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V Oratory Meet Decision Goes ToMcCroskey Unanimous Vote Gives Oregon Man Chance At O. A. C. May 4 Redding, of Willamette, Reiman, 0. A. C., Enter ‘The Constitution’ Is Title Of All Orations Benoit McCROSkeY w a s awarded a unanimous decision last night in the National Inter-Col legiate Oratorical contest, and will represent the state of Oregon in the coast meet, as the University of 'Oregon’s entrant. He contested last night against Charles Bedding, of Willamette University, who was awarded second place, and Alfied Beiman, of Oregon Agricultural Col lege. The title for all three orations was “The Constitution,” and ten minutes was allotted to each speaker. Last night’s decision will entitle McCroskey to participate in the coast meet which will be held at Corvallis, May - 4. The winner of this contest will represent Ihe Pacific coast in the national meet to be held in Los Angeles in June. Prizes in the national contest range from $2,000 for first place to $300 for the seventh, making a total of $5,000 in awards. Citizenship Deserves Respect “Everv individual must realize his personal duty, however humble it is,” said Mr. McCroskey in point ing out remedies for the indifference which he shows to be consuming the people of the United States with re gard to their government. Every citizen cannot be a leader of his nation, but everyone can contribute a measure of respect and his whole hearted support. The people of the United States today enjoy more benefits than their forefathers ever dreamd of, he de clared, but questioned the fact that they perform their duties of citizen ship with the same respect. Mr. McCroskey made it plain that emo tional respect was not the issue in point, but that the true respect which arises from knowledge and under standing was a necessity in the American people today. Election Problem Touched But the citizen owes more than his respect to his constitution and country. He owes his active par ticipation in the government. This is where the condition of apathy and indifference is most noticeable, and McCroskey asked if the people live up to their part of the constitu tional contract as they demand that the government fulfill Jts ,'shalre. He pointed out that in the last pres idential election only fifty per cent of the qualified voters took the trouble to go to the polls, and asked if the fathers of the constitution struggled so that only a majority •of half the people would have a voice in the government, in place of a majority of the whole people. Voting has become a lost art, he declared, and said that the United States stands lower in this respect than any other country that de pends on this system, except China. Second Year as Orator In the introductory paragraphs of his oration, Mr. McCroskey made a well selected analogy of the attitude that should prevail with the American people toward their constitution, and the atti tude of respectful and sincere reverence for the I irgin Mary of the pious French mountebank of Anitole France’s tale. A realiza tion of personal duty should be coupled with the mountebank’s rev (Continued on page four) Gym Majors Win From Faculty Indoor Players o For the second successive time -the physical education majors de feated their faculty opponents in the old-fashioned game of indoor baseball. The first victory, which caused such a hullabaloo, happened a week ago Thursday when the teachers went down to a 5 to 4 defeat before the slants of Herman Gower. Another batting spree this week gave the majors a one-sided victory. 19 to 7. Del Oberteuffer occupied the oaken boards for the physical education instructors with Earl (Dutch) Widmer presiding behind the plate. Glenn Howard, president of the Physical Education club, starred with the willow. When Winners Lose In Student Elections 'HIS campus saw some fine -■- winnings at the elections the other day, but no one stopped to flunk that we had some odd 22 of the best losers one could im agine. The old maxim still holds good, that, it’s easy to win but darned hard to lose. After all everyone who ran for office knew that some one had to win and also there must be a defeat ed party. Plans are under way for a Lame Duck dinner which prom ises to mark an epoch in the lives of those who ran but whom at present aren’t in running or der. This isn’t to be sponsored by the Webfoot either, but after the party or more literally dur ing the party, the winners will feel that they were the losers. Dr. Hodge to Tell Engineers Points On Road Geology Faculty Man Will Stress Science in Lecture At Portland Geologists can not only look a fossil in the eye and tell the age of its grandmother, or estimate within a grain' of tobacco about, how many Camel cigarettes it would take to reproduce the smoke and ashes of Mt. Vesuvius, but they sometimes tell engineers a thing or two about roads. Dr. Edwin T. Hodge, of the geology department, will speak before the Northwest Association of Highway Engineers at Portland this evening for that very purpose. The facility of sketching pic tures which has made Dr. Hodge widely known, will enable him to make his lecture a picture-talk on the geology of Oregon. He believes that geology in the matter of roads has been sadly neglected. An en gineer, before he builds a road, should understand the geology of the region well enough so that he ,can predict the initial cost and the maintenance expense. Before tourists cluttered the high ways and took the lead as the fore most nuisance and industry in west ern America, roads were built through areas offering the least re sistance, with scant attention paid to the scenic value of the route. Dr. Hodge, in his lecture, will play the bass notes on the economic value of going to additional expense and building roads through regions offering the most returns in natural beauty instead of traversing re gions where an Eskimo would be bored to monotony. Dr. Hodge says that roads are like restaurants or hotels; they have to offer something worthwhile be fore they will attract customers. As highways are built essentially for tourists, in making a choice be tween two routes, one should be kept open to include some of the scenic wonders of the state instead of losing on what might be a good investnient by making too efficient detours or tunneling under them, he points out. Station KGEH Will Broadcast Numbers Of “Creole Moon” Seleetipns from “Creole Moon” will be/featured next week in a radio program sponsored by George MeMurphey, director of the “Kol lege Knights” orchestra, according to MeMurphey. The new 50-watt station which was in operation for the first time at the Campa Shoppe last night has been licensed as local station KGEH and is scheduled to handle a variety of musical programs. MeMurphey’s orchestra, composed almost exclusively of University musicians, (has ireen 'definitely booked for the summer season by Cole McElroy’s Spanish Ballroom, Portland. Tests by the Columbia Phonograph Company for suitability of the orchestra for recording pur poses will be conducted in June. Student and Graduate Go to San Francisco Sigrid Martinson and Luoren Ra sor, both of the extension division staff, left Friday for San Francisco. Miss Martinson, a graduate of j ’26, has worked as secretary to Dr. Dan E. Clark since last September. Miss Kasor, a junior on the cam pus, is going south for a month’s vacation. Entire Cast in 'Creole Moon’ Meets Today Chorus of Teu Will Appear At W'inter Garden May 13 All Directors Ordered Present at Rehearsal Third Act Now High Spot In Musical Comedy WITH the final presentation of “Creole Moon” only two weeks away, the directors of the various depart ments of the pro duction will get ac quainted this after noon at 3 o ’clock in Villard hall and see how their charges function when teamed with others. May 7 To date, the east, of the play which offers an excuse for the sing ing and dancing numbers, has been rehearsing in chunks, one act at a time. The choruses, too, have been practicing as units, rather than as a whole, and few of the members know where they come in and where they go out. Therefore, today’s un dertaking will be a grand slam, with all hands on deck. The speak ers will speak, the singers will sing, and the dancers will dance. The directors, all of them, will stand by and contribute suggestions or sar casm, as the occasion demands. Winter Garden Gets Ponies A\n unprecedented |fe)ature will accompany this year’s production. For purposes of advertising, the pony chorus, ten strong, and several of the best specialty acts, will be offered for the public eye a week before the official opening night, Friday, May 13. Next Saturday night, in the Winter Garden, the “Creole Moon” luminaries will hold sway. The date is an opportune one, as the Campa Shoppe, which usual ly idraws the week-end! dancers, will be closed for repairs. Kittve Sartain, director of chorus work, has been working her charges overtime in preparation for this event, and has practically decided on her line-up. Louise Storla will be on right end, according to pres ent dope, and Emery Miller will appear at right tackle. The girls will specialize on the black bot (Continued on page two) Varsity Racket Men Score Clean Sweep In Reed College Meet PORTLAND, Ore., April 29— (Special fo Emerald)—The Univer sity of Oregon tennis team defeated the Reed college net men 9 to 0 in the matches in Portland yesterday. Roy Okerberg, playing number one position for Oregon, started the com petition against Swett, Reed col lege, 6-2, 12-10. Other singles results were: Neer, Oregon, vs. Willett, Reed, 6-0, 6-1; Hartman, Oregon, vs. Shapiro, Reed, 6-1, 6-1; Cross, Oregon, vs. Tren holme, Reed, 6-4, 6-2; Cohn, Oregon, vs. Overman, Reed, 6-1, 6-1; Edge, Oregon, vs. Atkinson Reed, 6-4, 6-1. The results of the doubles: Oker berg and Neer, vs. Shapiro and Swett, 6-0, 6-0; Hartman and Cross, vs. Willett and Atkinson, 8-10, 6-0, 11-9; Edge and Cohn vs. Overman and Trenholme, 6-4, 6-1. The varsity will meet the Mult nomah club racket swingers this afternoon in Portland. Last year the varsity won 5 to 2. “Mysteries,” New Book By Hamson, at Library The utter and incurable solitary state of the human creature forms the underlying thought of “Mys teries,” the latest book by Knut Hamsun which has been received at the library. Hamsun was the win ner of the Nobel prize in 1920, and is a Norwegian writer of note. A French writer, Andre Maurois, auth or of “Ariel”, the life of Shelley, also contributes to the new books with “Bernard Quesnay,” a novel. “Across Three Oceans,” a story of a colonial voyage in the yacht /‘Saoirse,” is by Conor O’Brien. “Cardinal Mercier,” by Georges Govou; “France, Spain and the Rif,” by Walter B. Harris, and “The Brotherhood of the Sea,” by E. Keble Chatterton, make up the other books of the new shipment. Weather Changes Make Girls *Change* ISN’T it funny how old savings hold true even today in the age of short sk.rts and bobbed hair? Take the old adage, “It's an ill wind that blows no one good.” The last few days have proved it over and over. The Alpha Xi Deltas and Delta Gammas and a few Chi Omegas and lots of girls from Hendricks and Susan Campbell halls can rush home several times a day-—every time the wind changes from warm to cold and back again—to change elothes. . No wonder Ben Dover, the Seven Seer’s frosh, rubs his eyes when he sees his secret sorrow in a yellow slicker at her nine o’clock, in a white spring outfit at her eleven o’clock, and in a dark wool dress for her three o ’clock. He remembers that women are said to dress for the men, and admits that he likes the change in costume. But, sad to tell, one can’t help noticing the shivering members of Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Del ta Pi, Delta Zeta, and even Al pha Omieron Pi, who live so far from the campus that they haven’t time to make a quick change when the ill wind and dark clouds frown chilly on their spring attire. Debaters to Try' For World Tour At 10 a. m. Today — Three Men and Alternate Will Compose Team To Circle Globe Tryouts for the world tour, .a nine months’ trip through all Eng lish speaking countries for four University of Oregon debaters, be gin this morning at 10 o’clock in room 102, sociology building. Three regulars and one alternate \^ill be chosen as a result of the try outs, to make the trip around the world, debating against educational institutions in several different countries. One of the three chosen will be manager of the team. He will take care of the correspondence and schedule debates. According to present plans, the Oregon team will meet teams from the University of Hawaii, at Hono lulu, the University of New Zea land, five universities in Australia, several in Scotland, and several other colleges in cities en route to North America on the last lap of the tour. Speakers are limited to six min utes, and contestants may take either side of the question, “Re solved, That Democracy is a Fail ure.” All students but freshmen are eligible to compete in the tryouts. Authorization to carry out re maining arrangements in an en deavor to complete the project was given last week by the forensic com mittee of the executive council. I Oregon is the first university in the i United States to conduct a world debate tour. Several other univer sities have in the past sent debating teams to Great Britian to meet Ox ford university, but none has ever made a world tour. Students to Feature Violin, Voice, Piano At Monday Rehearsal The Monday student rehearsal for next week will feature violin, voice, and piano numbers. As these pro grams are open to the public both Dr. J. .T. Landsbury, dean of the school of music, and Louis P. Artau, instructor in the school of music and manager of the rfcliearsals, are eager to have students and anyone interested attend. The rehearsals are given every Monday at 5 o’clock in the Music auditorium, and provide an opportunity to the students of music to give the tilings that they are working on from time to time. ; Next Monday’s program follows: . 1. Violin, Melody . Tschaikowsky Margaret Inwood i IT. Piano, Valse. Caprice . Grieg Ruth Lent ; Tir. Voice, My Love Comes Soon. .. .. Ralph Co* There are Fairies at the Bottom of Our Garden . Liza Lehmann Reta Grubbe i IV. Piano, Lento . Cyril Scott i A Song from the East .... Cyril Scott Luella. Elliott. 80 Actors of ! High Schools S Visit Mav 4-6 University Drama School Sponsoring Contest On Campus Ten Plays Entered For Silver Cup Prize Half Hour to Be Length Of One-act Plays rT'MIE students of the school of ■*- drama are to be hosts to near ly 80 high school actors at the Uni- j versity of Oregon, May 4, 5 and C. A high school drama contest, one of the first of its kind to be held in America, is scheduled. Ten schools are to compete for the sil ver cup that will be awarded Fri day night to the play best directed, staged and acted. These plays are one-acts and will be not over an hour in length. Each school has ad vjse<f the stagie-crnft class jfrom Guild theater on the articles need ed, and type of stage settiug and lighting it will expect. , The University high school of Eu gene will open the tournament Wed nesday night with “Drums of | Oude,” by Austin Strong, under di rection of Mrs. Edna Assenheiiner. Two other plays will be given the same evening: namely, “The Play goers” by Arthur Pinpero, Newberg high school under the direction of Elaine Hooper, and “The Maker of Dreams,” by Oliphant Down, pre sented by Lebanon high school, with Alice M. Oliver as director. Pour high schools are scheduled to produce plays on Thursday night. They are: Eugene high school pre senting “The Heart of Prances,” by Constance Wilcox, under direc tion of Ethel Chase Christie; Wash ington high school, Portland, pre senting “Much Too Sudden,” by Alice C. Thompson, under the direc tion of Hilda B. Carruth; McMinn ville senior high school presenting “Cajun”, by Ada Jack Carver, un- [ der the direction of Mrs. Glennie j Mae Early, assisted by Ruth Beal; | Corvallis high school presenting “The Flower of Yeddo,” by Victor Mapes, under the direction of Libby Krichesky. Friday night the contest will close with three plays; /namely, “Will o’ the Wisp,” by Doris F. Holman, presented by the Milwau kie union high school under the di rection of Jeanette H. Elliott; “Trifles,” by Susan Glaspell, will be given by Roseburg high school, directed by Lloyd J. Reynolds; and the “Romancers,” by Edmund Ros tand, will be staged by Jefferson high school, Portland, under the di rection of Nina L. '#Treathouse, as sisted by Miss Laber. Those who have been in charge of the tournament are on the campus. They have arranged the major un dertaking, selected the judges and appointed student committees. They (Continued on page three) First National Film Tests to Be Soon; I Contestants Wanted Film tests sponsored through the efforts of College Humor by the ; First National Film corporation, j scheduled for Wednesday, May 4, i will be taken in Guild theater, Dan iel P. Cheney, representative, an- | nouneed yesterday. To date, less than a hundred men | have signed up so there is room for more. Those wishing to compete should leave their names on a slip of paper addressed to Cheney in the journalism “shack,” or at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Present plans call for the men who have signed up for the contest to appear at McArthur igloo Wed nesday morning. There, ten will he selected and taken to Guild the- J ater whe.re they will be made up and shot. This last process is much better than it sounds or much worse, depending entirely upon the indi vidual, because the prospective j movie star will be allowed to stand , on the stage while the heavy lights | are focused upon him and the cam- j era clicks. The negatives will be sent to the main office in Burbank, California, : and compared to those taken in the various other colleges in the United ’ States. The ten best will be chosen i and the men offered eight-week con- | tracts and oxpensos to go to the i studio in Burbank and work in some | capacity. The successful candidates i may or may not be offered further | contracts. Ponies Not Found at Examination Time Tk^TANY people horse around but no more than the ponies in the Junior Revue. They have a driver too; Kittye Sartain is the alleged slave driver. Eatly and late she gives them the work, some working overtime to perfect steps and others just dance. Some person said these ponies looked like rocking horses but Harold Mangum, the publicity director, says that when they dance the Black Bottom they are like the charge of the Light Brigade (so much powder). There have been others added to the choruses. It seems the Oregon daughters are so beauti ful that the Revue will have to include a goodly portion of the co-eds. Nancy Luckel, Cather ine Clendening, and Rose Roberts have joined rank with the enter tainment for the Junior Yodville. It is also rumored around that the University will see with “Creole Moon” the real un abridged Argentina Tango. Frosh Ball Team To Meet Rooks On Campus Today Game Starts at 2 o’Clock; Yearlings Rated Best Squad The freshman baseball team will get a conclusive test of its strength this afternoon at 2 o’clock when it meets the O. A. C. rooks on Mie varsity diamond. Revenge for the decisive defeats handod the frosh team last year by the rooks is what the players are all striving for. With a record of three straight victories to their credit, the Oregon yearlings have a slight edge on their old-time rivals, who have already tasted defeat from Columbia univer sity, of Portland. The yearlings have turned in victories over Al bany college and two over the nor mal school. Much credit for the frosh wins so far is placed upon-Coach Spike Les lie ’s superb pitching staff, Ander son and Fuller. These two flingers, alternating in the ibox, registered a no-liit game against Albany col lege and held the normal school to a few scattered bingles. The team has been giving the pitchers excel lent hitting and fielding support. The opening lineup for today’s game will be Walton, catcher; Ful ler, pitcher; Nelson, first base; Wirth, second base; Robie, short stop; Mason, third base; and Wil liams, Giles, and Coleman, outfield ers. Next week the yearlings meet the Salem and Washington high school nines. The game today will be the first of four games to be played with the rooks this season. Huskies Win 1-0 Victory Over Oregon -- | Fred West Pulls Surprise ) And Goes Limit; Lone Run in First Webfoots Fail to See Gardner’s Offerings Washington Infield Stops Lemon-Yellow Clouts By ART SCHOENI UNIVERSITY OP WASHING TON, Seattle, April 29. (Special).— Hal Gardner, Husky captain, held the University of Oregon baseball team to three widely scattered hits here today, and the Purple and Gold squeezed over a lone run on Freddy West to win, 1 to 0. Gardner had a .blinding fast ball and a sharp-break ing curve that had the Webfoots breaking their backs. Six of the Lemon-Yellow crew struck out. Huskies Field Well Billy Eddy got a single in the secoind inning for Oregon, Harry Dutton snared another in the third, and then the Webfoots went hitless and runless until the ninth when McCormick bingled. Spectacular fielding by the Washington infield cut off several intended hits. Joe Johnson, at shortstop, worked like a clock. The Washington run came in the first inning. West walked Duffy,, the first batter, who worked his way to third base. A sacrifice fly by Percy Bolstad, Purple and Gold first sacker, sent Duffy home for the lone and winning run. . West Surprises West surprised everyone, includ ing himself, by settling down and keeping the Husky pack at bay for the remaining eight innings. Bill Baker will pitch today, and the stars appear favorable for an Ore gon victory. The Webfoots have now lost si,x out of seven baseball games, five of them by one run. Summary: R H E Oregon . 0 3 3 Washington . . 16 0 Batteries—West and Mimnaughj Gardner and McKenzie. Hazel Hayden Gets Botany Fellowship Miss Hazel Hayden, graduate as sistant in the department of botany, has been awarded a fellowship by the botany department of the Uni versity of California at Berkeley. Miss Hayden has been working to wards a master’s degree. For the last few weeks she lias been making a study of the marine algae and the hepatic mosses of the state. Her master’s thesis will cover the hepatics of western Oregon. Mohair Doesn’t Come From Horses But Kids Are Like 'Kids’, Gage Says Fleeces’ Treatment, Process of Manufacture Explained in Illustrated Lecture “It is amusing to note the popular ignorance of what mohair renllv is,” said A. C. Gage, of Portland, in his lecture on the “Mohair Branch of the Wool Industry” in the art building of the University Thursday afternoon. “Many people-think it is horsehair, and the general error shows the need of just such a show ing as this.” Mr Gage is editor of the Angora Journal. His talk was accompanied by moving pictures of the complete machinery and process involved in treatment of mohair at the Sanford Mills, Sanford, Maine. An interesting collection of fabrics was on exhibit following the lec ture. The speaker introduced the treat ment of his subject with an explan ation of mohair and its significance. “Mohair is the fleece of the Angora goat, which is ancient in history,” he said. The goat has a prominent place in many nations, and was an idol of the Romans. It is symbolic to astronomers; and the word “trag edy” is derived from the Latin “tragus,” moaning goat. In Athens the Greek singers clothed themselves in goat skin, and in New York a play was presented entitled “The Goat Song.” Our goats are descended from the Angora goat of Asia. The fleece is found more durable, more elastic, and of more strength than any other known fiber. “Mohair is the whitest fiber known to the textile manufac turers, and has an elegance that can't be produced in any other fiber. Mixing with other fibers cannot produce as fine and durable a fabrie as when it is used alone,” explained Mr. Gage. The dye in vegetable fiber, such as cotton, does not hold in the an imal fiber, so dying of mohair is a more intricate and difficult task than is supposed. The editor ex plained the luster of mohair as com pared to wool; and also showed the unsurpassed wear of it in some sam ples which had born the wear of 30 years already—one, a piece of eur tain from a cathedral, and the other, which had covered a footstool. They were still like new. “It is no wonder that human chil dren are called kids,” he said upon the showing of a picture of young frolicking goats, “for both are so playful and gav. The young goats have organized play games like children.” The first three days of the goat’s life are much more per nicious than those of the sheep. Every step in the process of treatment of mohair, from its clean ing and sorting to its packing as ready material, was shown in the pictures of the Sanford mill. Weav ing, which is done by intricate ma chinery, is shown to be done on a base of cotton thread through which. (Continued on page four)