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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1929)
Launch Move To Save Time To Register Method Recommended to Faculty Would End Getting of Signatures Proposal to Simplify System now Used Here Revision of Rules Sought For Dropping Courses Now registration procedure, tond ijig to simplify and shorten the process and eliminate the “red i •'I”, is being considered by the university faculty and will lie voted on at the next meeting of Hint j group, Wednesday, I March (i. K e i o m niendn I tinns made by the personnel council m. and personal re 3 search bureau in ti ;clude e h a n a e s which would bo made spring term Earl Pallett ,'""1 11 0 x t fall term. Should the measures pass, all signing of cards for individual courses would be abolished spring term except ffir two exceptions: 1. Graduate stu dents; 2. Students registering in courses divided into tt^o or more sections. Change Held Tip On account of the registration material already printed the ^diole ot tjee recommended changes .could ’.to! be made spring term, but should they be voted upon favorably the procedure would be greately expe dited. The plan resembles closely the one advanced by the Emerald last term when it. 'became evident that too much time was wasted in waiting in line to call on each in dividual professor to get his signa ture and spending additional min utes at the Igloo in filing the cards. Other recommendations made by the council for spring term regis tration include increased facilities for distributing registration mater ial and checking at the Igloo, a messenger service to inform advis ers when sections are full, and a late registration fee changed to $1 for the first flay and a dollar for each day thereafter until a total of $5 is reached. But three .steps would be required to register under the new system, (Continued on Page Two) Chi Omega Sorority Offers Annual Prize $25 to Be Given to Woman Majoring in Sociology A prize of $2;" is offered by Chi Omega sorority to the woman in ttie school of sociology who shows, by her scholarship record, her person ality, and her personal attainments, f to merit it. The winner, who will be selected by the faculty of the school of sociology, will be an nounced at Commencement in June. The award is made annually by each chapter of Chi Omega in the United States. This is the first time in several years that the prize has been offered on this campus. Dean Philip A. Parsons, John H. Mueller, and Robert Down of the faculty of the school of sociology will choose the winner. Steven Gilman W'ill Speak Here Thursday ! Steve Gilman of flip Univer sity of Wisconsin, and nationally known to financial and trade circles, is scheduled to speak at the regular student body assem bly next Thursday. Gilman is known as the “Grand old man of Wisconsin,” and is compared to David Starr Jordan of Stanford, and Dean Straub of Oregon, stated David II. Faville, dean of the school of business administration, in announcing the speaker’s arrival yesterday. Faculty members of the school of business administration gave a dinner at the Anchorage last night in honor of the speaker, who spoke to the B. A. S. A. yesterday. Dean Faville will drive Steven Oilman to Corvallis today, where he will address the O. A. C. stu dent body. Passage of Bill Through House Is Held Probable Governor’s View in Doubt; Committee Adds New Important Amendments Passage of the Bell-Schulmerich bill, which provides for the consoli dation of the boards of regents of the University of Oregon, Oregon Agricultural college, and the state normal schools, and whose considera tion by the House has been post poned until today, is practically-as sured, according t|o iIts ^sponsors, since it has passed the Senate with Init five negative votes and since their is but little visible opposition to it in the House. Although Governor Patterson has not indicated what action he intends to take upon the bill, he has given the members of the house committee <sn education instructions to add whatever amendments they might see fit. Instead of three boards of re gents for the various institutions, this bill, which is numbered Senate Bill 192, recommends that there he instituted a state board of edu cation consisting of nine members, appointed by the governor and ap proved by the Senate. This meas ure h,as come up from the Senate with several amendments attached, chief among which is one which would make the bill operative im mediately upon receiving the Gov ernor’s signature, and another stip ulating that a two-thirds vote of the Senate be necessary for the rat ification of the director’s nominat ed by the governor. In case that the measure should pass with the first amendment still intact, it would mean that the gov ernor would have to work fast in order to select a board with the proper qualifications and to get them by the Senate with a two thirds vote as the time is short, and none of the directors, accord ing to the amendment, shall be resi dents of the cities in which the schools are located, and not more than three shall be alumni of any of the institutions. Ruby Lister. Returns To Campus for Visit Ruby Lister, ex-’28, was a recent visitor on the campus. Miss Lister now resides in San Francisco, where she is connected with the Emporium, tlie leading department store iu San Francisco. While in school Miss Lister was on the Emerald staff. Oregon’s Maidens’ Appetites Rival Football Men’s9 Says Mrs. Davis By Eobby Reid Gone are the days when women ate only enough to keep a canary bird existing, and a none too hearty existence at that. Yea, but gone, too, art the wasp waists that measured eighteen inches in circumference and lily maidens who swooned into waiting arms with the slightest provocation.Yep, them days are gone forever, for now women have .just as huge a capacity for food and drink as a football man on training table. Believe it or not, but Mrs. Edna Prescott Davis, says so and she ought to know, be ing director of all the halls of resi dence on the campus, and looking afti’r the food for all hall students. Since the residents of Susan Campbell and Hendricks halls, girls’ dormitories, have started taking their meals at the men’s new dorm, the supply of eggs, bread, vege tables, meat and milk has taken a sudden flight upward, for now there is about five hundred to feed. More students come to breakfast now than ever before,” said Mrs. Davis, “anil I believe this is ilue to tlie fact that I have extended the eating hours to !>:15. Most of the students come for breakfast after their 8 o’clock classes. “This is a happy experiment, hav ing the girls come over; and I be lieve the reason for the increase in appetite is due to the change of food, better cooks, and also the walk over here is good for the ap petite,’’ she stated. . “The girls are very pleased with the idea of having a dinner dance once a month, and the dining rooms are so much more attractive here than they were in the other halls.” Mrs. Davis said that the stu dents she was working with now, are the most appreciative group of students she has ever fed. Since dainty appetites are passe, and women equal men in the field of food comsumption as well as various other fields, it is no wonder that fainting ladies of the past dec ade are gone and in their place have appeared healthy, vigorous and athletic women. Europe’s Coldest Spell in 200 Years Does Not Foreshadow New lee Age High Barometric Pressure Area Brings Extreme Winter Weather oil Continent, Says Dr. Hodge By WILLIS DUNIWAY Cabled reports of suffering and widespread cold in Europe recently have painted a horrible picture. Children snowballed in Rome while 1(1 children were killed by a pack of hungry wolves in Austria. The mercury went to 7G below in some parts of Poland, and 1o 40 below in Silesia. Ships were ice bound in the Baltic and the Znyder Zee was frozen over. Yet this met eorological chans does not fore shadow a coming glacial period in Europe, T)r. E. T. Ilodge, professor of oertnomic geology, stated yester day. "I do not feel that this great cold spell that has given us our brief per iod of misery portends a black fu ture,” Dr. Hodge said. “If we are in luck we may have an exception ally warm winter next year and thus our climatic books will lie kept balanced. “We have to distinguish between these temporary abnormal periods of hot or cold weather and the great periods of extreme length of hot and cold weather. We have no man made records that extend back far enough to prove positively that the earth is getting warmer or colder or to prove any periodicity. There are a lot of records that are not man made that indicate periodicity in climate or that suggest that simi lar periods will reoccur.” An extensive period of baro --r metric high pressure that increased in intensity ns it traveled from wcjit to east and reaelied its maximum strength over Kurope was the cause of the continent \s extreme cold weather, the coldest experienced in 20(1 years, Dr. Ilodge said. It seems that our cold spell this winter is one of those things that takes place in all active processes where the accidental playing back and forth of the elements in the game of chance so arrange them selves that a member of the (de ments come together almost acci dentally to produce long periods of barometric high pressure. Low pres sure areas bring our rain and war mer weather; high pressure areas bring clear, cold weather. “The cause of the unusually cold spell can not apparently be ex plained in exceptional meteorolog ical theories such as the blanket ing of the high atmosphere by vol canic, ash that shuts off the rays (Continued on Tagc Two) W. A. A. Elections To Be Held Today At Main Library Moshberger, Kurtz Vieing For Presidential Post; Voters Will Pay Dues Tim polls will bo open for 1lio nil mini Woman’s Athletic, associa tion election, from 8 until f> o’clock, at tlio entrance of ;g the main library today, Dorothea I Lenarli, president, |; announced yester :l d a v. | * “All W. A. A. §: m e m b e r s are I urged to vote,” 1 said Miss Lensch, | “but they must S pay their d u e s Inst. 1 h e iluos may lio paid at the polls, and also Porothca Lensch tickets for t li e banquet to be held Thursday at the Anchorage at which the winners of the election will be announced and sweaters awarded, can bo purchased there.” Mahalah Kurtz and Naomi Mosh berger are candidates for president. Carl Gregory to Run For Emerald Editor Three Candidates Are Out For Campus Daily Job Carl Gregory, assistant manag ing editor of the Emerald, is the latest person to announce his can didacy for editorship of the cam pus daily. His opponents in the race whose names were rumored in downtown papers are Joe Pigney, of Portland, and Arthur Schoeni, of Medford. Gregory, of Wallowa, has had a varied journalistic experience, both in school and out, much of it in an editorial capacity. At present he is president of the local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national profes sional honorary fraternity, and is serving the Emerald in the dual role of assistant managing editor, and as day editor. Emerald staff positions held by Gregory during his three years on the campus have been reporter, fea ture writer, and other positions. During vacation time lie serves as feature writer for the Wallowa Sun. S. P. Expert to Speak to Commerce Secretaries Instruction on how to read freight rates will be given to chamber of commerce secretaries who attend the short course during spring va cation given by the University of Oregon, Dean David E. Favillo of the business administration depart ment, announced today. The Southern Pacific railway has consented to send an export to the conference to explain problems of traffic schedules and freight rates. It has not been announced as to who will be sent by the South ern Pacific to give this instruction at the short course for the chamber of commerce secretaries, Dean Fa ville stated. Women Initiated . Into Philomete Last Wednesday Hobby Groups Honorary Has 128 New Members; Friendship Making Club Ono liu ml ml !in<l twenty-eight women wore initiated into Philo melotp, the hobby groups organiza tion, sponsored by 1 ’hi Theta TTpsi lop, upperelass women’s honorary service fraternity, last Wednesday evening in the Woman’s building, according to Diana Peininger, presi dent of I’lli Theta Upsilon and gen eral chairman of Philomclete. This fraternity, besides its aim for gen eral service to the campus and stu dents, created last term this hobby group project for the purpose of promoting a closer spirit of friend ship among all university women on tho campus. Philomelete, meaning love of hob bies, will have the acacia, meaning friendship, for its flower. The idea of the different divisions of this organization is to provide a common interest in order that worthwhile friendships may evolve from a fun damental basis. Each hobby group is sponsored by two or three Phi Theta Upsilon members. Names Given The names of the officers and members of the various groups who were initiated are listed below with their respective advisers: In the arts and crafts group: Mildred French, president; Norma Carlsen, Alice Watson, Mildred Wil cox, Henrietta Dunning, Grace Cald well, Gracemary Rickman. Helen Wood, Edith Dodge, and Evelyn Kjosness are the advisers for this group. In the charm school group: Doro thy Kirk, president; Mary Galey, vice-president; Florence Clutter, treasurer; Mae MeFadgen, editor historian; Dorothy Brigham, Berna dirie Carrico, Grace Clark, Hath Creager, Ruth Griffin, Eula Har rington, Irene Ingalls, Ruth Ingalls, Hazel Kull, Cleta McKennon, Janet Osborne, Agnes Stalsbcrg, Grayee Howe. Their advisers are: Emma bell Woodworth, Mildred Conklin and Edna Dunbar. In the drama group: Inez Simons, president; Constance McKenzie, vice-president; Helen Prang, secre tary-treasurer; Marjorie Barrett, editor; Dorothy Hallin, historian; Bernice Conoly, Sada Marie Cham bers, Ruth Dickey, Norma Jacobs, Anne Fedor, Marcella Hillgen, Dul eie Lytsell, Maxine Moore, Jacque lyn Pringle, Ruth Galloway, Rose Simons, Elaine Wheeler, Sally Runes, Evelyn Erickson. This group’s advisers are Margaret Fraser and Helen Webster. International Relations Group In the international relations group: Etolin Campen, president; Irma Dingman, secretary-treasurer; Mildred Dobbins, editor-historian; Margery Biswell, Rayma Brown, Ilansena Campen, Helen Detrick, Wilma Jacobson, Elsie Lahti, Edith Winestone, Helen Carlson. The ad visers are Mildred Lowdon and Mar garet Edmondson. In the literature-poetry group: Margaret Ormandy, president; Wi nona Hood, vice-president; Caroline Keeler, secretary-treasurer; Pauline Schuele, editor - historian; Helen Evans, Nadine Gilkeson, Elizabeth (Continued on Tc.ge Two) Mills College Dean Will Be Speaker Here Katharine Rogers Adams To Be Women’s League Guest During Thursday Annual Mass Meeting Slated by President ‘Women in University’ to Be Subject of Address Katherine Rogers Adams, dean of women at Mills college, California, will arrive hero at noon Thursday to be the featured speaker at the annual mass meeting held by the Women's league of the university. Dean Adams is making the trip tip to Oregon especially to speak at this meeting and she wi.ll speak nowhere else on the campus, ac cording to Kdith Dodge, league president, who received a telegram from her yesterday. “Wo feel very fortunate in hav ing Dean Adams come here,” Miss Dodge said. “She is a good friend of the former Dean Virginia Judy Ksterly, through whom the league came in contact with her. The theme of her talk will be ‘The Woman Student in the University,’ in which she will discuss all the op portunities that come to university women, and the things that it is possible for them to do on the cam pus.” To Be in Alumni Hall The mass meeting will be held in Alumni hall at 5 o'clock Thurs day afternoon, February 28. All university women are invited to come and a special invitation has been issued to the members of Pliil omelete. Dean Adams will probably be en tertained by the local< chapter of the American Association of Uni versity Women during her short stay here. She has been a promi nent member of this organization; having served on several national and sectional committees. Banquet Also Planned Immediately after the mass meet ing there will be a formal banquet given for the Mills college dean at the Kugene hotel by the women’s league executive' council. She will leave Kugene Finlay morning and return to California. Kdith Dodge urged that the girls on the campus express their appreciation of Dean Adams’ visit by attending the mass meeting and greeting her personally. Last year’s speaker for the mass meeting was Dr. Anita Mahl, psy chiatrist, and social worker. Dr. Muhl also spoke at the assembly. Billington Gains Jol> In U. S. Department Ex-student Wins Second Place in Examinations A letter' received liv O. 1*1. Slat ford, professor in chemistry, from Paul Billington, ex-’20, told of Mr. Billington’s transfer from the Uni versity of Idaho, where,he has been the past two years instructing in chemistry and carrying on research work, to a position in the bureau of chemistry in the department of agriculture at Washington, 1). 0. Mr. Billington made the second highest grade in the United States in the civil service exnminatiotn, and consequently was given a posi tion immediately. Before leaving Moscow early in January, Mr. Billington was mar ried, and he and his wife drove to Washington, I). (*., by automobile in eleven and a half days—a dis tance of thirty-three hundred miles. Jeivelt Contests Open Tonight in Villard Hall Tryouts for the Jewett oratorical contest begin tonight at 7:.'50 when seven pre-legal English students face their 3(S classmates at Villard hall and present ten minute spec-lies, on subjects of their own choosing. This activity is sponsored by a memorial fund set aside by the late Wilson Jewett. Each year prizes of $25, $15, and $10 are awarded those predegal English students who prove themselves superior as ora tors in that department. The following students will give speeches tonight: John Wade Nel son, subject, “Utopia1;’* Hoy Met calf, “The Red Monster;” B. N. 8. Padilla, “The Philippine Question;” Edwin E. Graham, The Example;” Maynard W. Bell, “Who Caused the War?”; A. E. Shimanek, “Taxes and Higher Education;” Irvin L. Kincaid, “Benevolent Aristocracy.” Every member of the class will have an opportunity to present an oration, according to L. Kenneth Shumaker, who is in charge of the affair. Calls Meeting .K€Mf^fe-£LU$ Edith Dodge, president of the Women's league, who is calling a mass meeting of the league on Thursday to hear Katharine Rogers Adams, dean of women at Mills college in Oakland, California. Swimming Team Back From Trip; Two Meets Won Webfoots Defeat U. of C. And U. S. C.; Lose to Stanford on Long Hike > Completing one of the most diffi; cult invasions of California by a Webfopt swimming team, twelve UR'gUH iiimurn arrived in Kujjono last night at (1:55 on the Shasta. They wore accom panied by Edward A hi' r c r o m l> To, coach, and Mar cus Woods, mana ger. The Ore gon 'i :t n s won swimming meets from the TTniver Abercrcmbte sity of California ••iih! tho University of Southern California anil dropped a meet, to the nationally famous Stanford team.ii , Three water polo games with Cal ifornia, U. S. C. and the.UniversHy of California at Los Angeles were lost by the Oregon team. Both Cal ifornia and U. C. L. A. barely nosed out Oregon in polo. This is Ore gon’s first, year of intercollegiate water polo competition. Word was received here yesterday of the Oregon victory over U. S. C. in swimming, -14-23. The Webfoots took five first places and six sec onds. The water polo meet went to the Californians, 12-2. The twelve swimmers who made the trip were: Johnny Anderson, Chet Floyd, dim Sharp, Hob Me Alpin, John Creech, Charles Silver man, Hal Hatton, Don Noel-, Leon ard Thompson, Bill (.fillett, Kosser Atkinson and Bob Bishop, Three men were outstanding per formers for Oregon on the complete trip. Johnny Anderson, holder of three eonst records, was individual high point man among the Web foots. He won two firsts and three seconds. He was followed by Chet Floyd, sprint star, and Don Near, diver. Floyd took, two firsts and three thirds to Neer’s two firsts and one second, aggregating the same number of points in the scores. Charles Silverman, star 440 man (Continued on Page Two) "Oh Dear" Is Selected For Junior Vodvil Judges Choose Scenario of Johnston and Hendricks On Second Presentation Satire on College Life Theme of Production Tryouts for Leading Parts Slated to Start Soon ‘‘Oh Dear,” a musical comedy written by Donald Johnston, of Aberdeen, Washington, and lSoone JI e 11 (1,r t oka, of Eugene, was ad judged the boat (submitted at the second meeting of t li e Junior Vodvil judging committee Sat urday afternoon, and will bo pre sented under the auspices of the junior class at the TFeilig then tor Mny and 4. “Oh Dear” is Don Johnston a riotous satire on college life at ttio University of Oregou, and iiivolvos the affairs of an ambitious freshman named .Tack and those of a fair Alpha Alpha Alpha known to the campus as Mary Frances. A romance develops between the pair, is temporarily disrupted, as romances in stories usually are, and then is re-continued after everything is explained. The play is brightened with many refer ences, caustic and otherwise, to in stitutions and traditions of tho campus, and also to the neighboring agriculture college. Five Plays Submitted Five manuscripts were submitted for Junior Vodvii, and the commit tee in charge was unable to defi nitely select one at the first meet ing Tuesday afternoon, because each scenario had its particular good points. Others besides Johnston and Hendricks who submitted manu scripts were Francis Mullins, Flint Wright, and Fester McDonald; John Nelson and Mayanna Sargent; Vir ginia Moore; and John Kiel'. An attempt will bo made to combine as many as possible of th<* good points of all tho scenarios with that of Johnston and Hendricks, according to Paul Hunt, chairman of Junior Vodvii. Donald Johnston is a senior in journalism and a member of the Alpha Beta Chi fraternity, as well as Sigma Delhi Chi,' journalism fra ternity, and Hammer and Coffin, ’national humorists fraternity, which is at present extinct on tho Oregon campus. He has been a member of the Emerald staff for four years, and has been feature editor of tho Emerald for the past, two years. He has also been humor editor of tho Oregana for two years. Hendricks Writes Music Boone Hendricks, who wrote tho music for “Oh Dear,” is a junior in music. lie made his numerals in frosh tennis two years ago, and is now out for track. He is a member of th’o university orchestra. For tho past two years he has assisted in the direction of the Junior Vodvii. He is a member of th'o Sigma Chi fraternity. Tho judges who selected “Oh Dear” from the five manuscripts submitted were S. Stephenson Smith, associate professor of English; Mrs. Ottilie T. Seybolt, head of tho drama department; Constance Roth, (Continual on Page Two) Women Out-talkMen? All Bunk Aver Histories, Look at Famous Speeches! By ARTHUR SCHOENI Do women talk more than men? Such is the time-honored tradi tion. The whole question was go ing to be settled by a marathon gab-fest in New York. The human molecule brayed; the “prof” dis cussed the secret of life, and the competitors talked on various and sundry topics. But when it was over a man and a woman were tied for the pride. Campus opinion on whether the male of the fcmals tongue was the most voluble followed the sex line, each championing the other’s chat ter capacity. The old style celluloid screen had the Ladies’ Aid circle doing most of the talking. I’resent-day “chin emas” give men the most chance to say his say because his voice records better. Historically, men havo always been the talking sex. To begin with, Adam couldn’t bear to bo alone. He found it lonesome with out some sweet young thing to look up to him and say, “you great, big, wonderful man,” while ho chattered away <juito volubly explaining how lie fame to be lord of bis corner of the world. Socrates talked too much and ho got a poisoned chalice. The great philosophers were al ways men. While they were down at the corner coffee house or at someone’s salon explaining away the earth’s origin, the wives were at home washing clothes and tak ing care of the babies. England’s best and most garru lous talker was a man — Samuel Johnson. IIis friend Boswell took many years of his life to scribble down notes on Johnson’s conversa j tion. 1 Ms talk topics fill six volumes in the university library. He even laughs at women's rights to talk. “A woman’s preaching is like a dog standing on his hind legs. It is never done well, but you are sur prised to see it (lone at all.” Man’s passion for conversation lead to the eighteenth century cof fee houses, a place to stretch his (Continued on 1'age Two)4