Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, September 28, 1927, First News Section, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text> UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1927 ? 9/ S First News Section Editorial f ' ail<l Sports . VOLUME XXIX NUMBER 1 Enrollment Reaches 2636 For Campus Tli roe of Large Outside Groups Not Included In Figures New Registrar Relieves In Future for Oregon Students Represent Wide Area Student enrollment in the Univer sity numbered 2G.’0 Tuesday piorn ing, according to reports issued yes terday afternoon from 1be office of Earl M. Pallet!, new registrar. These figures do not, iiudude the medical school, the graduate students, or the extension division. Although only 2551 were regis tered at this time last year, 2S07 was tlie total enrollment for the last fall term. Comparative figures for freshmen and upperclassmen have not yet been prepared. ■ A larger number of transfers is listed this year than previously. Tliis is thought by officials to indi cate a greater appeal by the Uni versity to students at other insti tutions. Practically every state in the union is represented in the enroll ment. Among those coming from other countries are Dorothy David son of Wninien, Kauaii, Olyve Den nings of Honolulu,, find Deva I’utva from India. Mr. Putra attended the summer session at the Univer sity this year. He plans to earn B. A., M. A., and Ph. I), degrees be fore leaving Oregon. An unusually large number of Pliillipinos are also registered this year. Theresa Chambelland ot Lorraine, Franco, who received the Women s League foreign scholarship, is now On Hie campus also. She comes from Sarbonne University, Paris. The registrar, Karl if. Pallett, is himself new on the campus anil in Oregon. lie comes from the State Teachers' College of Madison, South Dakota. There he acted as director of extension work for the past six years. This is the first time Mr. Pallet has been further west than South Dakota. He enjoyed the drive to Oregon by way of Yellowstone Na tional Park and the Columbia lliver Highway very much, he says. “I think Oregon is a fine place,” he seated. “| didn’t realize the Vii ve sity was this large. It’s go in; to have a great future.” r. Pallet likes everything about the coast except the rain. There line been scarcely two weeks 'of rain during his past six years in Dakota, he declared. The new registrar has few changes to make and intends to con tinue the policies of Carlton K. Spencer, whom he succeeds. The youngest freshman registeredj so far this year is day Cohagan from’ yt. James Collegiate school, near Winnepeg, Canada. He was just j fifteen August 30. Other students have entered at the age of 13 but none have been as close to 14 as he.! Cohagan, a journalism major, is lather large for his age, fond of outdoor sports, and not in any sensei the "bookworm” type of young-i ster. In high school ho was editor of the school paper, and did con siderable writing. He has had some actual news paper experience in Canada and in- i tends to earn part of his support by writing and working on papers. I Cohagan chose to outer the Univer sity because of the advantages of-. fered by the school of journalism here, he stated. Red Cross Roll Call To Be November 11-21 Yearly roll call of the American: National Red Cross will be hold this year from November 11 to ” l, dur ing which time funds for its support for the entire year will he solicited. During the iast year the Red j Cross accomplished significant work in the great Mississippi flood region. 600,000 persons at one time being dependent upon it for food and shel Trio of White Ducks Attracts the Attention Of Campus Co-eds Throe white ducks have been seen of late enjoying themselves on the Alpha Phi lawn. The trio has al ready won popularity among the co-eds there, but they still defy all attempts at captivity. They have no names, they tell no secrets; but those who know, say they are pilgrims from the Bale household around the corner. In fact they are supposed first to have arrived in that neighborhood very short and fuzzy and yellow as an Easter* gift to Georgia, the small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Dale. i , Despite Tegular meals in their own ( back yard, they insist upon making . periodic visits .to neighboring home j steads. These sojourneys, at least in the ease of their latest, are excur sions merely for the pleasure and bring no remuneration in food. Of late their wanderings have •been less extensive, a tendency most becoming to residents of such elder ly nature. Whether or not they have adopted the Alpha Phi yard as their final Mecca is yet to be told. Yearlings Fail To Break High P. A. Records Robert Everts Leads last With 149 Points; Lowry Next Although several, good records wore made in the freshman physi cal ability tests given last week, no standing records were broken. They were given under the direction pf Herman Gawcr, of the men’s physical education department. This year’s scores are higher than previous counts. Robert Everts, who won first place in the recent tests, made 1-19 points without breaking any* of the records of fore going years. Fourteen men out. of the 250 who took the test scored more than 100 points. Everts leads the list with 149. Other good scores run up were Howard Lowry, 140; William Pitt man, 124; A. .T. Kiel' 102; Ralph Prose, 119; William Gillette, 117; Carl Knowles, 114; F. W. Smith, 125; Jack Card, 112; Fred Feller, 112 Arthur Jones. 109 M. Siddall, 110; Ed Sigmund, IOC; and A. Schneider, 104. One standing record was tied by Ennis Keizer when he cleared the bar vault at six feet 10 inches. Everts high jumped five feet six inches for the best mark last week; Schneider climbed the rope in 10 seconds, as matched aigajnst the record of eight and fohr-tenths seconds held by A. Hills. Howard Lowry ran the two laps in 20 seconds. Gilbert Hermance holds the crown in that event with a 22.2 second run a couple of years ago. Arthur Jones made the best record in the swim with one minute and nine seconds. Jolyiny Ander son, frosh star last year, is the champ with his mark of one minute and one second. Another physical abillt.v test will be given on October 1 at nine o’clock in the morning for men who failed in the past test or did not take it at that time. Kollege Knights Lead McDonald Programs Returning from a sensationally successful season as the feature at traction at Cole McElroy's Spanish Ballroom, in Portland, and as radio favorites over the Oregonian sta tion, KGW, George McMurphy, Ore gon's own Czar of rhythm, and his famous Kollege Knights, have been | contracted for week-etjd appear-1 ances oat the McDonald Theatre. j McMui phey, who is well known I on the campus as a band leader and orchestra director, is acting as mas ! ter of ceremonies during the j Knights’ stage appearances, the) first of which was an event of i Freshman week. The baud's next j appearance will be this week-end. I beginning Thursday night, during the showing of Billie Dove in "The Stolen Bride.” The time is 8:50 nightly. United Press News Service For Emerald j First College Newspaper In Northwest With Telegraph Oregon Journal Wire Will Be Installed University Publicity to Be Sent Out By GEORGE T>. C'RTSSEY (Manager Pen t land Bureau United Press) Through a delay in installing equipment, the United Press news service does not appear in today’s Emerald but will begin with tomor row’s edition. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 28. — (UP)—With today’s issue the Ore gon Emerald' presents telegraphic dispatches, gathered by the United Press associations, for the first time. The Emerald may now disregard state and national boundary lines. By becoming a member of the United Press, a world-wide news gathering and distributing agency, it has rejegated distance to the click of a telegraph key. It now is in a position to go “around the world, around the clock by United Press,” with each issue. In joining with the ever increas ing 'group of newspapers served by the United Press, the Emerald defi nitely established international re lations and became a regular news paper in the truest sense. Opera tion of the United Press girdles the globe. The sun never goes down on United Press staff correspondents at work in all corners of tlie world where news is to be found, gather ing facts for presentation to readers of hundreds of newspapers in 37 countries. Emerald Tops List The Emerald, it may be noted with a degree of pride, is the first collegiate newspaper in the Pacific Northwest to print telegraphic as well as local news. There are other collegiate papers, however, which are members of the United Press. They include, among others, the Daily Californian of the University of California, and the Daily Mis sourian of Columbia, Missouri. Although most persons are fa miliar with the results accomplished by a press association, many have false impressions as to the manner of operation. The United Press is not a great machine clicking off news. Back of the telegraph instrument is a man—a reporter, just as. the gun crew must man' the best of war making machinery. Back of the Lindbergh Paris arrival “flash” there was a hard working staff which sighted the plane, identified it and then flashed that the trans Atlantic flier had arrived. Equip ment, however, was so good that the report reached Oregon members of the United Press three seconds after the “Spirit of St. Louis” came to earth. Big Coverage * Because so much depends on men, the United Press has trained cor respondents wherever there is news. Central stations, called bureaus, dot the globe.' There regular staffs are maintained, some to select and file news, others to re-write it and to direct correspondents stationed at distant points but in communication with that bureau. Others are in reserve, ready for personal cover age of a story worth such effort, or to care for any sudden emergency. The largest of these bureaus in the United States is' in New York and the largest in foreign service is the London bureau. There are dozens of such offices. The United Press 1ms six on the Pacific coast, in addition to a correspondent with client newspapers and in other cities everywhere. The Portland bureau, for example, is the major office in the Pacific Northwest. It is charged with the task of supervising the coverage of news in the territory assigned to it. This bureau is lo cated in the Journal building, Port land, where Mo*se operators and un canny automatic telegraph machines receive news .from everywhere. Every University of Oregon student has a standing invitation to visit this bureau at any time. When a wire opens, either night or day-—as the two periods have different staffs—the bureau Jmen have a basis 'of their day’s work outlined. They know of certain things which are to happen and stories arc ready. News is judged (Continued on page twg) Directorate of the. Greater Oregon Committee rrrrrEsKtejfcrJC FRONT ROW: Ronald Selleae, Bend; Robert Galloway, Cottage Grove; Joe McKeown, Marshfield; Harold Socolefsky, Salem, General Chairman; Fred West, Klamath Falls; Harold Davis, The Dalles. Back Rop: Frank: Ball, Portland, Assistant Chairman; William Adams, Milwaukie; Avery Thompson, Salem; William Biggs, Ontario; Walter Durgan, Eugene; Roy Herndon, Freewater; and John Halderman, Astoria. Ted Burney, Bak r, was on the directorate but was appointed after the picture was taken. Big Sister Work Trends Now To 6Get Wise Party’ Little Sisters Familiarized With General Activities On Campus With the summer work of Big Sis ters ended and the liub-bub of regis tering little sisters quieting down, interests or both hTg'-and Little Sis ters are beginnings to settle around the annual (“Get Wise Party,” which will be held Saturday, Octo ber 1, at 4 p. m. in the women’s gymnasium. This party, which is under the general supervision of Frances Plimpton, helps annually to carry out the work of the Big Sister movement, and through contact with representatives of the various cam pus organizations helps the Little Sisters to become familiar with the general workings of campus activi ties. Helen Webster, chairman of the Big Sister committee, urges that all Big Sisters escort their charges to the party, and that anyone who does not have a Big Sister report to her for one. The greatest responsibility and the field of greatest usefulness for Big Sisters is to introduce the freshmen women under their care to campus life, says the chairman, and tlii. party was initiated for that purpose. Big Sister work did not begin with registration week on the cam pus this fall, for all during the sum mer Big Sisters, under the direction of Helen Webster with Beatrice Ma son as her assistant, were making acquaintances with their Little Sisters through letters. They also afforded escorts for freshmen -wo men who eamc into Eugene on every train before registration week, and helped them find their places at the University. .Then there was the task of registration, and now the familiarization with campus activi ties. The Big Sister teams are as fol lows: Marian Anderson, Captain; lieu tenants Rena Alexander, Naomi Moshberger, Agnes Palmer, Mae Moore, Bernice Lund, Hilda Wan ker, Katherine Bonham, Pauline Guthrie, Ethel Gasman, Marian Stenn. Grace Fleming, captain; lieuten ruts; Manrine Lombard, Muriel Bell, Margaret Blackman, Helen Tooze, Miriam Shepherd, Genieve Bolding, Doris Lienallen, Loraine Dufort, Bernice Rasor. Edna Ellen Bell, captain; lieuten ants; Mary MaeLean, Eleanor Flan nagan, Doris Wells, Mildred Tuggle, Betty Horseman, Edwina Gicbel, Lo lita Jaegar, Helen Williams, Helen Peters, Frederica Warren. Cliarlottc-June Carll; lieutenants. Ruth Bradley, Margaret Agnew, Bolen Lutcher, Jean Patrick, Betty Higgins, Gretehen Kier, Caulean Croath, Mary Esther Johnson, Doro thy Yilliger, Olive Ritan. Agnes Chipping, captain; lieuten ants, Diana Dieninger, Luola Benge, Mary Anne Sargent, lone Garbe, Hariet Atchison, Emily BabbiJge, (Continued on page seven) Bragg Joins R.O.T.C. As Rifle Team Coacli; Uniforms Changed The stiff “stand-up” collars of the E. O. T. C. coats, which have cliokci the perspiring throats of young cadets, and, unbuttoned, have cast a general air of disrepute on the military department, have been abolished and replaced with roll collars, similar to those on civilan coats, according to Colonel “vV. S. Sinclair, head of the Oregon It. O. T. C. Shiny gilt buttons have also re placed the bronze ones of former [ years, he said. Captain Clarence II. Bragg, who received his commission at Camp Benning, Georgia, has been appoint ed professor of military science, taking the place of Captain Frank L. Culin, who' resigned last spring. Captain Bragg was a member of the Infantry rifle team which entered the national competition at Camo Perry, Ohio, last year. This gives him the ranking of one of the thirty best marksmen in the United States Infantry, Colonel Sinclair said. Orp tain Bragg will coach the rifle teams tliis year. The war department has increased the allowance for men taking the basic military course from 500 to (150, according to Colonel Sinclair. However, he said, the number of men taking the advanced course has been reduced from 45 to 39. There is much excellent material for the B. O. T. C. band in the freshman c-lass, Colonel Sinclair said. The band this year will con sist of 55 men, an increase of 15 over last year. Twenty-one men from the Oregon E. O. T. C. attend ed tlie annual summer camp at Camp Lewis, 'Washington, according to .Colonel Sinclair. For his summer’s work m military science each man will receive six university credits. New Traffic Rules; Students Threatened Every year the police department of Eugene suffers the torments oi unlawful student drivers. The chief offenses are speeding, driving four or more in the driver’s seat, double parking, cutting corners, parking without lights, and as pranks, stealing parking signs. Stu dents brought into the police court usually have no mom^- for paying fines. They expect the city to carry such accounts with the result that it is rarely collected. This year it will be different, ac cording to Chief of Police Strait. Students fined will have to forfeit the amount at once. The molesters of traffic signs will promptly draw a jail sentence. Elmer L. Shirrell, new dean of men, believes that a strict enforce ment of the new traffic rules will greatly lessen the danger to stu dents, especially along Alder and Thirteenth streets. Gamma Nil Girls Organize First Group Iii Years Sorority Boasts Members Bearing Pledges to 8 Honoraries Gamma Xu, the first local soror ity to bo founded on tlie University of Oregon campus in the last five years, was organized'by a group of Oregon ginls at the close of last spring term, and is starting as a living group this fall. The group is living at 877 Eleventh avenue east, between the present Alpha Delta Pi house and the former Tlii Sigma Kappa house. Work of organization was carried on during the summer, but the mem bers were not in an actual living or ganization until the first week of tlie term. “The University administration is very glad to welcome the forma tion of the new local,” said Dean Virginia Judy Esterly concerning the new sorority. “There is need for even another sdCorit-y on the campus.” “The formation of a new local sorority is a serious move on Khe part of any girl and) demands an exceptionally fine personnel in scholarship, in activities, and in personality before the group can hope for success,” said Bernice Kasor, president. “Our membership is very active in honoraries, 10 girls belonging to eight different national honoraries, and active in other campus activities. Our scholastic achievement will be in evidence at the end ef this fall term. Person ality must be judged by each in dividual for herself. We are hoping for success.” The members of Gamma Xu are: Vena M. Gaskill, Beaverton; Lillian Vail, Eugene; Thusnelda Koehler, Salem; Beatrice Wilder, Bend; Al lison Wilder, Bend, seniors; Bernice Kasor, Eugene* Kuby Russell, Mc Minnville; Mae Bryant, Newberg: Bernyce Hensley, Stayton; ^ Alice Edwards, Tacoma, Washington;-Mil dred Lowden, Wonder; Mary Eliza beth Ilarney, Portland; Mary Mc Lean, Portland, juniors; Carolyn Cooper, Burley, Idaho; Mary Frances Dildav, Long Beach, California; Zelle Ruble, Salem; Lucille Ed wards, Tacoma, Washington, and Dorothy Dietze, Lakeview, sopho mores. Four of the members are not in school this term but expect to re turn to the University. They are: Ruth Newman, Grants Pass; Lily de Bernardi, Glide; Ruth Hopson, Marshfield, and Winifred Gouldin, Burns. The girls who were pledged this term are: Ovidia Hammer, Ruth James, Lucille Cornutt and Rena Cornutt. Mrs. Elizabeth Scaeife is the Gamma Xu housemother. Geometry Make-up Is To Be Assigned Frosli All freshman students who have deficiencies in piano geometry are requested to attend a meeting in Room l,t Johnson hall, Thursday at 4 p. m. Make up work and hours will be assigned at this meeting, and everyone entering with defi ciencies is urged to attend the ses sion. Miss Tisdale will be in charge of the meeting.' Boosters for Oregon Work All Summer Greater Oregon Committee Praiseil for Efforts by Beelar ’-. J” j Over 1000 Students Aided l>y Workers Soeolofsky Advises Early Naming of Head The Greater Oregon committee which was selected last spring by Harold Rooolofsky, chairman, has been working througihout the sum mer, arousing interest among pros pective students through committee members working under district chairmen. Frank Ball served hs assistant general chairman and Bob Galloway handled the publicity. The state was divided into 12 seetions with a district ehaiwnan over each department and a number of committee members working di rectly under him. The working plans of the directorate did not as sume and follow the old lines of procedure. Efforts were made to work more with the individual stu dents ns much as possible. Out standing students in the numerous high schools were recommended from various sources and the com mittee workers endeavored to see them personally and present thorn with information eaTds which were filled out and sent to f*ho University for reference and guidance in send ing literature. Bists Compiled The compiled list of prospective candidates from which the members of the committees work 18 made only after a great deal of effort and careful checking and recom mendations frflm roliablfe isourcest On this list the towns of the state are listed alphabetically under which are included the prospective students in athletics, student body officers, debaters, editors and man agers of publications, musicians and any other positions to bo found in the school. “Over one thousand personal interviews were made,” said Harold,Socolofsky in commut ing on the Summer \s work. There is an enormous amount of work for the directorate to execute in tlie short summer vacation and each year sees now methods devised 1 that will enable more efficient ac tion. In discussing a plan for the election of the chairman of the di rectorate, Socolofskv said lie fa vored an early election. “I think that the Greater Oregon committee chairman should bo ap pointed at the end of the winter term so as to give time to do some thing before the last week of the term,” he concluded. In recognition of the work done by the committee, Don Beolar, presi dent of the A. S. U. O., commented that “The Greater Oregon commit tee has been very successful this summer. It is one of three main committees of the A. S. U. O., and working through the summer aa it does, must give manifestation of real Oregon spirit, since they work with little honor or recognition by the students. Eeeiar Makes Comment “There is no definite or tangible standard wifc whiifi to measure their work, except by the yirescnt freshman class, the work of Hie sub committees, and the organization of the Greater Oregon committee itself. “They are giving a great service to the student body in the way of .publicity and freshmen attendance.” The twelve districts and their chairmen are: No. 1, Malheur, Lake and Harney, William Biggs; No. 2, Grant, Baker, Wallowa and Huion, Ted Gurney; No. 3, Uma tilla, Morrow, Gilliam and Wheeler, Roy Herndon; No. 4, KlamaMi, Jackson and Josephine, Fred West; No. 5, Douglas, Coos and Curry, Joe McKeown; No. (i, Deschutes, Jeffer son and Crook, Ronald Sellers; No. 7, Wasco, Sherman and H,ood River, Harold Davis; No. 8, Multnomah, except Portland, and Clackamas, William Adams; No. !), Linn, Lane and Benton, Walter Durgan; No. 10, Polk, Marion, Lincoln and Yamhill, Avery Thompson; No. 11, Portland, Frank Ball; No. 12, Columbia, Washington and Tillamook, Jolig Ilalderman.