Oregon Chief. Signs Regent Merger Bill Patterson Affixes Name to f Bell-Selnilnierieli Paper Making It Official Law Governor to Announce Board Members Today List of Appointees Sent to Senate for Ratification • _ _o Governor T. L. Patterson, with °n fift0011 cent poll, signed the Rell Sehuhnorieli hill abolishing the boards of regents of tlie Oregon higher institutions, and creating in their'place a state board of educa tion, and the bill became a law at f):GO yesterday morning. The bill, which affects the re gents of the University of Oregon, Oregon State college and the three state normal schools, completely j abolishes the existing boards of re gents and provides a board of nine members to be appointed by the governor. The first board will be appointed, this morning by the gov ernor, the term of each member to range from one to nine years. Senator John Bell of Lane county, and Senator Kdward Scluilmerich of Washington county, the authors of the bill, were among the witnesses at the signing of the bill. While the governor signed it pho tographers strained their cameras on the group about the governor’s desk. Governor Uses Pen The governor signed the bill with a. fifteen cent pen belonging to Senator Seliulmcrieli. “It is a crime to sign so impor tant a piece of legislation with a fifteen cent pen,” was the comment of the governor as he affixed his signature to the merger bill. “That is what, you call economy,” Senator Sclmlmcrrch exclaimed as lie took the now valuable pen from tho state executive. “I banded you a fifteen cent pen, and I get one back worth $100.” 1 Bill Passes Legislature The bill passed the state senate with an overwhelming majority of 25 to 5 when that body voted upon it, and the house voted for the measure 52 to 0. When the bill was presented to the house by Rep resentative Me Idler son, he said that it was his opinion that the uniting of the boards would bring economies which would result in a saving to the state of not less than $1,000,000 a year,-and that the increase in efficiency would amount to from 25 to 75 per cent. Senator Bell, in introducing the bill to the sen ate, said he believed it would “get away from a condition that had be come more or less intolerable and that interference with legislation at every session.” It was designed to end competition between the two schools, he said. The list of nine appointees to the new board of education will be sent by the governor to the senate this morning for ratification, which will require a two-thirds vote of the members of that house. The new board .will also supplant the state f. board of higher curricula, which has been abolished by the act. Board to Budget Funds The board will take over it's duties July 1, and during the com-, intr two years the board will be directed to conduct a survey of all the institutions under its direc tion with a view to consolidating their functions, eliminating duplica tions in work* and reorganizing the higher educational system of the state. The hoard will also budget the funds for each of the institutions after the present two year’s budget goes out, but they will uot tamper with the budget before that time. At the end of the two years the state funds accruing to all schools will be pooled and thd board of education will take control of them and the disbursement will be under their direction. Wesley Club Women Entertain Men Tonight Women members of the Meslev club, student organization of the Methodist church, will be hostesses to the men at dinner tonight at the church, Twelfth and Willamette streets, at 7:.'10 o’clock. Following the dinner a skating party will be held at the Winter Garden. During the dinner group singing will provide the entertainment; af terward, the following program will be presented: reading, Jane Haas; piano solo, Lois Nordling; violin solo, Juanita Oskins; vocal solo, Ruth Lent; flute solo, Theda Spicer. Pauline Lehman, in charge of the dinner, asked that every woman bring 35 eents in pay for the food. Skating will begin at 10 o’clock. Dignity, Poise, Austerity, Tenseness Mark Last Show of "Craig’s Wife" Grace Gardner, in Leading Role, Wins Big Audience By DOROTHY KIRK Dignity, poise, austerity, tense ness all these marked last night’s performance of •'Craig’s Wife,” which was given by Guild Hall players, and which tVas received by an extremely enthusiastic capacity audience. The first aet displayed no action and not until the second act did the actors seem to really enter into their purls, wholeheartedly from then on. During the latter part of the second act the real point of in terest and excitement was reached. A woman who had a dominating desire to dominate, a jealous nature when it came to any other woman entering into the picture—this was portrayed most splendidly by Grace Gardner as Mrs. Craig. She carried the part very well, even to the point of being catty when told of another woman, saying “Why wasn’t she killed?” ‘'Suddenly heroic” marked the acting of Gordon Stearns who played the role of Mr. Grnig. At first he appeared a hit shv, afraid of himself, one might say, but later on he showed his authority and po sit ion. The one big criticism that was heard from members of the audience was that the actors did not speak quite loudly enough to lie heard in all parts of the room. This may have been due in part to the acous tics of the place. All in all, the aelors were well suited to the parts which they took and it is indeed difficult to state who was particularly outstanding, other than Grace Gardner and Gor don Stearns who displayed excel lent ability in the drama. An orchestra, conducted by Ed ward Best, played between acts and gave jnst the right touch to that too often awkward pause. Mrs. Ottilie Sov bolt, drama instructor, was coach. The stage decorations were planned and arranged by the class in stagecraft. Swimming Team To Meet Aggie Mermen Today Staters Desire to Avenge First Defeat by Addition Of Several New Entries The Oregon swimming tefim leaves at 12 o’clock today for Corvallis where the Oregon State mermen will be met in a Jim Sharp dual moot. The two colleges are tlm only ones in the northwest w i t h swimming teams this year jind Oregon must win this meet in order to cinch the title. The Wobfoots won a previous meet easily but dope from t li e aggie school says the Staters a r e prepared to turn tho tables. Two or three have become eligible since • the first contest anil are expected to increase the chances of tile Oregon State team considerably. Lee Hover, Aggie star, is expected to take one or two first places to day. He won the 100-yard free style event in the first meet be tween Oregon and O. S. O. this sea son. Joe Brown will represent the var sity in diving, ns neither Don Neer nor Leonard Thompson, springboard artists, will make the trip. The O. S. 0. divers should give Brown some tough eompetitioil for first place honors, thinks coach Edward Abercronibie. Two men who did not swim for Oregon in the first Aggie meet will enter the water today. They are Bob Bishop and Rosser. Atkinson. Both are swimming in the relay and Atkjifcon may swim in the 100-yard free style. Probable men in the Oregon lfne up for today's meet are: Johnny Anderson, Chet Floyd, Harold Hat ton, Wig Fletcher, Charlqp Silver man, Don Xeer, Leonard Thompson, Bob McAlpin, Bill Gillette, John Creech, and Jim Sharp. Landsbury in Portland John ,T. Landsbury, dean of the school of music, left yesterday for Portland on business pertaining to the school of music. He will join the members of the symphonic choir, which will leave Sunday af-, ternoon and will return to Eugene with them Monday night. Arne Rae Arrives To Assume Post, With Association Harris Ellsworth, Former Manager, to Be Editor Of Rosebnrg Newspaper Arno CL Ran, who is taking the piano of Harris Ellsworth, former field manager of the Oregon Edi torial association, arrived here yes terday. Mr. Ellsworth accepted a position ns editor of the Roseburg News-Review, a paper recently pur chased by the Eugene Register. Mr. Rae is a graduate of the school of journalism of the univer sity, class of ’22. At that time the present journalism building had not been built, and classes were held in the adjoining frame building which now houses the dispensary. Soon after graduation Mr. Rae was given the position of advertis ing manager of the Oregon City Enterprise, following that by the news editorship of the same paper, and again resuming the advertising ma nagership. For the past five years he has been co-publisher of the Tillamook Herald, a weekly. ‘‘In looking over the records,” said Mr. Rae, “I find that Mr. Ellsworth has done a remarkably fine piece of work; somewhat bet ter than the association members anticipated, considering the short time he was in charge. I do not intend to make any radical changes in the administration of the office.” English Instructor Will Read Browning Kenneth Shumaker, instructor in the English department, will de liver a reading of Browning’s ‘'Re turn of the DrusesV in Alumni hall of the Woman's building, Sunday at :i:00. There will be no admission and the public has been invited by the departments Trio of Girls Given Emerald Writing Jobs Three additional reporters for the Emerald news staff were announced by Art Selioeni, managing editor. The trio of girls who have won places on the writing staff are Alvce Cook, Berg ice Hamilton and Vir ginia Smith. According to present plans Emer alds will be issued all of next week, the final issue coming out on Sat urday morning. Herbert Hoover and Burt B. Barker Boyhood Pals; Played Chess Together “Herbert Hoover decided that lie wns going to teach me how to play chess when we were young fellows together in Salem,” said Burt Brown Barker, vice-president of the uni versity, in a recent interview. “We started out with checkers and gradually worked up to chess, but after many hours of practice, ‘Bert’ decided that it was a hope less job. I told him that he could give me all the men on the board except one and then he would beat me with that one,” said Mr. Barker, laughing. Mr. Barker and the president elect were boyhood friends in Salem and the friendship has been kept alive throughout their lives. Hoover, as Mr. Barker describes him, is a shy, diffident man, very little different from the boy who lived in Salem. At that time, the president-elect was living with an uncle and working as an office boy in the Oregon Land Co., his uncle's concern. “He swept out the office, ran nit the* errands and performed all the duties that an office boy has thrust upon him,” Mr. Barker said. Mr. Hoover was not in school during the time that he lived in Salem, according to Mr. Barker. During that time, however, he took the entrance exams to Stanford uni versity and was a member" of the first class that entered that school. “I have tried to maintain our friendship on a purely friendly basis thus eliminating embarrassing polit’eal complications, for I under stand that many of Mr. Hoover’s boyhood friends have been very ob noxious in their demauds,” stated Mr. Barker. “I greatly regret that I shall not be in Washington for the inaugura tion but I am so busy here at Eu gene that it would be impossible for me to get away now,” lie con cluded, when asked if he was plan ning on making the trip east. Trackmen Vie In Races On Varsity Field Fifty Men Entered in First Outdoor Track Meet; .Eight Events Planned All Cinder, Field Men Eligible to Compete Final Intramural Tourneys Slated for March 7-JI _ 5 Aii intramural outdoor track moot ojion to all mon signed up for track will bo bold on Hayward fiold this afternoon at 12:00. Eleven ovonts are scbodulod and .entries may bo made at Hill Hayward’s office and at tbo fiold up to the time the con test starts. This will bo tbo first outdoor moot of tbo voar. Fifty men signed lip yesterday, tbo do, IdO, and <>00-yard events drawing largo ontrios. There will in* one other running event, the (10 yard high hurdles, and six fiold events: the high .jump, broad jump, discuss, shot put, pole vault, and javelin throw. Indoor track meets held during tlie past, week have attracted desul tory attention and few entries. The meet today, if the number signed up counts for anything, will offer lots of competition. Varsity, freshman, anyone who lias put in three prac tices a week for a specified time can compete this afternoon. Date Set for Meet The final intramural track meets of the season will bo held March 7 and 8, the first an elimination tour ney and the second the finals to determine the organization cham pions of the university. These will probably be held outside if the weather permits and will therefore have a more varied competition. Tlie javelin, discus and broad jump cannot be held in the Igloo. Complete entries for this after noon’s competition up to last, night are as follows: 50-yard dash—Hill, Penrose, Bynearson, Emmet, Mc Cormick, l’endergrast, Whisnant. 150-yard dash—Hill, Penrose, Tut t.ieh, Hughes, Bynearson, Wilson, McKcnnon, McDonald, Jackson, Mc Cormick, Whisnant. Dash Entrants Named 300-yard dash—MeKennon, Wil son, Brown, Gerot, McDonald, Neal, Harrington, Shimizu, Fraundorf. GOO yard run — Yates, Harrington, Hollingshead, Fitch, Gardner, Fal leur, Calef, Smith, Peterson, Hill, Hamilton, Steele, Grant, Bergerson, Moran, Jennings, Beck. High hur dles—Jackson, Crawford, Whisnant. High jump—Hughes, Moran, Craw ford, Everts, Whisnant. Pole vault —Maltby, Robinson. Discuss—Gun ther, Hildreth, Moeller. Broad jump —Rynearson, Moran, Emmet, Allen, Anite.r, Hildreth. Shotput—Stadel man, Hildreth, Moeller, Dickson. Javelin—Thompson, Kelly, Edwards, Dickson. Many of tho men will enter in two events or more, tho total of men in all races being over seventy. Spectators at the meet will have an opportunity to see what their favorite track men can do in com petition against the rest. Intra mural teams will not perforin as groups today but comparative strengths may be compared through the results. Ten Teams Compete Only two of eight scheduled in door meets had been run off when it was decided to combine them all in one large outdoor battle for hon ors. Ten tennis fought for honors in two tourneys Thursday afternoon and evening. Chi Psi and Sigma Chi led the field Thursday afternoon. Chi Psi took first and second places in the (iContinued on Tage Two) Three Study Groups Bill Meetings Sunday Literature, Arts, D r a m a Sessions Are Scheduled Three “lijbbhy” groups of Phi Theta Epsilon, women’s honorary service sorority, have scheduled meetings for, Sunday afternoon. The literature and poetry’gioup will meet in the men’s lounge of the Woman’s building at 5:15. Marv Francis Dilday and Ada Gar field will read an essay, and Paul ine Shale will talk on the “Form of the Essay.” Tho- arts and crafts group will meet at 5 o’clock at tlie Y. W. bungalow. Officers will outline their program and a social discus sion will follow. The drama group, under the di rection of its president, Inez Sim ons, will hold a short business meet ing in the women’s lounge of the Woman’s building at 5 o’clock. Enrollment Listed For Departments Bu sin oss A dm in ist vat ion School Largest lloro Business administration .with an enrollment pf 450 students is the largest of all the schools and de ]inrt incuts on the campus, accord ing to figures just released I*v the university stalietical bureau. There are 251 English majors, not count ing the 1(>5 enrolled in the langu age and literature division of the college of literature, science and the aits. The law school enrollment totals 22X. Two hundred and twenty-five architects and artists are enrolled in the art. school, and 21.'5 profess their major to be journalism. Next to the English majors the biologists and economists are the greatest in numbers, which are lti.! and 1XI, respectively. The department of biology has the most graduates, which total amounts to lti. There are 14 Kng lish grads and li! in the school of education. Twelve romance langu (Continued on Page Two) Mrs. Warner Has Dinner in Honor Of Oriental Men Eiileiiainineiil I n c 1 n <1 e s j Slides Revealing Life Of Chinese Princess' Twenty,-nine Filipino students were entertained by Airs. Alurrav Warner last Thursday evening in tin' Chinese room of the Osburn hotel as part of her efforts to further the inter racial friendliness in which she is greatly interested. Lois Tuttle gave a. vocal selection and the Filipinos entertained with vocal and instrumental music and a native dance. Vice-president Hurt Brown Barker was among the guests. Saturday evening, February 211, Mrs. Warner entertained the Chi nese ami .Tupanese students with dinner at the Osburn. Following the dinner a number of other guests were invited in to see an exhibition of Chinese and Japanese lantern slides, the last one shown being of Princess I)er Ling and her son, taken with a background of the palace where the princess and her sister lived when they were ladies in-waiting to the empress dowager. Princess Per Ling, who is a very dear friend of Airs. Warner, was the daughter of one of the most ad vanced and progressive Chinese of ficials of his generation, and re ceived a very liberal foreign educa tion in the countries to which her father was sent as minister, notably France, England and the United States, Airs. Warner stated. Presi dentHall was present at this dinner. The princess and her sister spent two years as ladies-in-waiting to the empress dowager at her winter palace in the “Forbidden City,” the experiences of which she tells in a remarkably interesting 'manner in her book “Old Buddha,” which has recently been acquired by the Alu seum library. The empress dowager became very much interested in the princess and wanted her to marry a Atanehu prince, but because of her foreign experience and education the Princess Iter Ling objected. Her father and mother took her to Shanghai where she met Thaddeus White, then in the American con sular service, whom she married with the consent of the empress, thus being allowed to keep her Manchu title. Her sister, although marrying a popular Chinese general, failed to get the consent of the em press and thus lost her title because her husband was a member of a subjugated race. House Approves Bill To Appropriate Funds For New Infirmary Only Six Votes Cast Against Measure After Ways and Means Committee Refuses to Recommend Passage Mothers and Fathers of University Students Will Raise $50,000 to Match Expenditure of State By CLARENCE P. CRAW After (lie joint ways and means committee, by a vote of oil*lit to eight, had refused to consider an appropriation of jot).000 for the construction of a new infirmary at, the uni versity, the bill passed the lower house of the Oregon legisla ture yesterday morning with only six opposing votes. The report ol the ways and means committee had been the seeond unfavorable one. The hill will probably come before the senate today. The hill had been in the hands of the ways and means committee since the last day of January, and during that time Cash Discounts Substituted for Rebates at Co-op Stun of $2073 to Be Made Up in Red need Prices; No More Tickets Issued Working on the now system whereby cash discounts nro made on merchandise rnthor thnn credit tickets, the Co-op 1ms started on n plan to cut down the gross selling price of general merchandise arti cles $2,0711, the amount which in the year 1028 was returned to the students in exchange for the tickets. Co-op tickets will be received hut will no longer be given out. This came, according to Marion F. Mc Clain, manager of the Co-op, from a general feeling of dissatisfaction which was expressed bv hundreds I of students whom the Co-op inter viewed and who feel that they have not been receiving their full return from the store which is run primar ily on a cost basis. The sum of $2,07.1, which has been cut off the merchandise prices, will be saved from a 5 per cent dis count on artists’ supplies, note book fillers, typing paper, law note books, and other major supplies of each of the different departments. One of the finest things that the Co-op does for the students, Mr. McLain says, is that it transports text books (dear across the continent from New York and sells them in l'lugene for the same price that they are sold at Columbia university. On one shelf, five feet long, which contains certain kinds of note book filler, a 5 per cent dis count saved $955 to the students. The Co-op was founded eight years ago with not a cent for work ing capital. Today it has a work ing capital of $25,000- and has paid $12,700 hack to tjie students. Student to Address Church Club on War A. ITarvey Wright, junior in pre-law, for threo years a marine and prominent iu the university' It. O. T. O., will talk to the Wesley (dub, stud (pit organization of the Methodist church, at its meeting Sunday night on ‘’War and the ft. O. T. O.” A half hour of games and enter tainment will precede the talk, be ginning at 0:00 Ruth Johnson, sophomore in physical education, will be in charge. The talk will begin at 0:.'!0 o ’clock. Dick Halliburton, Brave Adventurer, To Speak on Campus Next Thursday Dick Halliburton lias ilaml to follow that adventurous road, which only the brave man with the poet’s soul may take. Mr. Halliburton, whoso books, “The Glorious Adventure” and the “Royal Road to Romance,” are non fiction best sellers going into edi tion after edition, will speak at the Woman’s building Thursday eve ning, March 7, at 7:30. This is ac cording to advance information re ceived by the A. S. U. O. office. His will be the third in the series of lectures sponsored by the Wom en’s league. The two lecturers who have already appeared are Count Felix von Lucknor, Germ am naval officer, and Gay MacLaren, drama tist. Dick- Halliburton was born with the silver spoon of luxury in his mouth, but he has fought and laughed his way around the world, from Spain to Siberia, from the Valley of Kashmir to the mountains of Tibet. Ho lias sailed the racing seas iu the fo’castle of a tramp steamer. All this without a penny in his pockcts^-just for the adven ! t ure of it. He has slept in the immortal and I enchanted Taj Mahal; he has been j housed, grates, b.v the British gov | eminent in the jail at Gibraltar; he has swam the swirling waters of tie* Hellespont; he has climbed Fujiyama in the mid of winter—the first man to accomplish the feat; he has spent the night huddled on top o^ storm-swept Mount Olympus, home "of the gods; many, many more things lie has accomplished. Dick Halliburton has done much and dared much and he is spreading his gospel of romance throughout the world. tlm committee had instituted ;i series of investigations into (lie infirmary situation at the uni versity. Senator Staples, of the committee, had suggested that in ease the hill was recon sidered by the committee after the second refusal of the meas ure that the committee author ize a similar appropriation for Oregon State college since he said that college also needed a new infirmary. Mothers Back Bill Tlie bill came before the legis lature after a storming procession of mothers of the university stu dents had descended on the body with the offer to see that $50,000 would lie raised by private sub scription for the new building if the legislature would appropriate a like amount to be used for the hospital. The mothers told of the congestion that was caused by the epidemic of influenza during the fall term, and decried the utter lack of good accommodations for the: recurrence of such an epidemic. I Immediately after the measure had received publicity the $50,000 was pledged by loyal “Oregon Dads” and others interested in the wel fare of the institution and the stu dents. This left only the $50,000 to lie raised by the state. Two Fight Bill The only dissenting voices in the vote on tho infirmary yesterday were those of Representatives John son of Benton county, and Weather spoon of Union county. Egbert, Lafollett, Stewart and Wilkes vot ed with Johnson and Wentherspoon against tin* bill. Representative Louergnn, who was one of the in)reducers of the bill with Senator Nbrblad, took tho floor in behalf of the bill and said that “when the fathers and mothers of the state are wilting to put up $50,000 for an infirmary building it would bo bad business for t°ho state not to match that amount.” Breaking Faith, Claim Johnson, in his stand against0 tho bill, read a carefully prepared speech in which he claimed that the university was breaking faith by asking for this appropriation when they had agreed with tho state college not to ask for capital outlays at this session. University officials in Eugene, when interviewed said they could say nothing on the subject since the university was not at all con cerned. The university is1 not back of this move, it being a private enterprise backed by tho mothers and fathers of the students, was the statement issued. Henry Davis Leaves On Los Angeles Trip Henry W. Davis, director of tho United Christian work on the cam pus, accompanied by his mother-in law, Mrs. Elizabeth Prescott, left this morning on a business trip to Eos Angeles. They are making tho trip by automobile and will be gone about ten days. Mrs. Davis is to join her husband and mother in Los Angeles next week and return with them. Meeting of Intramural Track Heads Is Today Representatives of all houses mi the campus with teams entering tho intramural track meets now being carried on will meet for lunch at the Anchorage today at noon. Bill Hayward, veteran track coach, will be the principal speaker and a gen eral discussion on tho problems con fronting intramural track will follow. The luncheon will be preliminary to the all university intramural track meet this afternoon at 2:50.