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VOLUME XXXT UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1929 NUMBER 43 Winners of Plaque and Cup Named Alpha Chi Omega, Sigma Alpha Mu Cap Highest Yearly Average GIRLS’ GROUP RETAINS Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Sigma Kappa Plaee Second lit Men’s Race Alpha Chi Omega, with a house average of 51.920, and Sigma Alpha Mu, with an average of 45.00G, were announced yesterday hy Registrar Earl M. Pallett to he the winners of the trophies awarded annually to the sorority and fraternity having the highest grade average for the preceding year. Alpha Chi Omega will thus i retain possession of the Pan-Hel lenic scholarship trophy which it has held for the past year. Plil Kappa Psi Close Phi Kappa Psi, with an average of 44.788 grade points, was run ner-up to Sigma Mu, formerly Delta Epsilon, in the contest for the plaque awarded to the highest man’s house. Phi Sigma Kappa, highest ranking fraternity last year, took third honors. An unusually close finish char acterized the race among the women’s houses, v/ith four houses receiving grade averages of better than 50 points. Alpha Delta Pi, winner of second place, made 51.649 grade points, and was fol lowed by Sigma Kappa, with 43.846 points, and Delta Gamma, with 50.631 points. Award Tomorrow The woman's cup will be award ed tomorrow afternoon at the I Woman’s League tea at Gerlinger hall. No formal presentation of the fraternity trophy will be made, inasmuch as the Pledge day assembly, at which the presenta tion is usually made, was held earlier in the term than usual. Halls and dormitories are not included in this contest, since the trophies are not awarded by the University, but by Portland Alum ni groups, and the donors have specified that the competing or ganizations must be members of the Pan-Hellenic and Interfrater nity councils. The Pan-Hellenic scholarship cup was donated in 1916 by the Portland alumni of Chi Omega and the men’s plaque was given last year by the alumni of Sigma Nu fraternity. Alpha Chi Omega has been a consistent winner, taking first honors in 1920, 1921, 1922, and 1923, and 1928. RAINDROPS START < FALL AFTER FOG After a seige of dense fog last ing for several hours yesterday evening, first rain was felt about 11 o’clock, last night. Fog has hovered over Eugene and vicinity for days since the beginning of Thanksgiving vacation. I Put Fight in Oregon Eleven With Telegrams rp H E Oregon spirit which backs the football team at home and follows it abroad when it goes out in conquest will have a long way to travel to Miami, Florida. However, tck*grams sent Thursday night to the Oregon warriors will in spire them with fight as noth ing but a cheering section could. Take this opportunity to transplant Oregon spirit to the Miami atmosphere. Education Scliot Alumni Will Me © On December I _ o a 200 Grads Expected § Big Annual Meetin ® In Portland 3 President Hall To Speak Before Gathering Plans for the big annual meet ing for all alumni engaging in teaching are now under way by the school of education, the exten sion division, and the University of Oregon alumni association. This year it will be held in Portland on December 27 in Lincoln high school. Miss Jeanette Calkins, editor of “Old Oregon,” and W. G. Beattie, assistant head of the extension di vision, are working out the pro gram. Among the speakers will be Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, presi dent of the University, and £)r. H. D. Sheldon, head of the school of education. As a special feature, an attempt is being made to obtain two quar tets—one formed of members of glee clubs of long ago—and the other of present members. John Veatch, president of the alumni association, will preside. This Christmas meeting, accord ing to Alfred Powers, dean of the extension division, will be the big gest alumni meeting of the year. Over 200 alums are expected to be there. FRESHMAN GROUP PLANS MEETINGS The meetings of the frosh com mission discussion groups to be held this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon will be the last this term, it was announced yesterday by Dorothy Thomas, secretary of the Y. W. C. A. The groups have been discussing activities and this week will take up the subject of friendships. The groups led by Dorothy Kirk and Diana Deininger will meet at 4 o’clock today at Westminster house. Tomorrow Dorothy Turn er’s group will meet in the Wo men’s lounge of Gerlinger hall, Lorena Wilson’s in the Men’s lounge of the hall, Alice Spurgin’s and Margaret Looney’s in West minster house, and that of Mar guerite Mauzey in the Y. W. bun galow. All these groups will meet at 4. Peter Rabbit Quakes, Three Bears Growl at Educators Mother Goose is on the pan again, the three bears are put un der fire by educators in different parts of the United States and the whole squabble revolves around < the question of whether children should read fairy tales for the amusement or should be fed fairy tales which point out the benefits of eating spinach and cornmeal mush. “They need a little bit of both, I'd say,” opines Professor C. L. Jluffaker, of the school of educa tion. It has never been proved, he says, that children get any great benefit from reading stor ies in which the little boy eats spinach and brushes his teeth three times a day and grows up to be an Oregon football star, or at least whizzes on the Vassar hockey team. Any educator will tell you chil dren need a chance and the incen tive to apply the ideals and atti tudes which they learn from their lessons in classes. “If you don’t let children read Peter Rabbit and Jack the Giant Killer stories, they will sneak off and read them anyway,” declares Dean Henry D. Sheldon. “Fairy tales develop the child’s imagina tion and are valuable as a recrea tion for them. “You don’t have to leave the spinach angle out of the tales en tirely, but I believe the best re sults are in teaching ideals and general attitudes of honesty or bravery or rewards for hard work.” Among the fictional characters attacked by some educators are Goldilocks, Oswald the Rabbit, Snow White and Rose Red and other creations by Hans- Christian Anderson, the Brothers Grimm and Aesop. Miss Marie Duggan of Columbia university recently suggested such (Continued on Page Three) Mrs. Warner Praised for Contributions Pacific Relations Conclave Pleased With Work Of Art Director PRESIDENT HALL BACK University Head Attends Meeting of Institute At San Francisco Mrs. Murray Warner, director of the Oregon Museum of Fine Arts, was highly praised for her contribution to the Institute of Pacific Relations conference, held this summer in Kyoto, Japan, ac cording to Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, who returned last night from San Francisco, where he attended a special meeting of the American group of institute delegates. Dr. Hall is a member of the executive is a member of the executive committee and the board of direc tors of the American section and is also on the education committee of the organization. Regarded as an outstanding au thority on oriental art, Mrs. War ner is nationally known for her work in founding and directing the Oregon Museum of Fine Arts, to which she has contributed the Murray Warner collection of ori ental art. Delegates returning from this summer’s conference are very en thusiastic over the work done by the institute at Kyoto, Dr. Hall said. Prominent Japanese de clared that the session has ad vanced the cause of liberalism in Japan at least ten years, and has helped to clear up the interna tional situation in that section of the world. The next conclave of the insti tute will be held in China in two years at a city to be chosen later. It is felt that the object of the group, which is to frankly and fearlessly search for facts, can be best accomplished in the region where most of the problems arise. PHI BETA KAPPA DATE IS CHANGED The Phi Beta Kappa initiation and banquet has been postponed from Thursday evening until Wed nesday, December 11, because of a conflict with the A. S. U. O. con cert in which Paul Kochanski, vio linist, will be presented. Richard W. Montague, of Portland, has been secured by members of Phi Beta Kappa, as the main speaker for the banquet. His subject will be "A Task for the Scholar in Times of Confusion.” Initiation will take place in Al umni hall at 6 o’clock. Those who will be initiated include Mary Klemm. Naomi Hohman, LaWan da Fenlason, Katherine Karpen stein, Jeanette Edge, and Earl Landstrom. VACANCIES FILLED AT CABINET MEET Wayne Robinson was elected vice-president of the student Y. M. C. A. at a cabinet meeting yes terday afternoon in the Y hut. He fills the vacancy left when Hal Henderson did not return to school. Shailer Peterson was chosen as a student member of the advisory board in place of Allison Bristol, who also is not in school this term. Francis Jones and Emmett Os troot are working on the selection of a radio set for the hut. Several models have been tried and a set will be permanently installed soon. Blayne Brewer has secured six new paddles for the ping-pong tables. F. S. Dunn Will Read Paper at Conference “Commius the Atrebate” is the subject of a paper to be read by Professor F. S. Dunn, of the ro mance language department, at the meeting of the Classical Asso ciation of the Pacific States with the Northern Section, of which Mr. Dunn is president. The meet ing is to be held at Seattle, De cember 30 and 31. Commius was a Gallic chieftain who almost overcame Caesar at one time, and who has a fascinat ing history and checkered career, says Professor Dunn, and is the most spectacular of the rebel Gal lic chieftains. Famous Aggie Wins Renown As Oregon Co-ed S. C. takes another beat ing; at the hands of the Uni versity of Oregon, but not in football this time. In a letter reeeived at the Emerald office from College Humor, it was stated: “Dorothy Crawford of Oregon City, student at the University of Oregon, has been awarded the distinction of being chosen for the Collegiate Hall of Fame in the current issue of College Humor Magazine.” Along with her other accomplishments she is quoted as being assistant alitor of the Barometer, ORE GON'S daily newspaper. It all goes to prove that al though their cows and poultry at O. S. C. may be known the country over for their sterling qualities, it takes the Univer sity of Oregon to get credit for fair women. Varsity Debaters To Meet Today r For Discussion Plans for Coming Season, Year’s Question Will Occupy Time Men’s Squad To Gather in R. C. Hoeber’s Office The men’s varsity debate squad will meet in Dr. R. C. Hoeber's of fice in Friendly hall at 7:30 this evening to discuss the general sur vey df the debate season and the question which will be used this year, which is, “Resolved, that the nations should adopt a plan of complete disarmament excepting such forces as are needed for po lice protection.” This question is an important one, according to Dr. Hoeber, and it is his intent that every man who works on the question must read up on the entire topic rather than any separate part of it. The pol icy of the coaches this year is to use as many men as possible and assign each to the side that he prefers. Meetings will- be held once a week starting at the beginning of the winter term. One more ses sion will be held before the end of this term, however. The Oregon cross-question will be used in the debates this year wherever possible. In other cases a combination of this system and that of the informal Oxford style will be used. Many colleges and universities are interested in the Oregon style of debate, and, according to let ters received by the debate coach here, they would like to meet the Oregon team. Members of the squad are: John Long, Robert T. Miller, William Cutts, Merlin Blais, Roger Pfaff, Eugene Laird, Errol Sloan, Wal ter Evans, Arthur Potwin, Calvin Bryon, George Cherry, Charles Jones, Harvey Wright, Wallace Campbell, Hobart Wilson, John Nelson, and Neil Sheeley. CLASSES DABBLE AT INTERVIEWING Two classes in elementary news writing had the opportunity of gaining practical experience in in terviewing yesterday, when Frank Jenkins, editor of the Eugene Reg ister, and Jack Benefiel, graduate manager of the University, were invited to be questioned by stu dents of the classes. Mr. Jenkins was interviewed by Mr. Turnbull’s class, and the class taught by Dean Allen questioned Mr. Benefiel. Mr. Jenkins also spoke briefly, telling the class what a newspaper editor expects of the beginning journalist. After the talk he was questioned by 15 members of the class. Mr. Jen kins enjoyed the experience very much, he said afterward. Nature Study Club To Hear Dr. Sanborn Dr. Ethel Sanborn, of the biol ogy department, is in Portland to day, to give a talk before the Na ture Study club there. “Tree Physiology” is the subject of her lecture, which is among the last of the series arranged by the ex tension division for the club. Ef fort Made To Speed up Grade Return Short ness of Time Before Christmas Hampers Offiee Foree CARDS TO BE MAILED Instructors Will Turn in Class Reports as Soon As Possible Although a tew students may receive their term grades before Christmas, the majority will have to content themselves for a few days longer, according to Miss Gertrude Stephenson of the regis trar’s office. “While extra help will be em ployed," she said, “and while ev ery effort will be made to rush the reports through, the shortness of time following the final exams will make it almost impossible to get the grades out to the students before Christmas.” Speed Not Asked Miss Stephenson pointed out that the professors will not be ob ligated to turn in their grades be fore 1 o’clock on December 23, and that while most of them will no doubt get their grades in soon er, those who have examinations on the last two days of the week cannot be expected to turn in their reports much before the deadline. As soon ns the grades are re ceived, says Miss Stephenson, they will be recorded in the office, checked for scholarship standing, and copied onto the cards which are to be mailed to the parents of the students. Instructions Given Students who expect to spend their vacations at the homes of their parents, are informed that they will get their grades sooner at home than by leaving special envelopes at the registrar’s office with the request that a copy of their grades be mailed to them. Those who will not be h<Sme during the vacation, however, and who wish to have their grades mailed direct to them, are request ed to bring their envelope into the registrar’s office before December 14 and fill out the necessary cards. DRAMA HEAD BACK FROM CONCLAVE Mrs. Ottilie Seybolt, head of the department of dramatics, returned to the campus Monday from San Francisco, where she attended the first annual conference of the Western Teachers of Speech asso ciation. “The teaching of speech was discussed in all its various phras es,” Mrs. Seybolt stated in telling of her trip, “and naturally, I was most interested with those varia tions of the subject having to do with the field of drama. The big gest figures in this field on the coast were present, since all the coast colleges and universities were represented. It was a very en joyable meeting. “While in San Francisco I was able to attend the theatre several times, and especially the Chinese theatre. You know, I’m hoping, during the year, to do the Yellow Jacket, which should make a spec tacular performance. I welcomed the opportunity to find out the additional facts I could about the presentation of the Chinese sub ject.” Texas History Uses Work of R. C. Clark A recently published “History of Texas” contains two ehapters tak en from a book written by R. C. Clark of the history department, according to a circular received here, containing a prospectus of the new book. Professor Clark’s work, publish ed in 1907, was “Beginnings of Texas,” and is still considered to be one of the best works on Texas history, according to members of the history faculty. The new book, edited by Dr. Eugene C. Barker, professor of American history at the University of Texas, and pub lished by the Southwest Press of Dallas, Texas, is a collection of chapters from the best works on Texas history. Administration Names Students Who Smeared Paint on O.S.C. Campus Miami Battle Will Be Broadcast Over KGW; Stadleman May Play U EPORTS of the Floridu-Oregon game will he broadcast by KGW, Saturday, under the auspices of the Morning Oregonian, according to an announcement mnde yesterday by Jack Bcnefiel, graduate munager. The game will start at noon, Pacific coast time. The team will stop at Jacksonville, Florida, today, where they will be entertained by the chamber of commerce. McEwan’s men 'will stay at a hotel for the first time since they started on their trip last week. Thursday evening they will leave for Miami, where they will be met by 40 junior auxiliary girls of the chamber of commerce. The team will stay at the Anderson Beach hotel, 18 miles from Miami. Here they will have their final workout before meeting the Florida eleven. Benefiel predicts that It will be a very hard-fought game and that there is no reason why Oregon cannot come out on the iong end of the score. George Stadelman, veteran center who was in jured In the Idaho game, will probably see some action against the ’Gators, he predicts. New York Claims Former Oregon Dancing Student Bessie Schoenberg Taking Instruction From Well Known Teacher Drama, Singing, and Music Composition Studied Bessie Schoenberg, prominent student in dancing at the Univer sity last year, is now in New York studying dancing under Martha Graham, nationally recognized dancing teacher, according to her mother, Madame Rose McGrew, of the school of music. It was through Miss Mary Jo Shelley, who taught in the physi cal education department two years ago, that Bessie obtained a tuition scholarship of $500 and a living scholarship in the Neighbor hood Playhouse school for this year. She is taking drama, danc ing under Miss Graham, music composition, and singing now. Bessie is now only in the “sa cred circle of 14,” the pick of Mar tha Graham's students, but she has been chosen as one of the three best to be the exponents of Martha Graham’s type of dancing. A tour to the coast is being con sidered, and if there is one, this group of three will accompany Miss Graham. All of the other members of the "production group” as the selected fourteen are called, have all had at least two years of work under Martha Graham but Bessie Schoenberg, who has only studied under her this past sum mer. The conductor of the Philadel phia symphony orchestra, Leopold Stokowsky, made a special trip re cently to see Martha Graham and this group of three, with the thought of having a joint recital. While on the campus, Bessie was a member of the Master Dance group. ABRAMSON PLANS RETURN TO STATES Sol Abramson, editor of the Em erald in 1926-27, who is now city editor of the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune, expects to re turn to the United States soon, according to a letter received here by George S. Turnbull, of the journalism faculty. Mr. Abramson and his wife find Paris very instructive and enjoya ble, according to the letter but question the wisdom of remaining away from this country perma nently. Mr. and Mrs. Abramson have just spent some time with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Miller, making a tour of Europe on their honey moon, the letter states. Miller was editor of the Emerald in 1925 26. Another former Emerald editor, Ray Nash, who served in 1927-28, is expected to stop in Paris soon on a tour of Europe with his wife, according to the letter, and Mr. and Mrs. Abramson, are looking forward to their arrival. Ticket Sale for Galsworthy Play Slated for Today Reserved Seats Expected To Go Rapidly, Says Chairman Reservations for Play To Be Ready in Afternoon Seat reservations for the pro duction of Ga,lsworthy’s "Escape,” to be presented on Friday and Sat urday nights at the Guild theatre, may be made at the Guild theatre after 1 o'clock today, or by phon ing 142. The ticket sale, expected by those in charge to be an unusually large one, will be headed by Cleta McKennon, assisted by Celene Lauterstein, Jean Williams, Gwen Panton, Dena Luellyn, Sally Runes, Addison Brockman, Irene Breum, and Miss Irene Harris. According to Miss McKennon, it would be advisable to purchase seats early, as she feels that they will be at a premium. The prices will be the same as for the "Im portance of Being Earnest,” the last play presented, 50 and 75 cents. HOLIDAYS ARE TOO MUCH FOR STLDES And still they come! Oregon weather and Oregon turkey have done much to decrease the num ber of healthful students who dash about the campus endeavoring to seek an education. The number of sick people confined in the in firmary has increased to nine. The latest comers are: Thomas B. Handley, Jack Cate, Paul Aus tin, Arthur Ireland, Nicolas Cos tosa, Rockwell Rogers, Dorothy Page, Helen Voelker, and Claude Carter. t Four Face TrialToday In Corvallis Kaplan, Vernier, Nims, Moser Confess to Act Of Vandalism Justice Is Meted Out by Advisory Group The names of students who have confessed that they invaded the campus of the Oregon State Ag ricultural college on the night of November 11 and smeared paint on the Forestry and Memorial Union buildings, and the punish ment meted out to tjiem by the ad ministration of the University were announced last evening. The four students are Jack Kaplan, sophomore, Portland; Paul Ver nier, Berkeley, Cal.; Charles Nims, Portland; and George Mo ser, Grants Pass. The last three are freshmen. University Punishes Probation for the duration of their underclass years, fine of eight scholastic hours each, and appear ance this morning at 10 o’clock in the justice court at Corvallis where it is expected they will be fined on a charge of defacing pub lic property is the penalty for their misdeeds decided upon by the student advisory committee of the University. Moser was depriv ed of the use of his automobile while he is an underclassman. Confession Signed The four students in a signed confession declared that they left Eugene after midnight, November 11, drove to Corvallis and about 3 a. m. daubed paint on the build ings. Kaplan applied the yellow and green paint to the Forestry building while his companions put the colors on the Memorial build ing. They then returned to Eugene, arriving here about 4 a. m. They will be prosecuted in the court at Corvallis under section 1993, Olson’s Oregon Laws, which provide that “a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $250, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than 10 days nor more than six months, or both shall be the sentence for destroying or de facing "any building on the public land of the state of Oregon.” The sentence will be left to the dis cretion of the Corvallis court. Being placed on probation means that the students are put under the supervision of the dean of men, to whom they must report regular ly. They cannot take part in stu (Continued on Pagr Turn) Steve Smith Contacts With "Phantom Bandit” at Party THHE “phantom bandit,” notorl I ous Italian who escaped from Devil’s Island, a famous French prison, and who is now in this country, was seen by S. Stephen son Smith, associate professor in the English department, when he was in California November 29 I and 30 attending the Pacific Coast | Philological association, held at the University of California, and before which he read a paper.« I Desire, the bandit, who was the ] center of attraction at a dinner party attended by Mr. Smith, is described by him as being a mild, unimpressive sort of Italian peas ant, who jabbered out his thrilling story in a mixture of bad French, ( English and Italian. His is the i most celebrated history before that of Tom Mooney, the present parallel of Desire. “Desire,” said Mr. Smith, “told of hair-raising escapes, murders, robberies, and other acts of vio . lence in a mild, rather inexpres sive manner as if they were noth ing out of the ordinary. He has been telling of his experiences ever since he escaped, and he has not told all yet. “He was captured because he shot off the cap of a gendarme, and he told the justice that he just did it to worry the fellow, implying that he was such a dead shot that had he wanted to, he would have killed him. The jus tice evidently didn't take much stock in his explanation, for he was sentenced to this prison on Devil’s Island, off the coast of French Guiana. He was here at the same time Alfred Dreyfus perhaps the most famous political prisoner in history, was there. De sire made his escape after long and almost unbelievable risks and hardships.’’ Hr. Smith tells of seeing Ar thur Caylor, who was associate professor in journalism in 1927-28 at the University of Oregon. Cay lor is in California doing a draw ing of Desire for the press.