©rimtm Uailtj fatutalfc fiiitonal IJage Bd»ard M. Miller Editor 801 Abramson . Managing Editor Jatm&r Johnson .. Associate Managing Editor News and Editor Phones, 655 TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1926 HaTold Kirk —. Webster Joces — Philippa Sherman Associate Editor _Sports Editor _Feature Editor Frank H. Loggan -1- Manager Wayne Leland .-. Associate Manager Business Office Phone 1895 V - ----- , _ , . - iLa TTnivfirsitv a* OceKOXl, Eugene, issuea aauy exceyi ouiiuay ------ - The Oregon D.ny " »“ & *"*>*«« ~ SeC°nd-Cl^ Sutecri‘'t“n »*- $2-25 P" -*■ &,r^^“WEditor. 1*20 ; Manager, 721. 2)ay Editor—Claudia Fletcher Night Editor—John Black Assistant—Finis Fitzmaurice A Priceless Possession; 1 9f26 ,9JnhSSty students love a sentimentalist. And coHegfS learns that the “dear old wUl rememDcr .u j ^ Qver the same old song is sung-—‘You will cherish these memories to the end of your dsys—, - not only are personalities brought again into the panorama; all the multitude of events are recorded m picture and sto y which will never lose their charm with the passing years ^ set of four volumes of the Oregana, giving a complete record of the University career, may be said to be a truly priceless ^Therefore, when the Oregana representative makes his ap pearance today, remember that the investment will p y creased dividends with the passing of the years. Oregon ^Vants A Basketball Championship Oregon opens its Coast conference basketball season Tues day night against Montana here. So far as can be judged m advance, Oregon has its greatest team in a decade. It has speed, it has teamwork and every man is a true and tried veteran. Last year Oregon finished second best. It came within a single basket of winning the championship of the northern sec tion of the Coast conference. But that one basket was enough to give the Aggies a chance to play California tor the coast title, and as in years past, the southern invader romped home with a well-earned victory. , , The spell of athletic conquests for the south was broken last fall when Washington triumphed in football over both Stanford and California. That, however, should be only the beginning of a series of triumphs for the northwest. The fact that the south was beaten, after winning tho cham pionships in basketball, football and track for more than five years, shows it is not immune from defeat. And this year, Ore gon feels, the golden opportunity to triumph not only over all our northern rivals, but also over the southern champion, has arrived. Oregon, after sampling the dregs of bitter football, craves lustily a basketball championship. It’s victory she wants— sure and complete. Let’s hit the nail on the head this year.—S.W. An Obvious Defect In The Activities System In a communication published in today’s Emerald W. B. r. has pointed out a very real and tangible objection to the sys tem of student body activities as now carried on at the Univer sity. Granting that student leaders attain respectable grades, he maintains that these same students would gain far more from their formal education were they permitted to spend their time in scholastic pursuits instead of trivial student activities. This argument undoubtedly holds true in a few cases where the student spends time on his activities at the expense of his intellectual pursuits. It is granted that a few a very few, such as the A. S. U. 0. presidency—demand far more time from the student than is compatible with his best personal interests. In the great majority of the eases, however, this is not the case. Usually a student will spend in activities those moments which he would otherwise devote to sheer leisure or pastime. As soon as he encroaches on the time which should be devoted to the xiormal functions of his University life, as W. B. P. has sug gested, he is doing himself an injustice. Those cases, which by the very nature of the positions de mand this undue attention must be justified only on the grounds that the activities ‘system’ brings benefits to the whole which overshadow the harm done to the few. The Emerald believes this is a legitimate justification. Is This A Result of The Holiday Vacation? Every year, every term, every possible chance that occurs, the old, old story appears. “Oregon’s hello is dying out. It is tiresome to hear it, more tiresome to see it again and again; but the frequent appearance seems to indicate that this ancient old custom demonstrating the school s democratic spirit is truly living out. Perhaps it is only a relapse from strenuous vaca tions and exam cramming. Still, when someone passes by with a stony ridged mouth, firmly set against foolish word wastes; and when another answers a timid ‘hello’ with a cold do-vou knov who I am? 1-certninly-don’t-knov-you. glance; well, doubts are against the physically and mentally tired excuses used for destroying the friendly “hello,” Even if you are so cially and otherwise superiorly advanced above the mere per son who passes you, at least show your kingly benignauce by! giving a cheery smile and "hello” to the individual. Help pro mote a democratic, friendly spirit on the campus. Be a sport; smile ami say “hello. —1).P. ANNOUNCEMENT Alpha Xi Delta announces the pledging of Klsic Clodius, of Port land. Ti Deta Phi announces the pledg ing of Dorothy Franklin of Port land. Delta Gamma announces; ,lt>he pledging of Helen Qouphler, Port land, and Virginia Dorcas, Salem. Delta Zeta announces the pledg ing of Shirley Glad of Moscow, Idaho. Phi Delta Phi, national honorary law fraternity, announces the elec tion of the following men: Joe Frn xer, George W. Joseph, Harry J. DePrnncq, all of Portland; Edwin Pavia Hicks, Canyon City, Charles O. Burlingham, Forest drove, and Orlando John Hollis of Eugene. Samara, honorary botany and bacteriology society, announces tho election of Marion Paddock and Frances Schroeder to membership. FOUR DAYS TO ADD COURSES Saturday will be the last day that students can add to their course, ac cording to an announcement made at the registrar’s office. Students may drop a course after this time, providing they have permission from their professor. SEVEN SEERS NOW THAT THE “PHANTOM OF THE OPERA” HAS LEFT TOWN WE CAN GET SOME BLEEP IN. Latest close-up of Julia Groo, one of the new additions to the campus this term, and fair win ner of the perfect electrically equipped house in the national contest of electrical essays. According to the Oregonian of last Sunday, Miss Groo rejected 400 proposals of marriage from ardent admirers all over the country and has deserted her life of fame and ease for the barren halls of learning. Poor girl doesn’t know what she’s up against. Don’t you know, Julie, that there are at least 400 men in these barren halls who would be tickled pink to get in on the house when you’re “ready to settle down,” and who would enjoy basking in the ■w/armth of your sweet smile and an electric furnace? * * * I Another little curly headed Indian club asked us where she could sign up for a course in Aggravation, and when we professed ignorance she said she heard that Dean McClusky was head of the department. POPULAR METHOD OF BID DING FAREWELL AMONG CHI PSIS DURING RECENT VACA TION: “GOO’ NIGHT! SLEEP 'TIGHT! ” ROMANCE OF CAMPUS COUPLE APPEARS IN SMART SET The following article entitled, “It’s Sometimes Fun to Kiss and Run,” was- clipped from a current issue of the humorous magazine, '“Judge,” where it was run as an advertisement, as the last para graph shows: “Oh, Jerry,” Vania sighed, softly, distractingly. “I may never be serious again with you, so remember well what I say tonight. Take everything you can get, or you will be sorry, sorry, all your life for the things you could have had and did not take.” Now, even to Jerry that could mean only one thing. “You and I,” Vania was saying, “could be so happy together, loving each other. But you won’t. . and some day you will bo sorry. Jerry took a sip of his chartreuse, and thought, slowly, that she was pretty near right. Tomorrow you might be dead. What did it matter if the things you did were against all silly rules? And anyway he didn’t want to steal her from her husband, or anything like that. He just wanted to kiss a very pretty woman, who wanted him; to kiss her. He bent closer, closer to that glowing face, and kissed her thrill ingly, lingeringly. And he knew that having kissed a woman as he had just kissed Vania, the only thing a gentleman can do is to kiss her again, as she was waiting to be kissed. . . . Can a gay young man who takes his fun where he finds it ever stop at one drink—or one kiss—if the 'first is good and more are to be had? See the current issue of "Snappy Stories”—the magazine of the new generation. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF IN TERMENT STAND UP. SINBAD. Communications To the Editor: In an0 editorial bearing the cap tion, “Much Ado About Nothing: Extra Curricular Activities,” the editor of the Emerald, unless I mis take him, attempts to show that the agitation against extra-curricular activities has little merit. He pro ceeds t.o show, fiirstj that those most busily engaged in activities carry substantial courses in the University and receive respectable grades, and second, that those in dividuals whs are dropped from college for scholastic reasons seldom are engaged in campus activities, and from these acknowledged facts the reader is left to infer that there is little basis for the agitation against campus activities as they are conducted in our schools today. The editor is probably correct 'that “in the main an interest in most any phase of University ac tivity will be beneficial to the stu dent.” Very few would quarrel with him on this assertion if the activities were indulged in in a spirit of moderation. The real underlying objection is not to stu dent activities as such, but to the manner in which they are conduct ed. For example, the objection is not that the activities take the time of a large number of students, but rather that the burden of such work is thrown upon the shoulders of a small group of leaders, with the re sult that the time of these leaders is largely taken up in “activity work,” with the inevitable conse quence that the very men who should be getting the most possible intellectual development out of their education, get only a small part of that which they could get. To put the proposition in a slightly different way, in order to best guide the future destinies of a nation, especial attention should be paid to the intellectual life of its potential leaders. If those poten tial leaders are permitted to utilize only a relatively small part of their time in intellectual pursuits, as is true under our system of student activities as it now evists, it seems apparent that the system of educa tion under which they are being trained has most grave objections. The argument that the men en gaged in activities “maintain con sistent, healthy, scholastic records” carries little weight in mitigating the evils which arise out of the abuse of the system, because it must be plain to any observer that if the activity-leaders who now have only a modicum of time to de vote to their studies, had a fair proportion of that time which is devoted to student activities to give to purely intellectual develop ment, not only woul(j they achieve much greater intellectual depth than thov are now achieving, but their scholastic recAds would soar to a height far above that which is now reached. W. B. F. Campus Bulletin | ___■' Alpha Delta Sigma meeting next Thursday noon at Campa Shoppe. Important. Tennis Players—All tennis aspir ants intending to sign up for the squash tournament must do so by six o’clock tonight. All tennis players are requested to sign up. Physical Ability Test—The only physical ability test will be giv en Thursday morning at 11:00 o ’clock. All desiring to take it are requested to sign up imme diately. Swimming Pool — The swimming pool in the men’s gym will close on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons at five o 'clock to the student body ex cept freshman and varsity swim ming aspirants and water polo players. Sigma Delta Chi—IVill meet Tues day noon at the College Side Inn. Important business meeting. Theta Sigma Phi meeting today at 5:00 o’clock in Oregana office. Important discussion. Gra-Kos—Important meeting in the College Side Inn. 7:30. Zeta Kappa Psi—Luncheon Wed. noon at College Side Inn. Im portant. Mask and Buskin meeting today at noon. College Side Inn. Collegium Augustale—Regular meet ing at Y. AY. C. A., Bungalow Wed. evening at' 7:30. W. A. A. Council meeting Tuesday, 7:15. Library in the Woman’s building. Kwama meeting tonight at 7:15 in the lounge room of the Woman’s building. Important that all ac tive members attend. Romance Language exams—All ex aminations to make up incom pletes in Romance languages will have to be taken Friday, January 15, 4:00 to 6:00 p. m., in room 1, Oregon hall. R. P. Bowen. Temenids members—Remember the initiation of new members tonight at 7:30 p. m., at Craftsman's club. Bring your dues. To-Ko-Lo—There will be a meeting of To-Ko-Lo in the College Side Inn tonight at 7:15. This meet ing is very important, all active members should attend. Varsity men debaters—Utah and Southern California squads, James Johnson, Don Beelar, Roland Da vis, Hugh Biggs, meet with Mr. Coming Events Tuesday, January 12 Oregana subscription drive. Open meeting of Cosmopolitan club; address by Charles D. Hurry. Wednesday, January 13 4:00-6:00 —Woman’s League tea, Woman’s building. Thursday, January 14 11:00 — Assembly, Woman’s building. 8:15—Eecital, Mischa Levit zki. Music auditorium. All Week Exhibition of paintings from National Academy of Design, art museum, architecture build ing. Stage design exhibition, aus picies Theatre Arts Monthly, Guild hall. Gray, 8:30 p. m. Thursday even ing, 206 Sociology. Regular meet ing, Idaho-Washington squad, Wednesday 7:30 p. m. Oratory tryouts: All men competing, re port at Villard Hall tonight at 7:30 sharp. Amphibians—Old and new members tonight at 7:30. Be there to be gin work on the demons'tration. California club—Important meeting Thursday, 7:15 p. m., College Side Inn. All California students urged to attend. Graduate Club will have election of officers at their meeting at the College Side- Inn this noon. Fac ulty members are invited to be present. Cosmopolitan executive meeting will be held this noon at 12:45 in the Y. M. Hut. Cosmopolitan Club will hold an open meeting tonight -at 7:30. Dr. Charles D. Hurry is to speak. All interested invited to be present. Dial—There will be a meeting of club members in the Woman's building, Thursday evening at 7:30. of San Francisco and a cop who 'packed a punch; Wanda Wiley comedy, “Rolling Wheels;” Rex Theatres MeDONALD—Second day: The orchid of the screen, Corinne Grif- j 'fith, in Edna Ferber’s “Classified,”! a drama of the girl of today, her I ■work, her affairs of the heart, and ' her fears; Jack Mulhall supports the j ’star; Tuxedo comedy, “My Stars,”] ■a screen full of fun; Kinogram (news events; Frank D. C. Alex ander in musical accompaniment to "the picture on the organ. Coming— lion aid C.oknan in “The Dark An igel,” with the new screen “find,” "Velma Blanks; the current stage sensation, Henry Ford’s “Old Time Dance Bevival,” featuring Mr. and Mrs. Sid Woodhouse, old “Mellie” and his fiddle, and a company of 'ten dancers in a special setting. BEX—Last day: The famous col lege star, Maurice “Lefty” Flynn, in “High and Handsome,” a drama I I I HAIRCUTS ON THE CAMPUS Cusomers Must Be Pleased And We Do It! GIVE US A TRIAL UNIVERSITY BARBER SHOP (THE SANITARY SHOP) Between Campa Shoppe and Lemon “O” Pharmacy «news events; J. Clifton Emmel in ' melodious musical settings to the f picture on the organ. Coming— Irene Eich in “The Wife Who {Wasn’t Wanted,” with Huntly Gordon and Johnny Harron. ' HEILIG—Tuesday and Wednes day, Norma Shearer in “The Slave of Fashion;” Thursday, Association \Vaudeville. Friday — Wrestling Ralph Hand vs. Karasick, the Rus sian lion. I ADDRESSES WANTED ! Several new students who enter ed the University during the past week were not sure of their perm anent university addressed when they registered and have not yet turned them in at the registrar’s , office. These persons should do so at once in order to facilitate the 1 work in the university business of fice. Several important telegrams j and numerous letters have come to these persons and have not been . delivered because of faulty ad , dresses. HIKERS GET SPLENDID VIEW Hikers returning from Spencer’s butte Saturday authenticated the old saying about the silver lining to every cloud. The gray mist that hung over Eugene and the Willam ette valley during the week-end ap peared a billowing white lake from the summit. Many peaks of the Cascade and coast ranges were vis ible under a blue sky, in warm sun- - shine. The climbers insisted that the trip above the clouds was well worth while. ( _' i ■-j TEAM TO DEBATE HERE The University of Oregon will probably accept an invitation to meet the debating team of the Uni versity of Sidney,' Australia, which has been received here, it was an nounced today. ‘ , i The University of Sidney team, which represents the largest col lege in Australia, will arrive in San Francisco, April 6— The tentative date for the contest in Eugene is April 15. We Are Always Ready TO SUPPLY YOU WITH Lumber, Lathe. Shingles, and Slabwood PHONE 452 Booth-Kelly Lumber Company ONE NIGHT ONLY SATURDAY, JANUARY The Season’s Snappiest Show 16 th BOOK BY JOHN EMERSON AND ANITA LOOS MUSIC AND LYRICS BY ARTHUR FREED GIRLS — SONGS — DANCES With an Excellent Cast of Principals GEORGE CUNNINGHAM’S “SWEET SIXTEEN” DANCING GIRLS GORGEOUS COSTUMES AND SETTINGS A Sensationally Brilliant and Tuneful Musical Comedy with an Array of Feminine Beauty beyond compare—the biggest Musical Hit of the Kolb and Dill career. MAIL ORDERS NOW PRICES—Night $2.00, $1.50, $1.00, 75c—Plus War Tax Big FREE Dance Wednesday!! This Wednesday and Every Wednesday This Term There Will Be No Cover Charge Come and Have a Good Time Dancing With the OREGON AGGRAVATORS 8 to 10 p. m. Ye Campa Shoppe Music Every Week Day 12 to 1 and 6 to 7