VOLUME XXVII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1927 NUMBER W* ill Phi Psi’s Win Inter-House Competition Three Firsts in Relay Meets Give Them as Many Cups Terrible Turks Are Next Among Teams Standard of Sigma Nu’s Captures Mile THE Phi Psi’s now have some cups to decorate their mantle. Their hope was realized yesterday at the intramural track meet on Hayward field when their team won three of the five relays, and inci dently three cups of the five donat ed by various Eugene business firms. Although Don Jeffries, of the Phi Psi’s, played the iron man of the meet and ran a 110, a 220, and a 440 during the afternoon, Joe Standard, of the Sigma Nu’s, ran the most spectacular race. In the mile relay, running from the anchor man position, Standard started twenty yards behind the leading team but by putting on a tremen dous burst of speed he passed his man in the last fifty yards to win by a scant yard. This also won the race and a large cup for the Sigma Nu’s. Turks Win in Distances Niedemeier, of the Terrible Turks, pulled a Nurmi when he over came a large lead to win out in the last lap of the day’s last event, the distance medley. The 440, 880, and the sprint med ley relays were all won by the Phi Psi’s and all by the same team, which was composed of Hoblitt, Browne, Kircher, and Jeffries. These races were all hotly contested, espe cially the sprint medley which was won from the Kappa Sigmas by a fifth of a second. Besults: 440-yard relay: Won by Phi Kap pa Psi (Hoblitt, Browne, Kircher, and Jeffries); Beta Theta Pi, sec ond; Sigma Phi Epsilon, third. Time, :45.6. Mile relay: Won by Sigma Nu (Harthrong, Forstrum, Bauman, and Standard); Terrible Turks, second; Theta Chi, third. Time, 3:36.6. 880-yard relay: Won by Phi Kap pa Psi (Hoblitt, Browne, Kircher, and Jeffries); Sigma Phi Epsilon, second; Sigma Chi, third. Time, 1:35.6. Sprint medley: Won by Phi Kap pa Psi (Hoblitt, Browne, Kircher, and Jeffries); Kappa Sigma, sec ond; Alpha Tau Omega, third. Time, 1:40.2. Distance medley: Won by the Terrible Turks (Pefley, Oehler, Thompson, and Niedemeier); Phi Delta Theta, second. No third. Time, 3:46.4. Yellow Spring Moon Tempts Newlyweds Into Honeymoon Camp The yellow spring moon riding in a starlit sky stirs everyone with vague dreams but Ralph Lupher, research assistant to Dr. E. T. Pack ard, and Anna Q. Woodward, grad uate student in geology, had dreams that were more spiced with reality. During spring vacation, they were quietly married and motored to southern Oregon on their honey moon. The honeymoon camp was pitched near the site of the old '49 placer mine near Medford where the rock contains fossils that lived in the cretaceous seas that once covered that region millions of years ago. While doing some work for his thesis on some new genera of a group of highly modified clams, Mr. Lupher made a discovery of great interest to paleontology by unearth ing several new genera of this group of which only one genus has been discovered on the Pacific coast, that being in southern Cali fornia. While making a collection of 300 pounds of fossils for the geology laboratory, the camp life of their romantic honeymoon was in no way unsweetened by the rigors of camp life that included a leaky tent and the undivided attention paid them by sage ticks. Mr. Lupher char acterized the trip as killing two birds with one stone. At least they both proved that romance in this sophisticated age of canned soup ’ and steam heat is by no means col orless. Shall Oregon Be Stifled by rrGag” Rule? By FRED L. BOALT Editor, Portland News. If the editor must submit the editorial policies to the publications committee, appointed by the president of the student body, then the president in fact becomes editor. An analogous situation would be for me to submit editorial pol icies of the Portland News to Mayor Baker. Before I would submit to such a condition I would quit my job. What the University needs is a free and untrammeled newspaper re flecting the honest opinitms of the editor and nobody else, with the columns open at all times to divergent opinions. The plan suggested would give you not a newspaper but a propaganda sheet. By HUGH HUME Editor, Portland Spectator. If the students of the University wish the Daily Emer ald to continue to be the vehicle of free and unbiased opinion, they will continue to permit their duly elected editors to man age the paper with no interference from a one-man-appointed committee whose members may know everything except edit ing a paper. If the students wish another sort of paper, of course, they will not need an editor but will want a receiver! But I cannot believe that the students of the University of Oregon, having elected editors to represent them, will per mit one man to exercise through a publication committee such control over the editors that they must of necessity represent him alone. Under such conditions, you who are so ably managing the Emerald, would cease to be editors, and would become mere rubber stamps. Just now you are too young, honest and self-determining to be rubber stamps. There will be plenty of time for that when you become the editors of some great dailes whose owners cannot write but can function as com mittees on publication. U.S.Army Officers To View R.O.T.C. Parade Monday Inspection Figured On Per Cent Basis For Efficiency Annual inspection of the R. O. T. C. department, which is rated high enough by the war department for the “Distinguished College Inspec tion ’ ’ class, will be held Monday by two army officers sent to Eugene from Washington, D. C. Major R. M. Danford, F. A., and Major C. H. Bonesteel, Inf., who have been visiting nine of the six teen senior division units of the Ninth Corps area that are recom mended for inspection each year by the commanding general, will ar rive in Eugene Sunday night. The inspection and ceremony, in which the entire department will participate is set for 3 o ’clock. The University has arranged that all students having classes after 3 o ’clock on Monday will be excused in order to take part in the review. Cadet Captain R. A. Muir will act as battalion adjutant during the ceremonies, and W. F. James will act as It. colonel. Bill Kidwell will be in charge of Company B; Bert Kerns, Company C; A. W. Christen sen, Company D; Joe Price, Com (Continued on page four) Publications Send Call for Aspirants All who aspire to manage the Emerald, Webfoot, or Oregana, or to edit the Webfoot next year, must get their applications in by Satur day noon, April 16, according to Calvin Horn, chairman of the pub lications committee. Anyone experienced in publica tion woik is especially urged to try for the positions. The successful candidates will be announced as soon as possible. By being appoint ed in the spring term, they have a chance to become acquainted with the work and to prepare the next year’s schedule before taking of fice in the fall. Those interested should leave ap plications addressed to Calvin Horn in Jack Benefiel’s office. Seven Virtues In a Noble Life States Educator Science, Key to Truth; Individual Control Essential Quality “It is essential to the highest type of life that every person have a working philosophy by which to live,” said Dr. John Guy Fowlkes, educator, author, and professor of education of the University of Wis consin, who spoke at assembly Thursday. As an aid in formulating such a philosophy, Dr. Fowlkes named “seven tools” the use of which will lead to the virtuous life. This group of virtues is patterned after the seven qualities mentioned by Buskin in his “gripping and stimulating” monograph entitled, “The Seven Lamps of Architec ture.” They are truth, obedience, beauty, love, sacrifice, remembrance and God. Although Buskin men tioned these cardinal virtues, he did not name the tools needed to achieve them, said Dr. Fowlkes. Seience is the key to truth, while individual and group control is the tool to the attainment of the virtue, obedience, he said. It is the lack of the exercise of self-control which leads to social evils. Individual control determines group control. As an example of the value of in dividual control for the good of society, Dr. Fowlkes pointed out New York’s “safe and sane” traf fic law which does not regulate the number of miles an hour a vehicle may go, such regulation being left to the discretion of the individual. “To appreciate beauty, we need to have vision,” said the speaker. “Too often we judge character on the basis of external appearances. Develop the ability to postpone opinions until you have a definite basis on which to base them.” Dr. Fowlkes told, as an illustra tion of the appreciation of beauty a story of an Italian artist and an American man who were walking along a road in Italy. The artist looking at a certain rock marvelled at its beauty. The American was unable to see anything unusual about it. He returned to America and when he went again to Italy, (Continued on page three) Oregon Wins Debate From Arizona Team Decision of 2-1 Returned By Judges; Upholds Negative Side Eighteenth Amendment Modification Discussed R. Davis First Negative Speaker Refutes Plan OREGON- varsity debaters, Wal ter Durgan and Roland Davis, defeated their competitors from the University of Arizona at the last debate of the year last night in Villard hall, by a 2 to 1 vote of the judges. The contest was one of the best attended of the year, and the audi ence, after the debate was over and the judges’ ballots were handed to the chairman, Victor P. Morris, as sistant professor of economics, waited in suspense while Professor Morris calmly finished a joke he had been telling during the voting of the judges and grinned benignly at the expectant audience. “After weighing the matter carefully,” he remarked, “the judges have returned a two to one vote in favor of the negative.” The University of Arizona was represented by Ivan Robinette and Charles Reed. Oregon’s winning team upheld the negative of the question, which was: Resolved, That the eighteenth amendment should be so modified as to legalize the manufacture and sale of light wines and beer. Prohibition’s Failure Stated Robinette, first affirmative speak er, based his argument for modifica tion on the supposition that prohi bition has failed and that modifica tion would be successful, pointing out that prohibition has failed be cause it has caused an increase in drunkenness, increase in deaths, in crease in drinking among women and children, trade between the bet ter classes and the lower classes, and an end to temperance. Modifi cation would be successful, he con tended, by providing for a govern ment dispensary system, which would not result in an opening of saloons, but in a greater degree of temperance. “Any state which desires to have strict prohibition should have it, because with public opinion behind it prohibition could be enforced; but those states which desire light wines and beer should have them,” he said. Statistics (Quoted In cross-questioning the affirma tive speaker, Durgan quoted statis tics to prove that, although the af firmative contended that prohibi tion is not effective, authorities say that it is about ninety per cent ef fective. Would the wets be satis fied? he asked. Not absolutely, the affirmative answered. Would the drys be satisfied? to which the speaker replied that that would be rather hard to tell, ahead of time. Roland Davis, first negative speaker, contended that modifica tion would not be successrul. “There is no sound evidence that public opinion demands it,” he said. There are only a few wets, but they sound like a million. The results of the last election show that the next election will be as dry as the last; prohibition has resulted in an eco nomic gain of six billion dollars a year; it would be hard to enforce the law because of the difficulty in determining the difference between hard and soft liquors; modification would permit the establishment of wine shops; it would satisfy no one. “It would proye an opening wedge to completely overthrow prohibi tion,” he said in conclusion. Reed, in cross-examining Davis, (Continued on page three) Scandal Sheet Motion Placed Before Faculty The “scandal sheet” may be abol ished if the motion introduced by Dr. F. G. G. Schmidt at the faculty meeting Wednesday passes at the May meeting. The committee on the Junior College was also in structed to clarify the meaning of language requirement as it stands now under the new requirement as passed by the faculty last Novem ber. The motiion introduced by Dr. Schmidt was worded to the effect that the official publication of grades, popularly known as the scandal sheet, be abolished by the faculty. Male Seniors To Save Cash April 20 to 23 Leap Week Plans Assure Men an Easy Time Though Brief Anne Wentworth to Head Feminine Horde Brawls, Busts, Formal Will Be Featured T TARK Ye Seniors! The hour -"■■“■draws nigh! Get to your chim ney corners, you timid men, be brave, secret sorrows! Next week, begin ning Wednesday, and lasting till Saturday morning about the hour of 3:00 or 4:00, ,will mark the days of anxiety for some of the senior men, and overfed egos for others; and possibly untold agonies on the part I of their supposedly weaker sisters. The facts of the matter are sin gular—it is merely the reoccurrence of Senior Leap Week, the three days of spring term when the senior women are given the privilege of choosing the dates and the men have the opportunity to turn the table, and with melting tones (over the phone) warble, “Oh, I’m so sorry, but I have a date.” Program Scheduled Anne Wentworth has been chosen to lead in the deadly onslaught and hence has been appointed general chairman of the whole Leap Week program of events. Briefly she sketches the program as follows: Wednesday night: open house. Each woman’s organization will make the rounds of the various men’s organizations in the same manner as open house is conducted in the fall. Because there are so few seniors in some houses, several of the men’s organizations will probably combine for the evening. Women are warned that they are not to make any dates previous to open house. This will give each a fair chance (theoretically speak ing). Mon are requested to bear up sportingly under the strains of the old line, “Oh, don’t you remember me? Why I met you at open house! etc., etc.” The exact schedule for open house, under the management of Lucille Pearson, will be an nounced later. Dinner Dance Planned Thursday afternoon from 3:00 to 5:00 is set aside for the Bow-Wow Brawl which will be staged in all its dawginess- by the Delta Delta Deltas and the Alpha Chi Omegas. Delia Sherwood knows the secrets of that affair. A formal dinner dance managed by Janet Fenstermacher is being planned for Thursday evenig. Friday afternoon the Kappas will entertain at the Kappa Koffee from 3:00 to 5:00, and Friday evening will bo set aside for the Bar Room Bust given at Hendricks hall by the two halls. The #?ust, a costume af fair, will wind up the dates for the week-end officially but what tran spires after that—is beyond Anne Wentworth’s jurisdiction and our imagination. One thing more, senior women, the men are supposedly to be sen iors. Tournament Schedule For Girls’ Tennis Up Announcement for a ladder tour nament in girls’ tennis has been posted on the bulletin board by the scales in the Woman’s building. All ladder tournament games must be played by May 2, when the class teams are to be picked, according to Genera Zimmer, head of the sport. Any girl on the ladder may chal lenge any girl one, two or three places aibove her, but she may not challenege those below her. If she wins she is to notify the class man ager, who will interchange the names. In case she loses she may play the game over if she wishes. Each girl should play at least three matches a week; she mtust have played at least 8 by May 2. If any girl gets to the top of the ladder and has no more games to play before the time is up she may practice an hour with anyone and turn this in. Every time the girls play they must check the health sheet. Class managers have been ap pointed as follows: Mahalah Kurtz, freshman; Jane Cochran, sophomore; Ruth Scott, junior; and Margaret Bepoon, senior. Chi Omegas Rake in Most Dimes at Crawl ONCE again tthe spoils go to the Chi Omegas—they top ped the list fall term and not to be outdone this time, netted $12.65 from the Dime Crawl last evening. Alpha Delta Pi was second with $10.15. The total amount to fall into Women’s League treasury is $102.60. Oregon students did their best dancing in the allotted hour— no tired faces and weary limbs —members of each women’s house contributed, besides the men’s dimes, sparkling eyes ami flashing smiles. Even with the weather adding to the Crawl’s favor, the returns were not as lage as winte term when the men had to battle tho storm to make their visits. At that, Women’s League should rate two or three foreign schol ars next year—and have some left over for the adoptet children at home. Independent Club To Effect Plan at Banquet April 20 Dean Straub Will Act as Toastmaster; O. A. C. Students Guests Organization of tho proposed Inde pendent Men’s club will be effected at a banquet to bo held at tho Cam pa Shoppe at seven o’clock next Wednesday evening, April 20. Dr. John Straub, dean emeritus of men, will act as toastmaster and director of tho evening’s work. Dean II. Walker, dean of men, will be one of the principal speakers. Eobert Griffin, president of the na tional Independent Men’s Associa tion, will give an explanation of the movement as carried on at other schools. Ho is a student at Oregon Agricultural College and a repre sentative of that institution in ora tory, having won the Pacific Coast Oratorical contest last year and tho Old Line contest this year. Virgil Woodcock, president of the O. A. C. club, also will bo at the banquet. He was one of tho founders of the organization at O. A. C. and may be called upon to offer some sugges tions for tho club to bo formed here. Besides these there will bo other representatives of the faculty, and it is hoped to have at least one rep resentative of the Inter-fraternity council present. All men students not in living organizations are urged to attend and assist in tho fial work. Offic ers will be elected at that time, and some committees appointed to work out a more definito program for the organization to follow. Anyone wishing to attend see Ted Mueller, who is in charge of tho ticket sale. The price of the tickets will be fifty cents. The committee urges that all men who are interested in a movement of this kind be present and aid in making it a success. Keen Interest Shown In Girl’s Baseball; Miss Shelley, Coach Girls’ baseball is coming into its own again! It used to be that spring was just synonomous with baseball, even with girls, but in the last few years there has been a decided slump in interest, due partly, no doubt, to the increasing diversity of sports during the spring term. Baseball is now holding its own against the other sports offered to girls, according to Miss Mary Jo Shelley, coach. There is also a high er average of ability turning out, she says, than there has been for the last few seasons. The new rules, which raise tho game out of the stage where it is the laughing stock of the men, have pepped up the game, and the girls take more pride in it than they have formerly. The girls now use a larger ball, a diamond with a sixty-foot base, and mitts. “In spite of the diffused sports, and the great interest taken in them,’’ Miss Shelley said, “I think baseball will remain almost the most popular of them all. Even the men now admit it is a real game.’’ Practice will continue for awhile, j but teams ’-ill be picked very short ly, so that the season will be over I before play day. There will be one junior and senior team, and prob ably two freshman and sophomore j teams. If the toiirnament is too small on account of the small number of teams, there will be re turn games played. Trosh’ Reject Council's Plan To Supervise Emerald Policy Upheld By Unanimous Vote At Meeting Green Cap Knocked Also By Class of ’30 Numerals Are Given to First Year Athletes r I ■'IIE student council will receive no support from the freshman class on its proposed amendment to place the editorial policy of the Emerald under the supervision of the publications committee. This is according to a resolution made at the freshman meeting in Villard assembly yesterday. “We, the class of 1930, go on , record as favoring the retention of the editorial authority of the Ore gon Daily Emerald in the hands of the editor and opposing any move ment to place it elsewhere” reads tlio motion unanimously adopted by the freshmen. A recommendation to abolish the compulsory wearing of the green cap winter and spring terms was also voted by an overwhelming ma jority. Discussion Introduced A lively discussion followed the presentation of each motion. “I believe that the development of reasonable freedom of action and constructive expansion of thought is assuredly one of the main func tions of an institution of learn ing,” was the statement of Alonzo Jasmin, president of the freshman class. “Neither of these can be at tained if their exercise is hampered by any form of dictatorship or sup pression. I consider that the class of ’30 has taken a commendable at titude on the situation.” Numerals earned in football, bas ketball, and swimming were award ed to those of the thirty-seven freshman athletes present. Ilarold Hatton received numerals in all three sports; Boland Coleman and Edward Cheney gained them for participation in football and bas ketball. Awards Made Other men receiving numerals wefe: Per football: Henry Baldridge, Marion Crooks, Cecil Gabriel, C. A. llande, Wilbur Harden, Phil Ire land, Ridgvvay Johnston, Prank Mimnaugh, Ronald Murray, Gordon McDowell, Glenn Plass, Rulon Ricks, Robert Robinson, Charles Williams, Lloyd Sherrill, George Stadleman, Arthur Stendol, Scott Warren, Dav id Temple, and Harry Wood; for basketball: Jack Dowsott, Ken Robie, Ken Potts, Reed Clark, Chris Chastain, and Reynold McDonald; for swimming: John Anderson, John Allen, Oliver Mathers, Jack Raley, Charles Silverman, James Sharp, Jack Abele, and John Waldron. The date for the freshman picnic, May 14, was announced by Presi dent Jasmin. Committee appoint ments are to be announced soon. Oregana on the Press; Out Junior Week-end The Oregana is now on the press at the Koke-Chapman printing com pany and will bo ready for distribu tion May 21, Campus Day during Junior Week-end. Frank E. An drews is reported to have said that the 1927 Oregana, according to pres ent indications, will be the best yearbook that the Associated stu dents have issued in more than twelve years. Mr. Andrews is vice president of the Hieks-Chatten en graving company of Portland, who for the past twelve years have handled all the engraving for the student annual. Paul Sletton, circulation manager, announced late yesterday that the last drive had been successful and that very few books remained to be sold. The members of the faculty and students are now being solic ited in an effort to cover the cam pus thoroughly. Also a drive for subscriptions is being launched on the medical school campus in Port land. It is thought that all the Ore ganas will be sold with these drives, but students who have not sub scribed may yet subscribe either at the Co-op or at the graduate man ager ’s office in the north end of Friendly hall.