VOLUME XXX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1929 NUMBER 64
Basketball
Blow-up Jolts
Oregon Campus
W ebfoots Headed North
Tomird Chainpionship
But Find Only Defeat
By JOE PIGNEY
The Webfoot basketball team
failed to equip tlie campus with a
sot of shock absorbers before it.
started north on its road trip. The
sound of ftie blow-up was heard
from Seattle to Eugene. One set
back and then two more in rapid
succession shattered all chances for
an Oregon championship in the
northern division of the Pacific
const conference.
The Oregonians ended the long
road .journey against. Montana at
Missoula last night. It was a, dis
heartened outfit that, battled the
Grizzlies, an outfit hovering neflr
the cellar of the league which it.
expected to top.
^ Did something happen to the Web
foots, or is the strength of the
other members of the conference so
great that the Oregon team was
outclassed? That question will ex
plain itself in the last, half of tlie
season.
If the Webfoots are able to come
back and win, in the second half of
the schedule, then it can he taken
for granted that, the team was dc
' cidedly “off” on the rood trip. The
team will have a week’s rest to re
cover from I he disappointments of
the northern .jaunt before tackling
the Beavers at Corvallis next. Friday.
Tt still is easy to cling to the be
lief -11101. Oregon has a good basket
ball team, 'll is tlie same combina
tion which finished the season in
second place last year, and downed
tlie champion Huskies in the final
game of the season. How can the
same team have gone back so far,
or how can the opposition be so
much better?
Oregon is accustomed to winning
basketball games, but this year the
Webfoots have lost the knack of
^ victory. Tlie Webfoots have not.
failed offensively, but it is on the
defense that, they have weakened.
A team which consistently runs up
HO points usually wins, but tlie Ore
gonians did that and still lost.
There are more basket-ball games
coming, and although Oregon is
hopelessly out of the running for
the title, it, lias a. chance to show
that the early season predictions
were not. entirely wrong.
What is water polo? The sudden
rise to major ranking of an hereto
fore unknown sport at. Oregon needs
some explanation. Edward F. Aber
crombie, swimming and tennis
coach, is tlie best “explainer” on
this matter. Abercrombie can ex
plain in convincing fashion that,
water polo is one of tlie leading
sports in the middle west, east, and
California, and if Oregon is to be
“big time” water polo must have
full recognition.
Abercrombie will also explain
that there is an unusual amount of
talent at Oregon to form a strong
polo team. Games will be played
with California and Northwestern
university. If water polo is all that
Abercrombie says it is. then the
meteoric promotion to a major sport
may lie justified.
Senior Has Article
Accepted in Magazine
Thelmer Nelson, senior in jour
nalism, has recently had an article
accepted by tlie “Exhibitors Her
ald and Moving Picture World,” a
magazine principally read by own
ers and managers of theatre houses,
on the introduction of “talkies” in
Eugene.
The article was written in the
class of tlie specialized press which
is conducted by E. 11. Ford, assis
tant professor of journalism.
|R. McCreight
Resigns Post
WithA.S.U.O.
Senior Man Aeeepts Offer
| Of Portland Firm; Joe
MoKeown Praises Work
j New Council Member
To Be Selected Soon
Has Held Many Prominent
Campus Positions Here
TJonnld MeCreight, senior in busi
ness administration, 1ms resigned
]>is positions ns senior man on the
executive council,
>s chairninn of
finance commit
lee, anil as presi
dent of Hie scliool
of business admin
istration student
body. He will
leave today at
for Portland
where he will take
u)) an office posi
tion with the
.Tantzen Knitting
Mills.
McCreight h a s
been in. student
Ron McCreight
nonvnies since ins jresnman year
when lie was chairman of the fresh
bonfire. Since then lie has served
cm the sophomore informal dance
committee, was junior man on the
executive council, manager of the
canoe fete in ’28, and this last year
was senior man on the executive
council. Further activities include
places on the building committee,
publications committee, athletic
council, and chairmanship of the
finance committee.
Work Praised
.Toe McKeown, president of the
student body, says of McOreight:
“Student administration has lost
one of its most able men in Ron Me
freight who today decided to leave
school. He has worked faithfully
for four years and deserves the
commendation of every member of
jhc student body. It. has been a
pleasure to work with him arid we
hope he will bo successful in his new
undertaking.”
Opportunity Beckons
McOreight. says of his decision:
“T hate to leave all my associates.
I have, spent a very enjoyable four
years in this institution, but I do
not feel that I can afford to pass
up this position. It is a large con
cern and is constantly expanding.
At. present it owns mills in Vancou
ver, IT. C., and Australia, and its
expansion program will constantly
offer new opportunities.”
McOreight is an Alpha Kappa
Psi, and is associated with Alpha
Tan Omega.
Ilis position on the. executive
council will be filled at the next
meeting of the organization, a week
from Wednesday.
Acetyl Chloride Mixed
With Water Explodes
Edward Thorstenberg Has
Mishap in Chemistry Lab
An explosion which almost reached
the ceiling resulted in the chemistry
'building yesterday when Edward
Thorstenberg, junior in biology, by
accident mixed acetyl chloride with
water.
The fumes almost, asphyxiated the
students, making them dash for the
windows. The acetyl chloride par
tially covered Mr. Thorstenberg’s
face, fortunately not getting in his
eyes. 'If the liquid had gone in his
eyes, it would have blinded him.
The accident occurred when Mr.
Thorstenberg was pouring residue
acetyl chloride into a jar Accident
ally water was mixed with it, caus
ing the explosion.
Raising of Minor Sports to Major
Rating Held W rong by Rill Hayward
Football Should Bo Over
Golf, Tennis, He Says
It’s rather a post-mortem affair
to gather opinions about destroying
the distinction between minor and
major sports, when the combined stu
dent and executive councils have de
cided it shall be done. Neverthe
less, opinions differ.
Says Bill Hayward, veteran track
coach: “1 disapprove of the measure
inasmuch as athletes will tend not
to specialize in any one sport. Still,
it will add more interest to the
varied sports. I do not believe golf
and tennis should be on a par with
football. There should be a differ
ence in the size or shape of the let
tor to denote the difference in the
sports.”
Joe MfKeown, student body presi
dent: “Oregon is taking a new step
in collegiate sports, and we hope it
will be successful.”
Art Anderson, vice-president of
the student body, exclaims: “I’m all
for it! I think it a forward step
in our athletic program.”
Sant Wilderman, director of the
A. S. 17. O. sport publicity: “I think
it is a good idea, as it requires as
much skill in one sport as it does in
another to reach proficiency. It has
been a custom in days gone by to
give football the bulk of recogni
tion; but under the present plan of
large intramural programs that af
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President Hall Once a Stable Agent
Paper Route Paid College Expenses
Oregon Students Have Many Odd Jobs to Help
Them Earn Their Way Through University
By WILFRED BROWN
“B-r-r-r-r-r-r. ” sounded an alarm
cloek in tlie dormitory of Franklin
college, Indiana, in tlie small hours
of the morning, when most college
youths are, or should be, in bed and
asleep.
One young fellow scrambled out
of bed, climbed into his clothes, and
hurried out into the darkness to
meet the train bringing to the town
the early morning edition of the
Indianapolis Journal. His name was
Arnold Bennett Hall.
‘•I had the county agency for the |
Journal while I was attending Frank
lin college,” said Hr. Hall. (The
youth has since, collected nearly a
dozen degrees and won the presi
dency of the University of Oregon).
“Every morning 1 distributed the
papers over the east end of town,
and then in the evenings I distrib
uted the local Franklin paper. I
received a dollar a week from the
local paper and two and a half a
week from the Indianapolis Jour
nal.”
And the distribution of news
papers was not the only occupation *
of tlio young Franklin college stu
dont. “I made a little money,” lie
said, “as Franklin correspondent
for the Journal--sometimes X cov
ered athletic events in which the
college participated. And then I
ran a collection agency, collecting
had debts for Franklin merchants.”
II that, was before the days of
automobiles and Fords, so young
Hall earned an occasional dollar as
♦lie agent for a livery stable. "When
n young fellow wanted to take out.
his girl,” he said, “lie had to hire
a cab instead of a taxi, and I acted
as campus representative of one of
•the town stables.”
During his summer vacations the
Oregon president worked in a can
nery, trucking and stacking cans.
“[ received ten cents an hour for
\he first twelve hours,” ho said
"and twelve and a half cents an
hour for overtime. We generally
worked about sixteen hours a day
there.
“While 1 was attending college at.
Franklin,” Dr. Hall concluded, “l
was able to earn enough to pay all
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Rifle Team Men
To Be Awarded
Gold Shield Pins
Emblem Has Eagle, Red,
White Background and
Superimposed Rifles
Gold pins will lio awarded to mem
bers of tlio rifle team as a result
of the recent aetion taken by the
student and executive councils re
garding minor sports. The pins will
consist of a spreading eagle above
a ted and white shield with crossed
rifles superimposed upon the shield.
The awards will be made on a basis
of markmnnfchip and will go to the
ton rifle team members who place
the highest during the target season.
Last year the team members re
ceived no awards, although the ma
jority of the colleges throughout the
country give their marksmen some
type of awards.
The official recognition of rifle
competition ns a student activity
together with range improvements
made recently will go a long way
toward producing championship
teams here at the university, thinks
C'apt. 0. II. Bragg, rifle coach. The
team members spend much time in
improving their marksmanship, and
do as much work as those in most
minor sports, the coach says.
Honor System Wrong
Says David S. Jordan
Stanford President Thinks
Kellogg Peace Pact Fine
Stanford University, Palo Alto,
Jan. 24.—(P. J. P.)—“The honor
system ,js not. based on the right
principle,” David Starr Jordan, pres
ident emeritus of Stanford, declared
in an interview in the Daily on the
occasion of his 78th birthday. “It
is not human nature for students
to testify against one another.”
Dr. Jordan believes that profes
sors cannot justly expect to have
students take an examination and
live up to the regulations and ethics
of the much berated honor system.
In the same interview he was
questioned as to his views on the
Kellogg Peace Pact signed recently
by the United States.
“It was one of the greatest things
which has happened,” he replied.
“ I don ’£ believe it to be a back
door to the League of Nations. The
back door, like the front door, is
always open.”
Graduate Students
Pass Chemistry Exam
D. Devapufra, student from South
India* and F. A. Van Atta, gradu
ate students, have both passed their
preliminary examinations for the
master’s degree in chemistry. Mr.
Devaputra took his yesterday after
noon and Mr. Van Atta last Tues
day.
Mr. Devaputra is doing research
work on electrical conducting re
lationships in certain ternary mix
tures, and Mr. Van Atta is working
on rayon.
Geo. Godfrey Reports
For Salem Newspaper
Geo. Godfrey, assistant professor
of journalism, is at present living
in Salem, reporting the activities
of the house for the Oregon States
man.
Schedule for
Men's Debates
Given by Horner
Nine Pacific Coast Teams
To Meet Oregonians;
Three Contests Here
The complete schedule of men’s
debates for this year was announced
yesterday by ,T. K. Horner, debate
coach. It includes six trips and
three contests in Eugene as follows:
University of Nevada at Eugene,
Thursday, March 7;
University of Wyoming at Port
land Monday, March 25;
University of Idaho at Moscow,
Sunday, March 10;
Southwestern university at Los
Angeles, the first week in April, the
exact date to be decided;
University of Nevada at Reno,
the first week in April, the exact
date to be decided;
University of Montana at Eugene,
Friday, April 12;
Washington State college at Pull
man, Saturday, March 0.
The question to be used in all the
above debates is “Resolved, that the
jury system should be abolished.”
Contests with the University of
Southern California and with the
University of California are pro
jected, but nothing definite can be
announced ns yet, Mr. Horner says.
The meet with the University of
Wyoming in Portland on March 25
will be either a radio debate or will
be given before the Portland cham
ber of commerce. The same team
in one trip will meet Southwestern
at Los Angeles and Nevada at Reno,
while another team will make one
journey of the Washington State
and the Idaho debates March 9 and
10 respectively.
Alternate Thursdays
To Have League Teas
And Y. W. Vespers
An agreement has been reached
between '1110 Y. W.‘ C. A. and the
Women’s league that the vesper ser
vices of the former and the teas of
the league will, in the future, be
given on alternate Thursdays. This
arrangement was made so that the
two affairs would not conflict and
university women would be able to
attend both.
The bi-monthly teas of the league
have been on Wednesdays until re
cently when a change was made to
Thursdays. This interferred with
the Y. W. four o’clock services of
Thursday, so the Women’s league
council decided that the teas shall
be scheduled for the whole term in
advance to insure no conflicts.
The next tea for the league will
be Thursday, .fanuary 21, according
to Florence McNerney, who is in
charge of the informal social gath
erings. Hereafter they will be giv
en every two weeks.
Chemistry Course in
Summer Lengthened
In order to enable the student to
gain a year’s work in either general
or organic chemistry during the sum
mer, the summer session in the
chemistry department has been leng
thened to ten weeks instead of six.
General and organic chemistry are
two courses which it is known will
be offered by the chemistry de
partment this summer. Any othei
courses for which there is a suffi
cient demand will be given.
Frosli Defeat
Medford By
27-22 Score
Neither Team Gains Lead
Until Yearlings Forge
Ahead in Second Half
Keenan and Melvin
Scintillate on Floor
Franklin Conies to Igloo
At 3 Today for Game
The freshman basketball team de
feated Medford high -7 In -- at
McArthur court last night. This
CaUison
was the third
consecutive w i n
for Itio frosh over
*the prep five. To
tiorrmv afternoon
it 3:00 o’clock
f hey will moot
f'ranklin high on
flic TgToo floor.
rl’lio scoring was
even mnl s 1 o w
Hi rough more than
the first, half of
the game. It was
9 to 8 at. the halt, in favor ot tno
frosli.
Henry Layoff, frosli forward, sunk
a basket, from the foul line, and
Kermit Stevens, frosli guard, imme
diately dropped another from the
middle of the floor to give the year
lings at lead of 121 to 15. From then
on they stayed ahead, although Med
ford brought the seore up to 121 to 19
within a few minutes.
Billy Keenan for the freshmen and
A1 Melvin for Medford furnished
the thrills of the ('veiling. Melvin
made seven field goals. He was
high point man. Keenan lead the
Duckling attack, but spent more
time passing than shooting.
Franklin high, who will meet the
frosli at. o:00 this afternoon, played
the Aggie rooks last week and lost
to them 57 to 17.
Summary:
FROSH (27) (22) MEDFORD
Levoff (7) .F. (14) Melvin
Keenan (5).F. Bowerman
Ragen (2).G.(6) McDonald
Stevens (4).G.(2) Morgan
Dolp (:>).G. Garnett
Substitutions: For the frosli—
Malian (2), Fletcher (4), Baird,
Bale; for Medford—Green, Thomas.
Referee: Frank Reinhart.
Mrs. Lucy Ramberg,
Portrait Artist, Dies
Former Oregon Resident
Interested in University
Mrs. Lucy Dodd Ramberg, por
trait artist, and founder of the Ram
berg School for Girls at Florence,
Italy, died in Florence Tuesday, ac
cording to cable advices received in
Eugene.
Mrs. Ramberg, who was a Port
land girl, had many friends on the
campus. She has visited here on
numerous occasion?, and was much
interested in the development of the
school of architecture and allied
arts. Besides being a well known
portrait artist and etcher, Mrs.
Ramberg was a critic, and partici
pator in many of the architecture
school’s “.jury days.” She lectured
to some of the art classes on Euro
pean galleries.
Mrs. Ramberg, who painted the
portraits of many prominent Oregon
people, married Walter Ramberg, a
titled German, and an international
authority on art subjects. Ram
berg, who was killed two weeks
after the opening of the world war,
was a director of the famous Uffizzi
gallery in Florence at the time of
the discovery of the lost painting
of Mona Lisa.
After her husband’s death, Airs.
Ramberg returned lo America. After
the war, however, she founded a
school for girls in her old home at
Florence. Many northwestern girls
have been students there. Miss
.Gertrude Talbot, formerly head resi
dent at Hendricks hall, was on the
staff of the school.
Three children survive Mrs. Ram
berg: Lucy, a student of dramatic
art at Munich; Walter, studying in
Switzerland; and Edward Ramberg,
a graduate fellow at Cornell uni
versity.
Evans to Arrange for
Choir’s Appearance
John Stark Evans, director of the
university symphonic choir, left
yesterday for Portland where he ex
pects to make arrangements for the
joint appearance of the symphonic
choir and the Portland symphony or
chestra which is to take place ix
Portland March 4. The Portlanc
symphony orchestra is under the di
rection of William Von Hoogstraten
Montana Victor Over
Oregon 29-28 After
Fouls Banish Ridings
Webfoot Quintet Loses Fourth Game
Of Road Journey to Grizzlies; Last
Minute Shot Downs Lemon-Yellow
j Eugene Team Takes Lead in Seeond Half, Fails
To Hold Margin; ‘Feet" Lewis Shows Class
BULLETIN
Wellington played championship style ball to heat 0. S.
(V at Seattle last night by a score of 35-24.
MISSOULA, Mont.. Jan. 25.—(Special to Emerald)—With
Gordon Hidings, star NVebfoot forward, out of the game at
the critical last 30 seconds of play on personal fouls, the Mon
tana Grizzlies were able to nose out the University of Oregon’s
scrappy basketball team, 29-28, in a game here tonight.
Montana held the lead in the scoring throughout the first
peWod with two sub forwards taking the lead in dropping in
long and short shots.
Early in the seeond half Oregon forged ahead to lead hv
Life Insurance
Selling Contest
Won by McKenna
Three Students Give Talks
Before Portland Group;
Lone Woman Gets Third
Results of tlio nimua 1 Tiifo Insur
ance sales contest wero announced
yesterday by Professor If. Bond
Francis McKenna
of tlio school of
Imsinoss adtninis
trat ion.
F p a n c 'i s Mc
Kenna, senior in
economics and sen
ior class president,
was awarded first
place and received
[the prize of $lf>.
Second place was
taken by Seth B.
Thompson, a jun
ior majoring in
pre-law. The prize
was $10. Frankie
Adams, business
administration senior, was adjudged
winner ot' tliird place, and received
$5.
Miss Adams was Hie only woman
to compete in the contest.
Finals in this contest, were held
in Portland before the monthly meet
ing of the Life Underwriters asso
ciation of Oregon Thursday noon.
Three judges, unknown to Profes
sor Bond, were picked from the
sixty members gathered at the lun
cheon.
The Contestants appeared before
this assembly with a prospect, and
presented their sales talk.
Tn each case, the sale was com
pleted before tho allotted fifteen
minutes had expired.
Professor Thacher
Returns to Classes
W. F. G. Thacher, professor of
advertising and English, who lias
been absent from his classes for the
last, two weeks, returned yesterday.
Professor Timelier has been ill with
influenza.
Only Two Weeks Left
To Obtain Oreganas
Anyone who wishes to subscribe
for the Oregana may do so for the
next two weeks at the A. 8. U. O.
office. They may pay $5.00 down,
or $2.50 now and $2.50 spring term.
No subscriptions will be taken after
the paper order goes in, as the staff
is planning to put out. no extra
copies.
Ridings’ shooting and sensational
floor play, sustaining the advantage
until the last minute of play.
Ridings was held in chock by the
stellar guarding of “Feet” Lewis,
"'ho held hint scoreless during tin*
Gord Ridings
|>erion. ir
] was only a f t o r
Lewis was taken
from tin- game in
s the last |> e r i o d
1 t hat tlie coast *s
: leading scorer last
year was able to
break into the
scoring column by
.delivering an as
sortment. of shots
that gave him in
dividual scoring
honors for t, h e
pvoning with 14 points, engulf tivo
field goals and four fouls.
Both teams played a remarkable
eheeking and guarding game, whioh
accounts for the comparatively low
score. The Emerald squad was off
its usual shooting game and missed
many cripples, which, if converted,
would have given them the game.
Sunday Vesper Hour
To Be Speeial Affair
Freshman Women Will Be
Guests of Big Sisters
Little sisters, ns they are called,
will be taken to the musical vesper
service Sunday by their “big sis
ters,” as was agreed at the last
meeting of the captains. The pro
gram will start at 4:.‘10 and the
doors of the Music building will be
closed promptly at that time. The
half-hour's music entertainment is
given each Sunday from 4:.'t0 In .1:00
at which time members of the music
faculty and music students present
selections.
Helen Peters, chairman' of the
Big Sister movement, states that
this is being done so as to offer
a means for the advisors to become
better acquainted with their pro
tegees. A check up is to be made soon
and reports will be due in the next
two weeks from all big sisters, these
to be given to the captains who will
then prepare reports for the chair
man. The completed records will be
turned over to the dean of women,
Miss Hazel Prutsinan.
Twenty five women entered the
university this term for the first
time and these have all been given
upperclassmen to whom they can go
for council. Over two hundred and
fifty freshman women ape now bene
fit ting from this plan which is car
ried on by the Women's league.
Beatrice Milligan is the assistant
chairman to Helen Peters who took
over the work this year to fill the
place of (Henna Heacock.
Chdperons Again Vogue in East:
Girls Smoke, Drink With Discretion
Debutantes Escorted Home
From Parties in Groups
Tlie chaperon is coming back into
vogue for the modern girl. Young
society debutantes in New York and
Chicago have chaperons to escort
them home from parties. The really
smart girl now smokes and drinks
with discretion, if at all; it is too
common for the girl who would be
popular. The modern girl is fem
inine, both in appearance and ac
tions. She is no longer rowdish or
boyish. She wears long hair and
poriod frocks and acts like a little
lady.
The modern chaperon is not the
duenna of the past; but she appears
at parties to take small groups of
girls to tlieir homes when their es
corts are not able to do it them
selves or when the men cannot bo
found.
Miss Hazel Prutsman, acting dean
j of women, when asked to comment
j on this system of chaperonage, said
that it was a very good arrangement
! where the men were not gentleman
ly enough to be relied upon to take
the girls to their homes after the
party. However, she said that the
situation was very different here in
this locality. She stated that sha
had too high an opinion of the men
in the University of Oregon to
think that, it would bo at all neces
sary to arrange for chaperons to es
cort the girls home. \