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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
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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
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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
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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
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| 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.
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