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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1929)
Message to the Tram 0 Before the Came O May Better the Seore THE WEATHER Fair today, hut slightly cloudy. Temperatures helow normal. Temperatures Friday: Maximum .50 Minimum .6..23 Stage of river .—1.8 feet VOLUME XXXJ UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1929 NUMBER 39 Settlement Between Hall. McEwan Looms John Veatch States Plans For Meeting Possibility of Patching; All Action of Officials Will Call Discussion Agreement of President And Coacli W ished w Further developments in the new “civil war” between Coach John J. McEwan and President Dr. Hall Arnold Bennett Hall include am p 1 i f ications of statements re leased yesterday by the tv/o men, and formulation of plans for rec o n c i liation by John C. Veatch, of Portland, who is president of tne university oi uregon Aiumm association. Mr. Veatch says that he believes the whole affair is simply the re cult of a misunderstanding and can be ironed out quickly at a con ference which will probably be held this morning when he will go into conference with President Hall and Coach McEwan. Meeting Necessary “Until that time when matters 1 may be discussed between us it will be impossible to take action,” stated Mr. Veatch late last night. Up to that time he had been un able to see Mr. McEwan, who left early yesterday with the team. President Hall says that the next move must be McEwan’s, since the latter precipitated the squabble. He also said that he was considering sweeping changes in the organization of athletics at the university which would put the coach on the same basis as professors with contracts signed for but one year. According to Hall, this system would make the tenure of the coach more perma nent than under the present ar rangement. Hasty Move Shunned “It has not been my thought at all to eliminate Captain McEwan in considering changes. However, I could not be pushed into hasty committments in a new contract which I had no right to make. There are many things to be con \ sidered, but the way is still open if Captain McEwan wishes to change his mind about resigning,” President Hall said. Prominent alumni who desire no change in the present athletic regime are basing hopes for rec onciliation on President Hall’s statement. President Hall will attend the game today with the University of Hawaii. He will have members of the state board of higher educa tion as his guests there and will undoubtedly take advantage of the opportunity to discuss the* problem with them. Will Make Trip Dr. Hall will make the trip south to the St. Mary’s game with Captain McEwan. There will be opportunity for conference and ad justing of views on the trip, it is believed. Captain McEwan left for Port * land yesterday with the team, where the game with Hawaii will be played today. DESIGN EXHIBIT NOW ON DISPLAY An exhibit of student and pro fessional work in various types of designing, of the New York School of Fine and Applied Art, is now on two weeks display at the Little Art gallery. “The purpose of bringing these showings here,” said Nowland B. Zane, assistant professor of de sign and chairman of the exhibi < tion committee, “is to acquaint the students with the nature and scope of the work. The display that we have now is from a pro nouncedly commercial school,” he stated Student Dates At Condon Hall Now on Decline r|ID you ever go to Condon library and draw out a book an, | then wait for your date ? Have you since mid terms ? Probably not, because a decline in book withdra\ has set in since exams, say attendants. Maybe it is wi out reason, and maybe it is b cause the holidays with whic ' we have been plentifully blessei ' this term make poor old Con don unnecessary as a trysting place. Pliilomelete Plans Christmas Party For December 7 Prospective Members of Group To Be Guests At Affair Hobby Group Presidents To Act as Chairmen Presidents of the hobby groups of Philomelete will act as chair men of committees for the Christ mas party, scheduled for Satur day afternoon, December 7, it was decided at a meeting of all group representatives and members of Phi Theta Upsilon, women’s up perclass service honorary, which was held Thursday evening. Chosen by President The appointments made by the general chairman, Evelyn Kjos ness,. who is president of Phi Theta Upsilon, were: Lillie Strom —Decorations, mythology group; Dorothy Kirk—reception, Charm School group; Wanda Lesley— food, Woman in Her Sphere group; Mildred French—favors, Arts and Crafts group; Helen Parish— songs, Music group; Caryl Hol lingsworth—games, Play group; Helen Prang—skit, Drama group; Marga ret Ormandy — serving, Prose and Poetry group; Edith Luke—Christmas stories, Mythol ogy group; Wilma Jacobson—•. clean up, International group. Initiation Winter Term Initiation of new members will be held during the latter part of winter term, and all girls who are interested in joining any group should leave their names and ad dresses at the dean of women’s office, it was announced at the meeting. Prospective members will be guests at the Christmas party, and expectations are that 160 women of the campus will be in attendance. The social affair will be the one time during the term when all members of the va rious groups will meet together, with their sponsors, members of Phi Theta Upsilon, there also. Opinions of Town Alums Made Known Many Interviews Reveal Feeling's of Former Oregon Students All Ex-Webfoots Wish for Quick Settlement A An echo of yesterday's report of e resignation of Cap McEwan, head coach of the University McEwan of Oregon foot ball team, made itself heard in the expression of a number of Eu gene alumni. Lynn M c Cready, a 1 u m ni member of the executive coun cil, summed up his views saying, “Cap McEwan’s outi-Loa 11 cio wtc.li tj111 lt ituiainauit and the alums hate to see him leave the University of Oregon campus.” White Speaks Attributing the recent success of the Webfoot team to their coach. H. W. White stated, “I don’t believe any better man for the job could be found. He is not the driving type but gets the best out of his men through his high type of personality. He has been a great success.” White added, “I hate to see all the labor that has been expended on building up the athletic organization as it now stands, go for nought in the pres ent rift.” Says McEwan Justified That McEwan was justified in wanting to knoiv his position was the gist of the opinion expressed by Frank Reinhart, former varsity baseball man. In speaking of President Hall’s statement as to a contemplated change of the coaches’ position to a “professorial basis,” Reinhart stated that the two jobs do not go hand in hand and that the trouble now-a-days was that the coach does not devote his entire attention to his men. He believes that the alumni body which has actively supported McEwan this year would not endorse such a procedure as President Hall’s statement suggests. James J. Baker substantiated the statements of his fellow alum ni, stating briefly, “McEwan has been on the job all the time.” Library Gets Volumes Of Early Newspapers Bound volumes of the New York Tribune, printed from 1843 to 1846. have been received by the main library. The collection previous to this time included papers print ed in 1858. The library has also been given a bound copy of Sears Roebuck and Company’s catalogue. Five Hundred Pounds Turkey Promised New Dormitory Men ^AN you picture 500 pounds of turkey stacked in one big pile, and imagine smelling 500 pounds of turkey roasting in one big oven, with the gravy running over their sides and the dressing bulging out each end ? The thought of those turkeys I makes your mouth water. The I same as it will the lucky boys liv ing in the new dormitory, who are staying in Eugene for Thanksgiv ing. “I'm afraid that a number of ; the boys will change their plans about going home for Thanksgiv ing, if the menu for that day is discovered,” said Mrs. Maude E. ! Macdonald, director of residence halls at the dormitory, jokingly, J "but here it is.” * The menu that was prescribed, reads as follows, fruit cocktail, with all of California’s choicest. Stuffed celery that is as crisp as potato chips. Roast turkey, mash ed potatoes and brown gravy that would melt in your mouth, with stringless string beans. Mince pie but hard sauce will be served to fill up any vacant corners, that may be left. There will be every thing to drink, from milk to cof fee. Side dishes of olives, dill pickles, salted nuts and after din ner mints will be relished along with the regular course of the dinner. > i Mrs. Macdonald wanted this to , be kept a secret, so don’t tell a soul. There will be another tur | key dinner on the Sunday follow ing Thanksgiving, for the students j in the dormitory, who went home | for their turkey. Head Two Sturdy Grid Machines OREGON HALFBACK, A6REAT OFFENSIVE. AND DEFENSIVE BACK THE WEBFOOT BOVS REMEMBER HOO^BAt-L TOTIN6 WITH RESPECT FROM THEIR NARROW iVCTORV OF LAST YEAR Captains Prepared for Game By DICK NEUBERGER BECAUSE tho University of Oregon football team will meet the University of Hawaii eleven today at Multnomah sta dium, the Webfoot boys are recalling to mind the weaknesses, and also the strengths, of the Island aggregation. And among the strengths of Hie Islanders they recall the ball carrying and triple-threat ability of Captain Lemon “Rusty” Holt, a full blooded Hawaiian boy whose work in the' Hawaii baekfield last year forced Oregon to wait until the final quarter to put over the only touchdown of that hard-fought game. Time and again Holt would crash through the line that led Oregon to a North west championship for long gains.^ —galffll that lcept the ball in Ore gon territory for the greater part of the fray. Last season Cap McEwan lined his boys up against such superior backs as Benny Lom, Biff Hoffman, and the great Chuck Carroll, but the Webfoot mentor is as loud in his praise of Rusty Holt as of any ball carrier that the Webfoots opposed. A Los Angeles sport scribe has described Holt as being as great a quarter back as U. S. C.’s Morley Drury ever was, which ought to be high enough praise for any young man. Although Holt’s tactics are pretty familiar to the Oregon men, Otto Klum's boys will have to trust to heresay to get the “dope” on Captain Dave Mason of Ore gon. For when Oregon journeyed to Hawaii last year Dave was left behind with an injury received in the Stanford contest. But it does not hurt Mason’s reputation any if anyone knows what kind of ball he played in the Oregon-Stanford game. For the three quarters that he played against the Cardi nals, he put over one touchdown, and with his great defensive work at the right halfback position, this young man gave Pop Warner no end of worry. All of which ought to be enough to convince Otto Klum, the Hawaii coach, that Mr. Mason’s son Dave is a pretty for midable gentleman in a football suit. METHODIST CHOIR TO SING SUNDAY The Methodist choir, under the direction of Madame Rose Mc Grew, will be heard next Sunday at the vespers program to be held at 4 :30 p. m. in the music auditor ium. Dr. Philip A. Parsons, head of the sociology department, will read. The Murray-Warner mu seum will be open to visitors until 5:30 p. m. Helen Clark To Speak At Westminster House Miss Helen Clark, who is sched uled to speak at Westminster house tomorrow morning, was a graduate student here last spring. She was also at one time a biol ogy instructor at Reed College, in Portland. At present Miss Clark is princi pal of a girls' school in Resht, Persia, and she is now on her first furlough. The meeting at which she will speak begins at 9:45. Karl F. Thunemann, advertising mana ger of McMorran and Washbume, will speak at the evening meeting at 7. Many Students Work Their Way Through School Figures Show Only Small Number Is Entirely Self Supporting Employment Bureaus Aid In Finding Jobs Students who are wholly or par tially self-supporting at the Uni versity of Oregon outnumber stu dents who depend on others for support more than two to one, figures announced by Earl M. Pal lett, registrar, show. Out of a total of 2992 regular students on the Oregon campus, 1963 earn all or part of their way, while only 942 come in a classification called "less than 10 per cent self sup porting." The number of self supporting students might be even larger, for 94 students neg lected to state an answer to this question on the registration blank. Perhaps the most significant item of the figures released by the registrar’s office is that which shows that only 192 men out of a total of nearly 1500 earn less than 10 per cent of their way. Among women students, 750 are less than 10 per cent self supporting. The figures show that 792 stu dents, or more than a fourth of the student body, are entirely self supporting. Of this number, 607 are men and 185 are women. Stu dents earning more than half their way total 1488 or half of the stu dent body. Of this number 1143 are men and 345 women. The sophomore class, with 216, leaas in me wnony sen-support ing classification, while freshmen ! with 208 are a close second. Jun iors have 96 and seniors 125, grad uate students 90, special students 28, and law students 29. Students who are 75 per cent self supporting number 231 men and 74 women, those 50 per cent, 255 men and 86 women; 25 per cent, 204 men and 81 women, ten per cent, 94 men and 90 women; less than 10 per cent, 192 men and j 750 women; those not stated, 40 men and 54 women. In commenting on the figures. Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, president i of the university, expressed him- j self as pleased with the democrat ic spirit indicated. “These figures i prove that the young people of Oregon are determined to get an education and that they are willing to work and sacrifice for it,” he j said. * Hawaiians Confident Of Victory in Battle Dr. Hall Gives Faculty Stand On Eligibility President Says No Chance For Colbert, Sliultz, And Spear To Play Message Intended To Clear Misunderstandings With the announcement yester day that Austin Colbert, Irvin Schultz, and Chuck Spear, who were to have gone with the foot ball team for the game with the i University of Florida at Miami, I will not be permitted to go be cause of low scholarship, Dr. Ar nold Bennett Hall, president of the university, issues the following statement in explaining the stand of the administration. Dr. Hall’s Statement "I have been asked to make a statement regarding the three football players who are not being allowed to go with the team to the intersectional game at Miami. Among these players is, unfortu nately, one of our best men. There seems to be much misun derstanding regarding the situa tion. Briefly, the facts are as fol lows : “When the faculty granted per mission for the team to go to Hawaii, a year ago, they fixed a condition- that no member could go with the squad unless, when the time came to leave, his aca demic work was out of danger. When at the request of Coach Mc Ewan I requested the faculty last spring for authority to schedule a game with the University of Florida at Miami we promised the faculty that the same policy that they had before prescribed would be observed. Tells of Warnings “This fall a letter was written to every member of the squad and notices posted in training quarters and in Captain McEwan’s office that no member of the squad could go to Miami who was not up ir his work. This salutory rule ap plied a year ago with such suc cess that Captain McEwan did not lose a single important mem ber because of ineligibility. The men who go to Florida will not reach here on their return until just before the examination pe riod. Discipline Must Be Kept “Now, the only point raised Is this question: when the faculty and the administration and the coach, in their effort to keep the men eligible scholastically have told them definitely that they can not go unless they are up in their studies, do they mean what they say? Are we going to say one thing to the players and do an other ? Are we going to abandon the splendid discipline that we have been building up by yielding to the temptation of the moment ? There is no doubt raised by any one that the three men who have not been approved for the trip have not kept up in their work. It would seem quite evident that if they should go they would fail (Continued on Pune Two) I U. of O.-Hawaii Game on Radio At'Y’Hut Today fpHK Orcgon-Hawali football game will lie received l>y ra dio at the Y. M. O. A. hut on the cumpus beginning nt 2 o'clock today, it was announced yes terday by officials of the cam pus Y. M. C. A. The radio to be used toduy will be a temporary installment fully capuble of giving clear re sults. The new and regular equipment for the hut will lie installed next week. The new radio has been purchased as a result of the successful cam paign for funds conducted on the campus recently. Freshmen Invite Campus to Dance This Afternoon Men’s Gymnasium Scene Of First Hop; More May Be Held Returns on Hawaii Game To Come by Radio The freshmen will be hosts to the campus this afternoon at a dance to be held in the men’s gym nasium from 2 till 5 o'clock* Larry Bay, class president, has placed Marguerite T a r b e 11 in charge of the affair, and promises that if the dance is a success, more will be held next term. Those who come will not be de prived of the privilege of listening) in on the Hawaii-Oregon game as it is played in Portland, for a ra dio will be brought to the gym nasium for the afternoon, says Bay. George Weber’s orchestra has been engaged to provide music for the dancing. A 25-cent admission charge will be made to defray the expenses. As is customary for these dances, campus clothes are in or der, and the “no-date” system will prevail. Approval of the dance came yes terday from Mrs. Virginia Judy Esterley, dean of women, and Hugh Biggs, assistant dean of men. “Such informal dances are a good thing for the university,” said Biggs. "They foster a demo cratic spirit which the university would otherwise tend to lose as it grows larger.” Bulletin on Timbers Now Being Published “Strength Tests of Old Timbers” is the subject of a university bul letin by E. H. McAlister, professor of mechanics and astronomy, which is now in press. Professor McAlister based his bulletin on several strengths of old timbers which were taken from a bridge that has been in active service for more than half a cen tury. I Probable Lineups OREGON POS. EROEEY (16) LER COLBERT (37) LTR SHIELDS (30) LGR FORSTA (43) .C. LILLIE (34) .RGL CHRISTENSEN (22) RTL ARCHER (23) . REL LONDAHL (18) .Q SHEARER (12) LHR MASON (14) . RHL HATTON (25) F. HAWAII . (26) JUDD (19) MARTINSON . (39) HOOPER . (21) A. NOBRIGA ... (17) KAUAIHILO (29) HOWELL . (18) SMITH (23) MacFARLANE . (25) HOLT . (34) WISE . (33) KAAKUA Substitutes—Oregon: Moeller (45), Spear (28), A. Browne (24), Johnston (17), Robinson (15), Donahue (27), Williams (18), Sherrell (52), Leedom (49), Fletcher (32), W. Browne (53), Wood (29), Bates (10), Jesse (36), Lucas (41), Schultz (33), Dickson (4), Hall (44), Bryan (77), Anater (54), Heyden (51), French (25), West (39), Park (38), Carter (1). Hawaii: T. Nobrlga (30), Kim (12), Peterson (11), Among (35), Blackstad (41), Lyman (22), Crowell (42), Nahalea (31), Indie (16), Aguair (14), Kealoha (27), Toyama (38). McEwanTeam Out To Defeat Island Guests Roaring Rainbows Offer Real Threat to Oregon Fast Heavy Team Coach Depends on Passes To Win Game By HARRY VAN DINE PORTLAND, Oregon, Nov. 23. (Special) -Prospects for a great sjame between the University of Hawaii eleven and Coach John J. McEwan’s Oregon Webfoots are exceedingly bright, with the Ha waiian squad reported to be in perfect condition for the battle. The rival squads went through their final workouts Friday in preparation for the tilt, and last night Coach Otto Klum expressed his opinion that the roarin' Rain bows would come out on top. Backfleld Shattered Coach McEwan will present a patched up backfield to start the game, with the veteran Oregon line forming the forward wall. The Hawaiian mentor will start his regular lineup, with the fa mous “Rusty” Holt leading the at tack. Portland is on edge for the game, as a result of several radio pep rallies put on Thursday and Friday nights, and indications point to a near capacity crowd to witness the battle. The Rose city has taken on a bright ljue for the game, with Hawaiian players much in evidence with their beau tiful leis around their necks. Attack Threatening The Island team is expected to present one of the most versatile attacks ever witnessed on a coast gridiron, and Hiram Kaakua, the famous “Black Grange,’’ leading the line attack. Holt, Wise and MacFarlane will take care of the open field work, with Holt and Wise doing the most of the pass ing. The Hawaiian line looked very powerful in the workouts here, and the Islanders are given an even break to beat the Web foots. Coach McEwan has not inti mated his method of attack as yet, but he is again expected to rely on passes to win the battle. The Webfoots will be seriously hampered in their punting depart ment by the absence of Johnny Kitzmiller. EDISON MARSHALL WRITES OF AFRICA Edison Marshall, ’07, now a prominent novelist living in Augus ta, Georgia, has written a letter to W. F. G. Thacher, professor of advertising and English, telling of his experiences on a recent game hunting trip to Africa. Mr. Marshall describes one ex citing experience as follows: “A leopard ate my gun-bearer but left enough bones so that we could patch him together and send him to a hospital. But he came through all right and I got the leopard.” The Good Housekeeping maga zine has just published Mr. Mar shall's latest novel, “The Mission ary.” A prominent critic has been quoted as saying that Mr. Mar shall's fiction is studied as litera ture in more public schools than that of any other living author. Mr. Marshall is expected to visit Eugene sometime this winter on a tour of the northwest. He for merly lived in Medford, but left that city about two years ago to move to his present residence. Sociology Conference Holds First Meeting The sociology department held the first meeting of the “Com monwealth Conference” yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock in Johnson hall. Dr. Philip A. Parsons, head of the department, spoke at the meeting. The results of the dis cussions will be decided and an nounced Monday.