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VOLUME XXIX. 9 NUMBER 75 Oregon Five’s Playing Against Aggies Was of Best Milligan Holds Burr to One Lone Field Goal; Scoring Well Divided By BICHARD H. STRING Sports Editor Before you let the memories of the 28 to 23 defeat of the Webfoots over the Oregon Aggies last Satur day night at Cor vallis slip from your mind don’t j forget to give the ’ University of Or- \ egon basketball j team its due cred- ^ it. After playing [ a fair style of ball j this season, some- t times showing p flashes of bril- j lianev, other times 11 * making a very Scott Milligan mediocre showing, the Oregonians displayed a brand of basketball in Corvallis last Saturday that, if re pented again, could defeat any other team in the northwest division of the Pacific coast conference. This is saying a lot, considering that there are such teams as Washington and Idaho to be reckoned with in this league. » * * It was a quintet of hoopsters play ing the fast-breaking brand of bas ketball that Coach Billy Reinhart predicated and hoped for early in the season. Offensively the Lemon Yellow five were greased lightning. Down the floor they -wont with a rush that virtually swept the Aggies off their feet. It wasn’t just a one man team but every Oregon hoop linger fitted perfectly into the scor ing combination. This can be seen from the result of the field goals garnered. Gordon Ridings, Oregon scoring ace, who without a doubt played one of the greatest games of r his career, scored three baskets. Chastain, Edwards, McCormick and Milligan each swished the hemp for two. * * * Defensively the Webfoots checked closely, man-for-man. Reports that the Aggies missed many of their baskets are true, but it ivas the close guarding and onrushes of the Oregon varsity which kept the Beavers in hot water most of the time. Coach Reinhart picked tlie man Saturday night that proved to be the Waterloo for Captain Bill Burr of the Aggies. Lanky Scott Milligan drew this hard task and couldn’t have performed it better. “Everywhere that Burr went his little lamb in person of Milligan was sure to follow.” It was as if Burr had been singing “Me and My Shadow,” because Milligan cov ered the Aggie leader like a sha dow. Burr, famous for his one-hand ed overhead shot, was held scoreless during the first half. The last can to saw him convert one foul and score but one field basket. Burr’s slender scoring, by the way, inci dentally puts Gordon Ridings seven points in the lead for individual scoring in the northwest loop of the coast conference. * * * Ridings’ and Milligan’s good work was ably seconded by Chastain, Mc Cormick and Edwards. This boy Don McCormick seemed to have tak en a new lease on life. All that could be seen of this fleeting guard were the flying strands of his blonde hair. He made one goal from under the basket and one beautiful score from the field. “Believe it or not,” but big Ray Edwards, who started the game at <Continued on page two) Director of A. A. U. W* Visits Oregon Campus Mrs. Melvin Brannon, wife of the chancellor of Montana and regional director of the northwest division of the American Association of tlni k versity Women, is a guest of the Eugene branch todajP. Mrs. ^Brannon will speak at the Pi Lambda Theta tea, which will be given in the committee room of the Woman’s building this afternoon at 4:30. She is eager to meet all senior and graduate girls on the campus at the tea, to which they are invited, and explain to them the national and international scope of the, A. A. TJ. W., according to Miss Hazel Prutsman, assistant dean of women. While on the campus Mrs. Bran non is the house guest of Mrs. Ar nold Bennett Hall. She is a mem ber of Pi Beta Phi. Mrs. Brannon has just come from the Oregon state convention of A. A. LT. W. in Port land. *All Wet9; 2 Faculty Members Submerge In Treacherous Race Repeated experiences calling at tention to the fact that our Millrace is a most treacherous stream should ssitate the posting of a warn to all who are unacquainted £ it to be careful, a it Saturday Murray Fowler l larold Blum, two of the latest i a °us to the University faculty, c 9 d to try their skill at canoe s'. ■ \nd to put it in a few words, tl pset the canoe and were im m in the icy waters of the ra were approaching the head of race,” said Blum in relating the lir to an inquiring reporter, “ai 1 seemed serene. The tiny waves lapping the shore and the blue sky over our heads gave no hint of the coming storm. All at cnee I noticed a dark cloud that covered the sun and then the thun der roared, sending its ominous sound rebounding from cliff cliff. Our little bark seemed fair to weath er the gale when all at once from tho direction of Springfield, what seemed a huge wall of water rolled upon us. I shouted to the crew to keep his head. He went aloft and commenced shouting, ‘Yeave Ho! Yeave Ho!’ Our doom approached fast. I cried to him to be brave to the last and thereupon wTe sank.” Opera Classes Give Program Tomorrow Eve Scenes From ‘La Boheme’ And Act From ‘Martha’ To Be Features A scene from the first act of Puc cini’s “La Boheme,” all of the sec ond act of “Martha” with the ex ception of the finale, and solo in terpretations of operatic numbers, will be given by the opera classes of Madame Bose McGrow, soprano, in the auditorium of the music building tomorrow evening at 8:15. The scenes from “La Boheme” will be sung by Janet Pierce, so prano, and Adrien Burris, tenor, who takes the part of Mimi, the em broidery maker and Bandolph the poet. Among the numbers Miss Pierce will sing is the charming “Mi Chiamano Mimi,” (They Call Me Mimi) in which the embroidery girl tells how the flowers she works transport her from the narrow con fines of her room to the broad fields and meadows. The second act of “Martha” will be sung by a quartet consisting of Gretchen Kier, soprano; Louise Storla, contralto; Kenneth Allen, tenor, and Donald Ostrander, bari tone. Martha, the heroine, is in reality Lady Harriett, bored with a surfeit of luxuries and suitors. She decides for novelty to go to the country fair dressed as a peasant girl in company with her maid,* Nancy, and hire out to keep house tor some farmer, according to the custom of country girls at that time. The act which the quartet will sing depicts the amusing predica ment in which the girls find them selves after they have been hired out to two farmers Plunkett and Lionel. The girls protest that they will not do kitchen work. Lionel intercedes in their behalf and sug gests that they spin instead. The girls prove so awkward at this task that the farmers come to show them how. The lesson is cut short by Nancy who overturns Plunket’s wheel. Dashing away with Plunkett in pursuit she leaves Martha and Lionel alone. Martha hums and sings “The Last Rose of Summer.” Lionel is completely carried away by the beauty of her singing and much to her amusement offers to raise her station from that of ser vant to be his wife. Opera solos will be sung by Paul ine Guthrey, Fay Finley, Jack Den nis, Maldon Horton and Harry Scou gall. Spectators Invited to Amphibian Practice A feature of the regular Amphi bian club practice at 7:30 this eve ning will be a special session of in struction by Emma Waterman on Senior Campers’ Lifesaving. This takes up different breaks, carries and approaches not used in regular Red Cross methods, and illustrates further developments of lifesaving as practiced by intercamp organiza tions. Although the demonstration is given primarily for the benefit of Amphibians, information may be gained by looking on, from the gal lery, and for that reason, anyone interested is invited to be present. Two Hundred Meet at Press Conference President and Secretary Elected To Serve for Coming Year Many Papers Read In Crowded Sessions ‘Oregon Press Conference’ Is New Name A new roeoril in attendance was set at the Tenth Annual Newspaper Conference when 200 newspaper men and women registered at the school of journalism for the session last Friday and Saturday. One of the most important results of the conference was the comple tion of arrangements for the em ployment of a field agent, to serve jointly the State Editorial Associa tion and the University school of journalism. Nearly $300 was pledged by 6 papers and publishing firms and a similar amount is to be fur nished by the University for salary and office upkeep. The executive committee of the association has al ready started to search for a man to fill this position. Ho will act as organizer for the press of the state in various ways, represent the pub lishers, distribute information on the phases of the printing work, and assist the students in the school of journalism. Appleby Heads Conference Frank Appleby, publisher of the La Grande Observer, was chosen president for the coming year, suc ceeding Ralph Cronise, publisher of the Albany Democrat-IIcrald. George Turnbull, professor in journalism, was chosen secretary. The name of the association was changed to “Oregon Press Conference” in order to include the trade and class jour nals, and an even greater attendance is predicted for next year. The newspaper business in Ore gon, especially in tho weekly field, is in a thriving condition and the values are steadily rising, said Earle J. Richardson, editor of the Dalles Itcmizer-Observer, who spoke on “How Much Is a Newspaper Worth?” A largo advance in the art and work of printing has been made in the last few decades, conference members were told by David Foulke,s mechanical superintendent of the Morning Oregonian of Portland, who took as his subject, “Printing of Ads and News as They Appear to an Old-Timer.” William F. Tugman, editor of the Eugene Guard, declared that one of the most forward signs of progress in the United States was tho fact that newspapers are now self-sup porting. His subject was “Inde pendence and Enterprise of the Editorial Page.” Papers Make for Frogess “The newspapers of the state of Oregon are the greatest factors for the progress of the state, for the upholding of ideals, and for the promotion of social service,” stated Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, president of the University. Don J. Sterling, managing editor of the Oregon Journal, read a paper on the problem of free publicity, while Mrs. S. I. Clark, manager of the Portland Bureau of Allen’s Clip ping Service, spoke on the wide spread of matter published in the papers. The Press Conference began Fri da£ morning and continued uiltil Saturday evening, with luncheons, banquets, and teas interspersing the many lectures. The Sigma Delta Chi “Dutch treat” luncheon, which is as annual event of the conference, took place Friday noon, while a student lunch was given for the members of the association Saturday noon. The an nual banquet took place at the Os burn hotel Friday evening, while the Theta Sigma Phi tea for the feminine members of the press or ganization was held Friday after noon. Stanford University Builds Rat ‘Waldorf’ STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Feb. 1?.—P. I. P.—Rats that are submit ted to the scrutiny and experimenta tion of the Psychology and Medical departments here will spend their last days amid luxurious surround ings. Within a few weeks a $10,000 “Animal Waldorf” will be ready for occupancy by the rodents. The struc ture will be built of stucco and will i be electrically heated to insure com | fort at all times. Individual rooms I will be provided for rats that are | quarrelsome. Col. Robert /. Rees ICHPflCH m Telephone Official to Be Feted Col. Rees Due Here Soon for Assembly Talk Special Lecture Planned Thursday Afternoon At Villard Hall Col. Robert I. Rees, assistant vice president of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, with head quarters at New York, will visit the University Thursday, February 16, and on that date will address an assemblage of students at 2:00 p. m. at Villa*! Hall. In addition to the address at the assembly he will also confer wlii^e here with members of the faculty. His program is being arranged by Professor Frank Folts. Col. Rees is in charge of Bell Tel ephone System relations with edu cational institutions. He gives spe cial attention to coordinating the employment of graduates from col leges and technical schools who en ter the employ of the Bell telephone* organization. Aside from his important positron with the Ameriacn Telephone and Telegraph company, Co. Rees is a man of distinction. In December, 1918, he became a member of Gen eral Pershing’s staff in France and was placed in charge of all educa tional work in the A. E. F. Cure for Pernicious Anemia Reported as Find of Oregon Grad Discovery by Dr. William P. Mur phy, University of Oregon graduate in 1914, and Dr. George Minot, both associated with the Harvard Medi cal school, of a potent liver extract, which, given in the form of a pow der, is wholly successful in the treatment of pernicious anemia, was recently announced in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, and in the Boston newspapers. The two physicians discovered the value of the curative powers of liver and kidney of animals by accident in 192-4, the Bulletin states. They then proved its value by a complete investigation. Pernicious anemia, until this discovery, was considered fatal to man. * At first Dr. Murphy and Dr. Minot fed half a pound of liver a day to their patients, but now a powder, made from tho liver, is substituted in its place. Dr. Murphy is associated, in medi cal practice in Boston, with Dr. Minot and Dr. Edwin A. Locke. His mornings are spent working on various clinical research problems in the Peter Bent Brigham hospital, where he also teaches several class es and makes ward visits. Last summer Dr. Murphy attend ed tho Oregon state medical meeting at Salem where he delivered a num ber of speeches. He also visited meets in Seattle and in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Dr. Murphy is a close friends of Dean John Bovard, head of the physical education de partment here. New Debates Slated For World Tour Men Two additional debates have been scheduled for the University of Ore gon world tour debaters on their American tour, Coach J. K. Horner announced yesterday. The Oregon men will meet Den nison College, flrandville, Ohio, March 12. March 24 they will de bate the Kent College of Law of Chicago via the radio of the Chi cago Daily News. Senior Dance Tickets Move Fast, Report Committee Heads Issue Calls for Help With Preparations Many New Features Listed on Program Nature of Entertainment Is Promised Later If the Senior ball in the Woman’s building this Saturday night is to be the biggest and most formal dance ever staged on the Oregon campus, more senior men and women will have to answer the calls of help from the various committee heads. Abb Lawrence, in charge of dec orations, urges the help of four or five men each afternoon at 4 o ’clock. They are asked to report, to him at the Arts building. Connie Both, who has charge of sewing, wants as many senior women as possible to report every- day from ,1 to 6 in the basement of Hendricks hnll. At a luncheon yesterday noon committee members reported on the progress of the work, and Bob Warner, dance chairman, outlined the plan of work for this week. Ac cording to Warner, tho way things are progressing now the ball prom ises to be the biggest and best. Tickets Doing Fast Tickets for the ball have been going fast. The dance has been limited to 350 couples and many houses have sold their quota of 10 already. Any house desiring a few more tickets is urged to call Frank Powell, who lias a few more left Tickets are now on sale at the Co op. This year’s dance will offer many new features and ideas. A featuro is to be offered; its exact nature will bo announced later. Music will be provided for the lounge room, so those who desire to sit out a dance will also be entertained. Uniformed maids and butlers will be there to assist the dancers. Check room facilities have been provided for the men as well as for the women. A supper will include French pastry, ice cr^am and coffee. This will be scheduled on the dance program. Spectators are cordially invited to view this year’s ball, but a 25-ccnt admission fee will bo charged. Seniors Cancel Dates Senior men and women are re quested not to date this Friday night. If they must date, the sen iors are requested to come to the Woman’s building, where plenty of work will be offered. In addition to the work of the senior ball, sev eral surprises are being reserved for the workers. Plenty of eats will probably be ono of the ' drawing cards. . Members of the committee in clude: Bob Warner, chairman; Scotty Kretzer, assistant; Nancy Peterson, secretary; Myra Belle Palmer, patrons and patronesses; Sam Kinley, business manager; Dick Cordon, floor; Abb Lawrence, decorations, and Richard II. Syring, publicity. An executive committee is composed of Don McCook, Herb Socolofsky, George Wnrdncr, afcd Socolofsky, George Wardner, and Connie Roth. Elementary Biology Plans To Meet With Zoology Department Elementary biology classes have been taken over by the zoology de partment for the remainder of the year. Students in the course will study animals instead of plants as they did previously. Soa urchin eggs, which were ob tained in Newport last week-end by Dr. B. U. Moore, head of the zoology department and Holland J. Main, graduate assistant in biology, will be the first things worked on during the term. Later in the Bpring sharks will be dissected. David T. Jones, laboratory dem onstrator in biology, wtll have charge of the labs. Assistants will be: Clita Walden, Frances Schroe der, Marian Paddock, Eleanor Steele, Lillian Bramhall, Birnet Ilovey, El ton Edge, Kollo Patterson. Law School Prohibits Smoking in Building A resolution prohibiting smoking in the law school was passed by the law student body at a general meet ing held Friday morning, presided over by Orlando Hollis. Campus Heroes To Bow at Feet of Co-eds On Junior Shine Day “Shine? Shine? Shine for n clime! Bigger, better and Brighter than ever.” Tomorrow brightly clad gypsy maidens and ferocious Italian bri gands will attempt to present each and every member of the campus with a perfect shoe shine . . . for the mere sum of one thin dime. Lucky indeed will the girls of the campus be, for only the cream of the junior class hns been chosen to take over the privilege of giving the fair co-eds a brighter look. The managing editor of the Emerald, the head of the student building com mittee, the most famous of the cam pus tennis stars, several members of the Order of the “O,” and hand some Phil Holmes and Boone Hen dricks are among those who will beam upon all comers to the shine booths. Girls, here’s your chance to have your secret sorrow at your feet . . . find out the hour he is to work and then buy a ticket and step right up! Manna Loa s Glow Is Lamp* For 80 Miles Papers Read by Distant Light of Hawaii’s Active Volcano Gas and electricity expenses are nothing to worry about in Hawaii when the volcano Mauna Loa be comes active. As far as 80 miles away from an eruption of this vol cano ono can read a newspaper on the front porch at night with no other light than the glaro from the red hot lava, which, when it pours down into the sen, so increases tho temperature of tho water that tho (isli nre cooked perfectly for anyone who wants them. Such wero some of tho stories told by George God frey, assistant in journalism, who talked to Professor Hodgo’s gen eral geology class yesterday of his experiences in Hawaii in 1926 when Mauna Loa erupted. At 3 o’clock in the morning, April 10, 1926, Godfrey, who was then news editor of a daily paper in Hilo, was awakened by ono of his reporters, telling him of the oxcito ment. They ran out on tho porch to seo tho entire countryside bright ly illuminated by tho Arcs 80 miles away. “People in Hawaii,” Godfrey said, “don’t flee from an erupting vol cano, they go to it. Thoro is a tradition that Madame Polo, the goddess of the volcano, will destroy noither property nor lives, and so they dare to go to tho very brink of the crater or the edge of tho lava flow, trusting thcmselvos to Madame Pelo’s care.” Many spectacular incidents of lives or property in tho very part of tho lava being saved, have increased the superstitions of tho nativos so that they soon forget any destruction done and remember only the mira cles. The journalist described the weird chanting of tho old Ilawaiians as the molten rock flowed down tho mountain sido in a mass which in creased in height until it had reached 60 feet w'hen it entered the ocean. Godfrey showed slides of scenes in the volcanic region picturing the red hot rock moving down tho slopes and tho steam coming up from the cracks and fissures. “Hawaii is the ideal place for a (Continued on page four) Ronald Hubbs Heads A.S.U.O. Group’s Work Newly Chosen Chairman To Name Directorate Within Week Beelar Explains Early Appointment Greater Oregon Committee To Begin Early Ronald Ilubbs was appointed chairman of tho Greater Oregon committee yesterday by Donald Bee lar, president or the student, body, and will direct the activities of that organization throughout Ore gon during the coming year. Ho succeeds Harold Socolofsky a s chairman. Following the resolution of the Executive Coun Ronald Hubbs cu at its meeting last Wednesday, the appointment of the Greater Oregon committee chair man was made at this time instead of in Juno, as has formerly been the case, in order to givo the now chair man more time for selecting and organizing his committee. Hubbs will serve until next February. Busy Spring Vacation “I have not yet mado any defin ite jilans for the work of tlio Greater Oregon committee,” Hubbs said last night. “I Bliall probably appoint my directorate within a week, and we shall formulate our plans imme diately so that wo can work through out the state during the spring va cation. Wo shall do a great deal at that time.” Tho Greater Oregon committee is an organized group which represents every community in tho state and aids prospective students in choos ing their higher educational institu tion and in the selection of their courses if they choose tho University oi Oregon. Hubbs Prominent Hubbs is registered as a junior in pro-law from Silvorton. He has been a member of many student committees and has served on tho Greater Oregon committoo for the past two years. Ho is at present junior class president; a member of the Co-op board of directors, circula tion manager of the Oregana, and a member of tho Associated Students’ athletic managers’ club. Ho is a member of Alpha Tau Omega fra ternity. Washington Plays Ball Behind Closed Doors WASHINGTON STATE COL LEGE, Feb. 13.—P. I. P.—Because of the health restrictions 'on campus gatherings, tho University of Wash ington-Washington State basketball game was played last Saturday night behind closed doors with no one ex cept players and officials admitted. However tho gaino was broadcast over KWSC. During the season of 1917-18, the year of the “flu” epidemic, practic ally every game was played before empty bleachers, according to J. Fred Bohler, director of athletics. Don McCook to Take Forty-second Competitive Dip in O. S. C. Meet Bon McCook, the only senior on the varsity swimming team this year, will bo swimming his forty second inter-collegiate race when ho hits the water in the coming O. S. C. meet. Don will earn his third letter in varsity swimming compe tition this spring, and he also made a numeral in the sport during his first year at Oregon. lie is a capable water performer, in all freestyle events, and holds the state short course record for the 120-yard medley. His most out standing performance was in defeat ing Costelazo, star dash man for the University of California, in the 100-yard free style event last year. Oregon won the meet by two points when Don came in first in the last race. McCook is from Fendleton, where he played one year on the football team as a tackle under Coach Tay lor. Pendleton High had no swim ming team, but Don became quite proficient during the summers, for it was so hot that there was nothing else to do but go swimming in the Columbia. His natural ability was noticed by Coach Fahl during his freshman year, and later training under Abercrombie has developed McCook into an aquatic star of the first magnitude. Don is a member of the Phi Psi fraternity, 21 years old, weighs 155 pounds, and stands about 5 feet 10 inches in height. Although he has earned no letters in other college sports, Don is one of the foremost men in enrnpus activities. He is president of the senior class, chair man of tho rally committee, and last year was tho manager of the Junior Vodvil. Oregon has won many meets in the two years that Don has been a member of the varsity, but never yet have the Webfoot mermen come in ahead in the relay. It has been Don’s ambition for some time to be on a winning inter-collegiate relay team and all advance information seems to indicate that his ambition will be realized this year.