VOLUME XXX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1928 NUMBER 35 Aggies Order Crying Towels To Sop Up Tears Lady Luck Paved Wav To Oregon's Vi dory, According to Beavers By JOE PIGNEY Moan, Aggies, moan! But. wliy not wait until next year and start boating Oregon all over again, for Bob Robinson moil nil his, crying ! towels, :m<l tears will no longer be neeessa rv. I»ig, lugubrious tear drops have reduced the Beav er campus to a great puddle. The s p 1 a sli es have sprayed the whole country side, and the populace is beginning to be- | lieve that 0. A. ('. | is all wet. There • is such a thing as sportsmanship, and Oregon thought the Aggie football team displayed a fine spirit of it last Saturday. The after-effects on the Aggie cam pus, however, have taken an entirely different tinge, which is very damp. The Beavers treasured their three year period of victory. They had played with it for so long that it became a part of them, and now when they are forced to give it up, like a small child, angry, prejudiced | words flow unceasingly. ! The Aggies’ cocky slogan before! the Oregon game lifted them to | heights thought unsurmountable by the Oregon team! Their own rude, rather loud-mouthed, braggadocio acted as a boomerang, and when they were hit in the neck it hurt. Oregon has felt defeat, and can readily sympathize with O. A. C., but Oregon bore its setbacks with out undue complaint. Oregon docs not chide the Aggies now, lint rather 2>itics them. The Beavers, too, show a lack of discretion. The writer of the Oregonian sports gossip is one of the most illustrious and influential sporting editors on the coast. Ilis criticisms are taken ns a standard by the pub lic, and through his power he can nearly make or break a football team. Bet the Aggies beware that they make no unscrupulous remarks, or they may provoke the famous gossip column, and thus lose the support- of the highly desired public enthusiasm and the public pocket hook. All the foregoing comment has been aroused by the following edi torial in the O. A. Daily Barom eter. Tt reminds one of a spoiled child who has been crossed. Here it is: “Oregon finally did it and no one knows better than wo. it was an Oregon day in Corvallis Saturday and with Lady Luck on her side she squirmed through to a victory. We are glad to see that the Oregon rooting section showed much more spirit than last year at Eugene— probably the Oregon yell leaders owe us a vote of thanks for adopt ing such an inspiring homecoming slogan, one that would instill cn-j thusiasm into any student body, no matter how low spirited it had been before. “An Emerald writer has insinu ated that the Oregon State students have been suffering from abnormal ly enlarged cranial circumferences, a malady common to nouveau riches, and it was his hope that the game would restore us to our former and rightful state. Just where the writer got that impression no one here knows. “On top of the accusation comes (Continued on Pnr/c Two) Year’s Drama Opens Tonight At Guild Hall Series of Four Short Plays Introduces on Campus orlv of New Director Twenty-five Students Take Part in Program Dehut of Actors To Include Comedy and Tragedy The Guild Hall players make tbeir full debut on 1 lio eampus 1o nigbt with the presentation of four one-art ]davs with a cast altogether amounting to about 25 actors and actresses. \\ hen the cfTrtain rises promptly at 8:00 o’clock, it will reveal a des olate, lonely scene, with Milton George and Rodney Banks as two fellow-crooks trying to devise some means of gaining entrance to the gates of heaven. There is an at mosphere of tragi-coinedy brought on by their futile plans and the harsh, mocking laughter of the un seen ones. This is Lord Dunsany’s well-kno^vn work, “The Glittering Gate.” “Lonesome-Like'’ Pathetic The second play is full of pathos and realism: Harold Brighouse’s “Lonesome-Like.” The opening scene is the interior of a cottage in Lancashire Village. Old Mrs. Orme rod, played the first night by .Toy Ingalls, is mournfully preparing to go to the poor-house, since, through paralysis of her hands, she is unable to weave, and thus support herself. It is mainly a story of the ulti mate consolation of this poor old woman with no one to love her and :>f tin' young half-witted boy (por trayed by Glenn Potts) who craves the care and consolation of just one human in the world. Katherine Talbott takes the part of Emma Brierley whom the half-wit adores in a childish sort of way, and the Rev. Frank Alleyno is played by Fletcher Udall. Third Play Fantastic Fantasy and weird mysticism might well describe “ Will-o’-the Wisp,” by Boris F. Kalman, which s the third play on the list. There ,s nothing lacking in suspense, and .vlien the curtain falls one may be jerked with a start back to reality. Iraco Gardner, portraying the poet’s ivife, is a cool, haughty creature, md the conflict is between her and lie white-faced girl, Mary Louise Dutton. The other two characters in “Will I’-the-Wisp” are the country worn m, in the personage of Rne Stevens, md Luella Andre as the maid. The utter presents the only comic ole nent in the play. Farce Closes Program Then last, of all comes that rol icking, howling comedy, “The Flat ering Word,” by George Kelly. Frank Jackson gets into more un iclievable, inextricable situations ban he can take care of, all because if the charm of Alice Gorman, the ivife of the minister, Milton George. Edna Assenheimer as Mrs. Zooker, i church worker, and Mary Louise Dutton ns Lena, her daughter, have i great deal to do with the unravel ng of the plot. Plays Begin at 8:00 These studio productions, under lie direction of Mrs. Ottilie Sey aolt, head of the drama depart ment, and the supervision of the; itage craft class, are an important •vent of this term. The plays will dart immediately at 8:00 o’clock n Guild hall in the Administration tuilding. Tickets are 50 cents, and seats may be reserved by phoning 142, or by going to the box office it the entrance to the hall. Law School Football Wonders Fade; Turn Attention to Basketball Team Something lies happened to the law school’s football team. It seems to have completely disappeared. .Less than two weeks ago the law yers challenged all the schools on the campus to a game of football, and Dick Morris, their genial coach, made wild and exuberant boasts about the team that he said he was developing. The challenge received prompt ac ceptance from the school of journal ism, and later from the school of physical education. After that, the inquiring Emerald reporter natural ly expected more high pressure pub licity talk from the barristers. He tried to get in touch with Mr. Mor ris, but it seemed that he was al ways out of town seeing men about horses. After a week of fruitless search, | the reporter decided' that the horse 1 business must be good this time of year, and went down to the law school to see if anyone else down there knew anything about that wonderful football team. Mel Cohn was in the office. When Mel saw the reporter come in, he got up to leave. The reporter stood with liis back to the door, looked Mr. Cohn j straight in the eye, and said in a | calm but penetrating voice, “What ! has become of the law school foot-1 S ball team?” S Mel gulped, smiled sweetly, and lisped, "Oh yes, the football team— to be sure. Say, let me tell you j about the keen handball and basket ball teams we’re getting up. We’ve I Rot-” But the reporter would not be (Continued on l'uge Two) Arduous Labors of Frosli To Build Biggest ‘0’ by Flames and Flames Class of '32 Will Strut Its Stuff With a Great Fire; Vivifying, Vigorous Meeting Held in Villard; Year's Plan Told; Numeral Committee Named “Oil, oil, ivlmt nn ‘O'!” Tint's what tlio alums are going to sav Friday niglit when tliov sop the ro sults of the long labors of the frosli man class. It's going to surpass everything ever seen at an Oregon Homecoming before by “flames and flames,” according to Desmond An derson, chairman of the event. Last night there was ,a frosli meeting—and what a meeting! They came almost on? hundred per cent strong, they filled the Villard as sembly hall, they listened with at tentive pars to their president, Brian Mintnangh, and Dezzy Anderson they applauded. They are vivified with ! vim, vigor, verve, and vitality, those; members of the class of '.‘ill. “This is tiie climax,” Mimnangh told his fellow-students, and now is the time to put everything you’ve got into this and show what you’re worth. The committees have been working for over three weeks, but now is the time for true action. “Guards, guards, and more guards is the cry now. We’re likely to have a real fight on our hands, keep ing anyone from burning the ‘O’ be fore Friday night. 1 ’in depending on you to put over this fire. Toil can if you wi.ll” Loud applause followed'. Tlio class was getting :ill “hepped up.” Anderson ascended to the stnngo. More npphiuse. II is speech was en c on raging and exhorting, lie spolce of refreshments on the butte Thurs day night for the workers. Still more applause. ‘‘We’ve got a great football team and the prospects of the greatest Homecoming in history. What more do you want.’ We're gonna surpass last year’s ‘O’ by flames and flames AND flames! “Each term wo have a big func tion to put over. Next term will be the class dance, spring term the Fresh (Ilee and the picnic, but THIS term, gang, it's the bonfire. It's our first big show-off and what a bang it's going to be! ” Other business'was carried on at the meeting. IMimnaugh outlined the program for the year and also announced a committee to investi gate the question of fresh numerals for freshman athletes. This com mittee consisted of AI Browne, chair man, and Ramon Neveau and Ken neth Jette. -Men are to be stationed to guard the “O” night and day from now on, and Anderson is asking for volunteers to lend their cars for transportation. Plans Completed For One Large Dance at Igloo Tickets On Sale at Co-op; Men Named for Various Living Organizations Tickets for 1 lie big’“all-campus” Homecoming dunce Saturday night are now one sale. To facilitate pur chase they are being handled at the Co-op and through one man in each fraternity house. Both grads and undergrads will dance at the Igloo to the tunes fur nished bv Billy Sievers’ “Campus Chords.” A reception will be given for the alumni before the dance but plans for it. are not. yet announced. Novel refreshments that will be tasty and appropriate are forecast, by James Ralev, chairman of the re freshment committee. Add to this promise the prospect of a good floor and a snappy feature as guaranteed by Carl Nelson and Jo Ralston, chairmen of the representative com mittees, and the requisites for a good dance are fulfilled. The following men have charge of the ticket sale in the various houses: Phi licit, Tom Stoddard; Beta Theta. Pi, Keith Hall; Delta Tan Delta, Bob MeMath; Alpha Up silon, Phil Overmeyer; Delta. Epsi lon, Charles Silverman; Alpha Tan Omega, Bill Crawford; Sigma Chi, George Mgorad; Sigma Alpha Ep silon, Bill Pendergrast; Bachelor don, Carl Rodgers; Phi Sigma Kap pa, Marcus Wood; Alpha Beta Chi, Henry Neer; Psi Kappa, Bruce Titus; Chi Psi, Hugh Logan; Phi Psi, Bob Johnson; Phi Gamma Delta, Le roy Hall; Sigma Pi Tau, Jack Dow set-t; Sigma Phi Epsilon, Dick Horn; Theta Chi, Wesley Brandhorst; Sig ma Xu, Walter Norblad; Kappa Sig ma, Harold Hatton; Friendly hall. Perry Douglas; Zeta hall, Jack O'Keefe; Omega hall, Howard Peter son; Sherry Ross hall, Henry Dietz; Gamma hall, Harold Hildreth; Sigma hall, Ralph Geycr; Alpha hall, Vaw ter Parker. Local Aviators Talk To Aero Enthusiasts On Campus Tonight Major G. II. Eekorson, chief pilot of the Hobi Airways of this city, and Howard Hall, former army pilot and now member of tho Eugene chapter of the American Legion, will be informal speakers at the meeting of the newly launched Uni versity of Oregon Aero club, this evening at 8:00 o’clock in room 10.j of the Commerce building, it is an nounced. Out of town men who are con nected with aviation will speak to tlie club when it meets again next week. It is planned to have a schedule of talks drawn up for the rest of this term. The subjects of the talks will deal with different phases of ground school work, in cluding meteorology, plane structure and theory of flight, it is planned. As organization of the club is still in its early stages, all students and faculty members interested in aviation in all its phases are in vited to attend the meeting. As large a membership as possible of sincerely interested persons is the aim of the organization. ! China War-time Days Topic of Thursday Meet Mrs. Warner Will Relate Adventures in Orient At Regular Assembly Graphic accounts ot' real adventure in China during the height of war limes, descriptions of Chinese and other oriental art, the importance of | friendly international relations be tween the United States and the Far [East—these are some of the topics to be discussed by Mrs. Murray War ner, curator of the Murray Warner museum of the University of Ore gon, when [Mrs. Murray addresses the student body assembly at the Woman’s building tomorrow morn ing at 11 o’clock on “The Museum and Now It Grew.” Mrs. Warner lived in China from 1904 to 1910, where her husband was engaged in engineering work. She came to llugene then and in 19L’1 donated the oriental museum. Mrs. Warner has been to China five times since she gave the col lection, her last visit being in the spring. The majority of her orien tal curios have been obtained through friends in Pekin. Sensing that her knowledge might some day be of service, she set about to learn of this part of the world, and she has of late years especially concentrated on art. Art Called Language “Art is a universal language, one that is most readily understood by peoples of all races and nations,” she says. “If the people of the Occident can realize that the people of the Orient are capable of great accomplishments in this field, 1 feel sure they will come to have a great er respect for them. This respect will make for mutual friendship, which will benefit all.” Mrs. Warner has had many hair breadth escapes which she will tell about Thursday. She was in Pekin twice when the Chinese troups were between the city and the sea fight ing over the city. Br. Smith to Introduce Mrs. Warner will be introduced by I)r. Warren I). Smith, head of the department of geology. Ho will talk briefly on the Murray Warner essay conests, for which Mrs. War ner has offered prizes totalling $700 this year. This contest is open to all students of the university, and special departments are open to freshmen and to the students of the Far East. Special music with a Far East tang will be a feature of the as sembly. Part of this will be selec tions by students from the Orient, and another part will consist of numbers by members of the univer sity orchestra. Dr. R. C. Clark’s History Wins Praise of Critics “The History of the Willamette Valley in Oregon,” written by Kob ert Carlton Clark, professor of his tory, was published in book form las! year. The review of this book appeared in the October issue of the American Historical Review. Mr. Clark’s works have received favor able comment from many critics. Heavy Sales Characterize Book Drive Two Days I.ill To Secure I 9 0 0 Subscriptions Needed for Oregatia Booths Arc Planned For Annual Campaign ‘Verdict Is Up To Students Says Ilubbs, Manage,!* Surprisingly heavy advance snips that characterized Tuesday's share of a three-day Oregnna drive—flip Pod" Sten ,mosr crucial per iod in all tho } year book’s his tory— havo sent hopes of tho drive vommittoe, bonded by Honald Hubbs, cautiously sky ward and lod to a doomed coneontra tion of tin' sales group on tho two remaining days of i the endeavor to got 1,900 subscrip tions, w i t h o u t winch flu' Oregana can bo mi more. This w.is the report of ITubbs, manager of the publication, follow ing a meeting of the drive commit tee at Johnson ha.ll Into yesterday afternoon when the outcome of the first day was given careful analy sis—and found satisfactory. Plans were made to establish booths on the campus today where students may obtain their subscrip tions under one of the three plans offered, either by paying the five dollars in lump sum, by paying $2 down with the balance to come on delivery of the book, or by having $2.50 put on winter term fees and the second $2.50 on spring term fees. “The verdict is in the hand of the students now,” was 11 abbs’ terse comment when asked how the situation actually looked. “Things look good the committee is going at it with sweaty determination but the fate of the Oregana will be decided entirely by student interest. “Tonight we’ll have accurate sales figures—and we’ll know something more definite then,” he added. The Oregana is directly under the control of the associated students of the University of Oregon and the publications committee. After all subscriptions have been tabulated the results will be turned over to them and they will have final au thority to continue or discontinue the publication, explained llubbs. “Their decision will rest entirely with the student response to the drive,” he said. Joshua Alexander will direct the sales on the campus and has worked out a thorough plan for selling from booths, which will be located at convenient and prominent posts on the campus, beginning early this morning. Three History Men Will Attend Meeting At Pomona, Christmas Three history instructors have been chosen to attend the confer ence of the Pacific Coast branch of the American Historical associa tion to be held during the Christ mas holidays at Pomona, California. George Verne Blue, history in structor, will present a paper on the Voyage of Morfas, who visited the Pacific coast in 1K42 as a rep resentative of the French govern ment. The paper is based upon original research which he did while in Paris for two years of study. Dan E. Clark, professor of his tory, and Andrew .Fish, instructor in history, will attend as reprosenta lives of the University of Oregon history department. Jazz Orchestra Plays While Sophs Pay Dues Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash., Nov. 19.—(P. I. P.)—The members of the sophomore class paid their dues in a very unique way recently. Thursday,, every sopho more came to student body meet ing with a dollar, the class dues. At a given signal each one filed up to the front of the chapel and dropped his dollar in a big iron kettle on which were the inscrip tions, “Keep the Pot Boiling,” and “No Iron Shackles Allowed.” The orchestra during this time played “Because My Baby Don’t, Mean Maybe Now.” .Money dropped at the rate of a dollar a second and in a minute and a half the most successful attempt of collecting class dues came to an end. Kappa Pooch Cots Into Print Again Topsy Gets Athletic Urge Boosted for Olympics What! Another dog stnrv? Ye I gods a ml little fish hooks! Rut honest. Topsy hasn't broken into ■ big news for so long, that Kathor I ine olid Milt ore wondering if she's lost "it.” .Since Milt isn’t business manager anymore, poor Topsy has been sadly neglected over round the shark. But to the story if Topsy, that black, fluffy, bit of dog femininity, | continues to ‘‘hang” around the women \s gymnasium much more, and attend the outdoor gym classes, all the teachers declare they will have j to present her with :t sweater with an “()” on it. The dog is more regular about attending classes and avoiding cuts than the most con scientious gym major. Hockey, speodball, lacrosse, take your pick; in all these and more Topsy excels. She runs ex cellent interference too, for more than once has a player been known to bite the sawdust of the field, on account of Topsy’s stepping into I he line of act ion. If Topsy keeps in training and doesn’t get collegiate, smoke and keep late hours, in about four years from now, Bill Hayward will be in cluding her in the Olympic team. Hagen, Farrell Lose Golf Match To Moeaiul Do Ip Young Oregon Pair Take Exhibition Game From Popular Professionals Two Oregon students -Ron Moe, sophomore, and Vincent Help, fresh man defeated two of the world’s greatest golfers — Walter Hagen, British open champion, and Johnny Farrell, American open champion'— in a best ball match at the Eugene Country club, yesterday afternoon. They won three and one on the seventeenth green. Don Moe chipped a shot off the green for a birdie two on the seven teenth. That shot won the match. “1 didn’t expect the ball to sink, but it did. I felt mighty good,” he said. w Moe is the present Oregon state amateur champion. He defeated Help for the title last spring. Don was the modaffsl at the western amateur tournament and also fin ished high in the national amateur this summer. Help was a member of a party of Oregon players that invaded the east this year. Farrell was high man for the .$5,000 purse in Portland last week end, all hough he finished second to Dr. O. I'’. Willing, of the Waverly club. He and Hagen are making a. lour of the United States, playing all the principal golfers. They will go south to California, from here. Hagen and Farrell have only been beaten twice in their tour, and this, their second defeat, the only time they have lost to amateurs. A gal 1 lory of about 400 people saw the match. If was the best, golf ever played on the local course, better than the Don Mop, Bobby Oruik sliank, K. O. Tmmell, Tommy Armour match last year. Moo and Cruik shank won that match 5-4. Hagen and Farrell said they liked the Eu geno course very much. The scores turned in were: Hagen, 75; Far roll, 74; Help, 7.'!; and Moe, 70. Don shot brilliant golf to get i four strokes under the American open champion. [Homecoming Begins With I Bally Friday Great ‘O' To Hum on Hutte As Students Serpentine Down W illamette Street Pep Assembly at Igloo | To Hear Alumni Talks Bristow Cup To He Given To House With Best Sign A rally parade wliirli is intended to make tin- grads fool like students njrnin. nnd which is inenrnnrntimr Roy Herndon ,tho band, tin' Or i«lor of the and tlie vrll staff, will wind through the streets Friday night from the campus to the foot of Willametle street just ns the big “O” on Skin ner’s lmtte is touched off. All arrange ments for t he pa ratio ami the rally to follow it have boon lnnflo by tlio rally committee working un der tlio direction of Hill biddy, an 1 flic affair should bo one of the best and biggest. Fi reworks and a quantity of bombs have been ordered and will be on band to amuse those who don’t get a fill of the more earthly attractions. “Squeak” Parks will be on hand with his yell staff to help the ser pentining students and alums get hoarse. Since city authorities are not allowing the noise parade this year, all efforts are being directed toward the rally parade and the rally immediately after the bonfire. The Order of the “O” will head the parade, together with the yell king and the band. After the par ade and the rally, the serpentine will be marched up to the Igloo, where they will hear several promi nent alumni' deliver pep talks and then will get together on a few yells. The same evening the homecoming judges will make the round of the organizations to decide the one to which the W. Bristow cup will be awarded. The lighting period for signs will be between the hours of ti:dO and 7:BO. The cost limit of the signs is fifteen dollars, and the budgets must lie turned in to Ken ton llamaker, feature chairman by tonight. The signs are to be judged on originality, effectiveness, and sig nificance, and should feature for significance friendship and the homecoming slogan, “Heine to Honor Oregon.” The judges are: W. P. Bristow, donor of the cup and pro prietor of Bristow’s, dowel won jewelry store; Donald M. l a b, assis land professor of economics; John A. Wnlquist, assistant professor of ar chitecture; Hugh 11. Biggs, acting dean of men; and Nowlniid B. Zone, associate professor of design. The Bristow cup is on display in the Co-op window. Spanish Clubs To Give Play at Joint Meeting Sigma Delta Pi, Spanish honor ary, and Ln Corrida do Todos dub, composed of students studying Span ish, will have a joint meeting at 7:45 tonight at the Westminster house. A play, “La Casa do Bona Paz,” will be given during the evening. -All students interested in Spanish are invited by Jean Tompkins, pres ident of Sigma Delta Pi, and Wayne Watch, president of La Corrida do Todos. Good Old Indian War Game Revived In Miss llodge's Lacrosse Class The Indian tribes of the Rood old (lays when men were warriors and scalped their enemies would feel quite at home were they to visit the lacrosse class under the guid ance of Miss Louise Hodges, any morning the weather conditions are favorable -not of course that they would witness any bloody war party, but rather that they wquld ! recall with pleasure their own weak ness for the game. The modern version of lacrosse is greatly modified from the time when the Indian warriors tossed the ball savagely back and forth and the j medicine men acted as umpires. As i the white settlers became acquaint ed with lacrosse they became more and more enthused, especially the Canadians, until today it is the acknowledged baseball game of Canada. It is played with a very hard rub ber ball and an implement known as a “erosse,” a light hickory stick with an oval triangle on the end covered with rawhide. The object is to send the ball by means of the erosse through the enemy’s goal posts as many times as possible dur ing the two periods of play. The game derives its name from the striked resemblance of the erosse to a bishop’s crozicr. There are 12 players to a side. Only a few colleges have facili ties for really playing lacrosse. Ore gon has had them for a year. La crosse is a wholesome and fascinat ing game still capable of giving a big thrill even though the good old days have gone and men are not warriors but heroes on the football field.