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
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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,
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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,
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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.