Arizona republican., 1920-12-20

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, Tue son. Dec. 1.-The university closed on Saturday, December Is, for two weeks vacation during the Christmas holidays. Classes will begin again on Monday, January 8.
 On the Monday after vacation the university will have a poStotfice sta- tion of it's own opened on the campus. It will be situated ill the old man building on the north side. 1t will be necessary for everybody who lives on the campus to see that all mail is ad- dressed to University Station. Tucson.
 Prof. 4. o. Neal, registrar and direc- tor of extension work, has just returned from a Fourth district conference meeting of the Citizens Educational conference, held at Sacramento, Cal. C. O. Case, state superintendent of schools, and Superintendent Loper or the Phoenix schools, were called py the United States commissioner or ed- ucation Professional men, business men, laborers, club men, society men, were asked to send representatives to it. The outstanding needs of educa- ton were presented and discussed. One of the first conclusions reached was that the salaries of teachers must be Increased to a living wage. The sala- ries are to be graded on the tralnlnS of the teacher and the service he gives. The convention also decided that the profession must be made more at ] tractiVe to men teachers. In l9OO one teacher in five was a man, In 1918 one teacher in seven, and in 1920 one m l ten was a man.
 that employment must be furnished i for 12 months in the year. that the teacher must be guaranteed a security l of tenure, and that a pension system must be established,
 "The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, the first big Sock ana Buskin club production, was played Tn the auditorium Friday night ana sat urday matinee.
 I Claude Van Patten as the bashful, but ever resourceful, hero was par ticularly pleasing as Ernest Worthlng
 Hattie Bunnitt played opposite him as Gwendolvn Fairfax. Helen O'Malley
 as romantic Cecily was charming Tn
 her characterization. She was wei i, supported by Pete Campbell as Alger- non Montcrief, J. w. Rhodes as Rev Chasuble, the pious. pastor, could no' have been better in his part. Heller
 Green as Miss Prism was every men q
 governess.
 At a regular meeting of the house oi
 representatives Thursday, 1t was pro- , posed and unanimously adopted that Enress club be formed soon after th' holidays. This club will be composed
 of members of the student body wh( will correspond with their home pa : ners and in that way send news or th' university all over the state. Repre-
 sentatives of the different papers VII
 meet here during university week t'
 discuss student journalism and nov 6 it can be mad better in Arizona. Ther' will be installed here soon two honor . ary Journalistic fraternities. one To ', men and one for women.
 ! The Kappa Sigma five won the inter e organization basketball tournament D, . going through the entire series o = | games without a defeat. Tau Delt'
 Psi took second place, losing only t |, Kappa Sigma. Kappa Sigma score = the most points in the series. as wei
 as having the individual player SCOT a ing the highest.
 f Tn the finals of the interclass de bates held here Wednesday night, tn s freshman team defeated the seniors U. e decision of two to one. Ihe sup
 feet was Resolved: That the polc' r of the Closed Shop should be adopte' V in American Industries The senior !, had the affirmative of the question
 
 = and the freshmen the negative. Tn
 seniors were represented by Loui ,+ Kempf. one of the members of tn ,s varsity team last year which defeate i, two California teams on the coast, an T by John Mccullough, recently electe VI to the legislature from the Cochis u- district The freshmen were repre-
 sented by Lawrence Howe, who wo
 first place for Phoenix in the hig
 school State Oratorical contest at tn
 university last year. and MT. Palme' 70 who has also taken an active part i Q public speaking work in high schoo if wire was received this mornin ,o from President von KleinSmid, sayin .y, that he would be home Monday morn in ing. The faculty have planned Id home coming gathering for Dr. an 10 Mrs. von KleinSmid on their retur Is at the Masonic temple. Invitation Id have gone out for Saturday evening es but it will have 10 be postponed no B. until Monday evening.
 All the stores were closed dow
 town and all classes dismissed at th le university on Wednesday in order ths T. all the men of the tow nand univeI
 sitv nHaht go out to Pastime Park an