Winners of Albert
Cup to be Chosen
By Faculty Group
Seniors to Vote on List
Of Candidates; New
Plan Instituted
A meeting of the committee com
posed of members of the faculty
will be licdd early next week to
name probable winners of the Al
bert cup, which is given by J. H.
Albert, a Salem banker, to the
member of the senior clasg who
shall have made the greatest de
velopment in character, service, and
wholesome influence. Three names
will be selected by the committee
and these will be submitted to the
vote of the • senior class to deter
mine the winner.
This cup wras won last year by
Mary Jane Hathaway, who is now
secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce at Oregon City.
The winner of the Koyl cup given
every year by Charles W. Koyl,
graduate of the class of 1911, who
is now promotion secretary of the
Y. M. C. A. at Pasadena, to the
best all-around junior man, will not
be announced until the evening of
the Junior Prom, as is customary.
The winner last year was Robert
Mautz. This is the second cup to
be given, the other having been
filled with names.
The committee for selecting prob
able winners of the Albert cup are
using a new system this year. They
have asked the houses each to sub
mit three names and so far about
25 have responded.
Varsity Tennis Team
To Play O.A.C. May 3
The varsity tennis team, made a
complete sweep of its meet with
the freshman team yesterday after
noon, winning all six matches:
The results: Singles, Okerberg
beat Neer; Coffin defeated Hart
man; Cohn won from Slauson; and
Mead vanquished Hendrieks. "Doub
les: Coffin and Okerberg beat TSTeer
and Hartman; Cohn and Mead de
feated Hendricks and Slauson. The
undefeated varsity will vie with
tbe Oregon Aggie netsters on the
local courts next Saturday.
The exterior of the Theta Chi
house on east twelfth street is be
ing completely renova'ted. Plans
include new stucco and a remodel
ing of the front steps. The cost
of the improvements will approxi
mate $1900. The space behind the
house i« to be converted into a
parking plaee.
Mr. Carl J. Bowman, ex- ’21, was
on the campus Monday, looking for
teachers for next year. Mr. Bow
man is superintendent of schools at
Lakeview.
Betty Holts, a student assistant
in the chemistry department, left
yesterday to spend the week-end at
Amity with Mrs. John Gesler (Char
lotte Kirkwood) who attended the
University several years ago.
Crete Grey who was enrolled in
school last year is planning to visit
at the Tri Delt house the first part
of the week. While on the campus
she wa3 a major in the Komance
language department.
Jane BoDine, a member of the
Chi Omega sorority, left yesterday
for a short visit at her home in
Portland.
Doris Kindle will be a week-end
visitor at the Gamma Phi Beta
house. She has, since she with
drew from school in the fall, been
teaching in the schools at Central
Point.
Nellie Johns and Emma Bell
Woodworth will spend Saturday
and Sunday at the Woodworth sum
mer home in Newport.
Jewel Whitehouse and Wilma
Moreland left today to visit at their
homes in Forest Grove.
Carlotta Nelson, a resident of
Susan Campbell hall, as spending
the week-end at her home in Van
couver, Washington.
Helen Pollock, Annette Heckman,
Lois Hockett, and Bernice Lund,
all of Susan Campbell hall, left yes
terday to stay over Sunday in
Salem.
Nina Kitts and Jean Kitts, mem
bers of the Delta Zeta sorority, are
spending Saturday and Sunday at
their home in Portland.
Leona Hostetler will spend a few
days visiting in Portland.
Visit to Hong Kong Gives Student
Chance to Study Living Conditions
Southern Coast of China itli Its Little Buildings,
Yellow-Skinned Men Proves Interesting
(The following wordJpictufce of j
Hong Ivong was written by Bd |
Larney, a student in the University,
who paid a visit to China two years
ago.) j
Sit on a magic carpet and let it
carry you 6,000 miles across the
sea to the southern coast of China.
There you will find a mountainous
little island nesting majesticly in a
sky-blue river. On its side you will
see cloisters of little white build
ings terraced one above the other,
and in the river surrounding it craft
of all descriptions, flying the colors
of many nations. Approach the isl
and a little closer and you will bo
overcome by the enchanting beauty
of this piece of earth, protruding
from the sea. You will see little
yellow-skinned men rampaging a
bout the streets in what you might
call pajamas, carrying loads on their
heads on both ends of poles across
their shoulders. You will wonder
what the two-wheeled buggies with
shafts are for; and most of all you
will remark, what funny streets,
thejr have no sidewalks! Looking
around you will see sights of semi
tropical vegetation, palm trees and
such things.
jNTo, this is not Coral Gables, it
is TIong Kong, in Kwang-tung prov
ince, China, the British crown col
ony, and economically the most
strategic point in the far east, it
being the trading center between
the Orient and Europe. But we are
not interested in going into the pol
itics and economies of this colony
here, but rather, to contrast customs
of such a unique place, picked at
random, with our own customs.
Hong Kong, having been under
British control since 1342, the ter
mination of the Opium war, which
resulted in the ceding of the island
to England, is virtually an Eng
lish city, but the mixture of races
which make up the population has
made the result interesting to note.
The population of Hong Kong is
somewhere between three and four
hundred thousand, a much larger
city than Portland, although it does
not cover as much ground. The na
tive Chinese live in a crowded con
dition in the tenement houses, in
a more crowded condition than the
tenement houses in our own large
cities. Most of the population lives
on the water in sampans, a native
craft used in the passenger and car
go trade. It is not the maritime folk
only who live on these craft, as a
rule; most of the natives who work
ashore live there also. Often times
merchants on the ground floor live
within their shops, and when cus
tomers come in to buy they enter
the merchant’s home. Many of the
merchants attempt to promote a sale
when they think the customer is a
good prospect, by serving him with
wine, beer, or whiskey; these sales
tactics of the native merchant usu
ally result in a turnover, but the
buyer who is unfamiliar with Chin
ese salesmanship often kicks him
self after leaving the shop for buy
ing something he did not want, and
is unable to understand what made
him buy it. The reason is this, the
shrewd merchant is aware of the
fact that if a customer drinks it
will be hard for him to go forth
without buying, and he is also aware
of the fact, by experimentation, that
f/ee drinks are hard to resist in
iiumiu w^aLiier.
Chinese financial methods are al
so interesting to consider. When
you go into a shop and make sev
eral purchases the merchant picks
up a frame with beads on it to
find out how much you owe him.
This instrument is the Chinese abac- ■
us, a devise for counting which
most Americans will recollect they
used in their kindergarten days.
Much bookkeeping is eliminated by
the Chinese as the credit of a China
man to another is above reproach.
Thousands of taels change hands
daily with the absence of written
instruments. The Chinaman knows
he can trust his fellow Chinaman,
it is a matter of tradition. The city
takes great pride in its banks, which
are deserving of this pride because
of their architecture, materials, and
impressive appearance which they
lend to Queen’s Eoad, the chief fin
ancial street. The eleven principle'
banks of the port are directed and
financed by foreigners as well as
by Englishmen. Money changers,
doing business on a smaller scale
are found everywhere.
The shops are usually open-air
affairs, and all are a galaxy of color.
The merchant understands that the
buyer’s eye is attracted, and his
impulse to handle and inspect the
goods is aroused if he is first at
tracted to it by its colorful display,
so the merchant makes use of this j
psychological fact. And in the mat
ter of sidewalks in Hong Kong,
which we mentioned before, there
are sidewalks, but they are under
the buildings as the College Side
Inn building, in practically all cases.
This arrangement affords the mer
chant protection of his goods from
rain and sun.
In the matter of customs and us
ages we mustn’t disregard the phras
eology which the Britishers have
brought to Hong Kong. This gives
a Pieeadilian atmosphere to the
place. A chemist is a druggist in
our sense of the word, a boot shop
is a shoe store, a tram is a street
car. and a box of “swedes” (sweets)
is a box of caudv. The English
vocabulary is about as difficult to
master for Hie uninitiated as the
native province dialect.
Now lcav the business district
be and look 'award the peak which
stands 1,200 feet above the sea.
The cable tram takes one to the
top of it in about 10 or Id minutes,
where one can get an advantageous
view of harbor traffic and the sur
rounding country. On your right
going up are the palatial homes of
the colony’s governmental digni
taries, to your left are the botanical
gardens which visitors come from
afar to see. The tropical beauty of
the vegetation presents itself to
the visitor on his way up, which
from the tram reminds him of a ride
through an amusement park con
cession.
Now look up the Canton and you
will see places which were oneo
thickly infested with pirates, bu
eaneers, and bold bad men of the
sea, who were at one time the trial
of merchants and traders plying the
river. But, do not be mistaken by
thinking that they have heen en
tirely exterminated and are now the
subjects of story books only, as
there are several enterprising pi
rates doing business on the river
vet, who frequently board river
steamers under cannon from their
junks and relieve their prosperous
passengers of the bother of remem
bering the rate of exchange and of
distinguishing between taels, gold,
and Mexican dollars. Trade in and
out of Hong Kong has been the
prey of pirates since the port be
came an important trading center—
for a considerable time.
Labor problems in China are not
concerned with an 8-hour day, as
in a good many cases labor is of
the single enterprising type. The
Chinese coolie who is not in business
for himself, does not enjoy the same
reliable tenure of employment as
does the American laborer, and his
wages' are scanty when he is em
ployed. The first-at-hand problem
of the coolie is to keep body and
soul together from day to day. La
bor is different too, in China. For
instance, my pal and I took a sam
pan one morning from our ship’s
side to the shore. In the bow of the
craft reclined an apparently healthy
Chinamap, while on the stern stood
a tiny little woman, who, with a
baby in one hand, man-sized oar
in tho other, scuttled us from the
ship’s side to the Kowloon Ferry
Wharf, a distance of about a half
mile, a tidy job for a woman who
weighed not more than a hundred
pounds. The Chinaman in the bow
was apparently the husband as he
took our passage money as we step
ped ashore. These sampans work
night and day, seven days a ■week;
business knows no hours in Hong
Kong.
It is interesting to say that the
Chinaman who reclined in the how
of the sampan wore a dress, while
the tiny little woman who did the
Rialto Theater
Junction City
SUNDAY
‘THE BEAUTIFUL CHEAT’
with
LAURA
LA PLANTE
work wore pants. They do things
differently in China!
This meager glimpse of just one
little out-of-the-way corner of the
earth picked at random has attempt
ed to contrast the difference of so
ciety in one place to tha^ of anoth
er. Folk-? whb have lived in one.
locality all of their lives are often
narrow and nnediocre in appreciat
ing this difference.
Cresivell Hi Glee Club
To Give Annual Concert
The annual Creswell high school
glee club concert, which is given
each year under the supervision of
a student of the School of Music
at the University, is to be held
Thursday evening in Creswell.
Esther Church is the supervisor of
music, and has been teaching there
all year. Lois Everson has been
elected to fill this position next
year.
Botany
(Continued from page one)
Although Mrs. Finch is about 61
years of age she is energetic and
almost unbelievably capable.
“Besides supervising a large stock
farm, riding horseback over the
hills like a girl of 16 and discharg
ing all the duties of a housewife,
S this wonderful woman has time to
botanize. She collects seeds, bulbs
and small trees, distributing them in
different parts of Europe and North
j America,” Dr. Henderson said.
The Brewer or “weeping” spruce,
t an unusually beautiful tree found
j in the regions near Grants Pass but
I in no other place in Oregon, is one
j of Mrs. Finch’s specialties. At one
I time she had spent week after week
gathering cones from these trees
and taking them 20 miles on horse
! back each evening. Just when she
had collected the fiftieth bushel of
the seed valued at from 16 to 35
dollars an ounce the German war
broke out and all of her labor was
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sure hit the spot.
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sure swell, but did you ever
try their chocolate and orange
cakes?
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lost for not a pound could be sold.
In spito of defeats liko this she
continues to work.
“One of my most pleasant experi
ences was in finding ono of these
marvellous trees only threo miles
from the .highway. It was about 40
feet high with slender dark green
branches hanging gracefully down,”
Dr. Henderson related. The Brewer
spruce is cultivated only for its
beauty, not being valuable in any
other way.
It was 40 years ago that Dr. Hen
derson first collected plants in
Grants Pass. Last year he was in
that region with Prof. Sweetser on
the same mission.
“We need another place for our
botanical displays. If this build
ing should burn the collections of
specimens both in our department
and biology could not be replaced
in centuries. No othef building ex
cept the libraries contain so many
valuable things,” the botanist said
in speaking of the limited space
and lack of fire protection in Deady
hall.
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“Science and War”
AYi 11 be the theme for the Discussion Meeting of the
Unitarian Laymen’s League, led by—
Professor PI. C. Howe
Sunday Evening- at the Unitarian Church
An evening of frank and free discussion about big
themes is assured. All University men interested
are cordially invited to attend.
Business Meeting at 7:30 p. m. Discussion opens
at 8 p. m.
Girls—Look!
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Bailey Electric Co.
640 Willamette St. Phone 234
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VOLUME 4
FRIDAY A. M.
NUMBER 11
Obak Praised for Tobacco
Before you even look for the best
kind of tobacco to smoke, come
down to OBAKS, and get some ad
vice. Take P.A. for example. Its
cool, soothing smoke percolates in
to your system, the sun shines
through and everything is hotsy
totsy.
Then theres the good old Edge
worth, thats made to please. It
can’t bite your tongue or parch
your throat. It flunked the bite
and the parch exams on its first
trial.
Or we will recommend Flycaster,
the sportsman’s mixture; Blue Boar, I
the tobacco that’s flavored; or
some other kind of our many spe
cials to suit your taste.
I
If you smoke FAGS, you’ll never
be fagged out if you smoke Obaks.
How long and where they are kept
means a lot in cigarettes. Our
cases and heavy turnover insure
you against stale cigarettes.
To prepare you “for the days work,”
work it right and see that you buy
tobacco at OBAKS.
Seven-Seers Stage
Mugging Party
D. G.’s Are Best
Muggers
The Seven-Seers Ball held last night
at the Campa Shoppe turned out
to be a high-flung mugging party.
Shaving mugs filled with luscious,
invigorating old Kentucky Blue Rib
bon, graced the tables. The Delta
Gamma’s proved to be the best
■nuggers at least their mugs show
ed it, as several were cracked—
from over exposure of the ice-cold
icctar.
Bob Hunt, that big, big boy with
(_V- cracked voice, was crowned,
'Big Cheese” after singing “I’Ve
lot Those Tillamook Blues.” Jack
■Seabrook who barely missed sitting
it the “Lame Duck” table, sang a
vocal solo, “Want a Little Lovin,”
jut no one took the hint, must have j
seen that insidious thing that even !
fin will not cure —only liBterine !
loes the work. The much talked
if Bull, which was imported from
i distant land, died from, shock—as
I result, corned-beef was served at
. later hour.
CAROL
The Co-Ed
DEAREST ANN—
Just finished some delicious
iced tea and I feel so nice and
cool. A bunch of us went down
to tlie Anchorage and while we
sipped our drinks we could watch
the bathers. It was so much fun
that we decided it is the place
to go.
Received a nice long letter from
the “family” which reminded me
that Mother’s day is almost here.
She adores carnations and as
Ranp’s is such a convenient shop
and they are so courteous I’m
having them wire her some car
nations and roses. Do hope she’ll
be awfully pleased.
I know it really isn’t being
done but somehow Dad is so
fond of candy and as there isn’t
any father’s day I couldn’t re
sist sending him a box of Mc
Killop’s specially prepared can
dies they have packed in several
sizes and they are priced from
a dollar for pound boxes on up.
They are having English toffee
special this week-end at 49e per
pound.
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Last Wednesday we entertain
ed Betty Joan’s mother at tea
on the tennis courts. She is very
prominent in diplomatic affairs
and had only a few days to
spend with us so we made the
tea a bit more elaborate than wo
would have otherwise. We used
colorful Japanese parasols over
the tea tables and the idea was
so unusual that it brought forth
lots of favorablo comment and
when the “Little Shop Around
the Corner” wag disclosed as the
source of supply—approval was
voiced.
• • »
The girls assisting wore light
weight balbriggans in pastel
shades and were looked upon
with much approval—for these
are certainly smart and were
just the right thing to wear.
Ruth Cyrus, Charles F. Berg’s
representative carries them in
Eugene—her address is 1360 East
20th avenue and 1 1-2 blocks east
of the Tri Delt house. She also
has blouses, ties and etc. A
truly, smart establishment for
people who like to dress cleverly.
Helen woro one of these bal
briggans in a pale pink and had
the best looking hat with it—a
jaunty white pananm that she
got from Letitia Abrams hat
shop in the balcony of Wother
bee-Densmoro’s. They do have
the smartest hats in town and
just ns good as ono could expect
to find in San Francisco, accord
ing to Helen.
Had been trying to let my hair !
grow out but this hot weather ;
is too much for me—I finally
had to give in and trotted down
to the Co-ed for a wipd-blown
haircut. The Co ed is between
■the Co-op and Y.W.C.A. I’m not
feeling a bit sorry because ev
eryone has admired it so much
and it is so cool and comfort
able especially since this hot
weather has started.
* # «■
A bunch of us are planning a
picnic this week-end and I guess
we’ll go up the McKenzie—the
scenery is so marvelous up there
this time of year. I have to
bring the salad and I’m sure
glad I know about Underwood
Elliott’s because they have the
most delicious potato salad.
Decided to write to Mary
Helen and of course couldn’t
find her address. Luckily, Sarah
produced the trimmest little ad
dress hook and also the neces
sary information. She purchased
this treasured possession at the
Aladdin Gift Ware Shop and
states they carry just gobs of
dear things that are most useful.
Guess T ’ll betake myself there—
sounds good!
Our house is throwing a sport
dance at the country club tonite
and we’re planning to appear in
our newest dresses—Wetherbee
Donsmore’s had a shipment of
clever prints and the dirty dozen
invested. The dance is going to
be pretty good—do wish you
could be here for it.
The girls are certainly giving
Hasting’s the rush this week,
marcels, shampoos, manicures
and all those trifles so dear to
the feminine heart. They are so
essential that it is no wonder we
took advantage of a good place
to obtain them when we can find
one.
As usual,
CAROL.