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The Emerald Is the Official Publication of The Associated Students VOLUME XXXJ UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1929 THE WEATHER Unsettled today, probably rain. Moderate southerly winds. Temperatures for Monday: Minimum . 31 Maximum . 61 Precipitation .04 NUMBER 40 Decision in Football Question May Not be Made During Season Petitions Are Circulated by Local Alumni Resignation Not as Yet Received, Insists President Hall Dr. Hall and Capt. McEwan Remain Silent With both Arnold Bennett Hall, president of the university, and Captain John J. McEwan, head football coach, maintaining a dis creet silence following the barage * of statements last week, the “Hall r McEwan Affair,” as the resigna tion of the coach has come to be known, rested last night and all appeared to be quiet along the western football front. In statements issued during the latter part of the week, Dr. Hall intimated that at the close of the season the contract renewal of Captain McEwan would be con sidered by university authorities along with any other candidates for the position, but that since no official resignation has been re ceived from the head coach, no action can be taken at the present time. Protest Weakens Meanwhile, however, the first outburst of protest with which the announcement was greeted by alumni and friends of the univer sity has trickled off into a variety of channels. Any peace move which might have been contem plated by university alumni of the state has definitely gone on the rocks, while the alumni of Eugene are redoubling their efforts to se cure some sort of a settlement and have issued petitions to that ef fect. According to John C. Veatch, oi Portland, president of the Univer sity of Oregon Alumni association, no official action will be taken by that body, and it is not probable that a mass meeting will be held in response to the demands of nu merous Portland alumni. Mr. Veatch talked to both Dr. Hall and Captain McEwan at Portland Saturday and has interviewed many alumni on the controversy. Grads Sign Petitions Several score of Oregon gradu ates have already signed one of the three “petitions” being circu lated by the alumni of Eugene, while business men and other citi zens in the downtown district are being solicited to sign the others. The petitions read: “Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, presi \ dent of the University of Oregon —We, the undersigned, believe it is to the best interests of the Uni versity of Oregon and all parties concerned that Capt. John J. Mc Ewan be retained as head coach of football at the University of Oregon, and that at this time he be given a contract to run for three or five years after the ex piration of his present contract upon terms as favorable to Capt. McEwan as his present contract.” While Captain McEwan is sched uled to speak at the rally this morning, it is not expected that he will say anything pertinent to the resignation issue, and the con sensus of opinion seems to have it that the matter will receive lit tle attention until the university administration takes action as re gards a coach at the end of the present football season. Spanish Class Has Mexican Luncheon A Mexican luncheon was given yesterday at the Anchorage for the members of the second-year Spanish class under Carl Furr, graduate assistant in the romance language department. The lunch eon consisted of hot tamales, en chilladas, chili con carne con fri joles, chili peppers and lettuce sal ad, boiled pears, and coffee and chocolate. Dr. Ray P. Bowen, head of the romance language department: Dr. Leavitt O. Wright, associate professor of romance languages, ' and other Spanish instructors were guests at the luncheon. Midnight Fires Guard Concrete Th rough Cold Eve EIGHTEEN bonfires, built on J the first floor of the liert Memorial Arts building, now under construction on Kincaid field, served to keep the newly poured concrete floors and walls from freezing d ; the recent cold weather, con struction foremen. The fires were laid c pro vised brick beds, and w t tept going ail night to kee £ In the big structure ab ® the freezing point. Floodlights were stn u for night work on the build) ^ <v eral evenings last week i q er to allow the concrete v rs to catch up with the c i ters, who were waiting to con struct forms for the walls of the third floor. Four Oregon Men Paint O.S.C. Halls Says Hugh Biggs Three Frosh and One Soph Found Guilty; Penalty Not Decided Efforts To Remove Yellow Paint Unsuccessful That it was students of the University of Oregon who plas tered several of the largest and best buildings on the Oregon State campus with paint leaving a per manent mar to its beauty was dis closed here yesterday when Hugh L. Biggs, assistant dean of men, announced that three freshmen and one sophomore were found guilty of the act. A definite penalty has not been agreed upon, and the names of those committing the act of van dalism have been withheld in an agreement made by the commit tee. The four men appeared be fore the student advisory commit tee of the university Monday af ternoon to present their case. As was disclosed in the hearing, the four students went over to Corvallis about 1 a. m. Tuesday, November 12, and performed their act. They returned to their places i on the campus about 3 a. m. Painting of the buildings was said to have been instigated by the blasting of the “O” on Skinner’s butte. Shortly after the act was com mitted, Tom Stoddard, student body president, investigated the damage done to the new buildings. He states that every effort has been made to remove the marks, but the yellow paint and the smeared words “to hell with O. A. C.” still loom. He also states that it will be necessary to paint the beautiful natural finish before the marks can be eradicated. Big Membership Drive Launched Today by W*A.A. All Girls Having Earned Hundred Points in Sports Eligible The Women’s Athletic Associa tion will open its annual member ship drive tomorrow, with Jessie | Puckett, vice-president, in charge, according to Mally Kurtz, presi ; dent. "Only those who have earned i 100 points in intramural competi tion can become members,” said | Mally Kurtz yesterday, "and no ' one who has earned points will get them unless she pays her $1.00 | membership dues.” One hundred ■ points are allowed for making a first team, 75 for second, and 50 for third. House representatives have been appointed in all the houses and | halls by Jessie Puckett. Four Students Try New System * * * * High Grades Permit Them To Do Special Work Four students in accounting, as a result of consistently high grades, are being allowed to study the accounting field for their own information, without being re sponsible for grades, it was an nounced recently by Dr. James A. Johnston of the school of business administration faculty. The students are Ronello B. Lewis, of Salem; Ernest A. Alme, of Astoria; and William H. Ayres and Sidney D. Hoffman of Eu gene. Dr. Johnston said that, as far as he knows, these four are the only students in the university who are studying under this sys tem. First of Tuesday Music Hours Will Be Held Tonight Informal Programs Will Feature Students and Faculty Talent Entertainment To Start at 7:15 P. M. Each Week Tuesday Music Hour. Get used to that expression because from 7:15 o’clock tonight on it belongs to the university. Convinced that much genuine enjoyment of the musical affairs of the school of music is missed, the school fac ulty is introducing on the campus a one-hour musical weekly pro gram, on Tuesdays, in which both students and faculty will appear. In place of the long-faced at mosphere of the formal recital there will be created an informal surrounding. The program will be short, and they will begin at 7:15 o’clock so the evening from about 8 o’clock on will not be taken. Series Announced George Hopkins, chairman of the recital committee, who has an nounced the series, expects that they may introduce a new era of student interest in music. All music students are required to at tend and the whole campus is urged to take advantage of the opportunity of enjoying the week ly programs. The program follows: Piano—Preludes, op. 28, num bers 1-10-23-22 (Chopin); Hugh Miller. Vocalists Named Voice—I Light the Blessed Can dles (David Proctor); Hark, Hark, the Lark (Schubert); Lucy Norton. Piano—Feu Fallet (James Rog ers); Sonata op. 2, number 2, 1st movement (Beethoven); Mary Ga ley. Violin—Concerto, E-flat major, 1st movement (Mozart); Beulah Wynd. Piano—Second Arabesque (De bussy); Marguerite Spath. Organ—Allegro from Sonata, op. 42 (Guilmat); Dorris Helen Pat terson. R.O.T.C. OFFICERS LISTED BY BARKER The appointment of 25 R. O. T. C. cadet officers and 87 corpor als for the ensuing year was an nounced today by Major F. A. Barker. The cadet officers, who are all advanced students in military are: captains, Joseph Erkenbrecher, William Fowler, F. S. Ison, George Jackson, Harold Kelley, Eugene Laird, Arlen McCarty, Crosby Owens, Lawrence Parks, Wilbur Peterkin, George Stager, Francis Sturgis, and Harvey Wright. First lieutenants are: B. F. Artau, Roy Ford, Lyle Grimes, Richard Har per, Phil Livesley, Karl Land struna, Wayne Mulguin, Warren Powell, James Raiey, Wilbur Shannon, and Clarence Veal. The corporals are selected from sophomores who have demon strated the best ability to com mand a squad. Six People Confined To Infirmary Cots At present there are Just six people confined in the infirmary. They are: Claude Carter, Fred El liot, Ruth Clark, Serena Rice, Bill Grigsby, and George Scblessor. Secretaries of C of C to Meet On Campus Dean Faville Attends Meet In Portland To Plan For Convention CUP TO BE PRESENTED Nine Topies To Be Studied By Delegates Plans for a three day course for secretaries of chambers of com merce, to be held on the campus in the spring were discussed at a meeting of the officers of the state association of chamber of com merce secretaries in Portland Sat urday, according to David E. Fa ville, dean of the school of busi ness administration, who attended the meeting. Announcement was also made of a cup to be presented to the secretary writing and reading at the spring meeting the best paper on the subject of Chamber of Commerce Organization. Christie Thomas, manager of the Seattle chamber of commerce, is donor of the cup. Judges are to be the president of the state association, Kent Shoemaker; Leonard Read of the U. S. chamber of commerce; and Dean Faville. Topics to be studied at the spring meeting are: “What com munities of the northwest can do to take advantage of the facili ties of the Federal Farm Board;” “Present status of cooperatives in the northwest;” “Field of activity of service clubs in relation to chambers of commerce;” "Meth ods chambers of commerce can use to cut tax levies;” “What lo cal chambers of commerce can do to promote overseas trade;” “What the business man expects from the chamber of commerce;” "What chambers of commerce can do to help the retail merchants;” and the question of state-wide adver tising. Representative secretaries from Washington, Oregon, and Califor nia will attend the three-day ses sion, Dean Faville said. Present at the meeting in Port land were Kent Shoemaker, presi dent of the state association, of Hood River; E. G. Harlan, assist ant manager; Leonard Read of the U. S. chamber of commerce; G. M. Hafenbrack, of Longview; A. D. S. Steele, Eugene; H. E. Cully, of the U. S. National bank of Port land; Lynn Sabin, Portland; Tal ent Flippin; A. L. Omacks; and Dean Faville. Squad to Head South Today for Two Toughest Games Scheduled; Rally Will Break Loose at 11:45 Final Rally To Be Staged This Morning Captain McEwan Promises To Speak Before Departure Send-off for Team* Is Set For 11:45 A. M. The last football send-off rally of the year will be held at Villard hall at 11:45 today when the Ore gon team boards the south-bound Cascade Limited for San Fran cisco, where it will meet St. Mary's on Thanksgiving day. Coach John J. McEwan, discard ing his usual policy of silence, has promised to make a short speech to the assembled rooters just be fore the train leaves, according to James Raley, general chairman of the rally committee. Permission has been obtained from the student advisory com mittee of the faculty and Karl W. Onthank, executive secretary of the university, for students who wish to attend the rally to leave their 11 o’clock classes five min utes early. The signal for the start of the rally will be the whine of sirens on fire trucks which will pass through the campus at 11 ;45, ac cording to Raley. Dick Givens ar ranged with the city fire depart ment for the loan of the trucks. Flag-Raising Done By Cadet Officers Three R. O. T. C. officers, Fran cis Sturgis, Arthur Rolander, and Wayne Mulguin, had charge of the flag-raising ceremony in Mult nomah stadium Saturday, preced ing the Oregon-Hawaii game. Before this the ceremony had been taken care of by the United States marine sergeants who are stationed in Portland. GREGORY BACK ON CAMPUS AFTER CONVENTION IN EAST * After an 11-day trip during which he attended the conven tion of Sigma Delta Chi, men’s professional journalism frater nity, Carl Gregory, president of the local chapter of Sigma Del ta Chi, returned to the campus Sunday. The convention was held at the University of Missouri, in Columbia, November 18, with delegates present representing 45 chapters of the fraternity present. The highlight of the conven tion was a discussiqn of free dom of the press, particularly as it applies to contempt of court charges brought against editors of papers criticizing ac tions of judges. The conven tion voted to ask alumni active in journalism to attempt to have incorporated into the laws of their respective states a res olution against such curtailing of the freedom of tlffe press. The Washington State col lege and University of Oregon chapters took first and second places, respectively, in the pro fessional achievement contest, while Oregon State and Oregon placed second and fifth in the efficiency contest. Gregory was chairman of the constitution committee at the convention. The duties of this committee were to propose new resolutions to the convention, and to enter the new laws in the constitution of the frater nity. Gregory introduced two reso lutions at the convention him self, the first, proposed by Dean Allen, of the school of journal ism, provided that Sigma Delta Chi chapters be allowed to ig nore the rule prohibiting the pledging of members of adver tising fraternities. This reso lution received the longest de bate of any introduced, and was finally defeated. Besides attending the con vention, Gregory stopped off in Chicago and witnessed the first half of the Notre Dame-South ern California football game and went through the Field mu seum. He also made a tour of the “loop.” He was taken through the plants of the Chi cago Tribune, St. Louis Dis patch, Kansas City Star, and Denver Post. The 1930 convention of Sigma Delta Chi will be held at Ohio State college, Columbus. YEARBOOK STAFF WILL MEET TODAY The complete editorial staff of the 1930 Oregana will meet today in room 104 Journalism at 4 o’clock. Lester McDonald asks that every one be present because the meet ing is perhaps the most important on the year. Anyone’who is not in attendance or who has not handed in a good excuse to the editor before the meeting will probably be dropped from the staff, since the work from now on must progress stead ily, McDonald stated. Dummies will be passed out to the section editors at the meeting. Stoddard a Busy Man, What With Dozen Or Two Meetings To Attend Every Week Student Committees Drop In To Fight Battles In Little Office By A. l. s. JJE’S the “meeting-est” man on the campus. Who ? Tom Stoddard. Meetings are his meat. He dotes on them. He gloats on them, does the stu dent body president. In his little cubby-hole of an office in Friendly hall, the genial prexy sits behind the desk and hears committee report after com mittee report, conducts meetings of the publications committee, the music or the athletic committee. An average of a dozen meetings every week! Here, too, he worries about stu dent body problems and passes judgment on weighty matters. No, Tom does not expect to join any luncheon clubs for a few years after he graduates. His week may start out with the music committee coming in to talk over the song contest. Next the rally directorate wants to know what’s to be done about that night's rally, and another meeting has to be called. Soon comes the finance commit tee with a tale of woe about, the problem of how many men to send on the football trip. Then Dean Biggs calls up Stoddard and an hour or two of conference follows. When he gets back to his office, Tom finds the graduate manager waiting with ill-concealed weapons to slay him for letting the finance committee send one too many foot ball subs to Pago Pago or Port lland. So the financiers have to Tom Stoddard be called in again to straighten out the difficulty. Their footsteps are scarcely cooled before the class presidents descend upon the cubby-hole of fice and demand a showdown on some subject of vital importance. Dr. Hall is consulted next about what he thinks the A. S. U. O.’s policy should be on library steps or post-game rallies. Tom takes a notch in his belt, straightens his tie with a charac teristic Stoddardian craning of neck, and holds a meeting with the presidents of houses, disposes of a high school directorate and tells the forensic committee their budget could be raised, then goes home to dinner. Afterward Tom goes back to bis ‘Nothing To Do?’ Shouts Prexy; Momentous Issues Decided office and after meeting with the student affairs committee decides the A. S. U. O. will not be respon sible for injuries happening to any man being initiated into a fra ternity. The faculty student af fairs committee also has ideas to be heard and considered. Bearing a grievance over paint splashed on their campus, student officials from a neighboring col lege arrive and another tribunal is staged in the 2x4 office and peace pacts signed. “Shucks,” says Stoddard to him self after these few meetings are over, “the week’s yet young.” And proceeds to consult with Karl Onthank, executive secretary, and Dean Biggs, drops a wise word or two to a delegation of Oregon Knights regarding frosh paddling, confers with the lecture commit tee just before going to interfra temity council meeting where they hope to reach some conclu sion on undercover rushing. Night has fallen and the stu dent body president can find noth ing more to do. He starts home. Suddenly, he turns around and hurries back to his phone in his little office. “Gimme 655,” he says. "Editor of the Emerald? This is Stoddard. Say, lay off that story in this morning s paper. The one that said, ‘Stoddard Haul Few Duties To Perform’.’* Kitz Will Return To Campus After Trip to Portland Flying Dutchman Unable To Make Trip East With Team Mates Though the business men of Eugene, through a gift showing their admiration and sympathy for Johnny Kitzmiller, have made it possible for him to take a trip home during the Christmas holi days, Kitz will be unable to go east according to a statement made by him at the Eugene hospi tal last night. It was at first thought that the “Flying Dutchman’’ would go east to Florida, with the team but his leg has not healed suffic iently to allow him to make the trip. To make sure that Kitzmiller would be able to spend the holi days with his family in Pennsyl vania, a group of Eugene business men, desiring to show Kitz how much they appreciated the spirit he has manifested throughout the years he has been a main cog in the Webfoot attack, and to ex press tneir sympathy for him in this time of disappointment col lected a fund to be presented to him in order to assure his going east. Dave Graham, graduate of the University of Oregon, and one of the business men who engineered the fund, presented the injured player with a check for $150 Sun day and when told that Kitz would be unable to take the trip he so desires, expressed his opin ion that as far as the donors were concerned he could do as he pleased with the money. Graham stated that the fund is growing and will continue to grow. Kitzmiller will leave the hospi tal Friday and undergo a thor ough examination by Dr. Richard B. Dillehunt, at Portland. After returning to Eugene he will re sume his studies on Monday, De cember 2. New Books Added To Library Rent Shelf Several new volumes have been added to the rent collection shelf in the library. Among them are Grank Bruna’s play, “Twelve Thousand,” and several novels including “Those Were the Days,” by A. A. Milne; “Beware After Dark,” by Everett Harre; “The Rebels,” by Alfred Neumann, and "Ultima Thule,” By Henry Richardson. 31 Players To Make Trip to SanFrancisco McEwan Forced To Handle Saint Mary’s Without Assistant Coach Complex Political Puzzle Confronts Varsity By JOE BROWN With bags plastered with green and yellow stickers furnished by Virgil Earl, the varsity squad, 31 strong, will climb aboard the Shasta today at 11:45, bound for San Francisco and the Thanksgiv ing day set-to with the powerful St. Mary's undefeated eleven. Until late last night Captain John J. McEwan was the only coach authorized to accompany the team to San Francisco. Line Coach Gene Shields, however, is in Florida now where he was sent last week to get a line on the Florida team, and will meet the squad when it cuts across the con tinent from California. Mike Gray, manager, will go as far as San Francisco with the team but will return from there after the St. Mary's game. Team for Trip Named Unless last minute changes are made, the men making the trip to San Francisco are: Ends — Woodie Archer, Jack Erdley, Walt Browne, Harry Wood, Steve Fletcher, and Lloyd Sherrel. Centers: Eric Forsta, Shirley Carter, and Bill Anater. Tackles — George Christensen, Austin Colbert, Irvin Schultz, Ralph Bates, and Pat Lucas. Guards — Jerry Lillie, Marshall Shields, Sy West, Gilbert French, and Ted Park. Backs—Dave Mason, A1 Browne, Hal Hatton, Johnny Londahl, John Donahue, Chuck Williams, Ed Moeller, Bobby Robinson, Red Hill, Chuck Spear, Ridge Johnston, and Wally Shearer. The faculty has authorized Cap tain McEwan to take at least 26 men to Florida with him from San Francisco, and has promised to let him take 28 men if there is a large enough crowd out to see the St. Mary's game. Rule Enforced Yesterday afternoon it was even more definitely decided by the fac ulty advisory committee that Col bert, Shultz, and Spear would not be allowed to be away from their studies long enough for the Flor ida trip. The reason for the sec ond meeting was that over the week-end all three of the players in question were able to catch up enough on their delinquent courses to get statements from their in structors that there was no dan ger of their flunking out of school if they took the Florida trip. The coaching staff is in a quandary as to just how to handle the situation. It is very desirable to them that 28 men instead of 26 be taken to Florida, because without Kitzmiller and Stadelman, who are injured, and Robinson, Williams, Colbert, Schultz, and Spear, who will have to be left in San Francisco for political rea sons, the team will need all the reserves it can possibly get hold of to fight the really tough Uni versity of Florida team. Group Undecided The trouble is that up until after 10 o’clock last night no word had come from university authorities telling the coaches where they were going to get the extra two men down in San Francisco to make up 28 men after five have been deducted from the 31, if the committee of Prexy Hall, Jack Benefiel, and Virgil Earl should happen to see the finances of the St. Mary’s enterprise seem to be shaping up all right. If two extra men make the trip, they will probably be Hank Hey (Continued on Pago Two)
