Oregon daily emerald., February 10, 1928, Image 1

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State Editors
Gather for
Tenth Conference
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Newspapermen Declare
Appreciation for
University Interest
The Tenth annual Oregon Newspa
per conference to be held at the
University under the auspices of
the School of Journalism, began to
take life yesterday afternoon when
editors representing newspapers
from every corner of the state be
gan to arrive in Eugene by train
and by highway.
Ralph R. Cronise, of the Albany
Democrat-Herald, and president of
the conference, spoke with enthus
ism on the scope and thoroughness
of the program which he stated will
contain something lof interest in
every field of publishing.
“I think that by adding the half
day on, Saturday afternoon, the
members of the conference will have
4 more time for the special session
during which they can discuss prob
lems of mutual interest to them
selves,” Mr. Cronise said.
“The newspapermen of Oregon ap
preciate the interest the University
has taken in the conference for the
past ten years,” Mr. Cronise contin
ued. “It has given them a chance
to see what the journalism depart
ment at Oregon is really doing for
the students and they have placed
on their papers many that would
have found it more difficult had
they been deprived of this contact
with men in actual newspaper work.
I regard it as one of the most im
portant conferences of the year.”
Mr. Cronise grew up in the smell
of printer’s ink. He got his start
in the newspaper business as man
aging editor of the Salem high
school paper, the Clarion. While a
student at the University of Ore
gon he was correspondent for the
Register and wrote dramatics. Twen
ty years ago, when he started in the
business, he said that the newspa
^ pgr was still in the stage where
subscriptions were traded for ap
ples and groceries.
Fred C. Trautman, press repre
sentative for the western lines of
th6 Canadian Pacific railway per
hftps. spanned the greatest distance
id coming to the conference. His
headquarters are in Winnipeg. Mr.
Trautman has charge of all publici
ty of the Canadian Pacific west of
Ljake Superior, extending as far
south a'S San Francisco on the Pa
cific Slope. A few days ago when
he passed through Banff, the win
ter sports were in full Swing. He
stated that the Santa Fe is the near
est rival in the world to his own
company in beautiful folders and
expensive advertising.. Mr. Tratjt
Ktan’s arrival for the conference is
a personal acknowledgement of an
invitation sent to his by Dean Eric
W. Allen of the school of journalism.
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Among the former editors of the
Emerald who are coming to the con
ference is Edward M. Miller, now
. automobile editor of the Oregonian
' and contributor of the feature “That
Was an Eventful Day in Portland.”
Ed, who was editor of the Emer
ald in 1925-26, is making a motor
logue of his trip, which will likely
be a feature of the Sunday Oregon
ian.
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Sheldon F. Sackett, editor of the
McMinnville Telephone Register,
which he publishes in conjunction
with H. B. Cartlidge, has been tink
ering with journalism a bit since
he was 8 years old, when he started
and successfully ran his first paper,
in Sheridan, Yamhill country, his
old home town. Since his gradua
tion from Willamette, a matter of
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Big Auction Sale of
Unredeemed Articles
To Be l March 7
March 7 is tht , ful dav. Old
V
Library steps, th. \ ■>. And an
auction is the thi» * nd—well—
as I was saying—c -eh 7 all
of the numerous and \ s things
left at the lost and . depart
ment will be auctioned m fjie
Library steps to whomso. islies
to part with the proper i of
shekels.
This affair is in the h..uds of
Mazie Richards, and she will choose
about seven men and ten freshmen
women to help her. These will be
chosen within the next two weeks
and work on the autcion will begin.
It will last from 9 till 2 and the
proceeds will be added to the Wo
man’s League fund.
Bryn Mawr To
Offer Awards
Of Scholarships
Social Economy, Research
Included in Courses
To Be Given
Among the number of fellow
ships and scholarships offered in
various, universities for the year
1928-29, Bryn Mawr College, at Bryn
Mawr, Pa., i$ offering scholarships
in the Carola Woerishoffer graduate
department of social economy and
social research. This is an oppor
tunity of particular interest to wo
men graduates who wish to prepare
for positions dealing with social
case work, family welfare, child
welfare, community organization,
vocational 'guidance, human rela
tions in industry, social and indus
trial research, and administration of
social agencies.
Two Carola Woerishoffer Memorial
Fellowships of the value of $810
are awarded annually to candidates
of scholastic excellence who have
completed at least one year of col
lege graduate work, and two Grace
H. Dodge Memorial Fellowships are
also awarded under the same con
ditions.
T^o scholarships of the value of
$360 are also given under both these
memorials annually, and are open to
College graduates of good standing.
Dean Virginia Judy Esterly, dean
of women, has received special no
tice from the department of social
economy of Bryn Mawr to recom
mend any worthy candidates from
the University of Oregon.
It was through this department
that Ruth Miller, who graduated
from Oregon in 1927, and who is
now studying at Bryn Mawr, re
ceived a scholarship that enabled
her to continue her work in the
east. Miss Miller is a member of
Kappa Kappa Gamma and Phi Beta
Kappa.
Applications for fellowships or
scholarships should be made as soon
as possible to the president of the
University.
Choir Will Present
Two Anthems Sunday
At Vespers Service
Right Reverend Walter Taylor
Sumner, bishop of the Episcopal
diocese of Oregon, will read the
vesper service Sunday, February 12,
at 4:30 ouclock in the Music build
ing.
Two anthems, “Hark, Hark, My
Soul, ”by Shelley, and “O Lord
Most Holy,” by Cesar Franck, will
be ‘given by the University choir.
Madame Rose McGrew, instructor
in voice, will sing the soprano solos,
rnd Marvei Skeels Oberteuffer will
sing the contralto solos of the fir5t
number.
New York Times Cartoons Remark
Of Harry Scott, U. of O. Professor
Tacked upon a door in the office
of the men’s gymnasium is a car
^ toon clipped from the New York
Times. Naturally, this paper has
lots of cartoons, but it is not every
day that it has one inspired by a
professor of the University of Ore
gon. -»•
Professor Harry A. Scott, head
of the physical education depart
ment, now on a year’s leave to
complete his Ph.D. at Colum'bia Uni
versity in New York City, spoke
recently at the national American
Physical Education Association con
ference. At that time he made a
rather incidental statement con
cerning the probability of teaching
sports that would be of more use
in later life. He mentioned fishing.
These speeches were covered care
fully, and Professor Scott’s “fish
story” was plucked out, cartooned,
and sent all over the country.
This one cartoop shows a Har
vard-Princeton fishing match, in
which they break relations because
one is using worms instead of the
regulation fly. The next flash is
that of goal posts with the score
in fish hanging to them. Another
little scene shows the coach de
moting a fisherman because he let
a sucker get away. The final ehot
is that of victory in which the sup
porters of the winning dry-fly cast
ers paek off the “bacon.”
Professor Scott caused much com
ment by his article in the “Nation’s
Health” for June, 1927, where he
first advocated his ideas for teach
ing more sports which could be
used in life after graduation.
Students Must
Discriminate
Says Sumner
Distinction Between Good
And Near-Good Held
Imperative
Choice of Informed
Leaders Called Need
Bishop Points Out Deficits
Of Flunkers
“I hope that (luring your univer
sity days you may apply your
power of discrimination to decide
between the good and the base and
between the best and the second
best, to so choose your leaders that
you may safely follow in their
path, and finally, in all decisions
to choose the bloom and not tho
bud.” This hope was expressed by
Dr. Walter Taylor Sumner, Episco
pal bishpp of Oregon, in his ad
dress at yesterday’s student assem
bly.
Dr. Sumner laid his choice of the
subject of “Student Discrimination”
to a talk he hadi recently with
three men who had “flunked out”
of school and had come to him to
enlist his aid in finding positions.
Knowing that they had come from
small town homes that rvere above
the average, were rather sorious,
and had good characters, or at least
good reputations, he concluded that
the fault lay in their lack of dis
criminating power.
Discrimination Lacking
Discrimination was defined by the
speaker as the power of discern
ment, a differential treatment, a
selectivity, which might be summed
up in judgment. He said that the
concept of this power comes from
intelligent training and experience,
and deplored the fact that univer
sities and colleges are not turning
out men and women that have this
characteristic.
These three young men didn’t
kno\V why they were on the cam
pus, in Bishop Sumner’s opinion.
They had come because it was the
common thing to do, and they felt
that a degree would give them a
social distinction and a greater
earning power, although they had
no definite vocation in mind or any
particular love of culture.
Other deficits from which they
suffered were failure to work out
a definite program, and a tendency
to over-emphasizc the social side of
campus life.
A fourth way ii^ which the men
were deficient in the power of dis
crimination was their mistaken idea
of the emotional side of life, ac
cording to the speaker. He af
firmed that while the primary ob
ject of a university is to develop
the intellect, there is an emotional
or spiritual side also. Finally, they
did not use discrimination in their
choice of leaders.
Take Advice of Past
“If we could take the advice of
the past and build upon it, in three
generations we could have supermen
and superwomen. While times have
changed, the fundamentals are the
same throughout the ages. Young
people do not take the advice of
their parents, although their knowl
edge has been built up through ex
perience, much of it bitter,” de
clared Bishop Sumner.
“These are complex times,” he
continued. “Our leaders must be
better informed and more given to
constructive imaging than those
of the past. We are not sufficiently
acute in our power of discrimination
to see that we must put in power
leaders who have the requirements
of this age. In the university how
important it is to have discrimina
tion in the choice of leaders.
“It is one thing to recognize wise
decisions and another to have the
will power to carry them out. If
we’re to be useful we must have
the discerning power.”
The three students who had failed
were fraternity men but they had
not taken the advice of the other
members. Nor had they followed
the suggestions of their faculty ad
visors.
Beauty Gives Distinction
“Anything beautiful is bound to
give a distinction in choosing the
ifiner things in life,” said the speak
I er, in describing an experience he
had with a classmate who had been
successful in a small way with
stocks and bonds while he was in
college and yet had ambitions to
be an astronomer. Dr. Sumner said
he did not then have the discern
ment to see the relative importance
of the two occupations; since then
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Two Infant Cabinets
In Europe Destroyed
After Short Careers
(By United Proas)
LONDON, Fob. 9.—Born loss than
two weeks ago, Norway's first labor
cabinet resigned today, according
to an Oslo dispatch to the Laborito
Daily Herald. Ludwig Mowinekel,
loader of the lofts, is attempting to
form a now government, the dis
patch stated.
The Labor government was doom
ed almost from its inception because
of the radical changes it proposed.
Composed of farmers, white collar
workers, a professor, and a few
politicians, somewhat resembling an
American trial jury, the cabinet
tried to make sweeping tax reduc
tions and attempted to pare the
military and naval appropriations.
(By United Press)
BELGRADE, Feb. 9.—After two
political leaders failed in their ef
forts to organize a ;Yugo-Slav cabi
net, the king todajt empowered M.
Davidovitch, leader of the National
Democrats, to form, a new govern
ment. It was because of contro
versy with Davidovitch that the
old cabinet was resigned.
All-Star Events
Will Be Held in
Igloo Tonight
Student Body Officers
Will Officiate During
Unusual Meet
As a novel innovation in the
series of track meets held at Mc
Arthur Court, the events tonight
will be between strictly all-star
performers who have proven their
ability in previous contests, and the
list of officials is drawn largely
from the student body officers. A
special section will be reserved for
eo-eds on the west side of the bal
cony.
This aggregation of cinder lumi
naries will start to scintillate at
7:30 sharp, the initial event being
the first heat of the 45 yard dash.
The present record at this distance
is 5 seconds, and it is jointly held
by Lowery, S. A. E., and former
Portland flash, and Prendergast, S.
A. E. sprinter. With Siegmund,
Beta, who beat Lowery in the state
high school meet last year, Moeller,
deeathalon expert, and Tutticli from
California, who runs the hundred
in 10 flat, all entered tonight, this
record of 5 seconds is in extremo
teonardv.
The pole vault will hring out two
well known experts. Bobby Robin
soli, who holds the present indoor
jeieord at 11 feet, will have keen
competition from Maulby, frosh aee
from Long Beach, with a previous
record of 12 feet 6 inches in a
southern meet. Bracher, fraternity
brother of Maulby, who is a Beta,
will also be seen in this jump.
But in the shot put, above all
else, will the cream of the frats be
entered, and competiton run high.
The weight of the shot will be
changed from 12 to 16 pounds, so
existing records are of no value
in this case. Moeller, Phi Delt,
who held the title with the 12-pound
shot at 47:514 feet, Hall, Sigma Nu
husky who was second at 46:1114,
Wetzel, Phi Delt and varsity weight
man, Stadelman, Sigma 'Nu and
1927 football center, and Johnston,
Sigma Chi, are the five outstanding
entrants in the brawn contest.
As present record holder at 4:42
for the mile run, Hill, varsity miler,
looms as the most dangerous en
trant. He will receive some real
competition, however, from Beal,
Delta Tau Delta, Jensen, Indepen
dent, Kuykendall, Phi Sigma Kap
pa, Winter, Sigma Chi, and Graef,
Kappa Sig.
The high jump will be veTy close
between McCulloch, present record
holder at 6 feet, Crawford, A. T. O.,
and Reed, S. A. E. Boyden, Kappa
Sigma, Anderson, Sigma Chi, and
Maginnis, also Sigma Chi, are
three other men who will bear
watching at this competition.
To be run in two heats, the 45
yard high hurdles will bring out a
formidable array of talent, headed
by Hendricks, Sigma Chi and pres
ent record holder with a time of
6:1. McGee, Kappa Sig, Crawford,
A. T. O., and Kelly, Beta, are hur
dlers who will undoubtedly force
the winner to break the record.
Others listed in this run whose
threat is by no means feeble, are
Moeller, Phi Delt, Prendergast, S.
A. E., Wetzel, Phi Delt, and Me
Kennon, Theta Chi. All the entries
are above the average in speed, and
the outcome is about a toss-up.
Favored to place in the 880 and
probably shatter the present time
I of 2:9, held by Rutherford, Delta
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Beaver Five
Favored Over
Webfooters
Aggies Doped To Repeat
Victory in Came
On Saturday
Oregon Team Leaves
Thursday for North
O.S.C. Squad Shows Power
Against Grizzly
By JOE PIGNEY
The Oregon basketball team faces
the most difficult half of its sea
son with odds 'decidedly unfavor
Bill Reinhart
able, but, how
ever, with a slight
possibility still
remaining to top
the northern di
vision of the con
ference at the end
of the road trip.
The Webfoots
play their first
away from home
game next Satur
day against the
Aggies at Corval
lis. On the following Thursday tho
team will leave for the North to
play the rest of its conference sched
ule and Gonzaga.
Aggies Favored
When the Beavers and the Web
footers met in Eugene last week,
the two quints were considered to
be on about equal footing. Tho Ag
gies, however, have displayed su
perior ability and are conceded fa
vorites to defeat the Oregonians
again on Saturday.
The Montana contest was fur
ther evidenco of the strength of the
Aggies. O. S. C. turned back the
Grizzlies with case, winning 31 to !
12, while the Wobfoots on the fol
lowing night ran into difficulties,
and barely nosed out tho northern
ers, 36 to 33.
Defense Weak
The Montana game brought out
the glaring weaknesses of tnc Ore
gon defense. The Grizzlies’ bar
rage of shots from just past the
center of the floor completely be
wildered the Webfoots. Montana
showed one of the fastest breaking
offensive combinations seen here
this season, and will have a good
chance to topple the Webfooters
when they play in Missoula.
William J. Reinhart, Oregon
coach, has at no time this year
thought the Webfooters to be po
tential championship contenders.
Reinhart, with unexperienced ma
terial, has developed a team that
shows exceptional pronjiso 'for a
title winner next year.
Huskies Strong
To lose three all-coast stars in
one year and then build another
league leading team is an impos
sibility for any coach. Reinhart
has produced the most consistent
winners in the history of Oregon
basketball teams, and may even
surprise the rest of the league the
way his 1928 quintet will finish.
Washington, with an undefeated
five, remains, the likeliest school to
represent the north in the cham
pionship series of the Pacific coast,
to be played in the south with the
winner of the southern division. O.
S. C. is thought to have the best
chance of any to turn back the
Huskies, and Oregon is running
third.
Oregon will play six games in
nine days when it starts on its road
trip. The Washington game is the
final one on the schedule, and even
if the Webfooters are able to come
through without a defeat until that
time, the team will be feeling the
effects of the strenuous string of
tilts, which will be a big advantage
for the Huskies.
The varsity roster for the Ag
gie game will probably include the
following players:
Gordon Ridings, Scot Milligan,
Joe Bally, Dave Epps, Mervyn
Chastain, Don McCormick, Ick Rey
nolds, Ray Edwards, and Jack
Dowsett.
Reading Lists Ready
For Honor Students
After a great deal of discussion as
to poets and the relative merits of
their various works, the faculty of
the English department announces
that a complete list of reading for
honor students has been compiled
and will be ready for distribution
in a few days.
Oregon Newsmen
Reach Campus For
Annual Conference
University Magnet for Writers from Over State;
Burt Barker To Make First Appeaance #
Before Editors at Banquet
The University of Oregon is the magnet for Oregon News
papermen today. The tenth annual Oregon newspaper confer
ence begins this morning with its big social feature ,the an
imal banquet given by the Eugene Chamber of Commerce at
the Osburn hotel, coming at 6:00 this evening.
Burt Brown Barker, new vice-president of the University,
who arrived in Eugene Wednesday, will make his first appear
ance before the newspapermen of the state when he speaks at
the banquet tonight. The Northwest’s noted orator, Frank
Branch Riley of Portland will also address the editors, and his
talk is eagerly awaited by a throng of Riley fans in Eugene.
C. II. Brockhagen, publisher of the Portland Telegram; Dr.
Junior Shine
Day To Be Held
Next Wednesday
Four Stands To Supply
Dazzling Polish to
Campus Shoes
Committees Appointed To
Speak at Houses
Junior Shine Day will bo next
Wednesday, February 15, accord
ing to au announcement by Burr
Abner, head of tho committee.
Three prizes will be given away on
that day; a tambourine to tho
junior girl who sells tho most tick
ets, and n complete shoo shining
outfit to the man who draws a
lucky number. Tho other prize,
which goes to the girl who draws a
lucky number, is a mystery. Those
in charge will not announce what
this prize will bo until next week.
All tho members of the commit
tees have been appointed. Wade
Newbcgin lias charge of tho stands.
Ho has appointed Bill Crawford in
charge of one stand, and Los John
son, Louis Harthrong, Maurice
Reavis, Marshall Hopknis, Bob Fos
ter, Irv Flcgel, George Stager, and
Ray McGee will work under him.
Bob Dutton will have charge of
another stand. For his assistants,
he will have: Brad Harrison, Del
Richmond, Louis Ogle, Verno Mc
Gee, Tom Montgomery, Herb Lewis,
Tillman Peterson, and Joe Roberts.
Gordon Stearns will oversee the
third stand. Tho men who will work
with .him are: Austin Shepherd,
Verne Dale, Palmer Schlegel, Frank
Hollin, Art Anderson, Ray Jost,
Frank Hall, and Goo. Schade.
Bill Dielschneidor will have
charge of tho fourth stand with the
following men under him: Boone
Hendricks, Ernest Jachatta, Phil
Holmes, Geo. Akers, Mel Goodin,
John Gray, Bill Eddy, and Ralph
McCulloch.
The following girls have been ap
pointed by Mae Tobin to speak at
the men’s houses: Olive Banks and
Edith Fenwick, Phi Delta Theta;
Billie Martland and Alice McGrath,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Sally Hugh
son and Grace Gardner, Chi Psi; Jo
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P. O. Riley, editor of the Hnbbnrd
Enterprise, and Miss Ruth Newton,
senior in. the University school of
journalism, also are on the program.
The committee in charge has ar
ranged a special musical program
for the banquet. Tho denn of’ tho
school of journalism, Erie W. Allen,
will net as toastmaster.
This morning at 9:00 the confer
ence officially opens with registra
tion. President Ralph R. Cronise
Albany Democrat-Herald, will call
tho session to order at 9:30 and tho
various committees will be announc
ed. After that tho conference pro
per will get under way with dis
cussions of the problems of the news
paper, the roal reason for this gath
ering.
Throughout the morning tho news
papermen will bo listening to and
discussing such topics as, “How
M'uch Is a Newspaper Worth?”,
“Different Ways of Closely Esti
mating Newspaper Values,” “Ways
of Gaining and Keeping a Hold on
the Rural Circulation,” and “Tho
Two Percent Discount.”
Numerous luncheons will be at tho
disposal of the visiting newspaper
men when noon calls them from
their discussions. A Sigma Delta
Chi luncheon for weekly editors, an
Ad Club luncheon for advertising
men, press service luncheons, and a
Theta Sigma Phi luncheon for the
wives of the men, are on the pro
gram.
The afternoon will find the men
bac,k at their sessions. Tho free
publicity situation will be discussed.
Local advertising and national ad
vertising will come in for their
share of the spotlight. Field agent
plans and the Harvey W. Stott edi
torial prize will bo outlined and ex
plained. •
More entertainments for tho wives
of the party will bo found at the
Woman's building where Theta Sig
ma Phi will serve tea from 3:30
until 5:30.
Today’s program will end with
the big banqquet at the Osburn ho
tel, but the conference is only half
finished. Tomorrow will be spent
in a continuance of the discussions.
New problems and new ideas will
bo advanced. The afternoon ses
sions will be divided into three sec
tions: Dailios, trade and class jour
nal section, and* one for weeklios
and printers. The conference will
close with the annual banquet of
the Ben Franklin club. All news
papermen and printers are invited.
Lousiana Flood Days Described By
C.P.Dunbar, Graduate in Geology
Way down 5n Louisiana, in the
pleasant days before the flood,
Clarence P. Dunbar, 'graduate stu
dent in geology here, went to school
at Louisiana State College and was
happy. When he became homesick,
all he needed to do was got on the
train, and take the two-hour trip
which brought him homo to the
ranch, and his people.
Clarence is 20, tall, has straight
black hair, dark eyes full of humor,
a southern accent, can sing negro
spirituals, likes baked sweet pota
toes and has an unusual habit of
calling everyone by a nickname.
There came a day when he heard
that the levees near his home had
broken, and that the bridges and
tracks were .out. Ho then had to
take a bus as far as he could and
transfer to a boat before he could
reach his home.
“It was the awfullest mess
you’ve ever seen,” said Mr. Dun
bar, in his characteristic southern
way, “everything we had, the
things we had worked for years to
build up, were swept away in a
few hours. Where we once grew
our crops, after the flood there re
mained only the bare hard rock. All
tho soil was washed off Our house
and buildings were in ruins, and
some of my moat treasured relics
were gone.
“Our home is on a ridge 30 miles
from the Bayou Deglaiso levee and
75 miles from the Atchafalaya
levee,’' said Clarence. “Mother told
mo of sitting on tho front porch
and seeing tho waters from the two
breaks meet. The waters of the
Bayou Deglaiso were rod while the
waters of the Atchafalaya river
wero clear. They met, mingled and
began to rise. Tho water rose seven
feet in seven hours, so you can ima
gine how swift it was.
“How my mother ever managed
to catch 400 chickens herself, has
always been a mystery to me and
always shall, I guess,’’ he con
tinued, “but nevertheless she did.
All tho stock was saved, but very
little else.
“There wasn’t much loss of life
in our part of the country as the
people had enough warning so they
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