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Should Greeks Pay Taxes? See Page 4 A Fair Honor Roll^ Smnniimmiiigiiimimmmunin^iiinniiniiKinmimnmniniTiniiimimiffniiinmimnitiitimniiiinu VOLUME XXXJ UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY. MARCH 1, 1930 •, ~\T NUMBER 88 JutiilUSUili Five Winning Houses In Emerald Contest Announced By Judges Re-Broadcasts Of Programs On Thursday Tlielas Win Girls’ Loving Cup for Best Radio Hour Offering Kappa Sigs Reach Finals But Two Men Ruled Out After a prolonged conference between judges of the Emerald KORE radio contest yesterday af ternoon, five living groups were selected to appear in the final * eliminations next Thursday, March 6, it was announced by Fred Nor ton, contest director. The five organizations are Phi Sigma Kap pa, Independents, Sigma Chi, Kap pa Alpha Theta, and Kappa Sigma. The fact that Kappa Alpha Theta was the only girls’ house on the list automatically makes them winner of the ‘large silver trophy cup offered by the Buster Brown shoe store for the best program presented by a women’s group. In addition, the Theta per formers have the opportunity of winning one of the first ' three grand prizes, including the 9-tube Majestic radio donated by McMor ran and Washburne. Broadcasts Scheduled Immediately after the judges reached an agreement, lots were drawn for places on the evening’s program, with the result that the following schedule was made up: at 8 o’clock, Kappa Alpha Theta; y. at 8:30, Independents; at 9, Phi Sigma Kappa; at 9:30, Sigma Chi; at 10, Kappa Sigma. No rear rangement of this schedule will be permitted, Norton announced. Some difficulty was encounter ed by the judges in agreeing upon the selection of Kappa Sigma for the finals, since two men were used who will be ineligible to ap pear in the finals. After a lengthy discussion, however, it was decid ed that the program was of suf ficient high caliber to warrant its being given a place among the leading five even if the efforts of these two members were subtract ed. Winners Outstanding All five of the houses chosen stood well above the remainder of the field, in the opinion. of the judges, and it is expected by sta tion officials that the competition on the final night will be keen. Seven qualified persons will be selected from the University and the city of Eugene to act as judges I of the finals. Consideration will be given letters written to station KORE expressing preferences, provided that name and address and telephone number of the send er are given. The letters must be in the mail before noon Friday. Professor Thacker Will Give Reading Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock, W. F. G. Thacher, professor of English, will read a selection from the "Hounds of Heaven,” by Fran cis Thompson. The reading will take place in the men’s lounge of Gerlinger hall. Lucky Number To Bring Prize To Ticket Holder ^ DRAWING to determine the winner of the prize given for the person hold li ttle Junior Shine ticket wi the lucky number will tai place this afternoon at 2:i o'clock at the sophomore nia inee dance, Bill Pittman, gen eral chairman for Shine daj announced yesterday. Tin dance will he held at the C’am pa Shoppe. The winner of the prize given to the woman selling the most tickets for the event will also be announced. Infirmary Doctor Says Emerald at Fault on Article Wrong Impression Given By Paper’s Story on Health Conditions Miller Issues Statement Regarding Situation Charging that the Emerald “while making no palpable mis statements, gave a wrong impres sion” with its featured article on conditions at the University in firmary, Dr. Fred N. Miller, Uni versity doctor, yesterday issued a lengthy statement on conditions as he saw them. “It has never been our policy to withhold any information con cerning health matters as illus trated by our invariable practice of publishing all of the facts con cerning the prevalence of illness on the campus,” he declares. "It is important not only to avoid cov ering up unpleasant facts, but also to avoid describing conditions as worse than they really are.” Picks Out Facts The University doctor in his statement took facts contained in the Emerald’s survey of condi tions and pointed out from a health standpoint that they were not as (Continued on Page Two) Pate’s Singing Said ‘Excellent’ School ■ of Music Student Gives Recital “Excellent,” was the comment of music lowers who attended the senior recital of Herbert Pate, baritone, of Portland, last evening at the Music building. His program consisted of com positions by Stradella, Carissimi, Schubert, Verdi, Fox, Kramer and Sanford’s cycle, “Songs of the Sea.” Pate has taken part in a num ber of campus musical functions and has sung in several of the Portland churches. He has also done much radio singing. Pate was well known to Eugene people through his work as a soloist at the Baptist church here. Students Show Race Dislike As Class Votes Preference ■ Race prejudices among college students is more prevalent than i5 commonly thought, according to an experiment conducted in the social science class taught by Pro fessor Vernon G. Sorrell. Students of the class were re quested to hand in their reactions towards a professor of either ne gro, Jewish, Russian, or Indian descent. Of the 74 answers received, 62 per cent expressed an attitude un favorable, ranging from mild dis like to intentions of discontinuing the course. Nineteen per cent of these stated that the courses would be dropped if a colored pro < fessor taught the class. The remainder of the students either stated that the change would make little difference, or that they would be interested or in favor of the change. Only two students were so pre judiced against the Jewish race that they would not consider be ing taught by a professor of that lineage. For the Russian and In dian only one expressed animosity. The standing of the races, ac cording to the prejudice aroused in members of the class ranks as follows: Negro, 46; Jew, 30; Rus sian, 22; and the Indian, last of all with 19 slewing varied degrees of dislike. International Week Pageant Set For Today Travels of Student Group To Various Countries To Be Depicted WILL BE GIVEN TWICE Singing, Dancing, Features In Scenes; Cast Is Large A pageant depicting the travels a group of University of Ore n students in foreign countries g i visits to the Negroes and In 3 ns in the United States will © presented in Gerlinger hall, at © 1 this afternoon and 8 this g ling, and will bring to a close O rnational week, sponsored by 3 mber of campus organizations © the Emerald. ose .who compose the student _us, which is the group making the trip, are Wayfe Hockett, Dolly Horner, Violet Ackerman, John Penland, and Bill Preble. These students will also dance and sing in some of the scenes, and are be ing trained by Wayfe Hockett and Hal Hatton; Oregon Songs Scheduled As the curtain opens on the first scene the chorus is seen in a fireside scene, singing a group of Oregon songs, doing a dance which sets the travel theme for th6 production. The second act concerns itself with a tour of Eur ope, and the students find them selves in England. Here the group sees an English folk dance, and in turn the travellers put on a modern American dance for the English students. *Those partici pating in this scene, in addition to the chorus, are Vivian Coss, Louise Lewis, Ora Needham, Lucile Mur phy, Ella Redkey, and Juanita i oung. Ireland is the next stop of the group of student tourists. Here they see a typical street scene, de picting actual life in Ireland. Those in this act are Lucy Hill, Anne Frederick, Fred Wade, Charles Calavan, Winona Irving, and Eleanor Flanagan. Brown To Play In Scotland the students hear a group of Scottish selections played on the violin by Kenneth Brown, accompanied by Edith Grim. Ella Carrick also partici pates in this scene. On the students journey until they reach France. Here they hear a French vocal solo by Emel ienne Roach and a group of folk songs by Miss Roach and Felix LeGrand. Spain is the next country which the group visits, and here a Span ish dance is put on for them by Virginia Moore. A playlet is also a feature of this scene. It is entitled ‘‘Lazarillo De Tormer.” Mr. M. Erickson is arranging this. Virginia Crane, Lolita Biller, Genevieve Clark, and Ella Redkey take part in a Dutch dance, which is the feature of the Holland scene. Albanian Reading Planned The travellers stop long enough in Germany to hear a German song, sung by Elizabeth Thatcher, after which they pass on to Al bania, where they hear an Alban ian reading by Alexander Elba sani. “Oxdansen,” a native Finnish dance, is put on for the benefit of the students during their visit in Finland. Those participating are Mary Wilburn, Johnny Young, Vivian Coss, and Dorothy Ball. The music is by Mildred Wharton. With this scene the second act is brought to a close. The stu dents now make a long trip and pass on to Asia. Before the stu dents visit the first country of the Orient they put on a short pro logue, dancing to Oriental musio to set the theme for the act. Hawaiian* To Take Part Japan is their first stop, and here they see a Japanese dance in full costume by Seiei Inamine and Frank Shimizu. A typical Korean school scene is next shown for the tourists, as they visit Ko rea. Those who are in this scene are: Mildred McGee, Gretchen Moore, and Sam Wong. Three school children from Eugene are also in this scene. Again the students take a long trip on the ocean, and as the fourth act opens they find them (Continued on Page Two) She’s in Dutch When Virginia Grone dolls up in the dainty .costume of the Hol lander, the Amsterdamer will be lieve it his own daughter dancing in the International pageant scheduled for tonight in the Ger linger building. New Infirmary To Benefit From Today’s Dance Dancing Contest, Special Features Planned by Student Group Prizes To Be Awarded to Contest Winners New and different music, a lively program, a good floor, a dancing contest, and a cheap ad mission price will be some of the features of the all-campus infirm ary benefit dance which will be held this afternoon at the Campa Shoppe from 2:30 until 5:30, ac cording to Hunt Clark, chairman of the event. Campus togs will be the style. * The program for this dance, the proceeds of which are to go to ward the new infirmary fund, will include several numbers by the Alpha Phi trio, composed of Caro lyn Haberlach, Flavell Hayner, and Gladys Foster. The commit tee has announced that a dancing contest, “ratrace” type of terpi schore preferred, will be held and prizes awarded to the winners. The orchestra, which will in clude some of the personnel of the Lee Duke band and several members of the Varsity Vaga bonds, is a new one on the cam pus and will make its first public (Continued on Page Three) Pass to Colonial Is Contest Prize Campus Movie Posters To Be in Friday A three-months pass to the Co lonial theatre was offered yester day by George Godfrey and W. B. McDonald, new owners of the showhouse, as first prize in the campus movie poster contest be ing conducted in connection with the first popular-priced showing in Eugene of “Ed’s Co-ed," at the theatre March 6, 7, and 8. Ae airplane ride will be awarded as second prize. Posters for the contest are due Monday, according to Jim Raley one of the co-directors of the cam pus photoplay, who is in charge of the contest. They will be turned in to him at the Phi Ps: | house. $3.71 a Month Is Per Capita Student Toll — House Bills Carry Weight' Of City ami County Property Tax ANNUAL AVERAGE $800 I - Fraternities and Sororities Support Local Works, Statements Show The average affiliated student in the University of Oregon pays $3.71 per month on his or her house bill for city and county taxes. The average property tax paid by fraternities and sororities amounts to about $800 annually. An annual tax of $1,285 is the largest imposed on any one house, and the lowest is in the neighbor hood of $200. Sherrill Quotes Figures These facts were revealed in preliminary statistical reports pre sented at a meeting of the house managers' association yesterday afternoon. Hal Johnsofi, chairman of the association's committee on taxes, read a survey of assessment fig ures which he has compiled re cently, giving data on actual and assessed valuations and annual charges paid by the houses. Lloyd Sherrill, president of the house managers’ association, quoted fig ures computed earlier in the year from taxation statements for the year 1928. Money collected from the stu dents in this manner is spent for the support of local elementary and secondary schools, police de partment, fire department, courts of justice, city government bodies, county poor farm, maintenance of roads and bridges, and other sim ilar city and county projects, it was shown. A more complete report on fra ternity and sorority taxation is now being prepared, and will be released in the near future. Exact gross and per capita figures for every house on the campus are to be computed. The Moving Finger -o TAXES CHECKED . . . CLASS DUES FIXED . . -By OLIVER POLITICUS—4 Those special assessments made by classes with only 20 or 30 mem bers present ^ill receive a check from next year on, if the class section of the revised constitution is adopted as proposed yesterday by the revision committee. And special assessments for such ex penses as losses from state trips of vodvils, or for class numerals, will also receive that check. * » • Every special assessment, so the constitutional by-laws will probably read, must necessarily be passed by the class advisory committee. Its approval must be unanimous. That means that the class advisor will have ade quate control over increased class income and expenditure. * * * One dollar a year from each member is collected by the Uni versity for class taxes. The bud get is then made out to cover the normal functions of the ye:.r group. If these functions are ex tended, it is the reasoning of the committee^ then some higher au (Continued on Page Three) ‘The Ivory Door’ To Give Special Matinee A special matinee of “The Ivory Door" will be presented this after noon at 2:15 o’clock at Guild thea ter. All seats will be on reserve at 50 cents each. The play has been the current attraction at the theater during this week. Today's matinee had been originally planned for public school children, but due to the ' conflicts with International week I has been thrown open to every i one. It will be found convenient for those who contemplate at tending the Pageant of Nations on Saturday night. Washington Quintet Tramples Webfootsln First Game of Series —i Directorate Is Completed Says Johnson Emerald Selects Van Dine As Junior Week-end Publicily Head Turnbull Cliosen Faculty Advisor for Group The personnel of the Junior Week-end directorate has been completed with the selection of a Harry Van Dine news director and faculty advisor, according to an a n n o u n cement. made by Hal Johnson, general chairman of the 1 directorate. The second meeting of the group was held Friday. aft ernoon and the work of the va rious committees is well under way, according to tne reports oi me cnairmen. The job of keeping the campus posted on the formation of the plans of the directorate has been assigned to Harry Van Dine and his staff of assistants, according to Emerald heads. He will also handle state publicity, states Johnson. Dorothy Thomas and Merlin Blais have been named to assist Van Dine. Turnbull Chosen Prof. George Turnbull, of the school of journalism faculty, was selected as faculty advisor for the group. He is also advisor for the junior class and he will advise the members of the directorate on the various problems that come up for their consideration. The business end of the annual Junior Vodvil will, according to present arrangements, be handled by members of Alpha Delta Sig ma, honorary advertising frater nity. The advertising men will have complete charge of the ticket sale, newspaper advertising, preparation of posters, and seat ing arrangements for the show. Opposes Outside Guests The week-end directorate went on record as opposing the prac tice of inviting outside guests, other than parents of students at the University, to the campus for the annual function of the junior class. “We desire to make Junior Week-end an event for the enjoy ment of students and parents," Johnson declared. “We plan to continue the policy set by the committee last year in trying to exclude outsiders from the af fair.” Plans to hold an open-air dance after the Canoe Fete this year were also discussed at the meeting. Various committee chairmen were urged to keep even more (Continued on Page Three) University Trio To Play in South Rex Underwood To Direct High School Musicians An interesting addition to mu sic organizations on this campus, coming gradually to be known as the University Trio, will be heard outside of Eugene on May 9 when it will play at the Southern Ore gon high school orchestra con test at Ashland. The musicians are Mr. and Mrs. Rex Underwood and Dr. John Mez, violinist, pianist and cellist, re spectively. Their appearances here have been infrequent but en joyable events. The trio first played over station KORE, during the fall term, and took part in a Sunday afternoon vespers pro gram here in February. New Major ? 'Snap Into It,9 Is Palletl9s Cry CTCDENTS desirous of ^ rhanging their majors next term are urged to do so before final examinations begin March 17, Earl M. Pallet!, registrar, announced yesterday afternoon. By making the necessary ar rangements at this time the red books may be checked be fore registration begins on March 31. "If the students will come to our office before exam week and get the blanks, it will not only save us much time registration day, but will save them much delay in reg istering,” Gertrude Stephenson, assistant to the registrar, said yesterday. Ten Committees Finish Judging Of Group Singing Selected Group Will Give Final Decision for Fraternity Songs Interest Is Demonstrated In Competition The all-campus song contest, in which living organizations have been competing during the last week, ends today, announced Ed Fisher, chairman, yesterday. Each of the ten committees which have been judging the group singing will choose the best house from those they have heard. These ten houses in the semi-finals will be announced on Tuesday of next week. They will be notified and a final judging by a committee of Nancy Thielsen, Ed Fisher, and .a music instructor will be held, last ing until Saturday, according "to Fisher. } "There has been a lot of inter est taken in the contest," he said, “and much spirited competition'." Fifteen new Oregon songs were discovered by the committees, one house singing 12 Oregon songs alone, 8 of which were original. The prizes being offered are two silver loving cups to the best men’s and best women’s living organiza tion. The men’s cup is one which is given every year but the wom en’s trophy has been previously won for the third time by Pi Beta Phi who now are allowed to keep it. However, the group has given a new cup to be offered as the women’s award. Books Collected for International Week In commemoration of Interna tional week, thirty books of travel, adventure, and foreign countries have been placed on exhibition near the circuation desk at the main library. The collection is for general circulation. ( Score of 32-25 Kills Hope For Championship Huskies Cinch Northwest Title With First Game Against Oregon Second Tilt ^ill Be Played Tonight at Seattle By HARRY VAN DINE Oregon’s basketball title hopes went glimmering Friday night when the Webfoots stacked up against the University of Wash ington Huskies at Seattle, and came out on the 3hort end of a 32-to-25 score. Coach Bill .Rein hart used 11 men in a vain effort to stay in the running for North west hoop honors. By virtue of the win over Ore gon, Washington has a clear title to the championship and the Hus kies will meet Southern Califor nia for the coast title. Washington started out fast against Oregon and the opening half was half over before the Webfoots hit their stride. Little Jiggs Jaloff led the Husky attack, playing the best brand of ball he has shown all season. The Ore gon attack was slow in starting, but the Webfoots finally overcame an imposing Washington lead. The Huskies led the Webfoots, 16 to 14, at half time, but Coach Reinhart sent the Oregon quintet on the floor in a fighting mood to start the last half and the Web foots were not long in tying up the score. The game was the fastest seen on the Washington floor this sea son and the pace told on the Web foots in the second half. Wash ington put on a rally that was good for 10 points in the middle of the period and the Webfoots never again caught up with the Huskies. ' .Henry Levoff and Vine Dolp played the best brand of ball for Oregon while Swanson and Jaloff were outstanding for Washington. The two teams will close the Northwest conference season at Seattle tonight. The summary: Oregon (25) (32) Washington Keenan (4) .F (5) Swanson Dolp (7) .F. (10) Jaloff Eberhart (2) ... C. (11) McClary Levoff (3) .G. West Horner .G. (6) Cairney Oregon substitutes: Stevens 4, Calkins 3, Rubinstein, Olinger, Fletcher 2, Hughes. Referee—Ralph Coleman. Initiation Will Be Held By Portland Students Students in the Portland school of social work will have their in itiation ceremony tonight in Port land. At this time, the present class will be initiated into the Portland branch of the Associat ed Students of the University of Oregon. Sun Shines, Shoes Shine, Junior Faces Shine—$100 Under clear skies and balmy sun, Junior Shine day proved a success. “It was a day worth waiting for,” agreed the juniors. "Jupiter Pluvius knew when he was beaten!” Over a thousand students had their shoes shined by the energetic upperclassmen. And at the price of 10 cents a shine, it means that over $100 will be collected for the I day’s work. Dean Landsbury showed his wis dom and possibly previous exper ience with junior shine days, when he insisted on wearing a large pair of rubbers while receiving his shine. The dean made up, how ever, for any bad feelings he might have aroused by his actions, by having his rubbers shined at all four of the stands, and gener ously passing out cigars. Eleanor Poorman, vice president of the senior class, had her shoes shined free of charge by Bill Whitely, president of the junior class. It was learned from Bill Pitt man, chairman of the shine deba cle, that Bob Bishop held the rec ord among the shiners. What this record was about, your re porter was unable to learn from any of the juniors. It might have been for having shined the most shoes. It didn’t sound like that, though.