Frosh Squad .
Meets Salem
Five Tonight
Teams To Clash in Igloo
At 7:15; Visitors Have
Good Record
■■■ ■
Duckling Hoop Season
Will End This Week-end
Babes Play Rooks Friday1
And Saturday
By HARRY DUTTON
When the last echo of the whistle
that ends the frosh-rook hoop battle
in Corvallis this Saturday night
rades away the
sports chronicler
for this year’s
Oregana may be"
take himself to
his trusty type
writer and tap out
l a full and com
plete account ojf
the fortunes and
misfortunes of the
1928 freshman
basketball squad
of the University
of Oregon.
Spike Leslie
That’s all there is—there won’t
be any more—to write about. The
scheduled game with the University
of Washingfon’s Husky babes has
been cancelled, so when this week
has slipped into its niche in infinity
the present yearling hoop season
will be ended and Spike Leslie’s
athletes will have an extra week in
which to shift their “hoop-looping”
energies to “book-cracking” pursuits
in the vicinity of the old library and
Condon hall.
Play Salem High Tonight
This week, while Coach Billy
Beinhart is leading the Webfoot
varsity on its northern invasion, the
freshman will shuffle into the
foreground of the sporting stage on
the Eugene campus. Tonight the
p frosh meet the Salem preppers in
McArthur court at 7:15; Friday they
play the rooks here in a game sched
uled for 7:30, and Saturday night
they climax their season wrhen they
trek once again into rook territory
for their last maple court tussle.
Verily, the Webfoot ducklings have
a heavy week-end outlined for them.
These games will give the duck
lings a final chance to aquit them
selves creditably in basketball circles.
If the frosh can take tonight’s game
and the two rook games they can
call their season a successful one.
They would breaTc even with the
Aggies and would have completed
their prep schedule ■without a defeat
to mar their record.
However, this two-letter qualifi
cation, spelled i-f, and pronounced
“if,” is the fly in the ointment, or
more comparatively, the “whale in
the finger-bowl” to the desires of
the duckling hoop contingent. Web
ster, in his volume, has said much
about the word, “if,” but Spike
Leslie and his freshmen could un
doubtedly make additions to its
significance.
Salem Five Strong
Tonight the frosh have their best
chance of victory. They have de
feated the Salem team once, 32 to
27. In that game, played January
31, they showed the best brand of
ball of any previous or following
game, according to Coach Leslie.
(Continued on page four)
Mammals Captured
By Huestis Arrive
In Odorous State
\
\
“A rag and a bone and a hank of
hair”—add feathers to this and you
gpt a nice eastern Oregon collection
of animals. .
It is just such a
that Dr. B. E. Hue
ogy department, unj
to show the skill li
mammal catcher last
eastern part of the
are all kinds and con
mals in the group,
little black and white
kind that your motlic
you bring home) to the
and birds that you can i
The only thing wrong
collection (from a journal
of view, at least) is that
odoriferous, and not very pleasantly
so at that. But at that the little
beasties pass muster. If you’re cur
ious minded go on over to Deady and
see.
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Final Tryouts
For Revue Song
Parts Tonight
Soloists, Duets, Quartets,
Sextets and Trios
All Wanted
Anyone who feels capable of
carrying a tune is invited to try
out for vocal parts in the Junior
Revue, which will be held tonight
at the Campa Shoppe from 7:30 to
9:30. This is to be the final try
out for songsters, so everyone inter
ested is urged to come out by Boone
Hendricks and Madge Normile, who
compose the music committee.
“We would like to have repre
sentatives from all organizations on
the campus,” said Hendricks yes
terday. “We were able to select
about 20 from the previous trial
last Thursday, but, there is still
plenty of room for further talent.”
Innumerable small acts are need
ed. Not only will soloists get a
chance, but duets, trios, quartets,
and sextets will be used together
in harmony parts. Aspirants will be
allowed to sing their own songs and
will be given their choice of sing
ing solos or with a group.
Since rehearsals must start im
mediately, it is necessary that all
selections of participants be con
cluded with this tryout. The parts
must be assigned and blended in
with the different acts in the revue
with the result that work must start
immediately.
The music committee announces
that only those who desire trials
will be admitted tonight so that
unnecessary confusion and noise will
not disturb the tryouts.
Luncheon To Honor
Colonel Robert Rees
In hnnor of Colonel Robert I. Rees,
assistant vice president of the Amer
ican Telephone and Telegraph com
pany, a luncheon will be given at
the Eugene Hotel at noon today.
The luncheon is being given by
II M. Durston, division commercial
superintendent of the American Tel
ephone and Telegraph company.
Dean Shirrell knew Colonel Rees
when he worked in the veterans’
bureau at Washington, D. C., and
will be one of the guests at the
affair.
Sophomore Honorary Lists Many
Prominent Men Among Members
By LaWANDA FENLASON
“To-Ko-Lo’s activities are prin
cipally social, fostering a spirit of
friendliness and democracy among
the students; it has been robbed of
several functions it formerly exer
cised by individuals who are desir
ous of letting the organization die,”
stated Harold Kelly, assistant yell
leader and president of To-Ko-Lo,
sophomore men’s honorary, in a re
cent interview concerning that or
ganization.
To-Ko-Lo is the oldest sophomore
honorary on the campus, being
founded in 1912. Its purpose is to
increase class and college spirit,
strengthen traditions, and promote
friendly feeling and cooperation be
tween the fraternal and social or
ganizations 6f the school.
Many of Oregon’s old heroes and
prominent alums, Judge Hawley J.
Bean, Alva K. Grout, Portland school
superintendent, John Beckett and
John Parsons, famed football men,
are listed among its early members.
Until about a year ago the organi
zation took an active part in disci
plining offenders against Oregon
traditions.
“Here is a club of students, rep
resentative of all groups on the
campus, working together silently
for the common j^od of the Univer
sity. Yet some wish to see it die.
How much better it would be if its
present antagonizers and critics
would realize the values that lie
within this group and use it,” said
Kelly.
To-Ko-Lo is planning a large ban
quet soon for all active and old mem
bers. Its fourteenth annual formal
will be given in the spring, and a
picnic is also scheduled for next
term. These social functions are
planned with the aim of creating a
spirit of unity and good fellowship
withing the organization.
Members are, Harold Kelly, pres
ident; Charles Reed, vice-president;
Arlen McCarty, secretary-treasurer;
Terrence King, Eugene Laird, Del
mar Richmond, Keith Hall, Rodney
Banks, Kenneth Roduner, Paul Hunt,
Cecil Gabriel, Webb Hayes, LeRoy
Hall, Larry Shaw, Kenton Hamaker,
Bruce Titus, Melvin Kelly, Carl Fors
strom, Philip Livesley, Kenneth
Fotts, Sidney Dobbin and Roy Wil
kinson.
Freshmen pledges art; appointedj
by active To-Ko-Lo members in each
living -organization. Regular meet
ings are held every other week. i
Co-eds Dance
And Play For
Public Todav
j
Physical Education Croup
Holds Open House in
Woman’s Building
La Crosse and Danish
Steps To Be Featured
Clog Dancing, Swimming,
And Tea Listed
Danish dances and la crosse, a
game introduced on the campus this
year, will be features of the public
program given by the physical edu
cation department this afternoon
from 4 to 6 in tho Woman’s build
ing.
Typical daily work will be illus
trated by an extensive and varied
program. Students majoring in tho
department wil act as guides.
This is an open house demonstra
tion of the physical education de
partment, and all students interest
ed, regardless of sex, are urged to
attend.
Program Is Divided
The program is divided into three
parts. From 4:00 to 4:30 five classes
will be in progress at onco, and
visitors are invited to observo each
one' as long as they like. These
classes are: beginning dancing,
with Miss Shelley as instructor, in
the dance room; Danish gymnastics,
under Miss Dunne, in the main gym
nasium; la crosse, Miss Waterman,
on the Women’s field, south of the
Woman’s building; life - saving
methods in the pool, with Miss
Troemel in charge; and individual
gymnastics in the individual gym,
under Miss Thompson’s direction.
Of these, Danish gymnastics and la
crosse may be of the deepest in
terest, as both are new hero, the
first having been introduced at the
beginning of the school year and
the latter this winter term.
To Demonstrate Clogging
From 4:30 to 5:00, advanced danc
ing, in the dance room, with Miss
Hill; clogging in the main gymnas
ium, with Miss Shelley; advanced
swimming in the pool, under Miss
Troemel; and individual gymnastics,
with Miss Thompson, will supplant
the previous c'asses. Clogging has
proved one of the most popular
activities taught this year, and
Miss Shelley will demonstrate the
teaching of it, not the finished per
formance.
At 5 o 'clock the program changes
again to an exhibition basketball
game between junior and sophomore
class teams, and a swimming meet
between seniors and froshmen. Also
ping pong and tennikoit games will
be in progress in the dance room
and individual gymnasium, respec
tively. These last two are recrea
tive games and not a part of the
departmental course, but are played
by “fans” between classes.
Swim Events Listed
The events in the swimming meet
are:' two-length side stroke, two
length breast stroke, two-length
crawl, two-length free style, one
length back stroke, relay, plunge
for distance and fancy diving.
The two teams competing are
made up of senior and freshman
girls. Those swimming on the sen
ior team are Florence Hurley, Helen
Mumaw, Doris Lieuallen, Hazel
Kirk, Myra Belle Palmer, and Vir
ginia Lounsbury. The freshman
team will be composed of Alberta
Rives, Oneita Jantzen, Alice Healer,
Margaret Cummings, lone Dennis,
and Thema Kem.
Tea will be served in the sun
porch from 5:00 to 6:00.
Junior Class Meets
At Viliard Hall at 4:30
The junior class will meet this
afternoon at 4:30 in room 107 of
A’illard Hall. There are a number
of quite important problems to be
considered, such as the disposition
of the Junior Shine funds, the Fine
Arts Building donation, and the tax
for the campus luncheon, and it is
very essential that all members of
the class attend, according to Ron
ald Hubbs, president.
Director of ‘Elijah’
Invites New Members
New members will be admitted to
the Eugene Oratorio society, and
anyone interested is requested to ap
ply to one of the voice faculty, ac
cording to John Stark Evans, direc
tor. The Society is at present re
hearsing every Monday evening on
the “Elijah,” which will be present
ed in the spring.
McKeown and Durgan
Prepare for Debate
Against Utah Aggies
When it comes to training, prepar
ation, and practice, Coach Billy
Reinhart’s basketball proteges have
nothing on Walter Durgan and Joe
McKeown, Coach Jack Horner’s
star debaters, who are now consist
ently burning the midnight volt In
preparation for Oregon’s first foren
sic contest here, March 8, with the
Utah Agriculture College.
For nearly a month now Durgan
and McKeown have been haunting
the library, assimilating all possible
information and accumulating reams
upon reams of notes on the subject:
“Resolved, That investments in for
eign countries should be protected
only by the country in which the
investments are made,” on which
they will take the negative.
“There may be some things about
tho investment situation in China,
and Nicaragua, and Russia, and
Lithuania, and Borneo, and Pata
gonia that we haven’t yet run
across,” Durgan said last night,
“but after we’ve gone through 316
library books, 479 magazines, and
689 newspapers, we’re inclined to
seriously doubt it.”
‘Lobbyists’ Win
Fight in Senate;
Probe Is Slated
Power Inquiry Will Be
Made Outside of
Body’s Scope
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, . Feb. 15. — Tho
senate tonight bowed to the will of
the electric power industry amd
voted to have the investigatioh of
this great industry conducted by the
federal trade commission instead of
by special senatorial committee.
The senate chose this course when
it adopted by a vote of 46 to 31
an amendment by Senator George,
Georgia Democrat, completely alter
ing the original resolution of Walsh,
Montana Democrat, for a senate in
vestigation.
The George amendment provided
that a thorough investigation of tho
electric powor industry should bo
conducted by the federal trade com
mission in open hearings accessible
to the public with reports at 30-day
intervals to the senate.
Colonel R. I. Rees
To Address Students
Today at Villard Hall
Col. Robert T. Rees, wlio is visit
ing the leading educational institu
tions of the Pacific const as assis
tant vice president of tho American
Telephone and Telegraph company,
will bo on the campus today and
will speak this afternoon at 2
o’clock in Villard liaii.
Colonel Rees is in charge of the
Bell Telephone System relations
with educational institutions, and
is especially interested in co-ordinat
ing the work of recruiting college
graduates with specialized and tech
nical training to meet the needs of
the telephone industry as it de
velops.
While here, Colonel Rees, in ad
dition to his talk, will confer with
a number of members of the faculty.
His program is being arranged by
Professor Frank Folts.
Colonel Rocs was prominently
identified with training and educa
tional work in the United States
army before he took up his present
position with the Bell company. He
was advanced from tho rank of
captain to that of brigadier general
in the army, was awarded the “Unit
ed States distinguished service
medal, and was made an officer of
the Legion of Honor by France. He
also served in various positions as
member of tho war department’s
general staff corps, chairman of the
general staff committee on education
and special training, member of the
Students’ Army Training Corps and
of General Pershing’s staff in charge
of all educational work in the A.
E. F. On returning from France
he was assigned to the War Plans
Division of the General Staff as
chief of the Education and Recrea
tion Branch in connection with the
Reserve Officers’ Training .Oorps
and National Research Council.
Touring Oregonians
To Debate S. Louis U.
One more debate has been added
to the already extensive schedule
of the University of Oregon world/
tour debaters who will end their
travels with approximately 30 con
tests throughout the United States.
April 2 they will meet the Univer
sity of St. Louis.
Guild Players!
Will Present
R.U.R. Tonight
Robot Characterization To
Show the Danger to
Human Race
Unique Stage Effects
Planned for Three Acts
Play Ends With Single
Man on Island
Romance, futurism, fantasy, and
a certain tinge of gruesomeness will
bo evinced tonight at 8 o’clock,
when the Guild Theater dramatists
present Karel Capek’s play, '‘R. U.
R.,“ Rossum’s Universal Robots.
Constance Roth, as Helena Glory,
and Lawrence Shaw, as Busman,
will haf’o the leading roles, playing
opposite each other, ns they have
done for the past three years.
Tho play will introduce an alto
gether new phase to the drama
department’s history, in that it of
fers unusual opportunities for in
dividual acting and is initiating a
decidedly futuristic idea. The robot
roles will demand a foreign typo of
acting-, since their parts call for a
mechanical performance in keeping
with the manufactured men.
The robots are mechanically per
fect and will last for about 20
years, maintained at one-half cent
per day. As long as emotions and
feelings are not involved, their abil
ities are unlimited and they can be
taught, anything.
Human Race Endangered
Since the nationalization of the
robots, shipments of Chinese, Ger
man, Irish, negro, or any national
ity arc sent out from the island
every week. Countries aro employ
ing them in warfare, and business
men buy them by tho thousands.
Perfection of thd moehanieal men
reaches 'such a height, however, that
j their organization overpowers man,
land tho continuance of the human
race is endangered. Tho climax
comes when only ono man is left
alive on tho island. All the scien
tists, the officials, and the workers
have been killed.
Tho play ends with a charming
scene in tho chemist’s laboratory,
where Primus, and Helena, tho sec
ond, robots, assist Capek in the
solution of tho unique play.
Juanita Babbitt, designer, has
worked out some staging effects
which will lend the proper atmo
sphoro in the threo acts and the
concluding epilogue. Juanita and
Mary Duckett, stago manager, have,
with their assistants, x,r°duced an
elaborate staging which, according
to Miss Wilbur, is the bost ever
done for a Guild production.
Tho “R. U. R.“ cast includes Con
stance Roth, Lawrence Shaw, Cecil
Matson, Gordon Pefley, Glenn Potts,
Arthur Anderson,' Joy Ingalls, Gor
don Stearns, Graco Gardner, Ruth
Street, -John -Konigshofer, Perry
Douglass, Milton George, Marshal
Hopkins, Frank Jackson, and Jack
Waldron.
Tickets on Sale Today
Tickets will be on sale at the
Guild theater box office from 2 to 5
o’clock today and tomorrow, 'ac
cording to J. Alden Woodworth,
business manager. Reservations
may bo made by calling 142, and
tho tickets will bo held until 5
o’clock tho evening of tho per
formance.
In remembering tho crowd which
attended the Friday evening pro
duction of “Beyond the Horizon,”
Mr. Woodworth suggested that as
many as possible should plan to go
tonight in order that no one will
have to be turned away Friday eve
ning.
University High School
To Give Musical Frolic
Tho University high school frolic,
a nonsensical entertainment, pre
sented by the Glee Clubs and the or
chestra, will be held in the Uni
versity high school auditorium to
morrow at 8 o’clock. Mrs. Beck,
who is directing the frolic, has ar
ranged the following program:
Pizzacato Polka. Orchestra
Nonsense and Song.Seven Hicks
Japanese Love Song
Boat Song
Girls’ Quartet
Just a Song at Twilight
Sweet and Low
Boys’ Quartet
Hungarian Dance No. 5
Pickaninnies Patrol
Simple Aven
U. II. S. Orchestra
The Miller’s Lovely Daughter—
A Grand Opera in one act
Dance of the Clowns—
U. H? 8. Orchestra
Huge Flood Control
Bill Is Drawn Up by
Committee in Senate
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. —The
house flood control committee has
tentatively agreed oh a bill appro
priating $100,000,000 for Missis
sippi flood control and expects to
report the measure to the houso to
morrow.
The entire cost of the work would
bo borne by the federal government
under the provisions of the com
mittee’s bill, which differs mater
ially from the army engineers ’ plan
submitted by President Ooolidge.
Creation of a Mississippi vnlley
flood control commission of seven
members appointed by the president,
to which may be nddod the army
engineers at the executive’s discre
tion, is provided. Tlio members
would devote thoir entire time to
flood rolief projects under direction
of tho president.
'■Personality’ Is
Assembly Talk
Of Dr. Bowman
Popular Portland Pastor
Will Address Students
This Morning
“The Integration of Personality”
is tho topic chosen by Dr. Harold
Leonard Bowman, pastor of tho
First Presbyterian church of Port
land, for his assembly address this
morning.
Dr. Bowman has been a frequent
and popular visitor to the campus,
having spoken on “Adventure” at
an nssembly last winter , term. A
luncheon is being given for him this
noon at Westminster IIouso to which
Presbyterian students nro invited.
This speaker has made an excep
tional record with his church, which
is rated as one of the ton most im
portant of its denomination in tho
United States, and has tho reputa
tion in tho state for producing men
of distinction. He had tho dis
tinction of assuming tho position of
pastor there when ho was about 30
years of age. From 1915 to 1917
ho was assstant minister of the Sec
ond Presbyterian church of Chicago.
Dr. J. II. Boyd, Dr. Bowman's
predecessor at tho Portland church,
initiated tho plan of having tho
Oregon Synod meet on the Oregon'
campus, a custom which has beon
followed for tho past 11 yoars.
Dr. Bowman received his Bachelor
of Arts degree in 1910 from Coe
College at Codar Rapids, Iowa, and
his Dictor of Divinity degree in’*
1918. Ho graduated from the Mc
Cormick Theological Seminary in
Chicago in 1910. From 1910 to
1913 ho held tho position of instruc
tor in English at tho American Uni
versity at Beirut, Syria.
Agnes Petzold, junior iu German,
will entertain tho students at as
sembly with a vocal solo. Rev.
Henry W. Davis, director of United
Christian work .on tho campus, will
read tho invocation, and Dr. John
Straub will introduce tho speakor.
Directorate
Selected For
Junior Prom
Ed Winter Named Head
Of Committee for
Big Dance
Well-Waxed Floor Is
Assured by Juniors
Strictly Oregon Affair Is
Plan of Group
Paying little attention to the fact
that tho Junior Prom is a thing of
next term, on May 12, the Junior
Ed Winter
class is seizing It
now and plotting
plans for tho best
Prom ever held in
the history of all
preceding Junior
weok-onds.
Tho committee,
announced yester
day by Ed Winter,
general chairman,
is: assistant chair
man, Bob Hynd;
decorations, Adal
ia Everts; refrosh
ments, Marion Leach; publicity,
Margaret Long; programs, Bill Win
ter; floor, Paul Wagner;-music and
feature, Jano Cochran; patrons and
patronosses, Ethel Lou Crane.
■“In appointing Ed Winter to han
dle tho Junior Prom,” says Joe Me
'Keown, chairman of Junior Week
end, “I fool tho most capable man
has been selected. His ability to
organize and his responsibility in
performing tho assigned work, mako
him well qualified for tho task.”
Says Workers Capable
“It is our aim to make tho Junior
Prom this year tho best Prom in
the annals of tho University, and ii*
this mannor havo it in koeping with
the entire week-end,” said Mr. Win
ter. “I am confident that those who
nro‘ working with mo aro capable
nnd willing to make tho dance suc
| ccssful, and I sincerely hopo that
every Junior will do his part when
called upon.”
The floor- at McArthur Court,
Where tho Proto is to be hold, will
f>o in a condition it has never ex
perienced before, even if individual
inembors of the Junior class find it
Necessary to get down on their hands
and knees and wax single splinters,
according to Bob Ilynd, assistant
'Srhairman ot the Prom, and Paul
Wagner, head of tho floor commit
tee.
Prom Saturday Night
The Prom is scheduled for tho
Saturday night of Junior Week-end,
nnd owing to the rocently passed
proposal that tho ontlre wook-ond
will bo one solely for past and pres
ent Oregon students, excluding high
school students, tho dance will be
a strictly “Oregon” one, reeking of
Oregon spirit and the general en
thusiasm of Junior week-end.
Scenes Frtom Classic Operas Given
By Madame McGrew9s Classes
• Ry NAOMI GRANT
Dramatic interpretation and sur
prisingly good stago presenco char
acterized the first public perform
ance of the members of Madame
Rose McGrow’s opera classes in the
auditorium of the music building
last evening.
This was particularly true of the
presentation of the second act of
“Martha” by a quartet consisting of
Grctchen Kier, soprano, Louise Stor
la, contralto, Donald Ostrander, bar
itone and Kenneth Alton, tenor. The
acting of Grctchen Kier and Louise
Storln as they indignantly rofused
to carry tho coats of their respec
tive masters provoked the mirth of
the audience. MisB Kier showed a
great deal of stago poise and ontored 1
excellently into tho spirit of Mar
tha’s protestatidhs that she did not
know how to spin. Tho dramatic
effect of tho quartet in ensemble
parts was good throughout. Kenneth
Allen sang the part of tho rejected
lover Lionel with considerable path
os.
The stago setting for tho act,
though simple, was effective.
Against a dark blue background
frescoed with great patches of flow
ers in a classic vaso the canary
waistcoat of Lionel and the colorful
costume of Martha showed to an ad
vantage.
A pleasing feature of this part of
the program and also of the “Blind
Ploughman,” a solo sung by Jack
Dennis, was the distinct enunciation.
Of tho solo interpretations that of
Jack Dennis and Pauline 'Guthrie
won approval because of the Sincere
depth of feeling in the rendition.
In “Mellsando” Pauline' Guthrie re
vealed a grace of gesturo that is
possible only when the personality
of the performer is completely lost
in tho moods and thoughts of a num
ber. The lighting effects for this
number were suggestive of tho moods
it conveyed.
Harry Scougall’s robust interpre
tation of tho Tavern Song was ap
lauded with equal vigor. J. A. Wood
worth and Adrian Burris assisted in
tho scone. An “Aria” from “Mig
non” by Edna Ellen Boll, sung with
appropriate simplicity and sincerity
of the happiness of peasant lifo
contrasted with an Intense yearn
ing for the native land.
“Chinese Nursery” rhymes were
sung by Maldon Horton with cos
tume and accompaniment that gave,
the noccssary Oriental atmosphere.
Faye Finley sang the popular Swed
ish Echo Song of Thrane.
Janot Pierce sang with delicacy
the beautiful aria from “La Bo
heme,” “They Call Mo Mimi,” The
lonely lifo of tho embroidery girl,
the happy flight of her imagination
to tho fields where flowers such
as her needle created actually
bloomed and tho lament that her
own flowers have no perfume were
all portrayed. Adrian Burris as Ru
dolph entered into the poetic role
with considerable success.
Accompaniments for the program
wero played by Lois Everson, Bar
bara Edmunds, Ruth Lent and Mrs.
Harry ScougalL