University Oklahoman (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 57, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1914 Page: 1 of 4
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FCLITICS RIFE OVER
-:CM01AN ELECTION
— 1
WiU Two Each
Editor and Business Manager
1 Raulta Are Uncertain
BOARD MEMBERS ELECTED
- Energetic Electioneering Features
- Each Contest Board Chooses
Officers Next Week
With two candidates for editor and
two for business manager of the Uni-1 me'ng will be an address
versity Oklahoman political activity ou'going Pr'drt
on the campus has increased rather
than subsided with the passing of the
Student Association election For the
last two days politics has been rife
with the selection of new members
of the University Oklahoman board
going on in the different classes
The first of the week three students
had announced or were waiting only e‘
for the insistent call of the people
before entering the race for the edi-
torship Wednesday night Leonard
- Logan editor of the University Maga-
zine who had aspired to the position
stated that he would withdraw The
only other likely candidates at pres-
ent are Chester Westfall at present
associate editor and Homa Wood a
former editor of the University News
Letter
Should the Board consider the can-
didacy of Wood it will be necessary
to repeal the constitutional amend-
ment passed last October making a
The Oratorical Council yesterday
year's service on the reportorial staff I went on record as favoring six inter-
a requirement for eligibility to the of-1 collegiate debates for next year and
fice of editor One half year’s ser- decided to hold the annual election
vice on the staff is required for eli-of officers of the Oratorical Associa-
gibility to the position of associate tion in the chapel at 4:20 Monday
editor May 11th
Eugene McMahon and Malcolm I The Council decided to have the
Gentry are the two men who would triangular debate with the Universi
like to handle the financial end of the I ties of Texas and Louisiana for which
paper next year So far there is only negotiations are now under way by
one' candidate -for -associate editor I Coach B F Tanner These schools
Bill Campbell who however is not have written the University asking for
T-armember- of the staff The board such a debate The teams will consist
i seems to favor placing the circulation I of two men
v work entirely under the direction of Tbe Council also went on record
Mhe business manager which' will like- favoring a movement to have the
ly result in the elimination of the I teams of the annual triangular debate
if present office of circulation manager I with Kansas and Colorado reduced
The races for business manager and from three to two men in order to
for editor' if Wood’s candidacy i I lessen the expense Colorado has
v 1 considered by the board promise to I written a letter to Coach Tanner fa
be unusually close The combinations I VOring this proposal
and factions backing the different can- The Univers)ty wj) have debates
didates have spent most of the wekwjth the Universities of Arkansas and
“electioneering” to get on the boar J Sollthern California next year but
men pledged to “vote the right way”
Wednesday Leon Phillips was elect
ed by acclamation to represent the
Law School Wednesday t evening Arkansas debate next year and
Jim Bennett defeated Henry Straube
for Engineer representative Yester-
day Miss Eula Russell was chrsen
from the Sophomore class over Lee
Sneed: and Dick Marsh was elected ever jt wjj (ae but the same num-
from the Freshmen over Wayne Bay- Ler of debaters as used this year for
less Earlier in the week the Juniors I eac) gjx (eams wjj consist of
selected Grady Kirby over Jim Hill w0 men
The other members of the board
which elect the staff for next years
paper are Howard-McCasland C V
Nichols Josephine — Lawhead V P
M-Neley Roberr'Stinson Mont for J
Johnson Charles — Memminger and
Charles Berry The members of 'he
hoard are elected in general for two
year terms one-half retiring from of-
fice each year
The election of the staff will likely
be held the latter part of next week
PLAN CLASS DAY
Senior Preparing Program for Day
“ to Bid University Goodbye
A program for Senior Class day I
which is to be some day during com- Miss Marie Mauk a Freshman in
mencement week has been arranged he School of Journalism and member
by a committee and accepted by the j 0f the University Oklahoman start
caM has been awarded the prize offered by
The exercises will begin at 2 p m Miss Louisa Brooke of the English
in chapel and close with a picnic and department for the best short story
' light “feed” on the campus at which wrtten for the woman’s number o
parents of Seniors will be guests A be University Magazine The sub
prominent feature of the day will be ject Df the story which will appear m
a grand march to all the buildings of te Magazine is “The Cup of Laz-
the University where the graduates I arus”
SJ’SkTK rt £e:iL”V" Prof on Spk
A --s
given the floor at the proper points in of the Oklahoma State Mica!
the order of events The “near sociation to be held at Guthrie May
--alumni" will sing the college song 12-14 the
feature in the program - I University Medical School wdl appear
Earl Graves Ph C ’13 who was in I
Norman last week to attend the track
and field meet is now occupying a
good position at Wellington Texas
as a
I '"“"““iff"
Rnd11 CUrk Chen President for
Randall Clark was elected president
Harry Odertnan vice-president and
netting held Wednesday night All
Engineer are member of the club
At the same meeting James Ben
nett was elected to represent the En
gineers on the University Oklahoman
Board and Clifton Mackey on the
Student Council
The special program for the meet
ing consisted of a paper on “Current
Events” by Mackey and a parlia-
mentary drill by Robert Evans
There will be but one more meet
ing of the club this year a week from
next Wednesday The feature of this
by the
Sheldon Returns From Convention
Seward Sheldon returned yesterday
from the national convention of Sig'
ma Delta Chi held at Ann Arbor
Michigan May 1 and 2 Sheldon rep-
resented the local chapter as a dele-
ICAL
WANTS SIX DEBATES
Favors Adding Two Contests
Next Year Annual Election
of Assn Monday
after next year these contests will be
discontinued the ’ Council decided
There will be no expense attached to
Oklahoma is under obligations to
California for a return debate
This will make six debates in which
the University will take part How-
All active members of literary so-
cieties are members of the Oratorical
Association and eligible to vote for
the four officers of the Association
Monday The officers to be elected
are president vice-president secre
tary and treasurer
This election frequently furnishes
as much entertainment for University
politicians as the general election of
the Student Association The two
girls’ societies the Zetalethean and
Philologian usually stage a lively ex-
hibition of co-ed politics in deciding
which society shall have the office of
secretary
Miss Mauk Win Story Contest
on the program: Dean C R Day who
will respond to h addre”
come Prof L A Trn ley Dr Lea
Riely Dr neBu“t' n ’
Todd and Dr L H Buxton
iTEAf1 leaves ioday
FOR TEN DAH TRIP
Sooners Will Play Nine Garnet in
Tour Over Central and
Southern Texas
THEY WORK ON BATTING
Coach Owen is Attempting to
Get More Efficiency at
’ the Plate
Batting Averages
After a week of hitting and fielding
practice the University baseball team
will leave Monday on a ten days’ trip
on which the Sooners will play nine
games with teams of the different
Texas schools including two games
with the University of Texas
The first game will be with the Ada
Normal team Monday May 11 The
rest of the schedule of the southern
trip is as follows: Trinity University
at Waxahachie Texas Tuesday May
12 Texas A and M at College Sta'
tion Texas Wednesday and Thursday
May 13 and 14 Texas University at
Austin Friday and Saturday May 15
and 16 Howard Payne College Mon
day and Tuesday May 18 and 19 and
Baylor University Wednesday Na'
20
During the past week all attention
has been turned toward bettering the
batting average which has suffered a
decided slump in the last four or five
games played by the team The Var
sity pitchers have been working with
the scrubs against the regulars in an
effort to increase the efficiency of the
Sooner batsmen This practice indi-
cates that the individual averages will
receive a considerable boost on the
southern trip
BURGLAR SLIPS IN
AND GETS WATCHES
Louis Hurst and L D Garrett
Each Lose Gold Time
Piece From Room
Two students of the University L
D Garrett and Louis Hurst were the
victims of a burglary Wednesday
night in which they lost two gold
watches and a quantity of money
The boys who stay at the home of
Mrs Bowers on McCullough Street
went to bed about 11:30 Wednesday
night When they arose the next
morning they - discovered that the
watches and - money were missing
There is no clue to show where the
missing articles went
One of the watches was a Hamp-
ton 15 jewel watch hunting case The
other was a 17 jewel open face Elgin
Sophomores Elect Officer
In the Sophomore class election
held Thursday afternoon for the elec-
tion of regular class officers and rep-
resentatives of the Student Council
and University Oklahoman board
Chester Westfall was elected presi-
dent of the class for the coming term
William Cullen was elected vice-president
and Miss Lucile Johnson elected
secretary-treasurer
Prentice Lively was elected captain
of the class track team and George
Anderson of the class baseball team
A controversy has been going on
recently between the Chancellor of
Kansas University and the Topeka
Capitol a adily newspaper the latter
having made an attack upon the mor-
als of the University and of the Daily
Kansan The Chancellor is opposed
I to the revival of class fights
ASSN: PRESIDENCY
TO
Gets Heavy Margin "Over Two
- Opponents ' Walker Gets
J Vice-Presidency
MEACHAM ’ GETS ‘ MEDAL
Nellie Jane McFerron is Secre-
tary Harrell Treasurer Hill
and Logan With Magazine
Paul Darrough was elected presi-
dent Don Walker vice-president and
dates for the office was Darrough
256 Neil Johnson 73: Seward Shel-
don 164
For vice-president the vote stood
Don Walker 204 Hiram Impson
129 Roy St Lewis 86 Will Crowe
72
For secretary Miss Nellie Jane Me
Ferron won over Miss Jane Griffin
by a vote of 275 to 203
Lowry Harrell received 420 vo's
James Hill 412 and David Logan 428
No one of these had an opponent
Meacham the big football star
won the Letzeiser medal by abou‘
sixty votes The vote on the four
eligible men was Meacham 162 Paul
Darrough 106 Terrance Westhafer
67 and Raymond Courtright 55
Meacham is a Varsity football and
track man is manager of the track
team was editor of the 1913 Sooner
and ranks as an “A” student in atl his
class work He is a member of Pe-et
Senior honor society Sigma Delta
Chi honorary journalistic fraternity
Kappa Sigma and is active in other
University organizations He is
major student in the department i(
mathematics
The list of eligible men for tiu
medal was selected by the Studeni
Council in - accordance with a plan
under which 50 per cent was based on
scholarship 20 per cent on athletic
20 per cent on student activities and
10 per cent on literary society work
and debating Only four men quali-
fied according to the standard set
CLUB DISCUSSES COTTON
Business Opportunity Club Considers
Industry of Sunny South
At the regular meeting of the Busi-
ness Opportunity club Wednesday
night Henry White spoke upon the
manufacture of cotton seed products
and William Mullens told of fche
cotton warehouse industry in the
South -A general discussion follow-
ed Plans were launched which if car-
ried out will result in an insurance
conference to he held here in about
two weeks Some of the state in
surance officers and other prominent
insurance men of the state will ad
dress the club at that time
The club will hold a banquet some
time before the end of the semester
Successful business men from over
the state will be asked to attend and
discurs their respective lines of busi-
ness Y M Planning Bible Study for Next
m Year
The bible study committee of the
M C A met at the office of Sec-
retary E K Witcher at 3:30 Wednes-
day afternoon to consider plans for
the work next year The committee
selecting the best group of subjects
to be taken up in the bible study next
year as well as the teachers who will
have charge of- the work
The members of this committee for
next year are Louis Abney Walter
Morrow Marion Northcutt Lloyd
Garrett Alfred Stevenson Charles
Grady and Ralph Spangler
Recently the Wisconsin faculty ap-
peals committee refused to alter a de-
cision of the Student Court on the The Ottawa faculty has ruled
ground that the Court is supreme in against football games on Thanks-
casea of -this nature giving
BURLESQUE COMES MAY 23
To bo in Nature of Musical Comedy
Rehearsals Begin
The junior burlesque committee has
completed the selection of the cast
for the annual faculty burlesque and
have set the date for the farce as
May 23 Rehearsals will be held every
day until the 23rd beginning neat
Monday
The burlesque this year is in the
nature of a musical comedy and the
persons selected for the parts have
keen chosen for their ability as sing-
ers and dancers Fifteen songs with
parodies substituted run through the
play The leading parts will be sup-
ported by a chorus of thirty voices
Engineer and Signal Corps
The Engineer and Signal Corps one
hundred strong left the armory at
two o’clock today for their two days
of field work east of town They are
working in regular “war style” under
the command of Captains Bozel! and
Tucker and Lieutenants Dwight Ken
shaw Weaver Morrow and Bennett
The two companies will be dismissed
at the armory at 11:30 Sunday
CLASS BASEBALL TO
START NEXT UAY
Athletic Council Prepares Sched
uie for Series Sets Annual
Election for May 21
The Athletic Council yesterday
adopted a schedule for the interclass
baseball series to begin Monday May
11 and set the date for the annual
election of officers of the Athletic
Association as Thursday May 21
The interclass series will begin
Monday with the Engineers meeting
the Laws On May 22 the Medics
will play the winners of this game
The Juniors will meet the Seniors
Mlay 14 and the Freshmen will play
the Sophomores May 19 The win
ning upperclass team will play the
winning lower class team May 25 The
series will end May 29 in a game be
tween the winning team of the college
and the winning team among the pro-
fessional schools'
The Council passed a resolution to
the effect that the secretary shall
notify the different classes that they
will have to pay the Association dues
for their football and basketball teams
before they can play in the baseball
series It seems that last fall and win-
ter the provision that to play upon a
class team one must pay a member-
ship fee in the Association of one do!
lar was not enforced This was part-
ly due to the fact that some of the
classes had voted to assume the pay-
ing of these fees for their men
The officers of the Association to
be elected May 2l are a president
vice-president and secretary The
president and secretary are also mem-
bers of the Athletic Council There
are also to be elected one student
member and one faculty member of
the Athletic Council and managers
for football baseball basketball
track and tennis
To be eligible to vote in this elec-
tion one must be a member of the
Athletic Association which is made
up for the most part of the members
of the Varsity athletic teams and of
the men who take part in the class
games
Geologists Investigating Oil Region
L E Trout and Frank Buttram of
the Geological Survey left last night
for a two days' prospecting trip in
the region of Bartlesville Director
C W Shannon returned last night
from a trip investigating the oil pros-
pects in the northern part of the state
No Y M Meeting Sunday
The Y M C A will have no meet-
ing Sunday afternoon on account of
the dedication exercises of the Chris-
tian church to be held at 3 o’clock
The Christian church is to have a well
known speaker here for the occasion
of the dedication
Attention Picnicers
At the picnic of the Popular Science
and Newcomer’s clubs last Tuesday
several articles of silverware china-
ware and other things were not claim-
ed Inquire of Mrs H B Dwight
DELEGATES LAY PLANS
FOR KELT COIMRCE
Seven Schools of Texas Okla
La and Ark- Form Tem-
porary Organization
PASS STRINGENT RULES
Coaches Vote for One Year Resi-
— dence and Three Year Play-
ing Rules
The Univeristy of Oklahoma will
be a member of the new Southwestern
Athletic Conference according to
Coach Bennie 0wen who returned
yesterday from a meeting at Dallas
Texas where representatives of seven
of the leading schools of the South-
west drew up a tentative constitution
which will be submitted to the ath-
letic authorities at the different
schools The constitution will be ap-
proved by all the schools thinks
Coach Owen
The schools which had delegates at
the meeting and which will be mem-
bers of the conference are the Uni-
versity of Texas Texas A and M
Louisiana - State Baylor University
Southwestern University University
nf Arkansas Oklahoma A and M
and the University of Oklahoma The
movement has been fathered by the
athletic authorities of the University
of Texas
Eligibility rules similar to those of
the Missouri Valley Conference were
adopted by the representatives at
Dallas and were included in the con-
stitution Chief among these rules
were the one year residence and three
year playing rules Practically all
the schools had indicated their ap-
proval of these rules before the meet-
ing was held at Dallas
Entering the new conference will
make it necessary for Oklahoma to
play at least four games with other
members of the conference in the
different sports This however will
not result in a great change in the
athletic schedules as the Sooners al-
ways meet two teams of the confer-
ence the University of Texas and
the Oklahoma Aggies in football
four at least in baseball and frequent-
ly several in basketball A conference
track meet will be held
Coach Owen says that going into
the conference “will give us the ad-
vantage of playing under better rules
and better conditions” It will not
change the relation of Oklahoma to
the Missouri Valley schools he says
There will he as many games with the
Valley teams as formerly
JOHN FIELDS TALKS
ON SCHOOL SYSTEM
Says First Requisite' to Great
University is Efficient
Rural Schools
With a system of elementary edu-
cation so developed that no one need
leave the farm to get schools as good
as those provided in the city there
will be no trouble about the future of
the University” said John Fields
editor of the Oklahoma Farm Journal
a chapel talk Wednesday on the
subject "Where the Money Comes
From”
The money which enlivens the
channels of trade in Oklahoma
comes for the most part from the
land said Mr Fields In the im-
provement of conditions for the men
on the soil the biggest single prob-
lem he pointed out is the develop-
ment of adequate rural schools
“The country must develop a sys-
tem of farming suited to the condi-
tions here We must remember that
about the most regular thing about
our rainfall is its irregularity Okla-
homa has suffered because its farm-
ers have tried to transplant here the
rop conditions of every other state
“In the last few years there has
been a flood of panaceas for our ag-
ricultural troubles The real estate
man has been accustomed to tell the
land buyer that rainfall would in-
crease with settlement but it is hard
for me to see how rainfall may be
ncreased as individuals scratch the
surface About the funniest thing I
ever saw in a newspaper way was an
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Christmas, Earl. University Oklahoman (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 57, Ed. 1 Friday, May 8, 1914, newspaper, May 8, 1914; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1816769/m1/1/?q=%22new-sou%22: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.