VOLUME XXVIl
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. THURSDAY. MAY 12, 1927
NTTMRER m i
M. Normile Blues
Singer for
Musical Comedy
*Creole Moon’ Cast and
Staff Include Five
Notables of Campus
By H. W. M.
Madge Normile, blues baby of
“Creole Moon,” junior musical com
prlv ia the snhieet of todav,s ton
paragraph. Madge
can sing and
Madge can dance
—and what more
can a musical
comedy star be
expected to do?
She has the part
of the “lebee
lily;” naive hoy
den of New Or
leans’ thorough
fares, and she
loses ’most all her
Madge Normile
clothes shootin’ crapses behind a
bale of cotton. Then she sings—
and then she dances. That’s all,
except that her paternal parent
manages Jack Dempsey, ex-heavy
weight champion pugilist of the
world which may have something to
do with dancing and singing.
On our left hand we have Flo
rence Grimes, of the “Creole Moon”
beauty chorus. A dozen girls dance
under this classi
Jfication, and they
| a 11 wear fine
clothes and pos
sess fine manners.
Together with the
male ehorus, they
furnish atmos
phere for the cab
aret scene which
features the Mar
di Gras act.
Further infor
Florence Grimes mation concerning
Miss Grimes is not available, inas
much as her name does not appear
in the current student directory.
And here we have Eva Eriiery
Dye Miller, of 769 Thompson street,
Portland, Oregon. The student di
rectory came
through with a
pinch bingle
there. Emery is
a freshman now,
but next year she
will be a sopho
more, and then a
junior, and then a
senior, and then,
perhaps, she will |
join the staff off
some newspaper.
This deduction is
Emery Miller
made because she is majoring in
journalism.
She is a member of the pony
chorus of “Creole Moon,” in the
best of standing.
* * *
And here is George Eisman, reg
istering hope. George hasn’t had
much of a share in the publicity
nnllnrl -P r> -»• f-1» 1-vt*
George Eisman
-
“Creole Moon,”
but he has had
one of the hard- !
est positions, j
Reams roll out
about the authors
(let’s see, who
are they?), the j
ponies, the beau
ties, the cast, the
scenery, and eve
rything but the as- j
sistant chairman. ■
Eismnn has been on the jod since
the project first formed, and has
helped to select all the characters
and arrange the other details.
* * *
The boy with the headguard and
the dashing expression is Frank
Higgs, president of the junior class.
>rank is Deuer
known for his
performances on
the gridiron and
his ability to use
his hands for
something be
sides eating, but
he’s prexy of
the third-year
folks, and di
rectly respon
sible for “Creole
ATnnn >> Tf thie
way. Frank, in Frank Riggs
his official capacity, appointed Don
Beelar junior week-end chairman.
Then Don appointed Ben McCroskey
chairman of the Junior vod-vil,
which immediately gave way to the
junior revue. So it all goes back to
Frank. If you don't like the show,
jump on liis neck.
Local Group
In Advertising
Wins Honors
W. F. G. Thacher Chapter,
Alpha Delta Sigma,
Rates Highest
i —
Plaque Awarded to Be
In Journalism Building
Interest and Activities of
21 Considered
HIGHEST rating in the United
States was awarded to the W.
F. G. Thacher chapter of Alpha
Delta Sigma, national advertising
fraternity, according to a wire re
ceived here today from Calvin Horn,
president of the local chapter.
Horn, who has been attending
the national convention, May 9-10,
at the University of Missouri, Co
lumbia, Missouri, will bring back
as recognition of the honor an en
graved plaque to be kept perman
ently, by the local chapter. It will
be hung in the hall of the jour
nalism shack.
Points Considered Are Many
The Oregon chapter is the first
ever to gain this distinction, for
the system of awarding ratings for
the year’s activities was just inaug
urated this year.
The main points upon which the
rating was based were: the inter
est, activities, and achievements in
advertising of the group as a whole
and of its individual members; the
financial standing of the chapter;
its co-operation with the national
headquarters; the achievements of
its alumni in the field of advertis
ing; and the individual members’
achievements outside their regular
college work.
A memory book containing ar
ticles printed in local and state
papers concerning the chapter and
its members,' both alumni and ac
tive, was shown at the convention.
This idea was original with the
chapter, probably the only honorary
on the campus to keep such a book.
Chapter Started by Thacher
Alpha Delta Sigma was founded
in 1913 at the University of Mis
souri, Columbia. The first outside
chapter to be taken in by the char
ter ^group was the University of
Kentucky in 1914. The big expan
sion movement in the fraternity
began in 1920, and the organiza
tion has had a continual growth un
til it reached its twenty-first chap
ter in the spring of this year.
The local group obtained its char
ter of Alpha Delta Sigma in 1924.
It is named after W. F. G. Thacher,
who founded the advertising club
at the University in 1922 which was
later to become Alpha Delta Sigma.
Professor Thacher is head of the
new advertising department and is
also an instructor in advertising and
short story.
Further honor has been received
by the Oregon chapter in being
asked to act as host chapter to the
four Pacific coast groups of Alpha
Delta Sigma in the coast convention
which will be held in conjunction
with the Pacific Coast Advertising
Club convention in Portland.
Horn Heads Campus Group
Alumni of the W. F. G. Thacher
chapter who were in school last
year but are now actively engaged
in the field of advertising are:
James W. Leake, past president;
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‘Soup-and-Fish’ Men
Slated for Big Show
SOUP and Fish.
Six fish will peddle soup
to an assembled crowd today at
10:50 from the library steps.
Sigma Delta Chi pledges will
go through the initiatory degree
by giving a mock installation
ceremony for student body of
ficers.
All day six “well dressed jour
nalists” will attend classes and
parade around the campus in full
dress with top hats an’ ever’
thing.
All the truth will be told in
the speeches they deliver. No
attempt will be made to hide the
facts.
Will the speeches be funny?
Answer that yourself.
Seniors to Vote
Winner of Albert
Prize on Friday
Westergren, Abramson,
Biggs Nominated
For Award
Whether Algot Westergren, Hugh
Biggs or Sol Abramson will be the
1927 winner of the Joseph H. Al
bert cup will be decided Friday at
a special election in which members
of the senior class will participate.
These three men have been nomin
ated by the University committee
on awards as outstanding among the
members of the class of 1927. Un
der the conditions of the award,
which has been given by Mr. Al
bert every year since 1920, the prize
is for “that member of the senior
class who during his university
career shall have shown the greatest
progress in character, service, and
wholesome influence.”
The polls will be open in Villard
j hall from 11 a. m. to 3 p. m. Friday,
Earl Chiles, president of the senior
class, announced yesterday.
Adelaide Lake, now a reporter on
the Oregonian at Portland, was the
first winner of the Albert prize.
Two years ago it was changed, at
the request of the senior class, from
a money award of $25 to a cup of
approximately that value, which be
comes the permanent possession of
the winner each year. The first win
ner of the cup was Mary Jane Hath
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Incorrect House Lists
Make Grades Lower
Fraternities and sororities should
be very careful in filling out the
lists of their members for use in
figuring organization grade aver
ages, said Glenn Schneider, clerk
in the registrar’s office.
Several times in the past, organ
izations have been from one to five
places lower on the grade list than
they would have been had they
taken proper care and listed their
full membership. Students who
were not reported have often been
among the best in the house and
the number of points in the house
materially affected. With plaoes
often depending upon tenths’ of a
point, a single omission can make
I for a difference of several places
in the relative standings.
The lists, which are the sole de
pendence of the registrar’s office
for knowledge of the membership of
the organizations, should all be re
turned by Friday, May 13.
Wonders of Cairo Museum and
Mosques Told by Miss Burgess
Trip Up Nile in ‘Lotus’ Proves Exciting; Four Days
Spent on Great Assouan Reservoir
(Editor’s note: Following is a
continuation of the travelogue writ
ten by Miss Julia Burgess, professor
of English.)
Of the museum at Cairo no words
can be adequate. The most impres
sive statues with their imperturb
able serenity still upon them after
thousands of years wake the sense
of the sublime. Key tablets, more
recently discovered than the Roset
ta stone show their records in heiro
glyphic, Egyptian script, and Greek.
Daintiest articles of jewelry exhibit
most delicate art. As our leader
said: “There is nothing in modern
jewelry not anticipated* by the an
cient Egyptians, even to lingerie !
clasps.”
The treasures taken from the j
tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen ex
ceed all description. The mummy
cases are marvels of rich beauty in
i
gold and enamel. Alabaster vases
of rare design, golden chariots,
couches supported by strange animal
forms, the king’s golden throne with
inlaid palace scene of king and
queen, are among the most remark
able exhibits. One must curb one’s
desire to linger, for only twenty
five are permitted in the room at
once, and the keeper is soon signal
ling one to go.
The open air mosques at Cairo
would appeal to westerners—great
enclosed courts with cloistral col
onnades, in one of which, Ibn Tou
lur, occurs what is said to be the
first instance of the pointed arch.
By far the most interesting
mosque is El Azhar, the University
of Cairo, where moslems from all
parts of the world resort for in
struction. The attendance is given
as ten thousand. Separate rooms
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Beelar to Get
Official Gavel
This Morning
Biggs to Swear in 17 New
Officers at Students
Filial Assembly
Vod-vil Girls to Give
‘Black Bottom'’ Dance
Hunt to Present New Song
At A. S. U. O. ‘Altar’
THE gavel will be handed over
to Donald Beelar, newly elected
A. S. U. O. president, this morning
at assembly when Hugh Biggs, chief
outgoing official, administers the
oath of office to 17 students.
After being installed Beelar will,
preside over the meeting which will
consist of a varied program of music
and dancing in addition to short
speeches.
Demonstrations of “Black Bot
tom” by members of the Junior
vod-vil chorus, and songs by. the
men’s glee club have been sched
uled as special features.
Hunt Pulls “Berlin”
“I Want to Go Back to Oregon,”
a college song arranged by Bob
Hunt, chairman of the music com
mittee, will be introduced. The
words are:
1 want to go back to Oregon,
To the dear old college town,
Back to the race and McKenzie
views,
I want to go back to Oregon,
To the dear old college town,
I want to go back, I’ve got to go
back,
To Oregon!
Oh! father and mother pay all the
bills
And we have all the fun,
In the friendly rivalry of college
life—Hooray!
And, we have to figure an awful lot
To tell what we have done,
With the coin we blew at Oregon.
A Phi Chi Theta scholarship will
be awarded to a senior girl by Dean
John Straub. This recognition is
'given yearly to the outstanding
member of the organization.
Students will vote on an amend
ment to the by-laws of the consti
tution of the student body which,
if passed, will reduce requirements
for varsity track awards. The pro
posed amendment is:
Amendment Up
“To amend clause II, section I,
article VIII, of the by-laws by sub
stituting the word ‘six’ for the ex
isting word ‘nine’ so that the
amended clause will read: ‘The of
ficial emblem for major sports will
be awarded to any representative of
the varsity track team winning six
points during one season in dual
Pacific coast conference contests,
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Students Enter Work
In Buenos Aires Show
Sixteen architectural designs, all
the work of students of the school
of architecture, complete the exhi
bition of work sent by the Univer
sity of Oregon to the Pan-American
Congress of Architects which is be
ing held in Buenos Aires, July 1
to 10.
All designs are old work, most
being done by students who grad
uated two or three years ago.
Among those who have graduated
but whose work will be shown are
Truman Phillips, David Baird and
Fook Tai Lau. Other pieces wore
sent by students now doing work
in the department.
Dean Ellis F. Lawrence, dean of
the school of architecture, was in
vited to attend the Congress as a
delegate but will be unable to ac
cept the invitation.
Household Arts Tea
To be Given Friday
Tea, which includes Scotch short
bread, cookies, and French novelties,
will be served at an exhibit of sew
ing and house-planning work Fri
day from two until five in the
Household Art3 building.
Dresses and coats which the wom
en in Margaret Daigh’s sewing
classes have made this year will be
on display. Groupings of furniture,
loaned by Wetherbee-Powers, will
be arranged by the class in home
managing under’Mrs. Andrew Fish.
“Everyone interested, parents,
faculty, students, or friends, is in
vited,” said Miss Lilian Tingle,
professor of household arts. There
will be no charges,' not even for the ;
food.
Mile. Holbrook, Premiere Danseuse
Dainty Margaret Holbrook, five feet of fluffiness, who will be the
leading dancer in “Creole Moon,’’ musical comedy to be given tomorrow
and Saturday nights and Saturday afternoon at the Heilig Theatre,
under the direction of the junior class. There may be better dancers
than Margot, but we haven’t seen them—not today, anyway.
Ex-Dean Writes
Of His Work in
Flooded District
E. Kilpatrick Is Director
In Stricken Area
Center
Earl Kilpatrick, former dean of
the extension division and present
regional director of the American
National Red Cross with headquar
ters at St. Louis, is in the heart of
the relief work for the refugees in
the Mississippi river flood regions,
according to a letter received from
him by Dr. George Rebec, dean of
the graduate school.
On May 5, writing from Mem
phis, Tennessee, he stated that an
increase of at least 100,000 refugees
from the floods was expected with
in the next day or two. Food and
clothing were being provided at the
concentration centers, but the $7,
000,000 raised for relief purposes
would not be near enough to carry
the work on to conclusion.
Because of experiences gained
during previous floods and disas
ters in the same region, the Red
Cross was able to always keep a
jump ahead of the actual needs of
Jhe day. While the crest of the high
water is not expected to reach New
Orleans before May IS, the relief
workers are already forming plans
for seeding the land and feeding
the people aftf'r the subsidence of
the waters, he said.
Mr. Kilpatrick first became en
gaged in Red Cross work during the
World war when he aided in organ
izing the Siberian war relief cam
paign in Oregon. When Astoria was
almost destroyed by fire in January,
1923, he took charge of the Red
Cross activities there. Later, he was
given a leave of absence from the
University to help with relief meas
ures following the tornadoes in the
middle west. January 1, 1920, he
resigned from the faculty to accept
his present position us a regional
director for the Red Cross.
iSew and Old Officers
Dine at Alpha Chi House
A dinner was held last night at
the Alpha Chi Omega house for all
the incoming and outgoing student
body officers. Frances Morgan was
hostess and Hugh Biggs, toastmas
ter, for the dinner.
Talks were made by Donald Bee
lar, Lowell Baker, Herbert Socol
ofsky, Sol Abramson, Harold Man
gum, Frances Morgan, and Vena
Gaskell during the course of the
evening.
Hempstead Wins
Over Lone Rival
In Declamation
‘Laws Musi be Stricter,’
Says Northwest
Champion
•rack Hempstead, Oregon’s repre
sentative, won the Northwest ora
torical contest last night, in the
Music building, over Herbert Wun
derlich of the University of Idaho.
“The Tide of Crime” was the sub
ject of Hempstead’s oration. Last
night’s contest ends Oregon’s de
bate and oratory season.
“So extensive has been the fail
ure or refusal of our criminals to
live up to the standard of conduct
deemed binding by the rest of the
community that wo have become un
disputed crime champion of the civ
ilized world, the most lawless nation
on earth,” said Hempstead.
He compared the struggle of the
American people against the tide
of crime existing in our country with
the heroic struggle of Holland to
build a bulwark against the tide
of waves, saying that one moro un
punished felon with a revolver may
open the flood gates for the crime
tide in our crumbling dike of pro
tection.
“State governments stand in need
of reliable police departments, more
vigorous law enforcement must be
instituted, widespread powor of
granting paroles and pardons must
be done away with,” he said in
pointing out ways of controlling the
crime wave. “Inescapable penalty j
for wrong-doing will cause poten- I
tial criminals to reflect, ‘1 want to
do it, but look at the cost. I can’t
win at this dramatic garno.’ ”
America must build a dike of en
lightened citizenship within an or
derly nation, a dike which will bo
our own bulwark against the tide of
crime, he said in conclusion.
.Herbert Wunderlick, Idaho’s ora
tor, in his speech, “The War of
1919,” stated that unless disputes
between countries can be settled the
next war will destroy all life.
“There has ensued from the stupor
which followed the world war a
sullen passivity and horror for war,
but the causes of war have not been
removed. The next will be suicide.
It will last a week, maybe only two
days, but by the end of that time
all life will have ceased to exist,”
he said. Great fleets of aeroplanes,
with poison gas, with disease germs,
fit e-bombs and high-powered pro
jectiles to lay waste structures and
wipe out civilian populations will
make no defense possible.
There are two ways of compelling
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Plane to Drop
VodvilTickets
Today at 10:50
15 Free-Pass Handbills to
Drop in Waiting
Students’ Hands
‘Bid Gloom Goodbye if
You Come,’ Says Writer
‘Unlimber Paint Boxes’ Ad
vice; Rehearsal Today
Tj'OLKS are beginning to realize
that the first production of “Cre
ole Moon,” junior extravaganza, is
juiy a uuy away.
rhey will realize
it a whole lot
more tonight, for
leveral assorted
students are going
to be scared out of
i year’s growth to
lay.
At 10:50 today,
just before the as
sembly, an airplane
will swoop madly
Patricia Hatch across the campus,
scattering sheaves of handbills ad
vertising tomorrow night’s shindig.
A1 Clark, who will be in the 'plane,
has wagered that he can tweak the
Pioneer’s nose, so watch out. Fif
teen handbills will bear numbers
entitling their possessors to free
tickets to the revue.
The vehiclo will be appropriately
festooned. On the bottom of the
wings, in letters largo enough to
be seen a mile provided field glasses
are strong enough, are the fateful,
mysterious, and unintelligible words,
“Creole Moon." David Langmack
will steer the contraption.
Ponies to Attend Assembly
Yesterday, in practice, Dave and
A1 demoralized a troop of R. O. T.
C. infantry by swooping within 20
feet of tho ground.
The pony chorus — Josephine
Price, Patricia Hatch, Helen Lutch
er, Charlotto Carll, Camillo Burton,
Emery Miller, Louise Storla, Louise
Clark, Katherine Clendenning, and
Rose Roberts—will dance at to
day’s assembly, and then watch the
tickets sell.
Meanwhile, while publicity has its
fling, the cast will assemble in the
Heilig theater and stage a dress
rehearsal—the last before the ul
timate production. Makeup boxes
will bo resurrected, and the entire
troupe will go through the entire
production on its best behavior.
“Here Comes de Colonel”
Winston Lake, of the big voice,
will come upon tho stage, and little
Janet Pearce. They will have their
scene, and Billy-Lee will go to the
Mardi Gras in a huff. There she
will meet tho fool and there the
piratos will try to kidnap her. The
lovee scone will appear, with Ruth
Griffith, Ed Cheney, Clarence Lid
burg, struttin’ Madge Normile, Vio
1 et Mills, and the other blackfaces
combining harmony and drollery.
Ho who gets booted will got booted.
Everything will be run off on sched
ule, but peanuts and oskimo pies
may possibly be served to the hun
gry ones.
If you like romance, watch Har
old Socolofsky and Janet Pearce
performs. Fearing that we were
over-enthusiastic, we attended last
night’s rehearsal, and—woll, we
were not over-enthusiastic. Rather
we were afraid that the acting was
a bit too good.
If you like humor—see inebriated
Ernest McKinney, and hear Jo and
Ben in their dialogue.
If you like calm, quiet, solemnity,
and sorrow—stay away.
Manager of Shipping
Firm to Speak Today
W. A. Sexton, assistant general
manager, Columbiu Pacific Shipping
Company, of Portland, will speak
this afternoon at 4 o ’clock, in room
105 Commerce building, on the sub
ject “Shipping and Its Relation to
Foreign Trade.”
Mr. Sexton has been connected
with the Columbia Pacific Shipping
company for a number of years and
in his capacity ns manager of one
of tho largest shipping companies
on the Pacific coast, he will be able
to give first hand information on
steamship operation, and the duties
and privileges of both the foreign
trader and the shipping company
in carrying on foreign trade trans
actions.
Mr. Sexton has been invited to
Eugene as a guest of Pan Xenia,
international foreign trade frater
nity, who will entertain him with
a dinner at the Anchorage, this
evening.