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.