Debate Men
Leave Today
For Salt Lake
Failure of Democracy
Will be Discussed
By the Teams
Beelar, McCroskey
Pre-Law Majors
Oregon Representatives
Will Visit California
DONALD BEELAK and Benoit
McCroskey leave at 12:00 to
day on the Shasta for Salt Lake
City, where they j
will meet the Uni- j
versity of Utah in
a debate sched
uled for Thurs
day night, March
3.
The trip to Salt
Lake City is the
longest one to be
made this year
by the debate |
Don Beelar longest journey
which has been made in the last
three of four years. “Interest in
forensics this year will help get a
bigger budget next year,” said
Donald Beelar. The speakers will
spend several days in San Francisco,
and will probably go on down to
Palo Alto. A debate with Stanford
university which had been planned
could not be arranged because Stan
ford schedule is full. The Oregon
representatives will be back on the
campus March 6 or 7.
“Resolved, That Democracy is a
Failure,” is the question for debate.
■“The value of this subject depends
on the method in which it is han
dled,” said Donald Beelar, “The
way Oregon and the- other schools
are handling it. makes it a popular
question for debate. In view of the
facts in Europe and certain tenden
cies here in the United States, it
is receiving a lot of consideration.”
Return Contest
Representatives from the Uni
versity of Utah were on the Oregon
campus last year in a .match against
the University; the contest March
3 in Salt Lake City is a return de
bate.
Both McCroskey and Beelar de
bated against the University of Syd
ney, Australia, when their represen
tatives were here last term. Donald
Beelar is a junior majoring in Pre
Law, and Benoit McCroskey is a
junior Pre-Law major. This is the
third year both have represented
Oregon on the rostrum. In the ora
tory try-outs held the first of this
term Donald Beelar was selected to
represent Oregon in the State Peace
contest to be held at Willamette
University ni Salem. McCroskey will
go to Los Angeles to represent Ore
gon in the National Constitutional
contest, this spring.
Soon after returning to Oregon,
Benoit McCroskey will leave for Se
attle with Ronald MeCreight to at
tend the tri-state meet there March
31.
Phi Kappa Psi National
President Visits Campus
Howard C. Williams, national
president of Phi Kappa Psi frater
nity, was a guest of the local chap
ter yesterday. Mr. Williams, whose
home is in Cleveland, Ohio, came
west to install a new chapter at the
University of Southern California.
He left last evening for Portland
where he will be entertained by the
Oregon Alumni Association, and
from there he will return to Cleve
land.
Curtis Philips Radio
Announcer at KGEH
Curtis “Shrimp” Philips, who was
on the campus four years ago, is
now announcing over KOEH.
Philips, a member of Beta Theta
Pi, was a track letterman and also
sang in the Glee Club quartet. For
the last month and a half, he has
been with the Eugene station. Be
fore that, he announced for the Ore
gonian over KGW, at Portland.
Philips likes the work and believes
there is a good field here for radio
advertising.
KGEH is moving from the Eugene
to the Osburn hotel this week.
Broadcasting, which was discon
tinued after the Oregon-O. A. C.
game, will be resumed next Satur
day. The station has been giving
the scores of all the University
games and will continue to do so.
La Grippe Has Lost
Its Grip—Almost
OLD man Grippe is losing his
hold. The kill or cure tray
at the infirmary and dispensary
—-not to mention the annex—
loaded with Hinkle’s medicine,
nasty looking and worse tasting,
the ferocious atomizer with the
silver arm, and the saintly look
ing cotton—all these are respon
sible for the rascal's waning pop
ularity. Oh yes, and the nurses
and doctors helped some.
No more does Wade Newbigin
hitch his pint size radio to the
bed springs and the radiator, and
tune in on the latest blues from
the Multnomah Hotel orchestra.
No more do Edith Huntsman’s
pencil sketches terrorize visitors,
nurses and patients alike. And
the vari-colored paints that
brightened the white counterpane
on Lillian Povey’s bed have been
neatly cleared away. The two
victrolas that drove the nurses
crazy with their simultaneous
interpretation of two different
records, have left with their
owners, and the infirmary—and
the annex—ain't what they used
to be. Both places are quiet. On
ly sixteen patients there now,
and sixteen of them are flu pa
tients. Figure it out for your
self.
Just the same, Grippe has seen
his best days.
Eric W. Allen to
Be Lecturer on |
Journalism Tour
Minnesota to Conduct
Summer Courses
In Old World
Dean Eric W. Allen, dean of the
school of journalism, will be one of
the lecturers on the second annual
European Journalism tour, which is
conducted by the University of 1
Minnesota. The tour starts July
28 and lasts 68 days.
On the trip to Europe Dean Allen |
will lecture on shipboard, speaking
on comparative journalism, and the
economic, social and political prob
lems of present day Europe. The
last day on board, ho will give re
search work to each student to pur
sue while in Europe.
They will go through all the prin
cipal cities and places of interest
in Europe, visiting all of the famous
newspaper offices where they will
study European journalism methods.
They will hear lectures given by
the leading newspaper men of Eur
ope, and will learn the various as
pects of journalistic work which is
carried on there.
On the trip back to the United
States, Dean Allen will conduct a
seminar on the individual research
work which was carried on by the
students abroad.
If a student wishes to take the
trip for pleasure, he can do so but
will not have to take the examina
tion which is given by the Univer- |
sitv of Minnesota when the party !
returns, neither will they receive the I
credit which is given by the uni
versity, when the work is comple'ted.
Dean Allen was in doubt as to his
going until a formal announcement,
which is sent out to all newspaper
j men by the University of Minnesota
1 announced that he is to be a lecturer.
Juniors Plan
Unique Mardi
Gras Festival
Committee Selects Manu
script Submitted by
Clarke and Yoke
Annual Creole Carnival
Has Cosmopolitan Air
Specialty Tryouts March 8;
Diverse Features Desired
MARDI GRAS, New Orleans’ an
nual festival, will furnish at
mosphere for the musical comedy to
be staged by the junior class in lieu
of the regular
a voa-vu tins year.
I The committee in
i charge Jias decid
! ed upon the manu
; script submitted
by Etha Jeanne
Clark and Bob
Yoke for presen
tation, and the
continuity is built
about the cele
brated Creole car
nival.
Donald McCook The idea, ac
cording to Benoit McCroskey, chair
man in charge, is treated in an or
iginal and unique fashion, and the
cosmopolitan, diverse, and scintil
lating nature of the Mardi Gras
furnishes ample background for an
unusual musical comedy. Although
the complete details have not yet
been worked out, the plot has
enough concatenation to provide in
terest. and yet enough latitude to
allow the introduction of almost any
form of extraneous entertainment.
Four Acts Include Play
The play will be presented in four
acts, one of which will concern the
Mardi Gras and another of which
will be located along the Louisiana
levee, and will give the blues sing
ers a banjo pickers an opportunity
to glow with southern melodies.
Specialty tryouts will be held
March 5, a week from tomorrow.
Features of all kinds are desired, i
especially singers and dancers. Three
choruses are provided for in the
manuscript—two female and one
male. McCroskey claims that Ore
gon lias as many good looking men
as any college on the coast, and be
lieves that the coming musical com
edy will bear out this fact.
I)on McCook, business manager,
has signed a contract with the
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Dr. Boynton to Give
Photography Course
During Spring Term
Announcement was made yester
day by Dr. W. P. Boynton, head of
the department of physics, of a
three-hour course in photography to
be given spring term, if enough stu
dents are interested in the course
and will notify him during this
term. The hours will probably be
eleven o’clock on Monday and Wed
nesday with a lab period either
Monday or Wednesday afternoon.
It is an introductory course deal
ing with the methods and processes
rather than the artistic part, al
though attention is given to the
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100 Chinese Articles to Be Added
To Murray Warner Art Collection
On Fourth Trip Mrs. Warner Finds Pekin Quiet
And No Fuel or Food Shortage
Chinese pewter inlaid with thin
pieces of brass, making flowers,
birds, animals and geometric de
signs, in all the elegance of old
; China; pieces of jade, delicate jew
i elrv, porcelains, textiles, furniture
and jewelry totalling 100 articles
are to be added to the Murray 'War
ner collection of Oriental Art as a
result of the recent trip made by
Mrs. Gertrude Bass Warner and
Mrs. Francis T. Seal of New York
to China.
Twenty-five specimens of the
| Chinese pewter will be a new part
of the museum collection. The oth
er articles, including textiles, lac
quer and prints from Japan, are ad
ditions to collections already start
| ed.
“This was my fourth trip, and
each one has been more successful
than the last,” said Mrs. Warner.
“Each time conditions have been
more favorable and my friends in
the Orient more interested. The
articles that I procured this time
are all excellent and beautiful mu
seum specimens, so I consider this |
a splendid trip.
“We started from San Francisco j
on the S. S. President Wilson Nov- j
ember 13. At that time conditions \
in Shanghai were favorable so that !
we were able to spend three days
there, then we left for Pekin.
“The Chinese train has passage- ]
ways on one side, and the cars are
divided into compartments with
doors. At each end of every car
soldiers are stationed to protect the
travelers from bandits. On our
train was a high officer of the
Chinese government, and he had a
special bodyguard which marched
through the car all day and night. '
At each station we would stop and
representatives from the town would
come to pay their respects to the
official.
“We went to Nankin and spent
several days there visiting friends
at the university, then took a train
to Tientsin and on to Pekin.
“On the latter part of the trip,
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Bugs A. W. O. L. From
Zoology CAassroom
IT DOESN'T seem possible!
But it must be so! Because
four of them escaped. It happen
ed over in Deady hall while ex
cruciating and savory odors of
acids and animals tortured by
the merciless hands of zoology
majors rent the air. Four of them
escaped! Think of it, four tiny
black bugs resembling Indy bugs,
or turtles, played joyously on the
fourth step of the third flight of
stairs, ignored by all the indus
trious zoology and biology maj
ors. They escaped being dissect
ed, or impaled on pins, or what
ever you do to bugs that aren’t
butterflies, and will have another
day of life until some sneaking,
snooping, spying major pounces
on them and relentlessly carries
them off—to be dissected.
Program Given
By Plii Mu Alpha
Wins Assembly
Musical Fraternity Will
Appear in Concerts
In Portland
The concert given Thursday at
the weekly student assembly in the !
Woman's building by members of
:he local chapter of Phi Mu Alpha,
Sinfonia fraternity, met with the
mtliusiastic approval of the students
md faculty in attendance.
One of the features of the pro
gram which consisted of violin,
piano, vocal, flute and trumpet num
bers, was the flute solo by Carrol
Haeske, accompanied by Eliot
Wright. Mr. Haeske played two se
lections, “Tourbillon,” and “Am
Waldesbaeh,” by Krantz.
William Sievers, freshman, played 1
is a trumpet number, the “Sextette”
from Lucia by Zetti Doni, and as
an encore he played “Kashmiri
Song” by Woodforde-Pinden. Ho
vas accompanied by Alma Lawrence,
music school student.
Another popular number was the
piano solo played by George Bar
ron, sophomore, Etude “Revolution
iry,” by Chopin. Ho also played as
m encore, “Toccatina” by William
Mason.
Edward Best, junior, gave two
violin solos, “Gypsy Serenade,” by !
Valdez, and “Dream of Love” by
Potts. He was accompanied by Bar
bara Edmunds.
Alan Christensen, tenor, and Wil
liam Forbis, baritone, sang as a
vocal duo, “On Wings of Song,” by ,
Mendelssohn, and “Serenade” by !
Schubert. Frances Wardner, sopho
more, accompanied them.
The program is the second one
given this year by the chapter at
the weekly assembly. The organ
ization sponsors a similar one each
term, said William Forbis, chair
man of the assembly program. Tho
group is planning a trip to Port
land in April, where they will give
concerts at two or three of the high
schools and will also broadcast a
program over the radio.
The program was closed by the
singing of the Oregon Pledge Song,
led by Will Kidwell, president of
Phi Mu Alpha.
U. H. S. Assembly Will
Feature One-Act Play
—
Today’s assembly at University;
High school will feature a one-act
play, “The Dispeptic Ogre,” to be
given by students of the seventh
rrade. The play is humorous in nature
and a modern version of the fairy
tale. The climax comes when a group
of Boy Scouts rushes in to save the
damsel in distress. The play is be
ing given under the direction of
Mrs. Edna Assenheimer, instructor
in the school, and is scheduled to be
gin at two o ’clock.
Temenids, Order of
Eastern Star, Elects 25
Twenty-five members were elect
ed to Temenids, national women’s
order of the Eastern Star, in a
meeting on the campus last night.
The list of new members include:
Lucile Cornott, Eleanor K. Ed
wards, Ellen London, Hilda J. Ol
sen, Maxine Pearce, Ruth Helms,
Ruth E. Severance, Katherine Owen,
Vesta M. Hall, Marjorie Stemmier,
Grayee Nelson, VeraThein, Marjorie
McClain, Dona Aim, Bertha Aim,
Jane Thompson, Genevieve Bolding,
Margaret Thompson, Harriet Aherrn,
Dolores Leavens, Thelma Thomp
son, Marjorie Chester, Margaret
Jackman, Ruth Field, and Hilda
Wanker.
Nominees For
W. A. A. Posts
Made Public
Polls lo Be Open March 8 i
From 8 to 12: 1 to 3
In Library
Banquet to be Held
On Eve of Election
Hiking as a Sport Means
70 Miles; 50 Points
I
Nominations for w. a. a. of- j
fleers wer.e made yesterday at
the mass meeting. Nellie Johns and |
Virginia Lounsbury were nominat
ed for president; Mae Moore and
Marjorie Landru, vice-president;
Helen Mumaw, Vida Buehler and
Evelyn Anderson, secretary; and
Rerniece Rasor, Ruth Burcliam and ]
Lela Horton, treasurer.
Elections will take place on I
March 8, from 8 to 12, and 1 to 3 |
at the library. Marjorie Best will
be in charge of the polls.
The W. A. A. banquet will be held
the evening of Tuesday, March 8,
at the College Side Inn, for all
members, and all other girls who
have participated in sports this
year.
The results of the election will
be made known at the banquet, and
sweaters and small O’s will be
awarded to those girls who havo
earned them. Vesta Scholl is in
charge of the banquet, with the fol
lowing committee assisting her:
Myrtle Mast, entertainment; Jo
Ralston, decorations and favors;
Ruth Bcrcham, program; and Nellie
Johns, tickets.
Hiking Reinstated
I was decided at the meeting to
re-instate hiking as a sport, with
lone Garbe as the head. Seventy
miles will earn fifty points, which
is the minimum that can bo earned
for one year. The seventy miles will
have to be done in not less than five
hikes. A W. A. A. member must
accompany all hikes, and she will
be expected to check up and hand in
the number of miles after each hike.
When it is impossible to find out
tlie distance covered, it will bo
counted at the rate of three miles
per hour, with time out for resting.
Both the old and novvly elected
president will attend the national
convention of W. A. A. at Cornell
university in April, said Myrtle
Mast.
Y. M. C. A. Elections
Set for March 8 at
Cabinet Meeting
Annual election of officers of the
Y. M. C. A. will be March 8, it was
decided at the cabinet meeting
Wednesday evening in the “Y” hut.
The nominating committee, com
posed of Bill Kidwell, Harold Sox
and Francis Rieder, will report at
the cabinet luncheon meeting, Tues
day, March 1.
Reports on the discussion groups,
by Joe Iloladay; on the Seabeck
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Gamma Phi’s Visited \
By Peek-A-Boo Man
I^^TEN may be all right in their !
place, but their place is
not on a dining room window sill
of a respectable sorority house at
2:30 a. m. Such was the joint
conclusion reached by four mem- i
bers of Gamma Phi Beta after a
night of horrors in the house on
the mill-race.
It seems the timid heroines of
our story were virtuously prepar
ing for a mid-term exam at the
above mentioned hour, when a
suspicious noise was heard in the
vicinity of a basement window.
Knowing the house was securely
locked, they were undaunted but
fearful and continued their din
ing room studying.
Suddenly a scream that pierced
several miles of inky black
ness in its flight rang out and
the other three Phi Bete pros
pects turned as one in the direc
tion of a near-by window.
Three more screams hit the
night air close behind the first.
For the head of a M-A-N had ap
peared behind the closed win
dow. Being out of breath, the
girls stopped screaming and
stared at their unexpected visit
or.
Later, the police were called
(both of them), but nothing was
found.
Hoy t. Andrews,
Noted Expedition
Leader, to Talk
Explorations in Mongolian
Plains to be Related
By Lecturer
Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of
the third Asiatic expedition, who
during the past four years has been
unearthing evidences of pro-historic |
life in the interior of the Mongolian
desert, will tell of the romance of
the expedition in his lecture in Vil
lard hall Monday night, February
28, at 8:15.
Andrews astounded the world a
little, over a year ago with the an
nouncement of the finding of dino
saur eggs. A cable from Urga, Mon
golia, last year told of the finding
of additional dinogaur eggs, and
what is even more important, the
finding of the remains of a primitive
human culture of the late Paleo
lithic, or Old Stone Age. Thousands
of flint-flakes, arrow points and
spear heads have been found, all of
beautiful jasper and agate.
The third Asiatic expedition, in
charge of Andrews, has been under
way for more than four years.
Through the finding of the dinosaur
eggs and the fossilized bones of
prehistoric monsters, it has estab
lished the fact that early mammal
ian boasts of Asia and America
were kin and roamed across the two
continents on the land bridge that
joined them in those remote times.
If, in the two remaining years left
for the expedition, the bones of pre
historic man can be found, the ex
pedition will go down in history as
the most important of all time.
U. of O. Basketeers Coast Champs
Through Coach Walker's Efforts
Present Dean of Men Directs Winning Team in
1919; Billy Reinhart Begins in 1923
Winning three out of four games
from the University of Washington,
the Oregon Webfoots finished sec
ond in the western division of the
Northwest conference for the sea
son of 1918. O. A. C. finished first
that year.
The 1918 season marked the sec
ond year since basketball was re
instated as a major sport. Bill Hay
ward again assumed charge of the
basketball team but due to illness
was succeeded by Bean Walker who
had been head freshman mentor. The
members of the team included Ned
Fowler, “Bot” Medley, “Chuck”
Comfort, Bill Steers and Bow Wil
son.
To Bean H. Walker, varsity has- j
ketball coach in 1919 and now dean ■
of men, goes the honor of winning
the only Pacific coast basketball
championship. It was the 1919 team
that played 17 games and won 13,
piling up 533 points to its oppon
ent’s 427.
“We carried a squad of only six
men in 1919 in order to save mon
ey,” said Bean Walker, coach of the
coast champions. “That year I was
coach and graduate manager. Our
guards were instructed to go down
for shots. Chapman and Jacobberg
er scored more in the two California
games than the opposing forwards.
It was a great year and Eddie Durno j
surely made a fine scoring record j
of 274 points.”
After winning the" northwest !
championship that year the Oregon
basketeers journeyed to Berkeley
where they played the University !
of California for the coast title. Ore- !
gou won the first two games by the |
close score of 39 to 37 and 30 to 28. '
The members of the team included
Durno and Fowler, forwards; Lind,
center; Jacobberger and Chapman,
guards; and Brandon, spare.
Through the presence of an in
fluenza epidemic in 1920 most of
the varsity basketball games were
played behind closed doors. This
season saw the beginning of Shy
Hunnington as basketball mentor.
Under his tutelage the Webfoots
won eight and lost nine games.
With the beginning of the 1921
season George M. Bohler made his
debut as hoop instructor. Oregon
won the northwest conference cham
pionship that year with 13 wins out
of 17 games played.
Again the University of Oregon
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Oregon Plays
Huskies For
Title Saturday
’Hee’ Edinundson, Huskie
Coach, Developed Fast
Breaking Offense
Gunther- Schuss Feud
Interesting Spectacle
Oregon Squad Working
Hard on Defense
'T'lIE University of Oregon bas
ketball team will play the
Washington hoopsters tomorrow
light in McAt
thur Court, and
ho championship
)f the northern
livision of the
Pacific coast con
ference will hinge
upon the outcome
if this game.
Coach Billy
Reinhart was dis
appointed with
the brand of ball
displayed bv the Gunther
Webfoot cagers against the Oregon
Aggies, and is working his players
hard, trying to get them back in the
form they were in when they defeat
ed the Huskies, 50 to 25, in Seat
tle.
In the Aggie fracas the Oregon
defensive went to pieces for a few
minutes in the second half, and the
Orangemen scored thirteen points
before the lemon-yellow hoopsters
got together and broke up the rally.
A sli|> of this kind might prove dis
astrous against a team playing the
brand of ball that the Huskies are
in the habit of serving.
Both Teams Fast
When the Webfoot hoopers de
feated the Huskies in Seattle they
did it by playing at top speed
throughout the entire contest and
wearing the opposition to a frazzle.
During tiie last seven minute of the
game the Webfoot team scored 20
points against the exhausted Husk
ies.
This, however, may not be the
ease tomorrow night. “Hoc” Kd
mnndson, Washington coach, has
had time to get his men into condi
tion to play the entire game at top
speed. He has also been working out
an offensive that he hopes will give
results. Kdmundson has such men
as A1 Schuss, all-coast forward;
Monty Snider, forward; and Alie
.Tames, guard, to build his scoring
plays around. i
Gunther Faces Schuss
In Schuss, Coach Edmondson has
a veteran that is not anly a clever
man at working the ball down the
floor, but a man who is generally
a dangerous shot from any angle
on the court. Billy Reinhart, howev
er, stopped the scoring flash when
he stationed Jerry Gunther, Ore
gon’s all-coast forward, to watch
him, Gunther held Sehuss to one
field basket and collected five for
himself during the game.
Monty Snider, sophomore forward
for Washington, has been playing a
class of ball that may win his recog
nition in all-coast circles. Snider Is
a flashy player in every department
of the game, and in spite of his slim
build is capable of mixing it with
the best of them.
Jesse James?
The Webfoot offensive has a hard
man to contend witti when it comes
up against Alfie James, veteran
Washington guard. James is anoth
er Iluskie who is built along speed
model lines, and has a habit oY
smearing the opponents plays be
fore they have time to get nicely
started.
Washington will have two games
this weekend. Tonight she plays the
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W eh foot Contributions
Wanted in IS ext Week
Though the ink is hardly dry on
the Historical number of the Web
foot, the editor and his staff have
decided to set the first of next week
as the deadline for all contributions
for the next issue. The date of pub
lication has not yet been set for
the magazine’s next appearance, but
it will be off tho»press before the
end of the term.
“The last number has been very
favorably received on the campus,
but it is hoped that the next issue
will be an improvement over it.
Contributors are asked to turn their
articles in at the Webfoot office
early so that the editors may have
time to properly assemble the ma
terial at hand.