The Emerald I9 the
Official Publication of
The Associated Students
VOLUME XXXJ
THE WEATHER
Oregon: Increasing cloudiness
today, rains west portion. In
creasing southerly winds.
Temperatures Monday:
Maximum . 43
Minimum . 32
Trecipitation . Trace
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1929
NUMBER 42
Program Announced
For Second Informal
Tuesday Music Hour
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Faculty Say
Idea Liked
By Students
George Hopkins Prepares
Series of Concerts
For Public
Presentation To Be Last of
Term, Say Officials
With the ice broken as a result
of last week's successful program,
there will be a large attendance
at tonight’s Tuesday Music Hour,
faculty members at the school of
music believe.
“I believe the idea is appealing
to the students," commented
George Hopkins, chairman of the
recital committee yesterday after
noon in announcing tonight’s pro
gram.
The concert will begin at 7:15
o’clock and will be over about 8
o’clock.
Organ Numbers Set
Organ numbers by Claribel
Clark and Allan Scovell and groups
of vocal and piano numbers will
be given.
“All music students are attend
ing the programs and we are urg
ing all of the campus to enjoy
these hours,’’ said Mr. Hopkins.
He is giving particular attention
to the selection of varied programs
and to the presentation of them
in an informal lively manner.
This will be the last one of the
term.
Tonight’s selections follow:
Piano
Three part invention No.
3 . Bach
Polonaise Militaire .Chopin
Helene Robinson
Organ—
Tocatta and Fugue in
D-Minor .Bach
Allan Scovell
Piano—
Mazurka .Leschetizky
Norma Lyon
Numbers Varied
Voice
Two Salt Water Ballads
.Frederick Keel
Tnvictus.Bruno Huhn
Piano—
Impromptu in F-Sharp
Minor.'..Chopin
Gladys Foster
Violin—
Hejre Kati .Hubay
Preludium and Allegro
. Pugnani-Kreisler
Esther Wicks
Organ—
Allegro from Third Sonata
. Guilmant
Claribel Clark
OLD PORTRAITS
NOW ON DISPLAY
A rare collection of etching,
prints and photographs of well
known men in economic history is
now open to display in the main
reading room of the old library.
The portraits are the property of
Dr. John R. Mez.
This collection is there primarily
for the benefit of those taking the
course in the history of economic
thought, which Dr. Mez is giving.
There are also several volumes
on the subject of economics. An
early edition of “The Wealth of
Nations,” written by Adam Smith
and published in 1797, is among
them.
Portraits of such well-known
men as Adam Smith, the great
economist, Karl Mark, Socialist,
Henry George, the single-tax ad
visor, and Robert Owen, the father
of co-operation, are included in
this collection.
Psychology Club To
Meet Thursday Night
A meeting of the Psychology
club will be held Thursday eve
ing, December 5, at 7:30 in room
301 Condon hall. Dr. Ernest Gell
horn, professor of animal biology',
will speak on “The Qualitative As
pect of Negative Afterimages.’’
Slides will illustrate the lecture.
Girls Locked
In Delta Zeta’s
Dressing Clozel
ONSTEItNATION reigned In
the Delta Zeta house Satur
day when Naomi Cobb, a
pledge, and Hildred, her sister
who was visiting here from
California, l>eeame locked in
the pressing closet. The two
girls wrere working in the closet
when the door was closed a
refused to open.
After two strong men hat
failed to open it, a call was
sent out to a downtown hard
ware store and a locksmith ar
rived in time to get the girls
out before dinner.
Committees Are
Chosen for the
Christmas Hop
Foreign Scholarship Fund
Head Names College
Ball Workers
The appointment of committees
to assist chairmen in charge of
the Christmas College Ball was
announced last
; night by Flor
Nnce McNerney,
chairman of the
foreign scholar
ship fund com
mittee of the
Women’s League
and m a n a g ing
| the ball. The
| dance will be
;held at the Mult
| nomah hotel in
• Portland, Decern
Dorothy Kirk
ber 28, she also
announced.
Chairmen of the committees were
chosen last week.
To work with Dorothy Kirk on
publicity are Elaine Henderson
and Louise Smith. Alberta Rives
and Gladys Clausen will help Har
riet Kibbee, who is chairman of
the finance "committee. Selecting
of patrons and patronesses for the
affair will be done by Bess Tem
pleton and her committee, com
posed of Eleanor Flanagan and
Edwina Grebel. These committees
have already started functioning.
The Christmas College Ball is
an annual affair held by the Wom
en’s League for college students,
alumni, and friends of the Univer
sity, and is the biggest social event
which the University sponsors in
Portland. The profits realized
from the dance, together with
those from the three dime crawls
held during the year, are used to
bring a foreign scholar to the
campus every year. This yeaf
Elizabeth Morwood from Ireland is
the recipient of the scholarship.
Luise Huls, a German student, was
here last year.
OFFICIALS RETURN
FROM TRIP SOUTH
After driving down to San
Francisco to see the Oregon-St.
Mary’s Thanksgiving day game,
Karl W. Onthank, executive sec
retary, Dean John J. Landsbury,
and Professor Rex Underwood re
turned to the campus Monday aft
ernoon. Besides attending the
game they went to several con
ferences in tire bay city and saw
the football team off to Florida.
Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, presi
dent of the University, who also
went south for the game and con
ferences, will return sometime to
day, according to Mr. Onthank.
Air Maps Received by
Geology Department
( Air maps of various important
routes flown by planes in the Unit
ed States have been received • by
the geology department from the
federal department of commerce
The several maps are printed on
heavy paper approximately a foot
i wide by several feet long and
1 show the topographic features of
; the ground with various landing
I fields, lights, beacons, and fueling
• stations depicted in colors.
One-Third of
Student Body
Load Hours
Statistics Release Shows
904 Carrying Over
Normal 16 Units
FAVOR LIGHT WORK
Specialized Work Takes
Few Below Mark of
14 Credits
Although a normal course of 1G
hours per term will leave six hours
-> spare over the number required
r graduation at the end of four
a
p*
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3
Ci
ea
eat
for
irs, 904, or one-third of the
ient body, take more than that
ber, statistics released by Earl
’allett, registrar, show. The
rsity requirement for gradu
's 186, of which six shall be
deal education. A student
•aduate by taking 15 hours
•m, plus an added hour
l for the first two years
...asium.
Few Laden
Although students taking more
than 15 hours copld speed up their
graduation by a term or more,
few prefer to do this, it is pointed
out. Most of them remain for the
four years and then graduate with
several hours to spare. This is
because there are many subjects
in which they are isterested and
the average student is not satis
fied merely to just “get by,” offi
cials say.
One-third Take Normal
Nearly one-third of the students
take 16 hours per term, 953 com
ing under this classification. Only
531 take 15, and but 205 are en
rolled' in 14. Only a few students
take less than 14, and many of
these are either working or are
doing highly specialized work in
a few courses.
Students taking the maximum
number of hours, 17, number 301.
These must maintain a high scho
lastic average- or credit is given
for but 16, according to regula
tions.
Curtis Peterson,
Oregon Alumnus,
Heard Over Air
Grad Is Now Supervisor
Of Announcers at
Station WJZ
Over station WJZ in New York
City, headquarters of the National
Broadcasting company, comes the
voice of Curtis A. Peterson, Uni
versity of Oregon graduate of ’20.
“Curt,” who is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. P. Augustus Peterson of Eu
gene, has attained, within three
years’ service in the company, the
position of supervisor of announc
ers and manager of schedules. He
has acquired great popularity in
radio circles and was selected as
the announcer to inform the Unit
ed states of the entrance of the
Graf Zeppelin into New York.
Besides his ability for announc
ing, Peterson possesses a rich bari
tone voice and frequently sings
over the station. As a student in
the university, he was president of
the men’s glee club; and after his
graduation, he studied vofce under
Percy Rector Stephens, well-known
New York musician. For two
years following, he acted as head
of the vocal department of Miss
Mason’s Castle-on-the-Hudson at
Tarrytown, New York.
BOOK OF FRENCH
WORDS RECEIVED
A copy of the French Word Book
for 1929 has just been received by
the Romance language depart
ment. Dr. Ray P. Bowen, head of
the department, is listed as one of
the collaborators of the last edi
tion.
This book contains a frequency
word list based upon the study of
both school texts and French
books, particularly fiction. Al
most 400,000 French words were
counted and listed both alphabeti
cally and according to their fre
quency index.
This book is one of the publica
tions of the Modern French Lan
guage Study, and is put out by
the American and Canadian Com
mittee on Modern Languages,
On thank, One-time Emerald Editor,
Recounts His Early Experiences
Shoot Printed Down Town;
| Executive Secretory Sees
I Advancement of Paper
Through Passing Years
JJUSHING typo forms for tho
next issue of the Emerald
from one print shop to another
in the middle of the night when
the press broke down was mere
ly one of the little worries that
the editor had on his mind in
the days when the Emerald was
a tri-weekly, if one is to be
lieve Karl W. Onthank, execu
tive secretary of the university,
who was editor of the paper in
1913.
“The Emerald was printed on
a little one-horse press downtown
then, and every once in a while
the press would break down. I
remember quite distinctly packing
forms over to another shop in a
wheelbarrow one night,” he said.
“I spent much of my time that
year tearing between town and
the campus on a bicycle with copy
under my arms and my coattails
flying.”
The executive secretary was in
terested in journalism when in
high school, having started the
monthly paper which later became
the high school annual at Hood
River. While still a freshman in
college he was put on the Emerald
staff. Writing up a scrap between
the Oregon football coach’s pet
bulldog and some logger’s brute
made a hit with the editor and
resulted in Onthanks appoint
ment as a reporter. He con
tinued to work on the staff all
during college, except during his
junior year, when he was editor of
the Oregana and was forced to
devote most of his time to that.
When Mr. Onthank was a fresh
man in the university in 1909 the
college paper had just been chang
ed from “The Oregon Weekly,” as
it was called, to a semi-weekly
publication. The editor that year
gave it the name “Emerald,” tak
ing it from a poem by Joaquin
Miller in which he called Oregon
the “emerald” state.
Changing the Emerald from a
semi-weekly to a three-times-a
week paper with six five-column
pages was an innovation the execu
tive secretary introduced in his
regime as editor. It was not un
til several years later that it be
came a daily; for a while even
six issues a week were published.
“There wasn’t much of a staff
in those days,” Mr. Onthank said.
“The editor and a few assistants
did all the work. The Emerald
printed only straight news. Fea
ture journalism had developed
only a little, even in the large
metropolitan newspapers, and our
publication was quite amateurish.”
Editor of the Emerald is now
considered a big enough job for
any one man to hold down during
his college career. In addition to
that position, however, Mr. On
thank edited the Oregana during
his junior year. “The publishing
of the Oregana'was distinctly a
junior class activity,” he stated.
“We doubled the size of the book
that year, and besides putting out
the biggest year book v/e put out
the first year book to be printed
in Eugene. Yoran and Lole, prede
cessors of Koke-Chapman, put in
a new press and new equipment
to print the book. With Andy Ool
(Continued on Pape Three)
Early
Editor
KARL W. ONTHANK
Average Student
In University Is
20 Years of Age
Youngest Person Only 15
While 66 Are Over 28;
Many Past 21
Twelve Seniors 19 Years
Old, Figures Show
Student ages in the University
of Oregon average twenty years,
figures released Monday by Earl
M. Pallett, registrar, show. One
student is only 15 and 11 students
are 16 years of age. Sixty-six
students doing full time work are
over 2S, the highest age used in
the statistics.
There are 579 students in the
University claiming the age of 20,
selected as the median. There are
577 students claiming 19 as their
age. Those claiming the legal age
of 21 number 460, and 417 claim
the age of 18. The age of 22
ranks fifth, with 274 students; 198
are 23, and 110 are 24, with the
age of 17 being slightly more pop
ular, there being 126 of these.
The single 15-year-old student is
a freshman, as are ten of the 11
16-year-olds, the other being a
sophomore. Among the 126 17
year-olds, 120 are freshmen and
six are sophomores. Four of the
417 18-year-olds are juniors, who
must have entered at the age of
15 or have made unusually rapid
progress.
Twelve seniors are 19 years of
age, and these must have entered
at the age of 15 or have made up
time during their college career.
Nine of these are women and three
are men. Four graduate students
this year are 20 years of age, and
there are 68 seniors who claim
this age.
IIuffaker Addresses
Bend School Board
Dr. C. L. Huffaker of the school
of education gave a talk last
night before the Bend school board
on their building and financial pro
gram. Dr. Huffaker is making a
survey of the Bend schools.
Fast Team, Says Sporls Man;
Flits to Frisco to Watch Game
By HARRY VAN DINE
uWTE'LL be above this fog in
T fifteen minutes.”
It was Walter A. Case, veteran
pilot of the West Coast Air Trans
port Corporation, speaking to a
group of seven persons waiting to
board one of the big tri-motored
Fokker passenger planes at the
Swan Island airport in Portland.
Mechanics were swarming around
the giant ship, putting the final
touches on the plane before it took
off on its long flight to Oakland.
The motors were purring smoothly
after being warmed up, and Case
soon informed the passengers that
it was time to leave.
Co-pilot Joe Smith, good-looking
and a veteran of the air at 20
years of age, climbed into the
cockpit beside Case, and the dis
patcher gave the signal to start.
The big ship taxied gently down
to the far end of the field and
turned into the wind. Case gave
a final test to each of his three
motors and then opened all three
throttles wide. The giant Fokker
raced down the field and we were
in the air before we realized we
had left the ground. The plane
rose steadily, and we were soon
swallowed up in the fog. At 2,500
feet we were above the fog and
the tops of the surrounding moun
tains sparkled in the bright fog.
The air speed indicator showed
that we were travelling 105 miles
an hour, and we were still climb
ing:- o
Case climbed his ship to 10,500
feet and the air was very smooth
at that height, the motors hummed
along smoothly and we were trav
elling 125 miles an hour. One
hour after leaving Portland we
were abreast of Eugene and the
fog cleared a little, another hour
(Continued on Page Twol
Arthur Gray
To Play Lead
In Guild Play
Twenty-five Characters Are
Chosen From Class
In Acting
DECEMBER 6 AND 7 SET
Production Will Include
Many Novel Scenes
And Large Cast \
The cast for the production of
John Galsworthy's “Escape,”
which is to be given at Guild thea
tre on the nights of December 6
and 7 by the class in technique of
acting, was announced today. It
is the largest cast that has been
used in a production on the cam
pus, embracing as it does 25 char
acters. They are named as fol
lows, in the order of their appear
ance:
The central figure, that of Cap
tain Matt Denant, an escaped con
vict about whom the play is built,
will be played by Arthur Gray.
Denant appears in every scene of
the play, and is the only character
to do so. “Escape” is written in
ten parts.
A Prologue and Nine Episodes
In the prologue, the girl of the
town, by Florence McNerney on
Friday night, and Sally Runes on
Saturday night; the plain clothes
man, George Anderson; and the
two policemen, Boone Hendricks
and Ethan Newman.
In episode 1, the fellow convict,
Jack Waldron; and the warder,
Robert Miller.
In episode 2, the second parder,
James Lyons. In episode 3, the
lady, Nancy Thielsen; the maid,
Albertina Hankey. In episode 4,
the old gentleman, Cecil Matson.
In episode 4, the four picnick
ers; the wife, Doralis May; the
captain, George Anderson; the sis
ter, Norma Jacobs; and the shop
keeper, Jack Waldron.
Episode 6 Set
In episode 6, the man in plus
fours, James Lyons; his wife,
Renee-Grayce Nelson; the village
constable, Addison Brockman.
In episode 7, the first laborer,
Gene Love; the second laborer,
Miles Shaw; the farmer, Robert
Miller; and the little girl, by Jean
Williams on Friday night, and
Bessie Davie on Saturday night.
In episode 8, the maiden ladies,
Miss Dora, by Margaret Turner
on Friday night, and Elizabeth
Thacher on Saturday night; Miss
Grace, by Celene Lauterstein on
Friday night, and Loleta Jaeger
on Saturday night.
In episode 9, the parson, Kermit
Stevens; and the bellringer, Jack
Waldron.
McKennon Manager
The business manager for the
play is Cleta McKennon; the prop
erties are in charge of Celen Lau
terstein, and the lighting has been
arranged by Jan van der Vate.
The play, which has been in re
hearsal for the large part of the
term, is an interesting and unus
ual one, and considerable interest
has been aroused over its produc
tion. The unusual number of
scenes employed, the large size of
the cast, and the novelty of the
sets being used for the first time
with this production, all combine
to make it very interesting to the
public, according to Cecil Matson,
instructor in the department of
dramatics.
This is in addition to the fact
that it is one of Galsworthy’s best
known dramas, and that it pre
sents a problem new and interest
ing to the theatre goer, that of
the relation of the convict to so
ciety.
CONTEST FOR SONGS
TO CLOSE FRIDAY
Speakers will visit living organ
izations at noon today to advertise
details of the Oregon song contest
now being conducted by the stu
dent body music committee.
Competition for words for new
Oregon songs closes Friday, and
the committee is desirous of hav
ing as many manuscripts to Judge
fiom as possible in picking the
three which shall receive the $5
prizes offered by the student body
and the co-op board.
Eleanor Flanagan is general
chairman for the contest. Manu
scripts should be turned in to her
or to the graduate manager’s of
fice in Friendly hall,
Team’s Condition O.K.
Says Cap. McEwan After
Workout at Atlanta
Four Patients
Eat Turkey in
Infirmary Beds
pOlIR patients were confined
to the infirmary yesterday.
They are Rockwell Royers, who
Ims the mumps, Dorothy Page,
Jack Cote, and Tom Handley,
all who are ill with colds.
Four other students spent
Thanksgiving in the infirmary,
according to the nurse.
Muller Completes
First Chapter of
Philosophy Book
Babbitry Is Found Among
American Middle
Social Class
Article To Be Printed in
Swiss ami German
That the condition of so-called
“Babbittry” among the American
middle class social group is not
confined to America alone is the
opinion expressed by Gu-utav Mul
ler, assistant professor of philos
ophy in the University of Oregon.
“There are Babbits in Germany
and Switzerland and other Euro
pean countries just as there are
here," he said when interviewed
this week.
Professor Muller has just re
ceived proof sheets on his article.
“Henry Adams, an American Phil
osophy of History,” written in
German and soon to be printed in
a magazine in Berne, Switzerland.
The article was the first of a ser
ies to be printed in Swiss and
German magazines, and will be
the first chapter of a book on
philosophy and social conditions
in the United States to be pub
lished within a few months in Ger
many.
At Oregon Five Years
No dilletante in the field of let
ters, he has had numerous articles
and plays published on the conti
nent and has even written several
technical papers and a text on
philosophy in the English lan
guage. He has been on the Ore
gon staff for five years, having
come here five years ago from
Switzerland.
“Although social conditions in
the United States find somewhat
different expression than in many
European countries, I find that
the same problems are confronted
on both continents and that the
philosophical background is much
the same,” he said.
His book will trace the develop- !
ment of American philosophy from
the period of Puritanism, through
that of transcendentalism and
down to the present period of
idealism and pregmatation, all
technical terms and all indicative
of the fact that the book is being
written for the philosophy student
and not for the lay mind.
FRESHMAN WOMEN
BEAT FACULTY TEAM
The freshman first team defeat
ed the faculty team in the volley
ball game played last night in the
women’s gym, the score being
35-34.
At the end of this week mem
bers of all the teams will select
members of all-star teams, sub
ject to the approval of the coach
and the head of the sport, accord
ing to Miss Phyllis Gove, coach.
The junior first team defeated
the senior first team to stop a los
ing streak they had last week. The
score was 39-32, and was close
and exciting. The sophomore first
team had little trouble disposing
of the freshman second team, 46
25 in the other game played last
evening.
Dean Allen Expected
To Meet Classes Today
Dean Eric W. Allen, of the
school of journalism, was confined
to his home yesterday with a bad
cold, and did not meet his classes.
He is expected to return today.
South Gives
Oregon Team
Big Welcome
Broken Rib Will Not Keep
Archer on Bench;
Forsla Well
Miami Reports Ticket Sales
Very Heavy
Coach John J. McEwan and his
band of wandering Webfoots will
arrive in Atlanta, Georgia, this
morning on a side trip on their
way to Miami, Florida, to meet
the strong University of Florida
'Gators. The Webfoots spent yes
terday in New Orleans, where
they were lavishly entertained by
civic officials. Coach McEwan
sent his squad of 28 players
through a brisk workout in the
southern city and latest reports
have it that all men are in good
physical condition.
There is one small matter which
resulted from the St. Mary’s game
which was not made public and
that was a broken rib which Wood
ie Archer, regular end, suffered.
The injury, although painful, will
not keep the Oregon wingman out.
of the Florida game. Archer
played a great game against the
Gaels, and repeatedly broke up
their strong end runs.
Team To Leave Atlanta
McEwan and his band of husk
ies will resume their leisurely way
through the southland tonight
when they entrain from Atlanta
for Jacksonville, where they are
scheduled to arrive Wednesday
morning. They will spend two
days in Jacksonville and will work
out there.
The attack of appendicitis suf
fered by Eric Forsta, regular cen
ter, has disappeared, and he will
be in good shape to play against
the ’Gators. George Stadleman,
the veteran pivot man who was
injured in the Idaho game, has
been working out with the squad
of late, but it is doubtful whether
he will be used much in the game
Saturday.
Few Seats Remain
Reports coming from Miami in
cate that the standing room only
sign will soon be hung out as
there are only a few remaining
seats for the game. It is to be a
big day in Miami and the Web
foots will be the center of attrac
tion. The Oregon squad will re
main in the southern city until
Sunday night, when they will start
on their lonk trek homeward.
While their team mates are En
joying themselves on their trip,
Austin Colbert, Irvin Schulz, a?id
Chuck Spear, who were declared
ineligible to make the Florida trip,
are back on the campus resuming
their school work after journey
ing to San Francisco to play
against St. Mary's. Coach Mc
Ewan will seriously feel the loss
of these three men and he will
have to devise an entirely new
line attack to plug up the hold
left vacant by Colbert’s loss.
HUGHES TO SERVE
ON COMMITTEE
To serve on the conference com
mittee in planning and organizing
the Seabeck conference held an
nually the latter part of June by
the Y. W. C. A. at Seabeck, Wash
ington, Daphne Hughes was elect
ed at a meeting of delegates of
the Seabeck division held in Ta
coma Friday and Saturday of last
week.
Margaret Edmunson, chairman
of the Seabeck division, compris
ing Oregon, Washington, Idaho
and Montana, and Daphne Hughes
were the delegates from the cam
pus. Miss Edmunson was chair
man of the conference committee
last year, and this year will be an
ex-officio member in her position
as chairman of the division.
The conference committee, with
the assistance of Marcia Seeber,
national student secretary for the
Seabeck division, will make com
plete plans for holding this year's
Seabeck conference.