VOLUME XXIX. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 3, 1928 NUMBER 68 Oregon-Aggie Game To Be Hard Fought _ Webfoot and Beave ’$ \ Even Terms for B, 'S- « Hoop Battle V Lineup for Annual Tilt Gives Trouble Second Place at Stake Tomorrow By JOE PIGNEY The “who” of the Oregon basket ball team for the Aggie game here tomorrow night at 8, is a mystery even to fho coach himself. Failure of the regular varsitjy lineiip to function with the greatest possible power, may lead to several changes in the Webfoot combination. At center Reynolds, Edwards, Milligan, and even Ridings are all possibilities. Each, however, has weaknesses that will leave holes in the Oregon machine. Reynolds can jump, but his legs run away from him and he is a poor defensive man. EdVards has improved rapidly of late, but still lacks the polish for regular conference competition. Mil ligan can’t jump, and is of more value to the team at guard. Ridings, perhaps the best jumper on the squad, will have difficulty in ac customing himself to a position other than his regular job at for ward. Reynolds Scores Reynolds broke loose in the Wil lamette game last Tuesday, and emerged high point man. If he con tinues to show advancement, ho may einch the pivot-berth. Reynolds has not been able to rid himself of the habit of running with the ball, which can prove disastrous to the offensive strength of the team in a close game. The two guards are also causing trouble. The combination to bo used has not been selected, but Mil ligan, Epps, and Bally will probably get the first call. Don McCormick, who has been on the bench the greater part of the season, got into the Wasoda game along with four of the regulars. He worked well for the short time he was in, and perhaps will sec action against the Beavers. Ridings-Chastaln Forwards The most potential forward com bination is Chastain and Ridings. Ridings, one of the leading scorers in the north, is equally fast on the defense and the offense. Chastain, while not the accurate shooter as Ridings, is coming along fast and can be counted on for a number of points. The high score amassed by the Webfooters against the little Jap anese team may have been just enough to give the boys confidence in their shooting ability. With two northwest conference champions im mediately preceding this year’s Webfoot team, there is a natural tendency to underrate the ability of the 1928 hoopers. The Aggies and the Webfooters stand even in the percentage column with two wins and one defeat each. Both quintets defeated Idaho and Washington State and lost to Wash ington. The Vandals and the Cou gars are low in the conference standings, while the Huskies are in first place. The Webfooters and the Beavers will present two entirely different styles of play. Bob Hager’s per centage system of .basketball will be pitted against the fast short passing attack of the Oregonians. The outstanding feature of the Ag gie coach’s plan is to run up an advantageous lead, and then stall through the rest of the game. Shrinking Violets To Perform at Pavillion For Order of the ‘O’ “Fight! Fight!” will come the shrill scream from the Order of the “O” private box between halves at the Oregon-O. S. C. basketball game tomorrow night. “Neophyte!” the husky brothers ^ the Order will roar back in a de t chorus as— •a—la—lala, she approaches, en •» the south door. “She” will >n tripping lightly across the d floor. How shapely—how j to the eye — ah — AH — A HIIHH! She will probably be cold, poor thing—and disil lusioned. But wait—see—she is munching an apple! And so, while music—slow—sol emn-mournful—exuding that limp ing melancholy note of stalking death, smites the ears of the palpi tating audience on the bleachers in solemn conclave dissembled, eleven “frail” and “quavering” youths will be initiated into the Order of the “O.” Independents Stage Smoker At Men’s Gym Tumbling, Boxing, and Wrestling Feature Snappy Bill The Independent club put on a smoker at the men’s gymnasium last night, and how! The smoker began with peanuts and selections by a male quartet, none other than that which sings at the Colonial theater. “We want more music!” This chant told that the crowd of more than 300 appreciated the songs. For about ten minutes, four as sorted tumblers held down the mats. Pritchard, Gilmore, Edmiston and ~Nooe were the embryo acrobats. The first two mentioned went in heavy for the doubles; that is, they were teamed up. They featured pitch backs, and varied and diverse flips. Edmiston is one boy that lives with out a backbone. If he has one it is made of rubber. What that boy didn’t do in the way of tying him self up with his legs isn’t worth mentioning. Nooe relied on a div ing handspring and a “jackass.” Two bouts of wrestling held the crowd. Harry Elliott, 165 pounds and holder of the University wrest ling championship in the unlimited class, wrestled Breese, 175 pound champ, to a tliree-round draw. The first round was a draw, with both big men working hard. The second went to Breese on a scissors and bar arm, and Elliott took the third with a step-over short-arm scissors. Harold Arnold 138-pound champ, and Art Biehl, 128- pound champ, put on a “catty” bout, the final decision going to Biehl. Biehl took the first round by a fall, and the second was a decision to Arnold. The deciding round went to Biehl on a decision. The little grapplers were fast and knew their holds. The boxing fans had a real treat when Mike Mesi and Lando Farmer donned the mits for two short rounds. These boys are from the armory and have fought together before. Mesi attends the Univer sity. They mixed it up from start to finish, and mixed in numerous clinches. They fought to a draw. Neither of the boys were mussed up to any great extent, yet there was no pulling of punches. They hit straight and they hit hard. And so ended the smoker. Earl Widmer, wrestling coach, acted as referee for all matches. Boland Da vis and Eugene Slattqrv were an nouncer and chairman respectively. Geology Body Experts Rebuilding Ancient Saber-Tooth Tiger Chasis From Rancho Labreja, a canyon southeast of Los Angeles, Califor nia, to the University of Oregon, comes the skeleton of a huge saber toothed tiger whose frame is being reconstructed by James R. Ward, senior geology major. It was found in an asphalt bed, together with re mains of elephants, wolves, and other carnivores. This formidable-looking specimen, which stood higher off the ground than the tigers we see today, prob ably preyed upon horsesy cancels and other such small animals of that period. The skull shows upper and lower rows of teeth which are not so very big, set off by two long tusk-like protuberances over six inches long. These curve downf ward, and were the real weapons of the tiger. With these he killed his prey, and, since his other teeth were incapable of doing mueh work, he merely sucked the blood from the wound of his victim. It is believed by scientists that this species became extinct on ac count of the two “saber” teeth be coming so long and so curved that the tiger was unable either to get food or to protect himself. They lived in about the middle of the peri(«I of the development of mammals, at a time when vegetation as we know it was just at its be ginning. Thgir haunts were on wide-stretching plateaus, or flat lan ds. The specimen at Condon hall is supposed to have wandered into a lake of asphalt which looked as harmless as water, but in which it became bogged and being unable to get out, died there. Senior Ball to Carry French Atmosphere ‘Adolph Menjou’ Guests To Be Satisfied With Dance Motif Features To Accord With Art Decorations Committee Heads Named By Bob Warner Formality and dignity will be the keynote of the Senior Ball which is to be given February 18, under the auspices of the senior class. At the same timo complete freedom is promised from the depressing air of pomposity which so many formal dances acquire. “We intend,” says Abbott Law rence, head of the art committee, “to make this a place to dance and not a museum from which to gaze upon imported monstrosities from other parts of the world. The most modern of French atmospheres will prevail. What we intend to create is a ball room where Adolph Men ,iou could come in and feel per fectly at home.” No Precedent Followed “We are not following any for mer precedent in our scheme of dec oration,” Bob Warner, general chairman of the Senior Ball com mittee, added, “it is entirely original and up-to-date to the last degree. Nothing stale or shopworn has been kept in the way of ideas.” Tuxedo colors of black and white are to decorate the walls and stage, while colored lights will paint the panels with luminous glows of many shades. However, this is planned so that the formal dresses worn will not be faded out by the bril liant illumination. The features are not to be an nounced until a later date, but it is promised that they will bo. in ac cordance with the spirit of the dec orations and not of college life. Plans Well Started The plans for the event are not only already completed but work has been well started and all com mittees are busy with their particu lar duties. The heads of . all committees have been announced by Robert Warner. They are: Elizabeth Waara, refresh ments; Dick Gordon, floor commit tee; Abbott Lawrence, decorations; Mvra-Belle Palmer, patrons and patronesses; Nancy Peterson, secre tary; and Sam Kinley, business manager. International Group Organizes; Electing Jachatta President Ernest Jachatta, junior in pre-law, was elected president at the first meeting of the newly re-organized International Relations club, held last night in Condon hall. Of the twenty-one members nominated by faculty members on standards of scholarship, twenty were present, one being ill and unable to attend. The club is a student organization, a liberal club for the discussion of international affairs. It is national in scope, being sponsored by the. Carnegie Institute for the Advance ment of Peace, which supplies liter ature, including several books of interest. Speakers will address the mem bers at different times, and faculty members will be asked to present different problems to the group for discussion, according to William Maddox, who sponsored the club upon its institution last year. Other officers were elected as follows: Marion Leach, secretary; La Wanda Eerilason, librarian; John Allen, publicity. Meetings will be held on Thurs day evening, every second week. Youthi, Struck by Golf Ball, Reported Better The condition of Art Ireland, freshman from Portland, who was injured Monday afternoon when struck in the head by a golf ball, is., reported to be favorable. He is suffering from cerebral contus ion and will be in the hospital for seme time yet, authorities there said, but his skull was not fractur ed, as was at first thought. He was playing with two comrades on the country club links. One of them “flrove off” and thp ball roHed 10 yards. Ireland walked in the way of a second drive and was struck behind the ear. He tvas not affected by the blow at first, but was later taken to the hospital after [becoming ill. Seth Thomas, Vintage 1876, Follows Prof. Dunn to Math Class On a smooth-run cnmpus ’tis said j that one thing just naturally follows [ another, as witness Mary and the ' lamb (though some consider the fig ure a bit rough on college men); and the latest example of this fol low theory is the case of Prof. Frederic. S. Dunn of the math de partment. Only in his case it is not a sheep, but a clock—a Seth Thomas ; clock. And it is an experienced time- j piece, as Prof. Dunn relates, for its 1 age is most as great as that of the | University itself. It was the first clock to adorn the dignified wall of the Eutaxian-Laurenn debating room of Deady, back in 1876—the only room in the building that had a ! carpet. Here it also stood face to face with Andrew Johnson, first president of the University, who held his august Latin classes there. From this office it naturally gravitated to Professor Dunn, who came in presently as the new Latin teacher, and thereafter it has never left him. From Heady it went with him to Yillard, and finally to Ore gon, where it fills up wall space in 107. As to its ornamental qualities, the Seth Thomas is quite up to expecta tions, being a heavy thing with a great brass pendulum—-which firmly refuses to “pendulf.” By climbing onto a table one can see it through the black enameled door, all plas tered up with medieval grandstand buildings of gold, guarded alongside with peevish-looking dragons. For 11 years, non', it has been dead, standing always at a quarter to 11, and continually fooling the math students who think tlio hour is about up. Professor Dunn, there fore, considers it valuable in more ways than as an antique. French Society To Install Here On March Third Pi Delta Phi Organization Grants Chapter to Campus Group Pi Delta Phi, national French honor society, will establish a chap ter at the University of Oregon, and the installation and initiation will be held March 3, at 4 o’clock in the Alumni hall of the Woman’s building. Announcement of the election by the national has just been received on the campus. A committee headed by Miss Stel la Kastleman, active member of the society, and instructor in the French department, with the co-op eration of the Romance language department and the registrar’s of fice, compiled a list of students eli gible to membership from the stand point of scholarship and collegiate record. Honorary members selected are: Dr. Ray P. Bowen, head of the Romance language department; Dean George Rebec, dean of the gradu ate division; Dr. Timothy Cloran, professor of Romance languages; and one special member, J. R. Wadsworth, assistant professor of Romance languages. Those elected into active member ship of Pi Delta Phi are Werdna .Isbell, Lyle Veazie, Margaret Jack man, Doris Gramm, Charlotte Carll, Grace Ash, Gladys Grant, Christina Crane, Helen Crane, LeRoy Detling, Albert L. Halpin, Serena Madsen. Robert Giffen, Laurence Hartmu3 and George W. Black. Pi Delta Phi is modeled on the lines of Phi Beta Ka|». It is ex clusive in its membership, “thus not only serving as a reward of honor for able students, but as a goal to wards which students may strive who might not otherwise be inter ested in maintaining a high stan dard of scholarship.” The purpose of Pi Delta Phi as stated in the constitution is “to maintain a high standard of scholar ship in all college work and especi ally in that work done in the French department. To foster greater in terest and effort in the attainment of perfection in French and to maintain a continued, '^nteyest in French culture and literature after leaving the University.” Immediately after the initiation, a banquet will be held in honor of the new members. Further details will be announced later. Jim Watson, Indiana, In Presidential Race (By United Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Repub lican favorite sons are forming in line for their big parade next June. If they have anything to do with it, the line of march will not go past the premises of Herbert Hoover. Dr. Anita Muhl Tells of Work In Psychiatry Most Crimes and Mental Troubles Deelared Preventable Mental Science Work In Colleges Advised Interesting Stories of the Truants Given, “ Seven ty-fi vo per cent of the crimes ami seventy-five ]ier cent of tlio insanities are preventable, ami it’s our own fault if wo don’t pre vent them,” declared Anita Muhl, M.I)., Ph.T)., to the assembled stu dents and faculty yesterday, in her lecture on the role of mental hy giene in preventing emotional mal adjustment. Mental hygiene work should begin before the child reaches school age, according to Hr. Muhl, who cited ns an example a survey slio niado in California of 2.10 pre-school children, of whom more than 70 per cent had abnormal fears. She said that such habits are laid down before the fifth year. Psychiatry, according to the speaker’s definition, belongs to the realm of the physician rather than that of the psychologist. It deals with nervous disturbances from mere worries to insanity, and with physical disturbances, which are much more difficult to control. Lesser Disturbances Listed Among people with the lesser dis turbances, Hr. Muhl linked those who lose their tempers, ride certain hobbies to death, or have night mares and morbid doubts, all of which are symptoms of emotional conflict. .She explained that psy chiatry tries to give constructive ideas and habits to enable the pa tients to steer clear of maladjust ments, and that the aim of mental ! hygiene is to solve these problems and prevent others from arising. Clinics, juvenile court psychiat rists, high school psychiatrists to aid in vocational and related problems, and college psychiatrists, of whom the University of California lias a resident specialist, are now engaged' in this work, according to the speaker, who declared that there is a tremendous need for them in the colleges. She has had several cases among persons who have been out of the university two or three years. These scientists deal with cases from simple misbehavior to crime, from mental maladjustments to in sanity, and from misfits in general to criminals. Treatment Cures CMld A cliilil who hail been declared incorrigible and stupid by his teach ers, the principal of the school, and a physician, was brought to 'Dr. Muhl as having a typical criminal make-up. Slio described him as un tidy, fidgety, ill-mannered. His mother was intelligent but unedu cated, and since slio worked he was left in. the care of his 18-year-old sister, who had been a ward of the juvenile court. An examination given the boy by Dr. Muhl showed him to bo un usually bright, and after going to the school officials in an unsuc cessful endeavor to get them to re instate him, sho placed him in a private school, after having ex plained the difficulties to the in structors there. Dr. Muhl asked foT the co-opera tion of the boy’s family, and the father promised that they wero “goin’ to cuperate” and that they were very fond of the boy and would do anything sho advised. Twice a week the child went to her office, and she gave him some thing to draw or write about. He became proud of his accomplish ments. At the end of the year she told him that ho didn’t need to come back. Last. August the boy proudly brought her a bouquet of flowers from his own garden and his last report card with high marks, espe cially in conduct. A second boy was described by the speaker as having been sent to her as a truant. He had said that he was running away from home because ho didn’t have any more confidence in his parents. Other boys had teased him by saying that he was adopted, but his family had always denied it until one occasion when he had provoked his mother and she had told him that he was really adopted. After understand ing the cause of his trouble, the problem was to re-establish his con fidence. Boys Handled Successfully In Maryland a gang of boys from eight to twelve years of age were brought before Dr. Muhl, all of (Continued on page five) Beware Ye Laggard; Ye May Find Too Late Your Favorite Pipe! Ilark, ye students of the absent minds; ve losers of.valuable arti eles! Just one month is left for you to collect your scattered wits and repair to the campus depot to seek for that fountain pen, that silk umbrella, that cigarette holder, you lost so long ago. Which all means that some time about the first of March all articles still left at the depot will go under the auctioneer’s hammer. And if by that time you have not heeded these words of honest wisdom per chance you will stop some morning before the block and see your fa vorite pipe in the hands of a wick ed auctioneer. And—well—then “Yours is not to do or die, Yours is but to stand and sigh, Wishing you had gone up there before.” Completed List Of All Athletes In Track Meet Record Breaking Contests Assured in McArthur Court Clash All arrangements have been com pleted to make the intramural track meet tonight even more of a suc cess than that of a week ago. Festiv ities are scheduled to start at 7 o ’clock sharp, and all officials aro requested to be on hand by 6:45 at the latest. "Extensive indoor prac tice has been carried on all week by the different, men who plan to compete tonight, and even faster sprints and higher jumps than those of the first meet are expected this evening. The complete list of entries and events: 45-yard dash (three heats) — At kinson, Phi Gamma Delta; Ander son, Phi Gamma Delta; Lowry, Sig ma Alpha Epsilon; Tutticli, Beta Theta Pi; Seigmund, Beta Theta Pi; Liveslv, Sigma Phi Epsilon; Kelly, Sigma Chi; Shafer, Alpha Beta Chi; Prendergast, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. 45-yard high hurdles—Prcndergast, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; McGoe, Kap pa Sigma; Hendricks, Sigma Chi; Kelly, Beta Theta Pi; McKennan, Theta Chi. Polo vault—Crowley, Phi Gamma Delta; Boone, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Robinson, Independent; Mnulby, Beta Theta Pi; Brae,her, Beta Theta Pi; Sowell, Independent. High jump—Everetts, Phi Gamma Delta; Dougherty, Phi Gamma Del ta; Reed, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Mc Cullock, Alpha Tau Omega. 880-yard run—Keatings, Phi Gam ma Delta; Cooper, Independent; Manning, Independent; Surrey, Sigma Phi Epsilon; Overstreet, Sigma Chi; Barnes, Sigma Chi. Shot put—Christenson, Phi Gam ma Delta; Harrington, Phi Gamma Deltg; Hall, Sigma Nu; West, Phi Delta Theta; Colbert, Beta Theta Pi; Moeller, Phi Delta Theta. Mile run—Hill, Independent; Beal, Delta Tau Delta; Kuykendall, Phi Sigma Kappa; Winters, Sigma Chi. 440-yard run — Cooper, Independ ent; Peflev, Independent; R. Hall, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; McCarty, Alpha Tau Omega; McKennan, Theta Chi; Pearson, Kappa Sigma. A slightly different set of offi cials will preside at the contests tonight. They are: Judges of finish—ITodgen, Sigma Nu; Burnell, Beta; and Hammond, Phi Delt. Starter—Obertcuffer. Clerk of the course—Shade, Beta. Judge of jumps—Phillips, Beta; Crawford, A. T. O.; and Bredtliauer. Judge of shot-put—Wetzel, Phi Delt; and Stadelman, Sigma Nu. Marshals — Harden, Sigma Nu; and Harry Wood. Press—Joe Price. Junior Shine Heads Named By Chairman Day Has Become Tradition On Campus, So Will Not Be Abolished Proceeds To Be Given To Campus Chest Fund Co-eds Will Appear in Gypsy Costumes The announcement by Burr Ab ner, bead of Junior Shine Bay, of the appointments of heads for the various committees, formally opens preparations for the annual event, which will take place within the next two weeks. Junior Shine Day was first estab lished five years ago by the mem bers of the junior class under tho leadership of James Leake, tho pro ceeds taken in being used for the purchase of Thanksgiving dinners for the poor of Eugene. This year the funds will be turned over to the Campus Chest for distribution. Slogan Adopted "A Shine for a Dime” was the slogan adopted by the first Junior Shine Bay committee and this has been passed down to all the junior classes which followed. “It was thought for a time,” said Mr. Abner, “that the Shine Bay would be abolished this year on ac count of tho establishment,’of the Campus Chest, but wo feel that it has become a tradition on the cam pus which is quite worth keeping. The college as a whole looks for ward to it ns much as tho junior class does, and wo promise a ‘bigger and brighter shine for a dime* this year.” Ticket selling will be in charge of tho feminine members of tho class, who will pace the campus in gvpsy array and coerce co-eds and eds into spending thoir hard-earnod dimes on their foet. Four Stands Used Four stands will take care of the rush, two in front of tho library, one between the Commerce and Ore gon buildings, and one in front of Condon Hall. Prizes will bo offered for those Belling tho most tickets. The heads of tho various commit tees are: committees to speak at houses, Mao Tobin and Bob TTvnd; poster committee, Mary K. John son; publicity, Etlia Jeanne Clark; materials, Wendall Orny; stands, Wado Newbegin; and ticket sale, Bona Aim. Bill Crawford, Gordon Stearns, Bob Button, and Bill Blel schneider will have charge of tho stands. Installing of Private Telephone Exchange For Campus Planned A private telephone exchange will bo established on the University of Oregon campus providing negotia tions between University officials and representatives of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company are completed. This announcement was made last night by Karl W. Onthank, executive secretary. All campus telephones (not includ ing living organizations or halls) will bo connected through the pri vate branch exchange. There will probably be one full time operator and two relief operators, who will be University girls wishing to work ! part time. This system will “speed j up” the service and eliminate con siderable confusion, as all long dis l tance calls and probably telegrams | will be bandied by the University I operators. Aspiring Doctors in Anatomy Lab Have Inside Information on Cats This is a requiem for al^ chasto kitties whose fate decreed they wero born to blush unseen, until, like cer tain notable men, they made them selves useful by dying. And if any one is reminded of Elegy in a Country Church yard, ho will please remember that said churcli-yard has pointed reference to Heady Hall’s Anatomy lab. r •> Whereas, once these cats were born to blush unseen, one can hardly add right now that they are wasting their sweetness on tlio desert air. The most peaceful way' is to go when one has a cold. ’Tie reminiscent of embalming shops, that lab. The visitor catches a glimpse of gory material through a door, und goes in to ace that the yietim gets fair play. The entering scene shows a sober lad untying a sor rowful bundle shaped like an un dersized mummy. Farther on, the visitor discovers a tableau that would make the most brazen cat redden with shame, could he fore tell his future. His body, mado harmless by formaldaliyde, is all open to inspection. Earnest students gaze therein with as much interest as an excavator digging in Egypt territory. From time to time thoy inhale deeply, contented as a florist filling a corsage OTder. Having handled him aplenty, the sophomore doctors put the feline corpse back into its mummy-cloth and wrap him up, all nice and cozy, to be mustered into service next week.