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VOLUME XXVII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1926 NUMBER 98 Maddox Tells Of League Troubles Pre-War Bogey Persists; Members Wrangle Over German Entrance By WILLIAM P. MADDOX Like the sudden sweep of a tor nado, a diplomatic controversy has risen within the League of Nations the past week wrhich bids fair to shake its foundations if not threat 4 en its very existence. Called to Geneva to attend a special meeting of the Assembly and a regular ses ion of the Council for what at first was considered merely the routine of admitting Germany to the League and to a permanent seat on the Council, a veritable host of prime ministers, foreign secretaries and ambassadors have assembled on the shores of Lake Leman to find that they have encountered the most vex ing and perplexing diplomatic stum bling block that the League has yet faced. * * * Instead of a unanimous approval of the spirit of the Locarno pact, which required that Germany be admitted to her rightful place on the Council without further ado, there has developed that old bogey of pre-war diplomacy, the demand for compensation, this on the part of Poland, Spain, Brazil and China who are each clamoring for a perm anent seat to be granted simultane ously with that of Germany. * * * It had been sincerely hoped that this week would mark the termina 0* tion of the Great War, with Ger many once more admitted as an equal among the powers of Europe, and the League no longer subject to the charge that it was an insti tution of the Allies for their com mon defense against a possible war of Teutonic revenge. And yet it appears that the week might in stead accentuate the differences be tween the two diplomatic camps of Europe and destroy all of the care ful and delicate reconciliation of the past year and half, unless some new spirit of compromise is forth coming. Germany is adamant for her rec ognition as a great power on the Council in accordance with the promise given her by the Allietei ministers several months ago. Po land is being pushed forward by op inion at home, in France, Italy and the countries of the Little Entente to demand a permanent seat as a counterbalance to Germany. Spain is favored as an alternative, and Spain herself is raising the question on her own behalf and because she aisipires to represent the Latin-Am erican states. Brazil justifies her claim on the grounds that the Am erican contintent is not represent ed permanently on the Council at all. The delegates from China have called attention to the fact before that a new status is demanded for her among the nations by the united appeal of 350,000,000 Chinese (al thought probably 330,000,000 have never even heard of the- League of Nations). At present the Council consists of Great 'Britain, France, Italy and Japan as permanent members; and six states—Belgium, Czecho-Slova Lia, Sweden, Spain, Brazil and Uru guay as members elected annually by the Assembly. To counteract the claims of Spain and Brazil, it may be pointed out that each has been elected annually since the League started and the practice would likely continue unless the three-year rule is adopted. Unfor tunately, each of these countries have pressed their demands so strongly and have so aroused opin ion at home in their support that it is difficult for them to retire with dignity. The Council may in crease its permanent membership, after a majority vote in the Assem bly, by a unanimous decision of its own body, so that either Spain or Brazil could successfully use f their opposition to Germany’s ad mission as a wedge to secure their own. On the other hand, Sweden at least, among the other members, has declared its intention of reject ing the proposal for the admission of any other permanent member be sides Germany. Such is the diplo matic knot that the statesmen at Geneva are endeavoring to unravel. The American opponents of the (Continued on Page 5) Clark Says Immigration Law Failure Mediterranean Source of Civilization, Asserts Noted Scholar Nordic Superiority Declared Invention Historian Praises Method Used by Canada rJ\HE Immigration Law, passed at a time when America was af fected by the Nordic propaganda and the fear of radicalism, has not worked out satisfactorily, accord ing to Dr. Charles Upson Clark, his torian, scholar and authority on economic questions, who spoke yes terday in the auditorium of the Woman’s building. “I object to the basis which was made fundamental in the Immigra tion Law,” Dr. Clark said. “I will not admit that there ever was a Nordic race. The Nordic theory is the old Germanic theory that the Germans were God’s chosen peoples, used by the Germans until the war, and after the war taken up by Am erican writers changing Germanic to Nordic. Southern Nations Important “This is the answer to the myth of Nordics. If you look upon any in ventions or cultural progress you will find that it came from the Mediterranean nationalities, the Jerrts, the Roumanians, the Italians. We owe to the Mediterranean peo ples, every detail of civilization we have,” Dr. Clark declared, “Nordics press down on them only to seize that which they have attained, “The bootlegging of immigrants over the Canadian border is just as big an American problem as the bootlegging of liquor,” Dr. Clark said. “Over a million immigrants now in the country should not be here according to the immigrant law. The time will probably come when everybody will be required to have naturalization papers as they do in European countries.” Canadian system ^raised The Canadian immigration system is more elastic than that of the United States. Immigration offi cers are encouraged to use discre tion. Although the law forbids all immigrants except farmers, house hold servants and mechanical lab orers to enter Canada, others may get in if they are recommended, Dr. Clark isaid. Hunt Club Plans Paper Chase to Be Held April 3 Oregon Students to Meet With Other Colleges At Portland Members of the Portland Hunt club are planning a paper chase for college teams, Saturday, April 3rd in Portland. Teams from the Uni versity of Washington and from O. A. C., have already entered their names for the chase, and at a spe cial meeting of the athletic commit tee yesterday afternoon, six Oregon students were given permission to represent unofficially the Univer sity of Oregon. Arrangements for the event are being made by Colonel Hart W. Palmer, master of fox hounds, and Fred A. Martin, member of the Jun ior Hunt club. “This will be the first intercolle giate meet of its kind held in the northwest,” says oolonel Palmer. “It is. the desire of the club to make this a semi-annual event, one chase being in the fall and another in the spring. The first event, to be in April, will be part of a regular spring riding schedule prepared by the hunt club.” In a letter written to Jack Her ing by Fred Martin, member of j the Portland Hunt club, the names of Kate Martin, Roberta Douty, Nonie Vial, Margaret Spencer, Hei nie Hall, Bob McKnight and Jack Hering were suggested as possible members of the Oregon team, each school sending a team of six stu dents, three men and three women. The club will award a silver tro phy for the winning team and rib bons for first, second and third places. Oregon’s Proposed Basketball Pavilion li S i ! I U I T I: ' y f - XI » U S • *, U t * J 1 i t - f M t I 1 W » - I i. It * * t H Z. t, ‘ > y. t. • t. <•■ >._> O *. »: - : ; j : . | Architect’s drawing of the University’s $175,000 basketball pavilion. Construction will start about May 1, and the building will be ready for use late in October, according to plans of the A. S. U. O. building committee. Oregon Varsity Nine Prospects Looking Bright Athletes Practicing Each Night to Prepare for Coming Season With the cancellation of the Port, land Beaver game which was sched uled for the local sandlot on April 1, the graduate manager's office has been busy scheduling several pre-season games. On Thursday, April 22, the Oregon varsity nine will cross bats with the Pacific University Badgers on the local di amond. There is some possibility that a game will be scheduled with the St. Mary’s nine who are eon tomplating a trip north. Last night’s practice was held without the services of Coach Billy Beinhart who is in galem witnessing the state high school basketball series. “Doc” Stegeman was in charge, however, and ran the ath letes through the same limbering up pace. Practice will be held each afternoon all through spring vaca tion. Prospects at Oregon are ris ing with the turnout of several more lettermen. Last year’s Northwest champions, the Oregon Aggies, prospects are not as bright as good be. Coach Coleman lost five lettermejn last spring through graduation. He faces the season without one pitcher from last year’s winning combination. Aggie pitchers and catchers have finished their third week of indoor practice and are slowly rounding into form. March 29 is Opening Date of Spring Term The first day of spring term will be Monday, March 29, and every student must be on the campus that day to file an information card. The penalty for non-appear ance is $1.00 for the first day, and an additional dollar for each day the student is late for the first week. Courses may be added the first day without charge but after that one dollar will be charged for each course added. No course can be added after April 10. Manshridge Speaker At Portland Luncheon Dr. Albert Mansbridge, president of the World’s Association of Adult Education, will speak at the lunch eon meeting of the Portland Center faculty, which will be held today at the University Club at one o’clock, according to Dean Alfred Powers. Through the courtesy of Beed Col lege, Dr. Mansbridge was made available for this meeting, at which 25 faculty members will be present. Social Work Students Will Have Initiation The regular initiation exercises for the students in the Portland School of Social Work will be held Saturday, March 13, says Dean Al fred Powers, who was on the cam pus yesterday. Dr. P. A. Parsons, director of the school, will have charge of the ceremony, in which a number of Portland social agencies will par ticipate. Orchestra, Glee Clubs To Give Annual Tour In Spring Vacation Beginning with the first Tuesday in spring vacation, the orchestra, with the men’s and women’s glee clubs, will offer the first program of their annual tour in Salem. The next night the combination will give a program in Portland, after which the women’s glee club will disband and the men’s organiza tion will leave for a tour of East ern Oregon. The orchestra will proceed to Astoria and Longview where concerts are contracted, re turning to Eugene Saturday. “With the orchestra in the ex ceptionally excellent condition it ib at present, indications point to a pleasant as well as profitable trip,” said Emerson Haggerty, manager. “Professor Underwood has succeed ed in converting the new material and polishing the old into a high ly organized group which, as far as coordination is concerned, can compete with any of its collegiate contemporaries. ” Final plans for the spring tour will be made at a meeting of all members of the orchestra today. The manager urges all to be present in 105 Commerce at 5:30. State Oratorical Meet to be Held At O.A.C. Tonight “Happiness and the Steel Age,” will be the theme of Avery Thomp son, freshman in pre-law, as Ore gon ’s representative in the annual state Old Line oratory contest at O. A. C., at 8 p. m. tonight. Representatives from eight Ore gon schools will meet in the actual competition tonight. In his oration, Thompson traces the ever present urge in man to build, and during the course of the speech, brings out the dominant theme that the labors of our mod ern industrial system, confined as they are to specialized, machine like work, are not allowed to have this ever present urge satisfied, with the result that many of the toiling masses never obtain happi ness. So, he contends, the radical movements wrhich have for their purpose ,the betterment of those who are unhappy in our industrial civilization should be supported for what they are worth, with the ulti mate purpose on the part of all be ing to provide a chance to build great things, as buildings, homes, or lives. “How this may be done,” he con cludes, “is for the future to solve.” But as citizens of the world, it is imperative that we consider every plan, every suggestion, so that the vision of the future in Pogany’s awe-inspiring picture of the “Titan City,” the immeisse structure of beauty towering above the Wool worth building, may be supported without shaming mankind.” Other sehools to be represented in tonight’s contest are: Albany College, Oregon Agricultural Col lege; Linfield College, Pacific Uni versity, Willamette University, Pa cific College, and Oregon Normal School. Thespians Will Hold Tea Dansant on A pril 2 The Thespians are to Hold a tea dansant on April 17, at the Anchor age, in place of the supper dance which had been planned for April 2, according to plans made Wednes day evening at a meeting in John son Hall. New Basketball Pavilion Plans Nearly Finished Approval of Regents Final Step; Construction to Start May 1 Final plans for Oregon’s pro posed $175,000 basketball pavilion are being drawn up, and will be ready for the approval of the board of regents during spring vacation, Ted Larsen, chairman of the A. S. U. O. building commitee, announced yesterday. Construction will be started not later than May 1, and the building is to be completed by the end of October, fully a month before bas ketball practice will commence, ac cording to calculations of the com mittees. Present plans call for a beating capacity of 7,338, with additional standing room for 3000 persons. When the demand warrants, it will be possible to install a balcony. This would bring the seating capa city to 9,040, and the total capa city to 12,000. The building will be of concrete construction. A spring floor, sim ilar to that in the Stanford univer sity gymnasium, will be installed, and a system of indirect lighting will be used. The dimensions will be 104 feet by 158 feet, which is sufficient space for three regulation basketball floors. There will be 12 exits, and two main entrances to the building. Adequate showers and dressing rooms, besidds cloak rooms and the necessary offices, will also be provided, according to Lar den. Seats will be constructed in the shape of an ar«na, and very few will be behind the backboard, ac cording to plans of construction. The building will be located on University street, between 15th and 18th streets. Over Sixty Men Out for Frosh Track Team Under Coach Leslie With over 60 men turning out three times a week for frosh track under Spike Leslie, assistant to Bill Hayward and new Freshmen track coach, chances for a winning team are good. Leslie is not a new comer at track coaching. He coach ed the McLoughlin High School at Milton-Freewater for one year and has coached the Eugene High School for the past two years. Leslie turn ed out winning football and basket ball team'- here this past fall and winter and if he lives up to his rep utation the Babes will have a good team. Although workoutta have been made voluntary due to exam inations they will start again the beginning of the Spring term. Many more are expected out in the Spring term and with a few additional weight men the Freshmen will have a well balanced squad. The most promising Frosh aspirants are: 100 and 220 yards Kircher, Ches hire, Ord, Hunter and Scott. 440 yards—Standard, Jones and Blum. 880 yards — Cruikshank, Alger and Colt. Mile—Jensen and Dunwoodie. Pole Vault—Green, Scallon, Enke and Kircher. Shot—Sanderson. Discus—DeMott and Sanderson. Javelin—DeMott. Hurdles—McGee, Foster, Craw ford, Jackson and Gilbert. High jump—Crawford. Broad jump—Jarboe, Ord and McGee. LAST EMERALD OF TERM rpODAY’S six-page edition of the Emerald will bo the last issue this term, owing to tho nearness of examinations and the fact that the etudentis who put out the paper need more time for school work. New. Debate System Wins Campus Favor Rees, Edmunds on Utah Affirmative; Davis, Biggs, Negative A dry debate made popular. That was the result of the first use of Oregon’is new style of intercolleg iate debate when the varsity met the University of Utah team in sin gle debate last night on the ques tion; “Resolved: That war, except in cases of invasion or internal re bellion, should be declared by a direct vote of the people.” The new style of oratory, resem bles the Oxford style, by its infor mal, humurous and effective deliv ery. Utah, represented by G. Stan ford Rees, and John K. Edmunds, upheld the affirmative against Ro land Davis and Hugh Biggs, Ore gon negative. The Utah case was opened by Rees, who presented the main issue: “Such a change from the present system, we think, is more in keep ing with American ideals of self government; and secondly, it will tend to promote world peace,” he said. “The American people, beaming as they must, the burden of war, should have a right to express their will upon it,” Rees declared. “They would have time to think it over, if this plan were adopted, time for deliberation, before they Btruck.” In presenting the negative con structive case, Davis of Oregon con tended that it would “put too great and too complicated a burden up on the people for them to get all the facts, and that having attained even a part of the true facts, they could not interpret .them fairly.” Not only would it be impracticable, he said, but it would be positively dangerous. Cross questioning by both sides, Biggs for Oregon and Edmunds for Utah, followed, each side retaliat ing in turn by putting pointed ques tions. The second negative and affirm ative speakers made consummation speeches, fifteen minutes in length, picking up the threads of argument and forming the case into an ef fective whole. Enthusiastic ap plause showed that the new method had met the approval of the audi ence. This completed a series of four debates for the Utah team which will leave today for home, arriving there in time to take the final ex aminations next week. Roland Davis to Head University Y. M. This Year Light Vote Cast at Annual Election; F. Rieder to Be Secretary Annual election of officers of the University Y. M. C. A., was held yesterday. Roland Davih was elect ed president; Francis Rieder, secre tary, and William Kidwell, treas urer. A light vote was cast. Tne men elected will attend the Y. M. Officers training conferences March 27 and 28 along with the newly-elected student officers from all the college and university asso ciations in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Other members of the “Y” cabinet will be appointed Boon. The retiring officers of the cam pus association are: Bart Kendall, president; Bryon Serfling, vice president; Wilford Long, treasurer; arid Kirk Bolliger, secretary. The vice-president of the “Y” is the man who is elected president of the Inter-church eommitteo. The new president will attend the student religious conference at Sea beck, Wash., in June, the cabinet having voted $25 to help defray his expense*; for the trip. This is to become a custom of the local asso ciation. Girls to Give Gym Exhibit at 8 Tonight Demonstration to Include Fencing, Dancing, Work In Gymnastics F. Alden Comments on Work of Department Underclassmen, Majors to Participate J^JEMBEBS of the women’s gym nasium classes and physical ed ucation majors, 600 strong, will de monstrate the routine work of the classes in interpretative and folk dancing, fencing and individual and regular gymnastic work this even ing at eight o'clock in the Womank building. ■‘The physical education depart ment makes an effort to adapt the work to the needs and tastes of the students,” said Miss Florence D. Alden in discussing the work of the classes. “On the basis of the physical examinations given to all freshman and sophomore women at the beginning of the fall term they are placed in ‘individual’ or reg ular work.” Individual Work Assigned 1 Each girl assigned to individual gymnastics works in a small group or on a special program according to her needs. Those assigned to regular work are divided into sec tions according to physical ability as determined by a classification test. During her two years of required physical education work each girl receives training in posture, self testing activities, interpretative dancing, folk dancing, and in a wide choice of sports. Underclassmen Participate The program will begin with a grand entrance march led by the physical education majors. Under the direction of Miss Emma Water man, freshman and sophomore ma jors will demonstrate a regular gymnastic class. Dancing comprises nearly one-half of the program. The sophomore women aro to dance a Swedish jig. Miss Lillian Stupp’s second year in terpretative dancing classes will go through the fundamentals of this (lancing school, and will present some original dances. Under th0 di rection of Miss M. J. Shelly and Miss M. Stephens a selected group of sophomore women will give an adaptation of a primitive dance rythm, “Yankee Doodle,” and four senior women will present the “Georgia Quartet.” Freshman ma jors will dance the English sword dance. Miiss Harriet Thomson’s classes in individual gymnastics will dem onstrate the group, mat and foot work and corrective games of the clinic department. Fencing to be Shown Clinton Davisson has selected 40 girls from his fencing classes to present a group of fencing matches at the exhibition. The senior ma jors are to give an inrlian club drill. The junior majors will demonstrate tho work done on the apparatus of the gymnasium. Tho freshman and junior basket ball teams, which led in the recent interclass basketball contest, will play one game. All freshman wom en are to play games of low organ ization for recreation and relaxa tion such as “Throw and Stop” and “Zig Zig.” The program as it will be given is as follows: Entrance March . All Classes Led by Physical Education Ma jors. A Lesson in Gymnastics .. Freshman and Sophomore Majors Vigorous developmental work for the student herself and forming the Lackjgrou'nd for her latter teaching of gymnastics. Folk Dancing . .Two Sophomore Sections One of the elective activities open to Sophomores. \ jig .Swedish Individual Gymnastic* .. . A Combined Group Group work, mat work, foot work, corrective games. Interpretative Dancing . .Two Sophomore Sections Elective for Sophomores. Fundamentals. Original Dances. Given the music and scarfs each group creates an original dance. Fencing .A Combined Group Continued on Page 5