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©rcson Sailg 3*meralii University of Oregon, Eugene ■DWABD M. MILLER, Editor FRANK H. LOGOAN, Manager EDITORIAL BOARD Sol Abramson_Managing Editor Harold Kirk _ Associate Editor KUldred Jean Carr _ Associate Mng. Ed. weoater jonea -„ * Philippa Sherman . Feature Editor News and Editor Phones, 665 BAY Esther Davie, Geneva Drum, Frances Bourhill. Claudia Hetcher, EDITORS: alary Conn. jnOHT EDITORS: Ray Nash, supervisor: Earl Raess, Ronald Sellers, Bill Haggerty. SPORTS STAFF: Harold Mangum. FBATURE WRITERS: J. Bernard Shaw, James DeFauli, Gregg Millett, Paul Luy. UPPER NEWS STAFF: Mary Benton, Edward Smith, Ruth Gregg, Jane Dudley. SEWS STAFF: Mary K. Baker, Jack Hempstead, Barbara Blythe, Arthur Priaulx, Minnie Fisher, Lylah McMurphey, William Schulze, Pauline Stewart, Grace Fisher, Beatrice Harden, Frances Cherry. Margaret Hensley. James Leake, Ruby Lister, Genevieve Morgan, Marion Shen, Dick Jones, Miriam Shepard, flossue Radabaugh, Margaret Long, Allen Canfield, Edith Dodge, Wilma Lester, Eva Nealon, Robert Maxwell, Lela Forrest. _ BUSINESS STAFF Wsju Leland —-Associate fj(i glocum_Advertising Calvin Horn _ Advertising James Manning _ Circulation Manager Frances McKenna .. ami. wrcuiauuu Manager Robert Dutton . Circulation Assistant ManagerMilton George .. Assistant Advertising Mgr. ManagerMarian Phy . Foreign Advertising Mgr. Advertising Assistant*: Sam Kinley, Paul Sletton, Emerson Haggerty, cod Varnon McGee, Ed Robs, Ruth MsDowell, Dick Hoyt, Ray Hibbard, Joe Neal Herbert Lewis. Specialty Advertising: Margaret Long, Mabel Frangen. Office Administration: Frances Hare, Harold Whitlock, Geneva Drum, Alton KardelL Day Editor this Issue—MARY CONN aigM Editor tills Issue—ROSCOE ANDERSON C. CURTIS _ The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of Ae University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday during Am coltoffQ year. Member of Pacific Intercollegiate Press Association. .Entered in Ifca poetoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second-class matter. Subscription rates, $2.26 P4C year. Advertising rates upon application. Residence phone, editor, 1320; manfifft- 721. Business office phone, 1896. Concerning the Student Loan Fund Many know in a vague way that a student loan fund exists, but few, even though they have had occasion to fall back upon it for financial succor, realize the part it is playing in the education of hundreds of students. Those whtoi Jiave been assisted merely know that by applying to Dean Walker and going through the simple routine, they have received a crisp and very negotiable check, enabling them to pay their fees, finish the term, or keep the landlady from withholding the daily bread. This fund does not often break into the news, as its activi ties have mot been of the kind that are given Scare heads or column stories. A number of Oregon citizens and organiza tions have given quite sizeable sums toward it from time to time, quietly and without thought of gain or recognition, and the money has been administered, and hundreds of loans made in the same way, modestly and without ostentation. However, the growing enrollment has increased the de mands upon this fund, and it is now very low. There have been benefit teas, jitney dances, rummage sales and lost article sales, all for very worthy causes, and it would seem that some such means might he found to add something each year by student effort to the foundation already established, since the students themselves are the direct beneficiaries, and have as yet dtone little other than profit by its existence. Such an effort would also show those who have already contributed that the stu dents themselves realize the importance of the fund, and are seriously behind it. Suggestions from the floor are in order. The Charge of the Amazons; You Chase Me and Maybe I’ll Chase You Sweet essence of feminine tactics! Glorious occasion! Senior Leap Week! All right, ladies, Faint Heart never won a fair man. She who hesitates is without a date. Have you a little lie fairy on the books for this week? Senior Leap Week is a splendid occasion when all feminine inhibitions are east aside. Utmost freedom of the chase is accorded them, and my, my, what a tine time they have. In stead of the style being modest and retiring, the girl with the bold assuming air is the grand dame. Even so a few of the ladies are hesitant. Many are the men that are complaining of lack of dates. Truly, oh senior women, it is most embarrasing for a senior man to ask for a date on this week. Therefore, plague him not. Tonight the big fracas starts with open house. She who fails to "fill her date hook on this night of nights is a first class piker. Well? ^Chameleon .... f. Altruism is not the only trait of high development that has perme ated the canine family. Bogs have reached the age of chivalry. 1 hat 3 why they’re going to accept the invitation to the Bow Wow Brawl, to be held Thursday night at the On Omega andTri Belt kennels. Tt’s whispered in aristocratic cir cles of dogdom that the invitations sent to various mascots of the fra ternity houses might be taken as n gross insult—that the invitations were only sent to emphasize the shortcomings of the senior class and that milady just wants to dem onstrate her contempt. But Kef, the groomed blue-blood of Sigma Nu, yesterday conferred with Ted, canine mascot and intel lectual influence of the C'lii l’si lodge, and decided otherwise. Both Eef and Ted sincerely feci that the human females of Chi Omega and Delta Delta Delta crave their com pany. “And we’re here to bark to the world,” said Ted yesterday, •“‘that we’ll toddle up there, and we doa’t mean p.ozhaps.” When interviewed yesterday Eef hadn’t much to say. “Perhaps the girls are using us us the butt of a wag, but I’m here to bet my tail,” «aid Eef, loosening up a bit, “that we’ll see the thing through. Bv the sanctity of bone orchards, no woutan has ever yet made me run for the basement by satire.” Caesar, descendant of the Imper ial Purple and guiding light of the| Kappa 8ig house, treated the thing more profoundly. “As nature has given man tho superiority above woman by endowing with greater strngeth both of mind and body, it is his part to alleviate that super iority, as much as possible, by the generosity of lvis behavior, and by studied deference and for all her inclinations and opinions. For that reason I am inclined to opinionate that wo should accept the invita tion,” Caeser concluded. “Noble,” the handsomest male of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, has drawn up a program' of entertainment for the event. Included in this program will bo a song entitled “I Want a Little Stroking from Someone,” by Demon and Tige, of the Fee Geo house. Eef and Ted will offer a little skit en titled “If Your Bones are Dug Up l'lant Them in •’Cement.” Ex'Graduate Student Receives Recogn ition Alary Davis, ex-graduate student and instructor in household arts at tho University of Oregon, rqjbdntly received an attractive assignment with the bureau of household arts under the department of agriculture at Washington. D. C. Tier particu lar task was the investigation of window treatment. Now comes tangible evidence that she has been making progress. The bureau re cently issued a bulletin on curtains for “Better Homes Week” which bears the mark of the Oregon girl’s handiwork. Rodney Keating, ex-student from Portland, is a visitor at the Phi Gamma Delta house. Tfie SEVEN SEERS SONG OF THE BOB-TAILED COW “I MISS MY SWISH.” SHUTS PINCHPENNY’S DIARY Early up and to the green gar den and long past noontide manicur ing the thrifty hed of dandelions. Anon come Bob Hart the Sigma Nu’er and he tell me how to make a fine drinke from the blossoms which gives right pleasant sensation to the inner chambers. To the cam pus and there see Louise Mason in her chic green riding habit, brighte red hat with hawk feather, and Djer kiss rouge apleanty. Mightie bump sy, too, methinks. Then to library and fell to the reading of H. L. M.’s bilious green printe which has been the cause of so much hobble gobble of late and Lord! such drivel never did I read before in Breezy Tales. The cover was not the only bilious thing when I did finish. How about the following slogan for the fellow who has Halitosis. “Mask the Man Who Owns One.” THE PEST-I-MIST A tricky girl, I’ll tell the world Is little Lizzie Larters; She wears a smile upon her lips, And mousetraps on her garters. “OVER IN CHINA I SAW A WOMAN HANGING IN A TREE.” “SHANGHAI?” “YEAH, ABOUT SIX FEET.” * * * A situation Ring Lardner would revel in—Paul Sletton receiving a pair of military hair brushes as a gift. * “For crying out loud,” said * * the nurse maid as she chucked * * another tablespoonful of Cas- * * toria down baby’s neck. * ******** * * * * Packed away in a nice cool vault Is silly Willy McDun One hundred to ten Was the score that they sent And Willy piped up with “Who Won.” Bob Hunt and Barney McPhillips of the song contest judging staff have at last let out for publication tho bases upon which they judge the sororities. Here they are: VOLUME: 25 points. When it comes to volume the Alpha Phi’s have everybody else backed off the map. VELOCITY: 25 points. For speed the girls in the big white house on twelfth street are far in the lead. VICTUALS: 25 points. The boys claim that the Delta Gammas have the best apple sauce. VIVACITY: 25 points. The Alpha Xi Deltas excel in pep. This is no doubt due to the atmosphere cre ated by their hot orchestra which has been the talk of the Spring- j field mill workers for days. THE KITTY’S EN TEALS" I had to sell my dog He was such a cute little fello, But I just eouldn't have him ’round Cause ho et all the strings off my cello. SOOT: “I calls you. What vou i got?” COAL: “A Koval Flush. What yon got?” SOOT: “A pair o’ nines and a razor.” COAL: “Beats all what obnoxi ous luck you ’se havin’.” SEVEN SEEKS April 22 is Date Set for Women’s Varsity Debate; Negatives Meet Reed At; Oregon; Affirmative to ! Go to Seattle _ i ; With all of the varsity men’s de- i bates completed, there now remains only one debate on the Oregon for ensic schedule, the varsity woman’s triangle with Reed and Washington on April 22. The affirmative teams of these northwest institutions tra vel, the Oregon negative^ entertain ing Reed college affirmative in Eu gene while the Oregon affirmative will go to Seattle where it will meet the University of Washington affirmative. At Portland, the de bate is between Reed negative and Washington affirmative. Under coach Robert D. Horn, the Oregon feminine orators have been carefully preparing their cases up on the question which is: “Resolv ed; That the trend of modern youth is indicative of higher morals and life.” The Oregon team, all veteran de baters, is as follows: affirmative, Margaret Blackaby, Ceeile McKer cher; negative, Frances 'Cherry, Helen Helliwell. Miss Mildred Whitcomb, women’s debate manager, had previously ar ranged a dual contest with Califor nia, and a dual with Washington, After some difficulty due to objec tion to the affair by the president of University of California, these events fell through. It has taken a good deal of negotiating to ar range the president event, but ac cording to Oregon’s representatives, they are going to make it worth waiting for from a public speaking standpoint. Due to the fact that the question is of less serious nature than the usual debate subject, no fonmial de cision by judges will be made. ' Liliom (Continued from page one) most complete, the making of which is under the direction of Constance Roth, costume manager. The Guild theatre ticket office is now open, and tickets can be pur chased any day between the hours of 1 p. m. ,and 5 p. am, according to Dick Hoyt, business manager. A fraternity and sorority ticket sale committee of the following members has been appointed by Harold Whitlock, chairman. Men: Alpha Beta Chi, Phillip Semler; Alpha Tau Omega, Ronald McCreight; Beta Theta Pi, Jack Jones; Chi Psi, Hollis Alger; Delta Tau Delta; Joe Roberts; Friendly hall, Bartram Stiffler; Kappa Del ta Phi, William Mathison; Kappa Sigma, William Powell; Lambda Psi, Ronald Robnett; Phi Delta Theta, George Weber; Phi Gam/nua Delta, Francis German; Phi Kappa Psi, Forest Wright; Psi Kappa, John Tobin; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Ralph Fisher; Sigma Chi, Richard Jones; Sigma Nu, David Bauman; Sigma Pi Tau, Glenn Potts; Theta Chi, Gerald Lawler. Women: Alpha Chi Omega, Alice Southwick; Alpha Delta Pi, Rosalie Parker; Alpha Gamma Delta, Leah Lumpee; Alpha Omicron Pi, Marian Barnes; Alpha Phi, Dorothy Mun sell; Alpha Xi Delta, Kathryn Frei tag; Chi Omega, Helene Oates; Del ta Delta Delta, Margaret Nugent; Delt Zeta, Margaret Parker; Del ta Gamma, Audrey Jensen; Kappa Alpha Theta, Marjorie Isherwood; Gamma Phi Beta, Mary L. Dutton; Hendricks hall, Dorthea Drake; Kap pa Kappa Gamma, Alice Latture; Kappa Omicron, Margaret Kressfmian; Mary Spiller hall, Aline Buster; Pi Beta Phi, Ruth Field; Susan Camp bell hall, Carlotta Nelson; Tau Nu, Sonia Wilier; Thacher cottage,! Vena Gnskill; Sigma Beta Phi, Thelma Eiler. ,CAMPU/ Bulletin Y. M. C. A. cabinet will meet at 7 o’clock Wednesday evening in the “Y” hut. Oregana Copy—All copy for the 1026 Oregana must be turned in by Thursday night of this week. Section editors take notice. The Education Club will meet Thursday night at 7:30 in the Ed ucation building. Prof. F. L. Stet son will give a report on the In land Empire Education Associa tion which met in Spokane last week. Cosmopolitan Club meeting Thurs day, April 15, at 7:30 p. m. It is imperative that all be present as there are important matters to be taken care of. Roy Sawyer, ’25, who is princi pal of Grande Konde high school, visited on the campus over the week-end. he has been rehired for next year. Library (Continued from page one) would be large enough to house all the books in one building. “By the end of this year all the vacant space will be filled in the stack rooms, ” Dean Sheldon con tinued. “We will then have to start putting the books in the hall or some other place where they do not belong. We will be right up against the problem of more stack room to say nothing of the inade quate seating capacity. There is now on the campue no appropriate meeting place for seminars and othere groups which bring books in to their discussions. If we got a new library, such a room would be provided. The present library could be used for a general class room and the pressure would be relieved there.” The fact that the University of Oregon stands among all the univer sities of the United States in per capita reading, Mrs. Clara L. Fitch, secretary of the administrative of fices, held up as a strong point in favor of a new library. “The tre mendous circulation of the library compared to the size of the student body shows that the students are eager to read,” said Mr. Fitch, “and since they are so eager to read, they should be provided with adequate library facilities.” » • • When Mrs. Fitch came to the University in 1920, there were only 1700 students enrolled and there are now 3000. Added to the in creased number of students, there is the constantly increasing number of books which are purchased from the funds paid in fees. Mrs. Fitch emphasized the fact that, as this number increases, so does the con gestion at the library. The books have to be held and given out at the library. There is not suffici ent space there for the number which the students have a right to demand. Wilson (Continued from page one) While in Eugene, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson will be entertained at “Hor izons,” the home of H. W. Davis, director of the United Christian Work on the campus. The speaker and his wife will be guests of honor at a luncheon Thursday noon at Hendricks hall. Mr. Wilson will also speak at a luncheon to be given Friday noon in the “Y” hut, which will be open to a limited number of students and faculty members who care to attend. Tickets for the luncheon Friday noon will cost 35 cents, and will be placed on sale at all of the' houses and the Co-Op Wednesday and Thursday. Only a limited number will be sold, and none will be ob tainable after Thursday night. Paul ine Stewart is in general charge of the luncheon, and will be assisted by the following: Lenore Durkee, decorations; Nellie Johns, serving; Julia Wilson, ticket sale; and Do rothy Taylor, food. Enthusiastic testimonials of Mr. Wilson's worth as a lecturer have been received from colleges all over the United States. “The accident that brought Mr. J. Stitt Wilson, of Berkeley, California, to the calm pus of the College of William and Mary was truly a fortunate one for the institution,” says the Flat-Hat, college daily of William and Mary College, Williamsburg, (Virginia. “Mr. Wilyon has given us a most instructive series of lectures in a style not usual among the speakers in this type of work. He attracted more attention on the campus, had larger and more appreciative audi ences, and left a more lasting im pression on the students than any man who has appeared at the col lege for some time. His success was due largely to the freshness of his material and the attractive personality of the speaker.” Doctors Will Speak At Sigma Xi Meeting Two papers by members of the medical faculty will be read at the public meeting in charge of Sigma Xi, to be held in 105 Deady, Friday night. Dr. H. J. Sears will read an article on “Some Aspects of Bac teria as Chemical Reagents,” and Dr. II. B. Myers will talk on “Stu dies on Skin Infection by Yeast.” Election of new members will be l made at a meeting of Sigma Xi just beforehand, graduate students and seniors being considered. Dr. Yocotai, president of the club, and associate professor of zoology and chairman of the department: Dr. H. J. Sears; Roger Williams, associate of chemistry; W. E. Milne, profes sor of mathematics; and E. H. Mc Alister, head of the department of mechanics and astronomy, have been appointed the board of elec tion. Anna DeWitt to Speak To Women’s League Convention in South Kathryn Ulrich, newly elected president of the Women’s League; Anna DeWitt, retiring president, and Virginia Judy Esterly, dean, of women, left Eugene Sunday on the Shasta limited for Los Angeles, Cal ifornia, where they will attend a convention of the Western Intercol legiate Associated women students in joint session with the deans of women April 14, to 17. The meet ings will be held at the University of California, southern branch. Oregon was one of the four uni versities asked to lead a discussion, the others being Colorado, Nevada, and California. Anna DeWitt, who is to lead Oregon’s part of the dis cussion, has prepared a paper on her topic, “Finance in the Associa tions of Women Students,” which she will read before leading the dis cussion. At the close of the conference the Oregon delegates, with Dean Es terly, will visit the other colleges around Los Angeles, and then will visit Stanford, Mills college, and the University of California on the return trip. They will return about April 23. Queries (Continued from page one) ness to see the results of the cam pus forum. Preliminary questions seek |the student’s class, sex, major, depart ment, time spent in student activi ties, approximate grade average, and fraternity members—yes or no. Some of the specific questions asked are: “Do you believe the grade sheet (scandal sheet) is- an incentive to better scholarship?” “Should houses with low grades be penalized (probation)?” “Are you in the habit of having individual conferences with profes sors?” | “Do you favor preference to ath letes in distribution of campus jobs?” • “If you could re-enact your Uni versity career would you spend on student activities less time, the same time, or more time? “Do you think that military train ing for underclassmen should be compulsory, optional, or abolished?” “You are now paying $5.00 a term for the construction of a basket ball pavilion and student union. Should the fee be used (as intended) for a student union, abolished, for a library, or other buildings?” The results of the questionnaires will be tabulated as soon as possi ble, and made public. ■Theaters ^ The MeDONALD: first day, an epic of the sea and the fearless Yankee sailors that roved it, John Barrymore in “The Sea Beast,” with Dolores Costello, a picturiza tion of Herman Melville ’s epic of sailor life, “Moby Dick.” 'Extra added attraction, a musical special ty “Homeward Bound” with the varsity Vagabond quartet, nightly at 7:15 and 9:25. BEX: first day: Bichard Barthel mess and Lillian Gish in D. W. Griffith’s fainnous melodrama, “Way Down East,” blending the tenderest of romances with the most compel ling dramatic classic of the past 20 years; Wanda Wiley comedy, “Painless Pain,” it’s a howling feast of fun; Kinogram news events; J. Clifton Emmel in musi cal accompaniment to the picture on the organ. COMING—Fred Thompson and his horse, “Silver King,” in “The Tough Guy;” “Dancing Mothers,” with Alice Joyce, Conway Tearle and Clara Bow. ANNOUNCEMENT ' Phi Kappa Pis announces the pledging of George Sager, of La Grande, Oregon. NOW! RICHARD Barthelmess and LILLIAN GISH —in— D. W. GRIFFITH’S TENDER ROMANCE WITH A BACKGROUND OF COM PELLING MELODRAMA. A WANDA WILEY COMEDY r Back in the days of Dobbin . .. when the college sheik (then known as the “dude”) gave his best girl a great whirl around the campus on Sunday afternoons, Anheuser-Busch was nationally known among good fellows. And today, when we do sixty miles an hour without hurrying . . . and good mixers are popular everywhere, BUSCH (A-B) PALE DFLY is the favored drink of college men because, like the college man, Busch Pale Dry is a good mixer everywhere and every time. Anheuser-Busch StLouis ALLEN & LEWIS Eugene, Ore. J Distributors