VOLUME XXIX. -■ - NUMBER 87 Gridsters Are Optimistic Over '2«» Outlook ^ To Continue Practice Next Term; Weight To Reinforce Line , By RICHARD Tf. STRING Sports Editor If tlie same spirit prevails among the University of Oregon football players next fall that was apparent 'vilea tno winter term practice c n (1 e <1 sevcjra,! days ago, the 1 0 2 S Webfoot grid mnrhino is going to be mighty hard to stop. Never be fore, has such a 'successful mid winter football I /' OABcyUDOKV '( Ar Liny! I'Ll OU^T /PCI? VkiLi him! practice been licbl at the University, between 30 and 40 candidates wore reporting daily when practice ended. | * * * At a little informal meeting of football lettermon and Coach John J. McEwan several days ago plans wore laid for next fall’s campaign. The Wcbfoots are going out with nothing short of a Pacific Coast Conference championship in view. The group of lettermon all pledged themselves to do everything- in their,power to put the Lemon-yellow into the win column for a change. * * * Coach McEwan is well pleased with the practice session just end ed. In comparing the Webfoot foot ball squad at this time of the year with that of 1927 he believes this year’s prospects are much brighter, j “New strength and weight in the j line makes things look much better j than they wore last winter,” said McEwan.' * * * Varsity grid, aspirants who think they are through with the daily practice session until next fall will have to don the moleskins for at ' least six weeks next term. Accord ing to McEwan yesterday, spring practice will probably start about the second week of the spring term. After denoting most of this term’s work to individual assignments and personal attention, spring practice will be busy with general team play. McEwan plans on picking two teams of about equal strength ami then i train them into the defense and of fense necessary for next fall. In order to give some of the newer men actual training under, fire two regular games will be played. * * * Though much fortification for next year’s linq comes from this year’s yearling eleven, the supply of good ends seem to be conspicuous by their absence. With the. gradu ation of Victor Wetzel, the finding that Frank Riggs is ineligible for further competition, and the ab sence of “Red” Slauson, lefivos Coach McEwan with a dearth of ex perienced wingmen. Theodore “Ted” Pope is the only letterman who will . be on deck next fall. Tony Greer J made his letter last fall but it is thought that lie will not return to i • ■school. Of the freshmen ends who have j been showing the most promise are - Lyle Harrington, ISO pounds; Wood- < (Continued on page three) J 1 Foulkcs Strings His Ax and Emerald Puts Ort New Type Dress -- ...Have yon noticed the new head style, of the Emerald? Since the 'Fit of Mr. David Foulkcs, guiding spirit of the mechanical department of the Morning Oregonian, the Em erald has changed its dress, or may be its trousers. The top heads have a nice, c1or'" airy look, with lots of white sp Also one deck in tha head has i removed. The “t hat used to rest above the namie e is gone. No more is it “the” ;on Daily Emerald. It is mw si. Oregon Daily Emerald. Eot only but the Campus Dull has a ne\ * no plate, so have the theatres. £ >' the Seven Seers re mains un -1 red. Dob (!; ay, managing editor, approves t ieso changes and de clares th icy will become per manent f >s to the paper. Agents To Vie In Sales Talk Life Insurance Salesmen Prepare ‘Lines’ Tiro annual life insurance sales center, with six participants, will be held tonight at seven o’clock in room 105, Commerce building. Each contestant will represent a life in surance company, and will talk t0 a “prospect.” Students taking part arc: J. B. Gray, Beaverton; who will represent, the Barkers’ Reserve Life Company; 1’. R. JTalliu, Eugene, Pacific Mu tual Life Insurance company; Ed Pitkin, Eugene, Union Central Life Insurance company; R. II. Robnett, Albajnv, National Life, Insurance company: Ralph Spitzer, Great I'alPj Mont., Connecticut Mutual Life In surance company; 1^. C. I'singcr, Berkeley, Union Mutual Life Insur ance. company. Four of the contestants will be selected to go to Portland, where the contest, will be staged before a group of prominent insurance men, at a joint meeting of the Life Man agers’ and Underwriters’ associa tions. The Oregon Life Insurance com pany has donated a silver loving cup, cr which will be engraved the name of tlie winner in the event. In ad dition the Lite Managers’ associa tion has appropriated a sum of mon ey which will be used to purchase suitable prizes. Judges for the contest will be I. A. Anderson, and Robert W. Earl. 1 he public and students are invited lo attend the event, it is announced. Sigma Xi Members To Hear Anatomists 1 - 1 Members of Sigma Xi will hear j ’wo speeches on anatomy at their ■ neeting Friday, March 9, in room i 105 Deadv at 8 o’clock. Br. Harold F. Blum, assistant I uofessor of biolog?, will spcaic on t ‘Recent Study on the Physiology of 1 he Heart,” and Ben I. Phillips, of 1 ho department of anatomy at the University of Oregon medical school, r vill talk on “Recent Developments i if Studies on the Nuclear Extracts , ml Their Effect Upon the Blood.” - — ”Aviation Instructor” Woos Future } Lindberghs; Leaves Broken Hearts By LEONARD II. DELANO .. | Once in a certain family, so the j joke book says, a father, tempered I with experience and considerable j shrewdness common to the “hard-1 hearted” business man, undertook to instruct his young son in the ways of the world. Placing him on the j top of a high book-ease, he told j him to jump. But the son, like any j inexperienced young fellow under the circumstances, was a bit timid of the forces cf gravity. “But Papa,” he quavered, “it is! so high up here.” “Papa will catch you,” was the answer the elder gave to his pupil. But, alas! The book goes on to . say that the hard-hearted father did not ‘catch his son :4s he promised, but let him fall to the floor with a thump. It was training that the son might never trust anyone’s word. About February I, n person by the name of O. S. Stanberry, claiming to be an ex-test pilot for the Travel Air airplane manufacturers of Wich-! ita, Kansas, arrived in Eugene and, 0 few days later, on the campus. Temporarily convincing David Lang maek, local flyer, of his knowledge of flying, he entered into an agree ment with him to give a course in j a ground instruction in flying and tlio theory of air navigation in conjunc tion with Langmark’s regular school, p Hoaxes Kappa Sigs Claiming to lie y member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity by reason or membership in the University of Kansas chapter, he was a welcome a and frequent guest at the local chap- ' ter. In fact, members of the Ore-! I gon chapter relate, he was a fro- f quent visitor for approximately! three weeks. Then, unluckily fori t his board budget, one day he “pul-jL led a boner” and displayed his ig- g rorance of things a Kappa Sigma; 1' should know. Ilis hosts decided he 1 had better leave. But not until he j ^ had sold his course to several house brothers and collected “down” pay- II ments. In the meantime lie had introduce 1 himself at several other houses on the campus. At the Chi Phi lodge be followed up his capitalization of ! c Lindbergh \s publicity fof aviation I and several interested in flying sig- : n nified intentions of becoming stu- i dents. One, he declares, came quite 111 dose to becoming Stanberrv ’s lius- | a iness partner. However, he decided | C ti.at, if lie went into business, he h would go into it on liis own account j si (Continued on page five) ! si J _ Marion Barnes Heads Directorate of Nine i Co-ed Workers Women’s Houses Intend To Schedule Dances April 19-22 Plans for what should naturally bo. the leapiest Senior Leap week in three years because this is Leap I year, are being definitely made, and , actual work will begin within a few days when the newly appointed di-! roc torn tc consists of nine Senior class women, and forms what Marian Pomes believes will be a very effi cient group trf handle one of the big gest events staged by the Senior class. The directorate includes: Marian Barnes, chairman; E.lith Bain, pat rons and patronesses; Georgie David son, secretary; Rosalie Darker, Ruth DeNcff. Alice Dougins, Pauline StewUrt, Iris Saunders, heads of events; Frances Cherry, publicity. The committee chairman will ap point their assistants within a few days. The schedule will include events . for Thursday night, Friday after noon and evening, and Saturday afternoon and evening, of the week end of April ID-22. Various kinds' of dances will be staged by the wom en's houses on the campus, includ ing the annual Bar Room Bust, spon sored by Hendricks Ilall senior women. According to Marian Barnes, if present indications work out, the , Senior men of the loop year class of 11)28, will be royally entertained. ‘Lillie .Emerald’ Out For Second Time A few weeks ago an enterprising voung journalist by the name of Clarence Craw conceived the idea >f a house organ for the members if the Oregon Emerald staff. ITe ;ommnnicat.ed his ideas to his fel low staff members, and they too be anie enthusiastic, as did Hay Nash, alitor of the Emerald, and Dean Erie W. Allen, of the school of ournalism. But when Clarence carried his den, to higher authorities; vs. Jack lenofiel and the executive council, ns idea met with little enthusiasm. But a journalist ■ like Clarence mows no defeat. A number of staff numbers rallied to the financial sup iort of his project, and the day of he newspaper conference the “Lit lc Emerald” made its initial ap icnranee as the result of a day of hop work by Clarence, Joe Bice, nd Anthony Peterson. The first edition of the “Little Smornld” met with so much favor lint the second issue, which is to e out this afternoon, was financed y the school of journalism. Like the initial number, the sou nd edition of the small publication i a three-column four-page affair, ight by eleven inches. It contains ossip and short news items of the lumbers of the Emerald staff and lie school of journalism. On the mat page is h cut of the new Goss rc*ss on which the Emerald is print 1. There will be enough extra ipies of the paper printed so that ny student in the school of journal ini may obtain one, Craw said. lumber of Patients in Infirmary Increases Eleven of the twelve students who j re in the infirmary today are con- i alescing from bad colds while j thelyn HI ssom is being treated in an infected foot. Those confined to the Infirmary j ‘day are: Betty Cheney, Marian! awry, Dorothy Lundburg, Mar ian t <■ Looney, Frances Dietderich, ary Duckett, Corinne Hill, Michael ;agan, Charles Colistro, George Ic her Jr., and Winston Strong. Ianuf aeturing Plants To Be Visited by Class A series of trips to manufacturing ■ mcerns has been planned by A. L. omax, professor of business ad— inistraticn, for his class in man-1 'aeturing. The first trip was to ! io Eugene foundry, and future trips! ■e. planned to the Columbia Tire' f'inpauy in Portland and to Port-, nd woolen mills. About 12 or .15 j udents go on these trips and they i udy manufacturing processes. I W ashingtdn Huskies Leave for South To Vie for Coast Title fPy United Prpssl rXTVKBSTTY OP WASTTTXO TOX, Seattle,-Man-!! 1. Basketball players of the vnivorsiy f Washing en left here today I.ns Angeles v here they will play against the University of Southern California for tin- week of noxl Monday, Tues day and Wednesday to decide the Pacific coast championship. Washington capi-a od the Xorth w.-stern division of (lie conference with nine victories and only one defeat. They were hoatou liv the Pniversitv of Oregm . U. B. ('. and California .tied for list nln.ee in the southern division, but U. S. C. wen in the playoff. Coach Kdmondsoii of Washington was accompanied by ten men. They included Dick Boislol, Monte Bin der, dolln Dnbpiist, \lfie dames and Milt Berenson, the regulars. fi i llamcttc II i ver R call y Wall 1 am e! Indian Legend Reveals Old Nom-de-plume Tn portaging over flip sand at the load of the Mili-raco, few students enow that the Willamette was once ailed the Multnomah river, after :n Indian tribe by that name, and ho few who have this .information irobably do not know that its cor-j •ect spelling after it was rechrist uiod is “Wahlninet.” All these highlights and a dozen '.lore were brought out in an old Indian legend read in assembly yes erdav morning by 1’rof. L. TT. Hen lerson ef the botany department,! whose official title reads, Curator i d the Herbarium.” Tn the language if the students, this means that he was the collector of the hundreds] if rare plant specimens in the bnse-j '.n ut, of Heady, enclosed in a strong octal case, painted green. The chrmying >t(l_ legend present ed at assembly was given to Pro- ’ fessor Henderson bv a botanical friend, and in order to appreciate j its real beauty one should read it over slowly to himself. The plot! hinges about the sou of a great medicine man in the Multnomah tribe—Stepparuppa, or '“Step” — whose love for a certain beautiful Sittaneara leads him to undertake a perilous journey to the Blue Moun tains, “The Top of the World” to bring her father a message from old Squawkomia, the seer. That is the I rice of her hand. Nor is that the! worst part of it. During the whole journey lie must eat no meat or fish. However, that obligation worries the reader not, since Step’s mother, herself, was a sort of naturalist, and has versed him thoroughly in all the uses of mushrooms and food of the snoods. He goes first up the Croat Biver (Columbia) as far as the LePage (John Day), which then takes him to the Blue Mountains at its source. The Wappata, a. certain white mushroom, he used for bread; (This is the same thing that Lewis and Clark called the Arrow Loaf); and for tidbits he ate the Honeycomb or Pink (Jill varieties. With only! salt did the brave supply himself, I] and the last part of the journey lie;, feasted on puffballs, this time with - | a side dish of Hedgehog,^Umbrella j < and Blood mushrooms. Sometimes L he found certain plants with tubers i at the base, and at sucli times theC gallant Step made believe lie had j . potatoes. . j, To protect himself* he wore a, ; > ••haplet of blood-red seeds from the berries of the Peace Flower along C the John Day, by wh ich moii should j knew that lie was a messenger to j , Ike old Ho or squaw, and not a man I j out in search of fight. j { After, weeks of privation, feeling! very lean from his Lenten diet, Htcp accomplished his mission* and | * brought back a prophetic message! trom Squawkomis, predicting White j Men’s wars, and incidentally to win | the faft* Sittaneara’s hand. According to Prof. Henderson, I J each botanical term in the legend, 1 ox*] d an a t »* v with the common name,! ^ is correct, m ! later in the season, perhaps, the professor will read the I * legend before audiences elsewhere. Dr. E. T. Hodge Will Not 1 Go lo Geology Meeting Contrary to preliminary announce- ! ( rmnt, i’rofi - r E. T. Hodge is not t t ■ attend the meeting of the Na- 1 tional Gn.l - a 1 Society at Ber- i hi'lev, California, he said yesterday, t Professor Back ird left for Berkeley - Tuesday and Dr. Smith left yester-11 i£.v* h League Helps Students Send Grades Home Envclopo Sale Benefit? And Advertises New In f innary Vi omen of Canijuis Flare Stamped Containers In Readiness Ora do envelopes, the palp of which is being sponsored by the A\ omen’s Longue for ilii' benefit of a now student infirmary for the rumpus, on nip olT flip proas yester day mid nro now :it the regisfirnr’s office for the use of students. The onvclopoa nro stamped and will bo sold to students from win dow eight, registrar's office, for (ivo cents. They boar in tlio nnpor left hand corner the caption, ‘‘'The University of Oregon Needs a Stu dent Hospital.” Beneath tins in a box is the statement, “Women’s League, with the support, of the students of the University of Ore gon, is sponsoring the sale of these envelopes as a contribution toward a now infirmary.” The printing is done in dark green. Burly Filing The registrar’s" office is very ur gent in its request that students do not wait until the last week to file these self-addressed envelopes in which their grades nro to bo for warded to them, at the end of the term, but purchase their envelopes and turn them in immediately. The system of uniform envelopes instituted by the league, although not compulsory, will greatly relieve the rushed work in the office as well as acquaint the people of the state with the lyted of a new in firmary on the campus. With all sizes and shapes of envelopes turned in last term for grades, all of which had. to be filed alphabetically, the efficiency of the office was greatly hindered, by the slowness and in convenience in the process of filing and mailing. For this reason, as well as for tlio benefit of the new student, infirmary, students are urged by the league to purchase the en velopes. Plan Works The plan was initiated by the Women’s League following the ex ample established at Stanford and other universities following the abolition of the grade sheet, and the direction of working out the details of tlio envelopes was placed in the hands of Dorothy Baker by Bather Hardy, president of the Women's League. The league plans to place the envelopes for salo ■ach term, and in successive years lie funds from the sale will be given to various benefits as they iriso. California Rowers To Meet Washington Soon UNIVERSITY OK C'A LI KORNTA, Vlarch 1.—(I’.I.T.)—The California Varsity crew, which leaves hero Vlarch 21) for ils regatta with Wash ngton at Seattle on April