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VOLUME XXVI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1925 NUMBER 81 HOOP CONTEST SET FOR FRIDAY Leadership of Conference On Coast to Be Decided By ‘Elimination’ Game TILT IS LAST FOR O.A.C. Auto Show Held At Armory Necessitates Practicing On Floor of Gymnasium Not only from the standpoint of Oregon basketball fans but also on the part of the O. A. C. students, the Oregon-Aggie hoop contest Fri day night will be the big tilt of the year. With a conference champion ship within the grasp of these two quintets, this contest will assume the added importance of an “elim ination” game for the leadership of the coast conference, with the victor partially assured ,-the pen » want for the northern section of the coast conference. This game is) the final contest on the schedule for the O. A. C. hoopsters, and it is a certainty that the Aggie five will be all-set for this big tilt. The Beavers have lost two conference games, one to Washington, the other to Oregon. The Lemon Yellow on the other hand has suffered but one defeat, losing to the Huskies. Reserves Needed Although the Varsity regulars are in good shape, the lack of capable reserves may play an important role in the Friday night game. An other factor, that is seriously han dicapping the Oregon quintet, is the fact that the armory is now being used for an Auto Show, mak ing it necessary for the varsity to ^ leave the regular floor and practice in the University men’s gym. Therefore when the Oregon quintet plays O. A. C., it will be much like meeting a team on a fairly strange court. This will be the final game played by the Lemon Yellow at home, for next week, the varsity starts on the road trip. Floor is Handicap Playing on a smaller floor than the Aggie hoopsters are used to playing on, the Oregonians should have a slight advantage. But the Heavers will no doubt be prepared to play their style of game on a smaller court. At present Billy Reinhart has not selected 'his starting I combination for the Aggie game, but the quin tet will probably be made up from the following: Hobson and Gow ans at forward with Okerberg at center. Tho guard positions will A be filled by two of the following four men; Westergren, dost, Gunth er, or Gillenwaters. NOMINATIONS TO BE MADE FOR Y. W. C. A. OFFICERS Names of the candidates for of fice in the Y. W. C. A. will be pre sented a week from Tuesday on March 3. The candidates will be nominated at that time and the election will take place on the fol lowing Tuesday, March 13. Members of Study Group to Consider Turkey at Meeting Edna Speaker, leader of the World Fellowship discussion group studying Turkey, has arranged ; for special reports from several j members of the group which will j relate to the general subject of ! “Social and Industrial Life in Turkey.” The meeting will take place at the Bungalow at 6:00. During the course of the meet ings, the members have been at tempting to solve the problem of the reasons for the past and present conditions in Turkey. At this meeting effort will be made to show the effect of the social and industrial life upon Turkey in the past and now. SERVICE IS EMPHASIZED IN MERCHANDISING TALK Associations 200 Years Old Says Seattle Man The service and history of mer chandising was discussed by W. J. Hindley, of Seattle, educational di rector of the Washington State Re tail Merchants’ association, at the 2 o’clock session of the Oregon Re tail Merchants’ association in Vil lard hall, yesterday. “Merchandising has undergone transition and evolution from prim itive ages down to this day,” said Mr. Hindley. “In the art of ex change, the history of merchandis ing is older than the history of moral responsibility. When we talk of associations, try to get our peo ple into great groups, increase the service and reduce the cost, We hardly ever realize that more than 200 years ago in England, the guilds were trying to do the same thing. No man ranks higher than the man who has to barter and sell.” Service is one of the elements Mr. Hindley emphasized as neces sary in the modern organization. Too many modern merchants fail to recognize how important service is, he asserted. Very seldom do people realize that the retail cost of an article is the aggregate of the prices leading up from the producer, and that the retailer has to include the absorp tion and stand before the public to collect it, said Mr. Hindley. The efficient merchant fails to realize today his value in the world of distribution, for only when points of distribution are scientifically organized, can there (be distribu tion. There are two elements of ap peal: the element of scientific skill and the element of chance, said the speaker. Too many mrchants try on a chance basis. The elements of chance is too great, but the ele ment of chance is growing smaller and smaller. MISS CREECH WILL SPEAK AT REGULAR Y. W. MEETING Miss Margaret Creech of the Portland school of social service will speak on her work at the regular meeting of the Y. W. C. A., which is to take place tomorrow at 4:30 in the bungalow. Music, which is yet to be arranged, will also be in cluded in the program. REDEMPTION OF HUMANITY IS PLEA OF SYUD HOSSAIN A slender, meticulously clad | young man leaned across the ped estal of the Villard hall rostrum and plead eloquently for the re demption of humanity. Syud Hos sain, lecturer, gently probed the de fects of Western civilization and sharply defined the differences of culture of the two hemispheres. “The governing principle of the West is a quest for things mater ial,” stated the speaker from In dia. “The governing principle of the East is a quest for things spir itual.” The Oriental visualized human ity as a unit, “one and indivisible,” in contract with the Occidental who has continued to think of human ity as exclusive groups was Mr. Hossain fine distinction of the vital differences of the two cul tures. Mr. Hossain stated in the begin ning of the lecture that he was a nationalist by conviction; “one # who believes preeminently that peo ples, groups, and nations divided by geographical boundaries should have contact with one another and should know each other intimate ly.” He admitted that he was speaking on the behalf of the Ori ent and as a representative of the contributions of the Orient which he defined not as a single unit or nation as Japan or China but as a unit extending from the Pacific ocean and sweeping through Asia on to Arabia and the Atlantic ocean. The first concepts of art, relig ion, science and domains of human knowledge were laid in the East is the gist of his extensive and de tailed account of the contribution of the Orient. The West lia'i produced not one single spiritual concept was his accusation of th< material Occident. The lecturer explained Gandhi (Continued on page four) FAMOUS SINGER TO VISIT CAMPUS Opera Artist to Take Part In Assembly Program in Charge of Mu Phi Epsilon PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED Instrumental and Vocal Music to Be Presented By Campus Musicians Theo Pennington, star of the Brandon Opera company, which is putting on four performances this week in Eugene, will be the guest artist of Mu Phi Epsilon, national musical sorority, at assembly hour Thursday, and will take part in the program. The campus artists who are active members of Mu Phi Epsilon are: Mrs. W. F. G. Thacher, Mrs. Anne Landsbury Beck, Mrs. T. A. Pear son, Mildred Berkeley, Ruth Akers, Betty Nelson, Beulah Clark, Ber nice Yeo, Lora Teshner, Alberta Potter, Lois Parker, Katie Potter, Grace Potter, Jean Harper, Frances Pierce, Esther Church, La Yerne Riche, Mary Burton, Virginia Owen, Nina Warnock, Gwendolen L. Hay den, Mrs. Gifford Nash, Mrs. John Stark Evans, Genevieve Phelps, Wanda Eastwood and Harriet Baldwin. Following is the program for the assembly hour Thursday: Pirouette.Herman Finch Orchestra Divine Dorilla.. .1750 (composer unknown) Pale Moon.F. K. Logan Gweldolen Lampshire Hayden Violin Minuet .Haydn Alberta Potter, violin; Lora Teshner, cello; Lois Parker, piano Morning .London Ronald Russian Snow Song (Dushka Maya) .Herman Lohr Mrs. Edna Leslie Pearson, soprano Concerto (allegro movement) .Maurer Alberta Potter, Gwendolen Hay den, Nina Warnock, Wanda Eastwood, violins; Aurora Pot ter Underwood, piano Solo ...Selected Theo Pennington (of Brandon Opera company) Morning Wind.Gene Branscombe Ruth Akers, Betty Nelson, Mil dred Berkeley, Bernice Yeo. Mrs. Whitton, Mrs. Oberteuffer Triangle Song— xVecompanists: Jean Harper, Wanda Eastwood, Lois Parker, Aurora Potter Underwood. WOMAN JOURNALIST IS CAMPUS VISITOR Mrs. Lola Macauley, of the Max Sommers Feature Service agency, who is representing that firm at the (Retail Merchants’ convention here, was entertained by members of the local chapter of Theta Sigma Phi at luncheon at the Anchorage yester day. Mrs. Macauley told the girls of her experiences in journalistic fields, and discussed the market sit uation for feature articles. Mrs Macauley has had seven year’s ex perience in feature writing foi newspapers, magazines and trade publications, coming to Portland recently from Chicago. She served as city editor on the Watertown, South Dakota, News telegraph editor and assistant city editor of the Elgin, 111., Couriei and as publicist for the Horse As sociation of America. Mrs. Mac auley is also a graduate of the jour ! nalism schools of the Monticelli Seminary, the University of Chi j cago and the Medhill school o I journalism of the Northwester) University. At 10 o ’clock today Mrs. Mac auley will speak to Dean Eric W Allen’s editing class. To-Ko-Lo Formal Will Be Friday at Craftman’s Club Members of To-Ko-Lio, campus sophomore honorary society, will hold their formal dance Friday evening at 9:30 at the Crafts man ’s clubhouse. The affair is in charge of the active members but alumni and pledges will be included among the guests. In direction of plans for the dance is a committee composed of Ralph Staley, Henry Hall, and William F. James. This committee has been spend ing much time on the arrange ments and expect to put over a novel affair. FUST VODVIL TRYOUTS SET THIS AFTERNOON Musical Comedy Judging To Be Thursday The first try-outs for Junior Vod vil will, be held this afternoon at 4 o ’clock at the College Side Inn. The first two days of the week were given over to the listing of acts and persons who wish to try out. A total of nine acts has been scheduled, but it will be possible for any persons who have not listed their acts to try them out, accord ing to Paul Krausse, Vodvil chair man. Arrangement for a special time for the presentation of the acts can be made at the College Side Inn any afternoon of this week from 4 to 6 o ’clock. As only a few persons have sign ed up for try-outs for the musical comedy, every one who believes he has some talent is urged to appear. The date for the musical comedy try-out is scheduled for Thursday of this week, at the College Side Inn, 4 o ’clock. The judges for the try-outs are: Paul Krausse, Vodvil chairman; James Scripture and Dave Swanson. R.O.T.C, RIFLE MATCHES TO CLOSE NEXT WEEK This week the men’s rifle team of the R. O. T. C. is firing the sec ond and third stages of the Ninth Corps area rifle competition and dual matches with the universities of Minnesota, Iowa, California, (southern branch), and Pennsyl vania Military college. The three stages in the Ninth Corps matches are required to be completed by February 25. The second stage consists of firing from prone and kneeling positions and the third stage is from prone and standing positions. All four posi tions are used in the dual matches. Scores of the Ninth Corps meet will also be used for the Oregon score in the dual matches. Firing from the sitting position will have to be done also, to complete the dual matches. In the separate dual matches, fifteen men will fire, and the ten highest scores will count on the record. H. M. FISHER MAKES PLANS FOR WALK NEAR DEADY Plans have been made by H. M. Fisher, superintendent of grounds, to lay a new gravel walk from the Oregon building to the Twelfth street cement approach to Beady hall. The work on the walk will begin as soon as the ground is dry enough to permit. WOMEN’S LEAGUE TEA SET FOR TODAY AT 4 O’CLOCK Women’s League will be hostess for an informal tea this afternoon from 4 to 6. This is one of the series of weekly teas sponsored by the League, and everyone is invit | ed. Mo^ic will be furnished for ; those who care to dance. I —-o DOUGHNUT HANDBALL j l L I Doughnut handball schedule | second round to be played be-1 tween February 18 and 23: Kappa Delta Phi vs. Friendly i hall. Sigma Nu vs. Alpha Beta Chi. Phi Sigma Pi vs. Oregon club. Sigma Pi Tau vs. Sigma Alpha | Epsilon. O-;-<® CEL SENT FOR Dick Smith Wants More Men Out for Football Practice Every Night HARD WORK IS PROGRAM Baz Williams, Freshman Coach, Suggested as Possible Line Mentor Every man who aspires to a place on the varsity team is want ed immediately by Coach Dick Smith. The call was sent out last night, with tho instructions to those interested to see Virgil Earl, di record of athletics, for suits and equipment. If any player cannot come out for practice between tho regular hours of four to five in tho afternoon, the coach and his as sistants will arrange some other time, announces Earl. “Wo want every man who can handle a football or run to come out, even if he thinks he has no chance to make the team,” said Coach Smith. “What we want more than anything else is inter est in tho game’. The men out this spring are going to learn a lot of football and have a lot of fun. Football is a real game, and wo want a lot of men to play it.” Work is in Order Last night was devoted to fun damental line drill, with some back field work and punting. Tho order of the day now is work, and lots of it for tho entire hour. Both Coach Smith and Virgil Earl are on hand for tho entire period. Tomorrow^ the new lino coach, to be appointed today, is expected to be out with the linemen. This will no doubt be Baz Williams, fresh man coach. Williams is a lineman of note himself, an ex-varsitv man who was one of Oregon's greatest smashers, and he is fully quali fied to take charge of this depart ment. The football team is now using the old baseball field for practice. This is high and dry, and with the present cool snappy weather, con ditions for gridiron work are ideal. More Men Wanted “More men!” is the cry of the coaches at present, and with a turn out of the entire squad tho work will go ahead rapidly, says Smith. The program will include passing, punting and fundamental! d^ill} with signal practice and team for mations to come just as soon as the men are ready for them. MILITARY DRILL PERIODS INCREASED THIS YEAR Military drill in the R. O. T. C. department is largely manual of arms and close order movements at present. The instructors in charge plan to continue with this program during the remainder of the term in order that the underclassmen will be well trained in the school of the soldier. Instead of the one period of drill a week that they had last year, the freshmen take three periods of drill this year and an increase in ef ficiency is the result. Last year all the men drilled together in one af ternoon and two periods a week were used for class work. This vcar the freshmen take three per iods of drill a week and there are sevral companies drilling at 'dif ferent periods. More actual instruction is being given to both freshmen and sopho mores this year than last year, ac cording to Captain Frank L. Culin .Tr., who says every phase of drill has improved this year in the R. O. T. C. department. DR. ELSE WILL SPEAK AT ALUMNI HALL THURSDAY Dr. J. Earl Else, member of the faculty of the Portland medical school, will speak to the students and faculty of the departments of zoology and medicine tomorrow evening, in the Alumni hall of thf Woman’s building. The .occasion is another evening meeting given under the auspices of these de partments for the students and fac ulty, and their friends. All who art interested are invited to attend tin meeting. Student Musicians Return from Trip Around the World George Hinkle, Walter Carring ton, and Paul Sletton returned last night to the campus after sailing around tho world on the President Garfield. The trip took 128 days, or a little over four months to complete. These three Oregon students played in the orchestra of the ship. Hinkle playing tho saxa phone, Carrington, the banjo and Paul Sletton the drums. Tho suc cess of their journey is evidenced in the numerous colorful “hotel stickers” on their baggage. The posters represent practically all the leading cities in the world. “One of the greatest experi ences in my life,” stated George Hinkle, “and if I get another chance to take a similar trip, I shall certainly make it.” Tho other members of tho trio com mented in like fashion on their journey. JAPANESE QUESTION IS SUBJECT OF DEBATE Women’s Triangular Contest Is Tomorrow Night When the women’s debate team meets O. A. C. and Willamette in the triangle debate tomorrow, they will discuss a subject that has achieved popularity among college debating teams this yoar. The question is, Resolved: “That the present immigration law should be amended to admit Japanese on the quota basis.” If tho immigration lawi d^awn up by Congress in the past session which was to take offeet July 1, 1924, was allowed to function, 104 Japanese would be admitted a year. Hut because of pressure brought by adverse opposition on Congress, an other act was passed excluding all Japanese tho right of immigration. This new situation gave life and importance to the debate topic, stated tho coach. It was upon tho latter phase of the act that President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes sharply disagreed with Congress. Mildred Bateman and Beatrice Mason, tho affirmative, will meet the Willamette negative team in Villard hall tomorrow evening, whilo Dorothy Newman and Alino Buster, negative, will go to Corval lis to contest the topic with tho O. A. C. affirmative. TRY-OUTS SCHEDULED FDD ORATORY CONTEST Try-outs for the Peace oratory contest will be hebl for aspirants in Villard hall, Tuesday, February 24. The try-outs are open to women as well as men students. Eliminations for the University representatives to attend the Peace oratory contest at Pacific college, Newburg, on April, .1, is the purpose of the try out. The theme for the oration, states Oscar A. Brown, should be one de veloping some definite plan for in ternational peace. Students should avoid the conventional treatment of the subject, such as contrasting the effects of war and peace or of mor alizing on the topic. The orations should be limited to about 1,800 words in length and typewritten copies must be pre * sented to the coach at the try-outs. The Peace contest in the state is being sponsored by the National Intercollegiate Peace association. A prize of $75 will be awarded to the winner of the contest, and another of $50 will be given to the student placing second. Entrance to the national competi tion for the $100 prize will be open to the winners placing first and second in the state contest. Their orations will be sent to the nation j al headquarters, to be .judged for . the qualities of thought and com position. “The object of this nation wide j contest,” Mr. Brown said, “is to 1 promote a greater and more gene ral interest in the movement for an international peac^.” DELEGATES HEAD BUSINESS TOPIC Profits and Expenditures Is Subject of Address By Professor Stillman TRADE MEETINGS HELD Final Sessions to Be Held Today;, Next Conventio*||g£ Center Will Be Chose$ *** -—-— . Wednesday, February 18 9:30 a. in.—Annual Report Bureau Business Research, Dean E. C. Robbins, University of Oregon. 10:00 a. m.—-“The Peddler,” H. W. Schnell, of Seattle. 11:00 a. m.—Credits and Col lections.—John Knight presi dent Oregon Collectors’ asso ciation, McMinnville, Ore. 12:15 p. m.—Luncheon, Cham ber of Commerce. , 2:00 p. m.—Address, W. J. Hindley, of Seattle. 3:00 p. m.—Business session, O. R. M. A. Unfinished and ; new busi-* ness. Annual Election of officers. Meeting of newly elected board of directors and selection of next convention city. Adjournment sine die. “Turnover is one of the most ef fective agencies we can have toward the securing of profits,” de clared Professor A. B. Stillman, of the school of business administra tion, in his address before the Ore gon Retail Merchants’ convention, yesterday afternoon. His subject was “Turnover—the TNT of Busi ness.” Types of Merchants Shown That merchants are too often inclined to concentrate their ef forts on securing a high rate of stock-turn, to the exclusion of a careful watching of operating costs, was Mr. Stillman’s opinion. There are two types of men, he said, the banker type who is cool, careful and calculating. Ho keeps tab of his income and expenditures very carefully. Then there is the salesman type —he is lively, ambitious, generous and does not watch his income and expenditures as closely as the bank er does. The retailor should be a composite of both. Merchants Lose Profits The University of Oregon, through its Bureau of Business 'Re search tins been making an exten sive investigation into the costs of operating retail stores in the state. The results of the investi gation tend to show that many mer chants were cutting prices, or ad vertising to a point where their margin of profit had practicably disappeared. “One must conclude,” said Pro | fessor Stillman,” that there is no 1 necessary relationship between a high rate of merchandise turn-over and profits. Agencies which tend i to create a high rate of turnover i are similar to TNT, very effective | when skillfully handled, but ex ceedingly dangerous if carelessly or ignorantly used.” Trade Sections Meet Price maintenance, advertising, the adoption of the bonus system for clerks were discussed at the meetings of the trade groups yes terday morning. Credits, mail order and depart mental efficiency were the topics handled Jonas M. Mills of Aurora, chairman of the store division. i Hardware dealers spoke on the j menace of the peddler, freight ! rates and the relationship of hard ware store and mail order houses. R. P. Lew, of Marshfield, presided | over this group. SECOND DAUGHTER ADDED TO RALPH SPEAROW FAMILY Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Spearow are ! being congratulated upon the birth of a daughter yesterday at the Pa cific Christian hospital of Eugene. Mother and daughter are said to be doing very well. This is their sec ond child, the other also a daugh ter. Both Mr. and Mrs. Spearow are alumni of the University, hav ing obtained degrees last spring.