crary, 6-3, 10-8. I The freshmen tennis team stepped I out yesterday and took their Corval ; lis rivals into camp by a four to one I victory. The feature match of t he I day being the doubles contests be tween. Adams and Westergren of Ore gon, and Blane and Atkinson of O. A. C. The Oregon combination fin ally won with the scores of 6-4, 4-6 and 10-8. The other results were: Adams (O) lost to Atkinson (O. A. C.) 3-6, 6-4, 17-5; McIntosh (O) won from John son (O. A. C.) 7-5, 6-1; Westergren CO) won from Blain (O. A. C., 6-4, | 7-5. _ LIBRARY PURCHASES TWO NEW SHIPMENTS Two new shipments of periodi cals have been purchased by the library recently, both of which were published in London. “The Art Journal,” one of the best Eng lish art periodicals, consisting of 28 volumes, is one of the new ad ditions. The books are attractively bound in half morocco and date from 1849 to 1877. Plentiful illus trations add to the interesting make-up of the journals. The other shipment is a complete set of the Contemporary Review, an English journal of general in terest. The set consists of 90 vol umes published at an -early date. MURIEL PAUL ACCEPTS POSITION AT MONMOUTH Muriel' Paul, a junior in educa tion, has accepted a position at the Normal school at Monmouth for the summer. She is to teach first and second grade critic classes and is to give some work in primary methods of reading. She will return to the University next fall. Miss Paul is president of the Normal ^school state alumni and a member of Chi Om»ga. i 3 FIRST CONTEST WON BY VARSITY Oregon Ball Squad Triumphs Over Aggies, 8 to 4; Four Runs Made in 9th Frame FEW ERRORS IN GAME 0. A. C. Pitcher Works Well Up to Last Inning; Hifs Come at Opportune Time By Alfred Erickson Oregon Fight—the good old fashioned brand that made the Lemon-Yellow famous in days of yore—was demonstrated before several thousand O. A. C. Junior Week-end fans at Corvallis yester day afternoon. Bill Reinhart’s varsity diamond tossers did the demonstrating and they did it with a vengeance. They did it by staging a ninth inning batting barrage which drove in four runs, snatched victory from defeat, and resulted! /in an 8-4 win for Oregon in the third game of the series between the two institutions. i’ll Shows Up Well Chi Sung Pil, diamond athlete from sunny Korea, and Phil Ringle, varsity pitcher, outfielder, and utility standby, played the hero roles in the last inning demonstra tion. Both were inserted into the hard fought fray as pinch hitters and both came through nobly. Pil started the Lemon-Yellow on slaught by crashing out a home run, which tied the score when he batted for Cook. Ringle fol lowed shortly afterward with a timely single that scored Latham and put the varsity ahead. Aided by these ' two emergency fillers, other members of the Lemon-Yellow nine came through in fine fashion. Bittner, Wright, and Ross each connected for solid hits which brought tlhe total of runs up to four and put the game on ice beyond all shadow of doubt. . Finish Is Thrilling This • thrilling finish was the climax to a baseball game that was thrilling and hard fought all the way. The Aggies were leading 4-3 when it came and with their stel lar southpaw, Dick Young, breez ing along like a million, it looked like a sure Beaver victory. Young had granted but three hits to the varsity stickers up to the ninth inning. One of these was a home run by Hobson in the third inning, which scored Ross, who had preceded “Hobby” with a double. The other was a bunt which Cook beat out in the fourth but which resulted in no runs. The other varsity run, and the first of the game, came in the second, when Cook came in after being hit by Young, advanc ing to second on Latham’s walk and scoring on Bittner’s sacrifice. Aggies Make Hits Three of the Aggie runs were gained by solid hits off the de livery ■ of Hunk Latham, who, nevertheless, pitched a fine game. One run came in the Beaver half of the second on hits by Perry and Ridings and tied the score. The other two came as a result of a home run by Rippey in the third, which again tied the count. The fourth Aggie run came in the last half of the eighth ns a result of Bittner’s error and Escalier’s hit. (Continued on page three) CARDS IN CEDAR CHEST REPORT ENGAGEMENT The engagement of Hattie B. Fletcher, '27, and Frank B. Shontz, ’24, was announced at the Alpha Xi Delta house last evening. Between courses a miniature cedar chest was brought in, which, when open, was found to contain in the lid an nouncement cards telling of the engagement of the young couple. The chest was filled with candy. Cigars were passed at the Phi Sigma Pi fraternity, of which Shontz is a member. Miss Fletcher, whose home is in Zealandia, Saskatchewan, Canada, is a major in the romance language department, and Mr. Shontz," of Eu gene, has finished his work at the •University and plans to attend medical school in Portland next j fall. University Co-op Store Is to Pay Dividends in June Old Books to Be Taken Starting Monday The University co-operative store plans to pay dividends im mediately after the closing of the 1923-24 year, which ends on May 31. All members of the Co-op will probably reap their harvests, therefore, early in June, as the store is pretty nearly ready now to handle the business of paying dividends. As far as is known now, payment will be made as last year, on the basis of six per cent or ten per cent in trade. Starting Monday, the Co-op will be prepared to buy second hand books which are to be used next year and are in good condi tion. The store will pay for the books at the rate of 50 cents on the dollar, or half of what the student payed for them original ly. Badly damaged books and those which are not going to be used in classes -next year are not desired. LIBRARY STARTS WORK ON INDEX OF EMERALD Miss Pauline Walton Takes Charge of Task Work was begun yesterday on an index of all stories appearing in the Emerald, which are in the nature of a record of the happen ings on the Oregon campus. Miss Pauline Walton, a member of the library staff, is in complete charge of the work and spends all of her time in this capacity. Miss Walton is working on it each day as it comes along and she is also working backwards on the old files. She will work most of the summer and by next fall she expects to have completed index ing the publication back as far #s 1906. Oregon’s first publication was called the Oregon Weekly, which first appeared in 1901. Miss Walton ekpects to have the entire file finished, to date, in a year from now. The index is to be in card form bearing the volume, page number and month. Enough of the head line to determine the subject mat ter wjll also appear on the card and the filing will be done under the subject of general matter. One file will be kept in the library and a duplicate will be kept in the Journalism building for the use of the Emerald. It is expected, according to Don Woodward, managing editor of the Emerald, that this index will sup ply a useful fund of information to the general student body and especially to the Emerald and Ore gana staff members. The idea of making such an index grew out of the need of the Emerald staff mem bers in referring to back numbers of the publication. Mr. Douglass, University librarian, then took up the idea and it is through his ef forts that the work has already been started. BUNGALOW BEING BUILT NEAR TENNIS COURTS Electric light fixtures are now be ing installed in the little bungalow which is being built near the ten nis courts. The building will be com pleted about .Tune 1, according to C. W. Starr, caretaker of the courts. The bungalow will contain dress ing rooms and rest rooms for the play ers and will have an office and wait ing room in the hallway or lobby op posite the entrance. A ventilated porch overlooking the varsity court for those who wish to watch the players and those who are waiting to play, will be one of the features of the building. NEW INFORMATION BOOTH MADE OF BEAVER BOARD A little booth made of beaver board, in order that it may be moved easily, and painted green with yellow stripes .and edges, has been made by campus workmen and will be used as an election and information booth. Its first campus appearance was made yes terday in front of the library. I LETTER AWARDS Benefiel Gives Out List of Students Who Have Won Recognition in Activities SEVEN BLANKETS GIVEN I Eighty-three Successful in Athletic, Forensic and Musical Work in Year ■ .Tack Benefiel, graduate manager of the A. 8. U. O., has announced the names of a large number of men and women who are to receive rec ognition for their work in differ ent activities for this year, in the nature of awards by the University. These include athletic awards for men and women, forensic awards and awards for musical work. One of the most important of these groups (includes the varsity letter men who are to receive blankets with stars, shoeing that they won their , letter in athletics for at least three years. The blankets are white anil bear a yellow star for each year of work in sport. A year as captain of a team is indicated by a black star instead of the yellow. Seven Earn Blankets Seven blankets are to be awarded this year. They will be given out soon, Benefiel declares. Arthur Lar son wins a blanket for three years of track Work, with one year as cap tain. Don Zimmerman’s blanket will show two stars for basketball and three for baseball, one of the baseball stars being black. Karl Vonder Ahe wins three stars for football. Hal Chapman has made the basketball team two years and figured in football for three, being captain of the football team one year. Graham McConnell, a track man of former years, is to be awarded a 'blanket this spring. McConnell*^ years were ’ll, ’14 and ’16. He was captain one year. The most spectacular record is that of Hugh Lathamr whose blanket will bear nine stars. He has made him self known through three years of basketball, three years of football, and three years of baseball. His blanket will bear two black stars . for captaincies. Haddon Rockhey has three yellow stars for basketball. Sixteen in Debate Members of the debate group who have won awards are numerous. Ralph Bailey will receive his debate shield, having been a varsity debater for three years. The men who have won debate “O’s” with the years they have made them are: Walter Malcolm, ’24; ,Too Frazer, ’24; Mar ion Dickey, ’24; Martin Moore, ’24; Ernest Henrikson, ’22, ’24; Glen wood Archer, ’24 ; Herschel Brown, ’24. Girls’ debate “O’s” will be awarded to Lurline Coulter, ’21, ’22, ’23, ’24; Marjorie Brown, ’24; Mary Raker, ’24; Helen Louise Crosby, ’24; Mildred Bateman, ’23. ’24; Margaret Woodson, ’23, ’24; Dorothy Abbott, ’24; Mildred Whitcomb, ’24. Tlie oratory awards are to go to Ted Baker, ’24, Ephraim Conway, ’24, ami Claude Robinson, '22, ’24. The manager’s “O” is to go to Elam Amstutz for this year. Two Swimmers Successful Swimmers sweaters are to go to Lyle Palmer and George Horsfall. All the names for athletic awards have not yet been given out. Orches tra pins were won by Mary Burton, Delbert Moore. Dora Ilyrup, Mar garet Tnwood, Flora Edwards, Esther Cohon. Kathryn Tnwood, A1 Goss, Dick Simonton, Jean Harper, Harvey Wood and Lester Wade. Men ’s' Glee club pins are to be (Continued on page three) ARCHITECTS TO HAVE LAST JURY DAY JUNE 7 The next; jury day of the school of architecture and allied arts will he held June 7, when several well known architects from Portland will be on hand to judge the work of the students in the school. This will he the last jury day of this term. These affairs are held several times during the year, when men in the profession Y’°k over (the students’ work and tell them the weak and strong points of it. The last jury day was held shortly after the beginning of this term and was celebrated by a banquet and party at the College Side Inn. ‘Gusher’ Caused by Broken Pipe Halts Fountains Those who passed by Friendly hall between 4 and 4:110 yester day afternoon were met by a rather uncommon sight.’ A gusher of clear water was com ing out of the middle of the road which is being plowed up for alteration, and the men oper ating the tractor were standing about the spectacle, apparently attempting to figure out the source. Passersby also paused and smiled as they had to de tour around the spray which was flooding over the walk. Mr. Fisher was sent for and caused the flow to be stopped. With the gusher’s cessation, however, all fountains and sprink lers on the campus stopped, too, because the “gusher” was noth ing but a broken water pipe, which had been damaged by the plow. FRESHMEN LOSE GAME i TO SALEM HIGH, 1HO _ First Year Men Start Fray Minus Seven Regulars A revamped freshman squad lost a streaked baseball contost to the Salem high school team yesterday by a 12 to 10 count. It was a last minute frosh batting rally that pre vented a worse score. The loss of seven men via the ineligible route three days before the contest seemed to sap the morale of the squad. Frank Reinhart ’s timely hitting and consistent work in center field and Kiminki working at short might have made a difference since several of the Salem runs were more in the na ture of gifts. However, Hollis Huntington’s crew of Salem boys did themselves proud and considering the showing of the freshmen deserved to win. They hit the ball hard and fielded like veter ans. L. Girod and R. Girod each gar nered a circuit clout at the psycho logical moment to give Salem a sub stantial lead. Fabry twirled consis tent ball for the visitors and. prevent ed several frosh rallies by having them pop in the infield. The fielding of the yearlings was their chief undoing as they allowed several chances to get by them. Coach Foster will have to revamp his infield before they go up against the rooks or it will likely be murder, with a degree charge hanging over the agric Iture boys. Yet the team showed some indications of heavy hit ting, driving out four home runs dur ing the progress of the game. It was a sort of off day with the frosh. They got off on the wrong foot, but maybe it is best that they did. They had so many boots in their systems anyway, and possibly now they will be ready to play hangup ball against the rooks. The freshman with the count 12 to 7 against them made a hard try to tie it up in the last of the ninth, and scored three runs off four base hits by Rex Adolph and Carl John son. Rex garnered two of the cir cuit cslouts while Jones made the other for the frosh. Vitus, Lee and West all hurled good ball for the yearlings and struck out several men. Summary: R. H. E. Freshmen .10 11 8 Salem .12 8 4 Batteries: Salem — Fabry and Kruger; freshmen—Vitus, Lee, West and Mimnaugh. Umpire: Orr. SCHOOL OF MUSIC GIVES LAST RECITAL The last student recital of the year is to he this afternoon, at 1:30 in the lounge room of tho Music build ing. Anyone Interested is extended a cordial invitation to attend. Each instructor in the school of music is to present a pupil. The program is as follows Piano trio—Secret .Gauthier Bessie May Wallace, Claire Bryson and Dorothy Wallace Piano solo—Norwegian Bridal Pro cession .o... i Greig Grace Potter Serenade—Badine . . . . Gabrielle-Mari Shailer Peterson Danseuses de Delphes .Debussy Alma Lawerence Etude—Japonaise .Poldini Anna belle Denn Vocal solo— Auf deni Wasser '/n Singen .Schubert Frances Heyburn Vi >lin solo—Perpetual Motion. . Novacek Nina Warnoek TEAM LEAVES FDR CORVALLIS Varsity Squad Weakened by Loss of Men; Rosenburg Is Declared Ineligible DOPE FAVORS 0. A. C. Oregon Strong in Sprints, Hurdles and Polevault; Aggie Distance Men Good . By BUI Akers Today, at noon, the varsity track and field squad will leave for their annual dual meet with the Corval lis cinder and field artists. And it is a sadly revamped crew which will have to fight for Oregon’s honor in this sport this afternoon, after the imposing lineup whieh Coach Hayward had assembled when ho was holding his pre-season competitions last winter. Good Men Lost Sickness, lack of finances and that jinx of so many good athletes lately, inability to meet the schol astic standards, all served to prnne down the squad. Louie Anderson was one of the first taken from the list. Then the scandal sheet reports necessitated the withdraw ing of several good men from the squad at the beginning of this term. It wasn’t long after this period of unrest when Tuck with drew, leaving the school without the services of a single weight man of first class caliber. In the races, Arthur Rosebrangh was forced to drop out because of too many hours, and his place in the relay squad, whieh he has filled so efficiently the past two years, taken by an inexperienced man. Now it has been finally settled that Rosenbtirg is ineligible, whieh means that McAuliffe will have to out-do himself to prevent O. A. C.’s amassing all the points in this event. McAuliffe learned to fight on the football field, how ever, and Coach Hayward looks for him to give a good account of him self today. Sprinters Touted to Win Tlie sprints will be handled by Lucas, Spearow and Snyder, and with Lucas right, Oregon should return a couple of wins here. Risley will do his stuff in the 440 with Kinney taking Rosebraugli’s place. They will run against Ray Dodge, reputed one of the best 440 men on the coast. The 880 men have a hard trip against the crack Cor vallis outfit, but Gerke, McCune and Mauney have been training hard and are in the best shape they have been this season. The distances will be taken care of by Tetz, Keating and Lawrence. Hough McColl, who was showing so well this spring, has been out of shape the past three weeks with crippled feet. The hurdles will be efficiently taken care of by Cleaver, Kelsey, Hunt and Car i uthers. Oregon has two good men for the high jump in Spearow and Eby. Eby is a sophomore this year and has cleared the bar high enough in practice several times to win most meets. He should be right today. Spearow and Kelsey will work in the broad jump with McAulit'fe. Stockwoll and Terje sen may bo picked to throw the discus this time and Stoekwell and McAuliffe will heave the shot. Mc Auliffe and Beaty will throw the javelin. Kinney Going Good Risley, Kinney, Ager and Her mance will form the relay squad. Ager ran against Washington last week in a credible manner, and Hermanee worked on the team that took second in the mile relay up (Continued on page three) GEORGIA BENSON HAS OPERATION LAST NIGHT Georgia Benson, president of the Women's league, underwent an operation at about 9:.'!() last night at the Eugene hospital for acute appendicitis. Reports from the hospital last evening stated that Miss Benson’s condition was good and that she is in no danger. She had been ill for five days at the University, infirmary and it was not until yesterday afternoon that the physicians agreed that an operation was necessary.