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Frosh Caf rs To Leave ’ ir Southern ri 1 ts Definite, Says Co« 10 Men To Go Yearlings Given Light Scrimmage Sessions Play Washington Babes January 28 Thursday arul Friday classes this ■week-end mean little in the lives of 10 Oregon youngsters who leave Ihe campus tomorrow morning to in vade tho basketball strongholds of three southern Oregon high schools. The first-year Webfoots will go directly to Ashland by bus, playing there Thursday evening. They will V'obably remain overnight in Ash land and Friday will trek to Med I ford for a game there. Saturday night will find tho duckling basket eers in Klamath Falls, ■whero they play the third of their three game series before returning to the homo clime. Just who these 30 fortunate fresh men will be has not been fully de termined by Coach Spike Leslie. Some of tho young men whose chances of going on the out-of-town jaunt seem passing fair include Fd ! Dvorak, Gene Eberhart, Clifford Horner, Harold Olinger, Woodward Archer, and Ed Stoddard. Team et i lusu xiuiu oui imiuagcs Should these guesses prove eor- ] reet there still remains a quartet j to lie selected to fill out the quota j of ten. There are a number of men ' out who are so very nearly on a ' par in their caging abilities that : Mentor Leslie is scratching his head I vigorously trying to determine just ' who his strongest squad will con- | tain. The last twTo nights, in practice, | Spike has been using almost his en tire group in scrimmage sessions. Today the workout will be of a somewhat lighter naturo to taper off for the southern Oregon trip. He will make definite selections, in this last practice, of the yearling hoopers who will leave Thursday morning. Husky Babes the 28th Paul Walgren, Windsor Calkins, George Will, Bill Pittman, Ted Park, and John Yerkovitcli are a few otherS of the duckling hoopsters who will bo reckoned with when the selections are made. These three contests will prob ably bo the last competition the frosli will go against unjtil they plunge directly into their confer ence schedulo with the Husky babes from the University of Wash- j ingtou on the Eugene campus the 28tli of this month. This game with the Husky year lings will be staged as a prelimin ary to the clash of the Webfoot var sity and the big Washington quin (Continued on page four) Highlights 'Glimpsed Of% Day's Happenings At Washington, D. C. (By United Tress) Pontiff1: Considers .Tones merchant marine bill. Special elections investigating committee Toports on case of Frank , Smith, Illinois senator-elect. Irrigation committee starts hear ing on Boulder dam. Interstate commerce committee continues hearings on Walsli potver ' trust resolution. House: Takes up independent offices np- I proprintion bill. Naval affairs committee continues with Rear Admiral Hughes on build ing program. Irrigation committee contifnuos Columbia river basin hearing. Flood control committee hears ! Major Edgar Jadwin, chief of army 1 engineers. British Papers Attack Coolidge Havana Speech Facts and Not Rhetoric, Says Manchester Guardian LONDON, Jan. 17.—Liberal news papers throughout Great Britain to day sharply criticised President Coolidge’s “good will” speech at Havana as an evasion of facts in favor of idealistic sentiments. They were joined by one conserva tive newspaper that characterized the President’s speech as making him “the ace of political aviators” because the newspaper—the livening Standard—said ho never got down to earth. The influential Manchester Guard ian said the speech was “lavishly rhetorical, but somewhat economical in its treatment of facts.” Charles M. Ripley Lecture To Feature Views of Europe Views of many parts of Europe taken from an airplane will be the feature of the illustrated review by Charles M. Ripley, lecturer sent out from the General Electric company, which will be given this evening in Villard at 7:30. In his address, “The Romance of rower,” Mr. Ripley will tell how people live in many different coun tries and contrast their lives with the modern customs that have been developed in this country through the use of power and the adaption of electricity to industry. The pic tures that will be shown wtro taken during Mr. Ripley’s travels through Europe. Mr. Ripley is well known as an author as well as an engineer and a lecturer. Two of his most promi nent books are “Romance of a Great Factory,” and “Life in a Large Manufacturing City.” Ruby Page Ferguson Entertains Cleverly With 'The Road to Rome9 By ETHA JEANNE CLABK “The Road to Rome,” by Robert Emmet Sherwood, was read to a small but appreciative audience by Ruby Page Ferguson (Mrs. Anthony Euwer) in the auditorium of the Music building last night. During the recital of the drama, Mrs. Euwer peopled the stage with the numerous characters who ap peared. Fabius Maximus, dictator of Rome, became a living embodi ment of whole-hearted egotism; his mother, Fabia, doted in the way which mothers have since time be gan; Hannibal became a real char acter and not a hero from history pages; and Armitus, Grecian wife of Fabius Maximus, was portrayed as a clever, wilful, far-seeing young woman. All these, as well as many minor characters, really^ came )to life in front of the eyes, in spite of the fact that but one person ap peared on the stage. Voice modula tions, facial expressions, and char acteristic gestures formed - the change in personages. The complexity of tone presented by the reader was surprising. Seem ingly without the slightest diffi culty, she ranged from the deep basso tones of the Roman dictator to the rich feminine voice of Ar mitus, and the boyish treble of Marto, brother of Hannibal. The play itself was a surprisingly clever satire on Roman life, which might as easily be given in modern dress. The lines were fresh and quite up-to-date, carrying out many of the sentiments expressed by mod erns in the newspapers and maga zines of the present day. • "Do you know what the Roman senate did today?” asks Fabius Maximus, immediately after liis ap pointment. Armitus looks up from her now clothes long enough to reply, “Don’t tell me that they passed another law?” Again Fabia interrupts the caresses of two slaves with a scan dalized expression, and inquires as to what they are doing. “We’re making love to each other, lady,” replys the man, “it’s an old custom in our country.” Marto, brother of Hannibal, was the best comedy character of the play, and to him were attributed several of the best laugh-catching lines. His brother has put him in charge of the elephants in the cam paign. “Don’t talk elephants to me,” he explodes to a sergeant, “I’ve bathed ’em, brushed ’em, had their tusks polished, put ’em to bed and sung ’em lullabies . . , and I’m tired of it.” Armitus contributes two of the best lines of the play toward the end of the second act. Hannibal, into whose camp she has purposely wandered, says: “The gods are on our side, that’s why we’re winning.” Artimus returns: “You mean that’s why the gods are on your : side.” And again, “The gods are always convenient in an emergency.” j In spite of the many activities on the campus, tboso who neglected to attend “The Boad to Rome” should regret their negligence, for it was an entirely worth-while entertain ment, ' Indoor Track Enters Donut i Sports Sketls Eight Preliminary Meets I To Be Held Before Big Main Event Eligibility Requires Three Reports a Week • ‘ * Varsity Men Not Barred From Sport _ Eight ’preliminary imloor track j moots with a tremendous climax, the big moot, are on the intramural sport schedule for the winter term, ' said Coach “Bill” ITnyward at a metting ot the donut sports track representatives last night. The pre liminaries start January 27 and end February 25; the final meets como March 2 and 3. Each organization that has an ag gregation of traeksters entered will participate in two of the practice mc-ets before they enter the big time runs and field events. These meets are not only for conditioning the men but for arousing interest in indoor track, and for tlio dis covery of now Nurmis and Pad docks for Oregon’s track team in the spring. Coach “Bill’ was very emphatic in his declaration that no man would be allowed to enter the meet unless lie began training immediately and reported at the track three times a week. Men taking gymnasium work will receive credit for their work on tlio track. Practice Necessary “If the men don’t report three times a week,” said Coach Hay ward, “they will be kept out of the competition, because it doesn’t do tlio sport or the man any good to come out and try to run without any previous training and half kill him self.” Varsity track men will not be barred from these meets as long as they are affiliated witl^a duly rec ognized campus organization which has signified its intention of enter ing a team. This ruling will elimin ate the “Terrible Turks” who swept all before them last year. Each organization may enter two men in each event and each man .may compete in two events. In for mer years one star has entered sev eral events and taken first place in flli he tried. Stricter Rules Each organization may enter two men in each event and each man may compete in two events. This ruling will be adhered to stringently and will put a stop to one star gallop (Continued on page four) Dr. Martin of U. of W. To Speak to Students At Regular Assembly Charles Emanuel Martin, dean of the faculty of social science at the University of Washington, is sched uled to speak at this week’s assem bly, which will again bo held at the regular hour, 11 o’clock, Thurs day morning. Dr. Martin is one of the men Dr. Ruzzalo, former president of Wash fngton University, brought to Seat tle to help work out a constructive policy in the general field of social discipline. Dr. Martin has proved popular as a speaker at U. of W. lie has writ ten several books dealing with gov ernment and international affairs, including tlireo that are in the li brary here, “American Government and Citizenship.” “An Introduction to the Study of the American Con stitution,” and “The Policy of the United States as Regards Interven tion.” In 1917 Columbia University granted Dr. Martin the Ph.D. de gree. He received the degree of B.L. at California in 1914 and of A.M. the following year. Freshman Entrance Exams on Saturday All entering freshmen and all students'who did not take the en trance examinations for the fall term are requested to take the fol lowing examinations on Saturday, January 21. English examination at 9 a. m. in room 107, Villard hall. Psychology test at 1:30 p. m. in room 101, Condon hall. These examinations must be taken, as failure to report at the time and places assigned automatic ally cancels registration, according to Earl M. Pallett, registrar. Ghostly Footsteps And Withered Arm Cause Hasty Retreat Tap! tap! tap!-Ghostly footsteps! Rr r-r! Nearer and nearer—chills! —then silence. Once again (ho re porter’s heart began to heat, and renewed courngo enabled: him to go on op the steps. Pirn lights with deep black shad ows greeted him on his arrival at the third floor. Everything was still. Deathly still. Only Show-) eases stared at him like spectrems from another world. Ah! What was that white object there? The reporter went closer. A skull! But what was the brownish object be side it. Still closer. A— it couldn't be! But it was. A human arm, cut off at the shoulder, reaching out for the news gatherer. Run? Booh! scoffed the reporter, trying to appear brave. It's only an old thing—till dried up and withered. It’s just the zoologists’ plaything. I’m not scared. Tap! tap! taw weird footsteps again. And the ihrave news hunter grabbed his note book tighter and scuttled down the stairs and out of tho building to safety. World Tour Men Slate 20 Debates In United States Itinerary of Oregonians Covers Ten States in Six Week Period When Benoit MeCroskey, Jack Hempstead and Avery Thompson, the University of Oregon world tour debaters, land in New York the lat ter part of next month after cir cumnavigating all of the globe but the North American continent on the most extensive debate tour ever undertaken by an American univer sity, their labors will not yet be over and they will not yet be fveo to speed across the continent to their alma mater. Between them and Eugene will say twenty more debates scheduled with universities and colleges between Carlisle, Penn sylvania, and Logan, Utah, cover ing a period of six weeks and all of the states in between. The complete schedule of the world tour debaters in tho United States was announced yesterday by J. K. Ilorncr, debato coach. The subjects to bo used in the contest have not vet been dcf’^ely decided, Mr. Horucr said, but tho dates and the institutions against whom the Oregon men will compote are as follows. Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penn sylvania, March 2; Lafayette Col lege, Easton, Pennsylvania, March 5; Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio, March 9; Ohio Wesleyan Uni versity, Delewnro, Ohio, March 12; Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio, March 14; Ohio State Normal College, Bowling Groen, Ohio, March 15; University of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, March 19; Purdue Uni versity, Lavfayette, Indiana, March 20; St. Vitor College, Kankakee, Ill inois, March 23; Evansville College, Evansville, Indiana, March 20; Ill inois College, Jacksonville, Illinois, March 28; University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, March 30; Mis souri Wesleyan University, Camer on, Missouri, April il; University or Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, April 4; University of Omaha, Omaha, Ne braska, April 5; Morningsidc Col lege, Sioux City, Iowa, April 6; Hu ron College, Huron, South Dakota. April 9; University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, April 14; Univer sity of Jtenver, Denver, Colorado, April 15, and Utah Agricultural Col lege, Logan, Utah, April 17. The dates of the contests in which the regular Oregon debaters will participate were also announced yes terday by Coach Horner. The North west Triangular debate between the Universities of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, will be held Friday, March 30. The Oregon team that goes to Moscow to meet Idaho will continue to Missoula, Montana, and debate the University of Montana there April 2. Southwestern Uni versity, Los Angeles, will debate an Oregon team in Eugene April 4. An Oregon debate team will make a tour through the Southwest tho letter part of March, meeting tho University of Southern California March 27; the University of Califor nia, Los Angeles, March 28, and the University of Arizona at Tucson March 30. The date of a debate in Eugene with the Utah Agriculture College has not yet been announced. The Northwest triangular women’s debate between Oregon, Washington and Idaho will take place April 6. Two other woman’s debates with Washington State College and the University of California, both in Eu gene, are still unsettled as to dates. Wheeler Calls U.S.-Niearagua Tilt 'Raw Deal’ Montana Senator Delivers Fiery Speech Against Administration Marines Likened to Roman Devastators j Interests • of New York Bankers Reason NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—American marines, like ancient Roman co horts, are overrunning Nicaragua, while American airplanes are bomb ing non-combatants, including wo men and children, in the interests of a group of New York bankers, Sen ator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana charged tonight in a vitriolic speech before the Economic club of New York. “Serving the purposes of the small banking group, to all intents and purposes, President Coolidgo and Secretary of State Kellogg are waging an undeclared war against the pooplo of the little republic of Nicaragua, Wheeler said. The Montana senator searched the scriptures and ravished t ho classics to find examples of ig noming for application to the pres ent state department,—marine corps —Nicaraguan situation. “No person of sound judgment,” be said, “can review the utterances and activities of our state depart ment and the President in recent dealings with our southern neigh bors without coming to the conclu sion that moral chaos reigns in the department and moral confusion in ; the White House.” The serious charges, comparable vehemence with those with which the Montana blew the lid off of Teapot Dome, appalled even his lis-'J tenors at the Astor hotel, who had expected an explosion. “Our state department,” Wheeler said, “throwing American honor to the dogs, recognized Adolfo Diaz as president of Nicaragua. To do this, it has to violate the spirit and let ter of the treaty which it had sponsored and the constitution it had sponsored. “When it failed to get away with the raw deal it undertook to put over,-it began rushing warships and marines and bombing planes to the little country.” Foreign Trade Expert Procured by Pan Xenia To Address Meeting D. r. Miller, assistant commercial attache in Berlin, will be the first speaker on the program of the Busi ness Opportunity conference, spon sored by the school of business ad ministration, to bo held on the campus January 24. Mr. Miller, who has visited the campus before this year, is being brought to the conference by Pan Xenia, interna tional foreign trade fraternity. Mr. Miller is a graduate of the University of Colorado, and also a Rhodes scholar. During the war he was with the British government in the far east, and later was with the European division of the depart ment of commerce at Washington, D. C. He was transferred to Berlin as trade commissioner and has re cently been promoted to his present position. At this same meeting will be James E. Peebles, district manager of the bureau of foreign and do mestic commerce, whose office is in Portland; and Erwin A. Taft, mana ger of the Portland foreign trade department of the chamber of com merce. This program sponsored by Pan Xenia will bo from 9 to 10 o’clock Tuesday morning. Alumni Hull Is Scene Of First Winter Term j Women's League Tea The initial Wednesday tea of tlio Women’s League for tin' winter term will T>e held Hits afternoon from 4 until 0 o'clock in Alinjini hall. The place and not, the char acter of the tea is the only change I made in the plans, according to ■ Olenna Heacoek, who is in charge of the weekly teas, and campus : clothes will still be in order. Every woman on the campus is especially urged to bo present at this first tea of the term, she added. A program of music will enter tain during the tea hours, and will consist of vocal solos by Violet Orek and Lneilo Hoover, and piano solos by Iris Saunders and Maude Engstrom. Freshmen of Chi Omega j will serve. Italian Troops Disperse Many Mogarba Natives Airplanes ami Armored Cars Aid in Routing Large Forees (By United Press) ROME, Jan. 17.—Italian troops in a series of major military opera tions in which they employed air planes and armored cars killed more than 100 Mogarba tribesmen, took 400 prisoners, and dispersed the rest I of the force—which may have num bered more than 1000—into the desert without food, cattle, or camels. j\n orncmi announcement; tonay detailed the operations in Africa, which extended from January 3 to It, said only nine Italians and native troops in the Italian force were killed and l-l wounded. ^ The maneuvers vero successful because tho Italians were able to consolidate their military occupa tion of tho huge wodge-liko Sidra region between Tripoli and Cyren Tiiea, to effect a strngetie. juncture ■with the troops at Mcrduma. Occupation of tho Sidra tegioh •Iong lias been a goal of tho army because it would facilitate direct communication between “Tripoli and Benghazi, in Africa, over land routes, instead of by sea. Sonata Recital, First Of a Faculty Series, To Be Given Tonight Bex Underwood, violinist, and Aurora Potter Underwood, pianist, will present the first faculty recital of a scries, which will be given dur ing the winter term, this evening at 8:1 i) in the Music auditorium. The program will include two sonatas. A piano group will bo played by Mrs. Underwood. The program follows: Sonata in 0 Minor .Clricg Allegro Molto Appnsionata. Bomanza. Allegro Animate. Piano group: Tambourine en Bondeau.Bameau Lc Bavolet Flotant.Couperin Le Coucou .Daquin Gavotte .Bameau Sonata .Cesar Franck Allegretto ben moderato. Allegro. Kecitative-Fantasie. Allegro poeo mosso. State College Plans Annual Tour for Band OBEGON STATE COLLEGE, Jan. 17. — (P.I.P.) — The annual band tour will include nine towns through Southern Oregon and North ern California. The tour will start spring vacation, leaving Corvallis March 21, and returning Sunday, April 1. A private car with sleep ing quarters will 1)0 chartered for the trip over the Southern Pacific. Have You Written to Your Dad? Dear Dad: If you tiling that all we do at University is play, you should be sure aud come here for Dad’s Day on January 28. No, we sometimes work, although we have our amusements, too. I’ll show you everything. I think that if you come down you can help me get better grades because I can introduce you to iny profs, and then if I don’t get good grades you will know it is be cause my profs are so “hard” and not through any fault of mine. Also, you can see some basketball as it is “really played.” At the banquet, President Hall will speak, and so will a University of Oregon co-ed. The co-eds whose dads are visiting will be at the big feed and you can see one of the reasons why Oregon is better than O. A. C. (Wo don’t call it 0. 8. C. here.) The dads are going to take steps to form an organization, and I think you ought to be in on that. I’d liko to sec you because spring vacation will be short and I may not get home. Mother can come spring term when we have our annual Mother’s Day. Write and let me know whether or not you are coming, and bo sure and say Y-E-S! Lovingly, U. R. CHILD. Grotto Effect ToBeFeature OfFroshGlee Dancers To Cavort Mulst Stalagmites, Under Stalactites Kollege Knights To Furnish the Music ‘Semi-Formal’ Is Edict of Dance Directorate Itail, Oregon Cavemen, loyal sons of the Ancient Order of Hats and Foxes. Incline you furry ears and stand by! Comes Saturday night and the supernatural fire in the great grotto of the Woman’s building shall burn brightly, and every member of our great order shall don his scmi-formjl bear shin and gambol with the lady of his choice amongst the stalag mites in the cavernous depths neatli stalactites shimmering weirdly in the firelight, (as subdued as police reg ulations will allow.) Note of Mystery Thus will the interior of the Wo man’s building be altered when stu dents assemble there for the Frosh Glee next Saturday night at nine o’clock. Changed beyond the point of oognizability if the decorations committee headed by Ben Weather wax can accomplish its purpose. The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky will be far outrivaled, while Tom Saw yer’s cave of Missouri, and the Ore gon Caves of Josephine county will be entirely eliminated from compe tition. A true grotto it will be, true in all respects but the slimy, clam my atmosphere, but perhajps this will have been dried up by the dev clisli green flames that will danco grotesquely in the great fire cave where the stage now' is. . That tho Frosh Glee will he a “hot” dunce is tho assurance of others in charge of tho affair be sides tho decorations committee.. George McMurphey and his famed Kolloge Knights will furnish tho music and it is ‘ probable that Ken Allen, Tom Sandvall and Ted O'Hara, tho trio of that orchestra who sang at Collego Night last Fri day, will perform at the Frosh Glee, Feature Secret Tho feature of the Frosh Glee is a matter of much conjecture, but it continues to bo guarded in the great est secrecy. However, something en tirely new and original, never boforo seen on the campus, is promised by Alice Morrow, chairman of the fea ture committee. Tho nature of tho programs is also kept as a secTct by Bill Overstreet, chairman of tho program committee. The Frosh Glee will bo semi- for mal, according to Ken Carrey, gen eral chairman. Admission will be free. In order that the decorations of the Frosh Glee may be a success, all the members of the freshman class are asked by Ben Weatherwax to report as, tho Woman’s building at 7 o’clock Friday night and assist in tho manufacturing of the stalag mites, stalactitos, and other geologic phenomena necessary for the desired effect. Washington Students Reinstated After Drop UNIVERSITY OF WASHING TON, Jan. 17.—(F.T.P.)— One hun dred and forty-eight students of tho 408 on tho fall quarter drop list have been reinstated. Petitions of 105 were denied by tho board of (loans. Two hundred and fifteen did not present petitions and so are no longer enrolled as students in tho University. Out of 1)8 upperclassmen petition ing, 81 were admitted, while only G7 out of 155 lower division stu dents were again enrolled* Thib was due, it is understood, to the slightly more lenient scholastic regulations applied to juniors and seniors. New Assaying Course Scheduled This Term William Barker, Oregon gradu ate, who is a professional assaycr, and Harry Wheeler, advanced stu dent in geology, are to instruct the newly scheduled course in assaying this term. This course, which deals with the determination of the precious metal contents of oros, has hitherto been in the curriculum onco every two years in the spring term. Barker, who has spent several years in the gold fields of Alaska, will instruct tho students the first mouth, after which tho work will bo carried on by Wheeler.