Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1928)
VOLUME XXIX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1928 *• ■ I N NUMBER 107 Senior Leap Opens at 7:30 This Evening Campa Shpppe Will See Revenge of Co-eds Over Romeos Service to be Outdone in * Great Yukon Classic At Hendricks Hall "Order is Heaven’s First Law,” some Pope or other has said, and though the “Co-ed’s Revenge,” open ing Senior Leap Week dance at the Cainpa Shoppe tonight, may not ex actly be the orthodox idea of heaven, it’s going to have every bit of the order that went with the April Frolic. The first thing in order will be campus clothes; the second thing in law is that no senior -woman (and 4 certainly not me) can make any dates before or after that time. They cither go then or go without thence forth. Ft>r Alice Douglas, chairman, has spoken. And it’s rioMate, arid re admission. In charge of the Co-ed’s Revenge are Lucile Brown, refreshments; Frances Hare, music, and Nancy Peterson, features. And what is promised is a-plenty. • The second altitude of the Senior Leap is the much heralded Cat Astrophe which will be held from 4 to 6 for all the seniors of the cam pus tomorrow afternoon at the Alpha Delta Pi house. Campus clothes and r.c date, same as the “Revenge.” Six features have been secured, in cluding the soft shoe dance move ment now on foot by Bobby Warner, famous yowl leader. Admission will be very free, and any Kitty caught slighting a visiting Thomas will very promptly be deprived of her sprig of catnip. For further details see all the Cat-Astrophe publicity of the last nine daj’s. Each attending cat « will need every on*e of his traditional nine lives to come out of the check ered-tablecloth- catip - and - sandwich atmosphere. And any senior who solemnly affirms that he didn’t have a good time therein will be duly ac corded an extra saucer of milk. Friday .night, the third stage of the Leap is attained in the clammy 'atmosphere of the Hendricks Hail Bar Room Bust. Downstairs some where the bar has been constructed, and the management will not bo responsible for getting all inaimate bodies out of the way. And a cos tume affair it is—but the seniors always have a preference for Dead Eye Dick dresses, and the short skirts of Bowery and cigarette las sies. Any and all originality will be appreciated. Patrons and patron esses are Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Zaire, Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Brown, and Dr. and. Mrs. G. A. Ross (the fatter is acting dean of women during Mrs. Esterly’s absence). Iris Saunders, despite the fact that women are ar ranging the thing, has faithfully kept all the features a secret. The Senior Picnic will be hold at Swimmer’s Delight Saturday after & roon and busses will leave from Vil lard hall at 4:30, 5:00 and 5:30. After that, the committee will not be responsible. If any of the Thomases’ nine lives are left after the Cat-Astrophe, they will probably be finished during the evening, as the Paul Joneses get under way. —And here is a last reminder: Don’t foi get to bring 35 cents for bus fare. Do that, and the eats will be free. Oregon Knights Order Freshmen to Report Sixteen freshmen will face reprisal for non-traditional acts this morning at 10:45 sharp in room 3 of the Ad ministration building. • Paul Hunt, president of the Oregon Knights, requests the following men to appear: Norman Jesse, Max Rubenstein, Charles Yoshi, Myron Griffin, Or ville Lindstrom, Tom Johns, Sidney Hill, Tom Balentine, H. Brown, H. } Makin, Art Rolander, Tunnie Lee, M. Sheets, R. McCasland, E. King, ,and Fred Felter. Pendleton High Beats Enterprise in Debate In the eastern Oregon high school debating preliminaries held April 13, Pendleton Won from Enterprise, the decision eliminating all schools but Pendleton and The Dalles. A debate between these two is sched uled for April 27. After the final debate in eastern Oregon the winners will meet the champions of the finals in western Oregon to decide the state title. Examination Week Will be Extended to Include Five Days Examination week, which hereto fore has consisted of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of the last week of each term, lias been extended by one da/, and here after will include Monday as well, it was decided at. the University of Oregon faculty meeting yesterday afternoon. A too heavy schedule existing under the old system for many stu dents and a feeling that the Monday before examinations was of little scholastic value are the reasons for the change, according to Earl M. Pallett, University registrar. The new system will be in effect for spring term examinations. The faculty also decided that all students who must take English A, and pay the compulsory $10 feet, will be given an hour’s ’it for the course. . ***» C Honoraries tin By Drastic Move Council Voids Fourteen Campus Groups \ The Student Council met yester day and cleaned house. With one stroke it swept fourteen honorary fraternities from the campus. The drastic action came as a re sult of the adoption of the report submitted by a committee of three, composed of Wendall Gray, chair man, Constance Roth and Frances Cherry. The committee thoroughly investigated the honoraries of the campus. The following were abolished: German Club, Le Foyer Franeais, El Cireulo Castellano, Palette Club, Sculpture Club, Normal Arts Club, Agora, Tre Nu, Hammer and Cof fin, Gra-Kos, Coos County Club, Oregon Normal Club, California Club, Delta Theta Phi. Most of them are inactive as to actual work and some are dissolved. Phi Epsilon Kappa, men’s physical education honorary, and Gamma Al pha Chi have not yet presented pe titions to the council for recogni’ tion on the campus. The council members have decreed that any honorary coming on the campus should petition the student /body for recognition, before they will be allowed on the campus. There was also a discussion con cerning April Frolic and the mCn’s smoker. Beelar stated that they would always be a source of con stant trouble and a burden to the student body. Nothing definite was determined. Frances Plimpton, cKairmaSi of the April Frolic, stated that the event was originally the one occa sion for women of the campus to get together. “It is too good to abolish,” she said. George Stadelman, chairman of the smoker, said: “The logical way out of it is to abolish the smoker. It seems to me that men could bo .much better occupied elsewhere. About 330 men attended the men’s affair.” Phi Belts, Kappa*Sigs Win First Round Play Regardless of overliaiiging clouds and spurts of rain and hail two matches of the donut, tennis tour ney were played yesterday. Phi Delta Theta, upheld by Fletcher and Burdick, defeated Sigma Phi Ep silon, who relied on Syring and Fol ey. The score was &1. 6-4. Gab riel and Ilioberg. Kappa Sigma hopes, won from Stanley and Draper, Theta Chi, 6-4, 7-5. Should rain descend as it has been descending, matchhs will drop back each day the downpour con tinues. The schedule for today fol lows: Betas vs Phi Psi—2 o’clock; Sigma Nu vs A. B. C.—2 o’clock; S. A. E. vs Sigma Chi—2 o’clock; Chi Psi vs Fiji—3 o’clock; Delts vs Alpha Upsilon—3 o ’clock. Sigma Delta Pi To Hold Initiation Saturday Sigma Delta Pi, national Spanish honorary, will hold its friitiati.cn Saturday, April 21, at the Wo man’s building. It will begin at 5 .o’clock and be followed at six by a banquet at the Anchorage. At the banquet election of officers will be held and J. R. Wadsworth, hon orary member, will give a talk on the Floating University. Those who will be initiated are Irene Bowlsby, Margaret Knapp, Elmer Erickson, Billie Martland, Lyle Yeazie, Ethel Helliwell and nelen Crane. Council Cuts Dream Follies Ticket Price Action Arouses Ire of Revue Committee Members Statement Protests that a Change Is Now Impossible The Dream Pollies audience April 27, SfS, will pay $1 instead of $1.50 for the best seats in the house, the Student Council decided yeste’rday. j -;ee cut has seriously arous 'mCe of the Junior ad a statement has bet-.. testing- the coun cil’s action, and implying that there wag some doubt regarding the au thority of the council to make the cut. The Dream Pollies committee feels that the council’s action has come too late to permit any change to be made. ' Donald Beelar, president of the student body, iit discussing the re ductiSn of the top price and the graduation of other seat prices in accordance, said: “The Vod-Vil is for entertain ment, not profit. High prices de tract from the spirit of Junior week end.” Prices for the Dream Pollie% should not be set at a rate which will prevent any student from at tending, the council held in its dis cussion. The effect of the ad vanced rates this year, said the council members, would not only tend to decrease student interest and enthusiasm in the production, but would' set a high mark which succeeding junior classes would at tempt to meet and surpass. The Junior Revue committee, on the other side of the fence, issued the following statement: Statement of the Junior Revue com mittee: The Student Council has never set a limit or taken any action con cerning a Junior Week-end func tion. A week ago prices for the Dream Pollies were announced. Yes terday, only a week before the per formance, the Council decides that j prices must be reduced. The plans have all been formulated and the budget set accordingly. Expenses of the show have been determined by the income based on the present price of seats. Any reduction means a deficit with no provisions ar ranged to meet this. The theater has been leased, scen ery and costumes purchased, inmsic hired, and advertising plans /car ried out. The show must go on at the present rates. Already the Sat urday night performance has been sold out to students. Arrangements have been made by the Saturday afternoon matinee whore those who cannot pay the evening prices can see the entire performance for 75, 50 or 35 eents. , Here are the facts and conditions as they are. To ask the Junior Re vue committee to reduce prices at this late hour is unjust and impos sible. Billy O’Bryant, chairman. Joe Roberts, business manager. Afel Cohn, assistant chairman of the Directorate in charge of Junior night that a statement of the Ui rectorate’s stand in the matter would probably be issued today. Appropriations Made For Oregon River Work . (By United Press) WASHINGTON, April 17.—Allot ment for improvement and mainten ance of river and harbor work throughout the country were an nounced today by Secretary of War Davis. The allotments are made under the war department appro priation of .March 23, 1928. They include: Crescent City harbor, California, $250,000. Coos Bay, Oregon, $280,000. Umpqua river, Oregon, $375,000. Columbia and Willamette rivers below Vancouver, Wash., and Port land, Oregon, $350,000. , Willamette river above Portland and Yamhill river, Oregon, $35,000. Grays Harbor and bar entrance, Washington, $225,000. Olympia harbor,' Wash., $30,000. Puget Sound and tributary waters, Washington, $36,000. Survey of northern and north western lakes, $147,000, Students Reluctant To Part With Coins; End of Period Nears “The students are paying their fees more reluctantly this term than ever before,” says L. M. Johnson, comptroller, “and the large number who are evidently waiting until Sat urday morning -are going to find themselves fneed with the prospect cf a late payment, fee, since only a limited number can be taken care of in a given time.” To be on the safe side every stu dent who has not yet paid his fees is urged to make every effort to do so as soon as possible. Only two and a half days remain. Aviator Breaks. i Ten Year Record David Langmack, Pilot, Crashes Plane After ten years of flying without an accident, David Langmack, pilot at the Eugene Airport, crashed in his plane near the fairgrounds last night at 7 o ’clock. Reginald Smith, a junior in pre-medics from Portland, who was completing his eighth les son under Langmack, is in the Eu gene hospital with a fractured skull, but reported as having a chance for recovery. Langmack was unhurt. Smith was taking a flyftig lesson end was operating the controls. As I ho plane neared the field at 500 feet elevation, he requested Lang mack to make the^landing. A second after Langmack took charge of the ship the engine stopped. Seeing no chance of making the main field on a glide, the local pilot nosed his plane toward a small field below him. When 100 feet above the ground, the plane turned on its side and fell, striking the ground a mass of wreckage. The plane used by Langmack was a slow, sluggish “Jenny,” the type described by Lindbergh as being the most difficult of all ships to fly. A brisk northeast wind was blamed by Langmack to have not only pre vented his glide to the field but to have sent the awkrv.ard “Jenny” into a nose-dive a hundred feet above the ground. Smith would probably have been uninjured had his safety belt not been carried away by the impact. The plane was be ing used by . Langmack while his Air King was in the hangar being overhauled. Up until last Friday when he crashed his landing gear at Hills boro on his Air King, Dave Lang mack had never had an accident. He has owned four planes and flown dozens of others over many thou sand miles in all kinds of weather. In all his flying he has never ..carried a parachute, considering aviation out of the dangerous stage. In com parison to Langmack’s record we might cite the planes lost by Lind bergh while lie was in the commer cial flying game. Tex Rankin, well known aviator here in the North west, has spent several years’ less time in the air than Langmack, and is said to have cracked a half-dozen planes. As aviators go, Langmack has an enviable record. Langmack is perhaps the only aviator in the state of Oregon who learned to fly alone.- While attend ing the Lebanon high school, lie built his first plane on which he spent three and a half years of his spare time. For three months he taxied this plane about a pasture among sheep and cows, learning the principles of the tako-off. His mechanical genius, that has kept his motors running with hardly a stop in ten years, was first developed cn his father’s tractor which he ran during the harvest seasons.. Dave Langmack built his second plane at the O. S. C. engineering school and flew it for three years without an accident, doing stunt and exhibition flying over the Northwest with his brother, Charlie, who is also a pilot. He has the reputation of being a cautious and safe flyer and has been highly commended by prominent aviation men here on the ccast. Five Girls Pledged To Botany Honorary Five girls were pledged to Samara, honorary botany and bacteriology society, yesterday afternoon. They are: Clita Walden, senior in zoology; Jeanette B. Edge, senior in botany; Mildred Pike, junior in art; Elsie Allen, senior in education; and Jes sie Allen, sophomore in education. A tea w-as held for the members in room 3 at JJeady hall yesterday aft ernoon at 5 o’clock. Officers of the group are Marian Paddock, Presi dent, and Frances Schroeder, secre tary-treasurer. Students Plan Welcome For Debate Trio Round World Oregon Men To Arrive in Eugene Friday Program at Station Will Include Official Greet ing Speeches Plans am bring made for the cele bration of the homecoming of the three University of Oregon world tour debaters, Jack Hempstead, Avery Thompson, and Benoit. Me Croskey. They will arrive in Eu gene on the Shasta from California Friday evening at 6:35 o’clock, once more standing on the aarao spot where they boarded the train six months ago when they started out on their epoch-making round-the world tour, the first collegiate team ever to attempt a like trip. All University student^ are urged to bo at the train to greet the re turners. It is expected that the University band will leave the Phi Sigma Kappa corner at Thirteenth and Alder at 5:55 o’clock p. m., "and will march down to the station. Those wishing to follow it down may do so. “Doc,” Robnett and Frances Cherry, who lyrve charge of the ar rangements for the homecoming, urge that the students lend as much co-operation as possible in the event, which will express a welcoming bit of old Oregon spirit. Early Dinners Requested Houses are asked to serve Friday dinners early, if possible, so that students can leave for the train at the appointed time. Friday noon all the houses will be called on the tele phone reminding them of the evening event and urging a large attendance. Further plans for the event will bo made known tomorrow. The de baters are coming from Denver, where their last debate was held this week. Program at Station At the station a short program will be held, with Donald Beelar, student president, acting as master of cere monies. Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall is slated to give a few words of wel come to the debaters. The program will include a talk by each of the debaters. Fijis Win from Betas; Kappa Sigs Tie A. E. Playing two overtime periods did not decide which team wras the bet ter when Kappa Sigma and Sigma Alpha Epsilon met in a water polo tilt in the men’s gymnasium Tues day night. At the end of the play time the score stood 2 all and con tinued to be such at the end of the extra periods so the boys drug them selves out of the tank and called it a tie. The Fijis had little trouble in winning their tilt from the Betas and splashed themselves through the tank to a 5 to 0 victory. Thursday night Phi Delta Theta if. scheduled for a game with the Independent team. A make-up game between Phi Sigma Kappa and Delta Tau Delta may also be played the same evening. The Delt-Phi Psi game is postponed until next week. Tomlinson to Speak at Banquet Tonight The law students of the Univer sity are giving a dinner tonight at the Osburn hotel. Judge 11. M. Tomlinson will speak on “Reminis censes of Experiences on the Legal Side of City Government.” For sev eral years prior to his appointment on the Municipal Court, Judge Tom linson acted as counsel for the city of Portland, and he has had intimate acquaintance with the legal phases of city administration. Judge Tom linson has a son now attending the University who is a major in pre law. Sigma Xi’s Will Meet In Portland April 27 Oregon Sigma Xi’s yesterday held a meeting at the University of Ore gon Medical School at Portland on Tuesday, April 17, Dr. W. C. Boyn ton, secretary of the organization announces. Members of the Medi cal school staff will read papers on recent researches that they have made. Notorious Gang Lord Fast Jury Decision BENTON, 111., April 18—UP— Defeated in every appeal afforded under the laws of Illinois, Charley Birger, notorious gang lord, will hang tomorrow for the murder*of Mayor Joe Adams of West City. Birger was convicted of plotting the murder of Adams—allegedly friendly with rival gang leaders— and was accused of paying two of his satelites $50 a shot to put Adams out of the way. He blamed his fate on enmity of former members of his gang, however, and successful!^' carried his appeal twice to the supreme court of Ulinios, once to the state board of pardons and finally into a sanity hearing. Collapse of the final appeal here yesterday—when a jury- found him sane in twelve minutes—was accompanied by one of the wildest court scenes in the history of Franklin county. “Let ’s go out and have a smoke,” Charles H. Miller at one point in Birge shouted defiantly to Judge the proceedings, throughout which he maintained a running tirade of profanity. Eugene Soloists To Give Recital A. Hicks and R. Adam are Prominent in Music A music recital featuring Arthur Hicks, pianist, and Richard Adam, tenor soloist, will be given in the music, building, Wednesday, April 25. This is one of a number of such musical programs being given by the school of music. Mr. Hicks studied with George Hopkins of the school of music fac ulty for two seasons before lie went east in 1924, and gavo a recital hero that summer. Then he studied in Baltimore, Maryland, at the Pea body Conservatory of music, under the Russian pianist, Sklarewski. Mr. Hicks took a teacher’s certifi cate there, and then on his return to the University two years ago, ho continued his study with Mr. Hop kins. The first group of his program will be chosen from Mozart, the second from Chopin, and the third gioup will bo miscellaneous selec tions. Mr. Hicks is a University in structor. Richard Adam is the tenor solo ist of the Men’s Glee Club, a mem ber of *Phi Mu Alpha, and a student of Eugene Carr, instructor in voice at the University school of music. Mr. Adam plans to go to New York next year to continue his study of voice. Ho has been the soloist at the Eugeno Methodist church for the past two years. His first num bei will bo “Ah, Moon of My* De light” from “The Persian Garden Suite,” by Liza Lehmann, a popular tenor solo that has been* adapted for the violin and cello. Mr. Adam will also sing a group of Bayou songs by Lilly Strickland, in Fremlh-Canadian dialect. 1 One ijs about a Itoso Mario, another is a serenade and the third is a song of exultation to morning. Mr. Adam will be accompanied by Aurora Tot ter Underwood. Hangs F. Hurley Is Short Story PrizeWinner ‘The Log-Line’ first in Edison Marshall Annual Contest Constance Bordwell Given Honorable Mention With ‘Salt’ Florence Hurley 1ms been award ed the first prize of $o0 in the an nual Edison Marshall short story contest for her story of the sea, “Log-line.” Constance Bordwell received honorable mention for her story, which also has the flavor of the sea, called “Salt.” For eleven years this contest has been- fostered by Edison Marshall, an outstanding author himself, and Professor W. F. 0. Timelier, who is well known as a writer of sport stories for the Blue Book magazine. The decision of the judges was unanimous in respect to Miss Hur ley’s story, awarding it three first places, while “Salt” received two seconds and a third. The judges were Mrs. George Rebeck of Eu gene, Edison Parson of Portland, and Howard J. Perry of Portland. Twenty-eight manuscripts wero submitted and all were considered by the judges to bo of very high character. Mrs. Rebeck who was a judge in one of the previous con tests, said she was convinced that this year’s stories wero much su perior to the others she had judged. Perry Praises Story “Log-line,”* the prize-winner, was considered by all the judges to bo by far the best of the group and a remarkable story. Mr. Perry, a writer himself, says of “"Log-line” “The quality of the writing and the masterly technique in many in stances caused me to sit up and wonder if it wero possiblo that a college student produced such work.” Both “Salt” and “Log-line” are stories of the sea, the latter show ing strongly the influence of Con rad. “Salt” is a story of the wator front and harbor. Miss Hurley whose home is in Enterprise, Oregon, is a senior in journalism. She has boon in Pro fessor Thacher’s classes of short story writing and authorship for threo years. Miss Bordwell is a sophomoro from Portland and majors in English. Sho is now in tlio beginning short story writing class. Both are members of “Pot and Quill.” Edison Marshall, for whom the contest is named, was a member of the first short story writing class taught by Professor Timelier in the University of Oregon, and botli men wero instrumental iu founding “Tab ard Inn,” local chapter of Sigma Upsilon, men’s national honorary writer’s fraternity. Edison Marshall had already sold liis first story when lie was in school here, and since then has boon unusually successful at a short story writer and novelist. He is ono of the winners of the O’Henry memorial prize. Last year lie moved from Med (Continued on page two) Contrasting Delicacy And Vigor Win Favor of Audience at Recital By NAOMI M. GRANT A recital, which was pleasing in the individual merit of the soloists, was that of Edyth Hopkins, mezzo soprano, and Winston Lake, bass, given last evening under the aus pices of the school of music. A distinctive feature of the sing ing of Mrs. Hopkins was the finesse of her dramatic interpretation. “Caro Mio Ben,” her opening num ber, was sung in a tender manner, in which the singer achieved a mel low quality of tone. In the more agitated mood of the “Vissi D’arte, Vissi D’amore” from “Tosco,” tonal quality was somewhat sacrificed to the rendering of good dramatic cli maxes and effective contrast. In her second group of songs, Mrs. Hopkins exhibited versatility of in terpretation. “Guto Nacht,” with its fervent middle passage, contrast ed well in the sweetness of its finale with the triumphant ecstacy of “Hr 1st Gekoinmen.” This number with its majestic trend was followed by Delibes “Bon Jour Suzon,” which won the approval of the audience by its jaunty French gaiety, tempered by a certain demure vivacity. The clarity of the final “Bon Jour” was one of a number of effective end ings bofh from a dramatic and tonal standpoint. Two distinct moods were noticeable in the last number of the group, “Onvro Tes Jeux BJeus,” one of adoration and one of pleading. Mr. Lake’s fine l>ass voice is ono which, in view of his limited train ing, gives promise of great future possibilities. “The Foggy Dew” was sung with a simplicity of man ner in keeping with the styles of the piece, and clear enunciation added to its narrative charm. In the “Asm,” Mr. Lake missed some of the interpretative opportunities and the words of this number and in the faster passages of the horn song were blurred . by indistinct phrasing. “The Horn Song” showed the lower registers of tho singer’s voice to advantage. To the vim and bravado of the crisply phrased “Fuzzy-Wuzzy ” the audience res ponded enthusiastically. Mr. Lake’s encore was a negro melody. Tho wistful lilt of “Just Been Wondering,” the second number of Mrs. llopkin’s final group, and the climax of “If Flowers Could Speak” captivated the audience into demand foi an encore. The group was dis tinguished by a delicacy of tone and effect. Mr. Hopkins of the music faculty and Miss Barbara Edmunds were accompanists to the soloists and added to the success of their num bers.