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< Professorial Publicity See Page 4 Football Schedule Ftimmmnmnimimmm’immniMiiiiimiiniinnniimmmmtiiimntiiramnmniiimmniiniirminmiiS THE WEATHER Wednesday’s temperatures: Maximum .51 Minimum .42 River .. 8 Rainfall .10 | Winds, west. VOLUME XXXJ 4 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1930 NUMBER 91 Many Co-Eds Attend Initial VodvilTryout Girls Will Continue Tlieir Exhibitions Today In Villard SPECTATORS BANNED Men To Compete for First Time This Afternoon, State Officials A record-breaking group of Oregon’s most beautiful women were present at the initial tryouts Virginia Moore for the chorus ot | the annual Jun | ior Vodvil, held i Wednesday af ternoon in Vil | lard hall. The | women’s tryouts will continue this afternoon be tween the hours L>f 3 and 4, ac cording to Vir ginia Moore, dancing director. The men will get their first chance to shine between 4 and 5:30 p. m. today, when the first tryouts for the masculine chorus will be held at Villard. Directors Are Busy Miss Moore and Vinton Hall, vodvil director, were kept busy all Wednesday afternoon viewing the prospective stage stars and both judges announced that they were more than satisfied with the turnout. “It is not yet too late for more women to try out,” Miss Moore declared. “All those who failed to turn out yesterday are request ed to be on hand this afternoon. The many would-be chorus girls were handled in very systematic order by the judging committee. There were no spectators allowed in the hall and only six girls were taken in at one time. Each girl was asked to walk across the stage after which she was request ed to do a few steps. Names To Be Announced The names of the women select ed to appear at the second elimin ation tryouts, to be held next week, will be announced Friday morning, according to the danc ing directbr. “Some of those turning out for the chorus showed much promise,” Miss Moore said. “We expect to select a chorus which will be bet ter trained than any ever appear ing in a campus vodvil show.” Hall urged that all men per formers be on hand for the try outs this afternoon. Those turn ing out will be put through a sim ilar test to that given to the wo men and the first regular rehear sals are expected to get under way sometime next week. Tonsilitis Confines Language Instructor Charles G. Howell, romance lan guage instructor has been con fined to his home for the past two days with an attack of tonsilitis. Other instructors in the depart ment have been taking his classes. ! University of Oregon Defeated in Dual Debate With Oregon Stale _ ■ Unanimous Decision Given in Both Contests; Miller and- Sloan, Laird and Potwin Make up Forensic Teams _ A double defeat for the Univer sity of Oregon marked the resum ing of forensic relations with Ore gon State college. Decisions at l both contests held last night were I by unanimous vote of the judges. The question used was: "Re solved, that world peace demands the demobilization of all armed forces except those needed for po lice protection.” The Oregon affirmatiV' m, composed of Robert Miller Ir rol Sloan, met a visiting m from Corvallis, composed .e Roy Swanson and Herbert i 5 :, in Guild hall. ’ ^ The negative team from - i campus met an Oregqn State §d with the contest being broa> 8 over KOAC, Corvallis. Eu ® Laird and Arthur Potwin re "q sented Oregon, and Gordon W. and Cullen Rish debated for C gon State. The judges for the dual debate were: here,. Dr. G. B. Noblfe, of Reed college, John F. Dobbs, pres ident of Pacific university, and E. E. Schwarztrauber, head of the j history department at Lincoln high in Portland; Corvallis, Oscar Hayter, Dallas lawyer, Dean Frank M. Erickson, and Dr. F. G. Frank lin, both of Willamette university. Frank Jenkins, editor of the Eu gene Register, presided as chair man of the local debate, and Bish op Walter Taylor Sumner was chairman of the Corvallis event. The Oregon affirmative team maintained throughout the debate that armaments cause fear, sus picion, hatred and distrust, and in evitably are a cause for war, hence, if world peace is to exist, armaments, as one of the causes of war, should be destroyed as one of the obstacles in the way of peace. It pointed out that a police force would take care of the few economic and political “sore spots” in the world, and since other armed forces no longer existed a feeling of distrust and confidence would be built up as a basis for world peace. The visiting negative team stat ed that world peace, on the other hand, was dependent on a world wide state of altruism, and that education might bring this about, regardless of an armed situation, and armaments would then go out of existence naturally, as an in stitution no longer useful. Last night’s defeats gives the Oregon debate squad a total for the season thus far of three wins and two losses, the wins being in the contests with the University of Hawaii, the University of Utah, and the University of Idaho. $153.28 Realized At Dime Crawl; Alpha Phi Leads Alpha Chi O, Chi Omega Win Second and Third Places on List Affair Was Successful, McNerney Says Dimes took briskly to the wait ing cups last night during the winter term Dime Crawl, spon sored by A. W. S. for its foreign scholar fund. $153.28 was the to tal'amount realized. Alpha Phi turned over the larg est proceeds from the campus wide hour of dancing between 6:30 and 7:30. Their contribution to the fund amounted to $12.25. Al pha Chi Omega was second with $12.05, and Chi Omega third with $11.95. Florence McNerney, chairman of the foreign scholar committee, who i3 in charge of each of the three yearly events, termed last night's event a very successful one. Bob Allen Has Article Printed in Magazine An article on the Oregon Press conference of February 6, 7, and 8, written by Bob Allen, sopho more in journalism, appeared in the February 22 issue of Western Publisher. Allen wrote the story in connection with trade journal ism in a specialized press course. Two Plays Slated for This P. M. Will End Season’s Matinee Programs This afternoon at 4:15 will wit ness the close of the season’s pro gram of weekly* matinee perform ances of studio plays, with the presentation of. Stanley Hough ton’s “Fancy Free,” and Lady *•0 Gregory’s “Rising of the Moon.” This afternoon’s program is as interesting as any that has been given. Both plays are comedies, written by two of the most prom inent of our modern playwrights. The “Rising of the Moon” is a comedy of Irish origin. “Fancy Free” is a light, fanciful farce comedy. The casts are as followrs: “Fan cy Free”: Delia, Inez Simmons; Ethelbert, Barton Siegfrid; Ger ald, Charles Gillespie; Fancy, Hel en Mielke. The play is directed by Sanford Platt. “The Rising of the Moon": Ser geant, Leslie Houston; Ballad 4 Singer, Miles Shaw; First Police man, Ray Foss; Second Police man, Ray Martin. The play will be directed by Addison Brockman. The experiment of presenting weekly performances of well known one-act plays was started early this term, originally as a means of giving members of the classes in production practical ex perience. Since its inauguration, however, the scheme has passed the experimental stage, and be come a feature of the drama de partment’s winter work. A variety of plays has been chosen for the programs, each with a popular appeal, and the general level of the performances, according to critics, has been high. Through the means of the newly organized studio players, several actors of promise have been dis covered, since casting for these plays has not been confined to the department. The directors have reached out for their talent, 1 and have found considerable. D. Hughes Elected Y.W.C.A. Prexy For Ensuing Year Nelson Is New Vice-Head; Wilson and Swafford Get Posts Installation To Take Place During Spring Term Daphne Hughes was elected last night to serve as president of Y. W. C. A. for the ensuing year. Lois Nelson was elected vice-pres ident, and Lorena Wilson and Mar jorie Swafford were elected for offices of secretary and treasurer respectively. According to Miss Dorothy Thomas, Y. W. C. A. secretary, the counts were close for all offi cers. The rest of the cabinet of ficers will be selected within the next week by the new president. “More than twice as many peo ple voted yesterday in the Y. W. elections than at any previous election,” explained Miss Thomas. The installation of the new of ficers will take place the first week of spring term. The formal annual membership banquet, at which all new cabinet members will be introduced, will take place the second week in spring term. During the week-end of April IX, 12, and 13, all of the cabinet will go to Rock Creek camp near Portland for the spring cabinet training conference. All cabinets from all over Ore gon and some from Washington colleges will participate at this af fair, at which Eldress Judd, the former president of Y. W., will preside as general chairman. Group Meets at Annual Banquet Oregon Knights To Hold Last Meeting of Term More than twenty-five members 'of the Oregon Knights, service or ganization on the campus for sophomore men, gathered last night at the Anchorage for the group’s annual banquet. Gilman Ryder, freshman Knight, was in | charge of the affair. The banquet served as a final ! meeting of the term. Karl Greve, ; duke of the Knights, thanked the men for their work and coopera I tion during the basketball season | just past and made a plea for con I tinued good work during the cora I ing term. The banquet was informal and ko speeches were on the program. Grade System Accepted With One Addition Joint Committees Pass on Plan of Change in Figuring List UNFAIR RATE FEARED Status of Group Members - Must Pass Through Dean’s Office Advocated changes in the sys tem of figuring the grade list were passed upon by the heads of houses in a meeting held yester day. But for one exception the rec ommendations made by the joint committee from interfraternity council and heads of houses were accepted as they were orginally compiled. Amendment Added The amendment added by heads of houses was likewise brought jup in the meeting of interfraternity council last Thursday. It was felt that some arrangement must he made for the possibility of a loop hole being created by the change regarding the listing of members as active and inactive. A house whose members were making very poor grades might be tempted to declare these members inactive and hence not allow a fair rating of the various organizations. To prevent any such act, heads of houses recommended that tl>e list of active and inactive mem bers of a group be passed through the dean of men’s or the dean of women’s office, and that each group present adequate reasons for the affiliate’s status. Revisions Listed The revisions as passed on by both organizations were as fol low: 1. Pledges and members of houses living in dormitories shall Hot be considered members 6f the dormitories. 2; Members of houses shall in clude active members and pledges and affiliated transfers. 3. Grades of law students, fifth year architecture students, and graduate students shall not be counted. 4. No student shall be excluded qn the ground that he is carrying less than the normal number of hours. 5. Honor grades shall be weight ed as follows: honors I, 7 points; honors II, 6 points; honors III, 5 points. 6. (a) Any student who re ceives a grade of incomplete in <5ne*llalf or more of his hours shall not be counted on the grade list. (b) Incompletes in less than one-half the hours must be made up within one month after the beginning of the term, otherwise to count as hours not earned. 7. The list of membership is to be filed in the offices of the deans of men find women the day before final examinations each term. Oregon Women to Debate Tonight Willamette Varsity To Be Opposing Team Elizabeth Painton, sophomore in journalism, and Bernice Conoly, sophomore In history, will repre sent the University of Oregon, this evening, by upholding the af firmative against the women’s negative varsity debate team of Willamette university. Dean Virginia Judy Esterly will preside as chairman at the debate, which will be held in 105 Com merce building, at 7:45. Prof. Alvin O’Konsky, of the public speaking department at Oregon State college, will act as critic judge at the debate. The question to be discussed will be the same used at previous women’s debates this year—Re solved: That the modern diversion of women from the home to busi ness and industrial occupations is detrimental to society. This debate promises to be in tensely interesting and owing to the nature of the topic should be of a great deal of interest to women students on the campus. Four Students Are Disciplined By Suspension SUSPENSION for the re ^ mainder of the academic year was the punishment meted out to four University men, all residents in one unit of the new men's dormitory, for the of fense of having liquor in their possession and serving it in public. The student advisory I committee decided on the pen alty in a long session Wednes day afternoon. Two other students who were involved indirectly were exon erated by the committee be cause of the slight degree to which they were responsible. The suspension of the four men holds until June 15, after which time they may re-enter the University, either at sum mer session or next fall term. ---j Gracia Haggerty Names Chairmen For Spring Hops Large Group Will Serve On Spring Dance Committees Lesser Appointments Not Yet Listed With announcement of the near ly completed committee list yes terday by Gracia Haggerty, gen eral chairman, plans for the^A. W. S. spring vacation dances went definitely ahead. Dances will be held throughout the state for the benefit of the Foreign Scholar fund. Plans for each dance will be made by the committee named. Chairmen are Phyllis Van Kim mell, Harriet Kibbee and Bess Templeton, of Portland; Helen Wise, Grants Pass; Orpha Ager, Bend; Dulcie Lytsell, Astoria; Frieda Pahl and Jim Raley, Pen dleton; Dorothy Eberhard, La Grande; Carol Hurlburt, Hood River; Julia Creech, Salem; Mary Galey, Ashland; Reba Brogdon, Eugene; Margaret Cummings, Klamath Falls, Jessie Judd, Rose burg; Carolyn Haberlach, Tilla mook; Mildred Collins, Albany; Harriet Mattecheck, McMinnville. Their committees follow: Port land, publicity ih papers, Paul Hartmus, Bob Holmes, Betty Ann McDuff; high school publicity, Omar Palmer, Jack Stipe and Ir ma Logan; finance, Karl Greve. Grants Pass, Constance Baker, Geraldine Johnston, Lee Wine trout, Jack Blanchard, Peter Proctor; Bend, Barbara Lieuallen, Virginia Lee Crombe, Ted Sather; Astoria, Marjorie Chester and Joe Hughes. Other committees have not yet been named. Activity at Range Ends for Term Ammunition Supply Said To Be Defective The rifle range at the R. O. T. C. barracks has been closed until further notice, which will be at least for the duration of this term and probably longer, Major Frederick A. Barker, head of the military department, announced yesterday. The reason for this action, Ma jor Barker stated, is that the pres ent issue of ammunition has been found defective and dangerous to use. Although no serious acci dents hav§ occurred so far, some of the men who have been firing have met with irfinor injuries. In order to avoid anything worse, it was decided that no more firing should be allowed. The range will not be opened until the present ammunition can be officially condemned, and new supplies are issued by the govern ment. , Bob Guild Is Pledged To Writing Fraternity Robert Guild, sophomore in | journalism, was pledged to Ye Ta bard Inn chapter of Sigma TJpsi lon, national honorary literary fra ternity, at a meeting held at Dr. Ralph D. Casey’s home last night. Week-End Will Show Profits, Says Paddock Junior Vodvil Will Cost More Than Any Other Of the Events TOTAL TO CLEAR $460 Canoe Fete Expense $600; Campus Luncheon Will Have Deficit Final budget estimates for the annual Junior Week-end activities Have been, worked out and will Hal Paddock soon ue luiucu over to the indi vidual commit tee chairmen of the directorate, according to an announc e m e n t made Wednesday by Hal Paddock, chairman of the finance commit tee. From pres ent indications the event should flnnnoinl success, according to Paddock, with the profit estimate set at $460. As usual the profits from the annual Junior Vodvil are expected to be the largest single income source on the list of events. The show is "planned to be the largest and most pretentious ever held on the campus. The Canoe Fete is also expected to show a surplus but the other miscellaneous events are expected to exhibit a small loss. Prom Cost $650 Paddock predicts that Junior Prom will break even in financial matters, with the huge dance ex pected to cost approximately $650. Some idea of the large scale production intended for the Junior Vodvil may be obtained when it is realized that it will cost more than the combined other events. The rent of the theatre will be the largest single item but it is planned to spend almost $300 for the stage sets. The music, cos tume, and cosmetic expenses will swell the cost another $500. Good Luncheon Promised The gross income from the Canoe Fete is expected to amount to $800, with the costs amounting to $600, leaving an estimated net profit of $200. Campus day, Mother’s day, campus luncheon, water carnival, and miscellaneous events will cost $340, with net in come estimated at $300, leaving a $40 deficit. The annual campus luncheon will be better than it has ever been, according to Paddock. There will be plenty of food for every body and it will be of the highest quality. Virgil’s Birth May Be Celebrated Phi Betes Plan To Observe Poet’s 2000th Birthday A committee of Phi Beta Kappa members will meet Friday to fur ther discuss the idea of having a bimillenium commemoration of the birth of Virgil, it was an nounced today. Professor F. S. Dunn, of the classical department, has been asked to address Phi Beta Kappa in the fall on the life and ^joems of Virgil, as a part of the commemoration. In this connection the Phi Beta Kappa committee is acting in con junction with the national com mittee appointed under the aus pices of the American Classical league, of which Professor Dunn is a member. National Secretary Visits S.A.E. Chapter Eric A. Dawson, national secre tary of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, ar rived in Eugene yesterday noon for his biennial inspection of the local chapter. Mr. Dawson drove to Eugene from Corvallis yesterday, after in specting the chapter at Oregon State college. He will leave for San Francisco Friday noon to visit the California chapters, after which he will go to Reno, Nevada. Five Organizations Face 'Mike’ Tonight In Finals of Emerald-KORE Contest The Modiimj Finger -o PUBLICATIONS PAY . . . 5TH-YEAR SCOPE WIDE . . -By OLIVER POLITICUS To supplant an unconstitutional method of procedure, the publica tions sub-committee and general constitutional revision committee has approved changes setting def inite minimum salaries for editors and managers of both the Emerald and Oregana. After those mini mum salaries are paid, the execu tive council Is given the power to set additional pay as it sees fit. * * * The old constitution and by laws set compensation on a profits basis. When that docu ment fell into disuse through faulty wording, the council took upon itself, perhaps as a tem porary expedient, the power of setting the sums paid. It was generally considered by the edi tors and managers of the publi cations that they should not be subject to a pocket-book threat of the executive council. * * * Passing through a hotly con tested session of the regular pub lications committee, this agree ment was reached. The editor and business manager of the Em erald shall each receive a mini mum of $400. For several years the pay has been $200 more. Any amount above the surplus shall be fixed by the executive council. The Oregana officers shall each receive a minimum of $150, and shall share in any profits until they shall «aph receive a total of $300, after which sum a small per centage is fixed as a goal for fur ther profits for the A. S. U. O. * * * Save for the new measure of insuring at least $100 each to the managing editor and advertising manager of the Emerald, no other changes were made ex cept in changed wording and placing of articles. One problem to be settled if the fifth-year status is changed to an approved standing, is candidacy for editorial or managerial office. Whether there is to be consisten cy in elective and appointive of fices depends on the policy ap proved in the other articles. Music Honorary Plans To Give Vespers Service Members of Mu Phi Epsilon, na tional women’s music honorary, will give the program at vespers Sunday afternoon, March 9, at 4 o’clock. They have arranged a varied program, according to Mrs. Rex Underwood, member of the school of music faculty, who is general program chairman. Mrs. Leah Per kins Wyatt is chairman for the day. This will be the first time that Mu Phi Epsilon has arranged a vespers program. Many of those who will appear Sunday are alum nae members. Majestic Set Winner Will Be Selected Theta, Phi Sig, Kappa Sig, Independents, Sigma Chi in Finals Program Will Continue From 7:30 to 10 Four men’s organizations, and one women’s house will face the microphone at station KORE to Fred Norton night to make their last bids for victory in the final eliminations of the campus wide radio con t e s t sponsored by the Oregon Daily Emerald with the cooper ation of station KORE. This pro gram, which will d e t e r m ine the winner of the 9-tube Majestic radio set orrerea by McMorran and Washburne, will start at 7:30 p. m., and will continue for two and a half hours. Kappa Alpha Theta, only girls’ group to reach the finals, will start the broadcasting with a half-hour of musical entertain ment. The Independents, Phi Sigma Kappa, Sigma Chi, and Kappa Sigma will follow in the order named. Winners of the first three grand prises will be an nounced in the Emerald Saturday. Everything Arranged Fred Norton, contest director, reported last night that all details of preparation for the event had been arranged for, and requested that all houses aid as much as possible to facilitate the smooth runcuoning oi uw jjrug uuu uy ing punctual In appearance at the studio, in order that the program consume as little time as possible after 10 o’clock, when the stn dent programs are scheduled to end. Owing to the fact that the stu dio will probably be crowded, Prank Hill, manager of station KORE, requests that competing houses bring with them no one who is not to participate in the programs. Paul D. Green Is donating his regular advertising half-hour, 7:30 to 8, to the contest. Thetas Start Program Rules drawn up to govern the finals permit competing houses to make slight variations in their programs from the original pres entation, but require that theme and continuity be essentially the same. Slight changes in person nel will also be permitted, so long as the rules of eligibility are not violated. Kappa Alpha Theta, under the direction of Marian Camp, will present a musical skit entitled the ‘‘Jungle Idea," which will recount (Cnntinuefl nn Pnrjf Four I French Play Will Be Unusual ******** ‘Leopold, Le Bien-Aime’ Good Comedy By BOB GUILD It’s a wise producer that knows his own play. . . . And what I didn’t learn about “Leopold"! "Leopold” is the French play to be given Friday and Saturday nights at Guild hall. All I had to do was mention the name, and I was buried under an avalanche of waving arms and excited French vowels, that bumped and batoged all around me. . . . Once in a while the cast spoke English, and this is what I found out. That "Leopold” is a very un usual play, and this is the reason why: In 1925 its author, Jean Sar ment, offered it to the Comedie’ Francaise’, one of Europe’s two leading playhouses. They turned it down, and somehow or other the author went ahead and cast it, and presented it in the Theatre Comedie’ des Champs Elysees, where tt was a tremendous suc cess, and ran for two years. This sounds like a fairy story, or the plot of a movie, and one might almost think it was one, were it not explained very nicely by the leading French critic. . . . This is what fie said: ‘Me veux bien que ces pecheurs a la ligne du premier acte, ce cadre provincial aient pu fair craindre a quelques societaires que ‘Leopold le Blen-Aime’ parut de place dans leur salon (Comedie Francais) ou tronent les belles dames du grand siecle. . . .” Now isn’t that lovely? But then that’s the way of it. And Louis Myers, who is direct ing the play, and who, it is said, knows his French plays, says it will be just like that Friday and Saturday nights.