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
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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
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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.
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DOUGHNUT HANDBALL j
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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 $100 prize will be open
to the winners placing first and
second in the state contest. Their
orations will be sent to the nation
j al headquarters, to be .judged for
. the qualities of thought and com
position.
“The object of this nation wide
j contest,” Mr. Brown said, “is to
1 promote a greater and more gene
ral interest in the movement for
an international peac^.”
DELEGATES HEAD
BUSINESS TOPIC
Profits and Expenditures
Is Subject of Address
By Professor Stillman
TRADE MEETINGS HELD
Final Sessions to Be Held
Today;, Next Conventio*||g£
Center Will Be Chose$ ***
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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.