VOLUME XXVI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1925
NUMBER 107
U of O Library
WOMEN'S MEET
TO BE NEXT WEEK
100 Delegates Expected
45 Higher Scholastic
Institutions Represented
CAMPUS GIRLS INVITED
Entertainment of Guests
Planned Now As Well As
Business Conference
Forty-five schools west of the
Appalachian mountains will be
represented at the national conven
tion of the Women’s League, next
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. These institutions are:
DePauw university, Grinnell col
lege, Iowa State university, Mich
igan Agricultural college, North
western university, Pennsylvania
■State college, University of Illin
ois, University of Kansas, Univer
sity of Kentucky, University of
Michigan, University of Minnesota,
University of Missouri, University
•of Nebraska, University of Okla
homa, University of South Dakota,
University of Wisconsin, Washing
ton university, Cornell college,
Whitman college, University of
Utah, Carlton college, and • Univer
sity of Indiana, from the mid
western group.
From the western states are,
Brigham Young university, Provo,
Utah; College of the Pacific, Stock
ton, California; Colorado State
Teacher’s college, Greeley, Colora
do; Colorado Agricultural college,
Ft. Collins, Colorado; Stanford col
lege, Palo Alto, California.
Colleges are Listen
Mills* college, Montana State col
lege, Oregon Agricultural college,
Oklahoma State university, Pomo
na college, University of Arizona,
University of California, Univer
sity of Southern California, Univer
sity of California-Southern branch,
University of Colorado, University
of Idaho, University of Montana,
University of Nevada, University
of Washington, University of
Wyoming, Utah Agricultural col
lege, Washington State college.
About 100 delegates are expected
to the conference, and a directorate
and large committees are doing
everything possible to make the
convention a memorable one for the
representatives, as well as the Ore
gon campus.
Those at the head of committees
are, Rebecca Ireland, entertain
ment; Ellen McClellan, luncheons
and decorations; Mabel Armitage,
transportation; Alberta McMonies,
printing; Marie Myers, reception;
Hilda Chase, housing; Anna De
Witt, program; and Elizabeth Cady,
publicity.
Extensive Program Arranged
An extensive program has been
arranged, and every minute of the
four days will be filled with, busi
ness sessions or entertainment for
the delegates. The first night,
Wednesday, a dinner will be given
the guests in the Woman’s build
ing, followed by “Stunt Night,”
the performances in charge of Lil
lian Luders.
Thursday the houses have ar
ranged to give group luncheons;
Friday, a luncheon will be given at
Hendricks hall, by the two halls;
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League To Meet At
5 O’clock Tuesday
In Villard Hall
There will be a mass meeting
of the Women’s League, Tuesday
afternoon, at 5 o’clock, in Vil
lard hall, at which Miss Florence
Jackson will be the chief speak
er.
Miss Jackson is an expert on
vocational guidance, and has been
brought to the campus for a few
days by Mortar Board. All the
girls are urged by Dean Esterly
to attend this and her other talks
if possible, to make the most of
her visit.
Tuesday, from 10 to 1:30, a
special election will be held in
front of the library, to vote off
the tie between Louise Inabnit
and Dorothy Myers for vice
president of the Women’s League.
VARSITY SWIMMERS
WILL MEET REAVERS
Oregon Men End Training
In Good Condition
The final splash of the year will
be staged in Corvallis this after
noon when the varsity swimmers
tangle with the Beavers. This
promises to be one of the closest
meets of the year as both teams
have an all-state record holder on
board. Bob Boggs for Oregon, hold
er of the 220 yard dash state record
and Peterson, for O. A. C. holder
of the 00 yard dash title will vie
for high point honors.
Immediately following the lunch
hour this afternoon the watermen
will enter a special bus and expect
to alight at the Aggie gymnasium1
in time for the meet at 3 o’clock.
In the last meet between these
two teams the Ags won by the
small margin of four points. With
the addition of Boggs in the dash
and relay the varsity will try and
reverse the last decision. “It can
be done and the men are all hopped
up over it,” says Coach Eahl. The
men have been working out nightly
and are in the best shape of this
season he further stated.
This meet holds all indications
of clipping a few tenths of a sec
ond if not more off two of the
intercollegiate' state Tecords, as
both of the present holders are
primed for the occasion. If the
records are not beaten they will be
severely scorched, stated the coach.
Julian Smith the latest addition
to the assemblage of swimmers,
will enter his first intercollegiate
swim and is expected to make a
creditable showing. He has, been
going good in practice.
Coach Fahl and nine men will
make the trip this afternoon, leav
ing here at 1 o’clock. The nine
men making the trip and their
events are: Captain Robert Mc
Cabe, 50-yard dash; Ben Lombard,
50-vard dash; Robert Boggs, cen
tury dash; Art Erickson, century
back stroke; Lamont Stone, cen
tury dash; Bob Gardner, century
back stroke: A1 Sinclair, century
breast stroke; Hymen Samuels,
plunge for distance; Boggs and
Julian Smith, 220-vard dash; Mc
Cabe and Stone, diving; Lombard,
McCabe, Stone and Boggs will con
stitute the relay.
ALBERTA POTTER WILL TEACH
VIOLIN AT ALABAMA COLLEGE
Alberta Potter, a graduate of the
"University of Oregon in 1923 re
ceiving a B. M. degree, and at
present a member of the violin
department in the school of
music here, has been appointed
head of the violin department
in the Alabama State Women’s
college at Montevallo, Alabama.
This Southern school has one of
the leading music schools in
that section of the country,
and the dean of the school of
music is a graduate of the Boston
Conservatory of Music.
Miss Potter has studied violin
since she was a very small girl.
Her most intensive studying was
done on this campus with Bex Un
derwood, professor of violin and
head of the University orchestra.
Last year she studied in New York
with Franz Kneisal of the Dam
orosch Institute of Musical Art.
Miss Potter will leave in Septem
ber for the South to take up her
new duties. “I am looking for
ward with the greatest anticipation
to my work in the South, not only
to my position as head of the vio
lin department in the Alabama
State Women’s college, but to _the
people and surroundings, which I
am told are very different from
those of the East and West.”
While on the campus Miss Pot
i ter was among the most active
, members of Mu Phi Epsilon, na
tional women’s musical fraternity.
She is also a member of Delta
Gamma.
GRIDSTERS WIEEI
IN MIGHTY FIGHT
Brawn and Energy Run Riot;
Johnsonians Defeat Dix
ons By 6 to 0 Score
MORTALITY LIST HIGH
Goal Posts Nearly Crack
Under Impact; Coach
Highly Pleased With Team
By the G-ridd Kidd
Two mighty grid teams,—two
masses of bursting muscles, tough
ened sinews and barely suppressed
energy—met on Hayward field yes
terday, and by the grace of Rob
ert Vanderwaters Mautz, referee,
the Johnsonians emerged victors af
ter forty minutes of hectic fipht by
the score of six to nothing.
It was a battle that took every
ounce of wind that the men and
Referee Mautz had—but after it
was all over, after the smoke and
sawdust had cleared, the gallant of
ficial mustered one last loud shout,
“You have great teams, boys, and
a greater referee! Long Live our
Alma Mater! ” With these words R.
V. Mautz, ’28, passed off the field,
and incidentally, out of this story.
Johnson, Dixon Captains
The two teams lined up under
the captains Carl Johnson and Dix
on, centers of the opposing elevens.
Several of the original line-ups
were in the game at the end of the
first quarter, but by the time the
final whistle blew, Head linesman
Oberteuffer was the only man who
had lasted through the entire
clash.
The high mortality was not due
to lack of playing ability, however,
but because Coach Smith desired
to give every man out a chance to
participate in the struggle.
The game was a see-saw, with
neither team having the advantage,
until just before the final whistle,
when Johnson’s crew, by a series
of rushes, carried the ball up and
across for a touchdown. A try for
goal nearly resulted in one of the
uprights being displaced, so near
did the sphere come to going over.
Next Game Wednesday
A similar contest will be staged
next Wednesday between two
teams, and a final clash will take
place Friday. _ Friday evening the
football men, all who have been
out the entire spring season, will
banquet as a fitting ending to the
playing period.
Coach Smith is highly pleased
with the |howing the men have
made so far, but he refuses to pick
any favorites as yet. Every man is
given an equal chance to play, and
this policy will continue next fall
until the official squads are picked.
The starting line-ups yesterday
were as follows:
Dixons—Dixon (Captj, c; Del
Monte, re; Warren, rt; Belshaw, rg;
Kidwell, Ig; Kjelland, rt; Flangas,
le; Stoddard, q; Hodgen, f; Cush
man. rh; Wilkenson, lh.
Johnsons—Johnson (Capt.), c;
Reynolds, re; Kelly, rt; Haggerty,
rg; Wilcox, Ig; Cookingham, rt;
Reynolds, le; Anderson, q; Good
ing, f; Langworthv, rh; Leavitt, lh.
Officials: Robert Van Mautz,
referee; Del Oberteuffer, head
I linesman; H. C. Howe, field mar
shall; Virgil Earl, scorekeeper; J.
W. Benefiel, custodian of the foot
ball.
TWO R. O. T. C. LIEUTENANTS
RECEIVE RANK OF CAPTAIN
First Lieutenants W. Norman
Larabee and Earl W. Smith, of the
R. O. T. C. unit Of the University,
have been promoted to eadet cap
tains in the local organization, ac
cording to the contents of Special
Order No. 4, for 1925, recently re
ceived by Captain Frank L. Culin,
of the R. O. T. C. department.
Lieutenant Larabee was promoted
to fill the vacancy left open by
Waldemar S. Seton, who has with
drawn from school, while ,Lieuten
ant Smith’s promotion to a cadet
] captain was to fill an original va
1 oancy. The promotions are effec
| tive at the beginning of the current
term.
BENOIT McCROSKEY
WINS STATE MEET
Patrolman Macy
Takes Stray Goats
On Tour of Campus
Who got officer Macy’s goat?
—Nobody! That would have
been a very difficult feat to per
form this morning, for that of
ficer had a whole flock of goats,
about 15 in fact.
Patrolman Macy found the
goats wandering aimlessly about
the University campus, and hav
ing a few leisure moments and
an inclination for good, he got
the band of visitors together and
personally conducted them about
the grounds.
The main points of interest for
the visitors were Friendly hall,
the shack and the art building.
They became so interested in the
doings of the journalists that
their guide’s pre-arranged sched
ule was quite broken up. The
strangers seemed to feel right at
home there, and they were very
appreciative of the warm wel
come which they received.
^Ir. Richard Godfrey, Harold
Hunnicutt and Mr. J. B. Shaw,
all of the school of journalism,
assisted the officer on showing
the guests around. After the
tour the happy visitors were
escorted to their quarters, a beau
tiful little home by the millrace.
VOCATIONAL EXPERT
TO. BE HERE MONDAY
Women to Hold Conferences
With Miss Jackson
An exceptional opportunity will
be given to the women of Oregon
April 13 and 14, when Miss Flor
ence Jackson, an expert on voca
tional guidance, will be on the cam
pus for the purpose of giving talks
and holding personal conferences.
“The last time a vocational ex
pert was on the Oregon campus was
in 1917,” said Dean Esterly. “I
want to urge the girls to take ad
vantage of this visit, and especially
of the personal conferences. Those
wishing to talk with Miss Jackson
confidentially must sign up at my
office.”
Having been a vocational instruc
tor at Wellesly and also the di
rector of the Women’s Educational
and Industrial Union of Massachu
setts, Miss Jackson is considered
one of the cleverest experts in the
country on vocational guidance.
She is coming under the auspices
of Mortar Board, and that organi
zation will direct her entertainment
during her brief sojourn here.
' The program which has been ar
ranged for Miss Jackson begins
with a talk before a mass meeting
of all campus women at 5 o ’clock
Monday afternoon at Villard hall.
One-half of the senior women on
the campus will listen to a talk by
Miss Jackson at Hendricks hall
Monday evening. Tuesday evening
the other half of the senior women
•will have an opportunity to hear her
at Susan Campbell hall. All day
,Tuesday private half-hour confer
ences will be held at the Y. W. C.
A. bungalow. Mortar Board will
entertain Miss Jackson at a lun
cheon at the Anchorage Tuesday
noon.
Mrs. Sam B. Warner, who knows
Miss *Tackson personally, will enter
tain her during her stay in Eugene.
Miss Lucy O’Meara, who is accom
panying Miss Jackson as secretary,
will stay at one of the halls.
MORTAR BOARD TO GIVE
JITNEY DANCE TODAY
A jitney dance, sponsored by
Mortar Board, honorary senior wo
men’s society, will be held at the
Campa Shoppe this afternoon be
tween the hours of 2:30 and 5.
The Pi-id Pipers orchestra will fur
nish music for the dancers at the
dance.
A large crowd is requested to
turn out by Norma Wilson who has
charge of the affair. The proceeds
will go toward entertaining guests
at the Women’s League conven
tion to be held here next week.
Winner of State
Peace Contest
(Benoit McCroskey
HOUSE BHSEBALL
SCHEDUEE IS OUT
First Game of Tournament
Is Set for Wednesday
Afternoon, 4 O’clock
GAMES TO BE SHORTENED
Doughnut baseball takes the lead
for intramural activity with the
first game of the tournament slated
for next Wednesday. According to
Virgil Eai'l, athletic director, this
first contest will open what prom
ises to be a fast season. Games
will be played Thursday and Sat
urday also, and the first round
will be completed by the first of
the following week. At that time
a new schedule will be drawn up
for the semi-finals.
For the benefit of organizations
in doubt as to the rules of the
tournament, the following were ac
cepted at the meeting held, last
Monday. They are: All teams were
willing to play their games at any
time that could be arranged by the
department of athletics. Evening
games were much preferred to early
morning games.
Games to Be Short
All games up to the semi-final
round are to be five innings in
duration but the semi-finals and
final are to be seven innings each.
There will be a placard placed in
the office of the department of
athletics upon which the various
teams may list their claims to prac
tice periods, each team respecting
the other’s pre-arranged hour.
Each organization agreed to fur
nish two baseballs and all equip
ment with the exception of score
book, catcher’s mitt and pad, and
bats if possible. All games will be
arranged from the office of the de
partment of athletics and official#
for the games will be chosen by
the department. The umpire will
hold full power of the contests and
will call the game over after the
time period of one and a half hours
have terminated providing the five
inning period is unfinshed. This
rule was made so that the game fol
lowing can start on time. Failure
of a team to showup at the sched
uled time will result in a forfeit
ure to opponents. This rule is un
derstood to be void in case of a tie
game or in case of a seven inning
semi-final or final contest.
Game Schedule Listed
Following is the schedule as
drawn up by the department of
! athletics:
Wednesday»Psi Kappa vs. Kap
| pa Rigma, 4 p. m. Friendly hall vs.
i Beta Theta Pi, 5:30.
Thursday—Rigma Pi Tau vs. Phi
Delta Theta, 4 p. m. Sigma Nu vs.
Phi Kappa Psi, 5:30.
Raturday—Theta Chi vs. Kappa
Delta Phi, 9 a. m. Rigma Alpha
Epsilon vs. Phi Gamma Delta,
10:30. Delta Tan Delta vs. Alpha
Tau Omega, 2 p. m. Bachelordon
vs. Oregon Club, 3 p. m.
Oratorical Contest
First Prize Goes
To Freshman
Forest Grove, Oregon, April 10.
(Special to the Emerald)—Benoit
MeCroskey, a freshman from the
University of Oregon, tonight was
awarded the first prize in the State
Peace Oratorical contest held here
this evening. MeCroskey, whose
oration was entitled “The Last
Milestone,” was unanimously ac
claimed the winner of the $75
award. Second prize of $50 went
to Joseph M. Applegate, of the Eu
gene Bible university, while third
place was awarded to the speaker
from Linfield college.
The winning manuscript will be
sent to the national headquarters
of the Intercollegiate Peace associ
ation, for competition for the na
tional prizes.
Speech Is Brilliant
MeCroskey presented a clear, con
cise picture of the developments
toward world peace, and the “last
mile-stone” was declared to be a
form of international league, with
a court to enforce its legislation.
The speech was brilliantly de
livered, and the young man had an
unusually excellent stage appear
ance. The decision carries with it
the right to claim the championship
of the state in oratory, since nine
leading institutions were repre
sented.
Institutions which were repre
sented are: Oregon Agricultural
college, Eugene Bible university,
Willamette university of Salem,
Pacific college of Newberg, Lin
field college of McMinnville, Al
bany college, Oregon State Normal
school of Monmouth, Pacific uni
versity of Forest Grove, and Uni
versity of Oregon.
• Winner is Active
The winner of the contest has
been unusually active in forensics.
He debated on the varsity teams
which met the Oregon Agricultural
college and the University of Ida
ho, and last year he won the state
high school championship in ora
tory.
The contest tonight was marked
by a number of brilliant addresses
which showed careful analysis of
the subject.
DR. H. TORREY WRITES
ARTICLE FOR JOURNAL
A current number of the “Jour
nal of General Physiology,” con
tains a paper from the department
of experimental biology on the de
pressant effect of thyroxin on the
division rate of paramecium.
Thyroxin is a crystalline body
which is extracted from the thy
roid gland, and is its chief hor
mone. The purpose of the investi
gation made by the . ..department
was to determine the effect of this
hormone on the individual cells of
living bodies. Paramecium is a
one-celled organism, which is con
venient to use for this purpose.
Dr. Harry B. Torrey, in collabor
ation with two members of the de
partment, prepared the article.
FROLIC STUNTS
STAGED TONIGHT
Nine Houses to Present
Colorful Skits ; Vieing
For Silver Loving Cup
AUSPICES OF LEAGUE
Costumed Co-eds Admitted
To Gymnasium Floor
At Price of 10 Cents
April Frolic, the one entertain
ment of the year which women re
serve exclusively for themselves, is
tonight at the Woman’s building.
Houses that are presenting stunts
have been working for some time on
them, and good acts are expected.
Final rehearsals will be finished
this afternoon.
The doors will open at 6:45, and
a strict watch kept for men who
may try to invade these regions.
Admission is 50 cents for reserved
seats on the balcony; other seats
in the balcony are 25 cents, and
general admission to the floor of
the gymnasium, may be had by
anyone in costume, for 10 cents.
The reserved seat sale starts at
6:35, at the entrance.
Ice Cream to Be Sold
Everyone is warned to bring
money, for ice cream bars will be
sold between acts. A five-piece or
chestra will play between perform
ances, and the gjry> may dance.
The stunts will begin promptly at
7 o’clock, and will come in the fol
lowing order:
Delta Delta Delta, “Behind the
Moon.”
Susan Campbell hall, "Carnival.”
Gamma Phi Beta, “Jabberwack
Jingaree.”
Pi Beta Phi, “Boots.”
Kappa Omicron, “Progress of
Petticoats.”
Delta Gamma, “Memory Land.”
Alpha Omicron Pi, “A Night in
Georgia.”
Alpha Delta Pi, “A Moonlight
Fantasy.”
....Tau Nu, “Oh! Listen!”
League Provides Background
The Women’s League, sponsor of
the affair, is providing as a back
ground a blue-gray curtain, into
which there must bo no pinning or
tacking.
A cup will be offered to the
house presenting the best stunt,
and prizes of $5.00 and $2.50 will
be awarded to the two girls wear
ing the most original costumes.
Patronesses of the evening are,
Mrs. Karl Onthank, Mrs. Oolin
Hyment, Mrs. Louis Johnson, Mrs.
Henry Sheldon, Mrs. W. H. Jewett,
and Mrs. Eric W. Allen. Judges
are, Mrs. Virginia Judy Esterly,
Mrs. George Rebec, Mrs. Dean
Walker, Miss Gertrude Talbot, and
Miss Victoria Avakian.
Committees Named
Committees which have had
charge of the program are: Doris
Brophy, general chairman; Kather
ine Lauderdale, seating; Kathryn
Short, programs; Gussie Gottlieb,
music; Augusta DeWitt, judges;
Trva Dale, admission; Katherine
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SPORTS WRITERS PROVE WISER
IN LEGAL TERMS THAN LAWYERS
By O. Haich Ghee
Wanted—someone to teaeh the
law students of the University
something about Law!
The allegation that the sports
writers are guilty of a serious vio
lation of the laws of contract
(more commonly spoken of as “the
law of contracts”) is entirely false
and misleading, and the statement
as spoh is grounds for a libel suit.
In the “first place, no contract was
entered into, hence the alleged vio
lation is impossible.
I The law students boldly, without
basis of any kind, announced to
the campus that a team formed,
presumably, in the law school, was
the championship baseball team of
the University. Now to any one
familiar with sporting ethics, the
right of challenge lies entirely with
the party other than the champion.
The law students merely stated
that they had a baseball team, a
fact that is open to doubt in it
self.
When the sports writers chal
lenged, they did so on a purely
amateur basis, and the conditions
named were in accordance with
what is recognized as strictly ama
teur for University teams. The
law students had two choices,—
first, to accept the challenge as giv
en, or to politely enter into nego
tiations for a game under mutually
agreeable conditions.
So the sports writers, still gentle
men, in a gentlemanly way, again
challenge the law school to a game
of baseball, under conditions to be
drawn up by a joint committee of
five; two representatives from each
team, and Bill Reinhart. Said game
is to take place at a time and lo
cation designated within three
weeks from the date of this official
and perfectly legal challenge.