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4 Varsity Will Play Gonzaga r Next Friday Bulldogs, Who Have Strong Hoop Team This Year, Are Undefeated Bill Reinhart Tries New Combinations Passing Features Oregon 1928 Attack By .TOE riCNEY The Webfoot basketball team will meet Gonzaga University on Mc Arthur court, Friday, January 13, in one of the two remaining games scheduled before the opening con ference game with the Idaho Van dals. Gonzaga comes to Eugene this year ^ with the reputation of having a fast, powerful squad. They have . not been defeated so far this season, and have met some of the best in dependent and non-conference teams in the Northwest. Won Last Year . Last year Reinhart’s Oregonians had little trouble in trouncing the Bulldogs in both games played. The first tilt was played here, and tlie Webfoots amassed the enormous score of 65 to 17. In the second game, at Spokane, the Oregon var sity took a rest, but the reserves won decisively, 36 to 17. Reinhart is devoting this week to eliminating the faults brought out in the two games with Wil lamette last week, to putting a final touch on the offense, and to strengthening the defense. Several times the fleet Bearcat forwards broke through the Webfoot guards for clear shots at the basket, and the sharp-shooting eye developed in the second game for shots coming fvnin -in of Tinlii nrl f h n fmil 1 i n A MVP the Oregon defenders a scare. New Combinations Several new combinations are be ing tried out by Reinhart in an ef fort to avail the most potential set of players, both offensively and defensively. To designate speei are guards on the Oregon team is almost impossible under Reinhart’s ( system. Gordon Ridings and Ber nard Hummelt have been used at forwards during this week’s scrim mage. Hummelt was high point man in the second game with the Bearcats, and is making an ideal running mate, for Ridings. Scott Milligan, Dave Epps, and Mervyn Chastain were the other men who worked in scrimmage last night. The three alternate centers, Reynolds, Edwards, and Eberhart, have been with the reserve squad all week, and Reinhart has been experi menting with Milligan at center. Should this work out satisfactorily, the Webfoots will be strengthened considerably. Two Sets of Guards Two sets of guards will be worked into the lineup at various times without any noticeable change in the plaj'ing form of the team. Joe Bally and Don McCormick will probably get the first call and Epps and Chastain will be used in reserve. Oregon’s offensive style has been changed somewhat this year. Last year’s attack, featured by individual dribbling, has been discarded, and a short, fast passing game substi tuted. This method has several ad vantages. A man dribbling under the basket must watch the ball, his opponents, and the basket, and gets a good deal of rough handling. Roy Okerberg, the most dangerous drib bler on last year’s team, was al ways a target for injuries. Unexpected Event Startles Campus on Tuesday Afternoon Crowds gathered at, the corner of Thirteenth and Alder streets gaz ing with peculiar intentness at the unwonted sight ”' greeted the eye. The window ** e Ijomon-0 Pharmacy became — "t, of blurred faces, nil raptly ' straight ahead. Classes wert y, ttcn. . . professors waited in ^ or stu dents to arrive. Aten ^ ^ ‘range instruments wandered , <r, ^ ' fro on the other side of the . A speed cop passing on his s\ in imated hunk of iron slowi n for a minute and then went u ly on, shaking his head. No, it wasn’t an auto accr , . ... no Ford had attempteu to climb a telephone pole. It was* worse than that. . . . the Sigma Chi “goats” were illustriously' en gaged in cleaning out their cellar. Maurice Hindus, Russian Author, Speaks Tonight Peasantry Study Is Made Through Personal Investigations “Russia in 1927” is the subject upon which Maurice G. Hindus, au thor, orator and traveler, will speak when he appears tonight as second speaker on the A. S. U. O. lecture series. Since the address will start promptly at 7:15, students will be able to attend the Moroni-OIson play on the same evening. Mr. Hindus has made a study of our Americanization movements and immigration situation, as well as the inter-racial relations and attitudes of the Nordics and non-Nordics. His knowledge of the Russian peasantry, upon which ho has published a book, has been gained through .personal investigations. Air. Hindus is the first English-speaking journalist to make such a studv since the over throw of the czar. His last visit to Eussia was made in 1927, when he made a four months tour through Asia, Europe and China, going from Moscow into Mongolia, and from there into Man churia and China. In each section, Mr. Hindus mingled with the classes with whom he was concerned, de liberately choosing the role of spec tator. “I have -certain sympathies, of course,” he said, “but I try to keep them to myself. What I aim to do in anythng I write, is neither to approve nor to disapprove, but merely to portray and interpret. Ideas as such don’t interest me much. It is their effect on human beings that intrigues me. “I’d rather hear a muzhik tell me what he thinks of Soviet mar riage laws or of Henry Ford or of the hounding of the Xepinan, than listen to an Einstein or a Bergson or any other celebrated intellectual. It is common folks that I like, espe cially when they are undergoing a severe inner conflict, as nearly everybody in Eussia is, in the process of readjustment to the new scheme of things.” Mr. Hindus’ articles have ap flbared in such jjurnals as the Cen tury, The Yale Eeview, Current His tory, and the Saturday Eeview. At the present time he is preparing a series of articles to appear later in World’s Work, Harper’s, and Asia. “Asia Aflame” is another lecture which he is giving this season. Entertainment for Mr. Hindus, during his stay on the campus, is being arranged by a special commit tee headed by Edward Best, chair man of the lecture series and enter ! tainmamt committees. Professor I Walter Barnes, Dr. W. D. Smith and Professor William Maddox are the other members of the commit ] tee. United States,™ Feared More Than Any Other Country Except R ussia Says Page “I think the odds are against us in this matter of world peace. But the odds have always been against us. The impossible—so far as what appears to be impossible—has been done in the past, however, and there is no good reason why it can’t be dona in the future. We have done more in less than two decades than we did formerly in centuries.” This was part of the answer to the question asked Kirby Page at the open forum held at the Y. M. hut yesterday afternoon. The ques tions covered a wide scope dealing with the tariff, war debts, immigra tion and war in general “The war debts question is the most important in so far as it leads to misunderstanding between the people of Europe and America. There is more fear of the United States than of any other country except Russia. Eventually, if the debts are to be paid, there will be just two alternatives. Either an exchange of goods or of services. If we could lower the tariff and do it gradually, by agreement over a number of years, it would have a good influ ence,” said Mr. Page. On the question of immigration Mr. Page said that sooner or later we were going to have to face the question on the basis of relative standards of living, instead of on a basis of self interest. “The policy we are now following will make peace impossible,” said Mr. Page, j “We must develop a new technique.”] fWar Can Be Illegalized by jTreaty’-Page Outlawry of Conflicts Is Advocated by Well Known Editor Assails System of ‘College Militarism’ Praise Given the Locarno Agreement “Preparedness for war, as one of ►the causes of war, is one of the most prolific sources of emotions of fear and suspicion that lead to war.” This was one of the outstanding statements of Kirby Page, editor of The World Tomorrow, in a lec ture, “The Outlawry of War,” at Villard Hall Tuesday evening. Mr. Page, who is well known as a writer on social and economic con ditions and as a champion for peace, made this declaration in assailment of college military training and the R. O. T. C. His attack of the latter was not emphasized, but was made at the end of his talk on the machinery for outlawing and il legalizing war as argument against the present condition of thought on the subject in the United States. Outlaw Not Abolition “The outlawry of war does not mean the abolition of war,” he pointed out. “It is not a panacea nor a guarantee ajgainst interna tional conflict, but it is a step to ward the prevention and a relief from present conditions. “Is this outlawry possible? Cer tainly it is. By treaty. And the Locarno treaty is the best move ever made in this direction. The Borah proposal to prevent war, made recently, is not as adequate as this treaty is, which has actually been ratified by Prance, Germany, and Belgium.” Five Conditions of Treaty As analyzed by the speaker, the five conditions of the treaty of Lo carno are (1) negotiation, or face to face diplomacy; (2) conciliation, or the action of a third party com posed of representatives of the two countries concerned and of three other countries; (3) arbitration; (4) judicial decision through a perma nent court of international justice; (5) League of Nations’ judgment. On the other hand, the proposal of Senator William E. Borah only con siders the three conditions of out lawing war, or making out a code of conflict, and of creating a board to sit at times of disputes. Borah is moving in the right direction, but not fast enough. The only objection to the Locarno treaty is the agreement between Italy and Great Britain to guaran tee carrying it out, Mr. Page con tended. This might lead to taking sides in the dispute. But the treaty requires peaceable settlement of the dispute and does not allow loop holes for “upholding of national honor,” something that no other agreement has yet done. Discussing the present status of the United States as to war, he de clared: “Under the present sov ereign right of a nation to legally declare war for no rational purpose whatever, the United States could cut off friendly relations with Mex ico or any other nation and demand co-operation of its citizens in the ensuing war, and the ‘except clause,” allowing the upholding of national honor—a clause peculiar to the United States—adds to the danger.” The result of outlawing war, the speaker showed, would be to make the pacifist a traitor during war time under the -present system, a patriot- and the present patriot a criminal for committing the illegal act of fighting. The sanctioning of this illegal izing can be done by commitment of the people to such an agreement, by focusing of public opinion in the right direction, by diplomatic pressure, such as withdrawal of am bassadors, and by financial pressure, declared Mr. Page. Commenting upon the growth of the B. O. T. C. in the educational institutions of the United States, the speaker said: “It is tragic beyond words that a nation which has con sidered itself peace loving to be afraid of war. “It is criminal to be afraid. It is this fear that leads us to massacre our neighbors. And the danger of the B. 0. T. C. lies in. the spreading of this thought of fear.” The speaker was introduced by Professor William P. Maddox. Bev. Ilenry W. Davis explained the pur poses of the lecture. Professor Maddox praised the student body leaders for sanction of this lecture, considered radical by certain other universities. All Hues of Rainbow Found in Dyes Made From Common Moss Everyone lias hoard about (he wonders of nature, but how many know that a groat variety of shades j in dyes may l>o gotten from lichens? Just the common, ordinary kind of moss that grows on fence posts, j The Indians used these colors ex- 1 tensively, A. It. Sweetser, head of the botany department, states. The dye formed is fairly colorfast, de fending upon the material and the i moss used. Thero is now a large collection on the top floor of Beady. The recipe for obtaining the color is simple. All one has to do is boil the piece of goods he wishes colored with the lichens. The shades vary j from bright oranges to soft grays, i depending upon the material used I and whether or not a mordant was employed. The mordant is com- , posed of fi per cent tannic acid, I which is added to the water, and a cold bath for the material after wards in tartar efnetie. “Evernia vulpina” is the botan ists’ term for tlio long green juoss which one sees hanging from the old wooden fences in the country. This one species produces a wide variety of color. If used with a mordant white silk crepo (becomes a tan, messaline a brown, and cotton a pearly gray. When the mordant is not used wood material may be i dyed a bright yellow. Committee for Ball Announced By Bob Warner ‘Soup anti Fish’ in Order For Largest Campus Formal First work on the Senior Ball, which promises to be the biggest and best formal dance ever to be Bob Warner ,011 the cam pus was started yesterday after noon when Rob ert (Bob) War ner, chairman, an nounced the per sonnel of his com mittee, Scotty Kretzer will be as sistant chairman; Nancy Peterson was appointed sec r e t a r v. Abbott Lawrence will be Palmer will secure patrons and pat ronesses; Sam Kinley js business manager and Richard H. Syring will handle publicity. An executive committee will include Scotty Kret zer, Don McCook, Nancy Peterson, Howard Eberhart and Constance Roth. The 1928 Senior ball will be held at the Woman’s building on Satur day night, February 18, and George McMurphey’s Kollege Knights will furnish the music. “The Senior ball is without doubt the largest and most formal dance held in the state each year,” said Warner, “and we intend to make this year’s dance more formal than ever. Footmen will greet the guests and everything that goes along with ‘soup and fish’ will be present,” he added. A motif for the dance has not been definitely decided upon. The plan now under consideration calls for something very modern and up to date, yet with a tinge of artistic beauty. A feature corresponding to the motif will be arranged for. A meeting of the executive com mittee is scheduled for 5 o ’clock today in the Webfoot office in the Journalism building. U. of W. Co-Ed To Wed Maharajah of India (By United Press) » SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 10.—Mrs Jennie Miller, mother of Nancy Ann Miller, former University of Wash ington co-ed, said today she expect ed at any time to hear of the mar riage of her daughter to the former Maharajah of Indore, in Bombay. Miss Miller, 20 years old, is be | lieved by her mother to be in Bom bay at the present time. Mine Layer Sails for Nicaragua With Marines (By United Press) NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 10. — The United States ,mine layer OglaJa sailed from her pior at Hampton Roads today with four companies I of United States marines bound for i Nicaragua. I The vessel had been held in har bor by fog over night. '"Dads’ Will Be Here As Guests On January 28 Invitation Issued to All Students" Fathers To Visit Campus Committee To Start Parent Organization Annual Meetings To Be In Fall Term “Dad’s Day” will bo January 28. Fathers of University of Oregon students will be invited to spend Saturday, January 2.8, on the cam pus, as guests of the students, and faculty of the University, it was announced yesterday, following a meeting of the committee of stu dents, faculty, and townspeople. A student directorate composed of Marian Rarnes, senior woman on the executive council, in charge of welcoming; Herbert Soeolofsky, vice president of the Associated Stu dents, in charge of invitations; Rob ert Oallowav, managing editor of The Emerald, who will direct pub licity; and Donald Beelar, presi dent of the Associated Students, who will cooperate with faculty and Dad’s committee on the celebration. The purpose of the event is, first of all, to acquaint fathers of stu dents with the University and to give they an intimate glimpse into the student life of their boys and girls. The equipment of tlio Uni versity, and the city surroundings will also be available for inspection during this time. “We want the fathers of our stu dents to come, to the university, en joy the hospitality and our splendid “Ann/rnn Rnlrif” HPO ilist wllPl’G classes are hold, where the boys and "Iris live and play, and also to become acquainted with each other,” stated Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, in outlining the purpose of the event. The men and women of Oregon want their boys and girls to have the best possible education, and if they comg down here they can see first hand just how the students spend their time and how and where they study. They can meet faculty members and those of the adminis tration and ideas can be exchanged. We gladly extend a welcome to every father in the state to attend this'‘Dad’s Day’ gathering.”. A committee composed of fathers of students has already been ap pointed, and representatives have been chosen from every part of the state. A Eugene committee, to co operate with the faculty and stu dents, has also been named. The program for the day includes tours of the campus, during which University schools and departments will hold “open house;” a banquet in the evening attended by fathers and their sons and daughters, and the basketball game between Ore gon and the University of Washing ton that evening. Dr. Hall will make the pricipul talk at the banquet, and several features are planned by the students. The executive committee of the state is composed of C. C. Chapman, Fred Boalt, R. W. Price, J. C. Stev ens, W. W. Banks, Frank E. An drew's, all of Portland; Bruce Den nis, Klamath Falls'; Judge Dalton Biggs, Ontario; J. R. McCook, Pen dleton, A. W. Norblad, Astoria, and II R. Coolidgo, La Grande. The state committee includes Chriss A. Bell, C'olonel C. A. Dolph, Ross N. Plummer, S. B. Thompson, Charles H. Mimmaugh, all of Port land; W. J. Seufert, The Dalles; Carl Gerliuger, Dallas; Everett Hicks, Canyon City; Earl Fisher, Salem; Del V. Kuykendall, Klamath Trills: G. W. Auer. Bend: Louis Dodge, Ashland; Dr. B. F. Giesy, Au rora; Charles Hall, Marshfield; D. B. Herndon, Freewater; J. R. Daley, Pendleton; Walter Russell,-McMinn ville; Thomas H. Tongle, Jr., Hills boro; F. D. Wagner, Ashland; Dr. H. II. Olinger, Salem; Dr. W. T. Phy, Hot Lake; Charles Haldeman, As toria, Pete Stadelman, The Dalles; Floyd Cook, Medford; Bob Ham mond, Medford; Archie McGowan, Burns; W. M. Dobbin, Union; Roger Lissell, Baker. The Eugene coanmittce is as fol lows; executive committee; James E. Bell, Campbell Church, J. W. Koke, F. N. McAllister, Claude Ro rer and A. A. Rogers, chairman. The other members of the committee are Dr. G. P. WdnchcU, L. E. Deen, A. 8. Buck, S. M. Calkins, C. A. Hardy, Dr. George Hurley, Carl McClain, P. A. Peterson, L. B. Pierce and A. M. Whitesmith. The faculty committee is compos ed of Elmer L. Shirrell, dean of men; Dr. James Gilbert, Virgil Earl; (Continutd on page four) Boy Fiend Cringes As Alienists Try to Blast Insanity Plea (Rv United Press) LOS ANGELES, Cnl., .Ton. 10 — Battling liix wav about, a darkened room in which throe*alienists nought to apply mental tests, William Ed ward Hickman, boy slayer, refused to permit, the use of scientific ma chines on him in the county jail here today. Despite the insistence of the men tal specialists, “Tho Fox,” killer of little Marion Parker, fought for moro than a half hour, screaming in terror, and demanding that ho bo taken back to his cell. As tho lights were turned on in tho room, after a few tests had been made, Hickman rose unstead ily aud hurried to tho door, llo [almost ran across tho corridor into his own cell block. It was apparent that Hickman knew the psychiatrists’ verdict had been against his insanity plea. Leslie’s Crew To See Action This Saturday Hoop Tilt Is Billed for Igloo at 2:30 Willi Commeree High Buckets of blood! Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, before tho floor boards at McArthur Igloo have cooled from Lho Varsity-Gonzaga clash of Fri day night, Coach Spiko Leslie will send a set of clawing freshman hoopstors against Commerce high of Portland in tho first game of tho yearling season. Tho Portland proppors nro rated as a fast high school team and should give tho WebfoOt ducklings a good game—in fact, tho freshman team is an almost unknown quan tity, and anything might happen. Who will draw the opening assign ments on the 1928 quintet is at pres ent tho big mystery. Coach Leslie, himself, is undecided who tho first selections will bo as yet. In order to get a better chance to work with his proteges ho has changed thoir practise period from 4 o’clock in the afternoon to 7:15 at night. With this change, Spiko can distribute his men out all over tho court and the congestion of practising at tho same time with Billy Rdinhairt^a Lemon-yellow stars is eliminated. • The frosh are still concentrating on foot work and short passes. Spiko docs not.believe that they can get I too much work in 'fundamentals. Friday morning’s Emerald will con tain tho starting lineup for tho frosh, so about 35 yearlings will probably bo waiting outside tho pressroom for that issue to learn tho “Who’s who of the hoopers.” Poetry of M. T. Solve At University Library “Shelley—his Theory of Poetry,” | written by an Oregon graduate, Mel vin T. Solve, member of tho class of 1918, is now in tho University library. Dr. Solve holds tho posi tion of assistant professor of En glish at tho University of Michi gan.. “Tho Poet ns Teacher,” “Evil and the Poet,” “Nature and Ideal World of tho Poet,” and “Tho Poet as Critic” are some of tho chapter headings, indicating how the Au thor has treated his subject. Tho volume was printed by tho Univer sity of Chicago press. O. S.'C. Bans': Page Speech As Soeialislie President Kerr Scores ‘Y’ Talker, Calls Him ‘Radical’ Peace Talk Outlawed On Corvallis Campus Same Fate Hits Lectures At West Virginia Kirby Pago, who addressed Uni versity students hero Inst night on ‘■The Outlawry of War” discovered the day before that the discussion of peace had been outlawed at Oregon State College. “The question of peace cannot, bo discussed on the campus there,” said this prominent author on interna tional problems after the interven tion of President Kerr of O .S. O. had resulted in the cancellation of his engagement. The entire affair was carried off very quietly, said Mr. Page. Students were simply told that the noon campus meeting, sponsored by the Y. W. 0. A. and Y. M. 0. A. campus groups, had been cancelled. No explanation was made to the disappointed woubl-bo audience. O. S. C. Wanted Three Talks “When I camo west,” Mr. Pago explained In relating the suppression incident at Corvallis last, Monday, “I allowed ten days for the coast engagements to be scheduled at, the discretion of the Y. M. 0. A. lead ers in Portland. Oregon State re quested three of these convocations and they wore all nrranged. The first, ono on Monday was off the campus. The noon meeting, to bo held in thy campus tea room, was never held.” Aware of the attitude of the con vocation committee, of which Col. George William Moses, head of the Oregon State military department, is an influential member, further attempts to have the eminent paci fist loader reach the students were discontinued by the sponsoring or ganizations. All that is actually known of the restrictive proceedings c n the part of the college officials was gleaned by Mr. Page from his West Virginia Lecture Barred "Throe days ago President Kerr called up tlio chairman of tho ad visory committee in chargo q| tho program and referred to my West Virginia University lecture which was barred by military officials last month. He further told the chairman that I was a radical socialist, and although he did not flatly refuse mo the right to speak, ho seemed very nervous about the consequences if it were allowed. Tho president’s suggestions to the advisory chair man were, as nearly as I could dis cover,®‘you handle the matter.’” The - chairman of tho advisory group accepted the buck so passed him, Pago went on to tell, and then discreetly buried it. Peace Undebatable at O. S. 0. The editor of “Tho World Tomor row” laughed when tho West Vir ginia University episode of last month was recalled. Tho circum stances, ho said, were very similar to those of his official recopton at O. S. C. except that the authorities there were much more outspoken there than those of the neighboring agricultural institution. These two (Continued on page four) Scott Milligan Thinks That Gonzaga Game Will Be Good Test For Varsity “The game with Conzaga must be made another successful step to ward the conference title,” is tho opinion oi Heott Milligan, dcail shot forward on the Lemon-yellow basketball m a chinc. “Any im provement in our playing must como out in that game, because thero is only one more tilt before the confer ence series starts.” Scott thinks that Scott Milligan so far this year the quintet lias shown a pretty good offense but has been rather weak in the de fensive phase of their playing. Un doubtedly, this will bo developed before the beginning of tho con ference battles, and it is improve ment along this line that Milligan and the rest of the team hope to show against tlio Gonzaga five on Friday. Playing his second season as a member of he Oregon varsity, Milli gan has been moved from the guard position which lie .held last year, to that of forward, and his success so fur more than warrants the change. Scott’s early experience in looping the oval was gained at Eu gene High where ho made two let ters in basketball. In his senior year at Eugene he was on the foot ball team that lost a historic 7 to C fracas with Salem High. Milligan is a junior in Journalism, with Physical Ed as a secondary ma jor. He intends to coach for a per iod after graduation before deciding what occupation to enter. Scott is 21 years of age, and is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He tips the beam at 170 pounds and stands a little over six feet in height. With yet another year before him in varsity basketball, Milligan bids fair to become almost an equal to his sensational team mates of the 1927 team.