11 o'Clock Class Will be
Dismissed Today for
Assembly
VOLUME XXXI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1929
TODAY’S WEATHER
Oregon: Fair in east anti cloudy
with showers in west portion
Wednesday. Generally unsettled on
Thursday with rain in west por
tion.
Maximum temperature . 77
Minimum temperature . 45
NUMBER 11
Annual Pledge Day Program in Readiness
Homecoming Officials Named
Hall Places
11 People on
Directorate
Ability ami Willingness to
Work Wins Jobs, Says
Chairman
ilamaker, Langenberg and
Grebel Appointed
PREPARATIONS for the 1929
Homecoming November 15 and
16 took a step forward yester
K. Hamakor
day with the an
il o u n cement of
the directorate
by Keith Hall of
Marshfield, gen
eral chairman of
the affair. The
members of the
directorate are:
Kathryn Lan
, genberg, North
' Bend, secretary.
Kenton Ham
a k e r, Klamath
r<aiis, associate cnairman.
Edwina Grebel, Portland, cam
pus luncheon.
Earl Miller, Portland, features.
John Anderson, Bridgeport, Con
necticut, finances.
Alberta Rives, Portland, wel
coming and accommodations.
James Raley, Pendleton, rally.
William East, Salem, dances.
Joe Freck, Portland, decora
tions.
Wilfred Brown, Camas Valley,
publicity.
Jeanette Calkins, advisor.
Reasons Listed
“I have appointed these men
and women on my directorate be
cause I personally know their
ability and their willingness to
work toward the goal of making
the 1929 Homecoming a success,”
Hall said last night in announcing
his appointments.
All of the members of the direc
torate have been active in student
affairs during their days in the
university, Hall said, but he ap
pointed them more on the basis
of ability than past records.
Game Is Big Event
Homecoming is the biggest
event of the fall term each year,
and this year it is expected that
it will be even bigger than usual.
The principal feature of the week
end will be the football game be
tween Oregon and O. S. C. Sat
urday afternoon. Alumni and sup
porters of both teams are ex
pected to flock to the campus in
large numbers, as the competition
is unusually keen this year, fol
lowing the 12-0 victory of Oregon
over the Aggies at Corvallis last
fall. OtheT features of Homecom
ing will include the campus lunch
eon, the bonfire, the welcoming
signs, and the big Homecoming
dance at the Igloo Saturday night.
The new directorate will hold
its first meeting this afternoon in
room 104, Journalism building, to
discuss preliminary plans. Roy
Herndon, chairman of the 1928
event, will be present.
Fee Payment
Starts Today,
Says Registrar
The payment of labpratory
fees, class fees, syllabus fees
and special assessments due at
the cashier's office in Johnson
hall must be paid before Octo
ber 26, according to an an
nouncement from the registrar's
office. The fees are due and
payable beginning today, and
if not paid before October 26,
a late payment fee of $3.00 for
the first day and 25 cents for
each subsequent day will be
added.
Every student is urged to in
quire at the cashier’s office, j
whether he thinks lie owes any
thing or not.
Students Put on
Honor at Vandal
Contest Saturday
University Heads Advise
Against Bad Conduct
At Portland Tilt
Oregon Co-eds Must Have
Chaperon at Hotels
Conduct which will reflect to
the credit of the university is
earnestly requested by the univer
Tom Stoddard
suy auramisua-1
| tion and the stu
i dent government
of the Oregon
; students attend
, ing the Idaho
game in Port
1 a n d Saturday.
Tom Stoddard,
i president of the
| associated stu
i dents, Virginia
J. Esterly, dean
of women, and
Hugh L. Biggs, assistant aean oi
men, issued statements yesterday
saying that it is up to the indi
vidual to build up the Oregon tra
dition of clean conduct and tem
perance.
Stoddard Warns
“The problem of Portland games
is becoming serious due mainly to
the misconduct of a few students
while there,” says Tom Stoddard,
president of the student body.
“For the good name of the uni
versity and for the sake of those
whom it represents, it is the duty
of every Oregon man and woman
to conduct himself or herself in a
manner befitting their station.”
Hugn Biggs declares: “Any mis
conduct on the part of a student
casts direct reflection on the uni
versity and Creates the wrong idea
of college life. We are trying to
preserve the game so that it can
be held in Portland. Conduct in
the past has been intolerable and
can not be sanctioned. However,
it was greatly improved last year
and it is hoped that it will be
even better this year.”
University women are urged by
the administration not to congre
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Flashlight Saves Faculty Women
From Unwelcome Midnight Guests
A driftwood fire flickered low in
the darkness. Nearby, waters
lapped softly on the shore. Two
figures, indistinct in the dimness,
sat silently by the dying flames.
Suddenly one of them seized her
companion’s arm in a frantic
grip. “What was that?’’ she
hissed.
Heavy footsteps could be heard
crunching through the sand; they
came steadily nearer and nearer.
The two lonely campers were gal
vanized with fright.
Deep, growing male voices
sounded in sinister conversation.
Kidnappers! Pirates! High-jack
et's! Help!
The two helpless women sat fro
zen with fright and listened to the
steadily approaching intruders.
“Hold-up men!” stated one in de
spairing accents. “Tramps!”
murmured the other faintly.
The approaching men did not
see the faint, dying glow of the
fire. Suddenly they were blinded
by the glare of a flashlight direct
ly in their faces. With astonish
ed exclamations they stumbled
away hurriedly into the night.
“Or course,” laughed Miss Mo
zelle Hair, head of the correspond
ence division of the university ex
tension, “we found out in the
morning that they were only a
couple of harmless campers who
stumbled onto our camp in the
darkness. But we certainly were
scared that night!”
Miss Hair, accompanied by Miss
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Committee Plans Mammoth Rally
For Portland-Idaho Encounter
Co-operation of Students
Urged; Stoddard, Reed
To Talk Over Radio to
Instill the Oregon Spirit
With the Idaho game only three
days away, plans for the rallies
to be held in Portland before the
game are being rushed to com
pletion.
Jim Raley, general chairman of
the rally committee, will meet
with his directorate in room 110,
Johnson hall, at 4:00 this after
noon to review final details of the
pep rally organization.
Reed Enthused
Chuck Reed, yell king, was even
more emphatic in his statements.
“The supreme effort will be the
big serpentine rally which is to
leave the Imperial hotel Saturday
afternoon at 1:00 and march to
the field. The success of all our
work depends on whether or not
the Oregon men come out 100 per
cent for this serpentine.”
Radio is to play an important
part in bringing the Oregon spirit
before the Portland public. Tom
Stoddard, president of the A. S.
U. O., and Yell King Reed are to
go to Portland tomorrow. In co
operation with a number of Ore
gon alumni, thqy will put on a
pep program over station KEX
Thursday evening at 7:15. Friday
will probably be spent in making
talks at several of the Portland
high schools. Friday evening they
will join two radio programs fea
turing the university band, the
first over KEX at 6:45, and the
second from KGW at 10:30.
Trains Scheduled
Rally trains have been arranged
by Walt Norblad. One will leave
Villard hall at 2:30 Friday after
noon, and the next will get under
way from the same place at 8:00
Saturday morning. Returns may
be made on any regular Saturday
evening or Sunday train.
The directorate which will meet
with Raley this afternoon includes
Joe Freck, assistant chairman;
Chuck Reed; Shirley Rew, secre
tary; Keith Hall, Alberta Reeves,
Ken Hamaker, Bill Whitely, Walt
Norblad, and Dave Wilson.
First Year Men
Named to Paint
O at Assembly
Ed Jackson Chairman of
Group; Doctor Hall
Addresses Frosh
Eleven first year men, under
the chairmanship of Ed Jackson,
were named last night by Lawr
ence Bay, freshman president, to
paint the O on Skinner’s butte
this afternoon. The announce
ment of this committee was made
at the second of a regular series
of freshman class meetings being
held every Tuesday evening in the
Music building.
The committee consists of
George Vaughn, LaFollette, Gene
Mullins, Harlow Allen, Bob Neer,
Art Clark, Bob Hall, Dave Wyman,
Ed Kirby and Willard Jensen.
These men, armed with paint and
brushes, will meet at four o’clock
in front of Condon hall, prepared
to renew the traditional yellow of
the famous O.
tne program or last nights
meeting was mainly devoted to an
address by President Arnold Ben
nett Hall on “Spiritual Prepared
ness,” in which he urged his hear
ers to strengthen their grasp on
the spiritual realities of life, in or
der to cultivate an understanding
of and compassion for humanity.
A feature of the assembly was
the singing of Henry Kaahea,
freshman student from Hawaii,
who sang three numbers, two of
them in his native tongue, which
were enthusiastically received.
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Regents Board
Ends Work on
Oregon Campus
Policies, Plans Outlined
By President Hall;
Interest Keen
Group Goes to Corvallis
For Further Work
Policies and plans of the Uni
versity of Oregon, present condi
tions and present problems as out
lined by Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall,
president, occupied the board of
higher education at its final ses
sion on this campus yesterday
morning.
The board, making its first of
ficial visit to the campus, com
pleted its work here at noon and
went on to Corvallis, where simi
lar meetings and study of the
Oregon State Agricultural college
will be made.
Interest Shown
Members of the board showed
keen interest in all phases of the
institution as Dr. Hall told of his
plans and described present situ
ations. Special interest was
showji in Dr. Hall's proposal to
broaden the scope of the schools
of music and art so that their
services would be available for all
students. An appreciation of good
music and fine arts should be a
part of modern education, he
pointed out, and told of changes
to be made in the near future so
that this could be developed here.
Inspection Continued
Further examination of campus
buildings and property was con
tinued by the board before leav
ing for Corvallis. Other meetings
in the future to take up univer
sity problems are planned for the
campus, it is stated by C. L. Starr,
president of the board. Board
members here yesterday were: C.
L. Starr, Portland, president; A.
R. Watzer, Portland, secretary;
B. F. Irvine, Portland; Herman
Oliver, John Day; E. C. Pease,
The Dalles; and Albert Burch,
Medford.
ROY HERNDON IS
ELECTED TO OFFICE
At the first meeting of the law
school student body, held last Fri
day at 11 o’clock in the law de
partment, Hoy Herndon was elect
ed first year representative, Fred
Finsley was elected treasurer, and
Lester Johnson was chosen ath
letic director. Johnson will have
charge of all law school competi
tion between other schools of the
university, and he ' has recently
started a handball tournament to
choose the best player in that de
partment.
The honor system, a code of the
law school, was outlined to the
new students by the president, Le
land Shaw, and announcement was
made that all first year law stu
dents could not wear the mus
tache, according to tradition
among prospective lawyers.
Plans for the annual smoker
which is given by the faculty to
the law department, were dis
cussed and a committee was ap
pointed by the president to make
definite arrangements for the oc
casion.
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Book by Stillman Goes
Into Second Edition
Professor A. B. Stillman of the
business administration school re
ceived word recently from Long
mans-Green and Company, pub
lishers, that they are making a
second printing of “Interpretive
Accounting," an accounting text
book by Foltz and Stillman. Pro
fessor Foltz is a former instructor
in the school of business adminis
tration.
Indian Art is
Chosen Motif
For Oregana
McDonald Outlines Plans
For Colorful 1930
Yearbook
WORK ACCELERATED
Wilfred Brown to Act as
Assistant Editor;
Staff Listed
Plans for the 1930 Oregana are
fast taking definite shape under
the leadership of Lester McDon
ald, newly appointed editor of
this year's yearbook. An Indian
art motif has been selected for
the book which promises to lend
color and distinction to the edition.
A plan of organization has been
adopted by the staff which is
based on personal contact between
the heads of the departments and
those working under them.
Pictures Taken
Taking of pictures has been go
ing on for a we&k now and seems
to be progressing satisfactorily,
although McDonald urges that
house and members keep their
dates with the photographers, as
this part of the program is im
perative to the appearance of the
book on time.
The staff as announced by Mc
Donald is: Henrietta Steinke, as
sociate editor; Wilfred Brown, as
sistant editor; John Wade Nel
son, manager; Bob Allen, assistant
manager; Dean Creath, associate
manager.
Staff Named
The editorial staff includes: art
editor, Martha Stevens; photo
graphic editor, Ray Rogers; liter
ary editpr, Margaret Brooks; ad
ministration, Elise Schroeder, as
sistant, Lenore Ely; seniors, Diana
Deininger, assistant, Louise Ans
ley; juniors, Neil Taylor; college
year, Dorothy Thomas, assistant,
Beatrice Bennett; drama, Carol
Hurlburt; music, Ruth Newman;
publications, Harry Tonkon, assist
ant, Roy Craft; forensics, Mary
Klemm; R. O. T. C., Harry Van
Dine, assistant, Lawrence Parks;
athletics, Joe Brown, assistant
Mack Hall; women, Dorothy Kirk,
assistant, Beth Salway; honoraries
Will Smith, assistant, Dorothy
Morrison; sororities, Mildred Dob
bin, assistant, Shirley Sylvester;
fraternities, Barney Miller; law,
Willis Duniway; underclass, Thorn
ton Gale; index, Margaret Reid,
assistant, Myrna Bush.
Additions to the staff will be
made from time to time as work
on the sections requires.
The business staff will be an
nounced soon, according to John
Wade Nelson, manager.
U. OF O. QUARTET
TO SING AT RALLY
Oregon’s newly chosen univer
sity quartet is to furnish extra
advertising for Saturday’s game
with Idaho, it was announced last
night. The group, consisting of
Don Eva and William McNabb,
first and second tenors respec
tively, John McMullin, baritone,
and George Barron, basso, will
sing in Portland in a short series
of concerts, beginning Thursday
afternoon in several of the high
I schools of the city, and ending
j Friday night with a radio rally to
i be broadcast over KGW.
ORDER OF O' WILL
CHOOSE NEW HEAD
The meeting of the Order of
O scheduled for yesterday af
ternoon was postponed until to
night when the lettermen will
convene in the Sigma Chi house
at 8 o’clock. All lettermen are
urged to attend as the session
is important. A new president
will be elected to hold the po
sition left vacant by the depart
ure of Carl Nelson to a govern
mental flying school in Califor
nia.
Patterson Will Read
Oath to New Students
PLEDGE DAY TRADITION
'T'lIIS morning tin* students will have an opportunity to
A observe one of the most significant traditions that lias
been established upon the campus—the observation of Pledge
Day. (iovernor Patterson will he here in person to admin
ister the pledge, and Ilabhi Berkowitz, one of the most elo
quent speakers in Oregon, will deliver tin' address. The 11
o’clock classes will be dismissed in order to give opportunity
to all of the students to witness this significant and inspiring
ceremony.
I wish to urge all of the students to take advantage of
this opportunity to help uphold this splendid tradition and
to hear a speaker so gifted. Courtesy to those distinguished
visitors and appreciation of genuine opportunity, and a de
votion to the best traditions of campus life would seem to
require a full attendance on the part of the students. I sin
cerely hope that all students will unite in making this a
(listinguished occasion.
ARNOLD BENNETT IIALL,
President, University of Oregon.
Band Director
Picks Musicians
For Portland Trip
Group Will Give Concerts
Over Radio Stations
Friday Evening
Oregon Songs Scheduled
For Program
John H. Stehn, director of the
! university band has picHed 36 mu
sicians to make the trip to Port
land for the Idaho game this week
end.
The band will leave Friday
morning in order to appear in a
radio concert over station KEX at
6:45 Friday evening and again
through the KGW microphone at
10:30 the same evening. Oregon
songs will be featured in these two
concerts.
The men who will make the
trip are: W. B. Sievers, R. H. Mu
maw, W. C. Palmer, C. F. Shi
manck, D. O. Kimberling, D. L.
Shinn, R. S. Coie, F. M. Blackwell,
| A. R. McHaley, J. K. Gunther, A.
| B. Woods, A. W. Hardman, P. K.
j Hammond, J. T. Runyan, B. M.
; Patterson, O. Totton, W. L. Le
Valley, J. W. Bradley, D. E. Foltz,
C. F. Craw, J. W. Reynolds, R. J.
Ford, L. A. High, M. Woods, G.
■ Burt, E. H. Ports, D. W. Orine, C.
R. Veal, M. Reymers, H. M. Uhren,
V. L. Wiscarson, M. W. Caruvan,
i R. J. Otto, B. C. Walden, E. A.
I Alne, S. A. Southwell, J. T. Finley,
C. F. Iverson.
1 MISS BAKER WINS
IN ESSAY CONTEST
Dorothy Baker, ’29, has been an
nounced as the winner of a na
tional essay contest sponsored by
Theta Sigma Phi, national wo
men's journalism honorary. A
prize of $100 was offered for the
best article on some phase of
women’s journalistic activity, writ
ten by any woman enrolled in a
school or department of journal
ism in any college having a chap
ter of Theta Sigma Phi.
“The Press Concedes Itself to
Femininity” was the title of Miss
Baker's prize-winning article. Last
year she was president of the lo
cal chapter of Theta Sigma Phi.
Miss Baker was alsp affiliated
with Alpha Xi Delta.
Law Students Pass
Bar ^Examinations
A complete list of the thirteen
students who received their de
grees in law last June and suc
, cessfully passed the bar examina
tions, was announced recently.
The examination was held on July
12. and successful aspirants were:
Chris Boesen, John Bell, Jr., Bill
Adams, Lester Oehler, Orval Yo
kum, Helen Louise Crosby, Har
low Weinrich, Morris Tarshis,
Don Templeton, Paul Ellwell, Wil
fred Long, John Stapleton, and
Thomas Swan.
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Gregory Chosen
As Delegate to
Journalism Meet
Sigma Della Chi Convenes
At U. of Missouri
November 18
President of Loeal Chapter
Active ,on Emerald
Carl Gregory, senior in the
school of journalism, was elected
as delegate to the international
convention of Sigma Delta Chi,
professional journalism fraternity
at a meeting of the Oregon Omi
cron chapter last night. Wilfred
Brown, also a senior in journalism,
was chosen as alternate.
Many Delegates to Attend
The 1929 convention of the fra
ternity will be held November 18,
19, and 20 at the University of
Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. Del
egates from the 44 chapters of the
fraternity, located in all parts of
the United States and Canada, will
attend and discuss the problems
of journalism. A number of pro
fessional journalists of national
reputation will address the gath
ering.
Efficiency Contest Conducted
Of interest at the convention
will be the efficiency contest con
ducted among the chapters repre
sented. The chapters will be
judged on the basis of their activi
ties, and a cup will be awarded
the winner. Last year the Ore
gon State chapter was the winner
of the cup and the local group
were given honorable mention.
Carl Gregory has been very ac
tive in journalism during his four
years on the campus. He served
on the Emerald for three years as
reporter, P. I. P. editor, telegraph
editor, day editor, and assistant
managing editor.
McAllister gives paper
E. H. McAllister, instructor of
mechanics and astronomy gave a
paper entitled “The Dynamical
Form of Hook’s Law" at the Sig
ma Xi meeting held last night in
Deady hall. Professor McAllister
is the retiring president.
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Berkowitz Is
Main Speaker
For Assembly
Three Musical Bodies of
University Listed for
Entertainment
Singing to be Accompanied
By Organizations
With Governor Isaac L. Patter
son, of the state of Oregon, and
Rabbi Henry J. Berkowitz, of the
Temple Beth Israel, Portland,
scheduled to appear, and with
three major musical bodies of the
university taking part in the cer
emonies, the eighteenth annual
Pledge Day exercises to be held
at noon today in McArthur court
promises to be one of the out
standing events of the year.
The annual Pledge Day is that
on which the entire student body
pledges its loyalty and sense of
obligation to the state which
maintains the university and
makes the liberal educational sys
tem possible.
Governor Patterson, in his first
appearance at the university this
year, will be introduced by Presi
dent Arnold Bennett Hall, and will
read the “Oregon Pledge” to the
assembly.
Berkowitz. Fine Speaker
tiabbi Berkowitz, as leader of
the Congregation Beth Israel in
Portland, and as one of the state’s
most ardent civic leaders, has a
reputation for his ability as a
speaker. He will deliver an ad
dress on the subject, “Whither
America.”
In response to the reading of
the pledge, the student body will
rise and sing the “Oregon Pledge
Song.” It will be led in this by
the orchestra. At the conclusion
of the program, the band will ac
company the student body in
singing “Mighty Oregon.”
In order to accommodate not
only the orchestra and the band,
but the glee club of over one hun
dred voices, which will take part
in the ceremony, special platforms
are being erected in McArthur
court, it has been announced. It
will be the first time this year
in which the three musical groups
have been assembled at one time.
Program Listed
Rev. Frederick G. Jennings,
rector of St. Mary’s Episcopal
church, will lead the invocation.
The complete program for the
assembly is as follows:
March—University band.
Invocation Rev. Frederick G.
Jennings.
Chorus and March from Tann
hauser University Glee Club of
100 voices and orchestra.
Introduction of Governor Pat
terson President Arnold Bennett
Hall.
Reading of the Oregon Pledge—
Governor Isaac L. Patterson.
Response to the Pledge—Stu
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Professor Attends School at
Columbia; Marvels at New York
JMAGINE trying to get to an 8
o’clock on time when you live
on the top floor of a 20-story dor
mitory. Yet just that thing is
done at Columbia university in
New York City where the dormi
tories nearly all range from 10 to
20 stories in height, said R. D.
Faner, instructor in the University
of Oregon English department,
who attended the summer session
at that school the past summer.
“The campus is immense,” ex
plained Mr. Faner, “and a lot of
the buildings are skyscrapers.”
Mr. Faner took a graduate course
in American literature under J.
B. Hubbell, a guest instructor,
widely known as an authority on
1 American literature and author of
several books.
Mr. Faner found time to visit
many of the most interesting
points of the metropolis, including
the bowery, the ghetto, Greenwich.
Village, and the Washington Irv
ing country up the Hudson.
The old song, "The bowery, the
bowery, I’ll never go there any
more” certainly applies well,
thinks Mr. Faner, not only to the
bowery, but the ghetto. Both are
indescribably filthy, and cluttered
up with drifters. The streets are
infested with dirty, yelling chil
dren, and with ‘infernal’ pushcarts,
as he terms it. It is hard to imag
ine how people live in those sordid
conditions, with cramped quar
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